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Aug 27, 2023“Niat Ruc”
Good Omens is packed with small details with deep meanings and fun connections to other works, and among them is Crowley's "Niat Ruc" license plate.
Warning: spoilers for Good Omens season 2.
Good Omens’ Crowley (David Tennant) has two best friends: angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and his Bentley, which has been his loyal companion for decades, and which hides an interesting meaning in its license plate “Niat Ruc”. After saving the world in season 1, Good Omens season 2 saw Aziraphale and Crowley teaming up again in a completely new story, as the first season covered the whole book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. This time, Aziraphale and Crowley didn’t have to deal with the destructive plans of Heaven and Hell, and instead, they had to keep archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm) safe.
As Good Omens season 2 tells a brand new story that goes beyond the source material, many characters from season 1 didn’t return, but a couple did, along with some well-known settings and objects. Good Omens season 2 took viewers back to Aziraphale’s bookshop and also saw the return of Crowley’s always faithful black Bentley, which has accompanied him in too many adventures (including the beginning of the Apocalypse). Crowley’s car is one-of-a-kind, but what has caught the attention of viewers the most is the license plate, which reads “Niat Ruc”, and like many other details in Good Omens, it has a deeper meaning than it seems.
Crowley’s license plate might sound like a sort of spell or something that only a demon would understand, but it’s actually the word “curtain” spelled backward – however, this doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a deeper meaning, and it’s also a reference to another piece of pop culture. Speaking to Syfy in 2019, Neil Gaiman and producer and director Douglas Mackinnon confirmed that Crowley’s “Niat Ruc” license plate is a reference to the suicidal leaves section in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, where the writing on the mausoleum reads “Niat Ruc”. This, in turn, is a reference to death as the “final curtain”, which is one of the main themes in Good Omens.
Crowley’s “Niat Ruc” license plate is also a nod to actor and director Terry Gilliam, who wrote and worked on the animation of The Meaning of Life. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Gilliam was set to direct a film adaptation of Good Omens, but the project lacked enough funds, and Gilliam moved on to other projects. Although Gilliam was still up for directing a Good Omens movie in 2006, the project still couldn’t get the funds it needed, and it eventually evolved into a TV series.
Good Omens had a couple of twists and big reveals up its sleeve and ended on a heartbreaking note with Crowley and Aziraphale parting ways. Crowley finally accepted his feelings for Aziraphale and opened up to the angel about it, but Aziraphale had just been offered the spot of supreme archangel in Heaven. Aziraphale told Crowley he could join him and become an angel again, but Crowley wanted Aziraphale to stay on Earth with him. Crowley, then, chose the “final curtain” over a life with Aziraphale in Heaven, marking the end of their partnership and destroying all hope of them being together and living a happy life on Earth, without Heaven and Hell bothering them.
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Through flashbacks since season 1, Good Omens has shown how Aziraphale and Crowley have complemented each other over time, with the angel bringing out the best of the demon. Without Aziraphale and with a broken heart, Crowley might have a more disastrous and dark outlook on life in Good Omens season 3. The “Niat Ruc” license plate will now be more fitting with Crowley after the events of Good Omens season 2, and he surely won’t be the same Crowley viewers have come to know so well in season 3.
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