Good Omens Officially Changes Aziraphale & Crowley’s First Meeting (For The 3rd Time)

Published May 14, 2026, 5:15 PM EDT

The final Good Omens episode takes place a couple of years after the ending of season 2, reuniting viewers with Aziraphale and Crowley. While Crowley lives in an alley and has retired as a demon, Aziraphale has been working in Heaven to kick off the Second Coming. As happens in every season of Good Omens, the final episode includes flashbacks to some of Aziraphale and Crowley’s encounters since the creation of the universe.

These flashbacks are key to understanding the deep yet complicated bond that Crowley and Aziraphale have built for centuries, but there are some inconsistencies throughout the show. Good Omens season 3 further adds to them with yet another first meeting between the angel and the demon, but after the final events of the show, only one of those first meetings truly matters.

Good Omens Presented A Different Crowley & Aziraphale First Meeting In Every Season

Aziraphale and Crowley are presented as natural enemies due to one being an angel and the other being a demon, but Good Omens reveals that isn’t the case. Crowley is a former angel who fell from grace for questioning God’s decisions, while Aziraphale always did his best to stay on the side of Heaven. This makes their dynamic a lot more interesting, as Crowley understands what Heaven stands for, but also what Hell is all about.

Good Omens season 1 takes viewers all the way back to Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, where Crowley takes the shape of the snake that tempted Eve. There, he comes across Aziraphale, and this is implied to be their first meeting, as Crowley introduces himself when Aziraphale doesn’t know his name. However, their first meeting changes in season 2, which shows Aziraphale and Crowley meeting when the latter is designing the universe (and thus is still an angel).

That first meeting makes a lot more sense and explains why Aziraphale and Crowley know each other so well, but season 3 changes this again. Good Omens season 3 opens with a flashback to the end of the battle between Heaven and Hell, with the archangels processing everything they just went through. While at the Eternal Flame in the center of the universe, and once the other archangels are gone, Crowley threatens Aziraphale and takes his sword.

Aziraphale tries to introduce himself, but Crowley tells him he knows who he is because he saw him at the battle. This implies this is their first meeting, thus changing it one more time, though, after everything that happens in the final episode of Good Omens, this scene is actually just to introduce the Eternal Flame. Ultimately, after Aziraphale and Crowley’s decision at the end of the show, none of those first meetings matter anymore, and the one that does has a twist.

Only 1 Of Crowley & Aziraphale’s First Meetings In Good Omens Truly Matters

After the entire universe is destroyed when archangel Michael burns all the pages of the Book of Life, Crowley and Aziraphale manage to convince God to create a new universe with no good, evil, angels, and demons, and where humans can have free will. This means that Crowley and Aziraphale will cease to exist and thus won’t be together, but they are firm in their decision, and so the new universe is created.

However, there are human versions of Aziraphale, Crowley, the archangels, the demons, the Metatron, and even Jesus in the human world, completely unrelated to their lives in the original universe. Good Omens season 3, then, has yet another first meeting between its two main characters, though this time, it’s between astrophysicist Anthony Crowley and bookseller Asa Fell.

Crowley and Fell meet, fall in love, marry, and have a happy life together, proving that they were always meant to be together, somehow. In the end, this is the only first meeting that truly matters, as it’s the one that gives them the happy ending they always deserved.