10 Supernatural Couples that Rival Aziraphale and Crowley

A match made in Heaven with hellishly good chemistry? Sounds like Aziraphale and Crowley. While Good Omens may have come to an end, and Aziracrow with it, there are still plenty of supernatural romances carrying the ethereal torch. Whether it’s immortal vampires, yearning angels, or fishmen pining for a human experience, these otherworldly lovers deserve some time under the spotlight. Bickering, yearning, and pledging undying devotion, these 10 supernatural couples prove that love isn’t a solely human emotion.

Lestat and Louis

While they haven’t known each other for 6,000 years, Lestat and Louis make up for what they lack in quantity with intensity. Unlike Crowley and Aziraphale, who took millennia to consider each other anything more than sort of friends, Lestat and Louis’ chemistry is as instant as a reaction between sodium and water, and just as explosive. The vampire dads to a generation of adoring fans, Lestat and Louis are the tempestuous couple that Interview With the Vampire spends most of its time talking about. Crowley and Aziraphale’s love story began floating in the void at the beginning of time. Lestat and Louis? Surrounded by the corpses of a bunch of dead priests in a New Orleans church. Their relationship troubles go deeper than centuries of bickering; their romance can get as toxic as the denizens of Hell (and Heaven). But despite the ugliness, their love is indeed genuine, and like Crowley and Aziraphale, they hold each other in eternal regard.

Elisa and the Amphibian Man

The Shape of Water somehow manages to cram 6,000 years of yearning into a two-hour film. Much like Good Omens, the story hinges on two fish out of water (one literally) who find love in a hopeless place — Rihanna-style. The underground military base where Elisa and the Amphibian Man meet is just as strange and violent as the morally grey planet that Crowley and Aziraphale keep finding themselves drawn back to. The love between homo sapians and homo amphibians breaks just as many rules as the relationship between an angel and a demon, but The Shape of Water‘s two romantic leads are star-crossed enough to try anyway. Sometimes love requires compromise, whether it means going against Heaven, Hell, or the United States government. But hey, sometimes attraction requires a little opposition.

Dracula and Mina

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you” sounds like a line that Aziraphale would say to Crowley, but it actually came from the bloodstained mouth of another immortal yearner. Honestly, the titular lead of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the blueprint for eternal pining. Poor Vlad has spent centuries waiting for the reincarnation of his wife, Elisabeta, to walk the Earth once more. After she’s reborn as the angelically pure Mina Harker, the devilish Dracula pursues his beloved with a supernatural longing. Like love between Aziraphale and Crowley, Mina and Dracula’s relationship is seen as an affront to God, and made all the more beautiful for it. And unlike a certain angel and demon, these two never bicker to hide their true feelings; they acknowledge their love from the very beginning. Aziraphale and Crowley could really have saved a lot of time if they had been a little more direct.

Howl and Sophie

The magical couple at the heart of Howl’s Moving Castle, Howl and Sophie’s relationship begins with cohabitation and culminates in total devotion. Aziraphale and Crowley start as spiritual coworkers stuck in an earthly Purgatory, and Howl and Sophie face similar beginnings as employer and employee. Living in a perambulatory palace, Sophie serves as a housekeeper while slowly growing closer to the castle’s propriator. Removed from human emotions like any angel or demon, the wizard Howl has resigned himself to spending his supernatural life in solitude, but Sophie’s determination to get to know him challenges all of that. Like Aziraphale and Crowley, these two lovers spend most of the film in denial of their true feelings, but slowly come to terms with the fact that they were destined for each other.

Oskar and Eli

Aziraphale and Crowley spend millennia sussing out their emotions, but Oskar and Eli form a lifetime bond in a few short weeks. Let the Right One In is a story of an eternally 12-year-old Dracula and the sweet little boy who becomes her Renfield — a relationship that began on a freezing playground in a Swedish apartment complex. The snowy suburbs of Stockholm are far less romantic than the Garden of Eden, but now that they’ve found each other, Oskar and Eli’s working-class neighborhood feels just as charmed as anywhere else in Creation. Even as the exsanguinated bodies pile up, the kids’ rose-colored glasses never come off. Though one is two centuries old, these children lack the life experience to exchange witty one-liners like Aziraphale and Crowley, but what the pair lack in sarcastic bickering, they make up for in undying devotion. Sticking by your crush even after they reveal themselves to be an infernal creature of the night? Aziraphale and Oskar both know a thing or two about that.

Castiel and Dean

If demon hunting is a job, then I suppose you could say that Dean and Castiel began their tenure on Supernatural as sort of coworkers like Aziraphale and Crowley. But aside from both being enemies of Hell, this human and angel had even less in common than the couple at the heart of Good Omens. While Castiel was once baffled by humanity and its messy emotions, Dean proved to be his unofficial liaison to mankind. Throughout the series, their utilitarian alliance transforms into a best friendship based on mutual affection and care, eventually evolving into something more. Like Aziraphale and Crowley, Castiel only becomes aware of the true depth of his emotions for Dean once the threat of their eternal separation looms. And while their romance isn’t officially made canon, Castiel’s tear-jerker final goodbye to Dean all but confirms the romantic adoration the angel held in his heart. Destiel forever.

Adam and Eve

How do you stay together forever? With a lot of time apart. Aziraphale and Crowley understood the need for space in a centuries-long love affair, and so does the immortal couple at the center of Only Lovers Left Alive. With an eternity of time on their hands, Adam and Eve spend their days exploring separate corners of the Earth, only to reunite once absence has made their undead hearts grow fonder. Unlike Good Omens‘ ineffable husbands, these two vampires are settled in their feelings for one another — no denial-based bickering needed. Wondering what the angel and demon’s relationship would look like had they admitted their feelings centuries ago? A little something like Adam and Eve’s. Though maybe surrounded by fewer corpses.

Marceline and Bubblegum

A benevolent bubblegum dictator and a mischievous vampire rockstar? That’s as close to an angel/demon relationship as Adventure Time gets. Like Aziraphale and Crowley, Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen take a minute to sort out their feelings for one another, their centuries-long relationship revolving around blushing bickering matches and sharing t-shirts. And also like Aziraphale and Crowley, it takes a literal apocalypse for them to admit those feelings. Looking for a sapphic equivalent Good Omens‘ love affair between Heaven and Hell? Adventure Time comes closer than most.

Damiel and Marion

Perhaps more than any other supernatural being, angels know a thing or two about yearning. Wings of Desire is the story of Damiel and Cassiel, two angels watching over postwar Berlin. While Cassiel takes a more observational approach to humanity, Damiel yearns to become an active participant in earthly affairs. He falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist named Marion, and after a conversation with Columbo actor Peter Falk playing himself (long story), Damiel finally decides to shed his immortality and live alongside Marion. If Crowley were a German circus performer instead of a demon, you can bet Aziraphale would have done the same thing.

Ned and Chuck

A thoroughly underrated supernatural romance series, Pushing Daisies takes Good Omens-style yearning and turns the dial up to eleven. Ned is a pie-maker who can reanimate the dead a touch, and Chuck is his murdered childhood crush, now revived. The caveat? If Ned touches a resurrected person a second time, they die for good. While Aziraphale and Crowley spend the entirety of Good Omens sorting out their feelings for each other, Ned and Chuck are stuck figuring out how to act on those feelings. They hold hands wearing rubber gloves, and share kisses covered in plastic wrap (it’s far more romantic than it sounds). And unlike the Heaven and Hell-defying romance at the heart of Good Omens, Ned and Chuck’s relationship (though it also breaks the rules of the universe) isn’t totally doomed. After all, a lifetime spent at arm’s length from your soulmate is better than not having them around at all. Aziraphale and Crowley would understand.

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