Lord English

is an indestructible demon summoned at the end of the universe, although his time travel abilities allow him to appear prior to his actual summoning. He apparently cannot be destroyed by ordinary means, but only through the exploitation of a number of time-based glitches and loopholes. He is the leader of on Alternia.





Sollux held a code that cycled through pictures of pool balls, oddly specific considering the presence of within the Troll's universe. The ~ATH code was copied from an obscure server far beyond the planet's global network and is completely unhackable. The code is said to summon an indestructible demon, who can travel freely through time, once the universe has been destroyed. Seeing as the demon can travel through time, it is actually already here, making the virus essentially a formality. The demon is none other than himself.

Named after the pool term 'english', meaning spin on the cue ball, and retroactively also named after Lord British from Ultima, who could only be killed by glitches (and one intentional Easter Egg). His name may also be a (likely unintentional) reference to the Lord British Space Destroyer, a fighter ship of Gradius fame. Owns a CAIRO OVERCOAT that represents the spacetime continuum and gets damaged when time-related things get out of hand, and a BACKUP COAT, that may or may not possess the same qualities. Judging from it, he is a very tall, thin man. This, combined with the fact that the cue ball has now been accounted for, suggests that Lord English may further extend the billiards parallel as the cue stick, using, the First Guardian of Alternia, in order to affect other individuals on his field of play, and to ensure his summoning.

During Rose and Dave's chat in which she reveals her plan to use her dream self to destroy the Green Sun, Rose mentions that she had help thinking up the plan from, who says he successfully completed everything that English required from him. Scratch also mentions that his death is required for Lord English's arrival, and that throughout the countless universes in which instances of him have been created, he has never failed in bringing him back, and never will.

Scratch also mentions that is a very evil man and that his name is merely a title, and not the demon's actual name. According to the narrator, to know his true name is to "understand terror no human ever has."