Sam Vimes replaces alcohol with cigars. And this will not take place over two years, but within a few minutes. In The Last Hero it is stated that if Cohen is successful in his plan to return fire to the gods (with interest) it will disrupt all magic on the Disc for two years. It helps that he has the inventive genius to back it up.
Any mention of Death having an expression on his face (usually a grin) is likely to be immediately followed by the narration noting that being a skull with no muscles, Death's face cannot change expressions, but at the moment Death actually wanted to make that expression. Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: - Commander Vimes. It can remove doors from their frames, their houses, and the world of objects larger than a matchstick, and is once described as the only breaching weapon which can forcibly open the front and rear doors of a large building at the same time. The Light Fantastic (1986 — Rincewind). This sounds like a joke, until Wintersmith introduces Horace the Cheese... - In Moving Pictures, C. M. O. T. Dibbler orders a thousand elephants for a production that never gets made. Temporarily banished from a dorm room say crossword answers. Usually after such a meeting, Vimes would punch the wall outside Vetinari's office. Moist von Lipwig also accrues various fancy hats as he is put in charge of different organisations. Hate Sink: Though many characters are humorous and sympathetic, even the villains, there are plenty of deeply unpleasant, detestable characters: - Ipslore the Red, from Sourcery, is a horrifyingly abusive father who tortures his own son into a living weapon and does not take no for an answer, eventually almost causing the end of the world twice. Herne The Hunted: about three feet tall with a worried and paranoid expression, he is the deity of all prey animals and his role in the divine scheme of things is to run away, very fast, from all the Gods of the Hunt. Unequal Rites: - Witches and Wizards are not to be confused. Living Currency: In the villages of Lancre, where hard currency is a rarity, commerce is more likely to be negotiated in chickens than in coins.
All of which reach escape velocity over Colon's head, making him nigh invulnerable to being played, tricked, warned, or helped. Detritus is said to be Happily Married to Ruby in Thud!, though they lack Babies Ever After. No Social Skills: Death fails spectacularly at relating to people. After a shaky start when he comes to the attention of his housemaster for all the wrong reasons, he is befriended by the savvier Chidder, who takes a shine to him and tells him what to look out for and who to avoid. Complete with rain and extra consonants. Unseen Academicals: Glenda is so used to being the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder for Juliet it takes her a while to notice that her (s)mothering is of no use to a natural fashion model. Genre Shift: As the series progressed, modern ideas and technologies have slowly entrenched themselves in the Disc, lifting the later books into having a strong flavour of Urban Fantasy. Temporarily banished from a dorm room say crossword. DEATH has asked for this to be replaced with something less personally offensive. Also from the Science of Discworld books, Hex is able to treat our entire universe as one of these. Many of them involve typical Ankh-Morporkian stupidity and Berserk Buttons, or just entering the Shades. The pairing of Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs also counts. Klatch the continent is large enough that different parts of it function as expies for different countries, including (but not limited to) Turkey, Ancient Egypt, the biblical Middle East, Arabia, Persia, and Pakistan note. Although he is getting better at it. Given how badly she handles a sword in the chronologically later events of Guards!
There's also the oft-mentioned fate of Vetinari's predecessor, Mad Lord Snapcase, who wound up being hung up by his figgin. Every clown who ever was, and who currently is, has their unique face paint reproduced here on the surface of an egg - thousands upon thousands of them. Supernatural Repellent: Parodied, especially in Carpe Jugulum, where much mirth is raised by recounting, in a Discworld context, all the things which Earth legends say are fatal to vampires. Archchancellor Ridcully always puts a lot of spice on his food, especially Wow-Wow Sauce, a condiment so potent as to be downright dangerous. Any story with the wizards will see one. The library itself is pretty much a universe of its own with all the magical books, library creatures such as the thesaurus and lost tribes of research students inside. Since the dwarfs are (at least on the surface) a One-Gender Race, any dwarf identifying as the "wrong" gender gets about the same reaction as people beginning transitioning do in real life. World of Pun: - Pratchett likes to include at least one silly pune, or play on words, per book. Instead, it is a long and very sharp piece of metal designed specifically to cut through man, horse, and armour. Sliding Scale of Continuity: Most of the books are level 4 (Arc-Based Episodic). This makes sense, given that a troll's brain is made of silicon (like a computer chip).
His sheer unkillability rather spoils the attitude, and eventually the Wizards decide they actually rather like not having to constantly watch for their own impending death. In line with older folklore, they're without empathy, sadistic, abduct beings from their home dimensions and would be the only Discworld race to be Always Chaotic Evil if they didn't play by Blue-and-Orange Morality. Elemental Plane: Death's Domain and the Palace of Time. Miraculous Malfunction: The best-case scenario of allowing Bloody Stupid Johnson to build anything. For the Auditors, three is a preferred number, because when three of them work together, each one can be monitored by the other two. To wit, Detritus is once trapped in a freezer and slowly freezes to death.
Bhrian Bloodaxe, the first dwarf according to Discworld legend, is named after ZX Spectrum game Brian Bloodaxe. In Interesting Times, the almost-hero Rincewind spends a lot of time evading warriors, guards and generally annoyed people who combine aspects of samurai, ninja, regular footsoldier and even sumo wrestler. Common, with the multiple gods the Disc sports. The city-state only directly controls a small portion of land, but its economic influence throughout the continent is almost limitless, and its production is so great no one dares invade for fear of being deprived of the very tools needed for invasion. Sometimes it's left up in the air, sometimes they're brother and sister, sometimes they're pulled away by different interests and responsibilities, other times they are going to get to gather but one has to show they're independent thank you very much.
He found no Laws and he was enlightened. Shot: - The six-inch-tall Wee Mad Arthur introduces himself with "Down here, bigjobs". The same book also features moon dragons, which are more aerodynamic, less explosive version of the typical swamp dragons and fly by jet propulsion by venting their flames from the other direction. The dwarfs have their own, unique version — they don't believe in gods as such (Discworld dwarfs don't go in for belief, due to their lifestyles), but they have them anyway, because swearing to gods is better than going "Oh, Random Fluctuations In Space And Time! Small Gods (1992 — standalone, History Monks cameo). Spontaneous Crowd Formation: This is often called the official pastime of Ankh-Morpork. This is known as L-Space. Fantastic Racism: - Dwarfs versus trolls. On the more psychological level, Vimes has channeled his obsessive tendencies into policing and detective work. Develop between them, until eventually Official Couple status goes to Roland/Letitia and Tiffany/Preston instead. In still later books Brindisi became an Expy of both Italy and Spain. It's also the center of all information trade, giving it unequaled political clout in the region. Pimped-Out Dress: Wizards in full regalia probably count. As a "skinny, unshaven collection of bad habits marinated in alcohol".
The Nac Mac Feegle don't have many names, so often several brothers in a tribe have to share the name. The problem, it is revealed, is in STEERING the damn things. The French translations systematically include a footnote the first time grammar causes Death to be referred to as male, and as the series progresses, they get increasingly cheeky. While being six inches high. Children seem to have this. This type seems to have a supernatural sense for when someone is doomed, and is probably an actual supernatural creature. Jingo (1997 — The City Watch). Or try to take Rincewind's hat away. Needless to say, there are quite a few means of committing suicide in the city.
Jonathan Teatime in Hogfather is a terror amongst the Assassin's Guild because he approaches all of his assignments with an "extreme prejudice" mentality (read: Leave No Survivors, in the goriest fashion possible) instead of following the Guild's rules (read: we kill the people you pay us to kill and no more, and there's people we won't kill no matter what).
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