History Characters / DiscworldWitches

* ObfuscatingStupidity: So much so that she's even got ''Granny'' fooled (mostly). You expect Granny to "happen to people," as Magrat puts it, but the rare occasions when Nanny is really mad about something are truly scary. It is described by being bitten by a large friendly dog.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: So much so that she's even got ''Granny'' fooled (mostly). You expect Granny to "happen to people," as Magrat puts it, but the rare occasions when Nanny is really mad about something are truly scary.

* GrumpyOldMan: She doesn't hold with this newfangled "making your own entertainment".

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* UsefulNotes/{{Dyslexia}}: Dyscalcula to be specific, its brought up in ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', luckily she has Esme to help her.

* PutOnABus: Has not been seen since ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', and most of the young witch-in-training focus has [[AbortedArc shifted]] to Tiffany Aching. [[TheBusCameBack Returned]] in ''Literature/TheShepherdsCrown'', explaining that she'd gotten back into singing and had been on an extended tour of the Disc.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[http://nobodysuspectsthebutterfly.tumblr.com/post/122492206113/on-the-other-hand-between-poorquentyns-euron?fbclid=IwAR2GUYdqju3je7MJ06slWL-oVkrNocX7rUukeldh8FMZ8QtfLX4cliChNoU As more than one fan has pointed out, his human form (which is often described as looking like 'the more louche kind of buccaneer' and often has an eye-patch to cover his blind eye) bears a startling resemblance]] to [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Euron Greyjoy.]]

* BrotherChuck: Has not been seen since ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', and most of the young witch-in-training focus has [[AbortedArc shifted]] to Tiffany Aching. [[TheBusCameBack Returned]] in ''Literature/TheShepherdsCrown'', explaining that she'd gotten back into singing and had been on an extended tour of the Disc.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: She's good at these. How good? She manages to bring a pissed-off Granny back to her senses. Also, don't speak ill of Granny 'round her, or you'll find yourself on the floor.

* {{Gainaxing}}: She's so fat she does it with her entire body. This is one of those things that's either massive FanDisservice or {{Fanservice}} with little room for middle ground.

** The strategy he concocts for Felmet - discrediting the witches through slander, gossip and a play that casts them in a bad light - is the most apocalyptic threat to the witches they've ever faced. The Fool's concocted story would have reduced all witches - past, present, and yet to come - to nothing more than mumbling wicked crones, and it came frighteningly close to succeeding. Only the Cunning Man compares, and even then, the Cunning Man is an entity that can be confronted. And Verence came up with it only to avoid Lady Felmet's [[KillEmAll preferred alternative]].

* BalefulPolymorph: Usually averts this, on the grounds that it's much more economical and amusing to make someone ''think'' that they're a frog than to actually turn them into one. However, as the incident with Greebo demonstrates, she is capable of it, albeit only with Magrat and Nanny's help.

* PsychicPowers: Her magic mostly manifests in this fashion, and while she disdains the idea of actually reading minds (they're too complicated, though she can pick up the gist if enough people are thinking roughly the same thing), she's terrifyingly good at it; usually, it's [[BodySurf Borrowing]], but other tricks seen include various forms of hypnotism: examples include knocking people out, in one case with Magrat, to give her aristocratic levels of arrogance, or more frequently, [[DelusionsOfDoghood to make people think they're frogs for a couple of days]] (she considers it more economical and amusing than the fully fledged BalefulPolymorph). She can also use [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] sometimes, to the point of - say - blowing up Nanny Ogg's hat as a demonstration to several wannabe witches that yes, she can use magic. However, she generally doesn't like to.

* BalefulPolymorph: Turned into a human in ''Witches Abroad'' by Granny, Nanny, and Magrat out of necessity, and finds it an amusing experience. This leaves him with the ability to turn into one when pushed into a corner - whereupon he usually spends his brief period of humanity searching desperately for some underwear.

* NiceHat: Comes with being a witch. If she didn't have a hat how would people know she's a witch?

* StoutStrength: Perdita, when in control of the body in ''Carpe Jugulum'', demonstrates that Agnes is actually extremely strong but is afraid of using her muscles. As is observed in ''Maskerade'', she's got the typical build for Lancre womanhood dialled UpToEleven, which includes the ability to carry a pig under each arm.

* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Broomstick]]: Her broomstick taking to flight requires being shoved through the air from a good sprint. At best it manages to get enough altitude to just barely clear the treetops. The broomstick's performance is not helped by that Granny's attitude towards steering is everything else should get out of her way, including trees and mountainsides. The finest dwarven craftsmen have replaced every part of the broomstick dozens of times, and are completely mystified as to why its functionality never improves.

* [[AwesomeMcCoolname Perdita X Dream]]: (Former) TropeNamer. Agnes hates her ordinary name, and wants to be called Perdita X Dream, where X stands for "person who has a cool and interesting middle name". When Agnes tells other people she'd like to be called this, they usually end up calling her "that Agnes who wants to be called Perditax"

* ForcedIntoEvil: Inverted. Granny has a sister, and she was meant to be "the bad one" while her sister (who is a fairy godmother!) was meant to be "the good one". But once Lily went bad, Granny had to stay home and be the good one. And she's been angry about it ever since. Not that it stops her from doing good to the best of her ability.

* GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood: Is part of Granny’s past. [[spoiler: Her sister Lilith went off to be a good witch in Genua, but turned bad instead which meant that Esme had to be the good one. She herself admits she’d probably be a better bad witch than a good one, but her deeply buried conscience and compassion means that she can’t turn away from suffering and injustice.]]

* RomanticAsexual: She's all but explicitly asexual, never having any interest in sex and usually being disgusted when it's brought up (although this may be because it's usually brought up by [[DirtyOldWoman Nanny]]). She remains a virgin all her life, but had one notable romance in her youth, although it was ultimately dropped in favour of her witch career. She briefly reunites with her OldFlame in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' during a period where she experiences glimpses of an AlternateTimeline where she accepted his proposal, and while she doesn't appreciate his attempts to pick up where they left off, she admits that her AlternateSelf seems happy enough with him.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her unfortunate name is due to the fact that her mother couldn't spell "Margaret" on her birth certificate. When Magrat names her own daughter Esmerelda, she adds a "Note Spelling" to the christening card. This doesn't turn out all that well.

* WitchSpecies: Not quite, as Discworld magic doesn't really work on this principle, but Nanny Ogg notes that all the Weatherwaxes are good at magic, even the men. And when she says 'good', she means that of the three Weatherwaxes we've met, there's been Galder Weatherwax, a distant cousin who was Arch-Chancellor of the Unseen University in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'' (i.e. back in the days of KlingonPromotion), Lily Weatherwax, Granny's older sister who was the [[ManBehindTheMan Fairy-Godmother Behind The Throne]] and supreme ruler of Genua for over a decade, and Granny herself, who's widely acknowledged as the most powerful witch on the Disc, and personally defeated Lily. And then there's a Weatherwax we ''haven't'' met, Alison, Granny and Lilith's grandmother, who was in her mid 70s when she set off for Uberwald and took down the Old Count Magpyr, a very powerful vampire [[WorthyOpponent (he was very impressed by her).]]

* [[AwesomeMcCoolname Perdita X Dream]]: (Former) TropeNamer.