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* In ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'', Commander Vimes anticipates A.E. Pessimal's wish to be in the Watch and grants him a lifelong desire.
* [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of all peo...er, {{anthropomorphic personification}}s, usually manages one simultaneously during a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in each book he appears:
** Rescuing the Little Match Girl in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwYCbBWxT8 Hogfather]].'' Death himself shows what he longs most to do, but cannot in his own role.
--->[[AC:The Hogfather can. The Hogfather gives presents. There's no better present than a future.]]
--->[[AC:What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?]]
** Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, in ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief of Time]]'', the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the [[spoiler: Five]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
** And there's the scene in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].
*** Actually, they were playing over whether Death took the soul of the cow or the boy. This troper gets the feeling that he'd have taken the cow regardless of the outcome of the game.
*** Er, 'regardless of the outcome of the game'? Death took the cow because Granny had four Kings whereas he only had four 'ones'. In other words, Aces. In other words, he ''did'' win.
**** Yes he did. That's the point.
** The end of ''[[Discworld/ReaperMan Reaper Man]]'', [[spoiler:where Miss Flitworth dies - and Death takes her into the past to see that the man she loved didn't jilt her but was killed in an accident on the way to their wedding. Reunited, the ghosts go off into the afterlife together]].
*** Slightly earlier, he brings her "a diamond to be her friend", misinterpreting "diamonds are a girl's best friend". Something about the scene tugs at this troper's heartstrings in a wonderful way.
*** And it's implied he even earlier saves a little girl from death by [[spoiler: giving her some of the sand from his own life-timer, thus bringing his own death (which terrifies him) closer]].
*** There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathises with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
** He and Susan both get one in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting the answer to be "no", if she has a kiss for her granddad. Susan, borderline EmotionlessGirl and DeadpanSnarker realizes that being what he is makes him more alone than any creature in the universe, actually gives him one, just before going back to her school dormitory and [[spoiler:finally letting herself cry over the loss of her parents, who died at the beginning of the book.]] Also very much a TearJerker.
** And then there's him [[spoiler: giving Nobby the best Hogswatchnight of his life with a crossbow that, one of Nobby's favorite magazines, 'had to break both arms of the reviewer to get it away from him'. And you know what? He'd gone up to the Hogfather exhibit in order to give the Hogfather a piece of his mind, because he had never gotten presents when he was child on Hogswatchnight, due to his family's poorness. The way Nobby lights up when he opens it really just made this troper go 'd'awwwwwww'. Doubles as CMoF, as even Death is unsure what species Nobby is.]]
* Near the end of ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief Of Time]]'', [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay Feet of Clay]]'': [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]
** Yep. This is the single most heartwarming moment in the entire series, in this troper's opinion.
** How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to be mysteriously empty of blood.
* Another one from ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'', when Vimes, confused, lost and alone, [[spoiler:starts roaring the story he always reads to his son automatically and, miles away, Young Vimes stops crying--because, it seems, he--and everyone else for a few miles--can hear it.]]
** While not as intense or heartbreaking, my heart grew three sizes when everyone was sitting around the fire reading to Sam Jr.
** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing her favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes this troper beam each time.
** Vimes: the biggest, baddest cop in the city, throws a good portion of the city into chaos [[spoiler:just so he can read his son his bedtime story.]]
*** ''Vimes'' doesn't do that. ''Carrot'' does [[spoiler: and clearly considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam.]]
----> [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
** Related to this, and oddly combining with HighOctaneNightmareFuel or possibly TearJerker, is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical...but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.
** This troper, however, finds that the best of those was the one that was combined with a CrowningMomentOfFunny. "HRRRRUUUUUUGGGGHHH!"
** Also, the bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."
*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
** There's also the cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.
-->"'Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled and wroten: "all thyngs strive," ... And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden....'"
* The ending of ''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Men at Arms]]''.
** Not just that, but the shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to approve of pensions for widows.]]
** Cuddy teaching Detritus to count. Aww.
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
* ''Discworld/NightWatch'': Vimes's speech to Vetinari at the end [[spoiler:("How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything. Do you understand?")]], after he [[spoiler: captures Carcer, who had been taunting him the entire book]].
** Vimes in the graveyard reflecting on the revolution and coming to the conclusion that "he was honored to have been there twice."
** The engraved cigar case arriving.
** The birth of Sam Vimes Jr.
--> "I'll teach him to walk! I'm good at teaching people to walk!"
** Reg Shoe's annual gesture of solidarity.
** Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
** The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
--> "And then he went home. And the world turned toward morning."
** Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
* ''[[Discworld/{{Sourcery}} Sourcery]]''. Rincewind's [[HeroicSacrifice one good deed]]. WAAAAAAH!
* In ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'', Commander Vimes anticipates A.E. Pessimal's wish to be in the Watch and grants him a lifelong desire.
* [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of all peo...er, {{anthropomorphic personification}}s, usually manages one simultaneously during a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in each book he appears:
** Rescuing the Little Match Girl in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwYCbBWxT8 Hogfather]].'' Death himself shows what he longs most to do, but cannot in his own role.
--->[[AC:The Hogfather can. The Hogfather gives presents. There's no better present than a future.]]
--->[[AC:What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?]]
** Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, in ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief of Time]]'', the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the [[spoiler: Five]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
** And there's the scene in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].
*** Actually, they were playing over whether Death took the soul of the cow or the boy. This troper gets the feeling that he'd have taken the cow regardless of the outcome of the game.
*** Er, 'regardless of the outcome of the game'? Death took the cow because Granny had four Kings whereas he only had four 'ones'. In other words, Aces. In other words, he ''did'' win.
**** Yes he did. That's the point.
** The end of ''[[Discworld/ReaperMan Reaper Man]]'', [[spoiler:where Miss Flitworth dies - and Death takes her into the past to see that the man she loved didn't jilt her but was killed in an accident on the way to their wedding. Reunited, the ghosts go off into the afterlife together]].
*** Slightly earlier, he brings her "a diamond to be her friend", misinterpreting "diamonds are a girl's best friend". Something about the scene tugs at this troper's heartstrings in a wonderful way.
*** And it's implied he even earlier saves a little girl from death by [[spoiler: giving her some of the sand from his own life-timer, thus bringing his own death (which terrifies him) closer]].
*** There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathises with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
** He and Susan both get one in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting the answer to be "no", if she has a kiss for her granddad. Susan, borderline EmotionlessGirl and DeadpanSnarker realizes that being what he is makes him more alone than any creature in the universe, actually gives him one, just before going back to her school dormitory and [[spoiler:finally letting herself cry over the loss of her parents, who died at the beginning of the book.]] Also very much a TearJerker.
** And then there's him [[spoiler: giving Nobby the best Hogswatchnight of his life with a crossbow that, one of Nobby's favorite magazines, 'had to break both arms of the reviewer to get it away from him'. And you know what? He'd gone up to the Hogfather exhibit in order to give the Hogfather a piece of his mind, because he had never gotten presents when he was child on Hogswatchnight, due to his family's poorness. The way Nobby lights up when he opens it really just made this troper go 'd'awwwwwww'. Doubles as CMoF, as even Death is unsure what species Nobby is.]]
* Near the end of ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief Of Time]]'', [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay Feet of Clay]]'': [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]
** Yep. This is the single most heartwarming moment in the entire series, in this troper's opinion.
** How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to be mysteriously empty of blood.
* Another one from ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'', when Vimes, confused, lost and alone, [[spoiler:starts roaring the story he always reads to his son automatically and, miles away, Young Vimes stops crying--because, it seems, he--and everyone else for a few miles--can hear it.]]
** While not as intense or heartbreaking, my heart grew three sizes when everyone was sitting around the fire reading to Sam Jr.
** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing her favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes this troper beam each time.
** Vimes: the biggest, baddest cop in the city, throws a good portion of the city into chaos [[spoiler:just so he can read his son his bedtime story.]]
*** ''Vimes'' doesn't do that. ''Carrot'' does [[spoiler: and clearly considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam.]]
----> [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
** Related to this, and oddly combining with HighOctaneNightmareFuel or possibly TearJerker, is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical...but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.
** This troper, however, finds that the best of those was the one that was combined with a CrowningMomentOfFunny. "HRRRRUUUUUUGGGGHHH!"
** Also, the bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."
*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
** There's also the cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.
-->"'Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled and wroten: "all thyngs strive," ... And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden....'"
* The ending of ''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Men at Arms]]''.
** Not just that, but the shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to approve of pensions for widows.]]
** Cuddy teaching Detritus to count. Aww.
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
* ''Discworld/NightWatch'': Vimes's speech to Vetinari at the end [[spoiler:("How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything. Do you understand?")]], after he [[spoiler: captures Carcer, who had been taunting him the entire book]].
** Vimes in the graveyard reflecting on the revolution and coming to the conclusion that "he was honored to have been there twice."
** The engraved cigar case arriving.
** The birth of Sam Vimes Jr.
--> "I'll teach him to walk! I'm good at teaching people to walk!"
** Reg Shoe's annual gesture of solidarity.
** Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
** The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
--> "And then he went home. And the world turned toward morning."
** Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
* ''[[Discworld/{{Sourcery}} Sourcery]]''. Rincewind's [[HeroicSacrifice one good deed]]. WAAAAAAH!
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* In ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'', Commander Vimes anticipates A.E. Pessimal's wish to be
* [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of all peo...er, {{anthropomorphic personification}}s, usually manages one simultaneously during a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in each book he appears:
** Rescuing the Little Match Girl in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwYCbBWxT8 Hogfather]].'' Death himself shows what he longs most to do, but cannot in his own role.
--->[[AC:The Hogfather can. The Hogfather gives presents. There's no better present than a future.]]
--->[[AC:What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?]]
** Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, in ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief of Time]]'', the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the [[spoiler: Five]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
** And there's the scene in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].
*** Actually, they were playing over whether Death took the soul of the cow or the boy. This troper gets the feeling that he'd have taken the cow regardless of the outcome of the game.
*** Er, 'regardless of the outcome of the game'? Death took the cow because Granny had four Kings whereas he only had four 'ones'. In other words, Aces. In other words, he ''did'' win.
**** Yes he did. That's the point.
** The end of ''[[Discworld/ReaperMan Reaper Man]]'', [[spoiler:where Miss Flitworth dies - and Death takes her into the past to see that the man she loved didn't jilt her but was killed in an accident on the way to their wedding. Reunited, the ghosts go off into the afterlife together]].
*** Slightly earlier, he brings her "a diamond to be her friend", misinterpreting "diamonds are a girl's best friend". Something about the scene tugs at this troper's heartstrings in a wonderful way.
*** And it's implied he even earlier saves a little girl from death by [[spoiler: giving her some of the sand from his own life-timer, thus bringing his own death (which terrifies him) closer]].
*** There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathises with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
** He and Susan both get one in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting the answer to be "no", if she has a kiss for her granddad. Susan, borderline EmotionlessGirl and DeadpanSnarker realizes that being what he is makes him more alone than any creature in the universe, actually gives him one, just before going back to her school dormitory and [[spoiler:finally letting herself cry over the loss of her parents, who died at the beginning of the book.]] Also very much a TearJerker.
** And then there's him [[spoiler: giving Nobby the best Hogswatchnight of his life with a crossbow that, one of Nobby's favorite magazines, 'had to break both arms of the reviewer to get it away from him'. And you know what? He'd gone up to the Hogfather exhibit in order to give the Hogfather a piece of his mind, because he had never gotten presents when he was child on Hogswatchnight, due to his family's poorness. The way Nobby lights up when he opens it really just made this troper go 'd'awwwwwww'. Doubles as CMoF, as even Death is unsure what species Nobby is.]]
* Near the end of ''[[Discworld/ThiefOfTime Thief Of Time]]'', [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
* ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay Feet of Clay]]'': [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]
** Yep. This is the single most heartwarming moment in the entire series, in this troper's opinion.
** How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to be mysteriously empty of blood.
* Another one from ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'', when Vimes, confused, lost and alone, [[spoiler:starts roaring the story he always reads to his son automatically and, miles away, Young Vimes stops crying--because, it seems, he--and everyone else for a few miles--can hear it.]]
** While not as intense or heartbreaking, my heart grew three sizes when everyone was sitting around the fire reading to Sam Jr.
** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing her favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes this troper beam each time.
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*** ''Vimes'' doesn't do that. ''Carrot'' does [[spoiler: and clearly considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam.]]
----> [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
** Related to this, and oddly combining with HighOctaneNightmareFuel or possibly TearJerker, is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical...but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.
** This troper, however, finds that the best of those was the one that was combined with a CrowningMomentOfFunny. "HRRRRUUUUUUGGGGHHH!"
** Also, the bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."
*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
** There's also the cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.
-->"'Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled and wroten: "all thyngs strive," ... And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden....'"
* The ending of ''[[Discworld/MenAtArms Men at Arms]]''.
** Not just that, but the shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to approve of pensions for widows.]]
** Cuddy teaching Detritus to count. Aww.
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
* ''Discworld/NightWatch'': Vimes's speech to Vetinari at the end [[spoiler:("How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything. Do you understand?")]], after he [[spoiler: captures Carcer, who had been taunting him the entire book]].
** Vimes in the graveyard reflecting on the revolution and coming to the conclusion that "he was honored to have been there twice."
** The engraved cigar case arriving.
** The birth of Sam Vimes Jr.
--> "I'll teach him to walk! I'm good at teaching people to walk!"
** Reg Shoe's annual gesture of solidarity.
** Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
** The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
--> "And then he went home. And the world turned toward morning."
** Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
* ''[[Discworld/{{Sourcery}} Sourcery]]''.
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Rincewind's [[HeroicSacrifice one good deed]]. WAAAAAAH!
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* ''[[Discworld/MakingMoney Making Money]]'': when [[spoiler: Mr. Fusspot inherits Wuffles' role]].
* The biggest for me is near the end of ''[[Discworld/SoulMusic Soul Music]]''. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just the way it's described makes me start to well up every time, and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in the first place.
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how the song made him consider things more important than money.
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and woman and thing by the hand and showed him or her or it the way home."
* Also in ''SoulMusic'' Susan's swing... just... Susan's swing. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* The scene in ''Discworld/{{Lords and Ladies}}'' when Magrat is exploring [[spoiler:the royal bedroom. There's a massive bed, big enough to fit a dozen people, and it hasn't been slept in. As a child, Verence slept on straw in an attic he shared with the rest of his family. As an apprentice, he slept on a pallet in a full dorm. As a Fool, he had slept in front of his master's door.]]
* The biggest for me is near the end of ''[[Discworld/SoulMusic Soul Music]]''. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just the way it's described makes me start to well up every time, and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in the first place.
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how the song made him consider things more important than money.
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and woman and thing by the hand and showed him or her or it the way home."
* Also in ''SoulMusic'' Susan's swing... just... Susan's swing. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
* The scene in ''Discworld/{{Lords and Ladies}}'' when Magrat is exploring [[spoiler:the royal bedroom. There's a massive bed, big enough to fit a dozen people, and it hasn't been slept in. As a child, Verence slept on straw in an attic he shared with the rest of his family. As an apprentice, he slept on a pallet in a full dorm. As a Fool, he had slept in front of his master's door.]]
to:
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*''[[Discworld/MakingMoney Making Money]]'': when [[spoiler: Mr. Fusspot inherits Wuffles' role]].
* The biggest for mePossibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is near at the end of ''[[Discworld/SoulMusic Soul Music]]''. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just Sybil's blossoming relationship in the way perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it'sdescribed makes me start a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred towell up every time, him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in that was the first place.
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by howcategory of all the song made women, in all his life, who had ever thought him consider things more important than money.
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man andworth smiling at. [...] The woman and thing by the hand and showed him or her or it the way home.was a city."
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*Also in ''SoulMusic'' Susan's swing... just... Susan's swing. Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience, with a maimed Gaspode squaring off against Death to protect Laddie. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
TearJerker.
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*At the end, [[spoiler:where Miss Flitworth dies - and Death takes her into the past to see that the man she loved didn't jilt her but was killed in an accident on the way to their wedding. Reunited, the ghosts go off into the afterlife together]].
** Slightly earlier, he brings her "a diamond to be her friend", misinterpreting "diamonds are a girl's best friend". Something about the scene tugs at this troper's heartstrings in a wonderful way.
* And it's implied he even earlier saves a little girl from death by [[spoiler: giving her some of the sand from his own life-timer, thus bringing his own death (which terrifies him) closer]].
* There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathizes with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
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* When the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centered, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
* Soldiers from opposite sides of a war begin, completely unironically, to help each other in the face of massive natural disaster.
* Brutha in the afterlife, deciding to help out the CompleteMonster of the book.
** Made all the more heartwarming when Death tries to warn him off by telling him the kind of man he was helping, to which Brutha simply replies, "I know. He's [[spoiler: Vorbis]]. But I'm me."
* Brutha, separated from his tiny, self-centered tortoise god and trapped in the Citadel, storms down to its enormous, immovable Great Gates and starts shouting, "I carried you in the desert! I believed all my life! Just give me this one thing! Give me a sign!" And the Great Gates, thanks to an unrelated (right?) subplot coming to its head at exactly the right moment, swing open.
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* The scenein ''Discworld/{{Lords and Ladies}}'' when Magrat is exploring [[spoiler:the royal bedroom. There's a massive bed, big enough to fit a dozen people, and it hasn't been slept in. As a child, Verence slept on straw in an attic he shared with the rest of his family. As an apprentice, he slept on a pallet in a full dorm. As a Fool, he had slept in front of his master's door.]]
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*
* The biggest for me
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and
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*
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*At the end, [[spoiler:where Miss Flitworth dies - and Death takes her into the past to see that the man she loved didn't jilt her but was killed in an accident on the way to their wedding. Reunited, the ghosts go off into the afterlife together]].
** Slightly earlier, he brings her "a diamond to be her friend", misinterpreting "diamonds are a girl's best friend". Something about the scene tugs at this troper's heartstrings in a wonderful way.
* And it's implied he even earlier saves a little girl from death by [[spoiler: giving her some of the sand from his own life-timer, thus bringing his own death (which terrifies him) closer]].
* There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathizes with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
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[[folder:SMALL GODS]]
* When the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centered, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
* Soldiers from opposite sides of a war begin, completely unironically, to help each other in the face of massive natural disaster.
* Brutha in the afterlife, deciding to help out the CompleteMonster of the book.
** Made all the more heartwarming when Death tries to warn him off by telling him the kind of man he was helping, to which Brutha simply replies, "I know. He's [[spoiler: Vorbis]]. But I'm me."
* Brutha, separated from his tiny, self-centered tortoise god and trapped in the Citadel, storms down to its enormous, immovable Great Gates and starts shouting, "I carried you in the desert! I believed all my life! Just give me this one thing! Give me a sign!" And the Great Gates, thanks to an unrelated (right?) subplot coming to its head at exactly the right moment, swing open.
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* The scene
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* ''Discworld/{{The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents}}'': Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
* ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'' when the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centered, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
** From the same book: soldiers from opposite sides of a war begin, completely unironically, to help each other in the face of massive natural disaster.
** Also from ''Small Gods'': Brutha in the afterlife, deciding to help out the CompleteMonster of the book.
*** Made all the more heartwarming when Death tries to warn him off by telling him the kind of man he was helping, to which Brutha simply replies, "I know. He's [[spoiler: Vorbis]]. But I'm me."
** Also from ''Small Gods''. Brutha, separated from his tiny, self-centered tortoise god and trapped in the Citadel, storms down to its enormous, immovable Great Gates and starts shouting, "I carried you in the desert! I believed all my life! Just give me this one thing! Give me a sign!" And the Great Gates, thanks to an unrelated (right?) subplot coming to its head at exactly the right moment, swing open.
* The end of ''Carpe Jugulum'' from the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
* ''Going Postal'': Angrammarad (a golem), having tried its damnedest to save letters from a fire, is hit by cold water. Cold water + red-hot clay = explosion. When it ends up in the desert before the afterlife, Death informs it that the afterlife is on the other side.
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth."]]
** [[spoiler:The other passengers in the coach defending Nutt from the Furies.]]
** Ponder Stibbons was offered the post of a Bursar in the new University of Brazeneck. How much would they pay? He didn't ask. Awww.
** [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
** Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Most of the time Ridcully seems to be the boisterous, thoughtless type, but his anger at the poisoning shows that, in his way, he truly cares for his friends.
** Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion, there's not enough love in the world."
* ''Discworld/MovingPictures'': Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience, with a maimed Gaspode squaring off against Death to protect Laddie. Also a TearJerker.
** Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he also has [=CMoHs=] when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot (''The Fifth Elephant''), and when he refuses to leave a distraught Angua even when she's growling what's implied to be Canine for "Go away or I'll rip out your jugular" (''Men At Arms'').
*** And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* From ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'':
** The whole sequence with Hex is oddly moving, when Death asks him to believe in the Hogfather.
* ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'' when the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centered, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
** From the same book: soldiers from opposite sides of a war begin, completely unironically, to help each other in the face of massive natural disaster.
** Also from ''Small Gods'': Brutha in the afterlife, deciding to help out the CompleteMonster of the book.
*** Made all the more heartwarming when Death tries to warn him off by telling him the kind of man he was helping, to which Brutha simply replies, "I know. He's [[spoiler: Vorbis]]. But I'm me."
** Also from ''Small Gods''. Brutha, separated from his tiny, self-centered tortoise god and trapped in the Citadel, storms down to its enormous, immovable Great Gates and starts shouting, "I carried you in the desert! I believed all my life! Just give me this one thing! Give me a sign!" And the Great Gates, thanks to an unrelated (right?) subplot coming to its head at exactly the right moment, swing open.
* The end of ''Carpe Jugulum'' from the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
* ''Going Postal'': Angrammarad (a golem), having tried its damnedest to save letters from a fire, is hit by cold water. Cold water + red-hot clay = explosion. When it ends up in the desert before the afterlife, Death informs it that the afterlife is on the other side.
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth."]]
** [[spoiler:The other passengers in the coach defending Nutt from the Furies.]]
** Ponder Stibbons was offered the post of a Bursar in the new University of Brazeneck. How much would they pay? He didn't ask. Awww.
** [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
** Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Most of the time Ridcully seems to be the boisterous, thoughtless type, but his anger at the poisoning shows that, in his way, he truly cares for his friends.
** Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion, there's not enough love in the world."
* ''Discworld/MovingPictures'': Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience, with a maimed Gaspode squaring off against Death to protect Laddie. Also a TearJerker.
** Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he also has [=CMoHs=] when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot (''The Fifth Elephant''), and when he refuses to leave a distraught Angua even when she's growling what's implied to be Canine for "Go away or I'll rip out your jugular" (''Men At Arms'').
*** And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* From ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'':
** The whole sequence with Hex is oddly moving, when Death asks him to believe in the Hogfather.
to:
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[[folder:MEN AT ARMS]]
*''Discworld/{{The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents}}'': Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
* ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'' whenNot just that, but the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centered, realizes (in a nod shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the parable of widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the good shepherd) that if you want end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to have thousands approve of followers you have pensions for widows.]]
** Cuddy teaching Detritus tocare about count. Aww.
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all theindividual ones. Asked stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same.whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
** From * When he refuses to leave a distraught Angua even when she's growling what's implied to be Canine for "Go away or I'll rip out your jugular"
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[[folder:SOUL MUSIC]]
* Death and Susan both get one, when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting thesame book: soldiers from opposite sides of a war begin, completely unironically, answer to help each other be "no", if she has a kiss for her granddad. Susan, borderline EmotionlessGirl and DeadpanSnarker realizes that being what he is makes him more alone than any creature in the face universe, actually gives him one, just before going back to her school dormitory and [[spoiler:finally letting herself cry over the loss of massive natural disaster.
**her parents, who died at the beginning of the book.]] Also from ''Small Gods'': Brutha very much a TearJerker.
* The biggest for me is near the end. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just the way it's described makes me start to well up every time, and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in theafterlife, deciding to help out first place.
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how theCompleteMonster of the book.
*** Made all thesong made him consider things more heartwarming when Death tries to warn important than money.
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and woman and thing by the hand and showed himoff by telling him or her or it the kind of man he was helping, to which Brutha simply replies, "I know. He's [[spoiler: Vorbis]]. But I'm me.way home."
** * Also from ''Small Gods''. Brutha, separated from his tiny, self-centered tortoise god and trapped in ''SoulMusic'' Susan's swing... just... Susan's swing. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
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[[folder:INTERESTING TIMES]]
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[[folder:MASKERADE]]
* And there's theCitadel, storms down to its enormous, immovable Great Gates and starts shouting, "I carried you scene in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the desert! I believed all my life! Just give me this one thing! Give me a sign!" And the Great Gates, thanks to an unrelated (right?) subplot coming to its head at exactly the right moment, swing open.
* The endsoul of ''Carpe Jugulum'' from the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: a small boy [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
and lets her win]].
** Actually, they were playing over whether Death took the soul of the cow or the boy. This troper gets the feeling that he'd have taken the cow regardless of the outcome of the game.
*** Er, 'regardless of the outcome of the game'? Death took the cow because Granny had four Kings whereas he only had four 'ones'. In other words, Aces. In other words, he ''did'' win.
**** Yes he did. That's the point.
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[[folder:FEET OF CLAY]]
*''Going Postal'': Angrammarad (a golem), having tried its damnedest How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to save letters from a fire, be mysteriously empty of blood.
* [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]
** Yep. This ishit by cold water. Cold water + red-hot clay = explosion. When it ends up the single most heartwarming moment in the desert before the afterlife, entire series, in this troper's opinion.
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[[folder:HOGFATHER]]
* Deathinforms it that rescuing the afterlife is on the other side.
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' managesLittle Match Girl in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwYCbBWxT8 Hogfather]].'' Death himself shows what he longs most to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth."]]
** [[spoiler:The other passengersdo, but cannot in the coach defending Nutt from the Furies.his own role.
--->[[AC:The Hogfather can. The Hogfather gives presents. There's no better present than a future.]]
** Ponder Stibbons was offered --->[[AC:What can the post of a Bursar in harvest hope for, if not for the new University of Brazeneck. How much would they pay? He didn't ask. Awww.
** [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
** Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Mostcare of the time Ridcully seems to be the boisterous, thoughtless type, but his anger at the poisoning shows that, in his way, he truly cares for his friends.
** Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion,Reaper Man?]]
* And then there'snot enough love in him [[spoiler: giving Nobby the world."
* ''Discworld/MovingPictures'': Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience,best Hogswatchnight of his life with a maimed Gaspode squaring off against Death crossbow that, one of Nobby's favorite magazines, 'had to protect Laddie. Also a TearJerker.
** Gaspode may not wantbreak both arms of the reviewer to admit it, but get it away from him'. And you know what? He'd gone up to the Hogfather exhibit in order to give the Hogfather a piece of his mind, because he also has [=CMoHs=] had never gotten presents when he tries was child on Hogswatchnight, due to stand his family's poorness. The way Nobby lights up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot (''The Fifth Elephant''), and when he refuses to leave a distraught Angua opens it really just made this troper go 'd'awwwwwww'. Doubles as CMoF, as even when she's growling what's implied to be Canine for "Go away or I'll rip out your jugular" (''Men At Arms'').
*** And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
Death is unsure what species Nobby is.]]
*From ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'':
**The whole sequence with Hex is oddly moving, when Death asks him to believe in the Hogfather.
[[folder:MEN AT ARMS]]
*
* ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'' when
** Cuddy teaching Detritus to
** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the
** "They call me ''Mister'' Vimes."
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[[folder:SOUL MUSIC]]
* Death and Susan both get one, when everything is over and Death asks, clearly expecting the
**
* The biggest for me is near the end. Buddy goes out to play his big concert, but instead of his guitar, he opens with a song on his harp. Think if you were going to a Beatles concert expecting to hear rocking stuff like ''Hard Day's Night'', and they open with ''Hey Jude''. Just the way it's described makes me start to well up every time, and it's not easy to describe a song in a novel in the
** Oh yesss, particularly Dibbler being disturbed by how the
*** Made all the
** Particularly the line about how the song "took every man and woman and thing by the hand and showed him
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[[folder:INTERESTING TIMES]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:MASKERADE]]
* And there's the
* The end
** Actually, they were playing over whether Death took the soul of the cow or the boy. This troper gets the feeling that he'd have taken the cow regardless of the outcome of the game.
*** Er, 'regardless of the outcome of the game'? Death took the cow because Granny had four Kings whereas he only had four 'ones'. In other words, Aces. In other words, he ''did'' win.
**** Yes he did. That's the point.
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[[folder:FEET OF CLAY]]
*
* [[spoiler:'''WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN''']]
** Yep. This is
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[[folder:HOGFATHER]]
* Death
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' manages
** [[spoiler:The other passengers
--->[[AC:The Hogfather can. The Hogfather gives presents. There's no better present than a future.]]
** [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
** Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Most
** Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion,
* And then there's
* ''Discworld/MovingPictures'': Gaspode and Laddie's (''Good boy Laddie'') near-Death experience,
** Gaspode may not want
*** And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
*
**
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--->+++ You would say: To Know In Your Bones +++
*** And then there's the fact Hex is later only willing to work if he [[strike: has his Fluffy Teddy Bear]] is FTB-enabled. Which also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Death's attempt at a Hogswatch card. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Death going back in time to buy that toy horse for Albert.
** Maybe this troper is a sentimental sop, but I found Violet and Bilious' spur-of-the-moment romance to be oddly sweet. Particularly:
*** And then there's the fact Hex is later only willing to work if he [[strike: has his Fluffy Teddy Bear]] is FTB-enabled. Which also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Death's attempt at a Hogswatch card. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Death going back in time to buy that toy horse for Albert.
** Maybe this troper is a sentimental sop, but I found Violet and Bilious' spur-of-the-moment romance to be oddly sweet. Particularly:
to:
--->+++ You would say: To Know In Your Bones +++
***+++
** And then there's the fact Hex is later only willing to work if he [[strike: has his Fluffy Teddy Bear]] is FTB-enabled. Which also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** * Death's attempt at a Hogswatch card. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** * Death going back in time to buy that toy horse for Albert.
** * Maybe this troper is a sentimental sop, but I found Violet and Bilious' spur-of-the-moment romance to be oddly sweet. Particularly:
***
** And then there's the fact Hex is later only willing to work if he [[strike: has his Fluffy Teddy Bear]] is FTB-enabled. Which also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
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* ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'': Tiffany: [[spoiler: "I never cried for Granny because there was no need to" ... "Because she never left me!"]]
** The Drome in [[spoiler:the Jolly Sailor dream, in a way that also managed to be a TearJerker for a creature that had before that been depicted solely as predatory ParanoiaFuel.]]
** The Drome in [[spoiler:the Jolly Sailor dream, in a way that also managed to be a TearJerker for a creature that had before that been depicted solely as predatory ParanoiaFuel.]]
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*''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'': Tiffany: From the Quite Reverend Mightily Oats: [[spoiler: "Everywhere I look I see something holy."]]
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[[folder:THE FIFTH ELEPHANT]]
* Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he has a bunch of [=CmoHs=] like in this book when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot
* And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* Very subtle example: when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
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[[folder:THEIF OF TIME]]
* Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the [[spoiler: Five]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
* Near the end, [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
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* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
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[[folder:NIGHT WATCH]]
* Vimes's speech to Vetinari at the end [[spoiler:("How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything. Do you understand?")]], after he [[spoiler: captures Carcer, who had been taunting him the entire book]].
* Vimes in the graveyard reflecting on the revolution and coming to the conclusion that "he was honored to have been there twice."
* The engraved cigar case arriving.
* The birth of Sam Vimes Jr.
--> "I'll teach him to walk! I'm good at teaching people to walk!"
* Reg Shoe's annual gesture of solidarity.
* Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
* The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
--> "And then he went home. And the world turned toward morning."
* Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
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[[folder:THE WEE FREE MEN]]
*Tiffany: [[spoiler: "I never cried for Granny because there was no need to" ... "Because she never left me!"]]
** * The Drome in [[spoiler:the Jolly Sailor dream, in a way that also managed to be a TearJerker for a creature that had before that been depicted solely as predatory ParanoiaFuel.]]
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[[folder:THE LAST CONTINENT]]
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[[folder:CARPE JUGULUM]]
*
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* Gaspode may not want to admit it, but he has a bunch of [=CmoHs=] like in this book when he tries to stand up to a wolf pack to defend a sleeping Carrot
* And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
* Very subtle example: when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
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[[folder:THE TRUTH]]
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[[folder:THEIF OF TIME]]
* Again combined with the {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}, the Auditors of Reality cause the Apocalypse, and Death and the [[spoiler: Five]] Horsemen respond by riding out [[spoiler: against the Auditors, FOR humanity]].
* Near the end, [[spoiler: Lobsang]] makes the cherries of the monastery trees (which are always in bloom) ripen, as a gift for Lu Tze who had briefly considered that it'd be nice to ''pick'' cherries for once at the beginning of the book.
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[[folder:THE LAST HERO]]
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[[folder:THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS INTELIGENT RODENTS]]
* Maurice's [[BalancingDeathsBooks "two, and call it quits" speech]]. Also a rare (for Discworld) subversion of CatsAreMean.
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[[folder:NIGHT WATCH]]
* Vimes's speech to Vetinari at the end [[spoiler:("How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn't have to do, and they died doing it, and you can't give them anything. Do you understand?")]], after he [[spoiler: captures Carcer, who had been taunting him the entire book]].
* Vimes in the graveyard reflecting on the revolution and coming to the conclusion that "he was honored to have been there twice."
* The engraved cigar case arriving.
* The birth of Sam Vimes Jr.
--> "I'll teach him to walk! I'm good at teaching people to walk!"
* Reg Shoe's annual gesture of solidarity.
* Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
* The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
--> "And then he went home. And the world turned toward morning."
* Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
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*Tiffany: [[spoiler: "I never cried for Granny because there was no need to" ... "Because she never left me!"]]
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[[folder:MONSTEROUS REGIMENT]]
*[[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, and [[spoiler: bids all the generals to return to their homes, and rebuild their country - and she returns their kiss of service.]]
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[[folder:A HAT FULL OF SKY]]
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[[folder:GOING POSTAL]]
*''Discworld/{{Wintersmith}}'': Angrammarad (a golem), having tried its damnedest to save letters from a fire, is hit by cold water. Cold water + red-hot clay = explosion. When it ends up in the desert before the afterlife, Death informs it that the afterlife is on the other side.
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
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[[folder:THUD!]]
* Commander Vimes anticipates A.E. Pessimal's wish to be in the Watch and grants him a lifelong desire.
* When Vimes, confused, lost and alone, [[spoiler:starts roaring the story he always reads to his son automatically and, miles away, Young Vimes stops crying--because, it seems, he--and everyone else for a few miles--can hear it.]]
** While not as intense or heartbreaking, my heart grew three sizes when everyone was sitting around the fire reading to Sam Jr.
** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing her favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes this troper beam each time.
** Vimes: the biggest, baddest cop in the city, throws a good portion of the city into chaos [[spoiler:just so he can read his son his bedtime story.]]
*** ''Vimes'' doesn't do that. ''Carrot'' does [[spoiler: and clearly considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam.]]
----> [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
** Related to this, and oddly combining with HighOctaneNightmareFuel or possibly TearJerker, is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical...but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.
** This troper, however, finds that the best of those was the one that was combined with a CrowningMomentOfFunny. "HRRRRUUUUUUGGGGHHH!"
** Also, the bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."
*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
** There's also the cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.
-->"'Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled and wroten: "all thyngs strive," ... And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden....'"
* Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
* Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
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[[folder:WINTERSMITH]]
* "You forgot the last three lines. [[spoiler:Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart."]]
[[folder:MONSTEROUS REGIMENT]]
*[[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, and [[spoiler: bids all the generals to return to their homes, and rebuild their country - and she returns their kiss of service.]]
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[[folder:A HAT FULL OF SKY]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:GOING POSTAL]]
*
--->'''Angrammarad''': I Think I Will Stay Here.\\
'''Death''': [[AC:But...there isn't anything here]]\\
'''Angrammarad''': Yes. It Is Perfect. I Am Free.
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[[folder:THUD!]]
* Commander Vimes anticipates A.E. Pessimal's wish to be in the Watch and grants him a lifelong desire.
* When Vimes, confused, lost and alone, [[spoiler:starts roaring the story he always reads to his son automatically and, miles away, Young Vimes stops crying--because, it seems, he--and everyone else for a few miles--can hear it.]]
** While not as intense or heartbreaking, my heart grew three sizes when everyone was sitting around the fire reading to Sam Jr.
** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing her favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes this troper beam each time.
** Vimes: the biggest, baddest cop in the city, throws a good portion of the city into chaos [[spoiler:just so he can read his son his bedtime story.]]
*** ''Vimes'' doesn't do that. ''Carrot'' does [[spoiler: and clearly considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam.]]
----> [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
** Related to this, and oddly combining with HighOctaneNightmareFuel or possibly TearJerker, is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical...but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.
** This troper, however, finds that the best of those was the one that was combined with a CrowningMomentOfFunny. "HRRRRUUUUUUGGGGHHH!"
** Also, the bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."
*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
** There's also the cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.
-->"'Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled and wroten: "all thyngs strive," ... And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden....'"
* Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
* Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
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* "You forgot the last three lines. [[spoiler:Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart."]]
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* Very subtle example: In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
* There's other Carrot/Angua ones, In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
** Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
* At the end of ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', [[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, and [[spoiler: bids all the generals to return to their homes, and rebuild their country - and she returns their kiss of service.]]
* In IShallWearMidnight, Roland's domineering future mother-in-law, the Duchess, proclaims that [[SleepingBeauty every spinning wheel in the castle will be destroyed to protect her daughter from Tiffany's (presumed) spite.]]. Even the one that belonged to Roland's mother. Roland stands up to her for the first time.
** Also: "What is the sound of love?" [[spoiler: "Listen."]]
* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
* There's other Carrot/Angua ones, In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
** Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
* At the end of ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', [[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, and [[spoiler: bids all the generals to return to their homes, and rebuild their country - and she returns their kiss of service.]]
* In IShallWearMidnight, Roland's domineering future mother-in-law, the Duchess, proclaims that [[SleepingBeauty every spinning wheel in the castle will be destroyed to protect her daughter from Tiffany's (presumed) spite.]]. Even the one that belonged to Roland's mother. Roland stands up to her for the first time.
** Also: "What is the sound of love?" [[spoiler: "Listen."]]
* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
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*Very subtle example: In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', when Gaspode tells Carrot that hunters in the next town have caught a wolf, and Carrot (who's been searching for Angua) says: "''Killed it?''". Seems innocuous enough ... until you realize that it's the ''only'' time Carrot has EVER raised his voice out of sheer, unbridled emotion, not just to make sure someone can hear him. If Angua'd heard ''that'', she'd have no more doubts about how he feels.
* There's other Carrot/Angua ones, In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
** Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
* At the end of ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', [[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, andWhen [[spoiler: bids all Mr. Fusspot inherits Wuffles' role]].
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[[folder:UNSEEN ACADEMICALS]]
* This book manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at thegenerals to return to their homes, and rebuild their country - and she returns their kiss of service.same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth."]]
* [[spoiler:The other passengers in the coach defending Nutt from the Furies.]]
*In IShallWearMidnight, Ponder Stibbons was offered the post of a Bursar in the new University of Brazeneck. How much would they pay? He didn't ask. Awww.
* [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
* Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Most of the time Ridcully seems to be the boisterous, thoughtless type, but his anger at the poisoning shows that, in his way, he truly cares for his friends.
* Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion, there's not enough love in the world."
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[[folder:I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT]]
* Roland's domineering future mother-in-law, the Duchess, proclaims that [[SleepingBeauty every spinning wheel in the castle will be destroyed to protect her daughter from Tiffany's (presumed) spite.]]. Even the one that belonged to Roland's mother. Roland stands up to her for the first time.
** Also: * "What is the sound of love?" [[spoiler: "Listen."]]
* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
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*
* There's other Carrot/Angua ones, In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
** Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
* At the end of ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'', [[JoanOfArc Wazzer]] speaks with the voice of the Duchess, and
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[[folder:UNSEEN ACADEMICALS]]
* This book manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the
* [[spoiler:The other passengers in the coach defending Nutt from the Furies.]]
*
* [[spoiler:"I wrote it for you."]]
* Archchancellor Ridcully's reaction when the Librarian was poisoned. Most of the time Ridcully seems to be the boisterous, thoughtless type, but his anger at the poisoning shows that, in his way, he truly cares for his friends.
* Upon finding out that new arrival Professor Macarona is a StraightGay, Ridcully has this to say "A lot of that sort of thing about, apparently … people make such a fuss. Anyway, in my opinion, there's not enough love in the world."
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[[folder:I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT]]
* Roland's domineering future mother-in-law, the Duchess, proclaims that [[SleepingBeauty every spinning wheel in the castle will be destroyed to protect her daughter from Tiffany's (presumed) spite.]]. Even the one that belonged to Roland's mother. Roland stands up to her for the first time.
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
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* There's other Carrot/Angua ones, In ''Discworld/FeetOfClay'' Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.
** Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
** Also in ''Thud'' when Sally says everytime Carrot sees Angua his heart skips a beat.
** And Angua's speeds up.
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** Also: "What is the sound of love?" [[spoiler: "Listen."
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* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
* Possibly This Troper's favorite moment in Discworld is at the end of ''Guards! Guards!'' - showing Vimes and Sybil's blossoming relationship in the perfect terms -- (paraphrased):
--> "'What was it? Oh, yes... it's a one-in-a-million chance, he said, but it just might work.'
--> "And she smiled at him. It occurred to him that in her own special category of women, she was quite beautiful - and that was the category of all the women, in all his life, who had ever thought him worth smiling at. [...] The woman was a city."
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** And then there's him [[spoiler: giving Nobby the best Hogswatchnight of his life with a crossbow that, one of Nobby's favorite magazines, 'had to break both arms of the reviewer to get it away from him'. And you know what? He'd gone up to the Hogfather exhibit in order to give the Hogfather a piece of his mind, because he had never gotten presents when he was child on Hogswatchnight, due to his family's poorness. The way Nobby lights up when he opens it really just made this troper go 'd'awwwwwww'. Doubles as CMoF, as even Death is unsure what species Nobby is.]]
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** Detritus's reaction to [[spoiler: Cuddy's]] death. Made all the stronger by Carrot talking him down from obliterating a whole room's worth of assassins shortly afterword.
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** Some of Vimes' interactions with his young self indicate just how much he's grown. Particularly when Vimes forgets the torturer he's tied up in the basement until they light the building on fire; younger Vimes thinks he's done it on purpose and relishes the notion of such an evil man burning to death. Vimes runs into the building to rescue the man, or at least give him a chance to escape. It fits in perfectly with Vimes' struggles to control "The Beast" and to keep to the law, at least as far as is pragmatically possible.
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*** There's a subtler one earlier where the farmers remark on how Death cuts corn very quickly despite cutting ''each stalk individually''. This evokes how he empathises with humanity and sees them as individuals, unlike the New Death later in the book who treats them like cattle.
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** Yep. This is the single most heartwarming moment in the entire series, in this troper's opinion.
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** The ending, just after the graveyard scene and [[MomentOfAwesome Vimes's rant to Vetinari]].
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*** And also when he tries to help Gavin out during the wolf's last fight.
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** Rescuing the Little Match Girl in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLbAZuGxsE com/watch?v=zvwYCbBWxT8 Hogfather]].'' Death himself shows what he longs most to do, but cannot in his own role.
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** Cuddy teaching Detritus to count. Aww.
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** Not just that, but the shocking reveal as to how Samuel Vimes spent his money before becoming rich. [[spoiler: He donated about HALF his monthly earnings to the widows and orphans left behind by dead watchmen.]] At the end, he'll probably give it up [[spoiler: since Carrot gets Vetinari to approve of pensions for widows.]]
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*** And another Brick one:
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
-->What dey had been doin down dat hole was makin' der worl' a betterer place, Sergeant Detritus had said. And it seemed to Brick, as he smelled the food, that Sergeant Detritus had got dat one dead right.
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** How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book.
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** How about Mrs. Gammage at Biers? The story about her getting robbed is both a [=CMOH=] and a CrowningMomentOfFunny in my book. Mrs. Gammage is an old lady who has been drinking at the undead bar since before it was the undead bar, and never noticed the change. She was robbed once. The stolen goods were returned the next day and the thieves discovered to be mysteriously empty of blood.
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* ''[[Discworld/TheTruth The Truth]]'': Mr. Tulip, who was a person who murdered as a natural reaction, [[spoiler:sees all the hourglasses and all the lives of the people he killed, and repents. It may not sound like much then, but when, hanging his head in shame, he wonders if he can reincarnate earlier to kill himself, it really hit me.]]
-->"[[spoiler:This is ---ing good wood!]]"
-->"[[spoiler:This is ---ing good wood!]]"
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* ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'' when the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centred, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
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* ''[[Discworld/SmallGods Small Gods]]'' when the god Om, who starts the book completely self-centred, self-centered, realizes (in a nod to the parable of the good shepherd) that if you want to have thousands of followers you have to care about the individual ones. Asked by a mathematically-challenged god whether one follower is less than fifty-one, he replies, "No. It's the same."
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* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth"]].
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* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' manages to create a CMOH and a CMOA at the same time with just three words: [[spoiler: "I have worth"]].worth."]]
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* The last fifty pages of ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment''.
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----> [[spoiler: '''Vimes''': The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
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----> [[spoiler: '''Vimes''': The [[spoiler:The better part of the city was now snarled with backed-up traffic - but it was clear that this did not worry Carrot. He had seen a problem; the problem was now solved. True, the solution had caused massive chaos - but that was a ''different'' problem.]]
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** Followed by a ''literal'' moment of "heartwarming" [[spoiler:when Tiffany channels the heat of the sun and melts the Wintersmith, leaving behind only the nail from his heart]].
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*** Er, 'regardless of the outcome of the game'? Death took the cow because Granny had four Kings whereas he only had four 'ones'. In other words, Aces. In other words, he ''did'' win.
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-->Violet's lips moved silently. Part of Bilious thought: I'm attracted to a girl who actually [[TheDitz has to shut down all other brain functions in order to think about the order of the letters of the alphabet.]]
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-->Violet's lips moved silently. Part of Bilious thought: I'm attracted to a girl who actually [[TheDitz has to shut down all other brain functions in order to think about the order of the letters of the alphabet.]]]]\\
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** Maybe this troper is a sentimental sop, but I found Violet and Bilious' spur-of-the-moment romance to be oddly sweet. Particularly:
-->Violet's lips moved silently. Part of Bilious thought: I'm attracted to a girl who actually [[TheDitz has to shut down all other brain functions in order to think about the order of the letters of the alphabet.]]
On the other hand, ''she's'' attracted to someone [[ThePigPen who's wearing a toga that looks as though a family of weasels have had a party in it]], so maybe I'll stop this thought right here.
-->Violet's lips moved silently. Part of Bilious thought: I'm attracted to a girl who actually [[TheDitz has to shut down all other brain functions in order to think about the order of the letters of the alphabet.]]
On the other hand, ''she's'' attracted to someone [[ThePigPen who's wearing a toga that looks as though a family of weasels have had a party in it]], so maybe I'll stop this thought right here.
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** And there's the scene in ''Discworld/Maskerade'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].
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** And there's the scene in ''Discworld/Maskerade'' ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'' when he plays with Granny for the soul of a small boy [[spoiler: and lets her win]].
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*** Actually, they were playing over whether Death took the soul of the cow or the boy. This troper gets the feeling that he'd have taken the cow regardless of the outcome of the game.
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** Just before the big fight. Every single watchman stayed with him, despite knowing that the odds were heavily against them.
