History Literature / Discworld

** Messr Honeyplace, [[AmoralAttorney Mr Slant's]] vampiric partner at Morecombe, Slant and Honeyplace, has never made an appearance. Morecombe is also a vampire and the Ramkin's family solicitor (for multiple generations), but Honeyplace has not been sighted to date.

* CatchPhrase:
** Death: [[AC: There is no justice. Just me.]]
** Rincewind: "Oh shit I'm going to die!"
** Moist: "Trust me."
** [[TheIgor all Igors]]: "Yeth, marthtar."
** The Death of Rats: [[AC: Squeak.]]
** The Librarian: "Oook."
** Vetinari: "Don't let me detain you."
** Granny Weatherwax: "I aten't dead."
** DiscussedTrope by Vimes and Carrot in ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'':
-->'You know what I always say,' he said.
-->Carrot removed his helmet and polished it with his sleeve. 'Yes, sir. "Everyone's guilty of something, especially the ones that aren't," sir.'
-->'No, not that one . . .'
-->'Er . . . "Always take into consideration the fact that you might be dead wrong," sir?'
-->'No, nor that one either.'
-->'Er . . . "How come Nobby ever got a job as a watchman?", sir? You say that a lot.'
-->'No! I meant "Always act stupid," Carrot.'
-->'Ah, right, sir. From now on I shall remember that you always said that, sir.'
** Commander Vimes ''is'' fond of noting that in criminal cases, the motive is easier to find if you "follow the money".

** The name of the countries Djelibeybi and Hersheba. Terry Pratchett's realization that American audiences weren't getting the Djelibeybi pun inspired the creation of nearby Hersheba, which most audiences in general aren't getting. (If you've heard of the candy, the Djelibeybi pun is criminally easy to get, due to it being mentally pronounced the same way, ''and'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when we're told Djelibeybi literally means "Child of the Djel." Hersheba is not as easy -- this is due to variation in pronunciation (the most obvious pronunciation rhymes with Bethsheba), the fact that it doesn't have a lampshade, ''and'' it doesn't have a book focused on it. Once you remember that some British accents drop the ''r'' sound in words ending in 'ar', though....[[note]]Most southern English accents are non-rhotic, so don't pronounce the letter ''r'' at the ends of words, insted it acts to lenghten the predecing vowel. In the example of the word "bar", an American or a Scot would pronounce it with a distinct ''r'' sound at the end, but a southern English accent pronounces it more or less as a homophone for "baa", as in the sound a sheep makes.[[/note]]

** The name of the countries Djelibeybi and Hersheba. Terry Pratchett's realization that American audiences weren't getting the Djelibeybi pun inspired the creation of nearby Hersheba, which most audiences in general aren't getting. (If you've heard of the candy, the Djelibeybi pun is criminally easy to get, due to it being mentally pronounced the same way, ''and'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when we're told Djelibeybi literally means "Child of the Djel." Hersheba is not as easy -- this is due to variation in pronunciation (the most obvious pronunciation rhymes with Bethsheba), the fact that it doesn't have a lampshade, ''and'' it doesn't have a book focused on it. Once you remember that some British accents add an ''r'' sound to words ending in 'a', though....

* CharacterizationMarchesOn:

** Remember when Granny Weatherwax was just a simple village witch?

** Or when Willikins was ''just'' a butler?

** [[spoiler: Orks]] were the foot soldiers of the defunct Evil Empire, and it's revealed in ''Unseen Academicals'' that the people of Uberwald have been exterminating the few survivors. [[spoiler: They haven't been entirely successful.]]

The work of collecting book annotations has been continued on the ''[[http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Annotations L-Space Wiki,]]'' who have picked up the baton and assembled a catalogue of annotations for all Discworld novels since ''Going Postal'', in the hoped-for event that the L-Space Web proper resumes full operations again. New contributors are always welcome!

** Carcer Dun in ''Literature/NightWatch'' is not, technically, insane. It's merely that he's realized that all those little rules that keep society ticking over nicely only apply to you if you let them, and therefore the only thing between him and murdering a coach full of accordion players for shits and giggles is his own inhibitions. He is, in fact, more in tune with objective reality than the average man on the street; a sort of inverse psychosis if you will.

* MoreThanJustATeacher: The Guild of Assassins' School is staffed by some very scholarly, capable people often possessing more letters after their name than are actually in the name.

%%* ReferenceOverdosed

* ModestRoyalty: Carrot is the last living descendent of the royal line. He denies it to anyone who asks, perhaps due in large part to Vimes's influence, but he does make use of near-supernatural royal charisma and occasionally drops by Vetinari's office to make gentle suggestions that are surprisingly often accepted.

%%* MuggingTheMonster:
%%** Usually [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Angua]].
%%** Members of the Assassins' Guild also get this in a book or two.

* DangledByAGiant: When she gets really angry, the young Witch Tiffany Aching physically picks up Rob Anybody of the NacMacFeegle and lifts him off the ground to glare him in the eye. Normally on the Discworld this is a shocking breach of good manners and any human other than a Witch is risking some very emphatic correction. But Rob knows he is dealing with a Witch, who stands twelve times his height, and ta

%%* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking

%%* ClassicalMovieVampire: Usually subverted, but played straight sometimes.

** The Patrician of Ankh-Morporkh, master of the BatmanGabmit who has made himself so indispensible that like Vimes the Assassins (which is, incidentally, where he was trained) have removed him from the register. One of the earliest examples we see if this is in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', where he is thrown into a cell, which Vimes realises is a) heavily reinforced ''on the inside'', and b) to which Vetinari ''has the key''.

* CrazyPrepared: Commander Samuel Vimes has set up numerous traps at his home and office to deal with those pesky Assassins, to the point that his name has been taken off the register for ''real'' assassinations, but some of the more mean-spirited instructors have begun sending out students to do "mock assassinations". If they can draw a bead on him with a crossbow, they pass. Good luck.

* BoyMeetsGirl: A common feature near the beginning of the various 'series,' usually leading to an EstablishedCouple in later books.

%%* BoyMeetsGirl: In the majority of books. Of course, there are generally complications, but that's why books have so many pages.