History Literature / FafhrdandtheGrayMouser

* BrokeEpisode: All the time. The two never manage to hold on to any of the riches they come across in their adventures.

* {{Multiboobage}}: One of the Gray Mouser's girlfriends, Hisvet, was an albino wererat with eight nipples.

* SwordAndSorcerer

** It goes the other way too-- some rats who use potions to grow human-sized leave behind some puddles that turn out to be the leftover mass of some luckless humans who got used to bulk them up.

--->'''Ningauble:''' --the dread city, mention not its name--\\

* {{Multiboobage}}: One of the Gray Mouser's girlfriends was an albino wererat with eight nipples.

[[caption-width-right:350:The pair of rogues themselves[[note]]Cover art by Creator/MikeMignola for ''Ill Met in Lankhmar'', published by Creator/WhiteWolf in 1995[[/note]]]]

* DeadpanSnarker: The Mouser.

* MagicKnight: Not really that much of a knight, but Mouser was a failed sorcerer's apprentice who turned mercenary. He is primarily a swordsman but he casts a spell once in a while.
* MarsNeedsWomen: Gender-inversed. In one of the novels, a mountain-dwelling race of invisible people is on the brink of extinction, as almost all their males have become sterile. They decide to send a call for human heroes in order to breed with them: by their calculations, the invisibility will breed true. [[spoiler:The catch is, their king doesn't intend to let said heroes to have ''sex'' with the invisible girls: he prefers more, shall we say, cutting methods of extracting genetic material.]]
* MediumAwareness: In the origin story ''Ill Met in Lankhmar'', the Mouser's response when Fafhrd introduces himself is to ask how "Fafhrd" is ''pronounced''. Fafhrd also made sure to carefully spell it out to him, because else he couldn't have known how it was spelled, [[MindScrew since they were, you know, speaking]].

** Also invoked in the fact that Fafhrd and The Mouser are both paired off with the wizard least compatible to their personality: The wry and story-loving Mouser is paired with the incredibly terse Sheelba, who rebuffs any of The Mousers attempts at building a rapport; while the upfront and to-the-point Fafhrd finds himself working for voluble Ningauble, a lot of which involves him standing around while the wizard drones on and on.

* InvisibleStomachVisibleFood: This happens when ghouls eat anything.

* MouseWorld: Lankhmar Below

* ShapeshifterBaggage: In ''The Swords of Lankhmar'', a shrinking potion does, in fact, displace mass, as the now rat-sized Mouser has to swim his way out of a good-sized puddle of meat, cloth fibers, and metal fragments (flesh, clothes, armor, and weapons). Later, he grows back to his full size away from that puddle, and the mass is taken from nearby objects (and people!), stripping some enemy {{Mooks}} of armor and weapons-- and giving a nearby fat girl a magical liposuction. Great news for her, {{Squick}} for the Mouser?

* BassoProfundo: Fafhrd is a bass but pitches his voice tenor to sing. When he gets religion in ''Lean Times in Lankhmar'', this starts gossip that he accidentally castrated himself when he broke his sword over his knee.

One of the most seminal pieces of SwordAndSorcery was Creator/FritzLeiber's ''Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser'' series of short stories and novellas. Set in the world of Nehwon (except for one story set on Earth), often in the city of Lankhmar, it starred Fafhrd, a seven-foot tall {{barbarian|Hero}} from the North, and the Mouser, a trickster [[LoveableRogue thief]] and former wizard's apprentice, who find and befriend each other one day. To quote Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}: "They spend a lot of time drinking, feasting, wenching, brawling, stealing, and gambling, and are seldom fussy about to whom they hire their swords. But they are humane and -- most of all -- relish true adventure."

[[caption-width-right:350:The pair of rogues themselves]]

* ComicBookAdaptation: During the height of ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian's popularity over at Creator/MarvelComics, [[Creator/DCComics DC]] tried launching a series based on Fafhrd and the Mouser. It didn't last very long, but did result in a very fun (if improbable) [[CrossOver crossover]] story with ComicBook/WonderWoman.

* ComicBookAdaptation: During the height of ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian's popularity over at Creator/MarvelComics, Creator/DCComics tried launching a series based on Fafhrd and the Mouser. It didn't last very long, but did result in a very fun (if improbable) [[CrossOver crossover]] story with ComicBook/WonderWoman.

* ComicBookAdaptation: During the height of ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian's popularity over at Creator/MarvelComics, DC tried launching a series based on Fafhrd and the Mouser. It didn't last very long, but did result in a very fun (if improbable) [[CrossOver crossover]] story with ComicBook/WonderWoman.

* ComicBookAdaptation: During the height of ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian's comic book over at Marvel, DC tried launching a series based on Fafhrd and the Mouser. It didn't last very long, but did result in a very fun (if improbable) [[CrossOver crossover]] story with ComicBook/WonderWoman.

* ComicBookAdapatation: During the height of ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian's comic book over at Marvel, DC tried launching a series based on Fafhrd and the Mouser. It didn't last very long, but did result in a very fun (if improbable) [[CrossOver crossover]] story with ComicBook/WonderWoman.