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* OppositesAttract: Moist von Lipwig: Conman, forced into public service, liar, and optimist with some cynic in. Adora Belle Dearheart: Golem trust chairwoman, chose her job voluntarily, incapable of lying (bar sarcasm), and cynic with some optimist in.
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* FantasticNuke: In a ContinuityNod to earlier accounts of the Mage Wars, such as ''Sourcery:''
--> That's why it [magic] was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards -- not "not doing magic" because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to ''refrain'' from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.
--> That's why it [magic] was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards -- not "not doing magic" because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to ''refrain'' from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.
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** It seems like someone being the "last" something and turning out not to be so fits well with the Law of Narrative Causality.
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* FreudWasRight: Lampshaded when Adora Belle looks over Moist's ideas for stamp pictures; she notes that one of them is the Tower of Art at the Unseen University(tallest building in the city).
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* FreudWasRight: Lampshaded when Adora Belle looks over Moist's ideas for stamp pictures; she notes that one of them is the Tower of Art at the Unseen University(tallest University (tallest building in the city).
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*** Its first mention in the series was in {{Discworld/ReaperMan}} - when the proto-mall seeded the city with sales flyers, one character reads it and remarks "Five exclamation marks. The sure sign of an insane mind."
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*** Its first mention in the series was in {{Discworld/ReaperMan}} Discworld/{{Reaper Man}} - when the proto-mall seeded the city with sales flyers, one character reads it and remarks "Five exclamation marks. The sure sign of an insane mind."
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** Doesn't help that instead of an entourage on a FreddieMercury scale he's been given just (an oddly more sensible version of) Crispin Horsefry, UpperClassTwit per excellence in the book.
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** Doesn't help that instead of an entourage on a FreddieMercury [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] scale he's been given just (an oddly more sensible version of) Crispin Horsefry, UpperClassTwit per excellence in the book.
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*** Actually, Angua does transform in public: e.g. when "taken hostage" by three clueless robbers. A minute of much screaming later, she walks back into thepolice bar, adjusting her clothes.
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*** Actually, Angua does transform in public: e.g. when "taken hostage" by three clueless robbers. A minute of much screaming later, she walks back into thepolice the police bar, adjusting her clothes.
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*** Actually, Angua does transform in public: e.g. when "taken hostage" by three clueless robbers. A minute of much screaming later, she walks back into thepolice bar, adjusting her clothes.
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** Stanley Howler, stamps guy, is based on Stanley Gibbons, the man who invented stamps in RealLife.
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** Mildly subverted in that the doctor who examined him found him to be in remarkably good health. He was just absolutely disgusting. And his hairpiece escaped.
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* GenreSavvy: Bookies give 8:1 odds for Moist to win the race, then stop taking bets when no-one will bet against him.
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* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: A secret society of postem ("I mean, why?"). Moist has joined several of these groups before, and assumes that their initiation test won't be anything dangerous, only to realise they're taking it very seriously.
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: A secret society of postmen ("I mean, why?"). Moist has joined several of these groups before, and assumes that their initiation test won't be anything dangerous, only to realise they're taking it very seriously.
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* PonyExpressRider: Moist's race against the clacks.
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* [=~Walk, Don't Swim~=]: Moist von Lipwig realises that even fleeing to a different continent would not help him to escape his Golem parole officer, as it would be able to walk any body of water eventually.
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Spike was Lipwig's name for her
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* BrokenBird: Adora, who was always pretty {{tsundere}} in the novel (her brother nicknamed her "Spike" after all)
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* BrokenBird: Adora, who was always pretty {{tsundere}} in the novel (her brother nicknamed her "Spike" "Killer" after all)
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* SympatheticPOV: From Moist's point of view, ''[[Discworld/TheTruth The Ankh-Morpork Times]]'' is a useful tool, and Miss Cripslock makes for a great verbal whetstone (that is, she forces him to keep his wits sharp), but the editor-in-chief is a [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness wordy, pompous stuffed shirt]]. Which makes for an interesting triangle of protagonists, since both Moist and de Worde are dismissive of Sam Vimes.
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* SympatheticPOV: From Moist's point of view, ''[[Discworld/TheTruth The Ankh-Morpork Times]]'' is a useful tool, and Miss Cripslock makes for a great verbal whetstone (that is, she forces him to keep his wits sharp), but the editor-in-chief is a [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness wordy, pompous stuffed shirt]]. Which makes for an interesting triangle of protagonists, since both Moist and de Worde are dismissive of Sam Vimes. (''He's'' not so fond of them either.)
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* ShownTheirWork: Moist's induction into the order of Postmen is very similar to a Masonic initiation.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: YourMileageMayVary, but book Stanley: ignorably nerdy. Ian Bonar as adaption Stanley: [[CuteShotaroBoy HHHNNNN]][[TheWoobie NNNNNNN]][[FetishFuel NNNNNGG]][[PerverseSexualLust GGG.]]
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* CuteShotaroBoy: Why is it that Stanley has no luck with women?
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** And it's lovely watching her smoke...
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*** Gilt mentions to a servant that he was a bit surprised he got away with that one. The pirate act is just flavor, but the name spells it out.
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** Gilt takes a major hit as well, see SmugSnake below.
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** Could the name Lipwig be based on Victor Lustig a conman who sold the Eiffle Tower twice.
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Don't Explain The Joke, or shoehorn your own. Pretty sure Pratchett's not from New Zealand.
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* StealthPun: Reacher Gilt dresses like a pirate and has a parrot that says "Twelve and a half percent!" The conversion is left up to the reader.
** For those, like me, who didn't get it: [[spoiler:That's one-eighth, for "[[TreasureIsland Pieces of eight!]]"]]
** For those in New Zealand, it can be even further confusing, as that's the exact rate of GST. [[AynRand On the other hand, given Gilt's feelings on Regulation and Taxes...]]
** For those, like me, who didn't get it: [[spoiler:That's one-eighth, for "[[TreasureIsland Pieces of eight!]]"]]
** For those in New Zealand, it can be even further confusing, as that's the exact rate of GST. [[AynRand On the other hand, given Gilt's feelings on Regulation and Taxes...]]
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* StealthPun: Reacher Gilt dresses like a pirate and has a parrot that says "Twelve and a half percent!" The conversion is left up to the reader.
** For those, like me, who didn't get it: [[spoiler:That's one-eighth, for "[[TreasureIsland Pieces of eight!]]"]]
** For those in New Zealand, it can be even further confusing, as that's the exact rate of GST. [[AynRand On the other hand, given Gilt's feelings on Regulation and Taxes...]]percent!"
** For those, like me, who didn't get it: [[spoiler:That's one-eighth, for "[[TreasureIsland Pieces of eight!]]"]]
** For those in New Zealand, it can be even further confusing, as that's the exact rate of GST. [[AynRand On the other hand, given Gilt's feelings on Regulation and Taxes...]]
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*** Which would be FridgeBrilliance, because we know the ''last'' time a glass clock got built, it turned up in an in-universe book of fairy tales, SoYeah.
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*** Which would be FridgeBrilliance, because we know the ''last'' time a glass clock got built, it turned up in an in-universe book of fairy tales, SoYeah.
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* RetCon: In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', Mr. Ixolite is described as the "last living banshee". Guess nobody told the narrative about Mr. Gryle.
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I thought it was cool.
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* DefrostingIceQueen / {{Kuudere}}: Adora Belle "Killer" "Spike" Dearheart.
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