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* ReturnOfTheKing: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the plan of the Grand Supreme Master. [[spoiler:Subverted with Carrot.]]
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* [[DefeatMeansFriendship Defeat Means A Little More Than Friendship]]: [[spoiler: Errol and Her Majesty]].
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* NoNameGiven: The BigBad's stand-in "king" is never named. Lampshaded when a minor character assumes his name is "Vivat Rex" ("Long Live the King") because he keeps seeing the phrase on banners.
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* MyopicArchitechture: Vetinari is revealed to have done this on purpose: while the lock to the palace dungeon is on the outside, the locking mechanisms are on the inside. Would-be usurpers throw him in the dungeon expecting it to serve as an oubliette; instead, it's an impregnable fortress that he can "escape" at his leisure.
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* CanisLatinicus: "Fabricati diem, pvnc," the modern-day motto of the Night Watch.
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** There are several to ''{{Casablanca}}'' as well.
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** There are several at least two shout-outs to ''{{Casablanca}}'' as well.well: the line "Of all the cities in all the world it could have flown into, he thought, it's flown into mine," and "Here's looking at you, kid," the last line Vimes speaks in the book.
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** There are several to ''{{Casablanca}}'' as well.
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** Other words in the oath include welchet ("a type of waistcoat worn by certain clock-makers"), gaskin ("a shy, grey-brown bird of the coot family") and moules ("a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises"). The oath, when one doesn't know the meaning of the words in it, sounds much more menacing than it actually is. The Supreme Grand Master notes the fact that none of them have asked what any of the words mean as a sign of their stupidity.
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* CoolSword: In a magical land like Discworld, Carrot's sword is unique for ''not'' being magical at all.
** It's not magical in the mundane sense at least, but when it can cut through another sword or a stone pillar with apparent ease then you have to assume it has some sort of 'narrative magic'.
*** Heh, it's cleverer than that. The discworld is made of magic. Everything works due to narrative magic. But this sword has absolutely 0 magic, including just the discworld's natural magic. Basically, to the discworld, it's a sword made of anti-matter.
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Dragon Lady]]: Lady Sybil in regards to her swamp dragons.
** It's not magical in the mundane sense at least, but when it can cut through another sword or a stone pillar with apparent ease then you have to assume it has some sort of 'narrative magic'.
*** Heh, it's cleverer than that. The discworld is made of magic. Everything works due to narrative magic. But this sword has absolutely 0 magic, including just the discworld's natural magic. Basically, to the discworld, it's a sword made of anti-matter.
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Dragon Lady]]: Lady Sybil in regards to her swamp dragons.
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* CoolSword: In a magical land like Discworld, Carrot's sword is unique for ''not'' being magical at all.
**all. It is so non-magical it's realer than most of discworld. It's not magical in the mundane sense at least, but when one of those things, like Death, where it can cut through another sword or a stone pillar with apparent ease then you have to assume it has some sort simply is. Since most of 'narrative magic'.
*** Heh, it's cleverer than that. Thediscworld is made of magic. Everything works due to narrative magic. But this magical, and the sword has absolutely 0 magic, including just the discworld's natural magic. Basically, to the discworld, is not, it's a sword made of anti-matter.
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Dragon Lady]]: Lady Sybil in regards to her swamp dragons.hot knife thru butter.
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*** Heh, it's cleverer than that. The
* [[CrazyCatLady Crazy Dragon Lady]]: Lady Sybil in regards to her swamp dragons.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Remember when [[MemeticBadass Sam Vimes]] was cowed by the Palace Guards? Or [[ShroudedInMyth he]] was scared to face the Broken Drum or enter into the Shades like a punk? Just like Vetinari, it seemed the [[DiscWorld/{{ThiefOfTime}} Time]] [[DoctorWho compression]] did his job [[Discworld/{{NightWatch}} alrighy]]
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** ''Triple'' Subverted, if you consider what the fellow ([[spoiler: Errol]]) who ''really'' defeated the King got out of the deal. [[spoiler: Granted, they didn't bother to take half the kingdom, but she'd already found out that Ankh-Morpork's idea of "gold" wasn't worth hoarding, and they could hardly bring half a city along when they flew away, perhaps to join Errol's distant relations on the Moon.]]
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* [[spoiler: LoveAtFirstPunch: Or rather, Love At First Sonic-Boom Backlash, between Errol and the King.]]
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** Also, the members of the Watch believe that a MillionToOneChance will be successful more often that a Thousand to One or even Hundred to One Chance, and intentionally manipulate the situation to make it more unlikely, until it is as close to Million to One as possible. [[spoiler:It still fails--but fortunately, their chances of surviving the failure ''were'' a million to one.]]
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** Also, the members of the Watch believe that a MillionToOneChance will be successful more often that a Thousand to One or even Hundred to One Chance, and intentionally manipulate the situation to make it more unlikely, until it is as close to Million to One as possible. [[spoiler:It still fails--but fortunately, their chances of surviving the failure ''were'' were ''exactly'' a million to one.]]
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** The Dragon itself might be a lesser example.
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*** Heh, it's cleverer than that. The discworld is made of magic. Everything works due to narrative magic. But this sword has absolutely 0 magic, including just the discworld's natural magic. Basically, to the discworld, it's a sword made of anti-matter.
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** To clarify, after he's [[spoiler:let himself out of his cell ("escaped" would imply he hadn't planned to be there)]], Vetinari pulls this on Wonse repeatedly to mess with him, using hidden passages.
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* TurnInYourBadgeTurnInYourBadge: Wonse demands this from Vimes after he disrupts the coronation (mistaking a raven for the dragon).
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---> '''Vimes:''' ''"Any of them get out?''"?
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* EntendreFailureEntendreFailure: The older, more cynical guards assume that young and innocent Carrot joined the Watch to get away from a bad situation at home. One of them asks him if he "got a girl into trouble", and Carrot, recalling all the times his girlfriend was lectured by her father about how unsuitable he was, says that he did, more than once. He also admitted to staying at "Mrs Palm's" (a notorious brothel) every night, impressing his co-workers, though Carrot was actually under the impression it was a boarding house. His letter home to his family included a line about one of the girls waking him up to ask if he wanted anything "but they had no apples so I said no".
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See {{CrowningMoment.Discworld}}
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See {{Funny.Discworld}}
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: See {{CrowningMoment.Discworld}}
[[Awesome/{{Discworld}} here]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See{{Funny.Discworld}}[[Funny/{{Discworld}} here]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See
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* OffscreenTeleportation: "That was commendably speedy, Wonse."
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The eighth {{Discworld}} book and the first to feature the City Watch, one of the most popular of the major character groups/themes in Pratchett's creation.
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The eighth {{Discworld}} book and the first to feature the City Watch, one of the most popular of the major character groups/themes in Pratchett's creation.creation, plus the first appearance of {{CMOT Dibbler}}, though as a one-note gag character.
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: "Help. Me." To the head of the Guild of ''Assassins''. There's only one sort of help he can give..
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** HarsherInHindsight once you've read ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and realize [[spoiler: Wonse's memory of living in terror of the Cable Street Particulars is probably what the dragon found so horrifying, not just abstract historical misfortunes.]]
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** HarsherInHindsight once you've read ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and realize [[spoiler: Wonse's memory of living in terror of the Cable Street Particulars is probably what the dragon found so horrifying, not just abstract unspecified historical misfortunes.atrocities.]]
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** HarsherInHindsight once you've read ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and realize [[spoiler: Wonse's memory of living in terror of the Cable Street Particulars is probably what the dragon found so horrifying. Wonse was from Vimes' old neighborhood, after all.]]
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** HarsherInHindsight once you've read ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and realize [[spoiler: Wonse's memory of living in terror of the Cable Street Particulars is probably what the dragon found so horrifying. Wonse was from Vimes' old neighborhood, after all.horrifying, not just abstract historical misfortunes.]]
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** HarsherInHindsight once you've read ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and realize [[spoiler: Wonse's memory of living in terror of the Cable Street Particulars is probably what the dragon found so horrifying]].
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** HarsherInHindsight once you've read ''Discworld/NightWatch'', and realize [[spoiler: Wonse's memory of living in terror of the Cable Street Particulars is probably what the dragon found so horrifying]].
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** Actually, both of those were perfectly legitimate clues that just took Vimes a while to link up. A true EurekaMoment takes its inspiration from something unrelated to the case at hand.
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* {{Mooks}}: The dedication makes it clear that this book was intended to subvert the idea. But Pterry liked the Watch too much to let them go after one book, and the rest is history.
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* {{Mooks}}: The dedication makes it clear that this book was intended to subvert the idea. But Pterry Terry liked the Watch too much to let them go after one book, and the rest is history.
