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!!The Auditors of Reality in ''Discworld'' (copypasted over here to save me from having to open those folders in mobile mode)
The CelestialBureaucracy of the universe, who are trying to make less work for themselves. Unfortunately, this manifests as them being a bunch of {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s that despise creativity and individuality.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: They're the Squid, but unlike below examples they hate all life everywhere and so in practice act as the Devils. Unlike gods, demons, spirits or elementals they don't want anything from [[PunyHumans humanity]], only that they disappear quietly. The monks of Oi Dong have hundreds of statues of horrible creatures from throughout the multiverse and consider the Auditors to be the worst.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the laws of physics, Order - and Bureaucracy. In fact, they're possibly "Taxes" - Because there are two things certain in life, and Death is already accounted for, right?
* ArchNemesis: To Death and Susan.
* BeingEvilSucks: They're cosmic nudniks, consider the scale though; ''cosmic'', destroying a world is well within their abilities if they can get away with it. problem is they have no imagination, barely exist at all with any hint of growth or change or individuality leading them to [[DrivenToSuicide sef-destruct]], hints point to the enemy auditors being
* BizarreAlienSenses: They actually have hundreds of senses, all for the purposes of gathering data. But they don't have ''taste''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Auditors are not strictly evil, and are a part of the multiverse just the same as Death is. But they are antagonistic and hostile to all life specifically because life interferes in their operations (though mainly only as a result of their pettiness and lack of imagination).
* CelestialBureaucracy: {{Exaggerated}}, as they're bureaucrats who oversee the minutiae of the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality they want efficiency and to save on paperwork. Unfortunately for all life, they ''[[OmnicidalManiac despise]]'' anything resembling creativity or individuality, since it increases the amount of said paperwork.
* CreativeSterility: Originality and learning are not their things, possibly because of aforementioned lack of creativity. They ''can'' do it, but it takes serious effort and they can still only learn so far.
* DeathOfPersonality: Inverted. They exist as grey soulless dull entities. For them, to develop a recognisable personality and individual self-awareness is death.
* DirtyCoward: In ''[[Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch]]'' it's stated they're all cowards, which is part of why they resort to cheating and weaseling in their schemes.
* TheDitz: A particularly dark version. They are, what with the aforementioned CreativeSterility, very stupid. Very, ''very'' stupid. Might explain some of their insane actions, and ultimately doesn't make them any less dangerous.
** To put it another way? They're stupid enough to try really bad ideas, but powerful and insane enough to pull them off.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Of physics of all things and thus Murphy's law.
* EnemiesWithDeath: {{Played With}}, as they're literally this and could count as "Death" themselves for the purposes of the trope. Being personifications of universal physical laws, similar to death, they're necessary to its function. Unlike Death, they hate all life and butt heads with him quite often.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: They find life intolerably messy, their mere ''presence'' causes an increase in malignity - ordinary objects becoming more hostile to non-objects. Buttered bread becomes [[SlipperySkid tripping hazards]], ropes and hoses tie themselves [[InstantKnots into knots]], rakes get [[RakeTake under foot]].
** When they ''focus'' on causing a bad day that leads to NecroNonSequitur.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Auditors' fundamental problem is that they cannot understand basic things like imagination or individuality. [[spoiler: [[KryptoniteFactor Or chocolate]].]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Death. Both are AnthropomorphicPersonifications who exist to enforce some existential concept independent of individual belief. But while Death feels compassion for humanity and the Disc, these bastards just want order. Absolute order.
* EvilIsPetty: Though they try to deny it, their motives largely boil down to "we are spited by life not being ordered and will try to kill everything because we are offended by its existence".
* {{Expy}}: In many ways, they're evocative of the Men in Grey from Creator/{{Michael Ende}}'s ''Literature/{{Momo}}''. Just like the Men in Grey, the Auditors are a race of gray-clothed accountant-like entities closely monitoring the actions of all people, are stumped by encounters that seem not to follow literal guidelines, and are ultimately flouted by beauty and a childlike love of narrative.
* FusionDance: They have to merge in large numbers just to accomplish some mild physical action when operating on earth.
* GhostlyChill: Variant, they aren't undead but when one is accidentally summoned by the Rite of [=AshkEnte=] a ritual meant to summon Death, which was a vacant position during ''Literature/ReaperMan'', ice starts forming in the circle, something that never happens when Death is summoned.
* GodOfOrder: Though not strictly gods in the same sense as [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly actual gods]] in the series, they are cosmic beings who represent order, by making sure the universe works as it's supposed to. They're contemptuous of life because it's inherently chaotic and messy by their standards, making their job harder.
* GrayscaleOfEvil: They're constantly described as astonishingly dull grey robes devoid of colour and occupents really.
* HiveMind: According to them, at least. They aren’t interconnected so much as they are interchangeable. Since gaining any semblance of individuality immediately causes an Auditor to cease existing, all existing Auditors must think and behave exactly like all other existing Auditors would in that situation.
** The final book they appear in suggests that it’s closer to a [[TheEmpath Hive Empathy]], [[spoiler: when a large number of Auditors become human in an attempt to quantify and catalogue human sensory experiences and the remaining pure Auditors pick up individualistic personality traits from that group, making them alive enough to die permanently through injury rather than logic and reconstitution.]]
* HumansAreUgly: Variant, they do not like all those disgusting orifices life has.
** Once they start living though all the "glands and things" take over and avert this trope.
* IndividualityIsIllegal: They so loathe individuality that any Auditor who uses the personal pronoun "I" tends to spontaneously vanish, to be replaced by another, identical Auditor because to have an individual personality is to be mortal, and what is mortal life compared to the infinite span of the universe? It’s implied that this form of death is itself a physical process that must be initiated by an Auditor, which is why they always gather in groups of three or more. To watch each other. In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', a number of Auditors take human form, and their excursion to the Discworld ends in chaos and bloodshed, with the only survivor driven hopelessly insane (by Auditor standards at least) and [[spoiler:[[SenseFreak committing suicide in a vat of chocolate]]]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Something is only alive if it has an independent existence. All living beings die in time. Any span of time is minuscule compared to the lifespan of the universe. Therefore, if an Auditor develops signs of individual identity, it [[PuffOfLogic instantly vanishes]].
** The book that introduced them implied that this happens because you have to be an individual to get the insane troll logic of it - and since the Auditors disappear when they realize they have an identity, they never manage to get to the point of realizing that their logic is not perfectly sound before going puff.
** Everything about them screams InsaneTrollLogic. They have no emotions or physical needs, yet they hate life forms specifically because of how annoying it is to record everything they do. And don't even ask how creatures with a HiveMind can make jokes with each other...
* JerkassGods: They're not gods in the same sense as the actual gods in Discworld, but they are cosmic beings that oversee the universe and they are highly antagonistic.
* KillAllHumans: And non-human sentience. And non-sentient life. All life current and ''in potentia'', in fact. It's untidy. However, they were pleased by the evolution of humanity (inasmuch as anything "pleases" them) because [[HumansAreMorons humankind could be persuaded to shoot itself in the foot]].
* KnightTemplar: They will stand for nothing but the cessation of life, which they view as chaotic and in need of organization.
* LightIsNotGood: Not ''light'' per-se, but given that their job is to keep the universe working, one would think they wouldn't hate its inhabitants as much as they do. In ''Thief of Time'', one of them calls himself "Mr White" and happens to be the most AxeCrazy of the lot.
* LogicBomb: They'll suicide if they develop a personality, they always follow directions on signs, incorrect signs cause painful dissonance to them.
* MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality: What they're ''supposed'' to be doing: seeing that the universe operates as per instructions.
---> “They run the universe. They see to it that gravity works and that atoms spin (or whatever it is atoms do).”
* MeasuringTheMarigolds: They attempt to understand human conceptions of art by disassembling famous paintings ''molecule by molecule'', and sifting through them to find the parts that are "art" and "beauty".
* MeatPuppet: They can create any substance with perfect accuracy. This includes ''bodies'' when they get down to it. They just need to insert an auditor for the "soul".
* MirroringFactions: To the elves. Both are terrifying races of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s with very hostile intentions towards mortal life. However, not only are the Auditors overall ''far'' higher on the cosmic totem pole than the elves are, but they're at the exact opposite ends of the scale of OrderVersusChaos: The elves lead chaotic existences unfettered by laws, rules and restrictions, while the Auditors have "lives" with such order and rigidity that they see gaining a personality as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MotiveDecay: When they first appear in ''Literature/ReaperMan'' they're primarily concerned about Death becoming too human ([[VillainHasAPoint not unreasonably]], [[Literature/{{Mort}} considering the events of the previous book]]) and while they do regard the concept of personality itself with disdain, they don't show the OmnicidalManiac tendencies they would in later books. It's possible that being humiliated in front of Azrael when their plan ended up causing more problems than it solved is what [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope caused them to believe the existence of life itself was the problem.]]
* NecroNonSequitur: Known for causing this type of "inverse-miricle", in ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld III: Darwin's Watch'', they align events so that every that in ''every single AlternateUniverse'', Charles Darwin dies in increasingly unlikely ways before he can write ''The Origin of Species'' and [[ItMakesSenseInContext keep humanity planet bound]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Functionally, though they're not above [[{{Hypocrite}} breaking their own rules]] to get what they want.
* OmnicidalManiac: If they could - and they're trying very hard - they'd exterminate every living thing above the level of microbes. Fortunately, their utter lack of imagination (and certain cosmic mechanisms) prevent them from doing so directly.
* OmnicidalNeutral: They don't care about good or evil or anything, in fact their antipathy to life stems in part from people putting all these different labels on things and messing about. They've been annoyed with it since life first evolved in fact. Life is messy and they'd like to keep things tidy.
* OrderIsNotGood: The other part of their alignment; desiring absolute order, which, combined with their InsaneTrollLogic, makes them into {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s due to life being untidy.
* PaintingTheMedium: In their earlier appearances, they don't speak as such. Rather, they send the words they would've said if they spoke into someone's head, represented as text.
* PuffOfLogic: Thanks to a SlipperySlopeFallacy regarding time, any Auditor that comes close to thinking of itself as an individual will usually disappear in a Puff of InsaneTrollLogic.
* PureIsNotGood: In this case, their goal is pure ''order''. Preferably lifeless.
* RealityWarper: They can effortlessly alter the world around them to achieve all kinds of things, like creating gold and causing thunderstorms. What they can't do is simply wipe away life - it's against the rules.
* SenseFreak: Every now and then, they'll step down from being lifeless concepts into living bodies, and whenever they do, they immediately discover that life is both far more untidy than they thought and more addictive than they ever could have foreseen. Their reactions to food and colours stand out. And ''then'' they discover the price one inevitably pays for living, which puts them in conflict with [[DontFearTheReaper Death]], who doesn't much care for their attempts to destroy all living creatures in existence.
* SmugSnake: Their pettiness and arrogance cement them as this.
* TheThreeCertaintiesInLife: They are taxes.
* TokenGoodTeammate: [=Myria LeJean=]/Unity from ''Thief of Time''. [[spoiler:At the book's end, when she [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] in a vat of chocolate, she is shown to ''have earned herself a soul'' and a spot in the afterlife, unlike all the other Auditors who took on human form.]]
* TheWatcher: What they're meant to be; egoless observers who pin down reality so it exists essentially the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality given form. Instead, they continually step outside their role for the purposes of meddling, they don't like life it makes their job more difficult.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Several. [[spoiler:Chocolate, for one. And dreams. Hell, even being human for very long functions as MindRape for them, and eventually causes a HeelFaceTurn, insanity and/or death. Between these, all seven hundred that take on human form in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' die before the book ends.]] They're also very weak to direct instructions. They can't ''not'' obey them.
* WorldOfSilence: Their ideal world is a variation of this. Though they'd probably find ''silence'' too noisy. Emptiness would be best of all.
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!!The Auditors of Reality in ''Discworld'' (copypasted over here to save me from having to open those folders in mobile mode)
The CelestialBureaucracy of the universe, who are trying to make less work for themselves. Unfortunately, this manifests as them being a bunch of {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s that despise creativity and individuality.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: They're the Squid, but unlike below examples they hate all life everywhere and so in practice act as the Devils. Unlike gods, demons, spirits or elementals they don't want anything from [[PunyHumans humanity]], only that they disappear quietly. The monks of Oi Dong have hundreds of statues of horrible creatures from throughout the multiverse and consider the Auditors to be the worst.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the laws of physics, Order - and Bureaucracy. In fact, they're possibly "Taxes" - Because there are two things certain in life, and Death is already accounted for, right?
* ArchNemesis: To Death and Susan.
* BeingEvilSucks: They're cosmic nudniks, consider the scale though; ''cosmic'', destroying a world is well within their abilities if they can get away with it. problem is they have no imagination, barely exist at all with any hint of growth or change or individuality leading them to [[DrivenToSuicide sef-destruct]], hints point to the enemy auditors being
* BizarreAlienSenses: They actually have hundreds of senses, all for the purposes of gathering data. But they don't have ''taste''.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Auditors are not strictly evil, and are a part of the multiverse just the same as Death is. But they are antagonistic and hostile to all life specifically because life interferes in their operations (though mainly only as a result of their pettiness and lack of imagination).
* CelestialBureaucracy: {{Exaggerated}}, as they're bureaucrats who oversee the minutiae of the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality they want efficiency and to save on paperwork. Unfortunately for all life, they ''[[OmnicidalManiac despise]]'' anything resembling creativity or individuality, since it increases the amount of said paperwork.
* CreativeSterility: Originality and learning are not their things, possibly because of aforementioned lack of creativity. They ''can'' do it, but it takes serious effort and they can still only learn so far.
* DeathOfPersonality: Inverted. They exist as grey soulless dull entities. For them, to develop a recognisable personality and individual self-awareness is death.
* DirtyCoward: In ''[[Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch]]'' it's stated they're all cowards, which is part of why they resort to cheating and weaseling in their schemes.
* TheDitz: A particularly dark version. They are, what with the aforementioned CreativeSterility, very stupid. Very, ''very'' stupid. Might explain some of their insane actions, and ultimately doesn't make them any less dangerous.
** To put it another way? They're stupid enough to try really bad ideas, but powerful and insane enough to pull them off.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Of physics of all things and thus Murphy's law.
* EnemiesWithDeath: {{Played With}}, as they're literally this and could count as "Death" themselves for the purposes of the trope. Being personifications of universal physical laws, similar to death, they're necessary to its function. Unlike Death, they hate all life and butt heads with him quite often.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: They find life intolerably messy, their mere ''presence'' causes an increase in malignity - ordinary objects becoming more hostile to non-objects. Buttered bread becomes [[SlipperySkid tripping hazards]], ropes and hoses tie themselves [[InstantKnots into knots]], rakes get [[RakeTake under foot]].
** When they ''focus'' on causing a bad day that leads to NecroNonSequitur.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Auditors' fundamental problem is that they cannot understand basic things like imagination or individuality. [[spoiler: [[KryptoniteFactor Or chocolate]].]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Death. Both are AnthropomorphicPersonifications who exist to enforce some existential concept independent of individual belief. But while Death feels compassion for humanity and the Disc, these bastards just want order. Absolute order.
* EvilIsPetty: Though they try to deny it, their motives largely boil down to "we are spited by life not being ordered and will try to kill everything because we are offended by its existence".
* {{Expy}}: In many ways, they're evocative of the Men in Grey from Creator/{{Michael Ende}}'s ''Literature/{{Momo}}''. Just like the Men in Grey, the Auditors are a race of gray-clothed accountant-like entities closely monitoring the actions of all people, are stumped by encounters that seem not to follow literal guidelines, and are ultimately flouted by beauty and a childlike love of narrative.
* FusionDance: They have to merge in large numbers just to accomplish some mild physical action when operating on earth.
* GhostlyChill: Variant, they aren't undead but when one is accidentally summoned by the Rite of [=AshkEnte=] a ritual meant to summon Death, which was a vacant position during ''Literature/ReaperMan'', ice starts forming in the circle, something that never happens when Death is summoned.
* GodOfOrder: Though not strictly gods in the same sense as [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly actual gods]] in the series, they are cosmic beings who represent order, by making sure the universe works as it's supposed to. They're contemptuous of life because it's inherently chaotic and messy by their standards, making their job harder.
* GrayscaleOfEvil: They're constantly described as astonishingly dull grey robes devoid of colour and occupents really.
* HiveMind: According to them, at least. They aren’t interconnected so much as they are interchangeable. Since gaining any semblance of individuality immediately causes an Auditor to cease existing, all existing Auditors must think and behave exactly like all other existing Auditors would in that situation.
** The final book they appear in suggests that it’s closer to a [[TheEmpath Hive Empathy]], [[spoiler: when a large number of Auditors become human in an attempt to quantify and catalogue human sensory experiences and the remaining pure Auditors pick up individualistic personality traits from that group, making them alive enough to die permanently through injury rather than logic and reconstitution.]]
* HumansAreUgly: Variant, they do not like all those disgusting orifices life has.
** Once they start living though all the "glands and things" take over and avert this trope.
* IndividualityIsIllegal: They so loathe individuality that any Auditor who uses the personal pronoun "I" tends to spontaneously vanish, to be replaced by another, identical Auditor because to have an individual personality is to be mortal, and what is mortal life compared to the infinite span of the universe? It’s implied that this form of death is itself a physical process that must be initiated by an Auditor, which is why they always gather in groups of three or more. To watch each other. In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', a number of Auditors take human form, and their excursion to the Discworld ends in chaos and bloodshed, with the only survivor driven hopelessly insane (by Auditor standards at least) and [[spoiler:[[SenseFreak committing suicide in a vat of chocolate]]]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Something is only alive if it has an independent existence. All living beings die in time. Any span of time is minuscule compared to the lifespan of the universe. Therefore, if an Auditor develops signs of individual identity, it [[PuffOfLogic instantly vanishes]].
** The book that introduced them implied that this happens because you have to be an individual to get the insane troll logic of it - and since the Auditors disappear when they realize they have an identity, they never manage to get to the point of realizing that their logic is not perfectly sound before going puff.
** Everything about them screams InsaneTrollLogic. They have no emotions or physical needs, yet they hate life forms specifically because of how annoying it is to record everything they do. And don't even ask how creatures with a HiveMind can make jokes with each other...
* JerkassGods: They're not gods in the same sense as the actual gods in Discworld, but they are cosmic beings that oversee the universe and they are highly antagonistic.
* KillAllHumans: And non-human sentience. And non-sentient life. All life current and ''in potentia'', in fact. It's untidy. However, they were pleased by the evolution of humanity (inasmuch as anything "pleases" them) because [[HumansAreMorons humankind could be persuaded to shoot itself in the foot]].
* KnightTemplar: They will stand for nothing but the cessation of life, which they view as chaotic and in need of organization.
* LightIsNotGood: Not ''light'' per-se, but given that their job is to keep the universe working, one would think they wouldn't hate its inhabitants as much as they do. In ''Thief of Time'', one of them calls himself "Mr White" and happens to be the most AxeCrazy of the lot.
* LogicBomb: They'll suicide if they develop a personality, they always follow directions on signs, incorrect signs cause painful dissonance to them.
* MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality: What they're ''supposed'' to be doing: seeing that the universe operates as per instructions.
---> “They run the universe. They see to it that gravity works and that atoms spin (or whatever it is atoms do).”
* MeasuringTheMarigolds: They attempt to understand human conceptions of art by disassembling famous paintings ''molecule by molecule'', and sifting through them to find the parts that are "art" and "beauty".
* MeatPuppet: They can create any substance with perfect accuracy. This includes ''bodies'' when they get down to it. They just need to insert an auditor for the "soul".
* MirroringFactions: To the elves. Both are terrifying races of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s with very hostile intentions towards mortal life. However, not only are the Auditors overall ''far'' higher on the cosmic totem pole than the elves are, but they're at the exact opposite ends of the scale of OrderVersusChaos: The elves lead chaotic existences unfettered by laws, rules and restrictions, while the Auditors have "lives" with such order and rigidity that they see gaining a personality as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MotiveDecay: When they first appear in ''Literature/ReaperMan'' they're primarily concerned about Death becoming too human ([[VillainHasAPoint not unreasonably]], [[Literature/{{Mort}} considering the events of the previous book]]) and while they do regard the concept of personality itself with disdain, they don't show the OmnicidalManiac tendencies they would in later books. It's possible that being humiliated in front of Azrael when their plan ended up causing more problems than it solved is what [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope caused them to believe the existence of life itself was the problem.]]
* NecroNonSequitur: Known for causing this type of "inverse-miricle", in ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld III: Darwin's Watch'', they align events so that every that in ''every single AlternateUniverse'', Charles Darwin dies in increasingly unlikely ways before he can write ''The Origin of Species'' and [[ItMakesSenseInContext keep humanity planet bound]].
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Functionally, though they're not above [[{{Hypocrite}} breaking their own rules]] to get what they want.
* OmnicidalManiac: If they could - and they're trying very hard - they'd exterminate every living thing above the level of microbes. Fortunately, their utter lack of imagination (and certain cosmic mechanisms) prevent them from doing so directly.
* OmnicidalNeutral: They don't care about good or evil or anything, in fact their antipathy to life stems in part from people putting all these different labels on things and messing about. They've been annoyed with it since life first evolved in fact. Life is messy and they'd like to keep things tidy.
* OrderIsNotGood: The other part of their alignment; desiring absolute order, which, combined with their InsaneTrollLogic, makes them into {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s due to life being untidy.
* PaintingTheMedium: In their earlier appearances, they don't speak as such. Rather, they send the words they would've said if they spoke into someone's head, represented as text.
* PuffOfLogic: Thanks to a SlipperySlopeFallacy regarding time, any Auditor that comes close to thinking of itself as an individual will usually disappear in a Puff of InsaneTrollLogic.
* PureIsNotGood: In this case, their goal is pure ''order''. Preferably lifeless.
* RealityWarper: They can effortlessly alter the world around them to achieve all kinds of things, like creating gold and causing thunderstorms. What they can't do is simply wipe away life - it's against the rules.
* SenseFreak: Every now and then, they'll step down from being lifeless concepts into living bodies, and whenever they do, they immediately discover that life is both far more untidy than they thought and more addictive than they ever could have foreseen. Their reactions to food and colours stand out. And ''then'' they discover the price one inevitably pays for living, which puts them in conflict with [[DontFearTheReaper Death]], who doesn't much care for their attempts to destroy all living creatures in existence.
* SmugSnake: Their pettiness and arrogance cement them as this.
* TheThreeCertaintiesInLife: They are taxes.
* TokenGoodTeammate: [=Myria LeJean=]/Unity from ''Thief of Time''. [[spoiler:At the book's end, when she [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] in a vat of chocolate, she is shown to ''have earned herself a soul'' and a spot in the afterlife, unlike all the other Auditors who took on human form.]]
* TheWatcher: What they're meant to be; egoless observers who pin down reality so it exists essentially the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality given form. Instead, they continually step outside their role for the purposes of meddling, they don't like life it makes their job more difficult.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Several. [[spoiler:Chocolate, for one. And dreams. Hell, even being human for very long functions as MindRape for them, and eventually causes a HeelFaceTurn, insanity and/or death. Between these, all seven hundred that take on human form in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' die before the book ends.]] They're also very weak to direct instructions. They can't ''not'' obey them.
* WorldOfSilence: Their ideal world is a variation of this. Though they'd probably find ''silence'' too noisy. Emptiness would be best of all.
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Fun Fact: In ''The Blue Ribbon Day'' by Katie Couric, nearly every page has at least one PainfulRhyme. One of the worst examples would be:
-->So the two got together the day after school.\\
With Miss Rigg's supervision (you know, that's the rule),\\
they got out their beakers and their Bunsen burners\\
and decided to find out if they were fast learners.
Fun Fact: In ''The Blue Ribbon Day'' by Katie Couric, nearly every page has at least one PainfulRhyme. One of the worst examples would be:
-->So the two got together the day after school.\\
With Miss Rigg's supervision (you know, that's the rule),\\
they got out their beakers and their Bunsen burners\\
and decided to find out if they were fast learners.
