History YMMV / Discworld

* CompleteMonster: [[Discworld/WyrdSisters Lady Felmet]]; [[Discworld/{{Hogfather}} Jonathan Teatime]]; [[Discworld/TheFifthElephant Wolfgang Von Uberwald]]; [[Discworld/NightWatch Captain Findthee Swing]].

* MartyStu: Carrot is something of a parody of this, with lampshade hanging by other characters who have trouble believing someone so perfect can be real. More specifically, he's royalty, and has all the tropes of the Royal Hero coming from humble beginnings behind him... except he just wants to be a watchman.

* ArchivePanic: 39 books, not counting the various [[AllThereInTheManual canon supplementals]], with one more on the way (due to AuthorExistenceFailure, the last one)

* CompleteMonster: [[[Discworld/WyrdSisters Lady Felmet]]; [[Discworld/{{Hogfather}} Jonathan Teatime]]; [[Discworld/TheFifthElephant Wolfgang Von Uberwald]]; [[Discworld/NightWatch Captain Findthee Swing]].

* CompleteMonster: [[Monster/{{Discworld}} There's a page now.]]

** Brick, before Detritus took him under his wing.

** The Bursar just wanted a nice quiet beancounting job and went [[UnusualEuphemism librarian-poo]] dealing with Ridcully.

* AuthorTract: Pterry's views on religion, race, integration, etc etc etc became a lot more blatant after he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers.

* CuteMonster: Death, when you get right down to it, he's really just a friendly guy who desperately wants to understand humans, too bad humans are scared shitless of him.

* CreepyAwesome: Mr. Teatime.

* FridgeBrilliance: Thank goodness for [[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html the Pratchett File]].
** Also counts as a GeniusBonus in many cases. Only the most widely traveled of readers will get most of them, let alone some of the more obscure ones....

** Magrat herself has a lot of this, as does Agnes Nitt.

** Granny Weatherwax.
** Nanny Ogg.
** Vetinari.

* NightmareFuel:
** In ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', Granny Weatherwax lists, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in suspiciously specific detail]], all the things she would do to someone physically, if she were a bad witch. But as she's not she just laughed [[GoodIsNotNice an in no way evil laugh]], and went to deal with [[spoiler:Salzella]] via headology.
** Mr. Teatime (pronounced Tee-ah-Tim-eh).

* UglyCute: Mr. Nutt.

* ArchivePanic: 39 books, not counting the various [[AllThereInTheManual canon supplementals]]. '''And counting.'''
** [TearJerker] As of 3/12/15, the counting's stopped; only one book left in the series.
* AuthorTract: Pterry's views on religion have become a lot more blatant since he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you don't like the humor, the entire setting can come across as this. [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] is a place where it can be felt the strongest-even the most noble of the characters are arguably pretty [[HumansAreBastards self-serving bastards]] (just happens to be that they applied to being a bastard what TheAntiNihilist applies to being a nihilist... and while noble, there ''is'' a point where readers may get sick of it).

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you don't like the humor, the entire setting can come across as this. [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] is a place where it can be felt the strongest-even the most noble of the characters would be a [[HumansAreBastards pretty mean bastard]] anywhere else.

* StoicWoobie: Without a doubt, [[AC:Death]] is the best person for his job, but it clearly takes its toll on him at times.

** Rincewind, who started out as a JerkassWoobie in ''The Light Fantastic''.
** The Bursar.

** Mr. Nutt. Of the [[IronWoobie iron]] variety. Despite his past and how people treat him when they discover his species, he continually seeks worth.

* TheIgor: Far from being "not too broken up about it", it is the death of Thcrapths the pushes Igor to [[GodzillaThreshold awaken the old Marthter]] and help restore balance to the Vampyr equation.

* EldritchAbomination: Bel-Shamharoth.

** Same with Vimes and the main Unseen University faculty (Ridcully, Ponder and the Librarian) taking over the Watch series and the Rincewind series.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: There is quite a substantial group of fans who hold the view that Carrot is evil and/or TheChessmaster. It helps that he is almost never the POV character - we get to hear what Vimes or Angua think ''about'' him but hardly ever see Carrot's actual thoughts.\\
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He has also set up VetinariJobSecurity several times: the most obvious is in in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'' when he leaves to pursue Angua and Fred Colon is left in charge, the watch falls apart. Not surprising given that [[ForegoneConclusion it's Fred Colon]], but Vetinari lampshades that as everyone knows Vimes and Carrot will be back soon, no criminals take advantage of the Watch’s self destruction for fear of their wrath. The book ends with Carrot very politely bullying the collapsed watch back into shape by reminding them they swore an oath to the king to do their duty.\\
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When ''Vetinari'' has trouble reading your motives, says things like, "You drive a hard bargain, Captain," and you reply, "I wasn’t aware I was driving a bargain at all, sir," ''and live'' you ''have'' to be TheChessmaster, albeit probably a benevolent one.

** Same with Vimes and the Unseen University taking over the Watch series and the Rincewind series.