History YMMV / TheColourOfMagic

** There was also some displeasure over the casting of American actor Sean Astin as Twoflower, which was viewed by some as an unnecessary attempt to attract more American viewers at the expense of some of the original book's very British-y humour, and by others as whitewashing, since the books had firmly established that Twoflower is the Disc's equivalent of Japanese. However, Terry Pratchett defended the decision by pointing out that Twoflower was a blend of Japanese, American, and British tourist stereotypes in his first couple of appearances. And, since every Sky1 ''Discworld'' adaptation has re-cast every character anyway, presumably if ''Interesting Times'' does get made they'll cast actors of Japanese/Chinese descent as Agateans when it becomes relevant to the plot.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: It's done to establish the fact that no matter how close he is to certain death, he will always be saved by something at the last minute, but Rincewind's brief DrivenToSuicide moment in the two-part film seems odd for those with his familiar tenacity and ''desire'' to live. Preferably in complete boredom.

* HarsherInHindsight: The plane being hijacked by a swarthy, bearded man. At the time, airplane hijackings were most often done by escaping criminals trying to get to a country they could seek asylum in. The act didn't become associated with Muslim extremists until the late '80s.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/JeremyIrons as Vetinari.
** Creator/TimCurry as Arch-Chancellor Trymon.

* "Rincewind's Theme" as well.

** There was also some displeasure over the casting of American actor Sean Astin as Twoflower, which was viewed by some as an unnecessary attempt to attract more American viewers and by others as whitewashing, since the books had firmly established that Twoflower is the Disc's equivalent of Japanese. However, Terry Pratchett defended the decision by pointing out that Twoflower was a blend of Japanese, American, and British tourist stereotypes in his first couple of appearances. And, since every Sky1 ''Discworld'' adaptation has re-cast every character anyway, presumably if ''Interesting Times'' does get made they'll cast actors of Japanese/Chinese descent as Agateans when it becomes relevant to the plot.

** There was also some displeasure over the casting of American actor Sean Astin as Twoflower, which was viewed by some as whitewashing, since the books had firmly established that Twoflower is the Disc's equivalent of Japanese. However, Terry Pratchett defended the decision by pointing out that Twoflower was a blend of Japanese, American, and British tourist stereotypes in his first couple of appearances. And, since every Sky1 ''Discworld'' adaptation has re-cast every character anyway, presumably if ''Interesting Times'' does get made they'll cast actors of Japanese/Chinese descent as Agateans when it becomes relevant to the plot.

* OutofCharacterMoment: It's done to establish the fact that no matter how close he is to certain death, he will always be saved by something at the last minute, but Rincewind's brief DriventoSuicide moment in the two-part film seems odd for those with his familiar tenacity and ''desire'' to live. Preferably in complete boredom.

* TheOtherDarrin: [[AC:Death]] is played by Creator/ChristopherLee, as opposed to Creator/IanRichardson in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', who had died shortly after the latter was made.
** FridgeBrilliance? Pre-Mort, Death is a very different character.
** Although Creator/ChristopherLee had played [[AC:Death]] before: he voiced the character in the 1997 animated adaptations of ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' and ''Discworld/SoulMusic''.

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Swedish translation, Dr. Rjinswand is Dutch, since Rjinswand doesn't actually sound Swedish.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/JeremyIrons as Vetinnari.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The part where Rincewind [[spoiler:accidentally teleports himself and Twoflower onto an airplane in our world and ends up thinking that he is Dr. Rjinswand, (33, a bachelor, born in Sweden, raised in New Jersey, and a specialist in the breakaway oxidation phenomena of certain nuclear reactors [a fancy way of saying that they're uncontrollably on fire]). only for the Luggage to interrupt the whole scene]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/JeremyIrons as Vetrenari.
** Creator/TimCurry as Arch-Chancellor Tiemann.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Many are displeased by the fact that Rincewind is played by an old man, rather than Creator/EricIdle like in [[VideoGame/{{Discworld}} the games]].

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Many are displeased by the fact that Rincewind is played by an old man, rather than Eric Idle like in [[VideoGame/{{Discworld}} the games]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/JeremyIrons as Vetrenari

* Woolseyism: In the Swedish translation, Dr. Rjinswand is Dutch, since Rjinswand doesn't actually sound Swedish.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the two-part film from [=SkyOne=], please pay no attention to Cohen's clearly visible teeth.

** Also an EarlyBirdCameo for Roundworld, once ''The Science of Discworld'' makes our world a canon part of the Verse's reality.

* HilariousInHindsight: Rincewind muses on how there are too many heroes in Ankh-Morpork, and how the notable questing-grounds are so busy during high season that they plan to introduce a rota. A scene familiar to anyone who ever played a regular {{MMORPG}}, all of which came out well after this book was published (with the exception of certain MUD games).