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* {{Anvilicious}}: The message of racial equality (as well as nods towards LGBTQ and class issues) are stronger and less subtle in this book and the subsequent ''{{Literature/Snuff}}'' than pretty much any other entry in the Discworld series. [[TropesAreTools That's because]] Terry Prachett [[AuthorFilibuster knew he was running out of time]].
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** The Librarian [[spoiler: eating the poisoned banana.]] Considering the Librarian's reputation and how everyone else regards him, [[spoiler: who would be stupid enough to try poisoning him with even a sedative?]] And also foreshadowed, much earlier, when it's mentioned that [[spoiler:unlike men, who waste a lot of time asking questions like "I seem to see a banana, but could my senses be deceiving me?", an orangutan will just eat the banana]]. The Librarian's habit of taste-testing anything he happens upon isn't new; it's why he's unofficially banned from the High Energy Magic building.
** Mrs. Atkinson, who [[spoiler: poisoned the Librarian in the first place, having failed to realise that being an old lady with a big vicious son might protect her from retribution in the Shove, but will do nothing to stop the wizards or, for that matter, the angry Librarian himself punishing her.]]
** The Librarian [[spoiler: eating the poisoned banana.]] Considering the Librarian's reputation and how everyone else regards him, [[spoiler: who would be stupid enough to try poisoning him with even a sedative?]] And also foreshadowed, much earlier, when it's mentioned that [[spoiler:unlike men, who waste a lot of time asking questions like "I seem to see a banana, but could my senses be deceiving me?", an orangutan will just eat the banana]]. The Librarian's habit of taste-testing anything he happens upon isn't new; it's why he's unofficially banned from the High Energy Magic building.
** Mrs. Atkinson, who [[spoiler: poisoned the Librarian in the first place, having failed to realise that being an old lady with a big vicious son might protect her from retribution in the Shove, but will do nothing to stop the wizards or, for that matter, the angry Librarian himself punishing her.]]
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_football Mob football]] was the medieval precursor to the modern game, and it was about as violent as the Ankh-Morpork version.
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** The Librarian [[spoiler: eating the poisoned banana.]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] - considering the Librarian's reputation and how everyone else regards him, [[spoiler: who would be stupid enough to try poisoning him with even a sedative?]] And also foreshadowed, much earlier, when it's mentioned that [[spoiler:unlike men, who waste a lot of time asking questions like "I seem to see a banana, but could my senses be deceiving me?", an orangutan will just eat the banana]]. The Librarian's habit of taste-testing anything he happens upon isn't new; it's why he's unofficially banned from the High Energy Magic building.
** Mrs. Atkinson, who [[spoiler: poisoned the Librarian in the first place, having failed to realise that being an old lady with a big vicious son might protect her from retribution in the Shove, but will do nothing to stop the wizards or, for that matter, the angry Librarian himself punishing her.]]
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** The Librarian [[spoiler: eating the poisoned banana.]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] - considering Considering the Librarian's reputation and how everyone else regards him, [[spoiler: who would be stupid enough to try poisoning him with even a sedative?]] And also foreshadowed, much earlier, when it's mentioned that [[spoiler:unlike men, who waste a lot of time asking questions like "I seem to see a banana, but could my senses be deceiving me?", an orangutan will just eat the banana]]. The Librarian's habit of taste-testing anything he happens upon isn't new; it's why he's unofficially banned from the High Energy Magic building.
** Mrs. Atkinson, who [[spoiler: poisoned the Librarian in the first place, having failed to realise that being an old lady with a big vicious son might protect her from retribution in the Shove, but will do nothing to stop the wizards or, for that matter, the angry Librarian himself punishing her.]]]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: An American distributor (apparently due to a complete lack of understanding of Morris dancing) once claimed ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'' was about a football team in its synopsis, to which Pratchett's response was that football was one subject he would ''never'' write a Discworld book about...
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* HilariousInHindsight: An American distributor (apparently due to a complete lack of understanding of Morris dancing) once claimed ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'' ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' was about a football team in its synopsis, to which Pratchett's response was that football was one subject he would ''never'' write a Discworld book about...
