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1* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Magrat]] threatens a guard at knifepoint.
2--> He stiffened. ‘You’re wondering whether I really would cut your throat,’ panted Magrat. ‘I don’t know either. Think of the fun we could have together, finding out.’
3** The Fool ''tries'' to help Magrat when he happens upon the scene by telling the guards to stop what they're doing to her and even manages to knock one to the ground, which is where she's able to hold him at knifepoint.
4* Magrat injects a little life into a thick wooden door, promptly blowing it off its hinges. Thus begins a once-per-novel tradition of Magrat showing ''why'' she's a witch by doing something crazy awesome.
5** She doesn't just blow it off, she revives it and turns it into tree. Tree that is stated to be centuries old, filled with iron nails and faced axes and fire what not over years. And Magrat turns it back in giant tree, when all she wanted to do was to remind door of life so that it would open. Later Granny Weatherwax admits that she thinks she herself couldn't do it, and Granny and Nanny's comments imply that working with wood is something only few witches could do.
6* Magrat's reaction to rumors about witches. “Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.” Then she admits to Nanny and Granny that she found that spell some time ago and was waiting for chance to use it.
7* Death's candid admission towards the end.
8-->'''Insane Duke''': If I'm not a ghost, what are you still doing here?\
9'''Death''': [[AC:Waiting.]]
10* Surprisingly, the Duke manages to pull one while in the face of Granny Weatherwax. She had suspected that he was a weakling beneath a guise of strength, but was completely unprepared for him being so insane that it had refined what little sanity he had left into, "ice in the heart of a blazing furnace," sanity so cold and hardened that it came full circle and became a terrifying and powerful form of madness.
11** He manages to out-stare Granny Weatherwax. Something only a [[GeniusLoci living country]] manages to also do within the book.
12* Granny nonchalantly [[ArrowCatch catching a spear]] hurled at her face by the duchess.
13* Nanny Ogg knocking Lady Felmet out with a cauldron, in the middle of her EvilGloating.
14-->"She does go on, doesn't she?"
15* The Fool stepping up to be King has to count as one. This man was so put-upon by everyone from his family to the Guild to the Duke and Duchess that he walked stooped over and wasn't even brave enough to ''talk to Magrat'' at the beginning of the book, but at the end Lancre needs a king and he's Tomjon's brother and even if the only thing he knows about being a King is that it has to be better than being a Fool, he's going to try to do it right. Then he goes to see Magrat and tells a sergeant he'd inherited from the Duke (who was something of a PsychoForHire, or at least Pyro For Hire) to stop telling him to burn things, to stop interfering in his business, and to ''go to Ankh-Morpork'' on a "special mission."
16* The three witches moving the ''entire kingdom'' sixteen years forward in time. The prose really gives a haunting sense of the power and strength they possess.
17* King Verence I earns one at the beginning by virtue of being one of the very few ghosts in the castle who can maintain full autonomy, with most simply going about mindlessly wailing. As he's informed, this is because he was so active in life that he has an improbably strong morphic field. Put another way, he was rendered effectively immortal by virtue of ''sheer hedonism''.
18--> Ancient King: "I estimate you were one hundred percent alive...when you were alive."

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