Line #2 YMMV/Hogfather


1	!!The book:
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: Death's speech to Susan about how humans need fantasies like the Hogfather (i.e. Santa Claus), or [[AuthorFilibuster Terry Pratchett's books for example]], to believe in when they're young so that when they grow up, they can believe in big fantasies like justice, mercy and... ''purpose''.
3	* CompleteMonster: [[PsychopathicManchild Jonathan Teatime]] is a [[PsychoForHire sadistic assassin]] feared even amongst hardened criminals. Implied to have [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his own parents]], Teatime has a penchant for excessive slaughter. In one instance, Teatime nailed his target's pet dog to the ceiling for barking too much and killed his servants because he didn't want them to barge in on him. After the Auditors hire Teatime to kill [[SantaClaus the Hogfather]], Teatime abducts a tooth fairy to use her magic to break into the country of the Tooth Fairy, stealing all the teeth of all the children in the Discworld to use SympatheticMagic to force all the children to stop believing in the Hogfather in order to kill him, causing a void in Ankh-Morpork's magic that wreaks havoc in the process. Teatime, unlike other members of the Assassins' Guild, shows no regard for the lives of civilians or his own men, in one instance killing a stagecoach driver out of boredom while chatting with him and in another instance having a locksmith working for him dropped down a long spiral staircase to a painful death [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when he's no longer useful]]. When Death and Susan foil his assassination attempt, Teatime tails them to the nursery Susan works at in an attempt to kill Death.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Teatime is quite the popular character among fans, despite only appearing in this one book.
5	* GeniusBonus: Many of the computer references made towards Hex. In particular the teddy bear being removed might be a reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bear#Microsoft_Bear Microsoft Teddy Bear]] which was used as the icon for a vital file in the early windows [=OSs=]. Many users (helped by an email hoax) mistook the strange file for a virus and deleted it, with disastrous consequences.
6	* IronWoobie: Death. A recurring theme from his own MythArc, true, but it's especially visible when you see just how much he prefers giving presents to the living instead of [[DontFearTheReaper guiding the dead]].
7	* MagnificentBastard: [[NobleDemon The Tooth Fairy]] is in truth the original Bogeyman born from ancient man's primordial fear of the dark. Taking pride in terrorizing mankind, the Bogeyman became enraptured by the innocence of children and sought to protect them from the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters real monsters in life]]. He establishes a new identity as the Tooth Fairy and builds a vast franchise funded by property development to collect teeth to prevent them from being magically used against children. When psychopathic assassin [[PsychopathicManchild Johnathan Teatime]] and his hired goons invade to use teeth to stop belief in the Hogfather, he uses the last of his power to conjure their worst nightmares to aid Death's granddaughter Susan and hunts the men down and brutally murders them even as they try to escape. Content with Susan's iron will and morals, the first Bogeyman fades away trusting her to ensure his mission is carried on.
8	* NightmareFuel: Hoo boy. Mr. Teatime. [[spoiler: The scene in the Tooth Fairy's castle where the ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve aspect goes horribly wrong for the mooks.]]
9	* NightmareRetardant: In-universe. [[spoiler: Gawain and Twyla don't find '''Death''' scary, thus not identifying him as a "monster", partially because he's on a big comfy chair and eating a biscuit.]]
10	* TheWoobie:
11	** Poor Bilious. Sure, we don't feel quite as sorry for him as we do for, say, [[TheChewToy Rincewind]], but the poor guy gets all the hangovers from the god of wine without ever getting to actually enjoy earning them.
12	*** There is a chance that since adult concepts such as death do not exist in the Tooth Fairy's world, then hangovers might not exist either.
13	*** Except Bilious gets queasy again just as he and Susan enter the building. If anything, alcohol may cause ''instant'' nausea there, for the same reason that the mooks couldn't smoke inside without feeling ill: because that's how a little kid who's sneaked into the drinks cabinet and tried some would feel.
14	** The Cheerful Fairy. The Senior Wrangler, at least, falls for her because of her Woobie-ness. Then ''he'' becomes a Woobie when she vanishes just before he was about to get serious with her.
15	** Banjo, the MinionWithAnFInEvil.
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17	!!The movie:
18	* CantUnHearIt: Regardless of your opinion on the TV adaptation, Michelle Dockery and Marc Warren's performances as, respectively, Susan Sto Helit and Jonathan Teatime are probably going to be definitive.
19	* CompleteMonster: [[PsychopathicManchild Jonathan Teatime]], a [[PsychoForHire deeply disturbed psychopath]] in tune with his "inner child", is hired by the Auditors of Reality to assassinate the Hogfather. With a massive reputation of sadism and brutality already left in his wake, Teatime happily murders a coach driver out of sheer boredom, before breaking into the Tooth Fairy's castle and murdering the many guards to gain access to the teeth of all the children of the world. Teatime uses these teeth for a spell to kill the Hogfather by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve making children stop believing in him]], while casually threatening his gang of hired mooks into continuing to help him. Upon killing his gang's lockpicker by throwing him down the castle's stairs when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he outlives his usefulness]], Teatime cheerily attempts to murder Susan for her interference, later trying to repeat the process with her and her grandfather in front of her young charges.
20	* FoeYayShipping: Between Susan and Teatime. Apparently based on the confrontation scene in the Tooth Fairy's home which, with the right sort of squinting, can come across as sexual tension.
21	* HarsherInHindsight: Creator/IanRichardson died shortly after recording his lines as Death.
22	** Albert's YourDaysAreNumbered situation if you look at the German dub. His voice actor, Eberhard Prüter, had died of a long-term illness at the age of just 69 in October 2014.
23	* HilariousInHindsight: Seeing [[Series/DowntonAbbey Lady Mary Crawley]] working as a governess.
24	** She also played The Governess in the recent BBC adaption of Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew.
25	* RetroactiveRecognition: Susan's actress, Creator/MichelleDockery, would later be catapulted to global fame by her role as Lady Mary Crawley in ''Series/DowntonAbbey''.
26	* UglyCute: In the movie, the Eater of Socks looks like a fat, little, grey-skinned, rhino-elephant [[BuffySpeak ...thing.]] In a good way.
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