History Characters / DiscworldCityWatch

* WomanWereWoes: her narration often mentions her transformation in the broader context of her being the only woman in the Watch (at least until female dwarfs start openly dressing female) and likening it to Menstrual Menace, but also mentions problems like the nagging feeling she should be wearing three bras.

* FurAgainstFang: Points out that werewolves, like Angua, have certain advantages on vampires - ''they'' can pass for human pretty easily by comparison, and only turn into one thing (one with the same number and kind of limbs as a human), as opposed to hundreds, with an entirely different form of movement.

* WomanWereWoes: mentions that turning into a cloud of bats is more of a problem for her than for a man since she ends up naked afterwards.

** Kings were often a quick way to get Vimes in a sour mood in the early books, ''especially'' if the possibility of a king of ''Ankh-Morpork'' was raised, believing that kings merely being around tended to mess with peoples' heads and made them act as though the king were somehow inherently better and follow them blindly, despite being no different from them. Given Ankh-Morpork's own history with royalty and its ties to his ancestry, this hatred may very well be ''genetic''. He kinda gets over this in time due to sheer necessity as he gets roped more and more in diplomatic affairs (ironically, several of the kings he meets, including the Low King of the Dwarves and [[spoiler:the Diamond King of the Trolls]] actually rather like Vimes for his honesty and straight-forward attitude), but it's still best not to suggest that ''his'' city could use a King.
** Vampires have also been a sticking point for Vimes for most of the Watch series, even after he began to recruit other forms of undead into the Watch under his command. The reasons for this are quite similar for his reasons for disliking kings, which is that vampires tend to seek to control people and reduce them to something less (the whole "blood-sucking" thing is rather secondary to that in Vimes' eyes, almost to the point of being a non-issue given the myriad other odd races he's had to deal with while living in Ankh-Morpork).

** Kings were often a quick way to get Vimes in a sour mood in the early books, ''especially'' if the possibility of a king of ''Ankh-Morpork'' was raised, believing that kings merely being around tended to mess with peoples' heads and made them act as though the king were somehow inherently better and follow them blingly, despite being no different from them. Given Ankh-Morpork's own history with royalty and its ties to his ancestry, this hatred may very well be ''genetic''. He kinda gets over this in time due to sheer necessity as he gets roped more and more in diplomatic affairs (ironically, several of the kings he meets, including the Low King of the Dwarves and [[spoiler:the Diamond King of the Trolls]] actually rather like Vimes for his honesty and straight-forward attitude), but it's still best not to suggest that ''his'' city could use a King.

* OddFriendship: With Lady Sybil. It's not given a ''huge'' amount of attention, and generally played for laughed at how stumped Vimes is at the whole thing, but despite being at nearly opposite ends of the social ladder, Nobby and Lady Sybil develop a rapport the moment they meet. He's never anything but completely respectful and admiring towards her, and she never has a bad word to say about him. Even Colon doesn't get along with Nobby with such effortless ease.

** Not that this opinion stops him from instantly suspecting that [[spoiler: Skimmer]] is a trained assassin, simply by observing how very ''harmless'' the man's way of walking appears. So he lobs an orange at him.[[note]]Inigo doesn't flinch or dodge the orange, and instead allows it to hit him, hinting that the man had Assassin training to instantly recognize that the flying fruit was no threat[[/note]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After first appearing as the best ratcatcher in Ankh Morpork in Literature/FeetOfClay, he essentially takes Buggy Swires' place in Literature/IShallWearMidnight.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Vimes is a hardened mean survivalist who pursues justice dogmatically... and while he was still a dirt-poor Captain he gave away half his paycheck to the widows and orphans of Watchmen, without saying a word about it. He will always offer a helping hand to those who need it, but will deny it categorically afterwards and may make a good stab at killing you if you try to spread the word around.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: His fighting style, and it usually suits him - he thrashes both sides of a bar fight in ''Guards! Guards!'' and it's later mentioned in ''Men At Arms'' that he's got a punch even trolls - beings made of actual rock - have learned to respect. Unfortunately, he later attempts it in ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'' against Angua's werewolf brother, to disastrous effect. Onlookers wonder if he's attempting to put up a respectable show for the foreigners, while the werewolf in question is more puzzled than anything.

* UndyingLoyalty: He doesn't take kindly to people speaking poorly of Vimes. In ''Literature/MenAtArms,'' Angua finds Vimes's ledger, which lists a number of female names with dollar amounts. She jumps to the conclusion that he's been frequenting prostitutes and wonders aloud how Carrot can respect a man like Vimes. She then notes that the room's temperature has dropped several degrees. Carrot grips her wrist, takes the ledger away and icily has Colon inform her who the women are: namely, widows and orphans of Watchmen killed in action, whom Vimes pays pensions out of his own wages.

* AnimalStereotypes: As the books frequently point out, a proper term for a creature caught between a wolf and a man is also a ''dog''. And Angua herself admits it - though she doesn't like it being pointed out.

** Additionally, he's into folk-dancing and historical re-enactment.