Discworld - Television Tropes & Idioms

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08/Feb/10 at 07:04 AM by johnnye 79.77.252.253

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-->"They are four great families feuding. The Hongs, the Fongs, the Tangs, and the [=McSweeneys=]."

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-->"They are four great families feuding. [[TheClan The Hongs,]] [[TheTraidsAndTheTongs the Fongs,]] [[FeudingFamilies the Tangs,]] [[AerithAndBob and the]] McSweeneys]]."

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* TheDon: "honest businessmen" Harry King (complete with missing pinky) and the Troll Chrysoprase. Being a troll, the latter is naturally called Ton.

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* TheDon: "honest businessmen" Harry King (complete with missing pinky) and the Troll Chrysoprase. Being a troll, the latter is naturally called the Ton.

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07/Feb/10 at 11:23 PM by 75.45.68.183

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** It's still a pretty much a WretchedHive, it's just that everyone is more civilized about it.

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04/Feb/10 at 08:50 AM by 213.191.240.155

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*BadGuyBar: The Mended Drum (originally the "Broken Drum")

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03/Feb/10 at 01:24 PM by 87.94.141.35

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** Not related to the trope in question there is also the home village of Eskarina Smith that was named after an ill-behaved donkey, which is also where [[NeverMessWithGranny one]] of the most BadAss characters happens to live.

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** Not related to the trope in question there is also the home village of Eskarina Smith that was named after an ill-behaved donkey, which is also where [[http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Granny_Weatherwax one]] of the most BadAss [[NeverMessWithGranny characters]] happens to live.

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03/Feb/10 at 01:18 PM by 87.94.141.35

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** Not related to the trope in question there is also the home village of Eskarina Smith that was named after an ill-behaved donkey.

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** Not related to the trope in question there is also the home village of Eskarina Smith that was named after an ill-behaved donkey, which is also where [[NeverMessWithGranny one]] of the most BadAss characters happens to live.

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03/Feb/10 at 01:11 PM by 87.94.141.35

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** Not related to the trope in question there is also the home village of Eskarina Smith that was named after an ill-behaved donkey.

reason: Add The Don as an example.

31/Jan/10 at 12:50 AM by Camacan 121.44.100.92

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* TheDon: "honest businessmen" Harry King (complete with missing pinky) and the Troll Chrysoprase. Being a troll, the latter is naturally called Ton.

reason: Adding X Makes Anything Cool as an example trope.

30/Jan/10 at 09:35 PM by Camacan 121.44.100.92

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* XMakesAnythingCool: Agnes Nitt desperately tries to acquire some cool by (briefly) assuming the name Perdita X Dream.

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29/Jan/10 at 05:04 PM by 174.92.96.48

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* JustFollowingOrders: subverted, inverted, played with, deconstructed, and generally given hell from (at the very latest) ''Guards!Guards'' onwards.

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28/Jan/10 at 12:07 PM by 209.172.237.164

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* {{Characterization Marches On}}: Remember when the The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork was obese? Or when Death seemed to actively cause people to die rather than merely collect their souls?

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* {{Characterization Marches On}}: Remember when the The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork was obese? Or when Death seemed to actively cause people to die rather than merely collect their souls? Both have gotten excuses, one of which is that Death changed character after Mort, the other that it was a different Patrician. WordOfGod denies the latter, admiting it is this trope.

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28/Jan/10 at 08:56 AM by 209.172.237.164

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See also the [[Characters/{{Discworld}} character sheet]] for details on the more major of the series' LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, and the fan-run [[http://www.lspace.org/ L-Space Web]] for [[http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/index.html quotes]], [[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html annotations]], and even a [[http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/ reading order guide]] for the uninitiated.

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See also the [[Characters/{{Discworld}} character sheet]] for details on the more major of the series' LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, and the fan-run [[http://www.lspace.org/ L-Space Web]] for [[http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/index.html quotes]], [[http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html annotations]], and even a [[http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/ reading order guide]] for the uninitiated. Unfortunately, these annotations haven't updated since Going Postal, from 2004.

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24/Jan/10 at 11:03 AM by DarkbladeWraith 86.29.27.57

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** Also counts as a GeniusBonus in many cases. Only the most widely travelled of readers will get most of them, let alone some of the more obscure ones....

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23/Jan/10 at 10:50 PM by Stranger 72.66.15.178

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* CultureChopSuey: Numerous examples, one of them lampshaded by a discussion amongst the gods about the empires on the Counterweight Continent: 
-->"They are four great families feuding. The Hongs, the Fongs, the Tangs, and the [=McSweeneys=]." 
-->"''[=McSweeneys=]?''" 
-->"Very old family." 
-->"Oh."

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21/Jan/10 at 06:02 PM by eowynjedi 76.127.136.66

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** More like three or four.

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19/Jan/10 at 05:48 PM by willyolio 209.121.110.110

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* TheWonderland: not just different, but Prachett often takes time in the narration to explain just how different everything is, from how time flows to the shape of the world...

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