YMMV / Reaper Man

• Anvilicious: Pratchett himself would admit that painting modern shopping malls as an absolute evil was being a tad too closed-minded.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Death of Rats, both to fans and to Pratchett himself (he says he has no idea where the character came from, but he liked him too much for him to be lost with the other Deaths at the end of the book).
• Epileptic Trees: Windle Poons' desire to be reincarnated as a woman resulted in a theory that Tiffany Aching is his reincarnation.
• Genius Bonus: The bit about the High Energy Magic Building says the senior wizards may regret not paying attention when their juniors build that thing in the squash court. This is a reference to the world's first nuclear reactor, which was built in the squash court of the University of Chicago. The reference gets more direct when they do in fact build the thing in The Science of Discworld, and it is indeed the magical equivalent of a nuclear power station.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Windle Poons accepting his death, as he had accomplished everything he wanted with his life. That's very much not the way Terry Pratchett went out.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Bill Door's choice of possible last words before his showdown with the new Death? "I don't want to go."
  • The Bursar compares the canapés provided for Death at the Going Away Party with Leaving Food for the Hogfather, and reflects that the two figures are very different. Five years later, Death would be Subbing for Santa.
• Nightmare Fuel: The true nature of the shopping mall during the climax, when Windle is rampaging through it to buy time for the others to escape. It's literally a living entity, and once it stops hiding it, it becomes a violent Womb Level.
  • The New Death.
  Death: A crown?! I never wore a crown!
  New Death: You never wanted to rule.
• The Woobie: You have to feel sorry for Ludmilla, considering her condition and having to live with the well-meaning but overbearing Mrs. Cake for a mother. At least she gets a happy ending.

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