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* ResurrectiveImmortality: It's mentioned that even if someone ''does'' damage a werewolf enough to bypass their HealingFactor and seemingly kill them, they can be resurrected under the light of the next full moon unless they were killed by silver or fire (in which case, they're DeaderThanDead). * {{Sadist}}: Werewolf psychology combines carnivorous animal instincts with human abstract reasoning. In some, this unfortunately manifests as a fusion of natural predatory instincts and the purely human concept of taking joy at someone else's suffering.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: It's mentioned that even if someone ''does'' damage a werewolf enough to bypass their HealingFactor and seemingly kill them, they can be resurrected under the light of the next full moon unless they were killed by silver or fire (in which case, they're DeaderThanDead).
* {{Sadist}}: Werewolf psychology combines carnivorous animal instincts with human abstract reasoning. In some, this unfortunately manifests as a fusion of natural predatory instincts and the purely human concept of taking joy at someone else's suffering.
* {{Sadist}}: Werewolf psychology combines carnivorous animal instincts with human abstract reasoning. In some, this unfortunately manifests as a fusion of natural predatory instincts and the purely human concept of taking joy at someone else's suffering.
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* ArchEnemy: [[FurAgainstFang Werewolves]]. Not only do the noble werewolf and vampire families of Überwald feud with each other [[UpperClassTwit for all of the same reasons]] [[AristocratsAreEvil that ordinary mortal nobles do]], but they both feed off of the same food supply (humans).
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* ArchEnemy: [[FurAgainstFang Werewolves]]. Not only do the noble werewolf and vampire families of Überwald feud with each other [[UpperClassTwit for all of the same reasons]] [[AristocratsAreEvil that ordinary mortal nobles do]], but for reasons that are almost more classist - werewolves resent the effortless air of authority and class that vampires have and the sympathy/admiration they gain, while vampires resent the werewolf ability to pass as human. Also, in some cases, they both feed off of the same food supply (humans).(humans) - though that varies from werewolf clan to werewolf clan (the von Uberwalds made a sport out of it, while the ones near the de Magpyr castle left humans alone as they didn't run fast enough to be interesting).
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* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: It definitely varies, with some just being more AffablyEvil than others. However, there's several vampire characters introduced who have definitely shown themselves to be quite friendly and decent people (i.e., Sally von Humpeding, John Smith, Maladict(a), and Otto Chriek among others). What certainly helps is that the Überwald League of Temperance exists to help encourage vampires to become more "civilized" and go "cold bat" by [[AddictionDisplacement taking on a second addiction]] to ward off their blood thirst.
* FullFrontalAssault: A severe problem for female vampires is that while they can do the whole "turn into a flock of bats" thing, it's a lot more difficult for them because of the underwire dress problem, so they usually don't bother.
* FullFrontalAssault: A severe problem for female vampires is that while they can do the whole "turn into a flock of bats" thing, it's a lot more difficult for them because of the underwire dress problem, so they usually don't bother.
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* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: It definitely varies, with some just being more AffablyEvil than others. However, there's several vampire characters introduced who have definitely shown themselves to be quite friendly and decent people (i.e., Sally von Humpeding, John Smith, Arthur Winkings, Maladict(a), and Otto Chriek among others). What certainly helps is that the Überwald League of Temperance exists to help encourage vampires to become more "civilized" and go "cold bat" by [[AddictionDisplacement taking on a second addiction]] to ward off their blood thirst.
* FullFrontalAssault: A severe problem for female vampires is that while they can do the whole "turn into a flock of bats"thing, it's a lot thing (a single bat is meant to be more difficult if you've been reformed for them because of a while), they don't take their clothes with them, for reasons speculated by Sally to be related to the underwire dress whole 'underwire nightdress' problem, and it's very difficult to ensure a couple of members of the flock of bats remember to carry even a pair of pants, so they usually don't bother.
* FullFrontalAssault: A severe problem for female vampires is that while they can do the whole "turn into a flock of bats"
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Parodied and exaggerated with them. There are as many types of vampires as there are diseases, so some just make you walk funny and avoid fruit. In an interesting twist, some vampires in the Discworld can actually have children with each other and make new vampires that way.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: As long as fresh blood is poured on a vampire's ashes, they can come BackFromTheDead.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: As long as fresh blood is poured on a vampire's ashes, they can come BackFromTheDead.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Parodied and exaggerated with them. There are as many types of vampires as there are diseases, so some just make you walk funny and avoid fruit. In an interesting twist, some vampires in the Discworld can actually have children with each other and make new vampires that way.
way, though usually they don't - as Vlad points out, vampires are immortal, and where humans are creating successors, vampires are usually just creating competition.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: As long as fresh blood is poured on a vampire's ashes, they can come BackFromTheDead. It doesn't have to be human, either. This is exploited for DeathIsCheap purposes by both the League of Temperance vampires (who, after a suggestion from William de Worde to Otto Chriek, carry a kit that contains a small card explaining their circumstances and an ampoule of 'emergency b-vord'), and the Old Count de Magpyr, who, like his nephew, was GenreSavvy, and, ''unlike'' his nephew, smart enough to play dumb and play fair. If you get too smart, then the potential fates listed for the younger Count [[AndIMustScream are all fairly horrific]].
* ResurrectiveImmortality: As long as fresh blood is poured on a vampire's ashes, they can come BackFromTheDead. It doesn't have to be human, either. This is exploited for DeathIsCheap purposes by both the League of Temperance vampires (who, after a suggestion from William de Worde to Otto Chriek, carry a kit that contains a small card explaining their circumstances and an ampoule of 'emergency b-vord'), and the Old Count de Magpyr, who, like his nephew, was GenreSavvy, and, ''unlike'' his nephew, smart enough to play dumb and play fair. If you get too smart, then the potential fates listed for the younger Count [[AndIMustScream are all fairly horrific]].
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* SupernaturalFearInducer: According to Sally, vampires can "induce fear" in whoever they wish, though other characters suspect that it's more just a consequence of most people being terrified of encountering an incredibly dangerous and powerful undead monster that might want to eat you.
* VampiresAreSexGods: It's another vampire thing. They are ''incapable'' of looking scruffy. A vampire in the middle of a war-torn craphole will still, at best, manage to look stylishly scruff without ever trying.
* VampiresAreSexGods: It's another vampire thing. They are ''incapable'' of looking scruffy. A vampire in the middle of a war-torn craphole will still, at best, manage to look stylishly scruff without ever trying.
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* SupernaturalFearInducer: According to Sally, vampires can "induce fear" in whoever they wish, though other characters suspect that it's more just a consequence of most people being terrified of encountering an incredibly dangerous and powerful undead monster that might want to eat you.
you. Given that vampires have a whole bunch of mental tricks, and that they are still the latter, it's possible that both explanations are true.
* VampiresAreSexGods: It's another vampire thing. They are ''incapable'' of looking scruffy. A vampire in the middle of a war-torn craphole will still, at best, manage to look stylishly scruff without ever trying. Werewolves, particularly Angua, are more self-conscious and resent this. However, it's worth noting that an hour or two of wading through the collapsing muck of the undercity of Ankh-Morpork leaves both Angua and Sally looking like slime monsters.
* VampiresAreSexGods: It's another vampire thing. They are ''incapable'' of looking scruffy. A vampire in the middle of a war-torn craphole will still, at best, manage to look stylishly scruff without ever trying. Werewolves, particularly Angua, are more self-conscious and resent this. However, it's worth noting that an hour or two of wading through the collapsing muck of the undercity of Ankh-Morpork leaves both Angua and Sally looking like slime monsters.
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** Surprisingly enough, ''wolves''. While humans hate werewolves, wolves hate werewolves ''so much more.'' This is because humans use werewolves as an excuse to kill wolves, and the opposite never occurs. While a lone werewolf is relatively safe mixing in a human community, a lone werewolf who stumbles into a pack of wolves generally has an exceptionally short life expectancy (unless they're a wolf-form yennork, who seem to be given more respect thanks to their ShapeshifterModeLock).
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** Surprisingly enough, ''wolves''. While this is initially a surprise, Angua points out that not only do they hate them for all the same reasons that humans hate werewolves, there are other reasons that wolves hate werewolves ''so much more.'' This is because humans use werewolves as an excuse to kill wolves, and the opposite never occurs. While a lone werewolf is relatively safe mixing in a human community, a lone werewolf who stumbles into a pack of wolves generally has an exceptionally short life expectancy (unless they're a wolf-form yennork, who seem to be given more respect thanks to their ShapeshifterModeLock).
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Subverted, surprisingly enough. Angua is all but stated to have the [[IntellectualAnimal uncannily intelligent wolf]] Gavin as her ex-boyfriend, and their relationship isn't portrayed as wrong but just a bit unusual. Even Vimes' only reaction is to consider it for a few moments, then just shrug. It's implied that Gavin's obvious and at least human-level intelligence is why no one's really bothered.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Subverted, surprisingly enough.
** Angua is all but stated to have the [[IntellectualAnimal uncannily intelligent wolf]] Gavin as her ex-boyfriend, and their relationship isn't portrayed as wrong but just a bit unusual. Even Vimes' only reaction is to consider it for a few moments, then just shrug. It's implied that Gavin's obvious and at least human-level intelligence is why no one's reallybothered. bothered - that, and TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody, meaning that the longer a werewolf is in wolf form, the more wolfish (or, indeed, doglike) they become.
** Possibly because of the above, it's also implied to have happened a fair number of times before. Angua suggests that Gavin might have werewolf heritage, whether via an ordinary werewolf or a [[ShapeshifterModeLock yennork]]. It's also why she's so leery about potentially having children with Carrot, as a fair few fairytale monsters have been created that way - humans with just that bit of predatory wolf instinct in them, and wolves with that bit of intelligence and capacity for cruelty that is oh so very human.
** Angua is all but stated to have the [[IntellectualAnimal uncannily intelligent wolf]] Gavin as her ex-boyfriend, and their relationship isn't portrayed as wrong but just a bit unusual. Even Vimes' only reaction is to consider it for a few moments, then just shrug. It's implied that Gavin's obvious and at least human-level intelligence is why no one's really
** Possibly because of the above, it's also implied to have happened a fair number of times before. Angua suggests that Gavin might have werewolf heritage, whether via an ordinary werewolf or a [[ShapeshifterModeLock yennork]]. It's also why she's so leery about potentially having children with Carrot, as a fair few fairytale monsters have been created that way - humans with just that bit of predatory wolf instinct in them, and wolves with that bit of intelligence and capacity for cruelty that is oh so very human.
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* FictionalDisability: Yennorks are werewolves suffering from a permanent case of ShapeshifterModeLock, always looking like either a human or a wolf.
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* FictionalDisability: Yennorks are werewolves suffering from a permanent case of ShapeshifterModeLock, always looking like either a human or a wolf. However, as Angua makes clear, they ''are'' still werewolves, and not just on ethical grounds - they retain the werewolf genes that they pass on to their descendants, which doesn't always go well.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Werewolves can interbreed with both humans and wolves. There's a slight chance with any werewolf child, such as two of Angua's siblings, of them being yennorks, and far enough down the line the resulting hybrid werewolves can become quite... peculiar.
* HealingFactor: Any damage a werewolf takes that isn't from silver or fire is only temporary, and even then they can still heal from injuries inflicted by silver or fire given enough time.
* HorrorHunger: During the involuntary moon-induced transformation, there's an irresistible urge to eat meat, but enough control is still maintained for the werewolf to choose what ''kind'' of meat is consumed.
* HealingFactor: Any damage a werewolf takes that isn't from silver or fire is only temporary, and even then they can still heal from injuries inflicted by silver or fire given enough time.
* HorrorHunger: During the involuntary moon-induced transformation, there's an irresistible urge to eat meat, but enough control is still maintained for the werewolf to choose what ''kind'' of meat is consumed.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Werewolves can interbreed with both humans and wolves. There's a slight chance with any werewolf child, such as two of Angua's siblings, of them being yennorks, and far enough down the line the resulting hybrid werewolves can become quite... peculiar.
peculiar. Unsurprisingly, she's wary of the possibility of having children.
* HealingFactor: Any damage a werewolf takes that isn't from silver or fire is only temporary, and even then they can still heal from injuries inflicted by silver or fire given enoughtime.
time. It potentially reaches even FromASingleCell levels, with Detritus even suggesting using the Piecemaker on the furiously fighting Angua and Wolfgang, and sticking the little bits of Angua back together afterwards. To be clear, the Piecemaker is a ballista repurposed as a kind of shotgun, and vaporises more or less any solid object in its path.
* HorrorHunger: During the involuntary moon-induced transformation, there's an irresistible urge to eat meat, but enough control is still maintained for the werewolf to choose what ''kind'' of meat is consumed. In Angua's case, chickens, which she unfailingly pays for.
* HealingFactor: Any damage a werewolf takes that isn't from silver or fire is only temporary, and even then they can still heal from injuries inflicted by silver or fire given enough
* HorrorHunger: During the involuntary moon-induced transformation, there's an irresistible urge to eat meat, but enough control is still maintained for the werewolf to choose what ''kind'' of meat is consumed. In Angua's case, chickens, which she unfailingly pays for.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Angua implies at one point that some of the abnormally intelligent wolves that populate the Disc, such as Gavin, might actually be that way thanks to some werewolf ancestry.
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* IntellectualAnimal: Angua implies speculates at one point that some of the abnormally intelligent wolves that populate the Disc, such as Gavin, might actually be that way thanks to some werewolf ancestry.
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* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The longer a werewolf stays in one form, the more their mind is influenced by that form. The effects also tend to linger: a werewolf who stays human most of the time will have diminished senses but a stronger capacity for complex thoughts, while a werewolf who stays a wolf most of the time will start thinking and acting like one.
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* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The longer a werewolf stays in one form, the more their mind is influenced by that form. The effects also tend to linger: a werewolf who stays human most of the time will have diminished senses but a stronger capacity for complex thoughts, while a werewolf who stays a wolf most of the time will start thinking and acting like one. one, as Angua's father (who's very doglike) demonstrates.
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** There are distinct varieties, too, within the traditional variety and without. To further expand, crossbreeding between yennorks and ordinary humans has resulted in various other forms of werewolf. The most obvious are the people who turn into wolf-men, rather than wolves, at the full moon, but the spectrum ranges from people who only have hairy palms and eyebrows that meet in the middle to creatures that look like feral wolf-human hybrids... except at the full moon when they completely turn into wolves. Meanwhile, yennork-wolf mating has led to some extremely intelligent and savage wolves, and is possibly also the cause of the occasional "[[RussianReversal wolf-were/were-man]]", an intelligent wolf that turns into a wolf-man at full moon.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: It's mentioned that even if someone ''does'' damage a werewolf enough to bypass their HealingFactor and seemingly kill them, they can be resurrected under the light of the next full moon unless they were killed by silver or fire (in which case, they're DeaderThanDead).
* {{Sadist}}: Werewolf psychology combines carnivorous animal instincts with human abstract reasoning. In some, this unfortunately manifests as a fusion of natural predatory instincts and the purely human concept of taking joy at someone else's suffering.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: It's mentioned that even if someone ''does'' damage a werewolf enough to bypass their HealingFactor and seemingly kill them, they can be resurrected under the light of the next full moon unless they were killed by silver or fire (in which case, they're DeaderThanDead).
* {{Sadist}}: Werewolf psychology combines carnivorous animal instincts with human abstract reasoning. In some, this unfortunately manifests as a fusion of natural predatory instincts and the purely human concept of taking joy at someone else's suffering.
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** There are distinct varieties, too, within the traditional variety and without. To further expand, crossbreeding between yennorks and ordinary humans has resulted in various other forms of werewolf. The most obvious are the people who turn into wolf-men, rather than wolves, at the full moon, but the spectrum ranges from people who only have hairy palms and eyebrows that meet in the middle to creatures that look like feral wolf-human hybrids... except at the full moon when they completely turn into wolves. Meanwhile, yennork-wolf mating has led to some extremely intelligent and savage wolves, and is possibly also the cause of the occasional "[[RussianReversal wolf-were/were-man]]", an intelligent wolf that turns into a wolf-man at full moon.
moon - and, in the case of Lupine, is left searching for a pair of trousers.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: It's mentioned that even if someone ''does'' damage a werewolf enough to bypass their HealingFactor and seemingly kill them, they can be resurrected under the light of the next full moon unless they were killed by silver or fire (in which case, they'reDeaderThanDead).
DeaderThanDead). * {{Sadist}}: Werewolf psychology combines carnivorous animal instincts with human abstract reasoning. In some, this unfortunately manifests as a fusion of natural predatory instincts and the purely human concept of taking joy at someone else's suffering.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: It's mentioned that even if someone ''does'' damage a werewolf enough to bypass their HealingFactor and seemingly kill them, they can be resurrected under the light of the next full moon unless they were killed by silver or fire (in which case, they're
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* SuperStrength: Again, not on the same level as vampires, at least on average: Wolfgang is an exception (Angua is implied to be another), given that he casually took a couple of punches from Carrot (for context, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower a 16 year old Carrot punched out]] ''[[TheBigGuy Detritus]]'', [[TheBigGuy the gold-standard for troll strength]]) and nearly killed him with two punches - and trolls are meant to be stronger than vampires. In any case, werewolves can easily overpower humans through sheer force thanks to their enhanced strength.
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* SuperStrength: Again, not on the same level as vampires, at least on average: Wolfgang is an exception (Angua is implied to be another), given that he casually took a couple of punches from Carrot (for context, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower a 16 year old Carrot punched out]] ''[[TheBigGuy Detritus]]'', [[TheBigGuy the gold-standard for troll strength]]) strength]], and in that scene Carrot is noted to have grown stronger since joining the Watch) and nearly killed him with two punches - and trolls are meant to be stronger than vampires. In any case, werewolves can easily overpower humans through sheer force thanks to their enhanced strength.
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* SlaveRace: For their entire existence, golems have been bought and sold, and most people didn't even really think about it because they didn't really think of them as "people".
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* SlaveRace: For their entire existence, golems have been bought and sold, and most people didn't even really think about it because they didn't really think of them as "people". Interestingly, the golems themselves deem themselves to be/have been this, and therefore work to purchase their un-free fellows and then, as they put it, give them to themselves.
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* ProudIndustriousRace: Dwarfs are known as great craftsmen and metalworkers. Although they don't seem to have conventional spellcasting abilities, they're known for forging magic rings and repairing {{Flying Broomstick}}s. In ''Literature/EqualRites'', it's noted that even if a dwarf's job is something entirely unrelated to metalwork, he finds it hard to concentrate without the sound of anvils ringing out.
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** Casanunda the Dwarf (get it? cuz he's Casan[[IncrediblyLamePun ova]] but short) will romance (or at least boff) any female who'll hold still long enough, pretty much regardless of species. Nanny Ogg was/is one of his lovers.
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** Casanunda the Dwarf (get it? cuz he's Casan[[IncrediblyLamePun Casan[[{{Pun}} ova]] but short) will romance (or at least boff) any female who'll hold still long enough, pretty much regardless of species. Nanny Ogg was/is one of his lovers.
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* AbstractApotheosis: Has been known to happen, family members can act as stand-ins when needed and people can become gods of certain nations but this is part of the larger issue that differentiates Personificatons from gods.
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* AbstractApotheosis: Has been known to happen, family members can act as stand-ins when needed and people can become gods of certain nations but this is part of the larger issue that differentiates Personificatons Personifications from gods.
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* IncrediblyLameFun; Trolls gamble by tossing something up and then betting on whether or not it will come down. To be fair, there's definitely some parts on the Disc where it's a legitimate toss-up.
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* IncrediblyLameFun; IncrediblyLameFun: Trolls gamble by tossing something up and then betting on whether or not it will come down. To be fair, there's definitely some parts on the Disc where it's a legitimate toss-up.
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* {{Expy}}: In many ways, they're evocative of the Men in Grey from Creator/{{Michael Ende}}'s ''Literature/{{Momo}}''. Just like the Men in Grey, the Auditors are a race of gray-clothed accountant-like entities closely monitoring the actions of all people, are stumped by encounters that seem not to follow literal guidelines, and are ultimately flouted by beauty and a childlike love of narrative.
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* {{Expy}}: In many ways, they're evocative of the Men in Grey from Creator/{{Michael Ende}}'s ''Literature/{{Momo}}''.''Literature/{{Momo|1973}}''. Just like the Men in Grey, the Auditors are a race of gray-clothed accountant-like entities closely monitoring the actions of all people, are stumped by encounters that seem not to follow literal guidelines, and are ultimately flouted by beauty and a childlike love of narrative.
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former trope is YMMV, moved to in-universe version.
* AmbiguousGender: Culturally they're expected to look male, but that doesn't mean they are.
** This is [[Literature/FeetOfClay expanded upon]] with [[Characters/DiscworldCityWatch Cherry Littlebottom]], a feminist in a race where discovering the other's gender is part of the mating ritual. She would wear makeup, but refused to shave her beard because to do so would deny being a dwarf.
** Some are never really resolved in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is an AmbiguouslyGay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all.
** This is [[Literature/FeetOfClay expanded upon]] with [[Characters/DiscworldCityWatch Cherry Littlebottom]], a feminist in a race where discovering the other's gender is part of the mating ritual. She would wear makeup, but refused to shave her beard because to do so would deny being a dwarf.
** Some are never really resolved in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is an AmbiguouslyGay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Culturally they're expected to look male, but that doesn't mean they are.
** This is [[Literature/FeetOfClay expanded upon]] with [[Characters/DiscworldCityWatch Cherry Littlebottom]], a feminist in a race where discovering the other's gender is part of the mating ritual. She would wear makeup, but refused to shave her beard because to do so would deny being a dwarf.
** Some are never really resolved in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is an AmbiguouslyGay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all.
** This is [[Literature/FeetOfClay expanded upon]] with [[Characters/DiscworldCityWatch Cherry Littlebottom]], a feminist in a race where discovering the other's gender is part of the mating ritual. She would wear makeup, but refused to shave her beard because to do so would deny being a dwarf.
** Some are never really resolved in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is an AmbiguouslyGay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all.
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** Casanunda the Dwarf (get it? cuz he's Casan[[IncrediblyLamePun ova]] but short) will romance ([[AnythingThatMoves or at least boff]]) any female who'll hold still long enough, pretty much regardless of species. Nanny Ogg was/is one of his lovers.
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** Casanunda the Dwarf (get it? cuz he's Casan[[IncrediblyLamePun ova]] but short) will romance ([[AnythingThatMoves or (or at least boff]]) boff) any female who'll hold still long enough, pretty much regardless of species. Nanny Ogg was/is one of his lovers.
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* BeingEvilSucks: They're cosmic nudniks, consider the scale though; ''cosmic'', destroying a world is well within their abilities if they can get away with it. problem is they have no imagination, barely exist at all with any hint of growth or change or individuality leading them to [[DrivenToSuicide sef-destruct]], hints point to the enemy auditors being
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* BeingEvilSucks: They're essentially cosmic nudniks, consider nudniks. Consider the scale though; ''cosmic'', however; ''cosmic'' - destroying a world is well within their abilities if they can get away with it. The problem for them is they have no imagination, barely exist at all with all, and any hint of growth or change or individuality leading will lead them to [[DrivenToSuicide sef-destruct]], hints point [[PuffOfLogic instantly evaporate]] due to the enemy auditors being their own InsaneTrollLogic.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: {{Exaggerated}}, as they're bureaucrats who oversee the minutiae of the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality they want efficiency and to save on paperwork. Unfortunately for all life, they ''[[OmnicidalManiac despise]]'' anything resembling creativity or individuality, since it increases the amount of said paperwork.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: {{Exaggerated}}, as they're bureaucrats who oversee the minutiae of the MagicalUnderpinningsOfReality they who want efficiency and to save on paperwork. Unfortunately for all life, they ''[[OmnicidalManiac despise]]'' anything resembling creativity or individuality, since it increases the amount of said paperwork.
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* DeathOfPersonality: Inverted. They exist as grey soulless dull entities. For them, to develop a recognisable personality and individual self-awareness is death.
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* DeathOfPersonality: Inverted. They exist as grey soulless dull entities. For them, to develop a recognisable recognizable personality and individual self-awareness is death.
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* TheDitz: A particularly dark version. They are, what with the aforementioned CreativeSterility, very stupid. Very, ''very'' stupid. Might explain some of their insane actions, and ultimately doesn't make them any less dangerous.
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* TheDitz: A particularly dark version. They are, what with the aforementioned CreativeSterility, very stupid. Very, ''very'' stupid. Might explain some of their insane actions, and It ultimately doesn't make them any less dangerous.[[RealityWarper dangerous]], and might even explain some of their more insane actions.
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* GrayscaleOfEvil: They're constantly described as astonishingly dull grey robes devoid of colour and occupents really.
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* GrayscaleOfEvil: They're constantly described as astonishingly dull grey robes devoid of colour and occupents occupants really.
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* LogicBomb: They'll suicide if they develop a personality, they always follow directions on signs, incorrect signs cause painful dissonance to them.
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* LogicBomb: They'll suicide instantly die if they develop a personality, they personality (see InsaneTrollLogic). They also almost always follow directions on signs, incorrect instructions given, which was used against the humanized-Auditors in ''Thief of Time'' when the heroes used signs cause painful dissonance with contradictory or nonsensicle instructions (e.g. a sign pointing right that says "Go Left"), which left the Auditors reading them helpless from trying to figure out what to do until they decide to classify any such instructions as "stupid" and thus ignore them.
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* SpaceJews: Terry Pratchett being well, Terry Pratchett, took this several steps father than most writers do. Upon having the surface similarities pointed out to him, Terry Pratchett went much further. The "deep-downers" resemble certain ultra-orthodox communities in Judaism, including being very isolated and having very traditional clothing. The room full of 5000 years worth of legal rulings is pretty much the Talmud just exaggerated for comedic effect, and at one points Vimes thinks to himself "Being a Dwarf IS their religion" is a slight change on a very old joke about Judaism. The central conflict of The Fifth Elephant boils down to the ultra-orthodox elements wanting to deny the more liberal and progressive elements of the diaspora the rights to be acknowledged as dwarves' and buried in the homeland.
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* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: Golems don't have concepts of "fun" or "boredom", which makes them ideal choices for jobs no-one else is willing to do. One Golem Moist encounters is still hoping to finish a task he failed to do millennia ago, figuring if he waits long enough time will repeat and he'll have a chance to do it right.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: As Adora states in ''Making Money'', there is a reason Golems aren't designed to kill. People who do usually tend to regret it, if not for very long.
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** First and foremost is Angua (werewolf) and Carrot (biologically human, raised and identifies as a dwarf). Their potential children are a plot point in ''Literature/FeetOfClay''. In ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'' it is hinted that Angua also used to have a relationship with an ordinary wolf, implied to be the descendant of a yennork (a werewolf stuck permanently in one form, in this case wolf).
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** First and foremost is Angua (werewolf) and Carrot (biologically human, raised and identifies as a dwarf). Their potential children are a plot point in ''Literature/FeetOfClay''. In ''Literature/TheFifthElephant'' it is hinted that Angua also used to have a relationship with an ordinary wolf, wolf - [[IntellectualAnimal albeit one with human level intelligence]] - implied to be the descendant of a yennork (a werewolf stuck permanently in one form, in this case wolf).
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** The Elf Queen, see below, wants to take a mortal husband, but this is more for political reasons than romantic ones. In the same book there is mention of humans with elf ancestry, which presumably explains [[ElvishPresley Imp Y Celyn]] from ''Literature/SoulMusic'' and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the "elves" mentioned in early books]].
** It's also been stated (or at least implied) that Nanny Ogg has [[UnevenHybrid some dwarfish ancestry,]] albeit several generations back, and she has a [[ReallyGetsAround looooong list of lovers]].
** It's also been stated (or at least implied) that Nanny Ogg has [[UnevenHybrid some dwarfish ancestry,]] albeit several generations back, and she has a [[ReallyGetsAround looooong list of lovers]].
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** The Elf Queen, see below, wants to take a mortal husband, husband in ''Literature/LordAndLadies'', but this is more for political reasons than romantic ones. In the same book there is mention of humans with elf ancestry, ancestry (dismissed as a bunch of pale, skinny types who get sunburn easily and giggle), which presumably explains [[ElvishPresley Imp Y Celyn]] from ''Literature/SoulMusic'' and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the "elves" mentioned in early books]].books]] and possibly [[ElvishPresley Imp Y Celyn]] from ''Literature/SoulMusic''.
** It's alsobeen stated (or at least implied) implied, then confirmed in ''Maskerade'', that Nanny Ogg has [[UnevenHybrid some dwarfish ancestry,]] albeit several generations back, and she has a [[ReallyGetsAround looooong list of lovers]].
** It's also
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted. Most of them are AxeCrazy giggling monsters, but this is implied to mostly be down to a severely stunted sense of empathy than anything else. The King's faction shows from the start that at least some elves have accepted that their time is over (for now), are {{Graceful Loser}}s content to wait out this whole 'civilisation' thing, and the King himself is willing to intervene on humanity's behalf - if only out of self-interest. Moreover, when [[spoiler: Nightshade, the Queen of the Elves]], is exiled in ''The Shepherd's Crown'', and undergoes a severe case of BreakTheHaughty, under Tiffany's guidance she develops the capacity to empathise and care for others, ultimately making a HeroicSacrifice to save Tiffany herself.
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* FairySexy: Again thanks to glamour they all look beautiful. The Queen emulates Magrat at one point and looks ''breath-taking''.
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* FairySexy: Again thanks to glamour they all look beautiful. The Queen emulates Magrat (or rather, an idealised version of her, described as how Magrat always wished she would look and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments how her husband always sees her]]) at one point and looks ''breath-taking''.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The only "elves" that live on the Disc are at most this, if [[UnevenHybrid not more diluted.]] They tend to be [[VideoGame/DiscworldNoir very unpopular]] (given the reputation of their parent species), with no special powers. Barring some [[Literature/SoulMusic rare exceptions.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The only "elves" that live on the Disc are at most this, if [[UnevenHybrid not more diluted.]] They tend to be [[VideoGame/DiscworldNoir very unpopular]] (given the reputation of their parent species), with no special powers. powers, with Granny dismissing them as "a bunch of pale, skinny types with a tendency to giggle." Barring some one possible [[Literature/SoulMusic rare exceptions.]]exception.]] [[note]] It's regularly suspected that Buddy/Imp is at least part elvish, though mostly that's a {{pun}} on "I'd swear he's Elvis", and he's very good with music when elves are anything but. The closest he comes to it is a bit of the looks and an almost glamour-like effect - and that might be The Music. [[/note]]
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** Probably explains the comment about inbred Elves in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' and the existence of half breeds and similar.
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** Probably explains the comment about inbred Elves in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'' (though that could just be the Count throwing shade) and the existence of half breeds and similar.
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* WeirdnessSensor: Human adults have them built in, to stop them realizing how ridiculous and improbable and brilliant the world is, lest they just wander around like they were perpetually stoned and never get anything done, but also so they don't notice Death going about his business. Some, like witches and wizards, come without at least some of these filters.
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* WeirdnessSensor: WeirdnessCensor: Human adults have them built in, to stop them realizing how ridiculous and improbable and brilliant the world is, lest they just wander around like they were perpetually stoned and never get anything done, but also so they don't notice Death going about his business. Some, like witches and wizards, come without at least some of these filters.
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* WeirdnessSensor: Human adults have them built in, to stop them realizing how ridiculous and improbable and brilliant the world is, lest they just wander around like they were perpetually stoned and never get anything done, but also so they don't notice Death going about his business. Some, like witches and wizards, come without at least some of these filters.
* FantasticSlur: "Rock". At one point in ''Soul Music'', Imp emphatically declares (coming from Llamedos) how much he dislikes rocks, thanks to the druids the country's run by, right in front of a troll. The troll calmly informs him that this was a very ''stupid'' thing to say in front of a troll, but since he recognises from the context Imp meant actual rock-rocks, he will not inflict any grievous bodily harm on him.
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* TinyHeadedBehemoth: looking like a monolith with an apple perched at the top is what it takes to be considered a hunky troll. Detritus qualifies.
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* TinyHeadedBehemoth: looking Looking like a monolith with an apple perched at the top is what it takes to be considered a hunky troll. Detritus qualifies.
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* FantasyAliens: Thanks in part due to them being inspired by the older stories regarding TheFairFolk, the Elves of the Discworld are heavily influenced by many pop cultural ideas around aliens. Not only are their attacks on the Disc framed as {{Alien Invasion}}s (they come from an entire different ''universe'', after all), but much emphasis is given to how [[BlueAndOrangeMorality unnervingly inhuman]] their psychology is, and they are especially weak to ThunderboltIron (along with their whole WeaksauceWeakness to ColdIron being given a [[DoingInTheWizard semi-scientific explanation]]). For bonus points, crop circles and mysterious abductions serve as signs of their arrival whenever they intrude on the Disc.
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* FantasyAliens: Thanks in part due to them being inspired by the older stories regarding TheFairFolk, the Elves of the Discworld are heavily influenced by many pop cultural ideas around aliens. Not only are their attacks on the Disc framed as {{Alien Invasion}}s (they come from an entire different ''universe'', after all), but much emphasis is given to how [[BlueAndOrangeMorality unnervingly inhuman]] their psychology is, and they are especially weak to ThunderboltIron (along with their whole WeaksauceWeakness to ColdIron being given a [[DoingInTheWizard semi-scientific explanation]]). For bonus points, crop circles and mysterious abductions serve as signs of their arrival whenever they intrude on the Disc.
* FisherKingdom: Apparently their little pocket reality used to be a bit nicer to live in when the Elf King was around. After he left, leaving the Queen feeling alone and angry, things got pretty awful.
* FisherKingdom: Apparently their little pocket reality used to be a bit nicer to live in when the Elf King was around. After he left, leaving the Queen feeling alone and angry, things got pretty awful.
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Ambiguous Disorder is not a trope anymore, but a redirect to a YMMV entry.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: When werewolves in human form try to describe the smells they experienced as a wolf, it's typically presented as synesthesia, with scent data being reinterpreted in terms of colours and sounds.
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* SuperToughness: Fittingly for beings made of rock, they are hard to injure even with the sharpest of blades. The typical solution for a troll being in your way is to sic another troll on it. Although despite being made of stone they're far from invincible, as uncommonly strong humans like Carrot Ironfoundersson and Mr Tulip are capable of knocking trolls unconscious with ease.
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* SuperToughness: Fittingly for beings made of rock, they are hard to injure even with the sharpest of blades. The typical solution for a troll being in your way is to sic another another, bigger troll on it. Although despite being made of stone they're far from invincible, as invincible - uncommonly strong humans like Carrot Ironfoundersson and Mr Tulip are capable of knocking punching trolls unconscious with ease.their bare hands.
