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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Like any Sourcerer, Coin is this. To put it into perspective: the Disc is already full of magic in the way our universe has energy, albeit to a rather lesser degree than it used to (which is why classical dragons can't exist anymore on the Disc without some form of magical empowerment). While Wizards of the Disc only act as conduits for the innate magic that already exists, a Sourcerer actually creates new magic from nothing -- when the Sorcerer uses magic, they actually create it rather than just using what's there. This is akin to taking a bathtub that's already full of water and turning on the faucet until the bathtub overflows, wrecking the bathroom with water seeping into and rotting the floorboards, and eventually causing the whole house to collapse. In short, a Sourcerer being born on the Disc pretty much spells doom for the Disc itself.

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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Like any Sourcerer, Coin is this. To put it into perspective: the Disc is already full of magic in the way our universe has energy, albeit to a rather lesser degree than it used to (which is why classical dragons can't exist anymore on the Disc without some form of magical empowerment). While Wizards of the Disc only act as conduits for the innate magic that already exists, a Sourcerer actually creates new magic from nothing -- when the Sorcerer Sourcerer uses magic, they actually create it rather than just using what's there. This is akin to taking a bathtub that's already full of water and turning on the faucet until the bathtub overflows, wrecking the bathroom with water seeping into and rotting the floorboards, and eventually causing the whole house to collapse. In short, a Sourcerer being born on the Disc pretty much spells doom for the Disc itself.
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* InstantSoprano: The slaver leader asks Rincewind if he can sing, then starts making coy references to the ''[[{{Pun unique]]'' opportunity he'll face as a harem servant.

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* InstantSoprano: The slaver leader asks Rincewind if he can sing, then starts making coy references to the ''[[{{Pun ''[[{{Pun}} unique]]'' opportunity he'll face as a harem servant.
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* InstantSoprano: The slaver leader asks Rincewind if he can sing, then starts making coy references to the ''{{Pun unique}}'' opportunity he'll face as a harem servant.

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* InstantSoprano: The slaver leader asks Rincewind if he can sing, then starts making coy references to the ''{{Pun unique}}'' ''[[{{Pun unique]]'' opportunity he'll face as a harem servant.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Vetinari isn't nearly as much a MagnificentBastard as he would eventually become, and as a result, comes off as a bit thick -- or at least, compared to later books. While he very quickly realises that these are not the Wizards he is used to dealing with, he doesn't quite realise just how much. In his very next appearance, he demonstrates a much better grasp of [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knowing when to fold em]] -- though presumably his time spent as a small lizard (though he can hardly remember it) played a large part in developing this instinct.

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Vetinari isn't nearly as much a MagnificentBastard as he would eventually become, and as a result, comes off as a bit thick -- or at least, compared to later books. While he very quickly realises that these are not the Wizards he is used to dealing with, he doesn't quite realise just how much. In his very next appearance, he demonstrates a much better grasp of [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knowing when to fold em]] 'em]] -- though presumably his time spent as a small lizard (though he can hardly remember it) played a large part in developing this instinct.



* InstantSoprano: The slaver leader asks Rincewind if he can sing, then starts making coy references to the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun unique]]'' opportunity he'll face as a harem servant.

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* InstantSoprano: The slaver leader asks Rincewind if he can sing, then starts making coy references to the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun unique]]'' ''{{Pun unique}}'' opportunity he'll face as a harem servant.



* [[LightbulbJoke Lampwick Joke]]

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* [[LightbulbJoke Lampwick Joke]]Joke]]: As electricity hasn't been invented.



* VileVillainSaccharineShow: the book has many sources of humour... but Ipslore the Red is not one of them, almost singlehandedly being responsible for the book being DarkerAndEdgier.

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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: the The book has many sources of humour... but Ipslore the Red is not one of them, almost singlehandedly being responsible for the book being DarkerAndEdgier.
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* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: The magic carpet does the opposite of what it is commanded to do, because it was rolled out upside-down.

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* BookEnds: The book begins, "There was a man and he had eight sons," and [[spoiler: this is repeated as the first line of the story the barmaid tells to Creosote near the end.]]

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* BookEnds: The book begins, "There was a man and he had eight sons," and [[spoiler: this [[spoiler:this is repeated as the first line of the story the barmaid tells to Creosote near the end.]]



* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Vetinari isn't nearly as much a MagnificentBastard as he would eventually become, and as a result, comes off as a bit thick - or at least, compared to later books. While he very quickly realises that these are not the Wizards he is used to dealing with, he doesn't quite realise just how much. In his very next appearance, he demonstrates a much better grasp of [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knowing when to fold em]] -- though presumably his time spent as a small lizard (though he can hardly remember it) played a large part in developing this instinct.

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Vetinari isn't nearly as much a MagnificentBastard as he would eventually become, and as a result, comes off as a bit thick - -- or at least, compared to later books. While he very quickly realises that these are not the Wizards he is used to dealing with, he doesn't quite realise just how much. In his very next appearance, he demonstrates a much better grasp of [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knowing when to fold em]] -- though presumably his time spent as a small lizard (though he can hardly remember it) played a large part in developing this instinct.



* DurableDeathtrap: Double subverted -- the jokey TempleOfDoom traps Creosote's ancestor hid in the catacombs have decayed and are no longer functioning, and even so, only consist of things like [[KickMePrank "kick me" signs]] and [[BucketBoobyTrap buckets of white-wash above doors]]. Except [[spoiler: the last one, a giant slab of stone that falls out of the ceiling on you, with the words LAUGH THIS ONE OFF engraved on the side]].

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* DurableDeathtrap: Double subverted -- the jokey TempleOfDoom traps Creosote's ancestor hid in the catacombs have decayed and are no longer functioning, and even so, only consist of things like [[KickMePrank "kick me" signs]] and [[BucketBoobyTrap buckets of white-wash above doors]]. Except [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the last one, a giant slab of stone that falls out of the ceiling on you, with the words LAUGH THIS ONE OFF engraved on the side]].



** Death asking Ipslore about his relationship with his other seven sons is this. [[spoiler: They all got fed up with their father's manipulations and left him behind, just as Coin eventually does.]]

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** Death asking Ipslore about his relationship with his other seven sons is this. [[spoiler: They [[spoiler:They all got fed up with their father's manipulations and left him behind, just as Coin eventually does.]]



* GenreSavvy: Of course - [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality it's Discworld]]. Rincewind is particularly genre savvy, as always; Abrim explains doing something evil by saying that [[EvilChancellor the vizier]] ''has'' to be evil; Nijel is very aware of what's expected of a barbarian hero, since he's been studying for the role.

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* GenreSavvy: Of course - -- [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality it's Discworld]]. Rincewind is particularly genre savvy, as always; Abrim explains doing something evil by saying that [[EvilChancellor the vizier]] ''has'' to be evil; Nijel is very aware of what's expected of a barbarian hero, since he's been studying for the role.



-->Most of the wizards managed to turn their heads away. A few - and there are always a few like that - watched in obscene fascination.

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-->Most of the wizards managed to turn their heads away. A few - -- and there are always a few like that - -- watched in obscene fascination.



** The Wizards themselves under the effects of sourcery, when people are used to them being stuffy, harmless background characters - they even give Vetinari pause, just by their expressions. In fact, the entire point of the book is what happens if Wizards discard the fundamental principle of modern magic: not doing it.

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** The Wizards themselves under the effects of sourcery, when people are used to them being stuffy, harmless background characters - -- they even give Vetinari pause, just by their expressions. In fact, the entire point of the book is what happens if Wizards discard the fundamental principle of modern magic: not doing it.



* PersonOfMassDestruction: Like any Sourcerer, Coin is this. To put it into perspective: the Disc is already full of magic in the way our universe has energy, albeit to a rather lesser degree than it used to (which is why classical dragons can't exist anymore on the Disc without some form of magical empowerment). While Wizards of the Disc only act as conduits for the innate magic that already exists, a Sourcerer actually creates new magic from nothing - when the Sorcerer uses magic, they actually create it rather than just using what's there. This is akin to taking a bathtub that's already full of water and turning on the faucet until the bathtub overflows, wrecking the bathroom with water seeping into and rotting the floorboards, and eventually causing the whole house to collapse. In short, a Sourcerer being born on the Disc pretty much spells doom for the Disc itself.

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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Like any Sourcerer, Coin is this. To put it into perspective: the Disc is already full of magic in the way our universe has energy, albeit to a rather lesser degree than it used to (which is why classical dragons can't exist anymore on the Disc without some form of magical empowerment). While Wizards of the Disc only act as conduits for the innate magic that already exists, a Sourcerer actually creates new magic from nothing - -- when the Sorcerer uses magic, they actually create it rather than just using what's there. This is akin to taking a bathtub that's already full of water and turning on the faucet until the bathtub overflows, wrecking the bathroom with water seeping into and rotting the floorboards, and eventually causing the whole house to collapse. In short, a Sourcerer being born on the Disc pretty much spells doom for the Disc itself.



* RoyalHarem: The Seriph has a seraglio, and Conina is sent there. Rincewind doesn't know what one is, having mistakenly formed the impression that it's something like an iron maiden. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the Seriph himself has much idea what it's supposed to be for, since what he mostly does there is be told stories and recite bad poetry - or, as the book suggests, he has a similar problem to Rincewind's later potato fixation.

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* RoyalHarem: The Seriph has a seraglio, and Conina is sent there. Rincewind doesn't know what one is, having mistakenly formed the impression that it's something like an iron maiden. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the Seriph himself has much idea what it's supposed to be for, since what he mostly does there is be told stories and recite bad poetry - -- or, as the book suggests, he has a similar problem to Rincewind's later potato fixation.



* SceneryBasedSocietalBarometer: Throughout the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series, Ankh Morpork is a squalid but weirdly likeable WretchedHive, and Unseen University is a cosy, tawdry, lovably dysfunctional WizardingSchool with only vague pretensions to grandeur. As such, when Coin begins altering Unseen University to make it more impressive, it signifies a very worrying change to the status quo; in turn, when the Sourcery-empowered wizards transform the filthy square outside into a polished ShiningCity - against the wishes of the people - it's a sign to all and sundry that a new, tyrannical {{Magocracy}} is being formed on the Disc. [[spoiler: When Coin is finally freed from his abusive father's control, he undoes the changes to the University and the city - a microcosm of the repairs he's making to the world as a whole.]]

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* SceneryBasedSocietalBarometer: Throughout the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series, Ankh Morpork is a squalid but weirdly likeable WretchedHive, and Unseen University is a cosy, tawdry, lovably dysfunctional WizardingSchool with only vague pretensions to grandeur. As such, when Coin begins altering Unseen University to make it more impressive, it signifies a very worrying change to the status quo; in turn, when the Sourcery-empowered wizards transform the filthy square outside into a polished ShiningCity - -- against the wishes of the people - it's a sign to all and sundry that a new, tyrannical {{Magocracy}} is being formed on the Disc. [[spoiler: When [[spoiler:When Coin is finally freed from his abusive father's control, he undoes the changes to the University and the city - -- a microcosm of the repairs he's making to the world as a whole.]]



* WouldntHurtAChild: The customers of the Mended Drum might murder each other, but "a child could go in for a glass of lemonade and be certain of getting nothing worse than a clip round the ear when his mother heard his expanded vocabulary."

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* WouldntHurtAChild: WouldntHurtAChild:
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The customers of the Mended Drum might murder each other, but "a child could go in for a glass of lemonade and be certain of getting nothing worse than a clip round the ear when his mother heard his expanded vocabulary.""
** Rincewind intends to clobber the Sourcerer with a half-brick in a sock, but finds himself at a loss for what to do when he sees the Sourcerer is a child. Luckily it soon becomes clear who the real villain is.
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* SignificantWhiteHairDarkSkin: Conina is explicitly described as having this combination of dark skin and blonde hair. Her description in the text also proves TheCoverAlwaysLies.

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* SignificantWhiteHairDarkSkin: Conina is explicitly described as having this combination of dark skin and blonde hair. Her description in the text also proves TheCoverAlwaysLies.[[CoversAlwaysLie The Cover Always Lies]].
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* SignificantWhiteHairDarkSkin: Conina is explicitly described as having this combination of dark skin and blonde hair. Her description in the text also proves TheCoverAlwaysLies.
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* UnnecessaryTimePrecision: While Rincewind is an IneptMage, he's had his fair share of adventures. When he meets Nijel, a rather unimpressive BarbarianHero, he thinks he's found kinship with him. Spending too long away from civilization is bad for one's notion of time, after all. Nijel has only been three days on the road, making his earlier question of what year it is unneeded.
--->'''Rincewind:''' Exactly how long have you been a barbarian hero?\\
'''Nijel the Destroyer:''' Er. What year is this?\\
'''Rincewind:''' Out on the road, then? Lost track of time? I know how it is. This is the year of the Hyena.\\
'''Nijel:''' Oh, in that case about... about three days.
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** Creosote's compliments to women are either inspired by or directly lifted from the [[TheBible Song of Solomon]] -- "thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead".

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** Creosote's compliments to women are either inspired by or directly lifted from the [[TheBible Song of Solomon]] Literature/SongOfSongs -- "thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead".

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* DurableDeathtrap: Double subverted -- the jokey TempleOfDoom traps Creosote's ancestor hid in the catacombs have decayed and are no longer functioning, and even so, only consist of things like [[KickMePrank kick me signs]] and [[BucketBoobyTrap buckets of white-wash above doors]]. Except [[spoiler: the last one, a giant slab of stone that falls out of the ceiling on you, with the words LAUGH THIS ONE OFF engraved on the side]].

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* DurableDeathtrap: Double subverted -- the jokey TempleOfDoom traps Creosote's ancestor hid in the catacombs have decayed and are no longer functioning, and even so, only consist of things like [[KickMePrank kick me "kick me" signs]] and [[BucketBoobyTrap buckets of white-wash above doors]]. Except [[spoiler: the last one, a giant slab of stone that falls out of the ceiling on you, with the words LAUGH THIS ONE OFF engraved on the side]].


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** Creosote's compliments to women are either inspired by or directly lifted from the [[TheBible Song of Solomon]] -- "thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead".
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* DurableDeathtrap: Double subverted -- the jokey TempleOfDoom traps Creosote's ancestor hid in the catacombs have decayed and are no longer functioning, and even so, only consist of kick me signs and buckets of white-wash above doors. Except [[spoiler: the last one, a giant slab of stone that falls out of the ceiling on you, with the words LAUGH THIS ONE OFF engraved on the side]].

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* DurableDeathtrap: Double subverted -- the jokey TempleOfDoom traps Creosote's ancestor hid in the catacombs have decayed and are no longer functioning, and even so, only consist of things like [[KickMePrank kick me signs signs]] and [[BucketBoobyTrap buckets of white-wash above doors.doors]]. Except [[spoiler: the last one, a giant slab of stone that falls out of the ceiling on you, with the words LAUGH THIS ONE OFF engraved on the side]].
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* ForcedTransformation: Coin turns Vetinari into a lizard early on, though he later undoes it.

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* ForcedTransformation: Coin Carding turns Vetinari into a lizard early on, though he Coin later undoes it.
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* CorrespondenceCourse: in Barbarian Heroism. By Cohen the Barbarian (though Rincewind highly doubts this fact, given what he knows of Cohen. Or at least, he highly doubts that Cohen wrote the Course, but does suspect that Cohen might have been involved on some level, due to his knack for rapidly gravitating to anything involving money).

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* CorrespondenceCourse: Nijel is taking one in Barbarian Heroism. By Cohen the Barbarian (though Rincewind highly doubts this fact, given what he knows of Cohen. Or at least, he highly doubts that Cohen wrote the Course, but does suspect that Cohen might have been involved on some level, due to his knack for rapidly gravitating to anything involving money).
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* DarkSkinnedBlond: Conina is a platinum blonde and sports a deep tan.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Coin does this to Vetinari early on, though he later undoes it.


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* ForcedTransformation: Coin turns Vetinari into a lizard early on, though he later undoes it.
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* {{Nerd}}: Nijel, though he would much rather be a BarbarianHero.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Death asking Ipslore about his relationship with his other seven sons is this. [[spoiler: They all got fed up with their father's manipulations and left him behind, just as Coin eventually does.]]

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Death asking Ipslore about his relationship with his other seven sons is this. [[spoiler: They all got fed up with their father's manipulations and left him behind, just as Coin eventually does.]]]]
** The Patrician speaks approvingly of "the safety of a nice deep dungeon" should wizards rule the city. Within this book it seems to be just a jibe, but in ''Guards! Guards!'' we find he wasn't joking.
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* ContemptibleCover: Josh Kirby's illustration places a scantily-clad Conina front-and-center on the cover.
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Not to be confused with ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}''
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* ExpospeakGag: The magic carpet flies to the command "down". When Conina asks why is that, Rincewind responds that it's because of "certain fundamental details of laminar and spatial arrangements", or in non-wizard talk because it was put on the floor upside-down.

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* ExpospeakGag: The magic carpet MagicCarpet flies to the command "down". When Conina asks why is that, Rincewind responds that it's because of "certain fundamental details of laminar and spatial arrangements", or in non-wizard talk because it was put on the floor upside-down.
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* ContemptibleCover: Josh Kirby's illustration places a scantily-clad Conina front-and-center on the cover.
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* FollowTheChaos: Nijel is once described as the kind of person who, if he was lost in a trackless desert, could be located by leaving out some valuable old heirloom and then hurrying back as soon as you heard it smash.

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* FollowTheChaos: Nijel is once described as the kind of person who, if he was lost in a trackless desert, could be located by leaving out some [[PricelessMingVase valuable old heirloom and then hurrying back as soon as you heard it smash.smash]].



* RapePillagePlunder: Only without the first part, because Nigel did promise his mom he wouldn't.

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* RapePillagePlunder: RapePillageAndBurn: Only without the first part, because Nigel did promise his mom he wouldn't.
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: The trope is stood on its head: once he's free of his father's spirit, Coin is well aware that he is a fully fledged RealityWarper, but he's ''terrified'' of his own power. He delivers his to the Librarian:
--> '''Coin:''' I can't stay, everything I touch goes wrong, it's like trying to sleep on a heap of eggs! This world is too thin!

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