History YMMV / Maskerade

* ''Tearjerker'': A minor one, but after Agnes is humiliated in front of everyone--rejected by André and subjected to some [[BrutalHonesty Brutal Honesty]] from Walter,

* [[Main/Tearjerker Tearjerker]]: A minor one, but after Agnes is humiliated in front of everyone--rejected by André and subjected to some [[BrutalHonesty Brutal Honesty]] from Walter,

* [[Tearjerker Tearjerker]]: A minor one, but after Agnes is humiliated in front of everyone--rejected by André and subjected to some [[BrutalHonesty Brutal Honesty]] from Walter,

* Tearjerker: A minor one, but after Agnes is humiliated in front of everyone--rejected by André and subjected to some [[BrutalHonesty Brutal Honesty]] from Walter,

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There is a funny scene on the witches' way to Ankh-Morpork where Granny plays [[ChessWithDeath poker with Death]] to save the life of a sick infant. Later, in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', Granny is again called out to save a newborn... and this time she fails (or at least, is forced to make a SadisticChoice between the baby and the mother), becoming the final straw that leads to her DespairEventHorizon.

* ShockingSwerve: There isn't much buildup for TheReveal that [[spoiler: Salzella was murdering people as a second Ghost]], and [[spoiler: Salzella]]'s motivations do not make any sense whatsoever (he ''has'' been stealing lots of money, but that's more due to clever accounting than his antics as the Ghost). However, this is amidst characters saying that ''nothing'' in opera makes sense and it comes across as extraordinarily meta, especially with the scene mentioned under LampshadeHanging.
** It would seem that he was originally trying to frame [[spoiler:Walter]] for his actions to cover the tracks, and use the murders to do so, but getting badly carried away in the process.
** And the villain pretty much explains at the end that the murders were because the victims had found out his identity; the rat catcher was blackmailing him and the music director had seen him.
** And when asked why he didn't just leave the opera, as that would solve all his problems, he simply acts like that would be inconceivable, and doesn't get a chance to elaborate further.
** There ''is'' build-up to the fact that [[spoiler: Salzella]] is up to ''something'' that has to do with the accidents in the Opera House fairly early on (via internal monologue -- he compares milk going sour to the situation in the Opera House with the comment that Opera Houses unlike milk doesn't go sour on their own, and phrases it in such a way as to make it clear that ''he's'' the one making things go sour). Still not much, since it is a single easily missed line (there is more foreshadowing to there being [[spoiler: two Ghosts]], however).
** There's also one really ''big'' hint that is easy to miss simply because it happens in the midst of some intense action and confusion: [[spoiler: when Salzella urges the mob to pursue the Ghost and claims that it's Walter, he's waving a skull-like mask in the air. But Walter still has his own mask when Granny confronts him on the rooftop, takes it off him and puts it on Greebo as a decoy. So why's Salzella, who'd never even claimed to have seen the Ghost, got exactly the right sort of mask with him when he makes the accusation?]]

* HilariousInHindsight: during the final opera performance, we're shown Nobby Nobbs and Detritus as undercover-in-plain-sight cops, pretending to be nobility enjoying a night at the Opera. Nobby introduces them as "Count de Nobbes" and "Count de Tritus", resulting in Nanny Ogg turning away before she bursts into laughter at how badly they suck at being undercover. Then, in the very next book "Feet of Clay", Nobby is revealed as the last remaining heir of the Earl of Ankh -- where bystanders continually comment that he looks and acts just like real royalty. Nobby sucking at being fake royalty: funny. Nobby subsequently being considered true royalty without changing his behaviour one bit? Hi-larious...

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There is a funny scene on the witches' way to Ankh-Morpork where Granny plays [[ChessWithDeath poker with Death]] to save the life of a sick infant. Later, in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', Granny is again called out to save a newborn... and this time she fails, becoming the final straw that leads to her DespairEventHorizon.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Dr. Undershaft is in tears after hearing Agnes sing.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: There is a funny scene on the witches' way to Ankh-Morpork where Granny plays [[ChessWithDeath poker with Death]] to save the life of a sick infant. Later, in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', Granny is again called out to save a newborn... and this time she fails, becoming the final straw that leads to her DespairEventHorizon.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Dr. Undershaft is in tears after hearing Agnes sing.

** There's also one really ''big'' hint that is easy to miss simply because it happens in the midst of some intense action and confusion: [[spoiler: when Salzella urges the mob to pursue the Ghost and claims that it's Walter, he's waving a skull-like mask in the air. But Walter still has his own mask when Granny confronts him on the rooftop, takes it off him and puts it on Greebo as a decoy. So why's Salzella, who'd never even claimed to have seen the Ghost, got exactly the right sort of mask with him when he makes the accusation?]]

** There ''is'' build-up to the fact that [[spoiler: Salzella]] is up to ''something'' that has to do with the accidents in the Opera House fairly early on (via internal monologue -- he compares milk going sour to the situation in the Opera House with the comment that Opera Houses unlike milk doesn't go sour on their own, and phrases it in such a way as to make it clear that ''he's'' the one making things go sour). Still not much, since it is a single easily missed line (there is more foreshadowing to there being [[spoiler: two Ghosts]], however).

** There ''is'' build-up to the fact that [[spoiler: Salzella]] is up to ''something'' that has to do with the accidents in the Opera House fairly early on (via internal monologue -- he compares milk going sour to the situation in the Opera House with the comment that Opera Houses unlike milk doesn't go sour on their own, and phrases it in such a way as to make it clear that ''he's'' the one making things go sour).

** And when asked why he didn't just leave the opera, as that would solve all his problems, he simply acts like that would be inconceivable, and doesn't get a chance to elaborate further.

** And the villain pretty much explains at the end that the murders were because the victims had found out his identity; the rat catcher was blackmailing him and the music director had seen him.