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1	[[AC: {{WMG}}s for ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals''. Warning: Potential unmarked spoilers.]]
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3	[[WMG: Lady Margolotta trained Nutt specifically to be a perfect Machiavellian dictator.]]
4	Both loved ''and'' feared. People (both individuals and as in "a people") love him for [[TheWoobie who he is]], and fear him for what he is (a superintelligent ''read-the-book-and-find-out''). He has potential to be an even better [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] than Vetinari, since people are less predictable than chess pieces and he uses that to his advantage.
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6	[[WMG: Glenda is a witch.]]
7	Possibly without realising it (kinda like Tiffany's grandmother). We don't know if she has any actual magic power, but witchcraft is mostly about having the right sort of personality and intelligence and she does have that. (Also, it makes the idea of her, [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Nutt]] and [[BadassPreacher Oats]] having adventures in {{Uberwald}} [[RuleOfCool just a little more awesome]].)
8	* Despite what some characters say, it turns out there are witches in Ankh-Morpork, though they keep a high profile - they dress up in so gaudy witch costumes that everybody assumes they're just going to a hen party, or something. And the idea of a gaudy witch named Glenda [[Film/WizardOfOz isn't THAT absurd an idea]].
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10	[[WMG: Pepe's problem...]]
11	...was not just being gay when he mentions that you have to be tough to grow up poor with his preferences. Given the general nature of the Discworld and the WordOfGod about [[InterspeciesRomance him and Madame Sharn]], he was the one thing that's [[FantasticRacism worse]]--a xenophile, with a specific thing for dwarfs.
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13	[[WMG: Nutt will become Vetinari's successor.]]
14	As the top of the page mentions, he's got the potential to be an even better Chessmaster. He managed to get the entirety of the football stadium to cheer for him. He can talk people better. He ''works''. And Vetinari likes him. He's the man the city needs.
15	** Nutt isn't a people person. He uses big words and brings up complicated concepts. And he's nice, and requires explanations for things everyone else in the city takes for granted. And [[Literature/GoingPostal he doesn't wear]] [[Literature/MakingMoney a gold suit]]. He'd be totally wrong for the city if he were in politics. He needs to find his own niche and do good for the city in his own way like a certain Captain does.
16	** And it's hinted at at the end of the novel that Ventari plans on making Gilda his personal cook and therefore keeping Nutt close, not to mention giving him something that Margoletta, his rival/love interest (which is really as clear as you can define their relationship) wants as an added bonus, and probably already has plans for him that he's waiting for the right time to activate, so the aforementioned niche is presumably in the works.
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18	[[WMG: Orc speculation]]
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20	Having [[spoiler: [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} football hooligans and orcs]]]] in the same book?
21	** Engineered as warriors, nearly impossible to kill, keep showing up after everyone thinks they're wiped off the planet, instinctive push to group action, near-instinctive grasp of mechanical skills he's only read about... There's just no way that's a coincidence.
22	** There actually exists [[TabletopGame/BloodBowl a tabletop football game set in the Warhammer universe]]. Granted, it uses ''American'' football...
23	** Speaking of [[spoiler:orcs]], it's easy to see a parallel between Nutt and [[Series/StargateSG1 another]] member of a race of formerly enslaved {{super soldier}}s who is [[WarriorPoet philosophical]], [[SpockSpeak well-spoken]], well-read, and has a little something inside of him that helps heal injuries.[[note]]Nutt calling it "Little Brother" is very evocative of O'Neill's nickname for Teal'c's symbiote: "Junior."[[/note]]
24	** In a similar vein to the above, though this may well be a coincidence, there's an [[spoiler:orc]] in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series who was also [[spoiler: deliberately taken away from his kind and given an extensive education, which left him eloquent and polite. Thrall, too, spent his early childhood in horrible living conditions and developed a strong bond with a human girl who showed him kindness. Then he went back to the orcs and led them towards a less destructive path.]]
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26	[[WMG: Agnes is with Mightily Oats in Uberwald]]
27	* Glenda is in many ways just like Agnes. There's speculation that she's a witch (see above, that wasn't this troper). She has an inner Glenda reminiscent of Perdita X Dream (though to be fair, it's also sorta like second thoughts are described in the Tiffany Aching books). She's also pleasantly plump, so to speak, and slightly self conscious about it (though she gets over that). Now Glenda is in love with [[spoiler: Nutt]] and he's stated to be going to take Mightily Oat's place in Uberwald. Agnes and Mightily had some romantic interest near the end of Literature/CarpeJugulum. So Glenda and [[spoiler: Nutt]] would be taking over for Agnes and Mightily. It would also explain why Agnes has disappeared off the face of the earth during the Tiffany Aching books.
28	** Oh great, so now we have Nitt and Nutt together? All that's missing is Nutter from Good Omens. I sense a Dumb & Dumber spoof coming up...
29	** Agnes has a very brief appearance in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'' at the Witch Trials. There's no evidence that she has a "steading" in Lancre or lives there all year round, though (and Tiffany leaves Lancre after her training is over -- it wouldn't be too hard to broomstick in for one day).
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31	[[WMG: Nutt will turn the orcs into a football team]]
32	After he goes out and civilizes the other orcs he'll bring them back to Ankh-Morpork and use their teamwork instincts to make them into an all-orc football team, because [[RuleOfCool that would be awesome]]
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34	[[WMG: This is the book where Vetinari won]]
35	Just what does Vetinari want? In this book we learn his second goal, in addition to making Ankh-Morpork work, "to prove the moral superior of the supreme being." Since the early days of when Discworld was becoming what it is now, Vetinari had been slowly but inexorably drawing together first the various human factions, then drawing in Dwarfs, then Trolle, Werewolves, Vampires, Nobby Nobbs, Gorgons, letting them all in, giving them ALL a chance. In this book he manipulates the Shove into conquering itself and gets Ankh-Morpork to think "hey them Orcs aren't so bad after all." Most telling of all, he has cultivated a city alone on the Disc where citizens will break into his palace to warn him. Granted, he's Vetinari so he already knew, but since his successor will not be him (this being the very point of a successor), he has given the next man or woman for the job the gift of a populace who ''gives a damn.''
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37	[[WMG: The "little brother" isn't the only special power Discworld's orcs were equipped with.]]
38	Nutt repeatedly demonstrates an ability to make himself look smaller, skinnier, and inherently harmless. While this wouldn't be much use for grunt shock-troops of the Unholy Empire, the ''opposite'' power -- either projecting an image that they're bigger, huskier, and more menacing, or actually ''growing'' to become that way -- would make orcs even more dreaded as opponents. Nutt has this ability, just like his ancestors, but due to his insecurities and desire to seem non-threatening, he unconsciously employs it ''in reverse''.
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40	[[WMG: Orcs never actually ate their own dead after a battle.]]
41	Opponents of orcs didn't know about the "little brother", which ensured that any fallen orc whose body wasn't mutilated beyond recognition would recover. After a battle, any "dead" orcs would revive and devour the non-orcish dead in mindless, instinctive HorrorHunger brought on by their HealingFactor, then collapse unconscious with swollen bellies. Spies from the enemy would scout out the battlefield to assess the situation, see a bunch of sleeping fat orcs and an absence of dead ones, and leap to all the wrong conclusions.
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43	[[WMG: The Dean didn't leave the [=UU=] for money.]]
44	He's originally from Pseudopolis, so he was probably homesick. The prestige of his new title [[spoiler: as Archchancellor of Brazeneck University]] was an added bonus.
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46	[[WMG: The dwarf who made the "new ball" is going to go broke.]]
47	Because after the entire city got to witness [[spoiler: Trev's spectacular winning play performed with a ''tin can'']], everyone will want to emulate that play in future games. So sales of the "new ball" will plummet and [[spoiler: rival sports-equipment makers will start producing fancy high-quality tin cans instead]].
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