These are works that have made a Shout-Out to Discworld in some form or other.
- In The Books of Magic, Deadman's description of The Great Offscreen War includes "a thousand elephants".
- Doctor Who Magazine: In "Fire and Brimstone", Izzy, reading the Discworld novels, asks the Doctor if it's possible for them to visit the Discworld. He says he's been, and it was flat.
- What's New? with Phil and Dixie: One strip has a sign on a wall saying "Visit beautiful Ankh-Morpork!"
Fan Works
- With Pearl and Ruby Glowing:
- Todd uses the codename "Herne the Hunted" during meetings at the Palace's rape support group.
- In Pieces of the Past, Yang Mie tricks the Ark traffickers into thinking that two thousand, three hundred and nine military officers are coming by claiming they definitely are not coming as a reference to Interesting Times.
- Susan Sto Helit is a character in the Harry Potter fic Reboot
, based on Reptilia28's "Don't Fear the Reaper" challenge. She meets with Harry after his latest premature death hoping that she can guide him to get it right this time. - Seven Favours For Harry Potter introduces "noble dragons" who feed off magic. Same fic also has Hagrid suggesting "Nobby" as a potential name for a noble dragon, but he's shot down.
- Barlowes Guide To Fantasy, by Wayne Barlowe, includes an entry on Mort.
- The Doctor Who Expanded Universe:
- The Also People has a merchant named C!Mot, a suspicious yellow dip at parties, a drink called a Double Entendre, the Doctor seeing into the time vortex because he has octagons in his eyes as well as rods and cones and the phrase "a better class of recurring dream".
- The Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel The Sorcerer's Apprentice has a sensible, no-nonsense witch called Anni Glassfeather, who is not a million miles removed, in name and personality, from Granny Weatherwax.
- The Dresden Files:
- In the first chapter of Ghost Story Harry references one of the running gags from Terry Pratchett's Discworld:Harry: "For crying out loud, didn't I just say that death wasn't scary anymore? Tell that to my glands."
- In Cold Days, Harry Dresden quotes Jingo:"Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it."
- In the first chapter of Ghost Story Harry references one of the running gags from Terry Pratchett's Discworld:
- In Only Human, by Tom Holt, a man who in life used to meet authors and tell them how much he liked their early work, and it was a shame they weren't writing like that any more, is sent to Hell where his punishment is to have to keep reading the early work for eternity. "I've just got to the bit where the tourist meets the wizard."
- Ready Player One: Wade Watts mentions that Discworld is one of the fictional worlds that could be visited in the virtual reality OASIS.
- Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, in addition to co-writing The Science of Discworld, have been known to slip Discworld references in their other work. It's for this reason, for example, that the Zarathustrians in The Collapse of Chaos and Figments of Reality are obsessed with the number eight.
- In Halting State, Jack enters a Discworld™ Augmented Reality game that transforms Edinburgh into Ankh-Morpork™.
- In the Dream Park novel The California Voodoo Game Arlan Meyers is described as "a Terry Pratchett wizard" (UK edition only), and there's a Noodle Incident reference to "the Diskworld Game".
- The computer programming textbook Object-Oriented Languages, Systems and Applications has an analogy involving an additional colour called Octaroon, with The Colour of Magic included in the references.
- The Rivers of London series:
- In Moon Over Soho, Dr Walid says the collective noun for wizards is an argument (adding that Peter and Nightingale need to "read more widely" when they miss the reference).
- In Whispers Underground when Peter asks DS Stephanopolos how much she actually wants to know, he says her options range from meaningless euphemisms to full-on Unseen University.
- In Foxglove Summer, Peter refers to Herne the Hunted and the phrase "Pull up a chair and call the cat a bastard".
- In The Hanging Tree, Peter prays to "Sir Samuel, the patron saint of policemen" (in a chapter called "The 100 Metre Nonchalant Stroll", which is a riff on a line in Pyramids), and the Quiet People schoolroom has a mural of an orangutan at a lectern in the style of Paul Kidby.
- In Lies Sleeping, Peter visits a pub and his narration says it couldn't be more obviously a hangout for supernatural beings if it was called Biers. Later he describes himself giving a speech and says he talked about life, peace and liberty and just managed to stop himself adding "and a hard-boiled egg".
- In False Value, when Peter's talking to an apparent AI that is actually a literal ghost in the machine, he tries to catch it off-balance by randomly telling it he has a new spoon, referencing the Bursar talking to Hex in Hogfather
- In Roz Kaveney's Rhapsody of Blood series, Morgan's suitcases are sentient and walking, and she presents the heroine Emma with a similar handbag.
- In Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton, a kindergarten teacher in a space opera setting creates a space opera fantasy world for her charges, and her superior asks what's wrong with "the classics, like Pratchett and Tolkien".
- Anansi Boys refers to "a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other". This theory is from Moving Pictures.
- In Rainbows End, royalties from a Discworld Augmented Reality game have allowed Terry Pratchett to buy a chunk of Scotland. The AR version of San Diego University Library has Books That Bite as an in-universe reference to Unseen University.
- In How To by Randall Munroe, the chapter on "How to Make Friends" quotes Granny Weatherwax in Carpe Jugulum saying "Sin is when you treat people like things" to make the point that even if there was a magic formula that made people like you, anyone who'd use it isn't actually a friend. A shared interest in Sir Terry's works, however, is at least a place to start.
- In Endeavour, DI Thursday says his mentor was "Sergeant Vimes of Cable Street".
- Good Omens (2019) is based on the book written by Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, so there are several deliberate tributes to Pterry's other work:
- According to Series 2, Mr. C.M.O.T. Dibbler, the infamous street vendor from numerous Discworld novels, sold laudanum in Scotland in the 19th Century.
- Mrs. Sandwich referring to herself as a "seamstress" is also a reference to Discworld.
Software
- The open source sound file format Ogg Vorbis is named after Vorbis from Small Gods — the "Ogg" part, however, does not come from Nanny Ogg but is a reference to a player jargon word from the game Netrek.
- This update to VLC Media Player is called "Vetinari".
Tabletop Games
- Troika: The flavour text for the Sorcerer of the Academy of Friends background lists the colour of magic as something students at the Academy of Friends learn about. The Journeyman of the Guild of Sharp Corners background is also clearly inspired by the Guild of Assassins.
- While the Tourist class in Nethack pre-dates the existence of Twoflower, later versions of the game have rolled with it, including the Lady, Blind Io, and Offler as the Tourist's patron gods, and cameos by the Luggage and Twoflower himself.
- Angband has an innkeeper called Rincewind the Chicken.
- A book titled "Applied headology" can be found in Bioshock 2.
- The Darkside Detective:
- One of the items in the precinct house's evidence room is a red pointy hat with gold stars on it, which McQueen says is from the "walking luggage that ate everything" case.
- In A Fumble in the Dark, a poster bears the likeness of Rincewind (specifically the version from the Discworld point-and-click adventure game).
- The Flash game Escape the Game is about a game critic who hates Point-and-Click Adventure Games but finds himself trapped in one. Amongst the Captain Ersatzes of classic game characters he meets is the Psygnosis version of Rincewind.
- In For the King, one random encounter involves stumbling over the body of a less successful earlier adventurer whose final journal entry describes a run-in with a strange old man who worshiped a turtle god called Atuin.
- Conker's Bad Fur Day: Gregg The Grim Reaper seems to be a parody of Death as he appears in Discworld. Whereas Terry Pratchett's grim reaper is a tall, imposing figure with a deep, booming voice and a fondness for cats, Gregg is a squeaky-voiced little shrimp who really hates felines (but hates The Undead even more).
- Arthur, King of Time and Space one shared a fanmade strip featuring a one-shot AU setting based on Discworld, with Arthur playing the role of Carrot and Guinevere as Angua.
- In Darths & Droids has the episode titles "Cuttin' Me Own Throat" and Divors Alarums. The Rant to a later strip says one way to make money from War and Death is running a sausage-inna-bun cart.
- In Girl Genius, the clanks defending the circus include mechanical treasure chests with lots of legs, ravenous lids with pointy teeth, and the words "The Amazing Pratchett" written on the side.
- Irregular Webcomic! has a bureaucracy of Grim Reapers, who all talk in BLOCK CAPITALS, but only when they're on duty. (DMM always insisted - in a Suspiciously Specific Denial sort of way - that he'd never even read Discworld, until this strip.)
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- The description of geography in Feet of Clay gets quoted in the "Every Major's Terrible" song.
- The guide to identifying how old a map is says that if it's on the back of a turtle, it's probably the Discworld.
- One of the proposed exoplanet names is "Spherical Discworld".
- In "Collections", Cueball has a complete Discworld collection on his Kindle.
- The description of geography in Feet of Clay gets quoted in the "Every Major's Terrible
- Two Alt Text references to Discworld in Housepets!: Keene is compared to the Patrician here and when Spo (a mouse) is playing the Ghost of Christmas Future, the al-text calls it a "Death of Rats costume".
- In one Peter Is the Wolf strip, captions pointing to Sarah read "Och! 'Tis the pursin' o' the lips!" and "Aye, an she ken the foldin' o' the arms!", referencing the Nac Mac Feegles' terror of having to explain things to an annoyed kelda or witch in Wintersmith.
- Questionable Content: Hannelore mumbles part of Foul Ole Ron's catchphrase on page 1313.
- Unsounded: When voyaging in the Khertnote and looking for a way out, Sette indignantly and emphatically states I aint dead!
- The What If? entry "Jupiter Submarine" quotes the bit about shipwrecks sailing on compressed water from Going Postal, pointing out that - on Roundworld - this is entirely not how things work.
- The Optical Telegraph in Look to the West owes as much to Discworld's clacks as to the real system that inspired both. During the French Revolution the Marquis de Ségur says "What the shopkeeper or the farmer or the peasant wants more than anything is not liberty or rights or even riches, but simply the knowledge that tomorrow will be much like today", with a footnote pointing out that he's paraphrasing Lord Vetinari.
