Discworld/Unseen Academicals/YMMV


 * Fridge Brilliance: If the  seem over-designed for their racial purpose as a cannon fodder slave race, remember that their creator was most likely assisted by an Igor. Igors have a tendency of exceeding expectations, and when the mathter decided to create a race of superior soldiers, his Igor probably put more thought into what makes a good soldier than he did.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: An American distributor (apparently due to a complete lack of understanding of Morris dancing) once claimed Lords and Ladies was about a football team in its synopsis, to which Pratchett's response was that football was one subject he would never write a Discworld book about...
 * Maybe he meant American football.
 * Sorry, no. The quote specifically mentions Association Football.
 * Although some would argue that it isn't about football, football is just a device to help the story along.
 * Well, the thing about football, the most important thing about football, is that it's never just about football.
 * Older Than They Think: If the book was intended as a subversion of.
 * Considering, it's probably more Shown Their Work...Or Fridge Brilliance.
 * What an Idiot!: The Librarian
 * Justified - considering the Librarian's reputation and how everyone else regards him,
 * And also foreshadowed, much earlier, when it's mentioned that.
 * The Woobie: Nutt, most of the time.
 * A Woobie, for sure, but of the iron kind.