Monstrous Regiment/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

Wazzer is Discworld's version of Joan of Arc.
Shufti's reunion with her fiance... Johnny, she hardly knew ye. To explain: "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" is a classic folk song about a soldier, once a womanizer, who returns home unrecognizable because of his many horrible injuries. But here, Shufti refuses to recognize him because she's moved on.
The first time Polly lies to Maladict about herself, it's mentioned she feels her heart speeding up "as it always did when the lies came." In Thud!!, we learn that vampires can hear hearts beating and use that to judge how people are feeling. No wonder Maladict was onto her right away.
Jackrum's reason for getting stuck on recruiting party despite his in-universe Memetic Badass status: he got his leg sliced open, then bit the doctor who tried to treat him, and tended to the injury personally, allowing Froc to slap him with recruiting duty as a "reward" while he was laid up. While it's easy to pass off as a throwaway gag to enhance Jackrum's Badass status, it becomes foreshadowing when you realize that to treat his leg, the (presumably male) doctor would have either had to take Jackrum's pants off, or at least get close enough to notice that there were one or two things either missing or sock-enhanced. No wonder Jackrum bit him and did the work himself!
- There's also a throwaway reference to a soldier talking about the time his dad got in a bar fight with Jackrum, and Jackrum apparently shrugged off getting kicked in the nadgers, which means he's either got Balls of Steel, or as it turns out, Jackrum doesn't have that sort of equipment.

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