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* [[Canis Latinicus]]: An Ozymandias-like statue in the ruined Ankh-Morporkian outpost bears the inscription ''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'', which means [[I Can See My House From Here|"I can see your house from up here!"]]
** Also Prince Khufurah's diploma, which is a "Doctorum Adamus cum Flabello Dulci," or {{spoiler|"Doctorate of Sweet Fanny Adams," i.e. nothing}}
* [[Continuity Nod]] / [[Ironic Echo]]: the line "the night is always old" is one to [[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]], where {{smallcaps| Death}} says it in an attempt to be dramatic. Played very straight here.
* [[Cool Boat]]: Going-Under-the-Water-Safely Device.<ref>Leonard [[Giver of Lame Names|sucks at naming things]].</ref>
* [[Cowboy Cop]]: {{spoiler|71-Hour Ahmed.}}
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Carrot, who eventually acts as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Lawrence of Arabia]]; Also done humorously with Colon who is able to speak "Morporkian" and pass for a Klatchian, as Morporkian is a lingua fraca in Klatch, and he respondes to the question "where are you from?" with "Er." Ur, (as Vetinari points out, after a long story that made no mention of Colon's incompentence) is a region renowned for the stupidity of its inhabitants.
** Carrot's linguistic expertise is, however, instantly subverted if he's ever asked to ''[[Wanton Cruelty to Thethe Common Comma|write down]]'' anything.
* [[Dawn Attack]]: Jabbar claims that "Charging is what dawn is for."
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Vetinari is on particularly good form here, especially in the early stages.
* [[End of an Age]]: the fate of the Gnolls, who in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Equal Rites|Equal Rites]]'' were the Apache-like race who ''"practiced hospitality to travellers of the red-hot knife variety"'' and terrorised the remoter parts of the overland trade routes. Debased remnants of the race have surrendered to civilization, and have entered the city, like Reservation Indians, to occupy the lowest rung of the social ladder, as street-cleaners and rubbish pickers (in all fairness, they seem to [[Unishment|enjoy this new occupation]] [[Too Kinky to Torture|a little too much]]). By ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', the wild hills will have been ethnically cleansed of the last residual gnoll problem. Echoing the fate of American Indians?
* [[Either World Domination or Something About Bananas]]: Lord Rust brings his Lieutenant Hornett as a translator to the pre-battle meeting between the Klatchian and the Ankh-Morpork army officers. Sadly for Lord Rust, Lt. Hornett only knows how to '''read''' Klatchian, resulting in {{spoiler|Lt. Hornett being unable to translate ''"Do any of you gentlemen speak Klatchian?"''}} and then {{spoiler|partially translating ''"this clown’s in charge of an army?"'' as ''"Er... something about... to own, to control... er... "''}}.
* [[False-Flag Operation]]: Used in a rather complex way.
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* [[Foil]]: Ahmed is shown as similar to Vimes in being an honest cop, but unlike Vimes is decidedly ''not'' a [[Technical Pacifist]].
** They even think alike. {{spoiler|"Both of us suspected our own people first. The only difference is that I was right."}}
* [[For Halloween I Am Going Asas Myself]]: The Klatchians that Colon talks to immediately realise he's a spy, but believe he's so blatantly obviously a Morporkian spy that he must actually be from another country and trying to implicate Ankh-Morpork.
** Which, as it happens, {{spoiler|is [[Fridge Brilliance|very much like the real villain's scheme to deflect suspicion for the assassination attempt!]]}}
* [[Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt]]: Played about with the "clumsily set up to look like it's Klatchian-funded" assassination attempt. {{spoiler|Actually, in a double bluff, it actually ''is'' Klatchian-funded.}}
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{{quote| '''Carrot''': "If we succeed, no one will remember! And if we fail, no one will forget!"}}
* {{spoiler|[[Good All Along]]: As said in the summary above, 71-Hour Ahmed turns out to be an honest Klatchian police officer trying to prevent the war, like Vimes.}}
* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: In the dunes in Klatch, when the Klatchian soldiers cut off Reg's arm he hits them with it until they run away screaming. (He's a zombie, so it's not as bad as you think). Detritus also attacked people by hurling other people.
* [[Heroic Fire Rescue]]: Vimes. Parodied when he gets accused of trespassing (of the embassy on fire) and kidnap (of the woman he rescued).
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: After Vimes chews Colon out for calling Klatchians "ragheads", Colon complains to Nobby that it's not as if he cares what people call him...
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* [[Impostor Exposing Test]]: Angua sneaks aboard 71-Hour Ahmed's ship in wolf form by posing as a Klatchistan wolfhound. Ahmed quickly catches her, however, by having the dogs eat from silver plates.
* [[Informed Flaw]]: [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Klatch]] has been seen before in the Discworld books, but this is the first time it or its people have been seen in such detail. This might even be the first mention of a prominent Klatchian subculture in Ankh-Morpork. (The city has always been cosmopolitan, but details about Klatchians there weren't necessarily filled in.) Therefore, Colon's casual, petty racism or at least jingoism comes out of nowhere just in time for the [[Hypocritical Humor]] and [[Aesop]].
** On the other hand, his own utter inconsistency in this is instantly picked up on and mocked by Nobby as part of the joke. Also, Vimes previously noted in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' how the average Morporkian man in the street can suddenly become seized with anti-Klatchian [[Patriotic Fervour]] when the moment strikes.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Lord Rust means to belittle and insult Vimes when he refers to the Commander as a "thief-taker" and nothing more, but Vimes wears the appellation with pride because, well, he IS a thief-taker. It happens AGAIN with Rust when he contemptuously refers to Vimes as "''not a gentleman''", with all the venom he can muster. Vimes' response?
{{quote| '''Vimes''': I ''knew'' there was something about me I liked.}}
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* [[Language Equals Thought]]: The D'reg's particular Klatchian dialect. Most informatively, their word for freedom is the same as their word for fighting.
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: The D'regs. "At dawn we shall charge!"
* [[Look Onon My Works Ye Mighty and Despair]] Vimes expects an equally impressive quote on the ruined statue of General Tacticus. However, see [[Canis Latinicus]] above.
* [[The Magnificent]]: 71-Hour Ahmed.
* [[Majored in Western Hypocrisy]]: Ahmed was educated in Ankh-Morpork - specifically, the Assassin's Guild school. He claims that life among the D'regs is a picnic next to years at a boarding school "patronized by the sons of gentlemen".
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** A shout out to [[Sweeney Todd]] also occurs. "That business with the barber on Gleam Street--Sweeney Jones, his name was? Of course, he ''was'' killing people, but he hadn't meant to. He was just a very bad barber."
** [[Cthulhu Mythos|There are quite a lot of squid pictures in the sunken city of Leshp...]]
*** That one also counts as a [[Continuity Nod]], as it was hinted in the ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'' that Leshp's destruction had something to do with the [[Eldritch Abomination]] Things from the Dungeon Dimensions breaking through the Silver Screen in Holy Wood.
** A parody of the song that brought us the modern meaning of Jingoism. "We have no ships. We have no men. We have no money, too."
** And the whole assasination(-attempt, in this case) that's part of a huge conspiracy, with the apparent shooter being dead before being interrogated, and the conclusion of several people that there must have been 'a second bowman' [[Who Shot JFK?|also sounds familiar]].
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** Carrot's use of [http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/truce.asp football] to disarm two opposing armies is more than reminiscent of the [[wikipedia:Christmas truce|Christmas Truce of World War I]].
** Indeed, the Klatchian leader dismisses the opposition as "a contemptible little army", echoing Kaiser Wilhelm's dismissal of the tiny British army that stopped the massive German advance dead in autumn 1914. An even tinier and previously more contemptible "army" - the City Watch - succeeds in stopping the entire war...
** The statue of Tacticus with only its feet remaining is a reference to Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" (see [[Look Onon My Works Ye Mighty and Despair]]).
* [[Stealth Pun]] : Carrot gets important information about the [[Who Shot JFK?|assassination attempt]] from a lowly garbage collector who happens to be a kind of troll called a gnoll, who are more earth-like than stone-like and have plants growing all over them. {{spoiler|He is a "grassy knoll"...}}
** More subtly, the ''actual'' Second Bowman is named {{spoiler|Snowy Slopes. ''Not'' "grassy knoll", but then Ankh-Morpork is in a somewhat cooler climate than Dallas...}}
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* [[Ted Baxter]]: Lord Rust as a military commander.
* [[Title Drop]]: Doubling as a parody of the 19th-century song that led to the term "[[wikipedia:Jingoism|Jingoism]]". "We have no ships. We have no men. We have no money, too."
* [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone]]: After being repeatedly abused and ending up organizing a different universe than the one he was in, the Disorganizer was able to get a nice, easy job scheduling the life of a shark.
* [[Truth in Television]]: The main driver of the plot, an island rising from the bottom of the sea and being the source of diplomatic disputes? ''Really happened''. Ferdinandea, or Graham Island, was a volcanic island that rose from the ocean and was the cause of a four-way dispute regarding it's sovereignty, between England, France, Spain, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. {{spoiler|And yes, it did sink before the diplomatic issues could be resolved.}}
** And it's not the only time such a commotion developed around an [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cif-green/2010/mar/24/india-bangladesh-sea-levels island that likes to disappear].
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Lord Rust has Vimes hand his in, at which point the other present watchmen proceed to turn in theirs out of loyalty to Vimes. Except Detritus, whose [[All Trolls Are Different|badge is carved into his skin]].
** This scene plays differently if you've read ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''. After how pathologically reluctant to part with it he was there, handing it in quickly as a protest of what he's been asked to do speaks volumes.
*** It also didn't make a speck of difference. Vimes still went back to the Watch House, everyone still obeyed him and he still saw himself as Commander of the Watch. He didn't even hesitate a moment in continuing his duties.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Vimes, despite his suspicions he's being set up and his [[Genre Savvy]] efforts to avoid it.
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