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** Also "A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on" (which in [[Real Life]] was coined by James Watt, and used by [[Mark Twain]] and [[Winston Churchill]] among others)

*** Dog Bites Man.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Interestingly, even though it's specifically said that [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Lord de Worde}} never gets his hands dirty with violence--he has men for that--he seems to be pretty good with a sword in the final confrontation. Of course, facing {{spoiler|a vampire}}, that doesn't help him very much...

* [[Bad Dreams]]: Tulip has them.

** The Committee to Unelect the Patrician appears to be the same group ultimately behind the plot in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]'', judging by their [[Smoky Gentlemens Club]] description.

* [[Death Equals Redemption]]: It helps if [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] gives you a little post-mortem therapy to help with the redemption.

* [[Empathic Environment]]: According to Otto, [[Uberwald|Uberwaldian]] weather is obliging enough to provide dramatic thunder after a portentous statement like "zer dark eyes of zer mind," so he's disappointed that Ankh-Morpork's environment doesn't care. It obliges at the climax, and once things are sorted, he invokes it joyfully.

* [[Fake High]]: Mr. Tulip [[Beat Bag|never seems to get his hands on real drugs]], but that doesn't stop him from claiming it keeps his mind sharp.

* [[Mental Picture Projector]]: With a side-helping of [[Spooky Photographs]]: Otto's dark light pictures have...strange...results, at various points showing two Vetinaris, silver rain underground, and William's father proverbially "staring over" his shoulder.

* [[Mister X and Mister Y]]: Tulip and Pin, as befits [[Those Two Bad Guys]] (as noted below)

** And the waste management businessman, a product of a life spent up to the elbows in, er, waste, is called Harry...

** Theres also Foue Ole Ron "Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp!"

* [[Rewind Replay Repeat]]: William with Mr Pin's Disorganizer.

* [[Running Gag]]: Mr. Wintler and his humorously shaped vegetables, Sacharissa's chest size, typos of "The Truth Shall Make You Free", Mr. Tulip's abuse of the phrase [[Unusual Euphemism|"----ing"]] and bad habit of getting stuck with [[Beat Bag|Beat Bags]].

* [[Secretly Wealthy]]: William, who's become estranged from his wealthy family.

* [[Shame If Something Happened]]: Vetinari at one point uses this phrase about William. Drumknott considers drafting a contract with the Guild of Assassins until he realizes Vetinari is using the phrase literally and isn't intending to cause any "something".

** Harry King's name may be a reference to E.G. Kingsford, who made his eponymous charcoal out of scrap wood from Henry Ford's factories.

* [[Sidetracked By the Analogy]]: Vetinari begins talking to high priest Hughnon Ridcully about what a wondrous thing the Clacks are for communication, using an example with a merchant being able to order a cargo of prawns from Genua via clacks. Ridcully, [[Literal Minded|thinking in a way common to the family]], spends the rest of the conversation trying to figure out how the prawns would travel from tower to tower and starts wondering if possibly the claws allow them to grab on to the towers as they're tossed.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Sacharissa's "It gives me the humorous vegetables" (Read: willies).

* [[Stereotype Reaction Gag]]: Otto Chriek is an [[Uberwald|Uberwaldian]] stereotype who gets offended when de Worde assumes he's a vampire. Even though he is.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Mr. Pin. Big time.

* [[Villainous BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Tulip, after Death shows him his life "as it flashed before other people's eyes".}}

{{quote| '''Otto''': You only have to talk to [[Vampire Vords|Villiam]] for any length of time to see that, in a vay, his father is alvays looking over his shoulder. }}

* [[We Need a Distraction]]: As De Worde notes, a vampire flailing in pain because of his own flashbulb is ''always'' the center of attention.

** Given that the main question he asked was whether Dibbler had any part in the operation, it's likely that he wasn't so much [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] as Multiple Genre Savvy: he knows that if Dibbler gets involved, everything goes to hell. If an industry starts up ''without'' Dibbler's participation, as with the clacks, it's probably okay, so his questions about curses could've been asked merely to determine ''which'' genre applied.

** Or possible [[Fridge Brilliance]], it's only after this he starts the Undertaking, since now he knows the Stasis is broken.

 

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