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Guards! Guards!

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Guards! Guards!	comment	The eighth Discworld book and the first to feature the City Watch, one of the most popular of the major character groups/themes in Pratchett's creation, plus the first appearance of C.M.O.T. Dibbler, though as a one-note gag character. It is also notable in that it is the first of the Discworld books in which Patrician Vetinari is the Magnificent Bastard we all know and love, though he is notably more easily frustrated than the stoic of later books. Up until this point Terry Pratchett was still working out the character, and aspects of the final product appeared in other books, but Guards! Guards! is the first book in which the character is recognisable as he exists now.Once upon a time, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch was a proud lawkeeping organisation, but nowadays the Machiavellian Patrician, Lord Vetinari, keeps the peace by the simpler notion of instituting the Guild of Thieves and asking them to police crime themselves. The Night Watch has dwindled away, and now there are only three watchmen left - Captain Sam Vimes, Sergeant Fred Colon and Corporal "Nobby" Nobbs. The fourth, Herbert Gaskin, died a week before the book takes place when, while routinely half-heartedly chasing some crook, he accidentally got ahead of the group and killed by the crook's buddies hiding behind a corner.They are joined by the newest recruit, Lance-Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson, who was raised by dwarfs in the mountains. A huge, powerful and highly moral and innocent young man, he immediately tries to arrest the head of the Thieves' Guild and clean up the Mended Drum pub - and succeeds. Not only is he tough, he also has a strange... charisma.At the same time, The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night is planning to summon a noble dragon using a book stolen from Unseen University's Library and use it in a ploy to place a puppet ruler on the throne as king. Almost unwittingly, Vimes and his crew are on the case, with the help of upper-class swamp dragon breeder Sybil Ramkin. But can these unlikely heroes save the city when the dragon decides to take the throne for itself?Guards! Guards! has been adapted into a play and a graphic novel, and is often cited as the best Discworld novel for new readers to start the series. Notably, Pratchett said that Carrot was originally going to be the viewpoint character, but the structure of the book didn't allow it so he made up Vimes - who is now one of the most popular and complex characters in the whole of Discworld.Preceded by Pyramids, followed by Eric. The next book in the Watch series is Men at Arms.Very loosely adapted into the Point and Click Adventure Game Discworld. Aspects of the plot were adapted into The Watch (2021).
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Guards! Guards! / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: Nobbs' nightly patrol has him check the doors of every house on his route, and definitely to make sure they're locked, alright. Definitely that. Carrot assumes that if they're not locked, they'll have to inform the building's owners or occupants, which isn't exactly what Nobby had in mind.
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Guards! Guards! / int_11b937fe	type	Never-Forgotten Skill
Guards! Guards! / int_11b937fe	comment	Never-Forgotten Skill: Sgt. Colon claims shooting a longbow is like "riding something you never forget being able to ride," while having terrible problems even drawing his bow, let alone aiming. In reality archery is most definitely NOT a case of this, it requires constant practice to keep your hand in. (The main reason crossbows became so much more popular.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_12641dc0	type	Impossible Insurance
Guards! Guards! / int_12641dc0	comment	Impossible Insurance: Dibbler promises that his "dragon protection" cream will save you from being burned to death by dragon flame, and if it doesn't work then you get your money back (upon personal application only).
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Guards! Guards! / int_12fa5aa2	type	Secret Handshake
Guards! Guards! / int_12fa5aa2	comment	Secret Handshake: The Supreme Grand Master notes to himself that the members of the Brethren are "the sort to dislocate their fingers with even the simplest secret handshake".
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Guards! Guards! / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Guards! Guards! / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: At least one edition of the book reveals on its front cover artwork and the back cover summary that the dragon is crowned king, an event that doesn't take place until the last third of the book.
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Guards! Guards! / int_14780a0b	type	I Don't Pay You to Think
Guards! Guards! / int_14780a0b	comment	I Don't Pay You to Think:
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Guards! Guards! / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Guards! Guards! / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: The Patrician explains his worldview to Vimes in this way:
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Guards! Guards! / int_165308f6	type	The Commandments
Guards! Guards! / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: The three rules of the Librarians of Space and Time are:Silence.Books must be returned no later than the last date shown.Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
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Guards! Guards! / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Guards! Guards! / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Both the Watch and the Palace Guards demonstrate some (the former discussing the exact mechanics of a Million to One Chance, the latter discussing the Conservation of Ninjutsu) as required by Rule of Funny, though said Rule also means they're Wrong Genre Savvy more often than not.
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Guards! Guards! / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Guards! Guards! / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The swamp dragons are realistic dragons (with the inconsistencies explained by magic), with a lot of effort spent on what would actually be required to create a creature that had anything in common with mythological dragons. They can fly, but only because they're about the size of a dog, they breathe fire because most of their body and brain is dedicated to a digestive system that looks more like a chemical processing plant, and they spend nearly all of their time sick and about to explode because of those same chemicals being constantly unbalanced. Duels over territory generally involve two dragons circling each other and breathing fire until one explodes, at which point the winner generally explodes out of excitement anyway. The only reason they've managed to survive is because some nobles enjoy breeding them, and they're still nearly extinct.
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Guards! Guards! / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Guards! Guards! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Big Bad yells "Guards! Guards!" twice, once to summon the guards to arrest Vimes (see Conservation of Ninjutsu), and another to get rid of Vetinari.
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Guards! Guards! / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
Guards! Guards! / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Vimes gets very upset over the idea of someone setting fire to his city.
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Guards! Guards! / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Guards! Guards! / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Errol manages to knock Her Majesty out of the air and through a few houses, before they go off to live happily-ever-after together.
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Guards! Guards! / int_1d3d3c32	type	Welcome to the Big City
Guards! Guards! / int_1d3d3c32	comment	Welcome to the Big City: Carrot's arrival in Ankh has elements of this; he doesn't get robbed himself, but he doesn't cope well with the idea that theft is legal (and that the Watch are probably closer to criminals than the Guild of Thieves is). Although he's so naive he doesn't notice the prostitution, even when he's staying at Mrs Palm's.
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Guards! Guards! / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Guards! Guards! / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: Carrot obeys the letter of the law to the nth degree even when it's obviously a bad idea, although the fact that he can knock out trolls means there's not much the hardened criminals can do about it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Guards! Guards! / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Several, including the example under Just Like Making Love and Vimes' lamentation on the cruelties of Nature: "No wonder they call her a mother..."
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Guards! Guards! / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Guards! Guards! / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: On the subject of why it is that dwarfs who for the last seventy years have been well-behaved, quiet sorts become screaming berserkers the minute they enter Ankh-Morpork, is because they've been well-behaved and quiet for seventy years, and have become filled with the serious desire to have a stiff drink, then punch someone.
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Guards! Guards! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Guards! Guards! / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Vetinari of all people, who has not yet come around to the usefulness of Vimes and spends most of their early interactions carefully stomping out the watch's investigations.
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Guards! Guards! / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Guards! Guards! / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The footnote about the nature of libraries initially seems like a one-off gag, but the Librarian later quotes the equation to himself and uses it to travel back through time to learn who stole his book.
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Guards! Guards! / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Guards! Guards! / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When Vimes tries to get through the Palace Guard, a Guardsman called Clarence calls him "Captain Slimes" and then, after Vimes evenly corrects him to "Vimes with a Vee" then repeatedly refers to him as "Captain Vimes with a Vee" in a supercilious fashion. When Vimes later interrogates Clarence from a position of power, he calls him "Clarence with a C".
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Guards! Guards! / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
Guards! Guards! / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: Lady Ramkin takes Vimes's hand when they're both about to be flamed by the dragon.
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Guards! Guards! / int_27b94f39	type	Serendipitous Survival
Guards! Guards! / int_27b94f39	comment	Serendipitous Survival: When the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night is destroyed, two of the brethren survive by not being there; one was running late, and the other had been sent out to get pizzas.
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Guards! Guards! / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
Guards! Guards! / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: The dragon literally is this: at the beginning of the story, Wonse controls it. Then it gets control of him.
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Guards! Guards! / int_2b75f9b3	type	Token Good Cop
Guards! Guards! / int_2b75f9b3	comment	Token Good Cop: At the start of the book, the three remaining men of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch are Nobby Nobbs, a debatably human kleptomaniac, Fred Colon, a Fat Idiot who goes out of his way to avoid trouble and spends as much time as possible doing absolutely nothing, and Sam Vimes, who's actually a really good cop, but at this point is a booze-soaked derelict who crossed the Despair Event Horizon long ago. The addition of Carrot Ironfoundersson, who is too bull-headed to bribe or cajole and too strong to fight, shocks them out of their complacency and leads to them becoming the heroes of the book, especially Vimes, who would begin his journey to becoming The Paragon for police officers across the Disc.
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Guards! Guards! / int_2c17d6b6	type	Medical Monarch
Guards! Guards! / int_2c17d6b6	comment	Medical Monarch: Parodied. When a group of royalists start claiming the King will right all wrongs, Vimes demands to know what wrongs the people of Ankh-Morpork are suffering. Someone comes up with "premature baldness", and another instantly replies "Ah, kings can cure that, you know."
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Guards! Guards! / int_2c609870	type	Mountaintop Healthcare
Guards! Guards! / int_2c609870	comment	Mountaintop Healthcare: Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler sells health tonics that he claims came from an ancient monastery "on a mountain somewhere". The epilogue reveals that this is actually true, although the monks are a bit confused as to what Dibbler does with the stuff.
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Guards! Guards! / int_2d043142	type	Entendre Failure
Guards! Guards! / int_2d043142	comment	Entendre Failure: Carrot admits he "got a girl back home in trouble" (because she was a dwarf and he was a human), and that he stays at Mrs. Palm's brothel (which he thinks is a boarding house) every night. Everyone interprets his comments... differently than he meant them.
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Guards! Guards! / int_303b78d8	type	Animal Espionage
Guards! Guards! / int_303b78d8	comment	Animal Espionage: When imprisoned, Vetinari somehow manages to make an arrangement with the rats after being imprisoned. In return for him helping them, they bring him news as to whatâ€™s happening, both in terms of papers and gossip. It's implied that they have had their intelligence boosted by magical radiation from the Unseen University, which is how they are so useful. (Pratchett would revisit this idea many years later with The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Guards! Guards! / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Vimes suggests Vetinari's elderly aunt's hand in marriage might be offered to the hero who slays the dragon. In the next scene, Vetinari makes the same suggestion to Wonse, who points out that "tradition demands a daughter".
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Guards! Guards! / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Guards! Guards! / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: As noted above under Million To One Chance, the dragon retaliates against the Watch's arrow attack by flaming the distillery on whose roof they are perched. The dragon gets caught in the resulting explosion but isn't even injured.
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Guards! Guards! / int_31f9cec9	type	Critical Staffing Shortage
Guards! Guards! / int_31f9cec9	comment	Critical Staffing Shortage: The night watch, made virtually redundant by the legalizing of crime, is reduced to four men (two incompetents and an idealist, commanded by an alcoholic) to police a city of a million by the time this book is set.
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Guards! Guards! / int_32e7cb8d	type	Waking Up Elsewhere
Guards! Guards! / int_32e7cb8d	comment	Waking Up Elsewhere: Vimes falls unconscious after jumping off the roof of the Watch House to escape a dragon attack. When he wakes up, he takes the bed and presence of a ceiling as possible evidence that he's not dead. The presence of Nobby Nobbs is less conclusive. When he asks the obligatory question ("Have I already said 'Where am I'? Did I get an answer?") Nobby leeringly informs him he's in Lady Ramkin's boudoir.
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Guards! Guards! / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Guards! Guards! / int_35ae6a23	comment	A list of strange and terrible things Errol has eaten includes things like fireplace pokers and cobblestones, but what astonishes everyone is that he ate three of C.M.O.T. Dibbler's sausages.
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Guards! Guards! / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Guards! Guards! / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Apparently a trait of the Ramkin family, thanks to generations of aristocratic breeding.
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Guards! Guards! / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Guards! Guards! / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Why Carrot's sword is implied to be the genuine article. It was made when kings earned their crown the hard way — by being better at fighting and killing than any of their contenders.
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Guards! Guards! / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Guards! Guards! / int_3b113b7	comment	Vetinari is unusually petulant and emotive, although it's probably just a matter of Character Development:
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Guards! Guards! / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Guards! Guards! / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Apparently all three of the remaining Night Watch officers had, as some point before Carrot came along, ran afoul of Detritus and his fists. Nobby's Groin Attack is an attempt at repaying the troll for his encounter. One particularly old resident of Ankh-Morpork recites some bizarre incidents with previous Patricians, and how they stack up to a perpetually incensed dragon, such as Psychoneurotic Lord Snapcase, or Giggling Lord Smensh and his "Laugh-a-Minute Dungeon".
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Guards! Guards! / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
Guards! Guards! / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Vimes was originally going to be Carrot's Ishmael, but ended up taking a much bigger role. In the long run, this is perhaps the only book where we get any time from Carrot's perspective. Once he outgrows his Fish out of Water status, half the point of his character is how no-one knows if his Dork Knight tendencies are sincere or an mixture of manipulation towards everyone around him and some kind of elaborate joke.
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Guards! Guards! / int_402a598d	type	Standard Police Motto
Guards! Guards! / int_402a598d	comment	Standard Police Motto: The motto on the watch house reads "FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC". Vimes translates it as "To Protect and To Serve," but it's actually dog-Latin for "Make my day, punk."
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Guards! Guards! / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Guards! Guards! / int_40cbee83	comment	The four guards, some of whom are already drunk, when they realise they've only gone and walked into The Shades. It's actually powerful enough to make them sober again.
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Guards! Guards! / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Guards! Guards! / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: On the Harper-Torch edition, the cover art depicts the dragon wearing a crown, which is a surprise plot development occurring late in the book.
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Guards! Guards! / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
Guards! Guards! / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: Only his three squad-mates attend to "Leggy" Gaskin's funeral.
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Guards! Guards! / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Guards! Guards! / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Colon repeatedly mixes up the phrase "You're history" with other educational fields. Nobby, talking smack to the Palace Guards, comes up with things like "doggybag", "doucheballs", and "slimebreaths"... and "motherbreath".
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Guards! Guards! / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Guards! Guards! / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: The Dragon saves the Night Watch from certain death in the Shades by wiping out their prospective murderers.
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Guards! Guards! / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Guards! Guards! / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Immediately after insisting that the city is like a woman, a drunken Vimes digresses: "Roaring, ancient, centuries old," - before describing how it strings you along only to kick you in the teeth and so on.
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Guards! Guards! / int_453b3c67	type	Imperfect Ritual
Guards! Guards! / int_453b3c67	comment	Imperfect Ritual: The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night are trying to summon a dragon, and the cult leader orders the brethren to find magical objects to sacrifice. They come up with really low grade magical junk, like a still-fizzing letter from a bar and an amulet the Snake Oil Salesman swore was magical. It doesn't seem to cause any problems except that they can only summon the dragon for a few seconds at a time before the magic runs out.
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Guards! Guards! / int_45db8ec6	type	Cry Laughing
Guards! Guards! / int_45db8ec6	comment	Cry Laughing/Laugh Themselves Sick: When Colon timidly asks if the Watch can get a small raise, a kettle, and a dartboard as their reward for saving the city, Vimes laughs until he cries. It's not just the pathetic request, it's everyone's reactions, and the general absurdity of the whole world...
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Guards! Guards! / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
Guards! Guards! / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: The outraged head of the Thieves' Guild, when complaining to the Patrician, angrily points a finger at him. Then he realises what he's just done, and hurriedly retracts it before he's down a finger.
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Guards! Guards! / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Guards! Guards! / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The old dragons were thought to be long gone, until someone summoned them.
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Guards! Guards! / int_486268b8	type	Trail of Bread Crumbs
Guards! Guards! / int_486268b8	comment	Trail Of Breadcrumbs: The Librarian does this when navigating through L-Space with a big ball of string. He ties one end to his desk in the middle of the Library... and when he reaches his destination, the same place but two weeks ago, he ties the other end to his two-weeks-younger desk with his two-weeks-younger self sleeping behind it. Try not to think about this too much.
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Guards! Guards! / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Guards! Guards! / int_49a2599d	comment	Platonic Prostitution: Carrot lives in a brothel after coming to Ankh-Morpork. Literally, as in he rents a spare room from one and is completely clueless about the ladies' profession.
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Guards! Guards! / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Guards! Guards! / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Vimes, who is here presented as preferring a cleaver to a sword as a weapon.
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Guards! Guards! / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Guards! Guards! / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: When the dragon examines the memories of one of its new servants, it's appalled. Vimes also gets this when he overhears a crowd of citizens rationalising away the idea of feeding their own people to the dragon, as Vetinari discusses with him later: Also, this quote:
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Guards! Guards! / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Guards! Guards! / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Vimes has a tiny mental breakdown after Errol and the Dragon have their first fight. "As Vimes was hauled away he heard Wonse breaking into insane laughter. They always did, your gloaters."
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Guards! Guards! / int_4b1b14f0	type	Derailed for Details
Guards! Guards! / int_4b1b14f0	comment	Derailed for Details: Includes several such conversations, including one about what the female equivalent of a "head honcho" would be, and one about, if Vetinari were to give the heroes the Standard Hero Reward, exactly what he would be offering them half of, since Ankh-Morpork is technically not a kingdom. Vimes lampshades the Ankh-Morporkian tendency to do this by thinking, "If the Creator had started in Ankh-Morpork, he wouldn't have got further than 'Let there be light' before someone would say 'What color?'"
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Guards! Guards! / int_4e61fee5	type	Just Like Making Love
Guards! Guards! / int_4e61fee5	comment	Vimes' various attempts to convey that the city is like a woman and their decidedly mixed success.
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Guards! Guards! / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Guards! Guards! / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: All (Morporkian) writing is in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe, and years are numbered rather than given animal names as in later books. Still, later books have gone back to the numbers; the Century of the Fruitbat is the 20th Century. Dwarf genders. While this book is the first one to set up the idea (in a footnote), that gender is "more or less optional" among dwarves, its treatment is nonetheless different than in later books, with Carrot using female pronouns for both his girlfriend Minty and his mother, as well as for mums in general. However, later books make it very clear that, in Dwarven society, male is the default gender, and anyone publicly identifying or presenting as a woman is considered taboo. It could be explained that perhaps Carrot's mine is more liberal, but in "Feet of Clay", Carrot himself displays confusion over the concept of a female dwarf.
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Guards! Guards! / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Guards! Guards! / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The Supreme Grand Master, a.k.a. Lupine Wonse, who vastly overestimates his own power in summoning and controlling the dragon, not to mention the fact that he thought he could do a better job running the city than Vetinari.
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Guards! Guards! / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Guards! Guards! / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The sections from Captain Vimes' point of view, while heâ€™s drunk, are as incoherent as one would expect from a drunk person.
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Guards! Guards! / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Guards! Guards! / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Carrot is six and a half feet tall and almost as wide. He not only manages to take out the entire clientele of the Mended Drum at once, but beats Detritus at the same time. For those who don't know, Detritus is a troll, and therefore made of solid rock.
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Guards! Guards! / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Guards! Guards! / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Vimes drinks constantly to offset his misery. Colon explains that most men's bodies produce a bit of alcohol naturally, but Vimes was born "two drinks low," so when he's sober, he's really sober. The resulting clarity of thought makes him cynical and depressed, so he self-medicates, but as Colon says, he usually gets the dosage wrong.
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Guards! Guards! / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Guards! Guards! / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: When we're first introduced to Vimes, he's drunkenly comparing the city to a woman. At the end of the book as his romance with Lady Sybil blossoms, he compares the woman to a city.
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Guards! Guards! / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Guards! Guards! / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The spellbook. And Vimes writes his notes like this — he doesn't speak that way. The joke is that people in Ancient Days used to speak like us, but write in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe. (This was subsequently dropped in future books.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Guards! Guards! / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: The Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night try to set up one. Unfortunately for them, the dragon has other plans.
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Guards! Guards! / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
Guards! Guards! / int_5b12f598	comment	Million to One Chance: A hilarious attempt at invocation, where the Watch try to make the odds of shooting a Dragon in its "voonerables" exactly a million to one through various means such as blindfolding the archer, putting soot in his face and making him stand facing the wrong way on one leg while singing the Hedgehog Song — but end up with some other, non-specified, incredibly low odds instead, which isn't improbable enough and thus predictably fails. Then played straight (and lampshaded by the narration) immediately after when the annoyed dragon retaliates: Their chances of surviving that turns out to be exactly a million to one. Later on, Vimes (not having been privy to the above) says that the chances of Errol beating the King are a million to one and is baffled at the strange, contemplative reaction this causes in the rank.
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Guards! Guards! / int_5ba5a470	type	Here There Were Dragons
Guards! Guards! / int_5ba5a470	comment	Here There Were Dragons: Although the Discworld is still a magical place, the contrast is drawn between its sad little realistic swamp dragons and the noble dragon which laughs in the face of physics thanks to its magical nature.
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Guards! Guards! / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Guards! Guards! / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Lupine Wonse, a.k.a the Supreme Grand Master dies by being semi-accidentally knocked from a great height.
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Guards! Guards! / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
Guards! Guards! / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Although this becomes famously inverted as the watch series goes on, Vimes starts as a classic case of a talented man who his colleagues love but the bosses hate, complete with Drowning My Sorrows.
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Guards! Guards! / int_62dbde56	type	The Trouble with Tickets
Guards! Guards! / int_62dbde56	comment	The Trouble with Tickets: Inverted; Carrot nearly gets in trouble by giving a parking citation, as it's Vetinari who's parked improperly; Vimes and Colon realize that nothing good can come of confronting the city ruler over an out-of-place wheel, so distract Carrot out of it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_65c49e05	type	The Villain Knows Where You Live
Guards! Guards! / int_65c49e05	comment	The Villain Knows Where You Live: It's mentioned that before the main events of the book, Lord Vetinari got the leaders of the Guild of Thieves to agree to his plan by quietly mentioning that he knew where their loved ones lived.
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Guards! Guards! / int_67542e29	type	This Is Your Brain on Evil
Guards! Guards! / int_67542e29	comment	This Is Your Brain on Evil: It's so freaky you're asking the head of the Guild of Assassins for help. (And it's terrifying for the assassin: "Help. Me.")
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Guards! Guards! / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Guards! Guards! / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: The dragon, a walking (flying) in-universe flagrant violation of the Square-Cube Law. It's flagrant enough that several characters call it out as physically impossible, finally attributing it to magic.
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Guards! Guards! / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
Guards! Guards! / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: Spoofed. The civic leaders all plan to just murmer a quiet agreement with whomever is stupid enough to loudly protest against having to give the Dragon a monthly Virgin Sacrifice. But since all of them are savvy enough not to talk back to the Dragon, no one ends up protesting. And they all curse the others for their cowardice.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6891554e	type	Parlor Games
Guards! Guards! / int_6891554e	comment	Parlor Games: The Librarian resorts to Charades to inform Carrot of the title of the stolen book (and is justifiably flustered when his attempts to signal "dragon" are interpreted as "great big hot blowing flapping thing").
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Guards! Guards! / int_69f7765	type	Need a Hand, or a Handjob?
Guards! Guards! / int_69f7765	comment	Need a Hand, or a Handjob?: Carrot ends up staying with Mrs. Palm and her 'daughters' thanks to this.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Guards! Guards! / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Wonse is the Supreme Grand Master. The Place Where the Dragons Went is actually the human imagination. The noble dragon is a female. Carrot is the actual lost heir to the throne but doesn't actually want the job.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Guards! Guards! / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The Librarian considers the theft of a book to be a worse crime than murder. Of course, it is a magical book that allows one to summon dragons, but it's implied that all librarians feel this way about all books. Traveling through L-Space is also not taken lightly. There are specific rules that librarians can't ignore.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6b42ea7e	type	Hijacking Cthulhu
Guards! Guards! / int_6b42ea7e	comment	Hijacking Cthulhu: The book has Lupine Wonse use a book called The Summoning of Dragons to summon a dragon and control it...but the dragon doesn't stay under his control for long.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6bfc52a3	type	A Wizard Did It
Guards! Guards! / int_6bfc52a3	comment	A Wizard Did It: The dragon can fly... because of Magic. Literally — it feeds directly on magic, and uses it to power its otherwise impossible anatomy. Dragons vanished from the Disc in the past specifically because its magic levels dropped too low for them to use.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6e7268ad	type	Parrot Pet Position
Guards! Guards! / int_6e7268ad	comment	Parrot Pet Position: Deconstructed by Sybil, who points out the liabilities of this trope with a Shoulder-Sized Dragon: burns, talon scratches, frizzled hair and dragon-poop down one's back. She only trains her swamp dragons to do this because it increases their market value.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6e9bc71b	type	Extreme Omni-Goat
Guards! Guards! / int_6e9bc71b	comment	Extreme Omni-Goat: A goat that was intended to be sacrificed as part of the coronation ceremony escapes in the confusion and is last seen happily chowing down on the ceremonial bunting.
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Guards! Guards! / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Guards! Guards! / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: The swamp dragons, Errol in particular, will eat basically anything, no matter how disgusting/non-edible.
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Guards! Guards! / int_70447aa7	type	Culture Justifies Anything
Guards! Guards! / int_70447aa7	comment	Culture Justifies Anything: Nobby refuses to get involved in a brawl in a dwarf bar because they're dwarfs, and he doesn't want to infringe on their culture. That he'd be outnumbered and likely quickly killed by the bar full of angry, axe-wielding dwarfs is mere coincidence.
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Guards! Guards! / int_707ee167	type	Secret Circle of Secrets
Guards! Guards! / int_707ee167	comment	Secret Circle of Secrets: The Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night is a mystic secret society, made up from people who would be rejected from any other secret society.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Guards! Guards! / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: Judging from Carrot's speech in the dwarf bar, dwarven mothers are the Discworld's equivalent of this trope: overbearing, interfering, guilt-tripping, and manipulative. And for that matter, Carrot himself is basically acting as a gender-swapped equivalent throughout the speech.
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Guards! Guards! / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
Guards! Guards! / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Wonse demands this from Vimes after he disrupts the coronation (mistaking a raven for the dragon).
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Guards! Guards! / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Guards! Guards! / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: This is a relatively rare example from a Watch novel where the monster is not Angua. The first two times the dragon appears, it's in the Shades. People try to mug it the first time and the second time it accidentally saves the Watch from getting mugged, scaring the crap out of them in the process. Subverted by Carrot's highly uneventful trip to Ankh-Morpork from the mountains; every would-be bandit who gets a look at him immediately backs down.
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Guards! Guards! / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
Guards! Guards! / int_72e0023f	comment	A hilarious attempt at invocation, where the Watch try to make the odds of shooting a Dragon in its "voonerables" exactly a million to one through various means such as blindfolding the archer, putting soot in his face and making him stand facing the wrong way on one leg while singing the Hedgehog Song — but end up with some other, non-specified, incredibly low odds instead, which isn't improbable enough and thus predictably fails. Then played straight (and lampshaded by the narration) immediately after when the annoyed dragon retaliates: Their chances of surviving that turns out to be exactly a million to one.
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Guards! Guards! / int_72f98935	type	Heroic Build
Guards! Guards! / int_72f98935	comment	On a more humorous note, the Librarian is recruited into joining the watch part-time mid-way through the book, and is quickly established to be one of the most physically strongest members besides Carrot, as well as having a tendency to demonstrate this to anybody who says the word 'Monkey' in his presence. When he springs Vimes from the jail cell by pulling the bars out the window and them Vimes himself bodily out to advise him about the planned Human Sacrifice to appease the dragon, Vines does not take it well, including bodily lifting the Librarian to eye level by the chest hair.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Guards! Guards! / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: One American paperback edition◊ features passable depictions of Vimes, Carrot, Lady Sybil, the dragon.. and very prominently, a wizard. The only wizard who gets a speaking part in the novel is the unnamed Archchancellor of Unseen University, and he appears in exactly one scene.note It's possible it's a highly-inaccurate rendition of the dragon's summoner, the Grand Master of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night aka. Lupine Wonse, by an artist assuming he had to be a wizard.
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Guards! Guards! / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Guards! Guards! / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Lupine Wonse is a little bit of a Smug Snake/out of his depth Big Bad Wannabe in the book. The Atlanta Radio Theatre put on a production where he had a deep voice courtesy of John Rhys-Davies of all people.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7481a085	type	Offerings to the Gods
Guards! Guards! / int_7481a085	comment	Offerings to the Gods: The coronation ceremony includes the sacrifice of a goat to the gods, although in the event the goat survives because the coronation is interrupted before it reaches that point.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7503483d	type	Original Position Fallacy
Guards! Guards! / int_7503483d	comment	Original Position Fallacy: The Grandmaster tempts his followers with visions of the "good old days" when a king ruled Ankh-Morpork and society was divided between the deserving and the undeserving. Since all the brothers take for granted that they'd be "sorted into the appropriate group", they enthusiastically take part in his scheme to restore the king by summoning a dragon - which ends badly for all of them.
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Guards! Guards! / int_77073274	type	Monster Protection Racket
Guards! Guards! / int_77073274	comment	Monster Protection Racket: The Brethren's scheme is to terrorise the city with the dragon and then allow it to be defeated by a Fake Ultimate Hero who will be crowned king but still do the bidding of the Brethren (or at least of the Supreme Grand Master).
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Guards! Guards! / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Guards! Guards! / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Lady Sybil has this reaction to the Noble Dragon. Vimes does not. They have a similar exchange near the end about stopping the mob from killing the dragon. This time Vimes decides that since Sybil was about to be eaten and still doesn't hate it, she may be better entitled to her opinion than he is to his.
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Guards! Guards! / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Guards! Guards! / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: All over the place. Special mention goes to Nobby's description of Colon's fall through a privy roof.
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Guards! Guards! / int_79da445d	type	Oblivious Adoption
Guards! Guards! / int_79da445d	comment	Oblivious Adoption: Carrot was adopted by dwarfs as an infant after his human family were killed by bandits. He gets through the first sixteen years of his life, before his father sits him down and explains his history, without ever considering the possibility that he's not actually a dwarf — despite such subtle clues as being three times the height of everyone else around him.
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Guards! Guards! / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Guards! Guards! / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: The noble Dragon gives a short blunt speech to Wonse on this, noting that despite its savage nature and demands for virgin sacrifices, it still considers itself to be morally superior to humanity as a whole because it never tries to justify the horrible things it does as being 'good' in order to live with what it does. The citizens of Ankh-Morpork getting on board with having the dragon as a king and looking for suitable sacrifices to spare themselves its fiery breath only supports its views, something both Vimes and Vetinari grimly note during a private conversation. On a more humorous note, the Librarian is recruited into joining the watch part-time mid-way through the book, and is quickly established to be one of the most physically strongest members besides Carrot, as well as having a tendency to demonstrate this to anybody who says the word 'Monkey' in his presence. When he springs Vimes from the jail cell by pulling the bars out the window and them Vimes himself bodily out to advise him about the planned Human Sacrifice to appease the dragon, Vines does not take it well, including bodily lifting the Librarian to eye level by the chest hair.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
Guards! Guards! / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: It's toward the end of the novel that Colon realizes no matter how much he and Nobbs object, they always end up doing what Carrot suggests they do anyhow.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Guards! Guards! / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: Vimes catches Wonse planning to summon another dragon to fight the first one.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
Guards! Guards! / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: Discrete passwords and signals are very prevalent among the numerous secret organizations, apparently, leading to more than one humourous misunderstanding.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7f6885c4	type	Comically Small Demand
Guards! Guards! / int_7f6885c4	comment	Comically Small Demand: After the Night Watch is honored for saving the day, the Patrician asks them to name their reward. The guardsmen put their heads together and request a five-dollar pay raise, a replacement tea kettle, and perhaps a dart board.
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Guards! Guards! / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Guards! Guards! / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Vetinari in the cell, Vimes' rant about the law to Lupine Wonse (or perhaps his earlier defense of Lady Sybil using one of her own swamp dragons as a handgun).
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Guards! Guards! / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Guards! Guards! / int_81c72ad5	comment	The dragon that takes over the palace of Ankh-Morpork demands all the gold for its hoard. Since Ankh-Morpork is a Vestigial Empire of gilded treasures and heavily diluted coinage, there's a lot of ugliness before the dragon is satisfied.
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Guards! Guards! / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Guards! Guards! / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Colon attempts to hit the dragon in it with an arrow. He has no idea what its Weak Point actually is, but you'd know it if you saw it, right?
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Guards! Guards! / int_82f0f232	type	Where the Magic Went
Guards! Guards! / int_82f0f232	comment	Where the Magic Went: Dragons big enough to pose a threat to humanoids on the Disc seemingly went extinct ages ago, but in fact retreated to another dimension when the Disc's magic became too scarce and thin to support them. The 'other dimension' turns out to be the human imagination.
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Guards! Guards! / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Guards! Guards! / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: The Palace Guards believe that being asked to take out a single man means certain defeat for them, as he might even swing from the chandelier. Fortunately for them, Vimes isn't feeling heroic. And there's no chandelier.
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Guards! Guards! / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
Guards! Guards! / int_838343d6	comment	Various royalty-centric Fairy Tales are alluded to by the populace scraping together all they know about kings.
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Guards! Guards! / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Guards! Guards! / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Thunder rolls immediately after Vimes makes an ominous statement. Vimes complains that he was just thinking out loud and he didn't think what he said was significant enough to justify the dramatic underlining.
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Guards! Guards! / int_85c014c5	type	Just One Man
Guards! Guards! / int_85c014c5	comment	Just One Man: When Wonse orders the Palace Guards to arrest Vimes, they are Genre Savvy enough to be wary of the fact that they outnumber him by a dozen to one, citing the Conservation of Ninjutsu principle and the possibility of a Chandelier Swing; Wonse is about to have a stroke from frustration, when Vimes volunteers that he's not in the mood to resist, and anyway there's no chandelier.
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Guards! Guards! / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Guards! Guards! / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Vimes "being brung low by a woman" as part of the backstory for his alcoholic state is not referred to again, even though later books explore his earlier life some more and make more than one Continuity Nod to other elements from this book (such as Leggy Gaskin). The Watchmen might think that Vimes was referring to an actual woman, but considering that Vimes referred to Ankh-Morpork as a woman at least twice earlier in the book, the "woman" may have been there the entire time. In a later book, a plausible candidate for "the woman" is identified as a Miss Mavis Trouncer; Vimes, facing death, hopes that when his life flashes before his eyes, it fast-forwards through the bits pertaining to his association with Mavis.
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Guards! Guards! / int_868a972f	type	Quiet Cry for Help
Guards! Guards! / int_868a972f	comment	Quiet Cry for Help: Wonse's desperate whisper to the assassin.
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Guards! Guards! / int_86ca5631	type	Lethal Eatery
Guards! Guards! / int_86ca5631	comment	Lethal Eatery: C.M.O.T. Dibbler's traveling sausage stand has sausages that will kill you, which even Sybil can't quite compliment without hesitation.
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Guards! Guards! / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
Guards! Guards! / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: After the above example of Dissimile, Vimes changes the subject, but Colon responds with little enthusiasm because "He was still wondering about his superior officerâ€™s sex life."
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Guards! Guards! / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Guards! Guards! / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: "Leggy" Gaskin, who is killed shortly before the start of the book and we first meet Vimes on the way back from his funeral. The character would later make a minor appearance as a young man in Night Watch Discworld when Vimes travels back into his own past.
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Guards! Guards! / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
Guards! Guards! / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Chandelier Swing: A Discussed Trope; the tales Mr. Varneshi tells young Carrot about his ancestor's Watch career involve a lot of chandelier swinging, and later a group of guards ordered to arrest Sam Vimes worry that he'll turn out to be a swashbuckling hero and fight them all off while shouting "Ha!" and swinging from the chandelier. Vimes points out with bewilderment that there isn't even a chandelier in the room.
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Guards! Guards! / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Guards! Guards! / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Carrot. "The Book" in this case being The Laws and Ordinances of The Cities of Ankh and Morpork, published some six generations previously. Carrot isn't just the only copper who follows the book, he's probably the only one who's read it. Deconstructed in that many of the laws the book covers have been overturned by the time Carrot gets there (anything related to thievery, for instance), so Carrot is violating the law in pursuit of it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Guards! Guards! / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: While Urdo van Pew, the head of the Thieves' Guild is complaining about being arrested, the Patrician points out that one man should have been easy to fight off because there would be a bunch of men in there, "thick as, you'll pardon the expression, thieves."
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Guards! Guards! / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Guards! Guards! / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
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Guards! Guards! / int_92d7976	type	You Keep Using That Word
Guards! Guards! / int_92d7976	comment	You Keep Using That Word: The Brethren's oath is full of words their leader just thought sounded suitably impressive without meaning anything; he's rather amused that they all take it very seriously and never ask what they mean. A footnote then explains that they're all real words on the Discworld and defines them, rendering the oath utter gibberish. Roasting someone's figgin (a pastry stuffed with raisins) becomes a running gag for the rest of the series.
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Guards! Guards! / int_937fc70c	type	Chalk Outline
Guards! Guards! / int_937fc70c	comment	Chalk Outline: Vimes traces the big dragon's outline at the spot in the Plaza of Broken Moons where the patsy-king "slew" it, presumably with a very large piece of chalk.
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Guards! Guards! / int_93b39134	type	Training the Gift of Magic
Guards! Guards! / int_93b39134	comment	Training the Gift of Magic: This is one of the few places in the Discworld series where we see that characters lacking any aptitude for magic, and also any formal training, can in fact get it to work, sort of, using lengthy rituals based on stolen information, and a source of power. We also see why this is a really, really bad idea.
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Guards! Guards! / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Guards! Guards! / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: A description of the streets of Ankh-Morpork at night: "Assassins assassinated, thieves thieved, hussies hustled. And so on." The dragon is described as having eyes the size of very large eyes.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9578bb87	type	Canis Latinicus
Guards! Guards! / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: "FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC" the modern-day motto of the Night Watch. note It's actually gibberish, but Fred Colon thinks it means "To protect and Serve" and Vimes thinks it means "Make My Day, Punk". Another possible reading (from a reader's point of view, though not explicitly given in the book) is "Built in the year dot", appropriate to the Watch House's extreme age and dilapidation.
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Guards! Guards! / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Guards! Guards! / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The dragon goes from enigmatic plot device to this when it declares itself king of Ankh-Morpork.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9712e10	type	Sword of Plot Advancement
Guards! Guards! / int_9712e10	comment	Sword of Plot Advancement: Subverted, of course. The fake heir to the throne has an incredibly shiny sword covered in gems and doesn't really do him much good, while Carrot's aggressively non-magical, completely sword-like sword can cut through pretty much anything (including the shiny sword).
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Guards! Guards! / int_986c3163	type	Mouth of Sauron
Guards! Guards! / int_986c3163	comment	Mouth of Sauron: What the Dragon-King ultimately reduces its summoner Lupine Wonse to: someone whose only job is to have it speak through him. The experience is extremely painful for him, bordering on Mind Rape.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9894036c	type	Nonsense Classification
Guards! Guards! / int_9894036c	comment	Nonsense Classification: The four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9960c0f	type	This Bed of Rose's
Guards! Guards! / int_9960c0f	comment	This Bed of Rose's: Carrot has no idea he's staying at a brothel.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9adcd93a	type	Bizarre Alien Locomotion
Guards! Guards! / int_9adcd93a	comment	Bizarre Alien Locomotion: What Errol managed to come up with, by rearranging his entire system to shoot fire... backwards. In this configuration he can zoom around by rocket propulsion coming out his butt, using his undersized wings merely for steering.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Guards! Guards! / int_9c8701b5	comment	He said (in The Art of Discworld), "I wanted to give them a moment in the sun, but it turned out to be a full tropical holiday."
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Guards! Guards! / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Guards! Guards! / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When the Supreme Grand Master is trying to explain how installing the king will happen, a couple of the Brothers suggest that maybe the real heir to the throne is going to turn up, which would be... a million-to-one chance. The Master shouts them into submission, but it turns out they were onto something long before the Watch tried deliberately gaming the probability. Vimes momentarily thinks Carrot has abandoned him to fight two Palace Guards on his own, but Carrot had simply taken Vimes' order to "charge these men" literally and had fallen back to give himself a good run-up. Likewise, when Errol retreats from his duel with the King, Vimes assumes the little swamp dragon isn't coming back. Errol, once he's given himself distance for acceleration, returns at hypersonic speed and unleashing a sonic boom that knocks the big dragon out of the sky. This also establishes Carrot's troubles with figurative language and tendency to take matters very literally, which come into play when he's told to "throw the book at him" and kills Wonce by knocking him off a building with it. Early in the book Vimes recalls being in the same childhood gang with Lupine Wonse and remembers that Wonse had to invent an odd skipping run to keep up with the bigger boys. Near the end, he belatedly recognises that a figure running from the Elucidated Brethren's destroyed headquarters had that same gait... In the same vein, Vimes notes that Wonse also had to come up with ideas for the gang to use, mainly to stop them beating him up.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Guards! Guards! / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: How the Librarian eventually discovers who stole his book. Heâ€™s able to do this because all libraries are interconnected through L-Space and heâ€™s able to find the paths connecting the Unseen University Library to any other... including the Unseen University Library of two weeks ago.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Guards! Guards! / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: When Vimes is fired from the Watch, Lady Sybil suggests that he leave for Sto Helit, where the Duke and Duchess (a rather young couple) are looking for a guard captain. Guess who? And a certain witch referred to as "Mistress Garlick". Summoning dragons into Disc reality previously appeared in The Colour of Magic. The passage from de Malachite's book which appears at the end mentions that someone "Pure in Harte" could possibly call up a good dragon; Twoflower evidently did so when he summoned Ninereeds, as that dragon was obedient and protective of its summoner.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Guards! Guards! / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: An already slightly sloshed Vimes when Colon tells him he made the mistake of letting Carrot go on patrol with Nobbs. As Carrot reads out to the owners of the Mended Drum what laws they're breaking, the Librarian is trying to finish his drink as fast as possible before the bar brawl starts.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9e0a4772	type	Proportional Aging
Guards! Guards! / int_9e0a4772	comment	Proportional Aging: It's noted when describing Carrot's life early on that dwarf children aren't mature enough to be told about sexuality and reproduction until they hit puberty, at about age fifty.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Guards! Guards! / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: The fact that one of these answers the door when Vimes visits Lady Sybil's at the end of the novel is one of the signs that she's planning certain changes.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9e56202	type	Wake-Up Call
Guards! Guards! / int_9e56202	comment	Wake-Up Call: Vimes started out as a drunkard and the rest of the City Watch was no better. Then Carrot joined the watch, the dragon was summoned by a conspiracy, and these two factors together succeeded in making Vimes, Nobbs and Colon get their act together and save the day.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Guards! Guards! / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Carrot, thanks to genetics, narrative causality and a life spent helping dwarves with their mining.
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Guards! Guards! / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Guards! Guards! / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: The Brotherhood's lesson in this is one of the most painful since that learned by Charles Dexter Ward himself.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Guards! Guards! / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: When Colon tries to diplomatically explain to Vimes how I Am Not Weasel applies to the Librarian:
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Guards! Guards! / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Guards! Guards! / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: The first person to encounter a Noble Dragon in centuries only finishes his "Oh shit" in the afterlife.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Guards! Guards! / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Double subverted. When one of the Supreme Grand Master's conspirators is trying to get into their meeting, he has to exchange a long string of non sequitur Spy Speak to get in the door. However, these are apparently so generic that he manages to get quite a long way in before realizing one of them doesn't match up and they realize he's got the wrong address, and is trying to get into a completely different secret society. Furthermore, when he does have the right place, it turns out one of the people belonged to the other society, but no one had noticed until they said their society's name.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a36e433	type	The Meddling Kids Are Useless
Guards! Guards! / int_a36e433	comment	The Meddling Kids Are Useless: The Watch end up being superfluous during the Dragon's takeover of the city, and itâ€™s implied that Vetinari was already aware of Wonse's plot. How much control Vetinari had is debatable, however, as Vimes does save him from Wonse's attempt to kill him.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a5e77a67	type	The Cat Came Back
Guards! Guards! / int_a5e77a67	comment	The Cat Came Back: How Vetinari torments Wonse near the end.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Guards! Guards! / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Carrot's sword. It hasn't got a name, it has no jewels on it; it's just a long piece of metal with very sharp edges. But in a magical land like Discworld, Carrot's sword is unique for not being magical at all. Itâ€™s so non-magical it's realer than most of the Discworld. It's one of those things, like Death, where it simply is. Since most of Discworld is magical, and the sword is not, it's a hot knife through butter. Invoked with the "royal sword" that the Supreme Grand Master had made for the king-to-be, but subverted in that it's crafted to only look cool, but is completely worthless as a weapon.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
Guards! Guards! / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: Vimes orders someone to shoot a lock open and gets this response: "What, with a bow and arrow?!" Vimes is rather confused as to why he'd even give that order, but it's implied that he's tapping into some timeless copper folk-consciousness.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Guards! Guards! / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Elucidated Brethren member Brother Fingers escapes the dragon's attack on their headquarters, and later escapes from the Watch by sheer terror. On the other hand, considering he made an unauthorized theft from the Unseen University, if the Thieves Guild ever catches him he'll be lucky if he gets a quick death. The dragon burns down a large portion of Ankh-Morpork and kills several people in the process, yet it ends up getting a happy ending with Errol. As Sybil points out, it's just being a dragon and it would never have done any of it if humans had left it in peace.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a7e2f332	type	Female Monster Surprise
Guards! Guards! / int_a7e2f332	comment	Female Monster Surprise: Many characters are surprised when the dragon is revealed to be female.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a8476736	type	Keep the Reward
Guards! Guards! / int_a8476736	comment	Keep the Reward: Vetinari wants to give Vimes and the Watch expensive rewards, but the Watch is only interested in a new dartboard and a few other trifles.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a8b7f968	type	Love at First Punch
Guards! Guards! / int_a8b7f968	comment	Love at First Punch: Errol and the King start off fighting, but then end up in love.
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Guards! Guards! / int_a9b10a62	type	Think Nothing of It
Guards! Guards! / int_a9b10a62	comment	Think Nothing of It: Vimes is surprised to hear that he and his men will be rewarded for their efforts to save the city. When they are told that they can have a reward, his men ask for a small raise, a new tea kettle, and a dartboard (being afraid that they went too far with the last one).
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Guards! Guards! / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Guards! Guards! / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Vimes' first name is only given near the end of the book, which is rather interesting since he's the protagonist.
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Guards! Guards! / int_abe0f934	type	Dissimile
Guards! Guards! / int_abe0f934	comment	Dissimile: How a Literal-Minded Sergeant Colon interprets Vimes' "This city is a woman" idea when they're both drunk. "Got a river running through it, sir. Lots of people and houses." The description of Where the Dragons Went includes "It would put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly and proud and arrogant."
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Guards! Guards! / int_ac546cd4	type	Worth It
Guards! Guards! / int_ac546cd4	comment	Worth It: A variant, where the person responsible doesn't think the line. Vetinari, after a talk with the head of the Thieves Guild, thinks that seeing his aggravation is actually worth it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Guards! Guards! / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh shi--: Colon's reaction when he realizes he has just said the "M-word". These also make up the final words of Zebbo Mooty, Thief Third Class, the first person killed by Draco nobilis in some three hundred years. He finishes the curse after his death. (This isn't a spoiler; it happens within the first 50 pages, at least in the Corgi mass-market paperback.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Guards! Guards! / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The end of The Summoning of Dragons is a charred lump.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Guards! Guards! / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Death, as usual, puts the "dead" in it. Upon being informed that the Elucidated Brethren just wanted what was coming to them:
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Guards! Guards! / int_aed924dc	type	You Do Not Have to Say Anything
Guards! Guards! / int_aed924dc	comment	You Do Not Have to Say Anything: Carrot reads two prisoners their rights as set out in the Dignity of Man (Civic Rights) Act of 1341. The bit about not having to say anything is in there, but because this is Ankh-Morpork there is also some stuff about the right not to fall down the steps to the cells or jump out of high windows.
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Guards! Guards! / int_af5edbff	type	Myopic Architecture
Guards! Guards! / int_af5edbff	comment	Myopic Architecture: Vetinari is revealed to have done this on purpose: while the lock to the palace dungeon is on the outside, the locking mechanisms are on the inside. Would-be usurpers throw him in the dungeon expecting it to serve as an oubliette; instead, it's an impregnable fortress that he can "escape" at his leisure.
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Guards! Guards! / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Guards! Guards! / int_af696bef	comment	In the long run, this is perhaps the only book where we get any time from Carrot's perspective. Once he outgrows his Fish out of Water status, half the point of his character is how no-one knows if his Dork Knight tendencies are sincere or an mixture of manipulation towards everyone around him and some kind of elaborate joke.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b0021c03	type	Rodent Cellmates
Guards! Guards! / int_b0021c03	comment	Rodent Cellmates: While temporarily deposed, lord Vetinari is thrown into his own rat-infested dungeon. Unknown to his jailers, the local rats are sapient and happy to bring him news from outside in return for advice on how resolve their conflict with the palace's other vermin.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Guards! Guards! / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: This is the first of the Watch books where Vetinari says "Don't let me detain you," which he's later known for saying.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b058881a	type	Maximum Fun Chamber
Guards! Guards! / int_b058881a	comment	Maximum Fun Chamber: The oath of the Elucidated Brethren ("And it be well for a knowlessman that he should not be here, for he would be taken from this place and his gaskin slit, his moules shown to the four winds, his welchet torn asunder with many hooks and his figgin placed upon a spike") becomes significantly less terrifying to the reader when the definitions of the Perfectly Cromulent Words it uses are listed: a gaskin is "a shy, grey-brown bird of the coot family", moules is "a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises", a welchet is "a type of waistcoat worn by certain clock-makers", and a figgin is "a small short-crust pastry containing raisins". The Brethren themselves, as the Supreme Grand Master notes, do not think to ask the definition of these terms, and they come back as a Brick Joke when Brother Fingers is asked if he wants his figgin toasted and runs away screaming in terror. (It is, however, possible that these words may have hidden euphemistic meanings, since it is also said that Mad Lord Snapcase was, after his overthrow, strung up by his figgin, meaning either that the word has an alternate meaning or that there is some horrible aspect to being strung up by a teacake.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_b3a3a366	type	Tasty Gold
Guards! Guards! / int_b3a3a366	comment	Tasty Gold: The dragon is offered the newly forged crown, and licks it. They're very chemically sensitive apparently. Vimes considers the chances of the crown actually being made out of gold (It's mentioned elsewhere that "gold" things in Ankh-Morpork have just as much gold in them as there is gold in seawater), then compares the situation to finding out that sugar was actually salt after having put three spoonfuls in your coffee. The dragon then overkills the priest who gave it the crown (shooting a flame so hot that nothing is left but smoke); suffice to say, the dragon isn't amused.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Guards! Guards! / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: It's mentioned that Unseen University Library "would make even M.C. Escher take a good lie down, or possibly sideways". There's a very good argument made that because "books = knowledge and knowledge = power"note = energy = matter = mass, then any decent-sized library or bookstore has power on the scale of a small black hole, turning libraries into reality-warped redoubts.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Guards! Guards! / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: A footnote defines 'moules' as a game of dexterity and skill, involving tortoises.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Guards! Guards! / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: "But when I rule the city, the Supreme Grand Master said to himself, there is going to be none of this. I shall form a new secret society of keen-minded and intelligent men, although not too intelligent of course, not too intelligent. And we will overthrow the cold tyrant and we will usher in a new age of enlightenment and fraternity and humanism and Ankh-Morpork will become a Utopia and people like Brother Plasterer will be roasted over slow fires if I have any say in the matter, which I will."
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Guards! Guards! / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Guards! Guards! / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Lupine Wonse, feeling trapped by the evil he has summoned, mouths "Help. Me." to the head of the Assassin's Guild, who notes there's only one sort of "help" he can really offer.
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Guards! Guards! / int_b97c1d0b	type	Standard Hero Reward
Guards! Guards! / int_b97c1d0b	comment	Standard Hero Reward: Defied. All the dragon slaying heroes insist on half the kingdom and a princess's hand in marriage for slaying the dragon, but Vetinari makes it clear there is no princess and this is not a kingdom. He does have an aunt, though. And a dog.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Guards! Guards! / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Showcased with Vimes and Vetinari, without their knowing it, when the scene transitions from one man's thoughts to the other, and they're thinking along the same lines.
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Guards! Guards! / int_baa1d4b	type	I Can Explain
Guards! Guards! / int_baa1d4b	comment	I Can Explain: Vimes anticipates this when he corners the Supreme Grand Master (aka Lupine Wonse), though the actual excuse (Wonse blames the whole thing on Vetinari, who does have a history of manufacturing false-flag coups against himself) is a lot smoother than expected. In fact, had Vimes not had found more concrete evidence before the fact, he may well have been swayed.
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Guards! Guards! / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Guards! Guards! / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Near the start a character briefly mentions (and dismisses) a prophecy that "Yea, the king will come bringing Law and Justice, and know nothing but the Truth, and Protect and Serve the People with his Sword". Although hardly anyone notices, the prophecy is fulfilled exactly. Note that the prophecy doesn't actually say he'll take the throne.
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Guards! Guards! / int_bbd8d3f4	type	Adventurer Archaeologist
Guards! Guards! / int_bbd8d3f4	comment	Adventurer Archaeologist: Mentioned, in the form of "smart bastards whose idea of a day's work was prising the Ruby Eye of the Earwig King out of its socket." Vimes figures even they have gods looking out for them, while guards don't.
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Guards! Guards! / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Guards! Guards! / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The first book where saying monkeynote ohshit in front of the Librarian is potentially lethal. Also, Vimes is shown as loving Ankh Morpork and hating kings so much that when a dragon is destroying his city and being revered as a king, that he picks up the Librarian by the chest fur and shakes him in a rage. The Librarian decides not to make an issue of it, since a man who can pick up a three hundred pound orangutan without noticing clearly has more important things on his mind.
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Guards! Guards! / int_bd1343e0	type	Four Terms Fallacy
Guards! Guards! / int_bd1343e0	comment	Four Terms Fallacy: "Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass: a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." "Power" hides the extra term; Pratchett deliberately confuses intellectual power with power as cosmic energy in order to make this argument. As this is Discworld, it's possible that both kinds of power are the same thing.
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Guards! Guards! / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Guards! Guards! / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Vimes wonders how Vetinari can still claim to be in control when he's locked in a cell. Vetinari invites him to look at the cell door (a heavy iron one with many bolts), really look at it. It takes Vimes a minute before he sees it:
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Guards! Guards! / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Guards! Guards! / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: When the dragon starts telepathically communicating with Wonse, it berates him and goes off about what's so depressing about the human species, to the point he gladly does its bidding rather than listen to it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_c0091e94	type	Dragon Hoard
Guards! Guards! / int_c0091e94	comment	Dragon Hoard: The dragon that takes over the palace of Ankh-Morpork demands all the gold for its hoard. Since Ankh-Morpork is a Vestigial Empire of gilded treasures and heavily diluted coinage, there's a lot of ugliness before the dragon is satisfied. Before that, a large part of the Ankh-Morpork population assumes that if there is a dragon, there must be a hoard, and they are eagerly preparing to go out and find (and loot) it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Guards! Guards! / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Vimes pegs Wonse as "a gloater". He's a little thrown when his initial attempt at provoking some gloating doesn't happen, but reassured when, as he's led off, Wonse does indeed start gloating.
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Guards! Guards! / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
Guards! Guards! / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: Considered but averted: Vimes gets the chance to let Wonse kill Vetinari, thinking that the city would be able to "clean itself up" with him out of the picture. But he saves him anyway, and isn't sure why, other than that it's "something to do with doing it by the book."
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Guards! Guards! / int_c2e3f1b4	type	Affluent Ascetic
Guards! Guards! / int_c2e3f1b4	comment	Affluent Ascetic: Despite being one of the wealthiest women in the city, Sybil doesn't live a particularly extravagant lifestyle. Near the end, Vimes also meets a group of scruffy older ladies wearing first-quality clothing, and he identifies them all as dragon breeders. One of them chats with him and hands him a grubby, worn out card, revealing she's the super-rich Dowager Duchess of Quirm. Sighing, he acknowledges that there's a kind of poverty only the ultra-wealthy can afford. The Patrician is presumbly quite well off, but lives ascetically; his personal quarters are barely furnished, and he considers a glass of water and a piece of dry toast to be a large meal. He actually seems to eat better in the dungeon.
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Guards! Guards! / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Guards! Guards! / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: The dedication makes it clear that this book was intended to subvert the idea. But Terry liked the Watch too much to let them go after one book, and the rest is history. He said (in The Art of Discworld), "I wanted to give them a moment in the sun, but it turned out to be a full tropical holiday."
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Guards! Guards! / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Guards! Guards! / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Some of Ankh-Morpork's religions still practice it, but only on criminals. Of course, refusing to volunteer for sacrificing is itself a criminal act, so...
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Guards! Guards! / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Guards! Guards! / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Lupine Wonse, who wanted to be The Man Behind the Man but winds up as this at best.
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Guards! Guards! / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Guards! Guards! / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: After he's let himself out of his cell ("escaped" would imply he hadn't planned to be there), Vetinari pulls this on Wonse repeatedly to mess with him, using hidden passages.
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Guards! Guards! / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Guards! Guards! / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are many references to classic police films such as Dirty Harry. There are two quotes from classic detective stories in the same paragraph: "Once you have eliminated the impossible" etc., and "the curious incident of the orangutan in the nighttime". There are at least two shout-outs to Casablanca as well: the line "Of all the cities in all the world it could have flown into, he thought, it's flown into mine," and "Here's looking at you, kid," the last line Vimes speaks in the book. And quite a lot of references to J. R. R. Tolkien, as noted above, both to The Hobbit and to The Lord of the Rings. M.C. Escher is mentioned by name (see Alien Geometries) and his work Reptiles is alluded to in the prologue, which states that the Place Where The Dragons Went is similarly packed so tightly with dragons that if you look carefully at it, the space between each dragon is another dragon. The business with the Secret Societies, their grandiose dreams, and especially the pompous and portentous passwords so as to Pass The Threshold, is a sly nod to Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus!, a work replete with such secret societies. The fact that a secret society, if determined and driven enough, can change the course of a world by throwing a well-aimed bit of random Chaos into the machine is also a Shea and Wilson thing that Pratchett homages here. Carrot cries "All for one!" when he charges off to help save Lady Sybil, to Colon's and Nobby's puzzlement. Carrot himself can also be seen as an Expy of d'Artagnan, with Colon, Nobby and Vimes as the Musketeers. "I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door . . . and you know what? Its mum came and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. That's the respect you get." Various royalty-centric Fairy Tales are alluded to by the populace scraping together all they know about kings. To Raymond Chandler - in times of stress Vimes resorts to a bottle in the bottom drawer of his desk. And Carrot, after spending some time polishing his old armour, steps out into the street "untarnished and unafraid", a reference to a line in Chandler's essay "The Simple Art of Murder": "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Colon mis-quotes up this line from Dumbo: "I've seen a housefly. I've even seen a greenfly. But I ain't never seen a dragon fly." The anti-dragon slogan "The people united will never be ignited" is a reference to the famous revolutionary song "The people united will never be defeated" The Running Gag about the City being a Woman is a reference to a frequent simile in the works of Evan Hunter (or to be more specific, his pseudonym Ed McBain.) "There must be a million stories in the naked city, thought Vimes. So why do I always have to listen to ones like these?" is a reference to the TV series Naked City. The final lines of the book, "Perhaps the magic would last. Perhaps it wouldn't. But then, what does?", are almost identical in both content and delivery to the final lines of Blade Runner: "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"
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Guards! Guards! / int_c83797a0	type	Fattening the Victim
Guards! Guards! / int_c83797a0	comment	Fattening the Victim: Once the dragon becomes King, their first order of business is to throw a very fattening state dinner for the old system's top courtiers. By dessert, everyone is too terrified to touch a single morsel.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Guards! Guards! / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Big Bad's stand-in "king" is never named. Lampshaded when a minor character assumes his name is "Rex Vivat" ("Long Live the King") because he keeps seeing the phrase on banners.
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Guards! Guards! / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
Guards! Guards! / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is the King: The dragon is a king who is revealed to be female.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ce147566	type	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings
Guards! Guards! / int_ce147566	comment	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: Sam Vimes is first seen as a hopeless alcoholic shunted sideways into commanding the Night Watch, a laughable Ragtag Bunch of Misfits in the City Guard. Vimes ends up taking several levels in badass, but not before he recruits the very keen Constable Carrot, a man who can knock out a troll in a fist fight.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d0a09849	type	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
Guards! Guards! / int_d0a09849	comment	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: The motivation for most members of the Elucidated Bretheren is that they feel oppressed by the existence of those they hate.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Guards! Guards! / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Vimes has a belated one related to the destruction of the Elucidated Brethren's building for two reasons: firstly, he recognises the distinctive run of the figure fleeing the scene as that of Lupine Wonse from his childhood, and secondly he realises that Wonse's immediate blurted-out reaction when he reported the building being destroyed made no sense unless he already knew about it:
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Guards! Guards! / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
Guards! Guards! / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: Lampshaded. Sybil specifically points out that you can't just scale things up and have them work the same way. Justified by the dragon using magic to support itself. Real dragons are the size of dogs... and so chemically combustible that they tend to blow themselves up rather than burn villages down.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Guards! Guards! / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Carrot manages to achieve this without meaning to. The Thieves' Guild would have dealt without hesitation with any outsider caught sneaking around their guildhouse, but they have no idea what to do about a guardsman stomping in and trying to arrest them.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d7e7326c	type	Spare Body Parts
Guards! Guards! / int_d7e7326c	comment	Spare Body Parts: Swamp dragons have eight stomachs, plus a lot of other parts not specified to allow their digestive tracts to process practically anything into fuel.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d7ebf1ce	type	Fantastic Science
Guards! Guards! / int_d7ebf1ce	comment	Fantastic Science: The equation that explains the Alien Geometries of Unseen University Library—not because it is magical, but simply because it is a library. "Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass: a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." (This is of course a Four Terms Fallacy.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Guards! Guards! / int_d7f21602	comment	Holding Out for a Hero: Wonse's plan relies on the Narrative Causality that people will look to a hero when there's a dragon problem.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Guards! Guards! / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Two kinds (see The Colour of Magic). This book explains the relationship of the two types.
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Guards! Guards! / int_d9563969	type	Failed Attempt at Drama
Guards! Guards! / int_d9563969	comment	Failed Attempt at Drama: Reciting your Brotherhood's long list of eye-watering ideas and chores becomes a bit less dramatic when the response gotten is a simple "yup".
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Guards! Guards! / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Guards! Guards! / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: The guy who should have defeated the dragon and should have become king of Ankh-Morpork. Should being the key word.
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Guards! Guards! / int_de04068f	type	Don't Tell Mama
Guards! Guards! / int_de04068f	comment	Don't Tell Mama: One of the first things Carrot does on his first night on patrol is shame a bunch of bar-brawling dwarfs into behaving themselves by asking what their mothers would say if they found out.
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Guards! Guards! / int_de0db2aa	type	Crush Blush
Guards! Guards! / int_de0db2aa	comment	Crush Blush: Vimes is adorably bashful around Sybil, and, for instance, blushes when she suggests he should call her by her first name.
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Guards! Guards! / int_defec730	type	Tiger by the Tail
Guards! Guards! / int_defec730	comment	Tiger by the Tail: Lupine Wonse summons a dragon in a plot to usurp control of Ankh-Morpork. When the dragon escapes his control, rather than eating him, it makes him its servant, and he ends up living in constant terror of it, but also in terror of what will happen to him if he tries to escape.
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Guards! Guards! / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Guards! Guards! / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Carrot. Actually an unintentional example: Pratchett intended to make him the protagonist, but needed a voice in the city before Carrot arrived, threw the character of Vimes together out of clichÃ©s as a stop-gap, and he ended up taking on a life of his own.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Guards! Guards! / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Invoked by the plan of the Grand Supreme Master. Discussed heavily by the Elucidated Brethren in general. Subverted with Carrot.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e0e750b1	type	Shoulder-Sized Dragon
Guards! Guards! / int_e0e750b1	comment	Shoulder-Sized Dragon: Sybil has a small dragon on her shoulder during her first full conversation with Vimes.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Guards! Guards! / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: Banged grains won't be invented for another two books, but Vimes manages this trope anyway by sitting back and rolling himself a cigarette while Carrot is beating up a couple of obnoxious Palace Guards.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
Guards! Guards! / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: The oath of loyalty sworn by the Brethren, especially the bit about what will happen to them if they break faith, is full of obscure and antiquated words; it's a running joke that they're all in mortal fear of having their figgin taken out and toasted on a spike, without any of them being entirely sure what a figgin is. (A footnote tells us it's a pastry filled with raisins, and the guards enjoy some later on.) Other words in the oath include welchet ("a type of waistcoat worn by certain clock-makers"), gaskin ("a shy, grey-brown bird of the coot family") and moules ("a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises"). The oath, when one doesn't know the meaning of the words in it, sounds much more menacing than it actually is. The Supreme Grand Master notes the fact that none of them have asked what any of the words mean as a sign of their stupidity. Oddly, two of these are real words in Roundworld too - a gaskin is part of a horse's leg (whence 'Leggy Gaskin', probably) and moules is restaurant-French for 'mussels'. A welchet doesn't appear to be anything, though. Vimes also writes like this, despite speaking modern English. "Itym: From whence it cometh, none knowe, nor wither it goeth, nor where it bideth betweentimes;"
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Guards! Guards! / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Guards! Guards! / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Carrot doesn't understand the concept of metaphors, which leads to some hilarious moments, not the least of which involves a time where he is told to throw the book at someone. He obliges, unfortunately for the victim.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Guards! Guards! / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: The swamp dragons are very prone to exploding because of their digestive processes.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e2de05e8	type	Throw the Book at Them
Guards! Guards! / int_e2de05e8	comment	Throw the Book at Them: Literally, in one case.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e491684a	type	Odd Job Gods
Guards! Guards! / int_e491684a	comment	Odd Job Gods: Vimes knows there's a thieves' god and a whores' goddess and think there's probably even a god for assassins. But none for the Watch.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e49c0cbd	type	Interspecies Adoption
Guards! Guards! / int_e49c0cbd	comment	Interspecies Adoption: Carrot was raised by dwarves.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e5406b1b	type	Beat
Guards! Guards! / int_e5406b1b	comment	A monarchist hazards that one of the chief problems of being a king is your daughter getting a prick. [Long pause.] And falling asleep for a hundred years.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Guards! Guards! / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Sergeant Colon comes to check on Carrot, who is watching from a rooftop for the return of the dragon, he denies unprompted that his real reason for coming is that he was getting frightened on his own rooftop and wanted some company.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e6fa475c	type	Offered the Crown
Guards! Guards! / int_e6fa475c	comment	Offered the Crown: The Big Bad's plan is to Offer The Crown to the unnamed wannabe-king. As it turns out, the dragon has something to say about it.
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Guards! Guards! / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Guards! Guards! / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The members of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night just wanted what was coming to them.
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Guards! Guards! / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Guards! Guards! / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Apparently all three of the remaining Night Watch officers had, as some point before Carrot came along, ran afoul of Detritus and his fists. Nobby's Groin Attack is an attempt at repaying the troll for his encounter.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ec0609d1	type	The Illegible
Guards! Guards! / int_ec0609d1	comment	The Illegible: Lupin Squiggle, Sec'y, pp. (His last name isn't really "Squiggle".)
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Guards! Guards! / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: a couple of examples: A list of strange and terrible things Errol has eaten includes things like fireplace pokers and cobblestones, but what astonishes everyone is that he ate three of C.M.O.T. Dibbler's sausages. And the rules of the Librarians of Space and Time are:
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Guards! Guards! / int_f9f2c33	comment	The Running Gag about the City being a Woman is a reference to a frequent simile in the works of Evan Hunter (or to be more specific, his pseudonym Ed McBain.)
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Guards! Guards! / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Guards! Guards! / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When the heroes refuse to slay the dragon because Vetinari doesn't have a daughter to give her hand in marriage, Vimes mention he does have an aunt. This was never referred to again until Night Watch Discworld, years later and mostly set before this book, when Vetinari's aunt Lady Roberta Meserole is a significant character. Also, his little dog, which shows up in The Truth as a major character and gets another mention in Going Postal. The "eye-watering words" mentioned at the start keep popping up. For instance, after going out to get some food, Nobby innocently asks the captured Brother Fingers if he wants his figgin toasted, with predictable results. Among the things C.M.O.T. Dibbler sells are mystic products "made from over fifty different rare spices and herbs to a recipe known only to a bunch of ancient monks what live on some mountain somewhere". Vimes (and the reader) dismisses this as his usual sales talk given the quality of the rest of his goods, but at the very end of the book, as we pan across the Discworld, there's a brief moment where two monks on a mountain at the Hub of the world prepare to send their latest shipment to Dibbler. Brother Dunnikin's contribution to the first set of magical items for dragon-summoning is an amulet he bought for three dollars that supposedly protects him from crocodile bites. The Supreme Grand Master sneers at buying such a thing in a temperate city. Later he misses a meeting of the Brethren because... he's been bitten by a crocodile. The Supreme Grand Master insists this is just a coincidence, but he does throw in three dollars to the condolences gift. At the beginning of the book, the Supreme Grand Master explains that the dragon-summoning ritual requires magical items as fuel, and instructs the Brethren to bring him some. They return with obviously useless knicknacks including stones with holes in them ("Everyone knows that stones with holes in them are magical!"). At the very end of the book, the Supreme Grand Master tries to summon another dragon after the first is defeated, hysterically waving around a bag of magic items and insisting he has the power... but when the heroes open the bag, they see it's just full of stones with holes in them. Since they don't know the history behind it, they're just completely baffled. Errol, the poor little dragon who doesnâ€™t seem suited to flight, is described as â€œa total whittleâ€�. Itâ€™s not intended as a compliment, but itâ€™s also a subtle shout-out to Frank Whittle, the engineer who invented the jet engine and revolutionised powered flight. With hindsight, Vimesâ€™ description of the Watch themselves as â€œtotal whittles, every one of themâ€� may fall into the same category...
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Guards! Guards! / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: Carrot's utterly mundane sword. His aggressively, uniquely, powerfully mundane sword.
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Guards! Guards! / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: When the brotherhood is directing the dragon to violence, one of the targets is a new coach belonging to the brother-in-law of one of the members, who is annoyed that his wife has been nagging him about it. Vimes is mystified by this, since the dragon fries it "with pinpoint accuracy" and he can't figure out what about it would offend a dragon.
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Guards! Guards! / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The villainous Supreme Grand Master (a.k.a. Lupine Wonse) does one nice thing in the whole book. After the summoning magic consumes Brother Dunnikin's anti-crocodile amulet (see Brick Joke, above), Brother Dunnikin moans that it cost him three dollars. On finding out that Brother Dunnikin has been bitten by a crocodile and being told that the Brethren are having a whip round for him, the Supreme Grand Master asks to be put down for three dollars.
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Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	This Is Your Brain on Evil / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Throw the Book at Them / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Throwing Your Sword Always Works / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Tiger by the Tail / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Timmy in a Well / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	To Win Without Fighting / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Training the Gift of Magic / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Twinkle Smile / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Unicorn / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Unicorns Prefer Virgins / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Villain Holds the Leash / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Virgin Sacrifice / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Visual Pun / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Wake-Up Call / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Waking Up Elsewhere / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Weak Boss, Strong Underlings / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Wearing It All Wrong / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Welcome Episode / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Welcome to the Big City / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Where the Magic Went / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Who Will Bell the Cat? / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	Worse with Context / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	You Dirty Rat! / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	You Do Not Have to Say Anything / int_fe5f7909
Guards! Guards!	hasFeature	You Had Us Worried There / int_fe5f7909

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