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Maskerade

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Maskerade	comment	The 18th Discworld novel, and the fourth or fifth in the 'witches' theme. Its purpose within the theme is to bridge Lords and Ladies and Carpe Jugulum, which it does by means of an extended parody of the 1925 silent film version of The Phantom of the Opera.With the loss of Magrat to her royal calling, Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax find themselves with a coven of two. Their eye falls on the expansive Agnes Nitt, who prefers calling herself Perdita X Dream (or, as the women of Lancre say, "that Agnes girl who calls herself Perditax"). Agnes, though, has no interest in witches, and wants to be an opera singer. Stealing away to Ankh-Morpork, she soon finds herself (and her amazing voice) as a vocal understudy to the skinnier but much dumber and less melodious Christine.As it turns out, opera is much less about singing and more about superstition, mysterious strangers coming out of mirrors, vicious murders, and catty sniping. Oh, and losing buckets of money, much to the chagrin of the opera's owner. As it just so happens, Nanny and Granny have their own business in Ankh-Morpork, and are not above giving young Agnes a hand, regardless of whether she wants it or not.Preceded by Interesting Times, followed by Feet of Clay. Preceded in the Witches series by Lords and Ladies, followed by Carpe Jugulum.
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Maskerade / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
Maskerade / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: A deconstruction. Granny constantly feels people should be sceptical when she displays her magical powers, and observe that the same things could be done with trickery. If she knows you're at the door, she might have looked out a window. If she blocks a sword blade with her bare hands, she might have had a steel plate in her palm. (In truth, she didn't look out the window, and she actually did a Barehanded Blade Block, but she still feels that people ought to be looking for common-sense explanations.)
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Maskerade / int_1448bce	type	...And That Would Be Wrong
Maskerade / int_1448bce	comment	...And That Would Be Wrong: Granny spends a few paragraphs explaining in loving detail the Cool and Unusual Punishment she could give the villain... if she was bad.
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Maskerade / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Maskerade / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: The chocolate sauce recipe Nanny Ogg uses in one scene has interesting effects on some of the people who try it. There's nothing magical about it thoughâ€” it's merely a powerful natural aphrodisiac.
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Maskerade / int_14cde8b2	type	Mask of Confidence
Maskerade / int_14cde8b2	comment	Mask of Confidence: The Ghost - the original, Walter Plinge, is not suspected of what he is because without the mask, he acts like an altogether different person.
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Maskerade / int_14fbe67f	type	Godiva Hair
Maskerade / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: Implied of the portrait of Nanny Ogg as a young woman.
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Maskerade / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Maskerade / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Agnes knows full well that in stories the girl with "a great personality" is not the one who stumbles onto the villain's secret basement lair, but if it was someone like Christine, she'd find it no problem.
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Maskerade / int_19661850	type	Just the Introduction to the Opposites
Maskerade / int_19661850	comment	Just the Introduction to the Opposites: Black Aliss went so mad that she turned people into gingerbread and had a house made out of frogs.
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Maskerade / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Maskerade / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice and All Girls Want Bad Boys: Greebo's human form is described as being almost uncontrollably attractive to human women.
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Maskerade / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Maskerade / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: When Agnes finishes one last scream, going from one side of the audible spectrum to the other, Nanny Ogg remarks "Now it's over". Agnes is very large, and they're in an opera. After Salzella's demise, Death comes to collect him. However, unlike his other appearances, he is bedecked much like the Phantom of the Opera in the masquerade scene of the book: dressed as the Red Death. It also includes a cartoonishly unnecessary paper mask of a skull. But one must suppose you have to put a Masque on a Red Death. Nanny Ogg's boy Nev is (despite her protestations to the contrary) a thief. Or con man. Or fiddler. And in the wide, wonderful world of Discworld opera, where does he hang out? On the roof. The romantic aria Agnes learns about how hard it is for a character to leave her lover turns out, when translated, to have lyrics that go "this damn door sticks/it sticks no matter what the hell I do". Which disappoints Agnes, but hey, that would make it hard to leave.
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Maskerade / int_1ff3b1d6	type	Harmful Healing
Maskerade / int_1ff3b1d6	comment	Harmful Healing: Granny Weatherwax does this to some injured thugs, involving old sewing supplies that were not intended for stitching people. Granny is Good Is Not Nice. She may have to heal people she doesn't like, but she doesn't have to make it pretty.
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Maskerade / int_2084f742	type	New Child Left Behind
Maskerade / int_2084f742	comment	New Child Left Behind: One of the opera attendees is the unknowing son of Henry Slugg, who'd gotten his girlfriend pregnant before he left the city to make a career as a singer.
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Maskerade / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
Maskerade / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Agnes.
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Maskerade / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Maskerade / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Unsurprisingly, Granny Weatherwax. She stitches up the injuries of the muggers who tried to attack her. What she needed was a sharp, fresh needle and some alcohol, but sadly, all she has is a rusty, blunt one and some ditchwater. Walter Plinge's alternative personality known as The Opera Ghost is not a bad person. But he's also brutally honest, and when Granny and Nanny use headology to give him that personality all the time, he's perfectly willing to go along with picking Christine over Agnes.
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Maskerade / int_229ffe84	type	Hot in Human Form
Maskerade / int_229ffe84	comment	Hot in Human Form: Greebo.
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Maskerade / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Maskerade / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Nanny Ogg's "suicider" scumble, mentioned in a footnote, comes up toward the end when she uses it to knock out Mrs. Plinge, and Nobbs and Detritus.
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Maskerade / int_23386799	type	Door Dumb
Maskerade / int_23386799	comment	Door Dumb: Either the person singing Porta Maledetta (literally "Damn Door" in Italian, er, Brindisian) is Door Dumb or the person who labelled the door in the first place was, because it's labeled Pull and indeed she is pulling...perhaps it should be marked Push? (Then again, it sticks no matter what the hell she does.)
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Maskerade / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Maskerade / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: One the Ghost's defining character traits. He's not doing it to be cruel, but some of his responses can be absolutely vicious in their accuracy, particularly in his response to Agnes (pretending to be Christine in the dark) when she says (correctly) that "Perdita" is much better than 'her' (Christine). Granny Weatherwax carries on her habit of using Headology to dupe people into coming to these sorts of conclusions completely on their own. One of the most vicious examples comes when she asks Agnes if she's really enjoying "being someone else's voice" and standing in the shadows while Christine gets all the attention.
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Maskerade / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Maskerade / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Agnes seems to be the only one thinking sensibly about things at the opera house, which only helps her feel alienated at first. Salzella believed himself to be this: "You don't know what it has been like, I assure you, being the only sane man in this madhouse!!" He's not.
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Maskerade / int_2862c0e4	type	Situational Sociability
Maskerade / int_2862c0e4	comment	Situational Sociability: The Opera Ghost behaves very different when he's acting as the Ghost rather than as his real identity, due to the mask and identity of the Ghost giving him a confidence he otherwise lacks. Some Headology by Granny Weatherax later in the book allows him to be the "Ghost" all the time.
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Maskerade / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Maskerade / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: In the grand tradition of Moving Pictures and Soul Music, Walter's opera titles are all puns on popular musicals.
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Maskerade / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Maskerade / int_294ed981	comment	There's also a fragment from a song in German, "Schneide meinen eigenen Hals" - not translated in the text, but means "cut my own throat". Fans won't be surprised, because the song is called "The Pedlar's Song".
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Maskerade / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Maskerade / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Plenty, of course, but the stand-out is the end of Salzella's death rant:
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Maskerade / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Maskerade / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: Walter resorts to this to tell Nanny Ogg what they know about The Ghost, as they've been told not to tell but know they should.
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Maskerade / int_35566274	type	I Let You Win
Maskerade / int_35566274	comment	I Let You Win: Death cannot be beaten at Chess. Or Poker. Or games of chance. People can still challenge him, but unless Death is actively trying to lose, he'll always win no matter what he does. He can, however, engage in some Loophole Abuse by folding to Granny's hand of four queens, because he has "only four ones" - all of which are aces.
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Maskerade / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
Maskerade / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: It's said that Agnes was born 20 years too late, rather than back when your voice mattered more than your looks and every opera singer had a build like hers; indeed, every one of the greats had names that were puns for how fat they were. To drive this home, there is more than one scene where characters who truly love the music lament that now a woman has to look like Christine to star in opera and the music has to be slipped in somehow.
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Maskerade / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Maskerade / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The scene where Granny Weatherwax decides to go to Ankh-Morpork (which involves, among other things, misdelivered letters, Granny berating Nanny Ogg, Nanny being cheated out of five thousand dollars, a humorous cookbook, Nanny being repentant and embarrassed for pretty much the entire conversation, and Granny being her usual take charge self) has its entire impact changed by the last line:
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Maskerade / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Maskerade / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The scene where Nanny Ogg takes over serving drinks during the opera and decides to take some revenge on the demanding customers on behalf of Mrs. Plinge. The narration cuts away as she shakes up a couple of champagne bottles and steps out into the corridor, and picks up again as she ducks into a room while a lot of people run past. What, exactly, she did is never elaborated; some fairly simple scenarios are obvious, but Nanny wouldn't be a witch if she wasn't good at inventive cruelty.
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Maskerade / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Maskerade / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As it turns out, Agnes helping catch the theatre ghost and the truth about how she's the true vocal talent instead of Christine coming out into the open is not going to mean that she's going to get rewarded for it. Life isn't fair, and they're going to do what's best for the bottom line.
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Maskerade / int_40b1b353	type	Chess with Death
Maskerade / int_40b1b353	comment	Also Death during his poker hand with Granny for the life of the innkeeper's son; it's implied he knows damn well that 4 aces beats 4 queens, but he figures he can get away with "losing" if he pretends to misunderstand the rules of poker enough to think it's "four ones".
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Maskerade / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Maskerade / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Agnes. Or at least, she wants to be able to choose what she wants to stand out for.
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Maskerade / int_4ac43524	type	Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid
Maskerade / int_4ac43524	comment	Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid: The opera house's rat catcher is reincarnated as a rat upon his death. Because, as the Death of Rats tells him, REINCARNATION BELIEVES IN YOU.
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Maskerade / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Maskerade / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Salzella gives one after being revealed before dying.
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Maskerade / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Maskerade / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Granny's "Who's to say there's only one Ghost?" And shortly before that, AndrÃ©'s reveal:
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Maskerade / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Maskerade / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Andre being a secret policeman becomes this after Night Watch. While most of this isn't too much of a problem - it makes sense for Vimes to recruit undercover policemen - there's a whacking great problem with the name. Specifically, the idea that he would ever create anything even approximating a secret police division that's named the 'Cable Street Particulars' after the reveal of what the original Particulars were like makes about as much sense as Mahatma Gandhi advocating the foundation of a Fourth Reich. You can probably just blame the History Monks for that one.
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Maskerade / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Maskerade / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Christine's dialogue always ends in either "!?" or "!!" because she's just that excited about everything. In all other dialogue, multiple exclamation marks are a sign of Sanity Slippage.
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Maskerade / int_5190aa9b	type	Theatre Phantom
Maskerade / int_5190aa9b	comment	Theatre Phantom: Maskerade is the Discworld's take on The Phantom of the Opera, with the mysterious 'Opera Ghost' haunting the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Ultimately there turns out to be two different Opera Ghosts.
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Maskerade / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Maskerade / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: Andre.
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Maskerade / int_52db7997	type	No Listening Skills
Maskerade / int_52db7997	comment	No Listening Skills: Christine is both dimwitted and self-centered, to the point where Agnes tells her her father is the Emperor of Klatch and her mother is a small tray of raspberry pastries without any of it registering.
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Maskerade / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
Maskerade / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: Henry Slugg becomes Enrico Basilica.
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Maskerade / int_53f261f	type	Masquerading As the Unseen
Maskerade / int_53f261f	comment	Masquerading As the Unseen: As Granny is quick to lampshade, the only reason people recognize the Ghost is because he wears a mask.
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Maskerade / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Maskerade / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Brindisi (the name of a real city, and also an operatic term for a drinking song) for Italy.
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Maskerade / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Maskerade / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Christine has all the skills and traits needed to be a legendary opera Diva... save for the actual singing part. Which fortunately isn't all that important nowadays.
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Maskerade / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
Maskerade / int_5973fab5	comment	Does Not Like Spam: Basilica has gotten incredibly sick of pasta (it doesn't help that it's usually cooked very badly), but he can't tell anyone he hates it because it's part of his makeover as a singer from Brindisi.
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Maskerade / int_5c91635a	type	Bare-Handed Blade Block
Maskerade / int_5c91635a	comment	Barehanded Blade Block: Granny pulls this at the very end when she blocks Salzella's sword. She can't magic steel, but she can magic her own hand, displacing the wound she has to sustain until she's ready to deal with it.
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Maskerade / int_5d1eca88	type	Awesome McCoolname
Maskerade / int_5d1eca88	comment	Awesome McCoolname: Perdita X. Dream, the name Agnes gives to herself. The "X" just stands for "Someone who has a cool and exciting middle initial", and the earthy folk of Lancre just don't get it, calling her "That Agnes girl who calls herself Perditax".
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Maskerade / int_5e126c79	type	The Joy of X
Maskerade / int_5e126c79	comment	The Joy of X: Nanny Ogg's book of rather suggestive recipes. ("Suggestive" in the form of yelling through a megaphone, mind.)
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Maskerade / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Maskerade / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Henry Slugg, especially when he's around real Morporkian food. He's still a hell of an eater in his Enrico Basilica persona, but he's so famous that everywhere he goes, people fall over themselves to specially prepare his "native" Brindisian dishes. When Nanny subtly sees to it that the Opera House catering provides him a meal of regular Ankh-Morpork food, things get messy.
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Maskerade / int_60a66fb1	type	Head-Tiltingly Kinky
Maskerade / int_60a66fb1	comment	Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Nanny Ogg's book, The Joy of Snackes. At one point, Granny has to turn it sideways.
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Maskerade / int_65331274	type	Flynning
Maskerade / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Shown and mentioned between the two Ghosts, until it becomes deadly real. Except not, because in true Discworld fashion, they're still just Flynning.
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Maskerade / int_65dfbf11	type	Innocent Soprano
Maskerade / int_65dfbf11	comment	Innocent Soprano: Played with. The cheerful, bubbly, and pretty but unbelievably dim Christine has no singing talent, and in fact only got the main role because her father is one of the opera's backers. Agnes has to sing in her place thanks to her Magic Music talents letting her sing multiple voices at the same time â€” she can both be in the choir and cover for Christine's tone-deaf "soprano" squeaking.
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Maskerade / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Maskerade / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Unlike the other witches books where there is some sort of overt great magical threat, like The Fair Folk in Lords and Ladies or Lily in Witches Abroad, Maskerade is a murder mystery more akin to the watch books.
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Maskerade / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Maskerade / int_6b2b3b59	comment	And shortly before that, AndrÃ©'s reveal:
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Maskerade / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Maskerade / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Walter Plinge" is used as an alias for actors in British theatre cast lists, when it is necessary to avoid spoiling a major plot twist of the Two Aliases, One Character type. The twist here being Walter is one of the characters pretending to be the opera ghost. Salzella (pronounced like â€œsalt sellerâ€�) is a reference to Italian composer Antonio Salieri whose surname means "seller of salt".
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Maskerade / int_6c3f8ca8	type	Drama Queen
Maskerade / int_6c3f8ca8	comment	Drama Queen: According to Salzella everyone in opera is a highly-strung maniac on a good day.
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Maskerade / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Maskerade / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: In particular, much is made of the fact that seeing a serial killer as a dashing romantic figure is a sign that your priorities are seriously out of whack.
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Maskerade / int_6dd33e15	type	True Beauty Is on the Inside
Maskerade / int_6dd33e15	comment	True Beauty Is on the Inside: Painfully subverted. In the end, despite the fact that Christine is just very pretty, has no singing voice, or indeed any talent whatsoever, everyone in the opera still fawns over her and chooses her over Agnes, who is incredibly talented and who has been singing Christine's songs the entire time (something that is made very clear by the end that everyone knows). It gets lampshaded earlier in the book, when Agnes thinks to herself that nobody's ever fallen in love because of a wonderful pair of kidneys.
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Maskerade / int_706dd5c	type	I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!
Maskerade / int_706dd5c	comment	I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Death and the swan.
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Maskerade / int_70cc528	type	Asymmetric Dilemma
Maskerade / int_70cc528	comment	Asymmetric Dilemma: Done brilliantly by Nanny Ogg.
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Maskerade / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Maskerade / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Subverted; Granny and Mrs. Plinge are threatened by some muggers, but before Granny can open up a can of whup-ass on them, the Ghost does it for her.
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Maskerade / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Maskerade / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Granny asking people the question "If your house was on fire, what would you take out?" She finds out that Walter Plinge thinks in an unusual, but not evil, manner when he replies: "The fire!"
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Maskerade / int_74dec4b3	type	In One Ear, Out The Other
Maskerade / int_74dec4b3	comment	In One Ear, Out The Other: While the actual visual gag itself doesn't happen on page, it is referenced.
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Maskerade / int_762b9ea8	type	The Worst Seat in the House
Maskerade / int_762b9ea8	comment	The Worst Seat in the House: Spoofed, when Nanny and Granny trade in tickets for the Stalls for ones up in the Gods due to the name. Though the truly worst seat is probably the one next to Nanny Ogg.
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Maskerade / int_7950239f	type	Humanity Ensues
Maskerade / int_7950239f	comment	Humanity Ensues: The human-form Greebo the cat from Witches Abroad reappears, first as a gag about how he tends to do it when in a tight corner (thereafter spending most of his brief time as a human desperately looking for a pair of trousers), and a nod to the Discworld shapeshifting concept (once an object/living creature has taken a form, it is much easier to take it again). Later, he's pressed into service as Granny's fake paramour and bodyguard.
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Maskerade / int_799d05eb	type	Not Listening to Me, Are You?
Maskerade / int_799d05eb	comment	Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Agnes does it with Christine:
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Maskerade / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
Maskerade / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Salzella and Bucket agree never to mention their harrowing lunch with Granny Weatherwax again. Understandable, given that they were subject to the full force of Granny Weatherwax while also suffering severely from the effects of Nanny Ogg's aphrodisiac chocolate sauce.
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Maskerade / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Maskerade / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Well, the reason opera sucks, anyway. In a final touch of irony, he epitomizes several operatic tropes which have already been pointed out in universe as things he hates.
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Maskerade / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
Maskerade / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: While the witches are staying with a farming family, both their son and one of their cows fall ill. Destiny says the child should die and the cow should live, but Granny plays Death at poker for the chance to make it the other way around.
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Maskerade / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Maskerade / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: King Verence knows Nanny Ogg is brewing her aptly named scumble brand "Suicider", but won't (and can't) get her to stop, so everyone operates on plausible deniability.
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Maskerade / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Maskerade / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: A list of feared and respected opera conductors: the one who extracted a piccolo player's liver and fried it on a cymbal after one wrong note too many, the one who impaled three violinists on his baton, and the one who made really hurtful and sarcastic comments in a loud voice.
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Maskerade / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Maskerade / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Christine is this. She has all the qualities of a modern-day prima donna. Modern as in she looks good, is overly dramatic and can faint on cue. As opposed to a traditional prima donna who merely had to have an amazing voice.
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Maskerade / int_82b5385d	type	MagicPokerEquation
Maskerade / int_82b5385d	comment	Magic Poker Equation: For the Narrative Causality of the Discworld, a poker game for the life of a young boy is obviously important enough to qualify. That is why Granny draws four queens and Death gets four aces - which he immediately proclaims to be "four ones" and thus the losing hand.
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Maskerade / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Maskerade / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Everyone in the opera wonders how the Ghost gets into Box Eight every night, despite the fact that the door is kept locked and they can't find any other way in. The witches come up with an explanation that they'd never considered: he has the key. They're also the first to consider there might be two Ghosts in the first place. "You recognized him because he'd got a mask on?"
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Maskerade / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Maskerade / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Early on, Granny and Nanny discuss Greebo doing "It" when he got caught somewhere he shouldn't have been. It's a little later on it turns out "It" is Greebo turning human when startled.
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Maskerade / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
Maskerade / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: The Ghost uses this tactic against some muggers threatening Granny Weatherwax and Mrs. Plinge, dodging and weaving so much the muggers end up stabbing each other.
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Maskerade / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
Maskerade / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Chandelier Swing: When Greebo is chasing the Opera Ghost around the Opera House. Reality itself actually realigns so he can accomplish this, rather than plummeting to his death.
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Maskerade / int_8d917edd	type	"X" Makes Anything Cool
Maskerade / int_8d917edd	comment	"X" Makes Anything Cool: Apparently the X in Perdita X. Dream stands for "Someone who has a cool and exciting middle initial".
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Maskerade / int_9045fd09	type	Live Mink Coat
Maskerade / int_9045fd09	comment	Live Mink Coat: Nanny wears her cat around her neck at the opera. Someone later complains that her fur stole is eating their chocolates.
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Maskerade / int_93a38c9b	type	Magic Feather
Maskerade / int_93a38c9b	comment	Magic Feather: Walter can't access his Phantom persona without his mask. Eventually, Granny gives him an "invisible mask" so he can be the Phantom all the time.
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Maskerade / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Maskerade / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Colette, of the "fascinatin' earrings" is based on Fandom VIP and convention organizer Colette Reap, who once wore a pair of Clairecraft Anorankh pins as earrings to a signing.
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Maskerade / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Maskerade / int_96e5792c	comment	Mrs Lawsy would rather be at the music hall listening to Nellie Stamp sing "She Sits Among the Cabbages and Leeks". This is a reference to an urban legend that Marie Lloyd had a song which was originally "She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas", but was changed to "Leeks" when Moral Guardians objected to the double meaning (but not, you will note, to actually remove that meaning in any way).
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Maskerade / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
Maskerade / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: Henry Slugg is cheerful, good-natured and deeply enjoys music and food. He's not quite as happy as he pretends, though, having a few regrets about the girl he left behind and even more about how everyone insists on serving him pasta.
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Maskerade / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Maskerade / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Walter Plinge.
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Maskerade / int_98c4ea5f	type	Falling Chandelier of Doom
Maskerade / int_98c4ea5f	comment	Falling Chandelier of Doom: Subverted, and in fact defied. Everyone says that the chandelier is an accident waiting to happen. But despite the villain's best efforts (and thanks to the intervention of Nanny Ogg), it doesn't happen.
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Maskerade / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Maskerade / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Henry Slugg from Ankh-Morpork becomes Enrico Basilica from Brindisi, because "the trick is to make sure that everywhere you go, you are from somewhere else", with Nanny noting that conjurers are the same way, making grandiose claims about being fresh from the Court of Klatch. Later, Andre claims that he "...used to teach music to the Seriph's children in Klatch" indicating he isn't who he claims to be.
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Maskerade / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Maskerade / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: When it's revealed near the end that Henry Slugg's old flame is in the audience (and he's the father of her son), Agnes complains loudly that that sort of thing does not happen in real life. The rather more Genre Savvy Nanny Ogg replies "Happens all the time in opera."
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Maskerade / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Maskerade / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Obscure, but Mr. Bucket's remark about "a dreadful bend in the road" might be referring to Dead Man's Curve, where Susan's parents and Mr. Clete were killed in road accidents in Soul Music. Also, several to Lords and Ladies, such as the brief mention of another Carter son named after a vice, Deviousness Carter. The happy greetings Granny Weatherwax receives when she and Nanny Ogg show up at Mrs. Palm's looking for a place to stay while in the city, due to all the witching she did for them back in Equal Rites. (Much to Nanny's astonishment, who assumes Granny doesn't realize the place is a brothel.) There's a mention of how the show went on even when a dragon was roosting on the roof of the opera house, which happened in Guards! Guards!. At least one of the girls who Nanny dismisses as no longer qualified to replace Magrat was one of Lucy 'Diamanda' Tockley's friends in the previous book. (She appears in the next, too, if you remember her from this mention.) When Nanny reflects that she's seen many strange things in her life, the ones listed are all from previous books. When Granny is getting a makeover, the beautician remarks that she has excellent skin and she sadly agrees, which is a nod to the bit in Equal Rites about how she's always regretted having a good complexion because a few warts would make her look more witchy. And when the hairdresser asks how she has such good hair she says "You have to make sure there's no newts in the water", which is a nod to a joke in Reaper Man.
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Maskerade / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Maskerade / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Mrs. Plinge tries to invoke this when she and Granny are attacked by thieves: "Oh, please don't hurt us, kind sirs, we are harmless old ladies! Haven't you got mothers?" One of them responds: "I 'ad a mother once. Only I think I must of et 'er..."
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Maskerade / int_a4e9a09e	type	Dude, Where's My Reward?
Maskerade / int_a4e9a09e	comment	Dude, Where's My Reward?: This is Agnes' reaction at the end of the book. Nanny and Granny don't seem to sympathise with her very much, but they've been in the exact situation many times before and Agnes is going to need to learn that Life Isn't Fair if she's going to be their third witch.
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Maskerade / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Maskerade / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Agnes briefly appeared in Lords and Ladies, and goes on to have a prominent role in Carpe Jugulum.
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Maskerade / int_a672255e	type	Doing It for the Art
Maskerade / int_a672255e	comment	Doing It for the Art: In-Universe example: Salzella tells Mr. Bucket this is the reason why anyone produces opera, as it makes no money. It turns out he's lying through his teeth, as he's stealing all the profits and actually hates opera with a passion.
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Maskerade / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Maskerade / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Commander Vimes does this off-screen. He sends Detritus and Corporal Nobbs to act as "undercover officers" in the last act of the book. The attention on them leaves the real undercover officer, AndrÃ©, free to get on with things. Once she figures it out, Granny is grudgingly impressed. Also Death during his poker hand with Granny for the life of the innkeeper's son; it's implied he knows damn well that 4 aces beats 4 queens, but he figures he can get away with "losing" if he pretends to misunderstand the rules of poker enough to think it's "four ones". The villain has done this to the opera's account books. It looks like it's been slap-dashedly put together by people who don't think money is important, and the owner spends most of the story trying to work out what they were trying to record. When Granny gets time to look at it she realizes that it's been deliberately messed with to hide massive theft; for instance, she finds a page where the columns are misaligned to hide that they don't all have the same number of entries. Possibly Christine. It's very hard to be sure, but when Christine makes sure to scream and faint before anything actually happens, and land in such a fashion that it probably doesn't hurt, Agnes sourly notes that Christine is actually very intelligent in some very specialised ways. Additionally, when Agnes finally gets mad and snaps at her when Christine dismisses her suspicions that Walter is the Ghost, she seems to drop the excitable pixie act for a moment.
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Maskerade / int_a8a9d045	type	Super-Scream
Maskerade / int_a8a9d045	comment	Super-Scream: Frustrated and finally sick of the hypocrisy of the opera house, Agnes lets out a scream so high she breaks glass, splinters wood, distorts metal and just generally does a good deal of damage to the building. At which point, Nanny remarks that it's now all over - as in, "it's not over until the fat lady sings."
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Maskerade / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
Maskerade / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: The Cable Street Particulars are described as "secret police for secret crimes". However, they don't fit in with the usual definition (and indeed the definition they did once fit before Vimes was Commander). The one depicted is better described as an undercover detective.
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Maskerade / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Maskerade / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: This exchange between Walter and Agnes has a devastating but utterly true one:
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Maskerade / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Maskerade / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: When Granny calculates the royalties Nanny should be getting, the text notes that she's "keenly numerate" because she suspects anyone using numbers is trying to get away with something. At the end of the novel she quickly deciphers the Opera House accounts book, which has been carefully curated by Salzella to conceal his embezzlement.
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Maskerade / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Maskerade / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Salzella. He takes it so far he almost becomes the Meta Guy who subsists on Black Comedy.
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Maskerade / int_af26b36a	type	The One Who Made It Out
Maskerade / int_af26b36a	comment	The One Who Made It Out: Opera singer Enrico Basilica grew up in Rookery Yard, in the Shades, where "you could fight your way out, or you could sing your way out" (or you could get out by going through an alley into Shamlegger Street, but no-one came to anything going that way).
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Maskerade / int_b14ca7ba	type	Two Aliases, One Character
Maskerade / int_b14ca7ba	comment	"Walter Plinge" is used as an alias for actors in British theatre cast lists, when it is necessary to avoid spoiling a major plot twist of the Two Aliases, One Character type. The twist here being Walter is one of the characters pretending to be the opera ghost.
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Maskerade / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Maskerade / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: This is the only Discworld book that runs on the rule that (ordinary) iron cannot be magicked (there are many examples of it being magicked in other books, and in Witches Abroad Nanny specifically notes that they can't magic a lock open because it's octiron). There is a mention in Wyrd Sisters as well; Nanny can't magic the torture implements that are made of iron. It's also often been indicated that witch magic is much better at affecting things that are or once were alive, such as wood, than metal.
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Maskerade / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Maskerade / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Salzella and Bucket find it ... awkward ... to leave the table after sampling Nanny's Chocolate Delight with Special Secret Sauce, and when they do depart hurriedly, it's in a very hunched manner. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to have the same effect on Enrico Basilica, possibly because being face-deep in chocolate sauce has a deeper effect on him than the sauce's aphrodisiac effects normally have on people - though Granny speculates that it hasn't had any effect "on account of not touching the sides."
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Maskerade / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Maskerade / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A... probably friendly jibe at the publishing industry in the form of Mr Goatberger, who "dreamed the dream of all who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would need to employ two people just to hold your trousers up". He is confused and shocked at the suggestion that he should give Nanny a share of the profits from her book — as far as he's concerned, authors should pay for the privilege of having their work published, even though he's the one who goes on to sell them.
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Maskerade / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Maskerade / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The villain gives a long Final Speech about how ridiculous opera conventions like the long Final Speech are. This comes not long after he claims to be the Only Sane Man, using multiple exclamation marks (a sure sign of madness). Oh, and he's not been skewered through the heart - the sword went between arm and body, to make it look like it. The absurdity of this is lampshaded.
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Maskerade / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Maskerade / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Christine, not because she's a bad person (she appears to be fond of Agnes/Perdita) but because thanks to her chronically short attention span/lack of brains, she can't really comprehend anything more complex than her own immediate interests. This leads to a strange dichotomy with her being able to pick up stage-tricks like conveniently learning to faint in a dramatic pose whenever something "operatic" happens, but limits her ability to realize that Agnes is pretending to be her voice:
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Maskerade / int_bd5ddcc4	type	Banister Slide
Maskerade / int_bd5ddcc4	comment	Banister Slide: Nanny slides down the balustrade of the Opera House's big grand staircase while chasing after Mrs Plinge. The narrator notes that "it is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something nasty waiting at the far end"; in this case it's a fancy statue, which Nanny sees coming in time to dodge.
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Maskerade / int_bd635007	type	Fauxreigner
Maskerade / int_bd635007	comment	Fauxreigner: Brindisian tenor Enrico Basilica—once known as Henry Slugg of Ankh-Morpork, because you can't sing opera with a name like "Henry Slugg".
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Maskerade / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Maskerade / int_bee8baee	comment	Christine is a master of feminine fainting, with Agnes' inner monologue sourly noting that it's something she's intelligent about, considering how she managed to do so with such precision that it likely didn't even hurt.
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Maskerade / int_c0594195	type	Through His Stomach
Maskerade / int_c0594195	comment	Through His Stomach: Despite Nanny Ogg's proclamation that this is silly advice unless one is instructing someone how to stab a person, her "Joy of Snackes" works very well for this route; it's full of aphrodisiacs and Love Potions.
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Maskerade / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Maskerade / int_c145f69b	comment	Salzella believed himself to be this: "You don't know what it has been like, I assure you, being the only sane man in this madhouse!!" He's not.
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Maskerade / int_c25a3f85	type	Reading Tea Leaves
Maskerade / int_c25a3f85	comment	Reading Tea Leaves: The witches get involved when Nanny Ogg reads Mrs Nitt's tea leaves to tell her how Agnes is getting on, and sees a clear image of the Ghost's mask. Which is something of a surprise to her, as the witches don't believe reading tea leaves actually works.
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Maskerade / int_c6d6ed88	type	Long-Lasting Last Words
Maskerade / int_c6d6ed88	comment	Long-Lasting Last Words: The death of opera director Salzella goes on, and on, and on for a long time...
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Maskerade / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Maskerade / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A line early on from someone working in a printing press mentions that they accidentally printed "famine" with seven letters, a reference to a misprint from Good Omens in which the character Famine is described as signing his name with seven letters. Granny Weatherwax's observation, on arriving at Mrs. Palm's house, that Colette is wearing some very interesting earrings is an allusion to a prominent Pratchett fan, Colette Reap, who once attended a signing event wearing Anorankh earrings (an ankh wearing an anorak). "Walter Plinge" is a real-life pseudonym used by actors who don't want to be associated with early minor parts (similar to "A.N. Other") and the character's description clearly evokes Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Michael Crawford, the first actor who played the musical version's Phantom, was once best known for that role). His description also somewhat evokes a young Andrew Lloyd Webber, as does his creation of the modern musical, particularly the Disc's version of Cats. The troll name for Granny Weatherwax ("She Who Must Be Avoided") is a reference to the H. Rider Haggard novel She and the eponymous character "She Who Must Be Obeyed". Death's All I have is four ones. could be a reference to the Bugs Bunny cartoon Barbary Coast Bunny, featuring Bugs lamenting in a game of poker that he only has 'a pair of ones... and another pair of ones.' Granny ain't got time to bleed, or at least, not until later. Also, all the opera names. La Triviata for La Traviata, The Ring of the Nibelungingung for The Ring of the Nibelung, Il Truccatore for Il Trovatore and so on. Later, Walter invents the modern musical and Nanny sees some of his ideas, such as an opera about cats, Miserable Les and Seven Dwarfs For Seven Other Dwarfs. Greebo, looking very scary because his human form is starting to revert, leaps onto a waiting coach and tells the driver to "Get orff". Mrs Lawsy would rather be at the music hall listening to Nellie Stamp sing "She Sits Among the Cabbages and Leeks". This is a reference to an urban legend that Marie Lloyd had a song which was originally "She Sits Among the Cabbages and Peas", but was changed to "Leeks" when Moral Guardians objected to the double meaning (but not, you will note, to actually remove that meaning in any way).
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Maskerade / int_c91408cb	type	Everything Sounds Sexier in French
Maskerade / int_c91408cb	comment	Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Or Brindisian in this case.
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Maskerade / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Maskerade / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Technically defied on Discworld, according to Nanny Ogg:
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Maskerade / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Maskerade / int_cc4d190a	comment	Although there is also the implication that he was scared of her. She admits that, if she had lost, the first thing she would have done would be to break his arm. A implication heavily reduced by her behavior towards Death compared to others though.
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Maskerade / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Maskerade / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In-universe example. Salzella makes several jokes about people who have just been murdered; Mr. Bucket finds them distasteful. This takes on a whole new meaning after the reveal Salzella was the one who committed the murders.
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Maskerade / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Maskerade / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: When Greebo chases the Ghost around the balconies in the middle of the performance of Il Truccatore, the audience applauds; some genuinely think it's part of the show, while others are less sure but don't want to risk looking uncultured if they're wrong.
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Maskerade / int_d45812ba	type	Fake Faint
Maskerade / int_d45812ba	comment	Fake Faint: Christine is a master of feminine fainting, with Agnes' inner monologue sourly noting that it's something she's intelligent about, considering how she managed to do so with such precision that it likely didn't even hurt. Not just Christine—at one point, it's noted that some of the ballerinas faint "carefully, so as not to get their clothes dirty." Dame Timpani does this as well, pointedly, before resorting to hysterics to try and get some of the attention back from Christine. It doesn't work.
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Maskerade / int_d4f281a3	type	Villainous Underdog
Maskerade / int_d4f281a3	comment	Villainous Underdog: Salzella is really just a guy, and he's going up against a pair of witches who were last seen sending the Fair Folk packing. The only thing saving him when he's found out and confronted at the end is exactly because he's not a terrifying magical menace, Granny considers it wrong for her to fight him directly.
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Maskerade / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Maskerade / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: When the Ghost offers "Perdita" singing lessons thinking she's Christinenote Christine and Agnes switched rooms, but he can't tell because it's dark and Agnes decides to play along to find out what he wants she can't resist telling him, "Perdita is a lot better than me". She quickly comes to regret it, because, with his natural Brutal Honesty, he responds by telling her precisely why he doesn't consider Perdita worth his time. To be exact, while Perdita is an incredibly talented singer, whose talent he admires, she's also a fairly textbook Brawn Hilda. And while he can train Christine to be as good as Perdita (he later modifies this once he finds out the truth, admitting that Christine won't ever be quite as good as her, not even after many months of one to one tuition), he can't train Perdita to be as slim, pretty, and graceful as Christine.
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Maskerade / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Maskerade / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: AndrÃ©'s suspicious behaviour rouses in the reader the suspicion that he might be the Ghost, until it's revealed that he is a policeman.
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Maskerade / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Maskerade / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Played for laughs when someone's long-lost love shows up at the very end, with no real impact on the plot, to Agnes' despair. Hey, that's how opera works.
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Maskerade / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Maskerade / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Christine.
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Maskerade / int_e31904d1	type	Allergic to Routine
Maskerade / int_e31904d1	comment	Allergic to Routine: At the start of the book, Granny Weatherwax is showing definite signs of going stir-crazy. After her adventures with Nanny Ogg and Magrat, ordinary witchcraft just isn't a challenge anymore. Nanny is beginning to worry that she'll either "go bad" or, perhaps more likely, spend so much time Borrowing that she forgets how to come back.
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Maskerade / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
Maskerade / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: One specially made for the dowager duchess of Quirm, that fits Granny perfectly.
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Maskerade / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Maskerade / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Granny ask Agnes how many fiddle-players there are in the band. Agnes tells her how many violinists there are in the orchestra. Granny ignores this aspect of the reply as irrelevent.
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Maskerade / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
Maskerade / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: Nobby Nobbs complains about modern policing, where you have to do things like detect and catch people, rather than the old days where you just let criminals run away and didn't try too hard to catch them.
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Maskerade / int_e769e5b0	type	The Reliable One
Maskerade / int_e769e5b0	comment	The Reliable One: Agnes Nitt. Who quietly hates being the sensible one who keeps her head in a crisis but gets no credit for sorting it out.
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Maskerade / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
Maskerade / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear the Reaper: Granny plays poker with Death for child's life. She gets four queens, he gets four aces... but decides to declare "I lose, all I have is four ones" with a wink.
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Maskerade / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Maskerade / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The "Departure" aria Agnes sings at one point is described as being about how hard it is for a character to leave the man she loves. It turns out the lyrics literally translate into a complaint about a stuck door. Death and Granny Weatherwax play a hand of poker for the life of an infant. Death, naturally, wins - but, due to Granny having a hand of four queens and him having a hand of four aces, he folds, saying he only has four ones.
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Maskerade / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Maskerade / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Mr. Bucket is described as "a self-made man who is proud of his handiwork."
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Maskerade / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Maskerade / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, since the story has a major character named Henry Slugg and a minor one named Henry Lawsy. As it turns out, this isn't a coincidence — it's revealed at the end that Henry Lawsy is actually Henry Slugg's son (whom he never knew he had) and was named after him, although his mother had always told him his dad was Mr. Lawsy the eel juggler.
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Maskerade / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Maskerade / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: When Granny comes back from seeing Mrs Plinge home, she asks Nanny what's happened while she was gone. Nanny reports that one of the male opera singers sang an aria, then one of the female opera singers sang an aria, then a dead body fell onto the stage.
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Maskerade / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Maskerade / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Borrowing is one of Granny's greatest skills in witchcraft, the ability to ride in another being's consciousness, see what it sees, and hear what it hears. At one point, she borrows Nanny Ogg... so she can see herself as she puts her hat back on and adjusts it. Nanny then questions why she doesn't just use a mirror. note Possibly a callback to her sister Lilith's use of magic mirrors.
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Maskerade / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Maskerade / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Christine is a heavy parody of the trope. She is both tremendously stupid and has an astoundingly low attention span for anything that's not her, zoning out within seconds.
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Maskerade / int_f37c192	type	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
Maskerade / int_f37c192	comment	Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Played with incessantly. An earlier statement in Reaper Man that "five exclamation marks are the sure sign of a diseased mind" is expanded on here, to the point where a character's ongoing descent into madness is marked by the number of exclamation marks after his statements. When he hits five, he's gone over the edge.
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Maskerade / int_f645ee0d	type	Never Win the Lottery
Maskerade / int_f645ee0d	comment	Never Win the Lottery: Nanny comes into a windfall of several thousand dollars, but most of it ends up getting spent as part of Granny's scheme to straighten out matters at the opera.
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Maskerade / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Maskerade / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Nanny Ogg's conservatory.
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Maskerade / int_fa8e599c	type	Eyelash Fluttering
Maskerade / int_fa8e599c	comment	Eyelash Fluttering: Christine flutters her eyelashes when reviving from her swoon, or possibly when realising people aren't paying enough attention to her reviving from her swoon.
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Maskerade / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Maskerade / int_fabef10f	comment	When Agnes finishes one last scream, going from one side of the audible spectrum to the other, Nanny Ogg remarks "Now it's over". Agnes is very large, and they're in an opera.
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Maskerade / int_fad7b727	type	Fun with Foreign Languages
Maskerade / int_fad7b727	comment	Fun with Foreign Languages: The Italian... er, Brindisian aria in the opera is about how hard it is for the heroine to leave her beloved. In fact, it quite literally is: There's also a fragment from a song in German, "Schneide meinen eigenen Hals" - not translated in the text, but means "cut my own throat". Fans won't be surprised, because the song is called "The Pedlar's Song".
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Maskerade / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Maskerade / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Mr Bucket is told that the opera spends a small fortune on ballet shoes because they wear out so fast, he instructs the ballerinas to incorporate more high jumps into their choreographies and stand on tip-toe when possible. Guess which activities wear out these shoes the most...
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Maskerade / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: From four books ago. In preparation for his wedding to Magrat, Verence tried to get a book on "marital arts", but ended up with one on martial arts instead. Apparently he has since succeeded, since Nanny found such a book in the castle and spent a few minutes drawing moustaches on all the illustrations. note Also a Genius Bonus, to those who know the original copiously illustrated guidebook The Joy Of Sex invariably featured men who at the very least sported The '70s moustaches - big obvious ones. Early on, the opera staff regard it as a sign of dread that Mr. Bucket is the sort of person who thinks he can determine what people are like by looking in their eyes and shaking their hand. Later on, Granny Weatherwax reveals she thinks along the same lines. Nanny Ogg is familiar with Mrs. Palm's because her son stayed there while he was stealing lead off the roof of the opera house (in Nanny's mind, it's not a crime when an Ogg does it). Later on, Mr. Salzella lists off the list of "... accidents" the opera house has been having, but mentions he's pretty sure the missing lead from the roof isn't part of the Ghost's antics. He'd know.
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