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Reaper Man
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This is the 11th Discworld novel. It was written at the same time as the Bromeliad trilogy, and it shows: both works talk about how beings with short life spans live them faster than humans, so everyone's lifespan is subjectively about the same. Both also use mayflies as an example.Unusually, there are two almost completely separate plots, and they are even denoted using two different typefaces (most noticeable in the first hardback edition).The primary plot involves Death. His cosmic bureaucracy, the grey and numberless Auditors of Reality, sack him for getting too close to humans, and Death is sent to live as a mortal instead. Will Death get his post back, or will he have to face his own mortality?The B-plot focuses on the consequences of what happens when Death Takes a Holiday (or in this case, is fired). Too much life force floods through the world, the recently dead arise as zombies, and metaphorical ideas are powered into life as the ancient (and recently deceased) wizard Windle Poons struggles to deal with the consequences.The title is a pun on Repo Man.Preceded by Moving Pictures, followed by Witches Abroad. Preceded in the Death series by Mort, followed by Soul Music. | |
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Small Parent, Huge Child | |
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Small Parent, Huge Child: Mrs Cake, the "medium verging on small", and her daughter Ludmilla, who is one of those large, shy people who spend much of their life trying not to loom. (This is because Ludmilla's a werewolf.) | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Bill Door quite rightly deduces that if the New Death is the sort to pose dramatically, then he's also not going to attack until midnight. Miss Flitworth, when her fiance disappeared decades ago, sensed that Discworld's narrativium was trying to force her into a role a la Great Expectations, and defied it by getting on with the business of life instead of moping about it. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The page quote, from Death's plea to Azrael. | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry: Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully's brother Hughnon is the High Priest of Blind Io and therefore the leader of Ankh-Morpork's clerics. They get on pretty well, but drop continuous cracks about each other's vocation: | |
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Artifact of Attraction | |
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Artifact of Attraction: Death's new scythe is treated like this, because it is such a marvellous work of craft that Ned Simnel cannot bring himself to destroy it, as is required for Death's plan. | |
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We All Die Someday | |
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We All Die Someday: Coming to terms with mortality is the major theme of the book, as even Death himself gets to experience what it's like to know your time is finite. Probably put most memorably in one of Reg Shoe's Zombie Advocate propaganda slogans: | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Auditors. Enjoy the fact that one showing any sign of personality goes up in smoke... or is that sad? | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown: Ms. Flitworth is said to have skin the color of a walnut. Same texture, too. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: The joke about Ridcully's favorite sauce being literally explosive if mixed with the wrong foods; later in the book Ridcully uses it as a weapon against a marauding compost heap. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Bill Door tried to set one up. It's mentioned early in the novel that destroyed objects leave a ghost behind, but these ghosts only exist long enough to, say, throw at someone on the other side. Bill Door pays the blacksmith to destroy his personal scythe, planning for it thereby to be available to him after his scheduled death. The blacksmith fouls the plan up, though (see Exact Words). | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Also something of a Mythology Gag, as the very Mr. Dibbler whom Windle refers to had attempted to re-write a dying soldier's last words in Blown Away to say something similar about Harga's House of Ribs in Moving Pictures, the previous Discworld novel. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: Death's successor has a horse made of bones. Death isn't impressed, because he's had horses like those who kept falling apart and fire-breathing horses who set fire to their own quarters. | |
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Not-So-Forgotten Birthday | |
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Not-So-Forgotten Birthday: Given a twist at the beginning, when the wizards throw Windle Poons a surprise deathday party, which plays out just like the trope. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: The first time Death dreams he cries out in his sleep, loud enough to wake Miss Flitworth and Cyril the dyslexic cockerel. | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
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Statuesque Stunner: Ludmilla is a quite tall and good-looking young lady (when she isn't a hairy wolf-thing, and maybe even then). | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: After seeing a man chasing his animated suit shouting that he paid seven dollars for it, who is then followed by a pair of walking trousers, both Ridcully and his brother wonder if anyone got a look at the label since that's a good deal. | |
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Hair-Trigger Avalanche | |
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Hair-Trigger Avalanche: Referenced. | |
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve | |
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve: This is when the new Death will turn up. The new Death deliberately chose this time in order to heighten what Death dismissively refers to as "drama". | |
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Pinball Projectile | |
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Pinball Projectile: Bill Door invokes this when pretending to be comically bad at pool and darts. | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs | |
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Hold Your Hippogriffs: The Discworld equivalent to Saint Elmo's Fire is here called "Mother Carey's Fire". Somewhat oddly, it comes up again in later books, and is there called "Saint Ungulant's Fire". Regional difference or Early Instalment Weirdness? You decide! | |
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Monsters Anonymous | |
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Monsters Anonymous: The Fresh Start Club. | |
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Cessation of Existence | |
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Cessation of Existence: Bill Door knows that's what will happen to him when he dies; as a result, he's terrified of the prospect. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Standard Discworld trope, but comes into play here because instead of there being one Death for everything, the spontaneously re-forming Deaths are built up by the beliefs of all the different species - for instance, the Death of Mayflies is a great black trout, Death of Turtles is a floating, empty shell, and Death of Trees is the disembodied sound of axes. The New Death's malevolence is based on the fact that modern people tend to treat death as more fearful and less of a natural occurrence than people in the past. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: Besides Mr. Bill Door's distinctive text style, the scythe that Bill Door creates to fight the new Death becomes so sharp that it starts/ cutt/ing up the dial/ogue. A mugger caught by Lupine and subjected to a Neck Lift not only speaks aloud in half-strangled mumbles, but actually thinks in them too. Then there's Azrael's own distinctive text style. In 72 points, the largest font normally used; or in the original edition, printed so large that the one word fills the page. | |
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Showdown at High Noon | |
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Showdown at High Noon: Played with; Death's battle against the New Death of Men takes place at midnight rather than high noon, and Death is unamused at his counterpart's ham-handed attempt at "DRAMA". | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The story begins and ends with Azrael. Also, there's a mention of "the other Morris dance" at the beginning, and it is explained near the end: whereas the normal Morris dance welcomes in the spring and life, the silent Dark Morris welcomes in the winter and death. | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: Death answers some questions this way. | |
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Explaining the Soap | |
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Explaining the Soap: Hughnon Ridcully's attempt to recap recent events on Cori Celesti sounds like a cross between Greek mythology and the soap opera recaps done by BBC announcers in the 70s. His brother Mustrum dismisses it with "I've never been able to get interested in that stuff, myself." | |
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Zombie Gait | |
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Zombie Gait: Discussed; the reason Windle Poons walks with a show, shuffling gait is because he has to consciously control the processes that his body used to do automatically, including walking. He's not sure why he's holding his arms out in front of him with the hands hanging down limp, though; it just feels natural. | |
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Predatory Business | |
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Predatory Business: The mall is a literal one. | |
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Genius Loci | |
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Genius Loci: The living shopping mall | |
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Tonto Talk | |
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Tonto Talk: One Man Bucket apparently speaks like this while acting as Mrs. Cake's spirit guide. Off the clock, he turns out to have been born and raised in Ankh-Morpork, and all his talk of great spirits, white buffalo, and the Happy Hunting Grounds is made up to impress Mrs. Cake's more gullible customers. | |
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The Casanova | |
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Casanunda (here spelled Casanunder) the Dwarf is mentioned in a footnote at the end. He'd later become a major character in Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies. | |
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World's Shortest Book | |
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World's Shortest Book: The Librarian may not be an expert on guerilla warfare but, as he reminds the Dean, what he doesn't know about orangutan warfare could be written on the squashed-up remains of a smart-ass wizard. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: This is the book where the Bursar starts to become unglued - and who can blame him? | |
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That's No Moon | |
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That's No Moon: The vast plain of ridges and valleys seen when the Auditors speak to Azrael at the start of the novel? It's one of Azrael's fingertips. | |
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"Just So" Story | |
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"Just So" Story: A modern urban version; abandoned shopping trolleys being found in the strangest places is explained as them being rogue drones from the mall Hive Mind that escaped. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Flit" describes a light or quick movement; insects are often described as flitting. Miss Flitworth's name addresses the question, what's the worth of something so brief as a flit? | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: A zombified Windle has some fun with a pack of unlicensed thieves who try to mug him, especially when they threaten him with "Your money or your life!" | |
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The Disembodied | |
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The Disembodied: The Death of Trees manifests as the body-less sound of an axe chopping into wood. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Death vs New Death is filled with these both ways. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: One-Man-Bucket, Mrs. Cake's Spirit Advisor, was this when he was alive, and continues to be now he's dead — in fact, it was apparently his "cruel thirst" that prevented him crossing over. Mrs. Cake pays him for his services by setting a shot of whisky on fire, allowing him to drink the spirit of the spirit. | |
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Wardrobe Wound | |
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Wardrobe Wound: Windle Poons gets stabbed in the chest by a terrified thief in the first hours of his undeath. He is very annoyed about the damage to the robe, since it was his best robe, he was hoping to be buried in it, and silk is really hard to repair. | |
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Powers That Be | |
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Powers That Be: Azrael, the Death of Universes, is one of the eight Old High Ones. | |
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Literal Metaphor | |
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Literal Metaphor: The overabundance of life after Death is fired means that it infuses what was only a metaphor - the idea of shopping malls as parasitic predators that suck the life out of inner city shops - and makes it real. Also, after Bill Door saves her from the fire, Sally the innkeeper's daughter is Living on Borrowed Time... borrowed, in this case, from Bill Door's life-timer. | |
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Zombie Advocate | |
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Zombie Advocate: Spoofed with Reg Shoe and his "Fresh Start Club", who campaign (ineffectively) for the rights of the dead and undead. | |
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Hive Mind | |
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Hive Mind: The predatory shopping mall. | |
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Glamour Failure | |
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Glamour Failure: Sal, the innkeeper's daughter, can see Bill Door clearly for a skellington in overalls. | |
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Big "YES!" | |
| Reaper Man / int_970ccfec | comment |
Big "YES!": One that takes up a whole page by itself. Word of God has it Pratchett went to the extra effort of writing an entire extra page of narrative just to ensure the "YES" was on the left side, so the reader would see it when they turned the page. Then the person in the setting room who knew this was moved before the paperback release, and someone else decided to change the formatting. | |
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Time Abyss | |
| Reaper Man / int_98a63dc6 | comment |
Time Abyss: Azrael is as old as the universe (and note his namesake from Islamic theology is said to be the last being in all the universe to die at the end of time). He's also responsible for the Ultimate Clock, which is actually the opposite of an ordinary clock — rather than telling people what the time is, it tells Time what it is. Death notes, too, that unlike other clocks, this Clock only goes around once. And, at the end of the book, Azrael states "I remember when all of this will be again." | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom | |
| Reaper Man / int_98c4ea5f | comment |
Falling Chandelier of Doom: The great chandelier in the dining room of Unseen University unscrews itself while the wizards are eating due to the abundance of life force. Thankfully, the falling screws give ample warning for the wizards to get out of the way, though the impact still splatters food everywhere. | |
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Death Takes a Holiday | |
| Reaper Man / int_99213234 | comment |
Death Takes a Holiday: Or rather, is fired, but the effects are the same. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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Death by Irony: The Counting Pines, which show their age to stop people cutting them down to count their rings, but are then almost all felled by "the ornamental house number plate industry". | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
| Reaper Man / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Reg Shoe is frequently going on about the shabby treatment the undead get in Ankh-Morpork, but that's largely him being a Soapbox Sadie. | |
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Heroic Fire Rescue | |
| Reaper Man / int_9ca24902 | comment |
Heroic Fire Rescue: By Bill Door (Death) no less. | |
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Fridge Logic | |
| Reaper Man / int_9dfd7154 | comment |
Ludmilla Cake, who is human-shaped three weeks out of the month, turns into a half-wolf-half-woman at the full moon; fellow Fresh Start Club member Lupine is the opposite, a wolf that turns into a wolfman every full moon. Poons arranges for them to meet. Another character points out the Fridge Logic involved. | |
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Proportional Aging | |
| Reaper Man / int_9e0a4772 | comment |
Proportional Aging: The book shows different life forms experiencing time differently depending on their life spans. Trees have a conversation that takes seventeen years and when one is chopped down, they seem to the others to have simply vanished. Meanwhile, elderly mayflies at sunset are seen reminiscing about how the sun was properly yellow and high in the sky when they were young. | |
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Fantastic Naming Convention | |
| Reaper Man / int_9ffbadef | comment |
Fantastic Naming Convention: One Man Bucket's tribe names children after the first thing the mother sees upon looking outside their tent after the birth. One Man Bucket's full name is "One Man Throwing A Bucket Of Water Over Two Dogs". His brother... wasn't so lucky. | |
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Kitsch Collection | |
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Kitsch Collection: Miss Flitworth has an entire room decorated with just about every kind of knickknack imaginable, from fine china plates to cheap porcelain dogs and everything in between. They're implied to be souvenirs from her late fiancee. | |
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Graffiti of the Resistance | |
| Reaper Man / int_a63a8586 | comment |
Graffiti of the Resistance: Zombie Reg Shoe paints pro-undead-rights graffiti on any handy wall in Ankh-Morpork. Subverted in that La Résistance, in this case, consists of one overenthusiastic zombie who's only a heroic resistance leader in his own mind. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
| Reaper Man / int_a68421bb | comment |
Animated Adaptation: A segment of the book was animated by Cosgrove Hall in 1996 as an 8-minute short called "Welcome to the Discworld", the first filmed adaptation of the books. It only adapted Death finding his hourglass, the Auditors plotting to remove him, and him talking to Albert before departing his realm to spend his new time. It ended with "To be continued..." but was never picked up for a full series, despite the subsequent adaptations of Wyrd Sisters and even Soul Music. | |
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The Un-Smile | |
| Reaper Man / int_a823fa03 | comment |
The Unsmile: "Ludmilla gave [Poons] the bright, crystalline smile perfected by people who had long ago learned not to let their feelings show." | |
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Weirdness Censor | |
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Weirdness Censor: In full effect around Death as usual, despite him actually living among humans and routinely interacting with them. They mainly note that he seems very skinny, and touching him feels oddly hard. How he manages things that should be anatomically impossible, such as eating, isn't even shown to the readers. There is a full plate in front of him, later it is empty, so he must have eaten it. Somehow. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| Reaper Man / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Death to the New Death constantly marks the latter's attempts to lay on the "drama", like dramatically posing on a hillside, illuminated only by the flash of lightning. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Reaper Man / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
In the New Discworld Companion, it is claimed that this has happened to poor Ned over 150 times and ultimately ends up being the death of him. Dick learns from the mistakes. | |
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Living Clothes | |
| Reaper Man / int_b826ab9a | comment |
Living Clothes: One of the side effects of the excess life force is inanimate objects coming to life, including clothing. | |
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Terms of Endangerment | |
| Reaper Man / int_ba557643 | comment |
Terms of Endangerment: Ludmilla Cake can tell when One-Man-Bucket is about to lose his temper from the way he calls a fellow ghost "friend", saying "He always calls people 'friend' right before he hits them." | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Reaper Man / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Death, when he sees that the New Death wears a crown and sees himself as ruling over the lives of mortals. This is rather shocking if you look at his appearances in previous books. That was one of the few times he's used an exclamation mark. | |
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Cowboy Episode | |
| Reaper Man / int_bcfc7495 | comment |
Cowboy Episode: Death's sub-plot could be considered a pastiche of westerns. A stranger with a mysterious past ("Bill Door") tries to start life new in an isolated farming community, but must face sinister figures who are after his head (the Auditors and the New Death) with only the help of some unlikely friends (Miss Flitworth). There's even a show-down at twelve o'clock, though it's at midnight rather than noon. | |
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Poorly Lit Pareidolia | |
| Reaper Man / int_bfb0f737 | comment |
Poorly Lit Pareidolia: Bill Door is trying to find a tarpaulin to protect Miss Flitworth's harvest on a stormy night... the same night that he and the innkeeper's daughter are due to die. He thinks he sees a robed, skeletal, scythe-wielding silhouette coming for him, but it turns out to be Ned Simnel's harvesting machine instead of the New Death. Later inverted, when Bill assures Miss Flitworth that a figure on the hillside illuminated by lightning is just the shadow of the Combination Harvester, but it turns out to be the actual New Death. | |
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Womb Level | |
| Reaper Man / int_c03860d2 | comment |
Womb Level: The predatory mall becomes this once Windle and company get the Queen's attention. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
| Reaper Man / int_c2c15b23 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Comment: The wizards see a man chasing his animated suit shouting that he paid seven dollars for it, who is then followed by a pair of walking trousers. Ridcully then comments on what an extraordinary occurrence this is: a tailor selling a suit with two pairs of pants for only seven dollars. The punchline is enhanced by the narration telling us after Ridcully first exclaims his amazement, the other wizards quietly think to themselves that clothes moving on their own is fairly unremarkable as far as supernatural occurrences go. When Ridcully points out the price, they actually agree with him. | |
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Neck Lift | |
| Reaper Man / int_c2c80ef | comment |
A mugger caught by Lupine and subjected to a Neck Lift not only speaks aloud in half-strangled mumbles, but actually thinks in them too. | |
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Living on Borrowed Time | |
| Reaper Man / int_c41d362e | comment |
Also, after Bill Door saves her from the fire, Sally the innkeeper's daughter is Living on Borrowed Time... borrowed, in this case, from Bill Door's life-timer. | |
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Vehicular Sabotage | |
| Reaper Man / int_c4976d7c | comment |
Vehicular Sabotage: At the end, when the New Death's spirit has possessed the Combination Harvester to go One-Winged Angel, Death calmly reaches into his robe and removes a small part - one integral to its frame - that he had removed earlier. The machine collapses inches before reaching him. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Reaper Man / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Windle Poons' last words to the company in the Great Hall of Unseen University are almost identical to those of Lawrence Oates, a member of Scott's doomed Polar Expedition who deliberately walked out and lost himself in the Antarctic night so as not to slow his comrades down. His last words when he dies for the first time ("What I could do with right now is one of Mr Dibbler's famous meat pies -") mirror the alleged last words of William Pitt The Younger ("I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.") Also something of a Mythology Gag, as the very Mr. Dibbler whom Windle refers to had attempted to re-write a dying soldier's last words in Blown Away to say something similar about Harga's House of Ribs in Moving Pictures, the previous Discworld novel. After Windle tries to drown himself in the River Ankh, Sergeant Colon briefly gushes about a story his mother used to tell him about a boy who had an adventure under the sea, a nod to Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. Can't forget Vetinari's line when nobody in Ankh-Morpork knows what's going on with the poltergeist activity. A possible one to For a Few Dollars More: Death's hourglass running out as New Death bears down on him, only for Miss Flitworth to give up some of her time to give him a chance, is strongly reminiscent of The Man With No Name bringing the second musical pocketwatch into the duel between Mortimer and Indio. Death's battle with his replacement is reminiscent of the showdown in High Noon, with the combatants facing off and then the protagonist fleeing through the village as he tries to gain an advantage, except it takes place at the other twelve o'clock. The wizards fighting the shopping trolleys sequence has a few to Alien, which Pratchett is fond of referencing in other works as well. The line about the 'Dark Enchantments' chocolates ("To deliver a box of chocolates like this, dark strangers drop from chair-lifts and abseil down buildings."), is a reference to the old Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts, as well as the name of the chocolates themselves being a reference to Black Magic, another type of boxed chocolates. The Priests in the Lost Jeweled Temple of Doom of Offler remark that a chap with a whip got as far as the giant spikes. Miss Flitworth's line about moping around in her wedding dress forever may be a reference to Great Expectations. The setting of the climax of the Windle storyline is highly reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead (1978). Except that the undead monsters are the heroes, and the evil monster is the shopping mall itself. Bill Door working himself to the point of collapse in a race with the Combination Harvester is reminiscent of the American folk hero John Henry, who worked himself to death competing with a steam drill. Bill Door mentions playing Exclusive Possession for someone's life once. He was the boot. The New Death's appearance and some of his dialogue is based on the Witch-King of Angmar from The Lord of the Rings (who proclaimed to Gandalf that he was "Death Himself"). Then again, the Witch-King has a certain resemblance to the personification of Death in Paradise Lost, as well as the image of a crowned death in medieval iconography. Death says his own death will be "A GREAT ADVENTURE". In keeping with the Western-esque theme of the plot, after Death reunites the late Miss Flitworth with her fiancé Rufus, he asks her "Who was that masked man?" | |
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Lame Pun Reaction | |
| Reaper Man / int_cb0743c0 | comment |
Lame Pun Reaction: One of the Auditors (who's starting to develop a personality) makes a pun. It's not well-received. | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
| Reaper Man / int_cbe3d017 | comment |
Damned by Faint Praise: A footnote mentions the most positive song about the city of Ankh-Morpork includes the lyrics "so good they called it Ankh-Morpork". | |
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GoshDangItToHeck | |
| Reaper Man / int_d0b60f23 | comment |
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The excess of life force causes Mustrum Ridcully to produce small, strange-looking creatures whenever he swears. He resorts to euphemisms to prevent this from happening, and eventually produces "the most genteel battle-cry in the history of bowdlerization: 'Darn them to heck!'" | |
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| Reaper Man / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
| Reaper Man / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Subverted. Ned Simnel is wondering how to make his Combination Harvester run without a horse. A blast of steam goes off immediately, but he writes it off as a useless distraction. In the New Discworld Companion, it is claimed that this has happened to poor Ned over 150 times and ultimately ends up being the death of him. Dick learns from the mistakes. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
| Reaper Man / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Straight-laced though she is, Miss Flitworth is Genre Savvy and determined enough to rate as one, the moreso in that she's the only person other than Ysabell to have smacked Death and gotten away with it. | |
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Deity of Mortal Creation | |
| Reaper Man / int_d435222d | comment |
Deity of Mortal Creation: When Death is forced into retirement, his position is filled by a number of species-specific Deaths based on that target's idea of Death. The Death of Turtles is a hollow shell, the Death of Trees is the sound of a swinging axe, and the Death of Humans is a horrible cliché. | |
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Man Versus Machine | |
| Reaper Man / int_d54c5d44 | comment |
Bill Door working himself to the point of collapse in a race with the Combination Harvester is reminiscent of the American folk hero John Henry, who worked himself to death competing with a steam drill. | |
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The Dead Can Dance | |
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The Dead Can Dance: Death turns out to be pretty light on his feet at the end of the book, in a nod to the medieval depiction of the "danse macabre," the Dance of Death that unites everyone regardless of station. | |
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Eternal Recurrence | |
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Eternal Recurrence: Implied by Azrael's remark that "I remember when all this will be again." | |
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Unfortunate Names | |
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Unfortunate Names: Implied to have been the case for One-Man-Bucket's twin brother. One-Man-Bucket came from a tribe that named children after what their mother saw looking out the tent after they were born. His full name is, "One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs," and he says that his twin was unlucky, as he was born first and named after what the dogs had been doing a moment before. Windle initially guesses his name was "Two-Dogs-Fighting", much to One-Man-Bucket's amusement. | |
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Only Mostly Dead | |
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Only Mostly Dead: Sal, after Bill Door starts sharing his time with her. | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: Death's scythe. His first one is sharpened on sunlight and is so sharp it cuts words. But at the end when Death is forced to use the harvest scythe against the New Death, his own rage gives it an edge "beyond any definition of sharpness". | |
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The Igor | |
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The Igor: The Notfaroutoes have been advertising for one for a while. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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The villagers really hate the Revenoo (especially since many of them are smugglers). Of course, Bill Door... isn't from taxes. | |
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Page-Turn Surprise | |
| Reaper Man / int_e5ea3e9a | comment |
Page-Turn Surprise: Pratchett puts one of these when Azrael answers. You turn the page only to find one big, huge "YES" covering the entire page. In the hardcover, this is on the left side of the page, so you see it when you turn (and Pratchett allegedly wrote an extra 200 words to make it so), but it ended up on the wrong side of the page in the paperback edition. Later paperback releases fixed this issue but ran into another, related problem —100pt block letters tend to show through thin pages. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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This is rather shocking if you look at his appearances in previous books. That was one of the few times he's used an exclamation mark. | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper | |
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Don't Fear the Reaper: In contrast to the Death we know, the Witch-King-esque Death of Humans that arrives later in the book to claim the original is definitely the type of reaper that should be feared. After dispatching him, Death successfully pleads his case to Azrael that he should be allowed to be a little human, to care for his "harvest". | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Ned Simnel can't bring himself to destroy Death's scythe in the furnace, as requested, so he merely takes it to pieces. He reasons that if it's just a handle and a blade, not a scythe, it's technically been destroyed. | |
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Glowing Eyelights of Undeath | |
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Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: A common description of Windle Poons eyes once he comes back. | |
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Lesser of Two Evils | |
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Lesser of Two Evils: The inhabitants of Miss Flitworth's village prefer Death over the Revenoo, as Death only comes around once per lifetime for everyone instead of every year. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Casanunda (here spelled Casanunder) the Dwarf is mentioned in a footnote at the end. He'd later become a major character in Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies. There are a couple of passing references to The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, long before they received their own book. And while poor Ned Simnel never did get the hang of steam power, it turns out his son Dick did. | |
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Ill-Fated Flowerbed | |
| Reaper Man / int_f40c8e72 | comment |
Ill-Fated Flowerbed: Technically Ill-Fated Greensward; Modo takes it surprisingly well when the zombified Windle Poons chose to emerge from the Earth... right under the immaculately tended lawn. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: At the end of the book, when Death has been reinstated by Azrael, he takes the soul of Renata Flitworth back in time to the spot where her fiance died in an avalance, so they can enter the afterlife together. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Ludmilla Cake, who is human-shaped three weeks out of the month, turns into a half-wolf-half-woman at the full moon; fellow Fresh Start Club member Lupine is the opposite, a wolf that turns into a wolfman every full moon. Poons arranges for them to meet. Another character points out the Fridge Logic involved. At the end, we get this passage that makes it pretty clear what happens between them: Making Money mentions in passing that the relationship is still going on years later. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The New Death is unable to understand why Miss Flitworth would give up some of her own time on the earth to give Death a chance to defeat him. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Cyril, the dyslexic cockerel who can never get his crow right. Zombie Windle has eyes like gimlets. | |
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Staring Kid | |
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Staring Kid: Sally Lifton, the little girl who won't stop talking about the "skellington with all bones on." She's seeing exactly what's there, unlike the adults, and poor Death is at a complete loss trying to deal with her. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Turns out even the priests in the remote Lost Temple of Offler live in fear of "Mrs. Cake!" Bill Door remarks upon the inconvenience of skeletal horses when he and Miss Flitworth catch a glimpse of the New Death riding one. Later, after the New Death has been defeated, one of the neighbors finds the skeletal horse is still hanging around eating hay (or at least trying to) in Miss Flitworth's stable. The villagers really hate the Revenoo (especially since many of them are smugglers). Of course, Bill Door... isn't from taxes. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: The "blasted wire wheely baskety things." | |
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