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Snuff

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Snuff	comment	The 39th Discworld novel, published after I Shall Wear Midnight. His Grace Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch cheerfully volunteers for a holiday along with his family in that most dreaded of locations: the countryside. There are always things rustling through the undergrowth, you can never be sure that someone isn't hiding behind that hedge, and there are no streets. Or are there?His wife entertaining the local gentry and his son becoming obsessed with poo, Vimes goes for a walk, visits the local pub, gets into a fight with a blacksmith, and discovers that a murder has been committed. No one cares - after all, the victim was just a goblin. But to Vimes, a crime is a crime and there must be a punishment. However, he has no jurisdiction, no body, and no clues. His only allies are his wife and his Battle Butler. Then the local police, who have jurisdiction, turn up to arrest him. And his wife still won't let him eat bacon sandwiches.Continuing with themes introduced in Unseen Academicals, Snuff heavily deconstructs Fantastic Racism. In contrast to the usual Watch novels this is a more Vimes-centric tale Ã la Night Watch Discworld, although the rest of the Watch do feature sporadically throughout the novel. Nobby Nobbs gets a goblin girlfriend. The second Discworld novel not to feature Death as a character.Preceded in the series overall by Unseen Academicals, and in the Watch series by Thud!. Itâ€™s followed by Raising Steam.
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Snuff / int_101254d3	type	Barsetshire
Snuff / int_101254d3	comment	Barsetshire: The whole setting of the Shires allows Pratchett to introduce the Discworld's analogue of the quiet rural backwater to the big city where nothing usually happens very much. Except for a visiting policeman solving, er, Midsomer Murders in and around Cold Comfort Farm and Ambridge - and every other English rural trope that Pratchett can cram in...
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Snuff / int_1246c26c	type	Villainous Lineage
Snuff / int_1246c26c	comment	Villainous Lineage: Willikins, presuming his own criminal tendencies to be an example of this, speculates that he could find out who his father was by visiting the cemetery at the Temple of Small Gods, shouting "Dad, I'm going to be a copper", and seeing which of the headstones starts revolving. Vimes suggests he'd probably having more luck shouting it at the lime pits behind The Tanty note presumably where executed criminals have been buried, and Willikins takes this as a huge compliment.
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Snuff / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Snuff / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: It's mentioned that the Watch "appears to include at least one of every known bipedal sapient species, plus one Nobby Nobbs."
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Snuff / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Snuff / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: On par with Night Watch Discworld, I Shall Wear Midnight and Thud! which are usually seen as the darker ones.
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Snuff / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
Snuff / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Heavily implied with one of Vimes's dinner guests being a spinster, whose companion is described as "a strict-looking lady with short hair and a man's shirt".
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Snuff / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Snuff / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The enslavement of the local goblins calls to mind the Holocaust (the neighbours turn the other way), the African slave trade, and the treatment of Australian Aborigines. The tragic experiences of Miss Beedle's mother are similar to those of non-Native children or young women taken in by Native American tribes in the 17th to 19th centuries, only to be forcibly "rescued" and "re-educated". On a more mundane note, the plot of this book has more than a little in common with Feet of Clay. The ominously ticking owl clock that troubles Death/Bill Door in Reaper Man is also present in Miss Beedle's cottage to worry Vimes. Like Death looking out over fields of corn, Vimes has an epiphany looking down on the Ramkin land from a high place. Whether he wants to be or not, he is Lord of the Manor and has a responsibility to the land and the people to govern fairly. That means everyone, including Goblins.
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Snuff / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Snuff / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: While trying to catch up with the Wonderful Fanny during a storm, Feeney tells Vimes that they shouldn't have to worry about the storm unless it causes the build-up of a Damn Slam. Three guesses as to what eventually happens.
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Snuff / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Snuff / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Played with. Snuff is mentioned several times. Snuff is made from tobacco, which is the reason that Gravid abducted the goblins three years ago and set off the plot in the novel. Not to mention that it's also a term for murder...
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Snuff / int_19d8d325	type	Darkest Africa
Snuff / int_19d8d325	comment	Darkest Africa: The slave farm is deliberately located in one of the remotest, darkest and most inaccessible places on Disc.
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Snuff / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Snuff / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Gravid Rust, the man behind the entire evil plot, who is introduced, plans, is arrested, exiled and assassinated, without ever appearing on the page.
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Snuff / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Snuff / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: Brought up specifically in A.E. Pessimal's concept of the "dreadful algebra".
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Snuff / int_1d2b0c27	type	Hamster-Wheel Power
Snuff / int_1d2b0c27	comment	Hamster-Wheel Power: The Old Treachery riverboats are powered by oxen on treadmills.
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Snuff / int_1d434991	type	The Man in the Mirror Talks Back
Snuff / int_1d434991	comment	The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: Vimes has a moment like this while taking the Black-Eyed Susan back to the Shires, where his reflection warns him that Stratford won't stop at killing Vimes.
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Snuff / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Snuff / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Vimes, as usual. Willikins is his backup. Between them and Sybil, Young Sam is the safest boy in the world.
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Snuff / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Snuff / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Gordon sisters... and their interest in bonnets.
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Snuff / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
Snuff / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: Vimes comes pretty close while pursuing the Queen of Quirm offshore, but averts this trope because he finally has bacon sandwiches and refuses to let seasickness forfeit his chance to enjoy them. And also, possibly, because Stinky helped him endure it.
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Snuff / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Snuff / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Flutter and some of the hirelings count as this, as they're mostly smugglers who have been dragged into a murder and slavery plot, and for the most part give up as soon as Vimes has identified himself. Brassbound, however, portrays himself as this but is actually Stratford in disguise.
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Snuff / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
Snuff / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: Early on, Vimes isn't sure how you can own a mile of trout stream, because surely the bit of the stream that's yours is moving onto your neighbour's land? Much later, Colonel Makepeace reflects that he rents half a mile of stream, but can no longer run fast enough to keep up with it.
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Snuff / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Snuff / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Miss Beedle mentions having written fifty-seven books at the time she meets Vimes. The "Also by" page of Snuff lists fifty-seven titles, not counting the graphic novel adaptations of the first two Discworld books.
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Snuff / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Snuff / int_285b66d7	comment	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: Vimes speculates aloud at the "remarkable coincidence" that a Burleigh and Stronginthearm Piecemaker Mark IX could wind up in the hands of one of the mob outside Feeney's lockup, when the only one still existent is sealed up in his cellar at home. He knows that of course it's there, because Willikins and he sealed it up themselves. Just like of course he knows it'll still be there when he gets home and — after a suitable delay for Willikins to put it back — checks. Then he offers Willikins a raise.
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Snuff / int_28836bbd	type	Saving the World With Art
Snuff / int_28836bbd	comment	Saving the World With Art: Tears of the Mushroom's stunning harp performance convinces the elite of Ankh-Morpork and many visiting dignitaries that goblins like her are worthy of all the rights and legal protections extended to other sentient races. This saves her kind from ignominy, enslavement, and likely extinction.
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Snuff / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Snuff / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The avec gag — The British-derived Ankh-Morporkian characters say that Quirmian (French) food is good, but uses too much "avec" — is never explained, but pretty easily found in the dictionary.note Avec is French for "with", so obviously, it's written on menus and recipes a lot. Saying something was made with too much "with" is kinda silly, and Vimes' insisting on having his bacon sandwich "without ''avec'" is rather hilarious. Of course, we later see "avec" being sold by the jar....
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Snuff / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Snuff / int_2a090d00	comment	Gravid Rust. The colonel considers that clearly no-one involved in choosing it knew animal husbandry.
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Snuff / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Snuff / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Col. Makepeace's old regiment, the Light Dragons, used to breed swamp dragons for use in warfare. It never worked, and inspired him to title his memoirs Twenty-Four Years Without Eyebrows.
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Snuff / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Snuff / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: The bad guys are involved in smuggling Crystal Slam, a very dangerous troll drug.
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Snuff / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Snuff / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Willikins is prone to switching from "gentleman's gentleman" to "street thug" here, especially when it's just him and Commander Vimes.
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Snuff / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Snuff / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Stratford, to a tee. Definitely not the brains of operation, but doesn't flinch from killing to get a job done. When he marks Vimes as an enemy, he tries to sneak into young Sam's room at night. Also something of a deconstruction; none of his murders or threatened murders are actually called for under his orders, and it is his actions that get Vimes so involved and motivate his terrified allies to give King's evidence just to bring him down, whereas if he'd acted with less gratuitous bloodlust and cruelty the villains might have got away with it.
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Snuff / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
Snuff / int_2da1421	comment	Booby Trap: Lady Sybil's ancestors took their security seriously, and the Ramkin Hall strongroom has multiple locking mechanisms guarded by some of these. Guillotines are involved.
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Snuff / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Snuff / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: "I'm a scallywag, not a damn murderer!"
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Snuff / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Snuff / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Vimes cites a case when a man did something much worse than kick his dog, which Vetinari took as an indication of his personality and ordered his house searched for evidence of worse behavior. The man was hanged, but not for the dog.
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Snuff / int_35a03507	type	Raised by Orcs
Snuff / int_35a03507	comment	Raised by Orcs: Subverted. The Poo Lady is the daughter of a woman who was raised by goblins, and was forced to watch as a party of human "rescuers" brutally murdered the entire colony of goblins that had raised her with love all her life. Said child was then beaten, often, by her "rescuers" whenever she spoke in the goblin tongue (the only language she originally knew), did anything "goblin-like", and was forcibly educated to being more "normal". Said child escaped custody the second they let her out of the house.
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Snuff / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Snuff / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Only by comparison to the other Discworld books, which have generally avoided outright swearing, but the repeated use of "shit" and "bitch" is quite noticeable.
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Snuff / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Snuff / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Stratford is surprisingly cunning for a Psycho for Hire. Fortunately, Vimes is even more cunning and manages to foil him at nearly every turn.
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Snuff / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Snuff / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: One of the culprits is told he can't expect to be let off Feegle free.
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Snuff / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Snuff / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Vimes' impromptu lecture/rant to the Gordon girls turns out to have been one by Sybil for the benefit of their mother, and the whole party was organized around causing it. Vimes strongly suspects the entire adventure was one by Vetinari but can't prove anything. A strong piece of evidence (that Vimes doesn't know about) is Vetinari confiding to his secretary that he had been moved to tears when he recently learned the truth about the goblins and their situation in a conversation at the beginning of the book.
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Snuff / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Snuff / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Vimes muses that all married couples probably have their own unique phrases they use to send each other covert messages, such as the one Sybil employs to warn him not to antagonize their dinner guests. Sure enough, he overhears one of the couples he'd been antagonizing use such Non Sequitur phrases to scold one another as they're departing.
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Snuff / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Snuff / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: An account of how Fred and Nobby keep serendipitously stumbling onto major clues includes a case that was solved thanks to something that tried to lay its eggs in Nobby's nose. At some point in his law enforcement career, someone Vimes was arresting tried to kill him with a very large salmon.
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Snuff / int_4045a37f	type	Boob-Based Gag
Snuff / int_4045a37f	comment	Boob-Based Gag: Emily Gordon, who "certainly lodged in the mind, and possibly also in doorways". At first, she's the only Gordon sister Vimes can tell apart from the others, thanks to her excessive endowments.
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Snuff / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Snuff / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: Part of the "dreadful algebra of necessity" that drives goblin mothers to eat their young in times of famine is that if they don't do so, the child will surely die anyway of starvation.
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Snuff / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Snuff / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: So blatant that even Colon and Nobby spot it, when the tobacconist claims he's barely breaking even while sporting a new diamond tie pin and gold tooth.
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Snuff / int_4565d81d	type	Single-Stroke Battle
Snuff / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: A fists-only version occurs between Jethro and the Queen's first mate. The fight between Willikins and Stratford.
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Snuff / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Snuff / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: Everyone knows that goblins eat their own young. They actually do, occasionally. As a Mercy Kill, when the famines get so bad that there is no way the child would survive anyway, and it's the only way for the grieving mother to survive and, hopefully, have another. They do save the babies' souls in a Soul Jar, however.
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Snuff / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Snuff / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jethro. He's got a huge temper and can be very nasty when provoked (even if if you weren't actually trying to provoke him). He picks a fight with Vimes purely on account of him being a nobleman, though this is because he's spent his whole life seeing nobility take advantage of people they consider below them. This points towards the "heart of gold part": ultimately he is firmly on the side of the weak and downtrodden and will fight to protect them. He's one of the few residents of the Shires who considers goblins to be people.
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Snuff / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Snuff / int_479d4e5a	comment	Stratford himself, despite his dislike of his boss, is a repulsive, violent thug with very little self control and a desire to target infants even when it doesn't benefit his plans to do so.
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Snuff / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Snuff / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: There are continual references to the Marquis of Fantailler Rules (the Disc's version of Queensbury Rules). Nobody in the book fights according to them. Not even the Marquis fought according to them, given how he stabbed his wife to death.
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Snuff / int_4b6d41e3	type	Alien Gender Confusion
Snuff / int_4b6d41e3	comment	Alien Gender Confusion: Humans can't easily tell goblin genders and, regarding goblins as vermin, seldom try. But a rural community becomes somewhat disconcerted when they find out a goblin that had been ruthlessly butchered by a couple of local thugs was female.
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Snuff / int_4c21a018	type	Virgin in a White Dress
Snuff / int_4c21a018	comment	Virgin in a White Dress: Sybil mentions that a particularly ridiculous tradition (the maids must turn to the wall when being spoken to by a man) happened so the girls "wouldn't feel ashamed of wearing white on their wedding day."
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Snuff / int_4e3f6d57	type	What Would X Do?
Snuff / int_4e3f6d57	comment	What Would X Do?: Wee Mad Arthur has two instances of this in regards to Vimes' copper teachings. First, when told on the plantation that the law doesn't exist there, he carefully goes through a list of things Vimes has taught, and judges that it does. So, he attacks the men there to detain them. After he opens the huts, finding hundreds of dead or dying enslaved goblins in horrific situations, he asks himself again and just limits his response to the guards as capturing them with no further action. Subverted by Vimes himself who tells Wee Mad Arthur, if Vimes was there and did things, Vimes would be brought up on charges of excessive force, police brutality, and other similar crimes.
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Snuff / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Snuff / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Inside that pot is the living soul of a goblin child and it belongs to you. Congratulations!"
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Snuff / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Snuff / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Early in the novel, Willikins tells how one of Sybil's ancestors bet he could see the smoke rising over Ankh-Morpork from atop Hangman's Hill in the Shires. When Vimes lights a bonfire to draw attention to his proclamation near the end of the book, the narrative bets it can be seen all the way to Ankh-Morpork.
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Snuff / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
Snuff / int_539ae07a	comment	Empowered Badass Normal: The Summoning Dark from Thud! has... left its mark on Vimes, meaning he can see in the dark, understand goblin language and have a reliable witness to any events happening under the cover of darkness.
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Snuff / int_5717e34	type	Sincerity Mode
Snuff / int_5717e34	comment	Sincerity Mode: Vimes is surprised to hear Nobby call a goblin girl a young lady without putting inverted commas around the word lady.
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Snuff / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Snuff / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: In spades, directed towards the goblins. They're officially seen as vermin, and killing them or even enslaving them and shipping them off to another continent is entirely legal. Not surprisingly, the actions that the Goblins are forced to perform just to survive are used to "justify" the fact that they are treated the way they are. The thing is, the goblins are stuck having to perform these acts quite literally because they are hanging on the edge of survival. Let's put this in perspective: if a race is given no means of making an honest living, is hunted zealously wherever they are found, and is only, say, two feet to three feet tall and typically extremely malnourished due to poor diet and lack of a steady food supply, is it any surprise that they turn to thievery, will threaten uninvited strangers on sight, and are extremely "cowardly"? At the end of the book, most major powers are passing legislations to regard them as sapient and under the protection of common law.
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Snuff / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Snuff / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Quirm for France, as before.
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Snuff / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Snuff / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: It is never revealed what exactly avec is, but many an honest Morporkian seems quite uneasy about the prospect of encountering this celebrated Quirmian delicacy (ingredient?) on their plate.
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Snuff / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Snuff / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Mr. False is just a complicated chicken farmer.note As opposed to being just a simple chicken farmer. That is, he farms complicated chickens. They lay square eggs, for one thing.
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Snuff / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Snuff / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Averted spectacularly by Willikins. He is the old school brutal thug as a butler. But he can act like this when he wants to.
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Snuff / int_5e0776c3	type	Vapor Trail
Snuff / int_5e0776c3	comment	Vapor Trail: Vimes soaks a wooden tower in brandy and then leaves a trail of brandy leading away from it. He ignites the tower by dropping his cigar in the trail of brandy.
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Snuff / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Snuff / int_5e3c35bd	comment	Badass Bureaucrat: A.E. Pessimal, even though he's only mentioned briefly. He's now the Ankh-Morpork version of the Intimidating Revenue Service, keeping an eye on businesses and absolutely terrifying them just by showing up.
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Snuff / int_60d73edb	type	Drink-Based Characterization
Snuff / int_60d73edb	comment	Drink-Based Characterization: Vimes' and Willikins' growing camaraderie is demonstrated by the latter having devised an alcohol-free beverage which entirely sates the former's lingering taste for booze, if not his body's yearning.
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Snuff / int_6220c00d	type	Pædo Hunt
Snuff / int_6220c00d	comment	PÃ¦do Hunt: Colonel Makepeace, makes a mention in his Internal Monologue, that Honorable Ambrose was an oddity for being sent to lie low in the countryside, because of some trouble with a girl. After a bit of digging, he found out why by a tiny note from an old friend saying simply, "Yes indeed under-aged, hushed up at great expense." The colonel made sure never to shake the man's hand ever again.
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Snuff / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Snuff / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Willikins' past as a hard-fightin' kid off the streets is well established.
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Snuff / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Snuff / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Vimes' reaction to a Quirmian guard telling him the goblin slaves from the Wonderful Fanny have been put on the Queen of Quirm, bound for Howondaland.
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Snuff / int_6ab47be9	type	Open-Fly Gag
Snuff / int_6ab47be9	comment	Open-Fly Gag: There's a scene at a dinner party where the narrator talks about how long-married couples tend to have code phrases to subtly warn each other about problems such as "exposed in the crotch department" or, in the case of Sam and Sybil Vimes, "You're getting on people's nerves again, Sam". The scene ends with one of the other ladies at the dinner turning to her husband and giving him the "exposed in the crotch department" code.
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Snuff / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Snuff / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Subverted with Captain Murderer, who is a smuggler. That being said, he's still a horrible person. Played straight with Arachne, one of Vetinari's clerks who is very fond of spiders. Col. Makepeace ponders aloud whether his name is Meaningful or Non-Indicative, given his military background.
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Snuff / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Snuff / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Subverted. The goblins speak like this in their own language, at least as far as the Summoning Dark's translation is concerned. However, the two goblins we hear speaking Morporkian are both fairly fluent; one talks "as though she was taking the words out of a filing cabinet and carefully slotting them in place", and the other sounds like a typical working-class city boy. It's later explained that the Goblin language is actually quite complex, but the subtleties don't translate at all.
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Snuff / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Snuff / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Stinky. No explanation is given, but it is slightly implied that the Summoning Dark may have saved him. The reference to Vimes' picture-book suggests he's a manifestation of childhood scary-goblin fears, like the bears and Scissor Man that Susan intimidated in Hogfather. One that's actually taken an interest in the normal goblins it was imagined to resemble.
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Snuff / int_71b2718f	type	Sneaky Spider
Snuff / int_71b2718f	comment	Sneaky Spider: Mentions a "filing clerk" by the name of Arachne, who is particularly interested in exotic venomous spiders...
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Snuff / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Snuff / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The Colonel. Until he un-henpecks himself. Also, to a smaller degree, Vimes.
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Snuff / int_72a6bff0	type	Eloquent in My Native Tongue
Snuff / int_72a6bff0	comment	Eloquent in My Native Tongue: The Goblin language is actually richly textured, with an enormous number of words for emotions, how colors mix together, and the like, but it doesn't necessarily translate well.
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Snuff / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Snuff / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Murder is murder," usually in proximity to "Murder. The capital crime," or "Not all sins are forgiven." "Hang", the goblin word meaning survive. Hang tight, hang in there, hang together or hang separately, but most importantly, hang on. "The Dreadful Algebra Of Necessity". "The ball dropped."
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Snuff / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Snuff / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Alluded to by Vimes when explaining why the Watch House lockup is infinitely preferable to the "Tanty".
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Snuff / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
Snuff / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: Vimes has the concept of a dowry explained to him, after running into a family of young women who worry about not finding husbands for this reason (in addition to suffering from Thinks Like a Romance Novel). He gets very angry.
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Snuff / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Snuff / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: The chicken farmer asks "Who do you think you are? Bloody Commander Vimes?" when told the boarders are police. Vimes asks him if he's always this lucky.
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Snuff / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Snuff / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: Billy Slick pegs Angua for a werewolf immediately, claiming he can smell it's so.
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Snuff / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
Snuff / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Invoked by Vimes, who gives Stratford a sabotaged crossbow to let him think he has the upper hand.
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Snuff / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Snuff / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: When Sybil tells Sam about the Gordon sisters' concerns about finding husbands, she mentions that one of them is "rather conscious of her enormous bosom"; he doubts she'll have difficulty finding one. When he meets the young lady in question, he suspects men would line up to fight each other for her. He's proven right by the epilogue, in which they're both invited to her wedding to the son of a wealthy industrialist.
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Snuff / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Snuff / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Vimes completely overturns the Gordon sisters' proprieties, perspectives, and futures, by asking them what it is they actually do.
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Snuff / int_7c8a4602	type	Horsing Around
Snuff / int_7c8a4602	comment	Horsing Around: Subverted. Vimes expects to make a complete fool of himself when Feeney and he have to ride overland to catch the Wonderful Fanny, but Stinky does something to his horse to make it cooperate and facilitate Vimes's not falling off.
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Snuff / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Snuff / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Constable Feeney's sweet old mother is right there next to her son waving a broomstick around when a mob has gathered by the lockup to spring a prisoner out. When Vimes arrives on the scene she has already dropped one with a Groin Attack, and he notes just the two of them alone might very well be able to hold their ground.
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Snuff / int_83e2ad3d	type	Trojan Veggies
Snuff / int_83e2ad3d	comment	Trojan Veggies: Elderly male goblins were dying of rabbit starvation until their wives began hiding fruit and veg in the rabbit stew. The males thought their improved health was due to magic.
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Snuff / int_84007d37	type	MegaManning
Snuff / int_84007d37	comment	Mega Manning: Vimes is a quick learner, apparently, but even he's surprised when he manages to perfectly replicate a martial arts move used on him by Feeney.
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Snuff / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Snuff / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: It's mentioned that a troll and a dwarf have struck up a relationship. Also, Nobby Nobbs gets himself a goblin girl (though the jury is still out on whether this actually counts).
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Snuff / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Snuff / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Willikins, while holding a stiletto to his throat, explains to the blacksmith Jethro why he should not mess with Vimes:
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Snuff / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Snuff / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: The Ramkin's Family motto is "What we have, we keep."
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Snuff / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Snuff / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The scene of Vimes fuming that Vetinari and Sybil are conspiring against him, bewildered that his fellow Watchmen seem to see this as a reward, and determined that no-one will say they had to take his badge from him, are very much played as though he's finally been pushed into retirement, until it turns out that this is his reaction to taking a holiday.
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Snuff / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Snuff / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: Basically Vimes's Watch, family (Sybil) and staff (Willikins). Taking Willikins and Detritus on a walk meant Vimes and his son were accompanied by "enough firepower to kill a platoon."
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Snuff / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Snuff / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Willikins and Sybil act as this for Vimes, who is unfamiliar with how things are done in the country.
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Snuff / int_9136471a	type	Our Goblins Are Different
Snuff / int_9136471a	comment	Our Goblins Are Different: Continuing onward from Unseen Academicals. Here you have scavenging cave goblins as well as more-or-less-human city goblins. Oh, and some of them are fantastic musicians.
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Snuff / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Snuff / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Young Sam is practically a saint.
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Snuff / int_92c057d6	type	Twisted Ankle
Snuff / int_92c057d6	comment	Twisted Ankle: Pleasant Contrast, the goblin whose murder Vimes sets out to solve, stepped into a rabbit snare while fleeing her attacker.
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Snuff / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Snuff / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: As stated in the blurb. Played with. Vimes is relieved to have a crime to deal with... at least at first.
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Snuff / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Snuff / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself:
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Snuff / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Snuff / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The Shires' magistrates, but very averted with the Colonel. Defied by His Grace, His Excellence, His Blackboard-Monitorship, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Lord of Ramkin Hall. And, by the end, King of the River. Also by Lady Sybil and the Gordons. Mostly averted by the former (she has the Sympathetic P.O.V., but it's a mistake to cross her) while the latter are nice enough if you're in the club. Lord Rust senior. He's incompetent, yes, but not actually evil.
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Snuff / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Snuff / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The exact nature of Stinky is never explained, but he's clearly no ordinary goblin.
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Snuff / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Snuff / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Feeney goes from a nervous, brow-beaten rookie to doing things that make Vimes explicitly compare him to a young Carrot. (Two of Carrot's first acts were to (misguidedly) arrest the head of the Thieves Guild and knock out Detritus. Feeney is just as impressive, achieving both at once by (misguidedly) arresting Vimes and knocking him flat on his back when he resists.)
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Snuff / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Snuff / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The gibbet in Dead Man's Copse still has a pile of crumbling bones beneath it as a legacy of this trope.
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Snuff / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Snuff / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: What sets off the entire plot. No-one seems to care that a goblin has been killed. For Vimes, on the other hand, murder is murder.
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Snuff / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
Snuff / int_9c550e26	comment	Vimes mis-naming the various Bhanbhangduc-style recipes that Feeney's grandmother introduced to the region, all of which have names that sound like rude Word Salad in Morporkian.
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Snuff / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Snuff / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At the start, Vimes is given a bucket and spade as a joke by the Watch, even though he's not going to the seaside. He retorts that he wishes it was the seaside, there's smuggling and piracy at the seaside. Smuggling proves to be the impetus of the entire plot, and the most holidayish part of his holiday is when he ends up on the Quirm coast with Young Sam, catching winkles. He also commits what is arguably piracy in seizing Captain Murderer's ship, although it turns out not to be, since kidnapping Jethro was illegal even if kidnapping the goblins wasn't. Describing Colon's illness, Angua mentions that he acts as if he's very hot, even though his room is at a comfortable temperature. The goblin infant whose Soul Jar has afflicted him had died in a sweltering slave-shack in tropical Howondaland. Gravid Rust first came to Watch attention in an earlier book for shooting a servant who laid out his shoes the wrong way round. Explaining this to Vetinari, Vimes remarked that there was a lad who needed to know right from wrong as well as right from left.
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Snuff / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Snuff / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The goblins, first mentioned waaaay back and then slightly elaborated upon in Unseen Academicals, are fully fleshed out. Wee Mad Arthur has embraced his identity as a Nac Mac Feegle. An elderly Lord Rust puts in an appearance. The Low King apparently even gave him Blackboard Monitor as a real title since Thud!, and given the dwarven reverence for the written word, it's the highest, er lowest, er let's just say "most important" honor he can bestow. A.E. Pessimal, the bureaucrat looking over the Watch in Thud! is now the Watch's feared forensic accountant. Events in Thud! have left their mark on Vimes. Vimes' botched one liner reply "Burleigh and Stronginthearm" (to "on whose authority?") in Night Watch Discworld is repeated more successfully by Willikins. Vimes's schoolroom had the same book of fairy tales as the Aching family, and he had the same reaction to the goblin on page seven as Tiffany. The book Vetinari reads at the beginning, whose author is actually willing to acknowledge Goblins having a culture and religion is Mightily Oats, whose religion-inspired liberal views had already been displayed with Mr Nutt. This is the second time that a performer's self-composed piece of harp music has touched the souls of an Ankh-Morpork audience. Willikins mentions how Young Sam enjoyed the game of Looking for Dad when they were observing Vimes through a telescope. As mentioned in Thud! and shown in the Defictionalized Where's My Cow?, Vimes once reduced Young Sam to delighted, squealing giggles by revising the latter to "Where's My Daddy?". The goblins are a good example of "edge people", as defined by Rincewind in The Science of Discworld II. In this case, they're unfortunately in the process of being pushed over the edge. Dr. Lawn has been hiring Igorinas at his hospital. In Monstrous Regiment, an Igorina enlisted as an Igor because as a female she'd only been allowed to close up after operations, not initiate them. When Wee Mad Arthur takes on a group of guards at a plantation, he's described as a force that runs up your trouser leg and leaves you in no condition to fight whatsoever. No, not a Groin Attack, but a reference to his very first appearance in Feet of Clay, where he takes down two humans, one of which where he runs up a trouser leg... and breaks the man's knee. The list of nobles who have invited Vimes and Sybil to balls includes the Duchess of Keepsake. This is Leticia's mother from I Shall Wear Midnight.
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Snuff / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Snuff / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Wee Mad Arthur takes on a batch of slave-owners with characteristic ease. He even comments afterwards that it wasn't a fair fight, as he outnumbered them.
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Snuff / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Snuff / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Wee Mad Arthur's response to a slave-keeper on a tobacco plantation telling him there's no law out here? "Guess again."
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Snuff / int_a0aae4bc	type	Awesome Music / Sugar Wiki
Snuff / int_a0aae4bc	comment	Awesome Music: In-Universe, this leads to the goblins being emancipated. Lampshaded by Vetinari: "One song!" This music even inspires Vetinari to have the villain of the book killed off-screen. While Vetinari has had plenty of people killed for pragmatic reasons, this is the first time he has ever killed someone purely out of moral outrage. "Not all sins are forgiven," indeed. And this, from a man who'd always preferred reading music to listening, as he'd never encountered a musician who lived up to his standards of precision or refinement. As Vetinari says, it touched people's souls, and reminded more than a few people that they actually have one. The fact that it was her own piece may also have been a factor, since the other reason he read his music was that it was closer to the mind of the composer.
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Snuff / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
Snuff / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: An in-universe example. Vimes' reputation for being a badass comes in handy several times.
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Snuff / int_a18a7c01	type	Hand-or-Object Underwear
Snuff / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: The master bathroom's decorators used the ever-popular convenient piece of gauze to prevent its sculptures from becoming pornography rather than art. Why they bothered isn't clear, considering how the same bathroom's frescoes avert this trope. A lot.
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Snuff / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Snuff / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: When Vimes decides to take a relaxing bath, Sybil... joins him.
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Snuff / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Snuff / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Willikins becomes a full main character in this novel, after largely remaining in the background in the past.
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Snuff / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Snuff / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Defied. Willikins serves the same role as Pepe in Unseen Academicals, when the Psycho for Hire escapes from custody again, instead of apprehending and returning him to police and having the justice system hang him, Willikins slits his throat in the night for going after young Sam. Vimes wanted to, and Vetinari asked if he gave the order, but Vimes' inner Watchman is still in control. Gravid Rust. Maybe. Then again, Lord Vetinari's people are watching him, and XXXX is a dangerous country, plenty of poisonous spiders.... Played straight with most of the magistrates.
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Snuff / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
Snuff / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: Gravid Rust, who first came to Watch attention in an earlier book for shooting a servant who laid out his shoes the wrong way round. Vimes commented then that Gravid's learning right from wrong was more important than the servant knowing right from left.
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Snuff / int_a922f8de	type	To Be Lawful or Good
Snuff / int_a922f8de	comment	To Be Lawful or Good: Vimes chooses good right away, but he does get a bit angsty over it with hindsight. It is suggested this is the corruption of the Summoning Dark taking hold, as previous books had him firmly on the Lawful side of Lawful Good. In many instances in this book, he's doing outright unlawful things for the greater good. The fact that he's out of his jurisdiction might also have been a factor in this.
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Snuff / int_a95961ec	type	KidAnova
Snuff / int_a95961ec	comment	Kidanova: Young Sam is (innocently) quite popular with ladies of every age. As well, Vimes notes he has a habit of taking the hand of any female he meets, one which will "serve him well in later years".
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Snuff / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Snuff / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Feeney's badassery even takes Vimes by surprise. Meanwhile, Vetinari notices just how much Sybil can get done when she puts her mind to it.
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Snuff / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Snuff / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The Gordon girls somehow picked up an idea of what is appropriate to a noble lady that their mother's generation considered ludicrously outdated and didn't take seriously. They're in a setting culturally equivalent to (a more progressive version of) the late Victorian era, and they all think they're in Pride and Prejudice.
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Snuff / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Snuff / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The voice of the author himself, when he relays Vimes' thoughts on writers. Stating that Vimes did not have a very clear idea about what authors actually did, beyond a vague impression that they spent the whole day walking around in their dressing gowns, drinking champagne, Sir Terry interrupts himself with a footnote, saying "Which is, of course, absolutely true."
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Snuff / int_b08b714c	type	Good Policing, Evil Policing
Snuff / int_b08b714c	comment	Good Policing, Evil Policing: Commander Vimes, the good cop, finds himself up agaist the police force of the Shires he's visiting in the form of Constable Feeney. Feeney seems to believe a policeman's first loyalty is to the people who hired him, ie the magistrates of the Shires, and follows their orders even as they try to cover up a serious crime and the horrendous actions they condoned to pull it off. Vimes points out that a policeman's first loyalty is to the Law, which means even the magistrates are subject to his authority and admonishes Feeney for thinking they somehow made the law themselves.
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Snuff / int_b1ff5bba	type	Offscreen Karma
Snuff / int_b1ff5bba	comment	Offscreen Karma: Gravid Rust is strongly implied to be assassinated by one of Vetinari's Dark Clerks in the wake of the exposure of his shady dealings.
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Snuff / int_b3687765	type	Verbal Judo
Snuff / int_b3687765	comment	Verbal Judo: Paradoxically, this time using this technique involves Vimes deliberately getting into a fight. It's just that he makes sure it doesn't have to really get real, and his opponent comes out subdued, if anything more so than if Vimes had just smashed his face in as he could have.
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Snuff / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
Snuff / int_b36ae36a	comment	Collector of the Strange: Inspired by a book, Young Sam begins making his own poo collection. Back in Ankh-Morpork, a fad for collecting smells has become popular enough that Dave's Pin and Stamp Emporium is extending its sign again.
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Snuff / int_b4233702	type	Alliance with an Abomination
Snuff / int_b4233702	comment	Alliance with an Abomination: The Summoning Dark, which has attached itself to Vimes, is seen as "tamed" to the cause of law and justice, and offers Vimes its talents and abilities in seeking out murder and greed in dark places: it places its abilities completely at Vimes' disposal.
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Snuff / int_b913a5df	type	Accidental Innuendo
Snuff / int_b913a5df	comment	Also, Captain Murderer and the riverboat, which Mr. Sillitoe named after his wife Francesca: the Wonderful Fanny. Everyone else is hit in the face by the invoked Accidental Innuendo. note If it's bad enough that American readers will see it as "nice ass", it's even more profane in British English.
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Snuff / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Snuff / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Sybil referring to someone as a bitch. It's actually quite jarring, given previous characterization.
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Snuff / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Snuff / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The devious puzzles of the Times's new crossword compiler are the only thing that can drive the normally composed Lord Vetinari to what, from him, passes as a rant.
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Snuff / int_bcd0b49b	type	UnfortunateName
Snuff / int_bcd0b49b	comment	Unfortunate Name: Gravid Rust. The colonel considers that clearly no-one involved in choosing it knew animal husbandry. Nor, presumably, did the parents of riverboat captain Gastric Sillitoe own a dictionary. Also, Captain Murderer and the riverboat, which Mr. Sillitoe named after his wife Francesca: the Wonderful Fanny. Everyone else is hit in the face by the invoked Accidental Innuendo. note If it's bad enough that American readers will see it as "nice ass", it's even more profane in British English. Mr. Praise-and-Salvation False feels compelled to explain the origins of his awkward name upon first meeting Vimes, even though they're in an extreme life-or-death situation at the time.
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Snuff / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Snuff / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: Exaggerated with a battle in a storm, on a battered ship, on a raging river about to experience a tidal wave.
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Snuff / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Snuff / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: As usual, Sam and Sybil. If Sybil is ever annoyed at Sam, she's happy again by the end of their next conversation.
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Snuff / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Snuff / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Stinky. Serves as human-goblin liaison, is made special constable, keeps Vimes' secrets and helps him with the horse, and learns how to operate the clacks. He also may or may not be an avatar for the Summoning Dark, or some other supernatural entity.
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Snuff / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Snuff / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Vetinari claims to be "awash with tears" over Pastor Oats' book on goblins, but has to say so because he isn't really. It makes sense, though: even though he occasionally feels human emotions, dramatic outward expressions of them are unlike him.
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Snuff / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Snuff / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: The Shires are not subject to the law of Ankh-Morpork. Even though Vimes is technically the lord of his lands, he has no jurisdiction as a police officer - that belongs to the self-appointed magistrates. To Vimes, though, the only jurisdiction he needs is that a murder has been committed, because murder is a universal crime. Subverted in the end; despite being traditionally left to their own devices it turns out that the Shires are Ankh-Morpork territory, the magistrates never had legitimate authority, and the Watch arrives in force to take control of the situation.
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Snuff / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Snuff / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: The Summoning Dark shows up out of nowhere to give Vimes a way of understanding Goblin language.
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Snuff / int_c3a57274	type	True Craftsman
Snuff / int_c3a57274	comment	True Craftsman: The goblins take the crafting of unggue pots very seriously. One of them, having created one that looks beautiful to both Vimes and Feeney, throws it against the wall in disgust and shame because it didn't meet his own standards.
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Snuff / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
Snuff / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: Stratford tries to deliberately trick Vimes into this, but Vimes isn't fooled.
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Snuff / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Snuff / int_c75df49a	comment	The woman who writes the devious crosswords for the Times (which isn't relevant to the Shout-Out) runs a pet shop and comes from Nothingfjord (which is). As mentioned in The Last Hero, Nothingfjord is also the home of the Nothingfjord Blue, a breed of swamp dragon with beautiful plumage and a tendency to lie around pining for the fjords. "Dead Parrot Sketch" reference, take two.
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Snuff / int_cbd705be	type	Shamu Fu
Snuff / int_cbd705be	comment	Shamu Fu: Apparently, someone once tried to kill Vimes with "a very large salmon".
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Snuff / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Snuff / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Averted, the Morporkians all like Quirmian cooking, but they do use too much avec. Folks around the Ramkin estate are also partial to a bit of Bang Duck Suck (or Man Dog Suck Po on Sundays).
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Snuff / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Snuff / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Vimes suggests Feeney use "the old Bang Suck Cling Buck" on some villains, and Feeney remarks that that's a recipe for shoe polish. Played with when Vimes mis-remembers the name of one of Mrs. Upshot's Bhangbhangduc-style dishes, but the erroneous name turns out to be a different dish that's just not what she's serving today.
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Snuff / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Snuff / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: For the goblins, all of history is this trope. According to Unseen Academicals, even The Empire wrote them off as too stupid and petty to be usefully evil. Pastor Oats' treatise is the closest anyone has gotten to a proper ethnographic description of their culture... because so many people refuse to believe they have one.
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Snuff / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Snuff / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: The subject of a Running Gag, with Young Sam's keen interest in poo.
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Snuff / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
Snuff / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Young Sam, poo expert, instant friend to goblins.
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Snuff / int_d563a53c	type	Batman Grabs a Gun
Snuff / int_d563a53c	comment	Batman Grabs a Gun: In this and other books, Vimes frequently worries that he could become a monster if something ever pushes him to act outside the law, and hoped that he'd never come across something horrifying enough to push him across the line. In this book, he finally does encounter something that, while technically legal, is horrifying enough to make him take action anyway, concluding that a crime is still a crime, even when there's no law against it.
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Snuff / int_d6d05fba	type	The Help Helping Themselves
Snuff / int_d6d05fba	comment	The Help Helping Themselves: Discussed. The Patrician's secretary Rufus Drumknott is such a scrupulously honest Paperworkaholic that he can't even bring himself to steal a paperclip from his office, which is why he's one of the very few people the Patrician trusts and treats as a confidant.
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Snuff / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
Snuff / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: "Hearts must give", and Vimes must loan his picture of Young Sam for one of Tears of the Mushroom's unggue pots. Both are equally personal, and equally precious to the giver.
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Snuff / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
Snuff / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	Soul Jar: The "pot of tears" is a literal example; it's used to contain the soul of a mercy killed goblin child. Colon finds one in a cigar.
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Snuff / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
Snuff / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Willikins applies this philosophy to every woman except Kinky Elsie.
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Snuff / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Snuff / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: A very special Unggue Pot manages to end up in a cigar which is sold to Sergeant Colon. It's said that this is why Fred and Nobby are still on the (now quite respectable) force — contrived coincidences happen to them all the time.
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Snuff / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
Snuff / int_dc6a260b	comment	Defied by His Grace, His Excellence, His Blackboard-Monitorship, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Lord of Ramkin Hall. And, by the end, King of the River.
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Snuff / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Vetinari of all people has one when he refers to the good ship Wonderful Fanny as, well... the Enormous Fanny.
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Snuff / int_ed874c14	comment	Entrepreneur and Self-Made Man Harry King has now been knighted, and he enters by throwing someone out of his office and telling them "You're fired!" It sounds a lot like a reference to Sir Alan (now Lord Sugar), of the UK version of The Apprentice.
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Snuff / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Vetinari vs. the Times crossword compiler, carrying over from Moist's books. She seems to be getting to him. Vimes' tendency to accumulate increasingly-impressive and unwanted titles culminates (sort of), with him being declared King. But (to his immense relief) only of the River, for his role in bringing the Fanny in safely. Specific to this book, the fact that any small child will be instantly and enormously entertained by any mention of disgusting bodily functions. Vimes mis-naming the various Bhanbhangduc-style recipes that Feeney's grandmother introduced to the region, all of which have names that sound like rude Word Salad in Morporkian.
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