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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	comment	The 28th Discworld book, and the first one specifically aimed at teen readers.Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that don't run. Rats that fight...Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats — rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as "lunch". And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers. When they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. The educated rats must learn a new word. Evil.It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world down there, and that might only be the start.The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents won the Carnegie medal for best children's book published in the UK in 2001, making it Pratchett's first book to win a major award.The story was adapted into a ninety-minute radio drama in 2003, starring Harry Meyers as Maurice and David Tennant as Dangerous Beans. It simplified the story a little, but largely kept to the tone and feel of the book. In 2022 an animated film adaptation was released, with a script by Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek), character design by Carter Goodrich (Ratatouille, Brave) and Hugh Laurie playing the titular role of Maurice (David Tennant is also Dangerous Beans again).
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_109bc3e	comment	Eat The Dog: Malicia suggests that a villager who'd asked to purchase Maurice had intended to eat the cat, thus horrifying Maurice into talking in her presence.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_1221abf2	comment	Magical Flutist: Invoked by Maurice and his gang and later invoked and subverted by the real Piper.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Several rats cop it, usually unceremoniously as they get caught by traps or dogs.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Dangerous Beans. And Hamnpork.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_15f76026	comment	Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Sergeant Doppelpunkt and Corporal Knopf (German for "Colon" and "Nobbs").
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Malicia insists on always seeing things in terms of stories, ranging from fairy tales to Kid Detective novels like Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and The Famous Five (she claims at one point that four kids and a dog is "the right number for an adventure"). Furthermore, she has trouble in coping with subversions and exceptions, and always makes herself out to be the main character of the "story". However, while her record is more miss than hit, she figures out the Monster Protection Racket within five minutes of encountering Sardines. Additionally, since this is Discworld, Narrative Causality is an actual force in the world.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: The stupid-looking kid doesn't talk much. Maurice didn't even know his name until they were introducing themselves to Malicia.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Educated Rodents struggle with the common rat practice of eating their dead as they begin to develop a sense of religion and ethics and finally abandon it once and for all in favor of burying the dead when Hamnpork dies. Not eating ham and pork is indeed a major dietary restriction in many religions.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Malicia thinks she's the hero in a Plucky Children On An Adventure story.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Maurice.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_25447e30	type	"Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_25447e30	comment	"Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: Darktan performs this stunt to safely disarm a rat trap, suspended from bits of string.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: The rat catchers. Lampshaded by Malicia, who assumes that since they're the bumbling villains, there's a Man Behind the Man. She's half right: there's something behind the two men, but it isn't another man by a long shot...
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_26a924fb	comment	Multitasked Conversation: When Maurice is trying to tell Sardines to leave before Malicia turns around and sees him. He's not very good at it, and it doesn't work for long.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport: Hamnpork is thrown into a ring with a terrier. This does not go as expected.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: Maurice is very annoyed to be afflicted with this. Also, the Clan itself has growing doubts about eating dead clanmates or keekees.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the entire book takes place over the course of a single day, night, and the following morning. None of the characters get a wink of sleep, and it's noted that rats, Darktan especially, are exhausted in the concluding chapters.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_2905d859	comment	Street Musician: How Keith earned his living before getting recruited by Maurice, and he continues to throw his hat down and play anytime he's left to his own devices. According to him he's been doing this since age six and by all accounts is really good at it.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Often by Malicia, occasionally by Maurice, most of all by both together.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_2f226fee	comment	You Didn't Ask: What Keith says when Maurice is surprised to learn that the Stupid-Looking Kid has a name, and hadn't mentioned it before.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Malicia's storytelling aunts are this to the Brothers Grimm.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_315b877e	comment	Resolved Noodle Incident: It started out as a one-line joke in Reaper Man.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_33aa30e3	type	The Man They Couldn't Hang
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_33aa30e3	comment	The Man They Couldn't Hang: Darktan is the rat equivalent after surviving a trap. His resulting horrible scar awes the other rats and smooths out the succession of power.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_3555a597	comment	Sympathetic Murder Backstory: Maurice once ate a talking rat. However, he was only a dumb animal at the time, had no way of knowing until he gained his intelligence from said meal, and none of the Clan hold it against him when they find out - if anything, their reaction is more of a collective shrug. Their only issue is that he didn't want to admit it. The guilt is shown to be why he's so careful about what he eats.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_38dbef5	comment	Intentional Mess Making: The sapient rats deliberately mess up towns by chewing on things, urinating everywhere, etc., so that Maurice can play Pied Piper and pretend to get rid of them, thereby making money.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle/Don't Fear the Reaper: Darktan manages to combine both of these tropes in his Rousing Speech to the rats: death in itself is not something to be feared, but the Bone Rat will only pass you over if you can look him in the eyes. Given that it's the Disc, he's likely not speaking figuratively.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Dangerous Beans. While he suffers a major crisis of faith during the story, he remains an idealist in the end.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: This is always going to crop up with someone as Wrong Genre Savvy as Malicia around the place. Used positively at the end: rather than the humans simply accepting the rats and going into a Happily Ever After ending, the rats (with Maurice as their agent) have to broker a complex set of contracts, peace treaties and amendments to the town charter to ensure that this human-rodent cooperation is going to work.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Spider offers to help Dangerous Beans protect his swarm and get revenge on the humans. Beans sees right away that Spider is just a vindictive monster with delusions of grandeur who sees other rats as his pawns, and he gently but firmly rejects Spider's offer.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_475d592d	comment	You Dirty Rat!: Taken to itty bitty pieces.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Darktan, especially in the fight against the terrier. In particular, biting its testicles.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Apparently Maurice and Death are on first-name basis- because Death has visited him three times before.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: One of the ratcatchers tries this. Malicia and Keith aren't buying it.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Dangerous Beans dealing with the fact that Mr Bunnsy, a children's book where animals are less animal, is fiction.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4bc7f1d5	comment	Doorstep Baby: Keith was left as a baby on the doorstep of the Musicians' Guild.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsight: Spider's plan for humanity was chilling enough before it was visualized in The Plague Tale series. Reading the book after playing the games makes it that much harsher.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Keith's description to the Ratcatchers of Number three rat poison. They were actually only given a laxative, but the effects of the poison are real and no less horrifying (well, unless you're Malicia, who starts enthusiastically taking notes).
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_6f7c8268	type	Waif Prophet
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_6f7c8268	comment	Waif Prophet: Dangerous Beans. Maurice inwardly notes that he's the closest thing the Clan has to a wizard.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7131e4c9	type	Rodents of Unusual Size
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7131e4c9	comment	Rodents of Unusual Size: The Ratcatchers acting under the Rat King's influence try to breed larger and larger rats for their rat-coursing pit.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Rather then stay in Bad Blitz with Keith, Malicia and the rats, Maurice instead chooses a new boy to follow and probably do something worthy of creating new stories to tell.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Some details about rats, mentioned in the author's notes: he says he had to leave out some stuff that was too implausible for fiction.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: The highwayman at the beginning is aware of this possibility, and has a checklist he runs through before committing himself to the assault. He's not prepared for intelligent rodents, though.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Maurice briefly picks it up when he reveals his ability to talk to Malicia (as opposed to the book where he reveals it in a moment of shock and horror), though, since he immediately Lampshades it and for the rest of the story behaves in an intelligent manner, this can probably be said to be a Rule of Funny:
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_77073274	type	Monster Protection Racket
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_77073274	comment	Monster Protection Racket: The educated rodents make themselves known and the stupid-looking kid gets paid to lead them out of town and into the nearest river. People never check whether the rats are good swimmers... The Ratcatchers themselves have a variant going, extorting money from the town to "get rid of" a plague of rats that don't exist, except in their own rat-breeding cages. Of course, they're pawns of the Rat King.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: Maurice gives up one of his lives to save Dangerous Beans.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_80c775b1	type	Palate Propping
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_80c775b1	comment	Palate Propping: Sardines avoids being caught in a snap-trap by bracing it open with his stick.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Apparently cutting the knot in the tails of a Rat King turns it back into a bunch of ordinary rats.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Maurice swears he will never eat prey that can talk, and everyone reassures him they know he won't, but knows he learned to speak by eating one of the intelligent rats (who had a speech impediment).
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_85abf836	type	Squirrels in My Pants
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_85abf836	comment	Squirrels in My Pants: The rats deal with a highwayman who tries to rob their coach in the first chapter by scuttling up inside his pants. The bandit surrenders immediately.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never stated what eventually became of the female keekee Dangerous Beans touches paws with. Nor what happened to the eight blind keekees who were freed when Maurice bit through the tail-knot that merged them as Spider: did they regain their individuality, become comatose, or just drop dead?
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Darktan's voice, accent and general mannerisms are very clearly based on Sean Connery (including his catchphrase, which comes from Connery's famous speech in The Untouchables).
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Darktan's Rousing Speech starts this way, with him telling the Clan that there's something new and strong and dangerous in the tunnels under Bad Blintz ... and it's them.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_8bc4a55d	type	Went to the Great X in the Sky
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_8bc4a55d	comment	Went to the Great X in the Sky: Some of the rats have a tentative belief that on death the Bone Rat sends them to be with the Big Rat Deep Under the Ground.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_8bfaffd7	type	Rat King
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_8bfaffd7	comment	Confronting Spider the Rat King is so horrifying, it robs some of the Clan of their speech and sentience. This is also the fate of Ginger, a talking cat in The Last Battle, when he comes face to face with the demon/god Tash.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The Rat King. And it's exponentially stronger than the sum of its parts.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_96eae503	type	Cats Are Superior
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_96eae503	comment	Cats Are Superior: Oh, Maurice. The difference between cats and humans: humans think themselves the lords of creation, but cats know they are.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: The Clan and Maurice swear in Rat and Cat respectively. Apparently as a result of spending so much time with the Clan, Keith (the stupid-looking kid) also swears in Rat.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_98c2a8f2	type	Humans Are Cthulhu
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_98c2a8f2	comment	Humans Are Cthulhu: Dangerous Beans is baffled by the difference between the behaviour of the humans in Mr. Bunnsy Has An Adventure and the behaviour of the humans he actually encounters.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Maurice is the brains of the operation.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: By Maurice's standards, it's a rat that can't talk. Played with regarding the Clan's and Spider's various opinions on how much the life of a keekee (= non-talking rat) is worth. And, of course, human opinions on the value of rat lives, whether they're talking or otherwise.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: After they get captured by the rat catchers, Keith tells Malicia off for insisting on assuming that life is like the kind of stories where the plucky kid hero is never really hurt and there's always a way out of any difficulty.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: A subtle one: at the end, Darktan and the Mayor both express skepticism about Mr. Bunnsy, because who ever heard of a talking rabbit? Anyone who read Moving Pictures, the first time that talking animals appear in the series, of course! Waaaaay back in Sourcery, a swarm of rats, some of them wearing clothes, were among the mass rodent-and-bug evacuees which fled Unseen University in fear of Coin's approach. Presumably this would've been before the Clan gave up on devising an efficient way for rats to wear more than just a harness or hat. And back in Reaper Man, the Clan, Maurice, and the Piper's usual trick of pretending to be a plague of rats, is mentioned as having worked in Sto Lat and Pseudopolis before people caught on, with a remark about "Mister so-called Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents."
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a122bf2f	type	Blind Seer
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a122bf2f	comment	Blind Seer: A downplayed version. Dangerous Beans, who is an albino and virtually blind, doesn't have actual prophetic powers - but he is leading his people on a quest, issuing commandments, and facing down evil on their behalf.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a15af1f3	comment	Sugar Bowl: The Mr. Bunnsy books portray a world like this. The rats (particularly Dangerous Beans) treat the books as gospel, Malicia treats them as garbage.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The ratcatchers. No 2 has to make an effort to sound grammatically incorrect. Sardines is a milder example; the rats generally accept that he's a talented and intelligent rat, but he spends so much time goofing around that they tend to underestimate him. Darktan is amazed at how wily he really can be.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a8559a9f	comment	Jacko the terrier is named after a Real Life champion rat-courser from Victorian times.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: What do you get when you Mind Rape an intelligent talking cat that is terrified shitless for the reason of being surrounded by hundreds of VERY big rats? When you mind rape it so hard that there's no mind left any more, that all the traces of intelligence and even common sense completely disappear? Answer: "A clever cat, but still... Just a cat. Nothing but a cat. All the way to the forest and the cave, the fang and the claw... Just a cat. And you can always trust a cat to be a cat."
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_aa55cd25	comment	Brawn Hilda: Big Savings may qualify, despite being a rat.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Darktan and his fresh wound.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_aaf863b	comment	Edible Theme Naming: Since the rats learned to read from food packaging, many of them are named after foods or food-related words (like Additives).
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Maurice narrates the story, with a bit of extra snark added. The one he's telling the story to is an unresponsive (and dead) Dangerous Beans, while they're both in Death's domain, and Maurice is basically doing a "how did we end up here?" recount.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Darktan gets one with "Here endeth the lesson," usually said after he's done making a point.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Evidently was the way the rats formerly got their leaders (before gaining intelligence); at one point Hamnpork rears up ready for an old-style challenge from Darktan, then gets confused when none is forthcoming.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_b60f7d43	comment	Badass Bandolier: Darktan wears crossed belts covered in pouches to hold his trap-disarming tools.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: Keith and Malicia agree to be friends at the end and don't engage in any explicit romance, but Malicia is uncharacteristically tongue-tied when asking Keith to stay in Bad Blintz and he is at least partially thinking of her when considering that he might have a future there.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The genuine Rat Piper encourages tales about what his magic pipe can do so that people will deal on his terms.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Oh, Maurice.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: "No rat shall kill another rat" is one of Dangerous Beans' newer ideas. Inverted by Spider, who feels that rats that kill and eat each other encourages survival of the fittest (slaves).
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c696f3ba	type	Heroic Willpower
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c696f3ba	comment	Heroic Willpower: The Rat King's Psychic Powers can paralyze a creature in its tracks, or strip it of sapience. Little, weak, blind Dangerous Beans feels that power and ignores it.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Dangerous Beans' dream of moving the Clan to an island to live without stealing is what the rats in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH set out to do, also because of emergent ethics. The large medical kit and the small medical kit come from Tomb Raider and probably other similar games. Malicia suggests the perfect time to go solve a mystery... Confronting Spider the Rat King is so horrifying, it robs some of the Clan of their speech and sentience. This is also the fate of Ginger, a talking cat in The Last Battle, when he comes face to face with the demon/god Tash. Jacko the terrier is named after a Real Life champion rat-courser from Victorian times. Nourishing's desperate pleas for Darktan to wake up, she's gotten him out of the trap, are reminiscent of Bigwig's rescue from a snare in Watership Down. Both rescues are made possible because a young, not-too-competent character chewed through part of the trap. Dangerous Beans is also a close parallel to Fiver, that book's Waif Prophet. When the rats get philosophical about what happens after you die, one rat is being expressively sceptical and doubting everything. His name turns out to be Tomato, which makes him a Doubting Tom. According to the Word of God above, the pronunciation of Maurice's name makes this a shout-out to the 80s-90s era spokescat of Nine Lives cat food company. It could also be a reference to Morris Dancing, an activity heavily steeped in the Discworld canon.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_c7aa57f5	comment	Laxative Prank: Malicia puts laxative powder in the Rat Catchers' tea, then tells them they've been poisoned and holds the antidote hostage until they do as she says. The "antidote" is laxative powder too.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Maurice pounces on the Death of Rats to protect Dangerous Beans, then stands there with the Grim Squeaker in his mouth, stunned by the realization of how much trouble he's bound to be in for... His attack on the Rat King is similarly spectacular.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Darktan to Hamnpork. The latter isn't incompetent himself, but he's very old and inflexible. Darktan is just that badass.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_cf479cd8	comment	Bomb Disposal: Trap disposal, rather, but the work of Darktan's squad is played out the same way.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_d2ddb362	comment	"Reason You Suck" Speech: Dangerous Beans gives a great one to Spider, pointing out that while Spider can think for his rat subjects, his plans for them show that he has never once tried to think of them.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Rat King turns its sapience-stripping power on Maurice, reducing him to an ordinary cat with no thoughts, only instincts — including the instinct to pounce on nearby small squeaky things, and a lot of pent up aggression from having spent months repressing that instinct around the Changelings. A few minutes later, there's no more Rat King.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_d5abf14c	comment	Animal Eye Spy: The Rat King can do this with any animal. Even Maurice.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: The Piper.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Poor Hamnpork didn't take the shift to sentience particularly well, being fairly old at the time, and is now reduced to being a figurehead for Peaches and Darktan. However, Hamnpork seems to be well aware of this, and though he's thoroughly unhappy about it, frequently complaining about the changes in lifestyle and attitude, is quietly (if somewhat grudgingly) grooming Darktan as his successor. Also, while Hamnpork might not be much of a peacetime leader, he is a highly competent scrapper who took leadership and kept it when Asskicking Leads to Leadership was in full effect, and a surprisingly decent tactician.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Well, that's the kind of name you might end up with if you learned how to read off food labels, and chose names based on how you liked the sound. The only thing stopping Malicia from bursting out laughing at "Dangerous Beans" is a stern reprimand from Keith.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_de67ea31	type	What the Heck Is an Aglet?
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_de67ea31	comment	What the Heck Is an Aglet?: A good tip-off that those aren't rat tails, for one.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Dangerous Beans to Maurice, much to Maurice's surprise.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: At first glance, and indeed at second glance, Maurice can come across as one for Gaspode the Wonder Dog; Maurice's Backstory is similar to Gaspode's second origin (normal stray animals made intelligent from exposure to magical garbage - indirectly in Maurice's case), they're both, on the whole, smarter than the humans they hang out with and use similar tactics in manipulating said humans, and they are both masters of snide and sarcastic comments. As the story goes on, however, it turns out that despite similar set-ups and circumstances, the two animals are actually very different when it comes down to it — where Gaspode is ultimately a pessimist who loves to wallow in self-pity and set himself up as a tragic hero, Maurice has a more positive outlook on life and is a lot more unashamedly a self-centered Jerk with a Heart of Gold — with a bit of a Dark and Troubled Past. Although, given how Gaspode mentions that other animals were affected by the magical garbage, the rats' intelligence comes from the same source.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology:
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: How one rat can take down a battle-hardened terrier when trapped in a ring with walls too high to escape normally. Also strongly implied to be how the Clan incapacitate the highwayman in the opening scene, running up his trouser legs and threatening to bite much harder.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Sardines rescues Darktan from certain doom, and later Maurice rescues the Clan from Spider.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_eb99df21	comment	Funny Animal: A deconstruction. Being able to talk doesn't make the rats that much like humans; they can't wear waistcoats, they instinctively eat their dead, mark things by widdling on them, and practically everything in the world is out to get them.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_ed07a226	type	No More for Me
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_ed07a226	comment	No More for Me: Sergeant Doppenpunkt, after seeing two rats band together and attack another rat. And then give him a salute.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (and their scam) were first mentioned in Reaper Man, although most people reading it assumed Maurice was a human conman who trained rats.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f00fce0e	comment	Resourceful Rodent: The rats have human-level intelligence and can use tools. With a cat and a boy, they run a con that involves recreating The Pied Piper of Hamelin to make money. The rats are smart enough to form a dedicated "bomb disposal squad" that scouts ahead and deactivates rat traps.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f1a15f4b	type	Cats Have Nine Lives
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f1a15f4b	comment	Cats Have Nine Lives: Maurice literally has nine lives — or rather five, as he's lost four already.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Darktan's order that the Clan do this for a poisoned keekee shocks many of them. Not because they don't agree that the poor thing needs to be put out of its misery, but because Darktan wants them to put it into a trap as a safe alternative to biting a rat with poison in its blood.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Don't eat the green wobbly bit.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Keith. He was going to put rat poison in the rat catchers' tea... before Malicia thought of a better plan.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The rats are all named with random words on food labels they found in the wizards' garbage pile.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Near the beginning of the book, the protagonists learn that the rat catchers keep people away while they're working by spreading a story that rats carry a plague that will make your legs fall off. Near the end, when the Rat Piper arrives, one of the town guards warns his colleague to be polite because it's said that if you annoy the Rat Piper he can blow a special note on his pipe that will make your legs fall off; his colleague replies, "Oh, like the plague?" The finishing touch in Keith's defeat of the Rat Piper is that the only rat who comes in response to the Piper's piping is Mr Clicky, the clockwork rat which the trap squad uses to test for traps. Mr Clicky was introduced early in the book while explaining the work of the trap squad, then disappeared from the narrative long enough for the reader to have forgotten about him before his reappearance.
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Maurice eventually admits that the reason he's intelligent is that he once ate an intelligent rat, and that he still has nightmares about that.
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