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The Fifth Elephant

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The Fifth Elephant	comment	The 24th Discworld novel and the fifth in the Watch theme. The Scone of Stone, an ancient dwarven artifact, has been stolen, and without it, the new Low King of the Dwarfs cannot be crowned. It's up to Sam Vimes and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch to travel to Uberwald and unravel the dark conspiracy surrounding the theft. Also, Vimes fights werewolves.Very significant in that it introduced the Clacks, breaking the Disc's former tradition of Medieval Stasis maintained by the Reset Button (as lampshaded by Lord Vetinari), and (along with the previous book Carpe Jugulum) began a theme of Uberwald being an important story setting that would continue for several books.Preceded by Carpe Jugulum, followed by The Truth. Preceded in the Watch series by Jingo, followed by Night Watch. Not to be confused with The Fifth Element.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_10a51060	type	Dress-Coded for Your Convenience
The Fifth Elephant / int_10a51060	comment	Dress-Coded for Your Convenience: Subverted with Margolotta. She dresses like a '50s mum but is probably one of the most dangerous and manipulative characters in the book. (Lord Vetinari is implied to have taught her a few tricks.)
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The Fifth Elephant / int_1122f435	type	Pregnant Hostage
The Fifth Elephant / int_1122f435	comment	Pregnant Hostage: Done somewhat differently when the diplomatic carriage carrying the Ankh Morpork delegation to Bonk is ambushed by bandits in the pass. Sybil is briefly held hostage as a bargaining chip, but at this point, Sam Vimes has no idea that Sybil is pregnant, and frankly, Sybil is a bit of a Pregnant Badass about it, keeping her calm and ducking so her husband can shoot the bandit holding her, with a weapon she doesn't even know he has. She's actually trying (not for the first time) to get his attention long enough to gently break the news to him just before the ambush.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_1161865	type	Convenient Escape Boat
The Fifth Elephant / int_1161865	comment	Convenient Escape Boat: Subverted and invoked, because werewolves really are very clever.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Fifth Elephant / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The geopolitical plot, with shattered Uberwald harboring rich fat reserves needed to make candles for Ankh-Morpork, is a parody of central and eastern Europe's dependency on oil and gas from Russia — right down to the metaphor of "the lights go off." Given the near theocracy of the Dwarves, and the time period the book was written, it's far more probable to be a Western dependence on Arab oil as the target. On the other hand, the "traditional" dwarfs who find femininity sinful and demand it be hidden, wear shrouding robes, "prefer" their own laws over the law of a country they live in and possess fossil fuel can also make one think of various Muslim cultures. There are also Nazi werewolves, for good measure. On a less serious note, mention is made of some people using the new communication system in crowded public places, to the annoyance of people in their general vicinity. Now are we talking about the clacks, or cell phones?
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The Fifth Elephant / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Fifth Elephant / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: A subtle example appears in Wolfgang's chosen symbol of a wolf's head biting a mouthful of lightning bolts. Granted, they're not literal fireworks, but symbolically it rates as this trope.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_1b372a3	type	Heroes Fight Barehanded
The Fifth Elephant / int_1b372a3	comment	Heroes Fight Barehanded: Captain Carrot doesn't use his Ancestral Weapon when facing the Nazi-esque Wolfgang, preferring to Fight Like a Gentleman. This gives Wolfgang a chance to fight dirty.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Fifth Elephant / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Angua's mother is an unkind woman, as well as (being a werewolf) a female dog. In other words, she's a bitch. And that, of course, makes Wolfgang a son of a bitch.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_1fbee9cb	type	Tricked into Escaping
The Fifth Elephant / int_1fbee9cb	comment	Tricked into Escaping: Vimes finds a particularly nasty weapon left for him in his prison cell. Thinking about it, though, he decides that whoever put it there is just trying to get him killed. Even armed, he wouldn't get far - but because He's Got a Weapon!, his escape attempt would be more likely to end in death than recapture. Especially since the weapon only had one shot, but there was almost certainly going to be more than one guard between him and freedom.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
The Fifth Elephant / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Exhibited by Sybil when she negotiates the fat trade between Ankh-Morpork and the Dwarfs. She's also the one who discovers Sleeps' secret room, because she wanted to re-carpet the embassy as a kindness for future occupants and the measurements didn't match up. It's called out explicitly that people assume Sybil is stupid because she's nice and a good listener (and also fat), but in fact she's a very perceptive person.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Fifth Elephant / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Angua asks Carrot if he can "not be nice for once". Turns out he's quite good at it, if he wants.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Fifth Elephant / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: A veritable Assassin's briefcase of them regarding the circumstances of Wolfgang's death. When Vimes meets the von Uberwald clan, he thinks that if he threw a stick, the Baron would catch it. Later, in the empty clacks tower, he finds a mortar flare and reads the instructions, "Light fuse. Do not place in mouth," and also reflects that it's a stupid weapon since it can't be aimed. Finally, werewolves' vulnerability to fire is mentioned several times...
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The Fifth Elephant / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Fifth Elephant / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Inigo has one, mhm mhm. Rhys Rhysson has one too, see? He even writes it down, see? Given Rhys is from Llamedos, it appears to be an attempt to give his speech a Welsh feel.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
The Fifth Elephant / int_2804d516	comment	Unlike the way the trope usually works, werewolves mid-transformation are momentarily disoriented and the worst of both forms. Vimes uses this to kil-defeat a couple of them in close combat.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_28836bbd	type	Saving the World With Art
The Fifth Elephant / int_28836bbd	comment	Saving the World With Art: Lady Sybil sings the "Ransom" aria from the great dwarf opera Bloodaxe and Ironhammer, charming every dwarf in Bonk and convincing them to let her husband deliver the Scone to the Low King in person. This not only allows Vimes to clear his own name, but averts a terrible underground war that would've torn dwarf society apart.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Fifth Elephant / int_294ed981	comment	Also note Bonk is supposedly more strictly pronounced Beyonknote This is a reference to Slavic languages having phonemic palatalization, and this being consistently ignored in transcriptions into languages which don't; which is to say, most of them. In this case, the initial 'B' is palatalized, which inserts a 'y' sound between it and the next vowel. In Cyrillic, it would probably be spelled Ð‘Ñ‘Ð½Ðº, which could also be transliterated "Byonk". For a bit of (probably unintentional) Bilingual Bonus, the proper Russian translation of "bonk", Ñ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ… or Ñ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ…Ð½ÑƒÑ‚ÑŒ, retains the British double-entendre nature of the word—just like in British English, it can mean either "hit someone over the head" or "have passionate sex with someone".
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2a024ee6	type	Vampires Are Rich
The Fifth Elephant / int_2a024ee6	comment	Vampires Are Rich: Lady Margolotta, moreso by her surroundings than by her own persona- see below.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2a154192	type	Impossibly Tacky Clothes
The Fifth Elephant / int_2a154192	comment	Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Cheery and some other lady dwarfs put on some Pimped Out Dresses, to show off their femininity, but they go a bit too far. There's no point in throwing out centuries of tradition for a twin-set once you've heard of sequins.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
The Fifth Elephant / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Vimes reflects that Carrot may have this In-Universe, thanks to his royal destiny.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
The Fifth Elephant / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Gavin, via a Heroic Sacrifice. Vimes's inner cynic can't help but notice this, and how things always turn up trumps for Carrot, even though he'll never say it to Carrot's face.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
The Fifth Elephant / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Once Sybil realises that she's a captive, she escapes a barred window via Bedsheet Ladder, and lays out a werewolf with one of the iron bars.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2b6c866	type	Saved by the Platform Below
The Fifth Elephant / int_2b6c866	comment	Saved by the Platform Below: Vimes has an old wooden stair fall out from under him while climbing out a pit, heâ€™s saved by landing on the stair of the flight below before that too gives way, and he lands on the flight below even that one; however itâ€™s lampshaded that while in theory thatâ€™s a survivable way of getting back to the bottom, most of the falling stairs have taken out a lot more below him and he better start considering other options really quickly if he wants to survive.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2b80abf4	type	Trivial Title
The Fifth Elephant / int_2b80abf4	comment	Trivial Title: Despite the enraged plummeting pachyderm on the cover of some editions, to say nothing of the title, the book is not actually about an elephant. Well, it is about an elephant, but a metaphorical, not literal, one. OK, OK, there is a literal elephant, but it's a legend of something that may or may not have happened millions of years ago. The titular Fifth Elephant lost its footing on Great A'tuin's shell in prehistory and collided with the Disc, breaking apart its Pangaea-type supercontinent and being responsible for Uberwald's fat reserves; and is also a Uberwaldian phrase meaning "something that is not what it seems".
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Fifth Elephant / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Vimes regards the spring-gonne as this, since while it lets you make one shot that the target won't see coming, you can't reload it during a fight, which means you're in deep trouble if this one shot is not enough. Sure enough, it doesn't help Inigo against Wolfgang at all and Vimes makes a point of disposing of it as soon as possible after it's smuggled into his prison cell to get him killed during his escape.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
The Fifth Elephant / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: The dwarf term "ha'ak". It's never given a direct translation, but it's only said at female dwarfs. The first time Detritus hears it, he makes it clear if anyone says it to Cheery twice, they're not going to say it a third time. Or anything else, for that matter.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
The Fifth Elephant / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Vimes correctly predicts how the gossip about his fight with bandits will evolve.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
The Fifth Elephant / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Not only Dee, but it's strongly hinted that the Low King is female as well. Raising Steam confirmed this is true of the Low King.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
The Fifth Elephant / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: Vetinari wants his clacks messages to be encrypted with a code that is almost unbreakable so that he can play these games with anyone who intercepts them.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Fifth Elephant / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Wolfgang. Partly because he doesn't bother trying to control his violent nature as a werewolf and partly because heâ€™s been brought up by a family of Fantasy Nazis.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_2fc2d6e1	type	Shapeshifter Mode Lock
The Fifth Elephant / int_2fc2d6e1	comment	Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Apparently quite common in werewolves. Angua had a human-shaped sister and a wolf-shaped brother; Wolfgang killed the former and chased off the latter.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
The Fifth Elephant / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: One of the differences between why the Watch don't mind Vimes' attitude towards people and Colon's. With Vimes, it's okay, whereas Colon's a fat idiot.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_32d0784e	type	Stop, or I Will Shoot!
The Fifth Elephant / int_32d0784e	comment	Stop, or I Will Shoot!: Very consciously averted. Vimes makes it a point to do it by the book and spell it out crystal clear to a perp he's in hot pursuit of: Heâ€™s armed, and will respond with force if the perp continues to resist arrest. Vimes thus gives him ample time and opportunity to surrender. Wolfgang doesn't. Vimes shoots him, having never expected him to take him up on it for a second. If he hadn't done it by the book, though, it would have been murder.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
The Fifth Elephant / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Wolf, when Vimes comments on his having that name while being a werewolf.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_37faae83	type	Noble Shoplifter
The Fifth Elephant / int_37faae83	comment	Noble Shoplifter: Carrot insists on leaving money behind when he takes food from isolated farmhouses whilst trailing a werewolf pack into the mountains. Just like Angua always pays for the chickens she kills under the full moon (because an animal wouldn't).
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The Fifth Elephant / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Fifth Elephant / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Vimes attacks Wolf with a flare, expecting his instincts to make him catch it. He acknowledges beforehand that it has a slim chance of working. The Game-playing werewolves employ this trope to put Sleeps and Skimmer right where they want them. Lady Margolotta actually saves Wolfgang from a dangerous but nonfatal situation in order to put him in the way of an actually fatal situation sooner. In the long run, it's easier and safer (for an extremely relative definition of both terms) for Vimes et al to take down Wolfgang now, rather than have to spend months or years watching over their shoulders for an angry werewolf.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Fifth Elephant / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: When Vimes opens Inigo's luggage, already having suspicions about him, he makes a point in opening it while it's turned away from him. Sure enough, Inigo's luggage is protected by a spring-loaded blade meant to give any thief a lethal stomachache.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Fifth Elephant / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Whatever happened to the ski instructor at Sybil's and Seraphine's finishing school.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Fifth Elephant / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Colon, thanks to pressure and insanity. He believes if he finds out who's stealing those sugar cubes, everything else will fall into place. He also demands shiny breastplates, and sees nothing wrong with the Watch suddenly suffering a serious lack of manpower.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
The Fifth Elephant / int_3eb0f889	comment	The title is a pun on The Fifth Element; interestingly the next two books also talk about the Discworld's own Fifth Element, Surprise.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Fifth Elephant / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The Scone of Stone, or at least the one that Dee destroyed, is not the original Scone. That one was baked more than 1500 years ago, and even the best dwarf bread only lasts about 300 years before it starts to crumble; the Scone has been replaced several times over the centuries with a select few dwarves knowing the truth. Rhys even admits that a new Scone would have been needed in about 50 years anyway.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3f80b94f	type	Monsters Anonymous
The Fifth Elephant / int_3f80b94f	comment	Monsters Anonymous: Lady Margolotta is a member of a support group for vampires who don't drink blood.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_3fa09be0	type	A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
The Fifth Elephant / int_3fa09be0	comment	A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma: Lord Vetinari describes Uberwald as "a mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma." Sergeant Colon misinterprets this and later refers to it as "a misery wrapped in an enema."
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The Fifth Elephant / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Nobby memorably says "verysillymiditude" instead of "verisimilitude".
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The Fifth Elephant / int_419f37b9	type	ShapeshifterSwansong
The Fifth Elephant / int_419f37b9	comment	Shapeshifter Swan Song: Downplayed—when Wolfgang comes back the last time, he seems to be having trouble controlling his transformations, and is wobbling around the halfway point between man and wolf.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
The Fifth Elephant / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Gavin the wolf, so called because he once ate someone called Gavin. Well, parts of him.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
The Fifth Elephant / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Fred Colon is a reasonably competent sergeant of the City Watch. Promoted to Captain in the absence of Vimes and Carrot, the pressure rapidly destroys him, and the Watch generally. No one is happy to hear about his promotion, Colon least of all... though, it does lead to record-low crimes, since everyone in the city knows that Vimes and Carrot will be back sooner or later.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4881cda1	type	Ãœberwald
The Fifth Elephant / int_4881cda1	comment	Ãœberwald: Where the main plot happens.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Fifth Elephant / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Implied to be the way Gaspode manages to help Gavin during his fight against Wolf.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
The Fifth Elephant / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Sam Vimes taking tea with Lady Margolotta. She might not look too scary in a fluffy pink jumper, but Tantony runs out the door, revealing his Obfuscating Stupidity by reacting to Vimes's dismissal before Cheery translated it.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4c37b23	type	Third Line, Some Waiting
The Fifth Elephant / int_4c37b23	comment	Third Line, Some Waiting: While many Discworld books are Two Lines, No Waiting or Four Lines, All Waiting, this one cuts to short scenes of Colon and his power trip, ensuing paranoia and inability to count to thirty as Acting Captain. This brings the much-needed funny to a primary plotline that is about as dark and serious as anything Pratchett had ever written to this point.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
The Fifth Elephant / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: Narrowly averted when Death, whom a fall-addled Gaspode has mistaken for a convenient tree, speaks up in protest. The poor dog nearly does himself an injury stopping himself from letting loose.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Fifth Elephant / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Near the end of the book, the words "I can't!" turn the nature of the Evil Plan on its head. In that one short sentence, it shows that while the conspiracy was perpetrated by traditionalists, it also showed that envy was a significant factor too. The moment when Sybil gives up on Hint Dropping and just straight up tells Sam she's pregnant certainly has this effect on him even if the reader caught on much sooner. Also doubles as a hilarious narrow aversion of Not Listening to Me, Are You?
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The Fifth Elephant / int_4f828b45	type	Post-Climax Confrontation
The Fifth Elephant / int_4f828b45	comment	Post-Climax Confrontation: Vimes and Wolf's last confrontation happens after the plot has been solved.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Fifth Elephant / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Defied after killing Wolfgang, Vimes thinks of several of these but he realises that saying any of them would make him nothing more than a cold-hearted murderer, as it would mean he enjoyed what he did.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
The Fifth Elephant / int_51beab21	comment	Carrot tries to use Good Old Fisticuffs against the Ax-Crazy Wolf. Vimes berates him for it after.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_52748705	type	Bamboo Technology
The Fifth Elephant / int_52748705	comment	Bamboo Technology: The Clacks, though based on a real system, are inexplicably faster, far cheaper, and vastly more effective than the telegraph was when first introduced on Earth. Some reasons for their effectiveness are given in passing: Discworld has gargoyles, who are good at sitting around watching things and too uncreative to make many mistakes, and has no curvature, which means a signal can travel very far. Given they function as a parody of the Internet, anyway, this is mostly forgivable.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Fifth Elephant / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The novel starts with Gavin the wolf hitching a ride to Ankh-Morpork in the back of a lumber wagon, and ends with Gaspode the Wonder Dog mooching a lift home to Ankh-Morpork on a coal barge.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
The Fifth Elephant / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: Explored, with the deep-downers declaring dwarfs who are not, in their eyes, sufficiently dwarfish or proper dwarfs, which is actually more serious than it sounds at first blush. Not being a proper dwarf means becoming an outcast, not being allowed to go home or be buried with your family, which is very serious business for dwarfs.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
The Fifth Elephant / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The three gloomy biddies living up the old country house whose barn the naked Vimes winds up in during his unwilling participation in 'The Game' are rather disappointed when he says that he isn't, and points out that he's on the run from werewolves. They eventually supply him with trousers, and an axe, but not before this gem.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Fifth Elephant / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: One of Colon's problems is that he's always been a low-level one of these, but on being put in charge of the Watch he starts mouthing off every possible slur against non-humans and the undead there is. Often right in earshot of those he's insulting. There's a minor diplomatic incident because Bonk doesn't allow trolls inside the walls unless they're enslaved prisoners of war. Vimes makes it very clear that if Detritus doesn't get to go in as a free troll, the Ambassador of Ankh-Morpork isn't either.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Fifth Elephant / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Although Ãœberwald was already Hammer-Horror-Transylvania, here it is expanded to take in Ruritania and the former Soviet Union — mention is made of the now defunct "Unholy Empire", a neat combination of the USSR and Holy Roman Empire.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_5805c059	type	Werewolf Theme Naming
The Fifth Elephant / int_5805c059	comment	Werewolf Theme Naming: Averted with most of them, but Wolfgang is rather on the nose. He has a Never Heard That One Before reaction when Vimes points it out. Even better, he's called Wolf for short. Amusingly averted with actual wolves, whose names run to the self-deprecating: Awkward, Eats Wrong Meat, and (understandably for a lone wolf) Arsehole.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_59c3b4cd	type	Undead Author
The Fifth Elephant / int_59c3b4cd	comment	Undead Author: Inverted. Carrot assures Gaspode that there are no reliable accounts of wolves attacking humans unprovoked. Gaspode suggests that the unprovoked attacks don't get reported because no one survives them to tell the tale.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
The Fifth Elephant / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: Sybil escapes from her room at the Baron's keep this way.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
The Fifth Elephant / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Inigo. Who ever thought Vimes would feel bad for an assassin?
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The Fifth Elephant / int_63267b15	type	Theseus' Ship Paradox
The Fifth Elephant / int_63267b15	comment	Theseus' Ship Paradox: Brought up several times, generally in regards to a Dwarfish axe which has been passed down through the family for generations: sometimes the head needed replacing, other times the shaft, still more times the eye or the bit, but it's still the same ancestral axe despite having changed in style and appearance and bearing no remaining piece of the original. Played to the hilt in the book's climax, where no one in the know is terribly upset that the conspiracy to influence the Dwarfish succession involved destroying the Scone of Stone and replacing it with a perfect replica: the Scone had already been replaced many times over the centuries, but it had always remained "the thing and the whole of the thing."
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The Fifth Elephant / int_64c38832	type	Inevitable Waterfall
The Fifth Elephant / int_64c38832	comment	Inevitable Waterfall: While Wolfgang and company are chasing Vimes, he gets onto a boat. Of course this occurs.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_64ebbed6	type	Appeal to Nature
The Fifth Elephant / int_64ebbed6	comment	Appeal to Nature: Colon says he doesn't approve of unnatural things (meaning sonkies, the Discworld equivalent of condoms) and Vetinari pointedly asks him "So you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?"
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The Fifth Elephant / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
The Fifth Elephant / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: Vimes and Sybil attend a truncated version of the famous dwarf opera, Bloodaxe and Ironhammer, which depicts the origins of the Scone of Stone. Sybil knows it very well and Vimes is hung up on which partner was which (it's a love story, and they're both dwarfs).
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The Fifth Elephant / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
The Fifth Elephant / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Invoked In-Universe. Vimes notes than Lady Margolotta is trying very hard to look like a harmless middle-aged gentle-lady of the 'ladies who lunch' variety, but she's missed it by just enough to give quite a chilling effect. Of course, considering who we're talking about, this could be entirely deliberate.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_6c77a1db	type	Mining for Cookies
The Fifth Elephant / int_6c77a1db	comment	Mining for Cookies: Much of the plot revolves around, and takes place in, the "fat mines" of Uberwald. Vimes is sent there to negotiate a trade package for raw fat that has been preserved underground so that Ankh-Morpork can make candles and soap and the like. It's speculated to be either the remains of the titular Fifth Elephant or the result of some cataclysm that buried many shaggy, blubbery megafauna all at once.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_6fa71d36	type	Diplomatic Cover Spy
The Fifth Elephant / int_6fa71d36	comment	Diplomatic Cover Spy: Wando Sleeps, the head of the Ankh-Morpork consulate in Uberwald, is this kind of diplomat. The embassy turns out to have a hidden room full of spy equipment and files, and Mr. Sleeps himself has been busy sneaking around and poking at the conspiracy building up in the area. Unfortunately for him, the local werewolves don't really believe in Diplomatic Immunity.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_7222627a	type	Living Crashpad
The Fifth Elephant / int_7222627a	comment	Living Crashpad: Vimes believes it doesn't really count as killing someone when both you and your opponent fall off a roof while fighting and it's even odds who ends up on bottom when you land.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Fifth Elephant / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Carrot tries to use Good Old Fisticuffs against the Ax-Crazy Wolf. Vimes berates him for it after. Carrot's wolfish love rival, Gavin, attempts the wolf-equivalent moments later, to similar derision from Gaspode.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Fifth Elephant / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Despite the enraged plummeting pachyderm on the cover of some editions, to say nothing of the title, the book is not actually about an elephant. Well, it is about an elephant, but a metaphorical, not literal, one. The blurb on the back cover of one of the editions is also extremely misleading, with statements like "It's up to the dauntless Vimes ... to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm". The "fifth elephant" is mentioned in the book as an Uberwaldian phrase meaning "something thatâ€™s not what it seems", while the back cover makes it sound like Vimes is actively looking for the literal fifth elephant.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_734632b0	type	Noble Bigot
The Fifth Elephant / int_734632b0	comment	Noble Bigot: Albrecht Albrechtsson by Rhys, who considers him a Worthy Opponent and remarks that a few hundred years ago, he'd have been a very good king. By Raising Steam it becomes more clear that he's strictly a conservative instead of Evil Reactionary like Dee or Ardent.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Fifth Elephant / int_7464705c	comment	Played to the hilt in the book's climax, where no one in the know is terribly upset that the conspiracy to influence the Dwarfish succession involved destroying the Scone of Stone and replacing it with a perfect replica: the Scone had already been replaced many times over the centuries, but it had always remained "the thing and the whole of the thing."
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The Fifth Elephant / int_766ab9d0	type	Dark Horse Victory
The Fifth Elephant / int_766ab9d0	comment	Darkhorse Victory: How Rhys got the job of Low King in the first place. Dwarf society was torn between the old-school fundamentalists and the progressives, with the dwarves in Ankh-Morpork not exactly giving a toss about either, and Rhys was just a quiet sort from Llamedos neither side really objected to.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
The Fifth Elephant / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Wilinus Pass, which Vimes' coach has to pass through on the way to Bonk, and where he and Inigo end up in a pitched battle with some bandits.note Keep in mind that in ein Uberwaldean aksent, the W would be pronounced as a V.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_799d05eb	type	Not Listening to Me, Are You?
The Fifth Elephant / int_799d05eb	comment	Not Listening to Me, Are You?: While discussing the upcoming trip to Uberwald, Sybil throws in a comment about packing the alligator to test whether Sam is paying attention. Defied later on, when Vimes' instinct for self-preservation kicks in to prevent him giving a typically distracted reaction to the news that Sybil is pregnant.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
The Fifth Elephant / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Ideas Taster Dee. Dee hates the fact that there are dwarfs who are openly female. The primary reason is that she's envious they could do it while she can't.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
The Fifth Elephant / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: Averted at the Baron's castle, which has walls covered with hunting trophies instead. Vimes lampshades how this seems like it breaks the rules of castle decor, and Cheery points out that a castle full of werewolves wouldn't need crafted weapons.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Fifth Elephant / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Vimes sarcastically finishes his list of titles with the fact that he was a blackboard monitor at school. His assistant mentions that he should hold it in reserve in the event of a tie. But subverted in that the dwarfs, with their belief in the importance of the written word, assume that a responsibility for erasing words must surely only be given to a very trustworthy person indeed, leading to him being referred to as "The Blackboard Monitor" and "His Monitorship" by all dwarves for the rest of the series. A more accurate cultural translation would be "Destroyer of Writings".
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8104c755	type	Werewolves Are Dogs
The Fifth Elephant / int_8104c755	comment	Werewolves Are Dogs: Discussed at length. Good Cop Sam Vimes, as well as several other characters, all muse that itâ€™s impossible for a creature that is half wolf and half human not to have a little dog in it somewhere. This is played for laughs when various werewolves are seen to visibly cringe at the mention of a B-A-T-H. Comes to a head in the climax when Vimes dispatches Wolfgang Von Ubervald who has been stuck in a sort of mid-transformation and is acting on instinct by firing a flare gun just over Wolfgang's head, causing the monstrous creature to jump up and catch it in his teeth.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_817e24b7	type	Fur Against Fang
The Fifth Elephant / int_817e24b7	comment	Fur Against Fang: Although it's more werewolves, vampires and dwarfs vs everybody (and each other).
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The Fifth Elephant / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
The Fifth Elephant / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Skimmer and Vimes, with knives at each others' vitals.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Fifth Elephant / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: It's implied that werewolf Angua and the ordinary wolf Gavin (for the given value of "ordinary") were once romantically involved, despite the oft-repeated point that werewolves and wolves are entirely different species. For that matter, Carrot (human/really tall dwarf) and Angua (werewolf) also count for the same reason: werewolves never consider themselves "human" even when they're in human shape. Angua compares Gavin and Carrot to each other by their admirable qualities and the former is treated by the narrative as a plausible romantic rival.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Fifth Elephant / int_868afe72	comment	Covert Group with Mundane Front: Skimmer pretends to be an ordinary clerk. He can be assumed retroactively to be a member of Vetinari's "dark clerks", who aren't mentioned as a group until Going Postal but are strongly implied to be Spiritual Successors to Inigo's character.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_86968c96	type	Above Good and Evil
The Fifth Elephant / int_86968c96	comment	Above Good and Evil: A number of the vampires and werewolves hold to this thinking; Vimes sees it as what people firmly under the Evil category would use as an excuse.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Fifth Elephant / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "Down there it's the Lore, but up here it's me." Gavin's biting a thrown stick in half very slowly may qualify as a non-verbal example.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_86eea0e5	type	World of Pun
The Fifth Elephant / int_86eea0e5	comment	World of Pun: The title is a pun on The Fifth Element; interestingly the next two books also talk about the Discworld's own Fifth Element, Surprise. The Scone of Stone is a humorous reversal of the name—but not the concept—of the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were crowned, the Stone of Scone (pronounced "skoon"). The English, under Edward I, stole it in the thirteenth century; possession of it has been returned to Scotland, but the Scots are "asked" to return it for the coronation ceremony of the United Kingdom's monarch. Not only is the Scone of Stone's role a Shout-Out to the real coronation rituals of Britain, but a scone is (a) an old word for altar, and (b) a kind of baked good. Dwarfs do treat their baked goods very reverentially, and make them rock-hard. All that simply by reversing the words' order—but this is Pratchett we're talking about.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_88ce9094	type	Chubby Chef
The Fifth Elephant / int_88ce9094	comment	Chubby Chef: Restaurant owner All Jolson got his nickname because he loves his own cooking so much that passers-by who see him keep saying they can't believe that massively-fat body is all Jolson.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_88fa3225	type	Partial Transformation
The Fifth Elephant / int_88fa3225	comment	Partial Transformation: Unlike the way the trope usually works, werewolves mid-transformation are momentarily disoriented and the worst of both forms. Vimes uses this to kil-defeat a couple of them in close combat. In the last part of the story, Wolfgang gets stuck halfway between wolf and man, and is pretty fearsome and unhinged. Well, more unhinged.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_89fab6b	type	Desires Prison Life
The Fifth Elephant / int_89fab6b	comment	Desires Prison Life: "Done It Duncan" is an inept thief who makes a career out of confessing to every crime he ever hears about (and many he hasn't), in exchange for the decent food and relative comfort of a prison cell.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
The Fifth Elephant / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: The Scone of Stone and B'hrian Bloodaxe are mentioned as throwaway gags in Feet of Clay but become a serious and dramatic part of this story.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8c608864	type	Digging to China
The Fifth Elephant / int_8c608864	comment	Digging to China: Viewing the candle-dotted dwarf city far beneath Bonk for the first time, a flabbergasted Vimes murmurs that they've gone down too deep, presumably emerging on the underside of the Disc.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8ce49f80	type	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't
The Fifth Elephant / int_8ce49f80	comment	Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: Some of her friends and colleagues are perhaps a little surprised by Angua's reactions to her family showing up, although they get the point soon enough; she's the White Sheep in a family of man-eating werewolves.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Fifth Elephant / int_8f37b	comment	Though lacking actual steam engines, the Clacks in this book begins a trend of driving Ankh-Morpork from Medieval Stasis over to this setting.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
The Fifth Elephant / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Introduces the running gag of vampires having them. This novel features one whose name is Lady Margolotta Amaya Katerina Assumpta Crassina Von Uberwald — "in the short form". Her entry in the Uberwaldean who's-who is said to run for four pages, with a footnote implying that a significant proportion of that is taken up by her full name. "Vampires tend to evolve long names. It's something to do to pass the long years."
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The Fifth Elephant / int_8fb244bd	type	Replaced with Replica
The Fifth Elephant / int_8fb244bd	comment	Replaced with Replica: The twist is that The Scone of Stone seat of the Dwarf Low-King has been switched out with a fake copy and the original destroyed. The even bigger twist is that the dwarf kings have been pulling this switch themselves for centuries and the conspirators in the book only think they have a new scheme. As Rhys points out, it's bread. Even dwarf bread doesn't actually last that long.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Fifth Elephant / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Vimes kills Wolfgang with the distress flare from the clacks tower that his pack killed the operators of - the one the men never had a chance to use.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_92fa14	type	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
The Fifth Elephant / int_92fa14	comment	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: The emergency signal flare rockets for the clacks tower have the warning "Do Not Place In Mouth". This turns out to foreshadow how Vimes kills Wolfgang (a werewolf that can only be killed by fire or silver): he tricks him into catching one of the rockets in his mouth before the flare goes off.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Fifth Elephant / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Hinted at with werewolf Angua, who has run away from her human life with good, dependable Carrot and joined up with a "good friend" Gavin, a true wolf whoâ€™s implied to be an old flame. She seems undecided as to whether sheâ€™s going to return to Ankh-Morpork afterwards.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Fifth Elephant / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: At the end, Dee is confirmed to have done it all specifically because of the growing Dwarf Femininity movement in Ankh-Morpork.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_9775a897	type	Just Toying with Them
The Fifth Elephant / int_9775a897	comment	Just Toying with Them: Wolf and his cronies like to play with their food. As Angua points out, not even Vimes would have stood a chance if they'd just rushed him at once instead of giving him a "lead" and harassing him one at a time. Luckily for Vimes, they didn't know he had reinforcements coming. Of course, the hunt is explicitly a game; according to Angua it's supposed to be winnable for the human but Wolf was cheating.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_977ddbc	type	The Upper Crass
The Fifth Elephant / int_977ddbc	comment	The Upper Crass: The werewolf clan of Uberwald are a family with titles, a castle and estates, but also the sort of social graces you might expect from people who spend at least half their time in a canine form. The patriarch has spent, by choice, so much time as a wolf that he is losing the knack of how to be human, a situation his rather snobbish wife calls him out on, a lot. And younger members of the family tend to sprawl in front of the fire in wolf form; a visitor takes them at first to be rather large and boisterous dogs of the Alsatian type.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Fifth Elephant / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: After Wolfgang's disappearance, Vimes explains to Sybil why he keeps his guard up by describing Wolfgang as a "bottle covey" - someone who doesnâ€™t quit no matter how soundly heâ€™s been trounced. Sybil remarks that it sounds like someone she knows well. He only cottons on to this later.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
The Fifth Elephant / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Vimes is this both unwillingly, since he hasn't been outside of Ankh-Morpork very often, and willingly, since Screw The Rules, He's Doing What's Right!
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The Fifth Elephant / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Fifth Elephant / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Fire and silver are the typical ways to dispatch werewolves. Vimes takes this to heart and launches a flare at Wolf, expecting him to catch it in his mouth.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Fifth Elephant / int_9c45b5a2	comment	This overlaps with What Measure Is a Non-Human? when Sam Vimes' group stays at a lodge in Uberwald and is horrified to find a mounted troll head. The troll in his squad is familiar enough with Fantastic Racism that he simply remarks that he's glad things are better than they used to be — and shows them his grandmother's human Skull Cup as a reminder that it cut both ways.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Fifth Elephant / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Wallace Sonky has a brother in Ãœberwald who needs to be alerted of his murder, and he had a 'special job' coming up. It turns out that the conspiracy to replace the Scone of Stone with a forgery made use of Sonky's rubber dipping vats, and his brother likely got him the job. Wolfgang's chosen symbol is a wolf's head biting a mouthful of lightning bolts. He is later killed when he bites a powerful firework — not lightning, but close. When Angua and Wolf fight, it's noted that they have to suppress their own lupine sides while doing so, to avoid mistakes. A cat pouncing on a fizzing fuse because it's moving is an example of the impulses they need to resist. At one point Vimes is reminded of some philosophical bastard who once stated that 'a government needed butchers as well as shepherds'. We found out who said that in Night Watch Discworld. A character enters a room where his superior appears preoccupied, and gives him important and even shocking news. His superior takes it in stride, and refuses to elaborate on his plans. When the subordinate presses on the issue, his superior dismisses him with the phrase 'Don't let me detain you.'
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The Fifth Elephant / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Fifth Elephant / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Colon is now Head of Traffic, a job that Vetinari created for him and Nobby at the end of Jingo (as a reward for their 'help') and is first shown getting speed cameras set up. Detritus talks about the splendor the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, which he saw firsthand in Maskerade.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
The Fifth Elephant / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: The description Gaspode gives of the wolves' howling is very reminiscent of the Trolls Long Call in The Long Earth series of books written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Fifth Elephant / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Skimmer attempts to hide his Assassin-trained reflexes by letting the orange Vimes throws at him bounce off. But as Vimes points out, a normal person would've ducked—only someone with an unusual level of skill would clock it as not a threat and make no move.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Fifth Elephant / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Skimmer is killed Mid-Verbal-Tic.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Fifth Elephant / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: There's a little discussion about the possibility of werewolves interbreeding with both humans and wolves. There's a slight chance with any werewolf child, such as two of Angua's siblings, of them being Yennorks, werewolves who can't change, but instead can pass either as extremely clever wolves or wolf-like humans. Angua thinks that Gavin could have werewolf ancestry, which might explain his intelligence.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a5001f7f	type	Chekhov's Classroom
The Fifth Elephant / int_a5001f7f	comment	Chekhov's Classroom: Sybil gets a couple of instances of this, paying attention to background details that aren't remotely on Vimes' radar. She follows the plot At the Opera Tonight, which turns out to be important later, and she actually reads Mr Sleeps' industrial espionage reports, which enables her to haggle very effectively in a trade negotiation.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Fifth Elephant / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Werewolves have this as long as the injury isn't inflicted by fire or silver, and the latter is virtually nonexistent in Ãœberwald.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Fifth Elephant / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Gaspode starts a memorial howl for Gavin.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Fifth Elephant / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Skimmer tries this, but is too clever for his own good. At one point Vimes throws him an orange, and Skimmer lets it bounce off of him. At this point, Vimes knows that he is a professional, since an ordinary person would have either tried to catch it or at least flinched. Skimmer also advises Vimes that this is a good trait in a diplomat. Lady Margolotta is a more successful example, seeming pretty harmless for someone who knows Vetinari and apparently picked up a few things from him.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
The Fifth Elephant / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Sybil went to finishing school with Serafine, Angua's mother. Sybil never actually liked her, only sending her letters because it's what one does (and Serafine never replied), and it's hinted that she wasn't popular at the school either.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
The Fifth Elephant / int_a8abe9d1	comment	The town of Bonk. (This is funnier in British Englishnote "bonk" being a fairly harmless word for "have sex with".) It cuts both ways, though: in the Uberwaldian language, "Morpork" means "an item of ladies' underwear" (Vimes wonders which item).
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The Fifth Elephant / int_acb01a17	type	Nothing Up My Sleeve
The Fifth Elephant / int_acb01a17	comment	Nothing Up My Sleeve: Inigo Skimmer has a specially designed palm dagger which allows him to remove people's heads with nothing more than a karate chop. Being a Crazy-Prepared assassin, he also has little blades that come out of his shoes, a razor-edged hat, and an illegal spring-gonne. None of which saves him in the end.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b1fd7687	type	Kingpin in His Gym
The Fifth Elephant / int_b1fd7687	comment	Kingpin in His Gym: Wolfgang likes to give his muscles an airing.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
The Fifth Elephant / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Gavin is a lot smarter than he looks, and is also one of the only characters in the entire series who appears to be immune to Carrot. In fact, based on the fact that he can keep the wolves from killing Angua, he may even be their equivalent to Carrot.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
The Fifth Elephant / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: The titular Fifth Elephant lost its footing on Great A'tuin's shell in prehistory and collided with the Disc, breaking apart its Pangaea-type supercontinent and being responsible for Uberwald's fat reserves. That's the legend about it, anyway: there's another suggestion that the fat reserves are from a large number of megafauna (big animals) in the region that died suddenly and were miraculously preserved, in kind of a riff off of how people think of oil as "dead dinosaurs." The discussions of the importance of Uberwaldian fat to Ankh-Morpork's industries and modern living resembles discussions of how important oil is to the real world.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b479b298	type	Spy Cam
The Fifth Elephant / int_b479b298	comment	Spy Cam: Among the various spy items hidden in the Ankh-Morpork Embassy is "an iconograph small enough to fit in a pocket". Discworld iconographs contain an imp that paints pictures, the spycam version has a "nano-imp" that costs over a hundred dollars.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Fifth Elephant / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Albrecht Albrechtson is firmly opposed to Rhys being crowned Low King but still claims the faked Scone is real and supports Rhys' coronation to avert civil war. He may not like the direction the ship is sailing, but he's not about to start drilling holes in the bottom. Vimes and Skimmer have a very... sharp dispute about codes of honour. Vimes thinks that the Assassin's Guild have a lot of silly rules about gentlemanly conduct as a fig-leaf for being petty murderers, and Skimmer thinks Vimes' dedication to the law is ridiculous and hampering when he's in a lawless wilderness.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b4fb830c	type	Smarter Than You Look
The Fifth Elephant / int_b4fb830c	comment	Smarter Than You Look: Cheery is showing shades of this. She's always been a good alchemist; now she's showing she's a good copper. Specifically invoked with regards to Lady Sybil. She's quite intelligent, but unfortunately the combination of figure and her kindness led to people assuming otherwise for large chunks of her life.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
The Fifth Elephant / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: Vetinari's insinuating way of speaking, which is usually enough to terrify anyone talking to him into submission, flies completely over Colon's head, even as Vetinari gets increasingly unsubtle about his feelings about Colon's work. (Amusingly enough, Colon is one of the many people in Ankh-Morpork terrified of Vetinari using sarcasm on him, even as he fails to notice it happening.)
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b5fc9737	type	Tricked into Another Jurisdiction
The Fifth Elephant / int_b5fc9737	comment	Tricked into Another Jurisdiction: Vimes is named as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador to Uberwald, where the dwarves, werewolves and vampires keep an uneasy peace. As a By-the-Book Cop, Vimes can't go around arresting every troublemaker there, but learns that the Ankh-Morpork embassy counts as Ankh-Morpork territory, so Commander Vimes of the City Watch is well within his rights to chase after a murderer who committed his crime in the embassy.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b6738eed	type	Hint Dropping
The Fifth Elephant / int_b6738eed	comment	The moment when Sybil gives up on Hint Dropping and just straight up tells Sam she's pregnant certainly has this effect on him even if the reader caught on much sooner. Also doubles as a hilarious narrow aversion of Not Listening to Me, Are You?
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b690b676	type	Fictional Disability
The Fifth Elephant / int_b690b676	comment	Fictional Disability: A yennork is a werewolf with permanent Shapeshifter Mode Lock as either a wolf or a human (Angua apparently having two siblings who are an example of each; a brother who lives as a champion sheep dog and a sister with a permanent human form, who Wolfgang murdered at some point). This doesn't mean they are a wolf or a human, just a werewolf without the "switch".
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Fifth Elephant / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Angua with Gavin (a wolf who might be her ex-boyfriend) and Carrot (her human/dwarf current boyfriend).
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b82c2930	type	World Sundering
The Fifth Elephant / int_b82c2930	comment	World Sundering: The primal cataclysm that caused an elephant to fall off the back of the turtle seriously reshaped the landscape of the Disc. Regard the suspicious regular shape of the Circle Sea, reminiscent of a massive impact crater.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
The Fifth Elephant / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: Briefly applies when Skimmer needs to light a signal flare, but can't keep a match alight in the wind. He resorts to using a burning branch clutched in the fireplace tongs.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
The Fifth Elephant / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: Wolfgang's pack are fond of a low-tech variant, waiting under a tarp in a rowboat for an unsuspecting quarry to climb aboard.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Fifth Elephant / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: With Vimes on a diplomatic mission and Carrot on leave, Colon ends up in charge, and ends up going power mad. After demoting a number of officers for allegedly stealing the sugar (which he had been subconsciously eating himself due to stress), virtually the entire Watch either transfers to another city or goes on strike, only returning to normal when Carrot and Angua return.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
The Fifth Elephant / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: Dee is revealed to be this during the climax, a female dwarf forced to uphold traditions when younger generations of dwarf women are starting to break free from it.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Fifth Elephant / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Werewolves with certain words, like "bath" and "vet". Vimes enjoys needling Angua's family by mentioning Lord Vetinari and the hot baths they have at the embassy.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_bc8a63d1	type	Fist Pump
The Fifth Elephant / int_bc8a63d1	comment	Fist Pump: Lady Margolotta does this when she correctly guesses that Vimes will be Ankh-Morpork's ambassador. One of the three 'gloomy biddies' does this when she's told there are no cherry orchards (or cold, long winters, come to that) in Ankh-Morpork. (Between these characters and Otto from The Truth, the Fist Pump may be a gesture particular to Uberwaldeans on the Disc.)
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The Fifth Elephant / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
The Fifth Elephant / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Wolfgang and Co.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Fifth Elephant / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The titular Fifth Elephant and the Scone of Stone, and even several of the political figures of Uberwald.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Fifth Elephant / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Fred Colon, promoted to Captain in the absence of Vimes and Carrot, cracks under the pressure of command almost immediately and rapidly turns into a paranoid, arrogant, blatantly incompetent asshole. It's clear that he's absolutely terrified by his unwanted authority and responsibility, and has no idea how to handle the burden of command. He insists on increasingly harsh punishments for the disappearing sugar cubes he himself is subconsciously stress-eating.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c04619e4	type	Hey, Catch!
The Fifth Elephant / int_c04619e4	comment	Hey, Catch!: A variation. Vimes throws a small, harmless object (an orange) at Skimmer, who just lets it bounce off him rather than catching it or ducking. He repeats the test later with Sergeant Stronginthearm, who ducks.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Fifth Elephant / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted by actual wolves, which are not doglike at all, to the extent that Gaspode's usual street-dog repartee fails him entirely. Gavin non-verbally defies the trope by catching a stick Carrot tosses solely so he can very slowly bite it in half while staring directly at him.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
The Fifth Elephant / int_c2288824	comment	There are also Nazi werewolves, for good measure.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Fifth Elephant / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: BCBs, or "Burnt Crunchy Bits," are impurities in the fat — possibly a Shout-Out to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), a persistent organic pollutant that is, fittingly, highly soluble in fat. Also, Leonard of Quirm as usual can't come up with snappy names for his inventions - after he invents a clacks code machine for the Patrician, he contemplates it the "Engine for the Neutralisation of Information by the Generation of Miasmic Alphabets" (but says it doesn't roll off the tongue, failing to notice the acronym), a sly cryptography Shout-Out.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c47f7ce6	type	Evil Reactionary
The Fifth Elephant / int_c47f7ce6	comment	Evil Reactionary: Albrecht Albrechtson is an ultra-conservative dwarf whose first line of dialogue on-page is a slur, and it's implied he's from an old dwarf political family trying to keep things the same forever. Subverted in the conclusion, where it's revealed that Rhys actually respects him enormously and thinks of him as a fundamentally good person who just happens to be a bit behind the times; he ultimately supports the Low King and the Scone's authenticity because he does value dwarf society even if he's not a huge fan of the direction it's going. This judgement is further proved true in subsequent books, where the differences between Albrecht and the actual reactionaries within dwarf culture are stark, and he ultimately manages to get past his problems with openly-female dwarfs in part out of disgust for the way the reactionaries talk about them.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Fifth Elephant / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Angua's mother is an aged-up version of her daughter.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Fifth Elephant / int_c75df49a	comment	The Scone of Stone is a humorous reversal of the name—but not the concept—of the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were crowned, the Stone of Scone (pronounced "skoon"). The English, under Edward I, stole it in the thirteenth century; possession of it has been returned to Scotland, but the Scots are "asked" to return it for the coronation ceremony of the United Kingdom's monarch. Not only is the Scone of Stone's role a Shout-Out to the real coronation rituals of Britain, but a scone is (a) an old word for altar, and (b) a kind of baked good. Dwarfs do treat their baked goods very reverentially, and make them rock-hard. All that simply by reversing the words' order—but this is Pratchett we're talking about.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_c78560a2	type	Stolen by Staying Still
The Fifth Elephant / int_c78560a2	comment	Stolen by Staying Still: Nobody knows where the Scone of Stone has vanished to, despite being guarded in an underground lake round-the-clock by guards behind a system of locks and pressure plates that guarantee no one can enter or leave the room undetected. Vimes proves it's possible for someone significantly taller than a dwarf to leave without setting it off, but the people plotting to remove the scone and depose the current Low King simply crumbled it to dust much like the fine sand of the cave floor, intending to use a plaster replica to induct their own candidate.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_ce090f4b	type	Translation with an Agenda
The Fifth Elephant / int_ce090f4b	comment	Translation with an Agenda: While trying to find out where Angua has gone, Carrot has a conversation with a wolf using Gaspode the Wonder Dog as translator. Carrot attempts to strike a friendly tone, and offers food as a reward for co-operation, but Gaspode's translation is heavy on threats of torture, and prompts the wolf to run away as soon as the conversation is over. This is partly because Gaspode judges that threats will be more effective, and partly because he doesn't want to have to share his food.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_cf35af47	type	Gunpoint Banter
The Fifth Elephant / int_cf35af47	comment	Vimes and Skimmer have a very... sharp dispute about codes of honour. Vimes thinks that the Assassin's Guild have a lot of silly rules about gentlemanly conduct as a fig-leaf for being petty murderers, and Skimmer thinks Vimes' dedication to the law is ridiculous and hampering when he's in a lawless wilderness.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_cf6d4bad	type	Steampunk
The Fifth Elephant / int_cf6d4bad	comment	Steampunk: Though lacking actual steam engines, the Clacks in this book begins a trend of driving Ankh-Morpork from Medieval Stasis over to this setting. Also, the traffic control subplot carried over from the previous Watch book. The traffic security came—imps, for example.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_d1c8f2b3	type	Vampires Are Sex Gods
The Fifth Elephant / int_d1c8f2b3	comment	Vampires Are Sex Gods: Nicely subverted with Lady Margolotta, who is said to resemble an attractive, middle-aged housewife, and wears fuzzy pink sweaters with bat patterns. On the other hand, Vetinari's uncharacteristic pauses of nostalgic longing seem to indicate a special something she had with him. Whatever she is now, she might have had a much greater "presence" back in Vetinari's younger days.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
The Fifth Elephant / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: A tradition in Uberwald, where a peasant could legitimately win by outrunning the werewolf chasing him, gaining a substantial payoff. Still, the name is not very fitting, since in Ãœberwald you can hardly call humans the "most dangerous" creatures. Not individually, anyway.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_d68762ef	type	Weapon for Intimidation
The Fifth Elephant / int_d68762ef	comment	Weapon for Intimidation: This is Vimes' philosophy about weapons in general, as opposed to Skimmer's. Vimes doesn't think the single-shot crossbow qualifies as a weapon at all, as it exists solely to kill one person quietly and efficiently.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_d9723630	type	In My Language, That Sounds Like...
The Fifth Elephant / int_d9723630	comment	In My Language, That Sounds Like...: The town of Bonk (or "Beyonk"). As Carrot points out, there are only so many syllables out there. "Morpork" sounds rather like the Uberwald word for an unspecified item of women's underwear.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_db30c9d0	type	Deconstructed
The Fifth Elephant / int_db30c9d0	comment	Angua angrily compares the hunts her brother stages with the ones her father staged, which while she didn't like them, were different in that taking part was a choice, the hunted man had an honest chance, and got a big bag of money and a banquet at the castle if he won. Deconstructed with Carrot's response that the men still died when they lost.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
The Fifth Elephant / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Played straight by Tantony, who gives this excuse to Vimes after he let Sybil go with Serafine. Vimes immediately answers by Subverting this: he orders Detritus to shoot Tantony, knowing that Detritus will tell him to shove it.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_dcbddebe	type	Pregnant Badass
The Fifth Elephant / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Sybil, though it doesn't come out until after the climax.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_dcf669c2	type	Offended by an Inferior's Success
The Fifth Elephant / int_dcf669c2	comment	Offended by an Inferior's Success: Dee turns out to be particularly vitriolic against the openly-female dwarves of Ankh-Morpork ("openly-female" here meaning that they wear makeup and skirt-like clothing, they still keep the beards and chainmail), referring to Cheery as "ha'ak" (a very bad slur), in large part because as the holder of one of the more traditionalist positions in dwarf society, she's not allowed to.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
The Fifth Elephant / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: The town of Bonk. (This is funnier in British Englishnote "bonk" being a fairly harmless word for "have sex with".) It cuts both ways, though: in the Uberwaldian language, "Morpork" means "an item of ladies' underwear" (Vimes wonders which item). Also note Bonk is supposedly more strictly pronounced Beyonknote This is a reference to Slavic languages having phonemic palatalization, and this being consistently ignored in transcriptions into languages which don't; which is to say, most of them. In this case, the initial 'B' is palatalized, which inserts a 'y' sound between it and the next vowel. In Cyrillic, it would probably be spelled Ð‘Ñ‘Ð½Ðº, which could also be transliterated "Byonk". For a bit of (probably unintentional) Bilingual Bonus, the proper Russian translation of "bonk", Ñ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ… or Ñ‚Ñ€Ð°Ñ…Ð½ÑƒÑ‚ÑŒ, retains the British double-entendre nature of the word—just like in British English, it can mean either "hit someone over the head" or "have passionate sex with someone". Wolf names are highly descriptive of the individual wolf's personality or habits, which makes it perfectly logical that other wolves would have bestowed the name of Arsehole on one they'd disliked enough to kick out of the pack.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_df77bb33	type	Ambadassador
The Fifth Elephant / int_df77bb33	comment	Ambadassador: Vimes is sent to Uberwald to be this. He brings Detritus with him for added Ambadassitude, and Skimmer later shows he's one of these too.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Fifth Elephant / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Inigo Skimmer's palm dagger, which can remove a person's head in a single stroke.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_e12670cd	type	Freudian Threat
The Fifth Elephant / int_e12670cd	comment	Threatened by Vimes against Skimmer during their Mexican Standoff: see that trope entry below for the full quote.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
The Fifth Elephant / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Cheery brings along one for the coronation. It's noted that the openly female dwarves tend to go for elaborate dresses on special occasions, because if you're going to break your culture's ancient taboos you might as well do it good and hard.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Fifth Elephant / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Vimes knows Wolfgang isn't finished due to these tendencies. He makes a short speech to Sybil comparing him to the men in Ankh-Morpork who will charge into insurmountable odds and won't give up until they're dead. One of the few times in the series that Vimes doesn't understand the irony of his and other people's statements.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
The Fifth Elephant / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: Werewolves have doglike tendencies that become a plot point. As the book itself puts it, anything part human and part wolf must have some dog in there. Subverted by actual wolves, which are not doglike at all, to the extent that Gaspode's usual street-dog repartee fails him entirely. Gavin non-verbally defies the trope by catching a stick Carrot tosses solely so he can very slowly bite it in half while staring directly at him.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
The Fifth Elephant / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: The setup for the whole plot is a major cultural schism between, broadly, the conservative mining dwarfs and the progressive city-dwelling ones. Angua angrily compares the hunts her brother stages with the ones her father staged, which while she didn't like them, were different in that taking part was a choice, the hunted man had an honest chance, and got a big bag of money and a banquet at the castle if he won. Deconstructed with Carrot's response that the men still died when they lost.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Fifth Elephant / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Backfires on the Bonk guardsman who kicked Detritus in the rocks and wound up walking with a limp. Implied to be the way Gaspode manages to help Gavin during his fight against Wolf. Threatened by Vimes against Skimmer during their Mexican Standoff: see that trope entry below for the full quote.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_eb93f774	type	Human Head on the Wall
The Fifth Elephant / int_eb93f774	comment	Human Head on the Wall: This overlaps with What Measure Is a Non-Human? when Sam Vimes' group stays at a lodge in Uberwald and is horrified to find a mounted troll head. The troll in his squad is familiar enough with Fantastic Racism that he simply remarks that he's glad things are better than they used to be — and shows them his grandmother's human Skull Cup as a reminder that it cut both ways. Vimes meets a local werewolf clan in their pack leader's castle, and notices there are empty nails and patches of paler plaster on the wall around them, suggesting several hunting trophies have been taken down so as not to impede the smooth flow of diplomacy. Later in the book he learns about The Game, where werewolves hunt down humans.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_ed3dc201	type	Addiction Displacement
The Fifth Elephant / int_ed3dc201	comment	Addiction Displacement: Lady Margolotta is a "blood teetotaler" who has transferred her lust for blood to a lust for control/politics. And fine tobacco.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_edc96065	type	Mister Muffykins
The Fifth Elephant / int_edc96065	comment	Mister Muffykins: Margolotta owns one of these, although it might not actually be a dog at all but a very large rat dolled up like a pampered yappy dog. (To Vimes, though dogs of that sort tend to look like oversized rats anyway...)
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The Fifth Elephant / int_eea921b7	type	Late to the Punchline
The Fifth Elephant / int_eea921b7	comment	Late to the Punchline: The narration notes this when Vimes is trying to explain what a "bottle covey" is to Sybil.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
The Fifth Elephant / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Skimmer, after a while. Vimes commends him on dropping his original deferential attitude.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
The Fifth Elephant / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Near the end of the book, the words "I can't!" turn the nature of the Evil Plan on its head. In that one short sentence, it shows that while the conspiracy was perpetrated by traditionalists, it also showed that envy was a significant factor too.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_f44ea9dc	type	Howl of Sorrow
The Fifth Elephant / int_f44ea9dc	comment	Howl of Sorrow: Gaspode starts a mourning howl, which is passed on into the night by unseen wolf packs. Given how small and mongrelly Gaspode is, this is something of an achievement.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
The Fifth Elephant / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The last time dwarfs went to war over a Low King, fifty years ago. Vimes realises it's hard to notice a war that takes place almost entirely underground.
The Fifth Elephant / int_f722f635	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Fifth Elephant / int_f722f635
The Fifth Elephant / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
The Fifth Elephant / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Werewolves are heavily influenced by what shape they're in, and the effects tend to linger: a werewolf who stays human most of the time will have diminished senses but a stronger capacity for complex thoughts, while a werewolf who stays a wolf most of the time will start thinking and acting like one. By the time of the book, Angua's father spends so much time as a wolf that when he's a human, he barely remembers how to act like one.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_fad7b727	type	Fun with Foreign Languages
The Fifth Elephant / int_fad7b727	comment	Fun with Foreign Languages: Vimes can't quite speak dwarfish, introducing himself as "Overseer Vimes of the Look" and inadvertently using a form of the word 'dwarf' that indicates miscreant (which, as a policeman, is no doubt the term he used most often in street dwarfish).
The Fifth Elephant / int_fad7b727	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Fifth Elephant / int_fad7b727
The Fifth Elephant / int_fb60e9a2	type	He's Got a Weapon!
The Fifth Elephant / int_fb60e9a2	comment	He's Got a Weapon!: Invoked by Vimes' captors and averted by Vimes himself. When he is imprisoned, someone smuggles a single-shot crossbow into his cell. Vimes notes that if you want to help someone escape, you send them a key; if you send someone a weapon it means you want him to die via this trope.
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Fifth Elephant / int_fb60e9a2
The Fifth Elephant / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
The Fifth Elephant / int_fbba5e98	comment	Also, Leonard of Quirm as usual can't come up with snappy names for his inventions - after he invents a clacks code machine for the Patrician, he contemplates it the "Engine for the Neutralisation of Information by the Generation of Miasmic Alphabets" (but says it doesn't roll off the tongue, failing to notice the acronym), a sly cryptography Shout-Out.
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Fifth Elephant / int_fbba5e98
The Fifth Elephant / int_fbd5c739	type	IHaveToGoIronMyDog
The Fifth Elephant / int_fbd5c739	comment	I Have to Go Iron My Dog: When Colon starts mouthing off about trolls and dwarfs in the office, they all suddenly have a very firm desire to go out on patrol. Colon doesn't even realise what he's done.
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The Fifth Elephant / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Fifth Elephant / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Near the beginning of the novel, one of the watchmen tells Vimes that "ping" is a dialect word meaning 'water meadow'. Nothing comes of this until nearly the end of the novel, when Vimes has a pang of conscience so small it's more of a ping, which causes him to remember about the dialect meaning.
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Accidental Aiming Skills / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Always Save the Girl / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Ambadassador / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Ambiguous Syntax / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Apologetic Attacker / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Appeal to Nature / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me? / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	At the Opera Tonight / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Balls of Steel / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Bilingual Backfire / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Blinded by the Light / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Bond One-Liner / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Bookcase Passage / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Boomerang Bigot / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Born in the Wrong Century / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Brawn Hilda / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Busman's Vocabulary / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	But We Used a Condom! / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Censorship by Spelling / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Character Name Alias / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Clap Your Hands If You Believe / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Clean Cut / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Completely Unnecessary Translator / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Convenient Escape Boat / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Corporate Samurai / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Cover-Blowing Superpower / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Crazy Cultural Comparison / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Cross-Cast Role / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Dead Guy on Display / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Dead Man Walking / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Democracy Is Flawed / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Digging to China / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Diplomatic Cover Spy / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Dogs Are Dumb / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Element No. 5 / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	English Literature / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Ethnicity Monarch / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Every Episode Ending / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Evil Lawyer Joke / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Evil Reactionary / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Falling Chandelier of Doom / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Fantastic Ableism / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Fatal Fireworks / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Follow the Chaos / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Food Songs Are Funny / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Foreign Cuss Word / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Fun with Foreign Languages / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Gendered Insult / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Go Fetch / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Good Old Fisticuffs / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Good Old Ways / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Hard-to-Light Fire / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Heroes Fight Barehanded / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	He's Dead, Jim / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	He's Got a Weapon! / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Hint Dropping / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Hold Your Hippogriffs / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Hot Pursuit / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Ice-Cream Koan / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Imperiled in Pregnancy / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	In My Language, That Sounds Like... / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Indestructible Edible / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Inevitable Waterfall / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Inflationary Dialogue / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Innocent Fanservice Girl / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Jurisdiction Friction / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Just Following Orders / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Just Toying with Them / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Kingpin in His Gym / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Literal Cliffhanger / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Load-Bearing Hero / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Luck-Based Search Technique / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Made from Real Girl Scouts / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Made in Country X / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Made of Plasticine / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Mercy Lead / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Metaplot / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Mexican Standoff / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Mining for Cookies / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Motive Rant / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	My Master, Right or Wrong / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Mystery Meat / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	National Weapon / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	No Need for Names / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Noble Bigot / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Noble Shoplifter / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Noble Wolf / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Non-Nude Bathing / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Not Listening to Me, Are You? / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Now That's Using Your Teeth! / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Offended by an Inferior's Success / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Outscare the Enemy / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Pardon My Klingon / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Passed-Over Promotion / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Passive Rescue / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Pen-Pushing President / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Post-Climax Confrontation / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Post-Victory Collapse / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Professional Killer / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Raised by Natives / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Razor-Sharp Hand / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Reduced to Ratburgers / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Redundant Rescue / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Reflexive Response / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Repetitive Name / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Replaced with Replica / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Revealing Skill / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Ridiculous Exchange Rates / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Rock Bottom / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Royal Mess / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Savage Wolves / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Saved by the Platform Below / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Saving the World With Art / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Scarily Competent Tracker / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Showdown / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Similar Squad / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Single-Season Country / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Skull Cups / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Smart Animal, Inconvenient Instincts / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Sorry I Fell on Your Fist / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Spotting the Thread / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Spy Cam / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	State Visit / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Survivorship Bias / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Sword over Head / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Fettered / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Resenter / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	The Upper Crass / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	There Will Be Toilet Paper / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Theseus' Ship Paradox / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Too Cool to Live / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Too Important to Walk / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Trial by Ordeal / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Tricked into Escaping / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Trivial Title / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Tropaholics Anonymous / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Try to Fit That on a Business Card / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Undead Author / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Understatement / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Design / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Vampire Vords / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Weak, but Skilled / int_35af2104
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The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Weight and Switch / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Werewolves Are Dogs / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	What Is Evil? / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Humanoid? / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	With Due Respect / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	Working Title / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	World of Pun / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	World Sundering / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_35af2104
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_35af2104

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