Mister Muffykins: Big Fido may have been one... once. He's something altogether different now. Completely batshit, for one. She’s got to marry someone once she’s turned up. Can’t have unmarried brides flapping around the place, being a danger to society.” Clearly Carrot realizes that, while Vetinari is a 'tyrant', he has the good of Ankh-Morpork as his main focus so why would he say no to making the city safer. The word "police" comes from Middle French police "organized government, civil administration" (late 15c.), from Latin politia "civil administration," from Greek polis "city". The Greek politeia, meaning government, which came to mean its civil administration. So 'policeman' does in fact mean man of the city. Detritus recruits two trolls named Flint and Moraine to the Watch. Could be the same two from Moving Pictures, though "Flint" changed his name a couple of times in that book. An Assassin tells Vimes "Your uniform doesn't scare me". Vimes agrees that it's not a scary uniform, and calls over Carrot and Detritus. "Now these, I think you'll agree, are scary uniforms." There's a similar exchange in Police Academy III between Mahoney and a cabbie, where he calls over Hightower for the same effect.

The city dogs tell stories about Big Fido after his Disney Villain Death that are reminiscent of those the Efrafans tell about Woundwort from Watership Down. Continuity Nod: Though he doesn't make a physical appearance, it's noted that the Dean wanted to join the Watch while everyone's getting deputised, with his habit of getting caught up in the latest fads. Off the Wagon: Still early in his resolution to become teetotaler (made at Sybil's insistence), poor Vimes falls prey to temptation in the face of his impending retirement. Fantastic Firearms: The Gonne happens to be the first ever firearm in the fantasy setting. While that seems mundane, the gun itself is implied to have a power to corrupt its wielder through voices in their heads, and is later revealed to be an Evil Weapon with a mind of its own, working to prevent Uniqueness Decay. Detritus isn't nearly as stupid as he might appear, he's just not in the right environment and counts in twos instead of tens (probably because his silicon brain thinks in binary!).Turn in Your Badge: The attempt to invoke this trope goes a tad too far and results in a 10-Minute Retirement.

Abel, Jennifer (2013-11-14). "Fingerhut boots and the Vimes' Boots paradox". ConsumerAffairs. Archived from the original on 2022-02-08 . Retrieved 2022-02-08.Discriminate and Switch: Angua the w ...erewolf. A running joke involves characters stating that, no, no, they have no problem with a w... someone like Angua joining the Watch, of course not. It's only towards the end that the specifics of the prejudice involved are explained. But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). Edward d'Eath, an Assassin and son of a down-and-out noble family, becomes convinced that the restoration of the Ankh-Morpork monarchy will solve the social change in the city which he blames for his family's humbling. He researches the history of the royal family and determines that Carrot Ironfoundersson is in fact the rightful heir to the throne. It also gets Deconstructed a bit too, in that Carrot doesn't really like the idea of people following his lead simply because it's him. In later books, other characters start somehow resenting him for this too. In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Terry published Snuff in October 2011.

Pixieltd on Reading The Wheel of Time: Taim Tells Lies and Rand Shares His Plan in Winter’s Heart (Part 3) 3 hours ago That tiny little thing about "cohorts", as it was Moist von Lipwig who mentioned that he used to think it was a piece of armor, and would imagine people polishing them... like the Watch did near the end. In the last few weeks the world has not been my friend, among some health issues and a recent string of mediocre books. In times like these, Terry Pratchett is a wonderful antidote to the world’s unpleasantness. Colon: Forward, Lance-Constable Angua. Tell me, Lance-Constable, do you think you could kill a man?Meanwhile, Captain Samuel Vimes, captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, prepares for his imminent wedding to Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman in Ankh-Morpork. He also must deal with a new group of recruits that he has been required to take on for the sake of diversity: Cuddy (a dwarf), Detritus (a troll), and Angua (a werewolf—but Carrot is unaware of this, and believes she is included because she is female). When a string of seemingly random murders occur among the Guilds of the city, Lord Vetinari forbids Vimes to investigate in a successful ploy to ensure Vimes does investigate. Cuddy and Detritus are forced to work together, resulting in them becoming friends as they overcome their deep-seated racial enmity. Angua works with the talking dog Gaspode, and also forms a romantic connection with Carrot, who loses his virginity to her but handles the discovery that she is a werewolf poorly. When you were a Watchman, you were a Watchman all the time, which was a bit of a bargain for the city since it only paid you to be a Watchman for ten hours of every day.” The irony here is that there only used to be a handful of jobs that you’d associate with this kind of commanded dedication—military, doctors, news reporters, and so on—but since Pratchett wrote this line, it’s become common for all sorts of jobs, including ones that seem absurd to offer this kind of twenty-four hour a day devotion to…

Smash Cut: Narrative version — it cuts straight from Nobby finding the on switch for the Klatchian fire engine to "They put out the flames eventually". Damned by Faint Praise: Colon is feeling intellectually inferior to Carrot, Angua and Cuddy, so Nobby tries to comfort him by pointing out that he's at least smarter than Detritus. Colon morosely says that the same can be said about yeast. Bjorn, the dwarf who believes in reincarnation. Meaning he'll be Bjorn-again. Made more hilarious the fact that the one making the comment is Death, and he's saying it to a race that generally doesn't understand figures of speech, puns, etc. And Death himself, generally completely unable to get even the simplest of humor and wordplay, is immensely proud of having come up with "Bjorn-again" all by himself. And they need all the help they can get, because someone in Ankh-Morpork has been getting dangerous ideas - about crowns and legendary swords, and destiny.Good tension in books is based, in my opinion, on making the reader care about the characters. Any book will feel fast paced if the characters are in danger. And, Terry is obviously a very good craftsman, with excellent pacing beyond his character drama. In the Style of: Cuddy writes his police report in the style of a Norse saga (because Our Dwarves Are All the Same) but mixes in stereotypical police terms like 'eventuated' and 'proceeding'. Pratchett's stories are almost always "good to great", but he really shines with his character dialogue. There is a whole host of new characters added to the main cast in this book, and they are wonderful additions that play off each other so, so well. The watch has to recruit more members as part of an affirmative action initiative, so they bring in a dwarf, a troll, and a werewolf. But one of the main characters doesn't know the werewolf is a werewolf and thinks they have been recruited due to being a female. I am not sure how many dark fantasy comedy detective novels could be seen as heirs of this idea of investigating trolls, werewolves, vampires, zombies, whatevers,…, but the potential of using the magic abilities for finding the nasty criminals has great potential, as it unites plot, character, and ability and enables manifold expansion options. As far as I know, Butcher did it best with his close to legendary Dresden Files series and I am too lazy to remember and name similar authors.