Old Kingdom/YMMV

" : Wait - is this allowed? Disreputable Dog: (Beat) No. But then, I am the Disreputable Dog."
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome:
 * And
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The Disreputable Dog  -- doing triple duty as a Crowner of Funny and Awesome.


 * Fridge Brilliance: This falls into the category of "Blindingly obvious once you realize it," but the reason Sam has so much trouble trying to read The Book of the Dead isn't just PTSD regarding anything to do with Death, it's that
 * Fridge Horror: The Dead themselves. The protagonists are always talking about innocent people being killed and having their spirits enslaved and hoping like heck it doesn't happen to them, but it's all too easy to forget that a lot of the baddies that are doing things of their own relatively free will, all the Greater Dead, used to be human as well.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Depending on either your opinion of Mogget, or where you are in the series. Mogget does get better, mostly over the course of the third book. But even though Mogget can be quite caustic when he is criticizing the plans and plots of several characters, or griping about his slavery or the incompetency of his keepers, he both does his part when crisis strikes and sometimes does things that are not required of him.
 * Tear Jerker: Mogget gives Lirael the message from  And then Lirael loses
 * Tear Jerker: Mogget gives Lirael the message from  And then Lirael loses