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* [[Addiction Displacement]]: From alcohol to tobacco.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh, Commander of the City Watch, Blackboard Monitor.

** Although, [[Discworld/Thud|to some dwarfs]] {{spoiler|it's actually [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]}}

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: In his case, it's yet another sign of massive badassitude.

* [[Heroic Willpower]]: Walking embodiment of it.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Vimes spends half his life avoiding this trope through sheer force of will. {{spoiler|It's implied in [[Discworld/Snuff|Snuff]] that he might be starting to go too far in bending the rules to make sure justice is done.}}

* [[Inter Class Romance]]: Captain Sam Vimes and Lady Sybil Ramkin (subsequently Sir Samuel and Lady Sybil Vimes). The resultant class dynamics lead to Vimes being seen as "a jumped-up copper to the nobs, and a nob to the rest".

* [[Lawful Good]]: held up as an excellent example of how to be a [[Lawful Good]] [[Badass]].

* [[Memetic Badass]]: In-universe. Criminals don't fear the Law, they fear the Sam. Becomes even more blatant whenever someone starts listing things he's done, which includes {{spoiler|arresting ''Vetinari'' of all people, for ''treason'' (and ''living''), beating up a group of werewolves bare handed, and fighting off a demon older than civilization itself by sheer willpower.}} When Vimes was out of the city and the Watch was on strike in [[The Fifth Elephant]], unlicensed crime practically disappeared because no-one wanted to be on the Vimes Shit List.

* [[Overly Long Name]]: His Grace, His Excellency, the Duke of Ankh Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

** As of ''[[Discworld/Snuff|Snuff]]'', he's officially called His Grace, His Excellence, His {{spoiler|Blackboard-Monitorship}}, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Lord of Ramkin Estate. [[Try to Fit That on A Business Card|Yeah.]]

* [[Street Smart]]: Grew up on the streets. They never left him.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: initially a natural part of his personality, but {{spoiler|gets turned right up once he's infected with, and manages to tame, the Summoning Dark}}.

* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: Doesn't help that being raised by dwarves makes him take things literally.

* [[Chosen One]]: Subverted because he would rather be on the Watch than be king of Ankh-Morpork.

** Actually, [[Word of God|Pratchett]] himself has stated that he intended Carrot to be the main character from the beginning, but Vimes pretty much took over the story, lending credence to the "stories write themselves, the author is just the conduit" theory.

* [[Dork Knight]]: he's ''painfully'' decent and, especially at first, rather naive in some ways, but as mentioned above, not someone to mess with.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Once he wraps his head around the fact he WAS adopted.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Although he subverts this in unusual ways.

* [[Ideal Hero]]

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]

* [[Prophecy Twist]]: "The king will come bringing Law and Justice, and know nothing but the Truth, and Protect and Serve the People with his Sword." Does the prophecy say anywhere that the king would actually ''claim'' the throne?

* [[Right Makes Might]]: He firmly believes this, and since he can beat trolls in bare-fisted fights no-one is going to argue.

* [[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma]]: [[Trope Namer]], coming from Vimes's description of his reports. Though very intelligent in certain ways, Carrot never really got the hang of writing. Vimes describes his approach to punctuation as "ballistic".

 

* [[The Fool]]: With Nobby. Expressly given as the reason why they're still on the force now that the city watch has moved past when their antics are amusing or acceptable. They both have countless clues and crimes literally fall into their laps.

* [[Greek Chorus]]: With Nobby, in several books that are not focused on the Watch.

** Vimes speculates that their children have been born as the result of "particularly persuasive handwriting".

* [[Knowledge Broker]]: Of a sort. Colon is one of those people who naturally gets along with everyone, so Vimes gives him a comfy little office with a meaningless job title in the training building, where the kettle is always on and the doughnuts are free. Off-duty cops come by all the time to, as Vimes puts it, "gossip like washerwomen," and Vimes happily signs the bills for the tea and doughnuts in exchange for this free-flowing source of information. Vimes mentions that he uses Colon to figure out what the "man in the street" is thinking since Colon basically ''is'' the man in the street.

* [[The Artful Dodger]]: When young.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: [[Subverted Trope|"In this case the laws [of narrative convention] were fighting against the fact of Corporal Nobby Nobbs, and gave up."]]

{{quote|"There something strangely compelling about the little tit."

“What do you mean?”

* [[The Fool]]: With Colon. Expressly given as the reason why they're still on the force now that the city watch has moved past when their antics are amusing or acceptable. They both have countless clues and crimes literally fall into their laps.

* [[Gonk]]: Few [[Discworld]] characters are described as ugly, but Nobby's looks and doubtful species is a running joke.

** And even they will only go so far as to say that the "balance of probability" is that he's human.

** According to [[Word of God|Pratchett]], "While most people know there's a werewolf in the Watch, most people think it's Nobby, for obvious reasons."

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Her [[Healing Factor]] means she can be grievously injured in the course of the plot without being taken out of the action for long and/or [[Killed Off for Real]].

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Very, very stupid criminals regularly try to take her hostage. They'll usually tell the Watch everything or confess to any and all crimes just to make her stop terrorizing them.

* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: What she initially believes, although the "has problems staying humanoid during full-moon nights" thing really did cause some dating problems.

* [[The Nose Knows]]

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Although she is different from most of the Discworld werewolves as well—her lupine form looks less like a pure wolf, and more like a cross with an <s> Afghan</s> Klatchian Hound.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: At least on paper Angua is absurdly powerful—very little is made of it in the books, but she can actually [[Healing Factor|regenerate]] from near death unless silver is involved, [[The Nose Knows|has a canine-like sense of smell]] and a nigh unbeatable combat form. Oh and she can speak dog. And is very beautiful.<ref>So much so that even trolls and dwarves, who shouldn't find a human woman desirable, are suddenly inclined to be peaceful after they watch her [[Letting Her Hair Down|shake out her hair]].</ref> [[The Worf Effect|It's on paper though]], because it's common knowledge that the Watch has a ''werewolf'', and so [[Genre Savvy|silver and peppermint bombs have almost become routine for criminals]].

* [[Transformation Trauma]]: Subverted. Gaspode was expecting stock Hollywood werewolf transformation antics. Turns out it's "like a whole-body sneeze". It's the people who watch it happen who get traumatized.

* [[The Comically Serious]]: First, it was because he was too dumb to understand humor. After [[Dumbass No More|he acquires his special helmet]], it's for another reason:

{{quote|For him, the humor was a human aberration, that had to be overcome by talking slowly and with patience.}}

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: He hates drug dealers, rather logically given that troll drugs don't just ''figuratively'' [[Your Head Asplode|melt people's brains]].

{{quote|Jus' say "AarrghaarrghpleeassennononoUGH"}}

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: Develops this with Cuddy in the course of ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Trolls in the Discworld are walking minerals with silicon-based brains. The colder it gets, the smarter trolls get. When he was trapped in the Pork Futures Warehouse, Detritus very nearly worked out a Unified Field Theory while he was freezing to death. He survived, but alas, the equations did not.

* [[Happily Married]]: But childless.

** No longer true as of ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]'', after {{spoiler|he adopts Brick.}}

* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Mild version, played for laughs. See [[Overly Long Name]] below for modern Omnian evangelism.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Has a fondness for pigeons (and some of them ironically become meals for the gargoyle members of the Watch).

* [[Overly Long Name]]: "Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-Pamphlets"

** Omnians apparently love these; see also "Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats", aka Mightily Oats. Also, Visit's friend "Smite-the-Unbeliever-with-Cunning-Arguments".

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: As a bureaucrat, he's whiny and annoying. As a copper, he's fearless and willing to perform his job with dedicated zeal.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Was this originally, though he came across as clueless rather than malicious.

* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: As Vimes is horrified to discover, he wasn't actually named, just ''initialled''.

 

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Is famed for it.

* [[Pride]]: Nanny Ogg describes her as 'proud' in the same sense that 'the sea is full of water'. She isn't a proud person, her existence ''is'' pride.

* [[Prim and Proper Bun]]: She wears her hair in a "tight bun that could crack rocks."

* [[Transplant]], [[Mentors|Mentor]] and (arguably) one-woman [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: In the Tiffany Aching books.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: She can't talk to Nanny for more than a few minutes without them starting to fight.

* [[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma]]: Despite the abundance of witches, they don't have [[Incredibly Lame Pun|spelling]] in the mountains.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Towards Magrat. She saw potential for real witchery in the girl, and was a [[Stealth Mentor]] to her. She was secretly very proud of her, even though she never shows it. She was very upset when Magrat left witching, and was incredibly upset when [[Poor Communication Kills|she thought she'd not been invited to her wedding]]. Still, she was the one who told the Fool to marry her and was secretly very honoured when Magrat named her daughter Esmerelda.

* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: She's smart enough to keep ''Granny Weatherwax'' in check.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: She smokes a pipe.

** Even if she isn't as strong in raw power, her highly developed ability to get along with people makes her the better witch in most everyday situations (for example she is [[Not Hyperbole|the best midwife in the entire history of the world]]). Both recognize that they are strongest as a team.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Chew Toy]]: His constant [[Butt Monkey]] state is kept amusing because as even he has realized by now, he will always be saved from death or serious injury.

{{quote|'''War''': Odd person.

'''Death''': {{smallcaps|With him here, even uncertainty is uncertain. And I'm not sure even about that. }} }}

* [[Doctor Jekyll and Mister Jack Daniels]]: In ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' and ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'' his personality pretty much inverts itself after a few beers.

* [[The Drag Along]]: All the adventures he is pulled into are against his will. See quote above.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Eric Idle played him in the two Discworld games.

* [[High Hopes, Zero Talent]]: Is the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Kid with the Leash]]: Sort of. The Luggage follows his instructions at least a little bit, but mostly just acts according to [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|its own Luggagey, mysterious, and usually violent whims]].

* [[Lovable Coward]]

* [[Omniglot]]: Particularly when it comes to screaming for help.

{{quote|Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. -- ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''}}

* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: A lot.

** [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: His promotion to [[Egregious]] Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, however, seems to have taken, and he's more or less managed to work his way into the Unseen University faculty [[Cast Herd]].

 

 

* [[Klingon Promotion]]: He single-handedly stopped the tradition of this at Unseen University by being [[Badass|pretty much completely indestructible]].

* [[Metaphorgotten]]: Tends to be distracted by metaphors and similes, especially in conversations with Ponder Stibbons. (The other wizards are the same, but he's more prone to it.)

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Ridcully's favored method of management is bellowing at people until they deal with the problem. (Though granted, he has other tactics in his arsenal for when this fails.)

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Ridcully refuses to leave a fellow wizard in danger, even if they're a zombie (''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'') or almost totally incompetent at wizardry (''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'')

* [[Acronym and Abbreviation Overload]]: When dealing with Hex. He turns it on by "initializing the GBL" (great big lever); it only works when it's "FTB-enabled" (it has a fuzzy teddy bear) and so on.

* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]/[[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]]: Gets every single administrative job the rest of the staff doesn't want to do (read: all of them). With ''all'' the paperwork this entailed. However, this has also given him a level of control over the inner workings of Unseen University that has effectively made him [[The Man Behind the Man|The Man Behind The Group Of Crotchety Old Wizards]].

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: From [[Insufferable Genius]] crossed with [[Too Clever by Half]] (none of the wizards take all his brilliant accomplishments at the High Energy Magic tower seriously), he goes through a [[Break the Haughty]] and has now become the [[Beleaguered Bureaucrat]] cross [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] who effectively runs ''everything'' in UU.

* [[Go Among Mad People]]: His sanity (somewhat questionable these days) frequently gets challenged and temporarily maligned the more time he spends around the UU faculty. Their [[Insane Troll Logic]] and frequent irrationality leaves him continuously and desperately trying to imbue some sense of sanity into the situation.

{{quote|He wasn't interested in promotion, anyway. He'd just be happy if people ''listened'' for five minutes instead of saying 'Well done, Mister Stibbons, but we tried that once and it doesn't work,' or 'We probably haven't got the funding,' or, worst of all, 'You don't get proper fill-in-nouns these days - remember old "nickname" ancient-wizard-who-died-fifty-years-ago-who-Ponder-wouldn't-possibly-be-able-to-remember? Now ''there'' was a chap who knew his fill-in-nouns.' }}

* [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake]]: The reason he decided to come to Unseen University in the first place. Didn't quite work out as planned though. It's not so much that [[The Cake Is a Lie|The Cake Was A Lie]], but that [[Rule of Fun|The Cake Is Less Interesting Than Multi-dimensional Sufficiently Analysed Magic]].

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Was this until he went through a [[Break the Haughty]] courtesy of Ridcully and the senior wizard staff's [[Hilarity Ensues|misadventures]].

** Hex is a direct result of his thinking along the lines of "I wonder what would happen if..."

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: If there's a reason for what's happening that is in some way connected to logic, expect him to find it... and exposit it. The other wizards find it a bit exasperating. [[Lampshaded]], of course.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: He thinks of himself as this, but he's shown a tendency in more recent books to regard the danger of his experiments deleting the local space-time continuum as a minor inconvenience, and has been gradually drifting toward [[Mad Scientist]] territory . Particularly as, despite their flaws, his colleagues actually do know quite a bit about certain magic (or rather, have seen most of the consequences of it in particularly painful form happening to their now deceased colleagues), and can puncture some of his supposedly 'sane' theories with some fairly potent warnings (however inelegantly expressed). However, when he's not in "[[Just Think of the Potential]]" mode, he certainly qualifies as this, and consequently has the reputation of this trope even to non-wizards (according to Moist).

** The only other person who he thinks counts is an [[Only Sane Man]] is the Librarian, who he depends on to keep things running smoothly.

* [[Gaslighting]]: All the senior wizards had a lot of fun early on running rings around Ponder with their [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. [[Oh Crap|Then he caught on.]] [[Implausible Deniability|Now they're paying for it]] (he now assumes they're ''always'' doing it, even when they're not).

* [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]]: Specialises in it.

 

* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: The [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|grimoires]] in the Library are full of [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]], not Things ''Ape'' Was Not Meant To Know. An orangutan can read them with no problem.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Primate]]: When the rest of the University has thrown away the [[Sanity Ball]], the Librarian is the one who catches it.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: It's gotten to the point where people just habitually ignore the 300-pound ape at the Mended Drum, and if someone told the Faculty that there was an orangutan wandering around the grounds, they'd probably go ask the Librarian if he'd seen it.

 

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* [[Big Eater]]: Even moreso than his fellow wizards. He's gained so much weight that, according to Ridcully, he "looks like he swallered a bed!"

* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: See especially ''Reaper Man'' and ''Soul Music''.

** He even {{spoiler|sets himself up as Archancellor of a ''different'' university}} to try to one-up Ridcully.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Showed up in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' as a gag. Is now one of the most major and recognisable characters in the series.

* [[Badass]]: [[Discworld/Awesome|And how!]]

* [[Black Cloak]]

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Death in his first appearance seemed actively malicious, causing deaths rather than merely collecting the souls of the dead. He's mellowed a lot.

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: {{smallcaps|His distinctive method of speech.}} (Described as sounding "like lead slabs falling on a marble floor.")

* [[Power of Rock]]: During ''[[Discworld/Soul Music|Soul Music]]''.

* [[Santa Claus]]: He once took on the mantle of the Discworld Santa Claus (The [[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]) during a period where the real one was unavailable. Doing so let him violate a few of his normal rules to give the Discworld equivalent of The Little Match Girl "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwYCbBWxT8 the gift of a future]" — allowing her more life.

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Come on, he's ''Death''.

Only child of Death's former apprentice Mort and Death's adopted daughter Ysabel, thus making her Death's granddaughter. As a result, she's "inherited" some of his talents, like an ability to walk through walls and not be seen when she doesn't want to be. Unfortunately, her parents had hoped to distance her from the supernatural side of the family, and Susan's "[[Straw Vulcan|logical]]" mindset makes her resent having to meddle in the occult.

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* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Expressive Hair]]: Halfway between this and [[Prehensile Hair]], really. It's self-styling.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: In her first appearance in ''[[Discworld/Soul Music|Soul Music]]''.

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Mainly in her early appearances. Note that Susan's version of 'normal' is not actually all that normal for the Disc.

{{quote|'''Mr. Teatime''': As for your grandfather... honestly, that motto. 'Fear Not The Reaper'. Is that good taste? Of course, you don't need to fear him, do you? Or ''do'' you? }}

* [[It Runs in The Family]]: And family ties are ''very'' strong.

* [[Magical Nanny]]: In ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]''. Pratchett calls her "kind of a goth [[Mary Poppins]]."

* [[Mind Manipulation]]: [[Compelling Voice]] and [[Somebody Else's Problem]], mostly.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: Uses the ability to stop time, walk through walls, and manipulate the fabric of reality to grade papers and give the best history lessons ''EVER''.

* [[Prim and Proper Bun]]: Her hair tends to twist itself into a bun of its own volition. As she works as a school teacher when she's not saving the world, it's rather fitting.

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Rebellious ''duchess'' actually, but still.

* [[Skunk Stripe]]: Inverted; her hair is white with a black stripe.

* [[Stern Teacher]]: In ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. Something of a goth version of [[The Magic School Bus|Miss Frizzle]], actually.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: She took on the Queen of Faerie with a frying pan. At the age of nine.

* [[Little Professor Dialog]]: "No, 'patronizing' is a big word. 'Zoology' is really quite short."

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Justified in that the Wee Free Men are parodies of [[The Smurfs]]. Really, really ''tough'' Smurfs.

** [[Gender Rarity Value]]: And the smur...umm, the Nac Mac Feegle only have 1-2 females per clan anyway, the Kelda/Queen who gives birth to each generation of males and one girl who will be Kelda elsewhere.

Heir to the Baron who owns the Chalk, Roland was abducted by the Queen of the elves and rescued by Tiffany. He never really got over this, and was Tiffany's potential {{spoiler|but ultimately averted}} [[Love Interest]] for a time.

* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: In the ''Wee Free Men''.

 

 

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: His endlessly ambiguous relationship with Lady Margolotta... [[Anti-Villain|for a very limited value of 'unholy', of course]].

* [[Vetinari Job Security]]: [[Trope Namer]], obviously: you'd expect that a nicer person would make the city a better place, but no replacement can possibly measure up to his skill at juggling groups that don't get along well.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: He claims to never have any real plans, instead steering emerging events to his advantage. Plans would just get in his way.

 

* [[Blue Blood]]

* [[The Chessmaster|The Chessmistress]]

* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: In ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'' the mild-looking Lady Margolotta is confused with her much more haughty-looking assistant.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]] : Well, [[Anti-Villain]] smoking anyway.

* [[Vampire Vords]] : In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]''. Not so much when she reappears in ''UA'', though.

** This is possibly a [[Shout-Out]] to the original Dracula novel: the count speaks in a thick Hungarian accent when Jonathan Harker visits him, yet by the time he visits London it has almost disappeared.

 

 

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Not that you would want to point that out. Ever.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Constantly smoking, though it's treated as more of a character quirk.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Jerk With A Heart Of Golems]]

* [[Non-Indicative Name]]/[[Names to Trust Immediately]]

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* [[Addiction Displacement]]: From blood onto photography.

* [[Blinding Camera Flash]]: Exaggerated. Whenever he takes a flash photo, it results in (at best) him screaming in pain on the ground or (at worst) his demise until blood is poured on his ashes. In later books, he's found filters and other ways around this.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: He looks and acts like a small, meek iconographer, but he is still a ''vampire'', with all the abilities that implies.

{{quote|'''Lobsang Ludd:''' You said that it would be in Ankh-Morpork!

'''Lu-Tze:''' Yeah, but I have years of experience and cynicism! You're just talented! }}

* [[Hermit Guru]]

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: The Way of Mrs. Cosmopolite, composed of the mundane, common-sense sayings of an Ankh-Morpork landlady. As such, they are as exotic to Lu-Tze as Zen koans are to Westerners, but still work as a form of wisdom for him.

* [[Old Master]]: Rule One: "Never act incautiously when confronted by a little bald wrinkly smiling man!"

** Rule Seventeen: "Remember never to forget Rule One!"

* [[Chest Monster]]: One with no brain, and a homicidal attitude towards anything that threatens its master.

* [[Clingy MacGuffin]]: Being made of sapient pear wood, and having a definite personality of its own, the Luggage straddles the line between this and [[The Cat Came Back]] {{spoiler|until it meets a mate.}}

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]

 

* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: Igors can tell this. Since so many of them work for mad scientists, it's a useful skill.

* [[Creepy Good]]: They are (usually) good guys, but tend to creep out a lot of people, due to their [[Mix-and-Match Man]] prowess.

* [[Fell Off the Back of a Truck]]: Igors often have to scrounge materials for their master.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: In spite of their namesake archetype, Igors are actually extremely efficient at accomplishing whatever task they are assigned. If anything happens to [[Gone Horribly Wrong|Go Horribly Wrong]], it's usually the fault of their [[Mad Scientist|less sensible masters]].

* [[Badass Normal]]: Few people imagine how deadly a comb can be before they have met Conina.

* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]

* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: All the guys want her, until they find out that she will attack everything around her by compulsion.

 

== Lobsang Ludd ==

 

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* {{spoiler|[[Anthropomorphic Personification]]}}

* [[Blank Slate]]: Arguably suffers from "dull protagonist" syndrome (but then, who ''wouldn't'' look dull alongside Lu Tze and Susan?) {{spoiler|until his [[A God Am I|upgrade]]}}.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Technically he just wants to {{spoiler|stay ''partly'' normal, he could "just know" absolutely ''anything'' he wanted to know at any given instant because he is Time itself personified and sees all potential possibilities, but he claims he has to do things "the right way round" to stay partly human.}}

* [[Thieves' Guild]]: Was in the Guild of Thieves before he got up and taken to the monastery.

* [[Split At Birth]]: {{spoiler|He and Jeremy Clockson, a socially inept and supersane (which is just as bad as being crazy) individual, are the same person, split in half because their/his/whatever mother freaked out a little bit during childbirth, and when Time herself freaks out ''strange'' things tend to happen.}}

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* [[Action Girl]]: She's a soldier.

** [[Groin Attack]]

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Not as clear an example as Vimes or Granny, but she's got the beginnings of this. (Of course, war will make a cynic out of almost anyone—everybody in her regiment has means of coping, and this is hers.)

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Compared to her fellow soldiers, she's a shining beacon of sanity.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: She's a competent enough soldier, but it's hard to stand out when you're next to a troll, a vampire, and [[Badass|Sergeant Jackrum]]. She even predicts that this will happen to her in the history books, given {{spoiler|the fact that one of her squadmates basically gets made into a minor deity's avatar}}.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Really does not need to be explained. She comes to regret choosing the name in the end.

 

== Carcer Dun ==

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Most of the events of ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', which {{spoiler|transforms Om from a smite-happy God to a leashed, somewhat forgiving God — who's learned to believe in humans.}}

* [[Brought Down to Normal|Brought Down To Tortoise]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: It's just something about being a tortoise. They're naturally deapan.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: More recent books imply that Om's faith has begun eclipsing the other gods' specifically because he does not manifest or provide any concrete proof of his existence, so he may actually be the most powerful god on the disc by now. (Ironically, actually utilizing any of that power would be his undoing.)

* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]: Chrysophrase helps Vimes prevent riots on Koom Valley Day by revealing a drug lab, because the drug manufactured there would cause homicidal insanity, and later death. Chrysophrase wants stable business, which is rather hard with dead customers.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Most trolls are not known for their intelligence, but Chrysophrase, even without the benefit of cold-enhanced thought processes, is smarter than most human criminals in the city. He intentionally uses [[Hulk Speak]] to throw people off their game even though he's fully capable of speaking normally.

* [[Shout-Out]]: To Meyer Wolfscheim from ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', as both wear cufflinks made of teeth (respectively human and troll)- the joke being that troll teeth are made of diamond.

 

 

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