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* [[Puny Humans]]: If anything this is played straighter in the '''''Discworld''''' books than in most fantasy. Most sapient races are flat out ''better'' than humans: dwarfs are tougher, stronger and live longer, trolls and golems are near indestructable and incredibly strong (and trolls are incredibly intelligent when in cooler temperatures), vampires have all their standard strengths and can even learn to replace their lust for blood, as noted above werewolves are extremely capable in combat and have fantastic regenerative capabilities, pictsies are unbelivably strong and ferocious (gnomes are described as being as strong as a human despite being the size of a Barbie doll), Igors (if they count as non-human) are all brilliant surgeons and also great healers and orcs can only be called superbeings.
* [[Real Dreams Are Weirder]]: A stock joke, appearing in ''[[Hogfather]]'', ''[[Eric]]'', and ''[[Small Gods]]'' at least.
* [[Recruiters Always Lie]]: Touched upon anytime armed forces jobs come up, most obviously in ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'' where one of the markers that the war is going so poorly is that the recruiting party can't even be bothered to try.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The eyes of golems glow an unnerving red. A subversion since they're not evil.
* [[Red Herring]]: Pratchett uses this trope a LOT. You see it at least once in every Watch book, and in some of the others as well.
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