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* [[Epic Fail]]: Drum Billet and Mr. Smith committing one of these is what kicks off the book, particularly in the latter's refusal to let Granny get a word in edgewise about Eskarina's gender.
* [[Feminist Fantasy]]
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] (the [[Useful Notes/Fonts|typeface]] version): At one point the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions speak in the same block capitals as Death, which can be a bit disconcerting to the reader used to later Discworld books.
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* [[I Have Brothers]]
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* [[Retcon]]: Blink and you'll miss it, but this is actually the first book to refer to the leader of Unseen University as the Archchancellor -- in ''The Light Fantastic'' Galder Weatherwax was just described as the Chancellor. Later books retconned the Archchancellor title as always being there.
* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: The duel between Cutangle and Granny, inspired by those in the Arthurian Mythos (and perhaps best known to modern eyes through Disney's ''[[The Sword in The Stone (Disney)|The Sword in The Stone]]'') which illustrates the difference between wizard and witch magic, Cutangle turning into powerful things and Granny into more modest things that restrain them through subtlety.
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* [[The Talk]]: Averted constantly. Either Esk is dense or really good at faking.
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]
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* [[Watch Out for That Tree]]: Granny imposes this trope on a hungry bear, making it walk headfirst into a tree and knock itself out.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Granny Weatherwax thinks Witch magic is better. Her characterization implies that she believes women to be more "in tune" than men (a wizard wouldn't "borrow" a creature because it simply wouldn't occur to him to ask nicely and share rather than sneak in and dominate), suggesting she has a less than stellar opinion of men in general.
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