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[[File:mignolaillmetbs_7764.jpg|frame|The pair of rogues themselves]]
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''"How?" demanded Fafhrd.''
''Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know."'' }}
One of the most seminal pieces of [[Sword and Sorcery]] was [[Fritz Leiber]]'s [[Fafhrd and The
There are seven books containing all the stories: ''Swords and Deviltry'', ''Swords Against Death'', ''Swords in the Mist'', ''Swords Against Wizardry'', ''The Swords of Lankhmar'', ''Swords and Ice Magic'', and ''The Knight and Knave of Swords''. There is also the authorized novel sequel ''Swords Against the Shadowland'' by [[Robin Wayne Bailey]].
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* [[Accidental Truth]]: Either this or Ningauble being a Jerkass again. He's giving the heroes an idea of what's going on, but taking his own sweet time about getting to the point, and the Mouser asks if their enemy is "he of the Sabihoon." Ningauble denies that suggestion, providing details about the Sabihoon people. The Mouser is amused, "for to the best of his knowledge he had just invented the Sabihoon."
* [[Adjective Animal Alehouse]]: The Silver Eel Tavern.
* [[Barbarian Hero]]: Fafhrd.
* [[Bash Brothers]]
▲* [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Brains and Bondage]]: The Mouser has some pretty heavy tendencies to sexual sadism, with increasing explicitness over Lieber's lifetime.
* [[Brains and Brawn]]: Massively averted. Fafhrd is mentally complacent but far from stupid; and the Mouser, while conspicuously intelligent, is inclined to let his ego lead him into foolhardy actions. To make it more plain, it's usually the Mouser who does the most damage and fights the toughest fights.
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* [[City of Adventure]]: Lankhmar.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Mouser.
* [[Death
* [[
* [[Divine Chessboard]]: Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face use their champions this way.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Both heroes are experts at this.
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* [[I Call It Vera]]: Fafhrd has a broadsword named Graywand and a poinard named Heartseeker. The Mouser has a rapier named Scalpel and a dirk named Cat's Claw. Leiber plays with this one, though, by having the pair lose their weapons ''all the time''. They just use those names for whatever blades they happen to be carrying at the moment.
* [[In Harm's Way]]
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: In the 1970s, they appeared in a ''Wonder Woman'' comic. [
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Fafhrd hooked up with a ghoul (see below) and Mouser with a girl who was descended from rats (in ''Swords of Lankhmar'').
** Fafhrd also has a brief fling with a Djinn.
*** Hell, Mouser got raped by the Goddess of Pain ([[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Jerkass God]]: Most gods of Nehwon are.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: The both do this a lot. See [[
* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]: "The Bazaar of the Bizarre"
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: The Gray Mouser.
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* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Parodied with Ningauble of the Seven Eyes -- in one scene, as he tries to exposit, the Mouser keeps interrupting him again and again just for fun.
** This also parodies That Which Must Not Be Spoken:
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'''The Gray Mouser
* [[Odd Job Gods]]: Many of the gods in Lankhmar.
* [[Our Ghouls Are Creepier]]: Ghouls are a humanoid race that have transparent skin, muscles, and organs, giving them the appearance of animated skeletons . . . oh, and they just so happen to be cannibals too.
* [[Play
* [[Plunder]]: A typical adventure hook, most notably in ''Swords Against Wizardry.''
* [[Religion of Evil]]
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Nehwon is backwards for Nowhen.
* [[
* [[Shout
** In the introductions to the Ace paperback edition, Leiber also listed a number of swordsmen that Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser [[Take That|were better than]]. Said list included [[The Three Musketeers (
** The names of Ningauble and Sheelba may be a [[Shout
** There are also a lot of shout outs ''to'' our heroes, in works that have drawn inspiration from Leiber. For instance:
*** The very first [[Discworld]] novel features a cameo by "Bravd and the Weasel". Not to mention the city of Ankh-Morpork, in its original form similar in both name and description to Lankhmar. In later books it developed its own unique character.
*** ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' #6, written by Roy Thomas and published by Marvel, was set in the sinful city of Shadizar, which as written by Thomas owed a lot to Lankhmar, and featured a cameo by "Fafnir and Blackrat". (Shadizar came first -- it's a Zamoran city from Howard's original stories -- but Howard never developed it much, though it was definitely a [[Wretched Hive]].)
*** [[
*** [[Jack Chalker]]'s ''And the Devil Will Drag You Under'' has a scene in a bar with several characters from various works of heroic fiction; none are explicitly identified, but when one swears by Crom, it seems clear he's Conan. And there's a big fellow complaining to his shorter friend about how Ningauble and Sheelba keep pitching them into messes....
* [[The Sneaky Guy]]: Gray Mouser.
* [[Snowball Fight]]
* [[Soul Jar]]: One of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] put his in an egg.
* [[Sword and Sorcerer]]
* [[Thieves' Guild]]
* [[Torpedo Tits]]: Poison darts, actually.
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Ningauble and Sheelba may fall into this, as they send Fafhrd and the Mouser off on some wacky adventures -- stealing the mask of Death or the highest star from the sky, for instance.
* [[Weird Trade Union]]: The Slayer's Brotherhood and Thieves' Guild in Lankhmar, though they've become [[Thieves' Guild|such common tropes themselves]] that it's likely many modern readers wouldn't realize that Leiber meant them as a joke.
* [[What You Are in
* [[Witch Doctor]]: ''Two'' of 'em: Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face, mentors to Fafhrd and the Mouser respectively.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Lankhmar.
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