Feet of Clay (novel): Difference between revisions

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Contains examples of:

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: {{spoiler|The golem king was driven insane by too many words (hopes, expectations, directions) put in his head by his creators, many of which were mutually exclusive}}.

* [[Arson Murder and Lifesaving]]

* [[Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving]]

* [[Ass Shove]]: After Dorfl is freed, he visits his previous masters and exacts (non-lethal) ironic revenge on them. The ones at the poultry merchant's and the pork butcher's involves stuffing apprentices with various fruits and vegetables. Guess where. Go on.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: As usual, Vetinari {{spoiler|is well aware of what's going on, and does not actually allow himself to be poisoned further once he figures it out. But he lets Vimes go on crime-solving anyway.}}

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** A subtler bilingual bonus is in the coats of arms Dragon shows to Vimes, which turn out to conceal clues - unusually he gives Mr. Carry's arms' motto in English (or Morporkian) as "Art Brought Forth the Candle"...Vimes eventually figures out that in Latin (or Latatian, the Old Morporkian language) this would be {{spoiler|''Ars Enixa Est Candelam''}}.

* [[The Napoleon]]: Wee Mad Arthur, probably the most ridiculously extreme example of this ever. He's a six-inch tall gnome, but also a tiny, highly concentrated ball of [[Badass]].

* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Vimes complains about the very romantic view many Ankh-Morporkians seem have of the old royal family; some of his dialogue suggests that [[Non Indicative Name|Lorenzo the Kind's]] propensity for torture and "fondness for children" is widely known, but it's the rebel who cut his head off that gets the most scorn.

* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Vimes complains about the very romantic view many Ankh-Morporkians seem have of the old royal family; some of his dialogue suggests that [[Non-Indicative Name|Lorenzo the Kind's]] propensity for torture and "fondness for children" is widely known, but it's the rebel who cut his head off that gets the most scorn.

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: One of Nobby's grandmothers -- his excuse for having taken three "grandmothers' funeral" days off in that year alone.

** Later in the series taking the day off for your grandmother's funeral becomes a running gag, and at one point it's mentioned watchmen get three annually.

* [[Off the Wagon]]: Subverted.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Dragon, King of Arms, made apparent in his ''second'' scene if not the first.}} It's part of the reason the book's a ''how''dunnit rather than a whodunnit.

* [[One Gender Race]]: Deconstructed with dwarfs (although the thing about female dwarfs looking almost identical ultimately came from the appendices to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', because [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]).

* [[One-Gender Race]]: Deconstructed with dwarfs (although the thing about female dwarfs looking almost identical ultimately came from the appendices to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', because [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]).

* [[Orphaned Punchline]]: The end of a joke Nobby tells at a party: "And she said, "That's funny -- it didn't do that last night!"

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The font used for the golems' writing evokes the look of Hebrew, in a nod to golems having their origins in Jewish folklore.

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* [[Warts and All]]: Mentioned in a [[Shout Out]] (as Stoneface Vimes is a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Oliver Cromwell).

* [[We Can Rebuild Him]] ...[[Shout Out|We Have The Pottery]].

* [[Where Did We Go Wrong]]: The poor golems.

* [[Where Did We Go Wrong?]]: The poor golems.