Growing the Beard/Literature: Difference between revisions

* The early ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' books (at the latest, up to ''Small Gods'') felt far different than their latter counterparts. Particularly glaring within the separate section of the Disc mythos: compare and contrast the Granny Weatherwax from ''Equal Rites'' to the one in ''Carpe Jugulum''. Or the Lord Vetinari in ''The Colour of Magic'' ([[Word of God]] had to step in and confirm that it was the same Patrician, and not one of his thoroughly insane predecessors) to the [[Magnificent Bastard]] of the Moist Von Lipwig books.

** Likewise, the first two ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' books are straight parodies of [[Sword and Sorcery]] fantasy. The series began to grow its beard in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Equal Rites|Equal Rites]]'' and ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Mort|Mort]]'', where it went from a parody of fantasy settings to using its fantasy setting to parody everything else.