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* [[Alien Geometries]]: For all the fighting being done over Leshp, nobody who actually visits the place wants to stay for long...

* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: At a moment of crisis decision - whether to pursue Ahmed's ship or stay in Ankh-Morpork where he might be needed - the timeline splits, and Vimes accidentally picks up the other timeline's Vimes' Dis-organiser, which reads off the other Vimes' appointments. {{spoiler|Thus, he is able to find out, at the end, [[Kill Em All|just what would have happened]] [[For Want of a Nail|if he had stayed behind]]...}}

* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: At a moment of crisis decision - whether to pursue Ahmed's ship or stay in Ankh-Morpork where he might be needed - the timeline splits, and Vimes accidentally picks up the other timeline's Vimes' Dis-organiser, which reads off the other Vimes' appointments. {{spoiler|Thus, he is able to find out, at the end, [[Kill'Em All|just what would have happened]] [[For Want of a Nail|if he had stayed behind]]...}}

* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Surely the idea of a brutal war being fought over an island that's just risen from the ocean is a fantasty narrative device used by Terry Pratchett to poke fun at the idiotic nationalism of a bygone age? The Other Wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinandea disagrees!]

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Ankh-Morpork native Les and Klatch native Akhan bond over this while their fathers are threatening each other:

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* [[Internal Reformist]]: [[Defied Trope|Defied]]. Vimes briefly wonders if he should have been an [[Internal Reformist]] to Rust's regime, rather than throwing down his badge and storming out, before thinking "No. When had that ever worked?"

* [[Ironic Echo]]: {{spoiler|"[[Nightmare Fuel|Things to do today: die...]]"}}

* [[It S Quiet Too Quiet]]: A soldier thinks this to himself, but ten years of experience with the D'regs and their form of guerilla warfare leads him to consider what the noisy parts of war are like, and he concludes that it can ''never'' be too quiet.

* [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: A soldier thinks this to himself, but ten years of experience with the D'regs and their form of guerilla warfare leads him to consider what the noisy parts of war are like, and he concludes that it can ''never'' be too quiet.

* [[The Key Is Behind the Lock]]: The Bursar locks himself in the Unseen University safe and takes the key with him. "It's not even as if there's a keyhole on the inside".

* [[Language Equals Thought]]: The D'reg's particular Klatchian dialect. Most informatively, their word for freedom is the same as their word for fighting.

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* [[The Magnificent]]: 71-Hour Ahmed.

* [[Majored in Western Hypocrisy]]: Ahmed was educated in Ankh-Morpork - specifically, the Assassin's Guild school. He claims that life among the D'regs is a picnic next to years at a boarding school "patronized by the sons of gentlemen".

* [[Modern Major General]]: Lord Rust, and also Colon's old general when he reminisces on his army days - who actually had the troops form up into big arrow-shaped columns so it would look like all the tactical maps he'd seen.

* [[Modern Major-General]]: Lord Rust, and also Colon's old general when he reminisces on his army days - who actually had the troops form up into big arrow-shaped columns so it would look like all the tactical maps he'd seen.

* [[Mook Horror Show]]: Reg Shoe (a zombie), Detritus (a troll) and Angua (a werewolf) vs. some raiders.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: 71-Hour Ahmed again. An explanation of his name: {{spoiler|in D'Reg culture, anyone you offer hospitality to is completely safe for three days i.e. 72 hours. Ahmed, a D'Reg, didn't want to wait the extra hour to dispense with a man he arrested for poisoning a well.}}

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* [[Not So Different]]: The Klatchian and Morporkian fathers who lead the groups of settlers on Leshp, and also vividly demonstrate that bigoted, small-minded pillocks come from all nations, races, and creeds.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Detrius does a bit of this in the beginning, almost seeming to play with Vimes for a moment of amusement at one point, though of course his comment about how amazing the weathercocks are ''could'' be taken at face-value. The latter part of their conversation did seem to throw Vimes off guard for a second, though.

* [[One Scene Two Monologues]]

* [[One Scene, Two Monologues]]

* [[Orgy of Evidence]]: Deliberately invoked. The killers leave behind 'everything but a camel' to point to the murderer being from Klatch; knowing that Vimes' suspicious mind will cause to look everywhere ''but'' Klatch.

* [[Outscare the Enemy]]: Vimes does this to a less-than-loyal sailor regarding a dangerous beach.