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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Agnes briefly appeared in ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', and goes on to have a prominent role in ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''.

* [[Asymmetric Dilemma]]: Done brilliantly by Nanny Ogg.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Former [[Trope Namer]] [[Perdita X Dream]], the name Agnes gives to herself. The "X" just stands for "Someone who has a cool and exciting middle initial", and the earthy folk of Lancre just don't get it, calling her "That girl who calls herself Perditax".

* [[Balancing Death's Books]]: While the witches are staying with a farming family, both their son and one of their cows fall ill. Destiny says the child should die and the cow should live, but Granny plays Death at poker for the chance to make it the other way around.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Nanny Ogg, "a mind like a buzzsaw behind a face like an eldery apple". Sharp remarks from her are described like 'being bitten by a friendly dog'.

** Unsurprisingly, Granny Weatherwax. She stitches up the injuries of the muggers who ''tried'' to attack her. What she needed was a sharp, fresh needle and some alcohol, but sadly, all she has is a rusty, blunt one and some ditchwater.

* [[Big Eater]]: ''Henry Slugg''.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The swan's line from ''Lohenshaak'''s "Pedlar's Song" translates as "I'm cutting my own throat", which is both a Dibbler reference and an accurate description of what the swan does by singing it.

** Except, in true Discworld fashion, they're ''still just Flynning''.

* [[Fun with Foreign Languages]]: The Italian... Er, Brindisian aria in the opera is about [[Train Station Goodbye|how hard it is for the heroine to leave her beloved]]. In fact, it quite literally is:

Perhaps it should be marked "push?" }}

::There's also a fragment from a song in German, "''Schneide meinen eigenen Hals''" - [[Bilingual Bonus|not translated in the text]], but means "cut my own throat". Did we mention that the song is called the [[CMOT Dibbler|Pedlar's Song?]]

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Agnes

* [[It's All About Me]]: Christine, [[Selfish Good|not because she's a bad person]] but because [[Lawful Stupid Chaotic Stupid|she can't really comprehend anything more complex than her own immediate interests]]. This leads to a strange dichotomy with her being able to pick up stage-tricks like conveniently learning to faint in a dramatic pose whenever something "operatic" happens, but limits her ability to realize that Agnes is pretending to be her voice:

* [[I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You]]: Death and the swan.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Plenty, of course, but the stand-out is the end of {{spoiler|Salzella's}} death rant:

* [[Momma's Boy]]: Walter Plinge.

* [[Motive Rant]]

* [[This Is My Name on Foreign]]: Henry Slugg becomes Enrico Basilica.

* [[True Beauty Is on the Inside]]: ''painfully'' subverted. In the end, despite the fact that Christine is just [[Brainless Beauty|very pretty]], [[Giftedly Bad|has no voice, and has absolutely no talent whatsoever]], [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|everyone in the opera still fawns over her]] and chooses ''her'' over Agnes, who is [[Magic Music|incredibly talented]] and who has been signing Christine's songs the entire time (something that is made very clear by the end that everyone knows).

''' {{spoiler|Walter}}''': It is rarer. }}

* [[Tuckerization]]: Colette, of the "fascinatin' earrings" is based on [[Big Name Fan]] and convention organizer Colette Reap, who once wore a pair of Clairecraft [http://www.anorankh.demon.co.uk/afp/anorankh.html Anorankh] pins as earrings to a signing.

* [[Wham! Line]]: Granny's {{spoiler|"Who's to say there's only one Ghost?"}}

** And shortly before that, André's [[The Reveal]]:

'''André:''' Yes. {{spoiler|It's "policeman"}}. }}

* [[The Worst Seat in the House]]: Spoofed, when Nanny and Granny trade in tickets for the Stalls for ones up in the Gods due to the name. Though the truly worst seat is probably the one next to Nanny Ogg.