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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: In-fandom example. A number of heterosexual fangirls were quite disappointed about Mal's [[The Reveal|Reveal]]. On the other hand, a number of lesbian/bi/[[Slash Fic|femmeslash]] fans were waiting for it hungrily.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Polly's brother.
* [[Ensign Newbie]]: Lieutenant Blouse. Plays the trope straight most of the time, but he does get one subversive moment when - in the face of Jackrum's protests - he uses what he learned while stuck in his desk job to intercept and interpret the Zlobenians' light signals. He's also very good at his ''original'' job as a clerk - he's only in field command [[You Are in Command Now|because so many other officers have been lost]]. He's quite intelligent and a fast learner - he infiltrates an enemy compound as a woman (when the ''actual women'' is his squad couldn't), learns how to use a Zlobenian mobile clacks in five minutes, invents [
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: One pupeteer gets run out of town because the puppet was beating his wife with a stick with a thickness greater than one inch, a standard found in the book of Nuggan.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Blouse's immediate response to learning that Tonker's a girl is "''And'' Lofty?" Apparently even he could tell there was something going on there.
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* [[Holding Hands]]: Tonker and Lofty.
{{quote| ''They always held hands, when they thought they were alone. But it seemed to Polly that they didn’t hold hands like people who were, well, friends. They held hands tightly , as someone who has slipped over a cliff would hold hands with a rescuer, fearing that to let go would be to fall away.''}}
* [[How Many Fingers?]]: Maladict doesn't think this is something an Igor should ever ask.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Because Ankh-Morpork has theoretically sided with Zlobenia (or at least, refused to actively support Borogravia in their constant wars), important people in Borogravia have given Vimes the epithet "Vimes the Butcher" in an attempt to discredit him. It backfires; the main characters think it's because he's a ruthless, efficient warlord, and Polly is relieved to be talking to a grumpy but helpful sergeant instead of his bloodthirsty boss, and more than a little shocked to learn they're the same person. Vimes himself finds it rather amusing.
* [[Iwo Jima Pose]]: Predominantly featured [http://urbanfantasyland.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/monstrous-regiment-1.jpg on the book cover] in most editions.
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'''Jackrum:''' Yessir, and if he acts like a common tit, sir, he can hang upside-down all day and eat fat bacon. }}
* [[Modern Major-General]]: Blouse plays with the idea of [[The Strategist]], as his knowledge of tactical manoeuvres is shown as not very useful on actual battlefields. However, he does make up for it with his other abilities.
* [[Mood Swinger]]: Tonker, in her own words, doesn't have "middle gears". The quickest way to find this out is to [[Berserk Button|threaten Lofty]]. (Could also be [[No Periods, Period]] rather painfully invoked.)
* [[Moody Mount]]: Blouse's horse.
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Maladict, though as a recovering vampire the coffee's really a way to get his mind off blood.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Jackrum uses the exact phrase at the end of the book.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Corporal Strappi.
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* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Jackrum. And, obviously, [[All Trolls Are Different|Private Rock]].
* [[Shoot the Hostage]]: Just his ear, mind.
* [[Shout
** Also a brief nod to ''[[Predator]]'', when Polly's {{spoiler|justified}} sense that they're being followed is substantiated by a glimpse of something that bends the light around it. {{spoiler|It's actually Angua who's following them, but Mal's coffee-deprived [[Reality Warper]] powers catch on to Polly's paranoia and create the illusion of something up in the trees.}}
** [[The Princess Bride (Film)|"I want my sixpence back, you son of a bitch!"]]
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Jackrum and his past heroics.
* [[Spoiler Title]]: [
* [[Stealth Pun]]: A couple of characters, mostly Strappi, keeps [[My Name Is Not Durwood|accidentally-on-purpose calling Polly]] "Parts", instead of "Perks", her actual last name. Her rank is Private. This would make her "Private Parts".
* [[Stout Strength]]: Sergeant Jackrum. As he puts it, "People don't think fat men can fight. [[Fat Idiot|They think fat]] [[Big Fun|men are funny]]. They think wrong."
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