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'''Spoiler Alert:''' There is one slowly-building twist that it is all but impossible not to reveal in a discussion about this book, so read on at your peril: {{spoiler|Polly comes to learn that she's not the only fighting "man" in her squad with something to hide...}} Mind you, is it fair to call this a spoiler when [[Genius Bonus|it's mentioned in the book's title]]?
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* [[Actually, I Am Him]]: Polly talks to a worn-looking lowly sergeant from the Ankh-Morpork forces, unaware that he's actually Vimes.
* [[Addiction Displacement]]: Maladict replaces blood with coffee.
** Otto remarks that maybe this may have not been the best thing to replace an addiction with - "dying for a cup of coffee" is far too easy to say.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: {{spoiler|Most of the Regiment, especially Tonker and Lofty}}, Blouse, {{spoiler|and Maladicta seems to have a thing for Polly}}.
* [[Apotheosis]]: {{spoiler|The late Duchess of Borogravia is elevated to a minor deity}} by the prayers made to her instead of to Borogravia's "official" god Nuggan.
* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: Discussed
{{quote|It's not done to eat your ''own'' leg, is it? [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|You'd go blind.]]}}
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Tonker will slice you open if you touch Lofty, Lofty {{spoiler|will torch the world if it does something she doesn't like}}, and Wazzer will try to take on someone 3 times her size if they bad-mouth the Duchess. The results are not pretty.
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