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{{quote| ''{{smallcaps| There is no fair. There is no justice. There is just [[The Grim Reaper|me]].}}''}}

{{quote|''{{smallcaps| There is no fair. There is no justice. There is just [[The Grim Reaper|me]].}}''}}

[[Four Is Death|Four]][[Incredibly Lame Pun|th]] [[Discworld]] book and the first to really develop the character of [[The Grim Reaper|Death]], going from the sadistic murderer of the earlier books to the complex sympathetic-to-humans figure who does his Duty. However, it did build upon themes raised in a brief foray to Death's house in ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]''.

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* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: One of the books chronicling Albert's life is from before they invented spelling. Believe it or not, prior to the spread of dictionaries, there was no one way to spell things; Spelling was done entirely phonetically, and two different spellings of the same word could be completely legitimate.

* [[Apothecary Alligator]]: In Cutwell's workshop.

{{quote| There was a large crystal ball with a crack in it, an astrolabe with several bits missing, a rather scuffed octogram on the floor, and a stuffed alligator hanging from the ceiling. A stuffed alligator is absolutely standard equipment in any properly-run magical establishment. This one looked as though it hadn't enjoyed it much.}}

{{quote|There was a large crystal ball with a crack in it, an astrolabe with several bits missing, a rather scuffed octogram on the floor, and a stuffed alligator hanging from the ceiling. A stuffed alligator is absolutely standard equipment in any properly-run magical establishment. This one looked as though it hadn't enjoyed it much.}}

* [[Arc Words]]: "{{smallcaps|To tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world.}}"

** Also, "{{smallcaps|There is no justice. There is just me.}}"

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* [[First Girl Wins]]: {{spoiler|Mort falls for Princess Keli at first, but eventually comes to realise that he and Ysabell have more in common.}}

* [[Food Porn]]: Possibly inverted, creating Food Gorn. The description of a meal in Harga's House of Ribs is described thusly.

{{quote| "[Customers] don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh, and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon, and a fried slice [of toast]."}}

{{quote|"[Customers] don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh, and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon, and a fried slice [of toast]."}}

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Of course.

* [[Groin Attack]]: {{spoiler|From a skeleton. Think about that for a second.}}

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* [[Ontological Inertia]]: [[Played With]] heavily. When something happens that deviates from what should happen, the universe takes some time before realizing somethings wrong and tries to smooth it over.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Keli wears her mother's [[Pretty in Mink|Vermine-trimmed]] dress for a coronation that is {{spoiler|an attempt to avert reality trying to reassert itself}}.

{{quote| Whoever had designed the dress didn't know when to stop. They'd put lace over the silk, and trimmed it with black vermine, and strung pearls anywhere that looked bare, and puffed and starched the sleeves and then added silver filigree and then started again with the silk.}}

{{quote|Whoever had designed the dress didn't know when to stop. They'd put lace over the silk, and trimmed it with black vermine, and strung pearls anywhere that looked bare, and puffed and starched the sleeves and then added silver filigree and then started again with the silk.}}

* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: This from Mort after Ysabelle's transparent attempt to seduce him: "And for heaven's sake, put on something sensible, you're overflowing."

** Ysabell later gets one right back at Mort.

{{quote| Mort looked down. "Oh. Who put me to bed?" ~~<br />~~

{{quote|Mort looked down. "Oh. Who put me to bed?"

"I did. But I looked the other way." }}

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: [[The Grim Reaper|Death's]] glowy eyes change from their usually placid shade of blue to pants-crappingly-scary red when he's mad.

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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: What happens if someone doesn't deal with Death's node charts. (Luckily, Ysabell knows how.)

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Becoming {{smallcaps| Death}} for awhile made Mort a helluva lot cooler and ''scarier.''

{{quote| '''Ysabel:''' Pardon me for living, I'm sure.~~<br />~~

{{quote|'''Ysabel:''' Pardon me for living, I'm sure.

'''Mort:''' {{smallcaps| '''No-one'''}} {{smallcaps| gets pardoned for living.}} }}

** Mort also later {{spoiler|challanges death to one on one combat and calls him a bastard.}}