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[[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] at one point was going to adapt ''Mort'' as a hand-drawn animated feature. They had to put it to a close because [[Money, Dear Boy|they couldn't afford the rights]]. However an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYioKHs9gLY online] [http://www.petitiononline.com/Mort1234/petition.html petition] has been created to [[Saved From Development Hell|bring this back into production]].
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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.
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* [[Character Overlap]]: Rincewind and the Librarian feature in a cameo at the university.
* [[Creative Sterility]]: Death can't create. He can only copy.
* [[Delayed Ripple Effect]]: The Interface is a variation on this trope, but with the change travelling across space instead of
* [[Death's Hourglass]]: Every living thing is represented in Death's domain by an hourglass showing how long they have left to live. (There's also one for Death himself, but it has no sand in it.)
* [[Do Wrong Right]]: A [[Grand Vizier]] tries to poison his emperor but is finally tricked into eating the poisonous object himself, then kept from leaving because the emperor knows he's leaving for the antidote. As he's dying the grand vizier actually compliments the emperor on his technique in killing him.
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* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: When Mort visits Ysabell's room late one evening, she adjusts the neckline of her nightgown before letting him in. His response: "Put something on, you're overflowing."
* [[Internal Retcon]]: The "Interface" is the physical manifestation of the universe gradually retconning away Mort's 'mistake' in not taking Keli's life.
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]: It's revealed that Albert's presence in Death's country is a result of assuming this too much. Given that the Rite of AshkEnte summons Death and knowing that he was dying, he presumed that performing the Rite ''backwards'' would keep Death ''away'' from him. However, this turned out to invert the spell in a different
* [[Matter of Life and Death]]: Mort demands that Ysabelle come help him in the middle of the night because it's this.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mort is the French word for death. Lampshaded.
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'''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.}}
* [[Twisted Echo Cut]]: At one point there's a cut from Keli telling Cutwell, "I think there's something you ought to know" to Death saying {{smallcaps|There is?}} because Mort has just said the same to
* [[Unwanted Rescue]]: Death does this to a fisherman who was unhappy with his life but whose religious beliefs forbade deliberate suicide, and so was quite pleased to be drowning.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: subverted with Albert, who is quite happy living the repetitive tedium of being Death's manservant outside time, and considers his plan to achieve immortality a relative success.
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