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* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: The book contains a sequence describing the ornamental armour Sam Vimes has to wear, and how it makes him feel like a class traitor. The pune-chline: {{spoiler|"It was gilt by association."}}

** And when the newold Patrician is appointed, a bilingual pun.

* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: Lu-Tze and Vimes discuss the concept of many universes (which Vimes already knows about from ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]''), but Lu-Tze comforts him by telling them that, in all the great bounds of possibility, ''there is no universe'' in which Sam Vimes ''as he is now'' killed his wife, meaning that people's choices really do matter.

** This is a reference to a reality in which young Sam Vimes is given guidance by Carcer, if old Sam fails. Hence the ''as he is now'' instead of just there is no universe. That Sam recognizes this on some level is alluded to in other parts of the novel.

* [[Friend or Foe]]: How the lilac started: as a badge.

* [[Fright Deathtrap]]

* [[Get Back to The Future]]

* [[Give Me Back My Wallet]]: Vimes to Young Nobby.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilised]]: Mentioned by Vimes numerous times.

{{quote| "But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."}}

* [[Rubber Band History]]: Vimes and Carcer change many of the major events of the revolution and absolutely reverse the Glorious 25th of May, but the outcome of the revolution is the same: those seven graves are still filled, {{spoiler|Snapcase replaces Winder}}, etc.

* [[Save the Villain]]: Vimes sets fire to the Particulars' HQ, *then* remembers that he left one of their thugs strapped into a prisoner's chair inside. He runs back in, deciding that he'll only undo one of the straps before legging it, as it'll be more of a chance than any of their victims got. {{spoiler|He runs into Swing, who's already killed him.}}

"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby." }}

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Carcer to Vimes. The book goes a long way to set them up as equal adversaries, and mentions that Carcer has many of the same qualities as Vimes, only they're inverted.

** also contains a shoutout to Braveheart with the worst battlecry ever "you may take our lives but you'll never take our freedom"

** Major Clive Mountjoy-Standfast is a possible reference to the [[The Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] as he was born in Quirm but considers himself a patriotic Ankh-Morporkian, just like how Arthur Wellesley was born in Ireland but thought of as the greatest English general of all time.