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The 16th ''[[Discworld]]'' novel, and third in the Death theme: much more a sequel to the first Death book, ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'', than the second, ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''.
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Death's scythe. (Which is temporarily converted to Death's {{spoiler|guitar pick.}})
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*** That seems to be the reference intended, but Ridcully hadn't actually come back to the University and become Archchancellor at the time of that book, so it may be a continuity error.
* [[Canis Latinicus]]: The [[Animated Adaptation]] shows Ridcully performing the Rite of Ashkente on camera and invents ritual words of this type for it.
* [[Creative Sterility]]: In a very clever use of the trope, this is how Death beats the Music at the
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: The Music's view of things.
{{quote|''You will live forever. They will say you never died.''}}
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* [[Rockers Smash Guitars]]: Noddy smashes his guitar ''on Scum''. This is the only moment in their careers when any aspect of their performance wins the approval of an audience.
** Death, of course, smashes ''the'' guitar at the end. While he can't actually play music on it, he does strike a very rocker-like pose before playing the "empty chord".
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Llamedos is a reference to Llarregub from ''Under Milk Wood''
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "You can't see the infinite. 'Cos it's infinite."
* [[Shout-Out]] / [[Hurricane of Puns]]:
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** Scum, one of the members with Crash's band is assigned to get leopardskin trousers. He manages to buy a live leopard, which was cheap, because it has hearing problems.
** [[Don McLean|Before he goes to kill the music, Death borrows a coat from the Dean.]]
* [[Sting]]: The raven ''tries'' to verbally invoke this trope when revealing to Susan that her grandfather is
* [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]]: The Rite of Ashkente, which in previous books was mentioned to have been refined through research to no longer needing a living sacrifice but only 3 bits of wood and 4 cc of mouse blood, has now been refined even further so Ridcully can do it with 2 bits of wood and an egg. [[Running Gag|"It has to be a fresh egg, though"]].
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: While the wizards are discussing potential places to look at with a crystal ball:
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