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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Vetinari isn't nearly as much a [[Magnificent Bastard]] as he would eventually become, and as a result, comes off as a bit thick. At the very least he usually has a better grasp of [[Know When to Fold Em|knowing when to fold em]].

* [[Chess With Death]]: More like a wager, but Death lampshades this trope when Ipslore expresses interest in negotiating with him.

* [[Conscience Makes You Go Back]]: Literally. Rincewind is controlled by his conscience as if it was a split personality.

* [[Correspondence Course]]: in Barbarian Heroism.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Rincewind, upon returning to the Library after Coin orders it to be burned.

* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: War, Famine and Pestilence get their horses stolen, and Death refuses to let them all ride on Binky. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|So they just get drunk instead]].

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Barbarian heroine Conina claims she just wants to be a hairdresser.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: When all you have is a pair of scissors and a comb...

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: In-universe example; after the Archchancellor's Hat is stolen, Spelter and Carding create a fake one that looks a lot more like an Archchancellor's hat than the actual one did.

* [[Reset Button]]: What Coin does at the end.

* [[This Banana Is Armed]]: Played with. Rincewind is desparate enough to attack Coin with...[[Sock It to Them|a half-brick in a sock]]. Not that it actually works or anything, but Coin is so fascinated by the concept (half-bricks in socks don't ever really occur to you when you have limitless magic at your disposal) that he spares Rincewind.

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Coin, of course.

* [[Wham Line]]: "All the wizards were wazards".

** Also hilarious, in that there's really only one snake, and that one doesn't attack. The narration is split on whether it's because the snake sees Rincewind as a sort of possible mongoose, or whether it's just got a good thing going and doesn't want to spoil it by going around biting people.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Kind of a hindsight example, in that Coin easily dispatches Lord Vetinari, that most Magnificent of [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]]. But at the time the book was written, the Patrician's character had not yet been developed to this, being merely an intelligent politician rather than the [[God Mode Sue|nigh omnipotent]] figure of the later series, so it was probably unintentional. Although, given his remark about how a wise man would ''want'' to be safely locked in a dungeon if the wizards took control, it can be argued that Vetinari's transformation into a lizard wasn't wholly to his disadvantage under the circumstances. And when he was transported to the Unseen University, he was in the process of reading a report of a conversation by the head of the Thieves' Guild that was said in a secret, soundproof room. Coin took him as easily as he did because... well, he could bend reality with a thought.