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''Mort'' follows the story of Mort, a young boy who is chosen to become Death's apprentice.
''Mort'' is one of the most popular early Discworld novels and won a contemporary award for best [[Gothic Novel]] of the year, despite [[Death of the Author|Terry Pratchett's protest]] that it wasn't Gothic.
[[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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== Tropes employed include ==
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** Also, "{{smallcaps|There is no justice. There is just me.}}"
* [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?]]: When Mort is about to enter Ysabell's room, she readjusts her clothes to be more revealing and mentions "I hope that you have not forced your way in here in order to take advantage of your position in this household." She is, in fact, entirely hoping this is the case.
* [[Big Beautiful Woman|BBW:]] Ysabell, "eleven stone of womanhood" at sixteen years of age. Her chest has "enough 'puppy-fat' for an entire litter of Dobermans".
** Probably a result of Albert's cooking. Apparently, he fries ''everything''. Even the ''porridge''!
* [[Berserk Button]]: Mort corrects people semi-patiently at first for calling him boy.....
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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 time—the world as a whole is running on the 'proper' timeline and the pressure on the changed timeline causes it to collapse inwards towards Sto Lat.
* [[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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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mort is the French word for death. Lampshaded.
* [[Men Can't Keep House]]: Cutwell's housekeeper is away. The resultant mess intimidates even Mort.
* [[Narrating the Present]]: the books in Death's library write someone's life as a narratitive as it happens. The last scene of ''Mort'' is actually Mort reading that scene from his own book.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Obviously averted, but pops up in a behind-the-scenes anecdote. Allegedly, a [[Executive Meddling|meddling executive]] trying to make Mort into a movie told Terry Pratchett to "lose the Death angle." Terry Pratchett pretty much pulled out of the project then, because the entire point of the story is Death!
* [[No Social Skills]]: This book introduces Death's inability to relate to people and normal life. Feelings are organic. He didn't ''feel'' sorry for Ysabelle, he ''thought'' sorry. Developing true empathy is more or less his character arc.
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{{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?"
"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.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Teased, but ultimately averted, to Death's approval. {{smallcaps|Too many young women leap into the arms of the first young man to wake them after [[Sleeping Beauty|a hundred years' sleep]], for example.}}
* [[Retired Badass]]: Albert
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Princess Keli kind of, and {{spoiler|Mort and Ysabell}} become this
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* [[Running Gag]]: Mort repeating his name whenever people call him "boy"
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Mort and Ysabell
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Death only brings Mort in so he can marry Ysabell.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Death's home contains written stories of the lives of every person on the disc who has ever lived. Stories that write themselves. Naturally, they're called autobiographies.
* [[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
{{quote|'''Ysabel:''' Pardon me for living, I'm sure.
'''Mort:''' {{smallcaps| '''No-one'''}} {{smallcaps| gets pardoned for living.}} }}
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