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The 23rd [[Discworld]] novel and the fifth or sixth in the Witches Theme, depending on whether [[Discworld/Equal Rites|Equal Rites]] is counted.
King Verence and Queen Magrat of Lancre have had their first child, a daughter, and have invited all the nearby rulers to her naming ceremony. Unfortunately, this includes the de Magpyr family of vampires from neighboring [[
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* [[Above Good and Evil]]: The vampires. Just ask them.
* [[Acquired Poison Immunity|Acquired Garlic Immunity]]: The de Magpyrs have built up a tolerance to, among other things, garlic, holy water, sunlight, and OCD.
* [[Acrofatic]]: Whenever Perdita takes over Agnes' body. Agnes has a quite a lot of muscle she never knows how to use.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Count de Magpyr insists that he is Affably Evil and talks like a self help guru - [[Evilly Affable|but in actuality]] his attempts at being friendly and affable lead to him being a far greater horror than his genuinely [[Affably Evil]] uncle.
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: The Magpyrs are strong believers in eugenics.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Used as a threat by Granny. While (presumably) there's no way to [[Killed Off for Real|permanently kill off]] a vampire, it's entirely possible to, say, trap said vampire in gaseous form in a bottle and then drop the bottle from the edge of the Disc.
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Granny getting the vampires to bite her so that she could control the blood inside them.}}
* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: Many. Granny resists being turned into a vampire, Oats and questioning his faith, Agnes fights the allure of Vlad and becoming a beautiful, powerful, eternally-young vampire.
* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Scraps.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The title. {{spoiler|It's a play on the Latin phrase "Carpe Diem" (seize the day). "Carpe Jugulum" means "seize the throat".}}
* [[Blood Bath]]: One of the Magpyr ancestors in is a parody of [[Trope Maker|Elizabeth Bathory]] (although her name's [[Carmilla]]). The modern Magpyrs believe the story of her bathing in the blood of two hundred virgins is highly exaggerated. The bath would overflow if you used more than eighty. They've checked.
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* [[Heroic Willpower]] / [[Fighting From the Inside]]: King Verence is noticeably attempting to resist the vampires mind control.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The vampires' [[Acquired Poison Immunity]] to religious symbols backfires when that immunity wears off. They'd learned to recognize so many religious symbols by sight that ''everything'' looks like a religious symbol.
* [[The Igor]]: This book introduces [[
* [[I Never Told You My Name]]: When Agnes meets Vlad he says her name without being told. When she considers that he might have asked someone Perdita asks her why anyone would ask for her name.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Everywhere I look I see something holy!"
* [[Living Shadow]]: Played straight, when King Verence's (second) shadow has to be removed and "killed" by the Nac Mac Feegle (with a well-aimed crossbow bolt) because its presence allows the vampires to control Verence.
* [[Looks Like Orlok]]: Vlad's grandfather in the Magpyr portrait gallery (which is something of a lesson on [[Our Vampires Are Different|How Vampires Have Been Different]] through the ages.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Granny sometimes did something similar; she didn't actually kill people, but she helped them to die. "There was no need for desperate stuff with a pillow, or deliberate mistakes with the medicine. You didn't push them out of the world, you just stopped the world pulling them back. You just reached in, and... showed them the way."
* [[The Missionary]]: Reverend Oats decides to act as a missionary to Uberwald. {{spoiler|As seen in ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', it works}}.
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* [[Noble Demon]]: The Old Count.
* [[Noodle Implements]]: Magrat mentions a joke Nanny told about "the priest, the old woman and the rhinoceros.". Nanny says that even she didn't understand that until she was forty.
* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Nanny Ogg upset is a pretty bad thing to see, even worse than an angry Nanny. A Nanny Ogg who misses the chance to [[Dirty Old Woman|mock Agnes']] [[Accidental Innuendo]]? Shit just got ''real''.
* [[One for Sorrow, Two For Joy]]: Magpies. Flocks of them.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Notably, thanks to the Count training them with a little exposure at a time, the Magpyrs are not affected by traditional vampire weaknesses such as garlic, holy symbols, holy water, and sunlight.
** Also, the vampires of de Magpyr family turn into flocks of magpies instead of bats.
** The trope is also invoked in the story, since the method for disposing a vampire depends on which village he's from.
* [[Goth]]: Completely turned on its head: Lacrimosa and her vampire friends partake in a subculture that has them wearing bright colours, pretending to drink wine, staying up well past Midday, and adopting names like "Henry" and "Freda".
* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "An axe isn't even a holy symbol!" "Oh... let's make it so." * thwack*
* [[Reconstruction]]: Of the [[Classical Movie Vampire]], especially Dracula himself.
* [[Reverse Psychology]]: The Magpyr's castle is named Don'tGoNearThe Castle, and route is regularly marked by signs like "Don't take this quickest route to the Castle". According to Igor, it was always full with guests.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: The new Count uses his wealth to establish his own idea of order in his hometown.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Dracula|"I do not drink ... wine."]]
** [[The Igor|He]] does drink whiskey though.
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** Also {{spoiler|Mightily Oats}}, to a much lesser extent- he just hasn't named it.
*** Perhaps not formally, but he does have a habit of calling his "two selves" {{spoiler|Good Oats and Bad Oats. Both his pious and skeptical sides agree with the terms, but have different interpretations of who is who.}}
* [[Spot of Tea]]: Granny drives the vampires mad by giving them an insatiable thirst for tea.
* [[Take a Level In Badass]]: With a little coaching from Granny, Mightily Oats goes from a wishy-washy priest wracked with doubt and inner turmoil to {{spoiler|chopping off the head of the evil Count Magpyr with a single axe blow.}}
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: The Nac Mac Feegle have one female and hundreds of males. [[Shout-Out|Seeing as they're all six inches tall and blue...]]
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The Magpyrs go through this, as their idea of what "modern vampirism" is about gets stripped away, leaving the bloodthirsty, power-hungry monsters at their core.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: The Nac Mac Feegle again.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: Oats speculates that his own [[Split Personality]] is the schismatic tendency of Omnianism taken to its logical extreme.
* [[What You Are in the Dark]] - in the [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] mentioned above
{{quote|'''Granny''': I knows what you are, Esmerelda Weatherwax, and I ain't scared of you anymore.}}
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