The Colour of Magic: Difference between revisions

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Hrun the Barbarian is used to the world being one big [[Dungeon Crawling|dungeon crawl]]: "You find chokeapples under a chokeapple tree. You find treasure under altars."

* [[Gun Twirling]]: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it example, the head of the Assassins' Guild spins, then holsters his blowpipe after firing off a poisoned dart.

* [[I Like Those Odds]]: Hrun the Barbarian declares he'll fight both dragonlords at once:

{{quote| '''Liartes''': That's pretty uneven odds, isn't it?<br />

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The epic descriptions of Great A'tuin, the elephants and the Disc. This is often briefly recapped at the start of later novels, but ''The Colour of Magic'' has such descriptions throughout (particularly called-back at the end, where Tethys holds Rincewind over the Edge and he sees them for himself).

* [[Serial Prostheses]]: Goldeneyes Silverhand Dactylos. His backstory consists of him inventing marvels for various royals, only for his employers to mutilate him so that he couldn't repeat the invention for anyone else. When his latest employer asks why he didn't just give it all up and try flower arranging, he replies "I'm good at it."

** The place name "Ecalpon" ('noplace' spelled backwards) is a reference to Erewhon (''almost'' 'nowhere' backwards).

** The name Rincewind is derived from J. B. Morton's "Beachcomber" column in the London ''Daily Express'' -- specifically, it was the name of one of the dwarves in the "Mr Justice Cocklecarrot and the twelve Red-Bearded Dwarves" features.