The Last Continent: Difference between revisions

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The Bugarup University tower is about twenty feet high from the outside, and about twenty feet high when you're climbing it. When you look out from the top, however, you're half a mile above ground.

* [[Break the Haughty]]/[[Break the Cutie]]: Ponder Stibbons penultimate [[Break the Haughty]] crossed with [[Break the Cutie]] comes in this book, courtesy of A) being stranded on an island which has some very strange ideas about evolutionary process, and B) being stranded on aforementioned island with [[Driven to Madness|Ridcully and the UU faculty]].

'''Senior Wrangler''': Young Stibbons said it makes perfect sense, Dean. After all, he said, [[Sanity Slippage|we'd picked them because they're useful, and then spoons are always getting lost.]] [[Despair Event Horizon|Then he burst into tears.]] }}

** Of course, [[It Got Worse|It Gets Worse]] (resulting in perhaps the only time when a wizard goes into a serious [[Heroic BSOD]]).

* [[Drop Bear]]: On Roundworld, a Drop Bear is a malicious koala variant made up by Australians to frighten tourists. On Discworld, a Drop Bear is a malicious koala variant that ''actually exists.''

* [[Everybody Calls Him Barkeep]]: The wizards can't use magic on the Librarian, because for that, they should know his real name. They don't know each other's names either:

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Non-deadly creatures of Xxxx are ... um ... some of the sheep.

** This applies to non-people as well. XXXX has numerous species of snakes...most of which have been eaten by the spiders.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: The God of Evolution is an atheist. But also a god.

* [[Forbidden Fruit]]: Wizards are invariably attracted to it.

** Subverted in that they actually manage to resist this time. Their Housekeeper, on the other hand...

* [[Funny Animal]]: Crocodile Crocodile and some of his customers.

* [[Talking Animal]]: Rincewind's [[Trickster Mentor]], Scrappy the Bush Kangaroo.

* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Xxxx's spacetime is so convoluted that, for example, it's implied that the modern Ecksian wizards may be the descendants of the stranded UU faculty, but the UU wizards being brought to the present does not cause them to cease to exist.

'''Scrappy''': Yeah. Thirty thousand years ago, they were made a million years ago. }}

** This is a reference to the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, which works in a similar way.