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** And an unexpected one from {{spoiler|A.E. Pessimal}}: Come on then, if you think you're hard enough!
* [[Badass Creed]]:
{{quote|[[Nigh Invulnerable|Him who mountain crush him no,]]
[[Implacable Man|Him who sun him stop him no,]]
Him who hammer him break him no,
Him who fire him fear him no,
[[The Paragon|Him who raise him heart above him head]],
[[Arc Words|Him diamond.]] }}
* [[Battle Butler]]: Willikins, who was once a member of a street gang, helped to calm the riots, and stabbed a Dwarf with his ice knife. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Which he happened to be holding, having been cutting ice in the cellar.]]
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* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Vimes refuses to become this, and it is ''awesome.''
{{quote|"Because you can't call yourself a good guy and then do bad guy things."}}
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Summoning Dark might have found it possible to take complete control of Sam Vimes if it {{spoiler|had let a dwarf assassin kill Young Sam. All it had to do was ... nothing. Instead, it '''acted''' to protect the child.}}
* [[De Fictionalisation]]: There are now official 'Thud' rules and boards available. Well worth a look.
** They were around at least a year before the book came out.
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{{quote|'''Vimes''': "Why do you care about some troll?"
'''Shine''': "Why do you care about some dwarf?"
'''Vimes''': "Because [[Knight in Sour Armor|somebody has to]]!"
'''Shine''': "Exactly! Good day, Mr. Vimes." }}
* [[Not So Omniscient After All]]: When Vetinari learns that A. E Pessimal attacked a troll bare-handed, he looks genuinely taken aback for one of the only times in the entire series. He has to make very sure they're talking about the same A. E. Pessimal ("Small man? Very clean shoes?"), before asking ''"Why?"''
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