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Line 10: * [[Adult Fear]]: Vimes' nightmares about his son, which involve empty cots and darkness. * [[All Trolls Are Different]]: Trolls in [[Discworld]] are made out of metamorphorical rock (a pune, or play on words, upon the terms metaphor and metamorphic). Once in a while a special {{spoiler\|diamond}} troll will turn up; these trolls tend to be the {{spoiler\|kings and leaders}} of the troll race. {{spoiler\|This is because diamond trolls are capable of regulating their internal body temperature; troll brains, being silicon-based, work better and faster the colder they get, so diamond trolls are naturally the smartest trolls around}} * [[Arc Words]]: More like Arc ~~Symbols--the~~Symbols—the mine signs. Also: ''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'' ~~-- Who~~—Who watches the watchmen? And: "Mr. Shine! Him diamond!" * [[Ascended Extra]]: A.E. Pessimal previously appeared as a humble [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] in a short story, but is elevated to [[Beware the Nice Ones\|Beware The Boring Ones]] here. Line 25: [[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.]] ** A.E. Pessimal is ~~similar -- although~~similar—although he's a Battle ''Bureaucrat''... wannabe. {{spoiler\|At the end of the book, Vimes makes him a watchman with a desk job, but stipulates he needs to go onto patrols two nights a week to make sure he understands the job fully. This is the stuffy, short office worker's dream come true--although Vimes is quick to point out that anyone who would go after a troll ''bare handed, quite literally tooth and nail'' to protect his commander has ''earned'' his place in the Watch...as well as the right to call His Excellency His Grace Commander Sir Samuel Vimes "Mister Vimes".}} * [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: The Summoning Dark vs {{spoiler\|The Guarding Dark, Vimes' inner Watchman.}} ''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes'' indeed. {{quote\|{{spoiler\|"He created me. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen? Me. I watch him. Always." [...] "But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep darkness out. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|I'm here to keep it in.]]"}}}} Line 80: {{quote\|''Watchmen across half the continent will say that Sam Vimes is as straight as an arrow, can't be corrupted, won't be turned, never took a bribe.''}} ** Though Vimes is a [[Deconstruction]]: the reason he is incorruptible is his constant vigilance against his dark side. * [[Innocent Swearing]]: Sam Vimes reads his son his own version of ''[[Discworld/Where's My Cow\|Where's My Cow]]'' with the [[Catch Phrase~~\|Catch Phrases~~]]s of prominant Ankh-Morporkians instead of animal noises, including Foul Old Ron's "Bugrit! Millenium hand and shrimp!" The next day Young Sam announces "Buglit!" to his nanny, and from then on Vimes sticks to the written version. * [[Insistent Terminology]]: Vimes can tell the difference between "Mr. Vimes" and "Mister Vimes" and only allows people who have fought alongside him to call him "Mister". ** Judging from the audiobook, the issue seems to be not so much that Vimes can hear the difference between Mr. Vimes and Mister Vimes as that in the original manuscript, Brick accidentally called him Missus Vimes, and somewhere along the line an overzealous copyeditor "fixed" the "typo." Line 156: Fred Colon was impressed. You could barely understand the man, he was that posh. }} ---- [[File:~~SummoningDarkstinger_6632~~SummoningDarkstinger 6632.jpg\|link=The Stinger\|right]] {{reflist}}

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