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'''Vimes:''' I do that, too. }}

* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Sally, seemingly just trying to get along in the Big Wahoonie, but {{spoiler|is subsequently found to be a spy for Rhys Rhysson, Low King of the Dwarfs... which Vetinari knows already, and Vimes suspects from the beginning but can't prove, in the usual wheels-within-wheels fashion of most things relating to Vetinari.}}

{{quote| He raised the bow again, looked round at a noise like two slabs of meat being slapped together, and was picked up and thrown across the cave by a naked woman. An astonished miner swung his axe at the smiling girl, who vanished in a cloud of bats.}}

* [[Fur Against Fang]]: Werewolves and vampires do ''not'' get on.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Vimes does ''not'' react well to the thought of his son being in danger.

* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: "Why don't you go ''ghuhg'' yourself?"

* [[Portmanteau]]: Trolls are said to be made out of "metamorphorical" rock, a portmanteau of "metamorphic", a type of rock, and "metaphorical". This is used to explain Brick: trolls tend to take on the appearance of the dominant rock where they grow up, and he grew up in a city.

* [[Powder Keg Crowd]]: Dwarves and trolls around Koom Valley Day.

** Vimes gets a bit narked at the fact that, amid listing his achievements (arresting two armies, killing a werewolf with his bare hands), the people saying this usually include "maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but..."

* [[Revealing Coverup]]: The dark dwarfs attempt to cover up {{spoiler|the truth of Koom Valley}}, but by trying to do so they lead Vimes right to it.

* [[Revenge]]: The Summoning Dark ''is'' this trope.

* [[Shame If Something Happened]]: After two troll thugs working for the troll crime boss Chrysophrase tell Commander Vimes that their boss wants to see him, Vimes tells them "Well, he knows where I live," to which one of them remarks meaningfully "Yeah, he ''does''." [[Berserk Button|Not a good idea.]] Later, Chrysophrase insists to Vimes that he never gave orders to make any threats, and had the infractors...[[You Have Failed Me|dealt with.]] Later in the story, {{spoiler|the Low King of the Dwarfs}} unthinkingly does this in a moment of anger. To his credit, he ''immediately'' shuts up when he realizes what he said and is informed what {{spoiler|the fundamentalist grags}} had ordered earlier in the book (and what happened to the people who carried those orders out)...

** "The Gooseberry", the new Dis-organizer, is an obvious one for the [[Real Life]] Blackberry mobile e-mail device.

*** Possibly unintentional, but another well-known fruit-named computer, the Macintosh, was the first computer to become easily usable to new computer users. It was also the 5th Apple computer (after the I, II, III, and Lisa), much like the Gooseberry is the Disorganizer Mark V.

'''Nobby:''' Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?<br />

'''Fred:''' Absol--well, okay. }}

* [[Some of My Best Friends Are X]]: {{spoiler|Mr Shine}} is explaining how humans came to view trolls as mindless monsters.

{{quote| '''Vimes:''' Don't look at me when you say that. Detritus is one of my best officers!}}

{{quote| '''Angua:''' You resisted for about four seconds, and then I brought you down.}}

* [[What You Are in The Dark]]: Vimes finds himself alone in a cave with the dwarfs who have instigate the entire mess. {{spoiler|Egged on by the Summoning Dark, he nearly kills them... but his own will to ''not cross that line'' overcomes it}}.

{{quote| I watch him. Always.}}

* [[You Say Tomato]]: The peculiarly "posh" pronunciation of words used by the Arts Curator draws a lot of comment from Nobby and Colon particularly, complete with its own lampshade and characteristic merciless mocking. Leads to plenty of exchanges like this: