Discworld tropes
general
- All Theories Are True
- Anachronism Stew: often served with the croutons of teatime.
- Axis Mundi: The Hub.
- Easily Swayed Population
- Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems
- Flat World
- Good is Not Nice
- Theory of Narrative Causality: Trope namer.
settings
Ankh-Morpork
- Assassination Attempt: Frequent occurences.
- The City Narrows: the Shades.
- Tyrannicide: The usual cause of death for the City's rulers.
- Wretched Hive: ...of scum and villainy.
characters
Carrot Ironfoundersson
- 100% Heroism Rating
- All-Loving Hero
- Ambiguous Innocence
- Magnetic Hero
Death
Havelock Vetinari
- Action Politician
- Benevolent Dictator
- Good is Not Nice
- Handicapped Badass
- Hero with Bad Publicity: To an extent.
- Hobbes Was Right: Hobbes theorised people are inherently selfish and cruel, and need tyranny to control them. For some time, Vetinari believes this - and, indeed, draws Hobbes' titular Leviathan in Feet of Clay.
- Magnificent Bastard
- The Scapegoat
- Tall, Dark and Snarky
- Vetinari Job Security: Trope namer. As Machiavelli said, "A wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful."
- Xanatos Speed Chess: His modus operadum.
Sybil Ramkin
plotlines
Night Watch
- Crushing the Populace
- Full-Circle Revolution
- Secret Police
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