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

• Don't Fear The Reaper

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

• Brawn Hilda

plotlines

Night Watch

• Crushing the Populace
• Full-Circle Revolution
• Secret Police