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In Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are parodied as Bravd and the Weasel.

Although Ankh-Morpork bears more than a passing resemblance to Lankhmar, Pratchett, known for the use of pastiche in his early works, has been quoted as not intending a direct takeoff.

Some of the features of similarity ( e. g. a thieves ' guild, and a general air of degeneracy ) may instead be common tropes of fantasy literature, although it could be argued, especially in the case of the thieves ' guild, that many of the tropes in question originated with Leiber.