While not otherwise well-traveled, in the days of Guards! and Snuff . Categories Night Watch states that Vimes was sixteen years old when he joined the City Watch. The pattern of Sam and Sybil's marriage was set the moment he turned away from his wedding to chase an assassin who had just made an attempt on the Patrician's life. Young Sam is Vimes' son and about fourteen months old by the time of Thud!. The captain is set to marry one of the richest women in the world, and he often opines about the differences between low-status and high-status spending habits. He also sacks, and may even prosecute, officers who abuse prisoners or participate in crimes. Guards!. His birth was difficult, and Vimes paid Doctor "Mossy" Lawn a large sum of money in gratitude for saving Sybil's and the baby's lives. The Vimes spot shows the aforementioned Night Watch captain struggling to get through a hard day's work, while the Sybil promo highlights her passion for justice. In Night Watch, the timeline was altered and his future self ended up impersonating John Keel for the duration of the Revolution, teaching him the same lessons instead. Ethnic tensions between dwarfs and trolls in, On vacation at the Ramkin family country estate with young Sam and Sybil in, While there have been a number of amateur stage productions of the books, a professional adaptation of. Physical description He is married to Lady Sybil Ramkin, the wealthiest woman in the city, and they have a son Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II. But the events of this novel mark the turning point for the Watch and Vimes's career. He still tries to go on patrol whenever he has a chance; to him, walking the quiet streets in the dark is a calming, almost relaxing activity. They estimated that Vimes was about two drinks below par. She was born into the wealthiest family in Ankh-Morpork and resides in the most select part of Ankh, Scoone Avenue. Vimes is all but shocked at Vetinari's disturbingly cynical (and probably disturbingly accurate) view of the world, he in turn has been called "the most cynical bastard that ever walked under the sun" (in I Shall Wear Midnight). He also received a knighthood. Lady Sybil Ramkin, Vimes's wife, thinks that he can sort out anything. Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! He insists on shaving himself as he dislikes other people putting a razor blade, (or indeed any sort of sharp edge) to his throat, and attempts to wear cheap boots with cardboard soles. He has also appeared in the City Watch Diary and the picture book Where's My Cow?. His mum told him that the man had been run over by a cart, but Vimes suspected that if this were true at all, then it was probably a brewer's cart, which had 'run him over' a bit at a time for years". He has married Lady Sybil and certainly loves her. Artist Paul Kidby, who has collaborated with Pratchett on several works, portrays him as resembling Clint Eastwood. Traps include roof tiles set on greased rails, sawn roof joists over the dragon pens and bear traps in the shrubbery. Guards!, he is the Captain of the (useless) Night Watch. As both urged by Lady Sybil and ordered by Lord Vetinari, Vimes now often has to appear at dinners and parties. His sheer, incandescent rage is barely suppressed by his desire to be lawful and administer justice properly (and also in a way, to not follow in Stoneface's steps). Lady Sybil Vimes (full title: Her Grace, The Duchess of Ankh, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (ne Ramkin)), is Vimes's wife, whom he married at the end of Men at Arms. The main events of Night Watch, set only a few weeks after Vimes joined the Watch, are stated as occurring more than thirty years prior to the present from which Vimes came, this makes Samuel Vimes at least 46 years old at the time of the events of that book. I've been rereading the disc world novels and am wondering who can assassinate Sam Vimes. In addition to former alcoholism, Vimes has many prejudices. It is later revealed that the force preventing the Summoning Dark from making any progress in possessing Vimes is Vimes's own 'inner guardsman'. Whenever Vimes is angry, doors of some of the houses open (the more angry he is, the more numbers of doors will open). Later adventures include a journey to berwald in The Fifth Elephant, a journey back to the days of the Glorious Revolution in Night Watch, making peace between dwarfs and trolls in Thud! It has been said that he protects the city just as he protects the dwarfs and trolls, so that he can go on hating them. He hates Alchemists because they blow things up. His "Blackboard Monitor" epithet is used like a title in Snuff, implying it may actually have been accorded some official weight by the Low King of the dwarfs. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with Lady Sybil Ramkin, one of the wealthiest women in the city. In some ways he found it a relief when, in Night Watch, he was transported back to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth, and became a sergeant-at-arms in the inefficient, paperwork-free albeit moderately corrupt Watch of that time.[18]. According to Detritus, when Vimes found a child-killer who has kept a "memento" of his deed, it was all the troll could do to prevent him from killing the perpetrator. Sam Vimes is by nature an extremely cynical person. Family members CONCACAF Gold Cup. Vimes, who was about to retire following his marriage to Lady Sybil, was given the resurrected rank of Commander, putting him in charge of the Night Watch and the Day Watch. His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Guards!. Through his detective work and adventures he saves the city and many people's lives on multiple occasions. A notable exception is his explicit dislike of vampires. Little is known about what happens between then and Guards! It is possible that he uses police work to escape the social life of "Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh". Around this time, Colon claims that Vimes never advanced further because he was "Brung Low by a Woman" (if so, then her name is Ankh Morporkia), although Vimes himself attributes it to his irreverent habit of speaking his mind to authority figures. to his son, Young Sam. From Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Presumably this is also why the protective flame-baffles between the Vimes residence and Sybil's dragon stables are much, much sturdier in Thud! In The Art of Discworld, Pratchett explains that Vimes protects himself from the Beast with the symbol of his own badge, which prevents him from becoming the criminal he despises, at least in his own mind. Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Although in the short run it costs more to provide medical check ups, wellness programs, and so forth, in the long run, those rich enough to afford them will not only spend less overall on medical care, they will have a higher quality of life. The beleaguered leader of this motley crew has seen his fair share of oddities over the years, but perhaps nothing has been so strange as the sudden appearance of a dragon over Ankh-Morpork. His son's welfare is one of the few things Vimes is willing to cross even his wife about, such that he insisted that they hire a nursemaid, Purity, to attend to Young Sam over Sybil's objections. Vimes has once been described as a speciesist, though this habit slowly dies away; most of his officers rationalize this bias as simply not being particularly fond of anyone. Sam Vimes - Character Character Vimes is a very conflicted character: An incorruptible idealist with deep beliefs in justice and an abiding love of his city, he is also a committed cynic whose knowledge of human nature constantly reminds him how far off those ideals are. But he doesn't just fall in love and craving a drink suddenly disappears. When given bad news, he has a tendency to, on his way out, pound his fist against a certain spot of wall near the office door. Despite having competent subordinates, including Captains Carrot and Angua and Sergeant Detritus, Vimes finds it difficult to delegate, and is frustrated by the fact that the growth of the Watch has left him with less and less time for actual boots-on-the-pavement policing. Weight: 11 st 6 lb (160 lb) Associations Ankh Morpork City Watch The goal of this vs. is simple. Discworld Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. [21], The Cretaceous conifer species Pseudotorellia vimesiana is named after Sam Vimes.[22]. Other titles used occasionally are Ambassador for Ankh-Morpork as well as Blackboard Monitor Vimes (mostly by dwarfs, due to their near worship of words and therefore dislike of blackboards and their being monitored). This may be because he is somehow vital to the running of the city, as Lord Vetinari is, or it may be because no sensible Assassin will volunteer for the task anyway. In Thud!, after an attempted assassination of his family, Vimes becomes furious at the 'deep-down dwarves', a problem only made worse by the presence of a dark entity of pure vengeance within his mind. However Vimes lacks the ability to produce his 'own alcohol', as it were. When there is an important occasion on which crime is anticipated, for example, that a foreign dignitary may be attacked during a public appearance (in Jingo), Vimes likes to personally check suspicious places such as an abandoned building that an assassin might use. Sam Vimes was born in Cockbill Street as the son of Thomas Vimes, whose father was Gwilliam Vimes in the Rimwards part of the Shades, the poorest area of Ankh-Morpork. He accepts members of ethnic minorities in his Watch, has personally trained some of them, and is quite proud of them. Vimes is implied to heavily resemble his ancestor[6] and they share a nickname: Old Stoneface. The City Watch apparently runs in the Vimes family. In Thud!, he nearly gives in entirely to those of the Summoning Dark. Vimes is the Commander of the City Watch, the burgeoning police force of the Discworld's largest city, Ankh-Morpork. Vimes' firm grasp of basic human nature, and of the Ankh-Morpork psyche in particular, led to him spending some years as a drunk, and Fred Colon postulates that this was because Vimes' body didn't produce any "natural alcohol", and he estimates that Vimes was about "two drinks below par". Works [ edit] He hates zombies, werewolves and vampires; for unashamedly discriminative reasons, among them being that they cannot be killed if police duty necessitates that Vimes should fight them, and he believes that vampires naturally or reflexively prey upon people, as well as often being rich and snobby. According to Vimes's long-time close friend and fellow officer Fred Colon, it is because that every other normal person is naturally slightly drunk to some extent to conceal the true horrors of reality from them. Vimes and the City Watch go on to save the city and multiple lives, including a plot by golems and a vampire in Feet of Clay and a threat of war with Klatch in Jingo. This thought leads to the general realization that one of the reasons rich people remain rich is because they don't actually have to spend as much money as poor people; in many situations, they buy high-quality items (such as clothing, housing, and other necessities) which are made to last. Example. It has been noted that, in personality and mental setup, Vimes bears some similarity to Granny Weatherwax. Guards! He has a soft spot for the poor and those otherwise unable to fend for themselves, as although he views them as equally able to commit crimes as any other demographic; he sees law as a great equalizer, regardless of race (however despite his acceptance of just about any species into the Watch, until he was forced to in Thud! His mother would go on to tell young Sam that his father was 'run down by a cart when he was crossing the street'. With a nod to the late Terry Pratchett and his wonderful imagination - here is Sam Vimes! ), and is buried in the city's Small Gods Cemetery. Human with strong character. [11] The conflict within Vimes is between his virtuous nature ("the Watchman") and what he calls "the Beast". Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Though he sometimes has to call in a plasterer when Vimes is particularly angry, Vetinari doesn't worry about ita sign that he intentionally angers Vimes so as to goad him into a desired action. Human It is depicted as being so poor that there was little crime, though Sam was part of a street gang (The Cockbill Street Roaring Lads) with Lupine Wonse (who later became secretary to Lord Vetinari). He is the central character of the Watch Series, in which his rises from being a poor and often-drunk policeman to being the leader of a modern police force. The irony of the situation, coupled with the character's own distaste for the wealthy and general cynicism, make the phrase a particularly effective and vivid evocation of the concept for those familiar with the Discworld novels, hence its becoming part of the vernacular in that subculture. This horrifying state of mind would cause Vimes to try to balance it out, but . The Night Watch were reduced to patrolling the streets, ringing their bells at night and half-heartedly chasing criminals. To himself, Samuel Vimes is a not very intelligent man with a sordid personal history that he'd rather forget. The Assassins Guild now has some of its trainees conduct "dry run" assassination attempts on Vimes as a matter of testing the trainee's skills - particularly if they feel the need to bring the trainee's ego back down to the Disc (see Night Watch). Carcer robbed and killed the real John Keel, and Vimes had to replace him in order for his role in history to be fulfilled. She is a deeply gracious lady, able to like almost anyone (even Nobby Nobbs). Guards!. Fred Colon sometimes calls him by his first name when he's worried. Night Watch was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2007, with actor Philip Jackson as Vimes. His birth was difficult, and Vimes paid Doctor "Mossy" Lawn a large sum of money in gratitude for saving Sybil's and the baby's lives. As Commander and top officer of the Watch, Vimes' job is to oversee its operations and has to deal with a lot of paperwork, a job which he hates but accomplishes adequately. As other noblemen might ride horses, wear laces, ruffles, and plumes, Sam Vimes walks the city on endless patrols and wears his old battered Watch armor and leather shirt and jerkin, with the standard sword and truncheon. Through his father Thomas, he is a descendant of Suffer-Not-Injustice "Stoneface" Vimes, who overthrew the monarchy in Ankh-Morpork centuries earlier, killed its last king, and ruled the city briefly before being overthrown himself. Vimes's immediate reaction is 'Me'. As with the Discworld Wiki, the text of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is available under the Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License. When serving as Ambassador for Ankh-Morpork, he is also referred to simply as "His Excellency", and is also nicknamed "Blackboard Monitor Vimes",[1] "Vimes the Butcher/Butcher Vimes"[2] and "Vetinari's Terrier" (or his hammer, depending upon the occasion). In Thud!, after an attempted assassination of his family, Vimes becomes very angry at the 'deep-down dwarves,' a problem only made worse by the presence of a dark entity of pure vengeance within his mind. During his first appearance in Guards! *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 30, 2022. Vimes' involvement in preventing a pointless war with Klatch in the novel Jingo led to his being once more rewarded with an unwanted title, in this case, Duke of Ankh. His rise from alcoholic policeman to respected member of the aristocracy, and the growth and development of the Watch under his command, have together been one of the major threads of the Discworld series. The "Vimes Boots Theory" is an elegant distillation of an old economic and philosophical concept famously explored by Robert Tressel in his classic 1914 book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist. Vimes' involvement in preventing a pointless war with Klatch in the novel Jingo led to his being once more rewarded with an unwanted title, in this case, Duke of Ankh. However, the Watch declined in importance during this time, particularly after Lord Vetinari legalised the Thieves Guild. Philip Jackson from the British Robin of Sherwood TV series provides the voice for Vimes in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Night Watch. The new policemen trained in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and then hired elsewhere, though they haven't seen Vimes in person much, are called Sammies (perhaps a nod to the "bobbies," so-called because of Sir Robert Peel). Share your thoughts, experiences, and stories behind the art. His mother told the young Sam that Thomas was run down by a cart, but this is untrue. Though he sometimes has to call in a plasterer when Vimes is particularly angry, Vetinari doesn't worry about ita sign that he intentionally angers Vimes so as to goad him into a desired action. bring the trainee's ego back down to the Disc, https://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Samuel_Vimes&oldid=34167, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, Captain Samuel Vimes of the Night Watch (. Vimes became more street-smart, particularly after learning to fight with any means necessary by Gussie Two-Grins. Vimes was sixteen when he joined the Watch. She donated a property, Pseudopolis Yard, (bought by her father), to the Watch after their original headquarters was burnt by a dragon. Since becoming the Commander of the Watch and as such a popular target with the clients of the Assassins' Guild, Vimes also started the exercise of personally engineering pitfalls and death traps around his house and outside of his office at the police headquarters. [4] He was part of that section of the Watch which played a large role in the rebellion against Homicidal Lord Winder. Guards! in 1989, the main Discworld books featuring Sam Vimes are: Sam Vimes was born in Cockbill Street as the son of Thomas Vimes,[3] (son of Gwilliam Vimes)[3] in the Rimwards part of the Shades, the poorest area of Ankh-Morpork. Male Vimes took a great interest in the restructuring of the Watch, placing new Watch Houses where they were needed and supervising the creation of both a Watch Academy and a forensics section. As the aforementioned John "Mad Jack" Ramkin is also hailed as the 3rd Earl Ramkin, this reveals that the Ramkin estate is an earldom, and that Lady Sybil was already a countess (provided that the title wasn't entailed) before her husband, Sam Vimes', elevation to Duke at the end of Jingo. . Biographical information His participation as a young copper in handing people to the Unmentionables has surely left him also with a deep feeling of guilt and shame, after witnessing the results in their headquarters. Samuel Knurd De Chantal is on Facebook. For three centuries afterwards, the memory of "Old Stoneface" has lived on in infamy and, as his descendant, Vimes has frequently endured suspicious mutterings from the aristocracy. In the course of his mission to berwald as ambassador, he was disgusted to learn that he was also entitled to be addressed as "His Excellency", although he learns to wield it for practical clout, especially when perusing investigations where his status as an officer is unknown or ignored. When given bad news, he has a tendency to, on his way out, pound his fist against a certain spot of wall near the office door. Guards! For this, Vimes is awarded with yet another unwanted nobility title: Duke of Ankh. Sybil bears this divided loyalty with some grace; nearly every Watch novel concludes with Sam making some form of amends to his neglected wife, either a delayed honeymoon, or simply time alone with their new baby. There is absolutely nothing that takes precedence over this; Vimes believes that if he misses it even once for a good reason, the next time he might miss it for a bad one, and eventually this attitude might spill over into the rest of his life. It is not entirely clear whether his hatred of crime and the evil of humanity is greater than his love for his wife. In the long run, they actually use much less of their disposable income. # sam vimes # havelock vetinari # this is patching over my dnd/larp hiatus nicely # my art # slapped this together graphic design is my passion; 2150 Anonymous asked: I'm so embarrassed, I knew knurd is the opposite of drunk from the books but I just realized it's literally OPPOSITE of drunk. Havelock goes to visit Sybil and Sam after the birth of their son and Vimes has some feelings. He now finds himself in the awkward position ("practically zen" according to his boss) of continuing to despise the ruling classes of the city while actually being a member of them. For instance, people who eat healthy food and get good regular medical care are generally healthier than people who do not. When he witnesses a crime occurring, he abandons everything and chases the miscreant. Vimes gave up alcohol after his marriage to Sybil, and now smokes foul-smelling cigars instead. Despite his distaste for nobility, he becomes a Duke and an ambassador. In 2022, the Terry Pratchett Estate authorized Jack Monroe to use the "Vimes Boots Index" as the name of a price index she devised to document inflation in prices of basic necessities. He is saved by the arrival of Vetinari, who defuses the situation. Feb/2023: Call of duty figur - Detaillierter Produkttest TOP Call of duty figur Beste Angebote Smtliche Preis-Leistungs-Sieger Dire. All that changed when Carrot Ironfoundersson came to the city. [4] An incorruptible idealist with deep beliefs in justice and an abiding love of his city, he is also a committed cynic whose knowledge of human nature constantly reminds him how far off those ideals are. One of his most famous lightning-rods for this was Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch - a cynical, but likable, man who attempts to better himself whilst railing against the injustices around him. Dormer's character, Sam Vimes, is the captain of the city's police force that's known as the titular Watch. On one side, there is Vimes, however rough and pessimistic he may seem, defender of law and order, and the other side is a Vimes who would kill for revenge and make his own law. In Feet of Clay, Corporal Nobby Nobbs refuses the position of Earl of Ankh, terrified that Vimes would 'go spare' when he found out. He has few good opinions on people in general, and even fewer on the nobility, the guilds, Vetinari, vampires, the city of Ankh-Morpork, monarchy, democracy, newspapersand the list goes on. was adapted for BBC Radio 5 in 1992 and starred John Wood as Vimes. Beginning with Guards! Vimes's ranks and titles rise over the course of the series: This is not the full list; he almost certainly had others during his early Watch career, and he had none prior to joining the Watch. Thus those who cannot afford regular health care are said to be in a Vimes' Boots situation. Lawn has since founded the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. He has inherited his ancestor's nickname "Old Stoneface," but this is never said to his face. Vimes is played by Richard Dormer in the live-action television series The Watch, "inspired by Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' novels", rather than being a straight adaptation of specific stories.[19]. This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 19:55. Despite having competent subordinates, including Captain Carrot and Sergeants Angua and Detritus, Vimes finds it difficult to delegate, and is frustrated by the fact that the growth of the Watch has left him with less and less time for actual policing. charging high rent from the poor people living in slum properties). Vimes' age is never explicitly given, and information is not always consistent. Vimes also reflects on killing a werewolf in Night Watch[13] and Vetinari mentions him killing a werewolf in Thud!. Despite being a self-described speciesist, Vimes has nonetheless allowed the Watch to become one of the most species-blind employers in the city, and recognizes better than most the value of its non-human members, such as dwarfs, trolls, and even vampires, for which he still admits an innate dislike. 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