Beastly Bloodsports: One of the central conflicts involves the terrier rings where the terriers compete to kill the greatest number of rats.Balancing Death's Books: Maurice gives up one of his lives to save Dangerous Beans.Bait-and-Switch: Darktan's Rousing Speech starts this way, with him telling the Clan that there's something new and strong and dangerous in the tunnels under Bad Blintz.Badass Bandolier: Darktan wears crossed belts covered in pouches to hold his trap-disarming tools.Attack Its Weak Point: Apparently cutting the knot in the tails of a Rat King turns it back into a bunch of ordinary rats.Arc Words: "And you can always trust a cat to be a cat.".Arc Number: Continuing a Discworld tradition of 8 being a magically-potent and dangerous number, there are eight blind rats that comprise the Rat King.
Inverted by Spider, who feels that rats that kill and eat each other encourages survival of the fittest (slaves).
In 2020, it was announced that Hugh Laurie would be playing the role of Maurice. In 2019 it was announced that an animated film is in the works, with a script by Terry Rossio ( Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek) and character design by Carter Goodrich ( Ratatouille, Brave). It simplified the story a little, but largely kept to the tone and feel of the book. The story was adapted into a ninety-minute radio drama in 2003, starring Harry Meyers as Maurice and David Tennant as Dangerous Beans. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents won the Carnegie medal for best children's book published in the UK in 2001, making it Pratchett's first book to win a major award. It's a rat-eat-rat world down there, and that might only be the start. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. For someone there is playing a different tune. When they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as "lunch". Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. The 28th Discworld book, and the first one specifically aimed at teen readers. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats." As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats.
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