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Suffer-Not-Injustice is pure Oliver Cromwell. Vimes, however, is closer to your detective character in Film Noir, specifically Dirty Harry. I think the L-Space annotations point out how many detective-movie cliches appear in Guards! Guards! (The flickering glowing-lettered sign, the rain, shooting the lock off a door, and the ""Do you feel lucky"" speech as adapted for use with a dragon...). Also, I agree with Vimes. ""Family history of regicide"" makes it sound like it was a habit. Lorenzo *was* only one king..."