He explained to Lady Margolotta in The Fifth Elephant, this is because, teetotal or not, 'a vampire will always seek to dominate a human being'. Guards! to him, an obligation that supersedes crime, conspiracy or international negotiations his thinking being that if he ever missed it for a good reason, he might miss it for a bad reason, and that this might apply to everything he does, such as employing less-than-ethical methods in the pursuit of crime. His mother would go on to tell young Sam that his father was 'run down by a cart when he was crossing the street'. 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. 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. Though he finds being affectionate in public embarrassing and is divided on disliking Sybil's status as a noble, it is clear that Vimes loves his wife dearly; indeed when he was trapped in the past alone in a world he no longer recognised, the History Monks gave him a silver cigar case his wife had bought him to inspire him to continue with his mission. In his view, the law must apply to everyone, or it applies to noone. and Snuff. Vimes gave up alcohol after his marriage to Sybil, and now smokes foul-smelling cigars instead. He states that he was born and raised in the gutter and perhaps should have died there, but didn't. Sam Vimes is the lead captain of the City Watch for Ankh-Morpork. Captain Carrot quotes Vimes's ideas about social justice, and tries to make them a reality. After marrying Lady Sybil Ramkin, he quit drinking and smoked cigars instead. Affiliation Title(s) Something deep inside Havelock clicked into place and he sighed. When Vimes is angry, doors of some of the houses (the more angry he is, the more doors) will open. Due to his authority in Men at Arms, when he finds himself in possession of the Gonne, he struggles between his sense of justice and the Gonne's twisted desire to use him to kill in the name of justice. Samuel 'Sam' Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. ), and Vimes' own sense of justice being so strong that, in Thud!, it was even able to fend off the attempts to possess him by a 'quasi-demonic thing of pure vengeance'.[16]. 5,630 notes. Later in the series, the expensive, good quality boots his wife persists in buying for him restrict this ability. Discworld Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. The former Lord Ramkin, Lady Sybil's late father, had always had servants to shave him, to lay out his bath, to scrub his back, to lay out his clothes, to clean his shiny boots, and so on. He chokes off those little reactions and impulses, but he knows what they are. 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]. Human with strong character. Weight: 11 st 6 lb (160 lb) Associations Ankh Morpork City Watch 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. where Vimes' internal Watchman - which describes itself as existing to keep the darkness in rather than keeping it out- battles with the Summoning Dark for supremacy of his soul and is ultimately victorious in dispelling the evil entity from its attempts to use Vimes to kill for it. He is also fiercely anti-authority, possibly a facet of his character which he inherited from Old Stoneface. Badge No. Vimes is an effective and brutal hand-to-hand fighter, who specialises in "dirty fighting". In addition, Vimes' office at Pseudopolis Yard has "everything that his ingenuity could devise", including sharp ornamental railings, "which are pretty, and make the house look nice, but are, above all, spiky. He has lived through the successive regimes of Homicidal Lord Winder and Mad Lord Snapcase, two patricians whose sobriquets more than adequately describe their tenures, as well as several wars, and the legalization of the Guilds under Vetinari, which more or less broke his spirit. 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's full title of record is "His Grace, His Excellency, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes." In truth, Vimes has seen too many bad things in his line of work, and now finds it difficult to have a good opinion of anything in general; he is far too cynical (and yet depressingly sometimes not cynical enough). It has been noted that, in personality and mental setup, Vimes bears some similarity to Granny Weatherwax. 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. ; ("IS THAT MY COW? The Guild proved to be a better regulator of crime than the Watch. 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. Guards! [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. In episode 3.4 "Coda" of the TV series Endeavour, Inspector Fred Thursday states that his old mentor was "Sergeant Vimes, Cable Street". He is a secondary character in The Truth and Monstrous Regiment and has cameos in The Last Hero, Going Postal, Making Money, Unseen Academicals, I Shall Wear Midnight and Raising Steam. He has also appeared in the City Watch Diary and the picture book Where's My Cow?. From then on, the Watch began to grow again. Vous tes ici : Accueil 1 / Nouvelles et conventions chez SB Distribution 2 / Non classifi(e) 3 / sam vimes knurd. 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 many others he is, somehow, the person to look up to. Vimes gave up alcohol after his marriage to Sybil, and now smokes foul-smelling cigars instead. He went to the local school, where he was taught by Dame Slightly for 9 months and became blackboard monitor. He is also mentioned, although not by name, in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. While no detailed description of his physical appearance shows up in any of the Discworld novels, Pratchett says in the companion work, The Art of Discworld, that he has always imagined Vimes as British actor Pete Postlethwaite. Guards! He fears he may be a bad person because he knows what he thinks rather than just what he says and does. As a result of his reputation, the word Sammies has become a nickname for watchmen trained in Ankh-Morpork. Vimes became more street-smart, particularly after learning to fight with any means necessary by Gussie Two-Grins. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. Vimes was transported back in time in the company of a criminal named Carcer, whom he was trying to apprehend. Whatever happened to him exactly, she raised the young Sam on her own. 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. Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Both of those factors, and a near-Death experience that forced him to miss his 6:00pm story-time with his son, culminate in him snapping and temporarily losing over to "the Beast", going insane/berserk and single-handedly storming the deep-downers responsible, all the while roaring out the lines to Where's My Cow? [17] Her hobby has left her with her natural hair singed off and she wears a wig in nearly all circumstances. He is capable of accepting specific individuals. He is married to Lady Sybil Ramkin, the wealthiest woman in the city, and they have a son Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II. At the age of 16, he enlisted in the Night Watch, because his mate, Iffy Scurrick, had joined the year before and told him that there was "free food and a uniform and you could pick up the extra dollar here and there". 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. His role as Duke of Ankh largely involves diplomacy (his visit to berwald in The Fifth Elephant for example), in fact, his rough and ready upbringing has given him some unexpected advantages in this field (He once, after a bad day at work, threatened to personally send an opposing diplomat "home in an ambulance," an act that caused the man to order a troop withdrawal). studies Night Watch states that Vimes was sixteen years old when he joined the City Watch. He hates many kinds of people and many things, and he has quite good reasons to. Vimes was educated at a dame school, where he was once blackboard monitor for a whole term, before he had to drop out and concentrate on learning about life out on the streets. Join Facebook to connect with Samuel Knurd De Chantal and others you may know. Sam married Lady Sybil Ramkin at the end of Men at Arms; however, the pattern of his married life was set the moment he turned away from his wedding to chase an assassin that had just made an attempt on the Patrician's life. 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. 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. While there have been a number of amateur stage productions of the books, a professional adaptation of Guards! Menu. Vimes is depicted in the novels as somewhere between an Inspector Morse-type 'old-school' British policeman, and a film noir-esque grizzled detective. Vimes is depicted in the novels as somewhere between an Inspector Morse -type 'old-school' British policeman, and a film noir-esque grizzled detective. Samuel Marqus Lloyd "Sam" Vines (born May 31, 1999) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for Belgian Pro League club Antwerp and the United States . Havelock goes to visit Sybil and Sam after the birth of their son and Vimes has some feelings. So he tries to act like a good person, often in situations where the map is unclear. [3] It has been suggested that Sam's father was a watchman in Jingo and he is a descendant of Suffer-Not-Injustice "Old Stoneface" Vimes, the Watch Commander who instigated the rebellion against, and subsequently beheaded, Lorenzo the Kind, the last king of the city, a sadistic torturer described as "very fond of children." Samuel "Sam" Vimes is the Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. He is promoted to being the Commander of a reunified City Watch at the end of its sequel Men at Arms, and presides over the Watch's transformation into a modern police force. This is caused by him being born "knurd", which is the opposite of being drunk. During this time, Vimes became an alcoholic (although as he was poor, he considered himself to be "a drunk", not an alcoholic). A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. In Men at Arms, Vimes and the Watch thwart another attempt to take over the city. Later in the series, the expensive, good quality boots his wife persists in buying for him restrict this ability. The character is based off the character of the same name in Terry Pratchett's hit Discworld novels. Presumably this is also why the protective flame-baffles between the Vimes residence and Sybil's dragon stables are much, much sturdier in Thud! His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Lady Sybil Ramkin, Vimes's wife, thinks that he can sort out anything. Nobby Nobbs or Fred Colon), or after watching his back in a street fight to the extent that they have demonstrably saved his life (A.E. Vimes's immediate reaction is 'Me'. It is later revealed that the force that was preventing the Summoning Dark from making any progress in possessing Vimes was Vimes' own 'inner guardsman', who patrols the streets of his mind. 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). The whole series of events forced Vimes to sober-up long enough to uncover who was responsible for summoning the Dragon, after which the changes in his personal life led to him coming off of the drink and switching to smoking cigars, and occasionally, taking snuff. His appearances throughout the Discworld sequence show him slowly and grudgingly rising through the ranks of both police force and society. Besides watch armour, Vimes has some gentleman's suits, a dress uniform of the Watch Commander, and a dress uniform of the Duke. Job Location: Experience Required: Qualification: . Samuel "Sam" Vimes is the Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. By the start of Guards! Sam Vimes was born in Cockbill Street, in the Rimwards part of the Shades (the poorest area in the city). Initially, Vimes is jokingly described as only fond of rural dwarfs and wizards, the former who only commit crimes underground and away from him and the latter ironically sharing his respectful distaste for using magic irresponsibly. Family members He had the smallest tuft of brown hair. [12] He eventually did actually kill Wolfgang (with a firework, it having been previously established that werewolves can be killed by fire as well as silver.). Despite his distaste for nobility, he becomes a Duke and an ambassador. Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II) is Sam and Sybil Vimes' son and only child; he was born at the end of the events in Night Watch, is about fourteen months old by the time of Thud!, and at the age of six years by the time of the events of Snuff. In addition to former alcoholism, Vimes has many prejudices. As both urged by Lady Sybil and ordered by Lord Vetinari, Vimes now often has to appear at dinners and parties. His reform of the City Watch has been so successful that by Night Watch, Vimes-trained policemen are in high demand in cities across the Disc. Vimes is a very conflicted character. As he is about to massacre the now-defenceless deep-downers, he hesitates thanks to "the Watchman" in his head and begins to struggle with himself, which buys enough time for Sergeant Angua to arrive at the scene and force him down. Colon puts it, Vimes could get drunk in better style, Vimes could be baffled about a case with better vocabulary, and Vimes could deal with the paperwork. Sam Vimes is the main character of the Watch-subseries of Discworld-books. Being a significant figure on the world stage just means he finds bigger crimes. In Jingo, Vimes finds himself in a difficult and tense situation where he is holding the Klatchian Prince Cadram at bowpoint, and is prepared to kill him because (tenuous) evidence links him to a conspiracy to kill Prince Khufurah, but there is no court which would try the case. Lawn has since founded the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. 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. The Watch was given a new headquarters, Pseudopolis Yard (an allusion to the name of the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police: Scotland Yard), by Lady Sybil Ramkin (Vimes's soon-to-be wife) after the dragon destroyed their original base at Treacle Mine Road. During his first appearance in Guards! Last modified on Mon 31 Jan 2022 14.03 EST. Sam Vimes is the central character in Guards! He has inherited his ancestor's nickname "Old Stoneface," but this is never said to his face. 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. This all comes to light during the events of Thud! Vimes compromises by wearing the Watch Commander dress uniform. Since I quit drinking, I relate to it . it is revealed that some of her family's possessions are still stored in the attic of the building in this instance they retrieved a copy of Methodia Rascal's Koom Valley painting, made by Sybil as a child, after the original is stolen. It was around this time he was taught all he knew by Sergeant-At-Arms John Keel, which is where his cynical outlook on life and his firm belief in justice comes from. Keel taught Vimes several important lessons, such stopping him from taking bribes at a time when such behaviour was widespread in the Watch. Sometimes this darker side comes out when Vimes loses control of his anger and he effectively 'goes spare'. His body does not produce any "natural . born out of a one-paragraph short which had potential. This has become such a point of pride that he now has nightmares about not being home by 6 p.m. In the newest stories, Keel is Vimes himself transported back in time by thirty years. Keel took charge of the rebellion and was killed. First introduced in Guards! It's snowing. Members of the Watch earn the privilege, and it is a privilege, of calling him "Mister Vimes" only after very long association (i.e. He is often required to wear the ducal dress uniform, which has ruby tights ("you wouldn't wear tights to battle if you thought you would be taken prisoner"), a spiky coronet, a gilt armour ("toy armour"), and no place to hang his sword ("you got made a duke for fighting and then they gave you no sword to fight with"). Born into poverty, he is now a highly reluctant member of the nobility, having been made both a knight and a duke. Equally, he is known to be an angry person. It has also been noted that, in personality and mental setup, Vimes bears some similarity to Granny Weatherwax. Samuel Knurd De Chantal is on Facebook. As well as being an amateur soprano, she is a leading expert in swamp dragons and has a dragon pen outside her house where she breeds and cares for swamp dragons, though aside from her hobby most of her house is vaguely under-tended due to apparent lack of interest. than in previous books. 3D printing settings I have included two versions, a full one and a hollowed out one with a wall thickness of 2 mm. The Annotated Pratchett File notes that Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes is closely modelled on Oliver Cromwell, and that the name of his supporters, the Ironheads, is a portmanteau of Roundheads and Ironsides, Cromwell's faction and regiment, respectively. A human raised by dwarfs, Carrot joined the Watch and set out to help the city. This horrifying state of mind caused Vimes to try to balance it out through drinking, but he would get the dosage wrong and would just end up drunk. As of his latest promotion, his full name and title is stated as being "His Grace, His Excellency, The 1st Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes". Another reason for Vimes's past alcoholism may be his history; Vimes has been on the Watch since his late teens. "[1] This, along with the Discworld habit of pushing any theory as hard as it goes, appears to have culminated in Vimes' psyche creating its own "internal policeman" to "Guard the Guardsmen" (cf. Vimes has a complicated love-hate relationshop with the city of Ankh-Morpork, equating it to a woman who treats you badly, but you can't help but go back to her. 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. Both are effectively 'good' characters, who nevertheless both secretly fear the darkness inside themselves, and constantly strive to control the darker sides of their nature. and busting a goblin slavery network in Snuff. Before his marriage to Lady Sybil Vimes ( ne Ramkin) he would attempt to balance this out with alcohol but always get the dosage wrong and end up drunk. Since his son's birth, Vimes discovered a new cause in life: "arriving at home every day at six o' clock sharp to read Where's My Cow? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? It's freezing. Works [ edit] This phrase has led to the use of the phrase "Vimes' Boots," or the description of a set of circumstances as a "Vimes' Boots situation." Personally, he prefers simple, greasy food with burnt crunchy bits, and so he is happier when he eats things that Lady Sybil has personally cooked by a dragon's fire. The original article was at Samuel Vimes. Base Of Operations: Pseudopolis Yard, Ankh-Morpork. went on tour in 1998. 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. Vimes is considering appealing the decision. In Feet of Clay, Corporal Nobby Nobbs refuses the position of Earl of Ankh, terrified that Vimes would 'go spare' when he found out. Thus he saw reality as it really was ("first sight"); stripped of all the mental illusions that most people construct in their minds to get to sleep at night ("second sight"). This insult to Vimes' sense of justice, together with his being naturally knurd (the opposite of being drunk, where one is stripped of all the illusions that make life bearable) and other events (it has been claimed he was "brung low by a woman", which is an interpretation of the anthropomorphisation of the city, Morporkia), led towards heavy drinking. The baby was swaddled, small, scrunched face placid in sleep. At this time, he lived in near poverty, giving away almost all of his salary to widows and orphans of watchmen, and spending what was left on alcohol and cheap boots.[10]. 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. Lawn has since founded the Lady Sybil Free Hospital. Guards! Vimes once conjectured that if they so conspired, they could run the world, if they don't already do so. sam vimes knurd grown ups 2 ronnie . Vimes often has to go to report to Lord Vetinari, although most of the time he keeps a poker-face and answers very simply to avoid Vetinari's probing questions. During the first 25 years of his term in the Watch, Vimes rose to Captain of the Night Watch, a position that he attained about ten years prior to the events of Guards! This meant that when he hadn't been drinking, he was beyond sober - he was knurd. The rain's getting heavier now, drumming on the cobbles and coach roofs. One of the facets of Sam Vimes that Sir Terry wrote best was his alcoholism. Example. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes' 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. The conflict within Vimes is between his virtuous nature ("the Watchman") and what he calls "the Beast". Vimes is the Commander of the City Watch, the burgeoning police force of the Discworld's largest city, Ankh-Morpork. But he doesn't just fall in love and craving a drink suddenly disappears. To economists and urban sociologists this phenomenon is known as the "ghetto tax". 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.
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