Sam Vimes

Novels Sam Vimes is the central character in Guards! Guards! (1989), Men at Arms (1993), Feet of Clay (1996), Jingo (1997), The Fifth Elephant (1999), Night Watch (2002), Thud! (2005), and Snuff (2011). He is a secondary character in The Truth (2000) and Monstrous Regiment (2003) and has minor appearances in The Last Hero (2001), Going Postal (2004), Making Money (2007), Unseen Academicals (2009), I Shall Wear Midnight and Raising Steam (2013). He also appears in the picture book ''Where's My Cow? (2005) and is mentioned, although not by name, in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents'' (2001). Other media Guards! Guards! was adapted for BBC Radio 5 in 1992 and stars John Wood as Vimes. Night Watch was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2007, with Philip Jackson as Vimes. A stage adaptation of Guards! Guards! went on tour in 1998 in which Vimes was played by Paul Darrow. Vimes appears in the 1999 video game Discworld Noir, voiced by Rob Brydon. Vimes is played by Richard Dormer in the 2021 BBC television series The Watch, which is "inspired by the legendary ‘City Watch’ subset of Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling 'Discworld' novels". ==Character==

Terry Pratchett gave his view on Vimes in a 2004 Usenet message: "Vimes is fundamentally a person. He fears he may be a bad person because he knows what he thinks rather than just what he says and does. He chokes off all of those little reactions and impulses, but he knows what they are. So he tries to act like a good person, often in situations where the map is unclear." The character is one of Pratchett's most popular, and been noted for his "moral pragmatism" and sense of duty and justice. while the Hollywood Reporter has described him as "Inspector Morse-meets-Humphrey Bogart-esque". The Cretaceous conifer species Pseudotorellia vimesiana is named after Sam Vimes. == Boots theory ==

In the 1993 novel Men at Arms, Vimes proposes the "Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness", which is as follows: The theory has since been mentioned independently of the novel in The Guardian, The New York Times, and the New Statesman. ==See also==