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Dorfl is one of the old golems baked from clay. He collaborated with several other old golems in making a golem king, hoping that the king might lead them out of slavery (which shows perhaps even regular golems with a standard holy-word chem have personal initiative). While this attempt faltered and golems were being destroyed in the streets, Captain Carrot bought Dorfl off his original owner and put the sales receipt in place of the standard chem. Dorfl rapidly acquired a personality, and became the golem who cleaned up the mess of the king golem. Dorfl was dismembered in the process and his sales-receipt chem was crumpled up, though he still managed to come to life and defeat the King Golem. Captain Carrot collected the pieces and had him re-baked; upon Mr. Vimes's order, they slightly re-engineered Dorfl during the re-baking to give him a voice. Afterwards, Dorfl joined the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and is the force's first "ceramic policeman". He is an agnostic, or the Discworld equivalent, and resistant to lightning ("thunderbolts") and hellfire.

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Carrot's hoarse cry of "we have the pottery", confronted with the ruined fragments of Dorfl, is an echo of the key scene of the film Robocop, where the sundered parts of the part-human, part-robot policeman are brought together, and made new...

It is also a quote from the opening narration of the '70s TV show, The Six Million Dollar Man.