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* ShoutOut: Several, notably (and surprisingly) to ''Franchise/StarWars ''(just watch the first sequence between Arthur and Merlin in the woods, or the fight between Lancelot and his [[spoiler:EnemyWithout]]), and (less surprisingly) to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (as Boorman's original project was indeed to adapt the latter, before he switched to Arthurian myths:
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* ShoutOut: Several, notably (and surprisingly) to ''Franchise/StarWars ''(just watch the first sequence between Arthur and Merlin in the woods, or the fight between Lancelot and his [[spoiler:EnemyWithout]]), and (less surprisingly) to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (as Boorman's original project was indeed to adapt the latter, before he switched to Arthurian myths:myths -- for instance, Lancelot's return has him resembling Boern):
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Morgan Le Fay uses the magic she stole from Merlin to keep herself beautiful. When he tricks her to create a fog, her looks deteriorate to show her as an ugly, old woman, so much that her own son strangles her because he couldn't recognize her
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Morgan Le Fay uses the magic she stole from Merlin to keep herself beautiful. When he tricks her to create a fog, her looks deteriorate to show her as an ugly, old woman, so much that her own son strangles her because he couldn't recognize herher.
* EvilPlan: Morgana le Fey seeks to destroy Camelot in revenge for Uther killing her father.
* EvilPlan: Morgana le Fey seeks to destroy Camelot in revenge for Uther killing her father.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Arthur grows a beard after his "Wart" stage to show that he's become King Arthur and now the callow youth he was in the early parts of the film.
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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Arthur grows a beard after his "Wart" stage to show that he's become King Arthur and now not the callow youth he was in the early parts of the film.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Subverted: even the fabric gambeson Arthur wears early in the movie protects him to a degree from a trust from an enemy knight and most of the knights take a realistic amount of punishment to die. Justified with Excalibur and Mordred's spear, as both are magical weapons and thus mundane armor can't defend against them effectively.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Subverted: even the fabric gambeson Arthur wears early in the movie protects him to a degree from a trust thrust from an enemy knight and most of the knights take a realistic amount of punishment to die. Justified with Excalibur and Mordred's spear, as both are magical weapons and thus mundane armor can't defend against them as effectively.
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* The source material (mostly Malory's ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'') is treated in a very syncretist kind of way, [[CompositeCharacter merging many characters]], events and elements. This arguably allows the movie to display many more Arthurian motifs than would have been possible to show in a two-hour movie by staying truer to the original story, all while cleverly avoiding the CompressedAdaptation effect.
Being based on the Malory tale, the film is a chivalric romance and has major elements of later Romanticism; it understandably and unashamedly yearns for the nobility and virtue of Arthur's court, and explicitly states that Arthur serves as an example from the past to future memory; though it leaves open the chance that one day humanity may once again return to Camelot's height.
Being based on the Malory tale, the film is a chivalric romance and has major elements of later Romanticism; it understandably and unashamedly yearns for the nobility and virtue of Arthur's court, and explicitly states that Arthur serves as an example from the past to future memory; though it leaves open the chance that one day humanity may once again return to Camelot's height.
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* The source material (mostly (Sir Thomas Malory's ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'') ''Literature/LeMorteDarthur'' is credited, but many other sources are drawn upon) is treated in a very syncretist kind of way, [[CompositeCharacter merging many characters]], events and elements. This arguably allows the movie to display many more Arthurian motifs than would have been possible to show in a two-hour movie by instead of staying truer to the original story, text of a particular author or retelling, all while cleverly avoiding the CompressedAdaptation effect.
Being largely based on theMalory tale, Arthurian {{chivalric romance}}s, the film is a chivalric romance and has major elements of later Romanticism; it understandably and unashamedly yearns for the nobility and virtue of Arthur's court, and explicitly states that Arthur serves as an example from the past to future memory; though it leaves open the chance that one day humanity may once again return to Camelot's height.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere end up doing a lot of things that lead to Camelot's destruction.
** When Guinevere is accused of adultery with Lancelot (at that point she was faithful, in body if not mind), Arthur puts her on trial to demonstrate that no one in the land is above the law. Guinevere, upset at Arthur's willingness to put his duty as a king above his love for her, is humiliated in front of the entire court when no one (sans Perceval) will fight for her honour, and then watches as Lancelot comes to her rescue and is badly injured in her defense. Naturally, the whole thing results in nothing but Guinevere falling (more) in love with Lancelot and deciding to consummate her relationship with him. Arthur's sense of duty might have been unimpeachable, but it would have saved them all a lot of hardship if he'd just stood up for his wife in the first place.
** That's not even mentioning the fact that up until this point, Lancelot ''wasn't even in the kingdom''. He had been deliberately avoiding Camelot in the hopes of staying away from Guinevere. Naturally Arthur's trial of Guinevere brings him racing straight back again.
** And then Guinevere and Lancelot fool around in the woods, leaving Arthur heartbroken by their betrayal. Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, he slams Excalibur into the ground between them (royally screwing over Merlin in the process, as he was tapping into the land's power to defeat Morgana) so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom. Lancelot in particular is very ashamed of himself for betraying Arthur's trust, as seen by the fact that he did ''not'' take care of himself as the years went by.
--> '''Lancelot:''' The king without a sword! ''The land without a King!''
** When Guinevere is accused of adultery with Lancelot (at that point she was faithful, in body if not mind), Arthur puts her on trial to demonstrate that no one in the land is above the law. Guinevere, upset at Arthur's willingness to put his duty as a king above his love for her, is humiliated in front of the entire court when no one (sans Perceval) will fight for her honour, and then watches as Lancelot comes to her rescue and is badly injured in her defense. Naturally, the whole thing results in nothing but Guinevere falling (more) in love with Lancelot and deciding to consummate her relationship with him. Arthur's sense of duty might have been unimpeachable, but it would have saved them all a lot of hardship if he'd just stood up for his wife in the first place.
** That's not even mentioning the fact that up until this point, Lancelot ''wasn't even in the kingdom''. He had been deliberately avoiding Camelot in the hopes of staying away from Guinevere. Naturally Arthur's trial of Guinevere brings him racing straight back again.
** And then Guinevere and Lancelot fool around in the woods, leaving Arthur heartbroken by their betrayal. Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, he slams Excalibur into the ground between them (royally screwing over Merlin in the process, as he was tapping into the land's power to defeat Morgana) so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom. Lancelot in particular is very ashamed of himself for betraying Arthur's trust, as seen by the fact that he did ''not'' take care of himself as the years went by.
--> '''Lancelot:''' The king without a sword! ''The land without a King!''
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere end up doing a lot of things that lead to Camelot's destruction.
** When Guinevere is accused of adultery with Lancelot (at that point she was faithful, in body if not mind), Arthur puts her on trial to demonstrate that no one in the land is above the law. Guinevere, upset at Arthur's willingness to put his duty as a king above his love for her, is humiliated in front of the entire court when no one (sans Perceval) will fight for her honour, and then watches as Lancelot comes to her rescue and is badly injured in her defense. Naturally, the whole thing results in nothing but Guinevere falling (more) in love with Lancelot and deciding to consummate her relationship with him. Arthur's sense of duty might have been unimpeachable, but it would have saved them all a lot of hardship if he'd just stood up for his wife in the first place.
** That's not even mentioning the fact that up until this point, Lancelot ''wasn't even in the kingdom''. He had been deliberately avoiding Camelot in the hopes of staying away from Guinevere. Naturally Arthur's trial of Guinevere brings him racing straight back again.
** And then Guinevere and Lancelot fool around in the woods, leaving Arthur heartbroken by their betrayal. Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, he slams Excalibur into the ground between them (royally screwing over Merlin in the process, as he was tapping into the land's power to defeat Morgana) so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom. Lancelot in particular is very ashamed of himself for betraying Arthur's trust, as seen by the fact that he did ''not'' take care of himself as the years went by.
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** When Guinevere is accused of adultery with Lancelot (at that point she was faithful, in body if not mind), Arthur puts her on trial to demonstrate that no one in the land is above the law. Guinevere, upset at Arthur's willingness to put his duty as a king above his love for her, is humiliated in front of the entire court when no one (sans Perceval) will fight for her honour, and then watches as Lancelot comes to her rescue and is badly injured in her defense. Naturally, the whole thing results in nothing but Guinevere falling (more) in love with Lancelot and deciding to consummate her relationship with him. Arthur's sense of duty might have been unimpeachable, but it would have saved them all a lot of hardship if he'd just stood up for his wife in the first place.
** That's not even mentioning the fact that up until this point, Lancelot ''wasn't even in the kingdom''. He had been deliberately avoiding Camelot in the hopes of staying away from Guinevere. Naturally Arthur's trial of Guinevere brings him racing straight back again.
** And then Guinevere and Lancelot fool around in the woods, leaving Arthur heartbroken by their betrayal. Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, he slams Excalibur into the ground between them (royally screwing over Merlin in the process, as he was tapping into the land's power to defeat Morgana) so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom. Lancelot in particular is very ashamed of himself for betraying Arthur's trust, as seen by the fact that he did ''not'' take care of himself as the years went by.
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** Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere end up doing a lot of things that lead to Camelot's destruction.
*** When Guinevere is accused of adultery with Lancelot (at that point she was faithful, in body if not mind), Arthur puts her on trial to demonstrate that no one in the land is above the law. Guinevere, upset at Arthur's willingness to put his duty as a king above his love for her, is humiliated in front of the entire court when no one (sans Perceval) will fight for her honour, and then watches as Lancelot comes to her rescue and is badly injured in her defense. Naturally, the whole thing results in nothing but Guinevere falling (more) in love with Lancelot and deciding to consummate her relationship with him. Arthur's sense of duty might have been unimpeachable, but it would have saved them all a lot of hardship if he'd just stood up for his wife in the first place.
*** That's not even mentioning the fact that up until this point, Lancelot ''wasn't even in the kingdom''. He had been deliberately avoiding Camelot in the hopes of staying away from Guinevere. Naturally Arthur's trial of Guinevere brings him racing straight back again.
*** And then Guinevere and Lancelot fool around in the woods, leaving Arthur heartbroken by their betrayal. Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, he slams Excalibur into the ground between them (royally screwing over Merlin in the process, as he was tapping into the land's power to defeat Morgana) so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom. Lancelot in particular is very ashamed of himself for betraying Arthur's trust, as seen by the fact that he did ''not'' take care of himself as the years went by.
---> '''Lancelot:''' The king without a sword! ''The land without a King!''
*** When Guinevere is accused of adultery with Lancelot (at that point she was faithful, in body if not mind), Arthur puts her on trial to demonstrate that no one in the land is above the law. Guinevere, upset at Arthur's willingness to put his duty as a king above his love for her, is humiliated in front of the entire court when no one (sans Perceval) will fight for her honour, and then watches as Lancelot comes to her rescue and is badly injured in her defense. Naturally, the whole thing results in nothing but Guinevere falling (more) in love with Lancelot and deciding to consummate her relationship with him. Arthur's sense of duty might have been unimpeachable, but it would have saved them all a lot of hardship if he'd just stood up for his wife in the first place.
*** That's not even mentioning the fact that up until this point, Lancelot ''wasn't even in the kingdom''. He had been deliberately avoiding Camelot in the hopes of staying away from Guinevere. Naturally Arthur's trial of Guinevere brings him racing straight back again.
*** And then Guinevere and Lancelot fool around in the woods, leaving Arthur heartbroken by their betrayal. Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, he slams Excalibur into the ground between them (royally screwing over Merlin in the process, as he was tapping into the land's power to defeat Morgana) so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom. Lancelot in particular is very ashamed of himself for betraying Arthur's trust, as seen by the fact that he did ''not'' take care of himself as the years went by.
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* RelatedDifferentlyInAdaptation:Like many Arthurian adaptations it turns Morgana into a CompositeCharacter with Morgause, making her Mordred's mother rather than aunt. ''Excalibur'' helped popularize the version of the legend where Mordred is conceived by BrotherSisterIncest between Morgana and Arthur ([[BedTrick unwitting]] in Arthur's case).
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* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Morgana ages her son Mordred from a child to a young adult in order to face Arthur in combat.
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* RocketTagGameplay: The final battle between Arthur and Mordred, where both of them are wielding weapons of legendary power which [[ArmorIsUseless cut through their armor like wet paper]].
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* TheAce: Lancelot is nearly unbeatable in single combat: he defeats every last one of Arthur's knights, one after the other, and still has more than enough elan to face the King himself. After a one-sided fight, Arthur has to call on the supernatural power of Excalibur to avoid certain defeat, breaking the sword in the process.
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* TheAce: Lancelot is nearly unbeatable in single combat: he defeats every last one of Arthur's knights, one after the other, and still has more than enough elan to face the King himself. After a one-sided fight, Arthur has to call on the supernatural power of Excalibur to avoid certain defeat, breaking the sword in the process. [[note]]It gets better[[/note]]
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** Justified with Excalibur, given it's a magical sword. It's one of the few weapons in the film that can invoke ArmorIsUseless. [[spoiler:Its magical nature allows it to bypass Mordred's ArmorOfInvincibility.]]
** Mordred's spear, which like his armor was provided by his mother and is likewise magical, can pierce armor easily.
** Justified with Excalibur, given it's a magical sword. It's one of the few weapons in the film that can invoke ArmorIsUseless. [[spoiler:Its magical nature allows it to bypass Mordred's ArmorOfInvincibility.]]
** Mordred's spear, which like his armor was provided by his mother and is likewise magical, can pierce armor easily.
* ArmorIsUseless: Subverted: even the fabric gambeson Arthur wears early in the movie protects him to a degree from a trust from an enemy knight and most of the knights take a realistic amount of punishment to die. Justified with Excalibur and Mordred's spear, as both are magical weapons and thus mundane armor can't defend against them effectively.
* ArmorOfInvincibility: Morgana gives Mordred a suit of this that renders him invincible to any weapon made by man. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Excalibur is a magical weapon forged by the Lady of the Lake, and thus doesn't count.]]
* ArmorOfInvincibility: Morgana gives Mordred a suit of this that renders him invincible to any weapon made by man. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Excalibur is a magical weapon forged by the Lady of the Lake, and thus doesn't count.]]
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* OathboundPower: Arthur's possession of the titular sword grants him the right of kingship. At one point in the film, he uses the sword for a selfish purpose- to defeat Lancelot- and it breaks. When he realises his error and repents, it is returned to him whole.
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* OathboundPower: Arthur's possession of the titular sword grants him the right of kingship. At one point in the film, he uses the sword for a selfish purpose- to defeat Lancelot- and it breaks. When he realises realizes his error and repents, it is returned to him whole.
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* BecomingTheMask: Ector explains that originally he raised Arthur because he feared Merlin, but eventually because he loved him as his own son.
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* DawsonCasting: Even though he was 35 years old, Nigel Terry plays King Arthur from his teenage years to his ending as an aged monarch.
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** The first knight Arthur bests in battle — Sir Uriens, who knights him — winds up being Arthur's lifelong ally, and the first to obey Arthur's order to find the Holy Grail. He ultimately ''dies'' on the quest to find it.
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* RealityEnsues: Despite Arthur validating himself as King by pulling Excalibur from the stone, there are plenty of people who don’t want him there because he isn’t a knight (he’s a mere squire) and a bastard to boot. This causes a rebellion that Arthur has to defeat within hours of pulling Excalibur from the stone.
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* DawsonCasting: Even though he was 35 years old, Nigel Terry plays King Arthur from his teenage years to his ending as an aged monarch.
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* DemotedToExtra: Unavoidable due to having to condense the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters of Arthurian legends into a two-hours movie. For example, Sirs Bors and Meliot only gets a single mention each in the movie. Many others are not even named.
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*** The final draft of the movie's script reveals that Kay was intended to get a horse ride out to join Lancelot. Arthur and Perceval would have found his body, being born away by squires, just before finding the mortally wounded Lancelot.
** Mordred's lieutenant disappears after the beginning of the final battle, presumably killed off screen. The mentioned draft, however, had him survive all the way up to the final confrontation between Arthur and Mordred, and flee after the latter is killed.
** Mordred's lieutenant disappears after the beginning of the final battle, presumably killed off screen. The mentioned draft, however, had him survive all the way up to the final confrontation between Arthur and Mordred, and flee after the latter is killed.
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** [[spoiler:Lancelot]] plays with this trope during the final battle where [[spoiler: he arrives and uses a spiked club as his main weapon. While Lancelot isn't a stereotypically barbaric or lower class character, he LOOKS the part after spending years in exile, and getting a more stereotypically brutish and primitive looking weapon like a spiked club rather than a more stereotypically refined and elegant looking weapon like the sword he previously used might be a way to emphasize his [[FallenHero fall from grace]].]] * ScarsAreForever: Sir Lancelot's sword wound never heals, eventually resulting in his death.
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** [[spoiler:Lancelot]] plays with this trope during the final battle where [[spoiler: he arrives and uses a spiked club as his main weapon. While Lancelot isn't a stereotypically barbaric or lower class character, he LOOKS the part after spending years in exile, and getting a more stereotypically brutish and primitive looking weapon like a spiked club rather than a more stereotypically refined and elegant looking weapon like the sword he previously used might be a way to emphasize his [[FallenHero fall from grace]].]] ]]
* ScarsAreForever: Sir Lancelot's sword wound never heals, eventually resulting in his death.
* ScarsAreForever: Sir Lancelot's sword wound never heals, eventually resulting in his death.
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* SavageSpikedWeapons:
**One of the weapons Arthur uses during his first battle with Lancelot is a spiked mace, which accentuates his insane rage during the scene (Lancelot even points out that Arthur is willing to kill a man that isn't even his enemy).
** [[spoiler:Lancelot]] plays with this trope during the final battle where [[spoiler: he arrives and uses a spiked club as his main weapon. While Lancelot isn't a stereotypically barbaric or lower class character, he LOOKS the part after spending years in exile, and getting a more stereotypically brutish and primitive looking weapon like a spiked club rather than a more stereotypically refined and elegant looking weapon like the sword he previously used might be a way to emphasize his [[FallenHero fall from grace]].]] * ScarsAreForever: Sir Lancelot's sword wound never heals, eventually resulting in his death.
**One of the weapons Arthur uses during his first battle with Lancelot is a spiked mace, which accentuates his insane rage during the scene (Lancelot even points out that Arthur is willing to kill a man that isn't even his enemy).
** [[spoiler:Lancelot]] plays with this trope during the final battle where [[spoiler: he arrives and uses a spiked club as his main weapon. While Lancelot isn't a stereotypically barbaric or lower class character, he LOOKS the part after spending years in exile, and getting a more stereotypically brutish and primitive looking weapon like a spiked club rather than a more stereotypically refined and elegant looking weapon like the sword he previously used might be a way to emphasize his [[FallenHero fall from grace]].]] * ScarsAreForever: Sir Lancelot's sword wound never heals, eventually resulting in his death.
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* ArchEnemy: King Arthur has Morgana le Fey, whose father was killed by his father and who intends to destroy Arthur's kingdom due to that.
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* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Morgana ages her son Mordred from a child to a young adult in order to face Arthur in combat.
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Merlin tricks Morgana into using the Charm of Making to drive him away which depletes her magical power and strips her of her youthful beauty and produces an eerie fog over the land out of the breath of the dragon. When Mordred comes to investigate, he kills Morgana and the fog assists the small number of Arthur's army against Mordread's larger force.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Merlin tricks Morgana into using the Charm of Making to drive him away which depletes her magical power and strips her of her youthful beauty and produces an eerie fog over the land out of the breath of the dragon. When Mordred comes to investigate, he kills Morgana and the fog assists the small number of Arthur's army against Mordread's Mordred's larger force.]]
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--> '''Arthur''': I cannot give you the land. Only my love.
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* TheAgeless: Merlin looks the same before Arthur's birth as he does when Arthur's a grown man with grey in his beard.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The film combines MagicalRealism with gritty, bloody violence, reaching a peak of dark edginess in an early scene in which a knight in blood-stained armour tricks the wife of his nemesis into having sex with him. There are plenty of impalings and crow-pecked corpses to go around as well.
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* TheDulcineaEffect: Perceval, unarmed squire, wanting to champion Guinevere against a fully-armed, battle-hardened Sir Gawain.
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* TheDulcineaEffect: Perceval, unarmed squire, wanting Queen Guinevere stands accused by Sir Gawain of treason by adultery, and was to have Sir Lancelot champion her in trial by combat. Sir Lancelot is late to the field and King Arthur is dismayed when no other individual is willing to champion Guinevere against — except for the newly-arrived, unarmored, untrained apprentice Perceval, who asks to champion Guinevere and is knighted by King Arthur for that purpose. He then readies himself to charge a fully-armed, fully-armored, battle-hardened Sir Gawain.Gawain when (fortunately) Lancelot shows up to prevent it from happening.
* ExcaliburInTheStone: Excalibur is retrieved from the Lady of the Lake by Merlin and given to Uther Pendragon, Arthur's father. Uther thrusts the sword into the proverbial stone before he dies of his wounds. Arthur then draws the sword from the stone years later. Later, in a duel with Lancelot, Arthur in a fit of pride uses the sword's mystic powers to change the destined outcome of the duel (Lancelot should have won). Although Arthur succeeds, Excalibur breaks from being so used. In a fit of grief, Arthur hurls the broken sword into a nearby lake — where the Lady of the Lake restores the weapon and hands it back to Arthur from the waters, thus fulfilling both legends.
* FertileFeet: After Arthur's wound is healed by the Holy Grail.
* ForgedByTheGods: Excalibur was forged by the Gods before the dawn of time.
* GivingThemTheStrip: Sir Percival is thrown into a river and is forced to remove his armor to be light enough to swim to the surface.
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* HiddenDepths: PercevalHonorBeforeReason: Queen Guinevere has been accused of treason by adultery with Sir Lancelot, but not one person will champion her in Trial By Battle against Sir Gawain ... except the unarmored, untrained page Percival who appears to be operating either under the simple principle that the Queen must be championed, or TheDulcineaEffect. King Arthur ''knights'' him for this purpose ... although the battle is averted by the arrival of Sir Lancelot to take his place.
** Come to think of it, King Arthur refusing to champion his own ''wife'' against the accusation — on the basis he is king and must be her judge in this — is probably a potent illustration of HonorBeforeReason.
* HopeSproutsEternal: When Arthur and his knights ride out to face Mordred for the final battle, a flower slowly blooms in the corner of the shot.
* IKissYourHand: A HoYay version when Sir Uryens swears allegiance to King Arthur, he kisses both of Arthur's gauntlets, overwhelmed by the bravery of this young king and his CoolSword.
** Come to think of it, King Arthur refusing to champion his own ''wife'' against the accusation — on the basis he is king and must be her judge in this — is probably a potent illustration of HonorBeforeReason.
* HopeSproutsEternal: When Arthur and his knights ride out to face Mordred for the final battle, a flower slowly blooms in the corner of the shot.
* IKissYourHand: A HoYay version when Sir Uryens swears allegiance to King Arthur, he kisses both of Arthur's gauntlets, overwhelmed by the bravery of this young king and his CoolSword.
* InbredAndEvil: Mordred is the son of Arthur and his half-sister Morgana (rather than his half-sister Morgause) and even more insane than he usually is. In the end he not only destroys Camelot, but murders his mother in a fit of rage before going down to a Mutual Kill with his father.
-->"Come father, let us embrace at last!"
-->"Come father, let us embrace at last!"
* JoustingLance: Two knights jousted for Guinevere's honor.
* {{Knighting}}: Uryens (comedy name) knights Arthur with Excalibur, because he can't surrender to a mere squire. Arthur later knights Percival, hurriedly, in the same fashion.
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* TheLastDance: "Come Father, let us embrace at last."
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* TheLastDance: "Come Father, let us embrace ''embrace'' at last."
* LegendFadesToMyth: Discussed by King Arthur, explaining to Guinevere that he and his colleagues were not meant to live the lives of mortals, but have their exploits turned into legend.
* LetThemDieHappy: Arthur tells the dying Lancelot that Guinevere was reinstated as Queen, when in reality she became a nun.
* LetThemDieHappy: Arthur tells the dying Lancelot that Guinevere was reinstated as Queen, when in reality she became a nun.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Morgana
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* ManipulativeBastard: MorganaTheMagicGoesAway: Merlin mourns the passage of magic from England:
-->"The days of our kind are numbered. The one God comes to drive out the many gods. The spirits of wood and stream grow silent. It's the way of things. Yes... it's a time for men, and their ways."
* MagneticHero: King Arthur. If you're fighting a fully-armed knight, get the better of him, and demand he swear faith to you with your sword at his neck, you generally ''don't'' ask him to knight you ''and hand over your InfinityPlusOneSword to him'' when he objects to giving you his allegiance because you're a squire and thus he outranks you. On the other hand, if you're the knight in question you generally don't use said sword to knight said squire when he ''kneels before you to accept your knighting and then kiss his hand in fealty'' ... unless the squire, of course, is a MagneticHero.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Morgana, Mordred, and their minions capture Sir Percival and hang him from a tree where several other knights have already been hanged. Percival hangs from the tree for several hours in agony until his rope is accidentally cut by a hanged knight's spurs.
* MasterSwordsman: Lancelot is the best fighter of Arthur's round table.
-->"The days of our kind are numbered. The one God comes to drive out the many gods. The spirits of wood and stream grow silent. It's the way of things. Yes... it's a time for men, and their ways."
* MagneticHero: King Arthur. If you're fighting a fully-armed knight, get the better of him, and demand he swear faith to you with your sword at his neck, you generally ''don't'' ask him to knight you ''and hand over your InfinityPlusOneSword to him'' when he objects to giving you his allegiance because you're a squire and thus he outranks you. On the other hand, if you're the knight in question you generally don't use said sword to knight said squire when he ''kneels before you to accept your knighting and then kiss his hand in fealty'' ... unless the squire, of course, is a MagneticHero.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Morgana, Mordred, and their minions capture Sir Percival and hang him from a tree where several other knights have already been hanged. Percival hangs from the tree for several hours in agony until his rope is accidentally cut by a hanged knight's spurs.
* MasterSwordsman: Lancelot is the best fighter of Arthur's round table.
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* NoImmortalInertia: [[spoiler:Morgana]][[spoiler:The grisly fate of Morgan Le Fay, rendered in a very NightmareFuel-efficient way]].
* NoManOfWomanBorn: "No weapon forged by man" can hurt Mordred. He's killed by Excalibur. Mother Nature would like to add that a large icicle, rock, tree branch or angry boar passes the test, so this prophecy is less difficult to get around than one would think (however, all of these aren't exactly an advantage when fighting a good swordsman). Additionally, there's also poison, slings, non-metal arrows, garrote wires, fire, fisticuffs, starvation...
* OathboundPower: Arthur's possession of the titular sword grants him the right of kingship. At one point in the film, he uses the sword for a selfish purpose- to defeat Lancelot- and it breaks. When he realises his error and repents, it is returned to him whole.
* OathboundPower: Arthur's possession of the titular sword grants him the right of kingship. At one point in the film, he uses the sword for a selfish purpose- to defeat Lancelot- and it breaks. When he realises his error and repents, it is returned to him whole.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Not only was Arthur the only one who could draw the titular sword from the stone, he pulled it from the stone ''again'' just to prove he could, since no one was around the first time. When he did something unworthy (using the sword's power to defeat Lancelot, who should rightly have won their duel), the sword ''broke'', and when he repented it was fixed.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Morgana ages her son Mordred from a child to a young adult in order to face Arthur in combat.
* RapidAging: Morgana uses the magic she stole from Merlin to keep her looking young and beautiful. However, on the eve of the final battle, Merlin (in dream form) tricks her into repeating The Charm of Making, which ages her to an ugly old hag, so much that her son, Mordred, kills her on sight.
* RetCanon: In order to manage the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters in Arthurian legend, the film merged the characters of Morgause of Orkney and Morgana le Fay into one CompositeCharacter, keeping the latter's name and powers of sorcery, but giving her the former's role of mothering Mordred after an incestuous affair with Arthur. Though he may not have been the first to make this change, his film popularized the incestuous angle between Morgana and Arthur in many adaptations to come.
* ScarsAreForever: Sir Lancelot's sword wound never heals, eventually resulting in his death.
* ShapeshiftingSquick: As in the standard folklore, King Arthur is son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon. He is shapeshifted by Merlin as Igraine's husband (that, at the moment, is painfully dying on the battlefield for extra drama); because {{Squick}} was not already hitting the eleven, Uther is in full metal plate armor, with the queen laying under him. Ouch. No time to undress?
* SwordPlant: Devastated but unwilling to kill his wife and best friend, King Arthur slams Excalibur into the ground between Guinevere and Lancelot so that when they wake up in the morning they both know they've just royally screwed up the kingdom.
-->'''Lancelot''': The king without a sword! The land without a King!
-->'''Lancelot''': The king without a sword! The land without a King!
* TrialByCombat: Queen Guinivere is accused of adultery against King Arthur with Lancelot. All of the knights had been afraid to level this accusation because her champion was Lancelot himself, whom no other knight can defeat.
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* VisibleInvisibility: Merlin.
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* VisibleInvisibility: Merlin.VainSorceress: Morgana Le Fay uses her magical powers to keep herself looking young into middle age. Interestingly, when Merlin goes into her dream and tricks her into casting a powerful mist spell, she releases so much energy that she ages far beyond what her natural age was originally.
* WarriorPrince: It's very much a part of the plot that Uther Pendragon is a far better warrior than he is a king. Arthur, while certainly a capable warrior, is also good at actually ruling a nation.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Arthur ends up in a fight "to the death" against "a knight who is not [his] enemy" for a bridge he could "easily ride around," and ends up not only almost killing Lancelot, but, more importantly (to him), shattering Excalibur. Luckily, the Lady of the Lake forgives him and mends the sword.
* WeatherOfWar: The dragon's breath created via magic, most notably in the final battle. Merlin tricks Morgana into raising the fog, concealing the paucity of King Arthur's force and the direction from which they are attacking.
* WarriorPrince: It's very much a part of the plot that Uther Pendragon is a far better warrior than he is a king. Arthur, while certainly a capable warrior, is also good at actually ruling a nation.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Arthur ends up in a fight "to the death" against "a knight who is not [his] enemy" for a bridge he could "easily ride around," and ends up not only almost killing Lancelot, but, more importantly (to him), shattering Excalibur. Luckily, the Lady of the Lake forgives him and mends the sword.
* WeatherOfWar: The dragon's breath created via magic, most notably in the final battle. Merlin tricks Morgana into raising the fog, concealing the paucity of King Arthur's force and the direction from which they are attacking.
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* WorldOfHam: The film aims for the medieval high fantasy/epic feel, which does tend towards haminess and grandioseness, with shouting as the informal language of the land. Uther and Leondegrance (Gabriel Byrne and Patrick Stewart, respectively) are remarkably boisterous, while Merlin provides a more quirky and mixed theatricallity.
* WomanInWhite: Igraine.
* WomanInWhite: Igraine.
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* WorldOfHam: The film aims for the medieval high fantasy/epic feel, which does tend towards haminess and grandioseness, with shouting as the informal language of the land. Uther and Leondegrance (Gabriel Byrne and Patrick Stewart, respectively) are remarkably boisterous, while Merlin provides a more quirky and mixed theatricallity.
*WomanInWhite: Igraine.WoundThatWillNotHeal: Lancelot suffers this fate. (It may be a metaphorical wound, though. He sustained it while wracked with guilt about sleeping with Guinevere, and it was done by Excalibur which couldn't have been in his physical possession at the time.)
* WreckedWeapon:Excalibur is broken when Arthur uses it for an unjust purpose — namely, killing Lancelot to satisfy his ego. When he realises the depth of his error, the knight is revived and his sword returned to him in one piece by the Lady of the Lake. This sequence was added so that Arthur could receive Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake as well as pull it from the stone earlier in the film.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Merlin describes the Dragon, the source of his magic, as "a beast of such power that if you were to see it whole and all complete in a single glance, it would burn you to cinders."
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* WreckedWeapon:Excalibur is broken when Arthur uses it for an unjust purpose — namely, killing Lancelot to satisfy his ego. When he realises the depth of his error, the knight is revived and his sword returned to him in one piece by the Lady of the Lake. This sequence was added so that Arthur could receive Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake as well as pull it from the stone earlier in the film.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Merlin describes the Dragon, the source of his magic, as "a beast of such power that if you were to see it whole and all complete in a single glance, it would burn you to cinders."
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* AchillesInHisTent: Lancelot becomes a partially insane vagrant who blames the king for bringing a pestilence upon the land. At the climatic battle, he returns to fight by the king's side.
* AfterActionPatchUp: After his first battle as king, Arthur is treated for his wounds by Guinevere, leading to his falling in love with her.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Merlin warns Arthur, "You must remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself." This was a particularly prescient warning since it was the first time Arthur faced Lancelot.
* AnimatedArmor: Used in a heavily symbolic way in a dream sequence. The bare armor represents Lancelot fighting himself.
* AntagonisticOffspring: The film takes the "Mordred is Arthur's bastard" version of the story and runs with it, playing Mordred as a half-crazed BastardBastard who wants his father's throne, sword, and power, but rejects his love, ultimately leading to a very messy MutualKill.
* AntagonisticOffspring: The film takes the "Mordred is Arthur's bastard" version of the story and runs with it, playing Mordred as a half-crazed BastardBastard who wants his father's throne, sword, and power, but rejects his love, ultimately leading to a very messy MutualKill.
** The first had Uther Pendragon, with Merlin's help, using an illusion spell to take on the appearance of his enemy Gorlois and bed Gorlois' wife Igraine, resulting in the conception of Arthur.
** The second occasion has Morgana using a similar spell to make her appear as Guinevere in Arthur's eyes and allow her to proceed to rape him.
* BeneathTheMask: The knights' elaborate, mask-like helmets show the real personae of the wearers.
** The second occasion has Morgana using a similar spell to make her appear as Guinevere in Arthur's eyes and allow her to proceed to rape him.
* BeneathTheMask: The knights' elaborate, mask-like helmets show the real personae of the wearers.
* BigNever: As befits a WorldOfHam.
--> ''Arthur holds Excalibur to the neck of rebelling knight Sir Uryens, demanding he swear fealty.''
--> '''Sir Uryens:''' A noble knight, swear faith to a ''squire?''
--> '''Guy In Background:''' ''NEEVVVEEEER! NEEVVVEEEER!''
** Later, when Merlin refuses to use is magic to make Guinevere fall in love with Arthur:
---> '''Merlin''': Now look, I once stood exposed to the Dragon's Breath so that a man could lie one night with a woman. It took me nine moons to recover. And all for this lunacy called 'love', this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king. Never again! Never!
--> ''Arthur holds Excalibur to the neck of rebelling knight Sir Uryens, demanding he swear fealty.''
--> '''Sir Uryens:''' A noble knight, swear faith to a ''squire?''
--> '''Guy In Background:''' ''NEEVVVEEEER! NEEVVVEEEER!''
** Later, when Merlin refuses to use is magic to make Guinevere fall in love with Arthur:
---> '''Merlin''': Now look, I once stood exposed to the Dragon's Breath so that a man could lie one night with a woman. It took me nine moons to recover. And all for this lunacy called 'love', this mad distemper that strikes down both beggar and king. Never again! Never!
* BloodBrothers: Uther and Cornwall become this when Cornwall yields to Uther after Uther receives Excalibur, signifying the right to be king. Uther then royally screws it up when he falls in lust for Ygraine, Cornwall's wife.
* ChainmailBikini: Towards the end, Morgana appears to be dressed in nothing more than a sheet metal corset.
* ChildByRape: Arthur and Mordred are both examples of this. Arthur was conceived when Uther raped Igraine and Mordred was conceived when Morgana ''raped Arthur!'' Uther and Morgana did so through magical illusions which made them look like someone else so Igraine and Arthur would have sex with their respective spouses.
* ComingAndGoing: Merlin shapeshifts Uther into a likeness of Cornwall so that he can have his way with Cornwall's wife, Igrayne, while the real Cornwall is ambushed and mortally wounded by Uther's men. The camera cuts back and forth between the bedroom, where Uther is sating his lust for Igrayne, and the battlefield, where Cornwall lies dying.
* CoolSword: The eponymous sword is ... well ... Excalibur! It often reflects green light to make it look otherworldly.
* DarkIsNotEvil:
** Merlin can be downright creepy but his main goal is to put a good king in charge of England.
** "The Dragon", which is built up as some kind horrible monster, but ultimately isn't. Arthur's fear of it parallels his uncertainty about being King; once he overcomes his fear and "sleeps in the arms of the Dragon", he fully overcomes his doubts and embraces his destiny.
** Merlin can be downright creepy but his main goal is to put a good king in charge of England.
** "The Dragon", which is built up as some kind horrible monster, but ultimately isn't. Arthur's fear of it parallels his uncertainty about being King; once he overcomes his fear and "sleeps in the arms of the Dragon", he fully overcomes his doubts and embraces his destiny.
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* DeathOfTheOldGods: Merlin mentions "One God driving out the many" when he decides his time in this world is over.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Twice - first with Uryens, later with Lancelot.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Twice - first with Uryens, later with Lancelot.
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* DeathOfTheOldGods: Merlin mentions "One says to Morganna, who is trying to learn his secrets of sorcery, that many old ways are being lost because the One God (of Christianity) is driving out the many" many gods (of nature).
* DeathSeeker: Sir Lancelot. He's more of a defeat seeker than a death seeker though, having traveled around looking for a King who was good enough to beat him and thereby win his fealty. He claims he was CursedWithAwesome.
* DefeatMeansFriendship:
** Lancelot is seeking to serve the man who can best him in combat. Arthur loses to Lancelot, then cheats by using Excalibur's power to knock Lancelot silly. Lancelot doesn't realize what happened when hedecides his time wakes up and agrees to join Arthur. Things don't turn out so great in this world is over.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Twice -the end...
** The first knight Arthur bests in battle — Sir Uriens, who knights him — winds up being Arthur's lifelong ally, and the first to obey Arthur's order to find the Holy Grail. He ultimately ''dies'' on the quest to find it.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Arthur does this after getting speared by his bastard son Mordred, sliding on the spear and then giving Mordred what for withUryens, later with Lancelot.the titular sword. This is an inversion of the scene in ''Literature/LeMorteDarthur''.
* DeathSeeker: Sir Lancelot. He's more of a defeat seeker than a death seeker though, having traveled around looking for a King who was good enough to beat him and thereby win his fealty. He claims he was CursedWithAwesome.
* DefeatMeansFriendship:
** Lancelot is seeking to serve the man who can best him in combat. Arthur loses to Lancelot, then cheats by using Excalibur's power to knock Lancelot silly. Lancelot doesn't realize what happened when he
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Twice -
** The first knight Arthur bests in battle — Sir Uriens, who knights him — winds up being Arthur's lifelong ally, and the first to obey Arthur's order to find the Holy Grail. He ultimately ''dies'' on the quest to find it.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Arthur does this after getting speared by his bastard son Mordred, sliding on the spear and then giving Mordred what for with
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* DarkIsNotEvil:
** Merlin can be downright creepy but his main goal is to put a good king in charge of England.
** "The Dragon", which is built up as some kind horrible monster, but ultimately isn't. Arthur's fear of it parallels his uncertainty about being King; once he overcomes his fear and "sleeps in the arms of the Dragon", he fully overcomes his doubts and embraces his destiny.
** Merlin can be downright creepy but his main goal is to put a good king in charge of England.
** "The Dragon", which is built up as some kind horrible monster, but ultimately isn't. Arthur's fear of it parallels his uncertainty about being King; once he overcomes his fear and "sleeps in the arms of the Dragon", he fully overcomes his doubts and embraces his destiny.
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* DualWielding: Arthur dual-wields Excalibur and a mace while dueling Lancelot, showing that he's become rather kill-crazy.
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* EmpathicWeapon: Excalibur is treated this way. When Arthur uses the sword to strike down Lancelot in anger, it shatters. Arthur immediately realizes that he made a ''big'' mistake in using the sword to destroy an honorable knight (and Merlin hangs a lampshade on it with his statement "You have broken what could not ''be'' broken."). His admission of that fact allows the Lady of the Lake to repair Excalibur and revive Lancelot.
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* EvilMakesYouUgly: Morgan Le Fay uses the magic she stole from Merlin to keep herself beautiful. When he tricks her to create a fog, her looks deteriorate to show her as an ugly, old woman, so much that her own son strangles her because he couldn't recognize her
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* InsertCameo: The hand that holds Excalibur belongs to John Boorman's daughter Telsche, lying under water.
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* ActionSurvivor: During the battle at Leondegrance's castle, Guenevere manages to fend off a knight with a shield until her father (Leondegrance) can arrive.
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* StormingTheCastle: The knights who oppose Arthur's kingship because of his youth and their distrust of Merlin lay siege to and subsequently attempt to storm the castle of Arthur's ally, Leondegrance.
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* StormingTheCastle: The knights who oppose Arthur's kingship because of his youth and status as a bastard and their distrust of Merlin lay siege to and subsequently attempt to storm the castle of Arthur's ally, Leondegrance.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When Arthur's force is reduced to just him, Percival and Kaye, Lancelot rides in and singlehandedly ''annihilates'' Mordred's army before finally succumbing to an old wound inflicted decades prior.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When Arthur's force is reduced to just him, Percival and Kaye, Kay, Lancelot rides in and singlehandedly ''annihilates'' Mordred's army before finally succumbing to an old wound inflicted decades prior.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When Arthur's force is reduced to just him, Percival and Kaye, Lancelot rides in and singlehandedly ''annihilates'' Mordred's army before finally succumbing to an old wound inflicted decades prior.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Arthur is such a perfect king he respects the rule of law will not arbitrarily break it; this leads to the tragedy of the destruction of his marriage and rise of Mordred by his pained refusal not to defend Guinevere's honour, as by law he has to be judge during the duel.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Arthur is such a perfect king he respects the rule of law and will not arbitrarily break it; this leads to the tragedy of the destruction of his marriage and rise of Mordred by his pained refusal not to defend Guinevere's honour, honor, as by law he has to be judge during the duel.
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** A consequence of having LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters in a two-hours movie. Igraine is a notable example of this, since you could at least assume that many of the knights that go missing were slain in battle. The last we see of Igraine however, is her screaming: "I want my baby!" and urging Uther to go after Merlin. (Though she disappears at that point in the legends too.)
** A very unfortunate example is Arthur's adopted brother Sir Kay, who despite remaining steadfastly loyal, disappears in the final battle. The last we see is him fighting back to back with Arthur and Perceval; then Lancelot appears and Kay disappears. It's jarring as Kay was clearly steadfast in loyalty and love for Arthur throughout the film, and all of a sudden he's gone without comment. (Of course he died, but he doesn't get a death scene of his own like others do.)
*** This is in keeping with both ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'' and ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'', where he appears as major character early on and then just kinda ... goes away, although Kay is in general a steadfast and decent fellow in this film, rather than the boorish jerk he is in other sources.
*** He does get a "pre-death scene" : a conversation with Arthur in which he reveals that Merlin appears to a him in his dreams and told him he would fight valiantly for his brother, strongly implying he will die in battle.
** A very unfortunate example is Arthur's adopted brother Sir Kay, who despite remaining steadfastly loyal, disappears in the final battle. The last we see is him fighting back to back with Arthur and Perceval; then Lancelot appears and Kay disappears. It's jarring as Kay was clearly steadfast in loyalty and love for Arthur throughout the film, and all of a sudden he's gone without comment. (Of course he died, but he doesn't get a death scene of his own like others do.)
*** This is in keeping with both ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'' and ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'', where he appears as major character early on and then just kinda ... goes away, although Kay is in general a steadfast and decent fellow in this film, rather than the boorish jerk he is in other sources.
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** A consequence of having LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters in a two-hours movie. Igraine is a notable example of this, since you could at least assume that many of the knights that go missing were slain in battle. The last we see of Igraine however, is her screaming: "I want my baby!" and urging Uther to go after Merlin. (Though Merlin (though she disappears at that point in the legends too.)
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** A very unfortunate example is Arthur's adopted brother Sir Kay, who despite remaining steadfastlyloyal, loyal disappears in the final battle. The last we see is him fighting back to back with Arthur and Perceval; then Lancelot appears and Kay disappears. It's jarring as Kay was clearly steadfast in loyalty and love for Arthur throughout the film, and all of a sudden he's gone without comment. (Of comment (of course he died, but he doesn't get a death scene of his own like others do.)
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*** This is in keeping with both ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'' and ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'', where he appears as a major character early on and then just kinda ... goes away, although Kay is in general a steadfast and decent fellow in this film, rather than the boorish jerk he is in other sources.
*** He does get a "pre-deathscene" : scene": a conversation with Arthur in which he reveals that Merlin appears to a him in his dreams and told him he would fight valiantly for his brother, strongly implying he will die in battle.
** A very unfortunate example is Arthur's adopted brother Sir Kay, who despite remaining steadfastly
*** This is in keeping with both ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'' and ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'', where he appears as a major character early on and then just kinda ... goes away, although Kay is in general a steadfast and decent fellow in this film, rather than the boorish jerk he is in other sources.
*** He does get a "pre-death
