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* LoveAtFirstSight: Averted. [[spoiler:Alan and Julie's relationship seems like this at first but they're really just using each other to escape their problems. Alan secretly loves Linet instead.]]
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* {{Psychopomp}}: The knight with the blackbird shield may function as one for [[spoiler:Billy]].
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Averted. [[spoiler:Alan and Julie's relationship seems like this at first but they're really just using each other to escape their problems.]]
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* TragicHero: Billy
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* RenaissanceFair: The main characters are part of a traveling troupe which holds these.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Alan and Julie's relationship seems like this at first but they're really just using each other to escape their problems.]]

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* LoveAtFirstSight: Averted. [[spoiler:Alan and Julie's relationship seems like this at first but they're really just using each other to escape their problems.]]
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:After an interaction with Punch, Pippin has one of these.
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* ActionGirl: Dame Rocky, who is the sole female jouster in the troupe, is one.
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* MythicalMotifs: Arthurian legends are repeatedly alluded to, through the plot, the "code" which Billy's troupe lives by, and the names of some of the characters.

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* TheLady'sFavour: Julie's necklace serves as this for Alan.

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* TheLady'sFavour: TheLadysFavour: Julie's necklace serves as this for Alan.Alan.
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Alan and Julie's relationship seems like this at first but they're really just using each other to escape their problems.]]
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* LadyAndKnight: Linet and Billy, Julie and Alan, Angie and Morgan, and eventually [[spoiler:Linet and Alan]].
* TheLady'sFavour: Julie's necklace serves as this for Alan.
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* DirtyCop: A police officer demands bribes and beats a prisoner. When [[spoiler:Billy beats him up near the end of the movie]], everyone in the diner cheers.
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* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Pippin]]

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* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Pippin]]For [[spoiler:Pippin]], and possibly also for [[spoiler:Punch]], who isn't revealed to be gay until [[spoiler:he asks Pippin to be his lover]]. He could be openly gay before then. However, he is present during the campfire scene, goes unmentioned, and says nothing, so that seems unlikely.

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* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Pippin]]


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* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Pippin]]
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Angie tries to do this to Pippin.

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* BigYes: Pippin's response to Punch asking him to be his lover, assisted by the still-on microphone.

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* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Pippin]]
* BigYes: Pippin's response to Punch [[spoiler:Punch asking him to be his lover, lover]], assisted by the still-on microphone.
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The movie stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/GaryLahti, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/AmyIngersoll, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.

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The movie film stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/GaryLahti, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/AmyIngersoll, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.

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A 1981 American drama written and directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero that follows a Medieval reenactment troupe as they face struggles with pressure from within and without, including talent agents and their leader's increasing loss of control.

The movie stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.

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[[quoteright:315:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/knightriders_1981.jpeg]]

A 1981 American action drama film written and directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero that follows Creator/GeorgeARomero, following a Medieval reenactment troupe as they face deal with struggles with pressure and pressures from within and without, including talent agents and their leader's increasing loss of control.

The movie stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/GaryLahti, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/AmyIngersoll, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.



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* TheCameo: Creator/StephenKing makes an appearance as "Hoagie Man".
* MotorcycleJousting: The plot is all about a motorcycle jousting ren faire troupe.
* MyHorseIsAMotorbike: The movie is all about a modern biker troupe who act like Arthur's Knights of the round table.

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* BlackKnight: Morgan is explicitly called "the infamous Black Knight" before his joust with Sir Kay, and while not evil, he does want to be King instead of William and is the film's primary antagonist.
* TheCameo: Creator/StephenKing makes an appearance as "Hoagie Man".
Man" and the woman seated next to him is his wife, Tabitha.
* ForeShadowing: The troupe's bard is composing a song, but stops playing when William comes to sit with him, despite William asking him to continue, saying that it's not finished. He promises to play it for him one day, and does, [[spoiler:at William's funeral.]]
->'''William:''' Finish it now.
->'''Bard:''' Huh. Instant song.
* {{Knighting}}: King William gives the accolade to local townsman The Indian, after he acquits himself well during the mêlée
* MotorcycleJousting: The plot is all about a motorcycle jousting ren faire Ren Faire troupe.
* MyHorseIsAMotorbike: The movie is all about a modern biker troupe who act like Arthur's Knights of the round table.Round Table.



* OneWordTitle: ''Knightriders''.
* {{Tagline}}: "From the Master of Action and Suspense!".

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* OneWordTitle: ''Knightriders''.
''Knightriders.''
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:after Morgan wins the grand tournament for the kingship, William removes the crown from his own head and places it on Morgan's. Then Linnet hands hers to Morgan, who crowns Angie with it.]]
* {{Tagline}}: "From the Master of Action and Suspense!".
Suspense!"
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* BigYes: Pippin's response to Punch asking him to be his lover, assisted by the still-on microphone.
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* TheCameo: Creator/StephenKing makes an appearance as "Hoagie Man".
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The movie stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.

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The movie stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/Creator/ChristineForrest, Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.
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* MyHorseIsAMotorcycle: The movie is all about a modern biker troupe who act like Arthur's Knights of the round table.

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* MyHorseIsAMotorcycle: MyHorseIsAMotorbike: The movie is all about a modern biker troupe who act like Arthur's Knights of the round table.
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A 1981 American drama written and directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero that follows a Medieval reenactment troupe as they face struggles with pressure from within and without, including talent agents and their leader's increasing loss of control.

The movie stars Creator/EdHarris, Creator/JohnAmplas, Creator/TomSavini, Creator/PatriciaTallman, Creator/BrotherBlue, Creator/KenForee, Creator/ScottReiniger, Creator/MartinFerrero, Creator/WarnerShook, Creator/MichaelPMoran, Creator/Creator/ChristineForrest, and Creator/DonaldRubinstein.

It was released on April 10, 1981.

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* MotorcycleJousting: The plot is all about a motorcycle jousting ren faire troupe.
* MyHorseIsAMotorcycle: The movie is all about a modern biker troupe who act like Arthur's Knights of the round table.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Julia becomes a victim of this trope when she is seen naked after having sex with Alan in the forest at night. When she realizes she's being seen by the group's Friar Tuck, she has a very subdued almost too stunned to react NakedFreakout as her shame is PlayedForLaughs.
* OneWordTitle: ''Knightriders''.
* {{Tagline}}: "From the Master of Action and Suspense!".

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