History Film / OutlawKing

** No-one at the time, not even the English would have thought England had the strongest army in the world. Only after the stunning victories in the Hundred Years War over France would that thought have crossed anyone's mind.

It tells the story of UsefulNotes/RobertTheBruce, who transforms from defeated nobleman to outlaw hero during the oppressive occupation of [[TheHighMiddleAges early 14th century]] UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} by the English under the rule of [[UsefulNotes/EdwardTheFirst Edward I]]. Despite grave consequences, Robert seizes the Scottish crown and rallies an impassioned group of men to fight back against the mighty army of the tyrannical king of England and his volatile son Edward, the Prince of Wales.

It tells the story of UsefulNotes/RobertTheBruce, who transforms from defeated nobleman to outlaw hero during the oppressive occupation of [[TheHighMiddleAges early 14th century]] UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} by [[UsefulNotes/EdwardTheFirst Edward I]]. Despite grave consequences, Robert seizes the Scottish crown and rallies an impassioned group of men to fight back against the mighty army of the tyrannical king of England and his volatile son Edward, the Prince of Wales.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The historical events that are depicted mostly come directly after those of ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', some time between the execution of William Wallace in 1305 and the battle of Bannockburn (which concluded the latter film after a TimeSkip) in 1314. Robert the Bruce became king of Scotland in 1306. Although ''Outlaw King'' aims at ''much less'' ArtisticLicenseHistory than ''Braveheart''.

* AgeGapRomance: Robert is visibly older than his new wife Elizabeth. In RealLife, the Bruce was ten years older than his wife, who was eighteen when they married.

* OverprotectiveDad: Played for Laughs with Angus [=MacDonald=]. Douglas charms one of his daughters, which causes him to threaten to [[FreudianThreat cut off his balls and use them for bait]]. Douglas responds by [[{{Troll}} playfully kissing him, and later charming his other daughter]].

* LetThePastBurn: Part of the Bruce army's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevauch%C3%A9e chevauchée]]'' strategy, wherein to deny the occupying English resources, they not only [[RapePillageAndBurn took over the castles but stripped them of resources then burning them]]. Douglas was notable for doing and invoking this to ''his'' family castle: after massacring the English garrison, [[BreadAndCircuses he gave away their festive food and his family wealth to the occupied Scottish population]], [[HundredPercentAdorationRating netting their support for the Bruce cause]].

** Creator/JamesCosmo, in addition to serving in a parental role as Robert's father (compared to [[Series/GameOfThrones being Jon Snow's]] ParentalSubstitute in the Night's Watch), also happened to be one of the notable cast members who were previously in ''Film/Braveheart''.

* CastingGag: Creator/StephenDillane's turn as the grim, duty-bound [[UsefulNotes/EdwardTheFirst Edward I]] is almost a beat-for-beat CallBack to one of his [[Series/GameOfThrones highest-profile]] roles.

* SpeedSex: Robert doesn't consummate his marriage with Elizabeth de Burgh on their wedding night. As he leaves her room, a servant remarks that it was quick. The servant's wife then snarks that he "knows an awful lot about that". [[spoiler:[[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged a bit]] when Robert and Elizabeth finally, [[TheyDo actually consummate it]]: while it is definitely designed to be more tender and lingering, the entire scene clearly lasted below 5 minutes]].