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* AttackAttackAttack: Conan, now in command of an army and with more than his own life to consider, does not adhere to this philosophy. Count Thespides, leader of the Khorajan knights, does. No points for guessing how well that works out for him.
* BadWithABone: Conan smites a would-be deserter with a beef-bone he'd been gnawing on. Then draws his sword and states anyone else who doesn't hold rank gets OffWithHisHead.
* BadWithABone: Conan smites a would-be deserter with a beef-bone he'd been gnawing on. Then draws his sword and states anyone else who doesn't hold rank gets OffWithHisHead.
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'''Yasmela''': To Koth or to Hades! If you will not serve me as I wish, you shall nit serve me at all.
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'''Yasmela''': To Koth or to Hades! If you will not serve me as I wish, you shall nit not serve me at all.
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-->'''Yasmela''': Count Thespides, you have [[TheLadysFavor my glove under your baldric.]] Please give it to me, then go.\\
'''Thespides''': Go? Go where?\\
'''Yasmela''': To Koth or to Hades! If you will not serve me as I wish, you shall nit serve me at all.
-->'''Yasmela''': Count Thespides, you have [[TheLadysFavor my glove under your baldric.]] Please give it to me, then go.\\
'''Thespides''': Go? Go where?\\
'''Yasmela''': To Koth or to Hades! If you will not serve me as I wish, you shall nit serve me at all.
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* DivineIntervention: Yasmela, on the urging of one of her handmaidens, goes to a shrine of Mitra to seek advice. Not being a follower of that god particularly, Yasmela is unclear how to proceed with a prayer, but Mitra speaks before she can puzzle it out. He tells her to go into the city, and entrust the fate of her kingdom to the first man she meets. Of course, the first man she meets is Conan. Yasmela is very perturbed (at least initially) by Mitra's idea of "intervention."
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* DaylightHorror: Shevatas explores the abominably creepy tomb of Thugra Khotan in broad daylight. [[spoiler:Neither this nor his other preparations do him a bit of good.]]
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* AboveTheInfluence: when Yasmela, terrified by Natohk's nightmares, comes to Conan for comfort, he merely gives her a ComfortingComforter and stands watch over her throughout the night.
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** Natohk is himself the victim of this, as he is more focused on having Yasmela than on his plans for conquest. This is further emphasised in the Dark Horse comic adaptation, where, during a critical moment in the battle, his demon servant points out that with Conan and the Khorajan army occupied, Natohk can simply take the remainder of his horde around the plateau and through the pass, with Khoraja and the lands beyond ripe for the taking. He promptly ignores this advice, to fatal results.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Thugra Khotan, towards Yasmela.
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* ShroudedInMyth: Thugra Khotan, a an Acheronian/Stygian king-sorcerer three thousand years ago.
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* ShroudedInMyth: Thugra Khotan, a an Acheronian/Stygian king-sorcerer three thousand years ago.
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* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: A funny moment where Yasmela unveils the new commander of her forces to her counsellors, right at the moment when Conan is sprawled in a chair and tearing into a meat-bone with his teeth. The counsellors change their tune [[HeCleansUpNicely once they see Conan in his new officer's armour]], though.
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* TheBerserker: The horde acts as a mass of this
* BlingBlingBang: A jewel-hilted sword
* TheChainsOfCommanding
* TheChase: After Yasmela is abducted
* CoolMask: The villain is even called the Veiled One
* DamselInDistress: Yasmela
* DistractedByTheSexy: A gender-inverted example. Shortly after meeting Conan, Princess Yasmela is surprised to find herself feeling twinges of lust and desire towards the barbarian.
* BlingBlingBang: A jewel-hilted sword
* TheChainsOfCommanding
* TheChase: After Yasmela is abducted
* CoolMask: The villain is even called the Veiled One
* DamselInDistress: Yasmela
* DistractedByTheSexy: A gender-inverted example. Shortly after meeting Conan, Princess Yasmela is surprised to find herself feeling twinges of lust and desire towards the barbarian.
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* TheBerserker: The Natohk's horde acts as are berserkers, charging an army in a mass of this
defended position in massive human wave attacks.
* BlingBlingBang:A jewel-hilted sword
Shevatas the thief, in the prologue, carries a bejewelled blade that he's poisoned.
*TheChainsOfCommanding
TheChainsOfCommanding: When Conan shows caution in the battle at the pass and refuses to be drawn into a trap, Amalric notes that he'd be the first to charge if he was still a simple mercenary. Conan notes that's because he would be responsible only for his own life in that case, but now he has an army and country to defend.
* TheChase: After Yasmela isabducted
abducted by Natohk in his chariot, Conan gives chase on horseback.
* CoolMask: The villain is even called the VeiledOne
One.
* DamselInDistress:Yasmela
Yasmela, at the end.
* DistractedByTheSexy:A gender-inverted example. Shortly after meeting Conan, Princess Yasmela is surprised to find herself feeling twinges of lust and desire towards the barbarian.
* BlingBlingBang:
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* TheChase: After Yasmela is
* CoolMask: The villain is even called the Veiled
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* FogOfDoom: The Evil Sorcerer uses it to block line-of-sight
* GladToBeAliveSex: Yasmela insists
* TheHorde: Consisting of thirty tribes
* KillItWithFire: A wall of fire, used on charging knights
* TheLadysFavour: Knights carry them
* MagicWand
* MarsNeedsWomen: The EldritchAbomination wants Yasmela
* PerpetualMotionMonster: A snake in a 3000 year old tomb
* RescueSex: Yasmela throws herself at Conan and demands it immediately on being rescued
* GladToBeAliveSex: Yasmela insists
* TheHorde: Consisting of thirty tribes
* KillItWithFire: A wall of fire, used on charging knights
* TheLadysFavour: Knights carry them
* MagicWand
* MarsNeedsWomen: The EldritchAbomination wants Yasmela
* PerpetualMotionMonster: A snake in a 3000 year old tomb
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* FogOfDoom: The Evil Sorcerer uses it to block line-of-sight
line-of-sight as his army approaches Conan's.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Conan's Amalric notes that he's seen actual kings wear fine armour less nobly than Conan, it's noted that Conan would remember he said that in years to come, after he gained his own throne. Not foreshadowing at the time, since the first Conan story was a "Conan the King" -era story, but is nowadays since most collections arrange the stories chronologically.
* GladToBeAliveSex: Yasmelainsists
insists, at the end.
* TheHorde: Consisting of thirtytribes
tribes.
* KillItWithFire:A Natohk summons wall of fire, used using it on the rashly charging knights
knights.
* TheLadysFavour:Knights carry them
The knights in Conan's army are all mentioned as carrying them.
*MagicWand
MagicWand: Natohk uses the classic "also turns into a snake" version.
* MarsNeedsWomen: The EldritchAbomination wantsYasmela
Yasmela.
* PerpetualMotionMonster:A The snake in a 3000 that guards Thugra Khotan's three thousand year old tomb
tomb.
* RescueSex: Yasmela throws herself at Conanand demands it immediately on being rescuedrescued.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Conan's Amalric notes that he's seen actual kings wear fine armour less nobly than Conan, it's noted that Conan would remember he said that in years to come, after he gained his own throne. Not foreshadowing at the time, since the first Conan story was a "Conan the King" -era story, but is nowadays since most collections arrange the stories chronologically.
* GladToBeAliveSex: Yasmela
* TheHorde: Consisting of thirty
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* ShroudedInMyth: Thugra Khotan
* AStormIsComing: Part of the warning
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The comic adaptation is the page picture for this trope.
* TreasureRoom
* VaguenessIsComing: the prophecied coming
* WasOnceAMan: the EldritchAbomination
* AStormIsComing: Part of the warning
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The comic adaptation is the page picture for this trope.
* TreasureRoom
* VaguenessIsComing: the prophecied coming
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* ShroudedInMyth: Thugra Khotan
Khotan, a king-sorcerer three thousand years ago.
* AStormIsComing: Part of thewarning
warning of the army's approach. At first they think it's a storm, before they realise it's an eldritch fog.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Conan finishes Khotan by [[KilledMidSentence throwing his sword through him, mid-sentence.]] The comic adaptation is the page picture for this trope.
*TreasureRoom
* VaguenessIsComing: the prophecied coming
TreasureRoom: Khotan's tomb
* WasOnceAMan: theEldritchAbominationEldritchAbomination.
* AStormIsComing: Part of the
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Conan finishes Khotan by [[KilledMidSentence throwing his sword through him, mid-sentence.]] The comic adaptation is the page picture for this trope.
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* VaguenessIsComing: the prophecied coming
* WasOnceAMan: the
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Princess Yasmela has been having terrible nightmares about a large black shadowy figure, who claims he is coming for her. To make matters worse, out in the desert, [[ThereAreNoCoincidences a dark figure]] has been uniting the scattered tribes and conquering towns; soon they will be at the city gates! Action must be taken, and, after receiving advice from her patron god, she goes looking for someone to lead her forces to victory against the evil hordes. And who should happen to be there but Conan?
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Princess Yasmela has been having terrible nightmares about a large black shadowy figure, who claims he is coming for her. To make matters worse, out in the desert, [[ThereAreNoCoincidences a dark figure]] has been uniting the scattered tribes and conquering towns; ravaging the countryside, and soon they will be at the city gates! Action must be taken, and, after receiving advice from her patron god, she goes looking for someone to lead her forces to victory against the evil hordes. And who should happen to be there but Conan?
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Princess Yasmela has been having terrible nightmares about a large black shadowy figure, who claims he is coming for her. To make matters worse, out in the desert, [[ThereAreNoCoincidences a dark figure]] has been uniting the scattered tribes and conquering cities, and towns; soon they are making a bee line for her city! will be at the city gates! Action must be taken, and, after receiving advice from her patron god, she goes looking for someone to lead her forces to victory against the evil hordes. And who should happen to be there but Conan?
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Colossus Black Colossus]]" is a Literature/ConanTheBarbarian story by Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in June, 1933.
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Colossus Black Colossus]]" is a Literature/ConanTheBarbarian Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story by Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in June, 1933.
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Colossus Black Colossus]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian Literature/ConanTheBarbarian story by Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in June, 1933.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The comic adaptation is the page picture for this trope.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A gender-inverted example. Shortly after meeting Conan, Princess Yasmela is surprised to find herself feeling twinges of lust and desire towards the barbarian.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Yasmela's brotherbrother is the chief subject matter of the opening discussion -- and dropped right after.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Yasmela. Very hard to maintain her position, especially when this barbarian attracts her.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Yasmela. Very hard to maintain her position, especially when this barbarian attracts her.
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-->''"Whence came Natohk?" rose the Shemite's vibrant whisper. "Out of the desert on a night when the world was blind and wild with mad clouds driven in frenzied flight across the shuddering stars, and the howling of the wind was mingled with the shrieking of the spirits of the wastes. Vampires were abroad that night, witches rode naked on the wind, and werewolves howled across the wilderness. On a black camel he came, riding like the wind, and an unholy fire played about him; the cloven tracks of the camel glowed in the darkness. When Natohk dismounted before Set's shrine by the oasis of Aphaka, the beast swept into the night and vanished. And I have talked with tribesmen who swore that it suddenly spread gigantic wings and rushed upwards into the clouds, leaving a trail of fire behind it. No man has seen that camel since that night, but a black brutish manlike shape shambles to Natohk's tent and gibbers to him in the blackness before dawn."''
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-->''"Whence came Natohk?" rose the Shemite's vibrant whisper. "Out of the desert on a night when the world was blind and wild with mad clouds driven in frenzied flight across the shuddering stars, and the howling of the wind was mingled with the shrieking of the spirits of the wastes. Vampires were abroad that night, witches rode naked on the wind, and werewolves howled across the wilderness. On a black camel he came, riding like the wind, and an unholy fire played about him; the cloven tracks of the camel glowed in the darkness. When Natohk dismounted before Set's shrine by the oasis of Aphaka, the beast swept into the night and vanished. And I have talked with tribesmen who swore that it suddenly spread gigantic wings and rushed upwards into the clouds, leaving a trail of fire behind it. No man has seen that camel since that night, but a black brutish manlike shape shambles to Natohk's tent and gibbers to him in the blackness before dawn."''
"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Colossus Black Colossus]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian story by RobertEHoward. First published in June, 1933.
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!!Tropes featured
* TheBerserker: The horde acts as a mass of this
* BlingBlingBang: A jewel-hilted sword
* TheChainsOfCommanding
* TheChase: After Yasmela is abducted
* CoolMask: The villain is even called the Veiled One
* DamselInDistress: Yasmela
* EvilSorcerer
* FogOfDoom: The Evil Sorcerer uses it to block line-of-sight
* GladToBeAliveSex: Yasmela insists
* TheHorde: Consisting of thirty tribes
* KillItWithFire: A wall of fire, used on charging knights
* TheLadysFavour: Knights carry them
* MagicWand
* MarsNeedsWomen: The EldritchAbomination wants Yasmela
* PerpetualMotionMonster: A snake in a 3000 year old tomb
* RescueSex: Yasmela throws herself at Conan and demands it immediately on being rescued
* ShroudedInMyth: Thugra Khotan
* AStormIsComing: Part of the warning
* TreasureRoom
* VaguenessIsComing: the prophecied coming
* WasOnceAMan: the EldritchAbomination
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Yasmela's brother
* YourWorstNightmare: Yasmela denies this trope, knowing that her lady in waiting will assume it's true; she really was awake when the apparition -- an EldritchAbomination StalkerWithACrush -- menaced her.
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Colossus Black Colossus]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian story by RobertEHoward. First published in June, 1933.
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!!Tropes featured
* TheBerserker: The horde acts as a mass of this
* BlingBlingBang: A jewel-hilted sword
* TheChainsOfCommanding
* TheChase: After Yasmela is abducted
* CoolMask: The villain is even called the Veiled One
* DamselInDistress: Yasmela
* EvilSorcerer
* FogOfDoom: The Evil Sorcerer uses it to block line-of-sight
* GladToBeAliveSex: Yasmela insists
* TheHorde: Consisting of thirty tribes
* KillItWithFire: A wall of fire, used on charging knights
* TheLadysFavour: Knights carry them
* MagicWand
* MarsNeedsWomen: The EldritchAbomination wants Yasmela
* PerpetualMotionMonster: A snake in a 3000 year old tomb
* RescueSex: Yasmela throws herself at Conan and demands it immediately on being rescued
* ShroudedInMyth: Thugra Khotan
* AStormIsComing: Part of the warning
* TreasureRoom
* VaguenessIsComing: the prophecied coming
* WasOnceAMan: the EldritchAbomination
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Yasmela's brother
* YourWorstNightmare: Yasmela denies this trope, knowing that her lady in waiting will assume it's true; she really was awake when the apparition -- an EldritchAbomination StalkerWithACrush -- menaced her.
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