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  • King Edward's reasoning for using the Warwolf trebuchet on Stirling Castle despite Lord William Oliphant having already surrendered (note that this is historically accurate — according to some accounts, he actually ordered the defenders to go back into the castle just so he'd have someone to use his new toy on).
    Edward: Everyone needs to understand that this surrender is final.
    [beat]
    • And once he's fired his shot and it was a bullseye on the castle wall...
      Edward: Now you can accept the surrender.
  • James Douglas shows up at King Edward I's camp to ask for his lands back, like the other nobles who pledged fealty... even though his father was executed as a rebel and his lands have already been given to one of Edward's men.
    Edward I: You have balls, I'll give you that. Get out of here before I have them removed. [to Valence] Royal decree: I never want to hear the name 'Douglas' again.
    [soldiers laugh]
    • What makes it even funnier, and crosses into Awesome, is that later in the film, while Longshanks is being informed of Robert's Guerilla campaign, the messenger nervously reports that a castle has fallen to a madman who kept screaming the same word: Douglas. Edward's expression is textbook You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
  • After Robert politely declines to consummate his marriage to Elizabeth and bids her goodnight, two servants watch him leave her room.
    Seamus: Well, that was... quick.
    Seamus's Wife: Aye, well, you'd know plenty about that, wouldn't you Seamus?
  • The Funny Background Event as Robert and his father are talking by the fire about how the elder Robert and Edward used to be friends. Marjorie and Elizabeth can be seen in the background playing with metal helmets completely covering their heads, but still wearing their dresses and apparently having a hard time seeing each other with the visors closed.
  • When Robert arrives on Islay, we see his right-hand man Angus be treated as a man welcomed home from the war. The music is swelling up as he lays eyes on his wife and he has the biggest grin on his face and walks up to her so he can- *SLAP!*
    • The music is cut short by the slap, as well, like "What?"
  • Nearly every moment of Douglas hogging the scene to himself would count, if you aren't scared of his antics or in awe of his ballsy demeanor.
    Douglas: WHAT'S MY FOOKIN' NAME?!
  • "I AM SO SICK OF SCOTLAND!"

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