Basic Trope: A character is introduced as a younger foil to a main, older character.
- Straight: Adam is an old and experienced knight that one day meets Bertram, a young newbie knight that acts much like he used to.
- Exaggerated: Bertram is a young child who wants to be a knight, and reminds Adam of how he used to be as a child.
- Downplayed: Bertram is a few years younger than Adam, but has noticeably more unpolished skills and mind than him.
- Justified:
- Bertram tries to mirror Adam's public image from back when he was younger and more reckless.
- Bertram is a student at the Westham School of Knighthood… Adam's old school, you know.
- Inverted: Adam meets Carlos, an Older and Wiser version of himself.
- Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied: Bertram is a baby that reminds Adam of when he was a baby.
- Zig Zagged:
- Averted: Adam doesn't meet anyone younger than him.
- Enforced: The viewers have accompanied Adam's growth from a newbie and Strong, but Unskilled knight to the Older and Wiser, experienced knight he has become in the current arc, so the writers decide to add Bertram to the plot to remind the viewers of how far he has come by.
- Lampshaded: "Bertram, you remind me a lot of myself when I was younger: reckless, proud and impatient."
- Invoked:
- Exploited:
- Defied:
- Discussed:
- Conversed: "Man, Bertram reminds me a lot of Adam back in the first season. Remember that?"
- Played for Laughs: People constantly mention that Bertram is a younger version of Adam and suspect that he is some sort of secret lovechild of Adam with an unknown woman.
- Played for Drama: Adam is not in the position he dreamed of when he was in Bertram's age, and sees that Bertram has the same dreams that Adam had in his age. This makes Adam feel like he achieved less than what he actually has and that he wasted his youth.
