Ruber travelled to Central Asia before returning to England
Taking into account the time skip between the prologue and the rest of the movie, Ruber definitely traveled a lot throughout Eurasia. The barbarian horde he took control of looks vaguely Central Asian (and his pet griffin is ultimately a creature from Iranian mythology). That would also explain why his barbarian minions are almost voiceless: they know little to no Gaelic (or whatever Celtic language the main cast speaks). On the other hand, their leader learned their language long enough to talk to them as fluently as to the heroes. That said, it's kind of baffling they are shown riding boars instead of
horses.
Ruber serves the cause of the Chaos Gods from Warhammer.
One could easily make this connection by looking at how his "Mechanical Army" is created—-shades of Khorne. He wants to replace Camelot's peace with eternal war. In other words, "Blood for the blood god!"
Kayley is an ancestor of
Belle.
Belle could almost pass as Kayley's
identical descendant. Seriously, look at their faces and
not think
Strong Family Resemblance. As for why Belle is in France, one of Kayley's descendants before Belle moved to France for whatever reason.
- King Arthur has French roots, so perhaps Kayley still has family back in France.
The Knights of the Round Table are communist warlords.
"Each of us will now divide, in equal shares our countryside."
Ruber has a plan.
It includes you.
Look at the two King Arthurs. The king who Kayley is fighting for looks quite a bit like Graham Chapman, doesn't he? And Merlin doesn't look unlike Tim the Enchanter. Think about it. The singing at Camelot. The insanity of the whole movie. Ruber's helmet even resembles that of the Knights Who Say Ni. The swamp that Kayley meets Garret in is the "bloody swamp" that the Swamp Castle was build over (it sank again).
- Oh god! it all makes sense now!
- Eric Idle voices Devon. 'Nuff said.
- Alternatively, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the sequel to Quest for Camelot, if you buy that King Arthur already had a couple of knights back in Camelot already (which is assumed in Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
- Which means the King of Swamp Castle hasn't even started building his castles yet, the Knights of Ni are basically remnants of Ruber's forces, and Merlin retired from Arthur's court, disguised himself and gave himself the fake name of Tim.
The bad guys locked up Bladebeak's wife for a reason.
She's a chicken, they're a bunch of hedonistic gluttonous bad guys, and they're about to go somewhere that involves large banquets and giant tables. Don't get it? They were going to
cook and eat her to celebrate their victory. Bladebeak found out
and this became the straw that broke the camel's back.
The entire "If I Didn't Have You" sequence was all in Garret's head.
C'mon. It's hard to believe Kayley wouldn't pay attention to all the flashy stuff going on, or at least
lampshade it afterwards. In reality, Devon and Cornwall were just singing the song itself, acting it out. All those flashy things and the mysterious background-music appearing were just in Garret's head. His imagination sprung loose and so the scene happened such as we saw it. It also explains why he didn't want any more songs: being used to seeing the world as a person living in medieval times, all those flashy, crazy things going on was too much for him. He didn't want his imagination to run amok again.
- Oh my God...
- Given that the man can't see, and therefore probably has a bit of an active imagination to compensate... there are certainly stranger theories.
The magic that killed Ruber was acting out of mercy.
Thanks to the potion that Ruber had used to make sure that Excalibur would never be taken from him, it kept spinning at his arm. When Ruber was tricked into stabbing the stone with the sword, he had doomed himself into spinning around the stone for the rest of his life or until someone who could remove Excalibur from the stone did so.
Ruber was one of Uther's knights originally
Or one of Ambrosius Aurelianus'. If he had been one of Vortigern's, he'd likely be dead by the start of the movie. Arthur probably only made him a knight of the Round Table because Ruber had served Arthur's father and before that his uncle faithfully, as long as he was repaid with new land that is.
Lionel was planning to marry Garret to Kayley
If you're a knight and you have a rambunctious daughter like Kayley, you're going to be worried about her getting into trouble. He also doesn't have any other children (no sons) so he might also be concerned about his legacy and family's standing. This is the Medieval European period we're talking about, after all. So he takes in this blind stableboy and trains him/molds him into a model knight, who he can trust with these precious things.
Garret never speaks of his parents, so Lionel might have been a Parental Substitute in addition to The Mentor. No one would think it odd for his protégé to wed his only daughter, and between Garret's Knight in Shining Armor nature (since he wouldn't go sour from Lionel's death) and his own encouragement, the two would likely hit it off quickly. He might even have planned for them to meet after the celebration in Camelot.
- If Lionel really wanted to help both children achieve their dreams as Knights of the Round Table (and the film never gives any indication that Lionel didn't mean to honor his promises to them or give his support,) Kayley and Garrett meeting as children and eventually marrying would still work into that as both would have something working against them (Garrett's blindness and, though only really implied, Kayley's gender,) so having each other either as a romantic partner or Just Friends would help lighten the burdens they'd face. Given how fast they fall in love during the events of the film and how well Lionel knew each of them as children, he'd probably be very confident that a Childhood Friend Romance would have resulted from their meeting (and damn if picturing Kiddos Kayley and Garrett together isn't an overload of adorableness in itself).
Organic beings go into the liquid suffused with the potion, and mechanical creatures come out, infused with weaponry and beyond human level capabilities. The potion seems to have the general ability to meld human and metal pieces, which matches up nicely with Phyrexian Oil. It's not all that improbable that the "merchant" who sold Ruber the potion was hoping for this kind of an outcome. Of course, since this stuff is now going around, and how Phyrexians tend to get involved in worlds, the problems of this world are only beginning. Further proof in Ruber after exposure to the potion / oil (likely a stronger dose owing to direct exposure rather than diluted in a well) ending up more insane than before, and the holy magic (typically the domain of White) of the Stone violently deconstructing Ruber, who had infused himself with the potion to combine his arm with Excalibur. In Magic lore, a catalyst like Excalibur + a potent source of White Magic = one very dead Phyrexian. The magic was then able to revert his underlings and the chicken before the change became more permanent.
Mordred is a relative of Ruber.
Ruber's minions are either Picts or Saxons
Given the Arthurian setting, Picts or Saxons would make sense with the former being most likely with their lack of dress being closest to a G-rated portrayal of the belief that the Picts fought naked, although Roman art depicts otherwise.
Garrett is Sir Kay's bastard child.
For no other reason than the Deadpan Snarker tendencies check out.
Threads is supposed to be the film's alternate timeline in the present future where Ruber
won.
His victory of conquering Camelot, resulted in him completely taking over all of Britain, which in turn affecting the timeline, thus causing the modern day United Kingdom to be vulnerable to the collapse of civilization by nuclear war.
In the end, Ruber sings his same song again, but this time, sing of his triumphant over the heroes and enjoying being a harsh ruler.
The dress Kayley was being fitted for was so she could meet a suitor.
Except Julianna didn't tell her that knowing Kayley would object to being married off as it would have interfered with her dream of being a knight, so she passed it off as meeting some old friends and their son who happened to be Kayley's age or near enough that Kayley wouldn't think them being pushed together being strange.
Kayley is going to be the next ruler of Camelot after Arthur.
