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  • Awesome Music: "Where The Truth Lies". There's even a four-minute version!
  • Complete Monster:
    • "The Walls of Tyranny": Baron Frederick von Holsing manages to outdo even recurring villains with his greed and lack of regard for human life. Von Holsing is a noble in the kingdom of Kengary, which has been at war with a neighboring nation for as long as anyone can remember. When King Ian, Frederick's uncle, makes inroads to initiate a lasting peace, Frederick murders him to frame their enemies and keep the war going. It is revealed that Frederick intends to prolong the war indefinitely so he can take men, women and children as slaves to work to death in his private mines for his personal profit. When Valiant uncovers the plot, Frederick attempts to murder his friends, send Valiant to his mines and kidnap Valiant's female comrade Rowanne with the threat of making her his. Vain, selfish and greedy, Frederick von Holsing stands as the worst representative of nobility in all the series.
    • "The Sage" & "The Rings of Truth": Sage Advisor Selena is the Treacherous Advisor to King Michael of the North. She engineers a civil war, which causes the deaths of several hundred people, to arrange a better puppet figurehead to become king. She also conspires to murder an infant, frames Rowanne for a crime which makes her leave Camelot in disgrace, and turns an invention of peace into a war weapon in an attempt to frame Merlin for a crime. Vain, with no loyalties to anyone but herself, Selena surpassed the Mordred in terms of monstrosity.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Robby Benson and Paige O'Hara lend their voices to the Official Couple Valiant and Aleta. They would play lovers in a future project, a little movie called Beauty and the Beast.
  • Older Than They Think: Mordred having no blood relation to Arthur was previously done in the 1953 film Knights of the Round Table. It even features Mordred and Morgan as lovers. It goes even farther back with that since initially there was no relation between Arthur and Mordred stated in the legend.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.: from King of Camelot to Bruce Wayne's butler.

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