Robin of Loxley (Robin Hood)
Played by: Cary Elwes
Dubbed in French By: Emmanuel Curtil
Our protagonist, a crusader fighting in the Holy Land who comes home to England only to find his family is dead and his house and land have been taken away. He turns outlaw against the usurper Prince John and the corrupt Sheriff of Rottingham to reclaim his stolen property.
- Deadpan Snarker: Robin rarely misses a chance to make a dry quip at the idiocy unfolding around him.
- Handsome Lech: He flirts with Maid Marian the first chance he gets.
- The Hero: The crusader of Sherwood fighting to free the people from the tyranny of Prince John.
- Honor Before Reason: Particularly in the fight against Little John, when Ahchoo makes the logical point that the "river" John is guarding the bridge over is a little stream he can easily step over. Hits him again in the climax. Despite being warned of Prince John's trap by Marian, he still goes to the archery tournament to prove his skills before the kingdom.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Robin manages to pin a soldier to a tree with six perfectly placed arrows that he fired in a row down his bow all at once. Of course, the film being an Affectionate Parody of Robin Hood legends, this is Played for Laughs.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: We never actually see Robin doing the "steal from the rich and give it to the poor" that made Robin Hood famous in the first place.
- Rousing Speech: He constantly attempts these, only to get interrupted or find out that nobody is listening.
- Straight Man: Most of the movie is Cary Elwes acting like a legitimate swashbuckling hero, despite the fact that his world and everyone else in it is a ludicrous parody. (And, of course, he's straight. Just, merry.)
Prince John
Played by: Richard Lewis
Dubbed in French By: Jacques Frantz
King Richard's brother, who took the opportunity to usurp the throne while the king was away fighting in the Crusades.
- Bad News in a Good Way: Trope Namer. He hates getting bad news, so he orders the Sheriff to give it to him "in a good way." The Sheriff's subsequent to tell him about Robin's rebellion while laughing just makes John even angrier.
- Big Bad: He's the primary antagonist of the movie.
- Dirty Coward: He's a whiny spoiled brat who's afraid of combat.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He relies heavily on the sheriff on Rottingham and the guards to protect him. At the end of the film when those are taken care of, he's subdued without a fight.
The Sheriff of Rottingham
Played by: Roger Rees
Dubbed in French By: Patrick Poivey
The sheriff of Rottingham who acts as Prince John's right hand man.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Despite everything he's done, the cast are horrified when he accidentally impales himself on Robin's sword.
- Ankle Drag: In his final scene a gleeful Latrine grabs him by the ankles and drags him away.
- Angrish: Very prone to this. Unlike most examples, he flips words (or syllables) instead of just making them up.
- Bloodless Carnage: Takes a whole sword through his body and nothing on the blade.
- Draft Dodging: His father got him into the National Guard so he would not have to fight in the Crusades.
- The Dragon: To Prince John as his right-hand enforcer.
- Embarrassing First Name: Mervyn.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's just "the Sheriff" for most of the film. Justified due to his Embarrassing First Name that he clearly hates.
- Fate Worse than Death: He's forced to agree to be with Latrine for the rest of his life in order to be saved from his injury. He quickly changes his mind once he has a moment to think it over without the pain of his injury.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He gets mortally injured when Robin accidentally stabs him through the stomach. He gets saved by Latrine, but only because he (begrudgingly) agreed to be hers for the rest of his life.
- Just You and Me and My GUARDS!: Trope Namer when Robin challenges him at the banquet and he summons the guards and runs away.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He's the Abhorrent Admirer of Maid Marian and threatens Robin in order to force her into marrying him. Later, after being struck a mortal blow, he agrees to his own Abhorrent Admirer Latrine's ultimatum of marriage in return for saving his life.
- Laughably Evil: The villain's main heavy, but he's just so impossible to consider a threat.
- Malaproper: Has a problem saying his words properly when upset."Sir! Struckey has loxed again!"
- Oh, Crap!: When he realizes he has to marry Latrine.
- Smug Snake: He remains eternally confident that Robin and his men will die at his hands.
- Spoonerism: Prone to making these when he gets angry."He has deered to kill a king's dare!"note
- Trilling Rs: Occasionally.
- Teeny Weenie: Implied. "It's not the size that counts...It's how you use it!"
- Ugly Spouse Sentence: After being revived by Latrine, she hauls him off to marry him, much to his chagrin. This is meant to be comeuppance for his villainy.
Maid Marian
Played by: Amy Yasbeck
Dubbed in French By: Marie Vincent, Benedicte Lecroat (singing voice)
Robin Hood's love interest.
- Godiva Hair: When she gets out of the bathtub in her first scene, her hair covers her cleavage.
- Got Over Rape Instantly: The Sheriff of Nottingham drags her off to a tower and throws her on a bed with every intent of sexually assaulting her (damn that chastity belt, though!) After being saved by Robin, she's eager to continue — on the same bed! — when he puts the moves on her, though Broomhilde catches them before they get too far.
- Ms. Fanservice: She’s naked in her bathtub scene and when her madriff is shown and is barefooted in the climax.
- Neutral Female: To an almost painful degree during the film's climax.
- Smarter Than You Look: Smart enough to sneak out the back and warn Robin of danger. Not that he actually took her advice.
- Virgin Tension: Downplayed if not outright subverted by her chastity belt. She's just as annoyed by it as everyone else.
Ahchoo
Played by: Dave Chappelle
Dubbed in French By: Lionel Henry
An exchange student to England from the Holy Land. He became fast friends with Robin.
- Anachronism Stew: He wears pump-up sneakers and his cocked hat has a snapback like a baseball cap.
- Deadpan Snarker: Robin's accomplice in pointing out the stupidity of everyone else.
- The Lancer: Robin's right-hand aid and first ally in his war against Prince John.
- Malcolm Xerox: In his speech, complete with Malcolm's iconic glasses.
- Meta Guy: He made many wisecracking comments along the story which lampshaded many tropes being played in the movie.
- Only Sane Man: Comes across as this, especially when trying to persuade Robin to avoid fighting Little John and hop across the truly pathetic stream.
- Punny Name: Given his father is "Asneeze" (Azeem in Prince of Thieves), that's where Ahchoo gets his name.
- Tenor Boy: Thanks to Dave Chappelle.
- Token Black Friend: One of only two black characters in the film; his role is to be Robin's lancer.
- Uncle Tomfoolery: Parodied.
- Unfortunate Names: Whenever his name is mentioned, someone will inevitably respond with "bless you."
Blinkin
Played by: Mark Blankfield
Dubbed in French By: Michel Papineschi
Robin's blind manservant.
- Blind Mistake: Arguably the entire point of his character is to make these.
- Butt-Monkey: He tends to suffer from falls and makes other mistakes such as attacking wood.
- Disability Superpower: He's able to catch the arrow fired at Robin, claiming he could hear it coming a mile away.
- Handicapped Badass: He's a ridiculously fast and persistent swordsman, is rather durable as well, and seems to have disability superpowers. If he could actually see, Blinkin would likely have liberated England by himself.
- Punny Name: From "Duncan" in Prince of Thieves, made into an eyesight pun.
Little John
Played by: Eric Allan Kramer
Dubbed in French By: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
A big guy who joined Robin in his quest after he was defeated by him.
- The Big Guy: His main trait is how huge and strong he is.
- Captain Obvious: "Don't let my name fool you. In real life, I'm very big."
- Defeat Means Friendship: He joins Robin's group after being defeated and saved by Robin.
- Gentle Giant: Despite his size, he's a pretty nice guy.
- Hooked Up Afterwards: Implied with Broomhilde.
- Super Drowning Skills: Parodied - he flies into a panic after landing in three-inch-deep water, and never catches on that he's not in any real danger.
Will Scarlet O'Hara
Played by: Matthew Porretta
Dubbed in French By: Thierry Wermuth
Little John's friend who also joined Robin along with him.
- Adaptational Nationality: He's from Georgia, America. A country and state that won't exist for centuries.
- Blade Spam: Demonstrates his usefulness to the group by shredding an arrow fired at him into sawdust. And then blowing the smoke off.
- Gender-Blender Name: His middle name, punning off his original and Scarlet O'Hara.
- Tenor Boy: Thanks to Matthew Porretta.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the original legends, Will Scarlet is usually said to be Robin's nephew. Here, there's no indication of any such relation.
Rabbi Tuckman
Played by: Mel Brooks
Dubbed in French By: Jean Lescot
A travelling rabbi. He meets Robin during a robbery and offers the Merry Men some of his wine.
- Creator Cameo: Played by Mel Brooks.
- Good Shepherd: He shares wine and counsel and blessing; the blessings are mostly an excuse for the wine.
- Groin Attack: He's authorized to perform circumcisions. Luckily for the Merry Men, he only does it voluntarily.
- Nice Guy: "Married in a hurry? Wonderful! Invite me to the bris!"
- Shout-Out: "It's good to be the king."
Latrine
Played by: Tracey Ullman
Dubbed in French By: Colette Venhard
An old witch who lives in a tower in the castle. She serves as a counsel to Prince John, by way of telling his fortune. She also has the hots for the sheriff of Rottingham.
- Abhorrent Admirer: To the Sheriff. She keeps a cardboard cutout of him in her boudoir and likes to cuddle up to it. The Sheriff on his end is disgusted by her, and so is the cardboard cutout!
- And Now You Must Marry Me: After she saves Rottingham's life she grabs him by his ankles and drags him away so they can begin their new life together.
- Church Going Villain: Early in the film she's in her bedroom on her knees praying for God to send her a man she can marry. At once the eligible Sheriff of Rottingham falls through the ceiling and lands on her bed, much to her delight.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: She gives Prince John a dish with crocodile eyeballs and newt testicles in it and expects him to eat it. He spits out the first bite while her back is turned.
- Dirty Old Woman: The kinds of things she'd like to do to the sheriff are not exactly left to the imagination.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: She's an ugly woman who desires to marry the handsome Sheriff of Rottingham. In the end she makes it happen, much to the Sheriff's horror.
- Entitled to Have You: She lusts after the Sheriff of Rottingham but he wants nothing to do with her. When he's struck a mortal blow she reveals that she has the ability to save his life BUT will only do so if he agrees to marry her.
- Expy: She's based on Mortianna, the witch from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, of which this film parodies.
- Honest Advisor: Prince John counsels with her and she gives him straightforward advice.
- Unfortunate Names: Overlaps with Toilet Humour, as "latrine" is synonymous with "toilet".
- It was even more unfortunate until her family changed their name in the 9th century.Latrine: It used to be Shithouse.
- It was even more unfortunate until her family changed their name in the 9th century.
- Wicked Witch: Subverted. Everyone thinks she's a witch, but she's just a cook.
Broomhilde
Played by: Megan Cavanagh
Dubbed in French By: Monique Thierry
Maid Marian's lady-in-waiting.
- Big "NO!": She says this when Robin almost unlocks Marian's chastity belt. Her objection leads to Marian and Robin getting married in the next scene.
- Brawn Hilda: Invoked with her name, even. She's the massive, brawny maid of Marian.
- Hooked Up Afterwards: Implied with Little John.
- Matron Chaperone: Her main shtick is keeping Marian from losing her virginity before marriage."Ah ah ah! No ding-ding without the wedding ring!"
- Team Mom: She's very protective about Maid Marian. Although it's because she wants Marian to be married before she kisses a man or has sex with him.
