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* BadassNormal: Ruggiero foregoes using enchanted weapons because he thinks they'd give him an unfair advantage. Notably, he's the only character in the book with this mindset since every other knight (including his love interest, Bradamante) uses such armaments when they can.
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* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Subverted. Astolfo accidentally winds up in the underworld while chasing away a gaggle of harpies, and it's the only misadventure of his in the book that seriously rattles him.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: In the end, King Agramante has this attitude towards Roland. Not so much out of personal enmity or due to an intimate connection with him, but because with the departure of many of his best warriors (Rodomonte, Ruggiero, Marfisa, etc.), he's the only Saracen left who stands a chance against the grotesquely mighty paladin.
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* ShaggyDogStory: After the battle of Biserta, Ruggiero takes issue with the poor treatment of the African kings the Christians have captured, and absconds with them so he can return them home. A sudden storm causes the ship they're sailing on the sink, leaving Ruggiero as the only survivor.
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Pretty much everybody who fell in love with Angelica, including the titular Orlando. After being romantically pursued by the world's greatest knights, the princess ends up [[spoiler:falling in love with and marrying Medoro, a wounded mere foot-soldier.]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Pretty much everybody who fell in love with Angelica, including the titular Orlando. After being romantically pursued by the world's greatest knights, the princess ends up [[spoiler:falling in love with and marrying Medoro, a wounded mere foot-soldier. If it is any consolation to you - or Angelica - Medoro will become king in a later followup, ''La coronazione di Medoro''.]]
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* CombatByChampion: Christs and Saracens agree this war is going on much too long. In the left corner: Oliver, Roland and Brandimart. In the right corner: Agramant, Gradass and Sobrin. Gonnnng!
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* TalkativeLoon: Orlando is still capable of speech when he goes insane, albeit only in lovelorn curses and nonsensical demands.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Duke Aymon's clan. Ruggiero finds himself having to contend with a number of its members and has to play nice with them as he doesn't want to sadden Bradamante by hurting members of her family.
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** During the battle of Biserta, the Paladins lose control of their armies after they breach the city, leaving their soldiers free to plunder, rape, and kill with abandon.
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* HeelRealization: After encountering a number of instances where those in power use their strength to oppress and enslave others, Marfisa gradually starts to realise that the SocialDarwinist principles she lives by are both unsightly and unfair.
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** When a sea monster proves to be largely impervious to his blows, Orlando uses an anchor to drag it to land whereupon it eventually suffocates to death.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: After taking over the country that enslaved her, Marfisa eventually grew bored of all the responsibilities that come with being a ruler and proceeded to empty out the kingdom's treasury to fund her one-woman expedition into war-torn Spain, leaving her subjects to fend for themselves.
* SiblingYinYang: Honourable, Lovesick, and Idealistic Ruggiero. Self-serving, Celibate, and Cynical Marfisa.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Marfisa briefly muses that if she revealed her gender to the Amazons, they'd likely spare her life and let her leave their island. She ultimately decides to fight alongside Astolfo, Grifon, Aquillant, and Guido to free all their prisoners instead.
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* FallenHero: The first act of the book showcases Orlando's nobility as he slays monsters, battles criminals, rescues maidens, and saves innocent people from execution. The second act has him fall very, very hard.
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* DemotedToExtra: Only half of the [[HeroOfAnotherStory four Aymon brothers]] have prominent roles in Orlando Furioso.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Bradamante (a descendant of Hektor, the original wielder of Durandal) becomes this to Roland after she is maddened into believing that Ruggiero and Marfisa are having an affair. However, she is able to maintain a MaskOfSanity when she is interacting with others, only slipping into a berserk, suicidal rage when she is alone and on the hunt.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: Bradamante loses her hippogriff very early in the story, which makes her search for Ruggiero much, much harder than it otherwise would've been.
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* SoreLoser: There is a certain etiquette to losing a duel in that the victor is allowed to demand their bested foe a certain item or task with the understanding that once the transaction is completed, the loser will be allowed to leave with their lives. Marfisa, who has won or stalemated every fight she's ever engaged in, does not take losing to Bradamante well and keeps trying to attack her only to be knocked down two more times.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Paladin]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Orillo, a semi-immortal bandit, is decapitated and has his helpless and still-living head scalped by Astolfo because that's the only way to negate his HealingFactor.
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* NerfArms: Astolfo's magical lance ''knocks down'' whoever it hits rather than skewer or slash them. This actually saves Marfisa's life as Bradamante forgets which weapon she's wielding as she charges at her, causing a blow that would have run her through the heart to simply unseat Marfisa from her horse instead.
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* NerfArms: NerfArm: Astolfo's magical lance ''knocks down'' whoever it hits rather than skewer or slash them. This actually saves Marfisa's life as Bradamante forgets which weapon she's wielding as she charges at her, causing a blow that would have run her through the heart to simply unseat Marfisa from her horse instead.
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* NerfArms: Astolfo's magical lance ''knocks down'' whoever it hits rather than skewer or slash them. This actually saves Marfisa's life as Bradamante forgets which weapon she's wielding as she charges at her, causing a blow that would have run her through the heart to simply unseat Marfisa from her horse instead.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Loads. Orlando's defection to pursue Angelica indirectly leads to his fellow Paladins Brandimart and Oliver getting imprisoned when they mount an expedition into Spain to find him. When Orlando goes insane, he ditched Durandal, which also indirectly causes the deaths of his friends Prince Zerbino and Princess Isabel. And that's just what he, the title protagonist, is responsible for.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Loads. Orlando's defection to pursue Angelica indirectly leads to his fellow Paladins Brandimart and Oliver getting imprisoned when they mount an expedition into Spain to find him. When Orlando goes insane, he ditched Durandal, which also indirectly causes the deaths of his friends Prince Zerbino and Princess Isabel. And that's just what he, the title protagonist, is responsible for.
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* MadnessMakeover: Over the course of three months, the insane Orlando loses his HeroicBuild and becomes an extremely sunburnt, skinny, and bedraggled shade of his former self.
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* CharacterDevelopment: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Compared to how she was in the prequel]], [[DefrostingIceQueen Marfisa is a lot less]] AxCrazy here
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* InfinityMinusOneSword: Mandricardo steals Durandal from the berserk Orlando (who he wisely decides against confronting even with said weapon), giving him a gimped version of the invincibility Hektor's armour would have granted him if he had taken it from Orlando by force or won it from him in a duel. While the strengthening he does receive is enough to let him battle the equally quasi-invulnerable Rodomonte (who is himself empowered by the Arms of Nimrod) to a standstill, the fact that he's still very killable is how the rather Ruggiero manages to eke out a bloody victory against him.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Ruggiero goes from having to be constantly rescued by Bradamante to singlehandedly defeating the two main rivals of Ronaldo (Mandricardo) and ''Charlemagne'' (Rodomonte).
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* TookALevelInBadass: Ruggiero goes from having to be constantly rescued by Bradamante to singlehandedly defeating the two main rivals of Ronaldo Roland (Mandricardo) and ''Charlemagne'' (Rodomonte).
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* SpoofAesop: In a story that might or might not have happened in-universe, Astolfo and his friend Giocondo are cheated on by their respective wives. Reluctant to punish their spouses, they instead elect to determine whether or not women are inclined to infidelity or if theirs are special cases that require correction. After seducing and bedding 1,000 married women and then getting cheated on by a woman they were both having sex with, they conclude that women are just as inclined towards promiscuity as men whereupon they forgive the indiscretions of their wives and allow them to continue.
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* MotiveDecay: Mandricardo initially desires vengeance against Orlando for killing his father, but after realising that beating him in a fight is nigh-impossible, he instead steals his would-be rivals horse and sword, goes on a number of minor misadventures, and dies rather ingloriously against Ruggiero in a mostly unrelated skirmish for a horse Rodomonte stole from the latter.
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* MotiveDecay: Mandricardo initially desires vengeance against Orlando for killing his father, but after realising that beating him in a fight is nigh-impossible, he instead steals his would-be rivals rival's horse and sword, goes on a number of minor misadventures, and dies rather ingloriously against Ruggiero in a mostly unrelated skirmish for a horse Rodomonte stole from the latter.
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* NotSoDifferent: Between Charlemagne's alliance and the saracens with the only big difference being that Charlemagne's men have slightly more honour than their enemies.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Mandricardo and Gradasso start the story off as two antagonistic but noble Saracen kings who are willing to save an innocent princess from a giant monster just because they were passing through the area. Durandal soon drives a murderous wedge between the two and transforms them into villains in different ways.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Bradamante can easily pass for any of her four brothers by cutting her hair and deepening her voice. The inverse also applies.
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* YouKilledMyFather: In a rush to defy surrogate father Atlante and become a knight, Ruggiero signed on with the first king that would have a nobody like him in their elite ranks. That king was Agramant, who Ruggiero learns later murdered his and Marfisa's birth father in cold blood. Unfortunately, his same vows prevent him from turning his sword against his Master and it's ultimately Orlando who brings Agramant to justice.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Sons of Aymon to their sister Bradamante.
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* CuttingTheKnot: Bradamante shrewdly circumvents the invulnerability that Rodomonte's dragon skin armor gives him by hitting him with Astolpho's enchanted lance which sends an opponent to their knees without fail if they're struck.
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* BlingOfWar: Befitting her status as an empress (self-called Queen) of India, Marfisa's armour is an exquisitely crafted and bejewelled hybrid of form and function. Naturally, it is soon stolen from her when she isn't looking by infamous dwarven thief Brunello.
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* DarkReprise: To up the tension of Rodomonte's one-man massacre through Paris, Ariosto tells the story of how Grifone (one of Charlemagne's knights) did something similar against an entire city and succeeded in bringing it to heel.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Even after discovering that King Agramant is the son of man who killed his father, Ruggiero refuses to break ties with him (as he had sworn loyalty to his army to fast-track his path to becoming a knight) unless officially dismissed. It takes being abandoned by Agramant for ThrowingTheFight against Rinaldo (Bradamante's brother) and then getting shipwrecked and marooned on an island (on his way to rejoin Agramant) for months with a holy hermit endlessly haranguing him for his life choices for him to decide that perhaps his vow has been fulfilled in spirit.
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* WildCard: Marfisa, who battles champions from almost every major faction in the story as she's a BloodKnight who's primarily out and about to test her strength against the best warriors the various kingdoms have to offer.
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* PetTheDog: Fed up with having his attempts to protect Ruggiero met with scorn and ingratitude, Atlante washes his hands of the matter and entombs himself away from the mortal plane ala Merlin. However, his spirit returns to the land of the living to warn Ruggiero and Marfisa that they are twin siblings just as the sexual tension between them was about to bloom into full-blown incestuous intercourse.
