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A graphic novel based on the epic can be found [[http://paddybrown.co.uk/?cat=171 here]]. Irish Celtic-rock band Music/''{{Horslips}} made a concept album based on the story in 1973. Music/TheDecemberists' EP ''The Tain'' is a setting of Colin Meloy's interpretation/abridgment of the epic to EpicRocking.
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A graphic novel based on the epic can be found [[http://paddybrown.co.uk/?cat=171 here]]. Irish Celtic-rock band Music/''{{Horslips}} ''{{Horslips}}'' made a concept album based on the story in 1973. Music/TheDecemberists' EP ''The Tain'' is a setting of Colin Meloy's interpretation/abridgment of the epic to EpicRocking.
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A graphic novel based on the epic can be found [[http://paddybrown.co.uk/?cat=171 here]]. Irish Celtic-rock band Horslips Music/''{{Horslips}} made a concept album based on the story in 1973. Music/TheDecemberists' EP ''The Tain'' is a setting of Colin Meloy's interpretation/abridgment of the epic to EpicRocking.
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* BladeOnAStick: Cú Chulainn's Gáe Bolga.
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* [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity+1]] BladeOnAStick: Cú Chulainn's Gáe Bolga.
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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Justified and defied. Cu Chulainn's massive kill count owed much to his use of guerrilla tactics. CombatByChampion forces him out in the open and, while none of Medb's EliteMooks have a chance against him, they ''can'' wear him down with fatigue and ScratchDamage.
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A graphic novel based on the epic can be found [[http://paddybrown.co.uk/?cat=171 here]]. Irish Celtic-rock band Horslips made a concept album based on the story in 1973. TheDecemberists' Music/TheDecemberists' EP ''The Tain'' is a setting of Colin Meloy's interpretation/abridgment of the epic to EpicRocking.
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** And, "We were heart companions, We were forest comrades, We were men of one bed..." If they were friends, they were very weird friends.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Cú Chulainn, with added {{Gorn}}. As he's resting, two female bards sing to him that the battle is lost, giving him a HeroicBSOD. When he learns the truth, he grabs them and hits their heads together so hard that their brains spill on the ground. Charming.
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** The former ''kills'' the latter by shoving his spear up his anus. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Make of that what you will.]]
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* NonchalantDodge: Cú Chulainn spends most of his first encounter with Nadcranntail completely ignoring him in favor of catching birds. When Nadcranntail throws nine spears at him, Cú Chulainn just uses them as SteppingStonesInTheSky yo continue chasing the birds Nadcranntail had just scared off.
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* MyGirlIsASlut: Ailill is well aware of Medb's (often politically motivated) promiscuity and has no problem with it - Medb made it clear from day one that he's "never had one man without another waiting in his shadow," after all.
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* MyGirlIsASlut: Ailill is well aware of Medb's (often politically motivated) promiscuity and has no problem with it - Medb made it clear from day one that he's she's "never had one man without another waiting in his shadow," after all.
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* MyGirlIsASlut: Ailill is well aware of Medb's (often politically motivated) promiscuity and has no problem with it - Medb made it clear from day one that he's "never had one man without another waiting in his shadow," after all.
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* NonchalantDodge: Cú Chulainn spends most of his first encounter with Nadcranntail completely ignoring him in favor of catching birds. When Nadcranntail throws nine spears at him, Cú Chulainn just uses them as mid-air SteppingStones ro continue chasing the birds Nadcranntail had just scared off.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: When Fergus goes to negotiate with Cú Chulainn, Medb's son Etarcomol insists on coming along, which Fergus allows ''only'' if Etarcomol can keep his mouth shut and not insult the unstoppable demigod that's been decimating their army. Etarcomol then proceeds to insult the unstoppable demigod. Then he challenges the unstoppable demigod to a duel. ''Then'' he insists on continuing after the unstoppable demigod quickly kicks his ass and tells him to scram.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Several times in regards to Cú Chulainn.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Several times in regards to Cú Chulainn.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Cú Chulainn kills Cur [=MacDalath=] by throwing an apple hard enough to go straight through his head
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* TooDumbToLive: Everyone on either side agrees that Etarcomol was incredibly stupid for taunting Cú Chulainn.
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* ICanStillFight: Cú Chulainn insists on fighting even while heavily injured and going ''months'' without sleep. Lugh himself has to show up and knock him out for three days to give him a chance to heal.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Upon hearing of the slaughter of the youths of Ulster, Cú Chulainn blames himself, as he thinks he could have saved him if he wasn't recuperating from his wounds at the time, and insists upon avenging them immediately.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Lugh the Long Handed reveals himself as Cú Chulainn's father.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: Cú Chulainn, shortly before his first warp spasm.
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* CostumePorn: Chapter 17 is ''very'' detailed in its description of Cú Chulainn's attire.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: After enduring Cú Chulainn's guerrilla-style assault on her men for quite some time, Medb offers to pay for all the ruin she's caused to Ulster, give him all the booze and women he could wish for, and pay him ridiculously well if he simply quits this whole thing and enters service under her. This only pisses Cú Chulainn off more.
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* OneManArmy: Why did Medb agree to a daily CombatByChampion between her forces and Cú Chulainn when she has a massive advantage in numbers? Because otherwise he'd be killing a ''hundred'' of her men a day.
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* JustAKid: Medb's reaction upon first hearing of Cú Chulainn.
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* {{Bishonen}}: Cú Chulainn is described as fitting this trope. Most of the time. Totally subverted with his ''ríastrad'' (see GameFace and HighOctaneNightmareFuel below.)
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* {{Bishonen}}: Cú Chulainn is described as fitting this trope. Most of the time. Totally subverted with his ''ríastrad'' (see GameFace and HighOctaneNightmareFuel below.)
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Medb starts the war because her husband Ailill has a magic bull (Finnbennach), and she doesn't. She practically burns Ulster to the ground and loses hundreds (possibly thousands) of her own soldiers trying to get her hands on Donn Cuailgne, only for Donn Cuailgne and Finnbennach to kill one another, thus rendering Medb and Ailill equal--in their lack of a magic bull.
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[[caption-width-right:275:How's the scheming today, Medb?]]
[[caption-width-right:275:How's the scheming today, Medb?]]
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The ''Tain Bo Cuailnge'' (Cattle Raid of Cooley) is an ancient Irish story from the Ulster Cycle of CelticMythology. The oldest surviving manuscripts date to the 12th century, but there are allusions to it in poems of the 7th century, and elements of it are strikingly similar to things the [[AncientGreece Greeks]] and [[AncientRome Romans]] used to say of the Celts.
Queen Medb of Connacht commands the soldiers of Ireland to invade the nation Ulster and steal its prized bull, Donn Cuailgne, the Brown Bull of Cooley, at any cost. Though Ulster stands defenseless before her army, she is opposed only by sixteen-year-old hero Cú Chulainn. Some magic, and a few gods make appearances.
Queen Medb of Connacht commands the soldiers of Ireland to invade the nation Ulster and steal its prized bull, Donn Cuailgne, the Brown Bull of Cooley, at any cost. Though Ulster stands defenseless before her army, she is opposed only by sixteen-year-old hero Cú Chulainn. Some magic, and a few gods make appearances.
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The ''Tain Bo Cuailnge'' (Cattle ''Táin Bó Cúailnge'', a.k.a. ''The Cattle Raid of Cooley) Cooley'', is an ancient Irish story from the Ulster Cycle of CelticMythology. The oldest surviving manuscripts date to the 12th century, but there are allusions to it in poems of the 7th century, and elements of it are strikingly similar to things the [[AncientGreece Greeks]] and [[AncientRome Romans]] used to say of the Celts.
Queen Medb of Connacht commands the soldiers of Ireland to invade thenation kingdom of Ulster and steal its prized bull, Donn Cuailgne, Cúailgne, the Brown Bull of Cooley, at any cost. Though Ulster stands defenseless before her army, she is opposed only by sixteen-year-old hero Cú Chulainn. Some magic, and a few gods make appearances.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Fergus MacRoach. The one-time king of Ulster and leader of the Ulster Exiles who fight for Medb. He's also Cú Chulainn's foster father, and is the only person in Medb's ranks whom he never raises arms against.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Fergus MacRoach.[=MacRoach=]. The one-time king of Ulster and leader of the Ulster Exiles who fight for Medb. He's also Cú Chulainn's foster father, and is the only person in Medb's ranks whom he never raises arms against.
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* MagnificentBastard: Medb, again. Ailill has his moments, but Medb's the one wearing the daddy pants when it comes to commanding the Irish army.
