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Before there was [[HarryPotter Dumbledore]]... Before there was [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Elminster]]... Before there was [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]]... There was Merlin.
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Before there was [[HarryPotter Dumbledore]]... Before there was [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Elminster]]... Before there was [[Literature/LordOfTheRings [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]... There was Merlin.
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Before there was [[HarryPotter Dumbledore]]... Before there was [[ForgottenRealms [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Elminster]]... Before there was [[LordOfTheRings [[Literature/LordOfTheRings Gandalf]]... There was Merlin.
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* Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (ca 1135) introduces Merlin as the child of woman but with no father, whom Vortigern wanted to sacrifice to keep a castle from crumbling above its foundations. Instead of being killed and having his blood slake the foundations, Merlin spoke prophecy and showed two dragons fighting beneath the castle, a white one (English invaders) and a red one (native Britons or Welsh). Merlin lived, Vortigern did not, and Merlin went on to aid Uthyr PenDragon in seducing Igraine the wife of Gorlois and so father Arthur in Cornwall at Castle Tintagel.
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* Geoffrey of Monmouth's [[HistoriaeRegumBrittannae History of the Kings of Britain (ca 1135) 1135)]] introduces Merlin as the child of woman but with no father, whom Vortigern wanted to sacrifice to keep a castle from crumbling above its foundations. Instead of being killed and having his blood slake the foundations, Merlin spoke prophecy and showed two dragons fighting beneath the castle, a white one (English invaders) and a red one (native Britons or Welsh). Merlin lived, Vortigern did not, and Merlin went on to aid Uthyr PenDragon in seducing Igraine the wife of Gorlois and so father Arthur in Cornwall at Castle Tintagel.
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* Sir James Knowles' ''The Tales of King Arthur and His Knights'' gives an incredibly abridged version of Merlin's involvement from the beginning, but it all comes out with Merlin seeming much younger than other versions (the BBC series excluded) portray him to be (he's a child - so maybe 7 - when Vortigern uses him. Guestimate 10 years before Arthur is born...means he wouldn't be 60 when Arthur was 15 [yes, 15, not 11, {{Disney}}]).
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''[[TheStinger Remember to believe in magic]]...[[MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders Or I'll kill you.]]''
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* [[{{ptitle1094ykag}} Filmation's Ghost Busters]] portrays Merlin as a friend of the Ghost Busters and portrays Jake Kong as able to ask for help from Merlin's clumsy assistant every full moon.
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* [[{{ptitle1094ykag}} Filmation's Ghost Busters]] ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' portrays Merlin as a friend of the Ghost Busters and portrays Jake Kong as able to ask for help from Merlin's clumsy assistant every full moon.
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* In ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Merlin once asked Batman and Green Arrow to follow him into his time to stop Morgana. In another episode, Merlin was said to have imprisoned a demon the then-alive GentlemanGhost tried to release in exchange for immortality.
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* In ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Merlin once asked Batman and Green Arrow GreenArrow to follow him into his time to stop Morgana. In another episode, Merlin was said to have imprisoned a demon the then-alive GentlemanGhost tried to release in exchange for immortality.
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* The Doctor of ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''is'' Merlin.
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* The Doctor of ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''is'' Merlin. Possibly. In the future of an AlternateUniverse. It's... [[TimeyWimeyBall complicated.]]
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* The 1998 series ''[[{{Series/Merlin-1998}} Merlin]]'' is a retelling of the story of King Arthur with Merlin as the main character.
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* Merlin is the star of the series ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.
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* The 1998 mini-series ''[[{{Series/Merlin-1998}} Merlin]]'' is a retelling of the story of King Arthur with Merlin as the main character.
* Merlin is the star of the BBC series ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.
* Merlin is the star of the BBC series ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.
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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' had an episode where Venger, posing as Merlin, tricked Presto into releasing monsters imprisoned by the real one, who had long passed away.
* [[{{ptitle1094ykag}} Filmation's Ghost Busters]] portrays Merlin as a friend of the Ghost Busters and portrays Jake Kong as able to ask for help from Merlin's clumsy assistant every full moon.
* ''UltimateBookOfSpells'' character Verne is a descendant of Merlin.
* In ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Merlin once asked Batman and Green Arrow to follow him into his time to stop Morgana. In another episode, Merlin was said to have imprisoned a demon the then-alive GentlemanGhost tried to release in exchange for immortality.
* [[{{ptitle1094ykag}} Filmation's Ghost Busters]] portrays Merlin as a friend of the Ghost Busters and portrays Jake Kong as able to ask for help from Merlin's clumsy assistant every full moon.
* ''UltimateBookOfSpells'' character Verne is a descendant of Merlin.
* In ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Merlin once asked Batman and Green Arrow to follow him into his time to stop Morgana. In another episode, Merlin was said to have imprisoned a demon the then-alive GentlemanGhost tried to release in exchange for immortality.
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* Knight Life by Peter David follows T. H. White's Merlin in aging backwards to the 1980s or 1990s, finally reaching childhood.
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way lacking in any info on the oldest literary sources of Merlin, man
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* Old Welsh tales and triads tell of a wild man of the woods living with pigs beneath apple trees, who had been a prophet and maybe a shaman. Myrrdin, or Lailoken (northern reaches, a Scottish variant), who lived in Coed Celiddon, the Caledonian Woods. After he had published his grand history, Geoffrey of Monmouth apparently found some older poetry or sources and published the Vita Merlini, Life of Merlin, and a very different Trickster from the king-maker of Uthyr and Arthur was he. Taliesin was a rough contemporary, a famous poet later given some magical or prophetic prowess as well.
* Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (ca 1135) introduces Merlin as the child of woman but with no father, whom Vortigern wanted to sacrifice to keep a castle from crumbling above its foundations. Instead of being killed and having his blood slake the foundations, Merlin spoke prophecy and showed two dragons fighting beneath the castle, a white one (English invaders) and a red one (native Britons or Welsh). Merlin lived, Vortigern did not, and Merlin went on to aid Uthyr PenDragon in seducing Igraine the wife of Gorlois and so father Arthur in Cornwall at Castle Tintagel.
* Geoffrey of Monmouth also wrote a Life of Merlin, reflecting the old Welsh tales of Myrrdin as wild man of the woods. Having seen his sister's husband slain in battle, Myrrdin flees to the woods to live in or beneath an apple tree as a vegetarian hermit with a pig for a companion.
* Robert de Boron's book on Merlin introduced the antichrist element.
* Thomas Mallory (or Malleore) and his La Morte d'Arthur is the primary source for T.H. White's Arthurian works.
* Mary Stewart's "Merlin" trilogy, based on Geoffrey of Monmouth, has Merlin telling his own story, as she fills in some gaps left by Geoffrey and by Mallory. A fourth book, "The Wicked Day" follows with Mordred's story.
* Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (ca 1135) introduces Merlin as the child of woman but with no father, whom Vortigern wanted to sacrifice to keep a castle from crumbling above its foundations. Instead of being killed and having his blood slake the foundations, Merlin spoke prophecy and showed two dragons fighting beneath the castle, a white one (English invaders) and a red one (native Britons or Welsh). Merlin lived, Vortigern did not, and Merlin went on to aid Uthyr PenDragon in seducing Igraine the wife of Gorlois and so father Arthur in Cornwall at Castle Tintagel.
* Geoffrey of Monmouth also wrote a Life of Merlin, reflecting the old Welsh tales of Myrrdin as wild man of the woods. Having seen his sister's husband slain in battle, Myrrdin flees to the woods to live in or beneath an apple tree as a vegetarian hermit with a pig for a companion.
* Robert de Boron's book on Merlin introduced the antichrist element.
* Thomas Mallory (or Malleore) and his La Morte d'Arthur is the primary source for T.H. White's Arthurian works.
* Mary Stewart's "Merlin" trilogy, based on Geoffrey of Monmouth, has Merlin telling his own story, as she fills in some gaps left by Geoffrey and by Mallory. A fourth book, "The Wicked Day" follows with Mordred's story.
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* ''TheWarlordChronicles'' by Bernard Cornwell.
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* ''TheWarlordChronicles'' by Bernard Cornwell.Cornwell, which has Merlin as a hilariously irreverent and very powerful druid, whose performances owe a lot to charisma, reputation, and the fact that a lot of his tricks are MaybeMagicMaybeMundane.
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* Merlin was apparently a real historical figure in the ''HarryPotter'' universe. He gave his name to an order of powerful wizards, the Order of Merlin.
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* Merlin was apparently a real historical figure in the ''HarryPotter'' universe. He gave his name to an order of powerful wizards, the Order of Merlin. His name also gets used in an OhMyGods fashion a number of times, usually as "Merlin's beard!"
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For the 2008 British TV series, see ''{{Series/Merlin}}''; for the 1998 TV series, see ''[[Series/{{Merlin-1998}} Merlin]]''.
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For the 2008 British TV series, see ''{{Series/Merlin}}''; for the 1998 TV series, miniseries, see ''[[Series/{{Merlin-1998}} Merlin]]''.
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For the 2008 British TV series, see ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.
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For the 2008 British TV series, see ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.
''{{Series/Merlin}}''; for the 1998 TV series, see ''[[Series/{{Merlin-1998}} Merlin]]''.
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* Several characters in the MarvelUniverse have claimed, with varying levels of conviction, to be the Arthurian Merlin. The first was an illusion-using SilverAge villain subsequently retconned as an imposter, but the usual one is a powerful, manipulative, guardian of reality itself who sometimes uses the name "Merlyn" with a y, and probably was the Arthurian character.
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* Several characters in the MarvelUniverse have claimed, with varying levels of conviction, to be the Arthurian Merlin. The first was an illusion-using SilverAge villain subsequently retconned as an imposter, but the usual one is a powerful, manipulative, guardian of reality itself who sometimes uses the name "Merlyn" with a y, and probably was the Arthurian character.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: As Christianity gained more influence, Merlin became less of a trickster and mage and more of a wise old mentor. His origins as a potential [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] was also written out.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: As Christianity gained more influence, Merlin became less of a trickster and mage and more of a wise old mentor. His origins as a potential [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] was were also written out.
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* The Doctor of ''DoctorWho'' ''is'' Merlin.
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''[[TheStinger Remember to believe in magic]]...[[MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders Or I'll kill you.]]''
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* ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace has Merlin as different things depending on what era it's set in. Most recently, it seems to have settled on him being a time traveler.
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* ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace has Merlin as different things depending on what era it's set in. Most recently, it seems to have settled on him being a time traveler.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Merlin, the classic classic, legendary wizard.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: Merlin, the classic wizard.]]
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* One of pre-made Wizards in ''MasterOfMagic'', where he is a Sage Master (gives bonus to spell research) and uses Life and Nature magic. [[YouAreTooLate Featured]] in the intro.
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* One of pre-made Wizards in ''MasterOfMagic'', where he is a Sage Master (gives (has bonus to spell research) and uses Life specializing in [[WhiteMagic Life]] and Nature magic. The intro cutscene featured him in [[YouAreTooLate Featured]] in the intro.one of winning conditions]].
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* He is one of Wizards in ''MasterOfMagic'', where he is a Sage Master which gives him a nice bonus to researching magic and uses Life and Nature magic.
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* He is one One of pre-made Wizards in ''MasterOfMagic'', where he is a Sage Master which gives him a nice (gives bonus to researching magic spell research) and uses Life and Nature magic.magic. [[YouAreTooLate Featured]] in the intro.
* ''AgeOfWonders II'' has young Merlin as the campaign protagonist, ''AgeOfWonders: Shadow Magic'' begins with Merlin trapped in the Shadow World contacting new Wizards as a SpiritAdvisor.
* ''AgeOfWonders II'' has young Merlin as the campaign protagonist, ''AgeOfWonders: Shadow Magic'' begins with Merlin trapped in the Shadow World contacting new Wizards as a SpiritAdvisor.
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* MemeticBadass: Given that he appears in so many legends, Merlin definitely personifies this trope.
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* The 1998 series ''[[{{Series/Merlin-1998}} Merlin]]'' is a retelling of the story of King Arthur with Merlin as the main character.
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* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] Doctor of ''DoctorWho'' ''is'' Merlin.
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* ''MerlinsMysticalShopOfWonders'', and, by proxy, its ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation.
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* ''MerlinsMysticalShopOfWonders'', ''MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'', and, by proxy, its ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation.
