History Main / SwashBuckler

* HollywoodHistory: In what has been called the "In-Love-With-Loretta-Young" school of history, great historical actions, such as wars, will be decisively influenced by the love affairs of the characters (''e.g.'' Buckingham's love for Anne of Austria in ''The Three Musketeers'').

** In fact, [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Ezio]] is himself quite a swashbuckler. So are [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity Arno]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue Shae]], and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation Aveline]]. In fact, most of the series protagonists fit the swashbuckler bill.

** ''Literature/{{Scaramouche}}'' -- Filmed twice, once in the silent era and [[{{Film/Scaramouche}} then in 1952]]

** ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''

** ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' -- More in its film adaptations than in Dumas's original novel.
** ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' -- More in its film adaptations than in Dumas's original novel.

* ''Film/{{Le Bossu|1959}}''

* ''Film/LeCapitaineFracasse''
* ''Film/LeCapitan''

** ''The Master of Ballantrae''

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: One of the hallmarks of the genre: heroes will be entirely heroic, and even sympathetic villains will rarely be allowed to be ''too'' sympathetic. There's some UnbuiltTrope in play, as two of the earlier ones, ''ThePrisonerOfZenda'' and ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' are fairly cynical and more like GrayAndGreyMorality (although the film versions of them tend to go for BlackAndWhiteMorality).

The "penny dreadfuls" of the mid-[[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian era]], very often adaptations of the adventures of {{Folk Hero}}es such as KingArthur and RobinHood, contributed to the jettisoning of all the non-essential characterization and historicity of the stories, and when at the end of the period the genre was picked up by serious authors such as Richard Harding Davis, [[ThePrisonerOfZenda Anthony Hope]], and Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, it had essentially assumed the character it would bear throughout its future career, both in novels by authors such as [[Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps John Buchan]], [[{{Franchise/Zorro}} Johnston McCulley]], Stanley J. Weyman, and Creator/RafaelSabatini, and supremely in the films (based, in theme if not in actual plot, on those novels) generally associated in the public mind with Creator/DouglasFairbanks, and Creator/ErrolFlynn under the blanket of "{{Pirate}} movies."

** In fact, [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Ezio]] is himself quite a swashbuckler. So are [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedVUnity Arno]], [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue Shae]], and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedLiberation Aveline]]. In fact, most of the series protagonists fit the swashbuckler bill.

* {{Romantic Hero}}es: Oh boy, yes. Bodices have a tendency to get ripped off by these guys. Bonus points if ripped to shreds by their swords at some point, too.

** ''Literature/CaptainBloodHisOdyssey'' -- Adapted into an ErrolFlynn [[Film/CaptainBlood film]].

** ''Film/TheMarkOfZorro'' -- Two versions. The 1920 Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., original introduced the iconic cape and Andalusian hat.

* RomanticHeroes: Oh boy, yes. Bodices have a tendency to get ripped off by these guys. Bonus points if ripped to shreds by their swords at some point, too.

* RomanceGenreHeroes: Oh boy, yes. Bodices have a tendency to get ripped off by these guys. Bonus points if ripped to shreds by their swords at some point, too.

* TheCavalierYears: The favorite setting of the genre.

* RomanceGenreHeroes: Oh, boy: yes. Bodices have a tendency to get ripped off by these guys. Bonus points if ripped to shreds by their swords at some point, too.

[[caption-width-right:300:Get ready for danger, romance, and [[{{Flynning}} some spectacular swordfights]].]]

** ''Kidnapped''

The "penny dreadfuls" of the mid-[[VictorianBritain Victorian era]], very often adaptations of the adventures of {{Folk Hero}}es such as KingArthur and RobinHood, contributed to the jettisoning of all the non-essential characterization and historicity of the stories, and when at the end of the period the genre was picked up by serious authors such as Richard Harding Davis, [[ThePrisonerOfZenda Anthony Hope]], and Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, it had essentially assumed the character it would bear throughout its future career, both in novels by authors such as [[Literature/TheThirtyNineSteps John Buchan]], [[{{Franchise/Zorro}} Johnston McCulley]], Stanley J. Weyman, and Creator/RafaelSabatini, and supremely in the films (based, in theme if not in actual plot, on those novels) generally associated in the public mind with Creator/DouglasFairbanks, and Creator/ErrolFlynn under the blanket of "{{Pirate}} movies."

** ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' -- One of the latest swashbuckler films made.

* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' -- Will Turner was an ErrolFlynn {{expy}}.

* ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac''