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* FridgeBrilliance: The {{Flynning}} that takes place in the climax makes sense from a storytelling perspective because neither knight is fighting at the top of their game: Ivanhoe is still recovering from his various wounds and Bois-Guilbert, who is conflicted over his feelings for Rebecca and his honor as a Templar, is trying to give Ivanhoe as many chances to win as he can.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred Robin Hood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time. (Ritson, a Jacobin, also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred Robin Hood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood Robin Hood legend in Scott's own time. (Ritson, a Jacobin, also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time. (Ritson, a Jacobin, also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood Robin Hood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time. (Ritson, a Jacobin, also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Averted, because Sir Creator/WalterScott was begged by a personal friend (against his own original intention) to bring the beef-witted Athelstane back from the dead.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time. (Ritson (a Jacobin) also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time. (Ritson (a Jacobin) (Ritson, a Jacobin, also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* CaptainObviousReveal: "Locksley," a brilliant shot with a bow who leads a merry band of outlaws in Sherwood forest, is revealed to be the secret identity of none other than... spoiler:Myth/RobinHood! All right, maybe it wasn't originally ''quite'' as much of a Captain Obvious Reveal as it is today, because Scott [[NewerThanTheyThink invented]] and popularised several of the tropes that became stock parts of the Robin Hood legend. Still, any reader with even the tiniest familiarity with the genre must have seen it coming a mile away.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: "Locksley," a brilliant shot with a bow who leads a merry band of outlaws in Sherwood forest, is revealed to be the secret identity of none other than... spoiler:Myth/RobinHood! Myth/RobinHood! All right, maybe it wasn't originally ''quite'' as much of a Captain Obvious Reveal as it is today, because Scott [[NewerThanTheyThink invented]] and popularised several of the tropes that became stock parts of the Robin Hood legend. Still, any reader with even the tiniest familiarity with the genre must have seen it coming a mile away.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: "Locksley," a brilliant shot with a bow who leads a merry band of outlaws in Sherwood forest, is revealed to be the secret identity of... none other than [[spoiler:Myth/RobinHood]]! All right, maybe it wasn't originally ''quite'' as much of a Captain Obvious Reveal as it is today, because Scott ''[[NewerThanTheyThink invented]]'' several of the tropes that became stock parts of the [[spoiler:Robin Hood]] legend. Still, any reader with even the tiniest familiarity with the genre must have seen it coming a mile away.
* DieForOurShip: Rowena. William Makepeace Thackeray's highly inaccurate description says it all:
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* CaptainObviousReveal: "Locksley," a brilliant shot with a bow who leads a merry band of outlaws in Sherwood forest, is revealed to be the secret identity of... of none other than [[spoiler:Myth/RobinHood]]! than... spoiler:Myth/RobinHood! All right, maybe it wasn't originally ''quite'' as much of a Captain Obvious Reveal as it is today, because Scott ''[[NewerThanTheyThink invented]]'' [[NewerThanTheyThink invented]] and popularised several of the tropes that became stock parts of the [[spoiler:Robin Hood]] Robin Hood legend. Still, any reader with even the tiniest familiarity with the genre must have seen it coming a mile away.
* DieForOurShip: Rowena. William Makepeace Thackeray'shighly inaccurate description (which is [[RonTheDeathEater highly unfair to poor Rowena]]) says it all:
* DieForOurShip: Rowena. William Makepeace Thackeray's
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and (perhaps more importantly) was firmly held by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ritson Joseph Ritson, Ritson]], Scott's friend and the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time.time. (Ritson (a Jacobin) also [[TropeCodifier popularised]] the idea that Robin Hood didn't just rob from the rich, but also gave to the poor.)
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* FairForItsDay: Isaac of York, though a stereotypical GreedyJew, is nevertheless depicted as grateful toward Ivanhoe and his adherents, and devoted to his daughter -- while Rebecca is downright saintly.
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* FairForItsDay: Isaac of York, though a stereotypical GreedyJew, is nevertheless depicted as grateful toward Ivanhoe and his adherents, and devoted to his daughter -- while Rebecca is downright saintly. Scott even goes on at length about how badly the Jewish people were treated in Europe at this point in time, and how Isaac's greed is more a self-defense mechanism than a vice.
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* VanillaProtagonist: In a story that features Myth/RobinHood, ServileSnarker Wamba, dog-loving and surprisingly resilient livestock herder Gurth, an intriguing BettyAndVeronica pair, a moneylender who somewhat subverts the GreedyJew stereotype, and two villains who get some interesting CharacterDevelopment and (Bois more than De Bracey) DracoInLeatherPants treatment, Wilfred's PinballProtagonist status embarrassingly stands out to many readers.
