History YMMV / RobinOfSherwood

'''Robin:''' GISBUUUUUURNE! (echoes several times)

* RetroactiveRecognition: Hubert Walter from "The King's Fool" is played by Creator/GaryWaldhorn, who would later be best known for playing David Horton in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.

** "The Swords of Wayland": [[WickedWitch Morgwyn of Ravenscar]] is a powerful witch and leader of the Cauldron of Lucifer coven. To set about gathering the Swords of Wayland to summon Lucifer from hell, Morgwyn kidnaps villagers and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes them]] into an elite troop known as the Hounds. She sends the Hounds to kill and be killed by their own people and bring her the swords. One young man fails to recognize his own parents and kills himself upon being captured. Morgwyn kidnaps the outlaws and attempts to MindRape them into killing Robin himself. Finally, Morgwyn plans on sacrificing them in a ceremony to summon her dark master Lucifer himself to cause the Apocalypse and consume the world.

** Season 3: [[EvilSorcerer Gulnar]], [[Myth/NorseMythology Fenris]]'s priest, is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] as a ruthless sorcerer presenting a potion to allow his master to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape Maid Marian by removing her free will]]. Upon being defeated, Gulnar revives the village of Crom Cruach so he may resurrect its namesake, a horrific demon, and burn the village down to again kill everyone there, while [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] some villagers for the plan. Later leading the Sons of Fenris to enact the apocalyptic Time of the Wolf, Gulnar attempts to massacre or condemn to starvation large swaths of land while seeking to kill the benevolent god Herne so none may stop the rapacious wolf.

* FandomHeresy: It's not a good idea to state that you thought Jason Connery was a better Robin Hood than Michael Praed.

** ''The Knights of The Apocalypse'': {{Baphomet}} is a sadistic demon aiming to kickstart [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the apocalypse]] and rule over the hell that remains. Tricking the ambitious Guichard de Montbalm into a pact, Baphomet secretly possessed him and used him to found the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Knights of The Apocalypse]] order. Luring in young men with the promises of riches, Baphomet {{Mind Rape}}s them into servitude and [[FateWorseThanDeath damns their souls to Hell]]. Consolidating its power base, Baphomet murdered young noblemen and rewrote their wills to bequeath all wealth to the order, successfully establishing a foothold in England and many countries in Europe and killing scores in the process. Baphomet then attempted to murder Robin's father to take his lands, and was stopped only when Robin intervened. Capturing Robin himself, Baphomet attempted to break him into submission by placing him underneath a giant ringing bell. When the Merry Men storm its headquarters, Baphomet abandons all of its men to die and then kills Guichard and possesses his physical form to kill Robin personally.

* CriticalResearchFailure: It's more likely to be a deliberate fudging of the facts given the attention to historical detail paid elsewhere in the series, but the depiction of Herne the Hunter as an medieval figure of pagan worship with worship stretching back to the Dark Ages misses the inconvenient point that Herne is a relatively modern invention. The figure wasn't first mentioned in writing until 1597 (by Shakespeare, of course, in ''Theatre/TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'') and even then he was described not as a pagan god or spirit but as the ghost of a human poacher. He was also associated with a particular locality - Windsor - that is no where near Nottinghamshire. His codification as the archetypal antlered pagan deity is largely a Victorian invention. Some historians have made the (rather wistful and farfetched) case for this romantic figure having real Celtic origins, though, so we can forgive the makers of ''Robin'' on the grounds they were writing according to a real, if marginal, theory.

** Nasir proved so popular that a Saracen character has been included in almost every Mythology/RobinHood adaptation since.

* CompleteMonster: [[WickedWitch Morgwyn of Ravenscar]] from the two-parter ''The Swords of Wayland'' is a powerful witch and leader of the Cauldron of Lucifer coven. To set about gathering the Swords of Wayland to summon Lucifer from hell, Morgwyn kidnaps villagers and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes them]] into an elite troop known as the Hounds. She sends the Hounds to kill and be killed by their own people and bring her the swords. One young man fails to recognize his own parents and kills himself upon being captured. Morgwyn kidnaps the outlaws and attempts to MindRape them into killing Robin himself. Finally, Morgwyn plans on sacrificing them in a ceremony to summon her dark master Lucifer himself to cause the Apocalypse and consume the world.

* EarWorm: The title theme's bleepy electronica may be dated as hell, but once it gets in your head, it will never leave. Ever.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Robin of Loxley - [[spoiler: in his final moments, he bravely faces down a small army of Norman warriors and fires an arrow over their heads. When he draws his bow a final time -- ''without an arrow'' -- they cringe away. He then looks knowingly at the Sheriff and smiles without fear, breaks his bow over his knee, and turns to face his death.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Robert de Rainault calmly reading out the transcript of a woman's brutal interrogation by torture in a bored-sounding voice.

-->'''Much:''' Gisburne killed Father!
-->'''Robin:''' GISBUUUUUURNE! (echoes several times)

* CriticalResearchFailure: It's more likely to be a deliberate fudging of the facts given the attention to historical detail paid elsewhere in the series, but the depiction of Herne the Hunter as an medieval figure of pagan worship with worship stretching back to the Dark Ages misses the inconvenient point that Herne is a relatively modern invention. The figure wasn't first mentioned in writing until 1597 (by Shakespeare, of course) and even then he was described not as a pagan god or spirit but as the ghost of a human poacher. He was also associated with a particular locality - Windsor - that is no where near Nottinghamshire. His codification as the archetypal antlered pagan deity is largely a Victorian invention. Some historians have made the (rather wistful and farfetched) case for this romantic figure having real Celtic origins, though, so we can forgive the makers of ''Robin'' on the grounds they were writing according to a real, if marginal, theory.

** Nasir proved so popular that a Saracen character has been included in almost every RobinHood adaptation since.

* ThrowItIn: De Rainault's assessment of Philip Mark as a "posturing catamite" was supposedly an ad lib.

* DepravedHomosexual: Arguably Philip Mark, for his casual brutality as well as several implications of pederasty (including his boy-servants clad in finery while the girls remain in rags, his flirtatious chin-chucking of one of the boys, and de Rainault calling Mark himself a "posturing catamite").