Line #105 Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves


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2	[[caption-width-right:295:''[[Music/BryanAdams Don't tell me, "It's not worth trying for."\
3	You can't tell me, "It's not worth dying for."]]'']]
4	->''"I've seen knights in armour panic at the first hint of battle. And I've seen the lowliest unarmed squire pull a spear from his own body, to defend a dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright; it's defined by one's actions."''
5	-->--'''Robin of Locksley'''
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7	''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' is a 1991 {{period\|piece}}-[[ArtisticLicenseHistory ish]] [[ActionAdventureTropes action-adventure]] movie based on the Myth/RobinHood myth, directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Creator/KevinCostner in the title role.
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9	The story is familiar; Robin of Locksley, a Crusader, escapes Jerusalem alongside a Moor named Azeem (Creator/MorganFreeman), who accompanies Robin because of a LifeDebt. They return to [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} England]] and discover that Robin's father (Creator/BrianBlessed) has been killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Creator/AlanRickman), and Locksley's lands stolen by the Sheriff. Oh, and the Sheriff is also now apparently a [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade devil worshipper]] and is being assisted in his evildoing by his cousin, Guy of Gisbourne (Creator/MichaelWincott). Robin and Azeem become outlaws, and steal from the rich and give to the poor. Men are made merry, [[{{Swashbuckler}} bucklers are swashed]], and they all live HappilyEverAfter (except the Sheriff, obviously). It's also [[DarkerAndEdgier fairly dark compared to most Robin Hood adaptations]].
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11	The movie opened to decent reviews, was a box office success and was nominated for quite a few awards, including an Oscar. Noted for Kevin Costner NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent and Alan Rickman's [[HamAndCheese gloriously hamtastic performance]].
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14	The Creator/MelBrooks 1993 parody ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' largely lampoons this movie, although it acknowledges other elements of the legend.
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16	Another Robin Hood film simply called ''[[Film/RobinHood1991 Robin Hood]]'' was also released the same year, but avoided theatrical release in the US due to this movie. As well, there's no connection other than subject matter to the 1948 adventure film ''Film/ThePrinceOfThieves''.
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18	!!''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' provides examples of:
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20	[[AC:General examples]]
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24	* ActionDad: Lord Locksley, who suits up in armor and is killed fighting off cultists. Also, Little John has eight children by his wife Fanny, and he's still willing to go into battle.
25	* AdaptationDistillation: The movie excises Prince John entirely so as to give Robin a single, more direct nemesis in the Sheriff of Nottingham. It also pares down what are, in some versions of the myth, loads of characters from the Merry Men.
26	* AdaptationExpansion: At the same time, the movie strives to give Robin and those Merry Men a much more thorough background, pulling aspects from various other adaptations (most notably, having a Middle Eastern Muslim Merry Man, taken from ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'') and adding a few new ones of its own (like Little John's wife and children). The Sherriff's whole subplot with his witch advisor [[spoiler:and real mother]] is also new to the movie.
27	* AdaptationNameChange:
28	** The old retainer figure is typically named Will Stutely (when that character isn't composited with Will Scarlett), but here is named Duncan. Azeem is also largely inspired by Nasir from ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'', though this might be a case of {{Expy}} given the different copyright holders.
29	** Marian, traditionally a Fitzwalter, is instead portrayed with the surname of Dubois.
30	** David of Doncaster is in the movie but he prefers the nickname "Bull", supposedly due to his BiggusDickus. He helpfully offers to show Robin but is declined.
31	* AdaptationalWimp: Little John is on the losing end of DefeatEqualsFriendship after he and Robin fight, when traditionally it's Robin.
32	* AdaptedOut: One of the few versions of the Robin Hood tale that excludes Prince John entirely.
33	* AffablyEvil: The Bishop acts with the manners of a good priest at all times, such as when he's lying to Robin, or trying to convince Marian to marry the Sheriff.
34	* AgainstMyReligion: Azeem, a Muslim, is forbidden by his faith from drinking alcohol. Friar Tuck doesn't have this limitation.
35	-->'''Friar Tuck:''' Let us open a bottle and do our best to save each other's souls.\
36	'''Azeem:''' Alas, I am not permitted.\
37	'''Friar Tuck:''' Fine, then; you talk, I'll drink.
38	* AgeLift: When [[spoiler:King Richard]] shows up, he is significantly older than he was in-reality in 1194 (he was 36 at the time, but is played by [[spoiler: Creator/SeanConnery]], who was 61 at the time, a solid 25 years older). It ''is'' plausible though that, [[spoiler:being the king, a life-long soldier and commander, and having previously been imprisoned for two years]] caused enough stress to age him faster, though.
39	* AintTooProudToBeg: Mortianna is this trope perfectly when she encounters Azeem [[spoiler:(the 'painted man' she's been dreaming will kill her)]].
40	-->'''Mortianna''': Please sir, have pity! Don't harm an old woman...!
41	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Robin and the Merry Men are able to operate for so long by using guerrilla tactics like hiding in Sherwood Forest and attacking passing convoys. Once the Sheriff hires the Celts and has his men use burning arrows and cannonballs to attack their base in a full frontal assault, the outlaws are almost all killed or captured.
42	* AltarTheSpeed: The Sheriff rushes Marian up to the Bishop's chambers and orders him to marry them. He keeps telling him to go faster and faster as Robin is pounding down the door.
43	* AmbiguouslyRelated: Downplayed. Marian Dubois is stated to be the cousin of Richard Plantagenet, though it is unknown how closely related are making George of Nottingham's plan to get a claim to the throne via marrying a random female cousin of his monarch rather iffy.
44	* AmputativeSentencing: The beginning of the film takes place in Jerusalem, which is under Arab control (and Sharia law) at the time. It shows a man who is about to have a hand cut off for stealing bread.
45	* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: The Sheriff blackmails Marian into marrying him by threatening the lives of the children he captured in the raid on the Merry Men's camp.
46	* ArcWords: "I would die for [you/her]." Also shows up in the song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You."
47	* ArrowCam: Perhaps one of the best known examples.
48	* ArrowsOnFire: It's a Myth/RobinHood movie, after all.
49	** The Sheriff's men also use flaming arrows (and flaming catapults) when trying to kill the outlaws in the ''forest''. Robin and the other Merry Men are appropriately horrified.
50	* ArchEnemy: Robin Hood has the Sheriff of Nottingham as usual, but with the added touch of the latter killing the former's father.
51	* TheArtifact: Art/TheBayeuxTapestry being shown, since ultimately the Saxon-Norman conflict (made famous by Creator/WalterScott) does not feature in this Robin Hood film.
52	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Robin and Azeem somehow get off a boat on the Kent coast in the South of England, wander all the way to the [[OopNorth north of England]] to Hadrian's Wall, which is almost 400 miles away from where they started, and is about 180 miles north of Nottingham, double back down to Locksley Manor, which is actually Old Waldour’s Castle in Wiltshire, which is about 300 miles to the south from Hadrian’s Wall, somehow bypassing Nottingham on the way, only to then walk back up to Nottingham, which is over 150 miles to the north of Wiltshire, in less than a day.
53	* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In the audio commentary, Creator/MorganFreeman admits to not having done enough research to know that Muslims do not pray with hands clasped, as Christians do.
54	** Not strictly a rigid rule in Islam, but strictly speaking, there's no rule against it. Various different groups and individuals with their own interpretations do pray with clasped hands. Considering how liberal Azeem is, he may as well come from a Sunni sect or even created his own unconventional practises.
55	** Mortianna, a devil worshipper, refers to the Celts, here implied to be pagans, as, "Those who share our god." Needless to say pagans are not devil worshippers. (Although confusing the two would be a common mistake in medieval Europe.) Also pagan Celts would be polytheistic, which means Mortianna's invocation of sharing a singular god would be even more incorrect.
56	* AscendedExtra: In most incarnations, the Sherrif is either TheDragon or TheBrute. Here he's TheBigBad.
57	* AttackOnTheHeart: Robin kills the Sheriff with a dagger to the heart.
58	* AttemptedRape: As soon as the bishop declares them man and wife, the Sheriff proceeds to force himself on Marian, or try to at any rate. Of course, this wouldn't be [[MaritalRapeLicense considered rape]] back then, but this doesn't make him one bit less villainous.
59	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the middle of the Celts' raid on the Merry Men's camp, Robin starts dumping chests full of gold coins on the bloodthirsty marauders. They stop right in their tracks to pick up said booty, every last one of them, seeming to completely forget about the raging battle surrounding them that they initiated. Of course, they are ''explicitly'' identified as [[HiredGuns "hired thugs"]].
60	** When he is StormingTheCastle, Robin pauses to do a DoubleTake at the Sheriff's statue, which previously was defaced to include the scar Robin gave him. As noted below, it's almost more of a ChekhovsGun.
61	* AudienceSurrogate: Guy of Gisborne. After Nottingham delivers his "I'll cut your heart out with a ''spoon!''" line, the scene switches to some undefined time later, with Guy [[TheWatson asking the question that is now on every audience member's mind]].
62	* AwardBaitSong: "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You." Originally written from Maid Marian's point of view, the original draft was rejected by Music/AnnieLennox, Music/KateBush and Lisa Stansfield before the song was reworked and given to Music/BryanAdams to become his all-time biggest hit.
63	* BadassPreacher:
64	** Friar Tuck is just as good a fighter as any of the other Merry Men. When he's sober, anyway.
65	*** Even when drunk, he's a force to be reckoned with. His introductory scene shows him singing and drinking while driving a carriage, and he proceeds to trounce Robin and nearly escape when the Merry Men attempt to rob him.
66	** Azeem counts as a rare positive Muslim example in Western media. He not only talks about his love for God all the time and is devout enough to observe the tenets of his religion, he believes in fighting for justice and has an egalitarian view of race and ethnicity.
67	* BastardAngst: [[spoiler:Will Scarlet is Robin's half-brother. Robin's unhappiness at his father's relationship led their father to break things off with Will's mother, which resulted in Will's illegitimate status. Will (who, according to the novelization, had not yet been born at this point) interpreted this as their father choosing his brother over him, and resents Robin for it.]]
68	* BerserkButton: Many characters have them. Most notable is Friar Tuck, who is righteously angry at the corrupt Bishop.
69	* {{BFS}}: Robin's father's sword. The Sheriff dominates most of his fight with Robin while wielding it, slicing through anything that gets in his way, including Robin's own sword.
70	** Azeem's scimitar is a lesser example. There's even a scene where he draws it and his opponent simply turns tail and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs off screaming]].
71	* BigBad: Sheriff George of Nottingham, Robin's ArchEnemy who wants to rule England.
72	* BigBrotherInstinct[=/=]TakeCareOfTheKids: Marian's brother Peter's last words are to beg Robin to look after her.
73	* BigBrotherWorship: Her reaction to his death suggests that Marian loved her brother Peter dearly.
74	* BlackComedyRape: One of the most infamous examples of Black Comedy ''Attempted'' Rape in a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster, in which the Sheriff is hurriedly trying to wed-and-bed Marian in quick succession while she screams and struggles and Robin desperately tries to batter down the door. The "comedy" comes from the Sheriff crying: "I can't do this with all that racket!", doing some rather questionable gymnastics to force Marian's legs open, and Mortianna trying to make the bride more comfortable ''during her rape'' by helpfully putting a cushion under her head.
75	* BlatantLies: When Robin first meets 'Marian' [[spoiler: (actually Sarah pretending to be Marian. Sarah is portly and rather plain looking) ]] again after his time away during the Crusades, he is surprised at her appearance.
76	-->'''Robin''': The years have... been kind.
77	* BloodOath: After Robin buries his murdered father, he slices his hand open and swears on his blood that he will avenge his death (something that Azeem finds a little disturbing). [[ContinuityNod His hand appears bandaged for a few scenes afterwards]].
78	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: By a ''[[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks thrown sword]]'', no less.
79	** Remember, though, that it's a very large sword (as opposed to the tiny bullets with very little mass that are traditionally causing this trope) thrown by a powerful man into a tiny woman. Not as bad as it could have been.
80	* BrassBalls: John remarks that Robin's are made of solid rock following their quarterstaff duel.
81	* BreakingTheFourthWall: While he's actually addressing Marian and Robin, Friar Tuck looks right at the camera and appears to be speaking to the audience with the last line of the movie.
82	* CardCarryingVillain: The Sheriff of Nottingham embodies pretty much any and all indicators of {{cartoonish supervillainy}}, up to and including [[HollywoodSatanism Satan worship]].
83	** In his defense, it more seems to be Mortianna involved in those things; she raised him, so she naturally had an influence on his belief system. The Sheriff goes to her for advice and (somewhat reluctantly) goes along with certain things, but there's little to show he actively practices any of it himself.
84	*** Case in point, he does insist on a ''Christian'' priest performing his wedding to Marian. Heck, the fact alone that he waits to be officially married before forcing himself on her shows that he does have ''some'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]].
85	*** However, in the extended cut of the film, there is a scene where Mortianna advises him to "Recruit the beasts that share our god." It should also be noted that said Christian priest is a willing stooge of the Sheriff, albeit more out of cowardice than conviction. Make of it what you will.
86	*** Realize also that a marriage performed by a pagan priest would not have been recognized by the Church of England and [[PragmaticVillainy he would have been outright declared a rapist and pagan and refused what he wanted - nobility.]]
87	* CastingGag: Creator/SeanConnery was approached to play Lord Locksley, having previously played Robin himself in ''Film/RobinAndMarian'' and co-starred with Kevin Costner in ''Film/TheUntouchables1987''. He ended up playing King Richard in an uncredited role. Ironically compounding the gag, Richard's portrayal in ''Robin and Marian'' is rather negative compared to here, causing Connery's Robin to butt heads with him.
88	* CatScare: When Marian is trying to locate the source of a sound, a hissing cat leaps onto the table before her, just before a soldier throws her down onto it.
89	* CatapultToGlory: Robin and Azeem are thrown over the castle wall by catapult after the Sheriff orders the gate closed.
90	-->'''Will''': Fuck me, he cleared it!
91	* CharacterDevelopment: Very few people who knew Robin as a child appeared to have liked him back then, so he must have done a lot of growing up while off in the Crusades.
92	--> '''Marian''': How is it, that a once-arrogant young nobleman has found contentment, living rough with the salt of the earth?
93	* ChekhovsGun: A ton. Say what you will about the licenses the film took with history, but by the standards of a blockbuster it's practically a masterclass of economy in storytelling.
94	** Perhaps the most crucial is the knife Nottingham gives to Marian. [[spoiler:She gives it to Robin, who uses it to stab Nottingham in their climactic fight.]]
95	** Similarly, the statue that the Sheriff had made of himself, which gets used as a battering ram in the climax. Also counts as a ChekhovsGag, as various characters pause to look at the scar that someone added to the statue after Robin and the Sheriff's first fight.
96	** The portrait of a young Robin seen hanging in Locksley Hall early in the film. [[spoiler:It looks an awful lot like Will Scarlet, who is secretly his illegitimate half-brother.]]
97	** Another simple, almost literal example is in the scene when the first refugees come to Sherwood Forest. [[spoiler:The arrow Robin uses to fend off Will Scarlet's attack is noticeably separate from the others in his quiver the entire scene.]]
98	** In the same scene, Robin promises to any who would seek the Sheriff's mercy that "he will stretch your necks, one by one." [[spoiler:This is precisely the fate from which Robin must save many of his men during the climax.]]
99	** Averted due to a relocated scene: when they meet at church during Mass, Marian pointedly requests out of nowhere that Robin "take a bath." However, due to needing an explanation for how Robin got into the castle during the climax, the triggering scene where he rubs crap on his cloak and distracts the guard by ObfuscatingStupidity was moved to the climax. This is not only long after the request was made, but after [[FemaleGaze Marian sees Robin honoring her request]].
100	* ChekhovsSkill: Firing an arrow amidst distractions.
101	* ChildByRape: What Mortianna wants the Sheriff to beget by Marian. When he drags her into the chapel for the forced marriage, Mortianna declares that Marian is "ripe" and will produce a son.
102	-->'''Mortianna''': You must take her now.
103	* CloseCallHaircut: Robin cuts off a lock of the Sheriff's hair during the final fight.
104	-->'''Robin''': [[BadassBoast If I must, I will take you a piece at a time.]]
105	* CompositeCharacter: The Sheriff has a similar personality and appearance to the Sheriff from ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'', but adds the black magic activities of the show's other villain, Baron de Belleme.
106	** The Sheriff also seems to be in-part a composite with the usual depiction of Prince John, being a petty, flamboyant PsychopathicManchild scheming to take the throne. He's also got a penchant for RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil [[note]]being ''introduced'' mid-raping a woman, later ordering two servant girls to go to his bed chambers later for him to molest, and finally his EvilPlan more-or-less being to rape Marian in order to take the throne[[/note]], which is behaviour the real life Prince John was infamous for.
107	* CorruptChurch: The Bishop of Hereford is a textbook example. He willingly works with the Satan-worshiping Mortianna and the Sheriff of Nottingham to sanction marital rape; previously, he had helped to accuse their enemies (like Robin's father) of witchcraft so they could be justifiably murdered. He did it all for money. After [[BigDamnHeroes Robin and Azeem interrupt the ceremony]], the Bishop flees into another room and starts trying to pack up as much treasure as he can before escaping. Of course, that's when [[BadassPreacher Friar Tuck]] comes in...
108	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: The {{Trope Namer\|s}}. Guy of Gisborne eventually works up the nerve to ask the Sheriff [[StatingTheSimpleSolution why he wouldn't just use a knife]]...
109	-->'''Nottingham''': Because it's ''dull'', you twit! [[ColdBloodedTorture It'll hurt more!]]
110	* DarkerAndEdgier:
111	** A fair chunk of this compared to previous Robin Hood adaptations, with some brutal/gruesome deaths and blood, this version of the Sheriff being one of the cruelest and using witchcraft, and a rape attempt.
112	** The NES video game, believe it or not, is much grittier and darker in tone than the movie without its signature style of humor and quirks. This is rare for an early-90s home console video game.
113	* DeadpanSnarker: The Sheriff. Robin. Azeem, sometimes.
114	-->'''Azeem'''(after watching Robin trying to [[ItMakesSenseInContext stab Guy of Gisborne through a telescope]]): How did your uneducated kind ever take Jerusalem?
115	-->'''Robin''': God knows.
116	* DeathByChildbirth: Averted, but Fanny comes awfully close until Azeem steps in.
117	* DeathByMaterialism: The corrupt Bishop might have been able to escape the castle... if he didn't try to pack up as much treasure as he could before leaving. Unfortunately for him, this gives Friar Tuck enough time to catch up with him. [[DestinationDefenestration This ends poorly for the Bishop]].
118	* DefiantToTheEnd: Robin's father finds that he is alone against a few dozen men loyal to the Sheriff, who give him one last chance to join them.
119	-->'''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis GOD... AND...]] [[BattleCry KING RICHARD!]]'''
120	* DemandingTheirHead: Guy of Gisborne promises his men "A crown to the man who brings me Locksley's head!"
121	* DemotedToExtra: Guy of Gisborne is a complicated, zig-zaggy example. Gisborne's earliest recorded appearance casts him as a one shot antagonist, but one who was able to give Robin an intense fight, which got him promoted to a TheDragon and Robin's EvilCounterpart in most adaptations. Here, he's a consistently unimpressive [[TheBrute Brute]] who is never a credible threat and who gets [[YouHaveFailedMe killed by the Sheriff]] well before the climax.
122	* DestinationDefenestration / DisneyVillainDeath: How Friar Tuck deals with the corrupt Bishop.
123	** Robin performs a rare inversion, swinging in through a window to save Marian.
124	* DisneyDeath: Robin swings from a burning rope. It breaks; he falls; everyone assumes he's dead. Guess what. [[spoiler: Later, Mortianna appears to die when Azeem stabs her with a spear, but comes back to try and kill Robin.]]
125	* DisappearedDad: Lord Locksley was one to Will, explaining his resentment of Robin. In the ReCut, [[spoiler:Mortianna is shown to be the Sheriff's birth mother. Though his birth father is not revealed, he's implied to possibly be Satan]].
126	* DisappointingHeritageReveal: In the ReCut: [[spoiler:The Sheriff always believed that he was nobly born, but Mortianna raised him after their sudden deaths. She reveals that she's actually his birth mother, and she replaced a nobleman's baby with him so that he could ascend to a position of power.]]
127	-->'''[[spoiler:Mortianna]]''': You despise me? You ''are'' me.
128	* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: Mortianna tries to kill Robin after the Sheriff dies, but is killed by Azeem.]]
129	* DueToTheDead:
130	** When Robin gets home and finds out what's become of his father in his absence, his first action (after he gets over his very understandable freak-out) is to give his father a proper burial.
131	** Later, the same care is given to those who lose their lives during the woodland invasion, including [[spoiler:Duncan.]]
132	** Robin keeping his promise to Peter, to deliver his ring to Marian and offer her his protection, may also count as this trope.
133	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Robin's father and Peter both charge down a crowd alone before their deaths.
134	* EatingTheEyeCandy: When Marian and Sarah happen upon [[WaterfallShower Robin taking a bath]], the men try to cover their eyes. Marian... [[FemaleGaze declines]].
135	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
136	** After all the horrible things he's done, the Sheriff is outraged at the notion of forcing himself on Marian before they are properly married. He seems to have no problem with forcing her ''after'' they're married (though at that point he probably thinks it's just [[MaritalRapeLicense his right]]). Note that he was already shown casually engaging in raping the servant girls, so it's less about being opposed to rape and more that he didn't want to sire a bastard, preferring his ChildByRape be ''legitimate''.
137	** He also balks at recruiting the Celts, noting that "they drink the blood of their dead".
138	** While the Sheriff is in the middle of trying to rape Marian, Mortianna gives him a pillow to put under her head.
139	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: This exchange when the scribe tries to explain why the commoners support Robin Hood instead of turning him in for the Sheriff's ever-increasing bounty.
140	-->'''Scribe:''' It won't do no good how much you raise it... The poor y'see, he gives them what he takes, and well sire, they love him. \
141	'''Sheriff''': [[LetMeGetThisStraight Just a minute]]. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, ''[[NeverMyFault forcing me]]'' to hurt the public... and they ''love'' him for it?!
142	* EvilIsPetty: "Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings... and call off Christmas!"
143	* EvilPlan: The Sheriff of Nottingham kills Robin's father to take his title before trying to force Maid Marian to marry him so he can kill her cousin UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart and take over England.
144	* EvilSoundsDeep: Creator/AlanRickman as the Sheriff.
145	* EvilSoundsRaspy: Creator/MichaelWincott as Guy of Gisborne.
146	* ExactWords: When Friar Tuck confronts the corrupt bishop, he promises not to "strike a fellow man of the cloth." He then loads him up with his ill-gotten gold and [[DestinationDefenestration defenestrates him]].
147	* EyeScream:
148	** Duncan, Lord Locksley's retainer, had his eyes cut out because he refused to believe the accusations leveled at his master. The fact that he's the only servant left on the Locksley estate when Robin arrives suggests he might have been the only one who resisted.
149	** Robin kills the executioner by shooting him in the eye with a flaming arrow to keep him from executing the outlaws.
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153	* FalseReassurance: When Friar Tuck comes to confront him the Bishop of Hereford asks if he's really going to strike "a fellow man of the cloth". Tuck agrees that he wouldn't and then shoves the Bishop out of the window without technically "striking" him.
154	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Robin stabs the Sheriff in the heart, using the dagger that Marian had given him - which the Sheriff had previously given her.]]
155	** Also Mortianna. [[spoiler:Azeem runs her though with a spear, then throws a sword into her head when that doesn't work.]]
156	* {{Fanfare}}: Music/MichaelKamen's main title theme is a powerful flourish of brass instruments.
157	* FatalFlaw: Two examples on display during the climax:
158	** The Sheriff's is his arrogance. Rather than kill Robin immediately once he's cornered, he takes a moment to gloat, looking at Marian. That moment is all Robin needs to turn the tables.
159	** The Bishop's is his greed. Instead of running for his life, he instead stops to gather up his ill-gotten gold, which is where Friar Tuck finds him and proceeds to shove him out a window.
160	* FauxAffablyEvil: For all his LargeHam and LaughablyEvil tendencies, the Sheriff of Nottingham is '''''worse''''' here than he is almost ever portrayed. He is not only a murderous asshole, he ''worships the devil''.
161	* {{Fingore}}: Downplayed. Robin Hood gets his fingers painfully trapped in the metal slide on a door's aperture at Marian's estate when the servant forcibly closes it on him (the same hand that is freshly bandaged from his earlier BloodOath!).
162	* FluffyTheTerrible: During the wedding scene, the Sheriff's real first name is revealed to be... George.
163	* {{Foil}}: Between [[spoiler: Nottingham's and Robin's weddings to Marian. Nottingham's wedding is cold, dark, secluded within the [[RuleOfSymbolism confines of a castle]], not to mention she's being [[StealthPun forced]] into this marriage. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh and it's being done in the wake of Satanism]]. Marian's dressed in almost a metallic gown, with her hair pulled back from her face in a confined manner that seems to represent her own imprisonment, and her face is hard and angry. ''Meanwhile'', you have Robin's wedding where everything is bright, warm with so many friends as the attendees, out in the open of Sherwood Forest, with the smell of freedom in the air. The bride wears a flowing white dress with her hair unbound and crowned with a wreath of autumn leaves, and she smiles almost continuously. To top it all off, Robin and Marian's wedding has King Richard's blessing.]]
164	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
165	** When Robin reveals his name to the future Merry Men at the river, the camera focuses on Will Scarlet shooting him a DeathGlare.
166	** Later, when Marian visits the forest dwelling, she and Robin have a private conversation where they reminisce about his father, and he confesses how lost he and his father were after the death of Robin's mother. He mentions that his father sought relief in the company of another woman, but then gave her up because it made Robin so unhappy. [[spoiler:Cut to much later in the film, and we learn that Will Scarlet is the son of Robin's father and that woman.]]
167	* FriendToAllChildren: Friar Tuck. When the Sheriff's men infiltrate the forest dwelling, he rounds up several of the kids and herds them to safety.
168	-->'''Friar Tuck:''' This way, my lambs.
169	** Azeem also gets a nod with his friendly exchange with the little girl asking him "Did God paint you?" And of course, his saving John and Fanny's baby during birth.
170	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When the Sheriff invites the Celtic chieftain to the council with his allies, one questions his abilities. The chieftain takes a burning log out of the fireplace and calmly presses it against his own palm. Others are impressed and the council continues, while, in the background, the chieftain is visibly stifling a scream, even biting his hand.
171	* GiveAwayTheBride: King Richard requests that he be allowed to do this when he interrupts the wedding of Robin and Marian just before Friar Tuck declares them to be husband and wife. No one objects.
172	* GodHelpUsAll: As the Celts prepare to attack the village, Azeem gasps, "Allah be merciful."
173	* GreaterScopeVillain: Mortianna. [[spoiler:She killed the original George Nottingham and replaced him with her own son, then spent years stoking his ambitions and tutoring him in devil worship before seeing his infatuation with Lady Marian, a cousin of King Richard, as a way to put her grandson in line for the throne of England.]]
174	* GroinAttack:
175	** This is how the brief fight between Robin and an armored Lady Marian ends.
176	** Also, part of how Robin defeats Little John in their fight is to sneak up on him and hit him in the crotch with the staff.
177	** During the final fight between Robin and the Sheriff, Nottingham says that he will be the only one "doing the taking." Marian responds by throwing hot candle wax on his crotch.
178	* HappilyMarried: Little John and Fanny bicker a lot, but it's clear they're also very happy together (considering they have ''eight'' children). They're frequently shown to worry about each other's well-being, and when Fanny nearly dies in childbirth, John is beside himself with terror.
179	* HardWorkMontage: After Robin Hood's RousingSpeech ("By God, we take it back!"), the Merry Men set about to training in archery and swordfighting under Robin and Azeem while also crafting weapons and building their hideout in Sherwood Forest.
180	* HeroicBastard: Will Scarlet, who is [[spoiler:Robin's illegitimate half-brother]].
181	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The Sheriff is stabbed by the knife he gave to Marian, who later gave it to Robin. Subverted when Mortianna survives being stabbed by the spear with which she had attacked Azeem.]]
182	* HolierThanThou: The Bishop.
183	* HopeSpot: The outlaws do a valiant job of defending themselves and even appear to have successfully driven the invaders back. Then the Sherriff's men step forward with fire-tinged arrows and catapults...
184	* HorsebackHeroism:
185	** Robin steals the Sheriff's horse and uses it to escape while stealing food from a marketplace to feed his men, before the woodland encampment is properly established.
186	** Later, Duncan gets a variant of this when Marian is captured by the Sheriff's men; he gets a horse from the stable and manages to find his way back to Robin's camp ''despite being blind''. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he has no idea that the Sheriff's men are following him, and he was in fact ''allowed'' to escape for exactly this reason.]]
187	* IntergenerationalFriendship: While their ages are never brought up, Azeem is quite a bit older than Robin. Creator/MorganFreeman was fifty-four at the time and the fictious Robert Fitzooth, the traditional identity for the Robin Hood of Richard I's time, has 1160 as his birth year, making for a twenty year age difference between the two men.
188	* IOweYouMyLife: Azeem's whole reason for being in England.
189	* ImStandingRightHere: A rather amusing use of this, as the recently-blinded Duncan curses the Moors and Saracens, with Azeem sitting right next to him.
190	-->'''Duncan:''' Curse those Moors and Saracens. Were it not for their ungodly ways, Master Robin would never have left. [''{{beat}}''] What manner of name is "Azeem"? Irish? Cornish?
191	-->'''Azeem:''' ''[[TranquilFury Moorish.]]''
192	* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler:Will Scarlet]] gets an arrow through the hand when he tries to backstab Robin Hood.
193	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Mortianna is on the receiving end of this from [[spoiler: Azeem, who's using the same spear she tried to kill him with seconds before]].
194	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Both played straight and subverted. The subversion is in Robin actually ''missing'' a shot. Sure, he was DistractedByTheSexy (so to speak), but come on. He's ''Robin Hood''.
195	** Just before the forest battle, several watchmen fire into a crowd of people around Robin and come within inches of hitting them while firing warning arrows.
196	* InertialImpalement: When Azeem gets the spear away from Mortianna, she charges at him. Azeem defends himself with the spear, and based on the look on his face, he wasn't trying to stab her; she did that on her own.
197	* InvulnerableKnuckles: The Sheriff of Nottingham punches out [[YouHaveFailedMe an unfortunate henchman]] who's wearing a helmet and a chain mail coif, and doesn't even flinch.
198	* IronicEcho: Robin intervenes when [[TheDragon Guy of Gisbourne]] has chased a young boy up a tree. Guy tells Robin to butt out, as they are on the Sheriff’s land. Robin (who doesn’t know yet that the Sheriff has murdered his father and seized the family lands) retorts that they are actually on ''his'' land, therefore the tree and everything in it belong to him.
199	-->'''Guy''': ''[annoyed]'' Might I have the pleasure of your name, before I have you run through?\
200	'''Robin''': ''[smugly]'' Robin of Locksley.\
201	'''Guy''': Well, well... Locksley. Welcome home. ''[to his men]'' Kill him!\
202	''[Robin proceeds to single-handedly wipe out Guy’s men and ends up holding Guy at swordpoint on the ground.]''\
203	'''Robin''': Now, sir... if you will be so kind as to tell me ''your'' name, before I run ''you'' through...
204	* JoinOrDie: The Sheriff of Nottingham gives Lord Locksley the choice to join up or die. Cue DyingMomentOfAwesome:
205	-->'''Lord Locksley:''' "GOD AND KING RICHARD!!!"
206	* KarmicInjury: During their final battle, the Sheriff slashes Robin across the chin as payback for the scar on the cheek Robin gave him earlier.
207	* KickTheDog: The Sheriff of Nottingham [[CardCarryingVillain embraces his role as the bad guy]]:
208	-->'''Sheriff of Nottingham:''' Wait a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they ''love'' him for it?\
209	''[Scribe nods]''\
210	'''Sheriff:''' That's it, then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans. No more merciful beheadings. ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And call off Christmas!]]''
211	* LargeHam:
212	** Creator/AlanRickman, so very much. He only took the part on the condition that he got to play it however he wanted[[note]]When Rickman won the [=BAFTA=] for Best Supporting Actor, he used his acceptance speech to quip "This will be a healthy reminder to me that subtlety isn't everything"[[/note]].
213	** '''Creator/BrianBlessed''' AND Creator/SeanConnery are in the movie. AND they each only have one scene. Sean Connery isn't even listed in the credits!
214	** Nick Brimble (Little John) sometimes seems to be making up for BRIAN BLESSED only having one scene by doing a damn good imitation of him in half his own scenes.
215	* LicensedGame: Received a video game adaptation for the NES. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So_Dq0mhRNI Spoony reviews it here]].
216	* LodgedBladeRecycling: Mortianna attacks Azeem with a spear, and lodges it in his leg when he tries to deflect. After a struggle, Azeem ends up with the spear and Mortianna impales herself on it. Later, after Robin kills the Sheriff, Mortianna reappears, charging him with the same spear.
217	* LukeIAmYourFather: As mentioned under ReCut, below. [[spoiler:The Sheriff grew up thinking Mortianna raised him after he was orphaned, but she reveals that she's actually his birth mother. She's a Bride of Satan, and her master plot is to have the Sheriff wed Marian, steal the kingdom from Richard, and father the next King of England - putting her bloodline on the throne.]]
218	** From the theatrical cut there's the reveal, nearly two-thirds of the way through the movie, that [[spoiler:Will is Robin's half-brother from Lord Locksley's affair with a servant woman after Robin's mother died]].
219	* MadeOfIron: Downplayed with Mortianna. She shrugs off Azeem spearing her through the torso, pulls the spear out, and attacks Robin with it. [[spoiler:A thrown sword to the head, though? That ''does'' kill her.]]
220	* MakesUsEven: The Sheriff invokes this by slashing Robin's chin with his sword before their FinalBattle begins as payback for the scar Robin left on his cheek.
221	* MamaBear and PapaWolf: Fanny and Little John, who are this way about each other as well as their kids.
222	-->'''John:''' What are you doing, woman? Where's the little 'uns? \
223	'''Fanny:''' They're safe, they're with my mother. \
224	'''John:''' You gone and bleedin' cracked, girl? You'd get hurt! \
225	'''Fanny:''' I've given birth to eight babies, don't you talk to me about getting hurt, you big ox! Anyway, I'm not gonna just sit here and let one of 'em die, am I? \
226	'''John:''' You should be bloody well mindin' the other seven!
227	* TheManBehindTheMan: The Dukes whom the Sheriff is bribing to help him overthrow the king.
228	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Wulf, the eldest son of Fanny and Little John, has seven younger brothers and sisters (the youngest of whom is born midway through the film). Wulf is the only one whose name is ever mentioned.
229	* MasterArcher: Robin Hood, of course. Azeem also turns out to be a good shot and so is Wulf after being trained.
230	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The witch is shown faking several of her tricks, but a few others are left unexplained.
231	* MedievalMorons: Most of the Merry Men.
232	* {{Multishot}}: Robin fires two arrows at the same time.
233	** There's even a [[LampshadeHanging nice nod to the improbability of this]] as a quick shot shows Robin biting some of the fletching off one of the arrows, presumably to make it go wide and hit a second target.
234	* MenOfSherwood: The TropeNamers are out in full form, as the Merry Men put on consistently good showings. When the Sheriff's army of Celtic mercenaries launch an all-out assault on the forest encampment, they're defeated without a single on-screen casualty [[spoiler: until the FlamingArrows come out and the entire camp is burned down.]]
235	* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: One of the first cinematic versions in a good while to do away with Robin's then-iconic green tunic and bycocket, the movie opts to dress him in more period-appropriate clothes of neutral and muted colors.
236	* MundaneMadeAwesome: The Sheriff of Nottingham somehow makes the order to "close the gate" sound utterly badass. Also the lines "Get some troops in here!" and "What are ''you'' waiting for?! Get on with it!" Of course, it ''is'' Creator/AlanRickman.
237	* NeutralFemale: Mostly, though not entirely, averted during the final fight between Robin and the Sheriff. Marian ([[JustifiedTrope who is unarmed and unarmored]]) does her best to stay out of the way, which is exactly what she ''should'' be doing with those big broadswords swinging around. However, she doesn't hesitate to [[ImprovisedWeaponUser throw whatever she can get her hands on]] at the Sheriff when his back is to her. She even appears to be preparing to strangle him with her bare hands at one point, though he disrupts the attempt. She also trips him up by kicking a bench at him and burns him with a candle.
238	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Wulf recognizes Will in the crowd on his way to be hanged. Angry over [[spoiler:his apparent betrayal, he attacks him. The Sheriff recognizes Will in the scuffle and, upon hearing of Will's "failure" to kill Robin, adds him to the condemned. When the hangman comes up short a noose due to the addition, he ties Will to the planted barrel of gun powder. Now Robin can't shoot the barrel to save them.]]
239	* NiceToTheWaiter: We know Marian's a good person because she treats her servants well and she brings purses full of money to church on Sunday to give to the poor. Conversely, we know the Sheriff's a jackass for many reasons, but among them are the [[BadBoss way he treats]] his scribe and Guy of Gisborne (who is his own ''cousin'' in this).
240	* TheNicknamer: Azeem has a knack of referring to Robin as "the Christian" more than his actual name due to his crusader background, even after they move to England and it's redundant since pretty much ''everyone else'' is Christian.
241	* NoodleIncident: We never learn what caused Azeem to be imprisoned, other than that it involved a woman named Jasmine.
242	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent:
243	** Costner's Robin Hood mostly sounds like he's from Nebraska. (Which is odd, since he's actually from California). Apparently he did attempt an English accent but it was so terrible that it would have made Creator/DickVanDyke sound like a native cockney, so it was decided to stick with Costner's natural voice.
244	** Also Sean Connery, but that goes without saying. To be fair to Connery ''on this occasion'', an English accent on UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart would have been inaccurate (he probably never learned English and would have conducted court business in French, though he was a native Gascon speaker so he would have spoken French with what would sound to most modern audiences like a Catalan accent). Ironically, this makes his Scottish accent a decent facsimile of how alien he would have sounded to his English subjects.
245	** For some reason, Christian Slater doesn't get a tenth of the mockery that Costner does, but this might have more to do with his not being in the central role, and at least making an attempt at the accent, dropping his R's and pronouncing short A's as Ah's. But this [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent only serves]] [[OohMeAccentsSlipping to make him sound sillier]].
246	** Hence, Creator/MelBrooks did the famous TakeThat when in ''[[Film/RobinHoodMenInTights Men in Tights]]'', his Robin comments "Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent". Then again, the language used in England in the 12th century was nothing like what we call English today (Received Pronunciation/Standard English being recent developments). In fact, the language of the English nobility of the time was Anglo-Norman French; Richard himself didn't speak English at all.
247	** To be fair, you could make the case for most of the cast being this trope, as even the British actors speak with their natural voices, which run the full gamut of English regional accents - none of which are even remotely from anywhere near Nottinghamshire, or even a Medieval one. The reason Costner's and Slater's stick out so much is because they are either not even trying to do an accent, or their attempt at it fails miserably, and it sounds jarring next to actual Brits.
248	** Averted with American actors Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio and Creator/MikeMcShane, who both offered very passable English accents as Marian and Friar Tuck, respectively.
249	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: A downplayed example with Sheriff George of Nottingham, in that while he is clearly a dangerous man, we don't actually see him in combat until the climax where it becomes frighteningly clear that he is a swordsman equal to Robin, if not better.
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251
252	[[folder:O-Z]]
253	* OffWithHisHead: When Will Scarlet tries to redeem himself and is caught trying to interfere with the execution of Wulf and the other outlaws, he is initially summarily condemned to hang as well. There’s just one small problem: all the nooses on the gallows are occupied. The executioner’s solution is to bind Will to a barrel and use said barrel as a makeshift chopping block. Thankfully, Robin is able to shoot the executioner just as he’s raising his axe.
254	--> '''Will:''' (''seeing the lack of room on the gallows'') My lord, there’s no more room! I’m afraid I have to decline!\
255	'''Executioner:''' (''bends Will over a barrel and binds him in place before whispering in his ear, [[{{Squick}} taking care to leave a string of spittle by Will’s ear]]'') There’s always room for one more.
256	* OhCrap:
257	** Duncan's reaction to learning, belatedly, that Azeem is a Moor... mere seconds after [[ImStandingRightHere having cursed the Moors and blamed them for Robin's predicament]].
258	** A more serious one is after the Merry Men defend their forest home from hired thugs. Robin looks out towards the Nottingham soldiers in the distance, with flaming arrows and trebuchets, and says "My God" in sheer terror. Azeem is right there with him, offering up his own [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Allah be merciful!"]]
259	** Also when Mortianna and Azeem see each other for the first time, each having heard all the horror stories about the other (and, in Mortianna's case, having had prophetic dreams about Azeem).
260	--->'''Mortianna''': The painted man!
261	--->'''Azeem''': The witch!
262	* OutdoorBathPeeping: Gender reversed; Marian sees Robin bathing nude in a waterfall's base and [[FemaleGaze stares without a hint of shame.]]
263	* PartingWordsRegret: Despite their falling out before the story begins, Robin and his father still love each other and regret how they parted in anger when he left for the Crusade. Before he died, Lord Locksley tried to arrange for his son's release from capture, and Robin has a HeroicBSOD when he finds his father's corpse.
264	* PeriodPieceModernLanguage: At the sheriff's orders posters are put up offering a reward for Robin dead or alive, written in modern English, which did not come into existence until the late 14th century.
265	* PreMortemOneLiner: Right before throwing the corrupt Bishop out of a window, Friar Tuck offers this beauty.
266	-->'''Tuck:''' ''(adding one more pouch of coins to the bundles he's already shoved into the Bishop's arms)'' Here's thirty pieces of silver... to pay the devil... ''on your way to '''HELL!!'''''
267	* PrecisionFStrike: "Fuck me, he cleared it!" Also a ThrowItIn by Slater.
268	* ProducePelting: As the sentenced-to-hanging men are led out to the gallows, many of those watching throw assorted vegetation at them.
269	* PublicExecution: After the successful raid on the Merry Men’s camp, Nottingham sentences those captured in the raid- [[WouldHurtAChild including young Wulf]]- to death by hanging. When Will Scarlet, seeking to redeem himself, tries to intervene, he is summarily ordered executed as well, only for there to be no more room on the gallows, so the executioner finds a barrel and binds him to it, [[OffWithHisHead intending to carry out the “sentence” with an axe]]. Fortunately, Robin is able to intervene by not only [[ShootTheRope shooting through Wulf’s noose while he’s hanging]] but also shooting the executioner before he can chop off Will’s head. Little John then manages to run up to the gallows, and, using his brute strength, is able to push it over enough onto one side to save the rest of the condemned Merry Men.
270	* ReCut: The extended version adds in 12 minutes of new footage, including an entire subplot with the Sheriff and Mortianna. [[spoiler: She's his biological mother and using him as a pawn in her EvilPlan to get her own bloodline on the throne in King Richard's absence.]]
271	* RecycledTrailerMusic: Disney uses the main fanfare in the promotional clip that plays as soon as one of their [=DVDs=] is loaded.
272	* ReformedBully: Robin himself; Marian claims when they first meet again that all her memories of Robin from their youth were of him being a spoiled bully to her, specifically citing how he used to burn her hair for fun. It's one of the reasons she's so reluctant to take him in and accept his offer of protection, even as he insists he's matured, though the fact he says goodbye to her with a [[FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss hard smack to her backside probably doesn't help his attempts at convincing her]].
273	* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
274	** It often varies in regards to Robin and Will, with their relation being either uncle and nephew, cousins, or completely unrelated. Here they are paternal half-brothers.
275	** The Sheriff and Sir Guy are not typically portrayed as being related to one another. Here they are cousins, though likely [[spoiler:adoptive, due to Mortianna having switched her infant son with the actual infant son of the House of Nottingham]].
276	** Marian and Richard are portrayed as cousins. Typically, there is no relation between the two.
277	* RelativeButton: Guy of Gisbourne intentionally pushes the button, mocking the death of Robin's father to make Robin attempt to fight him right then, when Guy is surrounded by mooks, and be duly slaughtered. Fortunately for Robin, Azeem is there to talk some sense into him.
278	-->'''Guy:''' Your father died a coward, cursing your name and squealing like a stuck pig!\
279	'''Azeem:''' ''[grabs Robin as he starts to move toward Guy]'' You will bring no justice to your father by dying today!
280	* ReleasingFromThePromise: Robin repeatedly tries to do this to Azeem once they reach England. Azeem refuses each time, saying that Robin doesn't get to decide when Azeem has fulfilled his vow to protect him.
281	* RenaissanceMan: The Sheriff's scribe serves as his bookkeeper, surgeon, advisor, assistant, and also informant about the public's opinion on Robin.
282	* TheResenter: Will Scarlet towards Robin. In the latter half of the movie, we find out why when Will reveals that [[spoiler: he's Robin's illegitimate half-brother.]]
283	-->'''Will Scarlet''': I have more reason to hate you than anyone.
284	* RoleCalled
285	* RousingSpeech: Azeem's speech to the people of Nottingham.
286	-->'''Azeem''': ENGLISH! ENGLISH! Behold, Azeem Ibn Bashir Al-Bakir! I am not one of you, but I ''fight!'' I fight with Robin Hood! I fight against the tyrant who holds you under his boot! If you would be free men, then you must fight... join us now! Join Robin Hood!
287	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Marian is King Richard's cousin, making her a member of the Plantagenet royal family. She refuses to leave her home and join her mother in London because "I am the King's cousin; it is my station to look after his people while he is away!" She gives refugees the freedom to camp on her estate and distributes money to the poor. She's also quite the ActionGirl, as shown in her introductory scene.
288	* RunningGag: Robin seems incapable of meeting ''anyone'' without getting in a fight, which is a nice nod to the original ballads... where Robin is incapable of meeting anyone without getting into a fight.
289	* SamusIsAGirl: Marian is introduced masked, and it's not until she lets out a high-pitched scream when Robin sticks her hand in a candle that her identity is revealed.
290	* SayMyName: Marian's infamous "Robiiin!" and his slightly more restrained "Marian!" In the beginning, Lord Locksley uses this as a BattleCry, screaming his loyalty to King Richard during his last fight. Then the famous moment when Robin reveals to all that he still lives when he saves Wulf from the hangman's noose...
291	--> '''Sheriff:''' [[TranquilFury Locksley...]]\
292	'''Marian:''' (''screams'') ROBIN!!!
293	* ScaryBlackMan: Azeem to the British. Less so to the audience, considering he's played by Creator/MorganFreeman.
294	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Kevin Costner in the movie poster.
295	* SecretCircleOfSecrets: The Sheriff and his conspirators.
296	* ShootTheRope: To save the kid! Played with in that Robin has to shoot it twice, as the first arrow only frays it. The second one saves Wulf, and reveals to the Sheriff and Marian that he's still alive after the Sheriff was told by Will that Robin was dead after the Celts attacked Sherwood Forest.
297	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Friar Tuck allows the wedding guests a chance to object to the marriage of Robin and Marian, but after the moment of silence and before Tuck pronounces the couple as husband and wife, King Richard steps in to prevent the marriage from taking place unless he is allowed to GiveAwayTheBride. None object to the king's wish.
298	* TheStarscream: Given that Prince John is presumably the ruler in King Richard's absence at the time of the film (as he was in real life), the Sheriff of Nottingham is this to him, as he plans to take over the country. However, the Prince is never mentioned in the film at all.
299	* StopDrowningAndStandUp: Robin and Little have this conversation after they're both knocked into the water after a quarterstaff battle:
300	-->'''Robin of Locksley:''' Do you yield?
301	-->'''John Little:''' I can't bloody swim!
302	-->'''Robin of Locksley:''' Do you yield?
303	-->'''John Little:''' Yes!
304	-->'''Robin of Locksley:''' Good. Now put your feet down.
305	-->'''John Little:''' ''[finds that he is standing in less than 2 feet of water]'' I'll be buggered.
306	* StormingTheCastle: Complete with explosions and a CatapultToGlory.
307	* StoutStrength: Friar Tuck is able to pull a ''horse cart'' full of beer barrels after Robin takes him hostage and makes him pull the cart back to the outlaws' hideout.
308	* SuperDrowningSkills: Little John can't swim at all, and concedes defeat to Robin when he thinks he might drown. It turns out that the water in which he's floundering only comes up to his thighs.
309	* {{Swashbuckler}}
310	* SwordOverHead
311	* SwordSparks: Mostly against stone pillars.
312	* TheTeetotaler: Azeem is offered mead by Little John, and later invited for a drink by Friar Tuck, who is decidedly ''not'' a teetotaler.
313	-->"With regret, I must decline. Allah forbids it."
314	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Azeem sees the Celtic hordes through his telescope, he says in a tone of genuine fear, "Allah be merciful."
315	* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Azeem chucks his sword at Mortianna while she is in full sprint, and hits her square on. And she goes ''[[BlownAcrossTheRoom flying across the room]]'' and hits the wall! It's hinted there may be something mystical at work here, as Mortianna prophesies that Azeem will be the one to kill her, something he seems to feel as well. Averted a few minutes before this, when Robin's sword breaks a little above the hilt, and he throws the remainder at the Sheriff.
316	* TitleDrop: Marian does it when speaking privately with Robin.
317	-->Robin of the Hood, prince of thieves... is he capable of love?
318	* TookALevelInKindness: The general report on younger Robin is he was pretty much an entitled jerk. Marian remembers him as "a spoiled bully who used to burn my hair as a child," Will Scarlett has even more reason to have a grievance against him, and Robin himself admits responsibility for Will being abandoned and notes regretfully that his father did it "for the love of a twelve-year-old boy who would never forgive him."
319	* TragicKeepsake: Lord Locksley's medallion to Robin. Later, briefly, to Marian as well when she believes Robin to have died during the battle at the woodland hideout. She even wears it during her wedding to the Sheriff, much to the groom's annoyance.
320	* TranquilFury: Friar Tuck, when he confronts the Bishop, who's trying to escape with his money.
321	-->'''Friar Tuck''': So... you've [[DealWithTheDevil sold your soul to Satan]], Your Grace. You accused innocent men of [[BurnTheWitch witchcraft]] ''and let them die''!
322	* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Well, they're not peaceful, and they're not villagers, but they're farmers who have no combat training.
323	* TreeTopTown: The outlaws and their families dwell in one in Sherwood Forest.
324	* TrickAndFollowPloy: When the Sheriff's men apprehend Marian and turn her entire household upside down, they specifically let the elderly and blind Duncan escape so he can lead them back into Robin's encampment.
325	--> '''Will Scarlet''': ''(with more pity than malice)'' Blind old fool led 'em straight to us.
326	* TrickedIntoEscaping: Duncan is allowed to escape so that he can be [[TrickAndFollowPloy followed back to Robin's camp]].
327	* TruerToTheText: Downplayed since the film made considerable changes to the lore and actual history, but the decision to excise Prince John completely and just use the Sheriff of Nottingham as the BigBad brings things back to the original ballads and stories, where he was the sole BigBad (as the time period wouldn't get associated with Robin Hood until centuries later).
328	** There are also some ideas in the film which harkens back to the older tellings which has fallen out of fashion in most modern versions by the time the film was made:
329	*** Marian fights Robin in her initial appearance which goes along more to the stories were Marian could hold her own and sometimes was the protagonist.
330	*** The corrupt church theme in the film mirrors how the ballads and plays would lampoon the church with the lower ranking clergy being sincere and helpful while the high ranking bishops and abbotts were greedy and corrupt. Contrast Friar Tuck and the Bishop.
331	* {{Tsundere}}: Marian at times.
332	* TheUnfavourite: [[spoiler: Will Scarlet, who was the son of Robin's father and a woman with whom he was involved after the death of Robin's mother. Lord Locksley broke it off with the woman (and basically abandoned his second son) because the affair upset Robin; as Robin himself notes when relating the affair to Marian, he did it "for the love of a twelve-year-old boy who would never forgive him." However, the novelization of the film reveals that Will was born after Lord Locksley broke off the affair, and Will’s mother never told Lord Locksley she was pregnant, suggesting that he was entirely unaware of the child's existence.]]
333	* UnderTheMistletoe: While walking to his family home, Robin notices a mistletoe plant and stops to pick some.
334	-->'''Robin:''' Many a young maid has lost her virtue to me, thanks to this little plant.\
335	'''Azeem:''' In my country, we talk to our women. We do not drug them with plants.
336	* ViewersAreGeniuses: Friar Tuck's above-mentioned line about "thirty pieces of silver" is a Biblical reference; this was the amount of money that Judas Iscariot was paid to betray Jesus Christ. However, the way the line is delivered and the shocking defenestration which follows are both so incredibly badass that some viewers didn't really catch the reference.
337	* VillainousBreakdown: The Sheriff goes through one of these after Robin and the outlaws put paid to a large chunk of his EvilPlan to overthrow the King.
338	-->'''Sheriff''': In ten days' time, the barons are coming. Robin Hood has stolen what I was to pay for their allegiance, and I am [[SurroundedByIdiots surrounded by fools]] who do not realise my obligations!
339	* VillainousBSOD: In the ReCut: [[spoiler:The Sheriff, after Mortianna reveals that she's his biological mother.]]
340	* ViolentGlaswegian: Implied.
341	-->'''Mortianna:''' Recruit the beasts that share our god.
342	-->'''Sheriff of Nottingham:''' Animals?
343	-->'''Mortianna:''' From the North.
344	-->'''Sheriff of Nottingham:''' You mean Celts. They drink the blood of their dead.
345	* WantedPoster: During the movie, there's a shot of a wanted poster for Robin Hood (with his name as "Robin of the Hood"). It's a "dead or alive" version, with the reward being 1,000 gold coins.
346	* WaterfallShower: Taken by Robin.
347	* WeddingDeadline:
348	** The Sheriff actually gets married to Marian before Robin can stop it, but he dies pretty shortly thereafter, leaving her WidowedAtTheWedding. (As an unstated bonus, this means she can legally inherit all of his property, and thereby return everything to the people from whom he stole it - including Robin's lands.)
349	** Happens again when King Richard interrupts Robin's and Marian's wedding.
350	* WeddingFinale: The film ends with Robin and Marian marrying in a beautiful ceremony in the woods - which King Richard interrupts (right before Friar Tuck declares that they are husband and wife) on the grounds that he should be permitted to GiveAwayTheBride. No one objects; Marian is delighted.
351	* WorldOfHam: To be expected with a cast like Creator/AlanRickman and '''Creator/BrianBlessed'''.
352	* WouldHurtAChild: Nottingham would ''kill'' a child, as evidenced when one of the outlaws, a young boy named Wulf, is made to go to the gallows alongside the adult outlaws, and in fact is the first to feel the noose’s embrace.[[note]] Some degree of DeliberateValuesDissonance here. It was in fact permissible as late as the 18th century to sentence a child to death for certain crimes.[[/note]] Thankfully, Robin is there to ShootTheRope. Gisborne as well is introduced chasing Wulf down with men and hunting dogs for poaching, and the newly-returned Robin drives them off.
353	* XanatosGambit: With a side order of BatmanGambit. Consider the Sheriff's plan of attack on the Merry Men. He sends the Celts in first; if they kill the Merry Men, he wins. If they retreat into the treetops and shoot the Celts (which is what happens), that's fine too. He'll just use his ArrowsOnFire and flaming catapults to kill them anyway.
354	* YouAllMeetInACell: Robin and Azeem.
355	* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Robin practically says this verbatim to Azeem after the battle of Sherwood Forest, adding that he fought better than twenty English knights. The context implies that it is said with no malice and pure admiration.
356	* YouHaveFailedMe: The Sheriff disembowels Guy of Gisborne after stating that "I can't allow a lieutenant to fail me." (At least he didn't use [[IronicEcho a spoon]].) Made arguably worse by the fact that Guy is the Sheriff's cousin, and only seconds before the killing, [[MoodWhiplash the Sheriff had been embracing and consoling him over the failure]].
357	* YouKilledMyFather: The Sheriff did this to Lord Locksley, which he makes clear to Robin when they confront each other for the big climax.
358	** [[spoiler:More in the sense of You Stole My Father, Will Scarlet blames Robin for their father leaving his mother. In the end, the two reconcile.]]
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361	[[AC:Tropes with their own pages]]
362	[[index]]
363	* [[ArtisticLicenseHistory/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves Artistic License — History]]
364	[[/index]]
365	----
366	-->''[[TheStinger You know it's true]]\
367	[[Music/BryanAdams Everything I do\
368	I do it for you]]''

Context Film / RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves