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17[[caption-width-right:350:''"Is this a kissing book?"'']]
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19->'''Grandson:''' Has it got any sports in it?\
20'''Grandpa:''' Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...\
21'''Grandson:''' ''[sighs]'' It doesn't sound too bad. I'll try to stay awake.\
22'''Grandpa:''' Oh, well, thank you very much. Very nice of you. Your vote of confidence is overwhelming.
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24''The Princess Bride'' is a 1987 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]] directed by Creator/RobReiner, adapted by Creator/WilliamGoldman from [[Literature/ThePrincessBride his 1973 book of the same name]]. The story is set in the fictional European nation of Florin, and stars Buttercup (Creator/RobinWright), a simple yet incredibly beautiful farmgirl, and Westley (Creator/CaryElwes), the farmhand she enjoys ordering around. Although they realize that they share the incredibly rare thing called "true love", fate conspires to keep them apart, as Westley is lost at sea.
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26Five years later, Prince Humperdinck (Creator/ChrisSarandon), who rules Florin in place of his elderly and doddering father, decides to celebrate the kingdom's 500th anniversary by marrying Buttercup, who is still the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. Buttercup, knowing that the Prince is well within his rights and believing she can never love again anyway, reluctantly agrees.
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28In a plot against the throne, Buttercup is kidnapped by the criminal trio of Vizzini ([[TheChessmaster the mastermind]]), Fezzik ([[GentleGiant the giant]]), and Inigo Montoya ([[MasterSwordsman the world's greatest fencer]], [[YouKilledMyFather traveling to avenge his father]]), played by Creator/WallaceShawn, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, and Creator/MandyPatinkin, respectively — but their steps are hampered by a mysterious man in black who seems determined to stop them at all costs. The subsequent adventures are madcap, iconic, and brilliant.
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30The movie uses a FramingDevice of a grandfather (Creator/PeterFalk of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'') reading the story to his sick grandson (Creator/FredSavage) with the boy complaining about the story at various points. ([[GenreSavvy "They're kissing again."]])
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32An [[TheRoleplayingGame official roleplaying game]], ''TabletopGame/ThePrincessBrideRoleplayingGame'' was [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toyvaultinc/the-princess-bride-roleplaying-game fully funded on Kickstarter in 2018.]] and released by Toy Vault, Inc. using the UsefulNotes/{{FUDGE}} system.
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34In 2020, the film was "remade" by Creator/JasonReitman for the mobile app Quibi to benefit World Central Kitchen during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Various celebrities filmed themselves reenacting scenes from the film with homemade props and costumes. Fred Savage, Cary Elwes and Rob Reiner participated as did Rob's father Creator/CarlReiner who filmed his scene just three days before his death. See ''Series/HomeMovieThePrincessBride''.
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41* TheAce: Inigo, Fezzik, and Vizzini are all the best at their own specialties (fencing, bare-hand fighting, and strategy respectively). Westley beats them all at their own games.
42* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: [[spoiler:The Man in Black has been building up an immunity to iocane powder for several years. This comes into play when Vizzini is OutGambitted, believing that he's gotten one over on the Man in Black until he drops dead. As it turns out, the Man in Black poisoned both goblets of wine; with his immunity and Vizzini's ego, it was all a trap.]]
43* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Humperdinck is clearly amused when Westley replies to his demand, "Surrender!", with, "You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept!"
44-->'''Humperdinck:''' I give you full marks for bravery.
45* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Prince Humperdinck is short and weighs 250 pounds and described as resembling a barrel (muscle, not fat: [[StoutStrength he works out by wrestling apes to death]]). In the film, he's played by the more classically handsome Creator/ChrisSarandon.
46* AdaptationalContextChange:
47** The novel's frame story is narrated by an adult looking back nostalgically at his childhood (as represented by the times his father used to read him ''The Princess Bride''), and he gets in a few cynical zingers about what he's learned from growing up. The movie has a more hopeful frame story, about a child being read ''The Princess Bride'' for the first time, but some of the cynical zingers are retained and given to characters within the story: Westley says "Life is pain... anyone who tells you differently is selling something" when he's angry at Buttercup for (he thinks) abandoning him, and Miracle Max, who's become very cynical after his mistreatment by Humperdinck, gets the line about True Love being the greatest thing in the world except a good sandwich.
48** In the novel, Westley and Buttercup's first kiss is described as obliterating the five other greatest kisses in human history. In the movie, it's their last kiss in the story that gets this description.
49* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the book, Buttercup jumps from the kidnappers' boat the instant she regains consciousness. In the film, she doesn't do it until Vizzini has noticed someone following them, so 1. they're distracted and 2. she has somewhere to swim to.
50* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A subtle example. Fezzik is a relatively sympathetic character in both the book and film, pushed into a life of crime by circumstance, but in the film when they first kidnap Buttercup, he is clearly against killing her, telling Vizzini, "I just don't think it's right, killing an innocent girl." In the book, his first protest against Vizzini is that they should kill her ''sooner'' than Vizzini has planned, and later he adds, "I don't like killing a girl." He never mentions right or wrong.
51* AdaptationalVillainy: The Albino in the book shows mercy toward Westley and offers to [[MercyKill kill him]] to spare him from the torture. In the film, he leans more toward AffablyEvil, speaking in a casual and friendly, but totally unsympathetic, manner about how Westley is going to be tortured and murdered.
52* AdaptationalWimp: In the book, Prince Humperdinck is a hulking bruiser who kills apes with his bare hands. In the film, he's described as an outstanding tracker, but his physical abilities are never mentioned, and he has a normal build.
53* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
54** Buttercup is somewhat confusingly presented to the populace as a princess when she's betrothed, but not yet married, to Prince Humperdinck. The book explains that she was declared princess-by-fiat of some little backwater principality just so that Humperdinck wouldn't be marrying a commoner.
55** Humperdinck's habit of simultaneously riding four white horses is removed, making them seem to come out of nowhere at the end.
56* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the book, Buttercup gets attacked by sharks while trying to escape from Vizzini. Here, they're shrieking eels.
57* AdaptedOut: Buttercup's parents and Count Rugen's wife make appearances at the beginning of the novel but were left out of the film. The novel also included a lengthy flashback that explained how Fezzik's parents forced him to become a wrestler but this too was omitted. Had this been included, it would have been an ActorAllusion.
58* AdvantageBall: Goes with {{Flynning}} as always — Inigo and the Man in Black trade the ball back and forth during their duel; most notably, they each grab it when [[IAmNotLeftHanded declaring their handedness]]. Westley's ToThePain speech and its results serve to swipe the ball from Humperdinck and return it to the good guys.
59* AffablyEvil:
60** Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen seem to be genuine friends. Their exchange in the forest establishes, for the first time, that Humperdinck is genuinely evil, but is also full of little moments of relatability for both of them, like Rugen struggling to find the secret door to the Pit of Despair ("It's impossible to find...") and encouraging Humperdinck to get some rest.
61** Notice how Humperdinck tells Buttercup, with all the sad puppy eyes he can muster, that he hopes she will at least consider him less bad than suicide, as if he really feels hurt that she considers marriage to him to be a FateWorseThanDeath (though it's later subverted, when it turns out that [[spoiler:he only wants her to go through with the wedding so he can murder her and frame a neighboring country, Guilder, for it as an excuse to go to war]]).
62* AffectionateParody: Pulls off the tricky balancing act between joyful appreciation and subtle (and not so subtle) parody.
63* AffectionHatingKid: The boy initially complains whenever Wesley and Buttercup kiss in the book, but eventually gets used to it.
64* AlbinosAreFreaks: Subverted for laughs. After Wesley is captured by Prince Humperdink and imprisoned in the pit of despair, he's met by an Albino who at first speaks in a creepy rasp we would usually associate with someone like [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]]. He then clears his throat and starts talking like a normal, even friendly, human being.
65* AlmostKiss: Westley and Buttercup have one after escaping the fire swamp. They're interrupted by Prince Humperdinck and his men.
66* AltarDiplomacy: Prince Humperdinck chooses beautiful peasant Buttercup to be his wife, knowing she will capture the hearts of the populace; he will get a popularity boost and she will get the stable life of royalty [[spoiler:at least, until he has her killed and has framed a rival kingdom for it]].
67* AmbiguouslyGay: Prince Humperdink seems to have no interest at all in Buttercup and intends to use her purely to start a war, even planning to strangle her on their wedding night. Meanwhile, he and Count Rugen have a very close relationship.
68* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Buttercup is initially willing to marry Humperdinck because after Westley's death, she has nothing else to live for. After Westley is revealed to be alive, she agrees to go through with the wedding [[ScarpiaUltimatum only to keep him alive and free]] -- not that Humperdinck has any intention of honoring his word.
69* AndStarring: And Introducing Robin Wright as [[TitleDrop The Princess]] [[IAmNotShazam Bride]].
70* ArchEnemy:
71** Westley has Prince Humperdinck, an entitled noble who wants to force his beloved Princess Buttercup to marry him.
72** Inigo Montoya has Count Rugen, the sadistic torturer who murdered his father.
73* AristocratsAreEvil: Prince Humperdinck is an amoral warmonger, and his right-hand-man Count Rugen a sadistic torturer; the King, however, is merely senile.
74* ArmorPiercingResponse: When the Man in Black is climbing the Cliffs of Insanity.
75--> '''Inigo Montoya:''' I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive.
76--> '''Man in Black:''' Throw me the rope.
77* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The story seems to be set in the late Renaissance, and yet there is talk of the penal colony UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}; Australia was only discovered in 1606, and only used as a penal colony from 1780 onward. However, considering the framing device, it could be deliberate.
78* ArtisticLicencePharmacology: Iocane powder is a fictional poison.
79* AsYouKnow:
80** Vizzini: "Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you." Note that all this "As You Know" blather is justified by Vizzini really just trying to play for time and hope for the Man in Black to give away which cup is poisoned.
81** Humperdinck: "...when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered on our engagement day, I thought that was clever."
82** Rugen: "As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old."
83** Subverted by Inigo: "Let me explain. ''[{{beat}}]'' No, there is too much. Let me sum up."
84* AudienceSurrogate: The grandson that the grandfather is reading the story to.
85* TheBadGuyWins: Discussed. The grandson automatically assumes this trope is in play when his grandfather tells him Humperdinck will survive the end of the story. [[spoiler:The grandfather is not lying; Humperdinck does survive. He still loses, though. So this is ultimately a subversion.]]
86* BaldOfEvil: Vizzini, arrogant criminal "mastermind," has a shiny dome that nicely accents his smug facial expressions. Contrast with his much nicer henchmen who both have full heads of hair.
87* BatmanGambit: "To the Pain!" [[spoiler:Wesley is in no condition to fight and is counting on Humperdinck's [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], by chiding him with horrible tales of disfigurement. It works.]]
88* BattleCry: “Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!” Inigo's been working on that one for twenty years. He finally gets to say it in context during the last sword fight with the man who killed his father.
89* BattleOfWits: Played straight (and for laughs) in one of the most classic moments of the movie: the one between Vizzini, the Man in Black, two cups of wine and a vial of iocane powder. [[spoiler:Except the Man in Black has rigged the game in his favor by poisoning both glasses, as he has spent the last few years [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity building up an immunity to iocane powder]].]]
90* BeardOfEvil: Count Rugen, whose sadistic study of pain surpasses the other villains in sheer evilness, sports a natty salt-and-pepper mustache and goatee combo.
91* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Played with; the only reason that the Dread Pirate Roberts initially spared [[spoiler:Westley's]] life was because [[spoiler:Westley said "Please". That got his attention enough for Westley to sway him with a description of his and Buttercup's love]].
92* BerserkButton:
93** How ill Miracle Max thinks of Prince Humperdinck firing him is clear given how he reacts when his wife Valerie brings it up when calling him a liar. This is ultimately how Inigo is able to convince him to help out for what little money Inigo has, by promising him that if he [[spoiler:brings Westley back to life]], he'll stop Humperdinck's wedding and Humperdinck will suffer "humiliations galore."[[note]]The book indicates that the money was actually a decent amount; Max was just afraid to fail, and claimed it was too little as an excuse.[[/note]]
94** Count Rugen seems to have one about his extra finger. Not counting his duel with Inigo, he is calm and soft-spoken throughout the movie except for one moment -- when Westley comments that someone was looking for a six-fingered man. He hasn't insulted him or anything, but Rugen immediately clubs Westley on the head.
95* BestServedCold: Inigo's quest for vengeance against six-fingered man Count Rugen. He has taken twenty years to be sure he gets it right by mastering fencing before he tracks Rugen down.
96* BigBad: Prince Humperdinck is the ''de facto'' ruler of Florin and the final obstacle for our heroes, though [[spoiler:he is taken out not in a climactic duel, but by his own cowardice and Westley's ToThePain speech -- and left alive as a final humiliation]].
97* TheBigDamnKiss: Played for ironic CharacterDevelopment, since throughout the movie the kid has protested and insisted on skipping or editing all the kissy stuff, only to protest when Grandpa complies for the final kiss.
98-->'''Grandpa:''' Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End.
99* TheBigGuy: Fezzik stands head-and-shoulders over the rest of the cast and is strong enough to lift himself and three other people hand-over-hand up a rope while ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity.
100-->'''Fezzik:''' It's not my fault I'm the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise.
101* BigGuyRodeo: The Man in Black defeats Fezzik by leaping upon his back and administering a {{Choke Hold|s}}, while Fezzik tries to shake him off by repeatedly slamming him against a boulder — and they both carry on a friendly conversation about Fezzik's techniques.
102* BilingualBonus: After Inigo loses his fight with the Man in Black, he returns to where he was told by Vizzini to wait, and gets stinking drunk. A member of the palace guard sees him and yells, "Ho there!" Inigo replies, "I do not budge. Keep your '[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar joder]]'!" [[spoiler: The word "joder" (which sounds like "Ho there" in English) means "fuck" in Spanish; he's basically telling the guard to fuck off.]]
103* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: Inverted and PlayedForLaughs, as it takes a while for Miracle Max's cure to fully take effect on Westley, and Inigo and Fezzik have to carry him around while StormingTheCastle as bits of him are "waking up" one at a time.
104* TheBlacksmith: Inigo Montoya's father was one, as he was commissioned to create a sword for a six-fingered man.
105* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: During his duel with Inigo Montoya, the Man in Black throws his sword. It spins end over end and impales itself in the ground point first.
106* BlatantLies:
107** The Man in Black sardonically claims that he wears his mask because "It's just so terribly comfortable."
108** Westley says "RodentsOfUnusualSize? I don't think they exist" to Buttercup in the Fire Swamp, as he's looking over her shoulder at two of the creatures. Shortly thereafter, one of them [[TemptingFate attacks him]].
109** Also Miracle Max after [[spoiler:mostly dead Westley]] says that true love is his reason for living.
110--->'''Max:''' But that's not what he said! He distinctly said, "to blave." And as we all know, "to blave" means "to bluff." So you were probably playing cards, and he cheated--\
111'''Valerie:''' Liar! Liar! Liaaar!
112** Count Rugen gets in on it too, but Westley calls him out immediately. Not that it changes anything.
113--->'''Rugen:''' Come, sir. We must get you to your ship.\
114'''Westley:''' We are men of action. Lies do not become us.\
115'''Rugen:''' ''[smiles]'' Well spoken, sir.
116* BoulderBludgeon: Vizzini (the brains of the bad guy trio) is the one who insists that the giant Fezzik should smash the Man in Black's head in with a huge rock — but Fezzik actually prefers a fairer fight. When the Man in Black does show up, Fezzik deliberately misses with the first rock, [[IfIWantedYouDead just to prove that he could have killed him]], then challenges the Man in Black to a fight without weapons.
117-->'''Vizzini:''' Finish him. Finish him, your way.\
118'''Fezzik:''' Oh good, my way. Thank you, Vizzini... What's my way?\
119'''Vizzini:''' Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the Man in Black will come running around the bend. The minute his ''head'' is in view, HIT IT WITH THE ROCK!\
120'''Fezzik:''' My way's not very sportsmanlike.
121* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
122** The Dread Pirate Roberts' nightly farewell to his valet: "Good night, [[spoiler:Westley]]. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
123** The line that epitomizes Humperdinck and Rugen's VillainousFriendship: "Tyrone, you know how much I love watching [[ColdBloodedTorture you work]], but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, [[spoiler:my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it]]. I'm swamped!"
124* BreakTheCutie: Happens to Buttercup. Having your OneTrueLove killed [[spoiler:(mostly)]] and being forced into an arranged marriage will do that to ya.
125* BrickJoke: A subtle one. The Man in Black explains iocane powder to Vizzini, noting that it is odorless, tasteless, and dissolves instantly in water. Later on, Buttercup tries to intimidate the Man in Black by sharing Humperdinck's (rather exaggerated) hunting abilities. A few scenes after that, along comes Prince Humperdinck and party, who find the small tube that the Man in Black had kept the powder in, and by smelling an odorless tube, Prince Humperdinck instantly discerns it's iocane.
126-->'''Humperdinck:''' Iocane powder. I'd bet my life on it.
127* TheBrute: Subverted. Fezzik is really quite a nice guy.
128-->'''Miracle Max:''' Beat it, or I'll call the Brute Squad!\
129'''Fezzik:''' I'm ''on'' the Brute Squad.\
130'''Miracle Max:''' ''[{{double take}}]'' You ''are'' the Brute Squad.
131* ButForMeItWasTuesday:
132** The Dread Pirate Roberts ''supposedly'' kills anyone he captures (it's an InformedAttribute). When Buttercup realizes the Man in Black is the Dread Pirate Roberts, she accuses him of having killed her Westley, and he calmly replies, "It's possible. I kill a lot of people." (Ultimately averted, however, as it turns out the Man in Black knows exactly who she is and was just testing her reaction.)
133** Inigo also seems to be prepared for this outcome, as the iconic line he has prepared for when he finally finds the Six-Fingered Man involves explaining [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya who he is]] and [[YouKilledMyFather how the Six-Fingered Man wronged him]]. [[spoiler:This turns out to be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], however, as Count Rugen, after impaling Inigo with a dagger, recognizes him as "the Spanish brat [he] taught a lesson to" all those years ago.]]
134* ButThatIWouldBelieve: {{Subverted}} when Inigo tries to convince Miracle Max to revive the Man in Black. After Miracle Max identifies Inigo's first story about the Man in Black’s wife being a cripple and his children starving, Inigo confesses that he needs the man's help to avenge his murdered father. Miracle Max tells him the first story was better.
135* BuyThemOff: Inigo offers to spare Rugen in exchange for money and power. Rugen leaps at the opportunity, but Inigo only made the offer to toy with him, because there's only one thing he wanted, and [[YouKilledMyFather Rugen took it from him]].
136* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:Humperdinck]] after his first plan to [[spoiler:have his fiancée assassinated and Guilder framed for the crime]] realizes that he can't kill [[spoiler:Buttercup]] before the wedding because there would be no alibi for him with her safe at the castle with the guard doubled to protect her, and thus the people would revolt on realizing what had happened. This is also why he talks Buttercup out of [[spoiler:killing herself before the wedding]]. [[spoiler:He instead plans to kill her on their wedding night, when everyone's guard is down.]]
137* CasualDangerDialogue: The Man in Black and Fezzik have a friendly discussion while fighting to the death. Fezzik keeps talking right up to the second he passes out. The Man in Black and Inigo talk throughout their fight as well, but that's more the [[YouFightLikeACow witty repartée]] you expect from a fencing duel.
138-->'''Inigo:''' You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.\
139'''The Man in Black:''' ''You'' seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.
140* CatapultNightmare: Buttercup dreams about her wedding ten days before it is to occur. She wakes in terror after the "Old Booer" accosts her.
141* CatchPhrase: Several, all of which have helped the film's status as a CultClassic and [[MemeticMutation entered the public mind in and of themselves]].
142** Inigo has been practicing the perfect phrase to use when he finally meets the Six-Fingered Man and exacts his revenge. During their duel, he turns it into a SurvivalMantra as part of his HeroicSecondWind. "[[JustForFun/{{Hello}} Hello]]. {{My name is Inigo Montoya}}. {{You killed my father}}. {{Prepare to die}}."
143** As a farmboy, Westley says nothing but "[[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay As You Wish]]" to Buttercup. Eventually, she is astonished to discover that when he says, "as you wish," what he means is, "I love you."
144** Whenever Vizzini is frustrated by his plan going awry, he thunders, "Inconceivable!" This ultimately gets Inigo confused about what Vizzini thinks the word means.
145** Buttercup repeatedly insists that "My Westley will always come for me!"
146* TheChase: A significant portion of the film consists of the Man in Black pursuing Vizzini's gang and their captive, and Prince Humperdinck with his soldiers pursuing both.
147* ChekhovsGunman: Before their duel, Inigo mentions to the Man in Black how his father was murdered by a man with six fingers on his right hand. When Westley and Buttercup are captured outside of the Fire Swamp, Westley notices the extra digit on Count Rugen's right hand.
148-->'''Westley:''' You have six fingers on your right hand. Someone was looking for you.
149* ChekhovsSkill: Sort of. Miracle Max (claims to) mishear Westley's statement, "true love", as "to blave", and as we all know, to blave means to bluff... [[spoiler:which is exactly what Westley does during the climax, summoning just enough strength to bluff Prince Humperdinck into submission, at a time when he's still recovering from an extremely intense exposure to a deadly torture device]].
150* ChokeHolds: The Man in Black knocks out Fezzik with a blood choke. It takes several minutes and they have a rather cordial conversation all the while.
151* ClarkKenting: The Dread Pirate Roberts is Westley, with a mustache and a black mask over his eyes and hair. It's amazing Buttercup takes so long to realize it, but in the years since his supposed death Wesley has changed his mannerisms so completely from the shy farmboy Buttercup knew that it's almost plausible — not to mention that Buttercup thought he was ''dead.''
152** While hints of this is in the film, the book makes it clear that Buttercup is a BrainlessBeauty. It is very possible that she wouldn't have been able to figure it out until Westley spells it out for her.
153* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: The cliffs in question are Vizzini's first method of [[TryAndFollow discouraging pursuit]], but the Man in Black proves to be a superb climber.
154* ColdBloodedTorture: Count Rugen has a device for painfully extracting LifeEnergy from his victims. Unfortunately, leads to [[spoiler:Westley]]'s death. Don't worry! [[spoiler:He gets better!]]
155* ColdHam: Rugen's calm, scientific detachment to his cruelty does nothing to prevent him from being ridiculously over the top with it.
156* CollapsedMidSpeech: Vizzini says to the Man in Black, "Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line! Ha-hahahhaha!" then the poison takes effect, causing him to freeze mid-laugh, grin frozen on his face, then topple sideways.
157* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As a result of the king's senility.
158-->''[Buttercup kisses the king on the cheek]''\
159'''The King:''' What was that for?\
160'''Buttercup:''' Because you've always been so kind to me, and I won't be seeing you again, since I'm killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite.\
161'''The King:''' Won't that be nice? ''[calling up to the queen]'' She kissed me! Heeheehee!
162* ConfessionDeferred: When Westley and Inigo storm the castle, they demand that the guard give them the key. The captain denies having it in his possession until Inigo orders Fezzik to tear the captain's arms off. He quickly acquiesces to prevent that from happening.
163* ConservationOfNinjutsu:
164** Averted. Both Fezzik and Inigo are shown to be highly skilled, but as Inigo admits, the raw numbers of the Prince's guard would best them anyway.
165** {{Lampshaded}} and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe by Fezzik whilst going toe-to-toe with the Man in Black.
166-->'''Fezzik:''' Well, I haven't fought just one person for so long... You see, you use different moves when you're fighting half a dozen people than when you only have to worry about one.
167* ContrivedCoincidence: Vizzini's explanation for why the kidnappers are being followed. It's inconceivable that someone ferreted out their plot and is seeking to stop them. It must be some random fisherman who likes to go rock climbing in the middle of the night and happens to be travelling in the same general direction that they are.
168* CoolMask: The Man in Black naturally wears a black one. It's just terribly comfortable!
169* CoolSword: Inigo's sword is a special one made by his father commissioned for Count Rugen, with a grip specifically designed for a six-fingered hand; the Man in Black admits he's "never seen its equal." As Inigo explains, when Rugen wouldn't pay his father the promised amount, he refused to give him the sword, and Rugen murdered him.
170* CrazyPrepared: Sure was lucky The Man in Black was carrying that iocane powder with him. However, it's not too outlandish, given his line of work as a pirate, to be carrying around a deadly toxin. [[spoiler:He needs it [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity to build up an immunity to it]].]]
171* CreatorCameo: Creator/RobReiner voices the Rodents of Unusual Size.
172* CreepyMonotone: Count Rugen, in terrifying contrast to the WorldOfHam around him, speaks softly and in measured tones, even when explaining a torture device to his victim.
173* CruelMercy: The ToThePain sequence sees Westley threatening to leave Humperdinck alive, albeit maimed, so that all who see him would cry out in horror. He ends up leaving him [[spoiler:completely unscathed, believing that being cowardly enough to fall for Westley's bluff and losing Buttercup because of it is punishment enough]].
174* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Ultimately, Vizzini's dizzying intellect was proven correct in the Battle of Wits. [[spoiler:He could clearly not trust the wine in either goblet. He just wrongly assumed the poison was in only ''one'' goblet.]]
175* CurbStompBattle:
176** During the StormingTheCastle sequence, four palace guards charge our heroes. Inigo kills them in five seconds flat without ever taking his eyes off Count Rugen.
177** The duel against Rugen itself also counts as soon as Inigo gets his HeroicSecondWind. Not only is Inigo's defense invulnerable, he mirrors his own injuries on his opponent's body to maximize Rugen's terror and humiliation.
178* DamselInDistress: Buttercup is captured on two occasions at the beginning and end of the film. The same person is responsible both times.
179* DamselOutOfDistress:
180** Subverted; after being kidnapped by Vizzini, Buttercup jumps into the water in order to reach another ship and sanctuary. A few carnivorous eels get in the way, and when Fezzik pulls her back aboard, Vizzini ties her hands so that she can't repeat the attempt.
181** Later when she is recaptured by the Dread Pirate Roberts, she takes the time to kick him down the cliff, which likely would have been a successful escape, if he didn't reveal who he was on the way down, making the need to escape redundant.
182* DashingHispanic: Inigo Montoya is a noble, honorable swordsman who's only working for Vizzini [[PunchClockVillain to pay the bills]]. He also allows the Man in Black a few moments to catch his breath before dueling him. In the end, Inigo pulls a HeelFaceTurn (though [[AntiVillain he didn't have far to turn in the first place]]), and unites with Wesley to help rescue Buttercup.
183* DefeatMeansFriendship: Westley so impresses Inigo and Fezzik by defeating both of them (and outsmarting their boss) that they revive him and befriend him.
184* DefrostingIceQueen: Buttercup goes from one to the other and back again throughout the story. She starts out cold, then defrosts when she realizes she's in love with Westley, then freezes up again after he's murdered by pirates, then defrosts ''again'' when she learns he wasn't murdered after all.
185* DentedIron: Wrestling/AndreTheGiant was this, due to both his acromegaly and a lifetime of professional wrestling. Before the filming, he had major surgery performed on his lower back to try to alleviate the pain from decades of damage. He was therefore unable to lift Creator/RobinWright in the scene where he carried her, and she was supported by cables that were hidden under her clothing. During his fight scene with Creator/CaryElwes, pay close attention to the scene where Westley is hanging on to his back. Elwes is actually standing and walking on a ramp, his arms are only very loosely draped over André's shoulders, and he is being very careful to not put any of his weight onto André.
186* DerailedForDetails: Inverted by the kid in the FramingDevice, who occasionally asks to skip romance scenes or get on with it.
187* {{Determinator}}: Inigo is stabbed repeatedly in his fight with Count Rugen and still keeps coming. He '''will''' avenge his father's death.
188* DidntThinkThisThrough: Played for dark laughs mixed with surprising awesome, it's clear Inigo didn't think through his revenge fantasy on Rugen, and spends much of the fight repeating his PreAssKickingOneLiner.
189* DieLaughing: Vizzini drinks poisoned wine and then laughs maniacally, [[PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo thinking he'd outsmarted Westley]]. [[KilledMidSentence He literally keels over mid-laugh]].
190* DirtyCoward:
191** Count Rugen pleads with [[spoiler:Inigo not to kill him]]. After running away from a fight with him.
192** Humperdinck himself, so much that [[spoiler:Wesley decides letting him live the rest of his life as a coward is enough of a punishment]].
193** The captain of the guard:
194--->'''Westley:''' Give us the gate key.\
195'''Captain:''' I have no gate key.\
196'''Inigo:''' Fezzik, tear his arms off.\
197'''Captain:''' Oh, you mean ''this'' gate key! ''[hands them the key]''
198* DisappearedDad: The way Grandpa describes the tradition of fathers reading the book to their sons when they're sick, it seems like something his own son should be doing. The fact that he's doing it himself may indicate that his son (i.e. the Grandson's dad) is not in the picture for whatever reason.
199* DistantReactionShot: During Westley's scream, they cut to several places throughout the kingdom, including Buttercup's room, then to Inigo and Fezzik, where Inigo immediately recognizes the cry of ultimate suffering.
200* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Fezzik, at times. "I didn't mean to [[TapOnTheHead jog him that hard]]..."
201* DoubleTake: Miracle Max performs one when he sees Fezzik, then exclaims he must represent the entire brute squad.
202* TheDragon: Count Rugen works for Prince Humperdinck as his accomplice in his evil deeds and is clearly a better swordsman than him. Inigo takes him on so that [[spoiler:Westley can reach Buttercup in time to save her from Humperdinck (and [[DrivenToSuicide herself]]). Inigo, himself a master swordsman, is nearly defeated and wins only through sheer force of will]].
203* TheDreaded: The Dread Pirate Roberts, hence the name, is dreaded. His reputation for taking no prisoners means that everyone immediately surrenders without a fight. This is something real pirates have tried to do.
204* DreamingTheTruth: Buttercup dreams of the Ancient Booer, who points out how easily she's given up on True Love. Buttercup wakes with new determination.
205* DrivenToSuicide: Buttercup resolves to kill herself after her wedding to Humperdinck, because Humperdinck reveals to her he's had Westley murdered, and Westley doesn't show up in time to interrupt the wedding. It's a good thing [[spoiler:Westley was only mostly dead and happened to be in the honeymoon suite waiting for her]].
206* DuelingScar: Inigo Montoya has two scars down his cheeks, which is understandable, given his career as a swordfighter. They are later revealed to be a humiliation inflicted upon him at the age of eleven after the first time he tried to avenge his father's murder by Count Rugen. [[spoiler:He returns the favor before killing Rugen.]]
207* DumbBlonde: Buttercup doesn't come across as dumb so much as sheltered and naïve, which makes sense, given she's transported from a tiny farm into royalty. (She's the one to notice the impending ambush as Roberts confronts Humperdinck, for example.) She also lampshades it with some SelfDeprecation while she's nailing Humperdinck with a pretty fair TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
208-->'''Buttercup:''' Yes, I ''am'' a silly girl.
209* ElectricTorture: Count Rugen's Machine is vacuum torture, actually, but the trappings apply.
210* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: The Impressive Clergyman. Fezzik also has a minor bit of this, but his is actor-induced.
211-->'''Impressive Clergyman:''' Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togethah today.
212* EvenEvilHasStandards: Count Rugen is a smarmy bastard, yes, but on the other hand... "NOT TO FIFTY!!" However, his protest might be because he wants to draw out the torture (he ''is'' writing a book, after all, and he needs his victim's input), and doesn't want his prisoner killed outright.
213** He states earlier that he "might one day go as high as five" when torturing Westley, which suggests that he is concerned about both--he wants the torture drawn out so as to study it, but doesn't see Westley as deserving of a maximally agonizing death.
214* EvilGloating: Rugen halts Inigo's chase by throwing a knife into his stomach... and if he'd taken the opportunity to keep running, he might have gotten away. Instead he stops to gloat, and Inigo gets a HeroicSecondWind.
215* EvilPlan: Prince Humperdinck seeks to marry Princess Buttercup, have her abducted and killed, and use said murder as a PretextForWar.
216* TheEvilPrince: Humperdinck is already ruling his kingdom ''de facto'' due to his father's senility, and can't wait to start a war of conquest with neighboring Guilder. He has no qualms about marrying and murdering his most beautiful subject to bring that about, either.
217* EvilSoundsRaspy: Parodied with the Albino. He starts off speaking with an extreme rasp. Then he coughs to clear his throat, and continues speaking in the actor's normal voice with a slight Cockney accent.
218-->'''Westley:''' Where am I?\
219'''Albino:''' ''[raspy voice]'' The Pit of Despair. Don't even think-- ''[coughs and clears throat; normal voice]'' Don't even think about trying to escape.
220* ExactWords: Two of them from Westley in the Battle Of Wits:
221** His challenge to Vizzini is "Where is the poison?", not "Which glass is poisoned?"
222** He also says that the battle "ends when you decide and we both drink." Not drinking ''from the cups'', but drinking, which meant that he left room for Vizzini to TakeAThirdOption and drink from the bottle.
223** Vezzini's statements throughout the Battle of Wits qualify, too: he's right every time when he says that he "clearly cannot choose the wine in front of you," and that he "clearly cannot choose the wine in front of me."
224* ExcuseMeComingThrough: Having a giant as a pal helps when you need to get through a crowded marketplace quickly.
225-->'''Inigo:''' Excuse me... Excuse me... Fezzik, please?\
226'''Fezzik:''' EVERYBODY ''MOVE''!\
227''[crowd clears a path]''\
228'''Inigo:''' Thank you.
229* ExploitedImmunity: Vizzini and the Man in Black are playing PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo; the Man in Black puts poison in both glasses, having spent years [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity developing a tolerance]] to the poison being used.
230* ExtraDigits: Count Rugen has six fingers on his right hand. This is the only clue Inigo has to his identity; fortunately, it's a [[RunningGag very]] [[MemeticMutation distinctive]] feature.
231* EyeDentityGiveaway: Downplayed. When the Dread Pirate Roberts asks Buttercup to talk about Westley, she mentions his eyes "like the sea after a storm". Looking at Roberts' similar-looking eyes while she says this, her voice falters. But it takes him saying "As you wish" for her to actually realize Roberts IS Westley.
232* FaceDeathWithDignity: After being disarmed at the end of the duel, Inigo quietly falls to his knees in front of the Man in Black and stoically requests to be killed quickly. Fortunately for Inigo, the Man in Black holds artists such as himself in as high regard as stained-glass windows.
233* FaceplantingIntoFood: A hungover Inigo falls face-first into his bowl of stew when Fezzik reveals the identity of the Six-Fingered Man.
234* FairytaleWeddingDress: Buttercup wears a long, lacy white dress for her would-be wedding to Humperdinck.
235* FakeoutOpening:
236** The film begins with the boy playing a video game.
237** The story itself starts off as an over-the-top love story, until the grandson stops his grandfather and accuses him of tricking him into hearing a "kissing book". The humor of the movie doesn't start until afterwards.
238* FateWorseThanDeath: {{Conversed}}. Westley proposes he and Humperdinck fight "{{to the pain}}," which involves Humperdinck losing his feet, hands, nose, and eyes while leaving his ears perfect so he could hear the screams of anguish at his mutilated body.
239* FictionalCountry: Florin and Guilder. Based on the fact that there are characters explicitly from Spain, southern Italy, and France there, as well as the fact that Florin is named after the old Florentine currency, they could reasonably be guessed as being states in central/northern Italy.
240* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Parodied. ScarilyCompetentTracker Humperdinck correctly identifies the colorless, tasteless, and ''odorless'' poison iocane after sniffing the vial it was in.
241* FlameSpewerObstacle: The Fire Swamp has jets of flame periodically burst from the ground.
242* {{Flynning}}: The duel on the Cliffs of Insanity is an homage. The screenplay explicitly says that the ''characters'' are Flynning, as they have nothing personal driving their duel and are trying to have fun with someone who can fight as well as they can.
243* ForceAndFinesse: Fezzik and Inigo form this dynamic, with Fezzik representing raw muscle while Inigo is an extremely skilled swordsman, although the two freely admit that neither are the best thinkers and require a third to be the tactician of their group.
244* ForegoneConclusion: The grandfather tells his grandson the ending of the story midway through the movie, although specific details have been left out. Namely, [[spoiler:"No one kills Humperdinck. He goes on to live a long life" after Inigo and Fezzik find Westley's body.]]
245* FormFittingWardrobe: Westley's mask looks like it was molded to his face, because it actually was made from a mold on Cary Elwes's face.
246* ForScience: Rugen's attitude towards his pain-inflicting Machine is one of inquiry. He requests feedback from his subjects so that he can record them for posterity.
247* FracturedFairyTale: It's mostly a fairy tale played straight, with a few notable subversions (and interuptions for ConversationalTroping) thrown in. Most fairy tales end with a beautiful girl getting married to a handsome prince. Buttercup's meeting and engagement to the handsome prince is one where the prince [[spoiler:threatens to kill her if she doesn't agree to marry him]], and he's the villain. The real hero is technically an infamous pirate who kidnaps her. Lastly, a climactic swordfight between the hero and villain is notably averted. They still manage to fit the climactic swordfight in (and it was properly researched, too), but it's done by two members of the supporting cast.
248* FramingDevice: The film is framed as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson. The grandfather's elisions and commentary mirror the editorializing done by "editor" William Goldman in the original book.
249* FreudianTrio:
250** Fezzik is the Ego, supplying the most rationality and grounded objections to certain insane plots. Inigo is the id, driven by his thirst for revenge against Count Rugen. Westley becomes their Superego, being the tactician and intellect needed to get them both working together effectively.
251** In the original trio Vizzini was the Superego--a very ''bad'' one, berating instead of inspiring the ego and id to work together.
252* FriendlessnessInsult: [[TheNapoleon Vizzini]] tells Fezzik that he is "friendless, brainless, helpless, and hopeless".
253* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Fezzik calls to the rest of the group through the window, Prince Humperdinck tries to stand up, before remembering that he's tied to a chair.
254* GentleGiant: Fezzik looks threatening from his size and muscles but he's a really nice guy. This matches Andre himself, making this a case of InkSuitActor in many ways, as Andre was picked almost ''entirely'' because he fit so well with Fezzik's personality. Hulk Hogan mentioned in his DVD that "if Andre had been a mean person, there would have been nobody else but him as a big name in this business", i.e. The wrestling industry, due to his size and raw power. Many people were often taken by surprise at the sheer size of Andre, but much like Fezzik, the man was— although a mostly private person for the most part— as gentle as a lamb more often than not. Also much like Andre, it seems to take an incredible amount to even get Fezzik genuinely ''angry''. Legend had it that Andre could be ''terrifying'' when roused to anger, but he preferred to be kind to others more often than not. It seems that Reiner truly picked the best possible man to play Fezzik. Sadly, Andre was in no real shape to do some of the more impressive things Fezzik probably could have done otherwise, due to acromegaly and wrestling injuries slowly chipping away at his health.
255* GetItOverWith: Inigo to the Man in Black, who [[SparingTheAces refuses to kill such an opponent]].
256-->'''Inigo:''' Kill me quickly.
257* GiveMeASign: While holding the sword his late father made, Inigo asks his father's spirit to guide his sword and lead him to Westley. Then he closes his eyes while holding the sword out in front of him, and ultimately sticks it into a tree. Feeling let down and probably foolish, Inigo slumps down onto the tree. [[spoiler:And then it opens up...]]
258* TheGoodKing: Humperdinck's dad seems to be a good sort, at least benign. Unfortunately he's so doddery that TheEvilPrince is [[PuppetKing reigning for him]].
259* GoodScarsEvilScars: Inigo has Good Scars running across his cheeks, given to him by the man who killed his father, as if he didn't have enough reason for revenge without reminders on his own face.
260* GrumpyOldMan: Miracle Max.
261-->'''Inigo:''' Are you the Miracle Max who worked for the king all those years?\
262'''Max:''' The king's stinking son fired me. Thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? We're closed! ''[slams window]''
263* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Both Buttercup and Westley have both of these traits, and it is almost too much sweetness and virtue for one film.
264* HammerHilt:
265** After he subdues Inigo in their sword fight near the start of the film, Wesley whacks the Spaniard across the head with the grip of his sword to knock him out.
266--->'''Wesley:''' I'd sooner destroy a stained-glass window than an artist such as yourself. But since I can't have you following me either... [Whack!]
267** When Wesley is taken prisoner by Count Rugen's men Rugen bops Wesley on the head with the pommel of his sword.
268* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Buttercup is rescued, she and Westley have TheBigDamnKiss, Inigo avenges his father and might make a good new Dread Pirate Roberts]], and they all ride off into the dawn. Grandpa might read the story again tomorrow.
269* HeelFaceTurn: Inigo and Fezzik, technically. They were never more than [[PunchClockVillain Punch-Clock Villains]] in the first place, and after their boss dies, Inigo continues pursuing his revenge in the best way he knows how, and Fezzik helps him because they're friends. This leads them to ally with the heroes, without a change in their own motivations.
270* HellIsThatNoise: Westley's scream at being put through The Machine.
271* HenpeckedHusband: Miracle Max, is nagged and needled by his wife.
272-->'''Valerie:''' Liar! Liar! LIIIAAAAAR!
273* HeroicAmbidexterity: During the sword fight between Inigo Montoya and the Man in Black, Inigo pulls a surprise hand shift with his rapier, noting that he isn't left-handed. Later, at a point where Inigo has the Man in Black on the ropes, his opponent says that he isn't left-handed either, shifting his sword to his right hand and eventually winning the duel.
274* HeroicSafeMode: Inigo during his final duel with Count Rugen. He shrugs off a thrown knife to the gut after only a minute or so.
275* HesJustHiding: Discussed InUniverse
276-->'''Grandson:''' Wait, what did Fezzik mean, "He's dead?" I mean, he didn't mean ''dead''; Westley's only faking, right?
277* HeterosexualLifePartners: Fezzik and Inigo are established to be friends in their first scene (and neither of them is friends with Vizzini, which is established instantly, as well). They express concern over one another being in danger multiple times. When they reunite, Fezzik nurses Inigo back to health... or rather, sobriety. Even the movie's soundtrack seems to think they are a couple -- listen to the music when Fezzik finds the drunk Inigo. For a second, the music used sounds like it belongs in a "lovers reunited" scene.
278* HeWillComeForMe:
279** A variation while Buttercup is held prisoner by the Man in Black.
280--->'''Buttercup:''' No matter where you take me, there's no greater hunter than Prince Humperdinck. He could track a falcon on a cloudy day. He can find you.\
281'''Man in Black:''' You think your dearest love will save you?\
282'''Buttercup:''' I never said he was my dearest love. And yes, he will save me. That I know.
283** While Buttercup is waiting for Westley to come take her away.
284--->'''Buttercup:''' Any word from Westley?\
285'''Humperdinck:''' Too soon, my angel. Patience.\
286'''Buttercup:''' He will come for me.
287** Shortly before the wedding:
288--->'''Buttercup:''' You never sent those ships. Don't bother lying. ''[beat]'' It doesn't matter; Westley will come for me anyway.
289** A final variation, at the wedding.
290--->''[sounds of fighting in the distance]''\
291'''Buttercup:''' Here comes my Westley now.\
292'''Humperdinck:''' Your Westley is dead. I killed him myself.\
293'''Buttercup:''' Then why is there fear behind your eyes?
294* HideousHangoverCure: Fezzik's notion of sobering up a falling-down drunk Inigo is to alternately shove his face into tubs of steaming hot and ice cold water until Inigo is awake enough to make him stop.
295* HollywoodTorches: The Pit of Despair, where Count Rugen tortures Westley, is brightly lit with torches on the walls that ought not to illuminate the middle of the chamber.
296* HomeSweetHome: Westley wants to settle down with Buttercup, after solving that whole UnableToSupportAWife problem. Becoming [[spoiler:the Dread Pirate Roberts]] for a few years earns him a fortune easily.
297* HonorBeforeReason:
298** Both Inigo and the Man in Black demonstrate this during their encounter at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. The Man in Black accepts Inigo's assistance to reach the top, knowing that Inigo intends to kill him and could easily let him fall, after Inigo swears on his dead father's soul that the Man will reach the top alive. Inigo then lets him rest and ''hands over his sword'' for the Man in Black to admire; the Man in Black even gives him a YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe look as he's examining it. Then he gives it back. If either of them had been less honorable than the other, the other would have been in serious trouble.
299** Fezzik also demonstrates this in his fight with the Man in Black. Rather than throw a rock at the Man in Black from his hidden position, Fezzik intentionally misses the shot, announces himself to the Man in Black, and insists they fight hand-to-hand.
300--->'''The Man in Black:''' You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people?
301--->'''Fezzik:''' (hefting another rock, ready to throw) I could kill you now...
302* HopeSpot: Westley and Buttercup are reunited and have just survived the Fire Swamp. Things are really looking up! [[spoiler:Then Humperdinck shows up...]]
303* HorseReturnsWithoutRider: Vizzini kidnaps Buttercup while she's riding. He {{invoke|dTrope}}s the trope by planting part of the uniform of an army officer of Guilder (who he's framing for her disappearance) on the horse, then sending it off.
304* IAmNotLeftHanded: The TropeNamer. Inigo deliberately handicaps himself during his duel with the Man in Black, because he's used to fighting people who are no challenge. When he realises that the Man in Black is beating him, he reveals his true abilities, and is soon winning — until the Man in Black reveals that he's ''also'' been holding back.
305* IDontPayYouToThink: Vizzini hired Inigo for his swordsmanship skills, and Fezzik for his size and strength. He'd much prefer it if neither of them spoke at all, but they're both smarter than he thinks they are.
306-->'''Fezzik:''' I just don't think it's right, killing an innocent girl.\
307'''Vizzini:''' Am I going ''mad'', or did the word ''"think"'' escape your lips?! You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass!\
308'''Inigo:''' I agree with Fezzik.\
309'''Vizzini:''' Oh, the sot has spoken! What happens to her is not truly your concern! '''I''' will kill her! And remember this, NEVER FORGET THIS! When I found you, you were so slobbering drunk, you couldn't buy brandy! ''[turning to Fezzik]'' And YOU: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were?! Unemployed, in ''Greenland''?!
310* IfIWantedYouDead: Fezzik deliberately misses his first attempt on the Man in Black's life with the thrown rock, noting he didn't have to. The Man in Black believes him, considers the rock ''fragmented'' on impact.
311* IGaveMyWord:
312** It is played straight by Inigo as Westley is trying to climb the Cliffs of Insanity. He swears by his father's grave that Westly will reach the top alive and indeed he does.
313** It is twisted around when Prince Humperdinck promises not to hurt Westley if Buttercup goes quietly (planning to let Count Rugen do it), but ultimately subverted when Humperdinck [[spoiler:mostly]] kills Westley himself.
314* IgnoringBySinging: Miracle Max's response when his wife provokes his BerserkButton by reminding him of his treatment by Prince Humperdinck.
315* TheIgor: The Albino, servant to the scientifically evil Rugen. He even speaks with the [[EvilSoundsRaspy typical raspy "Igor voice"]]... for one line, then he clears his throat and speaks in a normal deeper voice.
316* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Subverted during the BattleOfWits. Vizzini makes increasingly complicated reasonings to deduce which goblet is poisoned ("...so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me! But you would have counted on my thinking that, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you!"), but, as the Man in Black points out, he is just stalling for time and trying to break the Man in Black's poker face. When Vizzini gets called out on that, he gives up and goes for a second strategy: he distracts the Man in Black and swaps the cup instead, reasoning that if the Man looks confident drinking his cup, he should be too. The irony is that Vizzini's reasoning might be flawed, but his conclusion, that he can't trust either of the two glasses, is quite accurate. He just can't seem to get the final piece of the puzzle (he was accurate in guessing that his opponent might be counting on his strength to save him, not realizing that his opponent indeed has rendered himself immune to the poison).
317* IncendiaryExponent: Fezzik, shrouded in a cloak, gets lit on fire to intimidate the guards during the storming of the castle.
318* IndecisiveMedium: The film is about reading a book.
319* InformedAttractiveness: Much is made of Buttercup's beauty.
320* InformedConversation: A rare cinematic example has Fezzik's conversation with Inigo about the identity of the Six-Fingered Man related through narration and a silent montage rather than through dialogue.
321* InsaneTrollLogic: Some of Vizzini's analysis about which cup the Man in Black is more likely to have poisoned seems like this, although it's subverted in that he isn't really using this logic, he's just blabbing while observing the Man in Black for a telling reaction.
322* InstantlyProvenWrong: Westley notices several RodentsOfUnusualSize sneaking up on him and Buttercup, but denies their existence because he doesn't want her to panic. Immediately after he says that, a giant rat-monster attacks them.
323* InterClassRomance:
324** Buttercup, a commoner, and Prince Humperdinck, prince, to the extent that it counts as a romance. He has her ennobled as a princess before he marries her.
325** Buttercup is more middle-class than Westley, who is after all, her family's farm boy. She initially considers him to be beneath her notice and all he says to her is "as you wish," before she realizes they're in love.
326* IronicEcho:
327** "I swear it will be done" (Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen).
328** A visual example, once again with Count Rugen: Every [[spoiler:wound he takes during his duel with Inigo is somewhere that he previously inflicted on Inigo with his sword. For those keeping score, that's both cheeks, right arm, and the left shoulder, then Inigo runs him through the heart to avenge his father's death[[note]]This last counts double, depending on how you look at it; Inigo says that Rugen slashed his father through the heart, so he is replicating that injury. However, this wound also counts for Inigo himself, as he would consider himself to have been stabbed through the heart that day with the loss of his beloved father[[/note]]]].
329* ItSeemedTrivial: Inigo failing to mention to Westley that they have access to a wheelbarrow.
330* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Prince Humperdinck claims he would let Buttercup marry Westley if she wants to and send out four ships to locate him. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, he's lying.]]
331* {{Jerkass}}: Humperdinck is a nasty piece of work, even for a storybook villain. He's arrogant, petty, and cruel; he is only marrying Buttercup as a way to [[spoiler:foster outrage in Florin when she's murdered]], thus securing popular support for a war with Guilder; and not only is he planning to [[spoiler:murder Buttercup with his bare hands on their wedding night]], he actually confesses that he's ''looking forward'' to that! He lies to Buttercup constantly. He sets up a phony kidnapping for him to foil and make himself a hero. Finally, he turns Westley over to Rugen for his abominable torture experiments, and then [[spoiler:temporarily]] kills Westley in an unimaginably agonizing way — simply because he discovered how deeply Buttercup loves Westley.
332* JustAStupidAccent: The novel establishes that English is not the native language of Florin. But since Florin is a FictionalCountry (with a fictional language), there is no accent to imitate. Thus, most of the Florinese characters (played mostly by American actors) speak with UsefulNotes/BritishAccents. Frenchman Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and American Creator/WallaceShawn go into NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent territory with their characters, Fezzik and Vizzini, who are supposed to be Turkish and Sicilian respectively. However, the actors retain their native accents, and Vizzini's claim to be Sicilian is treated more like a joke than anything else. Miracle Max and his wife appear to be Yiddish speakers (but there's no reason why they couldn't be.) Only Creator/MandyPatinkin bothers to try to speak with his character's native Spanish accent, albeit not terribly well.
333* JuxtaposedReflectionPoster: One DVD cover has Wesley and Buttercup holding hands, with Wesley in his Dread Pirate Roberts garb and Buttercup in her red dress on top, and the two in their peasant garb from the opening scene reflected on the bottom. As a bonus, the title is stylized so it can be read upside down if you flip the image over.
334* KansasCityShuffle: The Battle of Wits. Vizzini switches the cups while the Man in Black is distracted so he won't realize that he's really drinking from the poisoned chalice once Vizzini makes his selection. Except the Man in Black lied about the whole premise of the game. [[spoiler:Both cups were poisoned, so it never mattered which cup Vizzini chose]]. And amusingly enough, Vizzini very nearly stumbled his way onto the real con a couple of times, but never quite put it all together.
335* KarmicInjury: When Inigo finally catches up with Count Rugen, before the coup de grâce, Inigo slashes Rugen's cheeks the same way Rugen did to him as a child. Before that, Rugen gets a couple of nonlethal stabs in from Inigo deflecting his sword, and Inigo retaliates and stabs Rugen in the same places less than a minute later.
336* KingOnHisDeathbed: Prince Humperdinck's father is said to have ailing health. Humperdinck hasn't bothered to have him assassinated since he's already ruling ''de facto''.
337* LargeHam: Vizzini overdoes everything, with Creator/WallaceShawn playing the role for broad laughs.
338* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Buttercup tells Humperdinck that [[spoiler:Westley]] [[HeWillComeForMe will come for her]], [[AsideGlance he looks straight at the camera and smirks in response]].
339* LegacyCharacter: The "Dread Pirate Roberts" is actually a title that has been held by a number of individuals. Westley reveals that he is the fourth person to use the mantle in order to uphold the legend, after the real Roberts retired, followed by a guy named Cummerbund, and then a man named Ryan. Fezzik even briefly takes up the identity to scare a few guards when StormingTheCastle, which also involves him being [[IncendiaryExponent set on fire]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Inigo wonders what to do now that he got his revenge, and Westley suggests passing the name to him.]]
340* {{Leitmotif}}: Skillfully done with Fezzik's plodding slide trombone theme, "The Friends' Song." You can't help but smile when you hear it, especially in this scene:
341-->'''Inigo:''' ''[drunk out of his mind]'' I. Am waiting. For. Vizzini.\
342''[cue leitmotif as huge hands pick Inigo up]''\
343'''Fezzik:''' You surely are a meanie.
344* LetsFightLikeGentlemen:
345** Inigo and the Man in Black have a most cordial conversation both before and ''during'' their fight.
346** Fezzik could kill the Man in Black by surprise, but insists on fighting hand-to-hand, "as God intended."
347--->'''Man in Black:''' You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?\
348'''Fezzik''': ''[holds up the other rock with a smile]'' I could kill you ''now''...
349* LifeIsntFair:
350** In response to the grandson's protest at a certain plot development, the grandfather simply says, "So who says life is fair? Where is that written?"
351** A similar sentiment from the Man in Black: "Life ''is'' pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something."
352* LineageLadder: When the grandfather explains why he gave his sick grandson a seemingly-boring book for a present, he mentions its history in the family by using a repetitive pattern with "father" shown below:
353-->'''Grandfather''': This is the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today I'm going to read it to you.
354* LipLockSunBlock: The first kiss between Westley and Buttercup has the two blocking the sunset, which is quickly interrupted by the grandson:
355-->'''Grandson:''' Is this a kissing book?
356* LiquidAssets: Count Rugen's torture device, the Machine, treats LifeEnergy as water.
357* LivingLegend: The Dread Pirate Roberts. Everyone knows he takes no prisoners, which is how he's so successful at convincing people to give up their valuables without a fight.
358* LodgedBladeRemoval: Count Rugen throws a dagger at Inigo Montoya, impaling him in the belly. Inigo at first seems to be overcome by the pain and shock of the injury, but [[EvilGloating Rugen's taunting]] angers him enough to [[HeroicSecondWind summon the strength]] to pull the dagger out, deflect Rugen's attempts to stab him, and eventually fight Rugen and kill him.
359* LookBehindYou:
360** Vizzini does this in the "Battle of Wits" scene so he can swap goblets without the Man in Black knowing he'd done so. [[spoiler: But he does so with such a flourish that it's clear that he ''knows'' that Vizzini has done so, and plays along.]]
361** The ROUS attack in the Fire Swamp.
362* LudicrousGiftRequest: When Rugen says, "I will do anything!" as a response to Inigo feigning an offer of mercy, he says that he wants his father back, even though his father's already (completely) dead.
363* MarryForLove: Buttercup wanted to, but she thought Westley was dead.
364* MarryingTheMark: Prince Humperdink's apparent [[AltarDiplomacy political marriage]] to Buttercup is actually a part of a GenghisGambit; once she's captured the hearts of the populace, he intends to have her killed and frame Gilder for the assassination so he has a PretextForWar.
365* MaskingTheDeformity: {{Discussed|Trope}}. Fezzik questions why the Man in Black is wearing a mask, and suggests this as an example. [[SubvertedTrope He dismisses it]], and says he wears it because it's comfortable. [[spoiler:It later becomes clear that he wears it to hide that he's Westley.]]
366* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: The Dread Pirate Roberts is identified mainly by his black clothing and his Zorro mask. As a result, few know that the identity has been passed from person to person through the years. At the end, Fezzik dresses up and claims to be the "Dwead Piwate Woberts" to scare the castle guards.
367* MasterSwordsman: Westley and Inigo both qualify. Inigo has studied the sword for twenty years straight to acquire the skills necessary to avenge his father. Westley has only had a few years of practice under his belt, but has even more natural talent (and spending those years fighting for his life on a pirate ship probably gave him more real-world experience than Inigo was able to get).
368* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
369** Inigo and Fezzik are looking for Westley, their only lead is incapacitated, and they're running out of time. In desperation, Inigo invokes his father's spirit and attempts to use his sword as a dousing rod. When he runs into a tree, he slumps over in despair, but it just so happens that he slumps onto the hidden switch that opens the secret passageway leading to whom they're looking for. It may be dumb luck, but the tree is covered in knots and Count Rugen, who uses the passage on a regular basis, had some trouble in finding it.
370** Is Miracle Max a wizard or simply a medicine man? While some of his acts stretch the boundaries of realism ([[spoiler:extracts a "message" from the apparently dead Westley by pushing air into his lungs with a bellows, gets him revived by having a pill stuck down his throat]]), he doesn't do anything clearly supernatural.
371* MeaningfulEcho: The grandfather's last line to his grandson is "As you wish," previously established as Westley's way of saying "I love you."
372* MeaningfulName: Florin and Guilder, the names of the two warring countries, are both names of historic denominations of coins of Europe, thus they are clearly wealthy kingdoms.
373* MeleeDisarming: During Inigo and The Man In Black's duel, The Man In Black briefly disarms Inigo with an adroit flip of the sword out of Inigio's hand. To end the duel, The Man In Black disarms Inigo again. The actual Disarm isn't {{Flynning}}, but what leads up to it is. The Man In Black swirls his sword before Inigo, confusing him as to where it is and will be, whips it beside his head, then just knocks Inigo's sword from his loose fingers while he's distracted.
374* MetafictionalDevice: The characters are aware of fairy tales. . . without quite being aware that they're in one, though sometimes they seem to tread close to understanding that. Such as when Humperdinck notes that Westley and Buttercup's love is exceptionally rare "No matter what the storybooks say," and Westley himself seeming to believe Buttercup would be fully aware that "Death cannot stop true love -- it can just delay it for awhile." And of course, the story is a storybook story, read by a grandfather to his grandson, who occasionally pause to [[ConversationalTroping discuss the tropes in play]].
375* MexicanStandoff: Between Vizzini and the Man in Black, leading up to the BattleOfWits. The standoff is in part theoretical — the Man in Black has no weapon trained on Vizzini, but the latter knows he'd never stand up to the Man physically, so his knife is at Buttercup's throat, effectively holding the Man in Black at bay.
376* MickeyMousing: Used throughout the movie to varying degree and effect, but the most noteworthy instance has to be Inigo Montoya's fight against Count Rugen, in which a musical sting accompanies every stab that draws blood.
377* MilesGloriosus: Humperdinck obviously fancies himself a mighty warrior, but he is rather cowardly — so much so that he surrenders to a man who could barely stand up, simply because he rattled him.
378* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Inigo and Fezzik. "I just don't think it's right, killing an innocent girl." And Fezzik complaining that his way of getting rid of the Man in Black (throwing a rock at his head) is not very sportsmanlike.
379* MistressAndServantBoy: Buttercup and Westley started out as a haughty lady ordering around the stable-hand.
380* MobstacleCourse: Inigo hears Westley's screaming. But he has a hard time getting through the crowd of peasants until Fezzik shouts [[ExcuseMeComingThrough "Everybody MOVE!"]]
381* MundaneMadeAwesome: The wheelbarrow. A plan to [[spoiler:get past 60 men and into a locked gate hinges on having one as an asset. You have a giant, two master swordsmen, a cloak that can be set on fire and not have the person wearing it get hurt, but the whole plan hinges on having that one crucial element, a wheeled cart]].
382-->'''Westley:''' [[spoiler:If only we had a wheelbarrow, that would be something!]]\
383'''Inigo:''' Where did we put that [[spoiler:wheelbarrow the albino had]]?\
384'''Fezzik:''' Over with [[spoiler:the albino, I think]].\
385'''Westley:''' Then why didn't you list among our assets in the first place?
386* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Buttercup's reaction after she pushes the Dread Pirate Roberts down a hill and realizes [[spoiler:he is Westley]].
387--->'''Buttercup:''' [[spoiler:Oh, my sweet Westley!]] What have I done? ''(throws herself down the hill)''
388* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: This movie named the trope, with Inigo declaring his name to the man who killed his father, and that Inigo intends to take his life in return.
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392* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Discussed when Westley talks about Roberts's legacy. The names he says he and his predecessor had are distinctly nonthreatening: Ryan and Cummerbund. Later, Westley reiterates that the whole point of the Roberts name is to strike fear into the hearts of their targets, stating, "No one would surrender to 'the Dread Pirate Westley.'"
393* TheNapoleon: Vizzini hires the strongest giant and most deadly swordsman he can find, but feels no fear in constantly browbeating and threatening them.
394* NeutralFemale: Buttercup spends 90% of Westley's fight with the ROUS standing there watching, even though his sword is lying right next to her.
395* NeverSayThatAgain:
396** Miracle Max is so sore over being fired by Humperdinck that he forbids the name in his house. His wife uses it to needle him.
397--->'''Valerie:''' Humperdinck! Humperdinck! Humperdiiiinck!\
398'''Max:''' [[IgnoringBySinging La, la, la, I'm not listening!]]
399** Also, Count Rugen, in response to the repetition of Inigo's greeting that accompanies his HeroicSecondWind: "Stop ''saying'' that!"
400* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
401** The Man in Black testing Buttercup's faithfulness [[spoiler:to Westley, instead of telling her who he is]], ends up with both of them rolling down a hill and having to navigate the Fire Swamp to get to his ship. [[spoiler:This gives Humperdinck enough time to catch up to them, and forces Buttercup to bargain for Westley's life.]]
402** Buttercup giving a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Humperdinck enrages the latter enough to [[spoiler:kill Westley with the machine]].
403* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Humperdinck turning up the power on the machine, causing Westley to cry out in agony, alerts Inigo and Fezzik to Westley's location.]]
404* NightmareFetishist: Westley says the [[IncendiaryExponent Fire Swamp]] is more charming than [[SwampsAreEvil fearsome]]. [[CasualDangerDialogue Not that he's going to build a summer home there.]]
405* NoisyNature: ''Shrieking eels.''
406* NoNameGiven: The boy and his grandfather are never named, not even in the ending credits. Also true of The Impressive Clergyman and The Albino.
407* NoTimeToExplain: "Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."
408* NotWhatISignedOnFor: Inigo and Fezzik agreed to help Vizzini abduct a girl. Revealing that he's going to ''kill'' her shakes them up.
409* NowWhat: Inigo wonders what he will do after he defeated the six-fingered man. Westley suggests he take up the mantle of the Dread Pirate Roberts, since he just wants to live in peace with Buttercup now.
410* OhCrap:
411** Buttercup when a shrieking eel advances on her.
412** Buttercup when she realizes that the Man in Black [[spoiler:is Westley]] and she just pushed him down a hill.
413** Westley gets this multiple times in the Fire Swamp: on seeing Buttercup's dress catch on fire, quicksand swallowing her, an ROUS appearing just out of her line of vision, and finally encountering Humperdinck's army.
414** Yellin the castle gate guard when he gets a good look at Fezzik.
415** Rugen gets in on the action when Humperdinck turns the machine to its maximum on Wesley, bordering on OOCIsSeriousBusiness for the ColdHam Rugen.
416* OminousAdversarialAmusement:
417-->'''Inigo:''' I admit it: you are better than I am!\
418'''Man in Black:''' Then why are you smiling?\
419'''Inigo:''' Because I know something you don't know.
420* OneTrueLove: The plot revolves around this trope.
421* OnlyAFleshWound: In his final battle with Count Rugen, Inigo twice deflects sword thrusts into his shoulder and yet seems to show no visible effect from it. Not to mention, of course, the gaping dagger wound to the stomach (though he's having to hold it shut the whole time). He's even using all injured limbs normally without even wincing in pain after he kills Rugen, jumping out windows, and riding horses without missing a beat.
422* OnlyMostlyDead: The TropeNamer. After Humperdinck kills Westley, his friends take him to Miracle Max, who diagnoses him as "only mostly dead" and thus a candidate for revival. For the record, there's a big difference between 'mostly dead' and 'all dead', and that is the fact with 'all dead', there's only one thing you can do: go through his clothes and look for loose change.
423* OutGambitted: Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line! Hahahahahaha! [[spoiler:Unless you are immune to a poison you are using.]]
424* OverlyLongScream: Westley, when Humperdinck charges into the Pit of Despair and cranks Rugen's life-sucking machine to its maximum setting.
425* PaperThinDisguise: It took [[spoiler:"As You Wish"]] to realize it?! Then again, she hasn't seen him in years, and has no reason to even think he's ''alive''.
426* ParodySue: Buttercup and Westley. The former of the radiant type, and the latter a brilliant tactician, strategist, and logistic thinker with a dash of being StrongAndSkilled, seeing as he is able to both outfence Inigo and outwrestle Fezzik.
427* PassingTheTorch: Westley suggests that Inigo take his place [[spoiler:as the Dread Pirate Roberts, as has been happening for the past 20 years]].
428* PersonalizedPledge: Inigo Montoya is getting bored while he waits for his WorthyOpponent to climb up a cliff and duel him. He offers to throw him a rope to hurry things along, but the man doesn't trust him. Then he swears on the soul of his father with such sincerity that it earns him the man's trust instantly.
429-->'''Inigo Montoya:''' But, I promise I will not kill you until you reach the top.\
430 '''Man in Black:''' That's ''very'' comforting, but I'm afraid you'll just have to wait.\
431 '''Inigo Montoya:''' I hate waiting. I could give you my word as a Spaniard.\
432 '''Man in Black:''' No good. I've known too many Spaniards.\
433 '''Inigo Montoya:''' Isn't there any way you trust me?\
434 '''Man in Black:''' Nothing comes to mind.\
435 '''Inigo Montoya:''' I swear on the soul of my father, Domingo Montoya, you will reach the top alive.\
436 '''Man in Black:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' Throw me the rope.
437* PersonWithTheClothing: Before the Dread Pirate Roberts identifies himself as such, Vizzini and company refer to him as the Man in Black due to his solid-black duds.
438* PetRat: The Brute Squad hired by Prince Humperdinck whose job is to clear out the Thieves' Quarter. Not to mention Vizzini and his crew.
439* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: Inigo Montoya has a scar on each cheek given to him by the man who killed his father, which serves to strengthen his drive for revenge.
440* {{Pirate}}: The Dread Pirate Roberts, to be precise. Not that we see him do much pirating.
441* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: A roundabout example occurs in the FrameStory of the movie with the grandfather and grandson. Early in the story, Buttercup realizes that Westley's habitual answer "as you wish" means he loves her. As we return to the grandfather and grandson at the end, the grandson asks the grandfather to come back and reread the book to him tomorrow. The grandfather answers, "[[MeaningfulEcho As you wish]]."
442* PlotPoweredStamina: Fezzik's arms never get tired, not even when hauling three people up the Cliffs of Insanity.
443* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Part of Vizzini's BatmanGambit that revolves around the aforementioned IKnowYouKnowIKnow.
444* ThePowerOfLove: A major theme — Westley is driven by romantic love, and Inigo by filial love (...and by ThePowerOfHate).
445* PragmaticAdaptation: Interesting case since the author himself adapted it to a screenplay. Many lines from cut characters are transplanted onto other characters. The stack of frame stories and unreliable narrations in the book, all focused on the reader-writer relationship, is slimmed down to one simple frame story, removing most of the postmodernism and satire.
446* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
447* PrecisionFStrike:
448** The grandson shouts, "Jesus, Grandpa!" in exasperation, showing that he's fully invested in the story by now.
449** During the climax of the movie, [[spoiler:during Inigo's duel with Count Rugen, Inigo stabs Rugen in the stomach and says "I want my father back, you son of a bitch!" before finishing the job]].
450* PrepositionalPhraseEqualsCoolness: The Cliffs of Insanity, the Man in Black, the Rodents of Unusual Size, and the Pit of Despair, just to name a few.
451* PressurePoint: Fezzik clasps her carotid artery for a moment to knock out Buttercup.
452* PretextForWar: The plot behind Buttercup's kidnapping. Humperdinck wants to frame the kingdom of Guilder for it so he can conquer them.
453* PreventTheWar: Vizzini thinks the Man in Black is trying to stop the prince's plot to start a war, but in reality he just wants to save Buttercup.
454* PrinceCharmless: Prince Humperdinck is the main villain, and a real asshole. He wants Buttercup because she's a beautiful woman, and that's it. [[spoiler:And then it turns out he ''doesn't'' actually want her, he just thinks the people of his kingdom will love her, and be incensed enough to go to war when he frames another country for her murder.]]
455* ProperlyParanoid: Discussed.
456-->'''Humperdinck:''' I always think everything might be a trap... which is why I am still alive.
457* PsychoForHire: Count Rugen just enjoys when people suffer, making him a great torture master for Humperdink.
458* PunchClockVillain:
459** Inigo and Fezzik are only on the bad guys' side because they're working for Vizzini. Given that neither of them seem to enjoy his company, and they both insist on fighting fair with the Man In Black, it's no big surprise they [[spoiler:later go over to the hero's side]].
460--->'''Inigo:''' I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills. There's not a lot of money in revenge.
461** The Albino seems to be one of these, too. The actor's performance mostly suggests he's just doing his job, even if it ''is'' a pretty evil job[[note]]even more so in the book, where he offers to kill Westley to spare him the pain of the machine[[/note]].
462* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: The Man in Black versus Fezzik. Fezzik gives him a bright smile and tries to encourage him.
463* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
464** "Drop. Your. Sword."
465** "I. Am waiting. For. Vizzini."
466* QuicksandSucks: In the Fire Swamp, lightning sand quickly sucks Buttercup in without warning.
467* RagsToRoyalty: Buttercup, as a landholding farmer, may not wear rags, but she's a commoner whom Humperdinck ennobles so that he can marry her.
468* RamblingOldManMonologue:
469-->'''Miracle Max:''' Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world. ''[{{beat}}]'' Except for a nice MLT: mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, when the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato's ripe. They're so perky, I love them.
470* ReadingIsCoolAesop: Given the grandfather is trying to convince the grandson that the story he's reading to him is actually worth hearing (by comparison to, say, video games like he was playing before, or TV).
471-->'''Grandfather:''' When I was your age, television was called books.
472* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Buttercup to Humperdinck after she realizes [[spoiler:he never sent his four fastest ships to look for Westley]].
473* ReassignedToAntarctica: Vizzini threatens Fezzik with this.
474-->'''Vizzini:''' Do you want me to send you back to '''where you were?!''' Unemployed? In ''Greenland?''
475* RecruitedFromTheGutter:
476** Vizzini recruited both Inigo and Fezzik this way, as he reminds them when they question his orders:
477-->'''Vizzini:''' ''[to Inigo]'' When I found you, you were so slobbering drunk, you couldn't buy brandy! ''[to Fezzik]'' And ''you'': friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless! Do you want me to send you back to where you were?! Unemployed, in '''Greenland'''?
478** When Fezzik finds Inigo later, he is pretty much ''literally'' in the gutter.
479* RedRightHand: Count Rugen's right hand has six fingers. It's Inigo's only real clue to his identity.
480* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: The Man in Black recalls meeting and then killing Westley with Buttercup. It's also a subversion, since the Man in Black [[spoiler:''is'' Westley]].
481* ResurrectionSickness: After returning from being mostly dead, Westley spends the rest of the film as essentially an invalid.
482* {{Revenge}}:
483** Inigo Montoya has dedicated his life to taking vengeance on the six-fingered man who killed his father.
484** Miracle Max is perfectly willing to help the good guys, when they promise to humiliate Humperdink, the man who fired him.
485* RhymesOnADime: Fezzik.
486-->'''Inigo:''' That Vizzini, he can ''fuss''.\
487'''Fezzik:''' Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at '''us'''.\
488'''Inigo:''' Probably he means no ''harm''.\
489'''Fezzik:''' He's really very short on '''charm'''.\
490'''Inigo:''' You have a great gift for ''rhyme''.\
491'''Fezzik:''' Yes, yes, some of the '''time'''.\
492'''Vizzini:''' Enough of that!\
493''[the boat sets sail]''\
494'''Inigo:''' Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?\
495'''Fezzik:''' If there are, we all be '''dead'''.\
496'''Vizzini:''' No more rhymes now, I mean it!\
497'''Fezzik:''' Anybody want a '''peanut'''?\
498''[Vizzini screams in frustration]''
499* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: The Fire Swamp. Blasts of fire, [[QuicksandSucks lightning sand]], and RodentsOfUnusualSize. Though Westley and Buttercup seem to survive fairly easily, all things considered.
500-->'''Buttercup:''' We'll never survive!\
501'''Westley:''' Nonsense! You're only saying that because nobody ever has.
502* RightForTheWrongReasons: Inigo hears a scream, which he identifies as the sound of "ultimate suffering", and concludes that it must be the Man in Black: "His true love is marrying another tonight, so who else has the cause for ultimate suffering?" He's right about it being the Man in Black, but he's actually being tortured by the Machine, which completely undermines Inigo's reasoning; it might just as well have been anybody else who'd happened to get on Humperdinck's bad side.
503* RoarBeforeBeating: Vizzini explicitly says that the Shrieking Eels "always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh".
504* RoboticTortureDevice: The Machine, a water suction pump. Made all the more horrifying with the eleven-fingered man politely asking for Westley to describe the sensation {{for science}}.
505* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Rodents of Unusual Size (about the size of a large dog) are one of the hazards of the Fire Swamp.
506* RomanticRibbing: Buttercup has resolved to kill herself since she believes Westley to be dead. She raises a dagger to her chest...
507--> '''Westley:''' There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. T'would be a pity to damage yours.
508* RuleOfCool: Westley was supposed to jump feet-first in the lightning sand pit, but Carey Elwes suggested that diving in headfirst would look far more heroic.
509* RuleOfFunny: Inigo has to count on his fingers to figure out he would be left with 20 men after Fezzik says he can handle 10 of the 30 guarding the gate. It's [[MST3KMantra best not to think about that later]] when Inigo later ''instantly'' counts 60 men now guarding the gate.[[note]]Hungover vs. Sober; also might be that Inigo can ''count'' very quickly, but has more trouble doing mental math when he can't directly see what he's counting[[/note]]
510* SailorsPonytail: The Dread Pirate Roberts sports a ponytail.
511* SarcasticConfession: When Humperdinck's response to Westley's ToThePain speech is to call his bluff, he replies, "It's possible, pig, I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand." (Subverted, though, as he then reveals that he's regained enough strength to stand up. ''Just'' enough.)
512* ScareChord: Immediately after the line, "RodentsOfUnusualSize? I don't think they exist," one of said [=ROUSs=] jumps Westley, and the music reacts appropriately.
513* ScarecrowSolution: The entire "Dread Pirate Roberts" rig that Fezzik wears for the castle storming, which even gets set on fire for further dramatic effect.
514* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Prince Humperdinck is pointed out to be so, and demonstrates it by ''instantly'' identifying a colorless, tasteless, and ''odorless'' poison by ''sniffing its vial''. His skill is even more notable later after the revelation that the kidnapping had ''not'' gone as he planned it to go, so even he is being surprised by what he is discovering — but he still tracks them.
515* ScheherezadeGambit: Westley's relationship with [[spoiler:the previous Dread Pirate Roberts]]. Despite continual claims that he'll probably be killed the next morning, he serves as a valet until they become friends.
516* TheScream: Westley's torture. Poor bastard.
517-->'''Inigo:''' You hear that? That is the sound of ultimate suffering.
518* ScrewTheMoneyThisIsPersonal: When Inigo has finally gained the upper hand against Rugen, he asks for a bribe, but only because he wants to toy with the bastard.
519-->'''Inigo:''' Offer me money.\
520'''Rugen:''' Yes!\
521'''Inigo:''' Power, too, promise me that.\
522'''Rugen:''' All that I have and more. Please...\
523'''Inigo:''' Offer me everything I ask for.\
524'''Rugen:''' Anything you want...\
525'''Inigo:''' ''[runs Rugen through]'' [[PreMortemOneLiner I want my father back, you son of a bitch!]]
526* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Buttercup jumps ship and tries to swim away to safety when Vizzini and his men's backs are turned. Unfortunately, she nearly meets a fatal encounter with shrieking eels.
527* SecretTest: [[spoiler:When Westley rescues Buttercup, his OneTrueLove, from her kidnappers]], he doesn't reveal his true identity, in the hope of finding out whether she still loves him or not. She ends up pushing him down a cliff when he questions her faithfulness to the man that "Roberts" murdered.
528* SelfPoisoningGambit: After Vizzini switches the cups, he carefully watches the Man in Black's reaction to his choice. When The Man in Black shows no hesitation to drink, Vizzini concludes that the Man in Black thought he was getting the "safe" cup, which Vizzini now has due to his earlier switch. Vizzini happily downs his wine, unaware that he had been fooled and was falling victim to this trope instead.
529* SeparateSceneStorytelling: As the grandfather reads to the child, the action shifts to the story.
530* ShoutOut:
531** Westley's "man in black" outfit is a dead ringer for the costume Creator/DouglasFairbanks wore in ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1920}}'' in 1920.
532** Fezzik asks the Man in Black if he's wearing a mask because he was burned by acid, a reference to ''Film/{{Phantom of the Opera|1943}}''.
533** The Dread Pirate Roberts and his ship ''Revenge'' is a reference to two famous real pirates Bartholomew Roberts (1682-1722) and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680-1718), whose ship was named ''Queen Anne's Revenge''.
534** It is not inconceivable that Vizzini is named after the legendary Sicillian mafia leader [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calogero_Vizzini Calogero "Don Calò" Vizzini (1877-1954)]]
535* ShownTheirWork: The names dropped during the Chatty Duel:
536** "Bonetti's defense" refers to 16th century fencing master Rocco Bonetti.
537** "Capo Ferro" refers to 16th-17th century fencing master Ridolfo Capo Ferro, author of ''Gran Simulacro dell' Arte e dell' uso della Scherma''.
538** "Thibault" refers to 17th century fencing master Girard Thibault, author of ''Academie de l'Espee''.
539** "Agrippa" refers to 16th century fencing master Camillo Agrippa, author of ''Trattato di Scienza d'Arme''.
540* ShutUpKirk: What Buttercup tells the Dread Pirate Roberts [[spoiler:(actually Westley)]]: she "died" the day that she heard her true love was gone, and he has no right to accuse her of being unfaithful when as far as she knows that Roberts murdered Westley. And to accentuate the point, she pushes Roberts down a hill.
541-->'''Buttercup:''' You mocked me once, never do it again! I DIED THAT DAY! You can die too for all I care! ''(pushes Dreaded Pirate Roberts down the hill)''
542* SincerityMode: When Count Rugen invites Prince Humperdinck to his initial demonstration of his new torture device, Humperdinck respectfully declines on the grounds that he's got a lot of dirty work of his own.
543-->'''Humperdinck''' Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work. But I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it — I'm ''swamped''.\
544'''Count Rugen:''' Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything.
545* SlipperyAsAnEel: When she tries to escape from Vizzini, Buttercup is attacked by shrieking eels.
546* SmallNameBigEgo: Vizzini thinks he's far more intelligent than he really is.
547-->'''Vizzini:''' Ever hear of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? ''...Morons.''
548* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Buttercup. Her beauty's enough to get her promoted to future queen, except the Prince threatens to kill her if she refuses. [[spoiler:He's planning to kill her anyway.]] In fact, if she were slightly less beautiful, the whole conflict wouldn't have happened.
549* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Dreaded Pirate Roberts saying [[spoiler:"As you wish"]], reveals himself to be [[spoiler:Westley]].
550* SoWhatDoWeDoNow:
551** [[spoiler:Inigo gets his revenge]], but he spent all his adult life in pursuit of it. What should he do? Fortunately, [[spoiler:Westley passes on the mantle of The Dread Pirate Roberts to him]].
552** The Man in Black asks Fezzik this after Fezzik could've killed him with a rock, but declined to do so.
553* SparingTheAces: The Man in Black declines to kill his WorthyOpponent Inigo Montoya because Inigo is an extremely gifted swordsman who has made sword fighting his life's study in order to be able to one day get revenge on the man who [[YouKilledMyFather killed his father]]. In addition, Inigo had plenty of chances to easily kill the Man in Black, but chose not to, out of a sense of honor.
554-->'''The Man in Black:''' I would as soon destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either... ''[TapOnTheHead]'' Please understand, [[WorthyOpponent I hold you in the highest respect]].
555* StayInTheKitchen: The Man in Black's attitude towards Buttercup seems to be this, seemingly setting him up as a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, at least to modern audiences. However, when it's revealed [[spoiler:he is actually her true love, Westley, who loves her deeply]], one could conjecture [[spoiler:the cavalier chauvinism was just Westley venting his anger at her for giving up on him. Or maybe it was part of his disguise. Or... Maybe he was always like this but he never talked before except to say "As you wish"]].
556* StopSayingThat: Count Rugen, verbatim, to Inigo Montoya.
557* StormingTheCastle: Inigo and Fezzik invade Humperdinck's castle with only Westley, who's suffering ResurrectionSickness and can barely move himself, to help. Miracle Max and Valerie don't think much of their chances.
558-->'''Valerie:''' Think it'll work?\
559'''Max:''' It'll take a miracle.
560* StoutStrength: Fezzik has a round physique and admits that he doesn't even exercise, yet is the WorldsStrongestMan. True to life, Andre the Giant rarely lifted weights because he felt no need to be any stronger than he already was.
561* StunnedSilence: Buttercup to Westley after he praises the Fire Swamp.
562* SwampsAreEvil: The three primary dangers of the Fire Swamp are random spouts of fire (easily avoided by identifying a popping noise right before one erupts), the lightning sand (though once you've fallen into that one, it's easy to look out for), and the RodentsOfUnusualSize.
563* {{Swashbuckler}}: Not a completely pure example of the genre, but containing many, many of its elements.
564* SwordFight: The "Chatty Duel" (as the DVD chapter title names it) between Inigo Montoya and the Man in Black. One of the best sword fights on film.
565* SwordPointing: Westley does it to Prince Humperdinck at the climax to make him surrender.
566-->'''Westley:''' Drop. Your. Sword.
567* TakeAThirdOption: Vizzini attempts this during the battle of wits. Unfortunately for him, so does the Man in Black, and rather more successfully.
568* TakeThat: While the Man in Black is climbing up the cliff, Inigo gets impatient while waiting for him and offers to throw down a rope, so that he can climb up more quickly so Inigo can kill him sooner. The Man in Black is understandably skeptical of this offer, resulting in the following exchange:
569-->'''Inigo:''' I could give you my word as a Spaniard.\
570'''The Man in Black:''' No good; I've known too many Spaniards.
571* TapOnTheHead: The Man in Black to Inigo (sword hilt) and Fezzik (stranglehold), Count Rugen to Westley (sword hilt), and Fezzik to the albino (fist) and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the shrieking eel]] (fist).
572* TeamHandStack: Inigo, Fezzig and Westly stack their hands together just before storming Prince Humperdinck's castle.
573* TemptingFate:
574** "RodentsOfUnusualSize? I don't think they exist." Cue a Rodent of Unusual Size jumping out of nowhere to attack.
575** Also in the framing device: when learning that his grandfather has come to visit, the boy moans that he hates it when his grandfather pinches his cheek to greet him. His mother suggests that maybe that won't happen this time. Guess what the first thing the grandfather does on greeting the boy is.
576* TerribleTrio: Vizzini, Inigo, and Fezzik are initially this, before it becomes apparent that Inigo and Fezzik are actually good — and Vizzini meets with some iocane powder.
577* ThatLiarLies: Max gets this reaction after trying his "to blave" comment.
578-->'''Valerie:''' Liar! Liar! LIIIAAAAAR!
579* ThemeNaming: Florin and Guilder are different names for the same medieval European coin. Currencies with those names are still in use today.
580* ToThePain: TropeNamer. When Westley confronts Humperdinck, he challenges him to a duel and describes in detail what he's going to do to him when he wins. [[spoiler:It's a bluff; he can barely stand, much less carry it out.]]
581* TomTheDarkLord: Westley's explanation to Buttercup while they are traveling through the Fire Swamp as to why he had to take on the Dread Pirate Roberts moniker:
582-->'''Westley:''' Well, Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. So he took me to his cabin and told me his secret: "I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts," he said. "My name is Ryan. I inherited this ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Dread Pirate Roberts, either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia." Then he explained the name was the important thing for inspiring the necessary fear. You see, no one would surrender to the 'Dread Pirate Westley'.
583* TrueCompanions: Fezzik and Inigo. They rhyme together, encourage each other to be careful, and work as a team. Fezzik rescues a drunken Inigo from the Brute Squad, sobers him up, and helps him come up with a new plan to obtain his revenge.
584* TryAndFollow:
585** Vizzini thinks that ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity is enough to deter persuit, since only Fezzik is strong enough to haul himself (and the other three) all the way to the top. But the Man in Black gives chase anyway.
586** Westley and Buttercup successfully lose Humperdinck's men by entering the Fire Swamp, which by reputation no one can survive traversing. However, Humperdinck merely uses his horses' superior speed to go around and beat them to the other side.
587* TwoFacedAside: When Buttercup asks Humperdinck to promise he'll return Westley to his ship:
588-->'''Humperdinck:''' I swear it will be done. ''[aside to Count Rugen]'' Once we're out of sight, take him back to Florin and throw him in the Pit of Despair.\
589'''Count Rugen:''' I swear it will be done.
590* UnableToSupportAWife: Why Westley, a poor farmboy, left Buttercup to seek his fortune.
591* UnconsciousObjector: Inigo's arm seems to block Count Rugen's coup de grace independently. At that moment, "conscious" wouldn't fairly describe Inigo, who seems ready to GoIntoTheLight.
592* UndeadAuthor: The Dread Pirate Roberts takes no prisoners. ([[AllThereInTheManual In the original novel, it's explained]] that this doesn't mean he kills everybody: he kills anybody who resists, but anybody who hands over their valuables without resistance gets to go free — and spread the word, so that the next set of victims are less likely to resist.)
593* UnreliableVoiceover: The grandfather narrates, "Fezzik took great care in reviving Inigo," as Fezzik dunks Inigo's head into alternating basins of hot and cold water. Several times.
594* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: All of one person other than the main characters seems to notice the eerie, overlapping scream that's loud enough to be heard all over Florin. And he just turns his head slightly before walking on, all of the other peasants blithely ignoring it. Of course, Inigo has to tell Fezzik to stop and listen before the giant acknowledges it, so it might simply not be as loud to the characters as it is to [[RuleOfPerception the viewers]]. Or worse, this sort of thing might be so ''common'' that they barely notice it any more.
595* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Once Inigo Montoya has killed his father's killer, Inigo's life is rather empty, although it's not really a lack of satisfaction but rather, "That's everything on the to-do list. [[SoWhatDoWeDoNow Now what?]]"
596* VideoCredits: At the end.
597* VillainousBreakdown: As Inigo refuses to die, and slowly gains the upper hand on Rugen in their duel, Rugen first becomes shaken, then demands that Inigo "StopSayingThat"
598* VillainousFriendship: Humperdinck trusts the Count completely, the Count worries for the Prince's health, and they seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company.
599* VillainousMedicalCare: After his fight with the ROUS and his capture by Count Rugen, Westley is taken to the Pit of Despair both for medical treatment and so he can be the first victim of the Machine.
600* VillainRespect: Count Rugen seems to genuinely admire Westley for his fortitude and prowess, as well as his direct manner. Unfortunately, this is the main reason Westley becomes a prime [[ForScience test subject]] for [[ColdBloodedTorture the Machine]].
601* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Prince Humperdinck seems to enjoy the support, or at least the apathy, of most of his subjects. The need to maintain his good publicity is why he plans to kill such a popular figure as Princess Buttercup in the first place — framing Guilder for the crime will give him the pretext he needs to go to war with the support of the populace.
602* VisibleBoomMic: As Westley picks up his sword to kill the R.O.U.S. in the Fire Swamp, a crew member can be seen starting to come out of the trees to the right before abruptly stopping.
603* VocalDissonance: "The Impressive Clergyman" is seen in full garb for nearly half a minute to organ music, at which point he speaks and it is revealed that he has a speech impediment that makes him sound like a dopey [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Elmer Fudd]].
604* WallSlump: Inigo has a famous one after Rugen stabs him — several times.
605* WhamLine:
606** [[spoiler:"As you wish!"]] as Roberts[[spoiler:/Westley]] tumbles down the hillside.
607** Humperdinck is presented as a JerkAss for claiming Buttercup as a trophy wife and later imprisoning Westley to get him out of the way. However, he seems sincerely concerned that Guilder kidnapped her and plans to kill her — [[spoiler:then he reveals that he was behind Buttercup's abduction all along, as a pretext for a war with Guilder]].
608-->'''Humperdinck''': It's odd, but [[spoiler:when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered on our engagement day, I thought that was clever. But it's going to be so much more moving when I strangle her on our wedding night. Once Guilder is blamed, the nation will truly be outraged--they'll demand we go to war]].
609* WhamShot: Count Rugen's right hand, with six fingers. This marks him as the man who Inigo has been hunting for most of his life.
610* WhatTheHellHero:
611** [[spoiler:Westley]] tries to call out Buttercup for not marrying her promised love, even though as far as she knows Westley is ''dead'' and she got AnOfferYouCantRefuse from the prince of the land. Eventually subverted as Buttercup delivers a ShutUpKirk and reveals that she "died that day" — the day she got news of Westley's death.
612** Interestingly enough, Buttercup's conscience does this to her, when she [[spoiler:surrenders to Humperdinck to save Westley's life]]. She starts having figures in her nightmares berating her.
613* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The gloriously bad and [[LargeHam over-the-top]] "Spanish" accent Creator/MandyPatinkin affects as Inigo is a big part of the film's charm.
614* WhoAreYou:
615** Inigo seems rather confused that he's never even heard of this swordsman who's more than a match for him.
616-->'''Inigo:''' Who ''are'' you?\
617'''The Man in Black:''' No one of consequence.\
618'''Inigo:''' I must know.\
619'''The Man in Black:''' Get used to disappointment.\
620'''Inigo:''' ''[shrugs]'' Okay.
621** Buttercup asks the Man in Black the same question, and he's equally noncommittal with her as with Inigo.
622* WorldsStrongestMan: Fezzik is recruited by Vizzini because he is this.
623* WorthyOpponent: Inigo and Westley compliment each other's fighting style during their duel, and both are clearly having fun testing each other's skills. Afterwards, when Westley has Inigo at his mercy, the latter insists GetItOverWith, but Westley responds with a merciful TapOnTheHead, pausing only to say "I hold you in the highest possible respect." When they meet again (and Inigo is no longer a PunchClockVillain), they become allies almost instantly.
624* XanatosGambit: The Man in Black wins the battle of wits against against Vizzini before it even starts. Both of the chalices that Vizzini has to choose from are poisoned with iocane powder, and the Man in Black has [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity built up an immunity to it]] so he can drink from either. Even if Vizzini figures out what's going on, he has no way of beating the Man in Black in a straight fight.
625* YouFightLikeACow: Reversed in the famous Inigo/Westley duel, as they trade compliments instead of insults. (In most DVD editions, that chapter is titled "The Chatty Duelists".)
626* YouKilledMyFather: Count Rugen killed Inigo's father, so at the climax of the movie while Westley is dealing with Humperdinck, Inigo has his own showdown with Rugen.
627* YourSoulIsMine: Invoked as one of Fezzik's threats when impersonating the Dread Pirate Roberts.
628-->'''Fezzik:''' I am the Dread Pirate Roberts! My men are here, I am here, but soon you will not be here! There will be no survivor! The Dread Pirate Roberts takes no survivor! ''[bursts into flame]'' All your worst nightmares are about to come true! The Dread Pirate Roberts is here! FOR YOU SOOOUUUL!
629* YouWereTryingTooHard:
630** Inigo tries to call upon the spirit of his dead father to help him find the Pit of Despair. He stumbles across the entrance once he stops trying to receive help from beyond the grave. Although the secret knot ''is'' right where his sword struck the tree, so maybe his father was guiding it after all.
631** Vizzini is so busy playing IKnowYouKnowIKnow with the Man in Black that he completely ignores the notion that ''both'' glasses could be poisoned, especially as one of his guesses — that his opponent is immune — happens to be correct.
632--->'''Vizzini:''' You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could have put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you...
633[[/folder]]
634----
635->'''Grandson:''' Grandpa... do you think you can read it for me again tomorrow?\
636'''Grandfather:''' [[MeaningfulEcho As you wish.]]

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