| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quest_4_camelot_poster.jpg]] |
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| 3 | ->''"I pray you'll be my eyes\ |
| 4 | And watch her where she goes\ |
| 5 | And help her to be wise\ |
| 6 | Help me to let go\ |
| 7 | Every mother's prayer\ |
| 8 | Every child knows\ |
| 9 | Lead her to a place\ |
| 10 | Guide her with your grace\ |
| 11 | To a place where she'll be safe"'' |
| 12 | -->-- "The Prayer", '''Lady Juliana''' (Céline Dion) |
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| 14 | ''Quest for Camelot'' (also known as ''[[MarketBasedTitle The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot]]'' outside North America) is an animated film made by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation in 1998. Its voice cast includes Creator/JessalynGilsig as the female lead Kayley; Creator/CaryElwes as the male lead, Garrett; Creator/GaryOldman as the villain, Ruber; Creator/PierceBrosnan as Myth/KingArthur; Creator/JohnGielgud as Myth/{{Merlin}}; Creator/GabrielByrne as Kayley's father, Sir Lionel; {{Creator/Jane Seymour|Actress}} as Kayley's mother, Lady Juliana; and Creator/EricIdle and Creator/DonRickles as a two-headed dragon with the names [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry Devon and Cornwall]]. The songs also got a cast of singers like Music/CelineDion, Steve Perry, Music/LeAnnRimes, Music/TheCorrs and Bryan White. |
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| 16 | The film is loosely based on a book by Vera Chapman called ''The King's Damosel'' (AKA ''The King's Damsel''), which in turn was inspired by Myth/ArthurianLegend. However, the movie has very little in common with the book, with many of the changes (songs, cute animal characters, anachronistic jokes) being done to ape the successful formula that Creator/{{Disney}} had crafted with its animated films throughout that decade. |
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| 18 | !!This film provides examples of: |
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| 20 | * TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects:: The film uses CGI to render and animate the giant ogre. Some scenes in the film were rendered in CGI as well, such as the Round Table room, and the Stonehenge-ish circle with the stone where Excalibur came from. |
| 21 | * AdaptationTitleChange: ''Quest for Camelot'' is a loose adaptation of the novel ''The King's Damosel''. |
| 22 | * AffablyEvil: The Griffin, at least when he isn't interacting with the good guys; could arguably even be an example of DarkIsNotEvil, since he's [[PunchClockVillain just Ruber's pet]] anyway. Below is a memorable quote by said Griffin (upon being berated by Ruber for not replying): |
| 23 | -->'''Griffin''': Sorry, master, my mouth was full.\ |
| 24 | '''Ruber''': Typical! Of all the evil creatures in the world, I had to find one with ''table manners''! |
| 25 | * AlasPoorYorick: After a skeleton of an animal falls on Kayley and Garrett, Cornwall thinks that the skeleton is their Uncle Yorik, prompting Devon to whip out a dragon skull by saying "Alas, poor Yorik, I knew him well." |
| 26 | * AllThereInTheManual: The film novelization and toy merchandise give the names of three of Ruber's mechanical army: Bowhands, Spike Slinger and Swordhands. |
| 27 | * AnimatedMusical: Originally planned without songs, it was turned into this by executives that wanted something more in the Disney renaissance vein. |
| 28 | * AnimationBump: A number of the film's song sequences (particularly Ruber's...song (it's more of a deranged chant) and Devon and Cornwall's number "[[IWantSong If I Didn't Have You]]") Also of note is that most of Ruber's animation is more fluid and three-dimensional than the rest of the film's animation, mostly during his chant and the climatic Camelot sequence (what else would you expect from the son of the guy who [[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler animated]] [[WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure these?]]) |
| 29 | * AppliedPhlebotinum: Ruber's potion, which somehow transforms his henchmen into metalized versions of themselves. [[StrongFleshWeakSteel Not that it helps anyways]]. |
| 30 | * AwardBaitSong: "Looking Through Your Eyes" is the one that has all the trope characteristics, but "The Prayer" was the one which actually won an award (although the pop recording of "The Prayer" by Dion and Boccelli has a verse with a melody sounding identical to "Looking Through Your Eyes," and so this trope technically applies to both). |
| 31 | * AxCrazy: Ruber -- his TwitchyEye makes it clear. [[LampshadeHanging And he's so glad you noticed! He's been working at it for years!]] |
| 32 | * BadassNormal: |
| 33 | ** Ruber, the villain, is an ordinary man in a world of Arthurian legend (which has magic, dragons, and the like). However, his skills as a warrior make him borderline unstoppable even before he gets his hands on Excalibur. |
| 34 | ** Garrett survives in the forest without any help but a bird, a staff, and his knowledge of the place. |
| 35 | * BeakAttack: The BigBad uses an evil potion to transform a barnyard rooster into Bladebeak, an armored avian with an axeblade for a beak. Subverted though, despite TakingALevelInBadass, Bladebeak remains inept and incompetent PluckyComicRelief. |
| 36 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: Ruber is the only knight of the round table who is not generically attractive. He promptly betrays everyone else - and kills Kayley's father -- for [[AmbitionIsEvil his own ambitions]]. |
| 37 | * BecomeYourWeapon: Ruber uses a potion that can merge soldiers with their weapons. |
| 38 | * BigBad: Ruber, the main antagonist of the film, is responsible for the danger in the film's plot. Kayley and Garrett stopping his plans are their main goals. |
| 39 | * BigNo: Kayley yells "No!" after Ruber uses his potion to fuse Excalibur to his hand. |
| 40 | * BlindWeaponmaster: Garrett is blind and wields his quarterstaff expertly nonetheless. |
| 41 | * BloodlessCarnage: Both Arthur and Garrett are quite seriously injured at certain points but neither bleed. |
| 42 | * BoundAndGagged: Kayley [[spoiler: is caught after leaving the forest. She is then placed in the wagon tied up to be used as leverage on her mother, and gagged so she can't warn the gate guards.]] |
| 43 | * ButtMonkey: Poor, ''poor'' Griffin. First he is harassed by a falcon that is ''ten times'' smaller than he is, then at the very moment we discover he is owned by Ruber he is threatened and harmed. It's all downhill from there, as no matter how loyal he is, he's incompetent as hell, and Ruber has no problems with punishing him for that. At the end, when he finally gets to have revenge on the falcon, he is burned, presumably to death, by a two-headed dragon. |
| 44 | * TheCameo: |
| 45 | ** When Ruber and his mechanical army arrive in Camelot at the film's climax, Buffy Binford from Creator/BradBird's ''[[Series/AmazingStories Family Dog]]'' can be clearly seen in the background. Clearly animators from ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' came in and decided to have a little fun. |
| 46 | ** Brosnan and Gielgud voice-acting could be considered cameos given how little they do. |
| 47 | ** Creator/TexAvery's WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood can be seen in the "If I Didn't Have You" musical number. |
| 48 | * CardCarryingVillain: Ruber is bad...and PROUD OF IT. It's a wonder King Arthur never banished him from the realm before then. |
| 49 | * CharacterTics: Ruber has an eye tic when he's agitated, and his irises even tend to disappear. |
| 50 | * ChekhovsGun: Although its significance is not apparent until the climax, here the Stone where Excalibur was drawn from is inside Camelot itself, as Camelot was built around it. |
| 51 | * ChekhovsSkill: Garrett teaches Kayley how to counterattack, or at least dodge at the last possible moment, with Ayden providing a cue. The two use this technique to make Ruber plunge Excalibur back into The Stone. |
| 52 | * CircleOfStandingStones: A circle of stones are the place where The Stone holds Excalibur is located. This is where Arthur draws the sword and becomes king. It is also the location where the final battle with Ruber took place. |
| 53 | * ClothingDamage: Happens to Arthur after he is badly wounded by the Griffin's beak. Later on in the middle of the film, Garrett receives a small slash on his right side of his tunic from an arrow shot by Ruber's men. [[spoiler:However, it is repaired when Kayley healed his wound.]] |
| 54 | * CompositeCharacter: Garrett appears to be a cross between Gareth (would-be knight, the name) and Lucius (blind loner) from ''The King's Damosel''. |
| 55 | * CoolButInefficient: Once Ruber has Excalibur, he fuses it to his arm so that he can hold it forever. The end result is cool looking, but it doesn't seem to benefit him in any way in terms of sword-fighting and it later gets him killed. |
| 56 | * CoolSword: Excalibur, of course. |
| 57 | * {{Cyborg}}: Ruber's Mooks, although they're a {{Magitek}} version. They're people fused with their weapons and armor by the potion. Ruber refers to them as [[MechaMooks "mechanical"]]. |
| 58 | * DarkReprise: Garrett's "I Stand Alone" gets a brief and impressively bitter reprise after he decides not to go with Kayley to Camelot. |
| 59 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
| 60 | ** At least half the words that come from Garrett's mouth are dripping sarcasm at his companions' naivety or inexperience. |
| 61 | ** Devon and Cornwall engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat with each other in this fashion. Their lines in "If I didn't have you" are also jabs at each other. |
| 62 | %%%** Ruber himself has some moments. |
| 63 | * DeadHatShot: After Ruber is vaporised into smoke by the Stone, one of his pauldrons falls back to earth next to the Stone. |
| 64 | * DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:In the climax, Kayley (with Garrett's help) causes Ruber, who has fused his arm with Excalibur, to thrust the sword back into the stone -- as he is not the rightful king, he cannot remove it. This is clever. However, it then turns out the inherent magic of the stone, which was only hinted at visually, serves as the legitimate example since it kills Ruber and heals everyone except Garret.]] |
| 65 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: After finally obtaining Excalibur, Ruber fuses it with his arm to make sure nobody would take it from him despite knowing that Excalibur is a sword that, once stuck into a certain stone, cannot be removed from it by anyone other than the rightful King. |
| 66 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: More of a dragon in this case. Ruber does this to one of the evil dragons while it has him cornered, despite seemingly giving in by tossing away his sword first. |
| 67 | * DieLaughing: As Excalibur unleashes its WorldHealingWave, Ruber smiles his usual deranged smile and laughs right before he explodes. |
| 68 | %%* DieOrFly: |
| 69 | * DisneyAcidSequence: "If I Didn't Have You" is a particularly jarring example as it looks like the kind of short funny cartoon Warner Bros. is rightfully better-known for -- randomly placed in the middle of what's supposed to be a dramatic epic. |
| 70 | %%* {{Disneyfication}}: What happened to the original story. Ironically, Warner was trying to compete with Disney at the time. |
| 71 | * EarAche: PlayedForLaughs; Ruber grabs the [[ButtMonkey poor]] [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent Griffin]] by the ears [[RuleOfThree thrice]]. |
| 72 | * EmbodimentOfVirtue: During "United We Stand", as the knights take their places at the Round Table, they raise their shields and declare what virtue each of them embodies, including "liberty", "justice", "trust", "freedom", "peace", "honor", "goodness", "strength", and "valor". |
| 73 | * EnemyRisingBehind: Briefly, during the fight scene with the ironmen, a mace-wielding thug rises behind Garrett seconds before he whips around and [[GroinAttack whacks his staff in the thug's crotch.]] |
| 74 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: When Ruber finally has the sword Excalibur in his possession, he then uses his magic potion to merge the sword to his right arm. As Kayley slumps at her failure, Ruber icily rubs his fingers under her chin as he mocks her. |
| 75 | -->'''Ruber''': Don't worry, little girl. I'll make sure Arthur gets it back. Or gets it ''in'' the back. (''laughs'') As the case may be! (''to his henchmen'') Throw her in the wagon. |
| 76 | * ExcaliburInTheStone: The fact that only the rightful king can remove this sword from this stone becomes very important [[spoiler: in the climax since Ruber is not the rightful king.]] |
| 77 | * {{Expy}}: As pointed out by [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Quest_for_Camelot_1998.aspx?Page=2 The Agony Booth]], [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/17979-quest-for-camelot the Nostalgia Critic]] and Creator/LaurenFaust (who worked on the film as an animator) Kayley is, both looks and personality-wise, [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]]. Faust, [[http://www.donbluthanimation.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1619 commenting]] on the similarity, goes even further and points out that Garret looks like the human form of the Beast. |
| 78 | %%* EvilRedhead: Ruber. |
| 79 | * FailureMontage: The film starts with Sir Lionel, Kayley's father, telling her the story of Excalibur through a flashback with a brief montage of men trying and failing to pull the sword from the stone until the future King Arthur steps up to the stone and succeeds in drawing the sword from the stone. |
| 80 | * FallingInLoveMontage: Kayley and Garrett, during their "''Looking Through Your Eyes''" duo. |
| 81 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: At the end, [[spoiler: Ruber meets his demise in that manner where he dissolves into smoke after returning Excalibur back to its stone.]] |
| 82 | * FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: There are a few in this film: |
| 83 | ** At the beginning of the film, Ruber whilst in a rampage, whacks Sir Lionel hard enough with a mace that this kills him, throws down a knight and head-butts another one. Viewers who pay close attention will notice that the mace made contact with Lionel's head. |
| 84 | ** The Griffin severely wounds Arthur in the arm, whilst grabbing hold of Excalibur by its large beak. |
| 85 | ** Near the climax of the film, Ruber charges through several knights with his horse, and his henchmen defeat and injure several knights. Plus, Ruber attempts to strike Arthur with Excalibur which is attached to his arm, and tries to attack Kayley and Garrett later on. |
| 86 | * FauxActionGirl: Kayley has a few awesome moments (being able to swing a heavy mace at Ruber, saving Arthur during the climax) but for the most part can't back up her claims that she will be a great knight. While it's justified, since she is a normal girl with no real combat training, it does seem that the narrative wants to present Kayley as a strong action girl. Since it doesn't succeed in that, this trope still applies. |
| 87 | * FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: Since childhood, Kayley wanted to become a knight, just like her father, Sir Lionel. Although he died while saving King Arthur from Ruber's attack, Kayley still looks up to his memory and intents to follow in his footsteps. |
| 88 | * ForbiddenZone: Entering the Forbidden Forest is normally a death sentence to anyone who enters. The BigBad and all his minions leave Kayley alone when she escapes into it. |
| 89 | * {{GASP}}: |
| 90 | ** Juliana does one when Ruber reveals himself, and she has a big one when she realises that Ruber is threatening to kill her daughter. |
| 91 | ** After the Griffin sneezed in the ogre's cave, Ruber, Cornwall, Garrett and Kayley does one individually during their OhCrap moment, knowing that the ogre is waking up. |
| 92 | * TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson: Devon and Cornwall. Also Bladebeak quoting ''Film/DirtyHarry'' for some damn reason. |
| 93 | * GenkiGirl: Kayley is high-spirited and energetic. |
| 94 | * GiantsKnifeHumansGreatsword: Once Excalibur lands in the Forbidden Forest, the rock ogre recovers it and takes it to his cave where he uses it as a toothpick until Kayley recovers the sword when the ogre is asleep. |
| 95 | * GilliganCut: This occurs after Garrett reluctantly allows Kayley to join him. |
| 96 | -->'''Kayley''': I just need your help, this once.\ |
| 97 | '''Garrett''': Oh, all right, all right! But don't give me any trouble!\ |
| 98 | (Later in an another part of the forest, Garrett ends up being drenched on the head with purple slimy liquid from a giant flower)\ |
| 99 | '''Garrett''': (groans, whilst wiping off the liquid from his hair) It's a fine mess you've gotten us into, Ayden. |
| 100 | * GreenIsGross: When Kayley is cautiously backing away after a rock nearly fell on her and seeing silhouettes of dragons from above, she accidentally steps on one of the dragon eggs and is disgusted when her foot was covered in green slime. While shaking the slime off, Kayley didn't know that Garrett ventured on without knowing what's happened until he was nowhere in sight. Later when the dragons face Ruber and his army after the heroes evaded them, one of them corners Ruber as he lets out green drool before Ruber punches it. |
| 101 | * AGodAmI: Ruber claims this in the climax as he attacks Arthur. |
| 102 | -->'''Ruber''': Say hello to your new king!\ |
| 103 | '''Arthur''': ''(gritting his teeth)'' You're no king!\ |
| 104 | '''Ruber''': You're right. Perhaps I'm ''more of a'' '''''GOD!!!''''' |
| 105 | * {{Gonk}}: Ruber's ugliness is particularly hilarious when compared to the other knights, they look like they're from ''completely different movies.'' |
| 106 | * HandicappedBadass: Garrett is a blind hermit and the only human to survive the Forbidden Forest. He's quite good at using his quarterstaff despite this, and even becomes a knight later. |
| 107 | * HandWave: The only explanation for the moving plants is a blink-and-you-miss-it reference to the forest being "enchanted". Where Ruber got his potion might also qualify - he states in his VillainSong that he bought it from some witches. |
| 108 | * HandshakeSubstitute: The Knights of the Round Table do a forearm clasp as they greet each other during "United we Stand". |
| 109 | * HappilyEverAfter: The ending features Kayley and Garret riding off together on a horse which is adorned with a sign reading "Just Knighted." One presumes there was a wedding in there too, but it's never specifically stated. |
| 110 | * HappilyMarried: |
| 111 | ** Kayley's parents. He takes care to kiss her goodbye before riding off to Camelot, and it's clear she misses him after his death. |
| 112 | ** Though they're not married per se, Kayley and Garret are as close as ever following knighthood. |
| 113 | * IHaveYourWife: Juliana is blackmailed into betraying her king after her teenage daughter is threatened. Said teenage daughter then escapes and goes off on a dangerous quest to warn the king of the plot, pursued by a madman's minions who are more than capable of killing her. |
| 114 | * HeelFaceTurn: Bladebeak undergoes one of these after he finds his mate locked in a cage by Ruber, [[MinionWithAnFInEvil though he was hardly the embodiment of "evil" to begin with]]. |
| 115 | * HeroicBSOD: Kayley falls into a brief depression when Ruber kills her father. She perks up by the time of the main narrative by using his chivalric legacy as a coping mechanism. |
| 116 | * HeroicSacrifice: Kayley's father dies attempting to stop Ruber's attempts to kill Arthur in the beginning of the film. |
| 117 | * TheHermit: Garrett lives in the Forbidden Forest in self-imposed exile. He's developed a great deal of wisdom there. |
| 118 | * HighFantasy: The film is loosely based on Myth/ArthurianLegend and involves returning a magic sword to the rightful king so he can put down an evil and ugly usurper. |
| 119 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Magically melding Excalibur to his hand proved to be Ruber's ultimate demise because it meant he couldn't let go of it when he was tricked into returning it to the stone. He is then disintegrated to his death, being destroyed by the very same power he planned to obtain.]] |
| 120 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: King Arthur is one of these for knighting Ruber in the first place. It's implied that the latter has been a selfish brute for a while, which even Arthur himself notes. Yet he is surprised that such a selfish brute isn't satisfied with a small domain. |
| 121 | %%* HugeRiderTinyMount: During "The Prayer". |
| 122 | * IAmSong: Garret's "''I Stand Alone''" describes his emotional state and worldview in contrast to his unwelcome guest, Kayley. |
| 123 | * IdentityConcealmentDisposal: When he attacks Juliana's farm, Ruber enters the house wearing a face-concealing horned helmet that he then takes off, tosses aside and never puts on again for the rest of the film. |
| 124 | * ImpairmentShot: Happens to Garrett during his backstory after he struck by one of the horses' hoof, and he describes how his sight becomes blurry and blackens completely. |
| 125 | -->'''Garrett''': ''(voice-over)'' First, all I could see was shapes...then shadows... ...and finally, my world went black. |
| 126 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Ruber. In the words of King Arthur, "Oh Sir Ruber....always thinking of yourself." |
| 127 | * IWantSong: Kayley's "On My Father's Wings," in which she expresses her desire to become a knight. The other characters get their own songs, too. |
| 128 | * IWorkAlone: Garrett has a song about his solidary life style -- "I Stand Alone". [[SubvertedTrope Except he doesn't work alone]]; he has the silver-winged falcon Ayden to serve as his guide. |
| 129 | * JustBetweenYouAndMe: Ruber details his EvilPlan to Kayley and her mother, mostly in song, after he captures them. |
| 130 | * KissingCousins: Apparently, Devon and Cornwall are the result of this. |
| 131 | -->'''Devon:''' Frankly, we're the reason cousins shouldn't marry. |
| 132 | * KnightInSourArmor: Garrett is a grumpy and pessimistic guy but he has some buried heroism in him. |
| 133 | * LargeHam: Ruber loves acting theatrically, such as turning his army into monsters through a song and dance number. Ironically, he's voiced by Creator/GaryOldman, who is not known for such roles. |
| 134 | -->"[[ChewingTheScenery NOOOWW, AFTER THE GIIIIIRL!]]" |
| 135 | %%%* LaughablyEvil: Ruber. |
| 136 | * LeftStuckAfterAttack: This is how the BigBad [[spoiler:meets his end. The wicked Ruber has used a magic potion to fuse the Excalibur sword onto his hand. With this, he tries to impale Kayley and Garrett, but misses. The blow implants Excalibur firmly in its original stone where the ancient magic detects that Ruber is not the rightful ruler, and disintegrates him for such presumption.]] |
| 137 | * LighterAndSofter: The original novel the film is based has a much darker tone and more mature content (in the book, the main character was ''raped as a kid by a family friend'', for crying out loud). The film adaptation was intended to be DarkerAndEdgier, but was significantly toned down to make it more family friendly. |
| 138 | * LionKingLift: During Cornwall's verse of "If I Didn't Have You," Devon holds him up from a Pride Rock-esque ledge, matching the lyric: "Cornwall, they would sing/ 'Cause I would be the dragon king." |
| 139 | * LittleNo: Kayley can only say a quiet "No..." when she discovers that her father is dead. |
| 140 | * LowTechSpears: [[DiscussedTrope Mentioned]] in the climactic fight, when King Arthur is missing Excalibur and so picks up a spear. |
| 141 | --> '''Ruber:''' A spear! How stone age! |
| 142 | * ManEatingPlant: The Forbidden Forest has surprisingly few of these. Out of all the dangerous things in there, only a couple patches of grass actually try to eat Kayley, though plenty of things menace in other ways. |
| 143 | * MeaningfulEcho: "I will not serve a false king!" Said first by Lionel to Ruber and then, later, by [[spoiler:Kayley]]. |
| 144 | * AMinorKidroduction: The movie starts with Kayley as a child, later followed by a cameo of a young Garrett during the first song. |
| 145 | * MinorCharacterMajorSong: Juliana is important enough to the plot, but the fact that her song "The Prayer" - and not a song of Kayley's, Garrett's or even Ruber's - became the film's signature song, was nominated for an Oscar and a Grammy, won a Golden Globe, and is now one of the most popular duet songs of all time, makes this trope applicable here. |
| 146 | * MoodDissonance: Infamously so with The Prayer, a soothing yet bittersweet tune that is being played against scenes of Kayley fleeing desperately from Ruber's cartoonish henchmen giving chase on wild hogs. The result is as confusing and awkward as it gets. |
| 147 | * MultipleHeadCase: Devon and Cornwall are a two-headed dragon. They argue and [[spoiler: this is why they can't fly or breathe fire.]] |
| 148 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Due to Kayley's insistence of blaming Garrett for making the group stop the night before, causes him to miss Ayden's signal and is wounded. She then regrets it when treating Garrett's wound, blaming herself for putting him in harm's way, but Garrett forgives her sympathetically. |
| 149 | * NatureHero: Garrett lives in harmony with the Forbidden Forest but that's because such a lifestyle is the only way to survive there. |
| 150 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ayden intervenes with the Griffin's theft of Excalibur, causing it to fall in the forbidden forest where lives not just ferocious dragons or the creatures, ''but a giant rock ogre!'' Granted, this is preferable to Griffin getting away with the sword, but also makes the sword difficult to recover. |
| 151 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Fusing Excalibur to Ruber's own hand might as well be the case to be his ultimate downfall, [[spoiler: when he accidentally returns the sword back to the stone. The stone's magic reverses the effects of the potion on his henchmen and Excalibur where it dangerously disintegrates Ruber to his death.]] |
| 152 | * NonHumanSidekick: Devon and Cornwall fall under this, as do Bladebeak and Ayden because all of them assist the human hero characters. |
| 153 | * NoPlaceForMeThere: How Garrett feels about Camelot after he was blinded. [[spoiler:He briefly parts ways with Kayley when they're about to return Excalibur to King Arthur, as he feels that despite all his bad-assery, in Camelot he would simply not measure up when compared to the Knights of the Round Table. As he tells Ayden, he feels Kayley would only see him "through their eyes. Not a knight. Not a man. Not anything..."]] |
| 154 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Don Rickles as Cornwall makes absolutely no attempt to hide his American accent, unlike the other few American actors who worked on this film. |
| 155 | * NotListeningToMeAreYou: Kayley says something like this after noticing that Garrett, who had just saved her from two of Ruber's steel men, is only paying attention to his ruined fishing net. |
| 156 | -->'''Kayley:''' That was... incredible! How you, smashed those creatures! How you-you avoided that-that-that, thing! You're amazing! You're... not even listening to me. |
| 157 | * ObviouslyEvil: At the beginning of the film we get a panning shot of the Round Table. Seated at it are several identical-looking generic knights... and one [[{{Gonk}} creepily deformed one with a banana-shaped head, greenish skin and yellow eyes]]. |
| 158 | * OhCrap: |
| 159 | ** The looks on the knights' faces when Ruber whips out a mace before he charges towards Arthur. |
| 160 | ** Arthur, before he grabs Excalibur at the right time when he sees Ruber charging towards him with a mace. |
| 161 | ** Kayley when she realizes that her father's dead. |
| 162 | ** The rooster has one when his mate comes up to him and grabs him. |
| 163 | ** Arthur and his knights all have one when the Griffin burst in the round table tower through the roof. |
| 164 | ** The Griffin, when he sees thorny hands poking out from the forest's thorn branches. |
| 165 | ** Both Kayley and the rooster have one when a shadow of Ruber looms over them. |
| 166 | ** Juliana and her servants each get one when Ruber's henchmen break into their house. |
| 167 | ** Juliana has a bigger one with a {{GASP}} when she realizes that Ruber is threatening to kill Kayley and notices her daughter held hostage by two of his men. |
| 168 | ** The Griffin has one after he realizes that he lost Excalibur that Ruber needs. |
| 169 | ** Kayley has one after seeing two of Ruber's men in the distance before she enters the forbidden forest. She has few of these when they chase after her. |
| 170 | ** Garrett seemingly has one when he hears two of Ruber's men landing in the pond. |
| 171 | ** Kayley has one when she realizes that Garrett has disappeared out of sight after hearing a dragon roaring. Fortunately for Kayley, he was hiding in one half of an eggshell and pulled her in when her back was turned. |
| 172 | ** Devon and Cornwall, and Kayley and Garrett each get one when they hear a dragon. |
| 173 | ** Ruber, Cornwall, Garrett and Kayley each have one after the Griffin sneezed in the ogre's cave when the owner is asleep. |
| 174 | ** Ruber and the Griffin, before the ogre sits on them. |
| 175 | ** The Griffin has one when he realizes that he is flying straight into Ruber who is on the cliff. Ruber has a brief one afterwards before the Griffin crashes into the cliff. |
| 176 | ** Kayley has one when Ruber's minions capture her. She has another one when Ruber merges Excalibur to his hand when his potion. |
| 177 | ** The knights, and the citizens all have one, when Ruber reveals himself, so do the henchmen afterwards, and charges straight towards the castle. |
| 178 | ** Kayley, when she sees the Griffin flying towards her, before he destroys the scaffolding that she was on. |
| 179 | ** Ruber when he sees Kayley about to attack him with a huge wooden beam. |
| 180 | ** Ruber has a bigger one when he realizes that he replaced Excalibur back into the stone, where its magic breaks loose. |
| 181 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: They're conjoined twins, they're purple and they can't fly (for which they even say they're shunned by their own kind). |
| 182 | * OurGryphonsAreDifferent: He looks like a traditional griffin, but the one in the story is kind of weird. The bird front half is much larger then the lion hindquarters, and rather than eagle-like the head must belong to a bat-eared-cat-eyed-vulture-beaked thing. |
| 183 | * PolarOppositeTwins: Devon and Cornwall are like the stereotypical school athlete and drama club member. This is unfortunate for them, as [[spoiler: they cannot fly so long as they disagree on everything]]. |
| 184 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: Devon and Cornwall lament their inability to fly through most of the movie, then find themselves able to do it once Kayley is kidnapped. [[spoiler: Garrett realizes that they can't fly unless they ''agree'' on things, and pushes them to do so by prompting, "[[ArmorPiercingQuestion You both love Kayley, don't you?]]"]] |
| 185 | * ProphetEyes: While not a prophet, Garrett has these eyes because he can still "see" in the Forbidden Forest through his other senses and experience. |
| 186 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Arthur wisely states that he and the knights' obligation is to the people in Camelot, not to themselves. Arthur refuses Ruber's demand of his share of the lands to be more than everyone else's. |
| 187 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Garrett delivers one of these to Kayley when they first meet about how she is naïve, ignorant of the forest and would only slow him down. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment It doubles as his character song]]. |
| 188 | * RockBottom: When the ogre unknowingly sits on Ruber and the Griffin after they were knocked off-course from flight from the ogre's yawning. |
| 189 | -->'''Ruber''': The ogre's butt...\ |
| 190 | '''Griffin''': [[TemptingFate Well, master. At least things can't get any worse.]]\ |
| 191 | ''(Unfortunately after he said that, the ground begins to rumble.)''\ |
| 192 | '''Ruber''': Wanna bet?\ |
| 193 | ''(Cue the ogre farting, catapulting Ruber and the Griffin towards the heroes.)''\ |
| 194 | '''Cornwall''': Whoa! Watch it!\ |
| 195 | ''(They duck just as the two villains flew right above them and crash into the rock wall, just barely dodging the stalactites as the group run past them.)''\ |
| 196 | '''Ruber''': ''(high-pitched)'' Seize them!\ |
| 197 | '''Griffin''': ''(high-pitched)'' Yes, master! |
| 198 | * RockMonster: The ogre has this look complete with being covered in moss in some places. |
| 199 | * RevelingInTheNewForm: TheVillain Ruber uses a witch's potion to convert his loyal mooks into walking weapons, with cutlasses and maces for arms. Even a barnyard chicken gets a dose, and becomes Bladebeak with a battle-axe for a head. The most delight comes from Ruber himself, when he finally attains King Arthur's sword Excalibur. The potion fuses the sword to his right hand, which becomes a steel mechanism that can rotate the blade. This also ensures nothing can detach it from him as long as he lives. |
| 200 | * SadlyMythtaken: Camelot was not a newly built capital, it was actually a pre-existing city, Winchester in fact. |
| 201 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Garrett is the Savvy Guy trained in the art of knighthood to Kayley's inexperienced but Energetic Girl. |
| 202 | * {{Scotireland}}: Camelot basically turns into this for some reason, largely thanks to the sorta-Celtic-ish soundtrack. ''Riverdance'' was popular at the time and there's also the involvement of Music/TheCorrs. Their style is specially prominent in "On My Father's Wings," which almost sounds like ripped off from their album ''Talk On Corners''. |
| 203 | * ShoutOut: |
| 204 | ** There are lots of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes gags to be found here. |
| 205 | *** Most obviously, ACME being [[MoodWhiplash written on Ruber's potion.]] |
| 206 | *** Also during Devon & Cornwall's musical number, at one time they're falling down a canyon ripped straight from a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. |
| 207 | *** Red from Creator/TexAvery's WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood makes a very brief cameo appearance in the number, too. |
| 208 | ** The aforementioned number also includes plenty of others: |
| 209 | *** At one point, Devon[[note]]voiced by Eric Idle[[/note]] references the [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Parrot Sketch]] when he declares, "You'd be nothing without me -- you'd be extinct! '''You'd cease to be!'''" |
| 210 | *** During the lines when Cornwall sings about being "the Dragon King", he holds Devon up on a kopje in open parody of Simba's presentation in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. |
| 211 | *** During the scene where Cornwall has a chainsaw, he is wearing a hockey mask. (Although [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre isn't the slasher who wields a chainsaw]]) |
| 212 | *** The boulder rolling towards Devon is a homage to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Raiders of the Lost Ark]]. |
| 213 | *** Devon and Cornwall dress up in a japanese kimono and The Phantom of the Opera respectively. Also, they dress up as Sonny and Cher and [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis Presley]]. |
| 214 | *** Devon turns into [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Godzilla]] during the song, with the line "I'd be a fire breathing lizard!" |
| 215 | ** Garrett is a teenager/young adult dressed in green with a wooden weapon looking in an enchanted forest for a mythical sword. [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Think about that for a second.]] |
| 216 | ** During the FinalBattle, Music/JohnWilliams ' ''Film/{{Superman|FilmSeries}}'' Main Theme makes an appearance - although, oddly, the subtitles for this scene refer to it as "''Franchise/StarWars'' Theme". |
| 217 | ** Garrett and Kayley's embrace during the ''Through Your Eyes'' segment resembles the poster from ''The Princess Bride'', which also starred Cary Elwes. |
| 218 | ** Upon seeing a giant skeleton of a animal falling onto Kayley and Garrett, Devon and Cornwall thinks that the skeleton may be their Uncle Yorick, where Devon quotes [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Hamlet]] as he cradles a dragon skull: [[AlasPoorYorick "Alas, Poor Yorick! I knew him well."]] |
| 219 | ** Bladebeak quotes ''Film/DirtyHarry'' at one point. "You get to ask yourself: do I feel [[{{Pun}} clucky]]? Well, do ya, punk?" |
| 220 | * SicklyGreenGlow: Ruber's magic potion contains glowing bright green liquid that magically merges weapons to any living being. He puts a few drops down a well at Juliana's farm and his human henchmen all jump down the well to transform themselves into the steel army. The potion is so powerful that it erupts clouds of green flames, smoke and light which occurs during the henchmen's transform and when Ruber later uses the same potion to meld Excalibur to his hand. In the climax after Ruber was tricked into returning Excalibur back into The Stone, clouds of green smoke explode as a result of The Stone's powerful magic removing the taint of the potion from Excalibur, and Ruber's eyes glow bright green before he is vaporised with streaks of green light bursting from his chest. |
| 221 | * SidekickSong: "If I Didn't Have You" is sung by Devon and Cornwall. It is a comical and silly diversion from action and the guy they're a sidekick to, Garrett, forbids them from doing it again. |
| 222 | * SilenceYouFool: Ruber says this that way in his first verse of his song: |
| 223 | -->'''Ruber''': Let's go back to war and violence! I was so bored with peace and ''[to a servant suddenly when he drops a cup in fear]'' '''SILENCE!!''' |
| 224 | * SlipknotPonytail: During her escape, Kayley runs into a forest where one of the branches snags her hair tie and undoes her ponytail. After she's freed from Garrett's net a short time later, she's seen finding another hair tie and fixing it back up. |
| 225 | * SongOfPrayer: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZncBrnCEQ The Prayer]]" is sung by Kayley's mother as her daughter is being pursued by Ruber's men into an uncertain future. |
| 226 | * SoundtrackDissonance: "The Prayer" plays over a desperate chase scene where one of the monsters actually shoots at Kayley. Justified, as Juliana is praying for her daughter to come out alive and well. |
| 227 | * StoppedDeadInTheirTracks: When Garrett decides to stop the group somewhere in the forest for the night to make camp, Kayley objects to this by asking about going for Excalibur only for Garrett to state that no one travels in the forest after dark prompting Kayley to respond with "My father Sir Lionel would have." This makes Garrett freeze in shock after hearing Kayley mention her father's name and realises that Kayley is Lionel's daughter where Garrett starts to lighten up and explains to her how he knew her father a long time ago. |
| 228 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Ruber's minions being the idiots in question. [[SkewedPriorities They take Bladebeak's mate along, but allow Kayley to escape]]. |
| 229 | * TechnicolorDeath: In the climax as The Stone's magic is purifying Excalibur back to normal, Ruber's mechanical arm is being dismantled with his armor blown off before his entire body blackens with his eyes glowing bright green. Then a huge flame of green light bursts from his chest and he is disintegrated into smoke. |
| 230 | * {{Treants}}: Several of these live in the patch of thorns where the Griffin dropped Excalibur and prevent him from diving down to get it. They're rooted in place, but their gargoyle-like torsos can be pulled over, which Kayley uses to trap Ruber and his henchmen while she is rescuing an injured Garrett. |
| 231 | * TrojanHorse: Ruber’s plan to invade Camelot, using Juliana’s caravan. |
| 232 | -->'''Ruber''': In the back of your wagons, my men will all hide. You’ll sit up front as the gates open wide. |
| 233 | * TryAndFollow: The entire "I Stand Alone" musical number has this entire sequence as the blind forest warrior Garrett attempts to ditch Kayley. But at the end of the number, he finally and reluctantly allows her to join him. |
| 234 | * UptownGirl: Kayley is the daughter of a slain Knight of the Round Table and Garrett was a former stable boy (and former apprentice/squire of said slain knight). They're implied to be married after bonding through their adventure. |
| 235 | * VillainBall: Sure, Ruber's death by accidentally thrusting Excalibur back into the stone may be ludicrously contrived, but how dumb was Ruber to go back to the one spot in the world where he could possibly be defeated? |
| 236 | * VillainousBreakdown: Ruber first launched into one when Sir Lionel triggered his BerserkButton, until his UnstoppableRage ends when Arthur rebounds the barbaric knight backwards. He attempts to kill Kayley after she intervened with his attempted assault on King Arthur, just like her father. |
| 237 | * VillainousValour: Ruber is a psychotic murderer, no doubt of it, but you must admit he is also exceptionally strong and brave. |
| 238 | ** Kayley tries to hit him from behind with a good-sized mace. He turns around, catches it, and then twists the head. Never mind that the spikes should have skewered his hands. |
| 239 | ** He kills a scary-looking dragon ''with his bare hands'' and then cooks it for lunch. |
| 240 | * VillainSong: "Ruber's Song", though with no melody, tune or rhythm it truly stretched to the vaguest of limits what qualifies as a "song". There actually is a bit of rhyming in it, so it's less of a "song" and more of a "long-winded poem". (Then again, it's Ruber. He's a bit too erratic for a proper song. Oh, and that chugging, insistent music in the back of it all? [[ThePowerOfRock That's electro-rock music!]] That's pretty badass.) |
| 241 | * VirtueViceCodification: Various virtues are lauded in a song sung during the introduction to Camelot such as "trust", "strength" and "valor". |
| 242 | * WalkThisWay: Done as Ruber takes his steel minions towards the sleeping ogre holding Excalibur. Ruber [[DisapprovingLook isn't happy]] that they took his order so literally. |
| 243 | * WhatTheHellHero: Kayley blames Garrett for having the group to stop for camp the night before after only finding the belt of Excalibur. She later regrets it after Garrett is wounded because he couldn't hear Ayden's signal, due to her scolding towards him. |
| 244 | * WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Devon and Cornwall are drawn to look rather silly and harmless. Bladebeak is also silly-looking. Ayden has a round, sweet face, big soft eyes and cute fluttery movements. In contrast, the "evil" dragons are sharp-toothed, have squinty eyes, and look altogether more feral, and the griffin henchman has another set of scary evil eyes, a long crooked beak, bat ears, and a small head compared to his thick-maned neck — and the voice of Bronson Pinchot (we're not sure what to make of that last thing). |
| 245 | * WhatWouldXDo: Juliana and Kayley get into an argument about Kayley's dream to become a knight. After her daughter runs off in anger, Juliana wonders what Lionel would have done about the issue. |
| 246 | * WhenTreesAttack: The sentient trees in the Forbidden Forest try to attack the Griffin by grabbing hold of his wings and tail once he tries to recover Excalibur whom he dropped in the forest of thorns. Later when Ruber and his men ambush Kayley and the group, they unknowingly woke up the sentient trees and they try to swat Devon and Cornwall. Coming up with an idea, Kayley manages to loop a vine around one of the sentient trees' arm and tugs it to temporarily trap Ruber and his men. |
| 247 | * WithMyHandsTied: Kayley is captured and tied up, but is able to sweep her legs under a {{mook}}'s feet while still tied, giving her time to free herself with Bladebeak's help. |
| 248 | * TheWorfEffect: The dragons are established as fearsome creatures. Ruber kills one with a single punch. |
| 249 | * WorldHealingWave: [[spoiler: After Ruber plunges Excalibur into the Stone, a burst of magic reverses the potion’s effects on Ruber’s thugs and Bladebeak, temporarily separates Devon and Cornwall, and heals Arthur’s arm, before the Stone finishes off Ruber.]] |
| 250 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: |
| 251 | ** Why Devon and Cornwall stick around with the group. Apparently, dragons are forbidden to interact with humans. |
| 252 | ** Evoked with Garrett as well when he initially declines to return to Camelot with Kayley after they get Excalibur: on one level there's probably still some bad memories of his time there and the events that led to him seemingly losing any chance of becoming a knight, and then of course his feelings that he would appear inferior and undesirable to Kayley when juxtaposed with the current Knights of the Round Table. |
| 253 | * YouKilledMyFather: Kayley's father was killed by Ruber in the opening and Kayley attacks him with a mace for this. |
| 254 | * YourOtherLeft: While Garrett (who is blind) is driving a wagon to the stables as well as avoiding the fire and Ruber's mechanical army with Kayley shouting directions to him: "Left! Go left! [--Your other left...--] No, Garrett, ''right!''" In this case, it's Kayley confusing the directions and then correcting herself rather than Garrett mixing them up, but the effect is more or less the same. |
| 255 | * YoureInsane: This exchange when Ruber is revealing his plan to Juliana. |
| 256 | -->'''Juliana''': You're mad!\ |
| 257 | '''Ruber''': [[InsultBackfire I'm so glad you've noticed.]] I've been working at it for years. |
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