* {{Anvilicious}}: The anachronistic class sentiments brought by Warren Ellis, and its undercurrent of British jingoism, is off-putting to some readers. Especially when Ellis glosses over the war crimes committed by the English in France, with merely one brief single panel.
* DesignatedHero: The narrator insists that he and his countrymen are plucky and heroic underdogs--despite the fact that they deliberately [[RapePillageAndBurn pillage and burn]] several French villages from Caen to Crécy in an attempt to persuade the French people that their own warrior class won't protect them but the English will.[[note]]How any English commander thought these chevauchée tactics would endear them to their French victims [[FridgeLogic is anyone's guess]].[[/note]]
* DesignatedVillain: Similarly, the narrator presents the French knights as bloodthirsty monsters, despite the fact that the English soldiers, what with their aforementioned chevauchée tactics, come off as so much worse than the French knights, who are at least ''trying'' to defend their homeland and countrymen.
* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: The main reason why the story can be off-putting is because William of Stonham is extremely xenophobic, especially Francophobic. Contrast that with the French knights he so often badmouths, who at least are trying to defend their countrymen as well as their country.