* {{Adorkable}}: Harry, when he's with Katherine. He goes from eloquent battle commander and king to stammering schoolboy in her presence.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** As in ''Theatre/HenryIV'', there is ongoing debate over whether Shakespeare meant Henry to be pictured as a heroic boy king or a despicable example of TheChessmaster.
** The scene where Henry and his court are asserting the validity of his claim to French territory can be played straight or turned into a satire depending on how it's directed.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FrLGB_oK8 Non Nobis Domine]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doCf0WYEKho the BGM for the St. Crispin's Day speech]] in Branagh's version. The score from Olivier's version ain't shabby either.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The scene between the princess and her maid, where the princess tried to learn English words, only to snicker when she discovers the words for "foot" and "gown" sound a lot like the French words for "fuck" and "cunt." Not particularly relevant to the plot of the play, and probably only included so that a) Shakespeare could poke fun at the French language and b) Catherine's identity and role would be established rather than just showing up at the ''very'' end of the play for Henry to woo. It stands out even more [[RealityHasNoSubtitles if the scene goes untranslated]], meaning non-French speaking English-speaking audience members will be completely at a loss what is going on.
* DesignatedHero: William Hazlitt famously called Henry V an "amiable monster, a very splendid pageant."
** Harold Bloom noted that Henry V is in essence a warmongering hypocrite and a liar. He points out that the famous speech at St. Crispin about how the soldiers are his BandOfBrothers is a lie, since it contradicts the scene before in the camps, where the King-in-disguise told soldiers that their [[NeverMyFault sovereign is not responsible for the deaths of any of them]] on any individual level, and that the idea that any peasant conscript who survives Agincourt could become a gentleman on any level is contradicted by the scene with Pistol in the final acts where he's more or less back right where he started with nothing to show for it. Stephen Greenblatt noted that Henry V is fundamentally a populist demagogue, whose experiences SlummingIt with Falstaff amounted [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil to helping him better control and manipulate the people and lower-orders]].
** [[https://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/18/high-court-rules-for-french-at-agincourt/ The US Supreme Court held a mock-trial]] in 2010 condemning Henry V for war crimes because of his conduct in Shakespeare's play, with many noting that even by the standards of the medieval era or of the early modern England of Shakespeare's day, the scene of Henry V ordering the execution of captive French prisoners constituted a war crime.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The French herald Montjoy, at least for fans of the Branagh production, ''especially'' for slashers, since he's the only one who treats Henry with anything resembling respect that isn't related to him or a peasant.
** It helps that the actor, Christopher Ravenscroft, was one of the few people from the original stage production Branagh was in that joined the cast of the movie.
** Fluellen is a bit like this in some circles -- it helps that he's seriously entertaining and deeply earnest about what he does.
** Mistress Quickly's scene at the start of the play where she gives what critics consider Falstaff's funeral elegy is also highly memorable. In the Henry IV plays she was a SatelliteCharacter to Falstaff and fundamentally a brothel madam stereotype, but the wonderfully moving prose with which she commends Falstaff to "Arthur's bosom" is unforgettable, especially in Creator/OrsonWelles' ''Film/ChimesAtMidnight'' (where she's played by Creator/MargaretRutherford).
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** When Henry begins to try to woo Catherine, she replies with "your Grace shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England." Henry's reaction - ''"Oh,"'' - is often played for laughs in various productions, as he's clearly thinking 'She can barely speak English, I can barely speak French, oh ''CRAP.' '' Add in the fact that Katherine is both a DeadpanSnarker and not easy to impress, plus her lady in waiting translating for her and the text giving Henry loads of opportunities to put his foot squarely in his mouth...really, if the whole wooing scene doesn't get the audience laughing ''at least'' once, you're doing it wrong.
** While it comes across as an insult, the whole bit of the Dauphin mocking Henry V with the gift of tennis balls in response to Henry's claim to France can get a few laughs.
** In the film, after Henry and Catherine's first kiss, Branagh comes off like a teenager caught snogging when the French king returns. "Here comes your father!"
* HarsherInHindsight: Henry's last scene, in which he holds Catherine's hand while praying that "ill office or fell jealousy" will never trouble their union, can provoke a little cringe if one knows that Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson later divorced while he was having an affair with Helena Bonham Carter.
* HilariousInHindsight: Henry's LoveInterest is a princess named Catherine; in ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', the love interest is (also) named Kate, and "Kiss me, Kate" is a line featured within.
* SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: "For I am Welsh, you know, good my countryman!"
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM "Upon Saint Crispin's day!"]]
** This was from the 1989 version and doubles as SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic. Seriously, just ''listen'' to the BGM.
* NightmareFuel: Depending on how it's played, Henry's response to the Dauphin sending him a mocking gift of tennis balls can be very chilling. While he'd already considered making war on France for the throne, now he makes it very clear that he's doing it out of ''spite'' at the Dauphin's insult as well, with lines like "And some are yet ungotten and unborn that shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn," and "Tell the Dauphin his jest will savour but of shallow wit, when thousands weep more than did laugh at it".
* OlderThanTheyThink: The phrase "the game's afoot", commonly associated with Sherlock Holmes, came from this play (in the "Once more unto the breach" speech).
* OnceOriginalNowCommon: What ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is to phrases that have become standards, this play is to war movie tropes. It can seem like all Shakespeare has done is string scenes from WWII movies together.
* OneSceneWonder: Mistress Quickly only appears in two scenes in the play, and she barely speaks in the first one. However, in her second appearance, she delivers a monologue about Falstaff's death, which she witnessed. It's one of Shakespeare's most beautiful pieces and can, if delivered properly, stop the show just as much as the play's other big speeches.
* ValuesDissonance:
** Henry's threats about raping virgins to the lord of Harfleur are honestly pretty standard fare for the period: it was largely accepted since antiquity that if an army had to force its way into a city, they could and would take out their frustrations on the inhabitants however they liked, and even officers who opposed it tended to be powerless to stop the RapePillageAndBurn. It's only within the last couple of centuries that this changed, mostly in the Western world, with the increasing use of professional armies that require much greater discipline of their soldiers and the decreasing use of siege tactics against cities, especially after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
** The scene where the King in disguise as a soldier moves through the camps and respond to the complaints of his soldiers about how Henry V caused the war and responding to it, by insisting that a King is not responsible for the deaths of soldiers under his command because he doesn't actually intend their deaths and that the life of a soldier lost is collateral damage, to a modern audience is incredibly callous, cold, and inhumane, with the King more or less disavowing any guilt or feelings of bond to the soldiers he's asking to fight for him, and more or less writing off their concerns by telling them to "man up, CannonFodder is what society and God decided you to be, so quit whining and fight, and if you die, well too bad for you". In the time the play is set, though, this was a completely common mindset among the leadership classes of European society, and even at the time of the play's production it was still fairly common. (Though precisely why Shakespeare shines a light on it and how it's meant to be taken is, as always, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation up to interpretation]].)
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