The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh is a Japanese two-part animated fantasy film, and the third and fourth films for the franchise
The Seven Deadly Sins created by Nakaba Suzuki. The two-part film is distributed by
Netflix. Part 1 was streamed on December 20, 2022, while Part 2 was streamed on August 9, 2023.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh provides examples of:
- Action Prologue: The first half opens with Tristan and a fairy (actually Lancelot in disguise) fighting an army of Mooks.
- All-CGI Cartoon: Unlike the other animated works of the franchise, these movies are fully animated with CGI.
- The Berserker: Tristan first enters Assault Mode when he's sparring with Lancelot. They're having fun when Tristan enters a sort of trance and goes still. Lancelot goes over to see if he's okay, and Tristan slashes him across the forehead. The dishonor of the act disgusts Tristan so much that he gives up fighting altogether.
- Creative Closing Credits: The credits scroll over a scene of Lancelot walking away from Edinburgh, and end with The Stinger of him meeting up with Jericho.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Meliodas, Ban, and Gowther obliterate a good-sized army of mooks while strolling through it.
- Didn't Think This Through: Deathpierce's initial reaction to three of the Seven Deadly Sins arriving in Edinburgh is to order a massive magical artillery bombardment. Against a group lead by someone whose Signature Move is reflecting magical attacks back at their caster. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Also the fact that Deathpierce forgot the three have tangled with likes of more powerful beings like the Demon King, Cath Palug and the Supreme Deity.
- Flashback Nightmare: Tristan has a Catapult Nightmare where he recalls the time he first lost control of his Assault Mode and hurt his friend Lancelot during a sparring match.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Arthur Pendragon, who provided Deathpierce with a Staff of Chaos to enact his grudge on non-humans.
- How We Got Here: The first part begins with Tristan and his fairy companion Lancelot in the battlefield before the narrative goes back to explain the events leading to that point.
- Interquel: The movie takes places four years after the epilogue of The Seven Deadly Sins and two years before the sequel Four Knights of the Apocalypse, and was released after both series.
- It Only Works Once: A villainous version. After the curse on Elizabeth is broken, Deathpierce tries to put it on her again, only for Elizabeth to break it herself within seconds, saying that the only reason it worked the first time was because he cast it on her while she was asleep.
- Misplaced Retribution: Deathpierce holds a grudge against all non-humans for the actions of one demon and one goddess during the Holy War, despite the fact that both of them already paid for their actions with their lives; because he had nothing to do with their deaths, he got no satisfaction from them. This grudge also includes the fairies and giants, who have nothing to do with his grievances whatsoever.
- Parents in Distress: The plot is about Tristan seeking a cure for his sick mother, who has fallen victim to a demonic curse.
- Pegasus: Subverted. (The horse) Escanor leaps off a cliff and doesn't land, leading his rider to hope that he can fly. It turns out that Lancelot, who can fly, is working like the devil to carry it.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Tristan is right about Lancelot holding a grudge against him since their sparring match that led to Lancelot getting scarred, but assumes it's because Lancelot blames him for losing control of his Assault Mode and almost killing him. In reality, Lancelot felt cheated that he didn't get to finish their fight because the adults intervened, and Tristan was too afraid to resume sparring, proving Tristan didn't trust him enough to handle himself.
- Right Makes Might: Tristan is convinced to draw on the power of his demon side when Lancelot promises him that he'll be there to knock sense into Tristan if he needs it.
- Shoot the Medic First: Deathpierce cursed Elizabeth because she was the only person around capable of lifting such a curse. It's lampshaded that if her allies could do so temporarily, she could use that time to cure herself permanently; unfortunately, she needs to be conscious to do that.
- Spin-Offspring: The protagonist of the movie is Tristan, the son of Meliodas, the protagonist of the original series. The deuteragonist is Lancelot, the son of Meliodas' best friend Ban. Diane and King are mentioned to have children themselves, but they do not appear.
- Table Space: The first part of the movie has a scene where Tristan, Meliodas and Elizabeth sit down to eat at a table meant for twenty, with Meliodas at the head, Tristan at the foot, and Elizabeth halfway down. Then, after the servants leave, they pick up their plates and move to a side table sized for four.
- We Named the Monkey "Jack": Tristan's horse is named Escanor after the late Sin of Pride.
