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* RejectedMarriageProposal: At the end of ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', Jehnna asks Conan to marry her and rule Shadizar at her side, but he declines to keep having adventures and because he still isn't over his [[TheLostLenore deceased love Valeria]].
* ReleasingFromThePromise: After Conan frees her from slavers, Zula asks to ride with him and serve him. At the end of the movie Princess Jehnna asks Zula to be the captain of her guard. Conan releases her from her oath to him (and grants her permission to take the post) with a nod.

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Massive example crosswicking. Also got rid of natter, character bashing (namely towards Jehnna) and trope-slashing, and also commented-out zero-context examples


* AbductionIsLove: Referenced for laughs when TheIngenue asks for dating tips from a [[ActionGirl no-nonsense warrior woman]]:
-->'''Jehnna:''' Suppose you set your heart on somebody. What would you do to get him?\\
'''Zula:''' ''Grrrab him!'' And ''take him!''



* AimForTheHorn: The movie ends with the heroes battling Dagoth the horned god, which Conan finally defeats by ripping Dagoth's forehead horn off.



* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Zula is a tough warrior woman who has eyes for Conan, who's a very muscular and a powerful swordsman.



* AndTheAdventureContinues: The ending narration states that Conan will go on to [[spoiler:become a king]] later.

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end, Conan's allies choose to stay with Jehnna as members of her court, but Conan himself turns down her offer to rule by her side, saying [[spoiler:he will find his own kingdom]]. The ending narration states final scene of the film ends with him sitting in a darkened room:
-->'''Narrator:''' So it was
that Conan will go on to [[spoiler:become mourned his lost Valeria. At length, he sought adventure in distant lands and trod the jeweled thrones of the earth beneath his sandaled feet, until at last he found his own Kingdom and wore his crown upon a king]] later.troubled brow.
-->'''Caption''' ''(With Dramatic Music):'' But That Is Another Story...



* [[ArtisticLicenceBiology Artistic Licence: Biology:]] During the ambush [[spoiler: by Taramis' soldiers]], Malak cuts the throat of a soldier, who then...screams in pain?

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* [[ArtisticLicenceBiology Artistic Licence: Biology:]] ArtisticLicenceBiology: During the ambush [[spoiler: by Taramis' soldiers]], Malak cuts the throat of a soldier, who then...screams in pain?



* BigBad: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Taramis]], the ruler of Shadizar who seeks to [[SealedEvilInACan unleash]] the EldritchAbomination [[GodOfEvil Dagoth]].



* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Conan punches out a horse during combat, throwing the rider. Conan continued on to knock out a camel that spit on him... and then, encountering the same camel later while heavily intoxicated, punched it out again -- intentionally played for laughs with the over-the-top dizzy reaction and collapse of the camel. These wanton acts severely incensed real-world animal cruelty complainants, until it was confirmed that Arnold Schwarzenegger barely tapped the animals if at all: the animals were both trained to pantomime a fall. That didn't stop the scenes from being cut from UK syndicated releases because of "animal cruelty", for the better part of two decades.



* ButNowIMustGo: Conan, at the ending.

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* BossArenaIdiocy: Conan fights a wizard in a room full of mirrors. The wizard is impervious to Conan's sword, but when Conan accidentally smashes one of the mirrors, a large gash appears on wizard's body. Realising what's for, Conan starts breaking other mirrors, hurting the wizard further until he dies. Since the room was inside the wizard's castle, it makes you wonder why he would put all those mirrors there in the first place.
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ButNowIMustGo: Conan, at the ending.ending.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Zula becomes the captain of the guard of Queen Jehna at the end.



* CollapsingLair: An entire tower collapses shortly after the wizard's death with one character giving the hand-waved explanation, "It was all an illusion."



* DidNotGetTheGirl: Jehnna offers to marry Conan and rule her kingdom at his side. He declines. She kisses him, but he doesn't even kiss her back, then walks out without a backward glance. That's cold, Conan!

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Jehnna offers to marry Conan and rule her kingdom at his side. He declines. She kisses him, but he doesn't even kiss her back, then walks out without a backward glance. That's cold, Conan!



* DullSurprise: This is Conan's default expression any time something startling happens. Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger ''is'' one of the trope codifiers.

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* DoorToBefore: Conan and [[FiveManBand his party]] end up right where they started by smashing through a wall.
* DullSurprise: This is Conan's default expression any time something startling happens. Of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger ''is'' happens.
* EekAMouse: In
one scene, Zula, who up until now has been afraid of nothing and fearlessly taken on whole villages and men much larger than her in combat, jumps and screams at the trope codifiers. sight of a mouse. When all of her party look back she looks sheepish.



* FineYouCanJustWaitHereAlone: Malak refuses to go to the castle in the swamp with the others - then says to nobody in particular, "They need me!" and jumps in the boat to keep from being left alone.



* GroinAttack: Zula pulls this on one of the villagers attacking her. With her staff. Ouch.

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* GroinAttack: Zula pulls this on one of the villagers attacking her. With her staff. Ouch.staff.
* HallOfMirrors: Conan faces a hall of magic mirrors which produces a monster that cannot be harmed by direct physical blows. However, Conan realizes that he can smash the mirrors instead and the monster is wounded with each smash until it falls.
* HornAttack: [[EldritchAbomination Dagoth]] kills Queen Taramis this way.



* HumanoidAbomination / EldritchAbomination: Dagoth

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* HumanoidAbomination / EldritchAbomination: %%* HumanoidAbomination: Dagoth



* InescapableNet: In the ActionPrologue, Queen Taramis sends her royal guard to [[IWantThemAlive capture Conan]] via this trope (and some hefty clubs), but only his BumblingSidekick is caught this way. Conan either hacks through the net or uses it to pull the guards off their horses. Eventually the queen tires of their ineptitude and tries negotiation instead.
* InvoluntaryGroupSplit: [[spoiler:Bombaata causes one of these to get rid of Conan temporarily. Big Mistake]].
* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: When the heroes have to [[DungeonBypass sneak into the palace of Shadizar]] in the climax, Malak tells of a "cousin's sister's brother" who escaped the dungeon by digging a tunnel out. Fortunately, the tunnel is still there but has been sealed by bars, [[SkewedPriorities sparking an irrelevant argument]] over whether Malak's informant was a cousin's sister's brother or a sister's brother's cousin while Conan [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower parts the bars]].



* TheLoad: Princess Jehnna, and boy howdy, is she ever.
* LockedOutOfTheFight: Conan's companions can only watch helplessly from behind a mirror as he has to fight against the wizard Thoth-Amon.

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* TheLoad: Princess Jehnna, The heroes have to spend most of their time babysitting a spoiled virgin princess who's the ''one key'' to finding a powerful artifact. She's useless in battle, gets kidnapped a lot, and boy howdy, the whole job winds up being a lot more trouble than it's worth.
* LoadBearingBoss: When the wizard guarding the key
is she ever.
killed, his entire crystal palace crumbles into the lake.
* LockedOutOfTheFight: Conan's companions can only watch helplessly from The heroes infiltrate an evil wizard's tower to steal a PlotCoupon. When Conan enters a room with full-length mirrors covering each segment of the wall, a pane of one-way glass slams down behind a mirror as he has him (naturally, it appears identical to fight against the other mirrors when viewed from inside the room), allowing the wizard Thoth-Amon.to summon a monstrous brute which Conan must defeat alone (fortunately, Conan is able to figure out that the mirrors are the monster's AchillesHeel).



* NoTimeToThink: Conan reasons that the wizard he's fighting is behind one of two mirrors, while his friends are behind the other. He rears back to throw his sword, seemingly into the mirror hiding his friends, then turns and throws it at the other mirror, hitting the wizard. It's compelling, except none of his friends thought to simply duck, and Conan still decided to throw the sword, rather than just walking up to the mirrors and slashing them, as he had been doing.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In this movie, Conan is a mercenary hired by [[spoiler:the BigBad]]. But apparently he ends up becoming king. At the end of the story, the princess he rescued asks him to rule at her side as her husband. He declines, saying "Someday I will have my own kingdom, my own queen." The shot of him sitting on a throne implies that he did eventually go and conquer a kingdom of his own. But that is another tale...



* OfferedTheCrown: At the end of the film, the newly crowned Queen Jehnna asks Conan to be her king. Manly BarbarianHero that he is, Conan prefers to win a crown with his own sword rather than as HotConsort. [[AndTheAdventureContinues But that is another story...]]



* OfferedTheCrown: Conan does the ButNowIMustGo trope, preferring to earn his kingdom on his own rather than as the HotConsort of a queen.



* PstandardPsychicPstance: Toth-Amon does this, complete with silly mannerisms. So do Akiro and the leader of the Dagoth worshipers.
* RageAgainstTheReflection: Subverted. [[spoiler:Before taking the Heart of Ahriman, Conan had to kill the guardian Toth-Amon by smashing the mirrors around him]].



* RoyalBrat: Princess Jehnna is naïve, capricious, and obnoxious.

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* RejectedMarriageProposal: At the end of ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', Jehnna asks Conan to marry her and rule Shadizar at her side, but he declines to keep having adventures and because he still isn't over his [[TheLostLenore deceased love Valeria]].
* ReleasingFromThePromise: After Conan frees her from slavers, Zula asks to ride with him and serve him. At the end of the movie Princess Jehnna asks Zula to be the captain of her guard. Conan releases her from her oath to him (and grants her permission to take the post) with a nod.
* RoyalBrat: Princess Jehnna is naïve, capricious, naïve and obnoxious.capricious.



* ScreamingWarrior: Zula
* ScreamingWoman: Jehna, and how.
* TheSneakyGuy: Malak the cowardly thief.

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* %%* ScreamingWarrior: Zula
* %%* ScreamingWoman: Jehna, and how.
Jehna.
* ShakingTheRump: Zula shakes her rear end after emerging from water, to shed droplets from the furry tail that hangs at the back of her "tribal warrior-woman" costume.
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TheSneakyGuy: Malak the cowardly thief.



* TheTalk: ''Really'', Jehnna, did you ''really'' ask ''Malak'' about the birds and the bees?

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* {{Tagline}}: "The most powerful legend of all is back in a new adventure"
* TheTalk: ''Really'', Jehnna, did you ''really'' ask ''Malak'' when asking'Malak about the birds and the bees?bees.



* VirginSacrifice: Princess Jehnna is meant to be one.

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* VillainOfTheDetour: There are two of them: the wizard Toth Amon (who guards the diamond that's the key to the Horn of Dagoth) and the wizard who leads the guardians of the Horn themselves. They're not allied to the BigBad, Queen Taramis, since she sends Conan & co on TheQuest to retrieve the Horn, though they don't know what she's up to until far into the quest.
* VirginPower: There's a princess whose virginity is apparently necessary for her to handle a sacred relic without harm. The real reason she needs to remain pure is so that, at the end of the movie, she can become a VirginSacrifice to the god to whom the relic belongs.
* VirginSacrifice: Princess Jehnna is meant to be one.one, but Conan saves her from being sacrificed.
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* OhCrap: Queen Taramis's look when [[spoiler:Jehnna's sacrifice is interrupted by Zuma. She knows that the god Dagoth WILL NOT be pleased if it will not have its victim.]]

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* OhCrap: Queen Taramis's look when [[spoiler:Jehnna's sacrifice is interrupted by Zuma.Zula. She knows that the god Dagoth WILL NOT be pleased if it will not have its victim.]]
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** How the Grand Vizier [[spoiler: who is performing the ritual to revive Dagoth]] is killed by Zuma.

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** How the Grand Vizier [[spoiler: who is performing the ritual to revive Dagoth]] is killed by Zuma.Zula.



* TheLadette: Zula

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* TheLadette: ZulaZula is a lean, muscular warrior woman who acts even fiercer than the male warriors, and her advice on how to get a man seems outright parodic of the uber-masculine stereotype, while she's a ScreamingWarrior too and bares her teeth when she fights.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Unfortunately they didn't, at least on film.

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Unfortunately they didn't, at least The ending narration states that Conan will go on film.to [[spoiler:become a king]] later.
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* CastingGag: NBA superstar Wilt Chamberlain had a reputation for being [[ReallyGetsAround a womanizer]] (in his autobiography, he claimed to have bedded around 20,000 women). In this movie he plays a eunuch tasked to preserve the princess's virginity.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Zula is barefoot through the film, presumably out of tribal preference.
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''Conan the Destroyer'' is the sequel to ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', released in the year 1984. Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/{{Mako}} return to reprise their respective roles.

Conan and his accomplice Malak are tasked by Queen Taramis to escort her niece Princess Jehnna to obtain an artifact needed to resurrect Dagoth, "The Dreaming God". Little does he know that the god in question will bring the age of darkness upon its resurrection, and the princess has to be sacrificed in order to do so.

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''Conan the Destroyer'' is the sequel to ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', released in the year 1984. 1984 and starring Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/{{Mako}} return to reprise their respective roles.

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Conan and his accomplice Malak (Creator/TraceyWalter) are tasked by Queen Taramis (Creator/SarahDouglas) to escort her niece Princess Jehnna (Creator/OliviaDabo) to obtain an artifact needed to resurrect Dagoth, "The Dreaming God". Little does he know that the god in question will bring the age of darkness upon its resurrection, and the princess has to be sacrificed in order to do so.
so. Taramis sends her personal bodyguard Bombaata (UsefulNotes/WiltChamberlain) to accompany them. On the way, Conan saves the lives of wizard Akiro (Creator/{{Mako}}) and Zula (Creator/GraceJones), who then join the team.
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: [[spoiler: Jehnna]] at the end.
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* FiveManBand: The escort of Princess Jehnna: Conan (TheLeader), Malak (TheLancer), Akiro (TheSmartGuy), Bombaata (TheBigGuy) and Zula (TheChick).
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Malak may be the goofball of the group, but when Dagoth is about to tear Conan's arms out of their sockets, the thief is able to score a headshot by throwing one of his knives at the monster and hitting it dead in the face. Conan is able to free himself right after that.
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* SimpleStaff: Zula's WeaponOfChoice.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The film seems to grab names from Howard's canon and slap them around willy-nilly.
** Queen Taramis shares the name of a character in "A Witch Shall Be Born," which includes an evil witch-queen. The difference is Taramis was the good and rightful Queen, her twin sister was the evil witch Salome who usurped her throne and identity. None of this is included in the film, making Taramis an original [[EvilSorcerer evil sorceress]] [[EvilOverlord overlord]].
** The name Thoth-Amon is given to a character who more closely resembles Thak from "Rogues In The House," an evolved ape-man who is surprisingly intelligent. Thoth-Amon was a Stygian (Egyptian) sorcerer and follower of Set, a clever and subtle nemesis who never actually faced Conan in person; the two were largely ignorant of how their actions affected each other.
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* FamedInStory: At this point, Conan has become something of a legend, which he was not in the previous film. For example, Zula recognizes him and calls him by name when eagerly asking to serve with him despite not being formally introduced to him.

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* FamedInStory: At this point, Conan has become something of a legend, which he was not in the previous film. For example, Zula recognizes him and calls him by name when eagerly asking to serve with him despite not being formally introduced to him. It's the entire reason Queen Tamaris seeks him out, and she knows who Valeria was, to boot.

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* TheCakeIsALie: [[spoiler:Queen Taramis' promise to resurrect Conan's girlfriend Valeria in exchange for the Horn of Dagoth was this, as Conan himself eventually acknowledges.]]



* TheSneakyGuy: Malak the cowardly thief.



* TheCakeIsALie: [[spoiler:Queen Taramis' promise to resurrect Conan's girlfriend Valeria in exchange for the Horn of Dagoth was this, as Conan himself eventually acknowledges.]]
* TheSneakyGuy: Malak the cowardly thief.
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* TheWrestlerInAllOfus: Conan's fight with Lizard!Thoth-Amon becomes one after the former's sword proves useless.

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* TheWrestlerInAllOfus: WrestlerInAllOfUs: Conan's fight with Lizard!Thoth-Amon becomes one a WWE match after the former's sword proves useless.
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* TheWrestlerInAllOfus: Conan's fight with Lizard!Thoth-Amon becomes one after the former's sword proves useless.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Thoth-Amon's death comes across as this, as his motivations for keeping Jehnna are unclear and could easily be a HeroAntagonist. His BetterToDieThanBeKilled death by grasping the gem, disintegrating him, is strangely poignant.
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* MrFanservice: Unlike the previous movie where Conan spent most of his time wrapped up in full PeltsOfTheBarbarian, here he's WalkingShirtlessScene in just boots and a LoinCloth.

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* MrFanservice: Unlike the previous movie where Conan spent most of his time wrapped up in full PeltsOfTheBarbarian, here he's a WalkingShirtlessScene in just boots and a LoinCloth.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Two. Michael Fleischer wrote a two-issue limited series for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] then Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, who had written the original story treatment but were dissatisfied with rhe final script, adapted it into the 1990 graphic novel, ''Conan The Barbarian: The Horn of Azoth''.

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* ComicBookAdaptation: Two. Michael Fleischer wrote a two-issue limited series for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] then Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, who had written the original story treatment but were dissatisfied with rhe the final script, adapted it into the 1990 graphic novel, ''Conan The Barbarian: The Horn of Azoth''.
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* CombatPragmatist: When the fight in the catacomb starts, Malak immediately puts his back to a corner, pulls out his daggers and makes attacks of opportunity against those distracted fighting the others.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Two. Michael Fleischer wrote a two-issue limited series for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] then Roy Thomas and Gerry adapted into the 1990 graphic novel, ''Conan The Barbarian: The Horn of Azoth''.

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* ComicBookAdaptation: Two. Michael Fleischer wrote a two-issue limited series for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] then Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, who had written the original story treatment but were dissatisfied with rhe final script, adapted it into the 1990 graphic novel, ''Conan The Barbarian: The Horn of Azoth''.
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* RejectedMarriageProposal: [[spoiler: In the end Jehnna asks Conan to marry her and rule Shadizar at her side, but he declines to keep having adventures and because he still isn't over his deceased love Valeria]].
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subotai is gone without explanation and replaced by Malak, who acts like he's been Conan's sidekick all along. This is all the more odd since Valeria was given a CallBack at the start. In the ''Horn of Azoth'' comic, a character [[CaptainErsatz never identified as but clearly meant to be him]] is [[spoiler:hanged at the start, with Conan arriving to late to save him]].

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subotai is gone without explanation and replaced by Malak, who acts like he's been Conan's sidekick all along. This is all the more odd since Valeria was given a CallBack at the start. In the ''Horn of Azoth'' comic, a character [[CaptainErsatz never identified as but clearly meant to be him]] is [[spoiler:hanged at the start, with Conan arriving to too late to save him]].
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Conan, a lot more often compared to the first film.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subotai is gone without explanation and replaced by Malak, who acts like he's been Conan's sidekick all along. This is all the more odd since Valeria was given a CallBack at the start. In the ''Horn of Azoth'' comic, a character [[CaptainErstatz never identified as but clearly meant to be him]] is [[spoiler:hanged at the start, with Conan arriving to late to save him]].

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subotai is gone without explanation and replaced by Malak, who acts like he's been Conan's sidekick all along. This is all the more odd since Valeria was given a CallBack at the start. In the ''Horn of Azoth'' comic, a character [[CaptainErstatz [[CaptainErsatz never identified as but clearly meant to be him]] is [[spoiler:hanged at the start, with Conan arriving to late to save him]].
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Subotai is gone without explanation and replaced by Malak, who acts like he's been Conan's sidekick all along. This is all the more odd since Valeria was given a CallBack at the start. In the ''Horn of Azoth'' comic, a character [[CaptainErstatz never identified as but clearly meant to be him]] is [[spoiler:hanged at the start, with Conan arriving to late to save him]].
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* GoodPrincessEvilQueen: Queen Taramis plans on sacrificing her ingenue niece Princess Jehnna to resurrect Dagoth.
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* FamedInStory: At this point, Conan has become something of a legend, which he was not in the previous film. For example, Zula recognizes him and calls him by name when eagerly asking to serve with him despite not being formally introduced to him.

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