History Literature / AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt

** Earlier in the story, Hank Morgan takes on 500 knights with just a pair of revolvers and wins. To clarify, it wasn't GunFu. After Morgan killed 9 of them in less than a minute, the Knights decided it wasn't worth it. Good thing, because Morgan was [[BatmanGambit counting on them giving up before he ran out of ammo.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: When Merlin is spreading rumors that Hank is a fraud ([[{{Hypocrite}} *cough*]]), Hank has him arrested and has it known that he will blow up Merlin's tower with fire from heaven. And he'll only do so once, so anybody asking for another miracle will be turned into a horse.

''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' is a classic 1889 novel written by Creator/MarkTwain. Hank Morgan, a resident of Hartford, Connecticut, suffers a blow to the head and inexplicably awakens to find himself in sixth century Britain. There, he is able to convince King Arthur that he is a powerful wizard and ends up assuming the job of the king's adviser, and attempts to impose modern technology and values onto the society.

* {{Demythification}}: The book portrays the magic in the Arthurian legend as fraudsters (including the title character) fooling the ignorant. Also subverted, when said title character falls unconscious for 1500 years so that he can personally deliver the story to Twain.

* MoodWhiplash: The story starts as an amusing fish-out-of-water story and a satire of Arthurian legend, but by the end it's a rather grim lampoon of modern England and America that saddles us with a real downer ending.

* AxCrazy: Morgana Le Fay. Literally.

* AllJustADream: Possibly; Hank might just have been hit on the head too hard and dreamt the whole thing.

* AxCrazy: Morgan Le Fay. Literally.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Double subverted with MorganLeFay: at first Hank only heard of her by reputation, then thinks she was slandered on seeing her youth and beauty, and goes right back to his previous outlook when she shanks a servant for accidentally touching her.

* {{Isekai}}: '''THE''' UrExample, as The Connecticut Yakee is essentially TrappedInAnotherWorld. Written literaly a century before it became a genre of {{Anime}} and LightNovels.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Frequently, particularly when the Yankee takes the King out incognito to see what peasant life is really like.

* ValuesDissonance[=/=]DeliberateValuesDissonance:

* GoOutWithASmile: A spectacularly gruesome example: [[spoiler:After managing to sneak into Hank's camp and apply the spell that will keep Hank asleep for hundreds of years]], Merlin decides to expose himself to everybody else and gloat, [[spoiler:and while he's dancing around in victory, he trips and falls onto the electrified barbed wire, which kills him. His large victory grin remains frozen in his face because of ''rigor mortis'' and the effect of electricity on human muscles.]]

* TimeTravel: To go backwards: a head injury knocks out Hank, who wakes up 13 centuries ago, in the time of Myth/ArthurianLegend. To go forwards: Merlin puts Hank to [[RipVanWinkle sleep for 13 centuries]].

* ValuesDissonance[=/=]DeliberateValuesDissonance: In-Universe, between the Yankee and the Arthurian Britons. The reader may also feel some disassociation from the Yankee's worldview, which is probably intentional.