Recap / Freshy Kanal "Robin Hood vs. Guy Fawkes"

Legendary outlaw Robin Hood raps against Gunpowder Plot conspirator Guy Fawkes (portrayed by The Stupendium) in a battle between English rebels.

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This rap battle contains examples of:

• Artistic License – History: The battle takes some liberties in terms of showing how Guy Fawkes was executed, such as having him quartered first before he jumped to avoid hanging instead of the other way around like in real life.^note Where he was quartered posthumously instead, after dying from the jump.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Robin makes a point that he is usually a forgiving guy, so Guy better be worried when Robin decides to stop being nice and demonstrate his archery skill upon Guy's body.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: By his second verse, Guy Fawkes has been captured and King James I gets two lines to describe what will happen to him. Fawkes spends the rest of his verse rapping while enduring the torture.
  For the torture, you'll have horses tied to every corner
  And limb and forced to ride, pulling your torso, hung, drawn, and quartered
• Hypocrisy Nod: Robin acknowledges that it's not fitting for "a man in tights" to diss Guy Fawkes' fashions... before continuing and dissing Guy's hat.
• Just Like Robin Hood: Naturally, Robin Hood describes how he would steal gold from the palace and give them to the broke, saying that monarchy stole the gold from the people.
  While you were panicking, dillydallying under the throne
  I'd be hijacking the palace to plunder the gold and then get back on my stallion
  Galloping to papplewick, refunding the broke with the money that the monarchy stole
• Medium Blending: The battles starts as animated 2D old-fashioned drawing before shifting into live-action + 3D backgrounds.
• Rotoscoping: The drawings of Robin Hood and Guy Fawkes are traced from their actors, which is made the clearest during the medium-shift when the Robin Hood drawing in his wanted poster turns into his live-action self in the exact same pose.
• Shout-Out:
  • Unimpressed by Robin Hood stories, Fawkes calls them "peter pantomime".
  • Robin refers himself as British Hawkeye when boasting about his archery skills.
  • During his last verse, Fawkes insults Robin by calling him "a dorky Zorro".
• Splitting the Arrow: Robin's history of doing this with his arrows is referenced when he threatens to do the same thing to Guy.
• What a Drag: During his second verse, Fawkes is tied to and dragged by two running horses under King James I's order.

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