Dwight in Shining Armor is a fantasy sitcom aired on BYUtv starting in 2018.
A thousand years ago, there was a warrior princess named Gretta, who had a lot of enemies but not a lot of allies. To protect her, Baldric, her court magician, cast a spell to put her and all her foes to sleep until a champion would come along and wake her with a kiss. Unfortunately that champion ends up being Dwight, a sensitive teenage boy from the 21st century with all the fighting skills of a thin twig, whose Accidental Kiss awakens the princess and binds him to be her protector.
Dwight in Shining Armor provides examples of:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Dwight is able to successfully parley with a dangerous pook because he was unaware of how dangerous it is. He heard that they were sensitive, which he interpreted as soulful instead of as having a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: The first enemy Dwight faces is Chlodwig, who wishes to enforces his Arranged Marriage with Gretta from childhood by threatening to feed her to a dragon if she refuses.
- Bad "Bad Acting": Gretta tries to convince godmother that Dwight is capable of protecting her by arranging for Dwight to fight a group of bandits. Dwight is wearing armor he can barely move in, so the bandits have to move into his attacks, and Gretta's Damsel in Distress act isn't much better.
- Bait-and-Switch: A curse resurrects a group of zombie knights, who relentlessly pursue Gretta and her friends. When they finally encircle her, Dwight is surprised they do nothing at all, expecting to be attacked. They then form a protective circle and fight off a vampire resurrected by the same curse. Gretta then recognises them as her former Royal Guard, seeking to atone for having abandoned her during the siege of her castle. When she grants them forgiveness, they are released from the curse, after they bury the vampire inside an inescapable coffin so he can never threaten her again.
- Chained Heat: Gretta and Dwight end up handcuffed together while at a carnival after escaping from Macklyn the Fox.
- Continuity Nod: Gretta and Baldric list off all the antagonists faced to date while trying to persuade Lady Ermingarde that Dwight can protect Gretta.
- Crazy-Prepared: Osric the Grim made sure no Tovenar can be resurrected by removing one bone from each skeleton and placing them together in a hidden vault. Unfortunately, since a Tovenar bone acts a homing beacon leading the holder to the other pieces of the skeleton, anyone who discovered the vault would have the means to locate all the Tovenar skeletons.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Chlodwig's first four lessons for being a warrior are all a variation of "Danger is Everywhere."
- Dragons Prefer Princesses: The dragon shifter Lady Ermingarde wants to keep Gretta locked up in a tower on a desert island, albeit out of protectiveness rather than malice.
- Easily Forgiven: Gretta is willing to let Chlodwig live in her shed even though he kidnapped her and tried to force her to marry him in his first appearance, on the grounds that he is her cousin.
- In the divergent timeline created by the scrying pool, Dwight breaks Baldric's staff again and expects to be severely chastised as he was before, only for Baldric to calmly gather up the pieces and shrug it off as inconsequential.
- Epunymous Title: Dwight was probably named for the sake of the pun on Knight in Shining Armor.
- Extended Disarming: Dwight has Gretta give her weapons to Baldric while she's at school. Gretta tries to keep one of knives with her, but Dwight catches it.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Even if Hammond had managed to kill Greta, he wouldn't have survived to enjoy his victory, as Chlodwig brought Emringard and Henrik to assist the battle. A fire breathing dragoness would have ended his reign just as quickly as it began.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Gretta and Baldric are from a fantasy kingdom 1,000 years ago and have to adjust to life in the modern 21st century.
- Here We Go Again!: As a result of the divergent timeline, Gretta has to defeat all her previously encountered enemies for the second time, and she comments on getting the bottle of water to foil Jacobo the Troubadour.
- Hugh Mann: The fairy that possesses Baldric introduces herself to Dwight by informing him that she is also a human man, in addition to the erratic behavior and body language.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Gretta tries to get dolled up while under the effect of a love enchantment, with high heels she can't walk in, a blue flouncy dress, and rhinestone encrusted makeup.
- Killer Rabbit: Gretta is convinced that Peanut the dog is actually a dangerous man-eating monster. And she's right.
- Lost in Character: Dwight's Wild Card Excuse for Gretta and Baldric's odd behavior is that they're method actors.
- Magic Staff: Dwight breaks Baldric's staff in the second episode. While they patch it up with duct tape, it's still not as good as it used to be.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Gretta is a hard-headed warrior princess, trained to fight since she could hold a sword. Dwight likes to volunteer for animal shelters, dislikes violence, and tries to solve everything with diplomacy.
- The Magnificent: Gretta the Besieged, Chlodwig the Unstable... These titles are common and apparently Serious Business. Jacopo the Troubadour specifies what title he'll have as part of his surrender terms and King Fergus the Mighty stole a wyvern skin because he was having trouble living up to his title.
- Non-Protagonist Resolver: The fairies in Lessons One Through Four are defeated by their own Imperfect Ritual combined with Chlodwig's antics, rather than through the protagonists' actions.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jacobo and Mr Dale's shared reaction to learning the Tovenars are planning to resurrect all of their dead members.
- Shout-Out: The season 4 episode title Four Weddings and a Health Code Violation.
- Something We Forgot: After dealing with all the issues that occurred in Dragon, Baldric realizes with horror that they didn't actually get the dragon's fire needed to fix his staff.
- Tempting Fate: After Dwight removes the source of the Tovenars' immortality and kills the only two living members of their order as a result, he asks Gretta if that was the hardest task set to him. Everyone in the room avoids eye contact and the teaser hints there's a greater threat to come next season.
