History Characters / MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

[[folder:Bedivere]]
!!Sir Bedivere the Wise

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Disappears after the encounter with Tim.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In his appearance (brown suit, bow tie, glasses), earnest manner and high voice, he's strongly reminiscent of the distinguished English historian of 19th and 20th century diplomacy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqT2kmKPqeM A.J.P. Taylor]], who made a lot of TV documentaries consisting of himself explaining things to the camera. This is lampshaded in the published screenplay, where he is sometimes referred to as "Not A.J.P. Taylor".

* AdaptationalVillainy: He's combined with the peasant who kills the old man, giving him an act of premeditated malace in addition to his usual BerserkerRage. [[WhatTheHellHero The chorus even calls him out on it.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: He makes it to the end of the play instead of being thrown to the pit.

* AdaptationalBadass: A mild example; he's still cowardly, but in this version he actually slew the "vicious Chicken of Bristol", rather than almost standing up to it.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: He has encyclopedic knowledge about Broadway and in general a more intellectual air about him than in the movie; courtesy of the roll being originated by ''Creator/DavidHydePierce''.
* BringMyBrownPants: Mentions one of the drawbacks of being a night is soiling his pants out of fear.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Him and Lance promise to "remain good chums" and look out for one another. Lancelot is gay, but appears to have no nonplatonic feelings for Robin specifically.

A monk and scholar. He gives the Holy Hand Grenade to the Knights when they need a way to defeat the Killer Rabbit. He also translates the runes inside the Cave of Caerbannog, but is eaten by the Black Beast of Aaarrrrggghhh.

* TheChooserOfTheOne: She, the Lady of the Lake, lifted Exalibur from the water of her lake and bestowed it upon him, as divine providence that he was to rule. '''''That''''' is why he's king!

-->''I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.''

They live in a spooky forest and coerce travellers into buying shrubberies for them. [[invoked]]{{Trope Namer|s}}: for TheKnightsWhoSaySquee and WithThisHerring

* TheDreaded: The Knights who say Ni! appear to have a terrifying reputation, considering the fact they inspire fear within nearby villages, maybe even the whole country, cause the shrubbery-economy to collapse and make a fearful king Arthur do their bidding. Anyone who terrifies King Arthur like that is worthy of being called 'the Dreaded'.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted, as they all speak in high pitched voices.

* LargeHam: Especially their leader, who tries to sound impressive and authoritative with a high pitched voice.

A man who collects corpses at a village ravaged by the plague. He gets into an argument with a villager who wants to hand him over a still living man. The collector then solves the situation by killing the 'living corpse'.

* TheSkeptic: Has to see the Lady of the Lake to believe.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: To go with his royal title, his fight with the Black Knight shows that he's no slouch in a swordfight. What's even more impressive is that Arthur was able to go blow-to-blow with the knight (and gain the upper hand) while holding his sword one-handed.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He's either this, or CampStraight. The movie zig-zags a little on it -- though in ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'' he is confirmed to be gay.

* MarryForLove: Perhaps. He starts to explain what sorts of qualities he'd like in the girl he marries, but as he chooses to do so in ''song,'' his father is quick to put an end to it.

* AdaptationalSexuality: He was AmbiguouslyGay in the original but easily could have just been CampStraight and against an arranged marriage. Here, the "certain something" he wants in his dream spouse is clearly a penis.

* TheComicallySerious: His main contribution to the film's humour is remaining completely straight-laced through all the absurd situations throw at him and even occasionally attempting to get things back on a serious track (mostly to no avail).

* TheComicallySerious: His main contribution to the film's humour is remaining completely straight-laced through it all.

-->'''Arthur:''' "Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale."

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Their leader is abnormally tall and is the only one of them seen talking. It's not clear if the other knights can talk or not. They also have [[spoiler: a ridiculous weakness in the form of the word "it" [[note]]Argh![[/note]]]].

* DarkIsEvil: They are dressed in black/dark brown, they are bullies who terrorize people while making them do [[WithThisHerring impossible tasks]] and their leader looks like a typical EvilOverlord.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite being a literal mud farmer in an era where literacy outside of nobility and any political system outside of Feudalism are next to nonexistent, he possesses a very deep comprehension of Marxist theory and politics centuries ahead of his time. Considering his entire community is an anarcho-syndicalist commune, its possible that he isn't the only one.

* AdaptationalVillainy: He's combined with the peasant who kills the old man, giving him an act of premeditated malace in addition to his usual BezerkerRage. [[WhatTheHellHero The chorus even calls him out on it.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The one time he comes up with a plan (the [[TrojanHorse Trojan Rabbit]]), it's actually somewhat decent...but not only did he not consider the French would catapult it out of the castle before the intended nighttime attack to take them by surprise and unharmed, he forgot that Lancelot, Galahad, and ''himself'' were supposed to be inside the thing for the plan to work at all. (Good thing they weren't.)

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Rushes off to rescue someone once he receives a call for help. Once he finds the person in distress is a man and not a woman as he expected, he's flabbergasted. Not angry or ready to raise hell about it, just flabbergasted.

* GodIsGood: He might be a bit of a grump, yes, but God nevertheless just wants to instil hope in the Britons during these trying times.