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* ReliableTraitor: Gisburne, who [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal betrays the Sheriff]] in "The Children of Israel", "The Sheriff of Nottingham", "The Pretender", and "Time of the Wolf".
** That final episode is particularly noteworthy, as Guy gets the opportunity to [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand kill the Sheriff]]. In the end [[spoiler:Gisburne refuses to do it and commits ''another'' betrayal, turning on his former companions and telling the Sheriff, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou "I need you"]] as he flees with him. Then he pulls a sword on the Sheriff, revealing that what he really ''needed'' was a target for the King's anger, in order to save his own neck.]]
** That final episode is particularly noteworthy, as Guy gets the opportunity to [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand kill the Sheriff]]. In the end [[spoiler:Gisburne refuses to do it and commits ''another'' betrayal, turning on his former companions and telling the Sheriff, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou "I need you"]] as he flees with him. Then he pulls a sword on the Sheriff, revealing that what he really ''needed'' was a target for the King's anger, in order to save his own neck.]]
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* AntiHero: Will Scarlet. It's strange to see any member of the Merry Men as a borderline sociopath.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Trigger}}: In universe, Will appears to be at the very least on the verge of a full-blown attack of PTSD when the outlaws come across the village that suffered RapePillageAndBurn at the hands of Bertrand of Nivelles and his gang.
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* UsefulNotes/{{Trigger}}: In universe, TraumaButton: Will appears to be at the very least on the verge of a full-blown attack of PTSD when the outlaws come across the village that suffered RapePillageAndBurn at the hands of Bertrand of Nivelles and his gang.
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* TheObiWan: The Robins' enigmatic master and teacher.
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* BlondGuysAreEvil: He is very blond and very nasty.
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* BarefootLoon: Is barefoot for most of the time, and he's definitely crazy.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Stated outright in the episode ''The King's Fool''
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* SadlyMythtaken: Herne the Hunter. In English folklore he's supposed to be the ghost of a 16th century forester who haunts Windsor Park, unless Creator/WilliamShakespeare just made him up. A 1929 book suggested he ''might'' be a remnant of horned gods like Cernunnos, but still localised to Berkshire.
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* SadlyMythtaken: Herne the Hunter. In English folklore he's supposed to be the ghost of a 16th century forester who haunts Windsor Park, unless Creator/WilliamShakespeare just made him up. A 1929 book suggested he ''might'' be a remnant of horned gods like Cernunnos, but still localised to Berkshire. His depiction in ''Robin of Sherwood'' may well be via one or both of John Masefield's ''Literature/TheBoxOfDelights'' or Susan Cooper's ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'', both of which depict him as a much more universal and powerful English nature-spirit.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Robin himself. Luckily, Herne has a replacement lined up.]]
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: After Marion opts FakeShemp: In the final episode of the second season, the new "hooded man" who rescues the outlaws after Robin of Loxley's death, and is explicitly shown in the first episode of the third season to become a nun because she can't bear to be in a relationship have been Robert, was played by one of the stunt performers with another man who'll probably die young and violently.his face hidden, as Jason Connery had not been cast.
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* {{Brownface}}: Mark Ryan is white British, although no actual make-up was used.
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* TookALevelInBadass: He's actually quite an effective fighter in the last two episodes, against the Sons of Fenric.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: Originally, Guy was supposed to be killed off in the final episode of series 1, where he takes an arrow to the back and is set on fire. Come series 2 he appears again and although the Sheriff comments on his injuries, he still looks remarkably unhurt for a man who suffered crippling injuries.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: Originally, Guy was supposed to be killed off in the final episode of series 1, where he takes an arrow to the back and is set on fire. Come series 2 he appears again and although the Sheriff comments on his injuries, recovery, he still looks remarkably unhurt for a man who suffered crippling injuries.
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* FakeShemp: To save the elderly John Abineri from having to be out in the country getting rained on too often, many shots of Herne are actually an extra wearing his stag headdress, with studio-recorded dialogue added later.
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* PetTheDog: During "Alan-A-Dale" his treatment of Lady Mildred (the thoroughly unwilling bride-to-be of the sheriff) is so polite that it's borderline OutOfCharacterMoment.
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* PetTheDog: During "Alan-A-Dale" his treatment of Lady Mildred (the thoroughly unwilling bride-to-be of the sheriff) is so polite that it's borderline OutOfCharacterMoment. It may be that he feels fellow feeling for, or wants to possibly ally with, somebody else who'll have to put up with de Rainault.
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* PetTheDog: During "Alan-A-Dale" his treatment of Lady Mildred (The thoroughly unwilling bride-to-be of the sheriff) is so polite that it's borderline OutOfCharacterMoment.
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* ButtMonkey: Something unpleasant happens to him practically OncePerEpisode. From being stung half to death by bees, humiliated and spat on by the princess and taking an arrow through the back. [[AssholeVictim He is fulling deserving of almost everything bad that happens to him though.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Something unpleasant happens to him practically OncePerEpisode. From being stung half to death by bees, humiliated and spat on by the princess and taking an arrow through the back. [[AssholeVictim He is fulling fully deserving of almost everything bad that happens to him though.]]
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* LadyOfWar: The most upper-class of the original outlaw crew (although gentry rather than true aristocracy), she usually retains a certain elegance.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Though most retellings of RobinHood use the spelling Mari'''a'''n, this version was definitely spelt (and pronounced) Mari'''o'''n.
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* TheLostLenore: Will Scarlet became an outlaw and the [[HairTriggerTemper charming man]] that he is after his wife was raped and murdered in front of him by a gang of marauding Normans.
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* VaguenessIsComing: Many of Herne's warnings and instructions take this form.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The youthful-looking Gisburne has a surprisingly deep and harsh voice.
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* ReverseMole: Attempted by Robert of Huntingdon in "The Power of Albion", initially with some success. But it falls apart when the "King's Devil" recognises him as Robin Hood.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: He rescues the Merry Men after Loxley's death, but is then very reluctant to take up the role fully. It takes Marion's kidnapping to make him adopt it fully.
* ReverseMole: Attemptedby Robert of Huntingdon in "The Power of Albion", initially with some success. But it falls apart when the "King's Devil" recognises him as Robin Hood.Hood and ends all hope of him living a double life.
* ReverseMole: Attempted
* SlummingIt: A very high-ranking aristocrat who decides to live among and help the common people. The outlaws take quite a long time to be comfortable with him over it, especially Will and John.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When he was first introduced as the slave of Baron de Belleme.
* FlatCharacter: As the writers acknowledge on the DVD, he got probably the least character development of any of the regulars.
* FlatCharacter: As the writers acknowledge on the DVD, he got probably the least character development of any of the regulars.
* SimpleStaff: He prefers the quarterstaff as his main weapon.
* TheLancer: A textbook example, frequently clashing with Robin and regularly taking charge when Robin isn't present.
* SociopathicHero:
-->'''Will''': Killing's our business and we're good at it. 'Specially me.
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* ActionGirl: Sometimes (see DependingOnTheWriter).
* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's an Auron, but what that means varied from one series to the next, from an alien to an artificially advanced clone.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's an Auron, but what that means varied from one series to the next, from an alien to an artificially advanced clone.
* BigFun: He is often a focus of comic relief.
* TheSmartGuy: He's actually quite well educated, especially when it comes to recognising evil magic.
* TheSmartGuy: He's actually quite well educated, especially when it comes to recognising evil magic.
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* SixthRanger: Joins the team after his former master is killed by them.
* SixthRanger: Joins the team after his former master is killed by them.
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* TheFool: He starts off as very naive and trusting, and never wholly loses it.
* {{Koan}}: He can never just give advice or information without turning it into a riddle. Both Robins complain of this.
* TheObiWan: The Robins' enigmatic master and teacher.
* TheObiWan: The Robins' enigmatic master and teacher.
* TookALevelInBadass: He's actually quite an effective fighter in the last two episodes, against the Sons of Fenric.
A long-term prisoner at Nottingham Castle, who always refuses to leave because he doesn't want to abandon his pet rat Arthur.
* BreakoutCharacter: He was originally written into the first episode as a plot convenience to help Robin and the others escape, but was so popular that he made several further appearances.
* CatchPhrase:
-->Feet first, it's the only way!
-->I can't leave Arthur!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's completely nuts.
* NoNameGiven: Never gives a name. Maybe he can't remember it.
* TheOldConvict: He's spent so long in the dungeon at Nottingham Castle that he can't imagine life outside it.
* BreakoutCharacter: He was originally written into the first episode as a plot convenience to help Robin and the others escape, but was so popular that he made several further appearances.
* CatchPhrase:
-->Feet first, it's the only way!
-->I can't leave Arthur!
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's completely nuts.
* NoNameGiven: Never gives a name. Maybe he can't remember it.
* TheOldConvict: He's spent so long in the dungeon at Nottingham Castle that he can't imagine life outside it.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: To a degree. He is somewhat camp, vocally despises women, and at least once shares a bath with Gisburne (although they're both in agony from bee stings at the time).
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* AmbiguouslyGay: AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]SissyVillain: To a degree. He is somewhat camp, vocally despises women, and at least once shares a bath with Gisburne (although they're both in agony from bee stings at the time).
* EnemyMine: Occasionally forced to ally with the outlaws against such types as Philip Mark and Adam Bell. He almost always tries to betray them at the first opportunity.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Really, really.
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to his witch girlfriends.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He is resurrected with much fanfare during the second season... and then never appears or gets mentioned again.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The first big villain of the show.
* BackFromTheDead: Thanks to his witch girlfriends.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He is resurrected with much fanfare during the second season... and then never appears or gets mentioned again.
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* NonActionBigBad: Relies on his mooks and avoids any kind of physical combat.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did he intentionally encourage his former lord Owen of Clun to run underneath that falling portcullis so that it would impale him?
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: He keeps a human skull as the head of his staff.
* SlasherSmile: Almost always grins.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Completely averted. He takes on the recurring villainous occult role from Baron de Belleme, but is a totally different personality with a very different style of magic.
* TattooedCrook: He has very noticeably Celtic-style tattoos.
* RiddleForTheAges: Did he intentionally encourage his former lord Owen of Clun to run underneath that falling portcullis so that it would impale him?
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: He keeps a human skull as the head of his staff.
* SlasherSmile: Almost always grins.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Completely averted. He takes on the recurring villainous occult role from Baron de Belleme, but is a totally different personality with a very different style of magic.
* TattooedCrook: He has very noticeably Celtic-style tattoos.
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'''Robin of Loxley'''
-->Played by: Michael Praed
The original Robin Hood, a yeoman from the village of Loxley, descended from a line of mystical defenders of freedom
* EightiesHair: Sports a typical '80s-style mullet.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Much, his foster-brother.
* TheHero: Well, it's his name in the title.
* TheHeroDies: The Sheriff corners and kills him at the end of the second season.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Robin of Loxley uses this argument, trying to convince Will Scarlet that they should spare the captive Gisburne; Will is not impressed.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Robin himself. Luckily, Herne has a replacement lined up.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Robin of Loxley and Marion. "You're like a May morning."
* MessianicArchetype: Robin of Loxley, who's basically Pagan Jesus, what with being the "Son of Herne" and all.
* NeverFoundTheBody: His corpse mysteriously disappears.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: By the second series, Michael Praed had decided to leave the show to appear on Broadway, and so his Robin was KilledOffForReal in the finale and replaced for a third series.
* TechnicalPacifist: Robin of Loxley is very bad at this, happily slaughtering {{Red Shirt}}s who are only fighting him because they need to feed their families and refusing to kill anyone with a name. Will Scarlet actually calls him on his willingness to slaughter mooks but constant refusal to kill Guy, in "The Lord of the Trees".
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'''Robert of Huntingdon'''
-->Played by: Jason Connery
The second Robin Hood, the rebellious son of the rich and powerful Earl of Huntingdon.
* EightiesHair: Sports a typical '80s-style mullet.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: After Marion opts to become a nun because she can't bear to be in a relationship with another man who'll probably die young and violently.
* TheHero: Replaces Robin as the Hooded Man.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: He prevents Will from killing Adam Bell's minion Moth and refrains from killing Bell himself, for just this reason.
* LegacyCharacter: To the first Robin.
* ReverseMole: Attempted by Robert of Huntingdon in "The Power of Albion", initially with some success. But it falls apart when the "King's Devil" recognises him as Robin Hood.
* SeanConneryIsGoingToShootYou: The Robert of Huntingdon title sequence replaces the simple profile shot of Robin of Locksley firing an arrow with a circular pan in which Robert aims the arrow directly at the camera. This may well be a ShoutOut to Jason Connery's father's most famous role...
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Robin of Loxley replaced by Robert of Huntingdon. Justified, since they're playing the two different traditional versions of the same folk hero.
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'''Lady Marion of Leaford'''
-->Played by: Judith Trott
The unhappy ward of the Abbot, who is intended to be forced into a nunnery so that her property can go to the church, until Robin of Loxley stumbles into her bedchamber while escaping from Nottingham Castle.
* EightiesHair: Marion's hair is ''ginormous''.
* ActionGirl: Downplayed with Marion in this version of the story. She bristles at being told to StayInTheKitchen, and is a competent archer and fighter, but she isn't a WaifFu killing machine and has serious problems whenever she can't avoid hand-to-hand combat with someone bigger and stronger.
* AffectionateNickname: Tuck calls Marion "Little Flower".
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Happens to her a lot.
** Baron de Belleme wants to forcibly marry Marion, although only so that he can sacrifice her to Satan.
** Owen of Clun, once again, wants to forcibly marry Marion.
* TheChick: Literally female, and often plays the role of the diplomat in the team.
* DecoyDamsel: Quite often Marion's contribution to the team.
* FieryRedhead: Unusually {{averted}}. Marion has her moments, but is mostly quite an easy-going gal.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: The inevitable fate of Marion once Michael Praed left the show. Averted at the end of the third season, when after falsely believing Robert to be dead she dumps him because she can't face surviving a second husband.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Robin of Loxley and Marion. "You're like a May morning."
* NeutralFemale: Used positively. Marion wasn't much use in a fist-fight, though good with a longbow, and sometimes helped simply by staying out of the way.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Marion taking the veil at the end of the third series was introduced as a potential way to demote her to an occasional character, as Judith Trott wanted to seek other roles.
* RebelliousPrincess: Marion, although it's toned down from other versions: she's only minor nobility, and by the time the series begins, all of her land has been taken from her by making her a ward of the Church.
* TakingTheVeil: Marion at the beginning of series one and again at the end of series three.
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'''Little John'''
-->Played by: Clive Mantle
A gigantic shepherd, magically brainwashed by Baron de Belleme to act as his bodyguard, and released by Robin.
* TheBigGuy: Huge, and also has the psychological characteristics of being a loyal and usually unquestioning follower.
* GentleGiant: To people who get on his good side.
* TheHeart: He's probably the kindest and most idealistic of the crew.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Little John and his girlfriend Meg of Wickham.
* TenMinuteRetirement: He briefly decides to leave the outlaws to marry Meg in "Rutterkin", but quickly changes his mind.
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'''Will Scarlet'''
-->Played by: Ray Winstone
A bitter and short-tempered ex-soldier, who has hated the rest of society since his wife was raped and murdered by a gang of marauding soldiers.
* AntiHero: Will Scarlet. It's strange to see any member of the Merry Men as a borderline sociopath.
** "Which is your favorite ear? Is it your LEFT...or is it your RIGHT?!" with accompanying indications via dagger. This to a church abbot.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: {{Subverted}}. He's as likely to be correct as wrong when he disagrees with Robin, especially with regards to King Richard.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has an extremely short fuse.
* {{Hypochondria}}: Will comes down with a bad case after accidentally stumbling into a lepers' campsite and becoming convinced he's infected.
* MeaningfulRename: Will Scarlet, who changed his surname from Scathlock.
* UsefulNotes/{{Trigger}}: In universe, Will appears to be at the very least on the verge of a full-blown attack of PTSD when the outlaws come across the village that suffered RapePillageAndBurn at the hands of Bertrand of Nivelles and his gang.
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'''Friar Tuck'''
-->Played by: Phil Rose
A corpulent monk, initially the Sheriff's chaplain, who is increasingly disgusted by his master's evil behaviour and sympathetic towards Marion.
* ActionGirl: Sometimes (see DependingOnTheWriter).
* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's an Auron, but what that means varied from one series to the next, from an alien to an artificially advanced clone.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Has a major case for Marion.
* StoutStrength: As is traditional.
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[[folder:Nazir]]
'''Nazir'''''
-->Played by: Mark Ryan
A mysterious Saracen swordsman, brought to England by Baron de Belleme.
* AscendedExtra: The series did not plan on introducing a Saracen member of Robin's team. They introduced a Saracen slave who was scripted to die fighting Robin in defence of his master. The actor was such a great guy, however, that they rewrote the scene so that he [[spoiler: disarmed Robin, held a blade to his throat, then grinned and let him go and]] became a mostly non-speaking extra. As the series progressed his story was fleshed out, and he owned a couple of episodes by the end. Almost all versions of the story in film and TV since have featured a Middle Eastern Merry Man, including Azeem in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' and Djaq in the late-2000s BBC ''Series/RobinHood''.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Nasir toward Marion. It's really very sweet.
* DualWielding: He wields two scimitars as a trade mark style.
* TheHashashin: He used to be one.
* MasterSwordsman: He is the best sword of the crew.
* OverlyLongName: Nasir's full name.
* TheQuietOne: Nasir, who doesn't say a single word until the last episode of the first series. Of course, he was an ultra-sneaky assassin.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: Two Hashishim come to try to persuade Nazir to return to the Middle East with them, and try to kill him when he refuses.
* TheVoiceless: Nasir in the first season; his lines gradually accumulate.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Maybe the character got the hang of the local language over time?]] He first starts talking after [[spoiler: King Richard]] speaks in Arabic to him.
* TheUnpronounceable: Nasir's full name. ''He'' can say it just fine, but it leaves the other outlaws dumbfounded.
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[[folder:Much the Miller's Son]]
'''Much the Miller's Son'''''
-->Played by: Peter Llewellyn-Williams
Robin of Loxley's foster-brother, who becomes an outlaw with him after they are arrested for poaching together.
* BumblingSidekick: He is pretty foolish and incompetent during the first two seasons.
* TheLoad: Much, though he's not so bad in the later episodes.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the third season, he becomes much less bumbling and more dangerous.
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!Friends and Sympathisers
[[folder:Herne the Hunter]]
'''Herne the Hunter'''
-->Played by: John Abineri
An enigmatic forest shaman who acts as selector and mentor to those who take on the role of "Robin i'the Hood".
* SadlyMythtaken: Herne the Hunter. In English folklore he's supposed to be the ghost of a 16th century forester who haunts Windsor Park, unless Creator/WilliamShakespeare just made him up. A 1929 book suggested he ''might'' be a remnant of horned gods like Cernunnos, but still localised to Berkshire.
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[[folder:Edward of Wickham]]
'''Edward of Wickham'''
-->Played by: Jeremy Bulloch
The headman of Wickham village, the most frequently-encountered representative of "the poor" who Robin gives to.
* ButtMonkey: Practically all of his scenes involve him being insulted, threatened, beaten up, or taken hostage by the Sheriff, Gisburne, or a villain-of-the-week.
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[[folder:Sir Richard of Leaford]]
'''Sir Richard of Leaford'''
-->Played by: George Baker
Marion's father, initially believed killed on Crusade.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Marion thinks he died in Palestine, but he was actually a prisoner of the King's enemies]].
* GoodOldWays: Represents the old fashioned, genuinely benevolent gentry.
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[[folder: The Mad Old Prisoner]]
'''The Mad Old Prisoner'''
-->Played by: Stewart Linden
[[/folder]]
!Villains
[[folder:The Sheriff of Nottingham]]
'''Robert de Rainault, Sheriff of Nottingham'''
-->Played by: Nickolas Grace
The depraved and ruthless feudal overlord of Nottingham and the surrounding area.
* AmbiguouslyGay: To a degree. He is somewhat camp, vocally despises women, and at least once shares a bath with Gisburne (although they're both in agony from bee stings at the time).
* AristocratsAreEvil: An absolutely vicious and greedy bastard.
* ChewingTheScenery: Frequently, but especially in "The Children of Israel", during his [[BigEntrance return from Westminster]] and his final scene with the Qabala text.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: The Sheriff is so infuriated by losing a chess match to his ten-year-old nephew that he almost backhands the boy.
* HairTriggerTemper: Prone to violent rages at any reverse.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Sheriff and Gisburne, mostly because Guy [[ResignationsNotAccepted can never leave]].
* LargeHam
* MadEye: Whenever the Sheriff gets really angry, his left eye bulges out.
* PimpedOutCape: The Sheriff has a lot of these; the one he dons for the archery contest is particularly egregious.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Sheriff has a lot of purple clothing.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Notably one of the shortest and sneakiest male characters in the show.
* TantrumThrowing: The Sheriff's rages sometimes result in [[FlippingTheTable wasted food]] or disarrayed documents; he also once hurls a full wine goblet [[PercussiveTherapy at Gisburne's head]].
* WrittenInAbsence: Nickolas Grace's scheduling conflicts in the second and third seasons are briefly explained as the Sheriff undertaking "a journey to Westminster" (during which Gisburne, as deputy, becomes acting Sheriff and gets DrunkWithPower) and "a pilgrimage to Canterbury" (an interesting choice for the HollywoodAtheist Sheriff), respectively.
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[[folder:Sir Guy of Gisburne]]
'''Sir Guy of Gisburne'''
-->Played by: Robert Addie
The Sheriff's brutal and short-tempered steward.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Played as the stereotypical sneering evil English public schoolboy.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: He is very blond and very nasty.
* BumblingSidekick: Wildly overconfident in his ability to deal with the lower orders.
* EntitledToHaveYou: There's a lot of GettingCrapPastTheRadar innuendo to suggest that Guy is a habitual rapist, and it's made most obvious in "The Witch of Elsdon", where the Sheriff suggests that he accused Jennet and her husband of witchcraft because she wouldn't have sex with him, and "The Children of Israel" when he tries to force Sarah de Talmont into marriage.
* FreudianExcuse: Guy has a doozy of one, as his personality is due to his father hating and neglecting him due to him being adulterously conceived by another man.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Sheriff and Gisburne, mostly because Guy [[ResignationsNotAccepted can never leave]].
* IcyBlueEyes: Margaret describes her son's eyes as "cold, remote" after he learns the truth of his parentage.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: The Lichfield bureaucrats can't pronounce Gisburne's name right, much to his frustration.
* LastNameBasis: The Sheriff and Gisburne until the final episode, when a shift to "[[FirstNameBasis Guy]]" signifies an acknowledgment of equality.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Guy is actually Robert of Huntingdon's half-brother, due to an adulterous affair between Guy's mother and Robin's father.]]
* MatzoFever: Guy for Sarah de Talmont. Not presented sympathetically, it appears that Richard Carpenter is not a fan of ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''.
* PromotedToScapegoat: Gisburne is promoted from steward to deputy at the beginning of season 2 and spends the rest of the series taking blame and insults from the Sheriff.
* ReliableTraitor: Gisburne, who [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal betrays the Sheriff]] in "The Children of Israel", "The Sheriff of Nottingham", "The Pretender", and "Time of the Wolf".
** That final episode is particularly noteworthy, as Guy gets the opportunity to [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand kill the Sheriff]]. In the end [[spoiler:Gisburne refuses to do it and commits ''another'' betrayal, turning on his former companions and telling the Sheriff, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou "I need you"]] as he flees with him. Then he pulls a sword on the Sheriff, revealing that what he really ''needed'' was a target for the King's anger, in order to save his own neck.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Abbot Hugo]]
'''Abbot Hugo de Rainault'''
-->Played by: Philip Jackson
The Sheriff's brother, a clergyman who epitomises the worldliness and corruption of parts of the medieval Catholic Church.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The religious equivalent.
* DemotedToExtra: By season three he's [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome all but been phased out]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: Abbot Hugo wears no other colour.
* SinisterMinister: He's less interested in religion than making money and grinding the peasants.
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[[folder:Baron de Belleme]]
'''Baron Simon de Belleme'''
-->Played by: Anthony Valentine
A sinister nobleman who developed a deep knowledge of dark magic while on Crusade.
* EvilSorceror: A malevolent Hermetic magician and devil-worshipper.
* EvilWearsBlack: Black clothes for a black magician.
* HijackedByGanon: In "The Enchantment", the witch Lilith turns out to be one of the former girlfriends of Baron de Belleme, and her true objective is to resurrect him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King John]]
'''UsefulNotes/KingJohnOfEngland'''''
-->Played by: Philip Davis
King John, depicted as villainously as he usually is in Robin Hood retellings.
* EvilWearsBlack: He often wears black clothing.
* HairTriggerTemper: Prone to violent rages at any reverse.
* ModestRoyalty: Subverted. King John orders the Sheriff's lavish banquet to be given to the poor and ostentatiously turns down the offer of girls - then asks for food and babes to be sent to his private rooms later.
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[[folder:Gulnar]]
'''Gulnar'''
-->Played by: Richard O'Brien
A deranged Welsh sorceror with a grudge against Robert of Huntingdon and his followers.
* BaldOfEvil: Like just about every character ever played by Richard O'Brien.
* BarefootLoon: Is barefoot for most of the time, and he's definitely crazy.
* EvilSorceror: A malevolent worshipper of the old gods who describes himself as "of the Dark Path" and basically wants to kill anyone who crosses his path.
* LargeHam: Again, we're talking Richard O'Brien here.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Gulnar is strangled to death by his own golem when it gets a bit too homicidal to control.
* TwitchyEye: Gulnar.
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!Robin Hood and the outlaws
[[folder:Robin of Loxley]]
'''Robin of Loxley'''
-->Played by: Michael Praed
The original Robin Hood, a yeoman from the village of Loxley, descended from a line of mystical defenders of freedom
* EightiesHair: Sports a typical '80s-style mullet.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Much, his foster-brother.
* TheHero: Well, it's his name in the title.
* TheHeroDies: The Sheriff corners and kills him at the end of the second season.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Robin of Loxley uses this argument, trying to convince Will Scarlet that they should spare the captive Gisburne; Will is not impressed.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Robin himself. Luckily, Herne has a replacement lined up.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: Robin of Loxley and Marion. "You're like a May morning."
* MessianicArchetype: Robin of Loxley, who's basically Pagan Jesus, what with being the "Son of Herne" and all.
* NeverFoundTheBody: His corpse mysteriously disappears.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: By the second series, Michael Praed had decided to leave the show to appear on Broadway, and so his Robin was KilledOffForReal in the finale and replaced for a third series.
* TechnicalPacifist: Robin of Loxley is very bad at this, happily slaughtering {{Red Shirt}}s who are only fighting him because they need to feed their families and refusing to kill anyone with a name. Will Scarlet actually calls him on his willingness to slaughter mooks but constant refusal to kill Guy, in "The Lord of the Trees".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Robert of Huntingdon]]
'''Robert of Huntingdon'''
-->Played by: Jason Connery
The second Robin Hood, the rebellious son of the rich and powerful Earl of Huntingdon.
* EightiesHair: Sports a typical '80s-style mullet.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: After Marion opts to become a nun because she can't bear to be in a relationship with another man who'll probably die young and violently.
* TheHero: Replaces Robin as the Hooded Man.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: He prevents Will from killing Adam Bell's minion Moth and refrains from killing Bell himself, for just this reason.
* LegacyCharacter: To the first Robin.
* ReverseMole: Attempted by Robert of Huntingdon in "The Power of Albion", initially with some success. But it falls apart when the "King's Devil" recognises him as Robin Hood.
* SeanConneryIsGoingToShootYou: The Robert of Huntingdon title sequence replaces the simple profile shot of Robin of Locksley firing an arrow with a circular pan in which Robert aims the arrow directly at the camera. This may well be a ShoutOut to Jason Connery's father's most famous role...
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Robin of Loxley replaced by Robert of Huntingdon. Justified, since they're playing the two different traditional versions of the same folk hero.
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[[folder:Marion]]
'''Lady Marion of Leaford'''
-->Played by: Judith Trott
The unhappy ward of the Abbot, who is intended to be forced into a nunnery so that her property can go to the church, until Robin of Loxley stumbles into her bedchamber while escaping from Nottingham Castle.
* EightiesHair: Marion's hair is ''ginormous''.
* ActionGirl: Downplayed with Marion in this version of the story. She bristles at being told to StayInTheKitchen, and is a competent archer and fighter, but she isn't a WaifFu killing machine and has serious problems whenever she can't avoid hand-to-hand combat with someone bigger and stronger.
* AffectionateNickname: Tuck calls Marion "Little Flower".
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Happens to her a lot.
** Baron de Belleme wants to forcibly marry Marion, although only so that he can sacrifice her to Satan.
** Owen of Clun, once again, wants to forcibly marry Marion.
* TheChick: Literally female, and often plays the role of the diplomat in the team.
* DecoyDamsel: Quite often Marion's contribution to the team.
* FieryRedhead: Unusually {{averted}}. Marion has her moments, but is mostly quite an easy-going gal.
* HerHeartWillGoOn: The inevitable fate of Marion once Michael Praed left the show. Averted at the end of the third season, when after falsely believing Robert to be dead she dumps him because she can't face surviving a second husband.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Robin of Loxley and Marion. "You're like a May morning."
* NeutralFemale: Used positively. Marion wasn't much use in a fist-fight, though good with a longbow, and sometimes helped simply by staying out of the way.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Marion taking the veil at the end of the third series was introduced as a potential way to demote her to an occasional character, as Judith Trott wanted to seek other roles.
* RebelliousPrincess: Marion, although it's toned down from other versions: she's only minor nobility, and by the time the series begins, all of her land has been taken from her by making her a ward of the Church.
* TakingTheVeil: Marion at the beginning of series one and again at the end of series three.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Little John]]
'''Little John'''
-->Played by: Clive Mantle
A gigantic shepherd, magically brainwashed by Baron de Belleme to act as his bodyguard, and released by Robin.
* TheBigGuy: Huge, and also has the psychological characteristics of being a loyal and usually unquestioning follower.
* GentleGiant: To people who get on his good side.
* TheHeart: He's probably the kindest and most idealistic of the crew.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Little John and his girlfriend Meg of Wickham.
* TenMinuteRetirement: He briefly decides to leave the outlaws to marry Meg in "Rutterkin", but quickly changes his mind.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Will Scarlet]]
'''Will Scarlet'''
-->Played by: Ray Winstone
A bitter and short-tempered ex-soldier, who has hated the rest of society since his wife was raped and murdered by a gang of marauding soldiers.
* AntiHero: Will Scarlet. It's strange to see any member of the Merry Men as a borderline sociopath.
** "Which is your favorite ear? Is it your LEFT...or is it your RIGHT?!" with accompanying indications via dagger. This to a church abbot.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: {{Subverted}}. He's as likely to be correct as wrong when he disagrees with Robin, especially with regards to King Richard.
* HairTriggerTemper: He has an extremely short fuse.
* {{Hypochondria}}: Will comes down with a bad case after accidentally stumbling into a lepers' campsite and becoming convinced he's infected.
* MeaningfulRename: Will Scarlet, who changed his surname from Scathlock.
* UsefulNotes/{{Trigger}}: In universe, Will appears to be at the very least on the verge of a full-blown attack of PTSD when the outlaws come across the village that suffered RapePillageAndBurn at the hands of Bertrand of Nivelles and his gang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Friar Tuck]]
'''Friar Tuck'''
-->Played by: Phil Rose
A corpulent monk, initially the Sheriff's chaplain, who is increasingly disgusted by his master's evil behaviour and sympathetic towards Marion.
* ActionGirl: Sometimes (see DependingOnTheWriter).
* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's an Auron, but what that means varied from one series to the next, from an alien to an artificially advanced clone.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Has a major case for Marion.
* StoutStrength: As is traditional.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nazir]]
'''Nazir'''''
-->Played by: Mark Ryan
A mysterious Saracen swordsman, brought to England by Baron de Belleme.
* AscendedExtra: The series did not plan on introducing a Saracen member of Robin's team. They introduced a Saracen slave who was scripted to die fighting Robin in defence of his master. The actor was such a great guy, however, that they rewrote the scene so that he [[spoiler: disarmed Robin, held a blade to his throat, then grinned and let him go and]] became a mostly non-speaking extra. As the series progressed his story was fleshed out, and he owned a couple of episodes by the end. Almost all versions of the story in film and TV since have featured a Middle Eastern Merry Man, including Azeem in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' and Djaq in the late-2000s BBC ''Series/RobinHood''.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Nasir toward Marion. It's really very sweet.
* DualWielding: He wields two scimitars as a trade mark style.
* TheHashashin: He used to be one.
* MasterSwordsman: He is the best sword of the crew.
* OverlyLongName: Nasir's full name.
* TheQuietOne: Nasir, who doesn't say a single word until the last episode of the first series. Of course, he was an ultra-sneaky assassin.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: Two Hashishim come to try to persuade Nazir to return to the Middle East with them, and try to kill him when he refuses.
* TheVoiceless: Nasir in the first season; his lines gradually accumulate.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Maybe the character got the hang of the local language over time?]] He first starts talking after [[spoiler: King Richard]] speaks in Arabic to him.
* TheUnpronounceable: Nasir's full name. ''He'' can say it just fine, but it leaves the other outlaws dumbfounded.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Much the Miller's Son]]
'''Much the Miller's Son'''''
-->Played by: Peter Llewellyn-Williams
Robin of Loxley's foster-brother, who becomes an outlaw with him after they are arrested for poaching together.
* BumblingSidekick: He is pretty foolish and incompetent during the first two seasons.
* TheLoad: Much, though he's not so bad in the later episodes.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the third season, he becomes much less bumbling and more dangerous.
[[/folder]]
!Friends and Sympathisers
[[folder:Herne the Hunter]]
'''Herne the Hunter'''
-->Played by: John Abineri
An enigmatic forest shaman who acts as selector and mentor to those who take on the role of "Robin i'the Hood".
* SadlyMythtaken: Herne the Hunter. In English folklore he's supposed to be the ghost of a 16th century forester who haunts Windsor Park, unless Creator/WilliamShakespeare just made him up. A 1929 book suggested he ''might'' be a remnant of horned gods like Cernunnos, but still localised to Berkshire.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Edward of Wickham]]
'''Edward of Wickham'''
-->Played by: Jeremy Bulloch
The headman of Wickham village, the most frequently-encountered representative of "the poor" who Robin gives to.
* ButtMonkey: Practically all of his scenes involve him being insulted, threatened, beaten up, or taken hostage by the Sheriff, Gisburne, or a villain-of-the-week.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Richard of Leaford]]
'''Sir Richard of Leaford'''
-->Played by: George Baker
Marion's father, initially believed killed on Crusade.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Marion thinks he died in Palestine, but he was actually a prisoner of the King's enemies]].
* GoodOldWays: Represents the old fashioned, genuinely benevolent gentry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Mad Old Prisoner]]
'''The Mad Old Prisoner'''
-->Played by: Stewart Linden
[[/folder]]
!Villains
[[folder:The Sheriff of Nottingham]]
'''Robert de Rainault, Sheriff of Nottingham'''
-->Played by: Nickolas Grace
The depraved and ruthless feudal overlord of Nottingham and the surrounding area.
* AmbiguouslyGay: To a degree. He is somewhat camp, vocally despises women, and at least once shares a bath with Gisburne (although they're both in agony from bee stings at the time).
* AristocratsAreEvil: An absolutely vicious and greedy bastard.
* ChewingTheScenery: Frequently, but especially in "The Children of Israel", during his [[BigEntrance return from Westminster]] and his final scene with the Qabala text.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: The Sheriff is so infuriated by losing a chess match to his ten-year-old nephew that he almost backhands the boy.
* HairTriggerTemper: Prone to violent rages at any reverse.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Sheriff and Gisburne, mostly because Guy [[ResignationsNotAccepted can never leave]].
* LargeHam
* MadEye: Whenever the Sheriff gets really angry, his left eye bulges out.
* PimpedOutCape: The Sheriff has a lot of these; the one he dons for the archery contest is particularly egregious.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Sheriff has a lot of purple clothing.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Notably one of the shortest and sneakiest male characters in the show.
* TantrumThrowing: The Sheriff's rages sometimes result in [[FlippingTheTable wasted food]] or disarrayed documents; he also once hurls a full wine goblet [[PercussiveTherapy at Gisburne's head]].
* WrittenInAbsence: Nickolas Grace's scheduling conflicts in the second and third seasons are briefly explained as the Sheriff undertaking "a journey to Westminster" (during which Gisburne, as deputy, becomes acting Sheriff and gets DrunkWithPower) and "a pilgrimage to Canterbury" (an interesting choice for the HollywoodAtheist Sheriff), respectively.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sir Guy of Gisburne]]
'''Sir Guy of Gisburne'''
-->Played by: Robert Addie
The Sheriff's brutal and short-tempered steward.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Played as the stereotypical sneering evil English public schoolboy.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: He is very blond and very nasty.
* BumblingSidekick: Wildly overconfident in his ability to deal with the lower orders.
* EntitledToHaveYou: There's a lot of GettingCrapPastTheRadar innuendo to suggest that Guy is a habitual rapist, and it's made most obvious in "The Witch of Elsdon", where the Sheriff suggests that he accused Jennet and her husband of witchcraft because she wouldn't have sex with him, and "The Children of Israel" when he tries to force Sarah de Talmont into marriage.
* FreudianExcuse: Guy has a doozy of one, as his personality is due to his father hating and neglecting him due to him being adulterously conceived by another man.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The Sheriff and Gisburne, mostly because Guy [[ResignationsNotAccepted can never leave]].
* IcyBlueEyes: Margaret describes her son's eyes as "cold, remote" after he learns the truth of his parentage.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: The Lichfield bureaucrats can't pronounce Gisburne's name right, much to his frustration.
* LastNameBasis: The Sheriff and Gisburne until the final episode, when a shift to "[[FirstNameBasis Guy]]" signifies an acknowledgment of equality.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Guy is actually Robert of Huntingdon's half-brother, due to an adulterous affair between Guy's mother and Robin's father.]]
* MatzoFever: Guy for Sarah de Talmont. Not presented sympathetically, it appears that Richard Carpenter is not a fan of ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''.
* PromotedToScapegoat: Gisburne is promoted from steward to deputy at the beginning of season 2 and spends the rest of the series taking blame and insults from the Sheriff.
* ReliableTraitor: Gisburne, who [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal betrays the Sheriff]] in "The Children of Israel", "The Sheriff of Nottingham", "The Pretender", and "Time of the Wolf".
** That final episode is particularly noteworthy, as Guy gets the opportunity to [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand kill the Sheriff]]. In the end [[spoiler:Gisburne refuses to do it and commits ''another'' betrayal, turning on his former companions and telling the Sheriff, [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou "I need you"]] as he flees with him. Then he pulls a sword on the Sheriff, revealing that what he really ''needed'' was a target for the King's anger, in order to save his own neck.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Abbot Hugo]]
'''Abbot Hugo de Rainault'''
-->Played by: Philip Jackson
The Sheriff's brother, a clergyman who epitomises the worldliness and corruption of parts of the medieval Catholic Church.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The religious equivalent.
* DemotedToExtra: By season three he's [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome all but been phased out]].
* PurpleIsPowerful: Abbot Hugo wears no other colour.
* SinisterMinister: He's less interested in religion than making money and grinding the peasants.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Baron de Belleme]]
'''Baron Simon de Belleme'''
-->Played by: Anthony Valentine
A sinister nobleman who developed a deep knowledge of dark magic while on Crusade.
* EvilSorceror: A malevolent Hermetic magician and devil-worshipper.
* EvilWearsBlack: Black clothes for a black magician.
* HijackedByGanon: In "The Enchantment", the witch Lilith turns out to be one of the former girlfriends of Baron de Belleme, and her true objective is to resurrect him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:King John]]
'''UsefulNotes/KingJohnOfEngland'''''
-->Played by: Philip Davis
King John, depicted as villainously as he usually is in Robin Hood retellings.
* EvilWearsBlack: He often wears black clothing.
* HairTriggerTemper: Prone to violent rages at any reverse.
* ModestRoyalty: Subverted. King John orders the Sheriff's lavish banquet to be given to the poor and ostentatiously turns down the offer of girls - then asks for food and babes to be sent to his private rooms later.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gulnar]]
'''Gulnar'''
-->Played by: Richard O'Brien
A deranged Welsh sorceror with a grudge against Robert of Huntingdon and his followers.
* BaldOfEvil: Like just about every character ever played by Richard O'Brien.
* BarefootLoon: Is barefoot for most of the time, and he's definitely crazy.
* EvilSorceror: A malevolent worshipper of the old gods who describes himself as "of the Dark Path" and basically wants to kill anyone who crosses his path.
* LargeHam: Again, we're talking Richard O'Brien here.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Gulnar is strangled to death by his own golem when it gets a bit too homicidal to control.
* TwitchyEye: Gulnar.
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