History ComicBook / Crecy

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: It is pointed out that the French at the time were the BadassArmy and the English were this trope (speculated to be parsnip eating surrender monkeys). This comic is about The Heavily Outnumbered English Army giving France one of the most one-sided {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s in History (guess who lost). With AnnoyingArrows (annoying as they kill the fuck out of so many [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail silly French kaniggits]] that they eliminate the ''concept'' of knighthood).

** Of course this is severely complicated by the fact that the same slobs murdered helpless French peasants and gleefully commit other war crimes on defenseless people. Not to mention that said slobs are serving the English Kings, who (at the time) were the French-speaking and French-descended UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfPlantagenet, and fighting to claim the throne of France.

* AnnoyingArrows: ''Crécy'' is all about how ''truly'' annoying arrows really are, as in how widespread archery put an end to medieval warfare. A ''lot'' of work was put into making arrows into incredibly lethal weapons. They discouraged crossbows as longbows could be quickly strung or unstrung - this meant drawstrings could be removed during rainstorms to keep them dry. Archers were trained to use them as {{Swiss Army Weapon}}s; they carried [[TrickArrow three types of arrowheads]] - normal arrowheads, bodkins for piercing plate armor, swallowheads for killing horses. They sometimes applied the heads to the arrows with candlewax, but they usually just spit on the ends of the shaft to secure them - this ensured that trying to yank out the arrow would cause the head to detach, meaning that one would have to aggravate the wound in the process of removing it. Finally, they stuck the arrows in the dirt prior to firing them - this ensured that contaminants would be carried into the wound. English archers were thus able to take better care of their weapons than French crossbowmen, and those weapons were both more versatile and inherently more lethal.

* KnightInShiningArmor: This comic has the English archers completely and utterly demolish the very ''concept'' of this trope is. Stonham claims that it has no place in warfare, because politeness doesn't win wars and as such the English engage in [[DirtyBusiness scorched earth tactics to intimidate their enemies]]. Furthermore, the image of noble knights originated from France is stained by the fact they are actually a privileged warrior class to whom the proles must obey.

* KnightInShiningArmor: The very concept of this trope is completely and utterly demolished in this comic. Stonham claims that it has no place in warfare, because politeness doesn't win wars and as such the English engage in [[DirtyBusiness scorched earth tactics to intimidate their enemies]]. Furthermore, the image of noble knights originated from France is stained by the fact they are actually a privileged warrior class to whom the proles must obey.

* KnightInShiningArmor: The very concept of chivalry is completely and utterly demolished in this comic. Stonham says that it has no place in warfare, because politeness doesn't win wars and as such thee English engage in [[DirtyBusiness scorched earth tactics to intimidate their enemies]]. Furthermore, the image of noble knights originated from France is stained by the fact they are actually a privileged warrior class to whom the proles must obey.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The book is a warts-and-all depiction of the famous Battle of Crécy in 1346. The narrator acknowledges the dissonance, describing himself as "a complete bloody xenophobe who comes from a time when it was acceptable to treat people from the next village like they were subhumans" and admitting that by modern standards his side have been "acting like evil pricks", but reminds the reader that the other side are even worse.
* InformedFlaw: The French are presented as such bloodthirsty monsters that the English are forced to engage in literal war crimes in order to combat them. However, they come across as no worse than the English themselves (outside of the narrator's point of view) and if anything, the story's context presents the ''English'' as the actual aggressors given that Edward III is pursuing his own stake to the French crown and is putting villages to the torch, while the French are merely defending themselves. Of course this is [[{{invoked}} intentional]] on Stonham's part.

** Of course this is undermined by the fact that the same slobs murdered helpless French peasants and gleefully commit other war crimes on defenseless people. Not to mention that said slobs are serving the English Kings, who (at the time) were the French-speaking and French-descended UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfPlantagenet, and fighting to claim the throne of France.
* VSign: The main character is an archer who does this at the end of the book. This refers to the urban legend that the offensive V-sign came from the French cutting off the fingers of captured English longbowmen.