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* MemoryGambit: At the end, [[spoiler:Bridgette conspires to have Leir rain the waters of the River Lethe to wake the United Kingdom from its dreaming and make everyone forget that stories exist, thus wiping away the Otherworld. But then it's subverted when Bridgette reads a note she left for herself to vomit immediately, giving her back the memories of what happened.]]
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* NoteToSelf: At the end, [[spoiler:Bridgette conspires to have Leir rain the waters of the River Lethe to wake the United Kingdom from its dreaming and make everyone forget that stories exist, thus wiping away the Otherworld. But then it's subverted when Bridgette reads a note she left for herself to vomit immediately, giving her back the memories of what happened.]]
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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: [[spoiler: The family that Duncan, Bridgette and Mary belong to may well be a thousand years old and have the full support of the government. That doesn't mean they can't get audited.]]
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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: [[spoiler: The family that Duncan, [[spoiler:Duncan, Bridgette and Mary Mary]] belong to may well be a thousand years old and have [[spoiler:have the full support of the government. That doesn't mean they can't get audited.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: At the end of the story, [[spoiler:Lancelot]] sacrifices himself to [[spoiler:burst Leir's heart and shower the waters of forgetfulness upon all of Britain, thus removing the Otherworld]].
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* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, Bridgette conspires to have Leir rain the waters of the River Lethe to wake the United Kingdom from its dreaming and make everyone forget that stories exist, thus wiping away the Otherworld. But then it's subverted when Bridgette reads a note she left for herself to vomit immediately, giving her the memories of what happened back.]]
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* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, Bridgette conspires to have Leir rain the waters of the River Lethe to wake the United Kingdom from its dreaming and make everyone forget that stories exist, thus wiping away the Otherworld. But then it's subverted when Bridgette reads a note she left for herself to vomit immediately, giving her back the memories of what happened back.happened.]]
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* MemoryGambit: At the end, [[spoiler:Bridgette conspires to have Leir rain the waters of the River Lethe to wake the United Kingdom from its dreaming and make everyone forget that stories exist, thus wiping away the Otherworld. But then it's subverted when Bridgette reads a note she left for herself to vomit immediately, giving her back the memories of what happened.]]
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* CrossoverCameo: In Chapter 10, the cops from ''Film/HotFuzz'' show up, [[spoiler:only to get immediately killed by Grendel]].
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* ExcaliburInTheStone: {{Discussed}}; Arthur is able to retrieve a sword from a stone immediately, but it is explicitly '''not''' Excalibur. As stated, he does have the scabbard but getting the sword is a secondary objective of his. He gets a worthier sword a tick later but that, too, could at best be called Clarent, though that is a bit too late for a Briton Arthur.
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* ExcaliburInTheStone: ExcaliburInTheStone:
** {{Discussed}}; Arthur is able to retrieve a sword from a stone immediately, but it is explicitly '''not''' Excalibur. As stated, he does have the scabbard but getting the sword is a secondary objective of his. He gets a worthier sword a tick later but that, too, could at best be called Clarent, though that is a bit too late for a BritonArthur.Arthur.
** Because of [[spoiler:all the different Arthurs appearing]], a literal sword in the stone appears which will determine who the true king is. [[spoiler:This causes all the Arthurs to fight over it, with Bridgette knowing that any of them getting it will be bad for the world]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Rose is the true king because her backstory lines up with Arthur's and she pulls the sword from the stone]].
** {{Discussed}}; Arthur is able to retrieve a sword from a stone immediately, but it is explicitly '''not''' Excalibur. As stated, he does have the scabbard but getting the sword is a secondary objective of his. He gets a worthier sword a tick later but that, too, could at best be called Clarent, though that is a bit too late for a Briton
** Because of [[spoiler:all the different Arthurs appearing]], a literal sword in the stone appears which will determine who the true king is. [[spoiler:This causes all the Arthurs to fight over it, with Bridgette knowing that any of them getting it will be bad for the world]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Rose is the true king because her backstory lines up with Arthur's and she pulls the sword from the stone]].
* {{Expy}}: Exploited InUniverse as people can take on the roles of characters, and taking on more than one can lead to CompositeCharacter and NinjaPirateZombieRobot.
** Duncan was literally raised by Bridgette to be a [[spoiler:Percival expy, being a virginal man raised away from the rest of the world by a strong maternal figure]]. Later on [[spoiler:Mary makes him a replacement Beowulf]] and near the end of the story [[spoiler:he's Guinevere due to being the love interest of Rose, who had become King Arthur]].
** Getting injured by his wife causes [[spoiler:Bridgette's husband]] to become the Fisher King.
** Mary specifically made herself Elaine so she could give birth to a Galahad, who she specifically raises to fit the role perfectly. [[spoiler:Merlin later recruits her to be Nimue despite knowing she will eventually betray him]] and near the end of the story [[spoiler:she becomes Eurydice]].
** A nurse at Bridgette's nursing home named Jack ends up taking on the role of Jack from ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' when under orders from Bridgette sells a cow to some fairies, who give him in returns beans which grow into a beanstalk that kills the giant attacking.
** Bridgette herself becomes [[spoiler:the Fisher King by shooting herself, since she was both Duncan's mother and father figure]]. Near the end of the comic [[spoiler:Rose, who had become King Arthur, identifies Bridgette as her Merlin and she later becomes Orpheus while escaping the Underworld]].
** Rose agrees to become Gawain when Duncan is unable and later becomes Androcles by accident. [[spoiler:At the end of the comic, her HappilyAdopted backstory makes her a King Arthur expy.]]
** Duncan was literally raised by Bridgette to be a [[spoiler:Percival expy, being a virginal man raised away from the rest of the world by a strong maternal figure]]. Later on [[spoiler:Mary makes him a replacement Beowulf]] and near the end of the story [[spoiler:he's Guinevere due to being the love interest of Rose, who had become King Arthur]].
** Getting injured by his wife causes [[spoiler:Bridgette's husband]] to become the Fisher King.
** Mary specifically made herself Elaine so she could give birth to a Galahad, who she specifically raises to fit the role perfectly. [[spoiler:Merlin later recruits her to be Nimue despite knowing she will eventually betray him]] and near the end of the story [[spoiler:she becomes Eurydice]].
** A nurse at Bridgette's nursing home named Jack ends up taking on the role of Jack from ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' when under orders from Bridgette sells a cow to some fairies, who give him in returns beans which grow into a beanstalk that kills the giant attacking.
** Bridgette herself becomes [[spoiler:the Fisher King by shooting herself, since she was both Duncan's mother and father figure]]. Near the end of the comic [[spoiler:Rose, who had become King Arthur, identifies Bridgette as her Merlin and she later becomes Orpheus while escaping the Underworld]].
** Rose agrees to become Gawain when Duncan is unable and later becomes Androcles by accident. [[spoiler:At the end of the comic, her HappilyAdopted backstory makes her a King Arthur expy.]]
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** People can take on the role of characters in a story to reenact them. For instance, Elaine becomes the mother of Galahad to produce a grail knight, presenting him to King Arthur as the greatest of knights in order to claim the Holy Grail.
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** People can take on the role of characters in a story to reenact re-enact them. For instance, Elaine becomes the mother of Galahad to produce a grail knight, presenting him to King Arthur as the greatest of knights in order to claim the Holy Grail.
** Discussed by the nurse Jack, who early became the main character in ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. When he was about to say the JackFrost expression, he wonders if Jack is in fact real or even if ''he'' is Jack since he became a different Jack.
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* OhNoNotAgain: This is Merlin's reaction after [[spoiler:he manages to chase away the Norman Arthur by revealing Guinevere's infidelty to turn him against Lancelot, only for ''another'' Arthur to show up and challenge Merlin's king.]]
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* OhNoNotAgain: This is Merlin's reaction after [[spoiler:he manages to chase away the Norman Arthur by revealing Guinevere's infidelty infidelity to turn him against Lancelot, only for ''another'' Arthur to show up and challenge Merlin's king.]]
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* TragicVillain: Galahad isn't really a villain, but he was raised to fulfil a specific story no matter the cost and is put through BodyHorror that leaves him looking like a monster. [[spoiler:Mary admits that she basically turned a real person into a story and seeks to heal him, but while the Grail returns him to normal he dies soon after.]]
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:The capitalistic steampunk King Arthur(s) of the modern British Empire is quickly slaughered by Robin Hood and his Merry Men, with Little John flinging Duncan, Bridgette, and Rose inside via a log being used as an arrow. They then shoot up most of the knights inside in the confusion while Robin himself takes out the kings with three arrows as promised.]]
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* WasOnceAMan: It turns out that [[spoiler:the Briton Merlin is the true Merlin, unlike the others seen with the Norman and Modern Arthurs. He explains that once he was simply an advisor to a king who died in a battle, and being a gifted storyteller created the story of a king who died in battle and would one day return. That's why unlike everyone else he's aware that he's in a story and that Mary isn't really Elaine or Nimue. He admits however to having been lost in the story and no longer recalls who he once was or the name of his king, but out of love he is obsessed with protecting his Arthur.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:The capitalistic steampunk King Arthur(s) of the modern British Empire is quicklyslaughered slaughtered by Robin Hood and his Merry Men, with Little John flinging Duncan, Bridgette, and Rose inside via a log being used as an arrow. They then shoot up most of the knights inside in the confusion while Robin himself takes out the kings with three arrows as promised.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:The capitalistic steampunk King Arthur(s) of the modern British Empire is quickly
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* BigGood: Subverted because as Bridgette explains, there are no good monsters. [[spoiler:However, Robin Hood fights for the people and represents the part of Britain that rejects anyone trying to rule it, making him the closest thing to an ally and the antithesis to Arthur.]]
* CompositeCharacter: Intentionally exploited. Due to NinjaPirateZombieRobot logic, real people can essentially become characters from stories and even take on multiple roles, which InUniverse can cause the story to change in different ways.
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* DependingOnTheWriter: The King Arthur here is the one from Briton culture[[spoiler:. A Norman Arthur who is aesthetically closer to a KnightInShiningArmor later appears to challenge his Briton counterpart, and a third Arthur has recently made his presence known as well, representing the King Arthur that is the icon of the modern-day national identity of Britain as a global power, with the might of industry to back him]].
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* DependingOnTheWriter: DependingOnTheWriter:
** The King Arthur here is the one from Briton culture[[spoiler:. A Norman Arthur who is aesthetically closer to a KnightInShiningArmor later appears to challenge his Briton counterpart, and a third Arthur has recently made his presence known as well, representing the King Arthur that is the icon of the modern-day national identity of Britain as a global power, with the might of industry to backhim]].him]].
** Bridgette explains how initially [[spoiler:Robin Hood was just a normal man who had enough, which was a message too scary for the rich and powerful which is why they turned him into a noble, sending a message that only a noble could truly be a hero. However the core story of Robin Hood is far older than that and represents something primal.]]
** The King Arthur here is the one from Briton culture[[spoiler:. A Norman Arthur who is aesthetically closer to a KnightInShiningArmor later appears to challenge his Briton counterpart, and a third Arthur has recently made his presence known as well, representing the King Arthur that is the icon of the modern-day national identity of Britain as a global power, with the might of industry to back
** Bridgette explains how initially [[spoiler:Robin Hood was just a normal man who had enough, which was a message too scary for the rich and powerful which is why they turned him into a noble, sending a message that only a noble could truly be a hero. However the core story of Robin Hood is far older than that and represents something primal.]]
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* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: [[spoiler:Initially Lancelot was like all the other mythological characters, completely unaware that he was just a story and questioning many things he didn't understand. Even after being rejected by Arthur for his affair with Guinevere and seeking refuge with Mary, he's still unable to understand what's really going on with Mary gently explains that it takes a rare story to realise that it's just a story. However, as he spends time with Mary, Galahad and the others he slowly begins to change and even helps give Galahad the motivation to find the grail by accepting him as his son. Later, when Leir attempts to prevent the waters of forgetfulness from erasing everyone's memories of Otherworld, Lancelot finally figures out that he isn't real, and that he's simply repeating the same story. This gives him the motivation to choose his own ending and pull a HeroicSacrifice to save everyone by forcing Leir to release the waters.]]
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** [[spoiler:Lancelot notices this when he learns that Rose is adopted much like Arthur was, just as she pulls the sword from the stone.]]
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* NiceDayDeadlyNight: The Otherworld can only be accessed by people at night. So when dawn comes, the ability to cross between worlds goes. That said, [[DaylightHorror stories can still take place during the day]].
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* NiceDayDeadlyNight: The Otherworld can only be accessed by people at night. So when dawn comes, the ability to cross between worlds goes. That said, [[DaylightHorror stories can still take place during the day]].day.
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** It's also possible to get caught up in multiple stories at once, which will cause them to mingle and twist, as seen when [[spoiler:Duncan becomes both Percival and Beowulf]]. Bridgette regards this as incredibly dangerous as it can cause the stories to go in unexpected directions, but [[spoiler:Duncan is nonchalant because Beowulf died of old age]].
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** It's also possible to get caught up in multiple stories at once, which will cause them to mingle and twist, as seen when [[spoiler:Duncan becomes both Percival and Beowulf]]. Bridgette regards this as incredibly dangerous as it can cause the stories to go in unexpected directions, but [[spoiler:Duncan is nonchalant because Beowulf died of old age]].many years later in a MutualKill with a dragon, something he dismisses as a problem for another day]].
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* Myth/KingArthur: A pivotal character in the comic, stopping his rise and take over of Britain is the driving force of the story. [[spoiler:But once Britain is entirely subsumed into the Otherworld, the heroes have to [[contend with [[ExpyCoexistence every version of him]]]].
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* Myth/KingArthur: A pivotal character in the comic, stopping his rise and take over of Britain is the driving force of the story. [[spoiler:But once Britain is entirely subsumed into the Otherworld, the heroes have to [[contend contend with [[ExpyCoexistence every version of him]]]].
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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Rose is not the Chandras' child by brith, having been adopted after her adoptive parents failed to concieve a child on their own. This, combined with her mysterious parentage, makes her eligible to draw the sword in the stone and become the queen of Britain, a heroic King Arthur who opposes all of the other Arthurs.]]
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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Rose is not the Chandras' child by brith, birth, having been adopted after her adoptive parents failed to concieve a child on their own. This, combined with her mysterious parentage, makes her eligible to draw the sword in the stone and become the queen of Britain, a heroic King Arthur who opposes all of the other Arthurs.]]
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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Rose is not the Chandras' child by brith, having been adopted after her adoptive parents failed to concieve a child on their own. This, combined with her mysterious parentage, makes her eligible to draw the sword in the stone become the queen of Britain, a heroic King Arthur who opposes all of the other Arthurs.]]
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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Rose is not the Chandras' child by brith, having been adopted after her adoptive parents failed to concieve a child on their own. This, combined with her mysterious parentage, makes her eligible to draw the sword in the stone and become the queen of Britain, a heroic King Arthur who opposes all of the other Arthurs.]]
