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* MyGreatestFailure: Twelve years prior, Queen Aislinn insisted to Draco that he save her son's life, believing beyond the shadow of a doubt that Einon would be a fair and kindly king. In the present day, she sees it all as a "mistake", as she recognizes he has wasted his second chance at life with tyrrany and cruelty.

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* MyGreatestFailure: Twelve years prior, Queen Aislinn insisted to tha Draco that he save her son's life, believing beyond the a shadow of a doubt that Einon would be a fair and kindly king. In the present day, she sees it all as a "mistake", mistake, as she recognizes that he has wasted his second chance at life with tyrrany tyranny and cruelty.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Bowen, to Kara. It's made more explicit in the novelization, where he actually confesses his feelings.
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*ADogNamedPerro:When Bowen asks the dragon for a name to call him other than "dragon", the dragon refuses to share his name in his own language, so Bowen decides to call him "Draco", after a constellation in the night sky. Draco snarks that he's basically stopped calling him "dragon" in English and in order to call him "dragon" in Latin, but accepts the name.
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* TheMiddleAges: The setting of this movie. The opening takes place in 984 A.D. The 12 year TimeSkip means that Bowen meets Draco again in 994 A.D..

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* TheMiddleAges: The setting of this movie. The opening takes place in 984 A.D. The 12 year TimeSkip means that Bowen meets Draco again in 994 996 A.D..
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* TheMiddleAges: The setting of this movie. The opening takes place in 984 A.D. The 12 year TimeSkip placed the time that Bowen meets Draco again in 994 A.D..

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* TheMiddleAges: The setting of this movie. The opening takes place in 984 A.D. The 12 year TimeSkip placed the time means that Bowen meets Draco again in 994 A.D..
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* EndOfAnEra: Since the movie opens in 984 A.D. and Bowen has been Dragon-slaying for 12 years that would place the rest of the movie in the last couple years of not only the 10th century, but also of the 1st millennium and [[spoiler: With Draco’s death comes the end to the time of dragon’s and magic, at least until [[[Film/DragonheartANewBeginning the sequel]].]]

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* EndOfAnEra: Since the movie opens in 984 A.D. and Bowen has been Dragon-slaying for 12 years that would place the rest of the movie in the last couple years of not only the 10th century, but also of the 1st millennium and [[spoiler: With Draco’s death comes the end to the time of dragon’s and magic, at least until [[[Film/DragonheartANewBeginning [[Film/DragonheartANewBeginning the sequel]].]]
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* EndOfAnEra: Since the movie opens in 984 A.D. and Bowen has been Dragon-slaying for 12 years that would place the rest of the movie around the end of not only the 10th century, but also the end of the 1st millennium and [[spoiler: With Draco’s death comes the end to the time of dragon’s and magic, at least until [[[Film/DragonheartANewBeginning the sequel]].]]

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* EndOfAnEra: Since the movie opens in 984 A.D. and Bowen has been Dragon-slaying for 12 years that would place the rest of the movie around in the end last couple years of not only the 10th century, but also the end of the 1st millennium and [[spoiler: With Draco’s death comes the end to the time of dragon’s and magic, at least until [[[Film/DragonheartANewBeginning the sequel]].]]

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* EndOfAnEra: Since the movie opens in 984 A.D. and Bowen has been Dragon-slaying for 12 years that would place the rest of the movie around the end of not only the 10th century, but also the end of the 1st millennium and [[spoiler: With Draco’s death comes the end to the time of dragon’s and magic, at least until [[[Film/DragonheartANewBeginning the sequel]].]]



* TheMiddleAges: The setting of this movie.

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* TheMiddleAges: The setting of this movie. The opening takes place in 984 A.D. The 12 year TimeSkip placed the time that Bowen meets Draco again in 994 A.D..
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** Bowen hits a shovel that Hewe is holding with an arrow. On horseback. While the horse is running. From over a hundred yards away. With Brother Gilbert, Kara, and Hewe himself within a few feet of the target and other unnamed people in the near background.

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** Bowen hits a shovel that Hewe is holding with an arrow. On horseback. While the horse is running. From over a hundred yards away. With Brother Gilbert, Kara, and Hewe himself within a few feet of the target and other unnamed people in the near background. ''While Hewe is raising it to hit Kara.''
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* TheDungAges: Most of the villages are dirty and untidy, with the third village Bowen goes to be very muddy.
* EvilAllAlong: Einon. Bowen spends twelve years convinced it was the dragon heart that turned him dark but in a duel, Einon point-blank tells him he never believed in the Code and Bowen realizes the man was always going to be a tyrant.

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* TheDungAges: Most of the villages are dirty and untidy, with the third village Bowen goes to be very being ''very'' muddy.
* EvilAllAlong: Einon. Bowen spends twelve years convinced it was the dragon dragon's heart that turned him dark evil, but in a duel, Einon point-blank tells him he never believed in the Old Code and Bowen realizes the man was always going to be a tyrant.
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* TheDungAges: Most of the villages are dirty and untidy, with the third village Bowen goes to be very muddy.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: Draco is a very big, threatening creature whose ominously introduced in shadow, but very much has his ''half'' heart in the right place, even if he's soured towards humanity, [[LastOfHisKind understandably so]].
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: When young prince Einon receives a grave wound during a peasant uprising, a dragon agrees to donate a piece of his heart to magically heal Einon. Sadly, when Einon ascends the throne, he becomes more tyrannical than his father. And because he has a piece of dragon heart in him, Einon becomes almost deathless and nearly invincible. Only a HeroicSacrifice by the dragon that donated the heart piece can put Einon to rest forever.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Brother Gilbert has never fired a bow in his life, yet manages to be an amazing shot.
** Bowen hits a shovel that Hewe is holding with an arrow. On horseback. While the horse is running. From over a hundred yards away. With Brother Gilbert, Kara, and Hewe himself within a few feet of the target and other unnamed people in the near background.



* JerkassHasAPoint: As Bowen and the villagers are taunting Einon outside his castle, Felton is trying desperately to convince Einon not to leave and confront them, as the villagers lack any ability to storm or lay siege to the castle. When Felton brings up how his father died in the same manner, it finally seems to get through to him. At least until Draco attacking changes the equation.



* LastOfHisKind: Literally for Draco; for Bowen, he is the only knight left who follows the Old Code.
* LeftStuckAfterAttack: During their first fight, Draco uses his bladed tail against Bowen, which slices through a standing tree with ease; but when he brings it down on a fallen log, it has just enough give that it doesn't cut through, and his tail gets stuck.

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* LastOfHisKind: Literally for Draco; for Draco. For Bowen, he is the only knight left who follows the Old Code.
* LeftStuckAfterAttack: During their first fight, Draco uses his bladed tail against Bowen, which slices through a standing tree with ease; but when he brings it down on a much bigger fallen log, it has just enough give that it doesn't cut through, and his tail gets stuck.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Considering how poorly he treats his slaves, Einon isn't quite wrong when he summarizes that "death is a release, not a punishment" even if him shooting Kara's father is an unambiguous bit of KickTheDog.

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* VillainHasAPoint: Considering how poorly he treats his slaves, Einon isn't quite wrong when he summarizes that "death is a release, not a punishment" even if him shooting Kara's father is an unambiguous bit of KickTheDog.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Not only Einon is the evil ruler of England, but it turns out that he's a quite good swordsman and fighter. He even manages to almost kill Bowen twice.
* BadassCreed: See the page quote.
** The novel reveals the Code in full:

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Not only Einon is the evil ruler of England, but it turns out that he's a quite good swordsman and fighter. He even manages to almost kill Bowen twice.
* BadassCreed: See the page quote.
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Not only is Einon the evil ruler of England, but it turns out that he's a quite good swordsman and fighter. He even manages to almost kill Bowen twice.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Considering how poorly he treats his slaves, Einon isn't quite wrong when he summarizes that "death is a release, not a punishment" even if him shooting Kara's father is an unambiguous bit of KickTheDog.
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** [[EvilIsHammy Einon]] and Brother Gilbert

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** [[EvilIsHammy Einon]] and Brother GilbertGilbert.
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* PoweringVillainRealization: A peasant uprising slays the king, and leaves his only son and heir, Prince Einon, mortally wounded. A reclusive dragon agrees to save the prince's life by donating a piece of his heart, which restores the prince to health, and also leaves him deathless, so long as the dragon lives. When Einon turns out to be a cruel and malicious ruler, KnightErrant Bowen partners with the dragon to end Einon's rule. However, no matter how many times Bowen defeats him or leaves him to an unsurvivable fate, Einon cannot die, and returns for more. The dragon beseeches Bowen to slay ''him'' instead, as Einon's heart will fail when the dragon's heart stops beating.
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* WatchOutForThatTree: During Bowen's fight with Draco, the knight ends up dragged under the dragon with a rope he himself threw with bolas. Draco goes through a forest on purpose, and naturally Bowen crashes into some trees much to the dragon's amusement, though the knight eventually manages to make the dragon crash-land by snaring the rope in a tree trunk.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Becomes Kara's WeaponOfChoice toward the end.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Twelve years prior, Queen Aislinn insisted to Draco that he save her son's life, believing beyond the shadow of a doubt that Einon would be a fair and kindly king. In the present day, she sees it all as a "mistake", as she recognizes he has wasted his second chance at life with tyrrany and cruelty.

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