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* DumbMuscle: Conan averts it, as the story shows he is very capable of giving articulate [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} existentialist]] lectures, but he amusingly invokes it at the KangarooCourt when he decides listening all their talk about civic values doesn't beat beheading the judge and running away.
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It's also the point at which Howard started including more blatant {{Fanservice}} into the Conan stories, between Bêlit's DiamondsInTheBuff and numerous [[FanserviceExtra assorted naked women]]. Showing that a Conan story being chock-full of nudity and being ''good'' aren't mutually exclusive.
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It's also the point at which Howard started including more blatant {{Fanservice}} into the Conan stories, between Bêlit's DiamondsInTheBuff and numerous [[FanserviceExtra assorted naked women]].women (and men, to be fair)]]. Showing that a Conan story being chock-full of nudity and being ''good'' aren't mutually exclusive.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. Conan is wearing a mix of scale and ring mail, which makes him all but invulnerable to the pirates' weapons. The sailors with their quilted jerkins are not so lucky.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Bêlit's Kushan pirates are described to fight naked, and so does she in part, being permanently bare-breasted.
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* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: Downplayed in both cases. Bêlit is the only in her crew to wear clothing, even if she still wears less than expected.
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* {{Greed}}: Bêlit goes a little nuts at the prospect of the treasure.
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* {{Greed}}: Bêlit goes a little nuts at the prospect of the treasure. This is described as a "bright drunkenness" characteristic of Shemites who cherish beautiful things, riches and material splendor. (Shemites, according to Howard, are the ancestors of Jewish people, but the description sounds almost spiritual, not like a GreedyJew but more like what you might expect from Dwarves.)
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It's also the point at which Howard started including more blatant {{Fanservice}} into the Conan stories, between Bêlit's DiamondsInTheBuff and numerous [[FanserviceExtra assorted naked women]]. Showing that a Conan story being chalk full of nudity and being ''good'' aren't mutually exclusive.
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It's also the point at which Howard started including more blatant {{Fanservice}} into the Conan stories, between Bêlit's DiamondsInTheBuff and numerous [[FanserviceExtra assorted naked women]]. Showing that a Conan story being chalk full chock-full of nudity and being ''good'' aren't mutually exclusive.
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** Conan describes himself perfectly in probably Book!Conan's most-quoted speech:[[note]]Movie!Conan's most-quoted speech being either "What is best in life?" or "to hell with you, Crom!"[[/note]]
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** Conan describes himself perfectly in probably Book!Conan's most-quoted speech:[[note]]Movie!Conan's speech[[note]]Movie!Conan's most-quoted speech being either "What is best in life?" or "to hell with you, Crom!"[[/note]]Crom!"[[/note]]:
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The Song of Bêlit''
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-- The Song of Bêlit''
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Conan has slain the winged ape and its werehyenas, freeing them from the evil spell the ape had cast upon them. He lives to fight and adventure again, but the pirate crew is all dead, as is possibly his greatest love, Bêlit. She gave the ocean its sense of mystery and allure and adventure, and without her Conan has every reason to remain landlocked for the rest of his life.]]
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Downplayed. The narration glosses over the actual piracy in a single paragraph, but makes it clear Conan and Bêlit became quite infamous, and that Conan's time as a pirate would come back to haunt him (as seen in ''Literature/TheScarleCitadel'').
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Downplayed. The narration glosses over the actual piracy in a single paragraph, but makes it clear Conan and Bêlit became quite infamous, and that Conan's time as a pirate would come back to haunt him (as seen in ''Literature/TheScarleCitadel'').''Literature/TheScarletCitadel'').
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Downplayed. The narration glosses over the actual piracy in a single paragraph, but makes it clear Conan and Bêlit became quite infamous, and that Conan's time as a pirate would come back to haunt him (as seen in ''Literature/TheScarletCiadel'').
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Downplayed. The narration glosses over the actual piracy in a single paragraph, but makes it clear Conan and Bêlit became quite infamous, and that Conan's time as a pirate would come back to haunt him (as seen in ''Literature/TheScarletCiadel'').''Literature/TheScarleCitadel'').
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Downplayed. The narration glosses over the actual piracy in a single paragraph, but makes it clear Conan and Bêlit became quite infamous, and that Conan's time as a pirate would come back to haunt him (as seen in ''Literature/TheScarletCiadel'').
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* NoOntologicalInertia: Once the winged ape dies, whatever sorcery it used to create the werehyenas dies with it, [[ThisWasHisTrueForm returning them to human form]] [[NoBodyLeftBehind before they crumble into dust.]]
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* ThisWasHisTrueForm: The werehyenas briefly resume human form after they are the winged ape is killed by Conan.
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* {{Pirate}}: Bêlit and her crew.
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* {{Pirate}}: Bêlit and her crew. Conan takes to the life readily when Bêlit offers it to him.
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** Conan describes himself perfectly in probably Book!Conan's most-quoted speech:speech:[[note]]Movie!Conan's most-quoted speech being either "What is best in life?" or "to hell with you, Crom!"[[/note]]
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Conan sees red eyes gleaming in his lotus-induced dream; always they portend horror, madness, and death to those who intrude in the lost city.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Conan sees red eyes gleaming in his lotus-induced dream; always they portend horror, madness, and death to those who intrude in the lost city. They're the eyes of the malevolently intelligent winged ape.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Conan sees red eyes gleaming in his lotus-induced dream; always they bring horror, madness, and death to those who intrude in the lost city.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Conan sees red eyes gleaming in his lotus-induced dream; always they bring portend horror, madness, and death to those who intrude in the lost city.
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* FanserviceExtra: The naked Stygian women on the boat encountered by Conan's merchant ship, and references to "blood-stained altars where naked women screamed" in Stygia.
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* FanserviceExtra: The naked Stygian women on the boat encountered by Conan's merchant ship, and references to "blood-stained altars where naked women screamed" screamed"[[note]]a line almost certainly calculated to win a cover illustration[[/note]] in Stygia.
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* ItCanThink: Conan realizes this of the winged ape, based on the strategy involved in its massacre of the pirates. Conan doesn't care, he's still going to kill it or die trying.
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* ItCanThink: Conan realizes this of the winged ape, based on the strategy involved in its massacre of the pirates. [[{{Determinator}} Conan doesn't care, care,]] [[ItsPersonal he's still going to kill it or die trying.]]
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* ItCanThink: Conan realizes this of the winged ape, based on the strategy involved in its massacre of the pirates. Conan doesn't care, he's still going to kill it or die trying.
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The winged humanoids who once inhabited the lost city. Mortal but exceptionally long-lived, building their city before humanity had first crawled from the muck, and devolved by environmental catastrophes into demonic winged apes.
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* WingedHumanoid: The winged ape. And what it and its people used to be.
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-->'''Bêlit''': There is life beyond death, I know, and I know this, too, Conan of Cimmeria -- my love is stronger than any death! I have lain in your arms, panting with the violence of our love; you have held and crushed and conquered me, drawing my soul to your lips with the fierceness of your bruising kisses. My heart is welded to your heart, my soul is part of your soul! Were I still in death and you fighting for your life I would come back from the abyss to aid you -- aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell! I am yours, [[BlasphemousBoast and all the gods and all their eternities shall not sever us!]]
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-->'''Bêlit''': There is life beyond death, I know, and I know this, too, Conan of Cimmeria -- my love is stronger than any death! I have lain in your arms, panting with the violence of our love; you have held and crushed and conquered me, drawing my soul to your lips with the fierceness of your bruising kisses. My heart is welded to your heart, my soul is part of your soul! Were I still in death and you fighting for your life [[NotHyperbole I would come back from the abyss to aid you you]] -- aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell! I am yours, [[BlasphemousBoast and all the gods and all their eternities shall not sever us!]]
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-->'''Bêlit''': There is life beyond death, I know, and I know this, too, Conan of Cimmeria -- my love is stronger than any death! I have lain in your arms, panting with the violence of our love; you have held and crushed and conquered me, drawing my soul to your lips with the fierceness of your bruising kisses. My heart is welded to your heart, my soul is part of your soul! Were I still in death and you fighting for your lisoul would come back from the abyss to aid you __ aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell! I am yours, [[BlasphemousBoast and all the gods and all their eternities shall not sever us!]]
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-->'''Bêlit''': There is life beyond death, I know, and I know this, too, Conan of Cimmeria -- my love is stronger than any death! I have lain in your arms, panting with the violence of our love; you have held and crushed and conquered me, drawing my soul to your lips with the fierceness of your bruising kisses. My heart is welded to your heart, my soul is part of your soul! Were I still in death and you fighting for your lisoul life I would come back from the abyss to aid you __ -- aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell! I am yours, [[BlasphemousBoast and all the gods and all their eternities shall not sever us!]]
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-->'''Conan''': I have known many gods. [[FlatEarthAtheist He who denies them is as blind]] as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It mat be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crow's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
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-->'''Conan''': I have known many gods. [[FlatEarthAtheist He who denies them is as blind]] as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It mat may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crow's Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
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-->'''Conan''': I have known many gods. [[FlatEarthAtheist He who denies them is as blind]] as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It mat be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crow's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
** And Bêlit answers with one of her own:
-->'''Bêlit''': There is life beyond death, I know, and I know this, too, Conan of Cimmeria -- my love is stronger than any death! I have lain in your arms, panting with the violence of our love; you have held and crushed and conquered me, drawing my soul to your lips with the fierceness of your bruising kisses. My heart is welded to your heart, my soul is part of your soul! Were I still in death and you fighting for your lisoul would come back from the abyss to aid you __ aye, whether my spirit floated with the purple sails on the crystal sea of paradise, or writhed in the molten flames of hell! I am yours, [[BlasphemousBoast and all the gods and all their eternities shall not sever us!]]
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Between Bêlit and Conan. To the point that Conan, first glimpsing her as a differently-colored figure on the deck of the pursuing ship, is compelled by "some whim or qualm" to put an arrow in the man next to her, not the Pirate Queen herself.
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The story begins in Argos, with [[InMediasRes Conan fleeing for the docks, and the law in hot pursuit]]. He leaps aboard a merchant vessel, making good his escape, where he is welcomed by the captain - an infamous PirateGirl named Bêlit has been terrorizing the coastline, and strong warriors like Conan are in particular demand for protection from the pirates.
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-->'''Tito''': Little use to resist if we're run down, but it rasps to soul to give up life without a struggle.
-->'''Tito''': Little use to resist if we're run down, but it rasps to soul to give up life without a struggle.
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->''Believe the green buds awaken in the spring,\\
That autumn paints the leaves with somber fire;\\
Believe I held my heart inviolate\\
To lavish on one man my hot desire.
That autumn paints the leaves with somber fire;\\
Believe I held my heart inviolate\\
To lavish on one man my hot desire.
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It's also the point at which Howard started including more blatant {{Fanservice}} into the Conan stories, between Bêlit's DiamondsInTheBuff and numerous [[FanserviceExtra assorted naked women]]. Showing that a Conan story being chalk full of nudity and being ''good'' aren't mutually exclusive.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: The master of the merchant ship Conan sails on gives the port in Stygia wide berth, even when a snake-themed ship approaches filled with naked women, who call to the sailors and "posed and postured brazenly." Given that the previous paragraph had gone into grim detail about the horrors that await in Stygia, this is a wise move on the captain's part, and the ship of naked women can be surmised to be a lure for less wary ships.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: The master of the merchant ship Conan sails on gives the port in Stygia wide berth, even when a snake-themed ship approaches filled with naked women, who call to the sailors and "posed and postured brazenly." Given that the previous paragraph had gone into grim detail about the horrors that await in Stygia, this is a wise move on the captain's part, and the ship of naked women can be surmised to be a lure for the less wary ships.wary.
