History Literature / TalesOfDunkAndEgg

* DoubleEntendre: Rohanne notes regarding Duncan the Tall. "I think you must be [[GagPenis large all over]]."

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Blackfyres and their supporters rooted for Daemon Blackfyre because he was AsskickingLeadsToLeadership and better fit their ideal of a warlike king, rather than Daeron II, despite being a bastard. [[spoiler:Here they try to crown Daemon II/John The Fiddler, who's more of a scholar/minstrel than a warrior; and yet they fix the tourney so he can win. They resort to framing and torturing the genuinely talented bastard Ser Glendon Flowers into making Daemon II look good, when he refuses to be bribed into losing.]]

* {{Irony}}: Ser Glendon Flowers would have joined the conspiracy willingly, if only he'd been asked. Instead the conspirators try to bribe him to throw the tourney, an idea indignantly rejected by Flowers. As a result he's framed so he won't be a threat to the Fiddler. Likewise Underleaf is set up to lose against a superior opponent, when he was planning to throw the contest anyway.

* PlayingBothSides: Lord Ambrose Butterwell has long been suspected of this, with some stating that he deliberately sent one of his sons to the Blackfyre side in the hopes that his family would profit either way. He was also suspected of being a saboteur in his tenure as Hand of the King to Daeron II. After his supposedly unwitting [[spoiler:involvement in the Whitewalls-Second Blackfyre Rebellion fiasco, Lord Bloodraven, the new Hand of the King, deals with him decisively:]]

** A hedge knight deliberately loses an easy victory against a lord who's still hungover. He trained the lord when he was a boy, and plans to flatter his skill so he can enter his service again. Instead, the lord doesn't even remember him, and refuses to employ such an apparently inept knight.

** John the Fiddler is rather handsy with Dunk, his tone is exceedingly flirtatious, and he drops a line about trying his lance on Dunk which might be a double entendre. There's also this exchange:

** Also, Alyn Cockshaw, who comes across as a supremely CrazyJealousGuy for John, [[spoiler:when he holds Dunk at knifepoint. His monologue about how Daemon "forgot all about [me]" when he met Dunk is apparently about losing the position in his planned Kingsguard, but...]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Lord Bloodraven has this reputation in Westeros, even the Targaryen dynasty he's supporting is scared and uncertain about him. Him being a bastard, albino with one eye also counts a lot against him. Yet, he seems to like Egg a lot, even if the latter is a little rude to him while being respectful to Dunk.

* SmallStepsHero: Duncan as a knight doesn't seek to involve himself in great conflicts but rather to do his duty and live up to the ideals of knighthood as embodied by his mentor and heroes.
* UnskilledButStrong: Dunk never received adequate formal training in swordsmanship and jousting. In the first two stories, he's a rather incompetent fighter and jouster. Only when fighting devolves into a grappling match does his superior strength win out. By the third story, however, he's received enough combat experience to hold his own.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Dunk and Eustace Osgrey sure do.

-->'''John:''' Where are you going, ser?\\

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: [[spoiler:Despite being exhausted from torture, Flowers knocks Daemon II into the mud and everyone laughs. So when Daemon tries to rally his followers against Bloodraven's army, no-one will follow such an inept warrior.]]

* CallBack: Dunk advises Ser Glendon to [[spoiler:use a tourney lance against Daemon during his trial by combat instead of a war lance, as it is longer and will allow him to unhorse Daemon before Daemon's war lance even touches Ser Glendon.]] This is the same trick Prince Baelor used in ''The Hedge Knight''.

* CallBack: When Thunder falters, Dunk calls, "Up! Up up!" Later, when Baelor stumbles, the delirious Dunk catches him and calls, "Up! Up up!"

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Aerion finds himself on the losing end of this during the Trial of Seven, because, while he might be able to vanquish Ser Duncan the Tall, Dunk of Flea Bottom is more than able to beat the stuffing out of him.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[spoiler:Prince Baelor feels strange after helping Dunk win his trial by combat, and asks his fellow knights to help remove his helmet. That's when they discover that the back of his skull has been crushed, and the helmet was basically the only thing holding it together.]]

Creator/{{HBO}} is developing a potential spinoff television series based off ''Tales of Dunk and Egg'' after ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''.

* AffablyEvil: Compared to Gormon Peake and Black Tom, Uthor Underleaf treats Dunk in a friendly but mercenary style: he just wants to make money off of fixing the tournaments, and when it becomes clear Dunk doesn't have the money to ransom his arms back he invites Dunk to join his little scheme and eventually earn his stuff back.
** [[spoiler: Daemon II]] comes off as a friendly albeit clearly delusional member of the conspiracy, compared to the power hungry other members

* VillainousValor: With more emphasis on the valor. Despite everyone abandoning him and his cause the moment Lord Bloodraven and his army arrive, Daemon II still rides out alone to confront Bloodraven, his Raven's Teeth and his vast army. Challenging him to single combat.

* BrokenPedestal: Dunk idolizes Ser Arlan, but must quickly come to terms with the fact that Arlan oversold his martial accomplishments and neglected his duties in teaching Dunk how to fight.

* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: Maekar]] recognizes that people will say this about him after he kills [[spoiler: his brother Baelor, clearing his way to the throne]]. However, it this case it was a legitimate accident.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Aerion finds himself at the losing end of this during the Trial of Seven, because, while he might be able to vanquish Ser Duncan the Tall, Dunk of Flea Bottom is more than able to beat the stuffing out of him.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Daemon Blackfyre received a lot of support for his rebellion because he was an accomplished warrior who received the CoolSword Blackfyre as his birthright, which many believed made him the true heir to the throne, in contrast to the bookish and erudite Daeron.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[spoiler:Despite being exhausted from torture, Flowers knocks Daemon II into the mud and everyone laughs. So when Daemon tries to rally his followers against Bloodraven's army, no-one will follow such an inept warrior.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: The Blackfyres and their supporters rooted for Daemon Blackfyre because he was AsskickingEqualsAuthority and better fit their ideal of a warlike king, rather than Daeron II, despite being a bastard. [[spoiler:Here they try to crown Daemon II/John The Fiddler, who's more of a scholar/minstrel than a warrior; and yet they fix the tourney so he can win. They resort to framing and torturing the genuinely talented bastard Ser Glendon Flowers into making Daemon II look good, when he refuses to be bribed into losing.]]

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Duncan catches one from Lady Rohanne when he inadvertently hits her BerserkButton by mentioning [[TheLostLenore Ser Addam]]. Duncan finally delivers on his threat to give Egg a clip over the ear when he gets too sassy at the wrong time.

* BoringButPractical: This is the trade (and apparently the personal philosophy) of the armourer Dunk approaches to equip himself for the tourney, Steely Pate. His work is unadorned and dull to the eye, but extremely functional.

* HeelFaceTurn: Prince Daeron "the Drunk" [[spoiler:admits to his own failure in doing right by his youngest brother, apologises to Dunk for leveling his own accusations against him (which he withdraws), and quickly yields during the Trial By Seven.]]

** Dunk is always threatening to clout Egg in the ear, which is something of an empty threat.

* WarIsGlorious: Ser Eustace certainly thinks so:
--> '''Ser Eustace''': A great battle is a terrible thing but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart. I will never forget the way the sun looked when it set upon the Redgrass Field...ten thousand men had died, and the air was thick with moans and lamentations, but above us the sky turned gold and red and orange, so beautiful it made me weep to know that my sons would never see it.

* SurvivorGuilt: Dunk feels this since Prince Baelor died defending his honor, as well as two other good men.

Creator/{{HBO}} is developing a potential spinoff series based off ''Tales of Dunk and Egg'' after ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''.