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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Henry gives his son a [[JustForPun royal]] tongue-lashing.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Henry gives his son a [[JustForPun royal]] royal tongue-lashing.
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!!As the play is OlderThanSteam and based on historical events, and as most twists in Shakespeare's plots are now [[ItWasHisSled widely known]], all spoilers on this page are [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked]].
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* CowardlyLion: ImpliedTrope with Falstaff; Poins suggests he is ''capable'' of fighting, but only [[MartialPacifist if he sees the need to]].
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* CowardlyLion: ImpliedTrope with Falstaff; Poins suggests he is ''capable'' of fighting, but only [[MartialPacifist if he sees reason - and most of the need to]].time, he doesn't.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Falstaff.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Falstaff. In the play proper, he's Hal's BumblingSidekick, but his wit, and surprising depth has made him one of Shakespeare's most beloved and analyzed characters. In terms of spoken lines, he's second only to Theatre/{{Hamlet}} himself.
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* CowardlyLion: ImpliedTrope with Falstaff; Poins suggestd he is ''capable'' of fighting, but only [[MartialPacifist if he sees the need to]].
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* CowardlyLion: ImpliedTrope with Falstaff; Poins suggestd suggests he is ''capable'' of fighting, but only [[MartialPacifist if he sees the need to]].
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* MrViceGuy: Fits Falstaff to a T: he's a greedy, lecherous slob who makes no pretense of being anything else, nor does he want to be, because he loves every minute of being Sir John Falstaff.
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* CowardlyLion: ImpliedTrope with Falstaff; Poins suggestd he is ''capable'' of fighting, but only [[MartialPacifist if he sees the need to]].
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Falstaff is never without his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_(wine) sack]], a cheap, fortified wine.
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* BigFun: Falstaff again. He loves to revel, drink, and play pranks, and several characters comment on his massive size--he's truly "larger than life."
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Falstaff does a [[PlayedForLaughs comic version]] in his speech after the attack on Gad's Hill. As he tells the story of how he bravely repelled bandits, he keeps increasing the number of crooks that he fought; when Hal chimes in and points out the incongruity, Falstaff declares that he never said such a thing, always claiming that the last number he said was the right one before promptly making it even higher. No one in the room believes him, but they let him keep going because it's so funny.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: One of Shakespeare's most famous: the teenage Hal, prince of England, and the elderly Falstaff, a fat drunk and wastrel. It's never explained how they met or became such good friends.
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* BlatantLies: Falstaff claims he killed Percy to Prince Hal, [[spoiler: the man who he saw actually kill him.]]
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* BlatantLies: Falstaff claims he killed Percy Percy. To be more precise, he makes this claim to Prince Hal, [[spoiler: the man who he Falstaff saw actually kill him.Percy.]]
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** Falstaff is [[OriginalCharacter a complete fabrication]].
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** Falstaff is [[OriginalCharacter was originally named after John Oldcastle, a complete fabrication]].historical figure who was friends with Hal, but the comparisons pretty much end there. The historical Oldcastle even ended up leading a rebellion ''against'' the king as part of a Lollard conspiracy.
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* KnewItAllAlong: At one point, Hal rallies his friends to play a trick on Falstaff by dressing up as bandits and pretending to rob him. Falstaff, being a DirtyCoward, immediately surrenders and hides, but when he's telling the story later, he brags about how he bravely repelled the bandits and easily fought them off. When Hal reveals the truth, Falstaff doesn't even hesitate to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope: he says that the only reason he "surrendered" was because he knew it was the young prince the whole time and didn't want to hurt him. Hal himself doesn't buy this obvious lie, but finds Falstaff's quick wit so funny that he lets the matter go.
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* SerialEscalation: PlayedForLaughs in the scene where Falstaff recounts the tale of driving off bandits who attacked him (the "bandits" were actually Hal and his friends playing a joke on the drunk). As Falstaff tells the story, he keeps increasing the number of crooks, much to Hal's amusement.
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* MirrorCharacter: Hal and Hotspur are shown to be equal in ability, but while Hal has the royal lineage, he wastes the opportunity. Hotspur, who would be a brilliant choice, has no blood claim to the throne whatsoever, and they both must defeat their equal in each other to prove their claim to it.
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* SuccessionCrisis: There is a succession crisis in full swing as the play begins; King Henry knows his claim to the throne is sketchy, as Richard II's heir presumptive (and chosen successor) at his death was his distant cousin Edmund Mortimer.[[note]]As Richard was the last surviving member of the lineage of Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward III, the throne should have passed to the senior male heir of Edward III's second son to survive infancy, Lionel of Antwerp; Lionel's daughter Philippa married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, but both she and her husband pre-deceased Richard, as did their eldest son, Roger; thus Roger's son Edmund was Richard II's heir presumptive at his death. Henry IV was the son of Edward III's ''third'' son to survive infancy, John of Gaunt.[[/note]] As the play opens, Edmund's uncle, also called Edmund Mortimer, is being held prisoner by Welsh rebel leader Owen Glendower (better known in his native land as Owain Glyndŵr), and when Hotspur pleads with Henry to pay the ransom Glendower has demanded, the king's refusal leads to the Percy family aligning themselves with the Mortimers, and getting Glendower on board into the bargain.
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* SuccessionCrisis: There is a succession crisis in full swing as the play begins; King Henry knows his claim to the throne is sketchy, as Richard II's heir presumptive (and chosen successor) at his death was his distant cousin Edmund Mortimer.[[note]]As Richard was the last surviving member of the lineage of Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Edward III, the throne should have passed to the senior male heir of Edward III's second son to survive infancy, Lionel of Antwerp; Antwerp, Duke of Clarence; Lionel's daughter Philippa married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, but both she and her husband pre-deceased Richard, as did their eldest son, Roger; thus Roger's son Edmund was Richard II's heir presumptive at his death. Henry IV was the son of Edward III's ''third'' son to survive infancy, John of Gaunt.Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.[[/note]] As the play opens, Edmund's uncle, also called Edmund Mortimer, is being held prisoner by Welsh rebel leader Owen Glendower (better known in his native land as Owain Glyndŵr), Glendower, and when Hotspur pleads with Henry to pay the ransom Glendower has demanded, the king's refusal on the reasoning that Mortimer will lead a rebellion if he is freed leads to the Percy family aligning themselves with the Mortimers, and getting Glendower on board into the bargain.
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* SuccessionCrisis: There is a succession crisis in full swing as the play begins; King Henry knows his claim to the throne is sketchy, as Richard II's heir presumptive (and chosen successor) at his death was his distant cousin Edmund Mortimer.[[note]]As Richard was the last surviving member of the lineage of Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward III, the throne should have passed to the senior male heir of Edward III's second son to survive infancy, Lionel of Antwerp; Lionel's daughter Philippa married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, but both she and her husband pre-deceased Richard, as did their eldest son, Roger; thus Roger's son Edmund was Richard II's heir presumptive at his death. Henry IV was the son of Edward III's ''third'' son to survive infancy, John of Gaunt.[[/note]] As the play opens, Edmund's uncle, also called Edmund Mortimer, is being held prisoner by Welsh rebel leader Owen Glendower (better known in his native land as Owain Glyndŵr), and when Hotspur pleads with Henry to pay the ransom Glendower has demanded, the king's refusal leads to the Percy family aligning themselves with the Mortimers, and getting Glendower on board into the bargain.
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* RoyalFavorite: Falstaff starts as an inseparable companion of the young Prince Hal. However after Hal becomes King Henry V, he rejects Falstaff when he tries to fall back into his favor again, due to Falstaff's disreputable lifestyle.
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* BloodKnight: Hotspur who, unlike the mischief making prince, loves to fight.
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* BloodKnight: Hotspur who, unlike the mischief making prince, loves to fight. His ally Douglas fits the bill, too, with most productions showing him being downright ''gleeful'' during the battle.
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* IAmSpartacus: During the big battle, several low-level soldiers wear uniforms that look like King Henry's, to throw off Hotspur and his allies. It does succeed in causing confusion, but Douglas and Hotspur aren't deterred.
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* VillainousValour: Douglas has this in spades; not only is he [[BloodKnight eager and enthusiastic to fight]], he reacts to the IAmSpartacus plan by declaring that the King can send as many fakes as he wants; Douglas will kill ''every last one of them'' until he finds the real deal. And he lives up to that promise. His bravery and fighting abilities are enough to even impress Hal and earn his respect.
-->''Another King! They grow like hydras' heads. I am the Douglas, fatal to all those that wear those colors on them.''
-->''Another King! They grow like hydras' heads. I am the Douglas, fatal to all those that wear those colors on them.''
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* BlatantLies: Falstaff claims he killed Percy to Prince Hal, [[spoilers: the man who he saw actually kill him.]]
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* BlatantLies: Falstaff claims he killed Percy to Prince Hal, [[spoilers: [[spoiler: the man who he saw actually kill him.]]
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* BlatantLies: Falstaff claims he killed Percy to Prince Hal, the man who he saw actually kill him.
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* BlatantLies: Falstaff claims he killed Percy to Prince Hal, [[spoilers: the man who he saw actually kill him.]]
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* ArtisticLicence: Shakespeare refers to Edmund Mortimer as the Earl of March. But the historical Edmund Mortimer in this play was never Earl of March; that position was held by his paternal nephew, who also was named Edmund Mortimer.
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* BoisterousBruiser: Falstaff is one in temperament but not big on the whole fighting thing. Hotspur has some of these traits, and the historical Hotspur at least was very much like the insane Richard IV in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' - played by Creator/BrianBlessed.
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* BoisterousBruiser: Falstaff is one in temperament but not big on the whole fighting thing. Hotspur has some of these traits, and the historical Hotspur at least was very much like the insane Richard IV in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' - ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', played by Creator/BrianBlessed.
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** Hotspur is quick to anger and rants so hard that often his allies have to interrupt him. At one point, his hot-blooded ranting even stops him from entering the action he loves because he's too busy fighting a battle in his imagination. But, of course, he's best warrior among the English.
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** Hotspur is quick to anger and rants so hard that often his allies have to interrupt him. At one point, his hot-blooded ranting even stops him from entering the action he loves because he's too busy fighting a battle in his imagination. But, of course, he's the best warrior among the English.
