* EnchantedForest: The Great Black Forest of Troldeskow is a brief obstacle in "The Ice Dragon". The trees move around, allowing no paths and confounding any who enter.
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* TheLostWoods: The Great Black Forest of Troldeskow is a brief obstacle in "The Ice Dragon". The trees move around, allowing no paths and confounding any who enter.
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In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale... They tell a tale of Noggin the Nog, the king of a land that strongly echoes popular culture's depiction of viking culture. Noggin the Nog is a shining example of British childrens' television which originally aired in 1959, but whose legacy has lasted for decades.
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In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale... They tell a tale of Noggin the Nog, the king of a land that strongly echoes popular culture's depiction of viking culture. Noggin the Nog is a shining example of British childrens' children's television which originally aired in 1959, but whose legacy has lasted for decades.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olaf's inventions have a habit of leading to this; both his failed shrinking potion and his recipe for firecake land in the hands of Nogbad the Bad, who uses them to create an army of huge crows and uncover the Sorceror's Sword respectively.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olaf's inventions have a habit of leading to this; both his failed shrinking potion and his recipe for firecake land in the hands of Nogbad the Bad, who uses them to create an army of huge crows and uncover the Sorceror's Sorcerer's Sword respectively.
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* TalkingToHimself: Since Oliver Postgate provides many of the voices (all of them in the early black and white films), he inevitably does this a lot.
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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Played with. No actual dwarves appear, but Ronf (the only really characterised one of the LittlePeople of Hot Water Valley) is a belligerent, heavily bearded warrior with a Scottish accent; while his people don't normally live underground (except when hiding from the dragon), they do use tunnels to get through the Glass Mountains. Meanwhile, the other little people - the Omruds - DO live underground and are ingenious engineers and craftsmen. So basically dwarf tropes are divided between the two.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: Olaf.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Olaf.
* AdultsAreUseless: This happens in the very last film "Noggin and the Pie" - no-one will take Knut's concerns about the gigantic and suspicious pie seriously. It is thus left to him and the other children to save the day.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Olaf.
* DitzyGenius: While clearly a competent inventor, Olaf has a knack for making poor decisions and getting things wrong.
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** Olaf apparently has a habit of doing this; he quite happily blows himself through a wall whilst working on his fire machine.
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** Olaf apparently has a habit of doing this; he quite happily blows himself through a wall whilst working on his fire machine.machine, and later his explosive called "firecake".
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* OhCrap: Nogbad has this reaction when he sees that the Sorcerer's Sword is ineffective against the Stone Giants
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* OhCrap: Noggin and Thor Nogson, while searching for the ice dragon, realise that the "hill" they have climbed is in fact the dragon's back.
** Nogbad has this reaction when he sees that the Sorcerer's Sword is ineffective against the StoneGiants Giants
** Graculus follows a crow that has stolen one of Olaf's formulas into a cave, and [[spoiler: runs straight into Nogbad the Bad]]
** Nogbad has this reaction when he sees that the Sorcerer's Sword is ineffective against the Stone
** Graculus follows a crow that has stolen one of Olaf's formulas into a cave, and [[spoiler: runs straight into Nogbad the Bad]]
* TalkingToHimself: Since Oliver Postgate provides many of the voices (all of them in the early black and white films), he inevitably does this a lot.
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* TheGoodKing: Noggin and his deceased father, King Knut.
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* TheGoodKing: Noggin Noggin, and his deceased father, King Knut.
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* OhCrap: Nogbad has this reaction when he sees that the Sorcerer's Sword is ineffective against the Stone Giants
* CreepyCrows: Nogbad the Bad's minions.
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* RavensAndCrows: Nogbad the Bad's minions.
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* ChainOfDeals: In one of the spin-off books, Olaf the Lofty invents money and uses it to buy something off Thor Nogson, who then spends a frustrating day in the (barter-based) marketplace trying to find somebody else who'll take the coins as payment. Eventually he meets a fisherman who sees the coins as weights for fishing lines and gives him a fish for them, allowing him to set up a chain of deals running back through all the people he's talked to and ending with him getting the thing he'd come to the market to buy in the first place.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olaf's inventions have a habit of leading to this; both his failed shrinking potion and his recipe for firecake land in the hands of Nogbad the Bad, who uses them to create an army of huge crows and uncover the Soceror's Sword respectively.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olaf's inventions have a habit of leading to this; both his failed shrinking potion and his recipe for firecake land in the hands of Nogbad the Bad, who uses them to create an army of huge crows and uncover the Soceror's Sorceror's Sword respectively.
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** Also the Emperor from "The Flying Machine"
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* MagicallyBindingContract: Nogbad is forced to sign a promise written on Dragon Paper, which lets the dragons know if he ever steals again.
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* SummonBiggerFish: Faced with the pretender Emperor, Noggin summons the benevolent genie that he borrowed from Haroun. The Emperor summons his own genie, a much larger genie that can actually fight. Noggin uses his talisman to summon Groliffe, who happens to be the one type of dragon that can kill the black genie.
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* TheUsurper: See EvilUncle.
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* TearsFromAStone: In the episode "Firecake", the statues (revealed to be hibernating guardians of the Sorceror's sword) can cry when faced with death/rejection.
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* TearsFromAStone: In the episode "Firecake", the statues (revealed to be hibernating guardians of the Sorceror's Sorcerer's sword) can cry when faced with death/rejection.
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: In "The Omruds" Thor Nogson challenges Nogbad the Bad to single combat. Nogbad accepts but, being the DirtyCoward that he is, immediately uses a magic potion to triple his size. Thor Nogson tries again in "Firecake"; this time Nogbad refuses until he has unearthed the Sorceror's Sword.
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: In "The Omruds" Thor Nogson challenges Nogbad the Bad to single combat. Nogbad accepts but, being the DirtyCoward that he is, immediately uses a magic potion to triple his size. Thor Nogson tries again in "Firecake"; this time Nogbad refuses until he has unearthed the Sorceror's Sorcerer's Sword.
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* NonActionBigBad: Nogbad the Bad never fights (even when Thor Nogson challenges him) and usually has his crows do his dirty work; the latter is at least partly justified after he is forced to sign a contract with the dragons never to steal again.
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* SmugSnake: Nogbad.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olaf's inventions have a habit of leading to this; both his failed shrinking potion and his recipe for fire cake land in the hands of Nogbad the Bad, who uses them to create an army of huge crows and uncover the Soceror's Sword respectively.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olaf's inventions have a habit of leading to this; both his failed shrinking potion and his recipe for fire cake firecake land in the hands of Nogbad the Bad, who uses them to create an army of huge crows and uncover the Soceror's Sword respectively.
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: In "The Omruds" Thor Nogson challenges Nogbad the Bad to single combat. Nogbad accepts but, being the DirtyCoward that he is, immediately uses a magic potion to triple his size.
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: In "The Omruds" Thor Nogson challenges Nogbad the Bad to single combat. Nogbad accepts but, being the DirtyCoward that he is, immediately uses a magic potion to triple his size. Thor Nogson tries again in "Firecake"; this time Nogbad refuses until he has unearthed the Sorceror's Sword.
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