History YMMV / Ivanhoe

* CaptainObviousReveal: "Robin of Locksley," a brilliant shot with a bow who leads a merry band of outlaws in Sherwood forest, is revealed to be the secret identity of... none other than [[spoiler:Robin Hood]]! All right, maybe it wasn't originally ''quite'' as much of a Captain Obvious Reveal as it is today, because Scott ''[[NewerThanTheyThink invented]]'' several of the tropes that became stock parts of the [[spoiler:Robin Hood]] legend. Still, any reader with even the tiniest familiarity with the genre must have seen it coming a mile away.

--> "And must the Disinherited Knight ... sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?"

--> Sir Creator/WalterScott, in his 1830 Introduction recounted: "The character of the fair Jewess found so much favour in the eyes of some fair readers, that the writer was censured, because, when arranging the fates of the characters of the drama, he had not assigned the hand of Wilfred to Rebecca, rather than the less interesting Rowena."

* WTHCastingAgency: George Sanders as Bois-Guilbert, Creator/ElizabethTaylor as Rebecca, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Finlay Currie]] as Cedric.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Yes'' Bois-Guilbert is an attempted rapist and StalkerWithACrush ''but'' he is also willing to give up everything he's worked for and ever wanted for Rebecca's sake which puts him one up on the gallant Ivanhoe.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: James Mason as Isaac of York, Anthony Andrews as Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as Cedric, olivia Hussey as Rebecca, Julian Glover as King Richard, Ronald Pickup as Prince John, John Rhys-Davies as Front-De-Boeuf, David Robb as Robin Hood, Stuart Wilson as De Bracy, Tony Haygarth as Friar Tuck... Most of the cast really.

* TheyJustDidntCare: Though Scott contrasts his attitude with that of his friend Mat Lewis (who said, "could he have derived ... advantage from making his heroine [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue]], blue she should have been"), he does lay claim to enough artistic licence to include whatever details seem colourful and probable, especially as most of his readers [[MST3KMantra wouldn’t care anyway]].
* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?]]: Odd, that a novel written in such PurpleProse, dealing with dead-and-gone historical figures, with themes of racial and religious hatred, having such extremely disturbing scenes as the AttemptedRape of Rebecca, the threatened ColdBloodedTorture of Isaac, and the [[KillItWithFire immolations]] of the [[SelfMadeOrphan parricide]] Front-de-Bœuf and his treacherous cast-off mistress Ulrica should have been wildly popular for well over a century with children.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Yes'' Bois-Guilbert is an attempted rapist and StalkerWithACrush ''but'' he is also willing to give up everything he's worked for and ever wanted for Rebecca's sake which puts him one up on the gallant Ivanhoe.

* WTHCastingAgency: George Sanders as Bois-Guilbert, Creator/ElizabethTaylor as Rebecca, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Finlay Currie]] as Cedric.

* MagnumOpus: It is what Scott is most famous for and is considered the best Robin Hood story out there even if the character has a secondary role. All screen adaptations are even considered superior to the ErrolFlynn film TheAdventuresOfRobinHood.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Yes'' Bois-Gilbert is an attempted rapist and StalkerWithACrush ''but'' he is also willing to give up everything he's worked for and ever wanted for Rebecca's sake which puts him one up on the gallant Ivanhoe.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood to the time of UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and was firmly held by Joseph Ritson, the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time.

* TheWoobie: Various characters at various points in the novel -- but Isaac fulfils this rôle fairly consistently.

* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?]]: Odd, that a novel written is such PurpleProse, dealing with dead-and-gone historical figures, with themes of racial and religious hatred, having such extremely disturbing scenes as the AttemptedRape of Rebecca, the threatened ColdBloodedTorture of Isaac, and the [[KillItWithFire immolations]] of the [[SelfMadeOrphan parricide]] Front-de-Bœuf and his treacherous cast-off mistress Ulrica should have been wildly popular for well over a century with children.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred RobinHood to the time of RichardTheLionHeart -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[TheHouseOfTudor Tudor]] times and was firmly held by Joseph Ritson, the author of the most influential study of the RobinHood legend in Scott's own time.

* RoleAssociation: Bois-Guilbert is [[{{Rebecca}} Favell]], [[Disney/TheJungleBook Shere Khan]], and [[Series/{{Batman}} Mr. Freeze]]; [[{{Rebecca}} the second Mrs. de Winter is Rowena]]; Rebecca is Film/{{Cleopatra}}; and Isaac of York is [[HenryV the Archbishop of Canterbury]].

* WTHCastingAgency: George Sanders as Bois-Guilbert, ElizabethTaylor as Rebecca, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Finlay Currie]] as Cedric.

* WTHCastingAgency: George Sanders as Bois-Guilbert, ElizabethTaylor as Rebecca, and [[BonnieScotland Finlay Currie]] as Cedric.

* LawfulNeutral The [[PunchClockVillain Templar Guards]].

-->"And must the Disinherited Knight ... sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?"

-->Sir Creator/WalterScott, in his 1830 Introduction recounted: "The character of the fair Jewess found so much favour in the eyes of some fair readers, that the writer was censured, because, when arranging the fates of the characters of the drama, he had not assigned the hand of Wilfred to Rebecca, rather than the less interesting Rowena."

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Rebecca and Rowena are universally treated this way among Rebecca/Ivanhoe shippers, including Thackeray, although in Scott's novel, while Rebecca is unquestionably the most awesome by a landslide, Rowena actually resembles [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Princess Jasmine]] more than some {{Ingenue}} PrincessClassic.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Front-de-Bœuf's threatened ColdBloodedTorture of Isaac, his deathbed scene with Ulrica, and their subsequent [[KillItWithFire burning alive]], have been known to have this effect on readers.

* AlasPoorScrappy: Averted, because Sir WalterScott was begged by a personal friend (against his own original intention) to bring the beef-witted Athelstane back from the dead.

-->Sir WalterScott, in his 1830 Introduction recounted: "The character of the fair Jewess found so much favour in the eyes of some fair readers, that the writer was censured, because, when arranging the fates of the characters of the drama, he had not assigned the hand of Wilfred to Rebecca, rather than the less interesting Rowena."

* RoleAssociation: Bois-Guilbert is [[{{Rebecca}} Favell]], [[Disney/TheJungleBook Shere Khan]], and [[Series/{{Batman}} Mr. Freeze]]; [[{{Rebecca}} the second Mrs. de Winter is Rowena]]; Rebecca is [[Film/{{Cleopatra}} Cleopatra]]; and Isaac of York is [[HenryV the Archbishop of Canterbury]].

* WTHCastingAgency: George Sanders as Bois-Guilbert, ElizabethTaylor as Rebecca, and [[BonnieScotland Finlay Currie]] as Cedric.