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15	''[[https://get-medieval.livejournal.com/ Get Medieval]]'' is a {{webcomic}} about a group of HumanAliens - [[FantasticAnthropologist anthropology student]] Asher Hane, his former mob boss father, Torquel Hane, Torquel's current wife Iroth Rousel, his accountant Neithe Wen, and Iroth's bodyguard, Oneder - landing on Earth in 14th century France for what should've been a quick refueling stop. When their ship is attacked by natives (in this case French knights and soldiers) who seemingly take down Oneder, Torquel panics and takes off in their ship (only to make a forced landing and be captured by Muslim holy warriors), leaving the others stranded and forced to make their own way. Most of the comic focuses on Asher and Neithe, with Neithe trying to make the best of the situation and Asher determined to find a way off this "backwater planet", eventually settling with Sir Gerard, a French nobleman, and his family.
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17	After concluding the story, the artist, Irony-Chan, added a commentary rerun, eventually going through the entire series again. For those who need yet more of a fix after that, Irony had two false starts on a new webcomic (''Webcomic/DumnestorsHeroes'' and ''Webcomic/KnowledgeIsPower'') but has settled into a consistent pace with the ongoing ''[[http://chaogaogong.livejournal.com/ Interstellar Tea House]]''.
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20	!!''Get Medieval'' provides examples of:
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22	* AffablyEvil: Gesh was Santa Claus at Torquel's company parties, and he really does seem like he ''tries'' to be a nice guy, for a murderous thug.
23	* AllPeriodsArePMS: Celeste knows how to get her father to [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/28468.html leave her be.]]
24	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Torquel & Iroth are pretty much the PowerCouple at first, and that turns out to be their biggest draw for one another: if they didn't have something to fight about, they'd just get ''bored.''
25	* BeeBeeGun: Asher is rather annoyed by the idea that a siege should take ''so long'', and decides to [[CuttingTheKnot short-circuit a several months-long wait,]] by requisitioning a nearby monastery's beehives and just flinging them into the castle via trebuchet.
26	* BerserkButton: Never tell Asher he's just like his father.
27	* BestHerToBedHer: Rylede is an inversion, in that she beat her love interest in combat, causing ''him'' to fall for ''her''. They seem quite happy together.
28	* BigBad: While there's no ''real'' 'big bad' in the comic (outside of the universe itself), Broat starts out as the main antagonist (who caused Torquel to run for the hills) and finally takes a personal hand in the climax.
29	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Celeste hits all the buttons, up to and including looking for all manner of suitors who would piss off her father.
30	* BrickJoke: [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/48224.html Neithe bets Asher that his girlfriend won't even remember him once they get off the planet.]] [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/316054.html Although Neithe forgot she made it.]]
31	* BuffySpeak: There's a certain ''thing'' in the caravan. [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0765.gif It's described in exactly this way.]]
32	* CarnivalOfKillers: The "Extraterrestrial Mob Assassins" part shows off the thug, the CloudCuckoolander, and the everyman -- and to draw the 'carnival' part into the limelight, the linguist dresses them all up in costumes which are ''sublimely'' ridiculous, even by the standards of the day.
33	* CassandraTruth: [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0879.gif "We went to the moon."]] Gerard can't even believe he's saying that to her, as he knows ''full well'' how ridiculous it sounds.
34	* DysfunctionalFamily: Asher is pissed off at Torquel just leaving him on the planet, and Iroth and Torquel are the kind of married couple who get more enjoyment over pissing each other off (and then indulging in ''fantastic'' makeups) than they ever would by just being HappilyMarried. [[spoiler: In the end they all ''mostly'' make up, though Asher and Iroth remain somewhat strained.]]
35	* EmoTeen: Celeste. She considers becoming a nun out of spite, but as the abbess put it, "One should take vows because one wishes to serve God, '''not''' because one is going through puberty and hates His creation."
36	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Each character gets one of these, though Neithe and Asher get this one to differentiate the two on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism.
37	-->'''Neithe:''' You could think of it as "quality time" if you're an optimist.\
38	'''Asher:''' I'm not.
39	* EvilLawyerJoke: Two different characters used to be lawyers and ended up in the clergy. Whenever one of them mentions their former profession, someone will ask if they decided they'd rather go to Heaven. [[OverusedRunningGag It's happened to one of them so many times a fellow priest has offered to recommend him for the papacy if this fails to happen]].
40	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Asher's various attempts to build a signal device wind up helping the villains more than him. [[spoiler: Amongst other things, it causes Jacques to build a ''similar'' device, leading to the intrepid vulcanologist assuming that he's just a crazy person experimenting with radio waves centuries ahead of time.]]
41	* FantasticAnthropologist: Asher was studying to become one for [[TechnologyLevels less advanced]] planets. Thus he's well-prepared to provide a reasonable outsider's perspective on 14th century Earth culture. And hey, at least he's getting a lot of field-work experience, right?
42	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
43	** In strip [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/520334.html #731]], Sir Gerard gives a very good one: "I'd return via the Moon if that could avoid it." [[spoiler:Guess what, 70 strips later and ''he's on the Moon''.]]
44	** Even better: strip [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0380.gif 380]] foreshadows strip [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0798.gif 798]], well over a year later.
45	* FreakierThanFiction: When the team meet a [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer certain short writer]], he asks for some of their stories -- and absolutely [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0745.gif refuses to believe Asher's ludicrous tale of capturing a castle with a beehive.]]
46	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0265.gif Torquel slips his cuffs]] and points at the other side of the room to distract a guard, before clocking him into unconsciousness.
47	* HappilyMarried: Sir Gerard & Lady Eleanor turn out to be happily married in the end -- with plenty of kids. [[spoiler: So do Celeste and Joshua.]] Eventually Torquel and Iroth wind up ''somewhat'' like this, though they're more likely to have lots of fun tweaking each others' noses and then making up on a regular basis.
48	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Belle, and in fact all the girls at that particular house, are genuinely nice folks, if a bit mercenary.
49	* HumanAliens: With a LampshadeHanging [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0808.gif here.]] After Neithe cuts the knot by explaining about other worlds ('You'd have used much longer words'), Gerard just decides that it makes sense that God would have created ''other'' worlds in their own image, too.
50	* IfYouEverHurtHer: By a little boy in the paper-copy-only story "Milady's Contract," with regard to his sister. "You break her heart, I'm gonna break your fuckin' knees! Pardon my English."
51	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Kaguya apparently pioneered this as well as You Gotta Have Blue Hair (see below), according to a side-story in the print version. One of the pirates she threatened with "In the Name of the Moon, I shall punish you!" called it a dumb line, but another said, "I dunno, it's kinda catchy."
52	* ItsWhatIDo: Spot has a [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0762.gif very specific skillset.]] Sabotage, that is to say.
53	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Even the mob boss winds up in a trusted position of power, with an implied harem. As the author puts it: happy endings all around!]]
54	* LikeBrotherAndSister: Asher & Neithe. Notably, they're never even ''mistaken'' for a couple; All in all they're more PlatonicLifePartners, but it's noted the monks who took them in immediately assumed they were brother and sister (because of the way Neithe would regularly kick Asher's arse).
55	* TheMafia: The strip opens with Torquel running from the mob, because he somehow managed to piss them off. Probably by deciding that he didn't want anything more to do with them. They eventually hire a number of patsies to hunt him down.
56	* MamaBear: Lady Eleanor eventually [[GroinAttack nuts Broat]] in an ''excellent'' example of how to get around a language barrier.
57	* TheMiddleAges: A huge amount of the HistoricalInJoke comedy comes from the fact that Torquel landed their ship on a 'steel-age planet', e.g. ''Earth'' in the 14th century, and the cast have to [[FishOutOfWater deal with this fact.]]
58	* NeedAHandOrAHandjob: Asher's first encounter with Belle leads to the former -- he certainly gets a warm room and a pleasant bed. [[spoiler: His innocent diatribe in that circumstance leads to a ''second'' encounter, where everyone in the brothel greets him warmly for putting Belle on a rather... virtuous path.]]
59	* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: The EvilLawyerJoke is so common that at one point, a character claims that he'd give up his faith if it ''weren't'' immediately stated.
60	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A side-story included in the print version has Kaguya witness the teaming up of a band each of ninja, pirates, and samurai -- last seen confronting "a [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} forty storey firebreathing lizard]] ... heading for Edo!" "You goin' '''down''', lizard!"
61	* NoodleIncident: Torquel seems to have a knack for these, if he's so skilled that even TheMafia shudder to think about what he's up to.
62	--> '''Broat:''' Do you remember the '''last''' time we thought Torquel Hane was dead?
63	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Kaguya. Broat addressed her as "Miss Freitnor" (twice). An FAQ in the dead-tree version states that her name, presumably her given name, is Breony. Oh, and Professor Daren referred to her as Breony once. However, she told Torquel that Kaguya-hime was the only name she'd give to criminal masterminds.
64	%% * OutWithABang: Some anonymous who [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/279288.html died off-page]].
65	* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Subverted very sweetly in the dead-tree-only side-story "Milady's Contract." Eleanor was arranged to marry Gerard's JerkAss older brother Armand[[note]]who hated the idea until he saw how SheIsAllGrownUp -- at ''fourteen'' (though he wasn't as happy with how smart and well-read she'd become)[[/note]], but then Gerard managed to lawyer a way she could marry ''him'' instead. Adds a touch of HypocriticalHumor to Sir Gerard's insistence that Celeste had to marry someone ''he'' chose for her.
66	* PlatonicLifePartners: Asher & Neithe genuinely care for one another despite everything, and everyone either assumes that they're either siblings or lovers. Typically, after Neithe starts bullying Asher, they assume that she's the older sister.
67	* PlatonicProstitution: Asher's first night with Belle. She charges him by the hour so he can rant about his family. Then she starts ranting about her own family...and he turns around and charges her the exact same rate.
68	* PsychoForHire: Gesh, Rylede and Spot are a trio of mercenaries, whom Broat hires -- along with a hapless linguist -- to hunt down Torquel and Iroth. Gesh seems to be MUCH saner than the other two, but that's not much of a reference next to a bomb-throwing dawg and a BloodKnight.
69	* PsychopathicManchild: Spot and Rylede don't seem to care much about getting the job done. The former is happy so long as he gets a good supply of saltpeter and charcoal, and the latter just wants to stab people in impressive ways.
70	* RockBeatsLaser: A VTOL aircraft armed with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] doesn't really do too well when people are throwing large metal shafts aimed directly at the turbines. No matter what magic you might have in that 'dragon', a 10-foot iron spear will seriously crimp your style.
71	* SarcasticConfession: Broat seems to live for this sort of thing. ([[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/499911.html "Excuse me, I have to go interview some mob assassins."]]) Better yet, evidently he's pulled it off so many times that his wife's sick of the RunningGag.
72	%% * SayItWithHearts: Iroth, when she smooth-talks the Duc d'Orleans into holding a tournament for her birthday.
73	%% * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
74	%% ** [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/264753.html#cutid1 Screw the rules, I just gave the Pope a nice present.]]
75	%% ** [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/371150.html Screw the rules, I have other people's money.]]
76	* ShoutOut:
77	** Numerous. The prologue written for the first dead-tree volume is a parody of the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' theme. At the beginning, when Asher doesn't yet know the local language, he tries to sketch how they arrived from outer space, this will then be found in the 20th century by Erich von Däniken, prompting him to develop the AncientAstronauts theory. Mention is made of [[Film/AKnightsTale Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein]] at one of the tournaments (of course, there ''was'' a real Sir Ulrich, but he lived a century before). And then there's [[http://www.ainself.net/irony/get_medieval/get_medieval0749.gif this]]. Then, there's when Asher [[CatapultNightmare wakes up screaming]] from a dream about [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail a flock of swallows dropping coconuts]], and the squire [[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure William of Preston and his friend Theodore]].
78	* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Belle]], to build a good and independent life despite the culture of the time, and thanks to inspiration from Asher. This works so well that in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, we learn that eventually, [[spoiler: she became ''the Pope''. Though the author won't tell us which one, historically speaking (or she'd no longer be able to blackmail the Vatican...)]]
79	* TookALevelInBadass: Somehow, Sir Gerard's training of Asher did lead to him becoming not just fit and capable, but capable of [[spoiler: taking down a mafia don]], even if by the standards of the planet he's on he's still just a weak scholar.
80	--> '''Asher:''' What? I did tell him I could kick his ass.
81	* UnsoundEffect: Irony is fond of these. '''LOOM''' is, according to one of the commentaries, her favorite.
82	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Every character gets [[spoiler:a happy ending, even the villains. Except for Irony-chan, who went on to write other things.]]
83	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Oneder is infamously missing from the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, but it's implied that he simply returned to the Middle East and done well for himself. [[spoiler: As Irony put it, 'happy endings for everyone!']]
84	%% * WholesomeCrossdresser: Duc d'Orleans; [[spoiler:Belle]]
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