| 1 | * AntiClimaxBoss: [[TheDreaded Ivar the Boneless]] dies off-page having had relatively little impact on the actual plot of the series. His descendants pick up the slack however. |
| 2 | * DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Uhtred frequently remarks before he tells how he did something awesome that it was actually really stupid and risky and it only worked because of luck/fate. |
| 3 | * EnsembleDarkhorse: Ragnar, Finan, Pyrlig, and several other supporting characters are all highly popular with the fandom. |
| 4 | * HilariousInHindsight: Ragnar the Younger's second-in-command is named [[{{Series/Vikings}} Rollo]]. |
| 5 | * IronWoobie: Father Judas. He handles his father's brutal scorn with nothing but dignity and grace, something which earns admiration from everyone (as Aethelstan puts it, how many people have the courage to stand up to [[TheDreaded Uhtred]]?) even gives [[spoiler:Uhtred his last rites after his near-fatal confrontation with Cnut Longsword]], and in ''War Lord'' (now known as Bishop Oswald, a GoodChancellor to King Aethelstan) finally says that he's sorry he could never be the son that Uhtred wanted him to be. Uhtred responds by tearfully apologising for everything he's put his son through, and tells him that he is [[SoProudOfYou sincerely proud of him and everything that he has achieved]]. |
| 6 | * UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: To some, Uhtred may come off like this. Granted, he was never intended to be a paragon of kindness, but his [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor repeated betrayals of Alfred]], [[{{Wangst}} his self-pitying angst]], [[ParentalFavoritism his poor treatment of his eldest living son]], and general [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]] can make him very difficult to empathize with. Mitigated by the facts that he gets over the angst, he does have genuine ties of loyalty to those he betrays Alfred for, and is generally entirely self-aware and up front about his own faults. For instance, when he first enters Alfred's service, Alfred gifts him some rather fine armour, and Uhtred observes that looking back on it, he hadn't actually done anything to deserve any favours like that, unless to be general {{Jerkass}} is a qualification. Of course, as he also notes, [[MagnificentBastard Alfred was hardly acting out of the goodness of his heart either]]. And as it looks like he's dying, and his eldest living son, IronWoobie Father Judas, insists that he was a good father, Uhtred's first thought is a rather irritable, 'what the hell are you talking about? I was a terrible father.' |
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