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How do you explain the Playa Des Losers?
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How do you explain the Playa Des Losers from Season 1? That seemed nice.
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How do you explain the Playa Des Losers?
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How do you explain the Playa Des Losers? That was nice.
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We don\'t usually list aversions. The trope described here is \
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We don\\\'t usually list aversions. The trope described here is \\\"Armor Is Useful\\\", or something to that effect. Feel free to go to {{YKTTW}} with it.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. During the Siege of Jerusalem, Balian gets cut on his arm and gets a nasty scar, but without the mail he was wearing his whole arm would\\\'ve been cut off.
** Balian and his knights avert this hard at the Battle of Kerak where their heavy chain mail and shields lead to them killing far more in a dozens-to-one battle than they would have any right to (and in Balian\\\'s case, surviving several blows well enough to fight at Jerusalem later).
More cuts: HollywoodHistory is an index, not a trope. Maybe someone can still extract tropes from this.
* HollywoodHistory: Depends on what version you see: The Crusades were a cynical land grab by European second sons dressed up in religious sophistries, and the film makes a pretty good case of communicating that through the contempt of the main characters for the fanatics and glory seekers. The real situation was of course more complex, as both societies were feudal and had their own internal strife and cross-alliances, [[http://www.juancole.com/2005/05/ridley-scotts-kingdom-of-heaven-i-saw.html as suggested here]].
** Only a few characters actually view it as a religious war at all, and the major characters (except Guy and Reynold) on both sides clearly have little respect for this outlook. And Guy is mostly an ambitious noble and Raynald is mostly a psycopathic maniac, so their professed religious commitment is...questionable.
* ArmorIsUseless: Averted. During the Siege of Jerusalem, Balian gets cut on his arm and gets a nasty scar, but without the mail he was wearing his whole arm would\\\'ve been cut off.
** Balian and his knights avert this hard at the Battle of Kerak where their heavy chain mail and shields lead to them killing far more in a dozens-to-one battle than they would have any right to (and in Balian\\\'s case, surviving several blows well enough to fight at Jerusalem later).
More cuts: HollywoodHistory is an index, not a trope. Maybe someone can still extract tropes from this.
* HollywoodHistory: Depends on what version you see: The Crusades were a cynical land grab by European second sons dressed up in religious sophistries, and the film makes a pretty good case of communicating that through the contempt of the main characters for the fanatics and glory seekers. The real situation was of course more complex, as both societies were feudal and had their own internal strife and cross-alliances, [[http://www.juancole.com/2005/05/ridley-scotts-kingdom-of-heaven-i-saw.html as suggested here]].
** Only a few characters actually view it as a religious war at all, and the major characters (except Guy and Reynold) on both sides clearly have little respect for this outlook. And Guy is mostly an ambitious noble and Raynald is mostly a psycopathic maniac, so their professed religious commitment is...questionable.
