Excalibur (Comic Book)/YMMV

NOTE: Due to technical limitations, subjective tropes from multiple works are listed on this page:

 * Excalibur, a 1981 retelling of Authurian myths
 * Excalibur, a Marvel superhero team.

Excalibur (Film)

 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Was The King of Cornwall showing off his wife as a way of innocent entertainment led Uther to try and take his wife, or was it a way to provoke Uther into breaking the truce that he had no intention of keeping.
 * It is obvious that his family including Morgana and  cause the major conflicts of the story.
 * Complete Monster: Mordred especially when he has a habit of hanging up knights like ornaments when they fail his test of being worthy of the grail.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Some sequences can be quite creepy, and Merlin has his moments (look at his eyes),.
 * But he's a dream to some!
 * Morgana's death is terrifying.
 * Mordred The Laughing Mad bastard son of, going into Uncanny Valley with his armor as well as being a Complete Monster.
 * The Grail scene
 * Awesome Music: Let's see: one third of the background music consists of various excerpts from Richard Wagner's operas, another third consists of O Fortuna, and the last third is composed by Trevor Jones (who you might remember as the guy who composed the score of The Dark Crystal).
 * Fridge Logic: Naked with armor right up against her bare skin when she's next to a huge roaring fire and Igraine doesn't feel a damn thing??
 * Moment of Awesome: Oh boy, where do we start, there's almost one every ten minutes.
 * How about with Perceval going up against Sir Gawaine with no training and no armor, and only reluctantly relenting when his knight shows up and tells him that he'll take over from here?
 * Squick: Katerine Boorman is John Boorman's daughter. He directed the scene where she's naked and being raped. For this Troper at least, it's a bit creepy.
 * Most of the imagery and themes surrounding Igraine are pretty creepy, and moreso knowing that -- witness the rhythmic, sexual thumping of tables with daggers during the dance scene, and the following scene of grunting knights slamming a battering ram against the doors of the castle, although this Troper's personal "ugh!" moment is when she's dancing and her dancing alone is said to turn Uther on so much he has to have her. Yes, folks, Boorman turned his daughter into basically the Dark Ages version of an exotic dancer, on film.
 * World of Ham

Excalibur (Comics)

 * Arc Fatigue: Fans kept wondering why Excalibur still acted as if the X-Men were dead, long after Marvel began making stories depending on the general public of the Marvel Universe knowing that the X-Men were alive after all.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: The return of all the Marvel UK heroes in the series finale.
 * And oh so many others such as John the Skrull.
 * Pete Wisdom versus the big bad in Vampire State.  and where is Wisdom during the final battle? having a nice picnic with a woman he fancies.
 * How the people of Britain respond to the . Tears. Anger. And PRIDE. The Skrulls MIGHT have won, then they did that. And managed to press the "We'll fight them on the beaches" button in the soul of the British people. Cut to "a regiment of SAS, some police officers and a doctor defending the last bridge before Westminster. We're going to give them hell".
 * Captain Britain. Excalibur (yes THAT Excalibur). Mouthy alien bragging about how Britain could be great if they didn't elevate mediocrity to an art. Brian's response? "We know all that. We just don't like to make a fuss".
 * What does Faiza Hussein, a regular nurse and Ascended Fangirl, do after a supremely powerful alien uses unstoppably powerful magic to slaughter dozens (if not hundreds) of soldiers and tells her to get out of his way so he can continue his rampage? She whispers, "no".
 * The Chris Carter Effect: New Excalibur was canceled after two years with very few of its plot points resolved. There was a miniseries that attempted to wrap everything up ("Die By The Sword"), but there were still a lot of unanswered questions.
 * Dork Age ("Britannic"?)
 * Ensemble Darkhorse:
 * The original series itself could be considered a Darkhorse, despite continually being Screwed By the Network; after a time, it featured all the popular X-Men who the main book didn't have room for.
 * Pete Wisdom was popular enough to eventually get two limited series (if you include the Pryde & Wisdom miniseries), and he's the only character apart from Captain Britain who has stayed with the team throughout all its different iterations, despite his late and brief tenure on the original team that revolved around his romance with Kitty.
 * Like You Would Really Do It: Captain Britain's death.
 * And Faiza Hussein's death in Issue 1.
 * And death in issue 14.
 * Fanon Discontinuity: Colossus/Shadowcat fans prefer to ignore the issue where Colossus (acting like a Stalker With a Crush) beats the shit out of Pete Wisdom.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: An early issue, during the Cross-Time Caper, predicted a Prince William of another dimension would
 * Too Good to Last: Captain Britain and MI: 13
 * Really, every version. The original had quite a good run, but every revival has shown some promise but died an early death.
 * Even the Genoshan In Name Only series was telling a decent story: Xavier and Magneto try to help rebuild Genosha with the help of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits after Cassandra Nova lay waste to it with the megasentinels back in New X-Men. Xavier and Magneto's Ho Yay is cranked Up to Eleven. Old-school B-list bad guys like Toad and Unus are around and actually get to do something. Re-enter Karima Shapandar. Annnnd... House of M depowers almost all mutants, utterly torpedoing any Genosha-related story midstream. Thanks so much, Quesada.