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'''''Arthur, King of Time and Space''''' is a humour [[Web Comic]] by Paul Gadzikowski. It retells the story of [[King Arthur]], in real time (scheduled to take 25 years) in several time periods.
When Arthur took the sword from the stone, history itself was altered. Now Arthur exists in several realities simultaneously. The main arcs are the "baseline" or "fairytale" arc ([[Anachronism Stew]] 5th century, based closely on Malory and [[The Once and Future King|T.H. White]]); the "space" arc ([[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away]], with Arthur as king of British Space, and ''Excalibur'' as his [[Cool Ship]]); and the "modern" arc (in which Arthur started as an [[Ordinary High School Student]], before learning he had inherited a controlling share in Excalicorp).
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The main storyline in all three main settings is the [[Love Triangle]] between Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot. Secondary arcs include the "[[The Western|Western]]" arc (Arthur as sheriff), the "''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]''" arc (Arthur as Hawkeye Pierce), the [[The Parody|movie parody]] arc (Arthur as various film characters) and others.
Was on sabbatical for six months in 2009, and replaced with ''Arthur King of Time and Space 2.0''. This returns to Gadzikowski's earlier ''King Arthur In Time And Space'' concept, in which the comic is crossover fanfiction between two fictional TV series, one about the space-faring Arthur (and very similar to ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'') and one about the time-travelling Merlin (and very similar to ''[[Doctor Who]]''). A second sabbatical began in June 2011, with the strip being replaced by sketches and concluded in December, the strip resuming after a [[Time Skip]] to Arthur being 35. The comic ended on January 6, 2014, with [[Webcomics Long Runners|3518 strips]].
Became the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Panicky Expectant Father]] after the [[News Post]] pointed out we didn't have it.
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* [[Bait and Switch]]: [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0437.htm Here.]
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Guenevere and Morgan early in the space arc
* [[Born Lucky]]: Lancelot has God's favour, and as a consequence will inevitably win any contest he enters. This extends not only to contests of skill, but to games of
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Many, many examples, indicated by characters being against the blank website background; literally "outside" the regular strip.
* [[Cattle Punk]]: The Western arc
* [[Cloning Blues]]: The False Guenevere in the space arc.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Sort of inverted; the characters have aged during the [[Time Skip|Time Skips]]
* [[Cool Ship]]: The ''Excalibur'' in the space arc
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Morguase in the modern arc has elements of this trope. Arthur himself is an inversion (somewhat [[
* [[Evil Twin]]: The False Guenevere/Fasha.
* [[The Fair Folk]]: Morgan's faerie allies in the baseline and space arcs.
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* [[Missed Him by That Much]]: At one point, Lancelot and Galehaut do this for several strips.
* [[No-Paper Future]]: The space arc
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Arthur, who couldn't stay awake for his son's birth in the contemporary arc, and once spent a battle with [[Space Pirate|Space Pirates]]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted with the Elaines; Isolde and Isuelt are given different spellings
* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]]: the Sword in the Stone
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* [[Role Called]]
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]]: Modern!Guenevere, in a rare "realistic display of nudism" and not "[[Naked People Are Funny|heh, nekkid girl]]" example. She knows about the nudity taboo but genuinely doesn't share it. In an early strip she tries to explain this to modern!Arthur in matter of fact terms, but [[There Are No Girls on the Internet|he doesn't believe her]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many of the secondary characters are based on other comic characters, most notable Elaine of Carbonek, who is [[Narbonic|Helen Narbon]]. (Also, a group of Roman diplomats were based on the actors who've portrayed [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]]).
** Merlin's spells are often lines from classic children's literature in [[Wingdinglish]].
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* [[Stalker with a Test Tube]]: Elaine
* [[Take Off Your Clothes]]: [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/2006.htm This strip].
** Also a brief arc in the modern timeline, where Guenevere and her family are nudists. Arthur, Lancelot, and Tristram visit Guenevere while on vacation, and Gwen invites them to nude it up. Guenevere snaps at Lancelot for trying to apologize when he doesn't feel comfortable taking off his trunks
* [[There Are No Girls on the Internet]]: Everyone, including the readers, assumed modern!Tristram was male.
** This had less to do with this trope and more to do with some of the conversations they had about a girl (modern!Isolde); Tristram's chivalrous talk led the others to think "male" instead of "lesbian".
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