Henry VI Part 3: Difference between revisions

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''And, live we how we can, yet die we must.''|'''Warwick''', V.ii}}

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Richard's pretty good in battle, in spite of his crooked back, gimp arm, and short leg.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: [[Henry VI]], sitting on his little hill in the middle of a battlefield, delivers speech about how he would have liked to be born a simple man.

''How many make the hour full complete;'' }}

* [[It Got Worse]]: First, the popular and successful Henry V dies of dysentery in his twenties. His heir is a baby. The nobles squabble over the regency, creating civil unrest. England's territory in France is lost. Then there's a rebellion. Then Richard of York tries to usurp the throne and kicks off the Wars of the Roses, one of the bloodiest periods in English history (the Battle of Towton alone killed 28,000 - about 1% of the entire English population at the time) and we haven't even got to [[Richard III]] yet.

* [[Turncoat]]: Warwick once, Burgundy once, Clarence twice.

** Also lampshaded in the [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|Duke of Burgundy]] who wavered between the French and English sides.

* [[Welcome Back, Traitor]]: Clarence -- though it doesn't take much to persuade his brother Richard to murder him in the next play...