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* Wilfred showing up to defend Rebecca... and goading Bois-Guilbert into accepting his challenge via [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken]].
* The [[Lazy Bum]] Athelstane even gets one after he comes [[Back From the Dead]], when he explains to Cedric that sometimes, you have to [[Know When to Fold'Em]], in a speech that supports the novel's running theme of how sometimes, chivalric [[Honor Before Reason]] stops being admirable and starts being stupid:
{{quote| "Bread and water and a dungeon are marvellous mortifiers of ambition, and I rise from the tomb a wiser man than I descended into it. One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. Since these plots were set in agitation, I have had nothing but hurried journeys, indigestions, blows and bruises, imprisonments and starvation; besides that they can only end in the murder of some thousands of quiet folk. I tell you, I will be king in my own domains, and nowhere else."}}
* The revelation of the Black Knight's [[Secret Identity]] -- not the surprise, but the inherent awesomeness of the character...
** ... although the narrator/author gets awesome points for reminding the reader that even {{spoiler|[[King Richard the Lionheart]]}} wasn't perfect and just how!
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