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* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: As Richard Armour put it, "Honestly, how could Ivanhoe have picked that [[Dumb Blonde]], Rowena, over Rebecca?"
{{quote| Sir [[Walter Scott]], in his 1830 Introduction recounted: "The character of the fair Jewess found so much favour in the eyes of some fair readers, that the writer was censured, because, when arranging the fates of the characters of the drama, he had not assigned the hand of Wilfred to Rebecca, rather than the less interesting Rowena."}}
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Front-de-Bœuf's threatened [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] of Isaac, his deathbed scene with Ulrica, and their subsequent [[Kill It
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Scott is sometimes credited with having transferred [[Robin Hood]] to the time of [[Richard the Lion Heart]] -- but in reality he was adopting a tradition that dated back to Scottish historian John Major in early [[The House of Tudor|Tudor]] times and was firmly held by Joseph Ritson, the author of the most influential study of the [[Robin Hood]] legend in Scott's own time.
* [[Role Association]]: Bois-Guilbert is [[Rebecca|Favell]], [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Shere Khan]], and [[Batman (TV series)|Mr. Freeze]]; [[Rebecca|the second Mrs. de Winter is Rowena]]; Rebecca is [[
* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: Though Scott contrasts his attitude with that of his friend Mat Lewis (who said, "could he have derived ... advantage from making his heroine [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|blue]], blue she should have been"), he does lay claim to enough artistic licence to include whatever details seem colourful and probable, especially as most of his readers [[MST3K Mantra|wouldn’t care anyway]].
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Rebecca and Rowena are universally treated this way among Rebecca/Ivanhoe shippers, including Thackeray, although in Scott's novel, while Rebecca is unquestionably the most awesome by a landslide, Rowena actually resembles [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Princess Jasmine]] more than some [[Ingenue]] [[Princess Classic]].
* [[The Woobie]]: Various characters at various points in the novel -- but Isaac fulfils this rôle fairly consistently.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?]]: Odd, that a novel written is such [[Purple Prose]], dealing with dead-and-gone historical figures, with themes of racial and religious hatred, having such extremely disturbing scenes as the [[Attempted Rape]] of Rebecca, the threatened [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] of Isaac, and the [[Kill It
** Not at all. Kids knows what makes a good story. It's just that it worries some adults.
=== The 1952 film ===
* [[WTH? Casting Agency]]: George Sanders as Bois-Guilbert, [[Elizabeth Taylor]] as Rebecca, and [[Bonnie Scotland|Finlay Currie]] as Cedric.
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