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Line 335: == [[Video Games]] == * One of the early Sierra games was ''[[Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail]]'', involving King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail and the three knights that went missing in search of it. It combines almost every aspect of the Arthurian mythos, and naturally, has room for several [[Monty Python]] references. * Though they don't appear in the story proper, the [[Last-Disc Magic\|exceedingly powerful]] Knights of the Round summon in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' is clearly based on Arthur and his knights. ** The name is a reference to ''[[Knights of the Round]]'', an old Arthurian-themed side-scrolling beat-em-up. * ''[[Backyard Sports\|Backyard Skateboarding]]'' has the unlockable Excaliboard ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|obviously]] based on Excalibur) and mentions of the Knights of the Round Table in the [[Medieval European Fantasy]] level, Merry Old Englandland. * ''[[King Arthur: ~~the~~The Role -Playing Wargame]]'' is... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|more or less that, yeah.]] * ''[[Warcraft\|]]''{{'}}s Prince Arthas]] is a inversion of King Arthur. The sword he pulled from a stone (actually, magic ice or something) was very powerful, and marked him as destined for a throne. But it stole his soul, and the throne in question was that of an undead [[Evil Overlord]] rather than the throne of [[The Kingdom]] he was born to. He's advised by a wizard with an odd life cycle, like Merlin, but the weird thing about this wizard is that he's a ''necromancer'' who Arthas ''killed'' and later helped come back as a lich. He disbanded the Silver Hand, an order of paladins, and while he later founded an order of death knights, which is an inversion on more than one level: not only are they ignoble and unholy but it wasn't even a new idea or original in-world, making it the reverse of both the Round Table and the Silver Hand. * ''[[Tears to Tiara]]'' is a prequel of sorts in an [[Alternate Universe]], showing the rise of King Arthur with the help of a Demon King, Arawn. * ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Legend'' [[Deconstruction\|deconstructs]] the King Arthur myth by making Excalibur in reality a really, really ancient artifact that [[Older Than They Think\|predates the Arthur myth]] and is mentioned in various other myths and legends. "Every culture's got one." ''[[Insufferable Genius]]'' [[The Scrappy\|Alister]] constantly states how [[Lampshade Hanging\|unlikely the legend is to be true]], while Lara remains optimistic and [[The Ditz\|Zip]] just thinks Excalibur is a cool sword and [[Overused Running Gag\|constantly]] confuses it with the sword in the stone. When he realises this is [[Berserk Button\|irritating]] [[The Chew Toy\|Alister]] greatly, he continues to do this [[Obfuscating Stupidity\|deliberately]]. Lara approves. In the end, it turns out that {{spoiler\|Excalibur is real, as is King Arthur and Avalon, and Lara gets to use the sword as a weapon on the final boss.}} Line 352: == [[Web Comics]] == * ''[~~http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com~~ [Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' presents different perspectives on the King Arthur story as seen from different times and places ? the basic [[Heroic Fantasy]] England, [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away]], [[Present Day]] America, and so on. == [[Western Animation]] ==