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* Galahad: [[The Messiah]] and an early [[Marty Stu]].
* Guinevere: [[The Chick]], [[Damsel in Distress]].
* Gawain: [[Badass|Originally]] [[The Lancer]], then [[Badass Decay|wimpified]]. [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|by the French]]. [[Pragmatic Adaptation|Modern versions]] [[Took a Level
* Percival: [[Kid Appeal Character|The young, naive fool]] who became a knight and saw the Grail... until later stories had Galahad see it instead.
* Lancelot: [[The Lancer]], The [[Tragic Hero]], The [[Sixth Ranger]], [[Sailor Earth]] (He is a latecomer in two senses: first, in that he first appears at the Round Table long after the vast majority of its membership has assembled; and second, the character entered the myth cycle several hundred years after it was first compiled.)
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Any modern Arthurian story that is not about either a) Lancelot/Guinevere/Arthur/Mordred/Morgan and the subsequent collapse of the court or b) specifically about Merlin, is generally going to be about the Grail Quest, despite dozens of other possible plots. However, Tristram and Iseult (usually under the German forms of their names, Tristan and Isolde) by themselves are also becoming more popular, mainly due to the popularity of romance stories.
The genres used may vary from [[Historical Fiction]] ([[Doing
''Major Arthurian Stories:''
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The Kingdom of Bretonnia ''[[Warhammer]]'' is heavily based on Arthurian myth [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|mixed with medieval France for good measure]]. Not only is this blatantly evident in the chivalric codes and customs of its knights (including a recurring motif modeled on the Holy Grail), but also in the realm's devotion to the "Lady of the Lake."
== Theater ==
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