King Arthur: Difference between revisions

Line 340:
* ''[[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 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.}}