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* [[Came Back Wrong]]: The Cauldron from the Second Branch that brings people back from the dead. As the afterlife must be a secret they can no longer speak.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Pwyll with Arawn's wife again. Seeing as she did not know about the switch she must have been worried about the marriage.
* [[Colour
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Gwrhyr in ''Culhwch and Olwen''.
* [[Death By Despair]]: Branwen dies of a broken heart.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The names of Bendigeidfran's brothers, the loving Nysien and the wrathful Efnysien, mean respectively "[[Friend to All Living Things|friendly one]]" and "[[Chaotic Evil|hostile/enemy one]]". To highlight their differences, "''Efnysien''" also means "''not Nysien''". 'Nysien' literally means 'Peace', making their names 'Peace' and 'Not-Peace'.
* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Gwydion and Gilfaethwy (two men), are successively turned into a stag and a hind, a boar and a sow, and a pair of wolves. They are in these forms long enough to bear a son from each transformation. After the brothers are turned back into redeemed humans, their animal offspring are then turned into humans and baptized.
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* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Lleu.
* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: Lleu Llaw Gyffes from the fourth branch's entire life, more or less. His mother, Arianrhod, curses him so that he can't be named or receive arms, until she does it, and that he can't have a wife of any race that walks the earth. At this point, his uncle Gwydion tricks her into naming and arming him, and creates a wife out of flowers for him. His death can only occur while he is neither inside nor outside a house, neither on foot nor on a horse, neither clothed nor naked, neither by day nor by night and with no weapon lawfully made. He ends up being impaled in a failed attempt on his life by his wife's lover Gronw Pebl while standing clothed in a net, with one foot in a bath and another on a goat, in a thatched, wall-less bathhouse at dusk. The spear used was forged every Sunday for a year. He eventually gets his revenge on Gronw. This seems such an extreme, exagerated version of the trope that you wander if this is a very early version of parody.
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* [[Smart Guy]]: Manawydan.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Efnisien is psychotic, warped, and cruel, but he does ultimately save the Welsh.
** One adaptation does this so that Efnisien has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment right after Nissyen dies, and claims “that was the first time... [he] accepted responsibility for anything that went amiss.” Apparently Nissyen was the embodiment of his conscience and compassion.
* [[The Ugly
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Blodeuwedd. A beautiful woman who never talks back, is always happy, and never says anything out of line... and she attempts to murder her first husband because she wants to marry someone else.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: The first act of the fourth branch, arguably. [[Magic Knight|Gwydion]], the story's hero, is a monster. He starts a horrific war with the south (which leads to the deaths of hundreds of warriors, including King Pryderi of Dyfed) as a way of distracting his uncle so he doesn't notice him ''raping'' a young woman. [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|He is punished epically]] for his crimes.
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