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== Tropes ==
== Tropes ==
* [[The Blacksmith]]: Tom
* [[The Blacksmith]]: Tom
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: The first half of the episode centres on Guinevere; the second half is about Morgana. This is actually quite a clever bit of [[Foreshadowing]] for Morgana's [[Character Arc]] - [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget|though she's initially sympathetic toward Gwen's loss]], [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|she eventually usurps the situation]] and [[Its All About Me|makes it all about her]].
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: The first half of the episode centres on Guinevere; the second half is about Morgana. This is actually quite a clever bit of [[Foreshadowing]] for Morgana's [[Character Arc]] - [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget|though she's initially sympathetic toward Gwen's loss]], [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|she eventually usurps the situation]] and [[It's All About Me|makes it all about her]].
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: When Morgana challenges Uther to restrain her.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: When Morgana challenges Uther to restrain her.
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Guinevere understands this right from the start and shares it with Merlin, who is debating whether to let Morgana go ahead with her assassination attempt.
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Guinevere understands this right from the start and shares it with Merlin, who is debating whether to let Morgana go ahead with her assassination attempt.