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* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Guy of Gisborne's perceived characterization can range from anything between misunderstood [[The Woobie|woobie]] to [[Complete Monster|sadistic killer]].
* [[Angst Dissonance]]: Throughout season one Robin is haunted by his memories of war in the Holy Land, struggling with nightmares, post-traumatic stress, and survivor's guilt. At the end of season two his beloved Marian is stabbed through the stomach and dies in his arms, something that is only intermittently referred to in series 3, even though she dies in the ''Holy Land'', the source of his entire first-season angst.
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: After {{spoiler|Marian's murder}} Robin goes on a vengeance-fuelled rampage. Then...he pretty much gets over it. He's back to his cheerful old self by the next episode, in which he meets his new [[Love Interest]].
** As it turns out, he's ''always'' been this way. In the [[Whole
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Although Prince John was played by Toby Stephens, which automatically makes his entire performance a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], it was also true that John was less menacing than the Sheriff of Nottingham and just as easily bested by the outlaws. Foppish and cowardly, Prince John is eventually run out of Nottingham with his tail between his legs.
* [[Ass Pull]]: Where Tuck gets the explosive needed to {{spoiler|destroy Nottingham castle}} from in ''Something Worth Fighting For'' is seen as this, although there ''was'' some attempt to explain it in-story.
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* [[In Name Only]]: That guy is Tuck? OK, if you say so...
* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|Gisborne kills Marian}}
* [[Jerk Sue]]: Kate. She also had the usual [[Purity Sue]] traits, and was even something of an [[Anti
** On the odd occasion, Robin himself can easily become one of these, although he is for the most part a lot more likable and sympathetic than Kate. The first episode of season 3 is one such example. He's vengeful, arrogant and treats his remaining team mates like dirt. Physically assaulting them and telling them that they're basically wastes of carbon. Even after this display of jerkassery Much gets himself arrested for trying to fight Guy in Robin's honour. Brother Tuck arrives in England just to remind Robin of how super special, awesome and important he is and he even risks Alan, Much and John's lives just to get Robin back to his old self. When all is said and done, they hold no ill will towards Robin for any of it and just accept his rather minuscule apology.
* [[Jump the Shark]]: According to creators Foz Allen and Dominic Mingella the decision to kill off {{spoiler|Marian}} was in order to "open up new storytelling possibilities". It didn't seem to occur to either of them that it's somewhat difficult to tell stories about a dead person, especially one so central to the plot they'd been building for the past two seasons.
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** Though there are exceptions, the former group's fanfiction usually follows the basic "rape fantasy" scenario, in which Marian is forced to marry Guy against her will, only to find out that he's quite an acrobat in the bedroom, whilst the latter group either has Marian apologize for to him for ''her'' behavior, then treat him to some [[Redemption Equals Sex|Redemptive Sex]], or cuts out Marian entirely and pairs Guy with a self-insert [[Mary Sue]].
*** As for the show itself, it turned out that what the writers were ''actually'' trying to do was [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] the notion that the love of a good woman can redeem a [[Cute but Troubled]] [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Bad Boy]]. When Marian finally refuses to play along with Guy's demands and tells him that she's in love with Robin Hood, he {{spoiler|stabs her to death}}, effectively [[Ship Sinking|sending the Guy/Marian ship to the bottom of the bright blue sea]].
* [[Mis Blamed]]: Quite a few fans are keen to blame the death of Marian and arrival of new characters on the reason for the show's dropping ratings as everyone now hated the show. In truth, critical reception to series 3 was largely no different to series 1 and 2, and indeed quite a few people found the show to have improved from when Dominic Minghella was running the show. The dropping ratings were more likely down to the fact that the show was in the slot for ''[[
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Despite the fact that Guy killed Robin's wife, Robin teams up with Guy so that Guy can help Robin kill Guy's sister who has tried to kill each of them far fewer times than Robin and Guy have tried to kill each other. One would hope that this [[Makes Sense in Context]], but it really, really doesn't.
* [[Narm]]: Oh. So. Much. Actually, much of the Narm in the first two seasons (which were rather tongue-in-cheek) would probably be considered [[Narm Charm]], but after the intense [[Mood Whiplash]] of the S2 finale in which {{spoiler|Marian is brutally impaled on a sword}}, the fact that many subsequent episodes ''still'' include ridiculous scenarios results in a veritable onslaught of [[Narm|Narmtastic scenes.]]
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* [[Relationship Sue]]: Meg, though done surprisingly well.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Meta example. Joanne Froggatt was never given the chance to rescue Kate from the Scrappy Heap, but she went on to portray the immensely popular Anna in ''[[Downton Abbey]]'', a character that bears several passing similarities to Kate.
* [[Retcon]]: The S3 [[Whole
* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: What usually happens to Robin in Guy/Marian fan-fic. Amusingly enough, by making Robin a jealous, self-centered, possessive, egotistical, violent man in order to consolidate Guy/Marian, [[Completely Missing the Point|Robin ends up being indistinguishable from canon!Guy.]]
* [[Rooting for The Empire]]
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