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* ''[[A Kid in King Arthur's Court]]'' reveals its master jouster Black Knight to be {{spoiler|[[Samus Is a Girl|the princess]]!}}
* Two of these end up coming into ''[[A Knight's Tale]]''. One is the classic struggling underdog, William Thatcher, the peasant who's masquerading as the knight Ulrich Von Lichtenstein, and the other is the royal in disguise, Sir Thomas Colville or Edward, the Black Prince, who just wants a chance to actually ''compete'' and earn something himself instead of being given everything because of his station.
* John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at [[King Arthur|Camelot]]. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight in the 1954 film, ''The Black Knight''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Alanna in the first half of ''[[Tortall Universe|Song of the Lioness]]'' pretends to be a boy named Alan so that she can train for knighthood. After she earns her shield the lie becomes knows and she leaves in search of adventure.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''
** Brienne of Tarth isn't allowed to be a knight because she's a woman, but she fights and acts like knights are supposed to act better than most of the real ones. This has gained her, on the whole, very little respect.
** It's implied that the [[Precursor Heroes|precursor hero]] Dunk of the "Dunk and Egg" short stories was never actually knighted by his master. He claims that his master knighted him before he died, but he is repeatedly afflicted by unexplained guilt when the issue gets raised. Ironically, he might be an ancestor to Brienne, given that his arms appear in her father's keep.
** Mystery Knights are tournament competitors who refuse to give their real names, making it ambiguous as to whether they're true knights are not. There are a few examples of people who aren't knights entering the lists as mystery knights, including Barristan Selmy when he was still a squire. There's some evidence that "The Knight of the Laughing Tree" at the Tourney at Harrenhal was actually [[Sweet Polly Oliver|a disguised Lyanna Stark]].
** Ser Osmund Kettleblack, claims he was knighted by "Ser Robert... Stone," which is about as generic and untraceable a name as John Smith.
* ''[[Don Quixote]] de la Mancha'' who reads novels about Chivalry and sets out to revive chivalry as a self-proclaimed knight. This example is [[Played for Laughs]] (before the onset of [[Cerebus Syndrome]]) as in the time ''Don Quixote'' takes place, wandering knights no longer exist.
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