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* [[Animate Inanimate Object]]: In the last battle a stray bolt of magic turns an urn on legs into a moving creature that Willow briefly fights.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: "I'm the greatest swordsman who ever lived!" He may well be, too.
* [[Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat
* [[Badass]]: Madmartigan. Among his deeds we have him {{spoiler|single-handedly hold off General Kael's entire army, killing a two-headed dragon by himself, and eventually killing fellow badass Kael in single combat}}.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Finn Raziel has fallen victim to this. She changes shape several times over the course of the film.
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* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Queen Bavmorda.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Sorsha}}.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Ethna, the midwife who saved Elora from certain execution after she was born and who eventually lost her life protecting the child. All this despite owing neither her mother nor the child any loyalty at all. ▼
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: {{spoiler|Madmartigan to Sorsha}}.
▲* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Ethna, the midwife who saved Elora from certain execution after she was born and who eventually lost her life protecting the child. All this despite owing neither her mother nor the child any loyalty at all.
* [[Hobbits]]: The Nelwyn are basically halflings with the serial numbers filed off, being a collection of homebodies who live in burrows and tend to be shorter than humans. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, mind you.]]
** The novels, perhaps actually inspired by the look of the actors, actually describes them with traits more often used in association with fantasy dwarves than hobbits/halflings: stocky, broad, and with impressive upper-body strength.
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* [[Home, Sweet Home]]: {{spoiler|Willow gains a hero's welcome when he returns to his village and runs straight into his loving family's arms}}.
* [[Human Snowball]]: A rare live-action example.
* [[Inept Mage]]: In a fashion, the High Aldwin. He admits to Willow that the bones he uses for prediction purposes are really useless, and he purely interprets them according to his own judgment. However, he ''does'' supply Willow with genuine magical artifacts.▼
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Right at the climax, Bavmorda has Willow and Elora cornered. The only thing Willow can think of is to try and protect Elora {{spoiler|using the same sleight-of-hand trick that he failed at in the beginning of the film}}. ''And it works.''
▲* [[Inept Mage]]: In a fashion, the High Aldwin. He admits to Willow that the bones he uses for prediction purposes are really useless, and he purely interprets them according to his own judgment. However, he ''does'' supply Willow with genuine magical artifacts.
* [[Jerk Jock]]
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Madmartigan.
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* [[Rage Helm]]: General Kael's skull-faced helmet.
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: {{spoiler|General Kael. Madmartigan smashes his skull-mask, and Kael chases Madmartigan up a flight of stairs. Madmartigan stabs him in the chest; Kael responds by punching Madmartigan in the face and trying to strangle him. Madmartigan slashes Kael's belly, then twists the blade still in his chest. Kael does not appear to notice. Madmartigan impales him on his own sword. Kael is still on his feet when Madmartigan finally shoves him off the walkway.}}
▲* [[Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!|Retreat! Retreat... Attack! Attack!]]: Madmartigan and Bavmorda's army run away from the two-headed dragon. Then Madmartigan realize he's with the the army. Then he runs back inside the castle where the dragon is, with the army chasing after him.
* [[Road Apples]]: Well Troll Apples Madmartigan steps in some troll [[Toilet Humour|poop]].
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]
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** Airk's name is basically pronounced as "Eric", or close enough to mistake for it.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Madmartigan.
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Willow's magic acorns can turn whoever touches them to stone. Also, {{spoiler|Willow and Madmartigan are instructed by Fin Raziel to take Elora Danan to Tir Asleen to be cared for. Unfortunately, Bavmorda got there first, and [[And I Must Scream|encased all the residents in translucent crystal long ago.]]}}▼
* [[Take That]]: [[George Lucas]] named General Kael after Pauline Kael, the ''New Yorker'' film critic who famously gave ''[[Star Wars]]'' a bad review.
** The two-headed dragon goes unnamed in the film, but is referred to as the "Eborsisk," after film critics Gene Siskel and [[Roger Ebert]].
▲* [[Taken for Granite]]: Willow's magic acorns can turn whoever touches them to stone. Also, {{spoiler|Willow and Madmartigan are instructed by Fin Raziel to take Elora Danan to Tir Asleen to be cared for. Unfortunately, Bavmorda got there first, and [[And I Must Scream|encased all the residents in translucent crystal long ago.]]}}
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Not content with {{spoiler|simply killing baby Elora to ensure she cannot bring about her end, Bavmorda intends to banish her very soul into oblivion in the process. Apparently ''just in case'' her soul is reborn in a new body}}.
** {{spoiler|After Madmartigan runs Kael through with Airk's sword-glove, he props up Kael's own sword by his foot on the hilt, and skewers him ''again'' with it!}}
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* [[Unholy Nuke]]: Bavmorda wants to use a ritual whose end is to ''wipe the victim away from existence''.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Madmartigan after {{spoiler|Airk is killed by Kael}}.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy|"Well Done,
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Madmartigan calls this on Airk after the latter greets him eagerly when they find him in a tough situation, after Airk rather smirkingly left Madmartigan to die horribly in a cage.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Trolls]]: Before his adventure begins Willow expresses a deep fear of [[Tempting Fate|trolls]]. Lo and behold he ends up in a fortress crawling with them.
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