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** The Baron himself with his sword in the theater.
** Vulcan also gets like this. Given that the Baron was openly flirting with, and then kissing, his wife (and that Venus wasn't known for being the most faithful wife in Greek mythology), yeah.
* [[Based on a True Story]]: Well, not really, but [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchhausen:Baron Munchhausen|Munchhausen was a real person]] (who accumulated his tall tales while fighting as a mercenary, mostly for the Russians against the Turks).
* [[Berserk Button]]: Doctor?! ''No doctors!''
* [[Big Little Man]]: The Baron and friends fall on a pit and see Vulcan, the God of Fire, towering above them. It's only when he pulls them out of the pit that they see that Vulcan is a head shorter than the Baron.
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* [[The Grim Reaper]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]:"Everyone - who had a talent for it - lived happily ever after."
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Eric Idle|one of the]] [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Pythons]] as the Baron's right hand man, and [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Governor Swan]] as the Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Adolphus pulls of some [[Rule of Cool|truly ludicrous]] shots.
* [[Invisible Advertising]]: Where the U.S. release was concerned.
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* [[The Munchausen]]: Trope Namer. (More specifically, based on the legends of the trope namer.)
* [[Nested Story Reveal]]: turns out {{spoiler|most of the movie}} was a story cooked up by Munchausen. {{spoiler|[[Real After All|Or maybe not.]]}}
* [[Nipple -and -Dimed]]: A notable subversion. Although [[Ms. Fanservice|Venus]]' introduction shows some rather interesting anatomy at the bottom edge of the screen, the movie itself is rated PG. [[Fetish Fuel|And did we mention that Venus is played by]] [[Uma Thurman]]?
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Robin Williams]] as The King Of The Moon (credited as [[Stage Names|Ray D. Tutto]]) among others. The Baron doesn't stay in one place long enough for anyone to get more than one scene. Uma Thurman as Venus also stands out (though she is also part of the [[And You Were There]] actresses in the theatrical [[Book Ends]]).
** It should also be noted that [[Robin Williams]] ' ''entire performance'' was ad-libbed. Let's hear it for cocaine!
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