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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: [[Tear Jerker|Basically]] [[Anyone Can Die|everyone]] in ''Legend of the King,'' (see [[Foregone Conclusion]]) but special mention to {{spoiler|Gaheris and Lynet}}.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]/[[Ho Yay]]: Dinadan and Palomides.
* [[Historical
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Deconstructed frequently. Gareth is a prime example of this, and it's made clear exactly how much of an [[What an Idiot!|idiot]] this makes him.
* [[Hope Spot]]: About halfway through ''Legend of the King'', Arthur and Lancelot forgive each other, Morgause is killed, her plots exposed and her spells broken. There's also one when Lancelot arrives at the last battle with reinforcements. Neither changes the ending.
* [[Human Mom Nonhuman Dad]]: Terence.
* [[I Cannot Self
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] / [[Purity Personified]]: Beaufils. Amazingly, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|this is not annoying]]. Galahad ''wants'' to be this, but tries too hard and verges into [[Knight Templar]] territory in his effort to remove all sources of temptation.
* [[
* [[The Joy of X|Joy Of X]] - An X's Tale: There is even a "squire's tale" in the Chaucer originally too.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[King in The Mountain]]: As per the original legend.
* [[Knight Errant]]: Of course.
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Morris introduces new characters on top of the already extensive cast from the legends, though most books focus on a smaller subset of the whole.
* [[Love Potion]]: Never a good thing. Drinking one of these accidentally is what causes the love affair between Tristram and Isolde, and results in a lot of deaths. A similar potion (with similar tragic results) is used in ''The Squire's Quest.''
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Beaufils and Gawain, Mordred and Arthur.
* [[Merlin Sickness]]: Not Merlin, but the hermit Trevisant, who raised Terence. Kind of heartbreaking when Terence comes back in a later book and Trevisant doesn't know who he is.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In the final book, Gaheris says "If it's to be done, then let it be done, and 'twere well it were done quickly." Lynet asks him what that means, and he replies "I don't know. It just sounded dour and cryptic. It's not my fault; I'm Scottish." He is paraphrasing a line from ''[[Macbeth]]''.
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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: In ''Legend of the King''. Morgause's plotting doesn't help.
* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Lancelot and Guinevere in universe; Morris also does this for Kai.
* [[Romantic Two
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Arthur, as well as various others throughout the series. Parsifal becomes one when he gets married.
* [[Tricksters]]: [[A Midsummer Nights Dream|Robin]], the faery that helps out Terence (and others) sometimes.
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* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|Wouldn't Hit A Girl]]: Upheld by most of the heroic characters, but also played with. In one book, Sir Gawain finds out that Gaheris informed a potential (male) opponent that he would "never raise a sword against the skirts of womanhood." The other guy showed up in a skirt, and poor Gaheris let him win. Gawain is very disgusted with him.
** Also averted by Kai, which [[Never Live It Down|comes back to bite him]]. A lot.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Other way around; time passes more slowly in Faery than in the regular world. In ''The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady'' Terence and Gawain come back to find that ''seven years'' have passed and everyone thinks they're dead.
* [[You Can't Miss It]]: A couple giving directions along the lines of “the swamp where Betty's horse almost drowned,” and “The tree that was cut down after it was struck by lightning” before they start arguing about whether someone's son broke his arm before or after they painted their barn, and the protagonists leave in disgust.
* [[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Mother]]: In ''The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung Cart Knight'', Sarah is seeking revenge for the murder of her mother and guardian. She is directly responsible for the deaths of two of the men responsible, but learns along the way that revenge is unfulfilling and spares the third man's life (though she does make sure to humiliate and discredit him).
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