The Magnificent - TV Tropes. Wayne Maney, historian, on medieval nicknames. Occasionally, it even sticks as a surname and informs the history of an entire heroic legacy. Eventually, the mere act of saying their full name constitutes a Badass Boast in and of itself — or Famed In- Story when others recite it. One-handed swords are sharp blades held by their hilts. They’re truly versatile weapons, used effectively for slashing, thrusting or hacking at exposed, sensitive flesh. Yugoslavia beat Spain 2--1 after extra time, with Dragan Stojkovi Yahweh Sword Proclaims the Abba's Word to His Congregation Though His Son Yahshua haMashiach all to the honor and splendor of the Name of YHWH. Freemason Sword - Throughout history, as an instrument of justice, truth, equality and firmness, swords have been used at every great event and have become imbued with great symbolism. For this reason, freemasons use swords in. Overview of Magnificent Obsession, 1936, directed by John M. Stahl, with Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, at Turner Classic Movies. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword movie info - movie times, trailers, reviews, tickets, actors and more on Fandango. Conan the Magnificent is a fantasy novel written by Robert Jordan featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in May 1984, and was reprinted.
Obviously, prone to Meaningful Name. Generally it's someone with Small Name, Big Ego, probably a Smug Snake, who insists you address him as Major Doctor Unnotable. See also Overly Long Name, Try to Fit THAT on a Business Card! Thorkell the Tall and Thorfinn Karlsefni (Karlsefni means . Mc. Dowell the Girl- Queen of Darkness, the Apostle of Destruction, the Tidings of Evil, the Maga Nosferatu, the Disciple of Dark Tones, the Visitation of Woe, the Queen of the Night, the Doll- master, the Dark Evangel.. Jack Rakan, and unlike the rest, whose nickname fits nicely with 'The Thousand Master' Nagi. But Negi takes the cake with his 'Lightning God' title. It means that he's Death's son. His real name is just Vash. He seems to have adopted 'the Stampede,' though, since when Millie uses it at an inopportune time he cries out, . Notably, Wolfwood seems to have inherited the entire title Chapel the Evergreen, not just the epithet, by shooting Master Chapel in the back to take over his slot in the Guns. Even though Chapel seems to have been the old guy's real name. Explaining somewhat why he goes by his surname. Lina has 'The Pink' which embarrasses her as much as her other titles. Many of the titular warriors have such titles attributed to them. Teresa of the Faint Smile, Quick- Sword Elena, Phantom Miria, the list goes on. In his first appearance he did seem to deserve the nickname by arresting many of the most dangerous criminals in Mouseton with embarrassing ease and pranks.. Then it was revealed they were his accomplices for an enormous heist. However, Sigurd's a bit of an ass, and a caption suggests a more accurate title of Sigurd The Sometimes- Glorious. Though he probably gave himself the title as an act of arrogance, he ends up living up to it (unfortunately for the heroes). These names can be invented by a person or hung on them. Examples. Lyndess Groundburner, except in Ta'akan everyone now derisively calls her Lyndess the Example. And boy does he live up to it. And he prefers the latter. And unlike a certain other pony with the title, she definitely deserves it, being the one to stop Talonhoof the Reviled where entire armies had failed. According to him, he's also . Arthur: By what name are you known? Tim: There are some who call me.. The enchanter actually had a long, impressive name, but John Cleese forgot it, so they threw it in. Short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision.. My name is no jest, beanpole. Its all very well to have a short name when you're twenty feet tall, but small people need large names to give them weight. He hasn't particularly let it go to his head, possibly because he gained the title as a circus acrobat, but he'll still drop it in occasionally. Susan: You probably could have left off the last bit. Trumpkin: (chuckling) Probably. Who hasn't heard of Yogurt? Princess Vespa: Yogurt the Wise! Dot Matrix: Yogurt the All- Powerful! Barf: Yogurt the Magnificent! Yogurt: Please, please, don't make a fuss. I'm just plain Yogurt. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Pevensies each get a title during their reign as kings and queens: . However, since the film skips over their entire reign, it was the only way to include the epithets at all. Barristan the Bold or Duncan the Tall. Other characters' nicknames take the place of their name, such as the Imp, the Kingslayer, the Mountain That Rides, and so forth. Knights need the epithets if they have no last names, being knights in the first generation only. Consider Giant (the smallest man in the Night's Watch), Small Paul (the largest), or Lothor Apple- Eater (who in one battle killed and/or captured a large number of men belonging to a noble house that used an apple as its sigil, including a handful of minor nobles). A sellsword gets dubbed 'Caggo the Corpsekiller' after cutting down a king who turned out to be tied to his horse in an El Cid Ploy. Samwell Tarly is embarrassed when he's dubbed 'Sam the Slayer' after killing an Other, because he views himself as a Dirty Coward and assumes his friends are mocking him. As an exiled claimant of the Westerosi throne (the only heir left to the previous dynasty) she habitually styles herself with the titles associated with that position, which, on their own, almost qualify anybody using them for this trope. It's take up to eleven with the way she collects extra titles on her Odyssey, by the end of the fifth novel she could possibly be introduced with something along the lines of . Other notables include Daeron the Young Dragon, Maegor the Cruel, Jaehaerys the Conciliator, Daeron the Good and Baelor the Blessed. One non- king Targaryen to get this treatment is Prince Aemon the Dragonknight. There are Brandon the Builder, Brandon the Shipwright, Brandon the Burner, Brandon the Ice- Eyes, and Brandon the Bad, among others. Robb Stark, the first King in the North in centuries, gets called . Howard original works) titled Conan The Magnificent, you also got Conan the Triumphant, Conan the Conqueror, Conan The Liberator, Conan the Victorious, Conan the Formidable, Conan the Champion.. Tolkien's Middle- Earth books, many characters have descriptive epithets, appended by themselves or others. Some of these titles are cool (Fingon the Valiant, Finrod the Faithful, E. The guy gave himself a heap of titles and pseudonyms, most of them much less pleasant (The Bloodstained, The Wronged..). There are kings like Romendacil (. The last one being somewhat ironic, as he spent so much of his reign glorifying himself that afterwards Gondor began to go downhill.. When his superior refuses to help, explaining that he was The Bait and intended to die, he jeers at Iskavan for thinking his paltry victories have made him Hated. Iskavan sets out on a rampage, deciding to start with women and wounded. And then there's Arkio the Blessed. And Mephiston the Lord of Death. Apparently Rafen was . That they should call such a one Goddess of Life Eternal, Goddess of Death, Mother of the Nearer Moon, and fifty other equally impossible titles, is quite beyond me. Dian the Beautiful in the Pellucidar series comes by her epithet more honestly. By the standards of Ankh- Morpork, entering the Mended Drum and announcing that your name is Vincent the Invunerable counts as suicide.. There was King Ludwig the Tree (who issued royal proclamations on the need to develop a new type of frog, among other things) and King Loyala the Aaargh (whose reign lasted 1. He was very fond of children). The current Patrician is downright unusual in not following this trope (and also, apparently, in not being raving bonkers). Whitlow can't get stubborn stains out of a wizard's robe. He'll be Grampone the Grey if he can't take better care of his laundry. I'm Cohen the Barbarian, right? But it could be 'Cohen the Bold- hearted' or 'Cohen the Slayer of Many', or any of that class of a thing. Early in the book, characters who had thought he would be King Boniface the Shrewd consider that maybe he'll turn out King Boniface the Jolly. At the end, we have a play: . Alaric the Betrayed in Ben Counter's novel Hammer of Daemons. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero's Daughter, one of Prospero's sons got the name . Some examples are Martin the Warrior and Urthstripe the Strong. Since they are self- chosen names, they are usually words that simply apply to the person. Torthus the. Axe didn't put much thought into his, and Mozer the Traveler (a Shout- Out to Ghostbusters) travels a lot. Heinlein's Double Star, bills himself as . He actually is a very capable actor and impersonator, though down on his luck at the beginning of the story, from bad luck and bad judgment. Captain of the Silver Axe, Deathwalker, The Silverslayer and Druss the Legend are ONE GUY. Then there's Skilgannon the Damned, Decado the Ice Killer, Tenakha Khan, the Khan of Shadows, Ananias the Golden One. And that covers about 5 of the books. The royal family in Fiona Patton's Tales of the Branion Realm has plenty of these, including Atreus the Bastard who at some point outlawed marriage. Lovecraft's most famous character, Great Cthulhu. Not particularly badass, until you learn he got the nickname by getting a direct hit with a mortar round in the face while leading a team of combat engineers in no- man's land and surviving. The title is literal — he was reincarnated by Queen Radiant Frost (and thus born again) from the worker caste into a princefor services to the hiver imperium. Ugoth the Castrator is a particularly terrifying example. And from what we know about him, he definitely earned these names. He is Ataidar's Royal Sentinel so it is a fitting title. Servalan's full title upon seizing control of the Terran Federation is — President of the Terran Federation, Ruler of the High Council, Lord of the Inner and Outer Worlds, High Admiral of the Galactic Fleets, Lord General of the Six Armies, and Defender of the Earth. It's noticeable that she has this title at a time when the Federation is weakest. It's implied that they're ceremonial and largely meaningless. In the Flash Gordon- type holoprogram The Adventures of Captain Proton!, Chaotica refers to himself as . Not to mention the hero played by Tom Paris. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds very impressive. In fact, she realizes one of her minions is dying when the quality of his epithets declines. She even momentarily has a sad, although whether it's due to one of her most prominent servants being badly wounded or his praise being crap is up in the air. Keeper of the legacy of Rassilon. Defender of the Laws of Time, Protector of Gallifrey. President and nothing more. Adams was a real bore on this subject. The Senate eventually voted him the title of . Hector the Well- Endowed? It was not the famous . Worried that Arthur would fall in battle, Merlin took the King to a magical lake where a mysterious hand thrust itself up from the water, holding aloft a magnificent sword. Though it was recovered, the scabbard was lost forever. Thus Arthur was mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann. The King then instructed
Hurling the sword into the misty waters this time, Bedwyr saw the mystic hand appear to catch Excalibur and draw it beneath the rippling waters for the last time. The Name: . The earliest Arthurian stories give the name of King Arthur's sword as Caladfwlch, a Welsh word derived from Calad- Bolg meaning . Later it developed to become the Caliburn of
In Saxon mythology his name is Wayland, but to the Celts he was Gofannon. He is also to be identified with the Roman Vulcan and Greek Hephaestus who made magical weapons for the Muses to give to Perseus, and for Thetis to give to Achilles. The later surrender of the sword is well known as a universal symbol of defeat. Here it is emblematic of death itself. Archaeolgical finds of exotic metalwork deposits at Llyn Fawr in Morgannwg include axes and sickles of around 6. Further weaponry was discovered Llyn Cerrig Bach on Ynys Mon (Anglesey) dating from the 2nd century bc to the 1st century AD. Celtic Iron- Age deposits in rivers are too numerous to count. Especially well known are the superb Battersea Shield and Waterloo Helmet from the Thames. This major British River appears to have been particularly popular for swords like Arthur's.
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