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Braveheart

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Braveheart	comment	A 1995 film directed by, produced by, and starring Mel Gibson, and written by Randall Wallace, a self-proclaimed Real Life descendant of the main character. Braveheart tells the extremely fictionalized story of the legendary Scottish rebel William Wallace and his revolution against King Edward the Longshanks of England, in which he battled for the freedom of Scotland, even though it led to his death. This film is infamous among historians for its many inaccuracies and creative liberties.Wallace starts as a simple farmer who only wants to live a peaceful life with his beloved wife Murron (Catherine McCormack), despite his father's death at the hands of the English. Unfortunately, he stops the rape of his wife by marauding English soldiers, and after the English magistrate executes her in retaliation, Wallace takes the fight to the English authorities, with the rest of his country following suit. As the whole of Scotland is drawn into the rebellion against England, Wallace takes command of the Scottish army to kick ass... for FREEDOM!The cast also includes Patrick McGoohan as Edward I "Longshanks", King of England, Peter Hanly as a young Edward II, Sophie Marceau as Princess Isabella of France, and Angus Macfadyen as Robert the Bruce (later King of Scotland). The film won five awards at the 1995 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Braveheart / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Braveheart / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: The Scottish noblemen who sell out their own countrymen at the Battle of Falkirk in exchange for lands and titles. Wallace gives several of them a very brutal payback for this.
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Braveheart / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Braveheart / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: And it's going to make sure Wallace doesn't try to avoid his destiny of fighting...
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Braveheart / int_12eee2cf	type	Heal It with Booze
Braveheart / int_12eee2cf	comment	Heal It with Booze: William's childhood pal Hamish and his father Campbell have just helped him defeat the local English lord, but Campbell sustained an arrow wound in the process. He's blind drunk on whisky awaiting his son and friends helping him to Heal It With Fire. After a comedy moment where first one, and then a second clansmen say "Here, you do it, [cauterise the wound with the poker], I'll hold him down!", Campbell asks Hamish to pour some on the wound first: "Pour it straight in the wound, boy. I know it seems like a waste of good whiskey, but indulge me."
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Braveheart / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Braveheart / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: In the case of Murron's death. The magistrate clearly slit her throat, yet her wound is obscured from view and there is no blood on the knife. But this may be a goof.
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Braveheart / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
Braveheart / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Murron's death is kicking off a Scotland-wide rebellion after William's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against an English oppressor.
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Braveheart / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Braveheart / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: For his execution, William Wallace is tied to a cross-like wooden block, that makes him adopt this pose.
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Braveheart / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Braveheart / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Happens to Wallace after he finds out who betrayed him at the Battle of Falkirk. His previous anger instantly vanishes and he goes numb. Bruce himself gets one later on when his father's machinations lead to Wallace's betrayal and capture.
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Braveheart / int_148efc99	type	Noble Tongue
Braveheart / int_148efc99	comment	Noble Tongue: The royals speak French while the other characters speak English. This is historically accurate, except for the fact that it wouldn't have been modern English, many of the conquered groups had their own language, etc.
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Braveheart / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
Braveheart / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: Although plaid kilts were introduced only three centuries later, and the Scottish didn't wear them until much later than that (and even then, they were typically saffron or brown, not plaid). Also, no Scotsman of any pre-industrial era would have worn enough cloth to clothe a family to a battle, where it could get cut up and bled on. That much cloth would take the average subsistence-farmer at least a decade of scrimping and saving to buy - cloth was expensive as all get out before extensive inter-continental trade and mechanized spinning and weaving. Flashing and mooning was a combat tactic, however.
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Braveheart / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
Braveheart / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: The princess speaks with her courtiers in Latin, but Wallace knows Latin as well as French.
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Braveheart / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Braveheart / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The novelization written by Randall Wallace provides a more historically accurate depiction of the battle of Stirling Bridge (though Moray still isn't in it). It also explicitly confirms that Prince Edward's companion, called Phillip, is indeed his lover.
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Braveheart / int_185d449d	type	Multi-Ranged Master
Braveheart / int_185d449d	comment	Multi-Ranged Master: His uncanny accuracy with thrown rocks is a plot point, and he is also proficient with a bow.
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Braveheart / int_185f3995	type	Memetic Badass
Braveheart / int_185f3995	comment	Memetic Badass: William Wallace becomes one In-Universe; promptly Lampshaded: The claim of Wallace being seven feet tall seems ridiculous and standard badass exaggeration since Mel Gibson stands around 5'9" and rather cut. But the real Wallace was described as a giant of a man, standing somewhere between 6'7" and 6'10" and built like a truck. While mildly common nowadays, this would have been 13 to 18 inches taller than the average man of the time and seeing someone that size would likely be a once in a lifetime event.
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Braveheart / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
Braveheart / int_18baa751	comment	Of course there's one undoubtedly villainous action that Longshanks is associated with, that curiously gets no mention in the film, his raging anti-semitism which led him to expel all Jews from England, something that would easily paint him as a bad guy to modern audiences instead of the invented nastiness of Droit du Seigneur, but presumably Gibson didn't find that sufficiently nasty.
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Braveheart / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Braveheart / int_18dd6739	comment	When Wallace and his crew take a fort disguised as English soldiers:
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Braveheart / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Braveheart / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: King Edward the Longshanks, though in reality he lived two years beyond Wallace's death and died of dysentery, not consumption.
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Braveheart / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Braveheart / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The film's theatrical trailer shows a scene where Wallace is telling Hamish that they'll be different from the English by sparing women and children. This scene does not appear in the final cut of the movie.
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Braveheart / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Braveheart / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Prince Edward is gay but must take a wife to continue the line of succession.
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Braveheart / int_1ba1b4b9	type	The Giant
Braveheart / int_1ba1b4b9	comment	The claim of Wallace being seven feet tall seems ridiculous and standard badass exaggeration since Mel Gibson stands around 5'9" and rather cut. But the real Wallace was described as a giant of a man, standing somewhere between 6'7" and 6'10" and built like a truck. While mildly common nowadays, this would have been 13 to 18 inches taller than the average man of the time and seeing someone that size would likely be a once in a lifetime event.
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Braveheart / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Braveheart / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: William and Murron meet as children and become lovers later in life.
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Braveheart / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Braveheart / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: How William Wallace starts his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Braveheart / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Braveheart / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Averted. While the real William Wallace was hanged, drawn, and quartered for his troubles, the way he's executed in the film is far less graphic than the actual way it was done, even though the steps undertaken are loosely based on it.
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Braveheart / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Braveheart / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Say what you will about Longshanks. At least he gets shit done himself. Robert the Bruce also gets to be this at the end of the film.
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Braveheart / int_211eedd	type	All Crimes Are Equal
Braveheart / int_211eedd	comment	All Crimes Are Equal: "An assault on the king's soldiers is the same as an assault on the king himself."
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Braveheart / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Braveheart / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: After they sacked York, William has the head of the Duke of York cut off and sent back to the king in a basket.
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Braveheart / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Braveheart / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Wallace is unquestionably devoted to Scotland's freedom and is The Hero, but also sacks York (offscreen) and burns English soldiers alive after they try to trap him.
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Braveheart / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Braveheart / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The film depicts the Medieval Scots as wearing both blue woad face paint (which was possibly a practice of the ancient Britons, that pop culture transplants to the Picts, who lived in Scotland before the Scots, and is seen in general use no later than the Roman occupation) and kilts (which didn't come into fashion in Scotland until the 16th century).
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Braveheart / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Braveheart / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: There's the hanged kid in the stable, a view that gives young William nightmares.
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Braveheart / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Braveheart / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Princess Isabella of France has conversations with her handmaiden in French, though it is mostly subtitled. At one point her handmaiden reveals to Isabella that she heard her husband is sending a new English army north to crush Wallace's rebellion. Surprised at how she knows this, the handmaiden then explains that one of the members of her husband's war council let it slip while she was having sex with him. Embarrassed, Isabella says he shouldn't have told her sensitive information like that in bed. The handmaiden quips that Englishmen don't know what a tongue is for (i.e. cunnilingus). The TV edit doesn't leave out the line, it simply changes the subtitles to read "Englishmen don't know what a bed is for" - but anyone with a basic high school level knowledge of French can fully recognize what she really said.
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Braveheart / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Braveheart / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: The prince's male lover being murdered by King Edward by throwing said lover out a tall window right in front of the prince. In real life, Gaveston was Prince Edward's Royal Favorite, but it's not known with certainty that they were lovers. Gaveston was eventually captured and executed, but not by Edward I; he was beheaded during Edward II's reign by noblemen who found him odious, and it had more to do with Edward's favoritism than explicitly with homosexuality. So it's unlikely the makers of the film intended Philip to be Gaveston. They more likely assumed Edward would have had other male lovers in his youth.
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Braveheart / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Braveheart / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Mornay has a nightmare about Wallace haunting him, which makes him wake up in this fashion. Then Wallace comes charging in and kills him for real.
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Braveheart / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Braveheart / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: By the time of the Battle of Stirling in Braveheart, William Wallace could shoot fireballs from his eyes and lightning from his arse. Later we hear the word spreading about Wallace having killed 50 men single-handedly, which turns into 100 men after some relays.
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Braveheart / int_2d2e3275	type	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
Braveheart / int_2d2e3275	comment	A guard at Lanark charges at Wallace, then tries to run when Wallace grabs a sledgehammer.
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Braveheart / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Braveheart / int_2fa6b075	comment	Surprisingly, the future Queen Isabella "the She-Wolf" of France got this one as well.
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Braveheart / int_2fc4ac67	type	Black Knight
Braveheart / int_2fc4ac67	comment	Black Knight: William Wallace duels a character like this late during the Battle of Falkirk, complete with a Dramatic Unmask.
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Braveheart / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Braveheart / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: "ALBA GU BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATH!" sort of counts. That is Scottish Gaelic, but the film is in English. There's also the Campbell-led chant of "MACAULISH!" after the Battle of Stirling, which might be confusing if you don't know the word is Scots Gaelic for "Son of Wallace".
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Braveheart / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Braveheart / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: King Edward grows annoyed with his son's friend (and implied lover) and tosses him out the window.
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Braveheart / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Braveheart / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Near the beginning of the film, Wallace steals the uniform off an English soldier in order to get his wife out of town. Later, "Were they dressed like this?"
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Braveheart / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Braveheart / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: King Edward Longshanks is an utter dick, but he's a tough dick, kicking Wallace's ass at Falkirk.
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Braveheart / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Braveheart / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Longshanks repeatedly kicks the dog in his treatment of Scotland and throws his son's best friend (and implied lover) out the window. Also Longshanks' decision to have the archers fire at the battleground with no regard to his own men.
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Braveheart / int_3669a9e2	type	Multi-Melee Master
Braveheart / int_3669a9e2	comment	Multi-Melee Master: In addition to his iconic claymore, William Wallace is seen to be proficient with a huge mallet, a flail (both ball-and-chain and hinged stick variants), a dagger, a pike, a deer's antler, a warhammer, an ax, and rocks of various shapes and sizes.
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Braveheart / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
Braveheart / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence: Both the Battle of Stirling Bridge and the Battle of Falkirk are epic ones.
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Braveheart / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Braveheart / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Wallace himself at the end.
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Braveheart / int_3d64d015	type	The Middle Ages
Braveheart / int_3d64d015	comment	The Middle Ages: The setting is the early 14th century, the High Middle Ages
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Braveheart / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Braveheart / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The revolt at Lanark, where the Scottish villagers ambush and massacre the entire English garrison without taking a single casualty.
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Braveheart / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Braveheart / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Wallace is made a lot more important than Robert Bruce, and the third key figure in the war, Bishop William de Lamberton, was cut out altogether. Another character cut out was Andrew de Moray, another Scottish noble who died after the battle of Stirling Bridge. Some historians have argued that his contribution to the war was just as important and more successful than William Wallace's. The real Wallace was a son of minor nobility, and not only was he not a Highland barbarian Still Fighting the Civil War of the Picts against Romans, he was a Lord with tenants, serfs and the works. In real-life the Scots pre-emptively attacked the English and Wallace invaded England sacking and pillage villages and attacking English peasants and serfs along the way. Surprisingly, the future Queen Isabella "the She-Wolf" of France got this one as well.
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Braveheart / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Braveheart / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: William Wallace gets executed in the end, but his soldiers fight on and end up winning the war.
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Braveheart / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Braveheart / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Seems to be the case at first, but then subverted as the townspeople rise up in rebellion and end up completely kicking the collective butts of the English soldiers who've been holding their town hostage.
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Braveheart / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Braveheart / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Zig-Zagged. During Wallace's assault on the magistrate who murdered Murron, Campbell the Elder gets hit by an arrow, making Hamish stop to try taking it out, until his father hits him for his foolishness. It gets cauterized afterwards. Later, during the Battle of Falkirk, as the English gain the upper hand with their volleys of arrows, Wallace is struck by one, making him stop, but is well enough to pursue Longshanks' knight, Robert the Bruce.
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Braveheart / int_444fdea2	type	Balcony Wooing Scene
Braveheart / int_444fdea2	comment	Balcony Wooing Scene: In one scene the hero is at odds with his love interest's parents so he has to resort to throwing stones at her window to catch her attention. Played for laughs as he doesn't recognize that she already opened the window, thus his third stone almost hits her.
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Braveheart / int_452cda57	type	Eternally Pearly-White Teeth
Braveheart / int_452cda57	comment	Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: Check out the pearly white smile of Murron the 13th century Scottish peasant.
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Braveheart / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Braveheart / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Wanting to make Longshanks' victory over Wallace sour, Isabella tells him that the child she is pregnant with, and will one day grow up to be Edward III, was fathered by Wallace, and that Longshanks' bloodline will effectively end with Edward II.
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Braveheart / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
Braveheart / int_46ee4d3	comment	When the magistrate cuts Murron's throat, it's not explicitly shown. The camera cuts to a close-up of her eyes as they first widen, then slowly droop as she bleeds out. In contrast, when Wallace does the magistrate, it's shown in vivid detail.
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Braveheart / int_48904622	type	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them
Braveheart / int_48904622	comment	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: William Wallace, after the call found him.
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Braveheart / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Braveheart / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The Scottish Highlands are given many lovely shots in this film. John Toll even won his second best Cinematographer Oscar for this film.
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Braveheart / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Braveheart / int_49f20c6a	comment	Murron gets her throat cut offscreen by the Magistrate.
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Braveheart / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Braveheart / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: William Wallace, of course. After his death, Robert the Bruce and Queen Isabella share the role for Scotland and England, respectively.
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Braveheart / int_4b2500a1	type	This Means Warpaint
Braveheart / int_4b2500a1	comment	This Means Warpaint: The Scottish warriors painting themselves with woad.
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Braveheart / int_4d272d11	type	Blood Is the New Black
Braveheart / int_4d272d11	comment	Blood Is the New Black: William Wallace is seen walking around after the battles with the enemy's blood on his face.
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Braveheart / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Braveheart / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Historically inaccurate, but still awesome nonetheless.
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Braveheart / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Braveheart / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Longshanks sends Isabella to deliver gold to Wallace in an attempt to buy him out of an invasion of England. Wallace firmly refuses.
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Braveheart / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Braveheart / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Practically every single English character, except Longshanks and Prince Edward.
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Braveheart / int_4ffde1e0	type	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me
Braveheart / int_4ffde1e0	comment	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The film features a scene in which Scottish soldiers hide under their shields during an arrow barrage. However, it's shown that the arrows can penetrate the shields to a degree.
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Braveheart / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Braveheart / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Wallace when Robert the Bruce is unmasked at Falkirk.
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Braveheart / int_50a33496	type	Trap Is the Only Option
Braveheart / int_50a33496	comment	Trap Is the Only Option: Wallace is being warned that the meeting with Robert the Bruce would be a trap and he kind of senses it himself, but he feels it is worth trying because the chance to reunite the Scottish forces is their only hope.
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Braveheart / int_54616909	type	Cavalry Betrayal
Braveheart / int_54616909	comment	Cavalry Betrayal: Very literally, at the battle of Falkirk, when Mornay and Lachlan lead their cavalry off the field rather than charge in at Wallace's signal. They were paid off by Longshanks prior to the battle.
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Braveheart / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
Braveheart / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: The movie starts with the hero choosing this trope: After his father's death and a Time Skip, the now-adult William Wallace returns to Scotland after several years fighting in The Crusades, heartily sick of war and with no interest in being drawn into talk of rebellion. He sticks to this proclamation until English soldiers murder his wife.
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Braveheart / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Braveheart / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Has its own page.
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Braveheart / int_56549b6d	type	Scotireland
Braveheart / int_56549b6d	comment	Scotireland: Despite the film being set in Scotland, and based on the life of a Scottish folk hero, the primary instrument heard throughout the soundtrack (most notably at William's father's funeral) are the Uilleann pipes, which are a smaller traditionally Irish version of bagpipes rather than the ubiquitous Great Highland Bagpipe.
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Braveheart / int_5869bd44	type	Arrows on Fire
Braveheart / int_5869bd44	comment	Arrows on Fire: Justified, as they are used to ignite flaming tar.
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Braveheart / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Braveheart / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Mornay's dream of Wallace charging at him out of a firestorm, screaming, and replete in blue warpaint. It then becomes horrific for the viewer given the way Mornay is then dispatched straight afterwards.
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Braveheart / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Braveheart / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Used to show how Robert the Bruce is becoming a bit unhinged in the aftermath of Falkirk.
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Braveheart / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Braveheart / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Some Scottish warriors are set on fire by arrows from the English defenders during the battle of York.
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Braveheart / int_60b3517c	type	Adventurous Irish Violins
Braveheart / int_60b3517c	comment	Adventurous Irish Violins: Braveheart is in love with this trope; it's a wonderful example of its flexibility, for although the heroes are Scots-Highlanders (and an Irishman), the passionate strains of said trope in the musical score still flawlessly evoke the highland spirit of energetic playfulness, savage bloodlust, and energetically playful savage bloodlust.
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Braveheart / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Braveheart / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: When Princess Isabella's adviser says, in Latin, about Wallace "He's a bloody, murdering savage. And he's telling lies," Wallace immediately replies in Latin "I never lie. But I am a savage."
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Braveheart / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Braveheart / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The Trope Namer, in this case referring to Longshanks' justification, when called for one, for calling the archers to fire in the middle of a heated infantry battle — granted, his own troops would be hit, but so would the Scots. Also used with sending the Irish conscript infantry in first.
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Braveheart / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Braveheart / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: There's no way to read that glare William gives the closest guy, moments before his rebellion begins, as saying anything other than a very emphatic and determined "I'm going to kill you now." Also William in Mornay's nightmare.
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Braveheart / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Braveheart / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: The heavy armor worn by the English seems to provide no advantage whatsoever over the Scottish troops, who have almost no armor at all.
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Braveheart / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Braveheart / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: After betraying Wallace on the battlefield of Falkirk, Robert the Bruce sheds a tear when giving his Heelâ€“Face Turn speech to his father.
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Braveheart / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
Braveheart / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: When Wallace is rolled in for his execution, the raving crowd throws vegetables at him.
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Braveheart / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Braveheart / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: At the Battle of Stirling:
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Braveheart / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
Braveheart / int_6a6760fa	comment	The Power of Hate: After Robert the Bruce disowns his father, the Elder Robert the Bruce, and wishes for him to die, the Elder Bruce says he's now ready to be king now that he knows hate (oddly enough, in addition to saying this Palpatine-esque line, the Elder Bruce also looks unnervingly like Emperor Palpatine). The Younger Bruce answers, in a calm example of Shut Up, Hannibal!, that his hate will die with the elder Bruce.
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Braveheart / int_6bd9e644	type	Meaningful Look
Braveheart / int_6bd9e644	comment	Meaningful Look: The wedding, showing how much you can do with a few glances. Watch Prince Edward, his lover Phillip, Princess Isabelle, and King Edward Longshanks. The Prince is not at all attracted to the Princess and would likely much rather run away than go through with the ceremony, or at least replace Isabelle with Phillip. King Edward is aware of his son's sexuality, holds his son in contempt, and absolutely despises Phillip. Isabelle, meanwhile, has no desire to be a part of this and feels trapped. She has no idea what to make of Prince Edward and is intimidated by King Longshanks. Phillip is trying to offer some silent support to Prince Edward, and that royally irks King Edward. All of this is conveyed to the audience with a few meaningful glances, a line of voice-over that hints that Longshanks may try to bed his soon-to-be daughter in law, some unfortunate gay visual coding, and an awkward kiss. The scene lasts seconds.
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Braveheart / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
Braveheart / int_6cf80934	comment	Big Word Shout: Wallace shouts "FREEDOM!", as his last word, until he is out of breath.
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Braveheart / int_6f546e9f	type	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
Braveheart / int_6f546e9f	comment	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!: Wallace and his men are willing to die for their freedom.
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Braveheart / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
Braveheart / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: A Scottish pikeman gets this treatment. Turns out mooning the English archers wasn't such a good idea after all.
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Braveheart / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Braveheart / int_722b3319	comment	Prince Edward gets a strange form of this. Edward II is generally regarded as a brave and athletic man who became a mediocre king and was widely rumored to be in homosexual relationships with his extremely close male favorites. In the film, he's made into a Camp Gay Sissy Villain.
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Braveheart / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Braveheart / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: William Wallace builds an army to drive the English garrison out, gets betrayed, captured, refuses to bow before the king, and is tortured and killed. But his spirit lives on.
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Braveheart / int_733db81a	type	Alone-with-Prisoner Ploy
Braveheart / int_733db81a	comment	Alone-with-Prisoner Ploy: Princess Isabella demands some time alone with Wallace in his cell, so she could pass him a sedative which he refuses to take.
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Braveheart / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Braveheart / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Robert the Bruce becomes this at the end when his father uses him to lure William Wallace into a trap.
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Braveheart / int_73731600	type	Lecherous Licking
Braveheart / int_73731600	comment	Lecherous Licking: One of the magistrate's men is all over Murron with his tongue when he seizes her in a hut.
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Braveheart / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Braveheart / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs when the elder Campbell's wound needs to be cauterized. All the Scots attending him are terrified of getting it done, especially the one holding the hot poker.
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Braveheart / int_769ad308	type	Hidden Weapons
Braveheart / int_769ad308	comment	Hidden Weapons: When pretending to hand himself over to the local English garrison, Wallace hides a flail behind his back which he then pulls out to start his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Braveheart / int_76ecc890	type	Brave Scot
Braveheart / int_76ecc890	comment	Brave Scot: All of the Scots who fight the English.
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Braveheart / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
Braveheart / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: William Wallace was either this or a downgrade, depending on your point of view. The real William Wallace really was close to 7 feet tall for a start, and did quite a bit of the stuff he does in the film (not all of it, but it does cut out other badass feats as well). Of course, he was also a textbook example of The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized and Would Hurt a Child, but being a bastard doesn't make him not a badass.
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Braveheart / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Braveheart / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: As William Wallace arrives at Stirling before battle.
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Braveheart / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Braveheart / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The movie ends with Robert the Bruce leading his ragtag Scottish army against the superior English army. The trope is then subverted when Wallace (narrating the epilogue), explains that the Scots manage to eventually win their freedom.
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Braveheart / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
Braveheart / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: "FREEEEEEEDOM!" and "ALBA GU BRATH!"note Gaelic for "Scotland forever!"
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Braveheart / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Braveheart / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Robert Bruce protests that the nobles are afraid to commit to Wallace because their land and titles are too much to risk. Wallace's response:
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Braveheart / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Braveheart / int_7c862b8a	comment	Robert the Bruce didn't betray Wallace. Everyone else, sure, but never Wallace, mostly because the two never met and Wallace never backed Bruce's claim to the throne; he preferred freeing John Balliol from English domination.
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Braveheart / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Braveheart / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Murron gets her throat cut offscreen by the Magistrate. Following his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Wallace kills the Magistrate the same way, this time shown in vivid detail. Later we see Lochlan lying with a slit throat on Robert the Bruce's dinner table.
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Braveheart / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
Braveheart / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: Longshanks bribes Wallace's cavalry into deserting the field at the battle of Falkirk.
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Braveheart / int_808edee1	type	A Thicket of Spears
Braveheart / int_808edee1	comment	A Thicket of Spears: In the Battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace's army forms a schiltron using heavy spears made from tree trunks as a defense against an English cavalry charge. The film inaccurately depicts this as a one-off incident: in actual fact, the schiltron was a core part of Scottish armies throughout the Middle Ages.
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Braveheart / int_80ef74c3	type	Fictionalized Death Account
Braveheart / int_80ef74c3	comment	Fictionalized Death Account: Downplayed. The future Edward II has a lover by the name of Philip who, for history buffs, is a fairly obvious stand-in for Piers Gaveston, the notorious "favorite" of Edward II. Gaveston lived into the reign of Edward II until some unruly nobles took matters into their hands and killed him, in the film Philip is thrown out a window by Edward I long before Edward II becomes king.
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Braveheart / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Braveheart / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: Wallace's claymore. It slices, it dices, it cuts warhorses down and then takes heads off with one swing. Which is one part of the film that was somewhat close to the historical record.
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Braveheart / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Braveheart / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: When Stephen the Irishman meets Wallace and his men in the forest, there is a moment where both parties have their knifed/swords drawn and pointed at the opposition's throat.
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Braveheart / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
Braveheart / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Murron dies to set the plot in motion.
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Braveheart / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
Braveheart / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: The film portrays William Wallace having an affair with Princess Isabelle of France, wife of the heir apparent Edward II.note Impossible in real life, where Isabelle was still a child when Wallace died and likely never met him. Wallace is a Crusading Widower whose wife was murdered by an English lord. It's portrayed sympathetically in a twofold manner for Isabelle, first because she's in a loveless Arranged Marriage with her husband, strongly implied to be homosexual. She also uses the fact that it was Wallace, not her husband, who impregnated her with the future King of England to taunt the evil Edward Longshanks, who arranged her marriage to his son in the first place.
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Braveheart / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Braveheart / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our FREEDOM!" This has become a popular meme.
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Braveheart / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Braveheart / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: William Wallace is foremost a Barbarian Hero, but he is also fluent in Latin and French.
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Braveheart / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Braveheart / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Wallace refused to fight the English at first, preferring to raise a family and live a quiet farming life.
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Braveheart / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Braveheart / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Scotsmen, who stand up to an English army that outnumbers them and is better equipped.
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Braveheart / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
Braveheart / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: William Wallace smiles during his final moment. He sees the spirit of his dead wife among the crowd smiling at him as he is being brutally tortured to death.
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Braveheart / int_8a7e27b5	type	Stab the Scorpion
Braveheart / int_8a7e27b5	comment	Stab the Scorpion: Stabbing the would-be assassin in this case. Stephen seems to be attacking Wallace, but is actually taking down a guy trying to kill Wallace.
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Braveheart / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
Braveheart / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Murron gets one with the whole village attending and lots of crying.
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Braveheart / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Braveheart / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The English lord who executes Murron by slitting her throat has his own throat slit by Wallace, using the same exact knife. Longshanks plans for his deathbed to be spent enjoying Wallace's torture and execution. Instead, Wallace's last yell freaks Longshanks out to the point of a heart attack — thus robbing him of said enjoyment, and making him feel some torture of his own — and he dies just-before Wallace.
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Braveheart / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Braveheart / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Longshanks claims that "the trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots."
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Braveheart / int_94cce63e	type	Fighting Irish
Braveheart / int_94cce63e	comment	Fighting Irish: Wallace's most eagerly violent soldier is an Irishman who joined the campaign not for the sake of freedom, but for the chance to kill Englishmen. He's also insane, or deeply religious with a sick sense of humor. A little from column A, a little from column B!
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Braveheart / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Braveheart / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: When Faudron pledges his loyalty to Wallace, he reaches into his coat and is stopped by Hamish, but it turns out he only wanted to pull out a gift for William. He later does try to assassinate Wallace, but is stopped by Stephen the Irishman.
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Braveheart / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Braveheart / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The working class Scottish villagers get pitted against the snobbish, aristocratic Norman nobles led by King Edward.
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Braveheart / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Braveheart / int_966da803	comment	Longshanks plans for his deathbed to be spent enjoying Wallace's torture and execution. Instead, Wallace's last yell freaks Longshanks out to the point of a heart attack — thus robbing him of said enjoyment, and making him feel some torture of his own — and he dies just-before Wallace.
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Braveheart / int_969bc7d9	type	Drool Hello
Braveheart / int_969bc7d9	comment	Drool Hello: Before Lochlan is thrown on Robert the Bruce's dinner table from above, there is blood dripping onto the bread served.
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Braveheart / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
Braveheart / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Version 3. Wallace tells Isabella he was secretly married to Murron. "I don't know why I tell you now except I see her strength in you."
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Braveheart / int_9724d6fa	type	Call That a Formation?
Braveheart / int_9724d6fa	comment	Call That a Formation?: Played depressingly straight. The Scottish infantry fought as disciplined pike formations, it was their lack of armour and cavalry which made them so vulnerable to the longbow. (Also, what wasn't in those days?) They would not have charged wildly into battle, but advanced in disciplined rows in order to push back cavalry and infantry with massed ranks. The Scots didn't win the battles where they managed to close for battle with the individually more skilled English knights for no reason.
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Braveheart / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
Braveheart / int_97522514	comment	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door: Robert the Bruce goes from neutral to allies, then betrays Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk, only to come to his senses again after a My God, What Have I Done? moment. Eventually, he becomes an Unwitting Pawn to Wallace's capture.
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Braveheart / int_976b0368	type	Invulnerable Horses
Braveheart / int_976b0368	comment	Invulnerable Horses: Actually averted. The depiction of horse wounding (mostly at the Battle of Stirling) was so realistic that the film was actually investigated to see if animal cruelty had occurred (don't worry, it was all dummy horses).
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Braveheart / int_98e572cc	type	Costume Drama
Braveheart / int_98e572cc	comment	Costume Drama: The film was Oscar-nominated for Best Costume Design but lost out to Restoration.
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Braveheart / int_9ab2d4a	type	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
Braveheart / int_9ab2d4a	comment	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: Done in the ending sequence with Wallace's claymore.
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Braveheart / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Braveheart / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: While evil may be a bit strong in this case (ineffectual is perhaps more appropriate), Prince Edward II essentially serves this role to Robert the Bruce in how both are young men with the (at least apparent) destiny to become king and are held within the grip of a controlling father.
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Braveheart / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Braveheart / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Mad Stephen does it best at the Battle of Stirling:
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Braveheart / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Braveheart / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Campbell the Elder is shot with an arrow, has his hand chopped off, takes an ax to the stomach, and still keeps fighting. That last one finally does him in.
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Braveheart / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Braveheart / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: At Stirling, Morrison smashes a man's head in, and blood splatters on the camera.
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Braveheart / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Braveheart / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Played for Laughs when the elder Campbell's wound needs to be cauterized. All the Scots attending him are terrified of getting it done, especially the one holding the hot poker. Edward II and Philip while awaiting the King's visit after the disastrous defeat at Stirling. The Prince is visibly pale and struggling to stay on his feet.
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Braveheart / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Braveheart / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Robert the Bruce suffers from this after seeing Wallace's face at the Battle of Falkirk.
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Braveheart / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Braveheart / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Robert the Bruce's father is this to Robert until the latter calls him out on this.
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Braveheart / int_a4955574	type	Fisticuff-Provoking Comment
Braveheart / int_a4955574	comment	Fisticuff-Provoking Comment: Two from Wallace, answered both times with a sucker punch from Hamish. First, after Wallace returns home from his travels and Hamish challenges him to a rock-throwing contest. Then later, when Wallace is about to leave to meet with Robert the Bruce:
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Braveheart / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Braveheart / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Morrison's wedding, where all the Scots have a good time drinking, dancing and throwing rocks at each other, until Lord Bottom interrupts to "bless their marriage". A guard at Lanark charges at Wallace, then tries to run when Wallace grabs a sledgehammer.
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Braveheart / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Braveheart / int_a6b14ee1	comment	When foot soldiers abandon their formation to intermingle in a chaotic melee with massive casualties on both sides, it's almost always Hollywood Tactics. Before modern warfare, troops stayed in close order, forming pike blocks, shield walls, and so on where the men could support one another and prevent all-out carnage.
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Braveheart / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Braveheart / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Lord Craig manages to escape Wallace's retribution for the betrayal at Falkirk, and even helps sell him out to the English at the end. The only form of comeuppance he gets is Robert Bruce dashing his hopes for another Royal kickback by choosing to fight at Bannockburn.
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Braveheart / int_a96a045c	type	Droit du Seigneur
Braveheart / int_a96a045c	comment	Evidence overwhelmingly points to Primae noctis or Droit du Seigneur — the right of a Lord to take the virginity of serf maidens within his lands — being a fabrication of the modern era. Medieval marriage was controlled by The Church, which has typically championed marital fidelity. If any lord tried to claim the "right" to rape another man's wife, the least he could expect was excommunication, along with an almost certain peasant revolt (as Machiavelli wrote in The Prince a ruler could get away with a lot of things, but taking people's wives wasn't one of them). So, it's not that some lords didn't take advantage of their power to rape peasant women - they did. The claim that lords believed they had a legal right to it is almost certainly a fabrication. Word of God on the DVD commentary notes that they did this to make the English more villainous and they were well aware it was never a real thing.
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Braveheart / int_ac5054d4	type	Wound That Will Not Heal
Braveheart / int_ac5054d4	comment	Wound That Will Not Heal: Robert Bruce's father is a leper with permanent wounds on his face.
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Braveheart / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Braveheart / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: As a boy, William mentions to his uncle Argyle that he doesn't know Latin, to which Argyle replies "Well, that's something we shall have to remedy.". As an adult, Wallace tells Murron he can speak Latin as well as French. His fluency in both helps him as he faces Princess Isabella and her adviser, as mentioned in Bilingual Backfire.
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Braveheart / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Braveheart / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When the Scots struggle to ram open the gates to York, the English help them unwittingly. First, they pour boiling tar on the attackers and then they shoot Arrows on Fire at them. The arrow sets the tar-soaked ram on fire which in turn sets the gate on fire. Problem solved for the Scots.
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Braveheart / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Braveheart / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Wallace and his crew take a fort disguised as English soldiers: The English commander's face at the end of the movie, when he realizes Robert the Bruce and his army are not coming to pay them homage, but are rather charging their line. And right before that, Craig has this reaction when he realizes that Robert the Bruce isn't going to simply pay homage.
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Braveheart / int_b20df16c	type	Friends All Along
Braveheart / int_b20df16c	comment	Friends All Along: The Scottish and Irish troops.
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Braveheart / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Braveheart / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The crowd of English townsfolk eagerly howl and cheer at Wallace's impending execution by evisceration. Wallace can receive the mercy of having his throat cut to quickly end his suffering at any time if he will simply confess that Edward I is the rightful king of Scotland, but he refuses. His evisceration slowly continues - to the point that the English crowd's laughter dies in their throats, and they become so horrified at the actual spectacle that the entire crowd starts shouting and begging to give him mercy and end his suffering.
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Braveheart / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Braveheart / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Phillip, who gives unsolicited advice and acts condescendingly to a very annoyed Longshanks even though everyone knows how ruthless the man is. In a surprise to no one, he throws him out the window to his death.
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Braveheart / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Braveheart / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Stephen the Irishman. He seems to have only joined the Scots because he'll be able to kill Englishmen, not to help the Scots to get freedom.
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Braveheart / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Braveheart / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: In Taiwan, Braveheart is translated as Mel Gibson's "The True Colors of A Hero" (Ying Xiong Beng Se), which is also the Original Mandarin Title for A Better Tomorrow, another tragedy of Love, Friendship, Courage and Honor, directed by John Woo.
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Braveheart / int_bafac7bc	type	Sad Battle Music
Braveheart / int_bafac7bc	comment	Sad Battle Music: Begins playing once Wallace realizes the two nobles he was relying on for cavalry support instead deserts him, continues on as his own troops are killed by English arrows, until finally he discovers that Robert the Bruce also betrayed him after promising to help (of course, the historical Bruce was not present at the battle).
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Braveheart / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Braveheart / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: After Wallace rejects the terms at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, and rallies the Scottish troops, this starts when one of the Scots steps forward from their lines and lifts up his tunic, flashing the English. The other Scottish troops, including Wallace, follow suit, before rushing behind their shields for the first barrage of arrows. After that barrage, all the Scots moon the English. One of the Scottish troops was too slow to block the second barrage of arrows, and ended up taking an arrow to the arse.
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Braveheart / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Braveheart / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Wallace is a combination of Barbarian Hero and Cultured Badass.
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Braveheart / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Braveheart / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Stephen: The almighty says "Don't change the subject, answer the fucking question"
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Braveheart / int_bd196e3c	type	No Escape but Down
Braveheart / int_bd196e3c	comment	No Escape but Down: After Wallace rides into Mornay's bedroom to give him an Epic Flail in the face, his escape route leads him out of the door down into the water.
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Braveheart / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Braveheart / int_c2c92862	comment	Unwanted Spouse: Isabella of France falls (somewhat) into the heroic category when her awful marriage and clear unwanted status leads her into the arms of William Wallace.
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Braveheart / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Braveheart / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After Wallace rescues Murron from the rapist soldier, he puts her on a horse to ride to their grove while he deals with the aftermath. He watches her ride off until she's out of sight before he sneaks out of town in disguise, and it looks like she'll get away, but then she's knocked off the horse with a spear and captured for execution.
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Braveheart / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Braveheart / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the DVD commentary track Gibson cheerfully admits to stealing the final scene between Robert the Bruce and his father, the one where the door closes on Papa Bruce, from the shot that ends The Godfather.
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Braveheart / int_cab5085a	type	Rain of Arrows
Braveheart / int_cab5085a	comment	Rain of Arrows: The English use this tactic repeatedly with Welsh longbowmen. In the Battle of Stirling the Scots held their ground and put their shields up, but that didn't completely prevent casualties. In Falkirk, it's used with deadly effectiveness, efficiently shredding the Scottish army (though the English took heavy casualties as well) and wounding Wallace.
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Braveheart / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Braveheart / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: After their major win against the English at Stirling, Wallace is disappointed to see the Scottish nobles feuding with one another over claims to the Scottish throne.
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Braveheart / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Braveheart / int_ceec4df5	comment	Following his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, Wallace kills the Magistrate the same way, this time shown in vivid detail.
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Braveheart / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Braveheart / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Robert the Bruce is definitely not a bad person, and really does seem to admire Wallace, but he is also weak and easily manipulated by his father, who convinces him to go along with the nobles' betrayal of Wallace at Falkirk. Seeing Wallace's face fraught with despair once he learns that Robert has betrayed him makes the Bruce realize he was wrong, and he saves Wallace's life while making a determined Heelâ€“Face Turn in the process. When his father uses him to betray Wallace yet again, he makes it clear to his old man, in no uncertain terms, that he is now forever dead to him.
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Braveheart / int_d246d18b	type	Historical Relationship Overhaul
Braveheart / int_d246d18b	comment	Historical Relationship Overhaul: Robert the Bruce didn't betray Wallace. Everyone else, sure, but never Wallace, mostly because the two never met and Wallace never backed Bruce's claim to the throne; he preferred freeing John Balliol from English domination. William Wallace and Isabella of France did not have an affair and he was not the father of her son because she was six years old and living in France at the time of his execution.
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Braveheart / int_d2725671	type	Still Fighting the Civil War
Braveheart / int_d2725671	comment	The real Wallace was a son of minor nobility, and not only was he not a Highland barbarian Still Fighting the Civil War of the Picts against Romans, he was a Lord with tenants, serfs and the works. In real-life the Scots pre-emptively attacked the English and Wallace invaded England sacking and pillage villages and attacking English peasants and serfs along the way.
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Braveheart / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Braveheart / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: Robert the Bruce essentially Hand Waves the many historical liberties taken in the story with his opening narration:
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Braveheart / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
Braveheart / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: Robert the Bruce, while fighting on the English side.
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Braveheart / int_d5121164	type	Rose-Tinted Narrative
Braveheart / int_d5121164	comment	Rose-Tinted Narrative: Lampshaded in the opening narration, as Robert Bruce says "Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes." Not one part of it is correct: Scotland 1280 AD. I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. The king of Scotland had died without a son, and the king of England, a cruel pagan known as Edward the Longshanks, claimed the throne of Scotland for himself. Scotland's nobles fought him and fought each other over the crown. So Longshanks invited them to talks of truce — no weapons, one page only. Among the farmers of that shire was Malcolm Wallace, a commoner with his own lands. He had two sons — John and William. In 1280, King Alexander III of Scotland was not only still alive, but his two sons were also alive. The younger son, David, died in 1281; the elder son, Alexander, died in 1284; and finally Alexander III himself died in 1286. Alexander III left a granddaughter, Margaret, acknowledged as his heir by the Scottish nobles. Rather than fighting each other over the crown, the Scots appointed regents who ruled until she died in 1290. At this point, the nobles did not fall into civil war, and Edward did not claim the throne of Scotland. Instead, the Scots nobles asked Edward to preside (as a neutral party) over a commission to determine the rightful king. While Edward did claim overlordship of Scotland and undoubtedly influenced the conclusion, the result was to choose John Balliol as King of Scotland by the normal rules of primogeniture. At no time did Edward invite the nobles of Scotland "to talks of truce — no weapons, one page only". Balliol did start a war against Edward in 1296, because he felt that Edward was being overbearing. Unfortunately for Balliol, Edward was one of the best generals ever to sit on the English throne and beat Balliol handily. Incidentally, Edward was in no sense a "pagan" — there had not been any true pagans in Britain for centuries (he wasn't even a paganus in the Classical Latin sense of "peasant" or "yokel"). In addition, Malcolm Wallace had three sons in 1280. The one left out was the eldest, also named Malcolm.
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Braveheart / int_d5ccaec3	type	Anti-Cavalry
Braveheart / int_d5ccaec3	comment	Anti-Cavalry: When the Scottish army encounters the English infantry, the Scots taunt them into attacking with heavy cavalry. As soon as the English are too close to pull back, the Scots drop their facade and pick up long pikes, which slaughter the horses.
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Braveheart / int_d7e68c39	type	Bulletproof Human Shield
Braveheart / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: During the rebellion against the local English garrison, Campbell the Elder is shielding himself from hailing arrows with a dead English soldier in front of him. One arrow still hits him in the chest.
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Braveheart / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Braveheart / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Wallace and Hamish. Even when they were kids, the two were clearly competitive and prone to roughhousing. Cut to adulthood, the two are still good friends, but can still be a bit rough with each other.
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Braveheart / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Braveheart / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Subverted at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. The Scottish forces are outnumbered three to one by the English forces which scare some of the Scots enough to leave the field, which in turn prompts William to deliver his Dare to Be Badass speech that sparks new confidence amongst his men. Invoked by the Scottish cavalry in the same battle, which appear to flee at the start, only to circle back and flank the English.
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Braveheart / int_da3e71e3	type	Inertial Impalement
Braveheart / int_da3e71e3	comment	Inertial Impalement: Invoked when the Scots counter an English cavalry charge by getting them to crash into a wall of crude pikes.
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Braveheart / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Braveheart / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: William's ceremonial cloth that he got from his wife. He carries it with him and when it gets lost on the battle ground, Robert the Bruce picks it up and returns it to William. Also the thistle, that young Murron gave William at his father's burial. He has kept it pressed in a book.
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Braveheart / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Braveheart / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: When the English show up to the wedding and the magistrate takes the bride for Prima Noctae, we see a brief shot of the guard who will later attempt to rape Murron and start the whole thing. All he does is leer at first.
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Braveheart / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Braveheart / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: After Mornay and Lochlan betray Wallace and lead their cavalry off the field at Falkirk, Wallace gets an arrow to the shoulder, but musters a Heroic Second Wind to mount a horse and make a suicidal charge at the king. When he's unhorsed he pulls a dagger and unmasks the knight who knocked him down. When he sees that it's Robert the Bruce, all the fight goes out of him and he just lies down. This triggers Robert's Heel Realization and he helps Stephen get Wallace off the field.
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Braveheart / int_de5f028b	type	Barbarian Hero
Braveheart / int_de5f028b	comment	Barbarian Hero: Mel Gibson's choice of costume design for the Scottish Warriors deliberately invokes this image, the better to emphasize "the courageous underdog takes down tyrants with superior technology and equipment" narrative; visually, they closer resembled the Celtic Warriors who beat back Julius Caesar's armies during the reign of the Roman Empire than actual Medieval Scottish Warriors (to whom in the Real Life 1300's metal armor was common even among the infantry), but in spirit they are all the more Mystically Heroic for it as a result.
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Braveheart / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Braveheart / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Prince Edward. He tries so hard to meet his father Longshanks' expectations, but he never does.
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Braveheart / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
Braveheart / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The Dung Ages: This wasn't the first work to feature the trope by any means, but the movie certainly popularized it and made it a much more common sight in period fiction.
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Braveheart / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
Braveheart / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: With the caveat that they're Uilleann pipes rather than the Highland bagpipe.
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Braveheart / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Braveheart / int_e11b003d	comment	Edward I and the members of his court spoke French, not English; this could be written off as part of the Translation Convention, except that the Queen and her lady are shown speaking French. However, the English court spoke an Anglo-Norman dialect of French while Isabelle would have spoken Parisian French. At the time these were as different as Cockney and Geordie.
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Braveheart / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Braveheart / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Robert the Bruce, during his My God, What Have I Done? moment when seeing the carnage at Falkirk he helped to commit. Leads shortly thereafter to a Calling the Old Man Out when he tells the elder Bruce he's finally had enough of the "noble way" and declares he will never be on the wrong side again.
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Braveheart / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Braveheart / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Scots understandably take a dim view of Edward I, as do the Welsh with equally good reason, but the English quite correctly regard him as one of their best kings. He was also an excellent husband and father. Whether or not he knew of Edward II's proclivities, he certainly didn't kill any of his male lovers.note Though two (alleged) lovers were executed by Edward II's nobles, but that was after Edward I was long gone. Of course there's one undoubtedly villainous action that Longshanks is associated with, that curiously gets no mention in the film, his raging anti-semitism which led him to expel all Jews from England, something that would easily paint him as a bad guy to modern audiences instead of the invented nastiness of Droit du Seigneur, but presumably Gibson didn't find that sufficiently nasty. Prince Edward gets a strange form of this. Edward II is generally regarded as a brave and athletic man who became a mediocre king and was widely rumored to be in homosexual relationships with his extremely close male favorites. In the film, he's made into a Camp Gay Sissy Villain.
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Braveheart / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Braveheart / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: The last mook protecting the magistrate, upon realising he was hopelessly outnumbered gives up with a Sword Plant.
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Braveheart / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
Braveheart / int_e32c80d9	comment	Going Commando: The Scottish warriors are naked under their kilt which they demonstrate when mooning the English forces.
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Braveheart / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Braveheart / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: Morrison dishes some out to Lord Bottom for invoking primae noctis on his wife, followed by a Spiteful Spit.
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Braveheart / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Braveheart / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Robert the Bruce does this twice to his father: first after standing alongside Longshanks at Falkirk, which led to a humiliating defeat for the Scots, and again after Wallace gets captured.
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Braveheart / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Braveheart / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Mostly averted... though in the original cut, Wallace's execution by disemboweling was this.
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Braveheart / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
Braveheart / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: This film avoids Gorgeous Period Dress by averting the fancy clothes, even for the royals. Although Isabella does get some fancy dresses.
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Braveheart / int_e60aad64	type	Spare a Messenger
Braveheart / int_e60aad64	comment	Spare a Messenger: William Wallace invades the local English garrison, has the English lord killed and burns it to the ground at the start of the Scottish rebellion, but spares the rest of the garrison's soldiers to send word back to England.
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Braveheart / int_e7d7e394	type	Heal It With Fire
Braveheart / int_e7d7e394	comment	Heal It With Fire: Hamish's father needs to have a wound cauterized with a red hot iron after receiving an arrow to the shoulder. In a nice nod to how such a thing might have played out in those days, whisky gets a lot of use both as an anesthetic and disinfectant.
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Braveheart / int_e913fe74	type	Epic Flail
Braveheart / int_e913fe74	comment	Epic Flail: How Wallace exacts revenge on Mornay. After losing his left hand at the Battle of Stirling, Campbell the Elder spends the rest of the movie using a flail.
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Braveheart / int_e9432eb	type	Concepts Are Cheap
Braveheart / int_e9432eb	comment	Concepts Are Cheap: Wallace speaks a lot about "freedom" and uses it to motivate and unite Scotland, but aside from "freedom from English Rule" he doesn't elaborate on what is so great about it or how Scottish rule would be any better. Scotland has the same system of oppressive nobility as England, the Scottish nobles are corrupt and out only for themselves, and the clans can barely keep from fighting each other.
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Braveheart / int_ea382fea	type	Wait Here
Braveheart / int_ea382fea	comment	Wait Here: When Young William wants to join his father in the fight against the intruders, the latter tells him to stay behind.
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Braveheart / int_ea38ddd5	type	Sissy Villain
Braveheart / int_ea38ddd5	comment	Sissy Villain: Prince Edward is a vain, frivolous Camp Gay idiot who spends his time making servants carry mirrors around so he can admire his lover and himself in their new outfits.
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Braveheart / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Braveheart / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Edward the Longshanks is an elder, but a downright cruel and sadistic elder who'll stop at nothing when it comes to making his enemies suffer.
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Braveheart / int_ee6201b8	type	It Was a Gift
Braveheart / int_ee6201b8	comment	William's ceremonial cloth that he got from his wife. He carries it with him and when it gets lost on the battle ground, Robert the Bruce picks it up and returns it to William.
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Braveheart / int_ef20d7bc	type	A Minor Kidroduction
Braveheart / int_ef20d7bc	comment	A Minor Kidroduction: Writer Randall Wallace initially planned to start the story with William Wallace as an adult and added the prologue of his childhood only as an afterthought.
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Braveheart / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Braveheart / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Murron, see also Disposable Woman above. Not all disposable women are also Lost Lenores but Murron fits this trope as her relevance to the story doesn't end with her death. Wallace clearly still loves and mourns her, and she appears in dream sequences and flashbacks.
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Braveheart / int_f438b11b	type	Who's Laughing Now?
Braveheart / int_f438b11b	comment	Done less directly during the final climax, where Edward very smugly observes his father on his death bed, with Longshanks lacking the strength to dish anything beyond a "Oh, you're so enjoying this, aren't you?" Death Glare.
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Braveheart / int_f44c8cc3	type	Onrushing Army
Braveheart / int_f44c8cc3	comment	Onrushing Army: There are Screaming Warrior charges, sure, but there's also archers, cavalry, and Irishmen deployed in various battles before they get to that bit.
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Braveheart / int_f46eebb	type	Betrayal by Inaction
Braveheart / int_f46eebb	comment	Betrayal by Inaction: At the Battle of Falkirk, Lochlan and Mornay show up with their soldiers on the Scottish side, but once the battle has started and it's their time to charge, they simply turn around and leave the battlefield, hoping the Scottish army will be destroyed by the English.
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Braveheart / int_f485d62d	type	Battering Ram
Braveheart / int_f485d62d	comment	Battering Ram: Wallace and his men are seen ramming in the gate to York. This gets an added Incendiary Exponent - if the door doesn't fall down, it can burn down.
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Braveheart / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Braveheart / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Wallace and Murron. Possibly due to hallucination, possibly played straight, but for those few moments, together nonetheless.
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Braveheart / int_f740a274	type	Historical Beauty Update
Braveheart / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: The real Longshanks had a drooping eyelid and a lisp. The film removes these traits, presumably to make Longshanks more formidable.
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Braveheart / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Braveheart / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Murron and the English soldiers.
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Braveheart / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Braveheart / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: After Longshanks's Kick the Dog moment against his son's best friend and possible lover — Edward II finally snaps, and tries to kill the old man in Revenge. Sadly subverted, though; Longshanks easily defends himself, then simply abuses his son even more. Done less directly during the final climax, where Edward very smugly observes his father on his death bed, with Longshanks lacking the strength to dish anything beyond a "Oh, you're so enjoying this, aren't you?" Death Glare.
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Braveheart / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Braveheart / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Murron is backhanded by a soldier and knocked off a horse by a spear to the face, but she still looks pretty good. See also Gory Discretion Shot.
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Braveheart / int_ffb34813	type	Obi-Wan Moment
Braveheart / int_ffb34813	comment	Obi-Wan Moment: When Campbell the Elder dies, he declares to be a happy man and that he lived long enough to live free. Then he dies with his son sobbing over him.
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