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Time Bandits
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A fantasy adventure film produced and directed by Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam, who co-wrote the screenplay with fellow Python Michael Palin.Kevin is an imaginative and inquisitive child whose interest in history is not shared by his shallow and materialistic parents. One night he is visited by a gang of time-traveling dwarfs on the run from the "Supreme Being" (implied to actually be God). Before Kevin can protest, he's kidnapped and forced to accompany them on their adventures through time. The bandits have stolen a map that reveals all the gaps in creation, which allows them to visit virtually any place or historic personality. How do they use this power? To steal all the treasure they can find, of course! Meanwhile, their journey is being covertly monitored by the so-called Evil Genius (likewise implied to be the Devil), who has his own big plans for the map, not to mention the rest of the universe...With quirky characters, nice historical backdrops, Indy Ploys, Black Comedy galore, and ultimately a Good versus Evil battle, the film makes for a wacky, humorous yet still dramatic time travel adventure. This was the first part of the "Dreamer Trilogy": Time Bandits represents childhood, Brazil represents adulthood, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen represents old age. | |
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"Mister Sandman" Sequence | |
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"Mister Sandman" Sequence: When Kevin arrives in Mycenae, there is a short montage of shots around the city set to music, providing ambiance for the time and place. | |
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Goggles Do Nothing | |
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Goggles Do Nothing: Randall's flight helmet includes a set of goggles that are always pushed up to his forehead, unused. His headgear is purely ornamental, as is all of the Bandits'. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Wally after Fidget's death. | |
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Non Sequitur | |
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Non Sequitur: When Robin Hood asks Strutter how long he's been a robber, the bandit replies, "Four-foot-one!" Robin, ever the proper English gentleman, struggles to pretend that this is a perfectly appropriate response to his question. "Good lord! Jolly good. Four foot one? Well... that-that-that is-is- a... long time, isn't it?" | |
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Improvised Zipline | |
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Improvised Zipline: What the gang uses to escape the cage in Evil's citadel. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Randall asks for champagne "with plenty of ice"... on the Titanic. He also says "nothing can go wrong!" about two seconds before a giant walks off with the boat they're all on as a hat. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Agamemnon. He's a far better parent than Kevin's parents ever were. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Kevin does recognize Robin Hood. | |
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Cosmic Flaw | |
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Cosmic Flaw: The dwarves are using holes in creation to leap through time and space as robbers. It leads ultimately to bad things for them. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: According to a novelization, Kevin's last name is Lotterby and he's eleven years old. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Evil's rant about God "look how he spends his time. Forty-three species of parrots!" : There are actually 410 species of parrots | |
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Death by Materialism | |
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Death by Materialism: The main enemy in the film is materialism. Evil wants to remake the world according to his materialistic vision of toil and productivity. The dwarves are frequently foiled by their own greed, and their desire for ever-more riches always results in them losing everything they'd previously stolen. Kevin's parents are more concerned with their appliances than their son, which ultimately causes their death as well. | |
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Artificial Human | |
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Artificial Human: The Evil Genius appears human, but seems to be more machine than organism. His fingertips are on hinges that he can bend back to expose nozzles that fire magic. In the final battle he turns himself into an evil merry-go-round to deal with some cowboys. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: The Supreme Being presents himself as either a menacing face in the heavens or a somewhat stern old man. Kevin is rather horrified to learn that He arranged a lot of death and suffering just to test his creation and doesn't seem at all concerned about it. His first act once the bandits surrender is to order them to clean up the mess and punish them with a salary cut even though he claims that all of their actions were part of his plan. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: The ogre couple intend to eat the Bandits when they're caught. | |
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Ambiguously Human | |
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Ambiguously Human: The Minotaur that Agamemnon fights looks like a guy with a cow helmet, but it never speaks and instead makes horrible shrieking and moaning noises. Agamemnon removes what appears to be the helmet but we never get a look at the guy underneath to confirm, and he just calls it "The enemy of the people." | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Early in the movie, Kevin takes a random Polaroid picture of the dwarfs holding up the map. Later, after Evil has taken the map and caged them all up, Kevin uses the picture to figure out that there is a time hole nearby the cage. In some lost extended scene Agamemnon teaches Kevin an aesop about war and violence (it seems he finds too much amusement in historical wars and fights) and gives him a knife. This token is later used to escape from the cage towards the end. | |
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Misaimed Fandom | |
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Misaimed Fandom: In-universe example. Kevin thinks of Robin Hood as a hero. The bandits are disgusted by him. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Agammemnon. | |
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Ascended Fanboy | |
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Ascended Fanboy: Kevin always loved history; now he gets to see history in the making. | |
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Power Echoes | |
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Power Echoes: The Supreme Being being... well, the Supreme Being, his echo is very pronounced, even by this trope's standards. | |
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Good Is Old-Fashioned | |
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Good Is Old-Fashioned: The Supreme Being is an old-fashioned British gentleman, while the Evil Genius wants to reform the world around lasers and technology. | |
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Subhuman Surfacing Shot | |
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Subhuman Surfacing Shot: During the exploration of the Time of Legends, the voyage by ship is interrupted when a giant slowly rises from the ocean in a close-up shot. Already thuggish and intimidating, the giant's lack of human reaction is further driven home by the fact that it's using the heroes' ship as a hat and either doesn't notice or just doesn't care. | |
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Potty Emergency | |
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Potty Emergency: "Pansy! The problem!! It's started again!!" | |
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Invisible Wall | |
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Invisible Wall: The bandits run into one and then marvel, "So that's what they look like!" It turns out to be smashable, with something completely different behind it. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: This happens a lot when the Evil Genius is around. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Redgrave speaks only in gibberish, which is translated by Marian. | |
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Cryptic Background Reference | |
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Cryptic Background Reference: Some of the bandits lament Horseflesh not being in charge anymore, and Randall spitefully retorts, "Horseflesh is dead!" We don't get any more detail on who Horseflesh is or what happened to him. His character was originally a turncoat to Evil's side, and he's actually still in the film as the little horned man in Evil's retinue, but he's Demoted to Extra. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Evil, being Evil, does this a lot. Including one literal example where he blows up his minion Benson (in dog form) with a Death Ray. We even hear the poor dog howl as it's blown up. | |
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Minion with an F in Evil | |
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Minion with an F in Evil: The most creative thing Benson can think of is to turn beans into peas... | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: In the end, the Supreme Being appears and notes that he let the Bandits steal the map, and thus have it fall into the Evil Genius's hands, to test his creation. | |
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Emergency Temporal Shift | |
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Emergency Temporal Shift: The eponymous thieves often end up having to access the Time Holes to escape imminent danger, most prominently the Supreme Being pursuing them across history - though they've also needed to escape being arrested by Napoleon's officers, to get away with loot stolen from King Agamemnon, and to avoid drowning in the North Atlantic following the sinking of the Titanic. Though in the final case, they had help from Evil. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death is Cheap: When God appears and learns one of the dwarves died fighting Evil he says, "Dead? No excuse for laying off work." | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: The Evil Genius, by definition. And that's the way his minions like it. The Supreme Being claims that he gave the Map to the Bandits to test his creation, Evil, causing a lot of unnecessary suffering, then punishes them by docking their pay, all the while stating, "I'm the good one!" When he resurrects one of the Bandits, it's not out of benevolence, but because he wants the Bandit to get back to work. | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder | |
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Rhetorical Question Blunder: Robert does this with one of the Evil Genius's questions. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Sadly, Evil vs. all the forces that the dwarves recruit to battle him. But then the Supreme Being shows up.. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Robin Hood's commentary on the Poor. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Agamemnon briefly becomes an adopted father to Kevin. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: Originally a morally-grey figure, usually resulting in his better aspects being thrown out in various adaptations of the Iliad/Trojan War, here Agamemnon's portrayed as a noble hero. It helps that he's played by Sean Connery. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Agamemnon believes that Kevin was sent by the gods to save him from the minotaur. Also: the Supreme Being appears at the end, destroys Evil and cleans up the mess the Bandits have made of things. Which is a Deus Ex Deus. | |
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What Have We Ear? | |
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What Have We Ear?: Part of Agamemnon's very fatherly behavior toward Kevin is to perform a magic trick. Kevin doesn't think he's very kingly but likes him just the same. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Evil is surrounded by incompetent henchmen. At one point, he says to one of them who's just said something particularly idiotic, "Oh, my dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence." This is likely his own doing, however, as both of the Mooks who dare to raise serious questions about Evil's plan are blown to smithereens - even when Evil himself observes that it was a good question. Evil also thinks Kevin is one, too, noting how he's the only one of the Bandits who is actually intelligent. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: The ocean is so damned... wet. So very, very... wet. | |
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Historical Hilarity | |
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Historical Hilarity: Kevin and the Dwarves run into Napoleon, Robin Hood, and the Titanic. All of them are played for laughs, especially Robin Hood. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Pansy and Vincent. Gilliam on the DVD Commentary says "They're gonna be the losers over time." | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: The Evil Genius can't leave the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness. | |
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Gold Fever | |
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Gold Fever: The primary motivation of the Bandits. | |
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Time Bandits / int_4a2059bf | |
Time Bandits / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
Time Bandits / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: In the last minute of the movie, Kevin is left homeless and orphaned. Given the film's criticism of the kind of materialism that Kevin's parents represent, it might not have been intended to be entirely unhappy. | |
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Time Bandits / int_4e3d253b | |
Time Bandits / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Time Bandits / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The opening and closing are reverse shots of each other, from the Map to a zoom in on Earth and on Kevin's English suburb, then a pull back from Kevin's neighborhood to the Earth to the map. | |
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Time Bandits / int_5313c266 | |
Time Bandits / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
Time Bandits / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: The Ogres. The Wife may be Faux Affably Evil, but the Ogre himself may be hungry but not ungrateful and is very friendly when offered and given help. | |
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Time Bandits / int_537dd8fe | |
Time Bandits / int_562abd51 | type |
Let's Get Dangerous! | |
Time Bandits / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: Kevin stays behind to distract the Evil Genius' pursuing Mooks while the other Bandits get help from other parts of time. | |
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Time Bandits / int_562abd51 | |
Time Bandits / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
Time Bandits / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: Napoleon's whole characterization as The Napoleon. In reality, Napoleon was of average height for his time period, and his reputation as small-statured was an English creation. One scene takes place on the Titanic, which is for some reason labeled as the S.S. Titanic instead of the proper R.M.S. Titanic. | |
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Time Bandits / int_56515a39 | |
Time Bandits / int_56635771 | type |
Recurring Character | |
Time Bandits / int_56635771 | comment |
Recurring Character: Vincent and Pansy, throughout time. | |
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Time Bandits / int_56635771 | |
Time Bandits / int_58626d87 | type |
Genius Ditz | |
Time Bandits / int_58626d87 | comment |
Genius Ditz: Robert, Evil's horned minion, is generally very slow-witted and is often seen struggling to keep up with Evil's thought processes. However, he seems to be a real whiz about technology. When asked, he's able to seamlessly provide an technical description of various gadgets. | |
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Time Bandits / int_58626d87 | |
Time Bandits / int_5c5ac0e2 | type |
Really 700 Years Old | |
Time Bandits / int_5c5ac0e2 | comment |
Really 700 Years Old: The Bandits, being formerly employed by God, are all thousands of years old. | |
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1.0 | |
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Time Bandits / int_5c5ac0e2 | |
Time Bandits / int_5cdb777e | type |
You Look Familiar | |
Time Bandits / int_5cdb777e | comment |
You Look Familiar: In-Universe: A man looking exactly like Agamemnon appears at the end as a fireman. It's never explained how or why this is (but reportedly it was Sean Connery's idea). | |
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Time Bandits / int_5cdb777e | |
Time Bandits / int_5e751f8 | type |
Fallen Angel | |
Time Bandits / int_5e751f8 | comment |
Fallen Angel: Although Evil is the most obvious Satanic Archetype in the film, it is Horseflesh who was an angel and revolted. Though technically all the Time Bandits kinda revolted, but you get the idea. | |
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Time Bandits / int_5e751f8 | |
Time Bandits / int_60b21fa3 | type |
The Lancer | |
Time Bandits / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
Wally: The acerbic one/The Lancer aka Eric Idle. | |
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Time Bandits / int_60b21fa3 | |
Time Bandits / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Time Bandits / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Evil Genius. | |
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Time Bandits / int_60fa92ac | |
Time Bandits / int_62fd5552 | type |
Bavarian Fire Drill | |
Time Bandits / int_62fd5552 | comment |
Bavarian Fire Drill: The Bandits order around Napoleon's troops so they don't witness them making off with all his loot. | |
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Time Bandits / int_62fd5552 | |
Time Bandits / int_65163c3a | type |
Evil Tower of Ominousness | |
Time Bandits / int_65163c3a | comment |
Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Fortress of Ultimate Darkness. It just keeps on going up... | |
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Time Bandits / int_65163c3a | |
Time Bandits / int_67a70f33 | type |
Creepy Circus Music | |
Time Bandits / int_67a70f33 | comment |
Creepy Circus Music: The demented fairground organ music that blares when Evil gets rid of the cowboys attempting to restrain him. Given that he's spinning them around wildly before cutting their ropes and hurling them to their doom, the tune is meant to make it all feel like a nightmare merry-go-round. | |
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Time Bandits / int_67a70f33 | |
Time Bandits / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
Time Bandits / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Done by, well... Evil. | |
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Time Bandits / int_68068108 | |
Time Bandits / int_68f95429 | type |
That's No Moon | |
Time Bandits / int_68f95429 | comment |
That's No Moon: A ship ends up being worn as a hat by a giant. | |
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Time Bandits / int_68f95429 | |
Time Bandits / int_69fb91e8 | type |
Chewing the Scenery | |
Time Bandits / int_69fb91e8 | comment |
Chewing the Scenery: Vermin can be seen literally doing this to the stage background while the rest of the Bandits perform their musical number for Napoleon. | |
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Time Bandits / int_69fb91e8 | |
Time Bandits / int_6a6b23ff | type |
Unfazed Everyman | |
Time Bandits / int_6a6b23ff | comment |
Unfazed Everyman: Kevin takes everything very much in stride. | |
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Time Bandits / int_6a6b23ff | |
Time Bandits / int_6d871385 | type |
Villainous BSoD | |
Time Bandits / int_6d871385 | comment |
Villainous BSoD: Napoleon goes almost catatonic while watching the Time Bandits do their musical number. They think he hates them until he snaps out of it and becomes ecstatic with joy. | |
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Time Bandits / int_6d871385 | |
Time Bandits / int_6ea8ff42 | type |
Today, X. Tomorrow, the World! | |
Time Bandits / int_6ea8ff42 | comment |
Today, X. Tomorrow, the World!: Today the Map, and the day after tomorrow, the world! | |
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Time Bandits / int_6ea8ff42 | |
Time Bandits / int_6eb04f1 | type |
"Everybody Laughs" Ending | |
Time Bandits / int_6eb04f1 | comment |
"Everybody Laughs" Ending: After the end credits, that is. | |
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Time Bandits / int_6eb04f1 | |
Time Bandits / int_6eb1268c | type |
Extreme Omnivore | |
Time Bandits / int_6eb1268c | comment |
Extreme Omnivore: Vermin. So much so that Randall threatens to feed Kevin to him. The ogres. They apparently eat fish but prefer to eat old boots and other junk they find in the ocean. They're also delighted at the idea of eating every part of the Kevin and the Bandits, including their clothing. | |
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Time Bandits / int_6eb1268c | |
Time Bandits / int_6ec4232f | type |
Casting Gag | |
Time Bandits / int_6ec4232f | comment |
Casting Gag: Terry Gilliam wrote in, with some humor, the detail in the script that King Agamemnon would resemble Sean Connery "or an actor of equal but cheaper stature". To Gilliam's surprise, Connery acquired, read and liked the script, offering to accept less money than his usual pay rate in order to appear in the film. | |
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Time Bandits / int_6ec4232f | |
Time Bandits / int_6f572188 | type |
Another Dimension | |
Time Bandits / int_6f572188 | comment |
Another Dimension: The Time of Legends | |
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Time Bandits / int_6f572188 | |
Time Bandits / int_7188489c | type |
Let the Past Burn | |
Time Bandits / int_7188489c | comment |
Let the Past Burn: The family home burns down at the end. Shortly after the parents pick up the rock of evil that was found in the wreckage and both explode, leaving Kevin an orphan. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7188489c | |
Time Bandits / int_71d51663 | type |
God Is Inept | |
Time Bandits / int_71d51663 | comment |
God Is Inept: Also zig-zagged. The Time Bandits claim they stole the map from the Supreme Being, who spends many scenes ineffectually chasing them while nevertheless looking very impressive. Evil calls the Supreme Being a lunatic because of all of his pointless creations, like slugs and nipples for men. Ultimately the Supreme Being does resolve everything and states that it was all according to His plan, saying, "I'm not entirely dim." However, along the way he seems to be a little vague and distracted, doesn't put much effort into explaining why suffering must occur, and doesn't notice that the Bandits leave a chunk of Evil behind. It's also worth noting that he apparently planned the entire scenario simply to test his creation, Evil... whom he then blows up at the end, making the whole thing pointless. | |
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Time Bandits / int_71d51663 | |
Time Bandits / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
Time Bandits / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: The Bandits, doubly so. They hand-deliver the map to the Evil Genius in their quest for "The Most Fabulous Object in the World." Meanwhile, The Supreme Being also intended for them to steal the map the whole time to he could test his creation, Evil. | |
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Time Bandits / int_733e007a | |
Time Bandits / int_73f7975f | type |
Jerkass Gods | |
Time Bandits / int_73f7975f | comment |
Jerkass Gods: The Supreme Being created Evil without being able to give a good reason ("I think it has something to do with free will"). Then locked him in the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness and manipulated the Bandits into going there and fighting Evil to "test" him, getting several people killed in the process. He even proves Himself capable of reviving someone from the dead with no ill-effects, but noticeably does not do so to any of the innocent humans killed in the course of His "test". Then He takes away the nearest thing Kevin has to friends, and leaves the poor kid to fend for himself. Even an Omniscient Morality License can surely only stretch so far. | |
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Time Bandits / int_73f7975f | |
Time Bandits / int_76d6c3df | type |
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place | |
Time Bandits / int_76d6c3df | comment |
The Bandits believe "The Most Fabulous Object In The World" will be easy to get from a place called The Fortress of Ultimate Darkness. | |
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Time Bandits / int_76d6c3df | |
Time Bandits / int_77480c5e | type |
God Is Good | |
Time Bandits / int_77480c5e | comment |
God Is Good: Zig-zagged. The Supreme Being is trying to fix things and save His Creations, but is very cold and unpleasant about it. | |
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Time Bandits / int_79a0e313 | type |
Bolivian Army Ending | |
Time Bandits / int_79a0e313 | comment |
Bolivian Army Ending: Kevin left alone and parentless, back in the normal world. If that isn't still part of the dream his adventure was implied to be, who knows how he'll manage. | |
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Time Bandits / int_79a0e313 | |
Time Bandits / int_7ac5914f | type |
Prisoner's Last Meal | |
Time Bandits / int_7ac5914f | comment |
Prisoner's Last Meal: Invoked. After Evil imprisons the dwarves in a cage that's suspended over a dark void, Vermin starts eating a rat before offering the others a bite, this being a possible "last meal" as his justification. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7ac5914f | |
Time Bandits / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
Time Bandits / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: Lampshaded when, after the Evil Genius destroys one of his minions who asks him why, if he's the genius, God is still in control of the universe, he nonetheless agrees it's a good question. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7b6e47a5 | |
Time Bandits / int_7ccd3698 | type |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
Time Bandits / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The giant from the Time of Legends. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7ccd3698 | |
Time Bandits / int_7d81759e | type |
Magical Land | |
Time Bandits / int_7d81759e | comment |
Magical Land: The "Time of Legends" is a brilliant subversion of this trope. At first it is described as a place beyond the regular time-and-space, a mythical age/world where wizards and giants still exist and where the most fantastic treasure in the world is waiting... But when we actually see it, the Time of Legends turns out to be a gigantic foggy wasteland inhabited by creatures ranging from the bizarre (the gibberish-shouting trolls) to the dangerous (man-eating ogres), and if it wasn't enough it is also where the Supreme Being imprisoned the embodiment of pure and absolute evil. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7d81759e | |
Time Bandits / int_7e1184d8 | type |
Suspect Is Hatless | |
Time Bandits / int_7e1184d8 | comment |
Suspect Is Hatless: Benson points out "the little one" as the one with the map while they all look at a group of dwarfs and a child. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7ea8f5ce | type |
Knight in Shining Armor | |
Time Bandits / int_7ea8f5ce | comment |
Knight in Shining Armor: Before the dwarfs turn up, a knight on horseback leaps through Kevin's closet. In the final battle, a whole group of them charge at the Evil Genius. It doesn't really work out though, since Evil just creates a smoke cloud and when it clears, all the knights have somehow impaled each other. | |
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Time Bandits / int_7ea8f5ce | |
Time Bandits / int_7fb70f7d | type |
God and Satan Are Both Jerks | |
Time Bandits / int_7fb70f7d | comment |
God and Satan Are Both Jerks: Evil is, well, evil. Literally. He's made of it. The Supreme Being, however, is a rather unpleasant British gentleman with little-to-no regard for human life. | |
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Time Bandits / int_8124e7a6 | type |
Sudden Downer Ending | |
Time Bandits / int_8124e7a6 | comment |
Sudden Downer Ending: Evil has been defeated, the Bandits are back in the Supreme Being's employ, all seems well. Then Kevin wakes up to his house burning down, his parents touch a shard of evil and explode, and Agamemnon seemingly doesn't care and takes off, leaving Kevin an orphan in the remains of his home. | |
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Time Bandits / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
Time Bandits / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: The film gets progressively more surreal as it goes on. The final battle against Evil is super-trippy, and followed by an inconsistent All Just a Dream fake-out, a couple of people blowing up and a fireman who looks suspiciously like Agamemnon winking cheerily at Kevin as he and the other firemen drive off leaving him before the burnt wreckage of his home. | |
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Time Bandits / int_82d1f93f | type |
MagiTek | |
Time Bandits / int_82d1f93f | comment |
Magitek: The Evil Genius is all about technology, and he's fittingly as much machine as he is man. He can tilt up his finger joints to reveal the nozzles of magical cannons that can destroy or polymorph his targets. To fight the Bandits' legions of time, he turns himself into a clockwork merry-go-round and then an inflatable pincushion. His lair is filled with creepy looking machines that are maintained by his Mooks who wear rubber industrial gear. When staring into his black cauldron, he instructs his minions, "Stand by for mind-control!" like a factory foreman. | |
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Time Bandits / int_82d1f93f | |
Time Bandits / int_847a5361 | type |
Human Traffic Jam | |
Time Bandits / int_847a5361 | comment |
Human Traffic Jam: When the title characters steal Emperor Napoleon's wealth, they are pursued by the French Army troops guarding him. After they go through a time hole and it disappears, the troops come to a stop where the time hole was, with the troops behind running into the troops in front. | |
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Time Bandits / int_847a5361 | |
Time Bandits / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
Time Bandits / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: We get a shot of Agamemnon's wife looking sour just before Kevin is abducted, suggesting that his abduction is her reaction to the ongoing feud between them, but instead, it's part of an elaborate ceremony by Agamemnon to anoint Kevin his heir. | |
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Time Bandits / int_8797239c | |
Time Bandits / int_89204ffb | type |
Shrug of God | |
Time Bandits / int_89204ffb | comment |
"I think it's something to do with free will." (Also something of an in-universe, and very literal, Shrug of God.) | |
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Time Bandits / int_89204ffb | |
Time Bandits / int_895ec17 | type |
Only in It for the Money | |
Time Bandits / int_895ec17 | comment |
Only in It for the Money: The Bandits are traveling through time for no reason other than to steal. Kevin is offended. | |
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Time Bandits / int_895ec17 | |
Time Bandits / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
Time Bandits / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: Kevin admonishes Randall and the bandits several times for using the map to gain wealth and not anything else. | |
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Time Bandits / int_8b221a63 | |
Time Bandits / int_8b568cb7 | type |
Posthumous Character | |
Time Bandits / int_8b568cb7 | comment |
Posthumous Character: An ambiguous example with Horseflesh, the apparent former leader of the Bandits, who Randall claims is dead. The character was originally supposed to have betrayed the group and joined the Evil Genius, but overtly having seven dwarf characters might have brushed against some legal issues. The character was demoted to an extra, as the dwarf in the Evil Genius's company, who receives no lines and doesn't do anything. It's unclear if the character is still supposed to be the gang's old leader. | |
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Time Bandits / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Time Bandits / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Kevin's parents, who don't seem to care much about him, see a piece of evil in the microwave. Kevin tells them not to touch it. But they ignore him and touch it anyway. They blow up. On the DVD Commentary [not on the 2013 remaster], Terry Gilliam says "Parents have to listen to their children." | |
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Time Bandits / int_91b55fe | type |
Pop-Star Composer | |
Time Bandits / int_91b55fe | comment |
Pop-Star Composer: George Harrison, also the film's producer. His 1982 song "Dream Away" is played in the end credits. | |
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Time Bandits / int_928ca2cc | type |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
Time Bandits / int_928ca2cc | comment |
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Kevin threatens to burn the map unless Evil calls off his creatures. Evil goes a bit overboard and blows up all his remaining minions. | |
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Time Bandits / int_9409ae5b | type |
SuperVillainLair | |
Time Bandits / int_9409ae5b | comment |
Super Villain Lair: The Fortress of Ultimate Darkness. | |
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Time Bandits / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
Time Bandits / int_94680696 | comment |
Shaped Like Itself: | |
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Time Bandits / int_9600368d | type |
Behind the Black | |
Time Bandits / int_9600368d | comment |
Behind the Black: When Wally is climbing up the rope and the other characters are concerned he fell, they only see him there once he appears onscreen. This is despite the fact that there is obviously still weight they can feel climbing up the rope and we are given no evidence of anything obscuring the vision of the characters looking past the bottom of the screen. | |
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Time Bandits / int_96a33f11 | type |
Riddle for the Ages | |
Time Bandits / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: It's never explained why Robin Hood's savage merry men are humoring his charitable leadership. | |
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Time Bandits / int_984ef9ef | type |
"Not So Different" Remark | |
Time Bandits / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: Randall says to Kevin that they both have a lot in common. But Kevin doesn't buy it. Can you blame him? | |
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Time Bandits / int_9cc1a329 | type |
Upper-Class Twit | |
Time Bandits / int_9cc1a329 | comment |
Upper-Class Twit: Robin Hood is a chipper gentleman prone to spouting "Jolly good!" and doesn't seem to understand the realities around him. | |
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Time Bandits / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Time Bandits / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Check out all the toys in Kevin's bedroom. | |
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Time Bandits / int_9d15f525 | type |
Made of Evil | |
Time Bandits / int_9d15f525 | comment |
Made of Evil: The Evil Genius. As in, literally, he's made of pure, concentrated evil, to the point where his alternate name is simply "Evil," and touching a burnt piece of him even after he's dead will turn you into a hermit crab (apparently) or make you blow up. | |
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Time Bandits / int_9d15f525 | |
Time Bandits / int_9d6427ec | type |
Time Travel | |
Time Bandits / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Time Travel: The Time Bandits have a map of all the holes in time and space, through which they can pass to steal all the riches of the world. | |
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Time Bandits / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
Time Bandits / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The villain wants to use the map to rule the universe, but the heroes just want to get rich. | |
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Time Bandits / int_a19135a6 | type |
Mind Control | |
Time Bandits / int_a19135a6 | comment |
Mind Control: The Evil Genius does this to Og to lure the Bandits to the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness with the prospect of "The Most Fabulous Object in the World". True to his mechanical nature, he intones, "Stand by for mind control!" before casting his spell. | |
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Time Bandits / int_a1a1491e | type |
Homage | |
Time Bandits / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: When Wally arrives in a spaceship, the musical fanfare is a riff on Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The camera focuses on the the number "201" inscribed on the spaceship. Presumably the number is smaller because Wally and the spaceship are smaller. | |
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Time Bandits / int_a536f3a3 | type |
Gender-Blender Name | |
Time Bandits / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Robin Hood's right hand man is named Marian, apparently replacing Maid Marian in the much more glamorous legends. | |
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Time Bandits / int_a54534a0 | type |
Parental Neglect | |
Time Bandits / int_a54534a0 | comment |
Parental Neglect: Kevin's parents don't care about him at all. When the house is on fire, his mother is more concerned with running back inside to get the toaster than making sure he's alright, while his father does nothing about it. | |
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Time Bandits / int_a939a527 | type |
Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
Time Bandits / int_a939a527 | comment |
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Really, the Evil Genius's entire face, when he's about to do something really horrific. He never gets to do whatever it was he intended to do: twice. | |
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Time Bandits / int_a939d96a | type |
Adults Are Useless | |
Time Bandits / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: Kevin has more common sense and smarts than the other bandits, who were written as dwarfs so that audiences would accept Kevin as their equal. Kevin's parents represent the banal, materialistic existence that Evil wants to promote. | |
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Time Bandits / int_ab17e948 | type |
Don't Touch It, You Idiot! | |
Time Bandits / int_ab17e948 | comment |
Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: "Mum! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it!" Boom! | |
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Time Bandits / int_add931af | type |
I Choose to Stay | |
Time Bandits / int_add931af | comment |
I Choose to Stay: Kevin is offered the opportunity to remain in Greece as the king's adopted son, but the Bandits drag him away. Considering what we know will eventually happen to Agammemnon, it's just as well... | |
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Time Bandits / int_add931af | |
Time Bandits / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Time Bandits / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: All the Bandits do this at one point or another. | |
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Time Bandits / int_afdb4507 | type |
Godly Sidestep | |
Time Bandits / int_afdb4507 | comment |
Godly Sidestep: God's explanation for the existence of evil is only partial: it has something to do with free will. | |
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Time Bandits / int_b0855ef3 | type |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed | |
Time Bandits / int_b0855ef3 | comment |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Fans have interpreted the six titular Time Bandits are all inspired by the six Pythons as seen by Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam. Randal: The self-appointed leader aka John Cleese. Fidgit: The nice one aka Michael Palin. Vermin: The filth loving one aka Terry Gilliam. Wally: The acerbic one/The Lancer aka Eric Idle. Strutter: The smart one aka Terry Jones. Og: The quiet one aka Graham Chapman. | |
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Time Bandits / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
Time Bandits / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: For time travelers, the Bandits are remarkably ignorant about famous events. The Bandits are completely blindsided when Robin Hood gives all their stolen loot to the poor. Kevin chastises them, saying everyone knows that. The Bandits don't realize the danger of being on the Titanic. Randall gripes, "It didn't say 'Get off before the iceberg' on the ticket!" The Bandits believe "The Most Fabulous Object In The World" will be easy to get from a place called The Fortress of Ultimate Darkness. Kevin's parents also ignore their son and touch a leftover piece of the burned Evil Genius, which promptly makes them explode. Considering his mother was going to risk her life to save the toaster... | |
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Time Bandits / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
Time Bandits / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: | |
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Time Bandits / int_b707726f | |
Time Bandits / int_b8dde2 | type |
Evil Overlord | |
Time Bandits / int_b8dde2 | comment |
Evil Overlord: The Evil Genius, who else? | |
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Time Bandits / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
Time Bandits / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Horseflesh had a big role in the script, but his lines were removed, and he's just more of a background character. The one line referencing him is left as a Cryptic Background Reference. | |
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Time Bandits / int_b8e3f20a | |
Time Bandits / int_b97a2fa7 | type |
Forced Transformation | |
Time Bandits / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
Forced Transformation: Og gets hit by a spell that turns his head into a pig's head. He later gets turned into a pig entirely. Evil turns his minion Benson into a dog, apparently as punishment, but Benson thanks him profusely. | |
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Time Bandits / int_bd2812b5 | type |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
Time Bandits / int_bd2812b5 | comment |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The Supreme Being and the Bandits. Kevin has to stay "to carry on the fight." | |
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Time Bandits / int_bd2812b5 | |
Time Bandits / int_bd3b726e | type |
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad | |
Time Bandits / int_bd3b726e | comment |
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: The Evil Genius and his minions. | |
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Time Bandits / int_bd3b726e | |
Time Bandits / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
Time Bandits / int_beb9a361 | comment |
Anti-Hero: The eponymous Time Bandits are out for personal enrichment, but it's ultimately up to them to keep the Map out of Evil's hands. | |
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Time Bandits / int_beb9a361 | |
Time Bandits / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
Time Bandits / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: Holy crap, what on Earth were the makers of this film smoking? | |
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Time Bandits / int_bf74d357 | type |
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
Time Bandits / int_bf74d357 | comment |
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The hideous ogre has a normal human wife, played by the middle-aged but still very presentable Katherine Helmond. The character was originally going to be an ogre as well until she was changed at Helmond's suggestion. | |
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Time Bandits / int_c2c2671 | type |
One-Sided Arm-Wrestling | |
Time Bandits / int_c2c2671 | comment |
One-Sided Arm-Wrestling: One of the merry men tears the arm off the man he's arm-wrestling and throws it into a pile of other arms. | |
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Time Bandits / int_c2c2671 | |
Time Bandits / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
Time Bandits / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Agamemnon, who is often represented as a callous villain, is a better father figure than Kevin's own father. | |
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Time Bandits / int_c5249b29 | type |
Nice Guy | |
Time Bandits / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: King Agamemnon seems to be a brave and wise ruler who adopts Kevin and becomes his first real father figure, albeit briefly. Robin Hood is impeccably polite and interested only in helping the poor. He's apparently too dim to realize how out of place he is. | |
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Time Bandits / int_c6102eb0 | type |
Grand Theft Me | |
Time Bandits / int_c6102eb0 | comment |
Grand Theft Me: The Evil Genius can do this with weak-willed minds. | |
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Time Bandits / int_c8591326 | type |
Demon Head | |
Time Bandits / int_c8591326 | comment |
Demon Head: How the Supreme Being confronts the Bandits when he initially appears. | |
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Time Bandits / int_c93a6560 | type |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
Time Bandits / int_c93a6560 | comment |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The knights' demise. The gruesome-yet-ridiculous tableau of their bodies, tangled up in each other's lances, becomes a fixture for the rest of the film. | |
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Time Bandits / int_cb060751 | type |
War Refugees | |
Time Bandits / int_cb060751 | comment |
War Refugees: Fleeing Napoleon. | |
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Time Bandits / int_cbaa9102 | type |
Signature Headgear | |
Time Bandits / int_cbaa9102 | comment |
Signature Headgear: Each of the Bandits wears a hat of some description, from a dusty bowler to a crude mining helmet. The Evil Genius' H.R. Giger-esque headpiece with a skull on the back of it. | |
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Time Bandits / int_cccfa535 | type |
Blindfolded Trip | |
Time Bandits / int_cccfa535 | comment |
Blindfolded Trip: When Kevin is taken to become the king's son. | |
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Time Bandits / int_cccfa535 | |
Time Bandits / int_cd6a97e | type |
Caught in a Snare | |
Time Bandits / int_cd6a97e | comment |
Caught in a Snare: The Bandits are caught and left hanging by snares set by Robin Hood's merry men. | |
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Time Bandits / int_cd809603 | type |
Tank Goodness | |
Time Bandits / int_cd809603 | comment |
Tank Goodness: The first reinforcement sent to fight Evil is a supersized incarnation of Kevin's toy Chieftain tank, which crashes through the wall when all hope is lost. | |
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Time Bandits / int_cf511248 | type |
All Part of the Show | |
Time Bandits / int_cf511248 | comment |
All Part of the Show: The Bandits pretend to be a part of Agamemnon's celebration, performing an elaborate dance routine and pulling Kevin up on stage. Agamemnon doesn't realize that something's wrong until several beats after they all disappear. | |
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Time Bandits / int_d080f396 | type |
The Napoleon | |
Time Bandits / int_d080f396 | comment |
The Napoleon: Randall, the pugnacious time bandit. The actual Napoleon is obsessed with height. It's almost all he'll talk about. He's overjoyed to discover the Time Bandits, who are all shorter than him and promptly makes them all generals. | |
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Time Bandits / int_d234749e | type |
Sky Cell | |
Time Bandits / int_d234749e | comment |
Sky Cell: After Evil takes the map, he locks the Bandits in a cage hung above a bottomless void. | |
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Time Bandits / int_d2502c9b | type |
Smoldering Shoes | |
Time Bandits / int_d2502c9b | comment |
Smoldering Shoes: All that's left of Kevin's parents. | |
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Time Bandits / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
Time Bandits / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
Schmuck Bait: "The Most Fabulous Object in the Universe." | |
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Time Bandits / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
Time Bandits / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: The Evil Genius' way of dispatching all of the reinforcements the bandits summon. | |
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Fake Shemp | |
Time Bandits / int_d51263b9 | comment |
Fake Shemp: When the Evil Genius has captured the Time Bandits in the cage, he walks up the stairs. It is not David Warner but a double, because Warner suffers from vertigo. | |
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Reaction Shot | |
Time Bandits / int_d820f28 | comment |
Reaction Shot: When Evil is speaking, we sometimes cut to Robert reacting in confusion, such as when Evil considers turning Kevin into something that's "half carrot." He's also frequently seen reacting as a Funny Background Event. | |
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The Cavalry | |
Time Bandits / int_d9e9ad7e | comment |
The Cavalry: A literal cavalry plus other warriors and technology from different eras. It gets subverted when the Evil Genius makes short work of them all. | |
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Rage Helm | |
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Rage Helm: Agamemnon's helm. | |
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The Dung Ages | |
Time Bandits / int_dfc3e10a | comment |
The Dung Ages: How the Middle Ages are portrayed. Played for laughs with the contrast between the grimy and violent Merry Men and air-headed Robin Hood in his spotless Lincoln green. Gilliam previously employed it in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Jabberwocky. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
Time Bandits / int_dfe57573 | comment |
Historical In-Joke: Napoleon keeps one hand permanently hidden in the pocket of his jacket, referring to his iconic pose in portraits. It turns out that the reason is because his hand is solid gold. Agamemnon's wife glares at him, and he sentences her three courtiers to execution. These are references to Greek mythology, in which Agamemnon and Clytemnestra hated each other and their marriage ended in murder. | |
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Manchild | |
Time Bandits / int_e150c4c7 | comment |
Manchild: Napoleon. The French have conquered Italy, but he's more interested in watching a puppet show. The Time Bandits themselves all behave more like spoiled, bratty children rather than the ancient, immortal beings that they are. This was, in fact, the reason that Gilliam cast small people as the Bandits: so that audiences would accept a child as their equal. | |
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The Ditz | |
Time Bandits / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Og. | |
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Hollywood Costuming | |
Time Bandits / int_e46f71c3 | comment |
Hollywood Costuming: Parodied. After the bandits discover that the Merry Men are thoroughly disgusting dwellers of The Dung Ages, Robin Hood emerges in a spotless lincoln green tunic and tights that are straight out of an Errol Flynn film. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
Time Bandits / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: The Bandits always refer to their former boss as "The Supreme Being." When Kevin asks if they mean "God," they say that they don't know him that well. | |
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Army of The Ages | |
Time Bandits / int_e5f8ceac | comment |
Army of The Ages: The title characters do this to battle the Evil Genius. Unfortunately, it proves to be fruitless. | |
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Translator Buddy | |
Time Bandits / int_e6055047 | comment |
Translator Buddy: One of Robin Hood's followers translates for the gibberish-spewing Redgrave. | |
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Aside Glance | |
Time Bandits / int_e8e3807 | comment |
Aside Glance: The Supreme Being at the end: | |
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All Just a Dream | |
Time Bandits / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: The film hints that the entire film is Kevin's dream. Both strange occurrences happen just as Kevin dozes off to go to bed, first with a mysterious knight who is a poster figure on Kevin's wall, then when the dwarves arrive. It's seemingly bizarrely subverted. At the end, Kevin apparently wakes up in his bed as his house is burning down, but finds he still has all the photographs he took on his journey, and his parents blow up after touching a piece of the Evil Genius that found its way back with him. Also, a fireman looking suspiciously like Agamemnon (also played by Sean Connery) gives him a knowing wink just before leaving. Even the conclusion may be a part of the dream, as hinted by George Harrison's end credits song "Dream Away". | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
Time Bandits / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: An unintentional version with Kevin, who arrives when Agamemnon's introduction has him fighting a minotaur. His distraction allows Agamemnon to win. The finale features warriors from various parts of history showing up to fight the Evil Genius. And the Supreme Being turning the Evil Genius in a statue. | |
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Jerkass | |
Time Bandits / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Randall and Kevin's Parents. | |
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Offing the Annoyance | |
Time Bandits / int_ebcbf841 | comment |
Offing the Annoyance: The character Evil does this twice. | |
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Moment Killer | |
Time Bandits / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: Vincent and Pansy are about to kiss when a time door opens above them and the bandits fall on them. Repeatedly. | |
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Curiosity Is a Crapshoot | |
Time Bandits / int_ee1bd506 | comment |
Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Definitely on the "good" side. | |
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The Starscream | |
Time Bandits / int_eedee4d | comment |
The Starscream: Wally makes several attempts to wrestle leadership away from Randall. | |
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War Is Hell | |
Time Bandits / int_f1d6144a | comment |
War Is Hell: Napoleon's conquest of Italy is shown to be pretty brutal, with shots of soldiers being executed by firing squad in the background. Kevin is fascinated by historical warfare throughout the film, which Agamemnon tries to downplay. | |
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Great Big Book of Everything | |
Time Bandits / int_f217cdab | comment |
Great Big Book of Everything: The map, which includes all of the portals through time left over after an overly rushed Creation. | |
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Evil Plan | |
Time Bandits / int_f2d8e3c2 | comment |
Evil Plan: The Evil Genius' plans for the world include stripping everything away except cold, logical efficiency. | |
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Built with LEGO | |
Time Bandits / int_f381e8e0 | comment |
Built with LEGO: Evil's inner sanctum is built of giant stone legos, a reference to the many Legos on Kevin's bedroom floor. | |
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Anthropomorphic Personification | |
Time Bandits / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: The Evil Genius. Of evil, of course. Also borders on The Heartless and Satan. | |
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Improvised Lockpick | |
Time Bandits / int_f9814fe7 | comment |
Improvised Lockpick: Wally uses Kevin's knife to pick the lock of the cage they are trapped in. It works, but the knife's blade is noticeably bent and mangled afterward. | |
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Running Gag | |
Time Bandits / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: The Bandits dropping onto the heads of Vincent and Pansey throughout time. | |
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Time-Traveling Jerkass | |
Time Bandits / int_faf383f7 | comment |
Time-Traveling Jerkass: The dwarves. Becoming Time Bandits and time-hopping through history to plunder the riches of King Agamemnon and Napoleon Bonaparte, among others, definitely qualifies them. | |
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Real After All | |
Time Bandits / int_fb724048 | comment |
Real After All: After Kevin is sent back, he appears back in his room. Kevin at first thinks it wasn't real, but he still has the pictures from his adventures. And then a chunk of Evil turns up and makes his parents explode! | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
Time Bandits / int_fdbd6162 | comment |
With Friends Like These...: The Time Bandits' relationship with Randall. | |
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Gondor Calls for Aid | |
Time Bandits / int_fe5e40e2 | comment |
Gondor Calls for Aid: In the final battle with the Evil Genius, the Bandits go to get help from throughout time. | |
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