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Highlander (Franchise)

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Highlander (Franchise)	comment	A long-running Historical and Urban Fantasy franchise created by Gregory Widen (who wrote the original screenplay for the original film during his college days), about a rare collection of beings known as The Immortals. They can live forever, but with a catch: When one Immortal takes the head of another, the winner gets the loser's power, while the beheaded Immortal is dead for good. This power exchange manifests as an explosion of energy called The Quickening, in which everything within 50 yards blows up. They can only spar with each other one-on-one, and never on holy ground.Drifting invisibly through the history of the world, they battle each other in swordfights until only one Immortal remains; the last one standing gets "The Prize", the exact nature of which is unknown.The above paragraphs contain the agreed-upon facts. Beyond that, things get a bit fuzzy. Calling it "a canon" is being charitable; it's more of a series of Broad Strokes that define an assortment of films, sequels, spin-offs, and remakes, all with only one connecting concept and made with very little regard for continuity. But hey, who's counting?The various film and television incarnations of Highlander include: Highlander (1986) introduces Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), an Immortal born in the Scottish Highlands. In a series of flashbacks, Connor is mentored by Juan RamÃrez (Sean Connery), a wise Immortal who teaches him the basics before being beheaded by a barbarian known as the Kurgan (Clancy Brown). The film's other half takes place in New York City, where all the world's Immortals, whose numbers are now growing thin, are drawn together to battle to the last man; an event known as "The Gathering". By the end of the film, Connor and the Kurgan are the only Immortals left. Connor beheads him, saves the girl (Roxanne Hart), and gains The Prize: enlightenment and mortality.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Highlander (Franchise) / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Duncan is almost always trying to retire from "The Game" to various degrees of success. On the one hand he probably has more immortal friends than any other, but he also has countless enemies who come looking for him too. He refuses to "hunt" other immortals unless they personally threaten those he cares about and keeps a cabin on Native American holy ground he has been known to live on for very long periods of time. Connor tried as well. Darius and Brother Paul where Badasses who retired from the Game and into holy ground.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_12a22bd8	type	Katanas Are Just Better
Highlander (Franchise) / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: They're the weapon of choice for every MacLeod, as well as Connor's mentor Ramirez. At various points in the series, Duncan did occasionally use a different type of blade, but the katana was his 'default' weapon. Subverted in Highlander: The Source where Duncan's katana is broken in half by the Guardian, and he goes into the final confrontation with a pair of knives. Could be partly justified by the katana's effectiveness as a cutting weapon; when the only way to kill someone is to decapitate them, a sword specifically designed for slashing comes in handy. Additionally the katana is a lot easier to carry around and hide in a trench-coat the way Connor did, and in modern day duels, the lack of effectiveness against armor isn't a factor. Discussed in the original, when Brenda carbon-dates the ivory in the handle of Connor's katana back to 500 BC, loooong before folded-steel katanas had been developed (steel was new to the scene in India then). According to Ramirez, the sword was forged by Masamune (presumably an ancestor), and was probably the first steel katana ever made. While Connor and Duncan both prefer katanas, it is mostly for sentimental reasons (Connor's belonged to Ramirez, and he took it when his teacher was killed, and Duncan's was a gift from a man who saved his life). Other Immortals are shown to carry a large number of different types of sword. The ones that show up more than once aren't always using the same sword from episode to episode either.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
Highlander (Franchise) / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: Kalas, due to a throat injury, though his voice has more of a raspy quality to it.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Highlander (Franchise) / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Logically, any Immortal who lives long enough would eventually have to become one, but the MacLeods, Ramirez, and Graham Ashe (Ramirez's teacher) are explicitly referred to as such.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Highlander (Franchise) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: While the flashbacks do supplement some of the information, the DVDs (at least, for the Series) have the Watcher Chronicles, which include date of birth/first death, first teacher, background on the immortals, notes from the watchers, and information on the different swords used.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Highlander (Franchise) / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Highlander: The Series
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Highlander (Franchise) / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: Immortals cannot have children. According to Joe Dawson in the series, even if their Immortality hadn't been "activated" by dying yet, they still can't have children, though the series itself leaves this a bit nebulous.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_1beef720	type	Living Forever Is Awesome
Highlander (Franchise) / int_1beef720	comment	Living Forever Is Awesome: The opinion of a few, as illustrated by Queen's "Princes of the Universe".
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Highlander (Franchise) / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	General Katana carries one to complement his Villain Ball in Highlander 2. For no apparent reason, he sends a couple of assassins to Earth after MacLeod, then goes himself. Never mind that MacLeod won The Game years ago and had no intention of going back to Zeist - within less than a decade, he would be dead by old age. Instead, the new arrivals make him immortal again, make him young, and also alert him ahead of time that he has to deal with Katana. One of the assassins even points out how pointless this is, and gets smacked for it. MacLeod practically spells it out for Katana what a huge, stupid, meaningless mistake stirring up this trouble really was.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_1f136393	type	Undying Warrior
Highlander (Franchise) / int_1f136393	comment	Undying Warrior: The Immortals cannot be killed unless their head is severed from their bodies. If an Immortal beheads another in combat, he will be imbued with their victim's power; as a result, Immortals have been fighting a secret war for ultimate power throughout history. Because Immortals only discover their powers in the event of their violent death, it's not uncommon for them to have been warriors or soldiers - as was the case with both Connor and Duncan MacLeod. Also, despite the need to keep their existence a secret, it's not unknown for some immortals to occasionally work as mercenaries in mortal wars.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Highlander (Franchise) / int_1fc8335e	comment	Connor was a Scottish warrior in the 16th Century. He was stabbed through the chest in a battle and presumed dead by his clansmen, who promptly believed he had made a Deal with the Devil when he returned to life the following day. The only reason he wasn't burned at the stake (at the suggestion of his own lover no less) was because his Only Sane Man cousin exiled him instead. He met a blacksmith's daughter named Heather, fell in love with her and they are Happily Married for many long years... and then she dies of old age (and because immortals are sterile they had no kids, something she laments on her deathbed). By 1985, Connor is a recluse surrounded by antiques who occasionally takes the names of dead children to pass on his belongings and keep his identity a secret. His only social contact is Rachel, a Jewish girl he saved during World War II and by now looks way older than he is. By Highlander: Endgame Connor is a Death Seeker who has lost countless friends and loved ones over five centuries of living, most of them at the hands of the film's Big Bad Jacob Kell, and his Heroic Sacrifice death at the hands of Duncan and symbolically being Together in Death with Heather is treated as somewhat happy.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_21b5f849	type	My Name Is Inigo Montoya
Highlander (Franchise) / int_21b5f849	comment	My Name Is Inigo Montoya: It seems to be a tradition that Immortals meeting for the first time introduce themselves properly, hence "I am Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod." Duncan and Connor go in for the formality, most Immortals just give their first and last names.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_22ecc839	type	Kryptonite Factor
Highlander (Franchise) / int_22ecc839	comment	Kryptonite Factor: Invoked; while immortals can only be killed by decapitation, wounds to their throat apparently remain even if their heads weren't actually severed, such as the Kurgan and Kalas retaining damage to their throats at least decades since the wounds were inflicted.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_25956bc1	type	Scary Impractical Armor
Highlander (Franchise) / int_25956bc1	comment	Scary Impractical Armor: The Kurgan (and later Kane) are seen wearing this during their glory days.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Highlander (Franchise) / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: The X-ternals, a group of mutants in Marvel's X-Men comics, were obviously based on the Highlander concept: they had powers that could only be accessed after they "died" and came back to life. Cannonball of the New Mutants turned out to be one. All of them were wiped out by Selene (herself an ancient immortal.) Rumor is that Marvel decided to get rid of them before they got sued.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Highlander (Franchise) / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Both Richie and Duncan on Highlander: The Series are orphans. Many in the fanbase have used this fact to conclude that all immortals must also be orphans. Whether this is true or not is unknown, and the idea is never mentioned again.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_2a0c7188	type	Women Are Delicate
Highlander (Franchise) / int_2a0c7188	comment	Women Are Delicate: According to the writers, there aren't as many female Immortals as male ones in the present day, because women were less likely to survive centuries of one-on-one duels with other Immortals in the Game. It's somewhat similar to the other point that there are few child Immortals, because they have even less chance of surviving centuries of personal combat. This eased up slightly in the modern era as people were less likely to walk around with swords for combat, combined with the fact that most of global society isn't as patriarchal as it used to be, with only men taught to fight. A medieval damsel with no combat training, only recently awakened as an Immortal, would tend to get picked off by stronger and more experienced male Immortals. In the present day, it's a bit more common for women to have self-defense training (police officers, soldiers, etc.). The few female Immortals from pre-modern society who survive to the present are those who through luck and skill managed to survive long enough to get proper combat training, and who have to be very good at it to compete with male Immortals.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_2d407620	type	Undead Tax Exemption
Highlander (Franchise) / int_2d407620	comment	Undead Tax Exemption: Averted: Connor has to change his identity every so often to blend in with society. Though he doesn't move on, just transfers his home and assets to the next identity. This is what eventually gets him found out once there are enough government records signed with the same handwriting over two centuries to backtrack over. Duncan takes a different tack; whenever he 'dies', he moves to another country and sets up shop there for 50-60 years, which he also advises Richie to do after the latter dies in a motorcycle racing accident.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Highlander (Franchise) / int_2d4fa515	comment	In a cut sequence from the first film (the footage was sadly destroyed in a fire) where the Kurgan fights a Korean immortal named Yung Dol Kim, who poses as a security guard in 1985 and fights with a pair of short Japanese swords. Kim actually throws down his swords and offers his neck because he is fed up with four hundred years of empty living and would be happy to just die. The Kurgan, an Ax-Crazy hedonistic barbarian who subscribes to Living Forever Is Awesome because it lets him engage in Forever War and Rape, Pillage, and Burn, is visibly taken aback by this - he cannot understand why Kim or anybody else for that matter would think living forever is bad. And Kim was relatively young for an immortal.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Highlander (Franchise) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Among the rules, fights on holy ground like a church are forbidden, though some villains like Kane attempt to do it anyway. Those are rare, though; even the most heinous Immortals like Kurgan, Kalas, and Larca respected the rule about Holy Ground, even if they were willing to break other rules or "bend" Holy Ground itself. For instance, Larca told his gang of new Immortals (who thought Larca was God who had brought them back to fight the Devil, i.e. Duncan) that even the Devil can claim sanctuary on Holy Ground. Kalas may have lain in wait for Immortals leaving his monastery to ambush them and take their heads, but he did wait until they'd left the monastery. How much of this is actual respect for Holy Ground, fear of potential divine retribution, or simple Pragmatic Villainy varies.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
Highlander (Franchise) / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: In the original film, it takes place over the course of a few years. Richie gets two of them in "Eye For An Eye." The third film includes a sequence in which Connor returns to Scotland, and several beats from the first film's montage (running on the beach, rowing on the lake) are re-created with solo Connor.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Highlander (Franchise) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: A strangely popular setting for Highlander spinoffs, for no explicable reason. Highlander II, Highlander: The Source, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, and the animated series all occur in post-apocalyptic settings. It's justifiable in The Search for Vengeance and the animated series, as they take place in the far future and immortals are one of the few likely to survive the end of the world, but less so in the case of The Quickening and The Source; both take place 20 Minutes into the Future and have most normal people living through the apocalypse as well.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
Highlander (Franchise) / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: In the series, happened to John Garrick. A general reason why Immortals never stay for too long in one place. (Shading into They Would Cut You Up in modern times.)
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Highlander (Franchise) / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: In the series at least, this is where the Immortals appear to store their swords when not in use. It's referred to as "Katanaspace" by the fans, or sometimes "Zeist pockets". Probably the most egregious example comes to us courtesy of Annie Devlin (played by Sheena Easton), wearing a very tight white sweater and a very tight and short black leather vest. She's beating the stuffing out of Richie unarmed, then reaches behind her back and bam, sudden sword. Now, she is using a blade thin and short enough it could have been running down her spine under her clothes, with the hilt hidden in her hair, but the only way the blade could have appeared in her hand in the manner depicted is by teleporting through a layer of wool and a layer of leather.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_38624bb3	type	BoardGame
Highlander (Franchise) / int_38624bb3	comment	Highlander: The Board Game (2018) A Board Game from River Horse with up to 6 immortals battling to claim the prize.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_3a4f904c	type	Kill Steal
Highlander (Franchise) / int_3a4f904c	comment	Kill Steal: Immortal duels are supposed to be one-on-one, with the victor claiming the loser's head, and with it his power. Some Immortals aren't above landing the actual deathblow after one Immortal has defeated, but not killed, another. Amanda does it to Duncan once, and Methos attempts to have Duncan kill him to prevent Kalas from doing so.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_3b0fd855	type	Obstructive Code of Conduct
Highlander (Franchise) / int_3b0fd855	comment	Obstructive Code of Conduct: Immortals are only allowed to fight one-on-one, and are forbidden to do so on "holy ground". These rules are malleable, to put it lightly. Watchers are not supposed to interfere in Immortal conflicts. Joe Dawson spends a lot of time bending, breaking, or just plain ignoring this rule (which almost gets him executed by his peers).
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Highlander (Franchise) / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Immortality is presented as this more than a few times, especially when it comes to having mortal lovers and friends who will eventually either die of old age or get killed from hanging around with Connor or Duncan. Starting with Connor's wife Heather, to the tune of Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever?" Also, that the only friends you can have who can truly understand and share in your Immortal experience are other Immortals, and by the nature of The Game, even they are transitory (if you don't end up forced to face off with and kill them yourself).
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Highlander (Franchise) / int_3f6d2c98	comment	The series has quite a few. The biggest is probably Xavier St. Cloud, who in his first appearance tried to use poisonous gas against his opponents and later had hired mercenaries shoot his opponents and took their heads while they were recovering and helpless, but he was far from the only one. Just a few of the other examples seen in the series included an Immortal trapped forever in the body of a young boy who would get other Immortals to take him in and kill them after they lowered their guard around him, a guy who used a pack of huge attack dogs to injure and wear down his enemies, one Immortal who got his Watcher to fall in love with him and used her knowledge of Immortals to strike at times when they would be unarmed and helpless, an Immortal who led his enemies into a booby trapped base, bad guys with hypnotic powers, two Immortals attacking one target at the same time and planning to kill their enemy while he's receiving a Quickening if he does manage to defeat one of them, a guy who snipes his targets and takes their head before they can recover, and so on.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_402b438d	type	Clothes Make the Legend
Highlander (Franchise) / int_402b438d	comment	Clothes Make the Legend: Connor wears a beige overcoat during the majority of the first film. In the Pilot Episode of Highlander: The Series, you can probably guess what he's wearing in his cameo. (He's even shown wearing it in grassy Scotland.) At least the long coat makes it somewhat plausible that he can carry a katana concealed in his clothing (see Hammerspace below).
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
Highlander (Franchise) / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: "I am Connor/Duncan/Quentin/Colin MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod."
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
Highlander (Franchise) / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: A frequent result of Who Wants to Live Forever?.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Highlander (Franchise) / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: The franchise has a lot of different continuities â€“ it's hard to pin down exactly how many there are, as some are intended to be different from the outset while others are simply the result of retcons and Canon Discontinuity. Using the very broadest categories, there are at least four continuities: the first three films; the TV shows and fourth & fifth films (and various tie-in media); the animated series with its tie-in videogame; and the anime film.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_47804320	type	Holy Ground
Highlander (Franchise) / int_47804320	comment	Holy Ground: Immortals will not - or possibly cannot - fight each other on holy ground. In the TV series, there's a legend that breaking this rule triggered the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. "Holy ground" is never explicitly defined but broadly includes any land that a human culture considers sacred, including religious structures such as churches, mosques, synagogues, etc.; and also indigenous holy sites (i.e. Stonehenge). In the anime the main character merely trying to raise his sword within Stonehenge causes a lightning to strike him from a clear sky.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Highlander (Franchise) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: If the fight's going against him, Methos is not above feigning helplessness (such as pretending to slip) and, when his opponent moves in for the kill, drawing a hidden dagger and stabbing him. In one of Highlander: The Source's only intelligent moments, the Big Bad is shown wearing heavy armor around his neck designed to make decapitation almost impossible. Because this idea makes far too much sense for such a terrible movie, the resulting Quickening of his first battle makes it vanish for no reason, and he spends the rest of the film unarmored. The series has quite a few. The biggest is probably Xavier St. Cloud, who in his first appearance tried to use poisonous gas against his opponents and later had hired mercenaries shoot his opponents and took their heads while they were recovering and helpless, but he was far from the only one. Just a few of the other examples seen in the series included an Immortal trapped forever in the body of a young boy who would get other Immortals to take him in and kill them after they lowered their guard around him, a guy who used a pack of huge attack dogs to injure and wear down his enemies, one Immortal who got his Watcher to fall in love with him and used her knowledge of Immortals to strike at times when they would be unarmed and helpless, an Immortal who led his enemies into a booby trapped base, bad guys with hypnotic powers, two Immortals attacking one target at the same time and planning to kill their enemy while he's receiving a Quickening if he does manage to defeat one of them, a guy who snipes his targets and takes their head before they can recover, and so on.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Highlander (Franchise) / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Immortals tend to keep their Immortality a secret to avoid being subjected to this trope. When they fail, results tend towards Burn the Witch! or They Would Cut You Up, depending on the timeframe.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Highlander (Franchise) / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: The Source. Nearly every character from the television series, nay, the franchise is presumed dead in the film's dystopian world. Yes, even Connor, who bit the dust in Endgame. Rather heartlessly, Methos, a highly popular character, is last seen running off in to the woods, presumably to be killed offscreen. Word of God states that The Source isn't canon and just some kind of trippy nightmare Duncan is having. Don't know if that helps, but there it is.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Highlander (Franchise) / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Dudes running around lopping each other's heads off with swords and hooking up with beautiful women throughout all of human history. The introduction of female Immortals doesn't significantly curb this.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Highlander (Franchise) / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: The Kurgan and General Katana. For the latter, the filmmakers applied makeup to the already-existing scar on Michael Ironside's head, exaggerating its grotesqueness.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Highlander (Franchise) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the films, Immortals truly are immortals and can take gunshots and avoid drowning. In The Series and the series' sequel films, however, Immortals are killed by regular means and then come back to life minutes later. The concept of a "first death" triggering immortality is absent in the first film. The Kurgan is clearly after Connor's head in the battle between the Macleod's and the Frazers. Connor also could already sense The Kurgan. The "pre-immortals" of later installments cannot do this and taking their heads is of no value to another immmortal, although a full immortal CAN sense a pre-immortal.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Highlander (Franchise) / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: Not every sword, but a great many of them. The first film got great mileage out of a very unusual "sword clang" sound effect, most notably in the first duel between Connor and Fasil.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Highlander (Franchise) / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Ahh, the Highlander flashback. Usually designated by being shown in Deliberately Monochrome. Generally the case when a mortal has a flashback; flashbacks of immortals are undoctored. Possibly meant to reflect mortals having imperfect memories, while immortals remember everything? Early on in the series Mac's flashbacks to his first days of immortality were in a sort of sepia tone, suggesting that those moments are the hardest to recall. Later on they abandoned this. Usually with interesting framing, like a window the scene enters becoming a flashback for example.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_54fbf23f	type	Seeking Sanctuary
Highlander (Franchise) / int_54fbf23f	comment	Seeking Sanctuary: Any holy site (of any religion) is considered a Truce Zone between Immortals. Some creators have interpreted this as an honor system, others as an actual cosmic law - with dire consequences for breaking it.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_56549b6d	type	Scotireland
Highlander (Franchise) / int_56549b6d	comment	Scotireland: Averted. They generally go out of their way to note the difference, and in Endgame Connor and Duncan are reminiscing about Scotland while travelling through Ireland. Scottish and Irish Immortals are frequently on fairly good terms, but mostly that involves being united in the common idea that England sucks.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Highlander (Franchise) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Especially in the first film.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Highlander (Franchise) / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Some Immortals, such as the MacLeod protagonists, have (very) old friendships with others, as they can relate to each other in a way mortals cannot. They weave in and out of each other's lives over the centuries. Duncan and Amanda even have an on-and-off romantic relationship. But they all still know that eventually, they will either be killed by someone else, or they will have to fight each other to the death.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Highlander (Franchise) / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Obviously, but invoked most strongly with Methos. Despite being at least five thousand years old, he appears to be in his late twenties to early thirties.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_5dbf364d	type	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
Highlander (Franchise) / int_5dbf364d	comment	Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Several evil Immortals like to taunt their opponents in this manner. If their opponent's last name is MacLeod, this is even dumber than making one your opponent in the first place.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Highlander (Franchise) / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: "All love must die" (from the soundtrack.) The Immortals see everyone they know grow old and die while they live on.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_6140b3f2	type	Form-Fitting Wardrobe
Highlander (Franchise) / int_6140b3f2	comment	Probably the most egregious example comes to us courtesy of Annie Devlin (played by Sheena Easton), wearing a very tight white sweater and a very tight and short black leather vest. She's beating the stuffing out of Richie unarmed, then reaches behind her back and bam, sudden sword. Now, she is using a blade thin and short enough it could have been running down her spine under her clothes, with the hilt hidden in her hair, but the only way the blade could have appeared in her hand in the manner depicted is by teleporting through a layer of wool and a layer of leather.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Highlander (Franchise) / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: If you pay attention to the histories of some of the Immortals and where they have been, their particular weapon makes so much more sense.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_65331274	type	Flynning
Highlander (Franchise) / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Almost all the swordfights, although this may be justified as the Immortal style of swordplay is very different from the mortal's idea of "find a vital place and stab it." To an Immortal, there's only one vital place, and merely poking it isn't enough; you need a good, firm, unimpeded swing. Furthermore, the really old Immortals have an incredibly high tolerance for pain and stabbing or slashing barely slow them down. In fact Duncan himself seems very fond of disarming his enemy first before deciding to take their head or not. Conversely, Connor was only able to beat the Kurgan by wearing him out and inflicting enough minor wounds on him quickly enough that it slowed him down at the final moment. Also justified because, after a few hundred years of practice, most Immortals would be ludicrously skilled swordsmen and women.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Highlander (Franchise) / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: A flashback to Connor saving Rachael during the Holocaust ("Whatever you say, Jack; you're the Master Race") got cut from the first film's theatrical release, along with about four additional minutes of footage. There are a few Nazi Immortals; there were one or two in the TV series, both beheaded by Duncan. One of the failed tryouts for The Raven, Alex Raven (hence the odd title), worked as an Allied spy.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_6bfd0c5c	type	When the Planets Align
Highlander (Franchise) / int_6bfd0c5c	comment	When the Planets Align: The impetus of Highlander: The Source.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7040b6bc	comment	In the Series, Brother Paul (an Immortal) had set up a monastery specifically as one of these, a sort of safe retreat for Immortals weary and traumatised from The Game to come and rest, recharge, collect themselves, and venture forth again in something resembling mental and spiritual health. The co-founder of the monastery, Kalas, ambushed Immortals as they were leaving and took their heads, Brother Paul was somewhat displeased when he learned of this.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Ramirez cuts the Kurgan's throat in their duel, but instead of finishing the Kurgan off while he's staggered, he stands there and taunts him. The Kurgan gets his second wind and kills Ramirez, and goes on to commit atrocities for centuries, including raping Connor's wife Heather. General Katana carries one to complement his Villain Ball in Highlander 2. For no apparent reason, he sends a couple of assassins to Earth after MacLeod, then goes himself. Never mind that MacLeod won The Game years ago and had no intention of going back to Zeist - within less than a decade, he would be dead by old age. Instead, the new arrivals make him immortal again, make him young, and also alert him ahead of time that he has to deal with Katana. One of the assassins even points out how pointless this is, and gets smacked for it. MacLeod practically spells it out for Katana what a huge, stupid, meaningless mistake stirring up this trouble really was.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Highlander (Franchise) / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: Connor's sword (given to him by Ramirez in the distant past) and Duncan's katana both count.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "There can be only one!" - also a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner. The fifth movie's only remotely redeeming moment is the Guardian subverting this with a gleeful "There can be only me!" "It's a kind of magic" is also used as a call-back between Connor and Rachel (and a reference to the theme music).
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_76ecc890	type	Brave Scot
Highlander (Franchise) / int_76ecc890	comment	Brave Scot / Man in a Kilt: The Clan MacLeod, which provides all the franchise's main characters.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_787c6068	type	My Significance Sense Is Tingling
Highlander (Franchise) / int_787c6068	comment	My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Immortals can sense the nearby presence of their kind.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
Highlander (Franchise) / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: Let us count the ways that this happens. No, let's not; there's too many of them. The first film is a principal source, between MacLeod's many memories of times gone by; saving Rachel from Nazis, dueling drunk in 17th Century England, or the sizable collection of antiquities he's picked up over the years from their original time period. Ramirez' sword is a particular example, especially since it's older than it should be.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Duncan gets one in Endgame, and a completely different one in The Source.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Despite Duncan insisting that "There are no all good or all bad Immortals, we run the spectrum just like you," The series has a clearly defined sense of right and wrong, heroes and villains, and only blurs it on occasion.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	It's usually downplayed, but there are two notable explicit invocations. In the variously-titled Highlander 3, Kane gets the illusion powers of The Sorcerer Nakano after taking his head, after Nakano offered his Quickening to Connor, who refused to strike down his friend and mentor. In the series, the Immortal Coltec, who makes it his mission to take the heads of truly evil Immortals, takes one too many and suffers a Dark Quickening, not only turning evil but embracing the same crimes the various evil Immortals he had killed indulged in. Duncan is forced to kill him and suffers the same fate, temporarily.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_7ffca8c4	type	Immortality Begins at Twenty
Highlander (Franchise) / int_7ffca8c4	comment	Immortality Begins at Twenty: Averted, the Immortals seem to stop aging at the age where they first experience a violent death. Can lead to Not Growing Up Sucks if one meets their end at a significantly young age. It's also explained that there are few child Immortals because they logically can't fight as well as an adult, so on a scale of centuries, most of them got picked off by other Immortals in the Game. There's a somewhat justified bias against the handful of remaining child Immortals as a result, because the only way they could survive for that long is by relying on deceit and trickery to overcome their enemies rather than a straight-up fight, and they're less willing to even temporarily befriend other Immortals out of fear, preferring to kill them first.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Highlander (Franchise) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Kurgan, Ramirez, the Guardian, Katana.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Highlander (Franchise) / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: As a result of the Loose Canon involved, there are no fewer than four different sets of canon.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Highlander (Franchise) / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: The only Immortal in the first movie who is even the tiniest bit understated is Connor himself, and once he gets the Prize..."I KNOW EVERYTHING! I AM EVERYTHING!"
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Highlander (Franchise) / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: A long, long confession.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_91b55fe	type	Pop-Star Composer
Highlander (Franchise) / int_91b55fe	comment	Pop-Star Composer We were born to be Queens of the u-ni-verse! The second film had Stewart Copeland of The Police providing the music. Fortunately, it's one of the few genuinely good aspects of the film.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_934eb07f	type	Resurrective Immortality
Highlander (Franchise) / int_934eb07f	comment	Resurrective Immortality: Immortals can die just like anyone else, but their bodies heal and they revive. And it can turn into a cycle if conditions are bad, which can lead to an insane immortal or at least an immortal with a huge desire for revenge.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_945dd99a	type	Cape Busters
Highlander (Franchise) / int_945dd99a	comment	Cape Busters: In the series, rogue Watchers called Hunters track and kill immortals, even on holy ground.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Highlander (Franchise) / int_970c790a	comment	Endgame also shows how marrying Immortals doesn't always work out either. Duncan falls in love with a woman who is a nascent Immortal, and he deliberately causes her violent first death (on her wedding night no less) to activate her Immortality without explaining his rationale. This causes her to freak out, run away and join forces with the Big Bad.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_979f41a	type	Continuity Reboot
Highlander (Franchise) / int_979f41a	comment	A Continuity Reboot was announced in 2008, but has been in invokedDevelopment Hell for years. Ryan Reynolds was attached to play Connor, but has since dropped from the project. Dave Bautista was cast as the Kurgan in early 2015 and seemingly dropped from it. John Wick co-director Chad Stahelski signed on to direct in late 2016, and the project was confirmed to be in active development in May 2021 with Henry Cavill set to star in it.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Highlander (Franchise) / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: Literally, as most Immortals get their weapons from their mentor, either as a gift or by claiming their weapon after they suffer Mentor Occupational Hazard. More generally, the "good" Immortals teach their students to stand up to and defeat the "evil" Immortals.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_9bfe5372	type	Place of Protection
Highlander (Franchise) / int_9bfe5372	comment	Place of Protection: Any consecrated site, in theory. In the Series, Brother Paul (an Immortal) had set up a monastery specifically as one of these, a sort of safe retreat for Immortals weary and traumatised from The Game to come and rest, recharge, collect themselves, and venture forth again in something resembling mental and spiritual health. The co-founder of the monastery, Kalas, ambushed Immortals as they were leaving and took their heads, Brother Paul was somewhat displeased when he learned of this.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_9ceae394	type	Facial Composite Failure
Highlander (Franchise) / int_9ceae394	comment	Facial Composite Failure: The news media, unaware of The Gathering or what is happening, attributes each of the original film's beheadings to a single killer. The newspapers release a composite sketch of The Kurgan, dubbing him the "Headhunter".
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_a1acd3fd	type	Decapitation Required
Highlander (Franchise) / int_a1acd3fd	comment	Decapitation Required: Immortals can only be killed this way.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Highlander (Franchise) / int_a32334b4	comment	These may seem unusual but actually make sense, as Endgame and The Source are actually set in the TV series continuity and so could be considered "separate" enough to warrant a change in title format. (Highlander 3 ignores the existence of Highlander 2, but let's not get into that.) In the US market, Highlander III: The Sorcerer was titled Highlander: The Final Dimension, making it clear that removing the numbering from the titles was mostly an attempt to pretend Highlander II never existed.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Highlander (Franchise) / int_a6275bef	comment	Ramirez was born in Ancient Egypt and lived over two thousand years before he was beheaded by the Kurgan in 1542. In that time he had three wives, including a Japanese princess named Shakiko (whose father Masamune forged his badass ivory-handled katana). Eventually he inevitably outlived Shakiko and swore off ever marrying mortal women again, even warning Connor against it. The way he talks about Shakiko even two millennia after her passing, he clearly still misses her dearly.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Highlander (Franchise) / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Highlander: The Animated Series and Highlander: The Search For Vengeance.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Highlander (Franchise) / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Charlie.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Highlander (Franchise) / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: While they don't display it as consistently as they should, the Immortals in Highlander are more than just Humans with the ability to regenerate and recover from fatal injuries and potentially live forever. Immortals are stronger, faster and tougher than regular humans, and this grows as they age, train and acquire more Quickenings. Being able to cut off the heads of other Immortals, much less any human being requires a great deal of physical strength, seeing as how hard it is to do consistently. The Kurgan himself displays this when he's able to chop down a huge chunk of the tower that Connor lives in, and when he manages to stab a man and lift him up into the air with his sword. It's more obvious how much stronger and powerful Immortals are in The Search for Vengeance when you're not constrained by a special effects budget like they would in live-action films.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_ac5054d4	type	Wound That Will Not Heal
Highlander (Franchise) / int_ac5054d4	comment	Wound That Will Not Heal: Kalas received a cut to his throat (like The Kurgan) in the series, as well as Xavier St. Cloud's severed hand (although the fandom has debated whether Xavier would have been able to reattach his hand if he'd retrieved it after it was cut off).
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
Highlander (Franchise) / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: Subverted. Most injuries heal supernaturally quickly for Immortals and don't leave scars, except neck wounds (the Kurgan's slashed throat in the movie, and Kalas' slashed vocal cords in the series), probably due to the connection between decapitation and death for them. Also Xavier St. Cloud's entire hand. Colin in the anime retains a scar across his face from when he very nearly got his head cleaved in two. Several Immortals from the series, most notably Kronos, have facial scars. Presumably wounds on the face get treated similarly to throat wounds (or it may be that the facial scars were inflicted before they became immortal).
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20	type	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b18aeb20	comment	Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Highlander 2: The Quickening, Highlander 3: The Sorcerer, Highlander: Endgame and Highlander: The Source "The Quickening" is probably the second most parodied subtitle after "Electric Boogaloo". Roger Ebert spent a third of the televised review time complaining about how stupid a subtitle he thought that was. These may seem unusual but actually make sense, as Endgame and The Source are actually set in the TV series continuity and so could be considered "separate" enough to warrant a change in title format. (Highlander 3 ignores the existence of Highlander 2, but let's not get into that.) In the US market, Highlander III: The Sorcerer was titled Highlander: The Final Dimension, making it clear that removing the numbering from the titles was mostly an attempt to pretend Highlander II never existed.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1bf5c9b	comment	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: When chopping off someone's head is the only way to kill an Immortal, you end up with a lot of these.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: While almost no Immortal would dare fight on holy ground, some of them are more than willing to bend the rules a bit. Like waiting to ambush a rival the moment they leave the area or sending in mortal human subordinates to attack in their place. On the other side, one Immortal set up a monastery as a place for other Immortals to rest, and Duncan keeps a lodge on Native American holy land that he's been known to retreat to for years.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Any love interest for an Immortal. Duncan and Amanda are both immortal, but they come and go over time, not willing to be attached to each other for centuries.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b2279346	comment	Immortals are only allowed to fight one-on-one, and are forbidden to do so on "holy ground". These rules are malleable, to put it lightly.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b486877f	comment	Squick: In-universe; Ramirez's reaction to Connor's explanation of Haggis.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Highlander (Franchise) / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Immortals can hold blood feuds and grudges that last centuries - and usually the same guys fighting throughout history. Think about that for a second...if you were immortal and made an enemy of a fellow immortal, spent centuries tracking them down to avenge yourself on them, only to find they got their head chopped off sometime last year, how would you feel? At one point in the series Amanda tries to point out that this is likely to happen if either Duncan or his current opponent (a good guy who has a genuine beef with Duncan) dies fighting the other. Both are good men with lots of friends who will try to avenge them if they die. If the ball gets rolling, it's almost certain to never stop.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
Highlander (Franchise) / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: Both Connor and Duncan are devout Catholics
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_c0f7ded3	type	Mortality Ensues
Highlander (Franchise) / int_c0f7ded3	comment	Mortality Ensues: In the original continuity, part of the Prize is the option to live as a normal human; Connor states that this is his intention at the end of Highlander. The Series stated that the last Immortal will be powerful enough "to rule this planet forever".
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Highlander (Franchise) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": The series has a Big DAARRRRIIIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSS!
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_c2e1f423	type	Really Dead Montage
Highlander (Franchise) / int_c2e1f423	comment	Really Dead Montage: The series does this many times when a supporting character or recurring character dies, most notably Darius, Tessa, Fitz, and Richie. Connor gets one in Endgame as well.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Highlander (Franchise) / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Ahriman, the supernatural Big Big of Season 6, is described as being the source of all evil in the universe.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Highlander (Franchise) / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: In the series, Kronos plots to unleash one of these more or less For the Evulz. Search For Vengeance had Marcus planning to use one in order to wipe out people he deemed unfit of being part of his perfect, orderly society.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_c8604049	type	The Reveal Prompts Romance
Highlander (Franchise) / int_c8604049	comment	The Reveal Prompts Romance: The 1986 film set one of these up between the secretly-immortal Connor MacLeod and his love interest. Made more remarkable by the fact that Connor made his reveal by stabbing himself in the chest.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Highlander (Franchise) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God states that The Source isn't canon and just some kind of trippy nightmare Duncan is having. Don't know if that helps, but there it is.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Highlander (Franchise) / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Tessa, Darius, Charlie, Fitzcairn, Richie, Connor, Joe Not Joe.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_ce6652e5	type	Classy Cat-Burglar
Highlander (Franchise) / int_ce6652e5	comment	Classy Cat-Burglar: Amanda.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Highlander (Franchise) / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: A warehouse of them. The coat at least waves a hand at how the Immortals carry swords around unnoticed, and where they come from when they pull them out.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Highlander (Franchise) / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: The Kurgan - "I have somethin' to say! It's better to burn out, than to fade away!!"
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Highlander (Franchise) / int_d9ee7048	comment	Highlander: The Raven (1998-1999) was a short-lived Spin-Off of the TV series. Partly-inspired by the 80's hit Moonlighting, it co-stars Duncan's Old Flame Amanda (Elizabeth Gracen) and her ex-cop sidekick Nick Wolfe (Paul Johansson). The series suffered from low-quality scripts, lower budgets, creative differences and actors in revolt. Raven ended after one season with an unresolved cliffhanger.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Highlander (Franchise) / int_dcd29760	comment	A general reason why Immortals never stay for too long in one place. (Shading into They Would Cut You Up in modern times.)
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
Highlander (Franchise) / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: As might be expected from the franchise name, bagpipes appear. They're used sparingly, though.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Highlander (Franchise) / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: During flashbacks to previous eras, the MacLeods and other immortals are often seen in various countries, speaking English (sometimes accented, sometimes not) with people who may not have actually been speaking English at the time (again with the on-again, off-again accents.) During segments of the series which take place in Paris, the majority of the bystanders and bit characters will speak plain English, with one or two characters speaking in a French accent.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_e207247	type	Technicolor Death
Highlander (Franchise) / int_e207247	comment	Technicolor Death: The Quickening that occurs when an immortal dies.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Highlander (Franchise) / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: Any "holy ground" is a safe zone for an immortal. (But only from other immortals. Poor Darius. Jacob Kell also breaks it.)
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Highlander (Franchise) / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: In The Source, concerning planetary alignment: "Well that could just be... orbital wobble." The very next line is (paraphrased) "that's not how orbital wobble works; this is clearly magic", then Double Subverted when all the the gas giants pass within Mars' orbit without causing any damage to Earth, themselves, the solar system as a whole, or about twenty other delicate astronomical systems.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_e7624eac	type	Victor Gains Loser's Powers
Highlander (Franchise) / int_e7624eac	comment	Victor Gains Loser's Powers: One of the side effects of the Quickening after one Immortal beheads another one. Not that pronounced in either the films or the series, but it's implied that the major villains (particularly The Kurgan) have so much skill and knowledge due to their high number of kills. It's usually downplayed, but there are two notable explicit invocations. In the variously-titled Highlander 3, Kane gets the illusion powers of The Sorcerer Nakano after taking his head, after Nakano offered his Quickening to Connor, who refused to strike down his friend and mentor. In the series, the Immortal Coltec, who makes it his mission to take the heads of truly evil Immortals, takes one too many and suffers a Dark Quickening, not only turning evil but embracing the same crimes the various evil Immortals he had killed indulged in. Duncan is forced to kill him and suffers the same fate, temporarily. The card game replicates this with Quickenings, Pregame cards that replicate the Persona powers of other Immortals, letting you combine, say, Amanda's extra attacks with Kurgan's extra damage. If your opponent defeats you via Head Shot, they get any Quickenings you were using.
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
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