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The Princess Bride
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A 1973 book by William Goldman, The Princess Bride is about the trials of true love in the Renaissance European nation of Florin. The story stars Buttercup, a simple yet incredibly beautiful farmgirl, and Westley, the farmhand she enjoys ordering around. Although they realize that they share the incredibly rare thing called "true love," fate conspires to keep them apart, as Westley is lost at sea.Five years later, Prince Humperdinck, who rules Florin in place of his elderly and doddering father, decides to celebrate the kingdom's 500th anniversary by marrying Buttercup, who is now the most beautiful woman in the world. Buttercup, knowing that the Prince is well within his rights and believing she can never love again anyway, reluctantly agrees.In a plot against the throne, Buttercup is kidnapped by the criminal trio The Sicilian Crowd (so-called because two's company and three's a crowd), consisting of Vizzini (the mastermind), Fezzik (the dumb muscle), and Inigo Montoya (the world's greatest fencer, traveling to avenge his father) — but their steps are hampered by a mysterious man in black who seems determined to stop them at all costs. The subsequent adventures are madcap, iconic, and brilliant.The book uses a Framing Device with the author "abridging" an older story to turn a very satirical (and rather cynical) adult novel by the Florinese author S. Morgenstern into the adventure tale for children that he remembers his father reading to him as a kid.It was later adapted by the author into a well-known film of the same name.The new edition published for the book's 25th anniversary included additional commentary (including some remarks on the film), and a rather confusing preview chapter from a projected sequel, Buttercup's Baby, which implicitly references Goldman's unrelated novel Control.The even newer edition for the 30th anniversary contains additional commentary about the film, as well as everything contained in the 25th-anniversary edition, resulting in three forewords. One more foreword and the 'Good Parts' version will be thicker than Morgenstern's supposed original! | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: Vizzini does this after his I Know You Know I Know filibuster to distract the Man in Black from his Poison Chalice Switcheroo. | |
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I Don't Pay You to Think | |
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I Don't Pay You to Think: Vizzini tells Fezzik "You were not hired for your brains!" | |
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Secret Test | |
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Secret Test: When Westley rescues Buttercup, his True Love, from her kidnappers, he doesn't reveal his true identity, in the hope of finding out whether she still loves him or not. | |
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Exactly What I Aimed At | |
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Exactly What I Aimed At: Vizzini instructs Fezzik to pick up a rock and smash The Man In Black's head in. Fezzik decides it's too unsporting, and smashes a rock right near his head, informing the Man in Black that he could have smashed his head in but wanted to give his opponent a fighting chance. The Man in Black believes him. | |
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Terrible Trio | |
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Terrible Trio: Vizzini, Inigo, and Fezzik. Because Vizzini is a cad, but Fezzik and Inigo are mostly good, but on the other hand Inigo and Fezzik both help to kidnap Buttercup and, oh never mind! Later becomes heroic when someone gets slapped with iocaine powder. | |
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Master Swordsman | |
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When Count Rugen went to Inigo's father for a special sword, he claimed to be a Master Swordsman, and that's part of the reason why Inigo was so obsessed with becoming a greater master. However, even if Rugen wasn't simply flattering himself, by the time Inigo catches up with Rugen it's somewhere along the lines of 20 years later and Rugen has been paying more attention to forming plots with Prince Humperdink and perfecting his torture machines than honing his skills as a swordsman. Age and lack of practice mean that Rugen is completely out of his league against Inigo, and the duel between the two is rather anti-climactic, as even a badly wounded Inigo only needs to clash swords with Rugen a few times before casually overpowering Rugen. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Goldman portrays himself as one in the book's foreword. He then sets out to prove it, quite successfully. He also portrays Morgenstern as an unreliable narrator. And his father (who read him the book as a child). To wit: Narrator Goldman talks about a wife and kid he doesn't have in real life (not to mention saying the story is actually satirical non-fiction). Narrator Morgenstern says that the story happened before Europe but after America. Narrator Father never informed his son that the story came from a historical text and he skipped over all the (lengthy) boring parts. In later anniversary editions, Goldman talks about the scenes of what was supposed to be a fictional parody actually having happened in the past in later additions, with kids visiting locales such as the Cliffs of Insanity and the place where Inigo killed Rugen, and so forth, as tourist traps supposed by the fictional but still somehow existing countries of Guilder and Florin. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Buttercup starts noticing how hot "Farm Boy's" body is. Westley later says he got ripped so that she would notice him. There's a reason the Tag Line for the book is "A Hot Fairy Tale." | |
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The Brute | |
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The Brute: Subverted. Fezzik is really quite a nice guy. He does end up serving on a Brute Squad, though. | |
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Who Are You? | |
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Who Are You?: Inigo screams this at The Man in Black when the latter is showing he has better skills than even a ranked wizard at swordsmanship.note "Wizard" is the rarefied level even above "master." The narrative leaves Inigo an "out" — they were largely fighting in cramped quarters; in an open space Inigo would have won easily. | |
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Fake-Hair Drama | |
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Fake-Hair Drama: Prince Humperdinck briefly considers marrying a princess of Guilder, but angrily rejects her after a sudden breeze blows off the hat she wears and reveals her to be bald.note It's implied he did this on purpose because he really wanted a war with Guilder. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Inigo and Fezzik seem to be this. Also, in Inigo's Back Story, this is the kind of relationship between his father, Domingo Montoya, and Domingo's best friend Yeste. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: The novel is framed as an abridged version of a much larger original work the narrator had read to him as a child. | |
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Revenge Is Sweet | |
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Revenge Is Sweet: Inigo Montoya tracks down and kills Count Rugen, the six-fingered man who murdered his father. While the book does not shy away from the negative side effects of fixating on a decades-long revenge quest, Inigo still finds the revenge itself quite satisfying. In the movie, finally achieving his lifelong goal does leave Inigo wondering what to do now, but Westley solves that problem by suggesting Inigo could fill the recently vacated role of Dread Pirate Roberts. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Inigo and Fezzik; the Albino. | |
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Padding | |
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Padding: invoked The reason for the "Good Parts" version. One entire chapter was devoted to the wedding preparation — with Purple Prose describing everything. It apparently makes Amanda McKittrick Ros look succinct. | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang: Fezzik's holocaust cloak, which he uses to obtain an ingredient for Miracle Max's pill, proves useful while Storming the Castle. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Prince Humperdinck declares, "I swear it will be done," to Buttercup's demand that he send messages to the "Dread Pirate Roberts," knowing full well that Westley is in his dungeon. Count Rugen echoes it back to him immediately thereafter. Inigo swearing on his father's soul not to attack the Man in Black until he finishes climbing, versus Yellin swearing on his mother's soul that he didn't have any gate key. | |
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Try and Follow | |
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Try and Follow: The Fire Swamp and the Cliffs of Insanity. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: The setting is "before Europe," yet "after America" and before the invention of the word "glamour." Also, there is a mention of Australia being populated entirely by criminals, and Westley is described as wearing blue jeans. Oh, and stew is older than everything, except taxes. In-universe William Goldman states that this drove his editor bonkers, and had to explain that S. Morgenstern was being satirical and put them in to let a savvy reader know the story's fiction. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: Count Rugen has six fingers on his right hand, identifying him as the man who killed Inigo's father. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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As he himself points out, there's no money to be made by going on an epic quest for revenge, so he has to work as a mercenary for Vizzini to survive. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: The Dread Pirate Roberts, notorious for being a terrifying scourge of the high seas who takes no prisoners. | |
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Our Hero Is Dead | |
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Our Hero Is Dead: Humperdinck kills Westley in Rugen's Machine for having the audacity to hold Buttercup's True Love. He gets better. | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
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I Know You Know I Know: Subverted. Vizzini's hammy "...so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me! But you would have counted on my thinking that, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you!..." speech is just stalling for time, as the Man in Black points out, trying to goad out a reaction that will betray which goblet has poison in it. | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Count Tyrone Rugen is unfailingly polite but has devoted his entire life to the study of pain and has invented the greatest torture machine in history. | |
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Succession Crisis | |
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Succession Crisis: The whole thing gets started when Prince Humperdinck learns that his father is dying and he has to marry to produce an heir. FALSE. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: The chapter devoted to Inigo goes into his romance with a noble's daughter. Goldman invokes the trope, saying he was glad S. Morgenstern did the chapter because in the original The Princess Bride, he was a one-note You Killed My Father Revenge Machine with no other motivation. He suspects S. Morgenstern felt the same way. | |
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Electric Torture | |
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Electric Torture: Count Rugen's Machine uses suction for torture in a manner highly analogous to the more common electric shock variant. | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: The Impressive Clergyman speaks with a truly mind-boggling accent. | |
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Rags to Royalty | |
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Rags to Royalty: Humperdinck can't marry a commoner, so Buttercup gets ennobled. The story explains how she had to attend royalty school for three years and was given the title of Princess of Hammersmith ("a little lump of land attached to Lotharon's holdings"). | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: The King. He's also Captain Obvious, which is why the Queen usually deliberately mistranslates what he's saying. | |
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Best Served Cold | |
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Best Served Cold: Inigo's quest for vengeance against the "six-fingered man" who killed his father, which began when he was eleven. | |
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Heroic Ambidexterity | |
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Heroic Ambidexterity: Both Inigo Montoya and Westley are right-handed, but have trained their left hands so much they can beat most other swordsmen even when fighting with their off-hands. This enables them to fight a left-handed duel against each other, with neither of them realizing that their opponent is only feigning to be left-handed (hence the Trope Namer for I Am Not Left-Handed.) | |
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Minion with an F in Evil | |
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Minion with an F in Evil: Inigo and Fezzik. They follow Vizzini's orders, but they can't hide the fact that they're really pretty nice guys. | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: Vizzini counts on his ability to improvise an I Know You Know I Know speech to confuse the Man in Black and distract him from the Poison Chalice Switcheroo. He fails to anticipate that the Man in Black would not set up the scenario in the first place if he had any chance of losing. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Fezzik is happiest when he's just making up rhymes with his buddy Inigo. He has no ill will towards people but fights because it's the only thing he knows how to do well. | |
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Un-Installment | |
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Un-Installment: When Buttercup and Westley are reunited, there's an editor's note explaining that for one reason and another the book doesn't include a detailed depiction of their reunion, but you can write to the publisher to be sent a copy. People who did write in instead received a letter explaining that the Morgenstern estate had frowned on this, and the publisher needed to keep in good with the Morgenstern estate to avoid messing up the film rights/the US's trade ties with Florin/Goldman's chances of being allowed to "adapt" the sequel (the letter was updated from time to time with a new excuse). The then-current text of the letter was included in the 25th Anniversary Edition. | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Buttercup. Her beauty is enough to get her promoted to the future queen, except the Prince threatens to kill her if she refuses. And he's planning to kill her anyway. In fact, if she were slightly less beautiful, the whole conflict wouldn't have happened. | |
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Pistol-Whipping | |
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Pistol-Whipping: The Man in Black whacks Inigo with the butt of his sword to knock him out so he can't interfere. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_3ec27f76 | type |
Costume Porn | |
The Princess Bride / int_3ec27f76 | comment |
Costume Porn: Spoofed, with the narrator describing how he cut from the "original version" entire chapters describing Buttercup's wardrobe. It also went on for a dozen pages talking about every hat Princess Noreena owns. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_3ec27f76 | |
The Princess Bride / int_3ed23024 | type |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
The Princess Bride / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Count Rugen went to Inigo's father for a special sword, he claimed to be a Master Swordsman, and that's part of the reason why Inigo was so obsessed with becoming a greater master. However, even if Rugen wasn't simply flattering himself, by the time Inigo catches up with Rugen it's somewhere along the lines of 20 years later and Rugen has been paying more attention to forming plots with Prince Humperdink and perfecting his torture machines than honing his skills as a swordsman. Age and lack of practice mean that Rugen is completely out of his league against Inigo, and the duel between the two is rather anti-climactic, as even a badly wounded Inigo only needs to clash swords with Rugen a few times before casually overpowering Rugen. After his obsessional lifelong quest for revenge is finally finished, Inigo admits that he now doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. The heroes defeat the Big Bad, decide he's Not Worth Killing, and, their goals accomplished, tie him up and ride off into the sunset. Time for a happy ending, right? Well... the trouble is that this time the Big Bad is a prince who will soon be king, and the heroes left him tied up in the middle of his own castle, so it won't take him very long to get free and be a major threat to them. In the book, Humperdink doesn't take his humiliation and defeat well, and promptly ordered his men to pursue Westley, Inigo, Fezzik, and Buttercup. The book ends on a Sequel Hook with Humperdink's men hot on the trail of the heroes, and both circumstances and their various problems and weaknesses (Inigo's wound reopens and becomes worse, the somewhat dim Fezzik takes a wrong turn, etc) leave their ability to get away in serious doubt. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_3ed23024 | |
The Princess Bride / int_41271766 | type |
Happily Ever After | |
The Princess Bride / int_41271766 | comment |
Happily Ever After: The version that the narrator's father told him ends with a happily-ever-after. As an adult, he learns that the actual book leaves it a bit more open-ended. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_41271766 | |
The Princess Bride / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
The Princess Bride / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: With two exceptions — jumping off the boat and pushing the Dread Pirate Roberts down a hill — Buttercup takes no assertive action in her own defense. This is particularly evident in the Fire Swamp where she fails to assist Westley in any way. The trope is averted in the final pages, though, when Buttercup uses sheer force of personality (and her "queen training") to cow the guards that try to stop the heroes' escape. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4160410d | |
The Princess Bride / int_41a48472 | type |
Bat Out of Hell | |
The Princess Bride / int_41a48472 | comment |
Bat Out of Hell: The Zoo of Death has King Bats, which are "healthy carriers" of rabies. Fezzik is terrified of them, and justifiably so. | |
The Princess Bride / int_41a48472 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_41a48472 | |
The Princess Bride / int_424c9a9b | type |
Cold-Blooded Torture | |
The Princess Bride / int_424c9a9b | comment |
Cold-Blooded Torture: Rugen has spent decades developing The Machine as the perfect torture device, and is almost childishly eager to try it out on Westley. Humperdinck prefers a more direct approach. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_424c9a9b | |
The Princess Bride / int_43ae1aba | type |
World's Most Beautiful Woman | |
The Princess Bride / int_43ae1aba | comment |
World's Most Beautiful Woman: Buttercup — though at first, she's only in the top twenty. The first couple of chapters are in fact a lengthy parody of the trope, as the narrator somehow has access to a list of "Who was the most beautiful woman in the world at any given time," and on what qualifications, pays careful attention to Buttercup's rise through the ranks, and even gives anecdotes on what happened to the previous holders of the title (in order: chocolate, smallpox, and wrinkles brought on by worrying about how to hold on to the title of "World's Most Beautiful Woman.") In the end, despite the beauticians working on her while she's Humperdinck's fiancée, it's her maturity and sadness that puts her over the top. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_43ae1aba | |
The Princess Bride / int_450d0973 | type |
Smart Jerk and Nice Moron | |
The Princess Bride / int_450d0973 | comment |
Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: Vizzini is clever, but frequently verbally abuses Fezzik. On the other hand, Fezzik is by no means smart but makes up for it in sheer friendliness. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_450d0973 | |
The Princess Bride / int_478ae179 | type |
And Now You Must Marry Me | |
The Princess Bride / int_478ae179 | comment |
And Now You Must Marry Me: The Scarpia Ultimatum version. If the "Dread Pirate Roberts" does not respond to Buttercup's message within a certain time, Buttercup must go through with her marriage to Humperdinck. (The letters never go out, since Humperdinck is well aware that Westley is a prisoner in his dungeon). | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_478ae179 | |
The Princess Bride / int_487b1e5b | type |
Marry for Love | |
The Princess Bride / int_487b1e5b | comment |
Marry for Love: Westley wants to marry Buttercup, and the virtue of "true love" is noised about by a lot of people, but there are practical matters involved like the lack of any money. So he goes off to seek his fortune, leaving Buttercup to fall into an Arranged Marriage. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_487b1e5b | |
The Princess Bride / int_490bf391 | type |
Exploited Immunity | |
The Princess Bride / int_490bf391 | comment |
Exploited Immunity: Vizzini and the Man in Black are playing Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo; the Man in Black puts poison in both glasses, having spent years developing a tolerance to the poison being used. | |
The Princess Bride / int_490bf391 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_490bf391 | |
The Princess Bride / int_4b4ca7ac | type |
Speed, Smarts and Strength | |
The Princess Bride / int_4b4ca7ac | comment |
Speed, Smarts and Strength: The trio of baddies who kidnaps Buttercup is initially comprised of Vizzini (the mastermind, representing Smarts), Fezzik (a giant strongman, representing Strength), and Inigo (a master fencer, representing Speed). | |
The Princess Bride / int_4b4ca7ac | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4b4ca7ac | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e3dee88 | type |
Their First Time | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e3dee88 | comment |
Their First Time: There's a description of Buttercup initiating things with Westley (pointing out "we've only kissed" and discussing that she was taught the bedroom arts by ladies of the court) that ends in a Sexy Discretion Shot. This results in them conceiving a daughter. | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e3dee88 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4e3dee88 | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e52a624 | type |
Screw the Money, I Have Rules! | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e52a624 | comment |
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Inigo sweetens his revenge by offering Rugen false hope. | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e52a624 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride / int_4e52a624 | featureConfidence |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4e52a624 | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: In the Framing Story, Goldman being told "Stephen King is doing the abridgment." | |
The Princess Bride / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4e7c4536 | |
The Princess Bride / int_4edbce3e | type |
InterClassRomance | |
The Princess Bride / int_4edbce3e | comment |
Inter-Class Romance: Buttercup gets made the princess of a tiny area so that Prince Humperdinck can marry her. This also puts her socially above Westley, who used to work as her father's farmhand before becoming a pirate. | |
The Princess Bride / int_4edbce3e | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4edbce3e | |
The Princess Bride / int_4efc4fae | type |
Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
The Princess Bride / int_4efc4fae | comment |
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Inigo has a scar on each cheek, given to him as a child by the "six-fingered man" for daring to defy him. Inigo returns the favor when he confronts Count Rugen at the end. | |
The Princess Bride / int_4efc4fae | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4efc4fae | |
The Princess Bride / int_4f1f4751 | type |
Plot-Powered Stamina | |
The Princess Bride / int_4f1f4751 | comment |
Plot-Powered Stamina: Fezzik's arms never get tired, which comes in handy when he has to climb the Cliffs of Insanity with three people on his back. | |
The Princess Bride / int_4f1f4751 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4f1f4751 | |
The Princess Bride / int_4f41ac06 | type |
Hairstyle Malfunction | |
The Princess Bride / int_4f41ac06 | comment |
Hairstyle Malfunction: A potential bride for Humperdinck visits, bringing along her hugely famous collection of hats. Unfortunately for her, a high breeze blows through the dining hall while she's there and her hat comes off to reveal her (heretofore hidden) baldness. Humperdinck decides to go to war with her country for no other reason than his embarrassment and outrage at being offered a bald princess (even though the princess visited to be examined as a potential bride on his invitation). | |
The Princess Bride / int_4f41ac06 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_4f41ac06 | |
The Princess Bride / int_5009999d | type |
Painting the Medium | |
The Princess Bride / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: When Humperdinck breaks the orangutan's back, it's done with a "C-R-A-C-K," with each letter descending in an arc down the page. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5009999d | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5009999d | |
The Princess Bride / int_500ecfb7 | type |
The Big Guy | |
The Princess Bride / int_500ecfb7 | comment |
The Big Guy: Fezzik. It's been his condition since childhood; when his father tried to teach him to box to defend himself against his mean schoolmates, Fezzik accidentally broke his father's jaw. When he boxed for sport, he found single opponents to lack any challenge, so he would fight entire groups at a time. | |
The Princess Bride / int_500ecfb7 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_500ecfb7 | |
The Princess Bride / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
The Princess Bride / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: It's implied that Humperdinck's main motive for wanting a war with Guilder is the outrage that Guilder would offer him a bald princess as a bride (never mind that it was Florin that sought the marriage with Guilder and not the other way around). In reality, Humperdinck just loves war and wants to pick a fight. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_50b05d30 | |
The Princess Bride / int_52488c54 | type |
Drowning My Sorrows | |
The Princess Bride / int_52488c54 | comment |
Inigo has been driven into becoming an alcoholic by his life in general and his inability to find Count Rugen in particular. Twenty years of first training for revenge but then being unable to find his target and all the doubts and insecurities that come with it led to Inigo dealing with his psychological stressors by drinking them away. Before Vizzini found him, Inigo was a drunken wreck, and after losing his duel with Westley, he has an epic relapse, since the loss reawakens his fears that his skills may be inadequate. Speaking of his loss in the duel with Westley, when Inigo fought Westley, Inigo was fighting purely for the money and because Vizzini told him to do it. He hadn't fought anyone who could match him (even when fighting left-handed), in a long time and has been coasting on the strength of his past training. Also, he's battling his alcoholism and, odds, are, regularly drinking when not on the job. Westley, on the other hand, is fighting to save the life of his true love, his swordsmanship is as sharp and polished as it's ever going to be, he's younger, and he's not wrestling with any addictions that have side effects like dulling his reflexes and response time. All of this results in Westley being just a little bit better, enough to make the difference in the fight. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_52488c54 | |
The Princess Bride / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
The Princess Bride / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen are quite nice, even when they are torturing you or planning your murder, so much so that when Humperdinck loses his composure, it comes as a genuine shock. | |
The Princess Bride / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_537dd8fe | |
The Princess Bride / int_53f0f67e | type |
Dreaming the Truth | |
The Princess Bride / int_53f0f67e | comment |
Dreaming the Truth: Buttercup and the Ancient Booer, who accuses her of giving up True Love for a marriage of convenience. | |
The Princess Bride / int_53f0f67e | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_53f0f67e | |
The Princess Bride / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
The Princess Bride / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Count Rugen is Humperdinck's second in command and his co-conspirator. During the showdown, however, Rugen fails rather badly at his job. | |
The Princess Bride / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_53f5119f | |
The Princess Bride / int_5400ad8 | type |
Never Bareheaded | |
The Princess Bride / int_5400ad8 | comment |
Never Bareheaded: Princess Noreena of Guilder is never seen without one of her many hats. After a sudden breeze blows one-off, it turns out she's bald. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5400ad8 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5400ad8 | |
The Princess Bride / int_553d8a44 | type |
King on His Deathbed | |
The Princess Bride / int_553d8a44 | comment |
King on His Deathbed: Prince Humperdinck's father is supposedly near death, and does die in Buttercup's dream sequence. | |
The Princess Bride / int_553d8a44 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride / int_553d8a44 | featureConfidence |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_553d8a44 | |
The Princess Bride / int_56b53152 | type |
Green Aesop | |
The Princess Bride / int_56b53152 | comment |
Green Aesop: Parodied constantly. It's mentioned that Morgenstern, on top of having financial incentives, was generally pretty incensed about the destruction of Florin's old growth forests, and so in the narrative seemingly every character constantly drops into inner monologue about how Florin's beautiful trees are a priceless national treasure, to the point that the big action scene between the pirate crew and the prince's pursuers is not only entirely glossed over in favor of lush descriptions of trees, but is literally called "the Battle of the Trees." | |
The Princess Bride / int_56b53152 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_56b53152 | |
The Princess Bride / int_56c55ed8 | type |
I Am Not Left-Handed | |
The Princess Bride / int_56c55ed8 | comment |
I Am Not Left-Handed: Inigo, being a master swordsman, has taken to deliberately handicapping himself by fighting left-handed so that fights with inferior opponents won't be too easy. When the Man in Black turns out to be a stronger opponent than he expected, he reveals the ruse and switches back to using his right hand — and then the Man in Black does the same thing. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_56c55ed8 | |
The Princess Bride / int_589243b5 | type |
Never Say That Again | |
The Princess Bride / int_589243b5 | comment |
Never Say That Again: Count Rugen, to Inigo's You Killed My Father Prepare to Die mantra: "Stop saying that!" | |
The Princess Bride / int_589243b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Princess Bride / int_589243b5 | featureConfidence |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_589243b5 | |
The Princess Bride / int_5a40d6a | type |
Adaptation Distillation | |
The Princess Bride / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: In-universe. Thenote non-existent original book that the story was told from was a long, boring political satire that the narrator distilled into just the good parts for his son. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5a40d6a | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5a40d6a | |
The Princess Bride / int_5beef860 | type |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
The Princess Bride / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Fezzik is terrified of two things: being alone, and king bats. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5beef860 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5beef860 | |
The Princess Bride / int_5bf25e11 | type |
Extra Digits | |
The Princess Bride / int_5bf25e11 | comment |
Extra Digits: Count Rugen's six fingers. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5bf25e11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5bf25e11 | |
The Princess Bride / int_5cfa64d0 | type |
Dashing Hispanic | |
The Princess Bride / int_5cfa64d0 | comment |
Dashing Hispanic: Inigo Montoya has the handsomeness and the swashbuckling down pat. His apparent failure at his life quest has left him despondent and alcoholic, however. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5cfa64d0 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5cfa64d0 | |
The Princess Bride / int_5d310fb8 | type |
Sword Fight | |
The Princess Bride / int_5d310fb8 | comment |
Sword Fight: The duel between Inigo and the Man in Black. | |
The Princess Bride / int_5d310fb8 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_5d310fb8 | |
The Princess Bride / int_605cf3f | type |
Something Only They Would Say | |
The Princess Bride / int_605cf3f | comment |
Something Only They Would Say: Roberts saying "As you wish," reveals himself to be Westley. | |
The Princess Bride / int_605cf3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_605cf3f | |
The Princess Bride / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
The Princess Bride / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Inigo and Fezzik are only hirelings, with no real malice in their hearts, but after the Man in Black defeats both of them, they seek him out: Fezzik to give his life purpose and Inigo because he wants help with his revenge quest. | |
The Princess Bride / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_617f0563 | |
The Princess Bride / int_6331ba26 | type |
Plot Hole | |
The Princess Bride / int_6331ba26 | comment |
Plot Hole: Lampshaded repeatedly, to the point where the amount of events that don't make any practical sense other than to drive S. Morgenstern's plot becomes something of a running joke. | |
The Princess Bride / int_6331ba26 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_6331ba26 | |
The Princess Bride / int_63cad64b | type |
Threatening Shark | |
The Princess Bride / int_63cad64b | comment |
Threatening Shark: Buttercup tries to swim away from Vizzini, so he excites the sharks. | |
The Princess Bride / int_63cad64b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Princess Bride / int_63cad64b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_63cad64b | |
The Princess Bride / int_641cf81d | type |
Viewers Are Geniuses | |
The Princess Bride / int_641cf81d | comment |
Readers Are Geniuses: Invoked. The original text (which doesn't exist) was a political satire that required the reader to have several university degrees to find funny instead of boring. This is the fun part that boiled out of that. | |
The Princess Bride / int_641cf81d | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_641cf81d | |
The Princess Bride / int_65bd0e27 | type |
Treated Worse than the Pet | |
The Princess Bride / int_65bd0e27 | comment |
Treated Worse than the Pet: Buttercup is much nicer to her horse, Horse, than she is to pretty much any other living creature - most especially Westley, the Farm Boy who cares for Horse and for her father's cows. At one point she orders Westley to stay up all night cleaning Horse's stable and polishing his saddle. | |
The Princess Bride / int_65bd0e27 | featureApplicability |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_65bd0e27 | |
The Princess Bride / int_660eceeb | type |
Big Guy Fatality Syndrome | |
The Princess Bride / int_660eceeb | comment |
Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: It's Big Guy Fezzik who throws himself over an enormous cliff to save Waverly, who is Buttercup and Westley's daughter. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_660eceeb | |
The Princess Bride / int_6636a549 | type |
Remembered Too Late | |
The Princess Bride / int_6636a549 | comment |
Remembered Too Late: Max remembers after the heroes leave that the potion will only make Westley fully fit for 40 minutes instead of the hour he said they'd have. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6828b109 | type |
Abridged for Children | |
The Princess Bride / int_6828b109 | comment |
Abridged for Children: This is the in-story reason Mr. Goldman abridged The Princess Bride. He wanted his kids to enjoy it, and there was far too much boring stuff. However, he did leave in all the torture and death (though he does warn us about what's coming at one point, telling us that this isn't Curious George Uses the Potty). Mr. Goldman's (in-story) father's Good Parts abridgment fits the trope more accurately. He tried to leave out the scary parts until he was called on it. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6a3c49f | type |
Direct Line to the Author | |
The Princess Bride / int_6a3c49f | comment |
Direct Line to the Author: The supposed original version of the book (by S. Morgenstern) is, in fact, nonexistent. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6a3c49f | |
The Princess Bride / int_6bf50080 | type |
Your Eyes Can Deceive You | |
The Princess Bride / int_6bf50080 | comment |
Your Eyes Can Deceive You: Part of Inigo's training. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6bf50080 | |
The Princess Bride / int_6d5ab39e | type |
Fractured Fairy Tale | |
The Princess Bride / int_6d5ab39e | comment |
Fractured Fairy Tale: In the Framing Story, the original work wasn't a fairy tale at all but rather a dull historical treatise, which the narrator cut down to "the good bits." This leaves plenty of room for parody among the standard fairy tale tropes. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6d5ab39e | |
The Princess Bride / int_6f679180 | type |
Reclusive Artist | |
The Princess Bride / int_6f679180 | comment |
Reclusive Artist: In-Universe example with Domingo Montoya (in Inigo's Backstory flashback), who is perfectly happy to live a humble life as a completely unknown swordsmith despite being one of the finest in Europe. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6f679180 | |
The Princess Bride / int_6fb5cb83 | type |
I Gave My Word | |
The Princess Bride / int_6fb5cb83 | comment |
I Gave My Word: Played straight by Inigo as Westley is trying to climb the Cliffs of Insanity. Twisted around when Prince Humperdinck promises not to hurt Westley if Buttercup goes quietly ("You (meaning Count Rugen) will do the actual tormenting; I will only spectate"), but ultimately subverted when Humperdinck mostly kills Westley himself. Westley doesn't believe it for a second, of course. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6fb5cb83 | |
The Princess Bride / int_6feaf27b | type |
Scarily Competent Tracker | |
The Princess Bride / int_6feaf27b | comment |
Scarily Competent Tracker: Prince Humperdinck can "track a hawk on a cloudy day" and demonstrates this skill by not only perfectly retracing the steps of the Man in Black's duel with Inigo, but identifying the odorless, colorless, tasteless iocane powder. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_6feaf27b | |
The Princess Bride / int_72852a93 | type |
Henpecked Husband | |
The Princess Bride / int_72852a93 | comment |
Henpecked Husband: Buttercup's father. And the fictional version of William Goldman himself. Also Miracle Max, to an extent. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_72852a93 | |
The Princess Bride / int_7294b403 | type |
Altar Diplomacy | |
The Princess Bride / int_7294b403 | comment |
Altar Diplomacy: The ailing King and Queen of Florin want to marry Prince Humperdinck to the Princess of Guilder to ally with the two rival countries. Humperdinck breaks off the engagement when it turns out during a banquet that his fiancée is congenitally bald, and comments that he'd always planned to just conquer Guilder instead. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7294b403 | |
The Princess Bride / int_7453bc5b | type |
Spared by the Adaptation | |
The Princess Bride / int_7453bc5b | comment |
Spared by the Adaptation: Goldman finds out to his shock that real-life Inigo Montoya was actually killed, and Morgenstern had him live because he liked the character too much. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7453bc5b | |
The Princess Bride / int_7480eb67 | type |
Green-Eyed Epiphany | |
The Princess Bride / int_7480eb67 | comment |
Green-Eyed Epiphany: Buttercup realizes she's in love with Westley because Countess Rugen has the visible hots for him. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7480eb67 | |
The Princess Bride / int_76df59f1 | type |
Thicker Than Water | |
The Princess Bride / int_76df59f1 | comment |
Thicker Than Water | |
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The Princess Bride / int_76df59f1 | |
The Princess Bride / int_7860d036 | type |
Get It Over With | |
The Princess Bride / int_7860d036 | comment |
Get It Over With: After being defeated in a duel, Inigo asks the Man in Black to kill him quickly, so he won't have to live with the shame. The Man in Black denies this request, but he does knock him unconscious. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7860d036 | |
The Princess Bride / int_79a0e313 | type |
Bolivian Army Ending | |
The Princess Bride / int_79a0e313 | comment |
Bolivian Army Ending: The end of the novel explores the logical aftermath of the heroes' escape. Inigo's injury worsens, Westley relapses, and the entire army of Florin is after them. They survive, though. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_79a0e313 | |
The Princess Bride / int_79eb1e2e | type |
Neutral Female | |
The Princess Bride / int_79eb1e2e | comment |
Neutral Female: Buttercup is useless until the end, where she manages to drive off the entire Brute Squad by standing up in the saddle and yelling, "I -- am -- the -- queeeeeeeeeeeen!!!!!"note Buttercup sheepishly says afterward that it was technically untrue, but bellowing "I AM THE PRINCESS!" wouldn't have the same tone of authority. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_79eb1e2e | |
The Princess Bride / int_7b79b512 | type |
Sparing the Aces | |
The Princess Bride / int_7b79b512 | comment |
Sparing the Aces: The Man in Black spares Fezzik and Inigo after defeating them. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7b79b512 | |
The Princess Bride / int_7eb73553 | type |
Bullying a Dragon | |
The Princess Bride / int_7eb73553 | comment |
Bullying a Dragon: Vizzini actually physically threatens Fezzik, which will give one an idea of just how cowed Fezzik is by him. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7eb73553 | |
The Princess Bride / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
The Princess Bride / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Inigo pre- and post-Vizzini. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7eebe99c | |
The Princess Bride / int_7f95e396 | type |
"Reading Is Cool" Aesop | |
The Princess Bride / int_7f95e396 | comment |
"Reading Is Cool" Aesop | |
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The Princess Bride / int_7f95e396 | |
The Princess Bride / int_80621707 | type |
Arranged Marriage | |
The Princess Bride / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage: Expected, given the time period. Buttercup doesn't even like Humperdinck, but she's lost all hope of marrying for love. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_80621707 | |
The Princess Bride / int_82f5ced1 | type |
Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
The Princess Bride / int_82f5ced1 | comment |
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Played straight, but it only works for Fezzik and with a caveat. In his past, Fezzik used to fight people one-on-one for money. Audiences got bored of the curb-stomp battles so Fezzik started taking on more and more people; and found that if he changed his strategy a little bit, it wasn't much harder than fighting single people. During his fight with the Man in Black, Fezzik realizes that his years of fighting groups have left him confused as to how to fight one person. He adjusts his strategy, but by that point, it's too late. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_82f5ced1 | |
The Princess Bride / int_83f0971b | type |
Mexican Standoff | |
The Princess Bride / int_83f0971b | comment |
Mexican Standoff: Vizzini holds Buttercup hostage at knifepoint as a hedge against the Man in Black's obvious physical superiority. They choose a battle of wits as an alternative to violence. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_83f0971b | |
The Princess Bride / int_84313b4f | type |
The Three Trials | |
The Princess Bride / int_84313b4f | comment |
The Three Trials: Inigo, Fezzik, and Vizzini challenge the Man in Black in swordsmanship, strength, and wits, respectively. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_84313b4f | |
The Princess Bride / int_8b3fe1cb | type |
Flaw Exploitation | |
The Princess Bride / int_8b3fe1cb | comment |
Flaw Exploitation: How Vizzini can bully both Fezzik and Inigo even though either could kill him in a nanosecond — both are terrified of being alone again, and Vizzini rescued both from that. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_8b3fe1cb | |
The Princess Bride / int_8c9cad1e | type |
Psychic Static | |
The Princess Bride / int_8c9cad1e | comment |
Psychic Static: How Westley can defeat physical torture — by thinking of Buttercup. Before he's subjected to The Machine, Rugen informs him he knew that Westley was "taking his mind away." This finally unnerves Westley. The Machine gets past all of his defenses and pains him for real. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_8c9cad1e | |
The Princess Bride / int_901dbf9a | type |
Cliff Hanger | |
The Princess Bride / int_901dbf9a | comment |
Cliffhanger: No, not the Cliffs of Insanity. Seems S. Morgenstern was fond of these (note Buttercup's Baby as well.) | |
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The Princess Bride / int_901dbf9a | |
The Princess Bride / int_927d9def | type |
Scarecrow Solution | |
The Princess Bride / int_927d9def | comment |
Scarecrow Solution: "The Dread Pirate Roberts" rig that Fezzik wears to terrify the Florinese soldiers guarding the castle gate. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_927d9def | |
The Princess Bride / int_92d728e1 | type |
Resurrection Sickness | |
The Princess Bride / int_92d728e1 | comment |
Resurrection Sickness: Max explains that he can definitely have the tongue and brain working, and with luck maybe a slow walk. That's about it. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_92d728e1 | |
The Princess Bride / int_92d7976 | type |
You Keep Using That Word | |
The Princess Bride / int_92d7976 | comment |
Vizzini: "Inconceivable!" | |
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The Princess Bride / int_92d7976 | |
The Princess Bride / int_92f674e5 | type |
Revenge | |
The Princess Bride / int_92f674e5 | comment |
Revenge: Inigo's motivation is to get vengeance on the six-fingered man who killed his father. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_92f674e5 | |
The Princess Bride / int_93168fb1 | type |
It's Quiet… Too Quiet | |
The Princess Bride / int_93168fb1 | comment |
It's Quiet… Too Quiet: This saves Fezzik and Inigo's lives when they have to deal with a door guarded by a lethal spider in the Pit of Despair. To wit, Fezzik is so scared by this false sense of security, he simply rams the door, allowing Inigo to stomp the spider before it can bite. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_93168fb1 | |
The Princess Bride / int_9438e550 | type |
The Big Damn Kiss | |
The Princess Bride / int_9438e550 | comment |
The Big Damn Kiss: For Westley and Buttercup's first kiss, the narrative goes on at length about how, since the accidental invention of the kiss, people have been divided over what mathematical equation will best describe the perfect kiss; however, there have been five throughout history that everyone agrees "deserve full marks." The narrative then declares, "Well, this one left them all behind." The novel puts it at the beginning of the story, while the film puts it at the climax. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9438e550 | |
The Princess Bride / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
The Princess Bride / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: As Inigo refuses to die, and slowly gains the upper hand on Rugen in their duel, Rugen first becomes shaken, then demands that Inigo "Stop saying that!" | |
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The Princess Bride / int_957e5fc2 | |
The Princess Bride / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
The Princess Bride / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Played straight with Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen; the King, however, is merely senile, and the Queen is the most beloved person in the kingdom. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_96144372 | |
The Princess Bride / int_969c0ac2 | type |
Fresh Clue | |
The Princess Bride / int_969c0ac2 | comment |
Fresh Clue: Prince Humperdinck is an expert tracker, and manages to correctly interpret Wesley's adventures while rescuing Buttercup: | |
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The Princess Bride / int_969c0ac2 | |
The Princess Bride / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
The Princess Bride / int_970c790a | comment |
The heroes defeat the Big Bad, decide he's Not Worth Killing, and, their goals accomplished, tie him up and ride off into the sunset. Time for a happy ending, right? Well... the trouble is that this time the Big Bad is a prince who will soon be king, and the heroes left him tied up in the middle of his own castle, so it won't take him very long to get free and be a major threat to them. In the book, Humperdink doesn't take his humiliation and defeat well, and promptly ordered his men to pursue Westley, Inigo, Fezzik, and Buttercup. The book ends on a Sequel Hook with Humperdink's men hot on the trail of the heroes, and both circumstances and their various problems and weaknesses (Inigo's wound reopens and becomes worse, the somewhat dim Fezzik takes a wrong turn, etc) leave their ability to get away in serious doubt. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_970c790a | |
The Princess Bride / int_9843be73 | type |
As You Know | |
The Princess Bride / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: Iocaine comes from Australia, as "everyone knows."note There is no such thing as iocaine, though Australia exists. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9843be73 | |
The Princess Bride / int_99298c71 | type |
Better to Die than Be Killed | |
The Princess Bride / int_99298c71 | comment |
Better to Die than Be Killed: When Buttercup escapes the Sicilian Crowd's boat, swimming into shark-infested waters, Vizzini tells her that if she cries out, they'll find her and she'll die painlessly. But she resolves not to make a peep, ready to die as shark kibble rather than assassin bait. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_99298c71 | |
The Princess Bride / int_9aaf8eca | type |
Crippling Overspecialization | |
The Princess Bride / int_9aaf8eca | comment |
The book notes that Inigo suffers from a case of Crippling Overspecialization; he was so focused on revenge that he threw himself into becoming a Master Swordsman and barely paid any attention to learning anything else. Furthermore, Inigo's father might have been the Ultimate Blacksmith but was also a half-mad recluse before being killed. The result is that Inigo is uniquely unworldly and ignorant of a lot of life skills like basic arithmetic. He is basically at a loss for how to function in society without someone like Vizzini to think for him. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9aaf8eca | |
The Princess Bride / int_9abe931d | type |
Quicksand Sucks | |
The Princess Bride / int_9abe931d | comment |
Quicksand Sucks: Except its not quicksand. The stuff Buttercup falls into in the book is called 'snow sand,' and is like baby powder. As the narrative explains, quicksand is wet and kills by drowning, while snow sand is dry and powdery and kills by suffocation. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9abe931d | |
The Princess Bride / int_9b34ee31 | type |
Marriage of Convenience | |
The Princess Bride / int_9b34ee31 | comment |
Marriage of Convenience: Buttercup to Prince Humperdinck, which he argues is a practical matter of him needing an heir and a wife whose appearance he won't be embarrassed by at court (his parents' pick, the princess of Guilder, was bald), and he's willing to lift her and her family out of poverty for it. Actually, he plans to murder her and frame Guilder as a Pretext for War. She goes along with it because she believes Westley to be dead, and neither expects love out of it. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9b34ee31 | |
The Princess Bride / int_9b629c86 | type |
Pressure Point | |
The Princess Bride / int_9b629c86 | comment |
Pressure Point: Vizzini uses a Vulcan Neck Pinch on Buttercup. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9b629c86 | |
The Princess Bride / int_9bc66bb1 | type |
Belated Happy Ending | |
The Princess Bride / int_9bc66bb1 | comment |
Belated Happy Ending: Buttercup's Baby resolves the open ending of The Princess Bride. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9bc66bb1 | |
The Princess Bride / int_9c6ba43a | type |
Values Dissonance | |
The Princess Bride / int_9c6ba43a | comment |
Values Dissonance: There's no way William Goldman was going to have Max call Inigo a "spick" in the film adaptation. invoked | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9c6ba43a | |
The Princess Bride / int_9d080c44 | type |
Ice Queen | |
The Princess Bride / int_9d080c44 | comment |
Ice Queen/Defrosting Ice Queen: Buttercup goes from one to the other and back again throughout the story. She starts cold, then defrosts when she realizes she's in love with Westley, then freezes up again after he's murdered by pirates, then defrosts again when he shows up. When Humperdinck catches them coming out of the Fire Swamp, she agrees to leave with him to save Westley's life, freezing up once more with despair, but later thaws when she realizes she made a huge mistake. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_9ecbcb36 | type |
ComicallySerious | |
The Princess Bride / int_9ecbcb36 | comment |
Comically Serious: Goldman's son is completely Sarcasm-Blind and has zero humor, saying "Boy are you stupid" when Goldman cracks a joke and takes it seriously. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a0c41525 | type |
Stop Saying That! | |
The Princess Bride / int_a0c41525 | comment |
Stop Saying That!: Count Rugen, verbatim, to Inigo Montoya. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a148f27b | type |
Living Legend | |
The Princess Bride / int_a148f27b | comment |
Living Legend: The Dread Pirate Roberts is a mythical pirate. Fezzik earns a reputation as a brawler whose arms are completely tireless. Prince Humperdinck can hunt anything down. Buttercup is the (current) world's most beautiful woman. Etc. etc. | |
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The Evil Prince | |
The Princess Bride / int_a22c6d89 | comment |
The Evil Prince: Humperdinck is the prince of Florin and schemes to instigate a war with neighboring Guilder so he can usurp control of both kingdoms. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a32334b4 | type |
Canon Discontinuity | |
The Princess Bride / int_a32334b4 | comment |
Canon Discontinuity: The entire fairy tale was supposed to be completely fictional, but later anniversary editions of the book have forwards in which William Goldman goes to Florin and Guilder to visit the exact places where events took place - which have become popular tourist spots. invoked | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a588c1cf | type |
Cool Horse | |
The Princess Bride / int_a588c1cf | comment |
Cool Horse: Prince Humperdinck breeds powerful white stallions, which Fezzik steals to facilitate the heroes' escape after the climax. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a588c1cf | |
The Princess Bride / int_a5e0c01 | type |
As Himself | |
The Princess Bride / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Himself: Played with. The in-universe William Goldman has a son. The real Goldman only has daughters. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a5e0c01 | |
The Princess Bride / int_a66b0789 | type |
Fingertip Drug Analysis | |
The Princess Bride / int_a66b0789 | comment |
Fingertip Drug Analysis: Parodied. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a66b0789 | |
The Princess Bride / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
The Princess Bride / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Zig-Zagged. Prince Humperdinck suffers no physical harm at all in the final confrontation, but his reputation lies in ruins and his cowardice is revealed. Yellin does free him soon afterward, whereupon he manages to make one last bid to prevent Wesley from escaping, but thanks to a fortuitous intervention by a certain pirate crew, even that fails. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a70223 | |
The Princess Bride / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
The Princess Bride / int_a8559a9f | comment |
Made more explicit in the “Buttercup’s Baby� sequence; Goldman says that Morgenstern became obsessed with Florinese foliage, writing about them extensively in his novels in an attempt to convince the country of Florin to stop cutting down trees. Replace "foliage" with "architecture," and you have the Real Life motivation for the writing of The Hunch Back Of Notre Dame, which had been left in a state of disrepair by the French when Hugo wrote his novel. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_a8559a9f | |
The Princess Bride / int_adc286a | type |
Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness | |
The Princess Bride / int_adc286a | comment |
Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness: The Cliffs of Insanity, the Man in Black, the Rodents of Unusual Size, and the Zoo of Death, just to name a few. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
The Princess Bride / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: When he isn't professing his undying love to Buttercup, Westley is being very sarcastic with her. Especially in regards to her (lack of) intelligence. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_aebe18ab | type |
Pet Rat | |
The Princess Bride / int_aebe18ab | comment |
Pet Rat: The goons hired by Prince Humperdinck, whose job is to clear out the Thieves' Quarter. Not to mention Vizzini and his crew. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_aebe18ab | |
The Princess Bride / int_b016f599 | type |
Person with the Clothing | |
The Princess Bride / int_b016f599 | comment |
Person with the Clothing: The Man in Black. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b016f599 | |
The Princess Bride / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
The Princess Bride / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Inigo: "Hello!, My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." Westley: "As You Wish" Vizzini: "Inconceivable!" "True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for cough drops." It's repeated multiple times by characters at multiple levels of reality as if everyone knows this is self-evidently true. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b01abe4f | |
The Princess Bride / int_b070362d | type |
Wicked Stepmother | |
The Princess Bride / int_b070362d | comment |
Wicked Stepmother: Utterly averted with Queen Bella, who has an excellent relationship with her stepson the Prince. Humperdinck calls her "Evil Stepmother" (E.S. for short), but only in affection. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b0855ef3 | type |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed | |
The Princess Bride / int_b0855ef3 | comment |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The fictional author Morgenstern has more than a passing resemblance to Victor Hugo, acclaimed French Novelist known for writing door stopper novels with long tangents about French history and architecture. Made more explicit in the “Buttercup’s Baby� sequence; Goldman says that Morgenstern became obsessed with Florinese foliage, writing about them extensively in his novels in an attempt to convince the country of Florin to stop cutting down trees. Replace "foliage" with "architecture," and you have the Real Life motivation for the writing of The Hunch Back Of Notre Dame, which had been left in a state of disrepair by the French when Hugo wrote his novel. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b1a7cd14 | type |
Tap on the Head | |
The Princess Bride / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: The Dread Pirate Roberts to Inigo (sword-hilt) and Fezzik (stranglehold), Count Rugen to Westley (sword-hilt), and Fezzik to the albino (fist). | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b1a7cd14 | |
The Princess Bride / int_b2ad812d | type |
So What Do We Do Now? | |
The Princess Bride / int_b2ad812d | comment |
After his obsessional lifelong quest for revenge is finally finished, Inigo admits that he now doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b2ad812d | |
The Princess Bride / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
The Princess Bride / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: In-Universe, S Morgenstern despised doctors and shilled the virtues of miracle men. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b53077b3 | |
The Princess Bride / int_b593baf1 | type |
Author Filibuster | |
The Princess Bride / int_b593baf1 | comment |
Author Filibuster: Parodied, as in The Princess Bride, with S. Morgenstern's digressions. After a huge buildup to a fight, the conclusion is a perfunctory few sentences mixed in with several pages about the positive qualities of a certain type of tree. Goldman explains that Morgenstern had a large monetary stake involving these trees, and used the book as an opportunity to make them more popular. It's also played with, in that Goldman's removal of these in The Princess Bride is said to be a point of contention with Morgenstern's estate about letting him 'abridge' Buttercup's Baby; apparently, the estate considers these the most important parts of the book. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b5b6d46d | type |
Epiphora | |
The Princess Bride / int_b5b6d46d | comment |
Epiphora: After Westley leaves Buttercup's farm to seek his fortune, he sends her frequent letters, and to make up for all the times he didn't say the actual words, he ends every sentence with "I love you." | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b5b6d46d | |
The Princess Bride / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
The Princess Bride / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: The novel mentions removing sections of the original text that were boring and unsuitable for children... in the midst of a section of text that is boring and unsuitable for children. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b707726f | |
The Princess Bride / int_b7c53a22 | type |
Blood Knight | |
The Princess Bride / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Blood Knight: Humperdinck. He loves killing, period. He has no interest in ruling the country, and would rather instigate a war instead. Heck, he's first met breaking an orangutan's back - he makes a point of hunting and killing at least one animal a day for sport. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b807624a | type |
And Show It to You | |
The Princess Bride / int_b807624a | comment |
And Show It to You: Inigo makes a few cuts around Rugen's heart and seems to have been planning on cutting it out entirely — his idea of Laser-Guided Karma since Rugen (albeit metaphorically) cut Inigo's heart out by killing his father. Subverted in that Rugen dies of fright before Inigo can actually do it. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_b9f472b | type |
Storming the Castle | |
The Princess Bride / int_b9f472b | comment |
Storming the Castle: "Think it'll work?" "It'll take a miracle." | |
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The Princess Bride / int_bad6069c | type |
Imposed Handicap Training | |
The Princess Bride / int_bad6069c | comment |
Imposed Handicap Training: One of Inigo's sword teachers emphasized this to the point of disdaining all else. He would rant about how fights to the death are rarely, if ever, going to be held under ideal conditions and thus you have to be ready for every possible bad scenario, such as what if you're trying to fight while severely injured, if you're in the midst of terrible weather, etc. Said master ridiculed other famous master teachers for teaching as though bouts would take place in a ballroom, and when Inigo is badly wounded by Count Rugen, it's this training and experience he calls on to see himself through it. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_bb067aba | type |
Cool Mask | |
The Princess Bride / int_bb067aba | comment |
Cool Mask: The Man in Black wears one as part of his Dread Pirate Roberts getup. It's just terribly comfortable! | |
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The Princess Bride / int_bba9ea51 | type |
Good Stepmother | |
The Princess Bride / int_bba9ea51 | comment |
Good Stepmother: Prince Humperdinck calls his stepmother evil because supposedly, all fairy tale stepmothers are; in reality, she's very nice and the most beloved person in the kingdom, perhaps second only to Buttercup. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
The Princess Bride / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Buttercup presses Vizzini's by noting that he's not as smart as he thinks he is — he had no way of knowing the moon would shine at just the right moment to save her from the sharks. His response is to hit her and retort that it worked anyway. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_bc74ef27 | |
The Princess Bride / int_bda88535 | type |
Life Isn't Fair | |
The Princess Bride / int_bda88535 | comment |
Life Isn't Fair: A major theme of the book, and the subject of at least one plot interrupting Author Filibuster. As the very last lines of the book state, "Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all." A similar sentiment is the line in both book and movie (though in very different contexts): | |
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The Princess Bride / int_c09b3ff3 | type |
Physical Scars, Psychological Scars | |
The Princess Bride / int_c09b3ff3 | comment |
Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Inigo Montoya has a scar on each cheek given to him by the man who killed his father which serves to strengthen his drive for revenge. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_c3a57274 | type |
True Craftsman | |
The Princess Bride / int_c3a57274 | comment |
True Craftsman: Domingo Montoya has the highest standards for himself and the swords he makes. He could be wealthy and renowned, but he doesn't want to make swords that will only be trophies for stupid elites. He is ecstatic at the prospect of making a sword for a six-fingered master fighter - but changes his mind when the six-fingered man sees only a product to buy (at a tenth of the promised price), not a work of art. Domingo leaves his final sword - and a masterpiece of steel - to his son, Inigo. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_c3e4a2f0 | type |
Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo | |
The Princess Bride / int_c3e4a2f0 | comment |
Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Vizzini's gambit in the battle of wits is to distract the Man in Black and switch the goblets. If the Man in Black is willing to drink from his own cup, then he's just poisoned himself. Except it doesn't work, because both goblets were poisoned. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_c92bd7ed | type |
Spiders Are Scary | |
The Princess Bride / int_c92bd7ed | comment |
Spiders Are Scary: In the Zoo of Death, there's a decoy door to the bottom level with a green handle. Said handle is the home of a green-speckled recluse, one of the most deadly spiders on Earth. That way, if an intruder comes in with the intent of freeing one of Humperdinck's prisoners, they'll suffer a fatal bite. It ends up being killed without ceremony when an impatient Fezzik breaks down the door and Inigo unknowingly steps on the startled spider. Another dangerous spider in the Zoo of death is the Shrieking Tarantula, although it's only briefly mentioned by the narration. | |
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Scheherezade Gambit | |
The Princess Bride / int_c9d80884 | comment |
Scheherezade Gambit: Westley's relationship with the previous Dread Pirate Roberts is that he will "most likely kill him in the morning." He says this for several years before finally becoming fast friends. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
The Princess Bride / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: The original Dread Pirate Roberts retired and passed on the name to one of his associates; this developed into a tradition of which Westley is the latest recipient. When he rescues Buttercup, he states his intention to pass on the title himself. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_caa47c3c | type |
Bits of Me Keep Passing Out | |
The Princess Bride / int_caa47c3c | comment |
Bits of Me Keep Passing Out: Inverted and Played for Laughs as it takes a while for Miracle Max's cure to fully take effect on Westley, and Inigo, and Fezzik have to carry him around while Storming the Castle as bits of him are "waking up" one at a time. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_cdd76441 | type |
Big Guy Rodeo | |
The Princess Bride / int_cdd76441 | comment |
Big Guy Rodeo: The Man in Black does this to Fezzik. It works, too; according to Fezzik, it's because he's got used to fighting crowds (battling gangs for local charities—that kind of thing) and is out of practice with one-on-one duels. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_cdfe12c3 | type |
Nothing Is Scarier | |
The Princess Bride / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Nothing Is Scarier: The hallway to the last level of the Zoo of Death is a short and well-lit staircase, entirely devoid of the horrific beasts of the other levels. The idea is to lure the intruders into a false sense of security so that they are bitten by the extremely venomous spider that lives under the doorknob at the end. Inigo finds the apparent lack of beasts and traps even more worrisome than the previous two levels, and Fezzik is so terrified of what's going on that he bursts through the door at the end — without touching the handle. Inigo notices the bewildered spider crawling around on the door as he follows Fezzik through the now doorless doorway and steps on it without realizing it was deadly. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ced766cb | type |
Metafictional Device | |
The Princess Bride / int_ced766cb | comment |
Metafictional Device: Used, lampshaded, and parodied everywhere. The "original" book doesn't actually exist as a discrete piece of literature, and serves as a prop for (in-story) Goldman to play off for additional humor. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_d080f396 | type |
The Napoleon | |
The Princess Bride / int_d080f396 | comment |
The Napoleon: Vizzini is hilariously short and resents any mention of the fact. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_d17eaa9f | type |
Postmodernism | |
The Princess Bride / int_d17eaa9f | comment |
Postmodernism: Trying to sort out the metatextual structure of the book is enough to make your head spin. In the book, Goldman claims he first encountered the original novel (which doesn't exist) when his father read it to him as a kid. He found it terribly boring, and after reading it himself as an adult... he still found it terribly boring but with plenty of good bits so he decided to make an abridged version where he left out all the boring bits. Narrator-Goldman repeatedly interjects during the book, briefly describing what happened during the boring parts he left out. At the end of the book it suddenly stops just before the final resolution, where Goldman says he's not sure what happened next, but he says he thinks there was a happy ending. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_d323d090 | type |
Incendiary Exponent | |
The Princess Bride / int_d323d090 | comment |
Incendiary Exponent: Since they only have two able fighters against eighty guards, the plan for Storming the Castle involves setting Fezzik on fire (he's wearing a holocaust cloak, which keeps him safe) to frighten them off. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_d323d090 | |
The Princess Bride / int_d5921e22 | type |
Prince Charmless | |
The Princess Bride / int_d5921e22 | comment |
Prince Charmless: Humperdinck clearly believes himself to be witty, handsome, and clever. And he is indeed perfectly courteous to Buttercup, but never shows her the slightest sign of love. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_d5921e22 | |
The Princess Bride / int_d9ee7048 | type |
Spin-Off | |
The Princess Bride / int_d9ee7048 | comment |
Spin-Off: The Silent Gondoliers, another Goldman novel supposedly adapted from an original by S. Morgenstern. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_d9ee7048 | |
The Princess Bride / int_daba0e87 | type |
Acquired Poison Immunity | |
The Princess Bride / int_daba0e87 | comment |
Acquired Poison Immunity: The Man in Black has been building up an immunity to iocaine powder for several years. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_daba0e87 | |
The Princess Bride / int_dae59ff8 | type |
Empty Room Psych | |
The Princess Bride / int_dae59ff8 | comment |
Empty Room Psych: The fifth level of Count Rugen's Zoo of Death, which is bereft of any of the horrific monsters of the previous two levels, just to lull invaders into a false sense of security so that they fall prey to the deadly spider in the door handle. This backfires, though, by freaking Inigo and Fezzik out so much that they smash the door down. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_dae59ff8 | |
The Princess Bride / int_dcd423d2 | type |
Affectionate Nickname | |
The Princess Bride / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: Buttercup and Westley's daughter Waverly refers to Fezzik as "Shade." | |
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The Princess Bride / int_dcd423d2 | |
The Princess Bride / int_dd5faec5 | type |
Only Mostly Dead | |
The Princess Bride / int_dd5faec5 | comment |
Only Mostly Dead: The Trope Namer, though the film popularized it. Westley actually starts as Mostly Dead but slips to Nearly Dead. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_dd5faec5 | |
The Princess Bride / int_ddc4f035 | type |
Heroic Second Wind | |
The Princess Bride / int_ddc4f035 | comment |
Heroic Second Wind: A gut stab and two shoulder wounds aren't enough to bring Inigo down. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ddc4f035 | |
The Princess Bride / int_de1a775f | type |
Sentenced to Down Under | |
The Princess Bride / int_de1a775f | comment |
Sentenced to Down Under: Vizzini references this during his Bat Deduction. He calls Australia a nation populated entirely by criminals. (Rule of Funny applies, of course: Australia wasn't known to Europeans during the Renaissance.) | |
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The Princess Bride / int_de1a775f | |
The Princess Bride / int_e0222ff2 | type |
Buy Them Off | |
The Princess Bride / int_e0222ff2 | comment |
Buy Them Off: Inigo insists that Rugen offer money and power in exchange for his life, just to see him beg. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_e0222ff2 | |
The Princess Bride / int_e031b7ef | type |
Slave to PR | |
The Princess Bride / int_e031b7ef | comment |
Slave to PR: The Dread Pirate Roberts works hard to maintain his reputation as a murderous bastard. You don't have to fight as often if people surrender their valuables to avoid certain death. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_e031b7ef | |
The Princess Bride / int_e19e68 | type |
Cruel Mercy | |
The Princess Bride / int_e19e68 | comment |
Cruel Mercy: In his To the Pain speech, Westley offers to allow Humperdinck to retain his ears, so he can hear the cries of children and wailing of women at his hideous appearance. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_e19e68 | |
The Princess Bride / int_e22dae0a | type |
Pretext for War | |
The Princess Bride / int_e22dae0a | comment |
Pretext for War: Humperdinck sets up Buttercup to be so beloved of the Florinese people that her "kidnapping by agents of Guilder" will enrage them enough to support a war. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_e22dae0a | |
The Princess Bride / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
The Princess Bride / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: Prince Humperdinck is the only character not swayed by Buttercup's beauty. He just views her as a political tool to convince his country to go to war. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_e34400ab | |
The Princess Bride / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
The Princess Bride / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Inigo in his fight with Count Rugen. Stabbed repeatedly and still keeps coming. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Princess Bride / int_e567510d | |
The Princess Bride / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
The Princess Bride / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the framing story, to reassure the boy, who was not Genre Savvy.Subverted, in that she never does get eaten by sharks. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_e624f0e8 | |
The Princess Bride / int_e6defce9 | type |
Bad News in a Good Way | |
The Princess Bride / int_e6defce9 | comment |
Bad News in a Good Way: How Westley tries to present their unavoidable escape into the Fire Swamp to Buttercup. It doesn't quite work. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_e6defce9 | |
The Princess Bride / int_e7ecdeb0 | type |
Weight Woe | |
The Princess Bride / int_e7ecdeb0 | comment |
Weight Woe: In an Anniversary Edition, Goldman's (fictional) son sobs when he realizes he's pretty fat. Goldman lies to him and says Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be fat, inspiring his son to become a gym rat. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_e7ecdeb0 | |
The Princess Bride / int_e9e35e8f | type |
Exact Words | |
The Princess Bride / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: When Inigo goes home to see his mentor after training for years in swordplay he asks him to evaluate if he qualifies as a master swordsman or needs more training. The mentor tells him he does not, but quickly clarifies that it's because Inigo is so far above a master that he can only be called a wizard. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ea2e9f2d | type |
No Ending | |
The Princess Bride / int_ea2e9f2d | comment |
No Ending: The narrator points out that the escape is not the end and leaves the ultimate fate of the heroes ambiguous, with lots of Lampshade Hanging. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ea2e9f2d | |
The Princess Bride / int_eb8e4fa8 | type |
Jerkass | |
The Princess Bride / int_eb8e4fa8 | comment |
Humperdinck is presented as a Jerkass for claiming Buttercup as a trophy wife — though he seems sincerely concerned that Guilder kidnapped her and plans to kill her — and later imprisoning Westley to get him out of the way. Then he reveals that he was behind Buttercup's abduction all along, and was trying to frame Guilder for it, and will instead murder her on the wedding night and frame Guilder for that instead. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_eb8e4fa8 | |
The Princess Bride / int_ebb900a7 | type |
Resignations Not Accepted | |
The Princess Bride / int_ebb900a7 | comment |
Resignations Not Accepted: When Yellin tries to resign because he can't find the rumored saboteurs from Guilder, Humperdinck (who needs a regent in Guilder after the war, only trusts Yellin and Rugen, and knows Rugen is too busy with "his stupid Pain Primer") promptly tells him what's really going on and what planted evidence he should find later. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ebb900a7 | |
The Princess Bride / int_ec9a5f50 | type |
Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
The Princess Bride / int_ec9a5f50 | comment |
Deconstructed Character Archetype: It's possible that the revenge plot character, especially the type who completely dedicates his life to getting revenge, has never been deconstructed as thoroughly as the book deconstructs Inigo Montoya. Inigo didn't know the name of the six-fingered man and was a child when the six-fingered man (aka Count Rugen) killed his father, so he doesn't remember much about Rugen aside from the six fingers thing. Saying that someone has six fingers on their right hand isn't a great description to use when trying to find someone, so as a result, Inigo has been unable to track Rugen down for years. Hell, Inigo's boss Vizzini was hired by Prince Humperdink, and Count Rugen is Humperdink's right-hand man and co-conspirator, and yet Inigo didn't have a clue that he was so close to the target of his vengeance and likely would have Missed Him by That Much had he, Vizzini, and Fezzik completed the job as expected. (Taking this a level even further, Inigo was apparently living in Florin, the fictional country where Rugen was a nobleman and probably a major figure at court, and yet he couldn't find Rugen with just the description of "the six-fingered man.") The book notes that Inigo suffers from a case of Crippling Overspecialization; he was so focused on revenge that he threw himself into becoming a Master Swordsman and barely paid any attention to learning anything else. Furthermore, Inigo's father might have been the Ultimate Blacksmith but was also a half-mad recluse before being killed. The result is that Inigo is uniquely unworldly and ignorant of a lot of life skills like basic arithmetic. He is basically at a loss for how to function in society without someone like Vizzini to think for him. Inigo has been driven into becoming an alcoholic by his life in general and his inability to find Count Rugen in particular. Twenty years of first training for revenge but then being unable to find his target and all the doubts and insecurities that come with it led to Inigo dealing with his psychological stressors by drinking them away. Before Vizzini found him, Inigo was a drunken wreck, and after losing his duel with Westley, he has an epic relapse, since the loss reawakens his fears that his skills may be inadequate. Speaking of his loss in the duel with Westley, when Inigo fought Westley, Inigo was fighting purely for the money and because Vizzini told him to do it. He hadn't fought anyone who could match him (even when fighting left-handed), in a long time and has been coasting on the strength of his past training. Also, he's battling his alcoholism and, odds, are, regularly drinking when not on the job. Westley, on the other hand, is fighting to save the life of his true love, his swordsmanship is as sharp and polished as it's ever going to be, he's younger, and he's not wrestling with any addictions that have side effects like dulling his reflexes and response time. All of this results in Westley being just a little bit better, enough to make the difference in the fight. As he himself points out, there's no money to be made by going on an epic quest for revenge, so he has to work as a mercenary for Vizzini to survive. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ec9a5f50 | |
The Princess Bride / int_edcca847 | type |
Borscht Belt | |
The Princess Bride / int_edcca847 | comment |
Borscht Belt: Max and Valerie. In-Universe William Goldman always puzzled why S. Morgenstern wrote them as such, though he notes that with a name like "Simon Morgenstern," it was Write What You Know.note Though it made casting Billy Crystal and Carol Kane in the roles easy. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_edcca847 | |
The Princess Bride / int_ee637bc2 | type |
You Have Waited Long Enough | |
The Princess Bride / int_ee637bc2 | comment |
You Have Waited Long Enough: Humperdinck uses his royal rank to force Buttercup to marry him. She refuses — even under threat of execution — until he assures her that she won't have to love him. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ee637bc2 | |
The Princess Bride / int_ee77f7f0 | type |
Wall Slump | |
The Princess Bride / int_ee77f7f0 | comment |
Wall Slump: Inigo has a famous one after Rugen stabs him... several times. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ee7ed46e | type |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
The Princess Bride / int_ee7ed46e | comment |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: While describing his experiences with and as the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley very carefully omits any mention of the unsavory acts he must have committed as a said pirate. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_ee7ed46e | |
The Princess Bride / int_eeb4a5eb | type |
Anti-Climax | |
The Princess Bride / int_eeb4a5eb | comment |
Anti-Climax: Inigo has spent years training himself in the art of the sword, learning from every master he could, completely, single-mindedly focused on hunting down his nemesis so that they can engage in a Final Battle... which barely even happens. They cross blades a couple of times, and then, before Inigo can finish cutting out Rugen's heart, the man just drops dead from fright. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_eeb4a5eb | |
The Princess Bride / int_ef276485 | type |
Battle of Wits | |
The Princess Bride / int_ef276485 | comment |
Battle of Wits: Vizzini and the Man in Black engage in a contest of wits involving poisoned wine, with a hilarious use of I Know You Know I Know. | |
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The Princess Bride | hasFeature |
The Princess Bride / int_ef276485 | |
The Princess Bride / int_f27ed419 | type |
Fairytale Wedding Dress | |
The Princess Bride / int_f27ed419 | comment |
Fairytale Wedding Dress: In the book, Buttercup goes through several potential wedding gowns, with the final one being so elaborate that it can't be described, only inferred. In the film, she looks like a literal angel in a snowy white, medieval Italian-style gown with scads of silver embroidery and a delicate diamond crown. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_f4c4000b | type |
Home Sweet Home | |
The Princess Bride / int_f4c4000b | comment |
Home Sweet Home: Westley wants to settle down with Buttercup after making his fortune in the world. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_f8c7515b | type |
Borrowed Catchphrase | |
The Princess Bride / int_f8c7515b | comment |
Borrowed Catch Phrase: Inigo's reaction to the idea The Man in Black is a common sailor is an ironic Call-Back to Vezzini's denials. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_f8c7515b | |
The Princess Bride / int_faf4a043 | type |
Good Adultery, Bad Adultery | |
The Princess Bride / int_faf4a043 | comment |
Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: The In-Universe William Goldman allows himself to be seduced by younger, hot women and enjoys it. Subverted in that Karl becomes a hag in his eyes when she informs him that Stephen King is doing the abridgment of Buttercup's Baby. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_fb17af62 | type |
Rhymes on a Dime | |
The Princess Bride / int_fb17af62 | comment |
Rhymes on a Dime: Fezzik has a genius for spontaneous rhyming, much to Vizzini's annoyance. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_fb2136ec | type |
Big, Thin, Short Trio | |
The Princess Bride / int_fb2136ec | comment |
Big, Thin, Short Trio: Fezzik, Inigo, and Vizzini respectively. | |
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Robotic Torture Device | |
The Princess Bride / int_fb2c8342 | comment |
Robotic Torture Device: Rugen's "Machine," which applies the principles of suction to "suck out years of a person's life." | |
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The Princess Bride / int_fb2c8342 | |
The Princess Bride / int_fd94c4ac | type |
Theme Naming | |
The Princess Bride / int_fd94c4ac | comment |
Theme Naming: Florin and Guilder are different names for the same medieval European coin. Currency with those names is still in use today. | |
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The Princess Bride / int_fd94c4ac | |
The Princess Bride / int_ff992d2c | type |
Honorary Princess | |
The Princess Bride / int_ff992d2c | comment |
Honorary Princess: Some people complained when Buttercup got engaged to Humperdinck, saying that only a Princess can get engaged to a Prince. So the court made her Princess of Hammersmith. Hammersmith is just a little lump of land at the back of the kingdom. Utterly pointless, it's unlikely she set foot in the place at any point. | |
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