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Sharpe

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Sharpe	comment	Sharpe is a British series of historical war television movies, adapted from the series of novels of the same name written by Bernard Cornwell, starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in The Napoleonic Wars, alongside Daragh O'Malley as Patrick Harper, and a slew of British talent in supporting roles.The episodes, which adapt the tale of a Yorkshire soldier who is given a field commission and rises from obscurity to become a decisive force during the Peninsular War of the early 19th century, compress, modify or jettison several aspects of the original novels to fit standard television runtimes, while several new stories were invented for the screen.The series originally ran regularly between 1993 and 1997, with two additional miniseries in 2006 and 2008. The series was well-received and proved a breakout role for Bean, who went on to star in GoldenEye, The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.
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Sharpe / int_108ad6d8	type	Spiking the Camera
Sharpe / int_108ad6d8	comment	Spiking the Camera: Lt. Berry spends most of his introductory scene looking right at the camera.
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Sharpe / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
Sharpe / int_113472aa	comment	The Prince Regent is a harmless version of the Miles Gloriosus. He claims credit for great victories and exploits despite never having gone near a battlefield in his life, but everyone humours him since he's more concerned with the ego boost he gets from having his name associated with successful units. Plus, it doesn't hurt one's career to earn his favour when jockeying for position within the army hierarchy.
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Sharpe / int_120a6a29	type	ArtisticLicenceHistory
Sharpe / int_120a6a29	comment	Artistic Licence – History: The series treats the term "Chosen Men" as if it refers to an elite, hand-picked group of riflemen. In reality, "Chosen Man" is just the historic term for "Lance Corporal" and becoming one simply meant that you were advancing in rank.
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Sharpe / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Sharpe / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Sergeant Harper in the novel series is around his mid twenties, it's fair to say that Daragh O'Malley can't make the same claim in the television series.
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Sharpe / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Sharpe / int_1235f055	comment	Major Pierre Ducos, who is a jerk to everyone he interacts with including his own allies, a nasty misogynist, and Dirty Coward to boot.
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Sharpe / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
Sharpe / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Hagman seems to enjoy the company of his unit and breaks into song at every opportunity. And he can take a man down at eight hundred yards with a flintlock rifle. To a lesser extent, this is true of the entire rifle unit, who are all a pretty fun bunch of guys.
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Sharpe / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Sharpe / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Theresa uses Perkins as one when the Spanish guerillas encounter Sharpe in Sharpe's Rifles.
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Sharpe / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Sharpe / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: One of these show up every now and then. Typically they don's survive. Ensign Denny in Sharpe's Eagle. He doesn't make it through the episode. Ensign Matthews from Sharpe's Company is 16. Hakeswill kills him in an attempt to kill Sharpe.
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Sharpe / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
Sharpe / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: After Sharpe's Eagle, someone will bring up the fact that Sharpe took an Imperial eagle at the battle of Talavera. Even more often, the fact he saved Wellington's life (in Sharpe's Triumph) is brought up. On one occasion, Hogan even reels off a list of his past exploits, including destroying the powder magazine at Almeida and successfully storming the breach at Badajoz.
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Sharpe / int_17afe894	type	Spectacular Spinning
Sharpe / int_17afe894	comment	Spectacular Spinning: Sharpe fends off the nuns in Sharpe's Honour by spinning a chicken over his head.
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Sharpe / int_18262b13	type	Break the Badass
Sharpe / int_18262b13	comment	Break the Badass: When Perkins is killed, Harper, Hagman and Harris to comfort him in his dying moments, these three hardened soldiers are reduced to Manly Tears by the event, and Harper promptly forgets about everything else to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against his murderer. Sharpe was elsewhere at the time, but the look on his face when he comes back and sees Perkins' body cradled in Harper's arms also qualifies.
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Sharpe / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Sharpe / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: The Chosen Men disguise themselves as French soldiers to rescue Sharpe in Sharpe's Honour, with Perkins pretending to be a cholera infectee to keep the French from getting too close. Sharpe later leads the Chosen Men in pretending to be French soldiers with a heavily wounded comrade (Harper covered in his own blood from the team pulling out his infected tooth) in order to breach a fort, by putting coats over their British uniforms and having Harris speak French to the forts commander to convince him to open the gates. It works.
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Sharpe / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Sharpe / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Harper when he stabs a traitorous Irish soldier who murdered Perkins.
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Sharpe / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Sharpe / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: In Sharpe's Peril, Sharpe happens to run into the bastard son of his late nemesis Hakeswill, currently under arrest for a theft he didn't commit. Sharpe beats the poor guy up until Harper stops him, but in the end Hakeswill Jr. saves the day and Sharpe and Harper's lives.
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Sharpe / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Sharpe / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Just look at how often Sean Bean shows up on that page. Shirtless Scenes in spades. Hogan lampshades it during Sharpe's Eagle:
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Sharpe / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
Sharpe / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: Catherine offers herself to Sharpe the night before the Final Battle in Sharpe's Siege. Sharpe, being recently married, refuses. But notes to himself that he'd have trouble doing it if she offered a second time.
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Sharpe / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Sharpe / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Sharpe's Company has Sharpe's wife Teresa and his infant daughter Antonia in the city of Badajoz, where there is a large possibility that they will be killed in the ensuing Rape, Pillage, and Burn that would result from invading the city. This is one of the reasons Sharpe wants to lead the charge into Badajoz (the other is so he can remain a captain).
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Sharpe / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
Sharpe / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Upon learning of the tensions between Sharpe and Lt.s Berry and Gibbons, and realising that he will have no option but to punish Sharpe if he is caught duelling Berry, Wellesley decides to send the two of them out on a nighttime skirmish with the French, clearly hoping that the problem will sort itself out in this way. It does.
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Sharpe / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Sharpe / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Captain Leroy in Sharpe's Eagle finds himself in this role among the officers in the second half of the episode, as Simmerson is The Neidermeyer, Lennox is dead, Sharpe gets himself caught up in a feud with Gibbons and Berry (particularly the latter) and Denny is in awe of Sharpe, which gets him killed.
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Sharpe / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Sharpe / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Hakeswill speaks to his hat as if it is his mother. It's also a handy place to hide a stolen picture.
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Sharpe / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Sharpe / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: In the TV series, Sir Henry Simmerson is one of the longest-running Sharpe antagonists, appearing intermittedly ever since the second episode. However, it's only in the latest episode, Sharpe's Peril, that Sharpe and Simmerson find themselves actually fighting the bad guys as part of the same unit, and after the battle, Simmerson is a good deal friendlier to Sharpe than ever before, actually shaking his hand and calling him "Richard".
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Sharpe / int_24c0675f	type	Chronically Killed Actor
Sharpe / int_24c0675f	comment	Chronically Killed Actor: Averted. Richard Sharpe is apparently so badass that not even being played by Sean Bean can kill him. Watching the series today becomes pretty surreal thanks to this, as scenes in which the original audience would have been confident in Sharpe's Plot Armour holding are much more suspenseful to modern viewers who are aware of Bean's reputation.
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Sharpe / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
Sharpe / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: Dobbs during Sharpe's Eagle when he manages to fire four rounds a minute after receiving 75 lashes.
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Sharpe / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
Sharpe / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: Ensign Matthews in Sharpe's Company (the actor was 17). Generally portrayed as Truth in Television, as teenagers were conscripted for the Napoleonic Wars on both sides; children are seen in yellow Drummers' jackets in several scenes.
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Sharpe / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Sharpe / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Obadiah Hakeswill, Major Pierre Ducos and Colonel Brand.
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Sharpe / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Sharpe / int_2ae277ab	comment	Brigadier General Guy Loup, a flashy and unerringly cruel French soldier with his own fiercely loyal brigade, complete with their own special uniforms. Whilst he is A Father to His Men, this extends to allowing them to Rape, Pillage, and Burn their way across the Spanish countryside.
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Sharpe / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Sharpe / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Harper's Nock gun. It has seven barrels and can take out multiple opponents at a time, but at the price of enormous recoil, tricky reload and possibly setting a ship on fire. However, Harper, who is a large man, can handle the recoil and is using it on land.
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Sharpe / int_2d395ee9	type	Autobots, Rock Out!
Sharpe / int_2d395ee9	comment	Autobots, Rock Out!: The series' opening theme tune is played on the electric guitar. Sean Bean's credit in the opening titles is announced by a distinctive single chord, and during the closing credits, John Tams' rendition of 'Over the Hills and Far Away' morphs into a full blown guitar solo.
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Sharpe / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
Sharpe / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: Surprisingly for a war series, this trope is often subverted when it comes to Napoleon's army. Whilst there are plenty of card-carrying villains for Sharpe to defeat, there are plenty of honourable men who just happen to be on the opposing side to Sharpe. Straight examples include: Brigadier General Guy Loup, a flashy and unerringly cruel French soldier with his own fiercely loyal brigade, complete with their own special uniforms. Whilst he is A Father to His Men, this extends to allowing them to Rape, Pillage, and Burn their way across the Spanish countryside. Major Pierre Ducos, who is a jerk to everyone he interacts with including his own allies, a nasty misogynist, and Dirty Coward to boot.
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Sharpe / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Sharpe / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Obadiah Hakeswill is somewhat downplayed in this role in the series, appearing only in Sharpe's Company and Sharpe's Enemy. However, the effect he has on Sharpe still lasts throughout the series. Major Pierre Ducos does a decent job of picking up the baton, repeatedly attempting to not only have Sharpe killed but have him die a dishonourable death in revenge for a relatively minor insult, which was in an incident that Ducos caused by insulting Sharpe's recently departed wife Teresa. Following his introduction in Sharpe's Enemy, he acts as the Man Behind the Man in later episodes Sharpe's Honour, Sharpe's Siege (in which he and Sharpe never meet despite being aware of each other's involvement) and Sharpe's Revenge. Arguably, Sir Henry Simmerson, by virtue of appearances throughout the series, serving as a recurring obstacle of Sharpe's in Sharpe's Eagle, Sharpe's Sword, Sharpe's Regiment and Sharpe's Challenge.
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Sharpe / int_33aa30e3	type	The Man They Couldn't Hang
Sharpe / int_33aa30e3	comment	The Man They Couldn't Hang: Obidiah Hakeswill thinks this of himself. With him, it's a literal case, having survived a hanging himself as well as numerous attempts to kill him.
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Sharpe / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Sharpe / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Harris is fluent in several languages but is (in his own words) "a courtier to Bacchus and an unremitting debtor" (meaning he was a drunkard and a wastrel).
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Sharpe / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
Sharpe / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: This being the British army, tea is prevalent. In fact, Sharpe drinks a lot more tea on screen than he does liquor, in spite of being a ranker at heart. He also has vocal opinions on his subordinates' tea-making skills.
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Sharpe / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
Sharpe / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: Colonel Runciman sleeps through an entire battle during Sharpe's Battle.
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Sharpe / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Sharpe / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: The series is very much in the cynical corner. Though the fighting is occasionally interspersed with with brief glimpses of glory and heroism, The Napoleonic Wars are consistently portrayed as either hellish or mundane. Rape, looting, treason, desertion, Unfriendly Fire (all usually perpetrated by Karma Houdinis) are rampant. Even in the good guys' army, an enlisted man's life is identified as somewhere between that of a human and an animal. Most soldiers are born of thieves and whores, and a large contingent of sociopaths tag along at all times. The officer corps is, as a rule, made up of Upper Class Twits and despite their obsessions with class and their crippling arrogance, they often rival their men in terms of boorishness and brutality. Those officers that earned their commission by merit, like Sharpe, are actively ostracised and sabotaged at every turn, to the point that that any promotion chances more on either dumb luck, a generous superior, a dead superior, quid-pro-quo or on shamelessly rubbing any kind of success in everyone's faces - and even then, the prospect of advancement will eventually be capped by an impenetrable social glass ceiling. The commanding officers, despite usually being more gracious, competent and objective than the average officer, certainly aren't above intrigue, dirty dealings and unnecessarily gambling with the lives of their men (especially with those of Sharpe and his crew) for little gain. The King they're fighting for is mad as a march hare (as is his Prince Regent), while his government is frightfully debauched and hideously corrupt; the country they're fighting for is plagued by social inequality and sectarianism. The enemies they're fighting against, despite being led by an imperialistic autocrat, are seldomly portrayed as much worse than Sharpe's own side. The only things that Sharpe - who's a self-admitted bastard in every sense of the word - is fighting for are his own survival and that of his (few and short-lived) comrades, friends and loved ones, as well as for a better, more dignified life.
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Sharpe / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Sharpe / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Sharpe disapproves of flogging, believing it an ineffectual form of discipline that only teaches soldiers how to show their backs.
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Sharpe / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Sharpe / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Lord Kiely, in the TV version of Sharpe's Battle is much more heroic (and likeable) than his book counterpart (who, notably, is not married; and, rather than the TV version's Redemption Equals Death, is instead Driven to Suicide).
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Sharpe / int_402b438d	type	Clothes Make the Legend
Sharpe / int_402b438d	comment	Clothes Make the Legend: Richard Sharpe's Green Rifleman's jacket fits this trope because it's used specifically to distinguish his character from the regular "redcoat" officers.
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Sharpe / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Sharpe / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Simmerson in Sharpe's Eagle when he delivers a field report about a bridge's destruction to Wellington, stating that Major Lennox panicked and that Sharpe dithered. Doubly so since Wellington already knows what happened thanks to Hogan, who is in the room.
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Sharpe / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
Sharpe / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: In Sharpe's Waterloo, Sharpe clearly says "Fuck you" to the Prince of Orange, but his words are drowned out by a convenient explosion.
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Sharpe / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Sharpe / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Gibbons has one for the Countess Josefina in Sharpe's Eagle. She falls for Sharpe instead, then Leroy.
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Sharpe / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Sharpe / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The TV version of Sharpe.
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Sharpe / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Sharpe / int_47fea76b	comment	Sir Henry Simmerson, the original commander of the South Essex Regiment, is more concerned with superficial things like proper marching and making sure his men stand ramrod straightnote assisted by the use of leather chokers that scar the men's necks. He's absolutely useless in combat and spends every appearance as the Butt-Monkey of every character he goes against.
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Sharpe / int_4980826e	type	Threw My Bike on the Roof
Sharpe / int_4980826e	comment	Threw My Bike on the Roof: The series has both a hero and a villain destroying each other's stuff. In Sharpe's Enemy, Sharpe gets heartbroken, and in utter frustration, he destroys a French spy's glasses. Said spy came to demand that the British surrender. The spy was a jerkass and had it coming. Nothing to gain from it, except it was a good way of showing the French Jerk who the alpha dog is. In Sharpe's Honour, the jerkass spy plans an elaborate revenge because Sharpe's chosen men and the British army defeated the French in a battle that he thought was an easy French victory. After series of misfortunes, Sharpe ends up caught by the French. The spy smashes Sharpe's telescope that he received from Wellington himself. Nice try doing your revenge and trying to break Sharpe, jerk spy, but it was a bad idea. Sharpe used one broken piece as a weapon and it helped him to escape.
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Sharpe / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Sharpe / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Sharpe's willingness to do this is often played up to contrast his rough, line soldier upbringing to that of the officer class. When Sharpe is forced into a duel in Sharpe's Honour, his opponent proves his better in swordplay, so he wins by kicking the fellow in the jewels instead. Harper certainly has his moments, too; when he and Sharpe get into a fight in Sharpe's Rifles, he grabs Sharpe's balls. Later in the same episode, when he will not be able to take the ramrod out of his rifle to finish reloading before a French horseman cuts him to ribbons, he simply aims and fires to shoot the ramrod through his attackers neck.
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Sharpe / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Sharpe / int_4a852458	comment	The commanding officers, despite usually being more gracious, competent and objective than the average officer, certainly aren't above intrigue, dirty dealings and unnecessarily gambling with the lives of their men (especially with those of Sharpe and his crew) for little gain.
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Sharpe / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Sharpe / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Sharpe spits into Hakeswill's hat, which he (Hakeswill) talks to as if it's his mother, in Sharpe's Company. The hat is where Hakeswill is hiding the portrait he stole and framed Harper for stealing.
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Sharpe / int_4bdbca25	type	Irregular Series
Sharpe / int_4bdbca25	comment	Irregular Series: Ran from 1993 to 1997 before returning in 2006 and 2008.
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Sharpe / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Sharpe / int_4c8e8078	comment	Those officers that earned their commission by merit, like Sharpe, are actively ostracised and sabotaged at every turn, to the point that that any promotion chances more on either dumb luck, a generous superior, a dead superior, quid-pro-quo or on shamelessly rubbing any kind of success in everyone's faces - and even then, the prospect of advancement will eventually be capped by an impenetrable social glass ceiling.
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Sharpe / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Sharpe / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The TV version of what was to be the last episode, Sharpe's Waterloo, included two of Sharpe's best men and close friends, who had appeared in every previous episode, being killed due to incompetence by the Prince of Orange. And then the recent revival Sharpe's Challenge made matters worse by killing off Sharpe's wife soon after they were married, whereas in the books they live Happily Ever After. Sharpe's Enemy: Sharpe's finally rid of Hakeswill, but not before his enemy fatally wounds Teresa.
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Sharpe / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Sharpe / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Sharpe periodically removes his shirt with his back to the camera, thus reminding viewers that he still carries scars from a long-ago (and nearly lethal) flogging. In Sharpe's Eagle he does so before a group of soldiers, making sure they know he too was once one of them. Obadiah Hakeswill, on the other hand, has a scar round his neck which only adds to his freakish and sinister appearance. Colonel Brand seems to have a duelling scar. Firmly averted, on the other hand, by William Frederickson, whose facial injuries make him truly hideous but is one of Sharpe's staunchest allies at least until they find themselves competing for the same woman. Similarly averted by Major Septimus Pyecroft, who is missing a forearm and whose own facial injuries necessitate the wearing of a leather hood, but is also one of Sharpe's allies and defends a gypsy girl from rogue English troops.
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Sharpe / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Sharpe / int_4f6cf75	comment	The enemies they're fighting against, despite being led by an imperialistic autocrat, are seldomly portrayed as much worse than Sharpe's own side.
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Sharpe / int_4f88342a	type	Smug Super
Sharpe / int_4f88342a	comment	Smug Super: Unlike your average glory-seeking aristocratic officer, Lord Kiely from Sharpe's Battle can back up all his talk of fighting war in "the old ways" with his prowess on the battlefield.
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Sharpe / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Sharpe / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: Sharpe gets into a fist fight with Lt. Berry in Sharpe's Eagle when the latter tries to rape Josefina.
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Sharpe / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Sharpe / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Theresa has this, as explained by Major Blas Vivar in Sharpe's Rifles.
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Sharpe / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Sharpe / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Pot au Feu, the French quartermaster in Sharpe's Enemy and one half of a Big Bad Duumvirate with Hakeswill, is noticeably cordial and welcoming for a deserter, offering to cook for his captives. Sir Willoughby Parfitt from Sharpe's Justice is another good example and is incidentally played by the same actor.
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Sharpe / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Sharpe / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The Man in Black (real name Tomas Vivar) to Colonel De L'Eclin in Sharpe's Rifles as his right-hand man. Lt. Berry (played by Daniel Craig) plays this role to Sir Henry Simmerson in Sharpe's Eagle. Borders on Dragon-in-Chief in the second half of the episode when Simmerson tells Berry to get rid of Sharpe, since Berry makes the plans.
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Sharpe / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Sharpe / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: It's snowing during Sharpe's final duel with El Matarife in Sharpe's Honour.
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Sharpe / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Sharpe / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: A recurring "problem" for Sharpe, as many of the women he encounters assume that the standard way of getting his favor or thanking him for a past service is through his... well, you know. In Battle, Lady Kiely begs Sharpe to intercede with her husband, whom she suspects is cheating on her with the flamboyant Dona Juanita, by starting to strip down in his tent and inviting him to treat her like "the lowest Marseille whore." Mortified, he puts her clothes back in place and tells him he will do what he can about her husband, pointing out that sleeping with a man's wife might complicate the job of getting that man back together with said wife. In Siege, Catherine Maquerre wishes to thank Sharpe for giving up a precious supply of quinine to treat her mother's fever, rather than carrying it back to the British lines for his own sick wife. She perches on the end of his bed in a negligee, leading to this priceless exchange:
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Sharpe / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Sharpe / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Sharpe and Colonel Duberton versus the deserters in Sharpe's Enemy. Sharpe and Lieutentant Barbier versus El Casco in Sharpe's Gold. Sharpe and General Calvet in the TV episode Sharpe's Revenge.
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Sharpe / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Sharpe / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: In the novels, Sharpe saves Wellington's life in India in 1803. This is moved to 1809 Spain for the film of Sharpe's Rifles.
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Sharpe / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Sharpe / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Wellesley does not react well to Simmerson attempting to deflect blame for his failure onto Major Lennox.
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Sharpe / int_65331274	type	Flynning
Sharpe / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Sword-carrying extras engaged in this during battle scenes. Also seen when two fencers engage in "pirate halves" to establish that they're sheltered and playing at being duelists rather than warriors like Sharpe.
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Sharpe / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Sharpe / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Major Pierre Ducos has no regard for anyone, even his own allies. Take this exchange from Sharpe's Enemy:
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Sharpe / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Sharpe / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: The episodes consist of 16 feature length television films, each one clocking in at just under 2 hours.
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Sharpe / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Sharpe / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Captain Frederickson's head is pretty much covered in scars. He has burn scars all over his head that cost him most of his hair, and took a musket ball in the face which shattered his jaw, knocked out most of his teeth, tore one of his eyes out of its socket on the way out and left him with a Glasgow Grin. He deliberately cultivates his fearsome appearance to instill fear in his enemies, removes his false teeth and glass eye before going into combat (much to the disgust of people around him) and collects teeth from dead Frenchmen to make himself a set of dentures. His men call him Sweet William.
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Sharpe / int_680c8fd	type	Outranking Your Job
Sharpe / int_680c8fd	comment	Outranking Your Job: The TV series suffers from this, owing to the small budget the show had. Most episodes retains the named officers from the books, but didn't have the money for a full battalion. So often five or six officers would be leading only 30 or so men.
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Sharpe / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Sharpe / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Harper uses a ramrod as a bullet in Sharpe's Rifles.
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Sharpe / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Sharpe / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Sharpe is first introduced to the Chosen Men under his command, he utters with contempt: "So, the Chosen Men, uh? Well, I didn't choose you!" Fast forward to the Battle of Waterloo, after the last two surviving Chosen Men, not counting Harper, die, he cries out: "They were mine! I chose them!", in reference to the fact that he did help Hagman and Harris enlist and get the rank of sergeants.
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Sharpe / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Sharpe / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Lt. Berry from Sharpe's Eagle is a fat blubbering henchman to Lt. Gibbons in the novel. In the TV version he's played by Daniel Craig and becomes a considerably more dangerous villain, while Lt. Gibbons is secondary to him.
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Sharpe / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Sharpe / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The adaptation of Sharpe's Eagle has Gibbons flee the field with Simmerson and survive rather than being killed by Harper after attacking Sharpe at Talavera. This is mainly because the adaptation reduces Gibbons from the Final Boss to an inept sidekick. Several characters survive the series by virtue of not appearing in the adaptation of the book where they died (Hogan, Nairn, Leroy, Windham, Tongue, Smith, Carline, Lassan). Occasionally a new character is created to die in their place, most notably Colonel Berkeley in Sharpe's Sword. Cooper is a very curious case. In the book of Sharpe's Rifles, he is killed in the opening ambush but in the TV adaptation he survives and goes on to be a main character. Confusingly, following this Promotion From Extra, Cornwell had Cooper appear in novels set after Rifles with no attempt to reconcile the discrepancy. Despite how the TV version of Cooper disappears with no fanfare whatsoever after Sharpe's Gold.
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Sharpe / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Sharpe / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Seen frequently among line infantry, when the British go up against the French in close quarters. The Rifles are occasionally shown using their sword bayonets (such as in the climax of Sharpe's Eagle)note The Baker rifle was shorter than the standard-issue British muskets of the time. Rifle units were issued longer sword bayonets so that the length of their weapons matched that of regular infantry muskets so that the two different units could work together in formations. Because of this, the order was to "fix swords!". Current British rifle units continue this practice, even though everyone uses the same equipment now., although they usually wield the bayonets as sidearms rather than fixing them to their rifles.
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Sharpe / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Sharpe / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Sergeant Lynch from Sharpe's Regiment is an Irish soldier who hates Irishmen.
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Sharpe / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Sharpe / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Sharpe's Waterloo, the Prince of Orange is a snivelling brat and an incompetent military leader who has caused the deaths of many, many of his own men. One of his immediate subordinates has finally had enough: The best one in the entire series is in Sharpe's Eagle: Sharpe gets in a true zinger in Sharpe's Siege when the Comte de Marquerre's attempt at a triumphant homecoming is rejected by his sister:
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Sharpe / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Sharpe / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: In Sharpe's Company, Hakeswill tries to shoot Sharpe under cover of a skirmish, only to shoot Ensign Matthews. Sharpe's Regiment includes the highly unpleasant Sergeant Lynch, who constantly bullies those under him and kills a new recruit's dog. At the end, when the regiment he's in is marching on the French, he's faced with enemy soldiers aiming guns and turns to flee, only to get bayoneted by vengeful recruits. In Sharpe's Waterloo, Sharpe ends up attempting to assassinate the Prince of Orange due to his incompetence getting not only many British and Dutch soldiers killed, but also multiple members of the Chosen Men. Unfortunately, he only wounds the bastard, though it's enough to take him off the field.
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Sharpe / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Sharpe / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: A perfectly historically correct flintlock lighter, which no-one seems able to identify, shows up in the first episode. Major Blas Vivar carries a strange object which looks like a pistol without a barrel, and at one point uses it to set a piece of paper on fire. The object is in fact a flintlock lighter, of a type that was the height of fashion among tobacco smokers during The Napoleonic Wars.
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Sharpe / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Sharpe / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Sarcastic comments are thrown around in every direction, usually by the Chosen Men or Wellington's spymasters, and Sharpe and Harper in particular.
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Sharpe / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Sharpe / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Rifleman Isaiah Tongue disappears after Sharpe's Eagle and Francis Cooper disappears after Sharpe's Gold. At least Cooper has an excuse since he gets wounded.
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Sharpe / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Sharpe / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: A surprising number show up, most of them as part of the "Officer and a Gentleman"-schtick. Rifleman Harris is fluent in several languages and the only one to cart a minor library around Spain. He likes Wordsworth, Voltaire, and, of course, the smutty books by the Marquis de Sade. He is also a member of the elite 95th Rifles, and a Chosen Man of that regiment. Captain Frederickson, a grizzled and heavily scarred company commander from the Royal American Rifles, also speaks several languages and spends his free time discussing politics with American expats and French prisoners, admiring the architecture of several Spanish medieval churches, making landscape sketches in pencil and studying to take the Bar exam after the war. Sharpe himself gains shades of this as the series goes on, mostly through interacting with Harris and being immersed in more high-brow environments after becoming an officer. By the time the Peninsular war is over he is regularly seen trading and discussing books with Harris, and even shows some interest in art.
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Sharpe / int_896459e2	type	Adaptation Decay
Sharpe / int_896459e2	comment	Adaptation Decay: The films lack the scale of the battle scenes as described in the books due to budget limitations. For example, the bridge at Valdelacasa is wooden in film, it was stone in the novel. Sharpe's Challenge is an adaptation of prequel books in which Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill is the main villain, but is set after most of the episodes including the one where Hakeswill finally dies, so Sharpe is given a Hakeswill expy villain who isn't particularly convincing.
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Sharpe / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Sharpe / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Berry and Gibbons gave Josefina a "nice honeymoon." What's worse, they (Berry in particular) only did it to try and piss Sharpe off enough to lead to his disgrace.
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Sharpe / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Sharpe / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Harper during his fight with Sharpe in Sharpe's Rifles. Harris when he finds three murdered Gypsies in Sharpe's Mission.
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Sharpe / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Sharpe / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: In Sharpe's Rifles, the Man in Black presents Sharpe with two rival visions for Spain: A dark, superstitious monastery, or an enlightened, scholarly court. Sharpe replies that he's neither a monk nor a prince, so he'd choose a tavern.
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Sharpe / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Sharpe / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Hakeswill and Girdwood. Simmerson is constantly on the verge of one.
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Sharpe / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Sharpe / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Played Straight and Subverted. On screen at least pretty much ever other officer Sharpe meets is an aristocrat, and while many turn out to be antagonists or incompetents, others are honourable characters and become allies of Sharpe. The Duke of Wellington is portrayed in a generally favourable light, and the Prince of Wales, while being portrayed as a total lunatic, becomes a patron of Sharpe's. The trope is further subverted in Sharpe's Justice in which the villain is not an aristocrat, but a monied commoner who compares himself directly to Sharpe as a man from humble beginnings who rose to prominence on his own merit.
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Sharpe / int_978379ad	type	Token Enemy Minority
Sharpe / int_978379ad	comment	Token Enemy Minority: Major Leroy, an American Loyalist officer in the British regular army at a time when England was still occasionally in direct conflict with the United States like The War of 1812. Though, since he specifically describes himself as being 'from Virginia' rather than America, he's not that much of an enemy.
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Sharpe / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Sharpe / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Pot-au Feu and Obadiah Hakeswill in Sharpe's Enemy.
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Sharpe / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Sharpe / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: In Sharpe's Rifles, Sharpe discovers that he's risking his men's lives for an ancient legend: that if the flag of St James is hoisted at Torre Castro, the people of Spain will rise up against the French. Furiously, he confronts Hogan:
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Sharpe / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Sharpe / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: In Sharpe's Rifles, Captain Murray gives Sharpe his sword so the other men will recognize him as an officer before he dies from his wounds.
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Sharpe / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Sharpe / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: Almost an inversion - "Over the Hills and Far Away" is frequently used this way, but justified by its being an old folk song about the military.
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Sharpe / int_9b66f7f5	type	Suspiciously Small Army
Sharpe / int_9b66f7f5	comment	Suspiciously Small Army: In the TV series, the units involved in the battles tend to be rather small, no doubt because of budget constraints. Often works fine when depicting small-unit actions in Spain, breaks down miserably when trying to depict the battle of Waterloonote The episode tried to work around the budget limitations by shooting skirmishes in heavily wooded areas and the fight for Hougoumont Farm. But then characters talk about facing thousands of cavalry and lancers only to show a few milling around in front of some trees in an attempt to hide the small number of horses available. They also tried to depict a square formation, but there were just enough extras to show one corner shot tightly. In Sharpe's Eagle the entire Light Company is thus missing except for the Riflemen, who were supposed to only be attached to that company - which makes Wellesley's praise for the Light Company unintentionally hilarious.
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Sharpe / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Sharpe / int_9cc1a329	comment	The officer corps is, as a rule, made up of Upper Class Twits and despite their obsessions with class and their crippling arrogance, they often rival their men in terms of boorishness and brutality.
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Sharpe / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Sharpe / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Sharpe takes a great amount of damage over the series, mostly sword slashes and shots to the leg, but he gets shot in the gut in Sharpe's Sword. And that's not going into the scars on his back from 200 lashes.
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Sharpe / int_9d27a8be	type	Army of Thieves and Whores
Sharpe / int_9d27a8be	comment	Most soldiers are born of thieves and whores, and a large contingent of sociopaths tag along at all times.
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Sharpe / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Sharpe / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: In "Sharpe's Eagle," our first look at Sir Henry Simmerson is accompanied by "The Rogue's March." It plays again when Simmerson orders the idiotic attack across the bridge that results in the loss of the colours.
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Sharpe / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Sharpe / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Obadiah Hakeswill. Although it's more of an insane fixation. Sharpe, conversely, doesn't seem to care about who his mother was (she's never even named). In the books. The TV adaptation did name her, as Lily.
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Sharpe / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
Sharpe / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: Harper shoots off the Man in Black's hat as he retreats during Sharpe's Rifles.
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Sharpe / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Sharpe / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: "The Girl I Left Behind Me" is one of the regular leitmotifs.
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Sharpe / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Sharpe / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Harper should be blonde and Sharpe should have dark hair, running to a grey streak as he ages. In face the reverse is true.
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Sharpe / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Sharpe / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Most of the Chosen Men are only featured in the book Sharpe's Battle. They are all prominent characters on the show.
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Sharpe / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Sharpe / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Both the British and French armies often display horrendous tactics. In Sharpe's Rifles, the British company Sharpe is initially assigned to gets completely wiped out by French cavalry, mainly because they make no attempt form up and fight in lines or squares. Likewise, the French cavalry seems only capable of doing a Zerg Rush. They never dismount and fight on foot with carbines, not even when in narrow city streets where fighting from horseback is totally impractical.
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Sharpe / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
Sharpe / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Rifleman Harris, created for the TV series, is the closest thing the series has to this trope. In one of the movies, Sharpe's Sword, he's involved in a lengthy sub-plot were he must find a copy of Voltaire's Candide in order to find a French spy. Besides that, he's one of the few literate members of The Squad, and Sharpe often gets a lot of esoteric information from him, whether he wants it or not.
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Sharpe / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Sharpe / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Captain Leroy, one of the only two competent officers on Sir Henry Simmerson's staff, Sharpe's advocate in Sharpe's Eagle, and generally depicted as a Reasonable Authority Figure is also a man whose money was derived from the slave trade. In the TV series, he specifically has misgivings about Simmerson ordering white soldiers flogged, and Sharpe eventually calls him on it.
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Sharpe / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Sharpe / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Invoked by Father Curtis, an Irish priest in Spain and British spymaster, who defends Sharpe's love interest from the lecherous advances of Sir Henry Simmerson. Simmerson asks why the priest would care, since as an Irishman he should hate the English and support the French.
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Sharpe / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Sharpe / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Sharpe is introduced as a sergeant and rises through the ranks to eventually become a lieutenant colonel. Harper is a belligerent chosen man who flourishes when he becomes a sergeant and becomes sergeant major before retiring. In Sharpe's Waterloo, Sharpe arranges for both Harris and Hagman to be made sergeants as a favour to his old companions.
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Sharpe / int_b3fc9d55	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
Sharpe / int_b3fc9d55	comment	An Asskicking Christmas: The climax of Sharpe's Enemy takes place on Christmas Day.
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Sharpe / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Sharpe / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The Man in Black is disgusted when Harper shoots one of his men in the throat using a ramrod as a bullet.
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Sharpe / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Sharpe / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: Subverted. Sharpe gets married and has the same Love Interest from movie to movie just as often as he has temporary flings.
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Sharpe / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Sharpe / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Because the TV version of Sharpe's Rifles introduces Teresa early, Major Blas Vivar's role is downplayed in her favour. In the books, Teresa debuts in Sharpe's Gold.
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Sharpe / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Sharpe / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, looting, treason, desertion, Unfriendly Fire (all usually perpetrated by Karma Houdinis) are rampant.
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Sharpe / int_bcd082db	type	DIY Dentistry
Sharpe / int_bcd082db	comment	Sharpe later leads the Chosen Men in pretending to be French soldiers with a heavily wounded comrade (Harper covered in his own blood from the team pulling out his infected tooth) in order to breach a fort, by putting coats over their British uniforms and having Harris speak French to the forts commander to convince him to open the gates. It works.
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Sharpe / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Sharpe / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Berry boasts of these in Sharpe's Eagle.
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Sharpe / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Sharpe / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: The Army is filled with them because the books and series are set at a time when wealthy men looking for glory bought their commissions and merit-based promotions were extremely rare. The Duke of Wellington is Genre Savvy enough to know when subordinate officers are trying to blow smoke up his assnote usually when they're trying to disparage Sharpe. Sir Henry Simmerson, the original commander of the South Essex Regiment, is more concerned with superficial things like proper marching and making sure his men stand ramrod straightnote assisted by the use of leather chokers that scar the men's necks. He's absolutely useless in combat and spends every appearance as the Butt-Monkey of every character he goes against.
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Sharpe / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Sharpe / int_beb9a361	comment	The only things that Sharpe - who's a self-admitted bastard in every sense of the word - is fighting for are his own survival and that of his (few and short-lived) comrades, friends and loved ones, as well as for a better, more dignified life.
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Sharpe / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Sharpe / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Berry's plan in Sharpe's Eagle amounts to this; he and Gibbons rape Josefina, knowing Sharpe will call them out. Berry will take up the challenge and they'll duel; if Berry wins, Simmerson is down an enemy. If Sharpe wins, he'll forfeit his reputation by disobeying Wellington's ban on duelling.
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Sharpe / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Sharpe / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: There are several examples of this over the course of the series: Major Hogan disappears after Sharpe's Eagle, even though he was present for far longer in the book series, leading the writers to create a string of Suspiciously Similar Substitutes: Major Nairn, Major Monroe, and Major General Ross. Rifleman Isaiah Tongue disappears after Sharpe's Eagle. In the novels, he was killed in Sharpe's Gold, which came directly after Sharpe's Eagle in the books, but not in the TV series which made three episodes in between. No explanation is given for his disappearance from the show, and he is never mentioned again. Rifleman Francis Cooper disappears after Sharpe's Gold. He was present for far longer in the novels, but only after being killed in the opening battle of Sharpe's Rifles and then (somehow) reappearing in later novels owing to the character's success in the TV series.
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Sharpe / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Sharpe / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Hagman's fate in Sharpe's Waterloo.
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Sharpe / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sharpe / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: George Wickham, a military officer and antagonist of Sharpe's Justice, shares a name with a character from Pride and Prejudice, who is also a military officer and an antagonist.
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Sharpe / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
Sharpe / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Captain Leroy is often shown smoking cigars in his scenes, particularly when Sharpe meets him and the Battle of Talavera during Sharpe's Eagle.
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Sharpe / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Sharpe / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Happens a few times. Lt. Berry is run through by Harper with a bayonet in Sharpe's Eagle. Ensign Denny is impaled by a French rifleman at the end of Sharpe's Eagle. Harris is speared by a French soldier in Sharpe's Waterloo.
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Sharpe / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Sharpe / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Berry to Gibbons in Sharpe's Eagle. Gibbons is on higher social standing, being the nephew of an aristocrat, while Berry is his friend (and Berry remarks that he's not "top drawer"), but Berry is smarter and tougher.
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Sharpe / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Sharpe / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Greatcoats were pretty common for soldiers in that period, but Sean Bean made them look awesome. Sharpe usually sports an Inverness coat. Harper, when fighting in the Battle of Waterloo alongside Sharpe as an independent civilian, sports a blue frock coat and a Waistcoat of Style as he guns down French soldiers.
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Sharpe / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Sharpe / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: In the TV version of Sharpe's Rifles, Sharpe gets Harris to make a sign reading "Keep Out" in French, and puts it at the entrance of a building booby-trapped with explosives. Sure enough, the next French cavalrymen to pass fall for it.
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Sharpe / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Sharpe / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: From Captain Leroy to Sharpe after the efforts of Sharpe to capture the French Eagle result in the death of another young officer who followed him into the battle. All the more so as Sharpe undertook the action in order to secure his own promotion to captain.
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Sharpe / int_d41d2359	type	Edible Ammunition
Sharpe / int_d41d2359	comment	Edible Ammunition: In Sharpe's Honour, Major Richard Sharpe goes to a convent to rescue/retrieve a woman who was set up to accuse him of murder and is actually a French spy. She's held in the kitchen, cooking, and when Sharpe makes his appearance, the nuns attack him with food like chicken and vegetables. Sharpe grabs the chicken himself and uses the classic move of turning around. That's how you fight wicked nuns.
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Sharpe / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sharpe / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: The Rifles' green coats denote them as being elite skirmishers who run around the battlefield to harry the enemy in contrast to red-coated soldiers move in disciplined ranks. Hakeswill takes great pleasure in stripping the Rifles of their green coats and forcing them to wear red like common soldiers.
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Sharpe / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
Sharpe / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: Major Lennox asks Sharpe to get him a French Imperial Eagle to make up for losing the King's Colours, before dying of his wounds in Sharpe's Eagle.
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Sharpe / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Sharpe / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Or rather "Vous êtes fou!" - from Pot-au-Feu to Sharpe after Sharpe shoots the ladle he's holding out of his hand.
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Sharpe / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
Sharpe / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": Several examples, most of them involving Hagman. When trying to get his boots repaired in Portugal: When managing French prisoners:
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Sharpe / int_db2727e0	type	The Book Cipher
Sharpe / int_db2727e0	comment	The Book Cipher: A book cipher plays an important role in the TV version of Sharpe's Sword. The key text is Voltaire's Candide.
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Sharpe / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Sharpe / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Sharpe and Teresa, particularly in some of the TV movies.
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Sharpe / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
Sharpe / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Major Munro is fond of his bagpipes, boasting that he taught himself how to play. When Sharpe asks a nearby sentry how he stands the racket, the sentry demonstrates that he's wearing earplugs.
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Sharpe / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Sharpe / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Sharpe's Waterloo depicts Prince of Orange as a selfish, buffoonish glory hog that doesn't care at all for the men he commands and we're supposed to cheer when Sharpe kills him in cold blood after a botched assault. This depiction is considered an exaggeration, although historical debates as to his merits continue to this day, due to some serious mistakes he made at Waterloo.
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Sharpe / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Sharpe / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: Perkins when the Chosen Men infiltrate a fort in Sharpe's Enemy.
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Sharpe / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Sharpe / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Captain Leroy is not an American, he is a Virginian.
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Sharpe / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Sharpe / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: The television adaptations are a bit prone to this. Made even worse by their use of flintlock muskets, pistols and rifles; generally these make only a pronounced "click" when pulled back to half-cock (safe position from which the pan may be primed), followed by another when pulled to full-cock. Trying to get a flintlock to make the characteristic set of three closely-spaced, sharp clicks the series uses is... not easy.
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Sharpe / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Sharpe / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Harris is only ever known as Harris. Hagman lampshades it when he asks about his name. invokedWord of God gives his name as Benjamin.note Benjamin Harris was a real person, who served in the 95th in the Peninsular War, and later dictated a memoir which was one of the chief inspirations for the series.
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Sharpe / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Sharpe / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Borders on Once an Episode. Sharpe and Harper are both extremely fond of this tactic and deploy it frequently. Harper grabs Sharpe in the balls during a fight in Sharpe's Rifles. Sharpe returns the favour in another fight in the same episode. Sharpe tries to kick Berry in the balls in a fight in Sharpe's Eagle. Berry only sniggers.
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Sharpe / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Sharpe / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Sharpe takes command of the Chosen Men when Captain Murray dies.
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Sharpe / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Sharpe / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The Chosen Men are slowly whittled down over the series. Isaiah Tongue: Disappears after Sharpe's Eagle. Francis Cooper: Wounded during Sharpe's Gold (though he shows up again as the narrator of Sharpe: The Legend). Ben Perkins: Speared by O'Rourke during Sharpe's Battle. Daniel Hagman: Shot in the head by a French soldier in Sharpe's Waterloo. Harris: Speared by a French soldier in Sharpe's Waterloo.
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_ed68bcc9
Sharpe / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
Sharpe / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: The Prince of Orange in Sharpe's Waterloo, to the point where the only witness to Sharpe's attempt to frag him is more than happy to turn a blind eye to it.
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Sharpe / int_eda30d58	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_eda30d58
Sharpe / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Sharpe / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Harper spends the first half of Sharpe's Rifles as this. He tries to take command away from Sharpe after Captain Murray's death, but gets interrupted by the arrival of Teresa's partisans.
Sharpe / int_eedee4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_eedee4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_eedee4d
Sharpe / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Sharpe / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Cecile, Sharpe's French lover (introduced in Sharpe's Revenge) dies off-screen before the events of Sharpe's Challenge of a fever.
Sharpe / int_f0c4ce7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_f0c4ce7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_f0c4ce7d
Sharpe / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Sharpe / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Most times when someone makes a Heel–Face Turn, they will die. Examples include Kelly from Sharpe's Enemy and Lord Kiely from Sharpe's Battle.
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Sharpe / int_f1492605	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_f1492605
Sharpe / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
Sharpe / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: Wine tossed into face, courtesy of Richard Sharpe to two jerk officers in Sharpe's Eagle.
Sharpe / int_f23c26ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_f23c26ab	featureConfidence	1.0
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Sharpe / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Sharpe / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: The intelligence officers who replace Major Hogan in later episodes of the TV show.
Sharpe / int_f5a3e496	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_f5a3e496	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_f5a3e496
Sharpe / int_f5c3983a	type	Camping a Crapper
Sharpe / int_f5c3983a	comment	Camping a Crapper: Sgt. Williams, while about to take a pee, is strangled by the Man in Black in Sharpe's Rifles.
Sharpe / int_f5c3983a	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_f5c3983a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_f5c3983a
Sharpe / int_f863bb6d	type	Battle Trophy
Sharpe / int_f863bb6d	comment	Battle Trophy: As typical of wars of the era, obtaining an enemy standard (in other words, capturing their flag) is seen as a complete and total victory superior to an ordinary enemy retreat. The loss of the King's Colours is seen as a shame beyond measure in Sharpe's Eagle, and capturing the Imperial Eagle (the standard of Napoleon's armies) is an equally heroic feat. On a smaller scale, soldiers including Sharpe and his company are commonly seen with looted French gear, often noting its superiority to the standard British army equipment.
Sharpe / int_f863bb6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_f863bb6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_f863bb6d
Sharpe / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Sharpe / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Sharpe in Sharpe's Honour, the entire squad of Chosen Men in Sharpe's Battle.
Sharpe / int_f9876f7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_f9876f7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sharpe / int_f9876f7e
Sharpe / int_fc148c2c	type	Weapon Specialization
Sharpe / int_fc148c2c	comment	Weapon Specialization: Richard Sharpe uses his Baker rifle to devastating effects. He also carries a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry sword, which is essentially a sharpened club with a knuckleduster attached.
Sharpe / int_fc148c2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sharpe / int_fc148c2c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Sharpe / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Sharpe / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Father Curtis from Sharpe's Sword. In addition to his being an expert swordsman, as El Mirador, he also acts as the centre of the British spy network in the region. Excellent singer, too.
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Sharpe / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
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Sharpe	seeAlso	Sharpe
Sharpe	hasFeature	A Taste of the Lash / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Ability over Appearance / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Adaptational Self-Defense / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	And This Is for... / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	BFG / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Backup Bluff / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Badass Preacher / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Bayonet Ya / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Big Book of War / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Break Out the Museum Piece / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Break the Badass / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	British Brevity / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Camp Follower / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Character Title / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Chronically Killed Actor / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Clothes Make the Legend / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Collared by Fashion / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Comforting Comforter / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Costume Drama / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Cowardice Callout / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Creator's Favorite / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Cultured Badass / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Cunning Linguist / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Dangerous Deserter / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Deathbed Promotion / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Digital Destruction / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Duel to the Death / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Edible Ammunition / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	El Spanish "-o" / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Facial Horror / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Fight Scene Failure / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Flynning / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Food Slap / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Forging Scene / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	French Jerk / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Friendly Sniper / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Gecko Ending / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Give Him a Normal Life / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Go-to Alias / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Good Scars, Evil Scars / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Heal It with Booze / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Hidden Army Reveal / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Historical In-Joke / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Impromptu Tracheotomy / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Irish Priest / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Leave Behind a Pistol / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Lethally Expensive / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Let's You and Him Fight / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Majorly Awesome / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	News Travels Fast / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Opening Scroll / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Outranking Your Job / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Sentenced to Down Under / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	seeAlso	Sharpe
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sins of Our Fathers / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Ten Paces and Turn / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Book Cipher / int_3e9c95a2
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Sharpe	hasFeature	The Cavalry / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Enemy Weapons Are Better / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Only One / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Show of the Books / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Women Are Safe with Us / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Threw My Bike on the Roof / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Trauma-Induced Amnesia / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	Weapon Specialization / int_3e9c95a2
Sharpe	hasFeature	You Don't Want to Catch This / int_3e9c95a2
sharpe	sameAs	Sharpe

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