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The Hexer

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The Hexer	comment	The Hexer (Polish: Wiedźmin) is the international title of both a movie and a television series loosely based on selected short stories taken from The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny from the series known as The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. Both the movie and the television series were directed by Marek Brodzkinote an experienced and competent filmmaker who worked earlier as an assistant director on Spielberg's Schindler's List and written by Michał Szczerbic.Starring Michał Żebrowski as Geralt of Rivia and Grażyna Wolszczak as Yennefer, the movie was the most anticipated film for many fantasy fans in Poland, despite spawning heated controversies during production (including, among other things, the casting of actors). So what has gone wrong?Well, the biggest problem being the movie wasn’t actually a movie. It was essentially a Compilation Movie of then-unreleased TV series. Thirteen nearly hour-long episodes had been compressed into a two-hour feature film, which in result made it into a nonsensical mess. Released in 2001, The Hexer received very poor reviews from both fans and critics.Director Marek Brodzki released the TV series one year later, in 2002, showing a finished product that was vastly more coherent than the confusing film version. Nevertheless, the series was still considered a failure mostly due to the film's already bad reputation and due to vast changes to the original books.On the other hand, there were some voices who claimed that given the Troubled Production (including the author's attitude) and relatively slight budget the final result was not so bad. Others praised the music and impressive fight scenes, choreographed by Jacek Wysocki - Polish master of aikido.Much like in the books, the series' plot follows the story of Geralt, a traveling monster hunter for hire. Additionally, the series contains exclusive Origins Episodes (which were invented by the show's creators and not written by Sapkowski) depicting Geralt's childhood and training years in Kaer Morhen.Due to the special nature of this show, this trope page focuses mainly on various alterations and original additions that were made to the source material.
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The Hexer / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Hexer / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: The series provides a set of unique characters that never got mentioned in the books, including, among others, Old Witcher, female witcher Adela, renegade witcher Dermot Marranga, Thornwald, witcher trainees Gascaden and Clovis, Klef, Osbert and Sorel – teachers from Kaer Morhen and priest Jarrow.
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The Hexer / int_12a22bd8	type	Katanas Are Just Better
The Hexer / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: The movie makers chose a katana as the witcher's weapon, most likely due to using aiki-ken as a basis for fencing choreography. It should be noted though, that only ONE of two witcher's swords resembles a katana and a witcher also wields a regular broadsword, which also happens to be the silver one.
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The Hexer / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
The Hexer / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Young Geralt, bordering on Badass Abnormal thanks to his mutations. A cute little boy... that still survived on his own in a complete wilderness throughout the whole winter with minimal gear and no supplies.
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The Hexer / int_16ddefda	type	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy
The Hexer / int_16ddefda	comment	Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Just like in the original short story, a few drunks decide to pester Geralt in an inn. He calmly announces that he's a witcher to them, but they have none of it and decide to go physical on a "fucking vagrant". After a few rounds of alcohol-fortified interrogations, Geralt and Dandelion have to escape their current predicament from the Nilfgaardian captivity. They decide to set the shed they are locked in on fire. Then they realise they still hadn't found the secret passage leading out of the Torture Cellar beneath it.
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The Hexer / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Hexer / int_17501df2	comment	Old Witcher has a scar running from his forehead through his right eye and cheek, to show his experience, but it is not disfiguring in the same time.
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The Hexer / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Hexer / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Geralt spends a good portion of the last few episodes dressed up as a Nilfgaardian messenger, abusing the fact that the participants of the intrigue around Ciri don't know each other personally.
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The Hexer / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Hexer / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Geralt was first from the new batch of witchers, designed to be just a little more human. It worked too well, making him ostracized by fellow witchers and still not human enough to fit into regular society.
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The Hexer / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
The Hexer / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: The mook archers accompanying Dermot Marranga are all wearing kettle hats with eye-holes.
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The Hexer / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
The Hexer / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Zbigniew Zamachowski, who played Dandelion, did all the singing required for his role and even recorded ballads used in closing credits for each episode.
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The Hexer / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
The Hexer / int_222969af	comment	The Pox-Faced Mannote That's how he is even credited from episode four not only has his face dotted with pox scars, but he also has a nasty, disfiguring scar from a cut running across entire left side of his face. He is introduced stealing Geralt's belongings when the witcher is busy fighting a basilisk tormenting the nearby village and then threatens Borch with a knife when told to stop.
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The Hexer / int_231c34d2	type	Suddenly Significant Rule
The Hexer / int_231c34d2	comment	Suddenly Significant Rule: After several failed tries to kill off Geralt, the Witcher Council invoke as the last attempt an old dead and buried custom in which a young graduate has to face other witcher in a final trial of swords (this is the reason why in the movie's opening credits montage sequence Geralt is shown in armor while other graduates wear simple robes). It doesn’t work – Geralt defeats his opponent.
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The Hexer / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Hexer / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Old Witcher does not beat around the bush when he tells kid Geralt about his fate.
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The Hexer / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
The Hexer / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: Visenna, mother of Geralt, blocks the path to the young Geralt when he's to be taken away from her. The Old Witcher gently, if sternly, overpowers her, not wanting to spill any blood.
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The Hexer / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Hexer / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The series opens with adult Geralt slaying a monster, goes back all the way down to his childhood and then follow his life for next four episodes until he gets to that fight.
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The Hexer / int_2727c89a	type	Pride Before a Fall
The Hexer / int_2727c89a	comment	Pride Before a Fall: Witchers get this treatment from the first episode, considering themselves to be unshakeable and the best thing ever, despite ongoing corruption and power-plays hollowing their school inside-out. The kicker? Barely any of them learn the lesson, being all just designed for killing and not thinking too much. This ultimately leads to much slower and painful Break the Haughty for the whole guild in following years, until they eventually collapse.
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The Hexer / int_27a036db	type	Covered with Scars
The Hexer / int_27a036db	comment	Covered with Scars: Pretty much every single witcher that left Kaer Morhen, befitting their job. Notably, this is used to indicate time passage between certain episodes, as Geralt keeps gaining new and new scars all over his body.
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The Hexer / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Hexer / int_28114487	comment	For contrast, Gwidon has a nasty, star-shaped scar around right corner of his lips, that does disfigure him. When he embraces Falwick identity, it is further combined with Bald of Evil.
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The Hexer / int_28564218	type	Humans Are Diplomats
The Hexer / int_28564218	comment	Humans Are Diplomats: Vesimir, being in the series an old human druid, prefers to use diplomacy instead of swords to resolve conflict with the elves living around Kaer Morhen. His insistance of talking first, killing maybe is one of the factors leading to the reveal of Gwidon's conspiracy and getting him expelled.
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The Hexer / int_2a3e0069	type	Amazonian Beauty
The Hexer / int_2a3e0069	comment	Amazonian Beauty: The duo of Zerrikanian bodyguards are on the "brawn" side of the trope, but still capable of working as fanservice. To further drive the point home, two professional athletes were cast for the roles, rather than trying to build the required muscle on any given actress.
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The Hexer / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
The Hexer / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Teenage Renfri is rather unimposing, scrawny thing, made to look even worse due to her boyish haircut and constant pouting. When Geralt meets her a few decades later, she's a Statuesque Stunner with a fantastic figure, more than aware of how her looks work on men.
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The Hexer / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Hexer / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The Old Witcher. While he is just doing his job, he clearly resents being some sort of kidnapper and visibly roots for young Geralt.
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The Hexer / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
The Hexer / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: A villainous example. During her duel with Geralt, Renfri starts with a mail coif on her head, but she takes it off half-way through, throwing it at Geralt as a distraction.
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The Hexer / int_33cadb12	type	Compilation Movie
The Hexer / int_33cadb12	comment	Compilation Movie: Upon production and marketing for both movie and the TV series, nobody said a word the film is going to be a compilation. This not only created unrealistic expectations (the production took place roughtly in the same time when The Fellowship of the Ring was filmed), but was a decision made against the will of pretty much anyone involved in the filming by TV execsnote Back in the day it was a norm for Polish National TV to create a Compilation Movie out of big budget series they were involved in, which usually had the same kind of result. This practice was discontinued only by mid 00s.. The final product was condemned by pretty much everyone, but it also strained fan perception of the TV series. For contrast professional critics considered the series to be one of the better Polish TV productions of all times and it had a really good viewer share upon initial run among common audiences, even being aired and holding in what was then considered prime hours.
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The Hexer / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Hexer / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The series skips entirely the plot of "A Little Sacrifice", '"A Grain of Truth'" and "The Last Wish" along with some characters and subplots from the other stories. While omitting the first two stories did not harm the series' continuity, skipping "The Last Wish" is more problematic because it describes the circumstances of Geralt and Yennefer's first meeting and explains how their fates were bounded together by Geralt's final wish he gave to genie. One could argue it was justified, because a genie rampaging through a city would be probably too much for the series' budget. Instead, episode four, called "Smok" ("The Dragon", based on "The Bounds of Reason") features a brief flashback of Geralt's first meeting with Yennefer when she was nursing him after some unspecified encounter. Also, during the Origins Episodes in Kaer Morhen, Eskel is nowhere to be seen, even if it is canon all the way back to The Last Wish he and Geralt are roughly the same age and went through the training in the same time.
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The Hexer / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Hexer / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Geralt, by his own mother. She put a spell on him, so he would never be a witcher. Depending on interpretation, it's either subverted later on, when Geralt's mutation is altered, making him more human and thus being main reason of all his troubles with being a "proper" witcher. Or could be a case of You Can't Fight Fate if the decision for alternation was an effect of his mother's spell.
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The Hexer / int_43555d33	type	Heroes Prefer Swords
The Hexer / int_43555d33	comment	Heroes Prefer Swords: Not only are swords the trademark weapon of witchers, but it's outright stated in the first episode that they consider it an ultimate weapon. Subverted when they are ambushed by archers.
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The Hexer / int_44e0a33a	type	The Oath-Breaker
The Hexer / int_44e0a33a	comment	The Oath-Breaker: Geralt's father. In the past he promised to give what he didn't expect to find back home to witchers as payback for saving his life. When it's due to give the boy, he prefers to fight a witcher than do what he promised.
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The Hexer / int_4565d81d	type	Single-Stroke Battle
The Hexer / int_4565d81d	comment	Single-Stroke Battle: A natural byproduct of sword fights being choreographed by an aikido master. For those unfamiliar - aiki-ken is a pure practice routine designed around single strokes, but also has zero combat application. Still, due to the single stroke nature, some fights look badass, especially when Geralt is cutting through mooks like a hot knife through butter in a quick succession of swift movements. Meanwhile, other combat sequences are barely covering the fact nobody had the slightest idea about fencing or how to film it.
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The Hexer / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Hexer / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Tailes role is slightly expanded over his One-Scene Wonder from The Voice of Reason - entirely to further mock, insult and harm him, with not a single character taking him serious. However, since he's an even bigger asshole and hot-head than in the short story, it's all played for laughs at his expense.
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The Hexer / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Hexer / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Nenneke and Iola are killed together, along with all the other priestesses of the Temple of Melitele. Eist Tuirseach dies soon after his marriage to Calanthe, before the Nilfgaard invasion. Falwick gets killed by Geralt, during Trial by Combat. Vesemir also died out of old age, although he had little in common with his book counterpart.
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The Hexer / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Hexer / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: One of a few things that just about everyone had to agree about the series were the impressive location shots, especially those in the wilderness. Despite the mediocre quality of the film stock and shoddy development technique, those shots remain a sight to behold.
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The Hexer / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Hexer / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: As in the original books. Throughout the series, Geralt faces or at least witnesses more threats, discrimination and various problems from humans than he ever gets from the actual monsters he's hunting down. Episode 4, which is based on The Bounds of Reason, also includes his drunk rant about humans being the real evil, giving him jobs not to protect themselves, but to get rich on selling body parts of completely peaceful creatures.
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The Hexer / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Hexer / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The Old Witcher escorting young Geralt bluntly explains him what will be his Fate - that he will be turned into witcher and fighting monsters until one of them will finally kill him. This is enough to stop young Geralt from another escape attempt.
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The Hexer / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
The Hexer / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Due to his unorthodox views on combat Geralt is hated both by other students and his instructors (except the Old Witcher). Geralt's uniqueness is a direct result of Vesemir purposely interrupting the process of mutations for the purpose of creating a new type of witcher that, not being deprived of higher feelings and deeper thought associations, would be able to adapt easily to new situations and to coexist with humans. Vesemir dies without revealing this information to Geralt and Jarrow kept it secret - it was not until the final episode Geralt learned from old Jarrow about his origins. Geralt turns out to be the only surviving witcher from his generation, which proves that Vesemir was right.
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The Hexer / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Hexer / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Played for laughs, as compared with the original short story, where the dialogue was a bit more serious. While spending an evening together in an inn, Borch keeps prodding Geralt about witchering. At first he's stoic, but once he's sufficiently drunk, Geralt goes on a passionate tirade about people encroaching into natural habitat of many creatures and how wrong it is and how hard it makes his life as a witcher.
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The Hexer / int_4d1ac25b	type	Villains Want Mercy
The Hexer / int_4d1ac25b	comment	Villains Want Mercy: Dermot Marranga outright asks to be spared when Geralt disarms him. Instead, he's told to fight for his life and allowed to pick his weapon back. Sensing that things can go bad for him, Jarrow asks Geralt for forgiveness, since, as a failed experiment with witcher mutations, he has just enough of human in him to do so. Geralt leaves him unmolested not out of call for mercy, but because he decided so before even arriving to face him.
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The Hexer / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
The Hexer / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Geralt has a deep scar on his cheek, showing the hardships of witchering. Plus there are various other scars all over his body (and their number keeps increasing), due to his dedication to his craft. Old Witcher has a scar running from his forehead through his right eye and cheek, to show his experience, but it is not disfiguring in the same time. For contrast, Gwidon has a nasty, star-shaped scar around right corner of his lips, that does disfigure him. When he embraces Falwick identity, it is further combined with Bald of Evil. And of course the asshole that is Tailes gains a scar across of his face, after hitting himself with his own sword during a sham duel against Geralt - a mark of shame, but also enhancing his image as a no-gooder. Variety of mercenaries, cutthroats and knights of the White Rose have their faces covered with scars - the worse they are, the more scarred their faces. The Pox-Faced Mannote That's how he is even credited from episode four not only has his face dotted with pox scars, but he also has a nasty, disfiguring scar from a cut running across entire left side of his face. He is introduced stealing Geralt's belongings when the witcher is busy fighting a basilisk tormenting the nearby village and then threatens Borch with a knife when told to stop.
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The Hexer / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Hexer / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: Dandelion is described as a Pretty Boy in the books and looking to be in his 20s, despite being over 40. Zbigniew Zamachowski was 40 when playing the part and looked it, while being a short and rather pouchy guy, not to mention not being fair-haired, either. This did cause a negative reception of the casting choice, but his acting managed to easily win people back.
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The Hexer / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
The Hexer / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Adela. She has no problems with being seen naked by Geralt after emerging from a lake, because witchers are said to be asexual (or at least so she thinks). Geralt's… natural male body reaction leads her to question if he is a real witcher.
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The Hexer / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The Hexer / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: When the priests supervising young Geralt's mutations can't decide if the process was successful or not, they invite an old druid sage to determine it via deep hypnosis. When he's done, he has a very inconclusive exchange that solves nothing and forces Gwidon to demand the Trial of Mountains, betting on the fact that no human ever made it through it.
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The Hexer / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Hexer / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Countless examples. Female characters are by default more level-headed, reasonable or simply smarter. Even when they perform some dubious acts, they always have perfect, solid reasons to do so, rather than doing it out of spite, pettyness or just because they could - like all men do. The only exception would be Renfri, but she's still always a mastermind behind some band of men, ruling them with both iron fist and her smarts.
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The Hexer / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
The Hexer / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: During his Trial of Mountains, young Geralt encounters a lone she-wolf. She initially is hostile towards him, while protecting her den with cubs in it. Slowly, Geralt wins her favour by tending to her wounds and giving them some of his food, naming the wolf Zębata (Fangtooth). Near the end of the test, she accepts Geralt as a part of her family.
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The Hexer / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
The Hexer / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: This is the ultimate reason why witcher's guild was simply disbanded - all the constant infighting between witchers, council and druids eventually imploded, first making them disfunctional and then simply unable to keep up even a rudimentry school and all the infrastructure needed for making new witchers.
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The Hexer / int_574c0dd2	type	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
The Hexer / int_574c0dd2	comment	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing: Subverted. During their escape from the Nilfgaardian captivity, Dandelion and Geralt improvise a "knife" out of a broken clay bottle. As Dandelion quickly finds out, it's incredibly dull, requiring from him an extensive effort to actually cut the rope.
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The Hexer / int_6e8b95dc	type	The Teaser
The Hexer / int_6e8b95dc	comment	The Teaser: The first episode opens with an unknown white-haired man fighting something in a bog or a landfill. He apparently slays the monster, but is badly wounded himself. Then the action cuts back, setting up the stage for young Geralt and slowly starting his tale, back when he was still a human boy. The series eventually reaches the same landfill in episode 5.
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The Hexer / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
The Hexer / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: A Grim Reaper–like figure appears in visions and is thought to be a personification of death that follows Geralt wherever he goes. Curiously, it's strongly implied to be female, despite being always cloaked and having a skull for a face (the Polish word for death, "śmierć", is grammatically feminine).
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The Hexer / int_766c1cc6	type	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
The Hexer / int_766c1cc6	comment	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Invoked almost verbatim by Geralt when he's facing a young witcher Chireadan. Chireadan is after Geralt, chasing him on drummed-up charges and just won't be reasoned with. Eventually Geralt begrudgingly draws his sword, but only to disarm the youngster and still talk some sense into him.
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The Hexer / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Hexer / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: According to Chappelle, the head of Novigrad's secret service, no monster can even approach the Eternal Flame; thus everyone who claims they saw a monster on the city's premises is a blasphemer and heretic and needs to taken care of by the inquisition. In the books Chappelle was himself a doppelgänger and was doing so to protect his brethren. In the series, this was cut off (although Geralt threatening Chappelle to be Killed and Replaced in order to make his own and Dudu's way out of the city was clearly a nod to the original ending) which makes Chappelle an oblivious fanatic.
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The Hexer / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Hexer / int_7eb73553	comment	Just like in the original short story, a few drunks decide to pester Geralt in an inn. He calmly announces that he's a witcher to them, but they have none of it and decide to go physical on a "fucking vagrant".
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The Hexer / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Hexer / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: A bit stretch one starts in the first episode. The action doesn't return to Geralt fighting that zeugl until the fifth episode, when viewers already had time to learn who he is, what he does and simply care about his fate the second time when he's in that dark landfill.
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The Hexer / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Hexer / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Humans from episode 7, "Dolina Kwiatów" ("The Valley of Flowers") in the storyline taken from The Edge of the World. In the short story, the human settlers are nice for the standards of the setting, but that's about it. In the episode, they are genuinely good and friendly people that would gladly help the free elves still living in the area, if only the elves weren't so proud to flat-out refuse the help. This is done intentionally, to drive point home just how haughty and stubborn the elves are. The humans also don't want the "devil" killed, just for Geralt to talk some reason into him and if that won't work, simply scare him away from their fields.
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The Hexer / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Hexer / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Geralt makes few, always keeping his word in the end. Most notably, as a child he promised, in a form of a Meaningful Echo, to find and kill Gwidon. He almost gleefully kept his word many, many decades later.
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The Hexer / int_88e5fcbc	type	One-Hit Polykill
The Hexer / int_88e5fcbc	comment	One-Hit Polykill: A few times throughout the series, Geralt manages to kill two mooks in a single slash when they try to blindly charge him. This however only works on poorly trained and unarmoured opponents.
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The Hexer / int_89fb838b	type	Cold Ham
The Hexer / int_89fb838b	comment	Cold Ham: Gwidon/Falwick, in a great combination with Evil Is Hammy. He's calculating and scheming, while his delivery is always cool and seeped through clenched teeth - even when facing certain death.
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The Hexer / int_8bbcd5ce	type	Code of Honour
The Hexer / int_8bbcd5ce	comment	Code of Honour: In the books, there was no actual witcher code, although Geralt made up a code of his own. In the series, witchers have a code that allows them only to fight in an "honorable" way (even against monsters). However, there are numerous hints throughout the series the code is a mere excuse used by elders to control the guild, trainees, shape interactions with humans and abuse their own power, with no actual set rules. Thus mirroring Geralt's personal "code" from the books in basic function, but with sinister intent behind it.
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The Hexer / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
The Hexer / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: When group of witchers get ambushed by hungry elves, one of them takes half a dozen of arrows in his chest and is still fighting back. The other is practically dying, but still beheads his attackers, get back to Kaer Morhen and gives a report without as much as a squirm. Right after that he succumbs to his wounds.
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The Hexer / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
The Hexer / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: When interrogating Geralt and Dandelion about whatever they know about Falwick's conspiracy and the potential whereabouts of Ciri, they are both force-fed liquor. While Dandelion is initially enthusiastic about the concept of such torture and insists he can just get himself drunk on his own, he's mostly doing so to both buy time and avoid having the bottle forced down his throat.
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The Hexer / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
The Hexer / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Witchers are made for killing and nothing else. That makes them unable to adjust to changing circumstances or just think in broader perspectives. Geralt is special, because part of his human nature was left intact despite going through mutations.
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The Hexer / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Hexer / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Thornwald was the witcher who saved Geralt's father from a pack of werewolves and laid claim on Geralt in accordance with the Law of Surprise. Years later, Geralt faces him in a trial of swords and kills him in the process. Thornwald probably didn't even know who he was facing.
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The Hexer / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Hexer / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: First three episodes are dedicated to show how many levels in badass Geralt took since his training started and how much it takes to just survive as a witcher.
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The Hexer / int_a05abbc8	type	Throwing Down the Gauntlet
The Hexer / int_a05abbc8	comment	Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Tailes does it literally when trying to get Geralt out of the temple of Melitele. Not only Geralt has none of it, but Nenneke calls the knight out in a humiliating and patronising way, as if scolding a little child. Tailes is forced to leave in shame.
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The Hexer / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
The Hexer / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Adela was a little girl that has been wounded and left in the wild to die following the Gwidon's attack on a caravan. Geralt found her and nursed back to health during his Trial of Mountains. She was raised as a witcher in another witcherschool, and came to visit Kaer Morhen just before Geralt's graduation. Geralt was able to remember her because he has already undergone mutations when he met her. However, she lost memories of him in the process of becoming a witcher. Geralt assumes this about Renfri, when meeting her adult self. She corrects him that short for few more scars, he himself didn't change that much and she instantly recognised him.
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The Hexer / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Hexer / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Renfri has been portrayed with 'straw-colored' hair both in the books and graphic novel, while her eyes were described the "color of the sea". In the movie and TV-series her hair and eyes are very dark.
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The Hexer / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
The Hexer / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: Geralt was portrayed by Maciej Łagodziński as a kid and by Michał Żebrowski as an adult witcher. Adela was played by Natalia Chojecka as a child and by Agnieszka Sitek as an adult. Renfri was played by Weronika Pelczyńska as a child, and Kinga Ilgner as an adult.
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The Hexer / int_a90df178	type	Guyliner
The Hexer / int_a90df178	comment	Guyliner: Elves wear excessive amount of eyeliner, regardless of gender and their age. This also works as a quick tell to spot one in the crowd when they have their ears covered, given the typical elf is malnourished and wearing ragged clothes, no different than a beggar.
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The Hexer / int_ae5ab58b	type	Luck-Based Search Technique
The Hexer / int_ae5ab58b	comment	Luck-Based Search Technique: Invoked by Geralt and Dandelion who were trying to find a way out of the same dungeon Ciri was previously held in. Geralt concluded she must've activated some type of secret passage, so he told Dandelion to touch and push everything on the height of a little girl. Dandelion himself ends up accidentally switching the lever, right after complaining they will never find it.
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The Hexer / int_afd112fe	type	Hired Guns
The Hexer / int_afd112fe	comment	Hired Guns: Dermot Marranga was a renegade witcher who served as Herbolth's bodyguard in the city of Aedd Gynvael, where Geralt met him. Killing humans and elves for money only gained Dermot certain death at the hand of Geralt.
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The Hexer / int_b5c70c26	type	Tin Man
The Hexer / int_b5c70c26	comment	Tin Man: Geralt has been lead into thinking that he's incapable of feeling higher emotions and his feelings towards Yennefer are just an echo of something a real man would feel.
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The Hexer / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Hexer / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: Episode 7, "Dolina Kwiatów" ("The Valley of Flowers") takes elements from "Eternal Flame" and "The Edge of the World".
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The Hexer / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
The Hexer / int_bf72d5e8	comment	In the TV series, Falwick's role was greatly expanded. He was introduced in the first episode called "Dzieciństwo" ("Childhood") as Gwidon the witcher who, unconvinced of little Geralt's mutation, demanded a Trial of Mountains, where a child is to be left in the wilderness to fend for himself for 30 days to truly test that he is no longer human. Gwidon later formed a party out to fetch food and supplies for the fort. On the road to Tes, they attacked a travelling caravan with all the adults being killed and the caravan with children and supplies taken away to Kaer Morhen. Unbeknownst to Gwidon, Geralt witnessed the assault. When the test time was up, Old Witcher came back for Geralt. He took him and a little girl survivor back to Kaer Morhen, where they went to Vesemir with the evidence of the attack. In result, Gwidon was hailed as a renegade, forced to relinquish his witcher artifacts, and banished from the fort. Before leaving, he vowed revenge on Geralt for bringing the evidence, and Geralt in return vowed to kill him.
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The Hexer / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
The Hexer / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Witcher trainees are punished by standing still on tiny stone pillars, barely big enough to plant both feet on the top. For few days and nights, Exposed to the Elements. By the end of their punishment, they usually just fall flat on the ground, too exhausted to even bother covering their face. Geralt calmly endures his punishment, but in an act of utter defiance, steps down from the pillar and taking tiny steps, slowly walks away, just to show everyone he can't be broken that easily. All while clearly shaking from pain and muscle strain.
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The Hexer / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Hexer / int_c145f69b	comment	Geralt assumes this about Renfri, when meeting her adult self. She corrects him that short for few more scars, he himself didn't change that much and she instantly recognised him.
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The Hexer / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
The Hexer / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: "Calanthe", "Jaskier"note ("Dandelion"), "Falwick" and "Ciri" (episodes No. 6, 11, 12 and 13, respectively).
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The Hexer / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Hexer / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: The Zerrikanians pull this, showing up right behind the two would-be muggers threatening Borch - despite not being present in the shot a few seconds earlier. Both men instantly back down, realising they aren't facing a lone, defenseless stranger.
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The Hexer / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Hexer / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Old Witcher, whose true name is never revealed.
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The Hexer / int_ca967579	type	Torture Cellar
The Hexer / int_ca967579	comment	After a few rounds of alcohol-fortified interrogations, Geralt and Dandelion have to escape their current predicament from the Nilfgaardian captivity. They decide to set the shed they are locked in on fire. Then they realise they still hadn't found the secret passage leading out of the Torture Cellar beneath it.
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The Hexer / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Hexer / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: During his mutations Geralt is either experiencing visions of his mother (a village sorceress) talking with him or just hallucinating the whole thing. In fact, her "spell" put on him to prevent him from being a witcher can either be interpreted as a real hex causing alternation in his mutations and making him more human or is simply a coincidence.
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The Hexer / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
The Hexer / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: From the very first council scene it's obvious that witcher trainers are in conflict with priests responsible for creating new witchers.
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The Hexer / int_dbbaed55	type	Monster Is a Mommy
The Hexer / int_dbbaed55	comment	Monster Is a Mommy: During his Trial of Mountains, Geralt faces one in the form of a wounded wolf, ready to attack whenever he gets into a specific part of the woods. The wolf is later revealed as simply defending its litter.
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The Hexer / int_dc52e294	type	Already Met Everyone
The Hexer / int_dc52e294	comment	Already Met Everyone: Geralt first meets Renfri during his first steps as a witcher, when he saves her from three armored men ordered to kill her by her stepmother, Aridea. As Tropes Are Not Bad, this makes Geralt's decision in "The Lesser Evil" even more dramatic.
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The Hexer / int_dc774000	type	Start X to Stop X
The Hexer / int_dc774000	comment	Start X to Stop X: Gwidon's decisions to start killing human settlers to loot their supplies and take their children for training, as a way to create more witchers, so humans can be better protected from dangers of the world.
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The Hexer / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Hexer / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Vesemir is this for all witchers. Without his leadership it's obvious that the internal struggle will soon doom the whole guild.
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The Hexer / int_dddc0035	type	Wormsign
The Hexer / int_dddc0035	comment	Wormsign: A creature that Geralt killed to rescue Calanthe and Pavetta gives one of these.
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The Hexer / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
The Hexer / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Geralt leaves remnants of the witcher's council alive, finding their miserable state a punishment by itself. Plus he himself is in the process of getting over his own life and past hatred.
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The Hexer / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Hexer / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Geralt in his youth, right down to taming a she-wolf with The Power of Friendship and instantly going to help a survivor of a pogrom, despite himself barely getting by during the Trial of Mountains. Even as an adult witcher, a monster hunter for hire, he only picks jobs where the monsters are actually dangerous to someone, rather than going into the wilderness to hunt those that supposedly are.
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The Hexer / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Hexer / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: When Geralt and Dandelion are escaping from the Nilfgaardians planning their execution at dawn, they mostly just act, and then react to whatever happens next. Including setting on fire the building they are locked in, without first securing an actual escape route. In their defense, they are both drunk during their escape.
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The Hexer / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Hexer / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: When the Old Witcher is reaming out fresh-out-of Kaer Morhen Geralt for meddling into human affairs and trying to play a hero, Geralt eventually calls him back on backstabbing unsuspecting target or using a bow. The Old Witcher just smirks, considering such reaction from Geralt part of the lesson he's giving to him. By the series finale, Geralt goes back to Kaer Morhen, now abandoned and in ruins, to finally face the council, or rather what's left of it. He chews the surviving trainers and druids for their pride and hypocrisy, but ultimately letting them go unharmed, wanting to break the cycle of cruelty.
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The Hexer / int_e8dca77c	comment	Adaptation Origin Connection: In the TV series, Falwick's role was greatly expanded. He was introduced in the first episode called "Dzieciństwo" ("Childhood") as Gwidon the witcher who, unconvinced of little Geralt's mutation, demanded a Trial of Mountains, where a child is to be left in the wilderness to fend for himself for 30 days to truly test that he is no longer human. Gwidon later formed a party out to fetch food and supplies for the fort. On the road to Tes, they attacked a travelling caravan with all the adults being killed and the caravan with children and supplies taken away to Kaer Morhen. Unbeknownst to Gwidon, Geralt witnessed the assault. When the test time was up, Old Witcher came back for Geralt. He took him and a little girl survivor back to Kaer Morhen, where they went to Vesemir with the evidence of the attack. In result, Gwidon was hailed as a renegade, forced to relinquish his witcher artifacts, and banished from the fort. Before leaving, he vowed revenge on Geralt for bringing the evidence, and Geralt in return vowed to kill him. The series ties Order of the White Rose with Nilfgaard, by making Falwick a spy working for Nilfgaard whose assignment after Queen Calanthe's death was to locate Ciri and bring her to Emhyr var Emreis, the Emperor of Nilfgaard. The Order also hired Renfri to kill the priestesses and burn the temple of Melitele in Ellander.
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The Hexer / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
The Hexer / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Vesemir has one with Geralt, mostly to explain issues with witcher infertility and their mutations suppressing sexual drive. The cautious wording he picks is however the source of Geralt's conviction that he's a Tin Man. The scene is also unintentionally funny, since Geralt is at this point in his 30s, if not older, yet genuinely needs The Talk itself.
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The Hexer / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Hexer / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Averted. In the final episode Geralt, guided by visions and flashbacks, reaches an old house his parents used to live in. He then learns the story of his parents from an old man who now lives there. After his son was taken to Kaer Morhen, Geralt's father fell into drunkenness, telling people left and right that witchers have taken his child. Finally, he was killed by a bunch of witchers who came to silence him. Later, Geralt returns to Kaer Morhen and confronts the council (or, to be more precise, its remnants). When they accuse him of violating the code by killing humans, he calls them out on their hypocrisy and then admits that while he'd wish to kill them, he can't bring it over himself to do it.
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The Hexer / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Hexer / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: When Geralt's parents protest against giving him back, the witcher sent for him just tells them that they should calmly follow the rules and give him what is rightfully his. The reasoning behind is that deals should be kept, or the whole witchering makes no sense and also that Geralt as a witcher himself might save countless lives, even if he will be lost to his parents.
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The Hexer / int_febb58e2	type	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
The Hexer / int_febb58e2	comment	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: Vesimir decides to help Geralt survive the Trial of Mountains, precisely because there is no-one there to check if everything is set fairly.
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