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The Secret of Kells

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The Secret of Kells	comment	The Secret of Kells (original title) or Brendan and the Secret of Kells is an Irish/Belgian/French co-production and an Animated Medieval Fantasy-Adventure directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey at Cartoon Saloon, the studio behind Skunk Fu! and Puffin Rock. It was distributed by Disney under Buena Vista International in Ireland.A fictionalized version of the history of the Book of Kells, the story focuses on Brendan, a young monk wanting to join his fellow monks in working on illuminating texts. But with the rising threat of Viking invasion, his uncle, Abbot Cellach, is far more focused on fortifying the Abbey for the inevitable attack.The arrival of Brother Aidan, a master illuminator from Iona, allows Brendan to finally have a teacher and gives him an opportunity to leave the Abbey's wall when he is asked to get materials for ink. Brother Aidan has fled the Viking onslaught and is the keeper of the legendary book of Iona — the greatest work of illustration yet produced in Northern Europe, soon to be the Book of Kells. Befriending an enigmatic fairy named Aisling in the forest and taking a part in assisting Aidan with the Chi Rho page, things go well for him until he encounters the evil Celtic god Crom Cruach, and the Viking threat continues to slowly move closer to the Abbey...Praised for its gorgeous visuals and music (it even got a standing ovation from the staff at Pixar), it managed to surprise everyone and get a Best Animated Feature nomination at the Oscars in 2010. Cartoon Saloon's next feature, 2014's Song of the Sea, was also helmed by Moore and acts as the second part of an "Irish Folklore Trilogy", which was completed with Wolfwalkers in 2020.
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The Secret of Kells / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Cellach is often harsh with his nephew, telling him he is a disappointment and locking him up to punish him. But then Cellach desperately attempts to save Brendan during the Viking attack, and when he believes Brendan dead, his haunting grief lingers for decades. It's clear that he deeply loves his nephew, even if he's not the best at showing it. Brendan's relationship with his uncle is rocky. When Aisling asks him if he has a family, he says no. But he still defends his uncle when the other monks mock him. He is utterly devastated when Aidan forces him to leave his uncle for dead during the Viking attack.
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The Secret of Kells / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
The Secret of Kells / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: The Eye of Colmcille/ Crom Cruach appears everywhere in the film. The city of Kells even resembles it from above. It represents chaos and darkness but also creative potential, the ability to turn darkness into light.
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The Secret of Kells / int_120a6a29	type	ArtisticLicenceHistory
The Secret of Kells / int_120a6a29	comment	This is a bit of Artistic Licence – History, as the raids in Scotland and Ireland began in 794/5. There WAS a devastating attack on Iona 11/12 years after that, in 806, which led to the flight of Cellach and other monks and the founding of Kells (begun in 807, although Cellach didn't formally resign the abbacy of Iona and assume that of Kells until 814). But certainly Brendan growing up at Kells since infancy can't be reconciled with the historical dates in any case.
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The Secret of Kells / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Secret of Kells / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: At their first meeting, Brendan correctly recognizes that Aisling is a "fairy". When Aisling later warns Brendan of Crom Cruach, he dismisses it as "pagan nonsense". The irony that lies in saying that to a fairy escapes him. Possibly justified in that, living most of his life at an Abbey, he can accept a minor supernatural being like a fairy, but cannot accept a being that is supposed to be a god, when in his mind there is only one God. Brother Aidan discusses this also while mentioning Crom Cruach, saying he doesn't know what parts of the story are true, only that one of Crom's eyes was used to illuminate books. This gives Brendan the idea to seek out Crom Cruach to get the crystal.
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The Secret of Kells / int_15827a31	type	Morphic Resonance
The Secret of Kells / int_15827a31	comment	Morphic Resonance: Whenever Aisling is in a different form, she always retains her white hair color and her green eyes.
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The Secret of Kells / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Secret of Kells / int_17ce80aa	comment	Brendan's parents were killed by Vikings when he was a baby.
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The Secret of Kells / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Secret of Kells / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Subverted. They avoid showing the contents of the book for most of the film, only to show the completed Chi Rho page at the end.
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The Secret of Kells / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Secret of Kells / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Pangur Ban
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The Secret of Kells / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Secret of Kells / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Aisling is a fey that takes on the form of a white wolf at will, and she's shown to have also taken on the forms of a salmon and a deer in the past. Unfortunately, she seems to suffer Shapeshifter Mode Lock after nearly giving her life to get Brendan into Crom Cruach's lair. Then again, as the local wolf pack already accepts her as their leader, she's finally got a family again.
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The Secret of Kells / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Secret of Kells / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The track "The Monks" features a choir singing in Latin, which plays when Kells is being ransacked by the Vikings and Cellach has reached his lowest point, believing that Brendan was killed and serves to make that moment even more sombre.
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The Secret of Kells / int_20e6d1c5	type	Running on All Fours
The Secret of Kells / int_20e6d1c5	comment	Running on All Fours: Aisling can run on all fours, probably to show her connection to nature and how wild she is.
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The Secret of Kells / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Secret of Kells / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: After locking Brendan up, Abbot Cellach trusts the other Brothers to make sure Brendan stays there and that he is fed, while never checking the room. He doesn't even notice the activity in the scriptorium until green smoke comes out, or the Brothers assisting Brendan in the illumination because he's so focused on the wall. He does bust them eventually when the Brothers are careless in cheering on Brendan for his drawing.
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The Secret of Kells / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Secret of Kells / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Abbot Cellach is strict and controlling, but he is not cruel. He just wants to protect the monastery from Vikings. Even when he locks Brendan in the tower as punishment, he ensures he is fed every day.
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The Secret of Kells / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Secret of Kells / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Green ink. Specifically, the smoke side-effect caused by it. Subverted with the Book's purported ability to blind the sinners who read it. The buildup right before the greedy viking opens it really leads you to believe a miracle will happen at any moment and divine light will blind him. This makes it all the more shocking when he does just fine and tears it all to pieces.
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The Secret of Kells / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Secret of Kells / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: The first time Aidan says "There's nothing in this life but mist" he says it in a jovial manner, with the intention of saying life is filled with questions to be answered. Later however, he says it in a somber and resigned way indicating the hopelessness of uncovering the mist in the short time we live. Between these two bookends, it takes on a third, more literal meaning in Aisling's song when she sings these words (in Gaelic) as she turns Pangur Bán to mist. (She sings also of the shortness of life, but with wistful hope rather than Aidan's later defeatism.)
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The Secret of Kells / int_267a0440	type	My Parents Are Dead
The Secret of Kells / int_267a0440	comment	My Parents Are Dead: A variant of this occurs when Brendan and Aisling first meet:
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The Secret of Kells / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Secret of Kells / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: While Aidan and Brendan talk about important things, Pangur Ban slowly slides through Aidan's arms, her expression becoming more indignant by the second.
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The Secret of Kells / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
The Secret of Kells / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth:Aidan and Brendan after the Vikings attack Kells.
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The Secret of Kells / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Secret of Kells / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The book page Brendan and Aisling are climbing on in one of the montages reads "And so the little red-haired monk excelled at illumination but stayed mediocre in Latin". Bonuses exist for anybody who speaks or understands Irish: In the forest Brendan begins reciting the Lord's prayer in Irish: ''Ár nAthair, atá ar neamh.." Aisling's song. It translates: "There is nothing in this life but mist, and we will only be alive for a short time." Aidan also utters these exact lines elsewhere in the movie. Mick Lally, who voices Aidan, recites a poem about Pangur Ban in Irish, which is loosely based on the original "Messe ocus Pangur Bán" poem for which the cat is named. While climbing the tree, Aisling points to some bugs, and says, "Aithníonn ciaróg, ciaróg eile." This is an Irish saying, literally meaning, "One beetle recognizes another," (which Brendan understands and helpfully translates) but more colloquially, "It takes one to know one."
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The Secret of Kells / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Secret of Kells / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment Brendan's parents were killed by Vikings when he was a baby. Aisling's mother was killed by Crom Cruach, along with the rest of her people.
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The Secret of Kells / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
The Secret of Kells / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: When Aidan is throwing things around while looking for the Eye, a couple sheets of animation paper go fluttering through the air.
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The Secret of Kells / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Secret of Kells / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Vikings and Crom Cruach.
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The Secret of Kells / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Secret of Kells / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Abbot Cellach believes he can keep the Vikings out by building a wall around the monastery, and they should focus on that instead of creating books. When the Vikings easily ransack the monastery and kill half the villagers, because of his obsession with the wall and nothing else, he becomes a broken man.
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The Secret of Kells / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
The Secret of Kells / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Brendan gives one when Cellach forbids him from visiting the scriptorium and brother Aidan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
The Secret of Kells / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Abbot Cellach to his nephew Brendan, forbidding he does most anything not wall-building related.
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The Secret of Kells / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Secret of Kells / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The film ends with an adult Brendan returning to Kells to show the book to his elderly uncle.
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The Secret of Kells / int_331d9f32	type	Silent Snarker
The Secret of Kells / int_331d9f32	comment	Silent Snarker: Some of Pangur Ban's expressions are priceless.
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The Secret of Kells / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Secret of Kells / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: In the Irish poem Pangur Bán, the cat is male.
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The Secret of Kells / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Secret of Kells / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When a wounded and unarmed Cellach trundles to the scriptorium, to free Brendan before it burns down, the Vikings attack him. Also, the Vikings tear up the book of Kells that took months if not years to illuminate.
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The Secret of Kells / int_386df6fe	type	HellFollowsWithMe
The Secret of Kells / int_386df6fe	comment	Hell Follows With Me: Aidan's journey to Kells is all about this.
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The Secret of Kells / int_39441318	type	Horny Vikings
The Secret of Kells / int_39441318	comment	Horny Vikings: To the point where the Northmen seem more like monsters than people, moving slowly, growling in Black Speech, and looking like huge dark blocks with limbs, and living for nothing but war, killing and gold. This was an intentional design choice by the filmmakers, since the medieval Irish feared the Vikings and their designs in this movie are meant to reflect how they were seen as nightmarish killers rather than being historically accurate.
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The Secret of Kells / int_3bc22d58	type	Art Initiates Life
The Secret of Kells / int_3bc22d58	comment	Art Initiates Life: How Brendan beats Crom Cruach.
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The Secret of Kells / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
The Secret of Kells / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: The Vikings make it a strong point to wipe out everyone in Iona except Aidan who escaped, and do the same to most of the residents at Kells, even when it wouldn't benefit them.
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The Secret of Kells / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: What the Northmen speak, which emphasizes how monstrous and inhuman they seem to their victims. Though sometimes they say a word that sounds a lot like "gold", since that's what they're after.
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The Secret of Kells / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Secret of Kells / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Brother Aidan promises to be one when he and Brendan think that Abbot Cellach is dead.
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The Secret of Kells / int_3f28ec84	type	The Wall Around the World
The Secret of Kells / int_3f28ec84	comment	The Wall Around the World: Abbot Cellach is obsessed with building a wall to protect his monastery from Viking invasions. It doesn't work.
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The Secret of Kells / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Secret of Kells / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Aisling seemingly gives up her humanoid form helping Brendan into Crom Cruach's cave, the Vikings ravage Kells and kill most of the inhabitants, but Brendan and Aidan escape and finish the book. Aidan eventually passes and Brendan himself eventually returns to Kells, guided by wolf Aisling (who briefly flashes to her fey form) and raises the spirits of his broken spirited and aged uncle in the end by letting him look at the finished product he thought destroyed. Aisling's loss of human form is even dependent on if one considers Song of the Sea as a Stealth Sequel as in it she appears in her human form in 1987 Ireland.
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The Secret of Kells / int_4219a300	type	Mysterious Mist
The Secret of Kells / int_4219a300	comment	Mysterious Mist: When the fairy Aisling makes her first appearance, the forest fills with mist. This is a nod to the notion of Irish Mythology that the Tuatha Dé Danann concealed themselves in a magic mist (the "fairy mist") from observers. The mist dissipates as Aisling becomes more friendly towards Brendan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: The monks are of multiple ethnicities, and some of them are comic relief characters, especially the Italian monk Brother Leonardo who is chasing a goose and falling in the mud in his first scene.
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The Secret of Kells / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Averted. A single arrow to the shoulder is enough to grievously injure Abbot Cellach but he manages to get back up and continue through sheer force of will.
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The Secret of Kells / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Secret of Kells / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The stabbings of the dock worker and Abbot Cellach happen off-camera. It's also heavily implied but not explicitly shown that the monks and villagers holed up in the church instead of the tower don't survive the attack, as their scene ends with the Vikings bursting through the door.
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The Secret of Kells / int_4bc5e1e8	type	Unfortunate Implications
The Secret of Kells / int_4bc5e1e8	comment	Director Tomm Moore has actually apologised for Brother Assoua's character design - while it was inspired by medieval art, the creators didn't think through the Unfortunate Implications of its resemblance to modern racist caricatures.
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The Secret of Kells / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: The comic book prequel reveals the Abbot's scar came from a Viking's sword while rescuing Brendan as a toddler.
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The Secret of Kells / int_51882a24	comment	Eyedscreen: The sudden focus on Brendan's eyes when he first enters the forest. Also used on the last refugee to arrive before the Viking invasion.
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The Secret of Kells / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
The Secret of Kells / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Aisling is shown to be quite strong for her small size, considering how she pulls Brendan up like it's nothing when he's dangling from a tree branch and when she lifts a statue much larger than herself to help Brendan get inside Crom Cruach's cave.
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The Secret of Kells / int_547b8f44	type	Uncatty Resemblance
The Secret of Kells / int_547b8f44	comment	Uncatty Resemblance: The sheepherder. "Baaaaa!"
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The Secret of Kells / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Secret of Kells / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: During the Viking sequence, there are multiple shots of a red-haired little girl running around. After the Vikings leave, this girl is among the survivors helping the Abbot. And of course, Brendan is thought dead but survives. Presumably other children did die in the attack - unless all the children were sent into the tower first before the steps broke. Whatever the case, we don't see it.
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The Secret of Kells / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
The Secret of Kells / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: The attack on Kells.
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The Secret of Kells / int_56563927	type	Noble Wolf
The Secret of Kells / int_56563927	comment	Noble Wolf: Aisling gives off this vibe while in her wolf form. The other wolves she controls aren't quite as benevolent.
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The Secret of Kells / int_57c25438	type	Green Thumb
The Secret of Kells / int_57c25438	comment	Green Thumb: Aisling. Notably, she seems to be able to make small white flowers grow out of solid rock.
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The Secret of Kells / int_5869bd44	type	Arrows on Fire
The Secret of Kells / int_5869bd44	comment	Arrows on Fire: The Vikings are fond of these.
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The Secret of Kells / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
The Secret of Kells / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Aisling. All the characters have big eyebrows, but Aisling's are the most prominent, not to mention they aren't even the same colour as her hair. Tomm Moore has stated that he partially based Aisling on his sister when she was young, and she also had prominent eyebrows.
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The Secret of Kells / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Secret of Kells / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Aisling can't enter the buildings in the Abbey, but she comes anyway to free Brendan after seeing him locked up, while visibly trembling and shaking. She's also afraid of Crom Cruach but agrees to help Brendan go into his lair. Aisling reveals that it's because Crom Cruach wiped out her people, including her mother.
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The Secret of Kells / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Secret of Kells / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Aisling is implied to be much older than she looks, and if her opening narration and her brief reappearance in her Fey form near the end of the film are anything to go by, she may not even age. Unsurprising, since she's one of The Fair Folk.
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The Secret of Kells / int_5d09da4c	type	For Your Own Good
The Secret of Kells / int_5d09da4c	comment	For Your Own Good: Cellach locks Brendan in his room to protect him after Brendan refuses to give up visiting the forest and working with Brother Aidan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_603b77ec	type	Savage Wolves
The Secret of Kells / int_603b77ec	comment	Savage Wolves: Aisling leads a pack of black, red-eyed wolves who are rather threatening in appearance. Initially they play the trope straight when they attack Brendan on his first journey into the forest, but they later pull a Big Damn Heroes moment when Aisling rallies them against the Vikings who ambush Brendan and Aidan after they flee from the massacre at Kells.
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The Secret of Kells / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Secret of Kells / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Aidan, and presumably Aidan's old mentor from what we hear of him.
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The Secret of Kells / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Secret of Kells / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Aidan may not be the full shilling but he is a brilliant illuminator.
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The Secret of Kells / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Secret of Kells / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: When entering Crom Cruach's lair, Aisling holds the entrance long enough for Brendan to get in, even though Cruach's black vines grab her. Cellach tells the refugees in the tower to close the door, and then stays on the ground as the Vikings attack to rescue Brendan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Secret of Kells / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The Vikings. Every shot we see them in is basically them slowly moving. We never see them run at all, or even show any sort of fear, except for the two that are killed by Aisling's wolves.
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The Secret of Kells / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
The Secret of Kells / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: The Abbot (aside from the Vikings) seems to be an antagonist at first, and early concept art◊ definitely depicts him as more typically "evil"-looking. Ultimately subverted, though, since despite being extremely strict, he does genuinely care about Brendan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
The Secret of Kells / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Abbot Cellach's room is painted with the plans for the town wall as well as a map of Kells on the floor. It's all sketched out with chalk in medieval non-perspective, to suggest the Abbot's obsessive devotion to completing the wall. A little different from usual in that he's sane — to a fault.
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The Secret of Kells / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
The Secret of Kells / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: The story takes place at some point during the 9th century, when Ireland was frequently raided by Vikings, and it focuses on the making of the Book of Kells, a real illuminated manuscript. It's also a highly fictionalized account of the book's making, including fantasy elements like fairies and an ancient Irish god.
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The Secret of Kells / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Secret of Kells / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "There's nothing in this life but mist" is a phrase Aidan uses early in the film. He says it again later only more somberly with the additional phrase "and we're only here a short while". This whole phrase is then sung by Aisling shortly after, only it is sung in Irish with the lines "Níl sa saol seo ach ceo / is ní bhéimid beo ach seal beag gearr".
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The Secret of Kells / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Secret of Kells / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Aisling is a genre of Irish political poem usually lamenting the state of the Irish people. In Irish Gaelic, the word "aisling" literally means "dream" or "vision".
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The Secret of Kells / int_6cdbfb36	type	People of Hair Color
The Secret of Kells / int_6cdbfb36	comment	People of Hair Color: All the native Irish whose hair hasn't turned white have red hair.
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The Secret of Kells / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Secret of Kells / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Cellach thinks that Brendan and Brother Aidan died when the scriptorium burned during the Viking Raid. He doesn't find out the truth until Brendan returns to Kells as an adult.
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The Secret of Kells / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Secret of Kells / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: An implicit example with the abbot. As he lies wounded and goes through his BSOD Despair Event Horizon moment, he is reminded that he, in fact, cannot give up, since he's the abbot (i.e. the leader of his people). It is enough to make him get up.
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The Secret of Kells / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
The Secret of Kells / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: Abbot mistakes the adult Brendan for this.
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The Secret of Kells / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Secret of Kells / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Turning darkness into light," note likely from Robin Flower's translation of the Irish poem "Pangur Bàn" which represents the film's central theme of preserving art and culture to give people hope and happiness in dark times.
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The Secret of Kells / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
The Secret of Kells / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Subverted. Aidan and Brendan leave Cellach for dead, despite Brendan's protests. The Distant Finale shows that Cellach lives.
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The Secret of Kells / int_7986a111	type	Bonding over Missing Parents
The Secret of Kells / int_7986a111	comment	Bonding over Missing Parents: This is what gets Aisling to soften up to Brendan. When Brendan mentions that he doesn't have a family, Aisling admits that she doesn't have one either.
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The Secret of Kells / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Secret of Kells / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: If Cellach took as much time to support the scaffolding as he did the wall, he would've been able to save more people.
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The Secret of Kells / int_7c4ba0e0	type	Red Sky, Take Warning
The Secret of Kells / int_7c4ba0e0	comment	Red Sky, Take Warning: Often accompanies the Vikings. Makes sense, since they love to burn everything, and lots of firelight reflected off the clouds is one of the natural ways to get this trope.
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The Secret of Kells / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Secret of Kells / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: How the Northmen are depicted, right down to the glowing red eyes and Black Speech.
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The Secret of Kells / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Secret of Kells / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Aisling, who is friendly for the most part, but will not hesitate to sic her wolves on people who trespass in her forest. Word of God says she's one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a powerful divine race in Irish mythology.
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The Secret of Kells / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Secret of Kells / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Crom Cruach can be considered one.
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The Secret of Kells / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Secret of Kells / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: When Brendan prepares to sneak out, Pangur Ban appears seemingly to warn him about going to find Crom Cruach's eye. It's actually because Abbot Cellach is outside waiting to bust Brendan for sneaking out again.
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The Secret of Kells / int_88a5b2e6	type	Circle of Standing Stones
The Secret of Kells / int_88a5b2e6	comment	Circle of Standing Stones: The first meeting of Brendan and the fairy Aisling takes place inside a stone circle.
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The Secret of Kells / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Secret of Kells / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Double-subverted. When Brendan ponders going into the forest to get the berries that Brother Aidan needs, he draws out the potential drawbacks. Once in the forest, however, he doesn't know what the berry trees look like or how to get home. Cellach's obsession with the wall; it never occured to him have a back-up plan with that scaffolding, huh?
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The Secret of Kells / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Secret of Kells / int_90c018ac	comment	And Pangur Bán was owned by an anonymous Irish monk in a German monastery. That being said, Aidan and Brendan explicitly spend twenty years travelling the world taking inspiration for the Book.
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The Secret of Kells / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
The Secret of Kells / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift The monks' stories and Brendan's slate sketches. The art shift during the stories that talk about Colm Cille, or Saint Columba, doubles as a Genius Bonus because it imitates the style of manuscripts being produced at Colm Cille's time; a style categorized as the early insular gospels, and designed for the ease in Pagan conversion by presenting Christian aspects in a comprehensible comic-book-like format. Shown Their Work indeed. During a dramatic action scene when the Norsemen attack, the art suddenly gains perspective. Crom Cruach's lair has a slightly different art style to emphasize its otherworldly nature, being all angular lines and glowing green on black. In fact, this appears to be a bit of an in-universe thing as Brendan is somehow able to utilize its two dimensionality to his advantage by trapping Crom Cruach in a chalk circle.
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The Secret of Kells / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Secret of Kells / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Cellach is only focused on building his wall, referencing how he's emotionally shut himself away from the world, as well as his over-protectiveness of Brendan. In contrast to the wall, the stairs that go up to his tower are built so that only one person at a time can go up them. This shows that he only has room in his heart for so few people, his nephew Brendan and his mentor Aidan. Tragically, during the viking invasion, everyone tries to go up the stairs at once, but the stairs can't hold them and they fall. This symbolizes not only the folly of Cellach's approach at protecting Kells, but how he buckled under the pressure of saving his people.
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The Secret of Kells / int_9397414	type	Unmoving Plaid
The Secret of Kells / int_9397414	comment	Unmoving Plaid: Appears in almost everyone's clothing.
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The Secret of Kells / int_94e17e7e	type	Fluffy Tamer
The Secret of Kells / int_94e17e7e	comment	Fluffy Tamer: One of Aisling's abilities; she controls the local wolf pack, and uses them to defend her forest and her friends, like when Brendan and Aidan are nearly killed by a pair of Vikings.
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The Secret of Kells / int_9555d7c5	type	All That Glitters
The Secret of Kells / int_9555d7c5	comment	All That Glitters: The Book of Kells' cover is partially made from gold, and when a group of Northmen ambush Brendan and Aidan and grab the book from them, the leader of the group flips through the pages...and rips off the cover while callously throwing the rest of the book away, caring more for the gold on the cover than any of the illuminated manuscripts inside. This ties into the story's theme about the true value of art; as Aidan says early on, "the cover is not the real treasure".
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The Secret of Kells / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Secret of Kells / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Abbey's residents when the Vikings attack, starting by shooting flaming arrows over the wall, and then when the stairs to the tower collapse due to too many people using them.
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The Secret of Kells / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Secret of Kells / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Brendan breaking through the scaffolding while chasing the goose. The scene of Brendan touching a goose feather is repeated twice; the second time just as he's about to start his first proper illumination and the first time as, well, this very trope. Brendan's highly active imagination and effortless little artistic tableaux of him going into the woods foreshadow the talent he'll display as an illuminator later on. As the Vikings' invasion of Ireland is sporadically shown throughout the events of the movie, one scene shows a burning town...which is inside a wall.
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The Secret of Kells / int_a116a489	type	Herald
The Secret of Kells / int_a116a489	comment	Herald: Aidan is an Action Survivor; see below.
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The Secret of Kells / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Secret of Kells / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Aidan calls himself an old fool when he gets Brendan into trouble with his uncle in recruiting him for the book. He tries to Shoo the Dog when Brendan appears with Crom Cruach's eye. Cellach. As the sacking of Kells begins, it begins to get through to the Abbot that, despite all his preparation, things aren't going to work out. And what follows is a massive slaughter that basically makes the rest of his life one really prolonged version of this trope.
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The Secret of Kells / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Secret of Kells / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Aisling is technically one, the comics showing her family to be the native gods of Ireland. Unfortunately, keeping with medieval Christian theology, she and her family were far from omnipotent and were rolled over by Crom Cruac.
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The Secret of Kells / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Secret of Kells / int_a675997a	comment	Scaled Up: Crom Cruach should not have turned into a snake. It never helps.
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The Secret of Kells / int_a7544a0f	type	Beneath the Earth
The Secret of Kells / int_a7544a0f	comment	Beneath the Earth: The mound of Crom Cruach.
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The Secret of Kells / int_aa2cd0c9	type	Motifs
The Secret of Kells / int_aa2cd0c9	comment	Motifs Celtic knots are visible everywhere. Every snowflake, for starters. Circles and spirals are also very frequent there. Spirals apparently represent nature while circles are related to civilization, religion and art. Incidentally, the Book of Kells contains heaps of both.
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The Secret of Kells / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Secret of Kells / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Brendan's ability to draw lets him defeat Crom Cruach with a bit of ingenuity.
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The Secret of Kells / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Secret of Kells / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Brendan when his Uncle busts him for sneaking out into the forest, both times. Brendan and Aidan when the Vikings catch up to them in the woods and take the book.
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The Secret of Kells / int_ad44a161	type	Ouroboros
The Secret of Kells / int_ad44a161	comment	Ouroboros: after Brendan takes his eye, Crom Cruac is shown to take the form of this symbol.
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The Secret of Kells / int_b25df244	type	Jesus Taboo
The Secret of Kells / int_b25df244	comment	Jesus Taboo: Though the film is set in a monastery and most of the characters are Christian monks, the faith itself is not focused upon. The faith is mostly alluded to with the Book said to be that which will "turn darkness into light", and the relationship between the old religion and Christianity is touched upon symbolically. Justified in that the religious setting is mostly a background historical setting. The actual Book of Kells is in fact the Christian New Testament, but the film does never actually spell that out. A large piece of the movie focuses on Brendan completing the Chi-Ro page. The Greek letters chi and rho were normally used in medieval manuscripts to abbreviate the word Christ, but this is never explained in the film.
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The Secret of Kells / int_b356f7c1	type	Horns of Barbarism
The Secret of Kells / int_b356f7c1	comment	Horns of Barbarism: The Northmen wear horned helmets that, as they're only ever shown in silhouette, make them appear to be horned demons more than anything else.
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The Secret of Kells / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
The Secret of Kells / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	The monks' stories and Brendan's slate sketches. The art shift during the stories that talk about Colm Cille, or Saint Columba, doubles as a Genius Bonus because it imitates the style of manuscripts being produced at Colm Cille's time; a style categorized as the early insular gospels, and designed for the ease in Pagan conversion by presenting Christian aspects in a comprehensible comic-book-like format. Shown Their Work indeed.
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The Secret of Kells / int_b64b1fc1	type	Left for Dead
The Secret of Kells / int_b64b1fc1	comment	We see a flash of this in Brendan as he and Aidan leave Kells, leaving his uncle for dead.
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The Secret of Kells / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Secret of Kells / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: "You can't learn everything from books." "I think I read that somewhere."
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The Secret of Kells / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Secret of Kells / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: Of Irish Catholic monks. Think about that a moment. An Irish monk, an Italian monk, a Chinese monk, an African (Moor) monk, and an English monk, who was originally supposed to be Afghan. (There's also a monk with a German accent, a gloomy Slav, and a French monk (albeit without any lines in the final version).) It isn't explained how they all got there ("there" being a 9th century Irish monastery) but according to Word of God they represent the different artistic influences in the book.
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The Secret of Kells / int_bba8939	type	Cats Are Snarkers
The Secret of Kells / int_bba8939	comment	Cats Are Snarkers: Pangur Ban can't speak, but her expressions more than make up for that.
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The Secret of Kells / int_be272a3	type	Time-Compression Montage
The Secret of Kells / int_be272a3	comment	Time-Compression Montage: The scene showing Brendan's education in art. On a side note, the film takes place over the course of a year (shown by the change in seasons).
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The Secret of Kells / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
The Secret of Kells / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Pangur Bán, who is apparently intelligent enough to go into the woods and find Aisling when Brendan needs help.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
The Secret of Kells / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: After forbidding him from working on the book, Abbot Cellach locks up Brendan in the scriptorium with the book during the Viking raid.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c28c7c3e	type	Mystical Waif
The Secret of Kells / int_c28c7c3e	comment	Mystical Waif: Aisling, though she's more assertive than most mystical waifs.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Secret of Kells / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Brendan releases one when seeing his uncle wounded in the snow during the Viking raids.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c335b301	type	Cute Little Fangs
The Secret of Kells / int_c335b301	comment	Cute Little Fangs: If you look very closely in one scene, you can see that Aisling has them. They're made more obvious in an earlier scene when she tries to intimidate Brendan into leaving her forest. It's a very quick scene, but if you pause at just the right second here, her face is pretty scary.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c3a1e89b	type	Cats Are Magic
The Secret of Kells / int_c3a1e89b	comment	Cats Are Magic: In a sense; since Aisling is unable to free Brendan from his room in the tower (fairies cannot enter buildings without an explicit invitation), she turns Pangur Ban into a spirit so she can free him from the inside. This harkens back to the Celtic belief that cats were capable of going to otherwordly realms that others couldn't enter.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Secret of Kells / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Once Brendan gets Crom Cruach's eye, he and the other priests start to work on the book in earnest, avoiding Abbot Cellach's scrutiny and finishing the beloved page. Then the Vikings attack and the Abbot locks up Brendan in the scriptorium after busting him and the priests.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
The Secret of Kells / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Brendan gets in trouble for anything related to illuminating books, even learning to ink with a quill.
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The Secret of Kells / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
The Secret of Kells / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The abbot dwarfs everyone else living in Kells.
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The Secret of Kells / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Secret of Kells / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Brendan manages to defeat Crom Cruach. Keep in mind, this is a monstrosity that has killed off most of Aisling's people, a race of very powerful, very well-armed warriors. And he does it with chalk.
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The Secret of Kells / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Secret of Kells / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Brendan initially dismisses Crom Cruach as a story to scare children and says that Abbot Cellach told him never to worry about pagan fairytales. He tells all this to Aisling, whom he recognized as a fairy when they first met.
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The Secret of Kells / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
The Secret of Kells / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Brother Aidan
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The Secret of Kells / int_cf496044	type	Smoke Out
The Secret of Kells / int_cf496044	comment	Green ink. Specifically, the smoke side-effect caused by it.
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The Secret of Kells / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Secret of Kells / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Early in the film, Aidan bluntly tells Cellach that no wall can stop the Vikings and that when they do come to Kells, the best the inhabitants can do is run and hope they are fast enough. Aidan is proven right when the Vikings knock the front gate down and proceed to slaughter every inhabitant who couldn't make it to the tower because he never thought of supporting the scaffolding.
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The Secret of Kells / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Secret of Kells / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Unintended on Brendan's part, but after trapping Crom Cruach in a chalk prison and blinding it, the monstrous abomination, unable to lash out at anything else, proceeds to consume itself. Cellach's obsession with building the wall — instead of the scaffolding — walled the villagers in, making them easy pray for the Northmen.
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The Secret of Kells / int_d5b7a6e3	type	Denied Food as Punishment
The Secret of Kells / int_d5b7a6e3	comment	Denied Food as Punishment: Subverted; Abbot Cellach makes sure that Brendan is fed while he is locked up, even telling the monks to give his breakfast to Brendan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Secret of Kells / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: When Brendan is locked up, he tells Aisling to go get Brother Aidan to see if he might get the key. Aidan had previously talked about Crom Cruach's eye and thus has less Arbitrary Skepticism about the Fair Folk. Aisling decides to use Pangur Ban and her magic, however.
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The Secret of Kells / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
The Secret of Kells / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: When adult Brendan returns to the abbot.
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The Secret of Kells / int_e2154617	type	The Lightfooted
The Secret of Kells / int_e2154617	comment	The Lightfooted: Aisling has a distinct and graceful way of moving, even when she goes down on all fours.
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The Secret of Kells / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
The Secret of Kells / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Crom Cruach is a giant serpent, though his appearance owes more to deep-sea fish. And it's made of jointed drawings. Brendan uses this to his advantage.
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The Secret of Kells / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
The Secret of Kells / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Aisling is this for the Tuatha Dé Danann.
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The Secret of Kells / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Secret of Kells / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story Scholars put the creation of the book around the year 800, which means Colm Cille (d. 597) can't have had a hand in it, and the historical St. Aidan note Not so fun fact: the real St. Aidan and his voice actor Mick Lally both died on August 31st lived over 150 years earlier. (In fairness, Aidan wasn't an uncommon name, so this could be a different guy.) Also, the cover wasn't stolen for another 200 years or so. There's not much we know for sure about the creation of the book (it might have been produced entirely at Iona or Kells, or some combination, or even Lindisfarne), so they had to take some liberties in order for there to be any plot. Lampshaded when the monks at Kells can't agree on the history, either, including Colm Cille's methods (third eye? three hands? 36 FINGERS?!), and simply get their facts wrong. The first monk to mention Colm Cille does accurately mention that he lived 200 years ago; but Aidan sometimes talks as if he knew him ("as Colm Cille used to say..."). At other times, though, Aidan also talks of him as a figure of legend. And Pangur Bán was owned by an anonymous Irish monk in a German monastery. That being said, Aidan and Brendan explicitly spend twenty years travelling the world taking inspiration for the Book. Crom Cruach does exist in Irish mythology, where's he described as a Pagan god whose worship included human sacrifices and he was banished by St. Patrick. He has nothing to do with Colm Cille. There was an Abbot Cellach who was abbot of Iona. He retired to Kells in 814 AD and died the next year. He is credited with building a church in Kells. Brendan is 12. The prequel comic, in which Cellach rescues infant Brendan from the Vikings, is dated 790 AD. That means the events of the movie take place in 802 AD. This was the year of an actual Viking invasion of Iona, just as Aidan describes, and therefore the likely date that the Book of Kells moved to Kells - or at least, left Iona. This is a bit of Artistic Licence – History, as the raids in Scotland and Ireland began in 794/5. There WAS a devastating attack on Iona 11/12 years after that, in 806, which led to the flight of Cellach and other monks and the founding of Kells (begun in 807, although Cellach didn't formally resign the abbacy of Iona and assume that of Kells until 814). But certainly Brendan growing up at Kells since infancy can't be reconciled with the historical dates in any case.
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The Secret of Kells / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Secret of Kells / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Brendan does this to his uncle about caring more about the wall than the Book, and how Cellach ought to know about how important the Book is, having once been an illuminator. Cellach responds by locking up Brendan until he can behave.
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The Secret of Kells / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
The Secret of Kells / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: There's a lot of emphasis on the beauty of the forest when Brendan visits it for the first time. While it briefly becomes dangerous when he's attacked by wolves, the mood lightens again when he meets Aisling and she shows him the way through the woods to get the oak galls he needs.
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The Secret of Kells / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Secret of Kells / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Aisling's wolf pack saving Brendan and Aidan from the vikings.
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The Secret of Kells / int_ec6b0734	type	Mystical White Hair
The Secret of Kells / int_ec6b0734	comment	Mystical White Hair: Aisling. In the second comic prologue, it's revealed to be a racial trait of The Fair Folk.
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The Secret of Kells / int_ed98f038	type	Wall Crawl
The Secret of Kells / int_ed98f038	comment	Wall Crawl: Aisling can do this through magic.
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The Secret of Kells / int_eff85ff1	type	The Low Middle Ages
The Secret of Kells / int_eff85ff1	comment	The Low Middle Ages
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The Secret of Kells / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Being so closely connected to nature, Aisling is implied to be able to do this, especially when she tells Brendan that she asked some wasps not to sting him when they find the oak galls.
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The Secret of Kells / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
The Secret of Kells / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: Heralds of the Norsemen. And, by the way, associated with the goddess of war in Irish folklore and the Norse god of death and battle.
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The Secret of Kells / int_f50b1e05	type	Shoo the Dog
The Secret of Kells / int_f50b1e05	comment	Aidan calls himself an old fool when he gets Brendan into trouble with his uncle in recruiting him for the book. He tries to Shoo the Dog when Brendan appears with Crom Cruach's eye.
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The Secret of Kells / int_f51c5f3c	type	Never Say "Die"
The Secret of Kells / int_f51c5f3c	comment	Never Say "Die": Aidan's footsteps are washed away in the sand next to Brendan's and Pangur's footsteps. Though averted when Aidan states that he would have been killed had he not fled Iona, and again when Aisling tells Brendan that he will die if he confronts Crom Cruach; all of the actual deaths are implicit.
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The Secret of Kells / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: Brendan's training, interspersed with the Abbot's work on the wall.
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The Secret of Kells / int_f974d1fc	type	The Shadow Knows
The Secret of Kells / int_f974d1fc	comment	The Shadow Knows: When Pangur Ban is in spirit-form, she still has the shadow of a cat. As Cellach continues to put in long hours building the wall while the other monks focus on the Book, at the end of the day his shadow is even more bowed and bent than his body, betraying the depth of his physical exhaustion.
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The Secret of Kells / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: Completely averted: Abbot Cellach mentions that most of the refugees are Pagans and Crom worshippers and believes that "it's with the strength of our walls that they will come to accept the strength of our faith." At one point a viking warrior gets to have a look at the Book of Kells (which is a Book of the Gospels), only to rip out all of the pages and throw them away a few seconds later, clearly unimpressed and more interested in the shiny, gold cover. Also averted with Aisling. Despite knowing how important the Book is to Brendan, she never converts. This is probably because pre-Christian Celtic demi-deities don't really care for Christianity, or any religion for that matter.
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The Secret of Kells / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Abbot Cellach is a mild example. He acts like a total Jerkass who is obsessed with building his wall, to the point where he disdains and eventually forbids his monks from doing anything else. However, the point of the wall is to keep out the Vikings, who already killed all the family he had except for his young, impressionable nephew, who now wants to do non-wall related things like go outside and create beautiful holy books. He doesn't listen when Aidan tells him that his wall won't hold and they should all flee instead, which leads to disaster, and his Heel Realisation.
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The Secret of Kells / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: Cellach who takes an arrow to the chest, and has to be knocked down by Vikings before he stops protecting his nephew. Colm Cille who took an eye from a Pagan god just to use it as a magnifying glass.
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The Secret of Kells / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: Abbot Cellach at the end of the film is left broken because of his guilt in having numerous villagers and even his own nephew dead.. We see a flash of this in Brendan as he and Aidan leave Kells, leaving his uncle for dead. Subverted in the case of Aidan, who seems fairly cheerful and upbeat despite being the only survivor of Iona. Although maybe he's keeping his darker feelings hidden from young Brendan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Abbot Cellach has a few moments that actually show he's not an Evil Uncle and foreshadow his eventual Heel Realization. At one point, a group of refugees arrives in the village. Abbot Cellach lets them in without hesitation. It's shown several times that he's one of the hardest workers on the wall. It's briefly shown at some point that he's actually saddened by his decision to lock up Brendan. He also makes sure that he's still fed and at one point asks a monk to bring his own breakfast to Brendan.
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The Secret of Kells / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Some of the artistry in the film goes beyond taking inspiration from the Book of Kells and is directly based on it. The Chi-Rho page is faithfully reproduced. Brendan's first work using the crystal - the drawing that Cellach angrily rips from its frame and later keeps as his "only comfort" - is visible in the bottom left corner of the real Chi-Rho page at the tail of the Chi.
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