Legends Summarized: Robin Hood

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  • @GoneFishingAmalgam
    @GoneFishingAmalgam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7113

    Got to love that Robin is such a devout catholic he has to sneak into mass, then gets discovered because he's not so devout that he hasn't already robbed the monks of this church before.

    • @BlackCover95
      @BlackCover95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +408

      A lot of religious people care more about churchgoing than they do about interpersonal decency.

    • @JimBob4233
      @JimBob4233 3 ปีที่แล้ว +366

      @@BlackCover95 And those people get robbed by Robin Hood and then get mad when he tries to take Mass.

    • @eldonbell1767
      @eldonbell1767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Most of the leaders in the old timey church were devout religious folk. Mostly thirdborns that bought a slot of comfort under the name of bishop. With the disinterest and noble faffery therein.

    • @michaelalangordon6120
      @michaelalangordon6120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +213

      To be fair the church was majorly corrupt and fleeced everyone amassing more wealth than any Christian should have. Besides Jesus himself said It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven, so Robin was just looking out for them and trying to save their souls.

    • @phastinemoon
      @phastinemoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I wonder if he would be Catholic…
      Or Anglican, since he’s English, and they have their own church.

  • @VivaLaDnDLogs
    @VivaLaDnDLogs ปีที่แล้ว +2703

    I love how the joke of "Little John" being an incredibly large & burly man has seemingly remained consistent since the character's creation.
    The people know a good joke when they hear it.

    • @alexanderwuolukka8333
      @alexanderwuolukka8333 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      Underappreciated comment. That's a seven-hundred-year-old banger there.

    • @MURPHYCHACHO
      @MURPHYCHACHO ปีที่แล้ว +160

      "They call me Little John. But don't let my name fool you. In real life, I'm very big."
      "I'll take your word for it."

    • @KlaxontheImpailr
      @KlaxontheImpailr ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Pipsqueak: you think my name is funny?
      Aang:…it’s hilarious!

    • @octaviandoroteja8512
      @octaviandoroteja8512 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah, my father named the massive dog he used to have "Little" (masculine)

    • @normalpeoplelikeme
      @normalpeoplelikeme ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@octaviandoroteja8512Petit?

  • @annalston1653
    @annalston1653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6417

    "Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you historical documentation." Holy cow, I love this line.

    • @beorwinesheathencorner6425
      @beorwinesheathencorner6425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      As someone who does live history and is constantly trying to figure out what the average bloke lived like instead of the well documented lords and kings, I feel this quote in my soul.

    • @annalston1653
      @annalston1653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      My research focuses on women and children, so same.

    • @BlackEpyon
      @BlackEpyon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The pen is mightier than the sword.

    • @3katfox
      @3katfox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah, I need that as a t-shirt

    • @bleedingmasque.6193
      @bleedingmasque.6193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Johnny Cage Medieval Europe deserves more credit than this.

  • @Morathor
    @Morathor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2757

    I just. I love the version of Maid Marian who's like, "Oh no my boyfriend got exiled, guess I'd better just grab my hiking boots and tramp on into the wilds to find him" and then she's like "Oh no, a recent but already well-known outlaw, guess I'll just beat his ass" and then SHE DOES. And HE LIKES IT. Between this and Little John I think Robin Hood just adores people who can wreck his shit, which, honestly, same.

    • @kynan1232
      @kynan1232 ปีที่แล้ว +347

      If they can kick your ass and have your back, that’s about as good an ally as you can get

    • @notthed6534
      @notthed6534 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      He just like me fr fr

    • @unlimitedcorgisworks5984
      @unlimitedcorgisworks5984 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kynan1232 CT fha. A koiaksanakaa 🎉k. K

    • @skem9622
      @skem9622 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Sounds pretty fruedian *stares intensely*

    • @mistletoecanary
      @mistletoecanary ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Reminds me of that one gianni matrigianno video

  • @artemiswolf4508
    @artemiswolf4508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10090

    *Maid Marian* : I want a nice guy who’s cool, charitable and respects women.
    *Robin Hood* : I want a girlfriend who can not only kick my ass but would do so upon request

    • @Fanatic_Foremem
      @Fanatic_Foremem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +493

      I see Robin Hood shares my tastes

    • @theonejackal89
      @theonejackal89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +516

      Ahh, as the old anime quote goes from one of the greatest characters ever....
      "I love the kind of woman who can kick my ass." -Spike

    • @bluesbest1
      @bluesbest1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@Fanatic_Foremem Hear, hear.

    • @MishiMIshaniz
      @MishiMIshaniz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +345

      If she can't defeat you in single combat, what's the point?

    • @audreykat1753
      @audreykat1753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Oh masochist much? Lol

  • @state_song_xprt
    @state_song_xprt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5257

    Wait, so you're telling me "Steal from the rich and give to the poor" is barely a hundred years old, while "Maid Marion is kind of a badass" goes back to the seventeenth century?

    • @ShadowoftheMask
      @ShadowoftheMask 4 ปีที่แล้ว +285

      I mean, surprising but not too surprising. Some things are much older than people in modern times imagine(not helped that historians in certain eras(victorian era is really bad about that in general :P ) try to make things fit their own world view)

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      Technically there is many bandits who stealing from if not downright fighting oppressive lords help local populations (beside Rogue Hood I also know Slavic Janosik, but there is way more then that). But it rarely was due to noble values though some peasant rebellions were also morally justified. Anyway this detail become vogue during modern times, so it was simplified "stealing from the rich and giving to poor" instead more proper "stealing from nobility, what they steal from you on the fist place, but at the same time you are the poor for who you stealing it back, so it isn't also not exactly that noble itself".

    • @tedcomet3121
      @tedcomet3121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well the rich were government officials that put taxes on everything

    • @ninjabluefyre3815
      @ninjabluefyre3815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I've tried to find cool fanart of Marion being badass, but all that comes up is the Disney version.
      No, google, HUMAN, I want HUMAN MAID MARION GOOGLE, GODDAMMIT!

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@tedcomet3121 That itself wasn't a problem. Problem was that they commonly spend those taxes on luxuries, when they people starved. Incompetent rules commonly birth the rebellion.

  • @ayyKatx
    @ayyKatx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6247

    Took a lit class in college exclusively about Robin Hood. We watched several of the adaptations, including Prince of Thieves. There's a scene where Robin Hood is "showering" under a waterfall and everyone is dead silent just watching the movie and one of the guys who'd never spoken all semester piped up and said: "I went 27 years without seeing Kevin Costner's ass." And even the professor lost her shit.

    • @sophieAutumnMay
      @sophieAutumnMay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      +

    • @jbvader721
      @jbvader721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +503

      Alan Rickman's (may he rest in peace) Sheriff of Nottingham was the best thing about "Prince of Thieves", period.

    • @ayyKatx
      @ayyKatx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +327

      @@jbvader721 Gotta be honest, don't remember a single thing about that movie except the experience I described above lmao

    • @thegayghost872
      @thegayghost872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      So.... was it a good ass?

    • @opheliapurple
      @opheliapurple 4 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      There are so many uninterrupted silences in that movie.... I couldn't imagine watching it in a semi-serious setting.

  • @cheezemonkeyeater
    @cheezemonkeyeater 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1802

    Fun fact: in the Disney version, the sheriff, Prince John, and Sir Hiss are all based on real Disney executives who took over the studio after Walt Disney died. These three were apparently super hated by everyone - including Disney himself back when he was alive, who declared that opening his company to investors was the biggest mistake he ever made.

    • @mariustan9275
      @mariustan9275 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      Is this why Disney is the juggernaut of capitalism it is now?

    • @N0VA_YT101
      @N0VA_YT101 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Look what Disney is now.

    • @NK-pr9xy
      @NK-pr9xy ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Interesting.

    • @cheezemonkeyeater
      @cheezemonkeyeater ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@N0VA_YT101 Yeah, just look.

    • @ag-13studios51
      @ag-13studios51 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Guess you learn something interesting everyday huh?

  • @lyras.9161
    @lyras.9161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3837

    That list of Robin in media made me realize he's never really had a major game, which is surprising.

    • @TolkienOtaku
      @TolkienOtaku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +281

      Furry Robin Hood for Kingdom Hearts IV!

    • @Domesthenes
      @Domesthenes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      There was one in the early 2000's called Legend of Sherwood that was pretty good.

    • @BlackFalcon269
      @BlackFalcon269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +289

      Honestly suprising There was never an Assassins Creed version of Robin Hood

    • @ValentinoZ999
      @ValentinoZ999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@BlackFalcon269 that would make the story more dark you know "ASSASIN creed"

    • @Drakerai
      @Drakerai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@ValentinoZ999 then again, it would be assassin's creed so maybe not that dark

  • @BennyLlama39
    @BennyLlama39 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3834

    Red: "Why is he our go-to?"
    Me: Because a character with no attached copyrights, trademarks, etc. is a hell of a lot cheaper than other characters. 😀

    • @Catalyst375
      @Catalyst375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      That's the fate of all public domain characters.

    • @angelsartandgaming
      @angelsartandgaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      And a character that sticks it to the man and helps the poor can be used in any setting. Modern day people could use him to steal from governments and big business CEOs and give to poor people on the streets.

    • @srensrensen7878
      @srensrensen7878 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      ...so because of capitalism?

    • @sovietmarshmallow1283
      @sovietmarshmallow1283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Søren Sørensen Yep, Capitalism

    • @bishop6881
      @bishop6881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Not enough people are using Lupin that’s why

  • @Bob-lr2xp
    @Bob-lr2xp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1537

    "Engage your boss in single combat"
    Oooohhh, my dad wasn't telling me to shake their hand, it was BREAK their hand! Thanks for clearing that up, Red.

    • @mafaziaditiya303
      @mafaziaditiya303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wtf

    • @flazzorb
      @flazzorb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      And if that fails, _stake_ their hand.

    • @TheOneGuy1111
      @TheOneGuy1111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      So _that's_ why they always say you need a firm grip.

    • @mleppp1546
      @mleppp1546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well, just in case you may need to *take* their hand.

    • @IrvingIV
      @IrvingIV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mleppp1546
      Proposal leads to nepotism.

  • @Cindolintoe
    @Cindolintoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +879

    Watching this again a year later, I think we all forgot the very important factor that Robin Hood sits very comfortably in a position where he can fit into literally anyone's moral code. Religious? Robin Hood fits. Anti-Taxation or hate big government? Robin Hood fits. Don't like authority figures? Robin Hood fits. Patriotic despite the government? Robin Hood fits. I don't know a single person who dislikes Robin Hood because you can reasonably fit him into almost every world view. I've seen well thought out arguments that this dude would, in modern day, be a libertarian, a communist, a conservative, a liberal, even a monarchist or authoritarian due to his opposition to bad kings in favor of good ones. I don't think a figure exists that is so malleable he can fit into almost any world view in a positive light outside of Jesus Christ.

    • @user-th9jt4es5i
      @user-th9jt4es5i ปีที่แล้ว +81

      That is a really good point. He has been rewritten so many times from so many points of view that it really does just come down to what stories you choose to focus on.

    • @wjzav1971
      @wjzav1971 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I don't quite see how Robin Hood fits a religious moral code though.

    • @bookswithike3256
      @bookswithike3256 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@wjzav1971 Robin is literally a Catholic in the most well-known stories. Also if you actually pay attention to what Jesus says in the Bible, he's very against the hoarding of wealth and says it's almost impossible for a rich person to get into Heaven. So Robin Hood fits with that angle.

    • @FirstLast-wk3kc
      @FirstLast-wk3kc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      How would jesus be the same, his story is super messy and incoherent, having multiple often opposite versions and morals of them with so much variety.

    • @vardiganxpl1698
      @vardiganxpl1698 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@FirstLast-wk3kc Robin Hood is just like Jesus in that regard. There are literally many retellings of his story, many people admire him and thus try to fit him into THEIR world views

  • @chewpuppy8786
    @chewpuppy8786 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3749

    "Great core characters and almost no plot"
    So it's a Slice of Life genre. . . .

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 4 ปีที่แล้ว +282

      Well THAT'S a realization that's gonna stick with me like a pocket full of lead.

    • @Fisinocean
      @Fisinocean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      OH. *OH*

    • @kirbbb1995
      @kirbbb1995 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      lucky star be like

    • @Galaxy--Bug
      @Galaxy--Bug 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      With SWORDS!

    • @morganrobinson8042
      @morganrobinson8042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      But they also rob people to keep things entertaining.

  • @Lotus-sp6cu
    @Lotus-sp6cu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4910

    Red: "See Millennials, gettin' a job isn't that hard, just engage your boss in single combat-"
    Me, under my breath like a hermit: "Defeat them and they'll join your party, video games have trained us for this!"

    • @sovietmarshmallow1283
      @sovietmarshmallow1283 4 ปีที่แล้ว +244

      Select your weapon:
      *Katana*
      Special abilities: Make you look like a weeb
      Drawbacks: In bad condition
      *Old English Broadsword*
      Special abilities: If you get one hit to the head it’s an insta-kill
      Drawbacks: You require a base strength stat of 18 or above to wield this weapon.
      *Plastic Lightsaber*
      Special abilities: You can actually use this with your current stats. Also can compact to fit in smaller spaces.
      Drawbacks: Does 0.5 damage

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      In Robin Hood's case it tends to be "get defeated by them" though XD And then invite them to work for you because they're so good.

    • @jlee7811
      @jlee7811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      Me: “skips the dialogue and goes straight to fighting the boss.”
      Everyone else at the staff meeting: ....WTF?!

    • @joelgonzalez5732
      @joelgonzalez5732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Idk what you guys are talking about I only played dragon quest 5

    • @joelgonzalez5732
      @joelgonzalez5732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Idk what you guys are talking about I only played dragon quest 5

  • @sethortiger
    @sethortiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3720

    "You speak treason!"
    "Fluently!"

    • @themostbritishpersonalive868
      @themostbritishpersonalive868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Is? that? a? quote? from? something?

    • @geekweek9673
      @geekweek9673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      mimichu
      Yeah. The 30’s Errol Flynn film.

    • @xenostyrant4118
      @xenostyrant4118 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Geek Week One of the best ones really, people should watch it.

    • @Ky-Nas
      @Ky-Nas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      So that's where Obi-Wan Kenobi got his sarcastic demeanor from.
      Kenobi is Robin Hood in space.
      Hm. Neat.

    • @myoldchannel0
      @myoldchannel0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ky-Nas Wait how?

  • @1003JustinLaw
    @1003JustinLaw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +810

    Fun fact: shooting an arrow through another arrow that is already on the target and splitting that on-target arrow in half in the process is called Robin Hooding, kind of obvious how that name came to be but yeah, not only is he the forever dashing and cunning rogue but he is also the most stylish archery champion, so much so that the coolest way to win an archery competition is named after him.

    • @khoatran-pc6tb
      @khoatran-pc6tb ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It really sucks during practice though, having to constantly buy new arrows

    • @1003JustinLaw
      @1003JustinLaw ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@khoatran-pc6tb it’s really hard to do with modern fibreglass arrow shafts and field tips, since fibreglass shatters rather than split, which is made worse by the field tip’s round, non-cutting design

    • @MantraMan2077
      @MantraMan2077 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@1003JustinLaw It sounds like it would suck so much more to be shot with a Fibre Glass Arrow than a Wooden one.

    • @1003JustinLaw
      @1003JustinLaw ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@MantraMan2077 I mean, you're not hard enough to cause the fiberglass to shatter, even if the arrow hits one of your bones. Besides, with fiberglass you don't have to worry about splinters. And also, fiberglass tends to be straighter and more flexible, so it'll be easier to extract, a wooden shaft might not be completely straight and might snap inside of you, which would make you wish you actually died from the shot than having to live through getting it extracted.

    • @sierra3830
      @sierra3830 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@1003JustinLaw my dad did it once years ago, it was with a crossbow so maybe that's a bit different

  • @marnetteryes2613
    @marnetteryes2613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1097

    King Arthur & his knights: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
    Robin Hood & the Merry Men: LADS! LADS! LADS!

    • @zusfrankenstein8561
      @zusfrankenstein8561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      The Virgin Round Table Knights vs the Chad Merry Men

    • @lesbianmoonknight5051
      @lesbianmoonknight5051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Me and the lads robbing the rich and giving to the poor

    • @ajaycease6542
      @ajaycease6542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      So robin hood and the merry men are bros while king Arthur and his knights are civilized

    • @Isa-it8bv
      @Isa-it8bv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@ajaycease6542 I don't think the knights could bd called "civilized"

    • @TheReaperTrue
      @TheReaperTrue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Pretty sure the We Happy Few quote was from Henry V not Knights of the Round Table

  • @clara-mm6fe
    @clara-mm6fe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +535

    robin hood: clever, cunning, good at trickery, portrayed as a hero, gets into sticky situations but is helped by his allies, isn’t indestructible but achieves some great victories, leader of a crew
    therefore robin hood = english odysseus

    • @adamloga3788
      @adamloga3788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Not quite. Robin Hood's Merry Men aren't a bunch of contrarian idiots.

    • @vr8652
      @vr8652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@adamloga3788 I see you are a fellow pro Aeneas and his crew type then. SPQR > Greek.

    • @valkyrierain313
      @valkyrierain313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      almost
      robin hood isn't the only smart one

    • @thecynicalmimic2046
      @thecynicalmimic2046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      and they both have famous tales about a bow and arrow

    • @crimsonlilyfairy
      @crimsonlilyfairy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      aka the medieval spiderman

  • @lordoftheducks332
    @lordoftheducks332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2990

    Mary: “Respect women”
    Robin Hood: “Hell yeah my gal!”

    • @electricangel4488
      @electricangel4488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      pewdiepie is the mother of Jesus yall

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Having Maid Marion go out in disguise, fight Robin is a full on swordfight and actually beating him, sounds like something a modern writer would do, so imagine my surprise to find out that its from a hundreds of years old version of the story

    • @electricangel4488
      @electricangel4488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@weldonwin that writer proably wanted to play with the warrior princess archtype

    • @dirtypure2023
      @dirtypure2023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      respect wahmen

    • @electricangel4488
      @electricangel4488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@dirtypure2023 yes only tru mun respect wamen

  • @Shadowghost36
    @Shadowghost36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1290

    HOT TAKE: Later versions of the story, when Robin's dedication to the Virgin Mary starts to become less important to the story now have a new character, MAID MARIAN. Virgin Mary, Maid Marian, both important women that Robin is dedicated to in the story. It all fits! (This literally popped into my head while making fajitas and I had to comment on it right away.)

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      "Marian" is literally the adjective for the folk religion that consists of extreme worship of the Virgin Mary ("Marian devotions"). Sooo...

    • @anna_in_aotearoa3166
      @anna_in_aotearoa3166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Definitely makes OP's theory sound even more convincing! 😋

    • @blethigg9320
      @blethigg9320 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Robin Hood and his Merry Men / Mary's Men?

    • @thebighurt2495
      @thebighurt2495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Huh. Never thought of that. That actually makes sense, especially since his homeland eventually became aggressively Anti-Catholic and thus, rebranding him was important.

    • @sunshineish8044
      @sunshineish8044 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      How was the fajitas? Were they good?

  • @Uroste
    @Uroste 4 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    "And why should the people listen to you?"
    "Because unlike some other robin hoods, I can speak with english accent."

    • @Oracle_
      @Oracle_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That's the best Robin Hood movie ever

    • @Uroste
      @Uroste 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Oracle_
      And the disney version, the final heist in that is so damn good,

    • @SpoopySquid
      @SpoopySquid 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Oracle_the end credits love balad had no business being as good as it was

    • @Starbeam1979
      @Starbeam1979 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Fun fact: since that joke wouldn't work in other language dubs, they would insert another jab at Costner. For example: "Unlike other Robin Hoods, I don't dance with wolves."

  • @murraymon
    @murraymon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2110

    Not to mention all the characters he's inspired over the years, such as Green arrow and Link

    • @Ajehy
      @Ajehy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Murraymon - And Robin from Batman.

    • @NicaremE
      @NicaremE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      Link was actually inspired by Peter pan, though maybe that one was inspired by Robin hood, I dunno

    • @redzilla8635
      @redzilla8635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And a bird

    • @linkadoodle9568
      @linkadoodle9568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Nicarem Peter Pan may have been inspired by Robin Hood?

    • @Fisinocean
      @Fisinocean 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@linkadoodle9568 yeah totally

  • @LarryGarfieldCrell
    @LarryGarfieldCrell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2718

    I want to see a King Arthur/Robin Hood mashup, written by Red and Blue.
    No, it won't make any historical sense. That's not the point, not even a little.

    • @TheRealPentigan
      @TheRealPentigan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +319

      King Arthur comes back from his healing centuries on the isle of the fae to see that Britain is in a sorry state with robber barons and callous kings and sherrifs who care little for their people. Without his usual resources, any clue who might be descendants of his Knights and no sign of Merlin, he assembles a new circle of allies to try and knock the authority down a peg. The consistent joke is that he keeps claiming to be King Arthur but noone takes it seriously, not even his own Merry Men.

    • @timfortune9
      @timfortune9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Robin Hood is a character in the "Sword in the Stone" portion of "The Once and Future King" where he's an adult while King Arthur is still a kid. He doesn't do much outside of complaining about how everyone gets his name wrong as it's really "Robin Wood".

    • @wangsofwat9537
      @wangsofwat9537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      TheRealPentigan Can... can I use your blurb and write it out cuz dang...I wanna make that

    • @mr.mcdabington9278
      @mr.mcdabington9278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Time traveling Spanish conquistadors

    • @thatoneguy1350
      @thatoneguy1350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@TheRealPentigan someone has to wright this

  • @BigJoeKnows
    @BigJoeKnows 2 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    Ive noticed that Robin Hood and Sun Wukong have a lot of similarities as characteristics and their respective personalities, and honestly I just love that

    • @cartoonishidealism582
      @cartoonishidealism582 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chaotic hoodlum who constantly undermines authority has been a universal concept for as long as there has been authority to undermine

    • @yanaroos8170
      @yanaroos8170 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      If they meet something’s crashing and burning while they laugh in the background

    • @badatart2516
      @badatart2516 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Honestly, I’d watch/read that. The two just doing random things, especially with Wukong’s shape shifting and duplicating. Makes for unique story beats at least

    • @candle_obsessed_witch
      @candle_obsessed_witch 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Urban fantasy crossover

  • @mitkitty
    @mitkitty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1773

    I had no idea that Maid Marian was written as pretty self sufficient this whole time. That RULES

    • @nicodranasien
      @nicodranasien 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Always refreshing to know “the strong female character” isnt just modern corporation pandering

    • @hadeskingoftheunderworld7010
      @hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I love a vast majority of ancient female characters that actually get mentioned because they are badass as fuck

    • @Saber23
      @Saber23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Meh 😑...just kidding she is pretty cool 😊

    • @WilczycaCzarownica
      @WilczycaCzarownica 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@nicodranasien Yes, I'm watched about myth ofAtlanta and she was also strong female character who not only was a good hunter but also doesn't want to get marriage with men.

    • @niclasjohansson5992
      @niclasjohansson5992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She was an adaption of some french myth solely about Marion (about the maid of the spring or whatever), so I guess she had to be proactive to live up to her earlier stories

  • @thedailybullshit4033
    @thedailybullshit4033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5075

    Maid Marion: *is self reliant, useful, physically capable, has personality, & has healthy supportive relationship w/ leading man*
    Me: *learning when Marion was created* Was this even legal-

    • @johncargille7722
      @johncargille7722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +547

      To be fair, she does often flip off the law to go be an outlaw with Robin Hood so

    • @eric619
      @eric619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +649

      Given that this is the story of an outlaw and his band of merry outlaws, it is safe to assume very little involved was legal.

    • @thedailybullshit4033
      @thedailybullshit4033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      @@eric619 I don't know yet if I hate you or want to start a long-distance relationship with you but your comment should be illegal

    • @thedailybullshit4033
      @thedailybullshit4033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@june9914 Depends: do I want to know what it means?

    • @june9914
      @june9914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Freedom Fighter it’s a form of romance that’s more akin to a rivalry

  • @eyesofthecervino3366
    @eyesofthecervino3366 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1778

    The hilarious thing about Robin Hood's popularity is that, from the stories I've read, he really wasn't robbing in order to to give to the poor.
    Sure, he had a big heart, and he would often go way out of his way to help total strangers, but he was robbing the rich for money (and also because he was a restless scoundrel). It's just that he was smart enough to spread enough of that wealth around that all of the locals "super couldn't find his hideout" and "totally hadn't seen him pass through just now."
    Madlad.

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Basically. On top of that he need supplies so he offered good prices to people. Not that he was giving them anything in literal sense.

    • @vukkulvar9769
      @vukkulvar9769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      He's a D&D adventurer !

    • @shades394
      @shades394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yes, yeeees!!! Bribe the witnesses and kill the ones that don’t cooperate!
      Lol
      D&d adventuring 0.1

    • @moredetonation3755
      @moredetonation3755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@vukkulvar9769 D&D is essentially the mythical equivalent of the modern video game industry, so it makes sense it would draw from classical folktales in such a big way.

    • @tennesseeponderer3146
      @tennesseeponderer3146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Also he didn’t just steal from the rich, he specifically stole from corrupt author figures including tax collectors and bishops

  • @anomisk4789
    @anomisk4789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    "Maid Marian"
    "Robin was a devout follower of the Virgin Mary"
    ohhhhh

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Interestingly, as Maid Marian becomes more important in the stories, Robin Hood's devotion to the Virgin Mary is written out.
      I guess this lore isn't big enough for *two* inspiring female models for the hero.

    • @JaelinBezel
      @JaelinBezel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@samrevlej9331 Actually, I wonder if some writer heard about "his devotion to Mary" and completely misinterpreted that and as a result Maid Marion was invented. It can't be a coincidence they have such similar names.

    • @samrevlej9331
      @samrevlej9331 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@JaelinBezel ... I think it's a bit of a stretch, as "devotion to Mary" would immediately have been understood to mean the Virgin Mary, since they were living in a religious society. I just think that as morals and cultural norms shifted, it became morally okay and more engaging plot-wise to give him a love interest that could temporally replace Robin's spiritual devotion to Mary.

    • @alexanderchristopher6237
      @alexanderchristopher6237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@samrevlej9331 Well, England did turn from Catholic to Anglican and the Anglicans were not cool with venerating Mary. I thought that’s why the spiritual devotion to Mary was cut off, considering that Robin Hood was popular among the average folk at the time.

  • @mitchellneu
    @mitchellneu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    Sheriff of Nottingham: "LOCKSLEY!!! I'm gonna cut your heart out with a SPOON!"
    Later...
    Guy of Gisborne: "Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe or--"
    Sheriff of Nottingham: "BECAUSE IT'S DULL, YOU TWIT! IT'LL HURT MORE!"

    • @angelcollina
      @angelcollina 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Mitch Neu RIP Alan Rickman

    • @TheRedAzuki
      @TheRedAzuki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That reminds me of the spoon killer trailer

    • @ezelfrancisco1349
      @ezelfrancisco1349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Best line delivery ever

    • @fireline4765
      @fireline4765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Points for creativity.

    • @anikasaxena4238
      @anikasaxena4238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Actually because it's dull, it will require far more pressure to injure the one you're trying to injure than with a sharper object. It will be an essentially useless attempt that might end in failure.

  • @Silverwind87
    @Silverwind87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2531

    Robin Hood: Rogue
    Little John: Fighter
    Will Scarlet: Swashbuckler
    Alan-a-Dale: Bard
    Much, the Miller's Son: [REDACTED]
    Friar Tuck: Cleric

    • @ScarecrowRainseed
      @ScarecrowRainseed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Uuuummmm.......
      I dont like that redacted. 😟

    • @andrewprovost7939
      @andrewprovost7939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      I'd say Allan A Dale fits bard more. He is known as the traveling minstrel

    • @thundergozon6439
      @thundergozon6439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      sad Ranger noises
      ...
      Just make a Fighter with a bow, it's way better!

    • @BeatlesCirca1963
      @BeatlesCirca1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Maid Marian?

    • @edmundthespiffing2920
      @edmundthespiffing2920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Much is Alpharius

  • @Azzabackam
    @Azzabackam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +577

    "So, Robin and John meet in the middle of a bridge."
    Huh, kinda like Samurai Ja-
    *that exact clip from Samurai Jack*
    OOOOH SHE DID THE THING GUYS!

    • @knightofsteel2783
      @knightofsteel2783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *Insert TFS Hellsing Reference here*

    • @PartigradeCannon
      @PartigradeCannon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And now I'm wondering if Little John actually did have a set of bagpipes originally and that was also brought along in the Samurai Jack episode.

    • @kyriss12
      @kyriss12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Partigrade Cannon
      Nah they just played bloody knuckles.
      Wait that was men in tights. Never mind.

    • @Azzabackam
      @Azzabackam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @uncletigger you do realize I'm placing Samurai Jack first because I SAW it first, and the whole point of this comment was that the Robin Hood story, which I encountered second, reminded me of the Samurai Jack segment, which I encountered first, right?

    • @israelhusky
      @israelhusky 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Azzabackam It doesn't matter what you saw first. You do realize that the tale of Robin and John appeared 400 years before than the samurai jack knockoff ? Really, turn off the tv and read more books

  • @templarw20
    @templarw20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    “Stay humble America, you’ve got a lot to be embarrassed about”
    Me, former history teacher: OOOOOOOH YEAH!

    • @templarw20
      @templarw20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Also, been watching a lot of your vids about mythology today. Seems like Robin Hood is what a lot of ancient myths were like back in the day (see: Loki, Hades and Persephone, etc), but the invention of the printing press means that the myth fossilized (to use your term, which is perfect) in that incomplete, nebulous form rather than in a more defined place.

    • @CortexNewsService
      @CortexNewsService 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I am sadly not surprised it was my native state of Indiana that tried to ban Robin Hood.

    • @kylajensen1957
      @kylajensen1957 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That killed me and I'm American.

  • @boolossus2436
    @boolossus2436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1109

    In other words:
    Professionals. Have. Standards.

    • @financialproblems9308
      @financialproblems9308 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Be polite

    • @SyxxPunk
      @SyxxPunk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Be efficient.

    • @ilmisteriosofranceseradene7548
      @ilmisteriosofranceseradene7548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      And have a plan to kill everyone you meet!

    • @khylerbane4523
      @khylerbane4523 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      dad...dad!...put...put mum on the phone.

    • @judeskater93
      @judeskater93 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      James P says the guy that throws jars of piss. Lol. Don’t hate me, snipers my favorite character in tf2.

  • @Vexvaporrub
    @Vexvaporrub 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6023

    "Mary got him drinking that respect women juice."

    • @bemotivated8443
      @bemotivated8443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      We can agree that Robin Hood men in tights is the best Robin Hood movie

    • @Jai137
      @Jai137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Don't you mean Marian

    • @aquamarinerose5405
      @aquamarinerose5405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@Jai137 nah, it mentions him believing in the virgin Mary

    • @invidia167
      @invidia167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Jai137 05:38

    • @zacharyrichard3830
      @zacharyrichard3830 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      If only we could supply that to the masses

  • @erenmidnight9543
    @erenmidnight9543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    The fact that red realized that throughout history we have been writing fanfiction and will continue to do so till the end of time☺️🤣

    • @Lightice1
      @Lightice1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Before copyright was invented, they just called it fiction. ;)

    • @RoyalFusilier
      @RoyalFusilier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I gave this a lot of thought on her videos about Greek Mythology. It really is just fan-canon, headcanon, constructed stories, etc.

    • @AltoSnow
      @AltoSnow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *Every piece of religious art is fan art. *

  • @squiiixe5503
    @squiiixe5503 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    I think it would be so funny to have a movie about all the different Robin Hood’s with different backstories meeting and shenanigans ensuing

    • @Torakosama
      @Torakosama ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Into the Robin-verse

    • @michaelcheng9987
      @michaelcheng9987 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I could see it as mostly being mostly a bottle plot of a movie and still sounds like something I'd watch.

    • @gamertwo6263
      @gamertwo6263 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      * all of the robins hood arguing over moral codes and methods *
      * absolutely loaded nobleman walks by *
      * arguing abruptly halts, as all robins hood mischievously grin in unison *

    • @cewla3348
      @cewla3348 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@gamertwo6263 camera pans to a very dead noblemen and very happy orphanage owners/workers

    • @toadconqueror4293
      @toadconqueror4293 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I like to imagine a Mongol horde of Robin Hoods.

  • @cookie_enjoyer
    @cookie_enjoyer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2095

    Robin Hood: Here have some money
    Peasant: I am rich!
    Robin Hood: This is a robery.

  • @MeatGuyJ
    @MeatGuyJ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11960

    Red: "Capitalism Sucks."
    Me: Sounds about right for someone named Red.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1111

      *Soviet anthem gets louder*

    • @doom7ish
      @doom7ish 4 ปีที่แล้ว +776

      Communist detected on American soil lethal force engaged!
      - liberty Prime

    • @The_Crimson_Fucker
      @The_Crimson_Fucker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +444

      @@doom7ish
      *BETTER DEAD THEN RED!*

    • @AtomicBananaPress
      @AtomicBananaPress 4 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      @@The_Crimson_Fucker Red Dead begs to differ.

    • @biliminsrlar5752
      @biliminsrlar5752 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      *USSR anthem intensifies*

  • @cridbass
    @cridbass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1405

    The end was her realizing she is being a hypocrite
    -she is fine
    Correction: AMAZING AWSOME INCREDIBLE

    • @Tustin2121
      @Tustin2121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Ahhh, thanks for that. I was confused by the ending.

    • @DanielGalllego
      @DanielGalllego 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      that explains a lot, thanks

    • @patrickdees5256
      @patrickdees5256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah.

    • @Jotari
      @Jotari 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah that wasn't really clear to me.

    • @tobistein6639
      @tobistein6639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I don’t think it’s really hypocrisy, more just irony.

  • @Smartz118
    @Smartz118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +845

    When you realize that Robin Hood is basically fan-fiction fodder.

    • @GeneGear
      @GeneGear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Ye olde fanne fikt

    • @DukeofTxtspeak
      @DukeofTxtspeak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Thaaaat's folk stories.

    • @CoralCopperHead
      @CoralCopperHead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Well yeah. Need to come up with a morality story about greed and sharing for your kids and don't have anything off the top of your head? Spin some tale of Robin teaching the lesson to a peasant who stumbled into a huge windfall, boom, kids learn their lessons and there's a new Robin Hood story out there.

    • @GrahamChapman
      @GrahamChapman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Are you saying that Robin Hood is the medieval Touhou Project?

    • @ladywaffle2210
      @ladywaffle2210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Welcome to the Folklore Genre!

  • @cale0176
    @cale0176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1788

    "The shockingly self-reliant Maid Marian"
    I can remember being like 6 and noticing how much more fun Marian was in a story than most damsels I'd been exposed to at the time.

    • @kingofcards9516
      @kingofcards9516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      That's good, though I myself like a good damsel in distress.

    • @kingofcards9516
      @kingofcards9516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @gliese 581c ew gliese 581c

    • @kingofcards9516
      @kingofcards9516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @gliese 581c grow up

    • @kingofcards9516
      @kingofcards9516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @gliese 581c your loss

    • @drippylad3973
      @drippylad3973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@kingofcards9516 *schizophrenia*

  • @Halberddent
    @Halberddent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1013

    "Robin hood and Lil Jon walking through the forest."
    "YEAH!!!"
    "Laughin' back and forth at what the other'ne has to say."
    "WHAT?"
    "Reminiscin' this'n'that'n havin' such a good time, oo-de-lally oo-de-lally golly what a day."
    "OK!"

    • @daniellemhall1358
      @daniellemhall1358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Lil Jon... I get it.

    • @Tyleya
      @Tyleya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Bless you for this.

    • @yanac.2495
      @yanac.2495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Quality Comment 😂

    • @rankushrenada
      @rankushrenada 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@daniellemhall1358 Took me a while, thanks for your comment.

    • @JackSilver1410
      @JackSilver1410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ah, see what you did there.

  • @abthedragon4921
    @abthedragon4921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3439

    "My extremely subtle sarcasm..."
    Oh is this Subtly Sarcastic Productions now?

    • @pRahvi0
      @pRahvi0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +287

      She's being sarcastic about her level of sarcasm. That's some next level sarcasm there

    • @abthedragon4921
      @abthedragon4921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      @@pRahvi0 ikr. It's even funnier because in another video she says she's allergic to subtlety.

    • @tommehlenbacher6832
      @tommehlenbacher6832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Overly subtle sarcastic productions

    • @superfunnybob5422
      @superfunnybob5422 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@pRahvi0 You could almost say it's... Overly sarcastic.

    • @lazitazi5645
      @lazitazi5645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      👌

  • @brittanywetherill472
    @brittanywetherill472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    1st- I thought Marion as capable and fiesty was a modern addition. I am super excited to learn its not.
    2nd- As usual, this is a wonderfully consise and clever summary of all reliable sources. Which is why-
    3rd- I am using this to teach my cast basic background as I put on a Stage Production this summer. Thank you for the wonderful resource!

  • @allisonstone2584
    @allisonstone2584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1597

    what i got out of this: robin hood is basically fan fiction now

    • @IliyaMoroumetz
      @IliyaMoroumetz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      With no copyright! *runs off to write the female reboot of Robin Hood!*

    • @thesymbiotenation.4552
      @thesymbiotenation.4552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@IliyaMoroumetz do it.... or just give the idea to DW so we can have a female Robin hood or Maid Marion in FGO

    • @IliyaMoroumetz
      @IliyaMoroumetz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@thesymbiotenation.4552 They already have Robin Hood in game. Looks kinda mediocre, truth be told.

    • @thesymbiotenation.4552
      @thesymbiotenation.4552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@IliyaMoroumetz we know, we want Servant versions of Robin Hood's Merry men

    • @chadfalardeau5396
      @chadfalardeau5396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Has been since his inception

  • @LoonyTunes
    @LoonyTunes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1117

    "Oh. Oh no" When you realise you're doing the exact thing you're saying people need to stop doing

    • @RandomZydeco
      @RandomZydeco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yes, this was the joke. Nothing gets by you

    • @jamiet0027
      @jamiet0027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      ​@@RandomZydeco Nothing gets past me. I would catch it.

    • @stvsteve
      @stvsteve 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Thanks! I didn't get it at first :D

    • @skylaroconnor2903
      @skylaroconnor2903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Tbh I thought that that’s what the joke was, but I wasn’t completely certain so thank you for pointing it out even though it was obvious to most people.

    • @1943germany
      @1943germany 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oh ok, i got confused at the end there.

  • @SchneeflockeMonsoon
    @SchneeflockeMonsoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +799

    Later, in the 27th century:
    “Made by a group called DreamWorks, which was the rival animation group to Pixar, Disney’s group, which is why you’ve never heard of them.”

    • @SashyyKane
      @SashyyKane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂lmao

    • @Edd_Harr
      @Edd_Harr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      That's almost perfect. Unfortunately, Shrek.

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      How do they explain Shrek?

    • @SchneeflockeMonsoon
      @SchneeflockeMonsoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      For those of you asking about Shrek, it’s already on its way out of popularity.

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@SchneeflockeMonsoon No, Shrek is experiencing a surge of popularity

  • @lazarusmekhane439
    @lazarusmekhane439 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I've actually realised that throughout the changes of narrative with Robin Hood, his adoration for the Virgin Mary essentially splits up into Marian and King Richard. Marian, as this fair lady that Robin has extreme respect for. While Richard, who as a monarch is appointed by God and vested with divine authority, as well as being known for reclaiming the Holy Land, is constantly seen by Robin as this symbol of God's benevolence and might.

  • @jramirez8637
    @jramirez8637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2496

    Robin Hood: *gives money to poor person*
    Poor Person: Wow! I'm rich!
    Robin Hood: *narrows eyes* You're WHAT??

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      *Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, galloping through the sward...*

    • @chimedemon
      @chimedemon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      We could make a movie out of this •-•

    • @quive5705
      @quive5705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Wow, Imaging copying a meme off of reddit.

    • @sheshi3403
      @sheshi3403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@quive5705 imagine sharing a joke?

    • @arandomperson1341
      @arandomperson1341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      “We’re here to steal your money to give it to the poor. But then the poor would be rich so we actually keep all the money for ourselves.”

  • @Heavensrun
    @Heavensrun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6185

    How in the ever-loving hell have we never seen a modern interpretation of Robin Hood where Marian goes undercover and kicks Robin's ass in a swordfight??

    • @Wertsir
      @Wertsir 4 ปีที่แล้ว +728

      Because the writers are cowards who got beaten up by girls in elementary school.

    • @JimmyJohn89808
      @JimmyJohn89808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +380

      They did do something like that in Prince of Theives, she did fight him in that one, she was undercover as a personal bodyguard or a knight, I forget which.

    • @Anxiou5Panda
      @Anxiou5Panda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Because... Patriarchy :)

    • @HaydenX
      @HaydenX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Well...The Green Arrow is solidly based on Robin Hood and Black Canary and him occasionally skirmish with minor wins on both sides. Black Canary, as an outlaw badass, isn't hugely from Marian...so, kind of?

    • @rolkflameraven1483
      @rolkflameraven1483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@HaydenX wait, Ollie has WON one of those? I love Ollie, but Dinah kicks his ass in hand to hand without really trying. Dinah is in the top 7-8 hand to hand combatants in all of DC, only Conner Hawk, Shiva, Bruce, Cassandra Cain, Richard Dragon and Val Armorr being better then she is. Possibly Bronze Tiger, but that fight can go either way.
      She must be taking pity on Ollie's ego and letting him win a little.

  • @TheDunnDusted
    @TheDunnDusted 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1262

    "extremely subtle sarcasm".
    Came off as overly sarcastic to me really.

    • @MormonDude
      @MormonDude 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      roll credits

    • @cussundriakneal9904
      @cussundriakneal9904 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Buh-dunTS!

    • @theraginginfernape9496
      @theraginginfernape9496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      **Seinfeld theme**

    • @thedotintheletteri
      @thedotintheletteri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Gunnie I might be the one getting whooshed here, but I believe they just made a pun using the channel’s name. Perhaps it was you who missed the joke, although, I am known to be overly serious sometimes.

    • @waytoohypernova
      @waytoohypernova 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@thedotintheletteri lmao I can relate to this...
      My teacher said jokingly that you could make your paper one word
      I wrote that down
      It was the first day
      I wrote one word.

  • @Jenna_Talia
    @Jenna_Talia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I just find it funny that an entire generation's image of Robin Hood is an anthropomortic fox.

    • @Xalerdane
      @Xalerdane 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      An anthropomorphic fox that they want to @$&#.

  • @kailexx1962
    @kailexx1962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +675

    "He steals from the rich and gives to the needy. He takes a percentage, but he's not greedy" (Shrek)

    • @matthewbreytenbach4483
      @matthewbreytenbach4483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      He rescues pretty damsels, man he's good!

    • @kayleighbrown459
      @kayleighbrown459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      What a guy, Monsieur Hooooooood
      break it down.

    • @silentspirit8923
      @silentspirit8923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@kayleighbrown459 He likes an honest fight and a saucy little maid.

    • @r4y0fth3sun5
      @r4y0fth3sun5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      “But he’s basically saying that he likes to get...”

    • @kitters3247
      @kitters3247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Paid!

  • @mitchhosking5599
    @mitchhosking5599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1004

    Robin Hood: All women are queens!
    Sherriff of Nottingham: If she breathes shes a THOT!

  • @beretperson
    @beretperson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    So what you're saying is that it's popular because it's prime fanfic material

    • @personnemay2692
      @personnemay2692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes.

    • @personnemay2692
      @personnemay2692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      We are making Robin hood fanfic since the XIth century.
      I'm kind proud.

    • @shanw.2948
      @shanw.2948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You got it in one

    • @Dark_Tale_1985
      @Dark_Tale_1985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Some of our most popular culture can be derived from fanfiction. After all, you can't make something from nothing.

    • @sineadthomas2024
      @sineadthomas2024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dark_Tail
      For example, Lancelot was someone’s OC do not steal

  • @samziegelman1835
    @samziegelman1835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    That “Oh oh no” at the end feels like it was the result of realizing that Robin Hood is the narrative equivalent of a religious figurehead (Jesus, Buddha, name a god from Hindu, Egyptian, Greecoroman, Middle Eastern society). It’s kinda funny in that line of thought. A character who’s story is changed to fit the era it was written in in order to allow more people to be attached to it

    • @swashhustler1326
      @swashhustler1326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      More that she realized she is criticizing exactly what she's doing in this video

    • @phictionofgrandeur2387
      @phictionofgrandeur2387 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@swashhustler1326so that makes her a prophet

    • @SwampKryakwa
      @SwampKryakwa 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@swashhustler1326 That's just how Red is, and her being herself is what we are here for

  • @ralphize5153
    @ralphize5153 4 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    “Steal from the rich and give to the poor”
    Robin Hood: “Well I AM poor”

    • @bumblingbureaucrat6110
      @bumblingbureaucrat6110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Pretty sure he didn't rob the rich because they were rich. He robbed the Sheriff and Archbishop because they were oppressive and overtaxing the people. He also poached the King's Deer.

    • @artski09
      @artski09 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      ​@@bumblingbureaucrat6110 from what I remember, he robbed them because ...
      1) to humble them, you may have an honourable role but you are still accountable to the people and you should never forget that.
      2) he still needs to pay his men, they aren't working for free

    • @axelwust9376
      @axelwust9376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Robin hood: Here's the money from the rich!
      The poor: Wow, we are rich!
      Robin hood:... Wait!

    • @thewarden4798
      @thewarden4798 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bumblingbureaucrat6110 THANK YOU!!!

  • @EtherealBox
    @EtherealBox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +712

    Robinhood: *gives a stolen fortune to his poor friends*
    Friend: "wow thanks! I'm rich!"
    Robinhood: *narrows eyes* "you're what?"

    • @ArkaSaurusRex218
      @ArkaSaurusRex218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      "Am I just a joke to you..."

    • @cameraman4549
      @cameraman4549 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      "I'm rich in the good wa- wait, why are you pulling out your bow? It's only the two of us here...Wait, Robin? ROBIN?!"

    • @lmao2302
      @lmao2302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      "What I meant to say is that I'm a good king, and you're pardon. haha don't kill me."

    • @lego007guym8
      @lego007guym8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Communism at its finest.

    • @TheRealZeke2003
      @TheRealZeke2003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lego007guym8 lol no

  • @MrWarriorace
    @MrWarriorace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1371

    Red: When is everyone going to stop making a compilation of Robin hood's life...Oh no.
    Me: That was when Red realized, she screwed up.

    • @joshuahunt3032
      @joshuahunt3032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      MrWarriorace I’m out of the loop. Is she just implying that compilations of Robin Hood’s life might go on forever?

    • @SignalRaptor_
      @SignalRaptor_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +210

      No, it's what she just did.

    • @xenosaura
      @xenosaura 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      bump

    • @thatone4165
      @thatone4165 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I think it's because that's what this video did.

    • @Drasvin
      @Drasvin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      @@joshuahunt3032 It's an implied realization that she's become part of the problem, i.e. asking when people are going to stop making compilations of Robin Hood's life in her summarized compilation of Robin Hood's life.

  • @eisforenkai
    @eisforenkai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I wonder how “palatable” writers really needed to make Robin Hood in the early 1500s considering that the king of England (Henry VIII) at the time was a fanboy who liked to cosplay him (definitely happened in 1510 when he surprised Queen Catherine, pretty sure he was also cosplaying Robin Hood in his disastrous first meeting of Anne of Cleaves). That the “good king” role originated when Henry was king doesn’t seem coincidental though.

  • @Silverwind87
    @Silverwind87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +807

    "Robin Hood laughs in the face of all! HA HA HA!"
    "And do people ever punch you in the face when you do that?"
    "Not as yet!"
    "Lucky I'm here then, isn't it."

    • @Saternalius
      @Saternalius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      And this is my spoon. En garde!

    • @Stafarns
      @Stafarns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ah doctor who i loved their interaction with each other

    • @GhostBear3067
      @GhostBear3067 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      "Wow, if you were real with this many diseases you would be dead."
      "But I am real."
      "Goodbye."

    • @puppycatsbee
      @puppycatsbee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i love that episodee

    • @craytherlaygaming2852
      @craytherlaygaming2852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Honestly one of 12s best dynamics

  • @OtakuMan05
    @OtakuMan05 4 ปีที่แล้ว +901

    I'm actually somewhat surprised there aren't stories of Robin Hood being an ally of King Arthur... Or if there are, they aren't more common. A well-written crossover between these old stories of medieval heroism would be a welcome piece of literature I think...

    • @Troublethecat
      @Troublethecat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Well, apparently he does show up in The Once and Future King and helps out a young Arthur and Kay at some point, but yeah. It is a bit surprising that isn't more common.

    • @fredfry5100
      @fredfry5100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      There's a couple reasons. First, origins aside, Robin's setting has been set as during the very real 3rd crusade, and in the very real place of Nottingham. King Arthur's time frame is almost purely mythical, and his location largely undefined beyond being in Britain. Further, in Gawain and the Green knight, Camelot is described as this heaven on earth, while Robin Hood solves problem Camelot wouldn't allow to happen.

    • @Rainears129
      @Rainears129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      I'm actually working on/plotting a story where a gender-bent Robin is the younger sister to the Earl of Huntington, and the High King Pwyll, while Merlin is wondering around because Arthur isn't a thing yet. It's fun, though I admit I need to do a bit more research on the characters, though I'm planning on it being more light-hearted, so more along Men in Tights than Prince of Thieves, though I may throw in a "canceling Christmas" line.

    • @chukyuniqul
      @chukyuniqul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@Rainears129 watch out, if your robin is too attractive type-moon might hire you.

    • @warsown4935
      @warsown4935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@chukyuniqul never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with

  • @PainCausingSamurai
    @PainCausingSamurai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    I like the contrast between King Arthur and Robin Hood:
    King Arthur: Our system is good, we must defend it!
    Robin Hood: Our system is bad, we must subvert it!
    I know they're from different eras, but it would be fun to have both parties exist together, crossover style.

    • @brothertaddeus
      @brothertaddeus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Now I'm sad that I can't remember Robin Hood and King Arthur ever interacting with each other in Fate.

    • @thehighwayman3122
      @thehighwayman3122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@brothertaddeus the closest we get is both being playable characters in Fate/Extella.

    • @PainCausingSamurai
      @PainCausingSamurai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@brothertaddeus By happy coincidence I stumbled on both the Fate series and the Overly Sarcastic Prouctions episode about Cu Chulaein at roughly the same time, sparking an interest in reconnecting with the myths of my Gaelic roots.

    • @leopardeye1654
      @leopardeye1654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@brothertaddeus I really think they should have given Robin hood some kind of anty king feature in fate. That even more so than his archery skills is the center of his character and legend.

    • @LashknifeTalon
      @LashknifeTalon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@brothertaddeus I don't even recall him having much to say about Nero being an Emperor even.

  • @broEye1
    @broEye1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Seeing a recent review of the Disney movie, I recalled one major issue with the Robin Hood as pro-socialism or pro-communism thing: the biggest thing Robin Hood fought against was the taxes of the time. A man opposing high taxes is in many ways more in line with capitalism than socialism or communism.

    • @Humorless_Wokescold
      @Humorless_Wokescold 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      yes and no. One problem we have is how quickly we project the modern world backgrounds. A tax collector in medieval England was...not the fairest human being. Today, taxes are based on your circumstances. Back then, the tax collector did not give a fuck. Bad harvest? Too bad, pay the king. Son died fighting in the king's war? Thank you for your sacrifice, now pay the king. Medieval tax collection was closer to a mob shakedown than anything else.

    • @gbindahouse94
      @gbindahouse94 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Additionally, Robin Hood was a yeoman awaiting for the return of the "good" King Richard. Trying to disassociate from the government of the time as a yeoman would seems a bit too libertarian for a modern socialist to me. And being PRO-monarchy? Being against the Prince "revolutionising" how England was run up to this point with his taxes and fellow corrupt allies in the palaces and churches? That's unacceptable says the communist stooge, to the gulag with you!
      Robin Hood is not a socialist hero, even when you divorce him from the nobleman of Loxley background.

    • @susanscott8653
      @susanscott8653 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All depends where those taxes were going, what they were spent on.

  • @timfortune9
    @timfortune9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +833

    Best Robin Hood adaptations: "Men in Tights" and the episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" where Q makes the crew act the legend.
    Honorable Mention: The "Doctor Who" episode where he meets him and spends the entire time trying to say he isn't real.

    • @davyrando1203
      @davyrando1203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Men in Tights really is the best Robin Hood movie ever.
      "And why should the people listen to you?"
      "Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods... I can speak with an English accent."

    • @grahamkristensen9301
      @grahamkristensen9301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I AM NOT A MERRY MAN!

    • @richardbarnes2281
      @richardbarnes2281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I agree with “men in tights” (tIGHt tights) but personally the doctor who episode was better than the next generation episode, mainly for the sheer comedy of the arguments

    • @adiraiju9336
      @adiraiju9336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@grahamkristensen9301 *Twang-twang-twang-twang-twang-twang-twang...*
      *TUNGK!*
      "Sorry."

    • @Zomburai45
      @Zomburai45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      "Every time they make a Robin Hood movie they burn our village down!"
      "LEAVE US ALONE, MEL BROOKS!!!"

  • @NewSparky97
    @NewSparky97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    I really really like the tale where Marian kicks his ass in swords and then they live happily ever after. You could say I have a type

    • @gothnerd887
      @gothnerd887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Are you familiar with the T.V show Maid Marian And Her Merry Men?

    • @un-ironicallybritishun-iro7781
      @un-ironicallybritishun-iro7781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      “I like a girl that could kick my ass”

    • @emperorflick
      @emperorflick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Does that make Marian a shounen protagonist?

    • @bananasinfrench
      @bananasinfrench 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Emperor Flick Imagine a shounen series about Marian 👌

    • @evecampbell3069
      @evecampbell3069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bananasinfrench Somebody should write it.

  • @troperhghar9898
    @troperhghar9898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +510

    9:30 "see melenials jetting a job is easy just challenge your boss to single combat"
    I would absolutely prefer that to the normal way to get a job

    • @TheCinderfang
      @TheCinderfang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Well hey, itll get you free food and lodgings. Jail sounds nice when you put it that way.

    • @internetfriend6701
      @internetfriend6701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@TheCinderfang As they say in Monopoly: "No rent in jail"

    • @macmcleod1188
      @macmcleod1188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It would certainly be an argument for taking early retirement

    • @NoManOdysseus
      @NoManOdysseus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The wall of HR is impenetrable

    • @PongoXBongo
      @PongoXBongo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheCinderfang/videos And, in the event that you lose, you won't have to worry about food and lodgings. ;)

  • @bendystrawz2832
    @bendystrawz2832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    12:53 "Very loosely defined" _This is the brilliant Legend of Zelda formula!_ The hero is more lawful good inclined, but otherwise still pretty vague (since the personally of the silent hero is somewhat thrust upon the player in a game), there is a common cast of side characters that can have various supporting casts, and a handful of common villains to choose from, or make up a new one. There is always some plot nonsense (prophecy/divine intervention) to bail the hero out of any situation (or just load save since it's a game and all). *Not to mention the green tunic!*

    • @charliefarmer4365
      @charliefarmer4365 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Now i kinda wanna see a Link who has a deep distrust of authority and always gives Zelda the evil eye during their first few encounters and is furious with himself when he realises henlikes her.

  • @shadyspot8284
    @shadyspot8284 4 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    So, you're telling me Robin Hood made most of his friends by losing in a fight? Is he the anti-anime protagonist then?

    • @laurenhawes7201
      @laurenhawes7201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Omg midoria from mha. I didnt realize

    • @villapolly
      @villapolly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Shut up kokichi

    • @Redbird-dh7mu
      @Redbird-dh7mu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interestingly enough, at least in the older sources, Robin Hood was never an extraordinary combatant. Most of his skill was sneaking, ambushing, disguising, and his charisma. While he was a good archer, it wasn’t uncommon for English peasants to own and use bows.

  • @jessicajayes8326
    @jessicajayes8326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    King Richard: From this day forth, all the toilets in this kingdom shall be known as "johns"!

    • @colepoweredproductions6222
      @colepoweredproductions6222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      the modern toilet was actually invented by one John Crapper. Hence the slang

    • @dylanchouinard6141
      @dylanchouinard6141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      “TAKE HIM TO THE TOWER OF LONDON! Make him part of the tour!”

    • @davidmillerstavroulakis1421
      @davidmillerstavroulakis1421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@dylanchouinard6141 Noooooo!

    • @shaman9024
      @shaman9024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@davidmillerstavroulakis1421 yeeeesssss

    • @DerplingKing
      @DerplingKing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@colepoweredproductions6222 not quite? Thomas Crapper invented the U-bend and the floating ballcock, but not the modern toilet in form, just some improvements. Crap was already in common use before he started his company so that's not where that word comes from either. Referring to toilets by a masculine name beginning with J has a tradition at least predating Elizabeth I, as John Harrington, the inventor of the flush toilet, wrote of his new invention in 'A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, Called the Metamorphosis of Ajax' Ajax referring to the common practice at the time of calling the toilet a "Jakes"

  • @GrandCatapult
    @GrandCatapult 4 ปีที่แล้ว +811

    It's probably no coincidence that the character of Robin Hood emerged in history when he did. King John was notorious for his self-rule and detested the idea of the rule of law, even causing his own Barons to rebel. It's how we got Magna Carta, and it should come as no surprise that a folklore rebel character emerged around the same time, tolerated by the nobility. Just Rebellion was the theme of that corner of history, and giving license to tell such stories would have been a subtle way to mock the status quo. Medieval sarcasm, if you will.

    • @fraser1614
      @fraser1614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      lets also not forget a hundred years after King Johns reign in 1381, we would get the Peasants Revolt, a massive revolt of the peasantry in England, which may of eventually been put down, but did have a massive political impact as the lives of the peasantry improved drastically in England, with wages and freedoms increasing. Makes sense to then that people would further popularise a folk hero based around taking the rich down a peg or two during the revolt.

    • @GaijinEncarmine
      @GaijinEncarmine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Even more ironic, since Magna Carta was designed to benefit the notoriously selfish and tyrannical barons first and foremost - the real oppressors of the common folk, most of the time.

    • @Grymbaldknight
      @Grymbaldknight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Very true. People keep trying to pin Robin Hood down to the idea of him "robbing from the rich to give to the poor", but it seems more likely that he was just a vigilante, of sorts, trying to unseat corrupt leaders (like the Sheriff, and King John). Stealing money from them wasn't the only string to his bow (pun intended), but a means to an end when it came to humiliating them and striping them of power. Giving some of that stolen money to the poor was just the Christian thing to do.
      As for the Peasants' Revolt... that's more complicated. Basically, after the Black Death wiped out hundreds of thousands of peasants in Medieval England, there was a labour shortage. In order to get the remaining peasants to work harder, local lords started giving them better "employee benefits". The people loved it. When the king put his foot down and stopped that from happening (basically because it was bankrupting the nobility), the peasants revolted. Understandable, really, but not entirely an overreach of power on the part of the king. It's his job to look out for his nobles, too, and England wasn't ready for the rapid expansion of the middle-classes just yet. That would come a century or two later.
      As for the Magna Carta... yeah, it's imperfect. It wasn't even _that_ popular at the time, because it was reworked time and again over the next few years, including by the barons it was supposed to benefit.
      However, it was the early 13th century. England was still a long, long way from "Civil Rights" as we understand it today. Most people were still living in houses made of wood and straw, America hadn't been (properly) discovered by Europeans, glass and pepper were considered luxury goods, and people didn't wipe after taking a dump. Give them some credit for creating a legal document designed to protect "Human Rights", even if it did only apply to the upper nobility at first.

    • @samfish2550
      @samfish2550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      -insert intellect comment here.

    • @danielsjohnson
      @danielsjohnson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@GaijinEncarmine Source? Establishing the idea that everyone, including the king, has to follow the law, has individual rights, and has a right to a fair trial sounds like something people in positions of authority would want to avoid, not embrace. Because it would mean they can't be jerks to whoever they want.

  • @spetsnatzlegion3366
    @spetsnatzlegion3366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    New film technology: was invented
    People: yeah but can it run Robin Hood

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    "Just engage your boss in single combat-"
    Thanks Red! I knew I was missing something in my interviews.

    • @Pazliacci
      @Pazliacci 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      all you need is some class strugle and you're on the highway to getting the dream job of your life.

    • @Ergogre
      @Ergogre 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "In your cover-letter you said you would stand firm and fight with honor,
      but seeing as there are more holes in you than your cv atm,
      tell you what,
      if you make it to my lunchbreak without bleeding out,
      the position is yours."

    • @rayanderson5797
      @rayanderson5797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "So what can you offer this company?"
      *Applicant stands and draws a sword.*
      "I see..." *Interviewer also stands and draws a sword.*

    • @PrismCasillica
      @PrismCasillica 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Send your cv via an arrow! That'll be sure to get their attention!

    • @tsarzamancorpdna
      @tsarzamancorpdna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interviwer: sorry we cant take you
      Me: I demand trail by combat!
      Interviewer already reachimg for his sword: you utter fool

  • @alexchen2519
    @alexchen2519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    "And people do... a lot!"
    Flashbacks to Robin Hood fighting robots in Dr Who...

    • @cypher515
      @cypher515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      "Just remember, Doctor, I'm as real as you are."

    • @honeymonkey6894
      @honeymonkey6894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      thinks about Robin Hood's characterization in Once Upon A Time

    • @3katfox
      @3katfox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm SORRY????

  • @PartigradeCannon
    @PartigradeCannon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +767

    "See Millennials, getting hired is a snap! First you engage your boss in single combat..."
    Red, that's Boomer talk. These days, the boss won't even deign to look at you unless you've had 5 years experience in a fighting style that has only existed for 2.

    • @akhragee
      @akhragee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      I see you, too, work in software!

    • @tomswiftyphilo2504
      @tomswiftyphilo2504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      In my experience, I can't afford regulation gloves to slap my prospective boss across the face and so he just ignores me.

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Today I learned that corporate has budgeted a job that should have 15+ man days/week with 7 to complete the work even though they have seen us extremely backed up on work when we had 14 man days/week and were pulling labor from other parts of the workplace.
      Meanwhile, we spend about 4 times as much for some of our supplies as we should be, and of course, the people making these decisions are micromanaging from another state without ever having worked the job and want no corners cut.

    • @KopitioBozynski
      @KopitioBozynski 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Join the armed forces and they'll teach you whatever you need to know AND get paid doing it. Imaging collage debts that pay you.
      It also gives you much needed connections and stand out elements to your resume and interview personality.

    • @BlackEpyon
      @BlackEpyon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Are you kidding? I'll hire you as long as you're capable of doing the work and actually WANT to work! Nobody wants to work!

  • @drakan4769
    @drakan4769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I think an interesting thing that could have been mentioned in this video is: the lore surrounding robin hood may _still_ be changing, several of the newer adaptations (movies/TV series) include robin having fought in the crusades himself (this usually being the reason for his loyalty to lionheart), sometimes leading to a new character we see more and more often: a saracen ends up joining the merry men

    • @susanscott8653
      @susanscott8653 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe that Saracen character first turned up in Robin of Sherwood in the 1980s.

  • @uwouldntknowthem
    @uwouldntknowthem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3355

    You know all those really bad paintings and drawings that don’t look like humans? Do you think in like 500yrs that people will see anime and think that we thought ppl looked like that?

    • @magosexploratoradeon6409
      @magosexploratoradeon6409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +344

      Consider even back then cavemen used to bust nuts on a *T H I C C* Statue that looks awfully like your typical *T H I C C* waifu... Yeah they probably would.

    • @flightlesslord2688
      @flightlesslord2688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +323

      @@magosexploratoradeon6409 ..................................................... dude..... ancient alien theorists think those statues are aliens when theyre actually cave hentai

    • @panicontheargo7034
      @panicontheargo7034 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      LordOfThe Flightless omg are you serious

    • @batvaleska
      @batvaleska 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      we’ll all be dead in half a millennia, so, no.

    • @deviledpotato17
      @deviledpotato17 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@batvaleska what are you talking about

  • @nonsensemancer
    @nonsensemancer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1080

    I'm seeing a disturbing lack of talk about the greatest robin hood movie: Robin Hood Men in Tights.

    • @bagesys7227
      @bagesys7227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Right!?

    • @Emma-sj6wp
      @Emma-sj6wp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      YAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

    • @matthewroberts198
      @matthewroberts198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Cause he can speak with an English accent

    • @RRW359
      @RRW359 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That's the worst misspelling of the TNG episode "Qpid"I've ever read.

    • @seansun5194
      @seansun5194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      C9R9D yes my good sir or madam

  • @mjr_schneider
    @mjr_schneider 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    It took me until I was at least 10 to figure out that Robin Hood was not, in fact, originally an anthropomorphic fox voiced by Brian Bedford. Thanks Disney.

    • @TheEnigmaticKasai
      @TheEnigmaticKasai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And what a disappointing realization that was

    • @bluesbest1
      @bluesbest1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about (names basically every Disney plot ever)?

    • @nomehables17
      @nomehables17 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same haha

    • @caspianhorlick4529
      @caspianhorlick4529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I mean, that's arguably the best version of Robin Hood there is

    • @exasperatedsigh1432
      @exasperatedsigh1432 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same. I will forever live that version though, and the film it's from.

  • @sourwitch2340
    @sourwitch2340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    While Robin Hood falls more into the proprietary of pop culture paganism than anything, I do find the interpretation of him as fae or a trickster god rather intriguing. Like, I can absolutely see that interpretation, and want to wish anyone who does place him into that role a very pleasant day.
    But also, why do I now want a story where he just happens upon and hangs out with Loki?

    • @Xalerdane
      @Xalerdane 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I had an idea for a version of _Robin Hood_ that has Robin and Marian meeting as young children. It was known that the Fae had taken a child with Fae blood into the forest, and some knight went in and took that child back to the human world. That child grew up to be Maid Marian, while the Fae child she had been the playmate of became Robin Hood.
      Except at the end of the story, it’s revealed that Marian had been a full Fae all along, and _Robin_ had been the half-fae child brought the forest for her. When Robin Hood is killed by the monk, it’s only his human half that dies, causing him to become a full Fae like Marian. The two return to Faerie for good, along with all the Merry Men who don’t feel like they belong in the human world anymore.

  • @lavenderotaku2481
    @lavenderotaku2481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    “Man, Robin always goes out like a punk in these stories.”
    I know!!! My favorite is a contemplation of Robin’s stories where the meetings with his Merry Men, and then at the end; I found a version where it was like SUPER dramatic and Robin gets bled to death (per usual), but with his last bit of strength he shoots an arrow out the abbey window and then declares that wherever the arrow lands he should be buried.
    Up until this point in my life I had never heard that Robin actually died in any of the narratives. I always thought he was immortal or at least plot-wisely immortal; and stories just kept getting made and retold about him like cartoon characters. Or the story always got left at “happily ever after” and I never needed it to go past that.
    Also there was this really dramatic bit of dialogue between Robin and Little John and I cAnT- *Sobs in a corner*

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Oh wow, I'd somehow forgotten that particular melodramatic scene... Ach...

    • @theproplady
      @theproplady 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      There's a movie version of the story called Robin and Marian, starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn that has Maid Marian joining a convent while Robin went off to fight the crusades for 20 years. When he comes back, he wants to get back into the swing of things, but he's too old by this time, ends up injuring himself, and Marion does a murder/suicide poison thing so they both die. Kind of sad.

    • @moxiehokutika911
      @moxiehokutika911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      First of all: what story? I want to read it now. And second we read some Robin Hood storys in class and everyone else was like: Bluh, old English! And I was in the corner laughing myself sick because boys have barely changed in hundreds of years.Testosteron is still testosterone and makes people do stupid stuff and poschure. Then when we read Guy of Gisborn and I (a sucker for drama and power of friendship) couldn't even when Little John absolutely fliped when he though Robin was dead and it was just so sad and aaaaaaa.

    • @blondedarkness6258
      @blondedarkness6258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WARNING!! BBC robin hood third season ends with robin dying. I've loved the serie and cried really ugly with the death scene. Sorry English is not my first language

    • @Fralexion
      @Fralexion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Man, I sure hope that arrow didn't hit anybody.

  • @Fracturite
    @Fracturite 4 ปีที่แล้ว +514

    "When are people going to stop trying to create a single cohesive narrative of this charact..."
    suddenly realizes that is exactly what she is doing
    "...oh".

    • @MrSamulai
      @MrSamulai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Notices a joke in the video
      Thinks he came up with it himself
      Posts it in the comments
      Is a Comedy Man

    • @MazzaAzi
      @MazzaAzi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      now it's 5

    • @thatoneguy1350
      @thatoneguy1350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I was scrolling through the comments looking for what that "ohhh" meant thank you

    • @RichardHardslab
      @RichardHardslab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Owen DeCarlo you weren’t the only one who missed it, this has been an incredibly helpful comment

    • @Fracturite
      @Fracturite 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      MrSamulai you seem to not know the difference between highlighting a joke from the video and taking credit for a joke from the video. You have my pity 😏

  • @AnnaCurser
    @AnnaCurser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    "The forrests be infested by them robbin' hood."
    "Robin Hood you say? Hmmm."

  • @GrahamChapman
    @GrahamChapman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    So, in other words, Robin Hood is popular, and has managed to remain popular for so long, for roughly the same reason that Touhou Project is popular and has had such amazing staying power: We've got good framework characters, but stories that, even in-universe, are pretty loosely defined, encouraging story tellers to tell _their_ stories of the characters involved and their adventures.

  • @Nickle_King
    @Nickle_King 4 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    I love Robin Hood. His stories tend to be like well run, basic D&D campaigns. Group of protagonists trying to achieve something, as many losses as wins, noncomplicated yet imposing villain King, and death in the end comes from an understandable yet innocuous mistake/betrayal. Good stuff.

  • @joshuahunt3032
    @joshuahunt3032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    “See, Millennials, getting hired is a snap! First you just engage your boss in single comba-“ The cutoff made that even funnier.

    • @Verity58
      @Verity58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Red has the BEST comedic timing I love it XD

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Verity58 Yup, one of the many reasons this is my favourite youtube channel. XD

  • @abikalin
    @abikalin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +587

    TH-cam about to demonetize this video:
    Red hiding everything wrong: All is good *in the robin hood*

  • @WarlockJacque
    @WarlockJacque 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Meanwhile I can never abandon the feeling that Prince John got the short end of the rope. He was the guy that introduce innovation to economics, managing to fund a very costly war while reclaiming Normandy, while his brother spent his entire reign doing crusades, getting capchured (later to be bought out by John) and generally wasting his kingdom's money

    • @marieroberts5664
      @marieroberts5664 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      But don't forget that John was the catalyst for the Magna Carta and the forerunner of rights for all people, not just the wealthy. He was that bad that both peasant and noble ganged up on him to beat him.

    • @on-zm8sg
      @on-zm8sg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      John didn't buy Richard's ransom, not only it would make NO SENSE, as he usurped him, he also attempted to bribe Duke Leopold to not release him with the help of King Philip II of France. His skilled administration didn't mean shit when he still alienated the nobility AND the commoners for losing very costly campaigns against France (campaigns that, btw, were meant to get back the lands HE SEIZED to Philip II) _and_ getting his ass excomunicated by the Pope (which was a VERY big deal at the time). And while Richard for all his faults was at least noted to be good-humoured and charismatic, John was considered to be a huge asshole, and cruel even for medieval standards as evidenced when he starved Maud de Braose and (depending on the version) either her husband or son to death for incurring his wrath.

    • @on-zm8sg
      @on-zm8sg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      (Dunno why my previous comment disappeared) Nah, you don't need to feel bad for him. First things first, you have to remember that the Magna Carta happened _for a reason_ his innovations didn't mean shit when he still got his ass kicked trying to reclaim Normandy and other french lands, the same costly wars that you mentioned in fact! So you can imagine how the people felt who had to put up with the taxes meant to fund these disastrous campaigns felt. The fact that he got excommunicated in a fiercely catholic era also didn't help matters.
      And by the way, John did NOT buy his brother back, I seriously wonder who invented this nonsense and why people believe in this, John USURPED him, ask yourself, why, in all that is holy and sacred, WOULD AN USURPER WANT THE RIGHTFUL HEIR THAT HE GOT RID OF, BACK?!! He and King Philip II even tried to bribe Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI in order to keep him away for more time!
      Also, it's not difficult to find chroniclers thinking of him as a huge prick; something that constrasts Richard, who, for all his faults, was seen as good-humoured and charismatic. John was considered to be cruel even by medieval people, which is a REAL achievement in an era where people could be punished by getting flayed alive, like Richard's murderer! Maud de Braose, a former court favorite of John, after incurring his wrath was infamously locked in a dungeon of Corfe Castle, while sources differ on whether she was with her husband or son, what is known _is that they starved to death_ the specific source that says she got locked up with her son says SHE ATE THE FLESH OF HER SON'S CHEEKS. So yeah, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for him, quite the opposite!

  • @curestarlight3023
    @curestarlight3023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Robin Hood & Marian unknowingly fighting one another before realising the others' identity & bandaging one another up all lovey-dovey gives me a warm fuzzy feeling

    • @Dragon1813
      @Dragon1813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Like Lion King

  • @JM-bb8xi
    @JM-bb8xi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    "First you just engage your boss in single comba... "
    Yes. Please. Yes.

    • @KumaoftheForest
      @KumaoftheForest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Josh Mitt T posed on my boss, he T posed back but because my T was larger, I won

    • @Tomha
      @Tomha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ah yes, the Klingons preferred way for Promotions.

    • @JM-bb8xi
      @JM-bb8xi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KumaoftheForest tell me about I just figured out why I kept getting passed up for promotions. Time to bulk up!

  • @parttimedreamer2140
    @parttimedreamer2140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +590

    "He's like King Arthur in the way that his legends have persisted through time."
    Yes, they will be remembered all right....as cute anime girls with Noble Phantasms.

    • @xyndraxyndra9645
      @xyndraxyndra9645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      except Robin Hood is still a guy in Fate

    • @Giorgakis96
      @Giorgakis96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@xyndraxyndra9645 Wait there are male character in fate?

    • @shadowofdimentio4618
      @shadowofdimentio4618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@xyndraxyndra9645 And best boi too. He's been my archer since day 1

    • @Wasabi-rs5lv
      @Wasabi-rs5lv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@shadowofdimentio4618 Robin Hood best boi. Remember to treasure Robin Hood boyos.

    • @nidohime6233
      @nidohime6233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Giorgakis96 Ever saw big boy Iskandar?

  • @reynard61
    @reynard61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you historical documentation."
    Every Notary Public nods.

  • @rexcake
    @rexcake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +436

    13:25
    that moment when you realize that robin hoods gang is a five man band

    • @daveslamjam
      @daveslamjam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Oh. 😮

    • @rexcake
      @rexcake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😎

    • @JennyBlaze253
      @JennyBlaze253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Robin Hood: Leader
      Little John: Lancer/Big Guy
      Allenidale: The Heart
      Will Scarlet: The Smart Guy
      Maid Marian: A very competent The Chick

    • @fictional-girl_05
      @fictional-girl_05 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Actually there’s usually a lot more Merry Men. It’s simply that few are named.

    • @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479
      @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Basically every band is a five man band if you look at it at an angle, there's always a leader or what acts like one and always a possey of either 1 trick wonders or swiss army knives for people, the three musketeers is a three man band and sometimes 4

  • @TheJboy88
    @TheJboy88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    I've never heard the story of Marian going solo and being a badass. Now that story is all I want in ANY future Robin Hood story XD

    • @amyvillanueva3442
      @amyvillanueva3442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I actually read a book similar to that where she's a falconer.

    • @TheJboy88
      @TheJboy88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@amyvillanueva3442 Neat :)

    • @greenivy713
      @greenivy713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well in the BBC series from 2006 she is sort of her own Robin Hood and did that even before he came back from the crusade. She is just more subtle than he is in that show.

    • @davidmillerstavroulakis1421
      @davidmillerstavroulakis1421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There actually is a movie about her in the works starring Margot Robbie.

    • @mindstalk
      @mindstalk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's been a while but I'm pretty sure she's pretty badass in Robin McKinley's _The Outlaws of Sherwood_

  • @sugargemstudios3361
    @sugargemstudios3361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +990

    "Why do we keep trying to make sense of this one character?!" Shs asks.
    Me: *looks through miscellaneous myths playlist* "I think you do the same."
    Red: *realizes*
    Me: "there it is"

    • @diobrando9842
      @diobrando9842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      That was the joke?

    • @rrrrogahtaylah2636
      @rrrrogahtaylah2636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I know everyone hates grammar nazis but... I am technically german...
      *miscellaneous

    • @sugargemstudios3361
      @sugargemstudios3361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@rrrrogahtaylah2636 omg..... so THIS is how my friends feel every time then send me a text 😲😂

    • @rrrrogahtaylah2636
      @rrrrogahtaylah2636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sugargemstudios3361 LMFAO mine too

    • @_thesunflowerfairy_
      @_thesunflowerfairy_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I thought the joke was about Jesus

  • @jibekmechler139
    @jibekmechler139 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Leverage really is a modern adaption of Robin Hood, isn’t it? Not just with the ‘steal from the rich’ thing, but Nate coming from the elite originally only to leave when they failed him and bringing the whole team together. Sophie is Marian, Elliot is Little John, Hardinson is Alan-A-Del, and Parker is Will Scarlet (or maybe Much as she’s kinda childish). And Stirling pretty much plays the role of the sheriff

  • @sloana7368
    @sloana7368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    *bill wurtz voice*
    "you could make a religion out of th-" "no dont."

    • @hoodie4439
      @hoodie4439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You can make a government system out of th- no don't
      How bout i do anyway

    • @rewrew897
      @rewrew897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *USSR* falls apart

  • @samuelcorsie7866
    @samuelcorsie7866 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Red: *misses out the word: English, in the title of one of the books*
    The French: *loads baguette with malicious intent*

    • @matthewmuir8884
      @matthewmuir8884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Red: says King Arthur is an English Folkloric Hero
      The Welsh: "Excuse me?"

  • @lizabethhampton4537
    @lizabethhampton4537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    That early version of Marian where she dresses as a dude is so badass I wish she was in more movies.

    • @SobiTheRobot
      @SobiTheRobot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I recall it cropping up in Prince of Thieves, but I also haven't seen every Robin Hood film. But I would agree, let Maid Marian be the badass she is.

    • @stefanfilipovits21
      @stefanfilipovits21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The version that uma Thurman starred in cribs from that tradition and it’s a really interesting take.

    • @ladywaffle2210
      @ladywaffle2210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Imagine, if you will, Robin Hood being ambushed by knights. He's nearly out of arrows, puts one through a knight's shoulder. A knight flanks him, sword raised. Robin Hood turns to see the knight preparing to kill him and can't get an arrow off fast enough. The sword comes down, down, down, straight past Robin Hood as the knight falls over and Maid Marian is standing behind the knight with a bloody sword and dagger. She steps forwards, flips her dagger and catches it by the point before hurling it at a knight, sending it crushing straight through the helm and killing the knight in one hit.
      "Next time, darling, watch your back better," she says, walking over to retrieve her dagger. "Fetch your arrows and loot the corpses. I'll keep watch for more."

    • @MetalHeadManic612
      @MetalHeadManic612 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Watch the BBC series. She's a total badass in that show.

    • @willmfrank
      @willmfrank ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Watch "Robin of Sherwood." Merida in "Brave" is very obviously based on Lady Marian.

  • @Arrek8585
    @Arrek8585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Having gone back after watching some of the trope talks it's neat to see the 5 man band as a core concept for Robin Hood with only John being the one really defined into a Powerhouse/Lancer combo.