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mordred through time (movies, tv shows, opera and musicals)
Part 4: From 2014 to 2017
Other Parts: Part 1: From 1949 to 1981 -> here Part 2: From 1982 to 2002 -> here Part 3: From 2002 to 2010 -> here Part 5: From 2018 to 2023
For this part I just wanted to talk a bit about sympathetic Mordred.
Through time we started to see a more sympathetic Mordred. I think the first iteration in audio/movies/tv was the the Blind Guardian's song in 1995. For the first time we have Mordred as a protagonist, mainly lamenting of regret, pain and lonliness. While I do not know why they decided to focus on Mordred, it is also notable that writing a more sympathetic Mordred was already happening in novels, around the same time. I used the arthurian list of novels I made so I might have missed any, but at this time we have 1956 "The Great Captains" by Henry Treece, "Sword at Sunset" by Sutcliff, "The Wicked Day" (the first novel focusing on Mordred as protagonist) by Mary Stewart, 1982 "The Idylls of the Queen" (Phyllis Ann Karr), 1983 "The Mists of Avalon" (Marion Zimmer Bradley), Persia Wolley's 1987 Guinevere trilogy, 1988 "The road to Avalon" by Joan Wolf and 1988 "The Book of Mordred" by Hanratty all depicting Mordred as a more round character, as someone the reader can feel sympathy too or even enjoy or relate to.
A slighty sympathetic but still villanous potrayal can then be found in 2001 ("The Mists of Avalon" miniseries) but we have to wait till 2008 ("Merlin", BBC) to have a tv Mordred who is actually shown trying to do the right thing (at least for a bit), and working with Arthur. I think this is more due to the fact that "Merlin" often tries to depict villains' origins and motivations than a real conscious attempt to redeem Mordred or make him less villanous.
Other following examples are the kid movie 2010 "Merlin and Arthur the Lion King" and the album 2014 "High Noon Over Camelot" that positions Mordred in a co-protagonist role and fully allows the listeners to empathyze with him. The Fate franchise (the introduction of Mordred should be around 2012 in the novels) continues on this trajectory, making Mordred a main sympathetic and beloved protagonist in many of the adaptations.
2014 High Noon Over Camelot album by The Mechanisms: The song I used is "Peacemaker". The album has multiple arthurian characters sung by different artists, and Mordred is interpreted by Ashes O'Reilly. This is also the first time we have an explicitly queer Mordred (outside of novels), as Mordred is a trans man in this retelling. The story is a Western reimagining of arthuriana, and another case of a sympathetic Mordred - this time Mordred is more overtly sympathetic and even reconcile with his father Arthur at the end.
2011 recording of Albeniz's "Merlin": Piotr Prochera plays Mordred. This is another recording (no dvd, this has been shared by Piotr Prochera acor himself on youtube) of the "Merlin" opera.
2015 recording of "Le Roi Arthus": This opera is probably my favorite arthurian opera. It was created by Ernest Chausson between 1886 and 1895 and it is sung in French. Mordred is a bass and a classic villain, here jealous of Lancelot and the attention Guinevere gives Lancelot. This 2015 version was a modernized edition, with the knights depicted as modern soldiers. Mordred here is played by Alexandre Duhamel.
2016 Rex, youtube webseries: This series is on Severe Chill Studios' Youtube channel, with 48 short episodes. The series is a vlog of arthurian characters living in modern times (no reincarnations, just reimaginings). It follows Rex (Arthur) a student who is dealing with his abusive family and the brothers Merlin and Lancelot. Moore (Mordred) is Arthur's spoiled and arrogant friend (played by Daniel O’Sullivan). He lets Rex crash at his place for a bit, and is often depicted insulting his mother and calling her slurs. If you decide to watch this just know the series has some pretty heavy themes (a part from domestic abuse it also touches on terminal illness). Youtube link.
2017 Fate/Apocrypha: This is one of the many anime adaptation of the Fate franchise. Mordred is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. The Fate franchise is massive and deals with numerous spin-offs or even alternative realities to tell the tales of wars/battles for the Holy Grail mainly fought by Servants who are personification of historical/legendary figures. Fate/Apocrypha is based on a series of novel and is an alternative timeline to the previous Fate/Stay Night anime and also the first time we have Mordred in the anime. Mordred is here a Servant, they are the cloned-son of Saber (Arthur/Arturia, who is a woman) and Morgana. Their story is massive so let me just say I am using they/them for Mordred because the Fate series is very ambigous regarding theri gender. They are born as the close of a woman (Saber) and often referred with female pronouns through the series, they hate being called "a girl", and also hate being called "a boy". While I do not think the series was making an effort to actually depict a non-binary character, I do believe Mordred can easily be read as one.
2017 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: 2017 was a wild year for arthuriana but nothing was as wild as this movie. The movie follows the life of some arthurian characters' descendant living in Thailand. Morgana and Mordred (banished in arthurian times) ended up in space, working with aliens, and are now back to destroy the descendants. The movie is full over dramatic close up, Morgana turning into a mecha, fighting scenes and more. Interestingly, given how ridiculous the movie is, Mordred is depicted as a sympathetic (almost) villain. He is played by Russell Geoffrey Banks.
2017 King Arthur: Excalibur Rising: The scene I used in the video is right at the start, as the movie is set after Arthur's death. While Mordred might seem sympathetic there he is actually a pretty violent villain for the rest of the movie. The story is focused on Owain (Arthur's illegitimate son) trying to take back the crown from Mordred and Morgana. Here Mordred (played by Gavin Swift) is Arthur's incestuous son with Morgana.
2017 Legend, youtube webseries: A webseries you can watch on Tufts University Television's channel (link here). The series has 7 episodes and an epilogue and is set in a university. Each student is an arthurian character, with Mordred (Morty) as the overly joking, friendly guy who is hiding some deep hatred and jealousy towards Arthur. Unfortunately I do not remember if Mordred is Arthur's half-brother or just a friend. Mordred is played by Yuval Ben-Hayun. The story and production were pretty good, so I recommend it!
2017 Mordred La Revolte: I cheated a bit as this movie is the end of a long webseries. The series started in 2013 and run till 2018 with two season and can still be found here on youtube. The series was created by Tommy-Lee Baïk (who also played Mordred) and is in French. Unfortunately I cannot really tell how arthurian the series is, but the plot does not mention other arthurian characters. If I am not wrong, la Revolte is simply S2 turned into a movie.
2017 Fate/Grand Order The stage - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot: Part of the Fate saga but in the Grand Order timeline, this is a stage adaptation of one of the events in the videogame Fate/Grand Order. In particular, it should be the same story shown in the later movie Camelot part 1 as the full title is Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot Replica; Agateram. I will explain more about it in the next part of this Mordred series. Chihiro Kai plays Mordred.
#mordred#mordred through time#fate grand order#camelot#king arthur#high noon over camelot#characters through time#merlin#merlin opera#webseries#mordred la revolte#french mordred#fate grand order movie#fate series#excalibur rising#rex#le roi arthus#opera#info#fate apocrypha#saber#Mordred through time
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Merlin and Morgan are really cursed to have so much chemistry in every on-screen adaptation only for them to destroy each other.
I have yet to see a screen adaptation of Morgan sending/bringing King Arthur to avalon though.
#arthuriana#merlin#morgan le fay#mergana#merlin x morgana#arthur x morgana#king arthur#starz camelot#adventures of merlin#excalibur 1981#excalibur rising#i dont think mermor had a scene together in excalibur rising#but they mention and use other charas against each other#it still works#the morgana in excalibur rising was a bamf too
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I snagged a spot with @iybms commissions for Palestine/Gaza, sent her all the Dark Excalibur references, and got this absolutely gorgeous art in return. Her art is just freaking stunning, and helps support relief efforts.
#trollhunters#tales of arcadia#toa#dark excalibur au#jim lake jr#toa trollhunters#trollhunters tales of arcadia#toa wizards#trollhunters toa#rott#rise of the titans
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A drawing based on @bluheaven-adw’s Dark Excalibur au!
Had a great time working on this
#it took some time to finish#but I’m so glad and relieved and happy that it’s done#blu’s design is sick af#trollhunters#tales of arcadia#rise of the titans#trollhunters fanart#toa fanart#trollhunters au#dark excalibur#dark excalibur au#jim lake jr#jim lake junior#my art
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can you all imagine if excalibur was the only way for merlin to die on? excalibur, forged on a dragon's breath and meant only for arthur, the sword that killed arthur's bane and merlin's shadow and could not protect arthur would also be merlin's end
#merlin bbc#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#i was reading a fic#[ uther discovers about merlin's magic and in a dark comedy way they try to find a way to kill merlin bc he just . won't. die .#and arthur discovers both of them almost at the same time they start their experiments so -#the idea of one of them realizing they never really tried to kill merlin with a magic sword and arthur heards it and tries dismiss it#/but is a magic sword/ and at the last moment he puts himself between merlin and the blade/#injured and blowing about his eavesdropping#but he couldn't really let merlin be killed and the fear in his gut that this time it could take... arthur couldn't do it#and so this idea that excalibur could kill merlin was an interesting concept#because was is this is how exacalibur found his way once again into the rock? merlin killed himself on it lol#and said rock dissapears once again into the woods until the once and future king rised again-#so you have to find the rock THE STONE GODDAMINT and then you have to take it out and merlin would also come back#because he was just sleeping waiting for his king n.n ]
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“To be heroes, Blood on your knuckles, Heroes, The world on your shoulders, Heroes, Giving everything you’ve got, Fighting til the victory’s won, Heroes”
Drawing something about Dark Excalibur was already in my plans before I saw this DTIYS, it was honestly like Christmas, @bluheaven-adw thanks for making this a DTIYS! honestly I'm too shy to ask permission to use someone else's designs, so you gave me the perfect excuse jsjsj, it was super fun! it took me longer than expected, but here it is!
#Tales Of Arcadia#FanArt#TOA#3Below#Toa Wizards#digital art#Art#digital drawing#Artwork#ilustration#Drawing#Los 3 de Abajo#Ilustración#Rott#Dreamworks#my art#my artwork#Wizards#Relatos De Arcadia#Tales Of Arcadia FanArt#Jim Lake Jr#DarkExcaliburDTIYS#Dark Excalibur#dark excalibur au#DTIYS#dtiys challenge#trollhunters#trollhunters rise of the titans#trollhunters fanart
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So I plan on re-writing the Rise of the Titans movie altogether and having a prequel later on. I don’t know how long it will be or take(giving how many chapters I want to put in). But for now I want to showcase Jim since he is our starring boy!
It kinda felt weird to me how Jim turned back into a human near the end of Wizards for some reason, and how Merlin said there was no way to turn him back. So I just redesigned his troll fit and added a few details from his ACTUAL troll form(such as his horns and tattooed lines). I also gave him longer hair and scruff since we never really see it(plus Its been like what a couple of years? man does NOT care about hair length). And where the amulet was? now a cool scar.
For character analyse I just wanted to use flat colors in case I wanted to do flashbacks or short comics/doodles. Over on the right I wanted to line out how differently each for was like body build and facial structures.
And finally armor. Everything is overall the same except for the moonlight armor(which can be read in Angor Reborn) and the RoTT armor. I hated how it looked in the movie with the added Excalibur and Akaridian tech(sorry Krel love ya<3) and it just didn’t look right. So I took inspiration from King Arthurs armor and added a little bit of how his troll form looks(like horns and spikes. I also wanted him to have a cape since he deserves it<3
#Trollhunters#3Below#Wizards Toa#Tales of Arcadia#Toa Jim#James Lake Jr.#Rise of The Titans#RoTT ending#Troll Jim Toa#Troll Jim#Excalibur#Excalibur!Jim#Toa Redesign
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This is a sketch of a comic i want to do, if not maybe write a fanfic, idk still think about it. This going to be my Rottmnt x Soul Eater AU of the triplets silly adventures together. This is going to be based off the first Excalibur ep in Soul Eater. If you ever watch Soul Eater you’ll know what’s going to happen.
Summary:
Donnie and Leo made a bet that one of them is more worthy to pull Excalibur. Frida tagged along to record their humiliation in case one or neither isn’t able to pull the sword.
Frida can’t pull the sword because she’s a weapon too, while her brothers are Meister.
Other than Excalibur and the fairy, I thought about bringing other Soul Eater characters.
#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt#tmnt 18#rottmnt frida#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt leo#triplets shenanigans#rottmnt au#rottmnt x soul eater au#au#soul eater#soul eater x rottmnt#soul eater Excalibur#FOOLS!!!#rottmnt fanfiction#rottmnt fanfic#fanfics#wip#wip comic#artists on tumblr
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It’s just. How did they mess up ROTT that badly??
Like. The plot of the movie was basically already covered in Unbecoming. We’ve already seen it play out
How is an almost two hour movie worse than a 23-minute long episode??
#Owl Hoots#I have a lot more thoughts on it#there were so many bad thing#*things#like. that was not good characterization#Jim. Jim why are you saying you were always curious about your dad#no!!! no!!!!! you yourself said you don’t care about him!!!!#ROTT#Rise of the Titans#and like. the ending???#did they just entirely forget Unbecoming??#Merlin’s Amulet would have chosen Jim#Jim going back in time wouldn’t have made Toby the Trollhunter#that… that makes no sense#Merlin said it himself#he didn’t make a mistake choosing Jim#he wouldn’t have chosen Toby#I have to say tho there were a good handful of things I did love or like#The animation and special effects#Douxie and Nari switching bodies? Clever#the use of trains and the turntable thing#I absolutely adore trains#Nari and Skrael fighting. That was cool#I think the design of the MagicTech armor was AWESOME#only complaint is I wish Excalibur had changed to match the armor#but that’s whatever#before I watched it I heard that Toby’s death didn’t make people cry because there were too many unnecessary deaths#so it made it not hurt#well I definitely cried#Jim’s reaction to Toby’s death hurt so much
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84/100 random arthurian screencaps Bedivere and Kay (Excalibur Rising)
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I like this Sir Bedivere
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Thank you tumblr for absolutely destroying image quality. Freaking wtf?
Some more Dark Excalibur AU
The Knighting of Steve Palchuk
We all agree that Steve needed a better arc than what RotT gave him. He deserved a chance to be a hero, a path that he started in Wizards before it fizzled out into being the comedic relief. Wizards set everyone up as the better generational mirrors to Camelot. Jim to Arthur, Claire to Morgana, Douxie to Merlin, Toby probably to Galahad, and Steve very obviously to Lancelot. I've said at the start that no one comes out of this AU unscathed, so while Steve gets the heroic redemption, it comes at a cost, one that pulls on that parallel.
RotT in the Dk-E still happens, I'm not letting everyone get their happily ever after at the end of Wizards. But I'll be damned if I end it with Toby and so many others dead, and Jim pushed into a timeline reset. You can thank Steve for that. It's because of Steve that Toby lives. Steve goes with Toby in the Taco truck, and it is Steve that yanks Toby out of the way of the collapsing debris. But Steve becomes pinned himself, resulting in the loss of his arm. An act of selflessness and bravery, valor and sacrifice, that earns him the title of First Knight of the Roundtable of New Camelot. An equal advisor, responsible for not only the protection of Camelot, and those Jim has claimed as his (which is everyone, human, troll, changeling, down to the last gnome), but also finding and training new knights, those who value all life and are willing to fight to protect it, and want to see the worlds of man and magic together in harmony instead of hate and fear.
And so we come to the Knighting of Steve Palchuk. This isn't just pomp and meaningless ceremony, this has true weight and meaning to both Jim and Steve. Jim pulls on Excalibur's magic, his voice resonating with ethereal power, creating a bond of trust and loyalty that goes both ways, only formed if given willingly. Knight to his King, King to Knight, both to the protection of all worlds and their peoples. Jim's eyes light up in tandem with the blade as the power of Excalibur and Nimue courses through him, flames licking along the blade's edge and into Steve. Steve's armor reflecting this bond as the magic burns through him.
And like Lancelot, Steve will get a fully functional prosthetic arm. There will be hardship, adapting to this new reality. But Steve has become a hero. A man of courage... far from his highscool self. A survivor, who will fight with everything he has.
Rise now, Sir Steve, First Knight of the Roundtable and New Camelot.
Closeups below
Notes: some of the descriptive wording around the ceremony itself came from a discussion about Jim using Excalibur for the knighting, and are used with permission of Sakon76, who is a much better writer than I.
Expect more if Steve's story at a later time.
#Dark Excalibur AU#trollhunters#jim lake jr#steve palchuk#tales of arcadia#toa#toa trollhunters#trollhunters tales of arcadia#toa wizards#trollhunters toa#wizards tales of arcadia#wizards toa#rise of the titans#rott#trollhunters rise of the titans#james lake jr#jim lake junior#james lake junior#king jim#dark Excalibur
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Rogue
Anna Marie Raven
X-Men ‘97
#marvel#marvel comics#rogue#Anna Marie Raven#uncanny x men#xmen#excalibur#immortal X-men#astonishing X-men#Mr and Mrs x#fall of x#fall of the house of x#rise of the powers of x#krakoa#cyavillaarts#artwork#art#drawing#chibi#cyschibi#digitalart#fanart
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Title: Camelot Rising
Author: Kiersten White
Series or standalone: series
Publication year: 2019
Genres: fiction, fantasy, retelling, romance, historical fiction
Blurb: Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom's borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution: send in Guinevere to be Arthur's wife...and his protector from those who want to see the young king's idyllic city fail. The catch: Guinevere's real name - and her true identity - is a secret. She is a changeling, a girl who has given up everything to protect Camelot. To keep Arthur safe, Guinevere must navigate a court in which the old - including Arthur's own family - demand things continue as they have been, and the new - those drawn by the dream of Camelot - fight for a better way to live. And always, in the green hearts of forests and the black depths of lakes, magic lies in wait to reclaim the land. Deadly jousts, duplicitous knights, and forbidden romances are nothing compared to the greatest threat of all: the girl with the long black hair, riding on horseback through the dark woods toward Arthur...because when your whole existence is a lie, how can you trust even yourself?
#camelot rising#the guinevere deception#the camelot betrayal#the excalibur curse#kiersten white#series#2019#fiction#fantasy#retelling#romance#historical fiction
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Day 10: JOMPBPC: Character Growth
There is so much character growth throughout all three books! 💜
#justonemorepage#jompbpc#character growth#the guinevere deception#the camelot betrayal#the excalibur curse#the camelot rising series#kiersten white#beautiful books#beautiful covers#amazing authors#lgbt+#i love books
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Day 13 of Inktober 2023 challenge: Rise
This word has many meanings so interpret it however you want. For me, it is associated with the rising sun but I decided to choose the sword (which is a monument for my country). My people suffered a lot but they always rose up like a phoenix from the ashes.
#inktober 2023#day 13#art based on excalibur#inktober2023#inktober#inktober challenge#rise#sword#uprise#poland#szczerbiec#polska#legend#magic sword#legendary sword#warsaw uprising#phoenix#ashes#uprising#rise up
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