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Robin Hood

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This is going to be like other TVCU blogs regarding historical and literary characters, in that I'm only focusing on television and film appearances within the TVCU.  I hope you have read this before you go and tell me about a book that I left out. 12th Century--RABBIT HOOD--I know, you're thinking this should be in the AU section.  Nope.  Bugs' 12th century ancestor must have accidentally wound up in the TVCU through a rift.  This takes place during the events of the Errol Flynn film. 12th Century--THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD--This is the official TVCU Robin Hood, brought in oddly enough by an official crossover with Bugs Bunny.  (I could have tried to put this in the Looniverse, but the Looniverse version is a fox.  Also, the version in the TIME TUNNEL intentionally was made to look like the version from this film.) 12th Century--ROBIN HOOD:  MEN IN TIGHTS--Robin of Locksley returns from the Crusades to find an evil Prince John in charge...

Legendary Figures in the TVCU: King Arthur

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Updated to incorporate material from the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia. This is another in a series of blogs I will do in covering legendary figures whose place in history has become a merging of fact and fiction. Of course in this case, the fiction is the fact in at least the case of the TVCU appearances. c. 1279 B.C.--HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS--Merlin sends Arthur back in time to learn and train from Hercules. TIGERS OF THE SEA “THE TEMPLE OF ABOMINATION” (STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD AND RICHARD L. TIERNEY) Release Date: 1975 (Setting is the late 480s A.D.) Series: Cormac Mac Art Horror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos Non-Horror Crosses: Kull; King Arthur The Story: Cormac Mac Art battles an evil druid and the last of the Serpent Men. Notes: The druid’s magic is tied to the Lovecraftian Mythos. The Serpent Men originate from the first Kull story. Though King Arthur was real, he likely has a Horror Universe counterpart whose canon should only be those ...