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Brave Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot is one of the four knights chosen by King Arthur to join him at the Round Table in Camelot in the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, played by Eric Idle. Unlike many of the other knights in the movie, he is the only original knight written solely for this movie, and not from the King Arthur folklore in general. And his name is a misconception; although called "brave," he would run away from fights, including from the Three-Headed Giant. It also didn't help along his journey, his men perform his supposed theme song that went:

He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken; To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away; And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!

Sadly, Sir Robin died at the Bridge of Death when he was asked a difficult question, "What is the capital of Assyria?"; He stated, "I don't know that!".

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