Lord Blackadder

Lord Edmund Blackadder is the titular protagonist of Blackadder II.
He was played by Rowan Atkinson.
== History ==
Lord Blackadder is the first of the family to display the characteristics usually associated with the Blackadders. While his great-grandfather Prince Edmund was cowardly, slimy and sniveling, Lord Blackadder, while still cowardly, veils it behind a mask of pretend bravery (e. g., Lord Blackadder claims he will sail around the deadly Cape of Good Hope, to appear brave to the Queen and to show up Sir Walter 'Ooh What A Big Ship I've Got' Raleigh, when in reality he has no intention of sailing around the Cape, but instead plans to sail to France, get a suntan, and return claiming he has been to the Cape) but he is also demonstrably more intelligent - not only more so than his medieval ancestor but more than most of the people around him, whom he usually regards with withering disdain and in addition, he is also generally considered more handsome and more charming than Prince Edmund, better able to seduce women and has earned a greater degree of esteem from others. He is hated by his rivals rather than treated with a mixture of pity and contempt, as Prince Edmund was. Overall, this gives Lord Blackadder a greater degree of personal dignity than his predecessor and makes him a strangely likable anti-hero rather than the sniveling, incompetent, sexually repulsive weakling that was his great-grandfather.
==Gallery==
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== Trivia ==
* In "Head", he is strongly hinted to be a virgin.
*Although "Bells" is the first episode and "Head" is the second, "Head" is actually set before "Bells", as they were aired in the wrong order.
*During "Head", "Bells", and the first half of "Potato", Edmund is thirty years old. After the second half of "Potato", there is a 2.5-year time-skip, making Edmund either 32 or 33.
*During the end credits for the six episodes of Blackadder II, he has a fued with a balladeer.
** In "Bells" and "Head", Blackadder jogs away from the balladeer, whom he finds annoying.
** In "Potato", the balladeer poses as a statue, going unnoticed by Blackadder. He then hits Blackadder on the head with his lute, knocking him out, before dancing around his limp body.
** In "Money", Blackadder chases the balladeer and tries kicking him.
** In "Beer", Blackadder pokes the bushes with a stick as he tries to find the balladeer, who then appears in front of the screen as he drunkenly sings; when the balladeer walks away, Blackadder spots and chases him.
** In "Chains", a fed up Blackadder storms towards the balladeer and drags him towards the fountain to repeatedly dunk his head in it.
== Licensing ==
This article contains content derived from the "Lord Blackadder" article on the Blackadder Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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