Order of No Quarter

The **Order of No Quarter** is a villainous group of knights created by the Enchantress in order to assemble an army capable of conquering the Valley. In addition to their individual skills in combat, each knight has a specific role in the Order, and loyal minions under their personal employ.

## Members

* The Enchantress (Leader)
* King Knight (Usurper)
* Specter Knight (Enforcer)
* Plague Knight (Alchemist)
* Treasure Knight (Financial manager)
* Mole Knight (Excavator)
* Tinker Knight (Engineer)
* Propeller Knight (Airship commander)
* Polar Knight (Warrior)

## TV Tropes

* Breakout Character: The entire idea of the "Dig the Vote" poll was based upon this, allowing the game's backers to vote on which bosses should not only become playable, but get their own campaign with their own distinct mechanics and feel; the majority vote winner was Specter Knight, with Plague Knight and King Knight taking second and third place. Specter Knight ended up being cemented as a major part of Shovel Knight's lore by the time Specter of Torment came out, ending up tied to Shield Knight and the Enchantress.
* Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They're a colorful, sometimes humorous band of villains... Who have terrified the valley into cowering, usurped their royalty, threaten to take over the world, and are a bad enough threat that requires a hero like Shovel Knight to step in, who isn't exempt from getting his attacks handed back to him with the Order's skill at combat.
* Demoted to Extra: Comparatively speaking in King of Cards, nearly all of them aside from Specter Knight are optional boss fights rather than mandatory like in the first three campaigns.
* Evil Counterpart: The art book's commentary says that some of their attributes correspond to Shovel Knight's (such as Treasure Knight being obsessed with treasure, Polar Knight fighting with a shovel, etc.).
* Expy: Of the Robot Masters, being unique bosses with different stage themes and gimmicks.
* Forced into Evil: Zigzagged. Almost none of them wanted to work for the Order in the first place, but were either already rather villainous (Treasure Knight being an established pirate and King Knight having accomplished a takeover of Pridemoor Keep thanks to the Enchantress), preferred to be left alone to their own devices (Polar Knight, Tinker Knight, Propeller Knight and Mole Knight), trying to accomplish their own goals (Plague Knight and King Knight again) or blackmailed (Specter Knight). The only one who joined of their own free will was King Knight.
* Hidden Depths: Each knight had a proposed campaign that would have explored these, whether it was the other facets of their past and personality or what their personal motivations are. Specter, Plague and King are the only knights who would actually get it explored in-game, however.
* Names to Run From Really Fast: The order title basically translates into The Order of No Mercy.
* Promoted to Playable: They're all fully playable in the Showdown game mode.
* Punch-Clock Villain: They each seem to have their own lives outside of being Order members, such as Mole Knight's excavation and Tinker Knight's work on machinery.
* Red Baron: Along with their knight title, they all have a nickname to enforce their reputation.
* Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Showdown's various routes, but particularly Propeller Knight, Tinker Knight, Mole Knight and Treasure Knight, show that the Order are prone to infighting once they either get frustrated with their partner (with Tinker Knight engaging Propeller Knight once the latter indicates he doesn't know what he's doing) or outright attempting to betray each other (Mole Knight becomes indignant that Treasure Knight betrayed him, because he was planning to do the exact same thing to him).
* Villains Out Shopping​: They're not always being dastardly. The Boss Rush even takes place when Shovel Knight bursts in on them casually having dinner as a group.

### In Starable's Projects

* Cruel and Unusual Death:
	+ Polar Knight in Chapter 4 of Tigger Happy Havoc was killed by the blackened before the blackened itself commits suicide via
	+ Treasure Knight at chapter 2 of goodbye despair died through throat by the blackened slice with a sword after tricking the pirate knight
	+ In Chapter 4 of 2 Goodbye Despair, Mole Knight was the culprit in killing Golem Bomber through dueling to death via
	+ Tinker Knight unluckily died in the 1st chapter of V3 Killing Harmony when the shot put ball knocks the engineering knight cold instead of the actual target ().
	+ Propeller Knight has the most humiliating of all in chapter 3 of v3
	+ Specter Knight in chapter 5 of V3 Killing Harmony has him died from being bludgeoned by his own scythe stolen from the second blackened.
	+ The rest (The Enchantress, King Knight and Plague Knight) joins with the rest of the Elements of Darkness, Monokuma and Tsumugi Shirogane in Ultimate Annihilation.
		- Subverted on ALL of them, because they all come back to life in each of the killing games, bar out the epilouge.
* Faux Affably Evil: All of those knights were seemingly nice at first, but ???
* Even Evil has Standards: Hell, even these villainous knights have standards that they won't even cross.
	+ King Knight
	+ Specter Knight may be a tragic knight, but
* Ninth Ranger: In Adventures of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, The Enchantress and King Knight planned to recruit Kokichi as the Ninth member but failed due to the Supreme Leader's death caused by Kaito Momoda (Specter Knight also died (but came back to life at Chapter 6) from the said culprit) and the Supreme Leader wasn't planning to join the Order, to The Enchantress' anger.
* Significant Birth Date: Specter, Plague, and King's birth dates have the same dates where their respective Shovel Knight campaigns is released (Plague's is at September 17, Specter's at March 3, and King's at December 10)

## Trivia

* In Team Harmony’s Adventures Series/Chronicles, ???
* Different Headcanon Voices:
	+ The Enchantress: Nightmare Moon (MLP)
	+ King Knight: Andre Bourgeois (Miraculous Ladybug)
	+ Specter Knight: Janus Sanders (Sanders Sides)
	+ Plague Knight: Xander Mobus
	+ Mole Knight: Gary Schwartz
	+ Treasure Knight: Patrick Seitz
	+ Tinker Knight: Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides)
	+ Polar Knight: Travis Willingham
	+ Propeller Knight: Dr. Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog Series)
* In The Amber Harmony Heroes Z! (The Series), each of the Order of No Quarter knights will have the Black Z-Ray Villain Forms of the following:
	+ The Enchantress: ???
	+ Specter Knight: ???
	+ Treasure Knight: ???
	+ Plague Knight: ???
	+ Tinker Knight: ???
	+ Polar Knight: ???
	+ Mole Knight: ???
	+ King Knight: ???
	+ Propeller Knight:  ???
* Different love interests from each members
	+ The Enchantress: ???
	+ King Knight: ???
	+ Specter Knight: ???
	+ Plague Knight: ???
	+ Mole Knight: ???
	+ Treasure Knight: ???
	+ Tinker Knight: ???
	+ Propeller Knight: ???
	+ Polar Knight: ???
* In Miraculous Harmony Adventures, starting at Mastercontrol (MHA) and Killer Plume (MHA), each Order of No Quarter knight will have the akumatized forms of the following:
	+ The Enchantress: Remnant of Fate
	+ King Knight: King of Cardia
	+ Specter Knight: Specter of Nightmares
	+ Plague Knight: Plague of Shadows
	+ Mole Knight: Mole-O-Excavation
	+ Treasure Knight: Treasure-Tron 7500
	+ Tinker Knight: Tinker-a-thon
	+ Polar Knight: Polar of Snows
	+ Propeller Knight: Mr. Propeller Commander