Is it me or do European knights have terrible representations?

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Japanese media just tend to give the samurai cool representations. Like the only time I can recall the samurai getting bad representations is like Naruto, where they are fodder compared to the Shinobi; but everywhere else, dude with a samurai sword is overpowered in some capacity.

Meanwhile, look at the European knight.

The main character has to defeat the lord with an army of knights in a lot of medieval movies like outlaw king and the king.

The medieval battles people talk about the most, is where the knights get their hands handed to them like, aljuborrata, Agincourt, golden spurs.

Fire emblem is surprisingly mixed, with good like basically the blue lions house, your cains and abels and bad like most unnamed and enemy bosses.

In berserk, only yazan seems like a decent knight, yet he is a joke character last time I read which was years ago, so I don't know now.

Brettonia from Warhammer fantasy are real life European knights with magic, but compared to it's empire neighbor doesn't have access to guns, cannons, they're just bad.

Game of thrones, everyone is an ass, even though the hound has some redeeming quality. King aery's kings guard, are just a bunch of see no evil with their king.

Like what are your thoughts, do medieval European knights get the end of the short stick?

Posted Oct 14, 2025, 12:53 PM UTC

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