In Dragon Bones, Ward finds his younger brother, Tosten, in such a tavern, where Tosten works as bard.The Prancing Pony at Bree in The Lord of the Rings, one of many in that verse, but this one is probably the Trope Codifier.She meets her first ally there, a Hot-Blooded barbarian hero. Wonder Woman (2006): One of the first places Diana visits when she's stuck in an illusionary world/mental world by Stalker is a tavern with mead and barmaids where the patrons are all fur wearing viking pastiches.It was just a somewhat solemn occasion held by a campfire. What makes this atypical was that there is no tavern, the aliens are too impoverished to have anything so fancy. Since 'mead' was involved of course Thor had to stay and in the course of the evening learns about the events of the Godbutcher. Thor does so and is about to leave when the grateful, impoverished aliens ask him to stay a while and they have a large stock of mead made from slugs to offer. In the 'played with' version, a little alien girl prays to Thor to save their harvest from a decades long drought. There, they give her a series of quests to do before they will accept her as a rightful Thor (they also had her do a drinking contest as well to see if she could hold her liquor). In the standard version of this trope, the unknown female Thor meets the Warriors Three in a tavern. In The Mighty Thor comics this is done straight and played with.It also just so happens that the town they're in is invaded soon after, forcing them to team up with the others to try and fight off the invaders. It just so happens that while there, they run into Vandal Savage, Exoristos, Sir Ystin, and Al Jabr. Demon Knights begins with Jason Blood and Madame Xanadu stopping at an inn for a quiet drink.In "Eighty Eyes on an Evil Island", they visit The Gizzard, which is every Fantasy Tavern ever. The Skullkickers spend a lot of time in taverns.Compare Rest-and-Resupply Stop, which is where there's more than just the tavern. A dark corner where mysterious cloaked strangers sitĪlso a place for first meetings.
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