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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9794909" data-attributes="member: 78087">Any Robin Hood does have to thread the needle between the various versions. He kind of started out as a generic criminal and robber (it was a common pseudonym or byword for robbers in medieval England, a bit like John Doe) and then a robber who robbed the rich and gave to the poor in folktales, and then he got made a nobleman so as not to upset rich people. There’s also the actual political background of whenever you set his stories (12th century with Richard and John is commonest but a lot of the stories are set earlier or later). I quite like the idea from Once and Future (Kieron Gillen) that Robin Hood is the part of English mythology that fights for poor people against the elite, including kings (the Richard bit is much later, like Robin actually being the dispossessed Earl of Huntingdon, which are both 17th century IIRC). As such, he’s ideally placed to fight the idea of King Arthur.</blockquote>