Sharpe/YMMV

"''O'er the Hills and O'er the Main,
 * Complete Monster:
 * Obadiah Hakeswill. When he's not setting Sharpe up to be arrested, killed and/or flogged, he's raping anyone that moves, stealing from the company stores, and just generally being a bastard.
 * Jane Sharpe, neé Gibbons..
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Sharpe has plenty, obviously, but also anything involving The Duke of Wellington.
 * Ear Worm: "Over the Hills and Far Away" - also a Leitmotif, Ironic Nursery Tune, Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune and Source Music.

To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,

King George commands and we obey

Over the Hills and far away.''"


 * Magnificent Bastard: Wellington, in the TV series. In the books, Wellington acts in a more historical role, taking occasional interest in Sharpe's career and giving him patronage when he deems fit. In the TV series, however, Wellington treats Sharpe as his personal attack dog- when confronted with a problem he smiles archly and goes about his business, quietly dispatching Sharpe and the Chosen Men to kill people until the problem disappears. Arguably Wellington was a Magnificent Bastard in real life too.
 * In the books, it's Major Hogan, Wellington's spymaster, who provided most of the Magnificent Bastardry. He appears in the first two episodes of the series, played near-perfectly by Brian Cox, before having to be replaced by a Suspiciously Similar Substitute or two and leaving Wellington to pick up the Magnificent Bastard role. Numerous exchanges in the books have Wellington as more the uptight one and Hogan as a sly, cunning SOB, only for the TV adaptations to swap the roles and have the spymaster-of-the-week be the stuffy one while Wellinton acts like... well, like a Magnificent Bastard.