Unwilling to accept defeat at the hands of someone as asinine as he was altruistic, Fantomas shattered every safeguard he had put in place to contain a distorted demiurge whose powers he had plotted to steal. It was at the climax of one such Holy Grail War that he clashed with his devious double, the progenitor of unchecked villainy for its own sake, the Assassin known only as Fantomas. He battled criminals he rightfully believed to be brigands, charged at contraband-filled airplanes (and their rotors) he wrongfully believed were mere windmills, guided an ailing young man through the weird wilds of America after a botched Demi-Servant experiment, won a baseball championship for the New York Yankees, and fought (and occasionally fought alongside) more “legitimate” heroes in Holy Grail Wars. Thus, while his own demise was far from merry, he had more than earned the saintly (and final) moniker he gave himself: Alonso Quixana the Good.Īs a Heroic Spirit, Don Quixote was often summoned in the Lancer, Rider, Berserker, and (very seldomly) Saber Classes at the height of his madness and with only a pittance of his wisdom, as that is the state of him most prominent in the human conscience. Through the delightful disarray his deeds wrought, many found the courage to push back against a repressive and supposedly insurmountable status quo, achieving vindication and closure, if not wholesale fortunate conclusions. Lesser known and lionized was the knight’s almost supernatural ability to facilitate happy endings for others. Likewise, his many misadventures were more fable than farce, and often contemplated on heady subjects of morality, etiquette, politics, duty, and redemption, with the satire softened and made sweet with silliness. You could go far as to say he is the godfather of the very concept.Ī champion not of destiny or divinity, but one of decision and disguise. So you see, Alonso resembling a superhero here isn’t so strange. Clad in his ancestral armor and filled with wondrous purpose by legends of old, he journeys alongside his squire Sancho Panza to restore the epochs of virtue and valor as DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA!” "In the twilight of Spain’s Golden Age, a time and place of prosperity and persecution, country gentleman Alonso Quixana undergoes a most unorthodox metamorphosis. Of note, his escapades were of particular comfort to physicist Albert Einstein and his sister Maja, as he read them aloud to her at her bedside during her final days on Earth. That same earnest and eccentric epic has inspired not just the artists who came after Cervantes over the centuries, but entrepreneurs, soldiers, scientists, vigilantes, politicians, and the odd revolutionary or two as well. Hazy are recollections of the once illustrious Amadís de Gaul’s jaunts, and yet how sharply one can convey episodes from what is widely considered to be the world’s first true modern novel (even if they might never have so much as leafed through Don Quixote’s pages!).
Whatever the truth of the matter, he remains Don Quixote, the half-mad protagonist and would-be knight-errant of Miguel de Cervantes’ book of the same name.īorne from his feats and follies, his bizarre fame has overshadowed that of many of the classic chivalric figures he admired and sought to emulate, both in Spain and beyond. To the romantics, he is an indelible icon of an uplifting saga. To the cynics, he is the central clown of a cautionary tale. Glorious Quest/Unbearable Sorrow/Heavenly Cause Mirage Crusader/The Fool Beyond/Knight of Dreams Fate shatur quixote night 1280×2160 899 KB
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