| | Prince John (Toby Stephens) Toby Stephens as Prince John | Gender: Male | | Occupation: Prince Regent | | * First appeared on May 02, 2009 in the episode Do You Love Me?. |
The main antagonist of the third series, Prince John is the tyrannical ruler of England. Depicted as an effeminate, paranoid narcissist, he has a high need for admiration and is constantly demanding his subjects to tell them how much they love him. John is also noted for being as ruthless and sadistic as the Sheriff, ordering Locksley's church, full of adoring villagers to be burned down while a wedding takes place inside. John is obsessively determined to usurp his brother Richard the Lionheart's throne and become King of England, a position which he feels greatly entitled to, particularly since he feels it was their father Henry II's wish that he not Richard become king. He is shown to possess a high level of intelligence, but a fiery temper. He reacts violently to criticism and is oblivious as to why the people of England don't love him, despite his vicious treatment of them. In the second episode in which he appears, John appears to have succumbed to the fact that the English people have no affection for him, saying "If you don't love me, then by God, you'll fear me." He appears somewhat emotionally immature and is easily bored, often manipulating people for no reason other than his own personal amusement and exhibiting wild and unpredictable mood swings. His catchphrases are "Do you not love me?", "Long live me." and "Bored now." In "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King", it is revealed that John is consumed with anger and hatred toward his brother Richard whom he sees as having usurped their mother's affection and overshadowed him. Despite his envy of Richard, John still holds himself to be absolutely superior to his brother and believes that he was destined for the throne. |
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