Sir Robin the Not-So Brave

Sir Robin the Not-So Brave as Sir Lancelot is a comic fictional character played by Eric Idle in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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He is a Knight of the Round Table noted for his extreme cowardice, and for the band of minstrels (their leader is played by Neil Innes, who wrote their songs) that follow him around singing of his bravery and the tortures he will bravely endure, or of how bravely he ran away when faced with real danger.

During a famine the minstrels are eaten by the knights, to Robin's relief. Robin himself bravely faces the challenge of the Keeper of the Bridge of Death (Terry Gilliam) but his indecision causes him to be cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.