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As long as I have this horn and you hold me in your heart...



...then you will be a great king, oh unless I inexplicably drop the horn on some random wasteland at which point I won't really want it back, I'll just unleash my son dragon to kill everyone instead.

Think i missed something here, can anyone explain this very weak part of the story?


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Yeah, it seemed pretty obvious that the phrasing of what she said was to dupe Beowolf into accepting her offer while allowing her to break the vow whenever she got ready by making sure she no longer had the horn in her hand when she felt like effing with him in the future. She's evil and sneaky. She knew where to leave the horen lying around so that it will be found by the right slave.

Classic set up. It wasn't the story being weak as much as it was Beowolf being to horny band stpuid to make a pact with an evil demonic entity and expect it to be truthful.

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I consider that it was Beowulf's weak heart and Grendel's mother is a sort of mermaid; rather than his supposed stupidity.

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It was his stupidity for not staying focused. He is a warrior. He's supposed to get the job done. Where there are regrets, there are acts of stupidity. It wasn't his heart that let Grendel's mother seduce him. Lol

Mermaid or not, Grendel's mom was evil and seduced and tricked Beowolf into a bad deal. That's her hobby. She's good at it.

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It wasn't his heart that let Grendel's mother seduce him. Lol

That was obvious the way she seductively toyed with his sword, which served as a visual metaphor for his, uh, "sword".

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He certainly was stupid and careless but that was setup in his earlier story of how he supposedly killed the mermaid.

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True but he did the same thing before. He dropped his sword and got it on with a mermaid at the beginning of the movie and then lied about killing it.

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