Known more fully as Fatilla the Hun. As the wordplay (a reference to Attila the Hun) suggests, he was a portly barbarian. Fatilla appeared in Series 4 as a guard (usually on Level 1 at the Castle of Doom or Dungarth, occasionally on Level 2), and a hindrance to dungeoneers. He wielded a club and was keen to "blip" and "blop" dungeoneers with it, but his menace was undermined by his illiterate lack of intelligence, relatively easy corruptibility and overall entertainment value.
Every team that encountered Fatilla negotiated their way past, and did so in a variety of ways that encompassed bribery, magic, assistance and pure guile. Team 1 of Series 4 used gold, which appealed to Fatilla as a food-stuff; though by Team 7's quest, gold didn't appease him, and a JOKE spell was needed. Team 2 of Series 4 used flattery to mollify the guard. In Team 4 of Series 4's quest, Fatilla was deterred from harming dungeoneer Simon by intervention from Pickle (who entered the Dungeon and claimed that Simon was a "military forager") and Oakley (who scared Fatilla off just as he realised Pickle's ruse. Oakley repeated this action on Team 6 of Series 4's behalf). Team 5 told him they were on his list of people permitted to use the wellway and bribed him with a "magic" key. Team 8 of Series 4 took the most aggressive approach, incapacitating the barbarian with a bottle of Sniff (in what became Fatilla's final appearance).
Fatilla once locked Mellisandre in the stocks on Level 2 (clearly following the zeitgest of the season). On another occasion, he fell victim to two self-activating spells, and ended up wooing Gundrada in slow motion! He named his superior as "skull face" and "old bony face", taken by some Knightmare fans as a reference to Mogdred, and by others as referring to Lord Fear.

Fatilla was played by Michael Cule (who also played Brother Mace and Doorkis in Series 4), and provided the inspiration for the Knightmare RPG character Funkus.

[Earlier version: 2005-12-15 11:01:05]

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Fatilla is one of the many Knightmare characters who is commemorated by a Knightmare Discussion Forum username. Fatilla_The_Hun has been a member since June 0f 2003, though the user has not posted.

In addition, forum member Moocowthingy based his screen name upon something he thought Fatilla had said. This turned out to be mistake: Fatilla referred to the Helmet of Justice as a "moo-cow helmet", and to dungeoneers as "dunger-thingies", but never mentioned a moocowthingy. However, no other members seemed troubled by what Moocowthingy referred to as his 'falsehood'.

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