Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

People from history that show up in a lot of works. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Catapult Nightmare Let's Get Dangerous! Author Appeal Jerk Jock The Chick Kick the Son of a Bitch Fanservice Extra Even Evil Has Loved Ones Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Camera Abuse Villain Ball Ominous Latin Chanting Off with His Head! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mercy Kill Taking the Bullet Big Bad Duumvirate Apocalypse How Amusing Injuries Chekhov's Skill The Voiceless Sassy Black Woman Science Fiction Films Precision F-Strike Diabolus ex Machina Cool Shades Animal Title Index Evil Counterpart Nothing Is Scarier Peek-a-Boo Corpse Foil Creator Cameo Evil Brit Slashed Throat Adaptational Attractiveness Throwing Your Sword Always Works Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Downer Ending Creepy Child One-Man Army Red Herring Politically Incorrect Villain Daylight Horror How We Got Here Stuff Blowing Up Happily Married Rasputinian Death Fish out of Water Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Put on a Bus Funny Foreigner Air-Vent Passageway Gainax Ending NO INDOOR VOICE Blood Knight Bad Boss Intergenerational Friendship Pragmatic Villainy Major Injury Underreaction Token Minority Punch-Clock Villain Batman Gambit Ironic Echo Australian Movies Covers Always Lie As Long as It Sounds Foreign Wham Shot Better to Die than Be Killed The Vamp Ax-Crazy Foregone Conclusion Same Language Dub Setting Update Stealth Pun Villain Protagonist The Musical Blatant Lies Death by Irony Tap on the Head Bald of Evil Stealth Hi/Bye Brother–Sister Incest Unspoken Plan Guarantee Not So Above It All British Films Malevolent Masked Men Sir Swears-a-Lot Costume Porn Annoying Younger Sibling Novelization The Great Depression Action Prologue Creative Closing Credits Those Wacky Nazis And Starring An Axe to Grind Redemption Equals Death The '50s Cool Guns Hoist by His Own Petard Dramatic Gun Cock Obviously Evil Zombie Stories Cool Car Red Oni, Blue Oni Suddenly SHOUTING! Mr. Exposition A Date with Rosie Palms From Bad to Worse The Dog Bites Back Camp Gay Combat Pragmatist Action Girl Every Car Is a Pinto Big-Bad Ensemble Attempted Rape Artistic License – Military Red Right Hand The Ghost Take a Third Option Japanese Films Back from the Dead Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Those Two Guys Meaningful Name Stylistic Suck Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Historical Hero Upgrade Facial Horror Actor Allusion Moment Killer Evil Cannot Comprehend Good As the Good Book Says... Unusual Euphemism Disney Death Author Avatar Call-Back Death Seeker Driven to Suicide Jump Scare Deliberately Monochrome Neck Lift Historical-Domain Character Alpha Bitch Crapsack World Demoted to Extra Jerk with a Heart of Gold Men Are the Expendable Gender Accidental Misnaming Stock Footage Loophole Abuse Four-Temperament Ensemble Insistent Terminology In Name Only Noodle Incident Death Glare Not What It Looks Like Does Not Like Shoes Karma Houdini Rated M for Manly Shipper on Deck Public Domain Feature Films Distracted by the Sexy Brick Joke Dirty Old Man Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Applesauce Police Brutality Arc Words Visual Pun Bare Your Midriff Blackmail Bittersweet Ending Bi the Way Eldritch Abomination Dutch Angle Made of Iron Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Humans Are Bastards Rule of Funny Evil Is Petty Chase Scene Knight Templar Composite Character She's Got Legs Crazy-Prepared Improbable Weapon User Shower Scene Crucified Hero Shot Refuge in Audacity The Cavalry Yandere Does This Remind You of Anything? Dropped a Bridge on Him Dumb Blonde Would Hit a Girl Death by Adaptation Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Grievous Bottley Harm Black Best Friend Henpecked Husband Getting Crap Past the Radar Cloudcuckoolander Interrupted Suicide Translation Convention Laser-Guided Karma Adaptation Expansion Roaring Rampage of Revenge Toplessness from the Back Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Ass Shove Intrepid Reporter Race Lift Re-Cut Hope Spot All There in the Manual Revenge Villain Opening Scene The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Killed Mid-Sentence Drives Like Crazy Real Life Fantasy Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds She Cleans Up Nicely Really Gets Around Artistic License – Law Mundane Made Awesome Scenery Gorn Hypocrite The Ditz Dying Moment of Awesome Mooks Kill It with Fire Chewing the Scenery Establishing Character Moment Instant Death Bullet Worthy Opponent Ghost Fiction Plucky Comic Relief Canon Foreigner "The Reason You Suck" Speech Betty and Veronica World of Ham You Have Failed Me Smoking Is Cool The Reveal Adaptation Dye-Job Mexican Standoff "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Took a Level in Badass Determinator Agony of the Feet Made of Explodium Expository Hairstyle Change Death of a Child Running Gag Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Decoy Protagonist Bland-Name Product Badass Boast Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Naïve Newcomer Love at First Sight Abusive Parents Chiaroscuro Rule of Symbolism Pretty Little Headshots Logo Joke Dark Is Not Evil Extremely Short Timespan Freudian Excuse The Remake Non-Indicative Name Bullying a Dragon Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Wicked Cultured Mind Screw Married to the Job Actually Pretty Funny Greater-Scope Villain Our Vampires Are Different Ascended Extra Fanservice Black Comedy Rape Alliterative Name Skewed Priorities Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Cowboy Cop Shut Up, Hannibal! MacGuffin Dies Wide Open Beware the Nice Ones Hollywood Law Vacation Films Hero Antagonist Even Evil Has Standards The Hero Dies Tranquil Fury Title Drop Documentary Shoot the Shaggy Dog The '80s Villain with Good Publicity Romantic Comedy The Alleged Car Offscreen Teleportation All There in the Script Male Gaze The X of Y It Can Think Green-Eyed Monster Obstructive Bureaucrat Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Deliberate Values Dissonance Gender Flip Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Music Stories The Lost Lenore Destination Defenestration Be Careful What You Wish For Truth in Television Cluster F-Bomb Auto Erotica Historical Villain Upgrade Scary Black Man Early Installment Weirdness Wrong Genre Savvy Evil Is Hammy Video Credits Mugging the Monster Meaningful Echo Product Placement Bring My Brown Pants Psycho for Hire Closed Circle Bottomless Magazines Based on a True Story Contrived Coincidence Hidden Depths Rape as Drama Insane Troll Logic Big Bad The Faceless Only Known by Their Nickname Framing Device Character Development Conspicuous CG Homage No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Alcoholic Butt-Monkey Irony Hong Kong Films Morality Pet Rousing Speech Show Within a Show Antagonist Title French Films Kill 'em All My Beloved Smother Abhorrent Admirer Adults Are Useless Defiant to the End Cain and Abel O.O.C. Is Serious Business Advertised Extra Wounded Gazelle Gambit A.I. Is a Crapshoot Our Zombies Are Different Manchild German Films B-Movie Never Found the Body A God Am I Heel–Face Turn "Well Done, Son!" Guy For the Evulz Missing Mom Artistic License – Geography Coming-of-Age Story The Film of the Book Very Loosely Based on a True Story BFG Totally Radical Hate Sink Black Comedy Crazy Jealous Guy Darkest Hour Manly Tears Break the Cutie Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Disney Villain Death Captain Obvious Biopic Random Events Plot Straight Gay Never My Fault Spell My Name with an "S" Badass Normal Took a Level in Jerkass The Power of Love Spiteful Spit Self-Deprecation Continuity Nod Heroic BSoD Canadian Movies '80s Hair Anti-Villain Cold-Blooded Torture Redshirt Army Bond One-Liner Mr. Fanservice Monumental Damage Shown Their Work Not So Different One-Word Title Retirony Epic Fail Dramedy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Pay Evil unto Evil Overprotective Dad N-Word Privileges Woman in White The Mafia Expy Recycled IN SPACE! Black Dude Dies First Fiery Redhead Corpsing Empathic Environment The Brute Drowning My Sorrows Mood Whiplash What You Are in the Dark Reasonable Authority Figure Artistic License – History Heel Realization Adaptation Distillation Stalker with a Crush The Place Bloody Hilarious Storming the Castle Important Haircut Big Damn Heroes Adult Fear Credits Gag Awesome, but Impractical Vomit Discretion Shot Neck Snap Fat Bastard All Men Are Perverts Genre Shift Enemy Mine Lighter and Softer Everyone Has Standards I Need a Freaking Drink Age Lift Cat Fight Evil Sounds Deep Not So Stoic Red Eyes, Take Warning Bad "Bad Acting" Off-into-the-Distance Ending Kick the Dog The '90s My Greatest Failure Guns Akimbo Slasher Smile Kids Are Cruel Vampire Fiction Leave the Camera Running Dark Action Girl Shout-Out Bunny-Ears Lawyer Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Hero The Smurfette Principle Hooker with a Heart of Gold folderlabel Face Death with Dignity Serial Killer Affectionate Parody Adorkable Pre-Mortem One-Liner Older Than They Look Last-Name Basis Twist Ending Double-Meaning Title Beauty Is Never Tarnished Genre Savvy Good Is Not Nice Wham Line The Load Asshole Victim Deus ex Machina Amoral Attorney Only in It for the Money Unwitting Instigator of Doom Male Frontal Nudity Accidental Murder Mad Scientist War Is Hell Flashback Dogged Nice Guy The Bad Guy Wins Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bloodless Carnage Smug Snake No Name Given Honor Before Reason Big Eater Mama Bear Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Blood from the Mouth Arch-Enemy Central Theme Sexy Discretion Shot Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Armor-Piercing Question Make It Look Like an Accident Beta Couple Reckless Gun Usage Did Not Get the Girl Demonic Possession Body Horror Belligerent Sexual Tension Obfuscating Stupidity I'm a Humanitarian Riddle for the Ages An Aesop No Antagonist Scenery Porn Jerkass Fingore Car Fu The Dragon Screw This, I'm Outta Here! No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Bond Villain Stupidity Training Montage Big "NO!" 20 Minutes into the Future Psychopathic Manchild Daddy's Girl Gory Discretion Shot Market-Based Title Unresolved Sexual Tension Bury Your Gays Woman Scorned Playing Gertrude All for Nothing Drugs Are Bad Undying Loyalty Flipping the Bird Failed a Spot Check My God, What Have I Done? Knife Nut Works Set in World War II The Bully Country Matters Evil Plan Martial Arts Movie Eureka Moment Room Full of Crazy Determinator aka: The Determinator Man on Fire It's All About Me Soft Glass Reality Is Unrealistic Didn't Think This Through Hair-Trigger Temper I Have Your Wife Children Are Innocent There Is No Kill Like Overkill Paper-Thin Disguise Disproportionate Retribution Genre Throwback The End... Or Is It? Pretty in Mink Pragmatic Adaptation Unusually Uninteresting Sight Big Brother Instinct Artistic License – Biology Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dissonant Serenity Leaning on the Fourth Wall Spanner in the Works Fainting Taking You with Me Russian Films Overly Long Gag Dwindling Party Together in Death Sci-Fi Horror Heroic Sacrifice Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Kubrick Stare Vitriolic Best Buds Pet the Dog Mythology Gag Jitter Cam Anyone Can Die Cat Scare Cruel and Unusual Death Stepford Smiler Left the Background Music On Call-Forward Action Survivor Maybe Ever After All Girls Want Bad Boys Bloodier and Gorier A Father to His Men What the Hell, Hero? Slap-Slap-Kiss Naked People Are Funny Alas, Poor Villain Mistaken for Gay Arranged Marriage No-Sell Well-Intentioned Extremist Parental Abandonment Bait-and-Switch Rich Bitch Soundtrack Dissonance It Will Never Catch On Adaptational Heroism The Smart Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Broken Bird Due to the Dead Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Imagine Spot Madness Mantra Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Thriller timeperiod Posthumous Character Your Head A-Splode Parental Substitute La Résistance Faking the Dead Have a Gay Old Time Artistic License – Gun Safety Protagonist Title Superhero Insult Backfire You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Captain Ersatz Rule of Three Adaptational Villainy Femme Fatale "Awesome McCool" Name Suspiciously Specific Denial Dark and Troubled Past From Nobody to Nightmare Broken Pedestal As You Know Leitmotif Up to Eleven Wretched Hive Extreme Doormat Sanity Slippage Action Genre Developing Doomed Characters Take That! Broken Aesop Not Using the "Z" Word Badass Bookworm Plot Hole Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Five-Man Band Artistic License – Physics Exact Words Karmic Death More Dakka Dark Reprise A Minor Kidroduction Laughing Mad Ripped from the Headlines Small Name, Big Ego Word of God Narrator Curb-Stomp Battle The Oner Pyrrhic Victory Would Hurt a Child Damsel in Distress Improbable Aiming Skills Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Film Noir Index Your Cheating Heart The Lancer Anguished Declaration of Love Card-Carrying Villain Hell Is That Noise Fourth Date Marriage Calling the Old Man Out Index of Film Westerns The Cameo Offscreen Moment of Awesome Celebrity Paradox Brutal Honesty Bowdlerise Only a Flesh Wound Bar Brawl The '60s Too Dumb to Live Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Adaptational Badass Never Trust a Trailer The Mole Vomit Indiscretion Shot Meet Cute Once More, with Clarity! Real Life Writes the Plot Rewatch Bonus Film Series Needs Wiki Magic Love Mighty Whitey Anachronism Stew Meaningful Background Event Danny Peary Cult Movies List Oh, Crap! Here We Go Again! Spared by the Adaptation Get Out! Foreshadowing Unreliable Narrator Evil Laugh In Medias Res Gorn Faux Affably Evil The '70s Lock and Load Montage He Who Fights Monsters Shirtless Scene Department of Redundancy Department Animal Motifs Guile Hero Not Even Bothering with the Accent Red Shirt Fate Worse than Death Adaptation Name Change Ambiguous Disorder Defrosting Ice Queen Pimped-Out Dress Beard of Evil Friend to All Children Eyepatch of Power Poor Communication Kills After the End Domestic Abuse The Ace Freeze-Frame Bonus Cool Old Guy Mystery and Detective Films Slasher Movie Papa Wolf It's Personal Big Fancy House Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Chekhov's Gun Funny Background Event Large Ham No OSHA Compliance Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Television Movie Index Disguised in Drag Jerkass Has a Point Eiffel Tower Effect Not Quite Dead Cool Old Lady Idiot Ball He Knows Too Much Fantastic Racism The Chessmaster Affably Evil Badass in a Nice Suit Corrupt Corporate Executive Implacable Man Light Is Not Good Depraved Bisexual Only Sane Man Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Stinger Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Boom, Headshot! Cassandra Truth Psychological Thriller Hollywood Darkness Animated Credits Opening Berserk Button Dual Wielding Evil-Detecting Dog One Steve Limit Improvised Weapon Comically Missing the Point Immune to Bullets Catch-Phrase Bolivian Army Ending Early-Bird Cameo Tagline You Killed My Father Award-Bait Song No Ending Dramatic Irony Black and Gray Morality Parental Neglect Hypocritical Humor "Shaggy Dog" Story Babies Ever After Shell-Shocked Veteran Gone Horribly Right Film Noir Outrun the Fireball Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sadistic Choice Drill Sergeant Nasty As Himself Becoming the Mask Face–Heel Turn Heroes Want Redheads Ungrateful Bastard The Un-Reveal Casting Gag Ship Tease Serious Business Military and Warfare Films Loads and Loads of Characters Dirty Coward Dull Surprise Bilingual Bonus The Stoic The Big Guy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Villainous Breakdown Sequel Hook Sequel Escalation Match Cut And I Must Scream I Did What I Had to Do Manipulative Bastard Bavarian Fire Drill Groin Attack Almost Kiss Deadpan Snarker The Atoner Heterosexual Life-Partners Deal with the Devil Disappeared Dad Sacrificial Lion Sealed Evil in a Can Ms. Fanservice The Sociopath Spiritual Successor Nice Guy Scare Chord Bound and Gagged Silent Movie Nice Hat Star-Crossed Lovers Grey and Gray Morality True Companions Super Strength Eagleland Brainless Beauty Fire-Forged Friends Final Girl Punny Name Fatal Flaw Epic Movie Authority Equals Asskicking Motor Mouth Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Eye Scream Retcon The Stoner An Arm and a Leg Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Line-of-Sight Name Historical In-Joke Sinister Minister Badass Grandpa Whole Plot Reference Properly Paranoid Those Two Bad Guys Book-Ends Ambiguously Gay Chekhov's Gunman And the Adventure Continues Sole Survivor Retired Badass Victoria's Secret Compartment Deconstruction Earn Your Happy Ending Time Skip Half the Man He Used to Be Breaking the Fourth Wall May–December Romance Say My Name Despair Event Horizon Gold Digger The Starscream Fan Disservice Anti-Hero Fatal Family Photo Death by Sex For Want of a Nail Frame-Up Sports Stories Darker and Edgier Aside Glance Christmas Movies Index Curse Cut Short Horror Comedy Adapted Out Reality Ensues The Casanova Manic Pixie Dream Girl Easily Forgiven The Quiet One Trailers Always Spoil Hero of Another Story Break the Haughty Romantic False Lead Police are Useless Names to Run Away from Really Fast Race Against the Clock Gilligan Cut Love Triangle Dressing as the Enemy Badass Longcoat The Dreaded Evil vs. Evil Italian Films In the Back Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Horror Films Dirty Cop This Is Gonna Suck Only One Name Silence Is Golden Humiliation Conga Handicapped Badass Lampshade Hanging Ambiguous Ending Fun with Acronyms Informed Ability Famous Last Words Anachronic Order What Happened to the Mouse? Reality Has No Subtitles No Celebrities Were Harmed Villain Song Rule of Cool All Just a Dream Fake Shemp Tempting Fate Double Entendre Parental Incest Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Aluminum Christmas Trees Gratuitous English