Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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