Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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