Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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