Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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