Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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