Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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