Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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