Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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