Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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