Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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