Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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