Tropescilloscope: Historical-Domain Character

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

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