History Characters / AndThenThereWereNone

* [[spoiler:XanatosRoulette]] - [[spoiler: She attempts this in the game and fails, thanks to one, tiny event she did not foresee: Patrick Narracott being stranded on the island.]]

'''Lawrence Wargrave''' is a retired hanging judge with a no-nonsense attitude. He is accused of deliberately sentencing an innocent man, Edward Seton, to hang. [[spoiler: It turns out that not only was Mr. Seton truly guilty, the judge is also the murderer. He could hold a possible record for sweeping ''nearly every single category'' under the [[XanatosPlannedThisIndex Xanatos index.]] Ah, David Xanatos would have been ''very'' proud, indeed...]]

* [[spoiler:XanatosRoulette]] - [[spoiler: Works ''ridiculously'' well in the book, but fails in the Hollywood adaptations.]]

** The 1989 adaptation takes this to a whole new level: Not only is he TooDumbToLive, he is also borderline-AxCrazy. After discovering the body of [[spoiler: the General,]] he actually ''tries to shoot Lombard.''

* [=~It's All About Me~=][=/=]LackOfEmpathy - [[spoiler: So much so that U.N. Owen characterizes him as essentially an animal and kills him first- since he has no morals or empathy to speak of, he's the most [[AmbiguousInnocence "innocent".]] Owen can't scare him; the worst he can do is force him to die in pain.]]

* ValuesDissonance: She trivializes Lombard's murders because the victims were black.
* [[ProperLady]] ''Mercilessly deconstructed'' and she becomes a...

* [[spoiler:LoveHurts]] - And how!

* [[YamatoNadeshiko Yamato Nadeshiko]] - ''Mercilessly deconstructed'' and she becomes a...

* WhyDiditHaveToBeSnakes: She hates, ''hates'' bees and wasps. [[spoiler: And of course, Wargrave uses it to his advantage.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Besides his crime of course, it's kind of interesting that while the newer version of the novel replaced the racist earlier title, it keeps anti-Semitic thoughts of Lombard, and while his chivalry is a redeeming quality, it also marks him as sexist.

** So, in a later Canadian novel adaption, nothing happened to him because of this property. He then admit to the police that he killed the other nine people so they can hang him, but he can't explain the story.

* [=~It's All About Me~=][=/=]LackOfEmpathy - [[spoiler: So much so that Wargrave characterizes him as essentially an animal and kills him first- since he has no morals or empathy to speak of, he's the most [[AmbiguousInnocence "innocent".]]]]

* ShrinkingViolet: Mrs. Rogers, sorta. ''Specially'' after their crime is revealed; ever since then, she seems to be always at the verge of a breakdown.

* [[HangingJudge Hanging Judge]] - Obviously [[spoiler: although in a way subverted, since despite his relish in punishing the guilty (and you know becoming a SerialKiller), he would extensively research the cases before him and advise the jury appropriately to make sure innocent defendants weren't punished]]

* [[spoiler: ObfuscatingDisability]] - not in canon, but a popular trope for productions of the play is to have him introduced using a wheelchair

* LackOfEmpathy - [[spoiler: So much so that Wargrave characterizes him as essentially an animal and kills him first- since he has no morals or empathy to speak of, he's the most [[AmbiguousInnocence "innocent".]]]]

* [[BreakTheCutie Break The Cutie]] - So very much. This becomes even worse in the Russian film adaptation as [[spoiler: in addition to the [[MindRape mental rape]] she undergoes, she is also ''actually'' raped.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards - When Emily Brent gloats about how she drove her "sinful" maid killed herself, Vera is very unnerved.

'''Dr. Edward George Armstrong''' is a successful Harley Street surgeon and also a recovering alcoholic at the beginning of the novel. He is accused of killing a patient while operating drunk. [[spoiler: As the novel goes on, the remaining characters begin to suspect he is the killer after his mysterious disappereance, only for it to turn out that he became an unwitting accomplice in the judge's plan and ended up getting murdered by the judge himself.]]

'''William Henry Blore''' is a former policeman who tends to be a bit too bold for his own good. He is accused of causing the death of an innocent man by planting false evidence and landing him in prison for life.

'''Emily Caroline Brent''' is a staunchly religious spinster who takes a cold, unforgiving attitude towards anyone who, in her eyes, is a sinner. She is accused of driving her pregnant servant girl to suicide. [[spoiler: In the game, she is the murderer--Gabrielle Steele, who killed the real Emily Brent--her motive being to torture Wargrave by making him watch others die and being powerless to stop it because he sentenced her lover to death.]]

'''Vera Elizabeth Claythorne''' is a young former governess, now gym teacher and secretary. She is accused of causing the death of her young charge by allowing him to swim out to sea and drown, which she vehemently denies. [[spoiler: It turns out that she did do it so the charge's uncle, who was her lover, could inherit the child's estate. Said lover was the only one who found out, but by then Vera was cleared of all charges, so he crossed the DespairEventHorizon and turned into TheAlcoholic. Vera is constantly tormented by memories of the ordeal, until it reaches the breaking point at the end, where she is faced with the choice to hang herself...and does so. However, this is averted in the play and game, where it was the uncle who killed the boy.]]

'''General John Macarthur''' is a retired World War I general. He is accused of causing the death of his wife's lover by sending him on a mission that guarantees him dead.

'''Anthony James Marston''' is a young, spoiled vain youth with little concern for others. He is accused of causing the death of two young children by accidentally running them over.

* LackOfEmpathy - [[spoiler: so much so that Wargrave characterizes him as essentially an animal and kills him first- since he has no morals or empathy to speak of, he's the most [[AmbiguousInnocence "innocent".]]]]

'''Thomas and Ethel Rogers''' are the butler and maid who accomodate the other guests. They are accused of causing the death of their former employer by withholidng a vital drug.

* DomesticAbuser: Rogers mentally dominated his wife and essentially forced her into causing the death of the old lady.

'''Lawrence Wargrave''' is a retired hanging judge with a no-nonsense attitude. He is accused of deliberately sentencing an innocent man to hang. [[spoiler: It turns out that not only was the man guilty, the judge is also the murderer. He could hold a possible record for sweeping ''nearly every single category'' under the [[XanatosPlannedThisIndex Xanatos index.]] Ah, David Xanatos would have been ''very'' proud, indeed...]]

* [[spoiler:AxCrazy]]

* [[spoiler:XanatosFuneral]]

'''Vera Elizabeth Claythorne''' is a young former governess, now gym teacher and secretary. She is accused of causing the death of her young charge by allowing him to swim out to sea and drown, which she vehemently denies. [[spoiler: It turns out that she did do it so the charge's uncle, who was her lover, could inherit the child's estate. Said lover was the only one who found out, but by then Vera was cleared of all charges, so he left her. Vera is constantly tormented by memories of the ordeal, until it reaches the breaking point at the end, where she is faced with the choice to hang herself...and does so. However, this is averted in the play and game, where it was the uncle who killed the boy.]]

* TheOphelia

* DomesticAbuser: Rogers mentally dominated his wife and essentially forced her into causing the death of their employer.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He definitely has a chivalrous streak in the novel and WouldntHitAGirl [[spoiler: although since he got killed because of it, it could also be considered [[DeathByRacism Death By Sexism.]]]]

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment of Funny]] / {{Narm}}- [[spoiler: His death]] in the 1945 film.
--> "I ''get'' it!"
--> [[spoiler: *splat*]]

* {{Narm}} - [[spoiler: The depiction of his death scene]] in the 1989 adaptation. To better explain it, [[spoiler: in the book, he is killed by a marble clock shaped like a bear falling on his head--hence, the rhyme "a big bear hugged one". This isn't ''quite'' pulled off the exact same way in the movie adaptations, which simply had him crushed by a falling statue. The 1989 adaptation, however, is set in Africa, where there are no buildings for any statutes to fall onto him from.]] So how do they adjust this to fit? [[spoiler: By having him getting stabbed through the heart with a teddy bear slid on the knife.]] Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.

* [[MoralEventHorizon Moral Event Horizon]] - Not many fans are very forgiving towards her after she admits to having driven Beatrice Taylor to suicide. Agatha Christie makes her ''worse'' in the play.

* [[MisaimedFandom Misaimed Fandom]] - Despite her crime being horrifying enough to cross the [[MoralEventHorizon Moral Event Horizon]], she is the most popular character in the fandom.

* [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco In Leather Pants]] - Lombard seems to be gaining himself a bit of a fandom on DeviantArt.

* [[MisaimedFandom Misaimed Fandom]] - Much like Vera, Lombard, despite having rather despicable traits, is one of the most popular characters in the fandom.
* [[MoralEventHorizon Moral Event Horizon]] - While Lombard is something of an [[AntiHero Anti Hero]] in the book, the Russian film version changes that. He ceases to have any sympathy after he [[spoiler: ''rapes'' Vera Claythorne, which plays a small but pivotal role in driving her to the breaking point.]]

* [[TheWoobie The Woobie]] - Many, many fans find him to be the most [[SympatheticMurderer sympathetic]] of all the guests.

* [[spoiler:MagnificentBastard]]

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment of Funny]] / {{Narm}}- His death in the 1945 film.
--> "I ''did'' it!"

* [[YamatoNadeshiko Yamato Nadeshiko]] - ''Mercilessly and deconstructed'' and she becomes a...

* FinalGirl: Beautifully {{subverted}}. [[spoiler:She's the last victim left standing, but is DrivenToSuicide anyway]].

* [[spoiler:SparedByTheAdaptation]] - [[spoiler: Play and Hollywood adaptations. Depending on what you do in the last chapter of the game, you can either play this straight, or brutally subver it.]]

* [[YamatoNadeshiko Yamato Nadeshiko]] - ''Mercilessly and brutally deconstructed'' and she becomes a...
* [[{{Yandere}} Yandere]] - Less in the Hollywood adaptations, but ''very'' much in the book. Not quite ''as'' much in the Russian film adaptation, (justified in that most of her Yandere-ness is revealed through her thoughts, which would be more difficult to pull off in a movie) but a single flashback showing her [[spoiler: coldly watching Cyril die after Hugo explains why he can't marry her]] is all it takes to seal it.

* [[GentlemanAdventurer Gentleman Adventurer]] - What he is the Hollywood versions, although this can be attested to [[spoiler: the character not really being Lombard.]] Novel!Lombard is more like a subversion/evil version of the trope.

* [[spoiler:OutGambited]] - In the Hollywood film versions, and [[spoiler: the game.]]

* [[{{Darwinist}} Darwinist]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In one instance, she voices a sentiment of racial equality (in reference to Lombard's deed being downplayed because his victims were "natives").

* [[spoiler:SparedByTheAdaptation]] - [[spoiler: Play and Hollywood adaptations. Depending on what you do in the next-to-last chapter of the game, you can either play this straight, or brutally subver it.]]

'''General John Macarthur''' is a retired World War I general. He is accused of causing the death of his wife's lover by sending him on a mission that guarentees him dead.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He definitely has a chivalrous streak in the novel and WouldntHitAGirl [[spoiler: although since he got killed because of it, it could also be considered [[DeathByRacism Death By Sexism.]]]

* [[GentlemanAdventurer Gentleman Adventurer]] - What he is the Hollywood versions, although this can be attested to [[spoiler: the character not really being Lombard.]]

* [[WouldntHitAGirl Wouldn't Hit A Girl]] - Played straight between him and Vera [[spoiler: with disastrous results, ending in his death.]]

* [[HangingJudge Hanging Judge]] - Obviously

* [[spoiler:XanatosSucker]]

* [[spoiler:XanatosSucker]]