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* [[GuileHero Guile Heroine]]: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resort to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).

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* [[GuileHero Guile Heroine]]: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resort resorting to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).
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* NervesOfSteel:

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* NervesOfSteel: You'd need this to come up earnestly come up with and tell stories to a sultan for a thousand (and one) nights that you're pretty sure will have your head cut off the moment he finds your storytelling inadequate.



* SilkHidingSteel

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* SilkHidingSteelSilkHidingSteel: She seemed like a servile woman that just let herself get put at risk to the sultan, but she holds fast in her nearly-three-year long plan.

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Not really a princess at an point.


* BadassPrincess: Though more for courage and cunning then for warlike talent per se.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness



* NervesOfSteel: No kidding!

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* NervesOfSteel: No kidding!
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* {{Determinator}}: She tells her husband stories for almost three years, in which time she gives birth to *three children*. Consider that she has to make up these stories on the fly, even on the nights she's gone through hours of labor. And she still did it.


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* SilkHidingSteel
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* GuileHeroine: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resort to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).

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* GuileHeroine: [[GuileHero Guile Heroine]]: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resort to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).
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* SpiritedYoungLady
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* TheStoryteller

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* TheStorytellerTheStoryteller: Considering her plan wouldn't have worked if she ''wasn't'' a good storyteller...
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* HoldingTheFloor: Probably the UrExample.

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* HoldingTheFloor: Probably the UrExample.UrExample; all 1,001 stories were made up by her, all to stall the sultan from carrying out her execution.
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!!Scheherazade: Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and [[GeekyTurnOn charming him with her stories]].

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!!Scheherazade: !!Scheherazade
Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and [[GeekyTurnOn charming him with her stories]].



* HeroicSacrifice: Though unlike most examples of this trope, not a lethal one. The "sacrifice" isn't her life; it's her marrying a sultan she ''knows'' is a crazy tyrant, thus sacrificing her freedom and peace of mind...because once she marries him and pulls off her gambit to keep herself from being executed, she can keep him from executing any ''more'' newlyweds.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Though unlike most examples of this trope, not a lethal one. The "sacrifice" isn't her life; it's her marrying a sultan she ''knows'' is a crazy tyrant, thus sacrificing her freedom and peace of mind...mind… because once she marries him and pulls off her gambit to keep herself from being executed, she can keep him from executing any ''more'' newlyweds.



* ManicPixieDreamGirl: ''Intentionally'', so she can charm and entrance the sultan into not having anybody else executed.

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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: ''Intentionally'', ''Intentionally'' invoked, so she can charm and entrance the sultan into not having anybody else executed.



* [[TalkingInBed Storytelling In Bed]]

!!Harun Al-Rashid: Commander of the Faithful in YeGoodeOldeDays. Appears in many adventures.

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* [[TalkingInBed TalkingInBed: Storytelling In Bed]]

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!!Harun Al-Rashid: Al-Rashid
Commander of the Faithful in YeGoodeOldeDays. Appears in many adventures.



* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It can vary from story to story.

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* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: {{Jerkass}}[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It can vary from story to story.



!!Sindbad: merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages and invites a beggar to his feast to tell him about his adventures.

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!!Sindbad: merchant !!Sindbad
Merchant
who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages and invites a beggar to his feast to tell him about his adventures.



* TheJinx : All of his companions have an uncomfortable habit of dying. You wonder why anyone ever sails with him.

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* TheJinx : TheJinx: All of his companions have an uncomfortable habit of dying. You wonder why anyone ever sails with him.

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* JumpedAtTheCall: So she could pull off her plan to stave off the sultan's madness.



* JumpedAtTheCall: So she could pull off her plan to stave off the sultan's madness.
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* {{Jerkass}}

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* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It can vary from story to story.
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* HappilyMarried: After the 1,001 nights are over, she becomes this to the ''formerly'' mad sultan, because after her stories he's genuinely in love with her. Apparently the mad sultan can be quite a good husband when he's not threatening to execute every newlywed for fear of her potentially cheating on him.

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* HappilyMarried: After the 1,001 nights are over, she becomes this to the ''formerly'' mad sultan, because after her stories he's genuinely in love with her. Apparently the mad sultan can be quite a good husband when he's not threatening to execute every newlywed for fear of her potentially cheating on him. It may also have helped that he's a friggin' ''sultan'', so she gets quite a bit of power and wealth at the [[SarcasmMode small price]] of preventing her own execution for over three years first.

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* GuileHeroine

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* GuileHeroine GuileHeroine: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resort to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).
* HappilyMarried: After the 1,001 nights are over, she becomes this to the ''formerly'' mad sultan, because after her stories he's genuinely in love with her. Apparently the mad sultan can be quite a good husband when he's not threatening to execute every newlywed for fear of her potentially cheating on him.



* JumpedAtTheCall

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* JumpedAtTheCallJumpedAtTheCall: So she could pull off her plan to stave off the sultan's madness.
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* HeroicSacrifice

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* HeroicSacrificeHeroicSacrifice: Though unlike most examples of this trope, not a lethal one. The "sacrifice" isn't her life; it's her marrying a sultan she ''knows'' is a crazy tyrant, thus sacrificing her freedom and peace of mind...because once she marries him and pulls off her gambit to keep herself from being executed, she can keep him from executing any ''more'' newlyweds.



* ManicPixieDreamGirl

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* ManicPixieDreamGirlManicPixieDreamGirl: ''Intentionally'', so she can charm and entrance the sultan into not having anybody else executed.
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* HighPriest: Sort of. Muslims have teachers not priests. But he is Caliph which was the highest religious position and so sort of like being both HighPriest and TheEmperor.

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* HeroicSpirit

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* HeroicSpirit HeroicSpirit: Shehererzade's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.
* HoldingTheFloor: Probably the UrExample.



* [[TalkingInBed Storytelling in bed]]

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* [[TalkingInBed Storytelling in bed]]
In Bed]]
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* MrViceGuy: Sinbad is a lot like Scrooge McDuck, ambitious (but not evil, ValuesDissonance not withstanding) and out to make a buck. In fact, by the end he's one of the richest men in Baghdad.

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* MrViceGuy: Sinbad is a lot like Scrooge McDuck, [=McDuck=], ambitious (but not evil, ValuesDissonance not withstanding) and out to make a buck. In fact, by the end he's one of the richest men in Baghdad.

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!!Scheherazade: Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and [[GeekyTurnOn charming him with her stories]]

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!!Scheherazade: Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and [[GeekyTurnOn charming him with her stories]]
stories]].



!!Sindbad: merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages and invites a begger to his feast to tell him about his adventures.

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!!Sindbad: merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages and invites a begger beggar to his feast to tell him about his adventures.
adventures.

* DoomMagnet: Sindbad is unlucky, very unlucky.



* GuileHero



* MrViceGuy: Sinbad is a lot like Scrooge McDuck, ambitious (but not evil, ValuesDissonance not withstanding) and out to make a buck. In fact, by the end he's one of the richest men in Baghdad.



* [[WalkingTheEarth Sailing The Ocean]]



* TheStoryteller

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* TheStoryteller
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade

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* GuileHero

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* GuileHeroGuileHeroine



* HeroicSpirit



* IronLady: With due allowances for limitations by cultural context Scheherazade would qualify quite well for this.



* KingIncognito : Goes around as this

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* KingIncognito : {{Jerkass}}
* KingIncognito:
Goes around as thisthis.




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* FemmeFatale : A heroic FemmeFatale and even a perfectly Kosher one by Muslim standards. But yeah.
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!!Scheherazade: Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and charming him with her stories

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!!Scheherazade: Princess who saves her people by marrying a mad sultan and [[GeekyTurnOn charming him with her stories
stories]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl
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Must be in-universe.


* NerdsAreSexy
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* SpiritedYoungLady
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* NerdsAreSexy
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Removing bad example of Nerds Are Sexy


* NerdsAreSexy: Yes indeed!
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* TheJinx : All of his companions have an uncomfortable habit of dying. You wonder why anyone ever sails with him

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* TheJinx : All of his companions have an uncomfortable habit of dying. You wonder why anyone ever sails with himhim.
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!!Sindbad: merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages

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!!Sindbad: merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages
voyages and invites a begger to his feast to tell him about his adventures.



* TheStoryteller: His adventures are told by himself

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* TheStoryteller: His adventures are told by himselfTheStoryteller
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* [[TalkingInBed Storytelling in bed]]

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* [[TalkingInBed Storytelling in bed]]bed]]

!!Harun Al-Rashid: Commander of the Faithful in YeGoodeOldeDays. Appears in many adventures.

*TheChainsOfCommanding: Which is why he needs the recreation of having adventures.
*TheEmperor
*KingIncognito : Goes around as this
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure
*RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething



!!Sindbad: merchant who made incredible amounts of money on various voyages

*FatherNeptune
*IntrepidMerchant
*TheJinx : All of his companions have an uncomfortable habit of dying. You wonder why anyone ever sails with him
*NonIdleRich
*SelfMadeMan
*TheStoryteller: His adventures are told by himself

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