History Characters / CastleInTheSky

* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Muska shoots off her pigtails when she defiantly refuses to cooperate with him.]]

* SilkHidingSteel: Especially in her first scene and the climax.

* FauxAffablyEvil: As Sheeta's captor, he is quite corteous and polite, also toward Pazu. Once he gains control of [[spoiler:Laputa]], however, he sheds the facade.

* LargeHam: Very loud and very upfront. At one point, she is even ''eating'' a very large ham, which would count as a LampshadeHanging had this film been made later. Cloris Leachman's voice acting in the Disney dub takes it UpToEleven.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:He reveals to Sheeta that they're both descended from Laputa's royalty, though it's downplayed since they're distant relations.]] It helps that he's [[ActorAllusion voiced]] by Creator/MarkHamill in the dub.

* BeautyIsBad: He's admittedlly quite handsome with{{Bishonen}}-esque features, particularly compared to the General. He's also a raging megalomaniac who finds killing his comrades fun.

* HateSink: Muska initially comes off surprisingly charismatic, level-headed, and intelligent (due to his wicked behavior), but upon arriving at Laputa he quickly shows himself to be a grandstanding, self-entitled, sociopathic bastard who just wants to bully the world into worshipping him. This is especially emphasized by the [[PsychopathicManchild childish tantrum]] he throws over wanting to burn down all of Laputa's plants out of annoyance and the joy he gets in slaughtering his men and threatening Sheeta. Even when Sheeta tells him just ''why'' the Laputans gave up their power, Muska [[IRejectYourReality refuses to listen]] like the stubborn brat he is and rants that he's going to make Laputa powerful again. Nobody sheds a tear(or even notices for that matter) when he dies pathetically in his collapsing kingdom. Muska is an especially notable example since Creator/HayaoMiyazaki abhors BlackAndWhiteMorality, making his entitled, power-hungry self stick out among Ghibli's more [[AntiVillain morally ambiguous]] and [[AffablyEvil oddly likable]] antagonists.

* MadeOfIron: He falls '''straight through a brick floor''' and sustains no injuries whatsoever.

* OutrankingYourJob: Subverted. Muska is a colonel and Mouro is a general. But he is a special government agent. This means the military rank is irrelevant since they are technically in two different organizations. [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction The organization that Muska answers to]] is really the one in charge here and that might be why Muoro despises him so much.

* OutrankingHisJob: Subverted. Muska is a colonel and Mouro is a general. But he is a special government agent. This means the military rank is irrelevant since they are technically in two different organizations. [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction The organization that Muska answers to]] is really the one in charge here and that might be why Muoro despises him so much.

* BadassBeard: One of them has a long beard and is quite strong.

* LackOfEmpathy:

-->'''Muska''': The same technology that kept Laputa airborne also made it A MAJOR POWER THAT ONCE DOMINATED THE ENTIRE planet.

* DawsonCasting: Rather eccentrically, a then 21-year-old James van der Beek is cast as this character in Disney's dub, [[VocalDissonance resulting in him sounding considerably more mature than his intended age.]]
** On the flipside, both Mayumi Tanaka and Barbara Goodson were in their ''thirties'' when they voiced this character in the Japanese and JAL dubs, respectively. It remains debatable on whose take on this character is preferable.

* DefiantCaptive: People may complain she is a bit more "whiny" than other Ghibli heroines, but she did [[EstablishingCharacterMoment knock out Muska in her first scene]] and later [[spoiler:stood up to him quite epically in the throne room.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Dola is perhaps the single driest-witted character in the whole film. She suggests in a deadpan tone that Sheeta "keep practicing" her pirate lingo, and when her sons get into a brawl early on, sh quips to herself, "Leave it to my little idiots to start a riot."

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/IchiroNagai (JP), Mike Reynolds (US '89), Creator/JimCummings (US '03), Björn Gedda (SV)

The captain and mother of the sky-pirates; she's another of the people on the hunt for Sheeta and her amulet, pursuing her along with the military.

A colonel who acts as a covert operative in the military; he takes control of the government's effort to discover Laputa. He's the movie's BigBad and another person trying to use Sheeta to find the city, having lead the soldiers who kidnapped her before the start of the plot. Unbeknownst to the rest of the military, he seems to have his own motives for finding Laputa.

A general in the army who is one of the leaders behind the effort to find Laputa. He works with Muska only reluctantly, suspicious of his covert operations.

An old man living in the caves beneath the city. He possesses knowledge of Laputa and its resources, such as the aetherium that helps it to fly.

Characters who appeared in the film, ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''.
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->'''Voiced by''': Keiko Yokozawa (JP), Lara Cody (US '89), Creator/AnnaPaquin (US '03), Ester Sjögren (SV)

The second protagonist of the story, a young boy working in a mining town whose father died after a lifetime of fruitlessly seeking the legendary flying city, Laputa. Wishing to clear his name, he jumps at the chance to find Laputa after rescuing a girl named Sheeta, who possesses a connection to the city.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/muska_7349.jpg]]

* LargeHam: Very loud and very upfront. At one points she is even eating a very large ham, which would count as a LampshadeHanging had this film been made later. Cloris Leachman's voice acting in the Disney dub takes it UpToEleven.

* HateSink: Muska initially comes off surprisingly charismatic, level-headed, and intelligent (due to his wicked behavior), but upon arriving at Laputa he quickly shows himself to be a grandstanding, self-entitled, sociopathic bastard who just wants to bully the world into worshipping him. This is especially emphasized by the childish tantrum he throws over wanting to burn down all of Laputa's plants out of annoyance and the joy he gets in slaughtering his men and threatening Sheeta. Even when Sheeta tells him just ''why'' the Laputans gave up their power, Muska [[IRejectYourReality refuses to listen]] like the stubborn brat he is and rants that he's going to make Laputa powerful again. Nobody sheds a tear(or even notices for that matter) when he dies pathetically in his collapsing kingdom. Muska is an especially notable example since Creator/HayaoMiyazaki abhors BlackAndWhiteMorality, making his entitled, power-hungry self stick out among Ghibli's more [[AntiVillain morally ambiguous]] and [[AffablyEvil oddly likable]] antagonists.

* HateSink: Muska initially comes off surprisingly charismatic, level-headed, and intelligent, but upon arriving at Laputa he quickly shows himself to be a grandstanding, self-entitled, sociopathic bastard who just wants to bully the world into worshipping him. This is especially emphasized by the childish tantrum he throws over wanting to burn down all of Laputa's plants out of annoyance and the joy he gets in slaughtering his men and threatening Sheeta. Even when Sheeta tells him just ''why'' the Laputans gave up their power, Muska [[IRejectYourReality refuses to listen]] like the stubborn brat he is and rants that he's going to make Laputa powerful again. Nobody sheds a tear(or even notices for that matter) when he dies pathetically in his collapsing kingdom. Muska is an especially notable example since Creator/HayaoMiyazaki abhors BlackAndWhiteMorality, making his entitled, power-hungry self stick out among Ghibli's more [[AntiVillain morally ambiguous]] and [[AffablyEvil oddly likable]] antagonists.

* TheSociopath: Possibly the most monstrous Hayao Miyazaki antagonist. He is manipulative, greedy, vicious, power hungry and boy does he fly off the handle when he goes mad with power.

* HateSink: Muska initially comes off surprisingly charismatic, level-headed, and intelligent, but upon arriving at Laputa he quickly shows himself to be a grandstanding, self-entitled, sociopathic bastard who just wants to bully the world into worshipping him. This is especially emphasized by the childish tantrum he throws over wanting to burn down all of Laputa's plants out of annoyance and the joy he gets in slaughtering his men and threatening Sheeta. Even when Sheeta tells him just ''why'' the Laputans gave up their power, Muska [[IRejectYourReality refuses to listen]] like the stubborn brat he is and rants that he's going to make Laputa powerful again. Nobody sheds a tear(or even notices for that matter) when he dies pathetically in his collapsing kingdom. Muska is an especially notable example since Creator/HayaoMyazaki abhors BlackAndWhiteMorality, making his entitled, power-hungry self stick out among Ghibli's more [[AntiVillain morally ambiguous]] and [[AffablyEvil oddly likable]] antagonists.

* RoyalBlood: [[spoiler:She's actually a Laputian princess.]]