History Characters / DaVincisDemons

* TortureTechinician

* Badass: The man impales thousands of his enemy on a stake without mercy, is made of iron, and is implied to be supranatural as well

* CreepyAwesome: He is Dracula, what are you expecting?

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: As he tells Lorenzo, he takes many commissions but finishes few, because his attention always shifts before their completion.

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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: As he tells Lorenzo, he takes many commissions but finishes few, because his attention always shifts before their completion.

* GuileHero: Though it's honestly not his strong suite, though that's more due to bad luck than anything.

* HotBlooded: Giuliano[[spoiler: 's ghost]] claims he works best when angry.

%% * TricksterArchetype

%% * KidSidekick

* BastardBastard: He's the bastard son of the [[spoiler: fake Pope and a jewish prostitute.]]

* TheHeavy: He's the antagonist who the plot for most of the first season.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After a traumatic series of experiences in South America, [[spoiler: throws himself on the mercy of his uncle, the real Sixtus, begging for either absolution or death. Sixtus grants him neither, refusing to forgive him for standing by while his daughter was slaughtered.]]

* TheReveal: Later in the series it's revealed that [[spoiler:Riario and Lucrezia are cousins.]]

%% * WickedCultured

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Sleeps with Giuliano and finds out she's carrying his child [[spoiler: days before he dies.]]

* YouAreInCommandNow: In the season 2 finale, [[spoiler: she is declared Regent of Florence after Clarice flees the city with her children, leaving Vanessa's new born son as the only Medici left in the city.]]

%% * {{Ambadassador}}

!Francesco [[spoiler: (Alessandro)]] Della Rovere/Pope Sixtus IV

* ActingForTwo: James Faulkner plays both Sixtus [[spoiler: and his brother]].

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: He's the evil sibling. His brother, the real Francesco, is the good one.]]

%% * HistoricalDomainCharacter
* LargeHam: KISS THIS RING!!

* PedophilePriest: The first we see of him, he's naked in his bath with a young boy and a knife on the boy's neck.[[spoiler: {{Subverted}} in that he isn't actually a member of the clergy at all, he's just impersonating one.]]
* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: To Francesco, the true Pope Sixtus. He is shown to have initiated a coup, in the second season.]]

%% * TheEvilGenius

** HeelFaceTurn: Eventually [[spoiler: he's enlightened to the fact that Sixtus is an impostor and begins working against him.]]

%% * KnightTemplar

** Seems to be one for Zoroaster, doing the heavy work for Riario much like Zoroaster does for Leonardo.

%% * SmugSnake

!The Prisoner/ [[spoiler: Francesco Della Rovere/ Pope Sixtus IV]]
->'''Played By''': [[spoiler: James Faulkner]]

* ActingForTwo: He has the same actor as [[spoiler: Sixtus]].

* TheChessMaster: He's shown to be a master of go, and he's playing the long game to gain his freedom and vengeance all in one swoop, [[spoiler: passing up opportunities to escape because the time isn't right yet.]]

* HermitGuru: PlayedWith. He's an Italian prisoner, but he functions as an advice-giving hermit..
%% * PapaWolf
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: As the Pope.]]
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Bizarrely mixed with CruelMercy; he refuses to kill Riario when Riario tries to offer his services to the Prisoner as penance, [[spoiler: unable to forgive Riario for the role he played in his daughter's death]], despite the fact that Riario is perhaps the most valuable pawn he could hope for, but at the same time, he refuses to kill Riario, either.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He is usually seen to be playing the Chinese game of go, and is shown to be quite capable of strategy.

* WalkingSpoiler: His exact nature is a major reveal, during season 2.

%% * DeadpanSnarker
%% * EccentricMentor
%% * HermitGuru

* HumanNotepad: [[spoiler: The map to the [[{{MacGuffin}} Book of Leaves is tattooed onto his skin.]]]]

* Foil: To da Vinci. She says herself that the two of them are living proof of his belief that people are capable of anything; [[spoiler: he's proof of the heights they can reach, and she's proof of the depths they can sink to.]]

->'''Played By''': Lara Pulver

->'''Played By''': Alexander Siddig

* CombatPragmatist: Once he lost his eye, he also removed the bridge of his nose so as not to loose his peripheral vision.[[spoiler: Unfortunately, he can't do anything about his lack of depth perception.]]

* TheUsurper: [[spoiler: To Francesco, the true Pope Sixtus. He is shown to have initiated a cue, in the second season.]]

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: He impregnates Vanessa [[spoiler: [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy days before his death.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's clearly based on Niccolò Machiavelli.
** The second season [[spoiler: finale has given us his full name, and his character isn't just based on Machiavelli, he ''is'' Machiavelli.]]

* PedophilePriest: The first we see of him, he's naked in his bath with a young boy and a knife on the boy's neck.

* ManipulativeBastard: Aranges to take Leonardo from the Medicis by bringing sodomy charges against him and rigging the trial.

* MissingMom: He mother's whereabouts have been unknown since his childhood.

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%% * TallDarkAndSnarky

%% * BabiesMakeEverythingBetter
%% * TheChick

%% * ArrangedMarriage: To Lorenzo.

%% * AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
%% * {{Badass}}
%% * DeadpanSnarker
%% * HistoricalDomainCharacter

%% * PoliticallyActivePrincess: Well, not a princess, but close enough.
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%% * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

%% * TheBrute

%% * FaceHeelTurn

%% * PunchClockVillain

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%% * EvilUncle: To [[spoiler: Lucrezia]].
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%% * DepravedHomosexual

%% * EvilSoundsDeep

%% * {{Jerkass}}

%% * ManipulativeBastard

%% * {{Badass}}

%% * TheChessMaster

%% * CoolOldGuy

%% * DeadpanSnarker

%% * LoveableRogue

%% * DeadpanSnarker

%% * TheSmartGuy

%% * AffablyEvil
%% * AristocratsAreEvil
%% * {{Badass}}
* BadassInANiceSuit: Riario is the Renaissance equivalent.
%% * CulturedBadass
%% * BastardBastard

%% * FauxAffablyEvil
%% * TheHeavy
%% * HistoricalDomainCharacter

%% * ShadowArchetype: To Leonardo.

%% * SinisterShades
%% * SmugSnake
%% * TheSociopath
%% * SoftSpokenSadist

%% * AttentionDeficitOohShiny!
%% * AwesomeByAnalysis
%% * BadassBeard
%% * BadassBookworm

%% * GuileHero

%% * HyperAwareness

%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold

%% * SherlockScan

%% * HotBlooded
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Most of the time.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is both the co-ruler of Florence and very good in a sword fight.
%% * BabiesMakeEverythingBetter

%% * HandsomeLech
%% * HistoricalDomainCharacter
%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold

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!Nico

%% * BadassInANiceSuit: Riario is the Renaissance equivalent.

%% * TheDragon: To Sixtus.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: His exact race is unknown, as he's very dark for an Italian. He's implied to be a HalfBreed, of some sort, and fans usually assume that he is of Arab decent.

%% * TheLancer

%% * InsufferableGenius: Many times.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassInANiceSuit: Riario is the Renaissance equivalent.

* TheDragon: To Sixtus.

* ShadowArchetype: To Leonardo.

* ArrangedMarriage: To Lorenzo.
** PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: They're pretty happy together, even with Lorenzo's infidelity.

* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Well, not a princess, but close enough.

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* EvilUncle: To [[spoiler: Lucrezia]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: As the Pope.]]

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%% * {{Badass}}
%% * BadassInANiceSuit: Riario is the Renaissance equivalent.

%% * TheDragon: To Sixtus.

%% * ShadowArchetype: To Leonardo.

%% * ArrangedMarriage: To Lorenzo

%% * PoliticallyActivePrincess: Well, not a princess, but close enough.

%% * EvilUncle: To Lucrezia.

%% * LargeHam: KISS THIS RING!!

%% * FaceHeelTurn: He's apparently a fallen Son of Mithras.

%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: As the Pope.]]

%% * ShadowArchetype: To the Pope. The similarities in their deception are discussed by Lucrezia and The Turk.

* AncientConspiracy: Part of the Sons of Mthras, an ancient conspiracy.

%% * TheObiWan: To Leonardo

* PosthumousCharacter: He only recieves character development in flashbacks.