History Characters / DynastyWarriorsJinKingdom

* {{Hypocrite}}: Often mocks Xiahou Ba and Zhuge Dan as filthy traitors, while he himself also betrays Wei later. The {{irony}} is that both Xiahou Ba and Zhuge Dan defected [[WellIntentionedExtremist for more or less selfless reasons]], while Zhong Hui's motives in doing so are [[ItsAllAboutMe completely selfish]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Executing Cao Shuang was one thing. [[spoiler:But the decision to execute Xiahou Xuan solely for being related to him is what convinces Xiahou Ba, now believing that he could possibly be executed due to GuiltByAssociation, to defect from Wei.]]

* IdiotHair: Minor case and not noticeable outside of cutscenes in ''7''

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Positively towers over Yuanji

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: An unusual example, given that the trope is expressed through his name (no other character in DW is addressed using their childhood name). He's also this trope on a meta level. [[note]] He's so young that Chen Shou, the historian who compiled ''Records of the Three Kingdoms'', was five years his senior. Sima Yan, Yi's grandson and first Jin emperor, was two years his senior.[[/note]]

->'''Voiced by''': Takuya Kirimoto (Japanese), Creator/KeithSilverstein (English; ''7''-''8''), Thom Rivera (English; ''9''), Su Yu (Chinese; ''9'')

* ZettaiRyouiki: Nearly Grade S, lost only due to a lack of GirlishPigtails and glasses.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Except in ''8'' and his horsehair whip. Instead he has {{Sword Beam}}s.

* EndOfAnEra: His victory comment bemoans that, by his time, all the great heroes are going away. And, examining the in-game timeline, one can notice that he outlives every playable character in the game. He is the only playable character who served Emperor Hui (Sima Zhong who is Sima Yan's developmentally disabled son) and witnessed the early stage of [[SuccessionCrisis the War of the Eight Princes]] where he is falsely accused of high treason and he and his clan were executed[[note]]Sima Yao, who is Zhuge Dan's grandson, bears a grudge on Wen Yang for being one of the figures responsible for his grandfather's downfall and falsely accuses him for conspiring with the ousted regent, Yang Jun, who is the father of Empress Yang Zhi, Sima Yan's second wife [[ObnoxiousInLaws who never gets along with her daughter-in-law]], Empress Jia Nanfeng, the daughter of Jia Chong[[/note]].

A Jin advisor who has served the Sima family since the days of Wei (his father Jia Kui was also a Wei official), Jia Chong continues to serve them all the way through the formation of Jin. As the Sima family's political officer, he is in charge of negotiations, alliances and the handling of prisoners. His deep, sincere loyalty to the Sima family contrasts starkly with his methods, both pragmatic and often cruel, but nonetheless he has an essential role in the eventual unification of all China. Historically, his daughter Jia Nanfeng was Sima Zhao's granddaughter-in-law, and Sima Zhong's (Emperor Hui's) first empress; Nanfeng's mother Guo Huai was a niece of the similarly-named Guo Huai. Another daughter Jia Bao (mother was Lady Li Wan) was Sima Zhao's daughter-in-law as she married Sima You (who was made his uncle Sima Shi's heir, as Shi had no sons of his own).

* AlmightyMom: Her whole family fears her and while Sima Yi is still as nutty as he always was, she clearly has a leash on him. Historically, when Yi found a new favorite concubine and ignored her, she hid their children and stopped eating, demanding a written apology from him. She got it.

A Jin advisor who has served the Sima family since the days of Wei (his father Jia Kui was also a Wei official), Jia Chong continues to serve them all the way through the formation of Jin. As the Sima family's political officer, he is in charge of negotiations, alliances and the handling of prisoners. His deep, sincere loyalty to the Sima family contrasts starkly with his methods, both pragmatic and often cruel, but nonetheless he has an essential role in the eventual unification of all China. Historically, his daughter Jia Nanfeng was Sima Zhao's granddaughter-in-law, and Sima Zhong's (Emperor Hui's) first empress; Nanfeng's mother Guo Huai was a niece of the similarly-named Guo Huai. Another daughter Jia Bao was Sima Zhao's daughter-in-law as she married Sima You (who was made his uncle Sima Shi's heir, as Shi had no sons of his own).

* EveryoneIsRelated: Historically, his children's spouses came from other famous clans of the era. [[note]]To wit: his eldest son Shi married a Xiahou (and supposedly poisoned her after she discovered the Sima clan's plan to usurp Cao Wei), a daughter of Wu Zhi (a Wei general; Shi later divorced Lady Wu) and Yang Huaiyu, Yang Hu's sister, a niece of Cai Wenji and Xin Xianying and a sister-in-law to a daughter of Xiahou Ba's. Zhao married Wang Yuanji, whose grandfather and father were respected officials of Cao Wei. Shi's and Zhao's full brother Gan married Man Chong's daughter. The trio's full sister married a grandson of Xun Yu (paternal) and Cao Cao (maternal). His son Zhou married the eldest daughter of Zhuge Dan; Lady Zhuge survived the fallout of her father's rebellion.[[/note]]

** Then again, his first historical wife Xiahou Hui died very early on him [[note]]See the surname? Allegedly, Shi had her poisoned after she found out about her husband's family's intentions to usurp Cao Wei. [[/note]], and he married two more before setting with the final one, Yang Huiyu [[note]]a niece of both Xin Xianying and Cai Wenji[[/note]] (the second one he divorced).

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: An unusual example, given that the trope is expressed through his name (no other character in DW is addressed using their childhood name). He's also this trope on a meta level. [[note]] He's so young that Chen Shou, the historian who compiled ''Records of the Three Kingdoms'', was five years his senior. Sima Yan, Yi's grandson and first Jin emperor, is two years his senior [[/note]]
* CoolHelmet: Which covers most part of his head, especially his hair.

* ActionDad: With the debut of his sons as playable characters, he fights along side with them.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Historically, he's close friends with Cao Pi and aided him several times, particularly with the latter's struggle against his brother, Cao Zhi, over the position as their father's heir. In turn, Cao Pi swiftly defended him against criticisms. By the time of Pi's son Rui's death, Rui appointed Sima as one of his adopted son's regents (Although Rui was young when he ascended the throne, he was at least 20 years old). In the games, the two have a loosely trusting relationship, though they're not genuinely close friends.

* ButtMonkey: In the ''Warriors Orochi'' games, he gets the short end of the stick where he became Dong Zhuo's lackey and later, gets hounded by Okuni. He even gets [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvnGT0LQ1iA this funny music]] as his {{Leifmotif}}, much to his chagrin. Then, he gets pulled into Hideyoshi's shenanigans of searching some beautiful goddess. It's like the whole universe wants to punish Zhong Hui for being a narcissist dick.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: One of the first steps towards Zhong Hui's rebellion was to frame his rival and drag him down with him. It never happens in 7, 8's historical route ends right before the rebellion takes place, and ''8: XL's'' new set of stages centered on it opens with Deng Ai and Wen Yang fighting their way out with their families and rejoining the Sima clan's forces.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Historically, he's close friends with Cao Pi and has aided him several times particularly with the latter's struggle against his brother, Cao Zhi, over the inheritance of their father. In turn, Cao Pi swiftly defended him against criticisms. By the time of Pi's death, he appointed Sima as one of his son's regents, but Pi warned Cao Rui to be wary of him. In the games, the two have a loosely trusting relationship, though they're not genuinely close friends.

* BadassFamily: He is the patriarch of the Sima clan with two sons, Shi and Zhao, who became the regents of Wei after his death, his daughter-in-law Wang Yuanji and his wife Zhang Chunhua. [[note]]After Yi's grandson Yan became the first emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Yan elevated all five relatives to the posthumous titles of emperor and empress. Grandfather Yi became Emperor Xuan of the Jin Dynasty, grandma Chunhua became Empress Xuanmu, father Zhao became Emperor Wen, mother Yuanji became Empress Wenming and uncle Shi became Emperor Jing. In addition, while Yi's brothers were not as famous as him, the eight brothers were collectively known as the "Eight Das of Sima" (as all their style names have "da" in them). [[/note]]

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Historically, he's close friends with Cao Pi and has aided him several times particularly with the latter's struggle against his brother, Cao Zhi, over the inheritance of their father. In turn, Cao Pi swiftly defended him against criticisms. By the time of his death, Pi appointed him as one of his son's regent but he warns his son to be wary of him. In the games, the two have a loosely trusting relationship though they're not genuinely close friends.

* LovableTraitor: Betrays Wei/Jin and joins Shu for what he believes is right. Historically, he betrayed Wei for three reasons.[[note]]First: many of Xiahou Ba's deeds went unnoticed. Second: He was very bitter towards Guo Huai. Third: Sima Yi and Cao Shuang were duking it out for the throne at the time which lead to a lot of instability, which even lead to Xiahou Ba historically abandoning his kids who narrowly avoided the execution-for-treason-by-proxy punishment.[[/note]]

* EvilChancellor: Played straight in 6, where Sima Yi stages a coup, kills Cao Cao, and takes control of Wei during his story. Subverted in 7 onwards where Sima Yi is content to serve Cao Cao and Cao Pi, only overthrowing the Cao family when he concludes that they've grown too incompetent to lead Wei.

** He's also this when compared to his fellow powerful officials Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun; the latter two served their lieges faithfully and did not empower their clan despite exercising great power as chancellor.

* EvilCounterpart: Played up for all it's worth to [[TheRival Zhuge Liang]], even if they historically had little to do with each other. [[note]]The pair only butted heads a couple of times during Shu's campaign against Wei, which occured in the twilight years of Zhuge's career.[[/note]]

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Due to Sima Zhao's HistoricalHeroUpgrade, some of historical Zhao's horrible traits are transferred to Jia Chong. Historically, he ''did not'' kill Cao Mao personally and instead had one of his subordinate officers do the dirty work for him, but also he had the subordinate did it as a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo; whereas the games depict this as "[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness execute the foolish emperor]]". Also, his reputation was ''quite'' ruined to the point that when Jin conquered Wu, the former Wu emperor [[TheCaligula Sun Hao]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]], brought up the topic to insult and shame him in front of the Jin Emperor (Sima Yan). [[note]]As if this wasn't enough, there were also the machinations of his daughter Nanfeng after his death, which contributed greatly to the civil war that was the War of the Eight Princes.[[/note]]

* TheStrategist: More of a tactician than a strategist, but he's the closest thing to a strategist Jin has after Sima Yi passes leadership to Sima Shi.

** This looks even more prominent when you realize who he will be a father of historically: Jia Nanfeng, the woman who instigated the War of the Eight Princes after Sima Yan passed away. (She also appears in ''Shin Sangoku Musou: Blast'', looking extremely evil.) No wonder Jia Chong needs to have the 'evil' personality for Nanfeng [[{{Irony}} to eventually inherit and abuse]].

* {{Irony}}: His ending in ''9'' has him advising his sons, Shi and Zhao, to raise worthy heirs. Too bad the former dies without a son, but Zhao chooses his eldest son, Sima Yan, as heir who eventually overthrows the Cao Wei kingdom, establishes the Jin Dynasty and conquers Wu, reuniting the entire land which many great heroes of the Three Kingdoms failed to do. However, Yan's short-sighted decisions to empower his male relatives into higher positions and make his eldest but developmentally disabled son as his successor led to a SuccessionCrisis that resulted in the fracturing of Imperial China once again. For greater irony, Yi's two sons Liang and Lun were regarded as two of the Eight Princes of the civil war.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Already in his fifties (at least) in Jin's Story Mode, and finally dies at 72 with no gray hair in sight. {{Lampshaded}} by Zhong Hui during his rebellion in Jin's hypothetical route in ''8'', where the rebellious general calls Sima Yi an old and unwanted man. Predictably, [[ShutUpHannibal Sima Yi will have none of that]], and earlier when his wife pushes for him to retire at least partly out of concern for their age.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In ''Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends'', Sima Yi NEVER appears in any of the new stages, and is only a mention in one of Jin's alternate hypothetical stage. This is because, at the time, Sima Yi's voice actor, Tsuyoshi Takishita, had passed away, and he didn't receive a new voice actor until Empires.

* RegentForLife: He is regent of Wei until his death.

Granddaughter of Wang Lang, and daughter of Wang Su, Wang Yuanji is a caring and gentle woman to the weak and innocent. With her husband Sima Zhao, and any authority figure however, she spares them no sympathy and is rather curt. Historically, she's one of a handful of women in imperial China who became empress dowager without first becoming empress. [[note]]Such cases occured when an emperor ascends the throne as the founder of a new dynasty, or by not being a son or brother of his predecessor, which was relatively rare in imperial China.[[/note]]

* {{Irony}}: His ending in ''9'' has him advising his sons, Shi and Zhao, to raise worthy heirs. Too bad the former dies without a son but Zhao chooses his eldest son, Sima Yan, as heir who eventually overthrows the Cao Wei kingdom, establishes the Jin Dynasty and conquers Wu, reuniting the entire land which many great heroes of the Three Kingdoms failed to do. However, Yan's short-sighted decisions to empower his male relatives into higher positions and make his eldest but developmentally disabled son as his successor led to a SuccessionCrisis that resulted in the fracturing of Imperial China once again.

** Historically, he was handicapped on another level: he did not manage to sire a son (although he had five daughters). As such his brother's son You was made his heir. This later became one cause for the War of the Eight Princes. [[note]]Although he was made Shi's heir, You's brother Yan worried about him inheriting or seizing the throne, especially since Yan's own heir Zhong was intellectually deficient. You, angered by his brother's suspicions of him, died in 283 at the age of 37. You's son Jiong, in turn angered by his father's untimely death, bore a grudge and later became one of the Eight Princes in the civil war.[[/note]]

A Jin advisor who has served the Sima family since the days of Wei (his father Jia Kui was also a Wei official), Jia Chong continues to serve them all the way through the formation of Jin. As the Sima family's political officer, he is in charge of negotiations, alliances and the handling of prisoners. His deep, sincere loyalty to the Sima family contrasts starkly with his methods, both pragmatic and often cruel, but nonetheless he has an essential role in the eventual unification of all China. Historically, his daughter Jia Nanfeng was Sima Zhao's granddaughter-in-law, and Sima Zhong's (Emperor Hui's) first empress; Nanfeng's mother Guo Huai was a niece of the similarly-named Guo Huai.

Jin, introduced to the games in ''[=DW7=]'' is essentially Wei in its later years as led by the Sima Clan (Sima Yi and later his sons, Sima Shi and Zhao). As by this point Wei is slowly but surely hitting a downward spiral, Sima Yi drives his forces to restore it to its former glory and shape a new world for the talented to rule at the top. On the surface, they come off as a group of extremely talented officers with an incredible arrogant streak...but as with every faction, it's more than that. They ultimately work towards stopping the fighting from going on any further and are, ultimately, the ones who succeed. Although driven by conquest, they are not quite fueled by the same ambitions of Cao Cao and his original force; they're driven to prove that they are taking over because as they see it, they deserve to rule as everyone else is too stupid to do it right. (At this point of time in the Three Kingdoms era, they're not entirely wrong; most of the best officers from all the Kingdoms are long dead by then.) Arguably, they have the most varied group of officers with very distinct weaponry. Their faction color is a teal blue and the qilin/kirin appears to be their symbol.