History Characters / FortBoyard

* MemeticHandGesture: When asked how many keys have been won by the contestants, Passe-Partout [[TheVoiceless won't speak the number out]], instead making it with his hands.

* MeaningfulName: The French expression "avoir la boule à zéro" means "being bald".

* AbsenteeActor: She didn't appear in the 1998 season, but came back the following year.

* TheVoiceless: They never talk onscreen. Because of this, though, they also appears in non-French versions of the show, resulting in an unexpected international fame.

* BaldOfAwesome: A strongman with a bald head.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Originally has long red hair, but starting 2021 her hair is ice blue. Also marks her character becoming more morally ambiguous.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: She's one of the show's most popular characters ever since she first appeared (or more exactly, since Delphine Wespiser plays her).

* TheVoiceless: They never talk onscreen. Because of this, though, they also appears in non-French versions of the show, resumting in an unexpected international fame.

* TheVoiceless: They never talk onscreen.

* ThemeNaming: '''Felin'''dra, as in "feline", which is appropriate for a tiger tamer.

* AscendedExtra: While he's always been one of the symbols of the fort, he used to be a mere trialmaster in earlier seasons, appearing two or three times an episode to ask a riddle. Later seasons turned him into the master of the fort and the closest thing the game has for an antagonist, giving him plenty more appearances, as he is the one giving each new trials and presiding the challenges with the Masters of Darkness.

Dwarves who are in charge of guiding the contestants through the fort. Passe-Muraille was introduced in 2004. Passe-Temps was discontinued in 2010 after the actor was laid off.

Fort Boyard's tamer of tigers, and the one in charge of activating the "tiger head" mechanism that grants access to the fort's treasure.

* AnimalMotifs: She's in charge of the fort's tigers (many things in the fort are tiger-themed) and has tiger symbols on some of her outfits.

* TheJailer: He imprisoned contestants who lose challenges in cells of the fort.

* {{Robinsonade}}: In his backstory, he was a former docker/sailor who got stranded on the fort after a storm. He was regularly seen handling materials and navigation instruments to build a boat.

* DarkIsNotEvil: They wear intimidating tiger masks and contestants confront them in the dark corners of the fort's underground parts, but they mean no harm.

A mysterious princess living in her own dimension within the fort, and the complete opposite of her twin sister Rouge.

* CainAndAbel: Blanche is Abel, Rouge is Cain. Rouge tried to fight her sister for the throne of the fort but lost and ended up being locked up.

* TheHighQueen: Her whole theming, though she can't reign over the fort since she's imprisoned in a timeless dimension.

The twin sister of Blanche. She lost a trial to become queen of the fort to her sister, and she is imprisoned in "The Cage" ever since.

* CainAndAbel: Rouge is Cain, Blanche is Abel. Rouge tried to fight her sister for the throne of the fort but lost and ended up being locked up.

One of the latest additions to the fort, Magik is a genie that was found by Passe-Muraille after his lamp drifted from the Middle East all the way to the fort. Père Fouras has him used in the "Fakir" challenge.

* SuddenNameChange: Sometimes they are renamed, as "Maîtres des Jeux" and "Maitres des Ténèbres", but it doesn't stick.

* TheBeastmaster: She tames tigers. When the time comes, she orders them to evacuate the treasure room so the contestants will be able to try completing the final challenge to win the treasure.

!!!'''Played by:''' Michel Scourneau (1990), Yann Le Gac (1991-2001, again since 2003), Didier Hervé (2002)

This mysterious order of tiger mask-wearing individuals is tasked to confront contestants in short tapletop-like challenges, usually in the second phase of the show. If contestants win said challenges, it increases the time they can spend in the treasure room in the show's climax.

* {{Expy}}: Between her bow, her braid and her clothes, she brings to mind [[Film/TheHungerGames Katniss Everdeen]].

The old and wise master of Fort Boyard who dresses in white (or very light pink) robes. Contestants must solve his riddles to get a key. In recent years he has taken more of a central and antagonistic role.

Page for the characters of ''Series/FortBoyard'' (French version).

* GenieInABottle: He comes out of a lamp. Once he was freed by Passe-Muraille rubbing his lamp, he pledged obedience to Père Fouras in gratitude, and offers him an [[FountainOfYouth Elixir of Youth]] (or a haircut). Instead, Père Fouras asks Magik to protect a key in a new challenge, "The Fakir".

* GenieInABottle: He comes out of a lamp. Once he's freed by Passe-Muraille rubbing his lamp, he pledged obedience to Père Fouras in gratitude, and offers him an [[FountainOfYouth Elixir of Youth]] (or a haircut). Instead, Père Fouras asks Magik to protect a key in a new challenge, "The Fakir".

First appearing in 1995 (and sometimes renamed "Maîtres des Jeux" and "Maitres des Ténèbres"), this mysterious order of tiger mask-wearing individuals is tasked to confront contestants in short tapletop-like challenges, usually in the second phase of the show. If contestants win said challenges, it increases the time they can spend in the treasure room in the show's climax.

* Game of Nim: One of their most well known challenges is this.

[[folder:Blanche]]
!!Blanche / La Juge Blanche / Princesse Blanche
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!!!'''Played by:''' Louise-Marie Hustings (2011), Raphaëlle Lenoble (2012), Delphine Wespiser (since 2013)

A mysterious princess living in her own dimension within the fort, and the complete opposite of her twin sister Rouge.

* {{Robinsonade}}: In his backstory, he was a former docker who got stranded on the fort after a storm. He was regularly seen handling materials and navigation instruments to build a boat.