History Characters / KnivesOut

* DoNotCallMePaul: The help is not allowed to call him "Ransom," like his family does -- they have to call him by his ''real'' first name, Hugh.

* FishOutOfWater: Compared to the first film where he's in his element, Blanc is demonstrably out of place in ''Glass Onion'' being randomly strung along to Miles Bron's weekend getaway with his group of rich, influential, but [[WithFriendsLikeThese douchey friends.]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Blanc delivers his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Thrombeys, Nana chuckles a little.

* ClothingReflectsPersonality: She's wearing through the entire movie her fur coat and her hat. This serves to illustrate her general helplessness, but also illustrates the rest of the family's personality: That none of them care about her or pay her any attention as none of them thought of helping her out them.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Her [[spoiler:spotting Ransom returning to the house--the only eyewitness to his murder attempt--and subsequent telling Blanc about what she saw]] happen entirely off-screen, although we do get a flashback to the latter.

-->'''Philip''': You're not in the bath again, are you?\\
'''Blanc''': ''No.''

* FatalFlaw: ''Glass Onion'' shows that Blanc has a need to challenge his mind, and as such, despite shining when dealing with complicated mysteries, things that are simple, such as social deduction games and the [[spoiler: central mystery of that film]] often puzzle him more than anything complicated, simply because he refuses to apply Occam's Razor until it's almost too late.

* TheGadfly: [[spoiler: In ''Glass Onion'', he is this when he unapologetically ruins the murder mystery game that Miles has set up by using his detective skills, simply to mess with Miles.]]

* MalaProper:
** He can mix metaphors like a bartender handles a mojito. Aside from the glorious doughnut rant at the top of the main page, and the web quote at the bottom, he also calls the family "...a pack of vultures, [[TitleDrop knives out]], beaks bloodied." While vultures ''do'' have beaks; they're birds not pack animals; and they tend not to attack with bladed weaponry...

* BeneathNotice: Discussed by Harlan, who reasons that once she is "cleared" of suspicion as his accidental killer by his cover-up plan, nobody will think twice about her.

* DidntSeeThatComing: After realizing that Fran is onto him and is trying to expose his crimes, Ransom destroys the toxicology report in the medical office and kills Fran himself to prevent her from squealing about everything. However, he never considered that Fran would make a ''second'' copy of the toxicology report and stash it in her locked drawer in the case of an emergency, nor for Marta and Blanc to find it just before turning over the inheritence to him and the rest of the Thrombeys.

* GoldDigger: Pretty much every member of the Thrombey clan wants a piece of Harlan Thrombey, be it his fortune, the publishing and royalty rights to his novels, or his house. Joni is perhaps the biggest example, however, as unlike the others she is not a blood member of the family; she's the widow of Harlan's son who just kind of kept hanging around after his death.[[spoiler:Naturally, as soon as it's revealed that Marta is Harlan's sole inheritor, she becomes a veritable magnet for barely veiled accusations of being one of these. She isn't, however.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his conservative views, he openly hates his nephew Jacob, referring to him as a "little shit" and a Nazi.

* FatalFlaw: His ControlFreak tendencies, [[DramaQueen flair for drama]], stubbornness, and ComplexityAddiction. He thinks he knows what's what better than anyone, and when [[spoiler:it seems like Marta accidentally administered a morphine overdose, he immediately overrules her desire to call an ambulance and orchestrates a complex cover-up via suicide to keep her beyond suspicion.]] He's also heard twice saying "my mind's made up" in regard to cutting off his family members, and it's this same attitude of confident finality [[spoiler:that makes him resolved toward an ultimately pointless suicide.]] As Detective Blanc explicitly states at the end, had Harlan simply listened to [[spoiler:Marta]], he would still be alive.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his general dickishness and being a smug {{Jerkass}}, he seems genuinely disgusted by his family's hypocrisy and moral posturing. He might be a jerk, but at least he's [[AtLeastIAdmitIt honest about it]].

* ADegreeInUseless: What some other family members say about her degree at an expensive liberal arts college, which is something "Marxist." Ransom calls her an SJW major.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It's easy to miss, but in the first flashback scene where Ransom grabs his jacket and storms out of house, he gently touches Nana's arm while going out the door. Nana then asks if he's leaving. It's noteworthy that Nana does not respond to any of the other family members, not even Meg when she makes an effort to talk to her. All of Nana's future statements involve mentioning Ransom. It's possible Ransom actually cared for her and showed her some kindness over the years, even a little, since taking the time to do that on his way out is more than the rest of the family bothered to do and is out-of-character for him. Of course, that doesn't mean she's going to cover up for him...

* HiddenDepths: He sings show tunes to himself when he's waiting for Marta.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Makes no pretenses that he's anything but a complete {{Jerkass}} and selfish member of the IdleRich, but at least that means he's not a BitchInSheepsClothing like most of his family, and he can be disarmingly charming and sincere-seeming in contrast to them... [[spoiler:even though he's the worst of the bunch.]]

** In ''Glass Onion'', he jokingly references the film ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' and his self-comparison to Batman mentioned just up page at Cowboy Cop is partialy prompted by being called "the world's greatest detective," an epitath of the Caped Crusader.

* PosthumousCharacter: Neil, Harlan's oldest son, die 15 years before the movie's events. He's only brought up once to explain Joni and Meg's connection into the family with no other characterization.

* ProppingUpTheirPatsy: [[spoiler:Hugh Ransom Drysdale, the BlackSheep of the rich Thrombey family, is the only one to help the late Harlan Thrombey's nurse Marta after the family turns on her for inheriting the estate. Marta believes she accidentally overdosed Harlan, but Ransom switched her medicines to get her to kill him and lose the inheritance he was told she'd be getting. As such, under the pretense of allyship, Ransom gets Marta's account of the events but learns his murder attempt using her failed due to her choosing the correct medicine. Ransom thinks quickly and continues to let Marta think she is guilty, yet encourages her to fight for the inheritance while he secretly goes to destroy the proof of her innocence so his plan to discredit her and get back the family money can still go through. Ransom's guilt isn't unraveled or suspected until Harlan's toxicology report is shown to detective Benoit Blanc and proves Marta administered the correct medicine.]]

* JerkAss: In ''spades.''. It's pretty much his entire personality. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, pay attention to the scene where he takes Marta to a restaurant after helping her escape from the will reading when her car wouldn't start. He's parked his car so that it takes up two spaces.