History Characters / PrincessMononoke

* BigBad: All depending on your point of view within the movie's GreyAndGreyMorality. While possibly being the BigGood, if you shoot his head off, he'll quickly become the latter.
* BigGood: All depending on your point of view within the movie's GreyAndGreyMorality. While possibly being the BigBad, the Forest Spirit is beloved by all and seen as a sort of guardian.

* BigBad: Depending on your point of view in the film's GreyAndGreyMorality. While possibly being the BigGood, she's also after all the one who threw the proverbial first stone and is bent on killing the Forest Spirit.
* BigGood: Depending on your point of view in the film's GreyAndGreyMorality. While possibly being the BigBad, Lady Eboshi genuinely cares for the people of Iron Town and they, in turn, look to her as a beacon of hope.

* {{Bishonen}}: An incredibly handsome (former) prince.

* DoesNotLikeMen: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] Lady Eboshi has no romantic attachments and a cynical view of men in general, given that she buys up the contracts of every brothel girl she finds to give them a new life and employment in Iron Town. As her quote above indicates, she also outright states "You can't trust men" and generally gives women positions of power in the city, treating men as more [[MenAreTheExpendableGender expendable.]] That being said, her personal bodyguard and second-in-command in the field is a man (Gonza), and she treats the male lepers just as well as the females. All told she's fonder of women than men, but doesn't necessarily hate the latter.

* BadassBaritone: He's voiced by Creator/KeithDavid in the English dub.

* ContraltoOfDanger: In the English dub.

* NecessaryEvil: She sees the destruction of the forest and genocide of the gods and spirits therein as necessary to protect and feed her people. (With marauding samurai raiding the countryside, they need weapons to defend themselves from attacks, as well as raw ore to trade for food.) At least, she does before her CharacterDevelopment.

* BoyishShortHair: Her hair doesn't even reach her chin.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Has a distrust of other humans due to being raised in the forest.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Never breaks a sweat. Even after she loses her arm.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Along with the above trope, Ashitaka will eventually die from the curse imparted to him.

%%* ActionGirl: She is the foremost example.

%%* NatureHero: Despite being the Princess in the English title, San is much closer to being this than a JunglePrincess.

%%* ArchEnemy: With Lady Eboshi.

* HateSink: In a story full of GreyAndGreyMorality, [[AntiVillain Anti Villains]] and AffablyEvil [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villains]], he sticks out like a sore thumb for being the only main antagonist with no redeeming quality shown. Although, it may be because he doesn't appear in person.

->'''Voiced by:''' Masahiko Nishimura (JP), John [=DeMita=] (EN)

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Among [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores her people]] in Iron Town, she is universally adored and revered. The women of the village are especially loyal to her, since she freed many of them from prostitution.

* AMotherToHerMen: Able to buy up the bond of every brothel girl she meets and gives them a new and better life in Iron Town. She's shown to care deeply about the men and women of Iron Town, even knowing the names of random ox-cart drivers. Even when she chooses to keep hunting the Forest Spirit rather than defend them, it seems to be because she has faith that they can continue to stand strong rather than YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.

* DefrostingIceQueen: She comes very close to killing Ashitaka with her knife to his Addams apple, but after she witnesses the forest spirits heal him, she warms up to him.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Although she hates most humans, expect Ashitaka she is horrified at the Gorillas trying to kill him.

* HappilyAdopted: San casts away her human heritage in favour of being a wolf. Is so happily adopted that she fully believes herself to be a wolf, and that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.

* MeaningfulName: "San" is Japanese for "three". She is the only daughter (adopted and human) of Moro's three children. The other two are biologically related to her.

* WarriorMonk: The cynical Jigo completely inverts the traditional image of a Japanese Buddhist warrior monk. Instead of being a fighter for a righteous cause, or a contemplative mystic with {{Enlightenment Superpower}}s, he and his mercenary band lack any and all moral scruples which would otherwise prevent them from carrying out any act, no matter how repugnant, [[MoneyDearBoy as long as they gets paid for it]], and he makes no attempt to hide this fact. Neither do we see him meditating, reciting mantras, nor performing any kind of Buddhist ceremony.[[note]]This is likely due to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail; however, he doesn't seem to be like the person who would perform these rituals even in the most hypocritical manner[[/note]] The most Buddhist thing about him are probably his robes.

* UncertainDoom: Assuming he was actually present during the siege of Irontown, he likely was consumed by the Forest Spirit along with his army.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: {{Implied}}. She was a prostitute in the past and mentions that she (along with other women) were never treated fairly.

* CoolPet: A swift, agile, exotic antelope who follows Ashitaka around with quiet devotion.

* WarriorMonk: The cynical Jigo completely invert the traditional image of a Japanese Buddhist warrior monk. Instead of being a fighter for a righteous cause, or a contemplative mystic with {{Enlightenment Superpower}}s, he and his mercenary band lack any and all moral scruples which would otherwise prevent them from carrying out any act, no matter how repugnant, [[MoneyDearBoy as long as they gets paid for it]], and he makes no attempt to hide this fact. Neither do we see him meditating, reciting mantras, nor performing any kind of Buddhist ceremony.[[note]]This is likely due to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail; however, he doesn't seem to be like the person who would perform these rituals even in the most hypocritical manner[[/note]] The most Buddhist thing about him are probably his robes.

* WeaponOfChoice: His bow and arrows.

* WeaponOfChoice: She utilizes a spear or knife in combat.

* WeaponOfChoice: Utilizes a Chinese fire cannon to mortally wound both Nago and Moro, then later a more advanced matchlock musket created by her leper gunsmiths on both Lord Asano's samurai generals and the Forest Spirit.

* NubileSavage: She's quite pretty and well groomed for somebody RaisedByWolves, aside from the fact that her face is often smeared with blood. It may have something to do with the fact that the wolves that raised her are also magical Shinto demigods.

* RedIsHeroic: The red fang markings on both her face and blades. Not to mention her mask. Although, she's more of an AntiHero: while Lady Eboshi and her followers are desecrating the forest and the spirits, San's solution (general murder and terror) isn't actually fixing the problem.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: By the end of the film, San admits that Ashitaka's love means so much to her but she cannot quit her home to live with him in Irontown; there's too much bad blood between her and the settlers, not to mention Eboshi. Where their relationship will go from there... Her final smile suggests that it will hold hate at bay for many years to come.

* WhenSheSmiles: That final close-up... *sniff*

* TheFairFolk: Subverted. Kohroku thinks they're this and is terrified when they first appear, but in reality, they mean no harm at all.

->'''Voiced by:''' Sumi Shimamoto (JP), Creator/JadaPinkettSmith (EN)

* TheFairFolk: Averted. Kohroku fears them to be this, but in reality, they mean no harm at all.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Lady Eboshi's full Japanese name, Eboshi Gozen, alludes to the legendary, twelfth-century female samurai warrior Tomoe Gozen.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Among [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores her people]] in Iron Town, she is universally adored and revered.

* RaisedByWolves: She was adopted by the wolf goddess Moro while still in swaddling clothes. Albeit the wolves are gods that can speak.

* OneManArmy: It's already established he has the strength of ten men, but then he takes on [[spoiler:the forces of Irontown, Lord Asano and Okkoto]] ''all at once''.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Princess Mononoke", while not San's actual name, roughly translates to 'princess of the vengeful spirits.'

->'''Voiced by:''' Sumi Shimamoto (JP), Jada Pinkett Smith (EN)