History Characters / TheManFromUNCLE2015

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Gets a CruelAndUnusualDeath of being accidentally electrocuted, then set on fire. Neither of our heroes give a damn.

* GeniusBruiser: He's big, and he's strong, but he's ''definitely'' not dumb.

%%* BoxedCrook: The reason he works for the CIA.

%%* TheCharmer: Which he uses to his advantage with their hotel concierge, for fun.

* RedOniBlueOni: The cool, calm blue to Illya's red.

* SmugSnake: He's got moments of it, once others (like Illya) get past his charmer exterior.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: If he's not in full dress - he'll almost always have one of these at least.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Solo mentions that Kuryakin began having psychotic episodes around the time his father was arrested. [[spoiler:We get to witness one near the end of the film, after he is ordered to kill Solo]]. In reality what Illya experiences is not psychosis, seeing as psychoses [[InsaneEqualsViolent don't work that way]], though this could be a case of DeliberateValuesDissonance. The movie is set firmly in the 1960s, and diagnosis and understanding of psychological disorders was shaky at best. The ambiguity, and the 'psychotic' label, likely comes from a reluctance of the KGB to label their star agent as a problem case, as well of a lack of understanding about IED and PTSD.

%%* BadassDriver: In the first scene chasing Napoleon and Gaby.
* BecomingTheMask: He pretends to be engaged to Gaby as part of their cover. But eventually, he starts to take his role as her fiance a bit too seriously (see GreenEyedMonster below).

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His dad was once one of Stalin's top subordinates but [[spoiler: got arrested on charges of embezzlement of state funds and was shipped off to a Gulag.]] As a result, his mother was forced to do some rather unpleasant things to survive as Solo implies in their first conversation.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Goes toe-to-toe with Solo in this regard.

%%* HotBlooded: Oh dear lord and ''how''...

* RedOniBlueOni: The more emotional, straightforward, red to Napoleon's blue.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Classic example. Not only he's the one with the saddest past (dad ended up in a gulag, and then [[SexForServices mum became popular with husband's friends]]) but [[spoiler:he's also the one who watches the woman he fell in love with betraying him and his companion]]. [[spoiler: Well, actually she was pretending to do that one.]]
%%* SmartPeoplePlayChess: One of his hobbies.

Gaby Teller is an East Berlin mechanic pulled into a spy scheme to find her nuclear scientist father. [[spoiler:She's also a British agent working for Alexander Waverly, and is ultimately recruited into U.N.C.L.E. along with Napoleon and Illya.]]

* ActionGirl: Though not seen doing any actual fighting per se, [[spoiler: she ''is'' in on the operation and appears to be quite the skillful agent on her own.]]
* BadassDriver: Escaping from Illya.

* TheCasanova: Which he uses to his advantage with Victoria to get on her good graces.

* GentlemanThief: Napoleon's backstory in the film. Also his cover in Italy. And, by all implications, the life he'd like to lead after his forced employment at the CIA is over. Actually, Napoleon never ''stopped'' being a GentlemanThief; Sanders makes it very clear he's aware of the fact that Napoleon has continued his criminal career while working for the CIA.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's smarmy, he can come off as quite the InsufferableGenius, and has enough snark to cover whole city blocks--but when the chips are down, he shows his real colors. [[spoiler: Exemplified at the end when he shows that for all his talk, he recognized what Illya's watch meant to him--when he happens to gun down the mook who has it, he takes it and returns it to Illya, instead of picking up his gun, despite having it readied.]]

* BadassDriver: In the first scene chasing Napoleon and Gaby.

* HotBlooded: Oh dear lord and ''how''...

* LargeAndInCharge: His height is often commented upon.

* RussianGuySuffersMost: Classic example. Not only he's the one with the saddest past (dad ended up in a gulag, and then [[SexForServices mum became popular with husband's friends]]) but [[spoiler: he's also the one who watches the woman he fell in love with betraying him and his companion]]. [[spoiler: Well, actually she was pretending to do that one.]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: One of his hobbies.

* TheStoic: Is this most of the time. Until you press his BerserkButton.

* BoxedCrook: The reason he works for the CIA.

* TheCharmer: Which he uses to his advantage with their hotel concierge, for fun.

* DeadpanSnarker: He and Illya both get their shots in.

* MrFanservice: Without even having to go shirtless at any point no less!
* OddCouple: With Illya.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Finds and retrieves [[spoiler: Kuryakin's watch]] and in the end [[spoiler: when given the option to kill him, decides to disobey orders in favor of returning the watch and burning the disk which cements their friendship instead.]] He also goes back to rescue Kuryakin when he's at risk of drowning.

* BondVillainStupidity: After a whole film of being a borderline NoNonsenseNemesis, she finally screws up big time in the final act when [[spoiler:she reacts very harshly to the fact Napoleon Solo killed her husband]] and she [[spoiler:spends way too much time on the radio [[EvilGloating gloating]] about how she is going to [[ExitVillainStageRight make her getaway]] and she will make it her mission in life to find and kill all of Solo's loved ones before coming for him last, enough time for the aircraft carrier Solo and the rest of the team are on to get a fix on her location and [[StuffBlowingUp blow her up with a cruise missile]].]]

* FamilyExtermination: Victoria threatens to torture every living relative Napoleon has to death out of vengeance for [[spoiler: the death of Alexander.]] [[spoiler: She doesn't live long enough to get the chance.]]

* BadassBaritone: American accent or not, that ''is'' Henry Cavill's natural voice.

* BadassBaritone: Russian accent or not, that ''is'' Armie Hammer's natural voice.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis (Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/TakanoriHoshino (Japanese dub)