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->'''Played by:''' Creator/HenrikDorsen

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->'''Played by:''' Creator/HenrikDorsen
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Freely admits she's only with Carl for clout.




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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: To solidify his working class status, he prefers a good burger to fine dining.
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* NoSocialSkills: He is flabbergasted when two attractive women volunteer to take a photo with him. Even when trying to party with them, he declines Yaya's repeated invitations to dance, feeling too embarrassed.
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A model and influencer who is more succesful than her boyfriend Carl.

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A model and influencer who is more succesful successful than her boyfriend Carl.



* OneWordVocabulary: As a result of her stroke, the only words she can say are "''in den Wolken''" (''up in the clouds'').

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* OneWordVocabulary: As a result of her stroke, the only words she can say are "''in only repeat 'Uli' (her husband) and 'in den Wolken''" (''up Wolken' ("up in the clouds'').
clouds"). Her husband clarifies she's fully cognizant, it's just that her language centers are damaged. It's implied 'in den Wolken' was the last thing she said right before she had her stroke.



* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Winston and Clementine, the English arms dealers, share the names of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill and his wife.


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* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Winston and Clementine, the snooty English arms dealers, share the names of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill and his wife.




* TheAllegedBoss: Captain Smith spends all his time drinking in his quarters in a bath robe, leaving his first mate and the chief stew to run the ship. He needs to practically be dragged from his quarters just to attend the captain's dinner.

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* TheAllegedBoss: Captain Smith spends all his time drinking in his quarters in a bath robe, bathrobe, leaving his first mate and the chief stew to run the ship. He needs to practically be dragged from his quarters just to attend the captain's dinner.
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* OneWordVocabulary: As a result of her stroke, the only words she can say are "''in den Wolken''" (''in the clouds'').

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* OneWordVocabulary: As a result of her stroke, the only words she can say are "''in den Wolken''" (''in (''up in the clouds'').

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* {{Profiling}}: He is accused of being one of the pirates who attacked the ship because he's black.
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\n* {{Profiling}}: He is accused of being one of the pirates who attacked the ship because he's black. \n[[/folder]]
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* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/WoodyHarrelson is front-and-center on the poster and billed alongside the two leads, and gets quite a bit of focus in the trailers and an AndStarring credit in the opening, but is a fairly minor character with around ten minutes of screen time in the film's second act only.

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* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/WoodyHarrelson is front-and-center on the poster and billed alongside the two leads, and gets quite a bit of focus in the trailers and an AndStarring credit in the opening, but Thomas is overall a fairly minor character with around ten minutes of screen time time, who only appears in the film's second act only.act.

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* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/WoodyHarrelson is front-and-center on the poster and billed alongside the two leads, and gets quite a bit of focus in the trailers, but is a fairly minor character with around ten minutes of screen time in the film's second act only.

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* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/WoodyHarrelson is front-and-center on the poster and billed alongside the two leads, and gets quite a bit of focus in the trailers, trailers and an AndStarring credit in the opening, but is a fairly minor character with around ten minutes of screen time in the film's second act only.


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* AMFMCharacterization: When we first see him, he is playing "The Internationale" on full blast in his cabin, telegraphing his political views very clearly.
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* DrunkWithPower: Abigail, the lower-class toilet cleaner who was decidedly on the bottom of the social ladder under normal circumstances, turns out to be the only one who has any kind of survival instincts at all, thus giving her power over the other survivors... leading her to gradually become increasingly corrupt, exploitative and abusive.

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* DrunkWithPower: Abigail, the lower-class toilet cleaner who was decidedly on the bottom of the social ladder under normal circumstances, turns out to be the only one who has any kind of survival instincts skills at all, knowing how to start a fire and fishing with her bare hands, thus giving her power over the other survivors... leading her to gradually become increasingly corrupt, exploitative and abusive. [[spoiler:In the end, she proves willing to kill to keep her power, if only for a time.]]
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* HypocrisyNod: He admits considers himself a terrible socialist because he gets paid way too much to captain the vessel and doesn't put his money towards the cause.

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* HypocrisyNod: He admits that he considers himself a terrible socialist because he gets paid way too much to captain the vessel and doesn't put his money towards the cause.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He considers himself a terrible socialist because he gets paid way too much to captain the vessel and doesn't put his money towards the cause.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: HypocrisyNod: He admits considers himself a terrible socialist because he gets paid way too much to captain the vessel and doesn't put his money towards the cause.
* InsistentTerminology: He is ''not'' a Communist, he's a ''Marxist''.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: His modelesque features are unaffected by the rough living they have to resort to in the final act.
* MrFanservice: [[GenderInvertedTrope A rare male example]]. He's a model, and his good physique is given plenty of focus throughout the film. It's analyzed in the opening model shoot, and he gets plenty of shirtless scenes once he and Yaya get on the boat.

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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[GenderInvertedTrope A rare male example]] His modelesque features are unaffected by the rough living they have to resort to in the final act.
* MrFanservice: [[GenderInvertedTrope A rare male example]]. He's a model, and his good physique is given plenty of focus throughout the film. It's analyzed in the opening model shoot, and he gets plenty of shirtless scenes once he and Yaya get on the boat.
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* MrFanservice: He's a model, and his good physique is given plenty of focus throughout the film. It's analyzed in the opening model shoot, and he gets plenty of shirtless scenes once he and Yaya get on the boat.

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* MrFanservice: [[GenderInvertedTrope A rare male example]]. He's a model, and his good physique is given plenty of focus throughout the film. It's analyzed in the opening model shoot, and he gets plenty of shirtless scenes once he and Yaya get on the boat.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Winston and Clementine, arms dealers who view themselves as arming defenders of democracy, are faced with the reality of where their weapons end up when [[ADisgraceToBlackbeard Somali pirates]] toss one of their grenades onto the yacht right next to them.]]

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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Winston and Clementine, arms dealers who view themselves as arming defenders of democracy, are faced with the reality of where their weapons end up when [[ADisgraceToBlackbeard [[RuthlessModernPirates Somali pirates]] toss one of their grenades onto the yacht right next to them.]]
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* MrFanservice: Naturally, given his profession.

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* MrFanservice: Naturally, He's a model, and his good physique is given his profession.plenty of focus throughout the film. It's analyzed in the opening model shoot, and he gets plenty of shirtless scenes once he and Yaya get on the boat.
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* DissonantSerenity: For much of the movie, she shows anger by [[GrinOfRage smiling and laughing joylessly]], even when she's ''not'' around other people. It's not until her stranding that she drops the act and ''really'' shows her anger.
* GrinOfRage: As with DissonantSerenity, a big tell that she's really upset is when she gives a practiced Instagrammable smile.
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* MrFanservice: Naturally, given his profession.

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* ConspicuousConsumption: Our intro to the yacht is a top-secret naval mission to drop off a special package via helicopter and diver to deliver goods to the ship. [[spoiler:It's Nutella. Dmitry wanted some.]] He's later rightfully mocked for it.




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* RagsToRiches: While he's not completely spotless and still indulges in stupid rich-boy antics, Dmitry is possibly the most humanised out of the rich assholes on board, and it's likely because it's heavily implied he used to be a menial worker or farmer (he sold ''fertiliser'') and only got rich because the economics of the time made him rich by being in the right place at the right time. He doesn't mock Carl and Yaya for being influencers who normally couldn't afford the trip, laughs at the guests trying to look fancy, and despite disliking his Communist ideals, goofs around with the Captain.





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* StereotypicalNerd: Jarmo is an extremely socially awkward computer programmer who cannot talk to girls and asks Yaya and Dmitry's mistress to help him post a revenge pic towards someone who ghosted him on his trip.


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* ArmsDealer: Winston and Clementine say that their business is precision manufacturing, but ''what'' they manufacture turns out to be hand grenades and other explosive weapons.


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* TheAllegedBoss: Captain Smith spends all his time drinking in his quarters in a bath robe, leaving his first mate and the chief stew to run the ship. He needs to practically be dragged from his quarters just to attend the captain's dinner.
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* WorkingClassHero: PlayedWith. The cleaning lady Abigail is the main character of the third act, and is initially presented as a sympathetic character: the more affluent characters are dismissive of her and take her for granted, even if it's immediately clear that she's got the street smarts that will keep them alive. But once she establishes her authority, she quickly becomes less sympathetic and heroic.
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* BoyishShortHair: Her close-cropped blond hair represents her terse personality and masculine uniform, especially in comparison to the model Yaya and the cleaner Abigail who wear their hair longer.

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* BoyishShortHair: Her close-cropped blond hair represents befits her terse personality and masculine uniform, especially in comparison to the model Yaya and the cleaner Abigail who wear their hair longer.

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->''"I do think it's quite crazy how it's such a hard thing to talk about. Money."''



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->''"I need to know that the person I'm with intends to take care of me. Otherwise I'm wasting my time."''



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A Russian oligarch who made his fortune in fertilizer. He is on the boat with his wife Vera and mistress.

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->''"And when you have money, you know, you don't need money to sleep, you understand? Money must not sleep, you know."''

A Russian oligarch who made his fortune in fertilizer. He is on the boat with his wife Vera and mistress.mistress Ludmilla.



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->''"I'm very rich. Yes, let's not beat around the bush."''



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->''"Well, our weapons have been employed in upholding democracy all over the world."''



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->''"Who am I? In the yacht, cleaning lady. Here, captain."''



* ChekhovsGunman: She only appears very briefly in the first two acts before becoming the pivotal character of the third.



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->''"It's always, 'Yes, sir! Yes, ma'am!'"''





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\n* HypercompetentSidekick: She's the chief steward but has to wrangle her ineffectual alcoholic captain as well.



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->''"But you can't be rich and expect the rest of the world to be poor. And while you're swimming in abundance, the rest of the world is drowning in misery. That's not the way it's meant to be."''
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* {{Hypocrite}}: He considers himself a terrible socialist because he gets paid way too much to captain the vessel and doesn't put his money towards the cause.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Winston and Clementine, arms dealers who view themselves as arming defenders of democracy, are faced with the reality of where their weapons end up when [[ADisgraceToBlackbeard Somali pirates]] toss one of their grenades onto the yacht right next to them.]]
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Characters from the film ''Film/TriangleOfSadness''.

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!!Carl
->'''Played by:''' Creator/HarrisDickinson

A model, as well as Yaya's boyfriend and social media curator.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: His modelesque features are unaffected by the rough living they have to resort to in the final act.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Carl looks visibly guilty when he sees that the crew member he complained about for a petty reason is summarily fired and sent away from the yacht. It turned out to be a form of NiceJobFixingItVillain.
* NiceGuy: PlayedWith. He presents himself as affable and mild-mannered, and certainly cows to more forceful personalities, but is quite controlling and manipulative in his own way.
* SexForServices: He becomes Abigail's boytoy on the island in exchange for favorable treatment.

!!Yaya
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CharlbiDean

A model and influencer who is more succesful than her boyfriend Carl.
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* BadInfluencer: Downplayed as she's not a nasty person, but it's clear that her social media influencer side hustle and the luxuries it's provided her have left her painfully self-absorbed. She can't do anything without taking a photograph first, and [[spoiler:when a return to civilization is in the cards, instantly assumes Abigail would want to work for her.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Yaya develops a number of angry red blotches on her face while stranded on the island, marring her model-perfect features - but she's still recognizably lovely, and they're gone by the last scene.
* CondescendingCompassion: [[spoiler:She offers Abigail a job as an assistant once they return to civilization, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the ''last'' thing Abigail wants is to go back to a life of menial labor. It's implied that Abigail kills her for it.]]
* MsFanservice: She's a famous model who spends the film in beautiful and often revealing clothing and swimwear. She survives most of the final act in a skimpy minidress despite being in the wilderness.
* TrophyWife: Yaya mentions that, when she's too old to model anymore, she can become a trophy wife for a rich man. Carl, as a male model, does ''not'' have this to fall back on, which generates a good deal of tension between the two of them.

!!Dimitriy
->'''Played by:''' [[Creator/ZlatkoBuric Zlatko Burić]]

A Russian oligarch who made his fortune in fertilizer. He is on the boat with his wife Vera and mistress.
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* BigFun: He's a pudgy old man with an easygoing and jolly personality.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Dimitry is an amoral, opportunistic ultra-capitalist, but [[spoiler:he appears genuinely distraught when his wife Vera's body washes ashore on the island. (He still picks the jewelry off her corpse, though.)]]

!!Jarmo
->'''Played by:''' Creator/HenrikDorsen

An awkward Swedish tech billionaire.
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* RichBoredom: Implied. He recently hit it big by selling his company, but he now has more money than he knows what to do with and very little in the way of companionship to show for it. He first attempts to financially reward Yaya and Ludmilla for being nice to him.

!!Therese
->'''Played by:''' Creator/IrisBerben

A wealthy German woman who has been rendered paraplegic and mostly mute from a stroke.
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* TheLoad: She can't walk or speak properly and is thus portrayed as a burden to the others, who have to be reminded to share food and water with her. Even when [[spoiler:a vendor finds her on the shore, she is unable to communicate their situation.]]
* OneWordVocabulary: As a result of her stroke, the only words she can say are "''in den Wolken''" (''in the clouds'').

!!Winston and Clementine
->'''Played by:''' Creator/OliverFordDavies (Winston) and Creator/AmandaWalker (Clementine)

An English couple who develop weapons.
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* AffablyEvil: Winston and Clementine are a perfectly polite, friendly old English couple, sincerely in love with each other, who also happen to own a company that manufactures grenades and land mines - and who speak about a UN ordinance banning land mines as a personal obstacle for ''them.''
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Winston and Clementine, the English arms dealers, share the names of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill and his wife.

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!!Abigail
->'''Played by:''' Creator/{{Dolly de Leon}}

A Filipino cleaner who proves herself to have strong survival instincts.
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* DrunkWithPower: Abigail, the lower-class toilet cleaner who was decidedly on the bottom of the social ladder under normal circumstances, turns out to be the only one who has any kind of survival instincts at all, thus giving her power over the other survivors... leading her to gradually become increasingly corrupt, exploitative and abusive.

!!Paula
->'''Played by:''' Creator/VickiBerlin

The cruise's controlling chief steward.
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* BoyishShortHair: Her close-cropped blond hair represents her terse personality and masculine uniform, especially in comparison to the model Yaya and the cleaner Abigail who wear their hair longer.
* ControlFreak: Paula displays a need to order people around to suit her tastes. It's justified on the ship since she needs to cover for both the useless, alcoholic captain and the unhelpful first mate, but she persists after [[spoiler:they're all shipwrecked]].


!!Thomas
->'''Played by:''' Creator/WoodyHarrelson

The alcoholic captain.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Creator/WoodyHarrelson is front-and-center on the poster and billed alongside the two leads, and gets quite a bit of focus in the trailers, but is a fairly minor character with around ten minutes of screen time in the film's second act only.
* TheAlcoholic: He's too soused to be of much use during the voyage, and leaves much of the day-to-day ship-running to Paula and Darius. Even when things go to shit he's more preoccupied with getting drunk with Dimitriy and talking shit over the intercom.

!!Nelson
->'''Played by:''' Creator/{{Jean Christophe Folly}}

A man who claims to have worked in the engine room.
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* {{Profiling}}: He is accused of being one of the pirates who attacked the ship because he's black.
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