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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Monsieur Noirtier survives a murder attempt using poison because he has been taking a medicine that contains the same compound, and has built up a resistance to it. Realizing that his granddaughter and heir Valentine is also a target, he starts giving her small doses of his medicine; this saves her life when the poisoner has a go at her.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Monsieur Noirtier survives a murder attempt using poison brucine (a variant of strychnine) because he has been taking a medicine that contains the same compound, and has built up a resistance to it. Realizing that his granddaughter and heir Valentine is also a target, he starts giving her small doses of his medicine; this saves her life when the poisoner has a go at her.
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* HomoeroticSubtext. The lesbian relationship between Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly is never stated overtly, but it's ''very strongly'' implied.
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** Finally, in case you still had your head in the sand...In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
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** Finally, in case you still had your head in the sand...sand: In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
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* HomoeroticSubtext. The lesbian relationship between Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly is never stated overtly, but it's implied. In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
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* HomoeroticSubtext. The lesbian relationship between Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly is never stated overtly, but it's implied. ''very strongly'' implied.
** It begins subtly, by comparing her beauty to that of Diana--who was virginal, preferring no company to male company.
** She is incredibly quick to admire the beauty of other women, while attesting no opinion of the good-looks of any male characters.
** Then the narrator describes the glances of Eugenie's admirer as being deflected off "Minerva's shield," oh which btw "once protected Sappho." Sappho, you know, of Lesbos.
** They are found sitting on the same chair in front of the piano, making duets out of solos by each playing one hand of the song.
** Finally, in case you still had your head in the sand...In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
** It begins subtly, by comparing her beauty to that of Diana--who was virginal, preferring no company to male company.
** She is incredibly quick to admire the beauty of other women, while attesting no opinion of the good-looks of any male characters.
** Then the narrator describes the glances of Eugenie's admirer as being deflected off "Minerva's shield," oh which btw "once protected Sappho." Sappho, you know, of Lesbos.
** They are found sitting on the same chair in front of the piano, making duets out of solos by each playing one hand of the song.
** Finally, in case you still had your head in the sand...In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
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** Noirtier reveals that he killed [[spoiler:Eugene's father in a duel to the death, the official reason he's opposed to the marriage]].
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** Noirtier reveals that he killed [[spoiler:Eugene's [[spoiler:Franz's father in a duel to the death, the official reason he's opposed to the marriage]].
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Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. Numerous films and television series have been based on it, including the {{anime}} ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and an episode of ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''. It also inspired Alfred Bester's classic SF novel ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' (also [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and StephenFry's ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s. The TV show {{Series/Revenge}} is basically ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' [[RecycledInSpace in the Hamptons]].
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Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. Numerous films and television series have been based on it, including the {{anime}} ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and an episode of ''The ''[[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''. Magoo]]''. It also inspired Alfred Bester's classic SF novel ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' (also [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and StephenFry's Creator/StephenFry's ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s. The TV show {{Series/Revenge}} ''{{Series/Revenge}}'' is basically ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' [[RecycledInSpace in the Hamptons]].
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Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. Numerous films and television series have been based on it, including the {{anime}} ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and an episode of ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''. It also inspired Alfred Bester's classic SF novel ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' (also [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and StephenFry's ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s.
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Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. Numerous films and television series have been based on it, including the {{anime}} ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and an episode of ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''. It also inspired Alfred Bester's classic SF novel ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' (also [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and StephenFry's ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s.
Anagram}}s. The TV show {{Series/Revenge}} is basically ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' [[RecycledInSpace in the Hamptons]].
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, Fernand (Mercedes' cousin and Dantes' rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in Dantes' possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, Fernand (Mercedes' (Mercedes's cousin and Dantes' Dantes's rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in Dantes' Dantes's possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Dantes has unlimited credit with Danglars' bank, and keeps withdrawing enormous amounts of money at the worst possible times (for Danglars)
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Dantes has unlimited credit with Danglars' Danglars's bank, and keeps withdrawing enormous amounts of money at the worst possible times (for Danglars)
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* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the KangarooCourt element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
* KarmicJackpot: Most of the novel is about revenge, but the Count also repays the effort of those who tried to help him. Monsieur Morrel, Edmond Dantes' employer at the time of his arrest, tried to get Dantes released despite the dangerous political risks he was taking. By the time Dantes escapes, Morrel's shipping company is on the verge of bankruptcy and his family honor is ruined. The Count rewards Morrel's efforts to save him by paying off his debts, buying him a new merchant ship, and providing a dowry for his daughter.
* KarmicJackpot: Most of the novel is about revenge, but the Count also repays the effort of those who tried to help him. Monsieur Morrel, Edmond Dantes' employer at the time of his arrest, tried to get Dantes released despite the dangerous political risks he was taking. By the time Dantes escapes, Morrel's shipping company is on the verge of bankruptcy and his family honor is ruined. The Count rewards Morrel's efforts to save him by paying off his debts, buying him a new merchant ship, and providing a dowry for his daughter.
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* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' Dantes's integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the KangarooCourt element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
* KarmicJackpot: Most of the novel is about revenge, but the Count also repays the effort of those who tried to help him. Monsieur Morrel, EdmondDantes' Dantes's employer at the time of his arrest, tried to get Dantes released despite the dangerous political risks he was taking. By the time Dantes escapes, Morrel's shipping company is on the verge of bankruptcy and his family honor is ruined. The Count rewards Morrel's efforts to save him by paying off his debts, buying him a new merchant ship, and providing a dowry for his daughter.
* KarmicJackpot: Most of the novel is about revenge, but the Count also repays the effort of those who tried to help him. Monsieur Morrel, Edmond
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* WigDressAccent: Most likely, Dantes' different personas are this kind of disguise.
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* WigDressAccent: Most likely, Dantes' Dantes's different personas are this kind of disguise.
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, Fernand (Mercedes' cousin and Dantes' rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, Fernand (Mercedes' cousin and Dantes' rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in his Dantes' possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
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He returns to France as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]] on all of them. A complication is that their children are, by and large, genuinely good people who the Count quickly numbers among his friends.
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He returns to France as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate Fernand, Danglars and Villefort have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]] on all of them. A complication is that their children are, by and large, genuinely good people who the Count quickly numbers among his friends.
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, Fernand (Mercedes' cousin and Dantes' rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) at the suggestion of Dantés' neighbor Caderrouse decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about the role of Fernand, Danglars, Caderrouse and Villefort in his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about the role of Fernand, Danglars, Caderrouse and Villefort in his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, Fernand (Mercedes' cousin and Dantes' rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) at the suggestion of Dantés' neighbor Caderrouse decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about the role of Fernand, Danglars,Caderrouse and Villefort in his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about the role of Fernand, Danglars,
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, he is framed as a Napoleonic spy by four men, each with his own sinister aims, and sent to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
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Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, he is framed Fernand (Mercedes' cousin and Dantes' rival for her affections) and Danglars (jealous of Dantés rise to captain) at the suggestion of Dantés' neighbor Caderrouse decide to frame Dantes by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy by four men, each with spy. Dantés is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort who is initially sympathetic to Dantes until he finds a letter in his own sinister aims, and sent possession that would expose Villefort's father as a Bonapartist, prompting Villefort to sentence Dantes to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about the role of Fernand, Danglars, Caderrouse and Villefort in his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about the role of Fernand, Danglars, Caderrouse and Villefort in his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
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He returns to France as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]] on all of them.
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He returns to France as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]] on all of them.
them. A complication is that their children are, by and large, genuinely good people who the Count quickly numbers among his friends.
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* NouveauRiche: Danglars.
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** Noirtier reveals that he killed [[Eugene's father in a duel to the death, the official reason he's opposed to the marriage]].
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** There's a hilarious scene where Benedetto and his [[PaidForFamily new father]] gett their acts straight so as to give the impression of a loving and reunited father and son. After watching them go away arm-in-arm, Dantes goes to see Villfort, as disgust sickens him more than hatred, remarking that it's a real pity the two aren't related.
* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the Kangaroo Court element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the Kangaroo Court element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
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** There's a hilarious scene where Benedetto and his [[PaidForFamily new father]] gett get their acts straight so as to give the impression of a loving and reunited father and son. After watching them go away arm-in-arm, Dantes goes to see Villfort, as disgust sickens him more than hatred, remarking that it's a real pity the two aren't related.
* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, theKangaroo Court KangarooCourt element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the
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** Played straight by [[spoiler:the Count himself, when confronted by Maxmilien about Valentine's peril; it is only then that he starts realizing what he has become in the pursuit of vengeance. There's also the moment he realizes a young boy is dead thanks to his machinations.]]
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* GratuitousItalian: Danglars in Italy uses what little he knows of musical and operatic terms to communicate.
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* PaidForFamily: Dantes creates the Cavalcanti line from whole cloth, providing the ruined major Cavalcanti with a fortune to act as the father of Benedetto, so as to let him move into society and from there, ruin Villefort. [[spoiler: Benedetto is Villefort's illegitimate child, who was thought dead by both parents.]]
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* SecretIdentity: Dantes uses the titular Count persona to mask his true identity.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After being robbed of his beautiful fiancee and a promising job and spending 14 years in prison, Dantes becomes filthy rich and becomes acquainted with an even more beautiful woman. Dantes himself tries to {{Enforce|d Trope}} this trope during his time as the Count of Monte Cristo, and arguably succeeds, but with a fair bit of collateral damage.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After being robbed of his beautiful fiancee and a promising job and spending 14 years in prison, Dantes becomes filthy rich and becomes acquainted with an even more beautiful woman. Dantes himself tries to {{Enforce|d Trope}} [[InvokedTrope enforce]] this trope during his time as the Count of Monte Cristo, and arguably succeeds, but with a fair bit of collateral damage.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After being robbed of his beautiful fiancee and a promising job and spending 14 years in prison, Dantes becomes filthy rich and becomes acquainted with an even more beautiful woman. Dantes himself tries to enforce {{Enforce|d Trope}} this trope during his time as the Count of Monte Cristo, and arguably succeeds, but with a fair bit of collateral damage.
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* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: Several female characters are said to be beautiful. Haidee is the most beautiful in the story, her and her mother Vasiliki are somewhere between World Class and Divine Level. Closely following are Mercedes and Valentine as Common Beauties. Eugenie is considered an UncannyValleyGirl because of her masculinity.
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Serialised adventure novel by AlexandreDumas Sr., published in the ''Journal des Debats'' from August 1844 to January 1846, based loosely on an allegedly true story which Dumas discovered in a collection of police reports.
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Serialised adventure novel by AlexandreDumas Creator/AlexandreDumas Sr., published in the ''Journal des Debats'' from August 1844 to January 1846, based loosely on an allegedly true story which Dumas discovered in a collection of police reports.
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Serialised adventure novel by AlexandreDumas Sr., published in the ''Journal des Debats'' from August 1844 to January 1846, based loosely on an allegedly true story which Dumas discovered in a collection of police reports.
Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, he is framed as a Napoleonic spy by four men, each with his own sinister aims, and sent to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
He returns to France as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]] on all of them.
Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. Numerous films and television series have been based on it, including the {{anime}} ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and an episode of ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''. It also inspired Alfred Bester's classic SF novel ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' (also [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and StephenFry's ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s.
The novel is in the public domain in the United States and is available online for free at [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184 Project Gutenberg]], [[http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=RyEEAAAAQAAJ Google]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Count-Monte-Cristo-ebook/dp/B002RKSV9S/ Amazon]], and so on.
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!! This story features examples of:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Monsieur Noirtier survives a murder attempt using poison because he has been taking a medicine that contains the same compound, and has built up a resistance to it. Realizing that his granddaughter and heir Valentine is also a target, he starts giving her small doses of his medicine; this saves her life when the poisoner has a go at her.
* AffablyEvil: Luigi Vampa, who is perfectly polite to his prisoners in the one hour they have for their ransoms to arrive. The Count also cultivates this image toward Albert and Franz. Bendetto is remarkably likable and charming for someone who has committed nearly every crime on the books before the age of 30.
* TheAlcatraz: Chateau d'If.
* AndIMustScream: Between Dantes's arrest and his return as the Count, Noirtier suffers a stroke that renders him incapable of moving anything other than his eyelids. He and his granddaughter-caretaker do manage to develop a suitable means of communication.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Dantes has unlimited credit with Danglars' bank, and keeps withdrawing enormous amounts of money at the worst possible times (for Danglars)
* AristocratsAreEvil: Three of the four individuals responsible for Edmond's imprisonment become members of the nobility, and the most noble characters in the book, the Morrel family, are the only ones without some title. And of course, while Edmond Dantes was a nice happy-go-lucky guy, the Count of Monte Cristo is a sinister and vengeful man.
* ArrangedMarriage: Eugenie Danglars with Albert de Morcerf (later, with Andrea Cavalcante), and Valentine de Villefort with Franz d'Epinay.
* AtTheOperaTonight: Several key scenes take place in opera houses, including Albert's first encounter with the Count.
* BadassBoast: The Count, after being challenged to a duel: "In France people fight with the sword or pistol, in the colonies with the carbine, in Arabia with the dagger. Tell your client that, although I am the insulted party, in order to carry out my eccentricity, I leave him the choice of arms, and will accept without discussion, without dispute, anything, even combat by drawing lots, which is always stupid, but with me different from other people, as I am sure to gain."
* BadassGrandpa: Nortier, who is ''completely paralyzed from the eyes down'', yet still manages to protect his granddaughter from unwanted fiancées and assassination attempts.
* BestServedCold: Fourteen years in prison before he escapes, and another nine years before he sets his plans for revenge in motion. Served cold indeed.
* BlackAndGrayMorality or EvilVersusEvil
* BodybagTrick: Used in the prison escape.
* BrainFever: Captain [=LeClere=], in the beginning of the novel.
* BritishTeeth: {{Exploited}} by the Count for his Lord Wilmore disguise, which includes false teeth.
* CharacterFilibuster: Abbe Faria has one when he tells the lengthy story of how he came upon the treasure. There's another one for Luigi Vampa's {{Backstory}}. Basically, pretty much any time a character goes into {{Backstory}}, it's time to get comfortable and forget about the main story for a while. Fortunately, unlike a lot of CharacterFilibuster moments, the ones in this book are always key to the plot.
* ChekhovsGunman: Haydee appears to be a subverted MoralityPet for the Count at first, before [[spoiler:she provides a crucial testimony against Fernand at the trial regarding his involvement in the Ali Pacha affair.]]
* DaddysGirl: Haydee, Julie Morrel, Valentine to her grandfather. This trope is used to demonstrate the relative goodness of characters: Eugenie Danglars and her father couldn't care less about each other, and Villefort ignores Valentine.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: What Edmond finally does to [[spoiler:Danglars]] once he captures him.
* DispenseWithThePleasantries: This is a typical trait of the Baron Danglars's conversations; he's a very strict man with little tolerance for small talk.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Most copies exceed 1000 pages, varies with translation.
* DramaticIrony: The plot runs on it. The characters never know what the other characters are up to.
** When Edmond is imprisoned, he and Morrel are oblivious to the treachery of Villefort, and trust his advice as though he were a good friend.
** None of Edmond's friends realize that Danglars and Fernand were responsible for his arrest.
** When Edmond is in disguise, none of his old friends or enemies knows his true identity. (Although [[spoiler:Mercedes suspects]].)
** Benedetto manages to make a name for himself in French society under a false identity, but nobody except the Count and one of his servants knows that he's actually the illegitimate son of [[spoiler:Villefort]].
** Even the Count, the ManipulativeBastard himself, doesn't realize that Maximilian and Valentine are romantically involved until [[spoiler:the last minute]]; as far as he's concerned, Valentine is the daughter of his hated enemy.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:Runs in the Morrel family. Prevented by the Count in both cases.]]
** [[spoiler:Fernand.]]
** [[spoiler:Madame de Villefort]]
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Beppo, the bait that lured Albert into Vampa's trap.
* DuelToTheDeath:
** Between Albert and the Count. Averted at the last minute--[[spoiler:Mercedes intervenes and stops the duel]].
** Nortier reveals that he killed another character's father in a duel to the death.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Bribery is standard procedure for our fabulously wealthy protagonist.
* [[WatchItStoned Everything's Better On Hashish]]: According to the eponymous Count, who delivers a flowery speech to Franz extolling its virtues with much hyperbole. Among the things that are Better On Hashish is, apparently, suicide, or so he convinces a depressed [[spoiler:Maximilien Morrel]] towards the end of the book.
* FauxDeath: [[spoiler:Valentine]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pay attention to what the Count says to people as he's usually talking about something that will happen much later in the novel.
* {{Fiction 500}}: The Count's ludicrous wealth earns him a spot on this privileged list -- he owns so much money that the same amount ''not adjusted for inflation''[[hottip:*:The book is set in the first half of the 19th century]] would still make you very rich today.
* GreatEscape: Dantes escapes by hiding in the bodybag of his late mentor, which is thrown into the sea.
* HappinessInSlavery: Ali and Haydee, since the Count saved both their lives and treats them exceptionally well. So much that when he offers Haydee her freedom, more than once, she adamantly ''refuses''.
* HideYourLesbians: Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly. Of course, we're talking about a novel written during the 19th century; merely suggesting homosexuality was [[FairForItsDay quite bold already]].
* HomoeroticSubtext. The lesbian relationship between Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly is never stated overtly, but it's implied. In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
* HopeSpot: There is a moment where, according to the narrator, Villefort is on the cusp of setting Edmond free, if only someone should burst through the door and confront him. The moment passes.
* HumiliationConga:
** Albert's ability to accept all sorts of humiliations with relative dignity--from being seduced by a servant-boy (whom he thinks is a woman until he gets a knife pointed at his face), to being forced to call off a duel with the count, to [[spoiler:giving his up his wealth after he finds out what his father did to Dantes]]--is ultimately his most redeeming quality, and what truly distinguishes him from his father.
** Danglars gets one too. Having been the instigator of the plot that sent the Count to prison, he is [[spoiler:subsequently bankrupted, divorced, abandoned by his daughter, and kidnapped and imprisoned by Luigi Vampa and his bandits when he flees to Italy with the money he embezzled.]] Danglars is initially left without food, and when he demands to be fed the bandits charge him outrageous prices for his meals. Forced to choose between his money and his life, Danglars is starved out of the millions of francs he still has with him, until only 50,000 remain. It then turns out that the Count [[spoiler:had ordered Vampa and his bandits to kidnap Danglars and imprison him, putting Danglars in the very same situation that he placed the Count in. The money the bandits charge Danglars for his meal is returned to the hospitals he embezzled it from, as Danglars learns a horrible lesson in greed. He pleads for mercy and forgiveness, and the Count ultimately grants it to him, letting him go with the last 50,000 francs -- the only money he was carrying that he had earned more or less honestly. Oh, and the situation turns his hair white.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Villefort seems to be something of a hanging judge and obsessed with the family honor, but commits several heinous crimes.
* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the Kangaroo Court element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
* KarmicJackpot: Most of the novel is about revenge, but the Count also repays the effort of those who tried to help him. Monsieur Morrel, Edmond Dantes' employer at the time of his arrest, tried to get Dantes released despite the dangerous political risks he was taking. By the time Dantes escapes, Morrel's shipping company is on the verge of bankruptcy and his family honor is ruined. The Count rewards Morrel's efforts to save him by paying off his debts, buying him a new merchant ship, and providing a dowry for his daughter.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MayDecemberRomance: the Count and Haydee at the end of the book, which serves as a route to peace and redemption for him.
* MercyKill: In the sidestory about the Italian bandits, one bandit does this to his lover to prevent her being gang raped by the rest of his band.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: To the tune of fourteen years of false imprisonment.
* MoralDissonance: In his vengeance against Villefort, Dantes makes himself an accomplice to the murder by poison of people who had done nothing to him. He's perfectly ready to let even the completely innocent [[spoiler:Valentine]] die until one of the few characters he truly cares about tells him of their love. His guilt is totally neglected by the author and by himself. [[spoiler:Dantes only realizes he has gone too far when the young son of Villefort dies because of his plot.]]
* MoralityPet: Haydee serves as an outlet for the otherwise cold and distant Count to show genuine affection.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Danglars.
* MushroomSamba: There is a scene (bowdlerized in many translations) in which Franz has an erotic dream while high on hashish.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Subverted by Villefort, who has his moment at the very ''beginning'' of the book. He initially feels a terrible remorse at sending the innocent Dantes to prison, but later represses it and goes through with the deed. It's implied, however, that the guilt he feels does not go away so easily. In fact, it is implied that Villefort became a hanging judge that he is ''because'' of the repressed guilt.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:the Count himself, when confronted by Maxmilien about Valentine's peril; it is only then that he starts realizing what he has become in the pursuit of vengeance.]]
* NestedStory: Signor Pastrini briefly interrupts his story about the bandit lord Luigi Vampa to tell another story about another bandit lord who preceded Vampa.
* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Dantes includes the innocent children of his enemies in his plan for revenge. [[spoiler:Most of them survive, and some of them end up better off, but that's more through luck than from any sentiment on the Count's part.]]
* PublicExecution: A public execution during a Roman festival allows the Count to test Franz's character.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:d'Avrigny]] believes that [[spoiler:Valentine]] is [[spoiler:the poisoner]]. It's actually [[spoiler:Madame de Villefort]].
* RelativeError: Mercedes is mistaken for her son's mistress. The fact that Albert just can't shut up about how perfect his mother is really doesn't help matters. The Count probably [[InvokedTrope made that mistake on purpose]] -- he didn't want to expose to Albert that he knew Mercedes.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** After getting caught up on what's been going on with his enemies while he was in prison (see MrExposition above), the Count rewards Caderousse by giving him a valuable diamond. Caderousse can either use the diamond to rebuild his life and become an honest man, or fall victim to greed and let the diamond ultimately destroy him. [[spoiler:He fails. Hard. The Count even gives him a second chance, but he blows ''that'' too. When he's dying in the Count's mansion, Caderousse asks for yet another chance, but the Count refuses, pointing out that he's had two already and failed both times.]]
** The Count gives one to Maximilien at the end to confirm that [[spoiler:he is truly deserving of happiness by his standards]]. Max passes with flying colors by [[spoiler:agreeing to kill himself with a drug given to him by the Count, even when offered large sums of money if he chooses to live]], thus proving that [[spoiler:he has tasted true despair]].
* SeparatedByTheWall: Maximilien and Valentine, in an {{Allusion}} to ''[[AMidsummerNightsDream Pyramus and Thisbe]]''.
* SinsOfOurFathers: The Count plans to kill [[spoiler:Albert]] as part of his revenge on [[spoiler:Fernand]].
* StarCrossedLovers: Maximillien Morrel and Valentine de Villefort, [[spoiler:at first]].
* SoftWater: During his prison escape, Dantes hides in a bodybag that is thrown into the sea from a high cliff. Dantes is in good enough shape to escape the bodybag and swim to shore. Barely.
* SpellMyNameWithABlank: Countess G_____. A subversion, as she's based off of Lord Byron's mistress: Teresa, Countess Guiccioli.
* StrawmanPolitical: All of the good characters are or were supporters of Napoleon, and nearly all of the bad ones are royalists.
* SwordCane: Noirtier carried one before he was paralyzed.
* TranslationConvention: At different times, characters may be speaking French, Italian, Greek, and so on. Occasionally the narrator [[LampshadedTrope informs the reader]] that one of the characters can't understand what another character is saying.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Dumas did this in a fairly transparent way, including his concierge in Italy as a character and including a scene where a character is praised for his collection of paintings by current artists. All of the artists mentioned were friends or acquaintances of Dumas and none are known today except for Delacroix.
* UndisclosedFunds: The amount of money Dantes finds at Monte Cristo is never stated. After many years of purchases and investments, the Count says he has about one hundred million francs at the end of the book. [[hottip:*:Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to ''over $400 million USD'' in 2010 money. Not quite enough to make the 20 Richest Men in the World list, but still nothing to scoff at.]]
* UriahGambit: The bandit lord Cucumetto pulls one in Signor Pastrini's NestedStory, shooting a treacherous underling in the back during a skirmish with some soldiers.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: According to [[WordOfGod Dumas]], ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' is loosely based on the story of [[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/thenardier/renee/pierrepicaud.htm Pierre Picaud]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Villefort, who has a complete breakdown and goes insane at the end.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: All of the Count's enemies have risen to high status in Parisian society and are well-respected with good reputations among their peers.
* WhatYearIsThis: It's easy to lose track of time over fourteen years of imprisonment.
* WickedCultured: Luigi Vampa, Benedetto, and the Count himself
* WifeHusbandry: Conveniently ignored by adaptations. Not a straight example, anyway, since the Count isn't even interested in Haydee in that way for most of the story; he just assumed that he was never going to fall in love again, so ''she'' has to make all the moves.
* WigDressAccent: Most likely, Dantes' different personas are this kind of disguise.
* WrongGenreSavvy: The unnamed countess who, seeing the Count's strange demeanor and unnatural pallor, believes him to be a vampire.
* XanatosRoulette: One must imagine how long Dantes had to plan out his revenge, but the final plot is unspeakably convoluted. That he is able to make any of it work [[MagnificentBastard speaks volumes about his control]].
* TheXOfY
* YamatoNadeshiko: Valentine and Haydee are Western variations.
* YouAreNumberSix: Abbe Faria is prisoner number 27; Dantes is number 34.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Betrayed My Father]]: Haydee to [[spoiler:Fernand]]
!!Adaptations with their own trope pages include:
* ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' (2002 film)
* ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' (Anime series)
!!Other adaptations provide examples of:
* AscendedExtra: Jacopo, who obeys the Count's instructions without question in the book, becomes TheRick in some adaptations.
* DeathByAdaptation: Danglars, frequently. In the 1975 TV version, for instance, he gets Fernand's death so that Fernand can go out in a fight scene with Edmond. ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' is perhaps the heaviest offender in this regard, giving Danglars AFateWorseThanDeath, and ultimately [[spoiler:even killing the Count himself.]]
* GenderFlip[=/=]SettingUpdate:
** The Korean soap opera ''Series/CruelTemptation'' features a female protagonist, who survives her own murder by her husband and his dominative mistress, and is of course is set in present day.
** The ABC thriller series ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' is set in present day and has a female protagonist in Amanda/Emily.
* GenreShift: The book is an historical epic and psychological revenge thriller, but adaptations tend to go the route of an action-heavy RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* {{Lost In Imitation}}
* {{Swashbuckler}}
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Major Cavalcanti, Benedetto's fake father chosen by the Count, essentially disappears after Danglars takes a liking to Benedetto. Also the fate of Benedetto himself, who had committed many crimes and whose court sentence is never revealed after he exposes Villefort as his father.
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Serialised adventure novel by AlexandreDumas Sr., published in the ''Journal des Debats'' from August 1844 to January 1846, based loosely on an allegedly true story which Dumas discovered in a collection of police reports.
Edmond Dantes is a naive, entirely benign young sailor who has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercedes. Just as his life seems like it couldn't get any better, he is framed as a Napoleonic spy by four men, each with his own sinister aims, and sent to life imprisonment in the [[HellholePrison Chateau d'If]].
During his years in prison, Edmond meets Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner who becomes his close friend. Faria educates him in a variety of subjects, helps piece together the truth about his imprisonment, and before dying, tells of a treasure of unthinkable magnitude buried on the island of Monte Cristo. Edmond manages to escape, and finds the treasure.
He returns to France as the mysterious, brooding, immensely wealthy and highly cultivated Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that the men who sent him to his fate have all become very rich and powerful, and sets about using their own evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]] on all of them.
Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. Numerous films and television series have been based on it, including the {{anime}} ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and an episode of ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo''. It also inspired Alfred Bester's classic SF novel ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' (also [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]]!) and StephenFry's ''The Stars' Tennis Balls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s.
The novel is in the public domain in the United States and is available online for free at [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1184 Project Gutenberg]], [[http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=RyEEAAAAQAAJ Google]], [[http://www.amazon.com/Count-Monte-Cristo-ebook/dp/B002RKSV9S/ Amazon]], and so on.
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!! This story features examples of:
* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Monsieur Noirtier survives a murder attempt using poison because he has been taking a medicine that contains the same compound, and has built up a resistance to it. Realizing that his granddaughter and heir Valentine is also a target, he starts giving her small doses of his medicine; this saves her life when the poisoner has a go at her.
* AffablyEvil: Luigi Vampa, who is perfectly polite to his prisoners in the one hour they have for their ransoms to arrive. The Count also cultivates this image toward Albert and Franz. Bendetto is remarkably likable and charming for someone who has committed nearly every crime on the books before the age of 30.
* TheAlcatraz: Chateau d'If.
* AndIMustScream: Between Dantes's arrest and his return as the Count, Noirtier suffers a stroke that renders him incapable of moving anything other than his eyelids. He and his granddaughter-caretaker do manage to develop a suitable means of communication.
* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Dantes has unlimited credit with Danglars' bank, and keeps withdrawing enormous amounts of money at the worst possible times (for Danglars)
* AristocratsAreEvil: Three of the four individuals responsible for Edmond's imprisonment become members of the nobility, and the most noble characters in the book, the Morrel family, are the only ones without some title. And of course, while Edmond Dantes was a nice happy-go-lucky guy, the Count of Monte Cristo is a sinister and vengeful man.
* ArrangedMarriage: Eugenie Danglars with Albert de Morcerf (later, with Andrea Cavalcante), and Valentine de Villefort with Franz d'Epinay.
* AtTheOperaTonight: Several key scenes take place in opera houses, including Albert's first encounter with the Count.
* BadassBoast: The Count, after being challenged to a duel: "In France people fight with the sword or pistol, in the colonies with the carbine, in Arabia with the dagger. Tell your client that, although I am the insulted party, in order to carry out my eccentricity, I leave him the choice of arms, and will accept without discussion, without dispute, anything, even combat by drawing lots, which is always stupid, but with me different from other people, as I am sure to gain."
* BadassGrandpa: Nortier, who is ''completely paralyzed from the eyes down'', yet still manages to protect his granddaughter from unwanted fiancées and assassination attempts.
* BestServedCold: Fourteen years in prison before he escapes, and another nine years before he sets his plans for revenge in motion. Served cold indeed.
* BlackAndGrayMorality or EvilVersusEvil
* BodybagTrick: Used in the prison escape.
* BrainFever: Captain [=LeClere=], in the beginning of the novel.
* BritishTeeth: {{Exploited}} by the Count for his Lord Wilmore disguise, which includes false teeth.
* CharacterFilibuster: Abbe Faria has one when he tells the lengthy story of how he came upon the treasure. There's another one for Luigi Vampa's {{Backstory}}. Basically, pretty much any time a character goes into {{Backstory}}, it's time to get comfortable and forget about the main story for a while. Fortunately, unlike a lot of CharacterFilibuster moments, the ones in this book are always key to the plot.
* ChekhovsGunman: Haydee appears to be a subverted MoralityPet for the Count at first, before [[spoiler:she provides a crucial testimony against Fernand at the trial regarding his involvement in the Ali Pacha affair.]]
* DaddysGirl: Haydee, Julie Morrel, Valentine to her grandfather. This trope is used to demonstrate the relative goodness of characters: Eugenie Danglars and her father couldn't care less about each other, and Villefort ignores Valentine.
* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: What Edmond finally does to [[spoiler:Danglars]] once he captures him.
* DispenseWithThePleasantries: This is a typical trait of the Baron Danglars's conversations; he's a very strict man with little tolerance for small talk.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Most copies exceed 1000 pages, varies with translation.
* DramaticIrony: The plot runs on it. The characters never know what the other characters are up to.
** When Edmond is imprisoned, he and Morrel are oblivious to the treachery of Villefort, and trust his advice as though he were a good friend.
** None of Edmond's friends realize that Danglars and Fernand were responsible for his arrest.
** When Edmond is in disguise, none of his old friends or enemies knows his true identity. (Although [[spoiler:Mercedes suspects]].)
** Benedetto manages to make a name for himself in French society under a false identity, but nobody except the Count and one of his servants knows that he's actually the illegitimate son of [[spoiler:Villefort]].
** Even the Count, the ManipulativeBastard himself, doesn't realize that Maximilian and Valentine are romantically involved until [[spoiler:the last minute]]; as far as he's concerned, Valentine is the daughter of his hated enemy.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:Runs in the Morrel family. Prevented by the Count in both cases.]]
** [[spoiler:Fernand.]]
** [[spoiler:Madame de Villefort]]
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Beppo, the bait that lured Albert into Vampa's trap.
* DuelToTheDeath:
** Between Albert and the Count. Averted at the last minute--[[spoiler:Mercedes intervenes and stops the duel]].
** Nortier reveals that he killed another character's father in a duel to the death.
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EveryManHasHisPrice: Bribery is standard procedure for our fabulously wealthy protagonist.
* [[WatchItStoned Everything's Better On Hashish]]: According to the eponymous Count, who delivers a flowery speech to Franz extolling its virtues with much hyperbole. Among the things that are Better On Hashish is, apparently, suicide, or so he convinces a depressed [[spoiler:Maximilien Morrel]] towards the end of the book.
* FauxDeath: [[spoiler:Valentine]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pay attention to what the Count says to people as he's usually talking about something that will happen much later in the novel.
* {{Fiction 500}}: The Count's ludicrous wealth earns him a spot on this privileged list -- he owns so much money that the same amount ''not adjusted for inflation''[[hottip:*:The book is set in the first half of the 19th century]] would still make you very rich today.
* GreatEscape: Dantes escapes by hiding in the bodybag of his late mentor, which is thrown into the sea.
* HappinessInSlavery: Ali and Haydee, since the Count saved both their lives and treats them exceptionally well. So much that when he offers Haydee her freedom, more than once, she adamantly ''refuses''.
* HideYourLesbians: Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly. Of course, we're talking about a novel written during the 19th century; merely suggesting homosexuality was [[FairForItsDay quite bold already]].
* HomoeroticSubtext. The lesbian relationship between Eugenie Danglars and Louise d'Armilly is never stated overtly, but it's implied. In one scene, an unexpected visitor drops into a hotel room they're staying in (which has two beds) and finds them lying together in the same bed. Yeah...
* HopeSpot: There is a moment where, according to the narrator, Villefort is on the cusp of setting Edmond free, if only someone should burst through the door and confront him. The moment passes.
* HumiliationConga:
** Albert's ability to accept all sorts of humiliations with relative dignity--from being seduced by a servant-boy (whom he thinks is a woman until he gets a knife pointed at his face), to being forced to call off a duel with the count, to [[spoiler:giving his up his wealth after he finds out what his father did to Dantes]]--is ultimately his most redeeming quality, and what truly distinguishes him from his father.
** Danglars gets one too. Having been the instigator of the plot that sent the Count to prison, he is [[spoiler:subsequently bankrupted, divorced, abandoned by his daughter, and kidnapped and imprisoned by Luigi Vampa and his bandits when he flees to Italy with the money he embezzled.]] Danglars is initially left without food, and when he demands to be fed the bandits charge him outrageous prices for his meals. Forced to choose between his money and his life, Danglars is starved out of the millions of francs he still has with him, until only 50,000 remain. It then turns out that the Count [[spoiler:had ordered Vampa and his bandits to kidnap Danglars and imprison him, putting Danglars in the very same situation that he placed the Count in. The money the bandits charge Danglars for his meal is returned to the hospitals he embezzled it from, as Danglars learns a horrible lesson in greed. He pleads for mercy and forgiveness, and the Count ultimately grants it to him, letting him go with the last 50,000 francs -- the only money he was carrying that he had earned more or less honestly. Oh, and the situation turns his hair white.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Villefort seems to be something of a hanging judge and obsessed with the family honor, but commits several heinous crimes.
* KangarooCourt: Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Crown Prosecutor (a judge) in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the Kangaroo Court element kicks in as Villefort applies powers actually given to him under the law to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without a trial.
* KarmicJackpot: Most of the novel is about revenge, but the Count also repays the effort of those who tried to help him. Monsieur Morrel, Edmond Dantes' employer at the time of his arrest, tried to get Dantes released despite the dangerous political risks he was taking. By the time Dantes escapes, Morrel's shipping company is on the verge of bankruptcy and his family honor is ruined. The Count rewards Morrel's efforts to save him by paying off his debts, buying him a new merchant ship, and providing a dowry for his daughter.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MayDecemberRomance: the Count and Haydee at the end of the book, which serves as a route to peace and redemption for him.
* MercyKill: In the sidestory about the Italian bandits, one bandit does this to his lover to prevent her being gang raped by the rest of his band.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: To the tune of fourteen years of false imprisonment.
* MoralDissonance: In his vengeance against Villefort, Dantes makes himself an accomplice to the murder by poison of people who had done nothing to him. He's perfectly ready to let even the completely innocent [[spoiler:Valentine]] die until one of the few characters he truly cares about tells him of their love. His guilt is totally neglected by the author and by himself. [[spoiler:Dantes only realizes he has gone too far when the young son of Villefort dies because of his plot.]]
* MoralityPet: Haydee serves as an outlet for the otherwise cold and distant Count to show genuine affection.
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Danglars.
* MushroomSamba: There is a scene (bowdlerized in many translations) in which Franz has an erotic dream while high on hashish.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Subverted by Villefort, who has his moment at the very ''beginning'' of the book. He initially feels a terrible remorse at sending the innocent Dantes to prison, but later represses it and goes through with the deed. It's implied, however, that the guilt he feels does not go away so easily. In fact, it is implied that Villefort became a hanging judge that he is ''because'' of the repressed guilt.
** Played straight by [[spoiler:the Count himself, when confronted by Maxmilien about Valentine's peril; it is only then that he starts realizing what he has become in the pursuit of vengeance.]]
* NestedStory: Signor Pastrini briefly interrupts his story about the bandit lord Luigi Vampa to tell another story about another bandit lord who preceded Vampa.
* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Dantes includes the innocent children of his enemies in his plan for revenge. [[spoiler:Most of them survive, and some of them end up better off, but that's more through luck than from any sentiment on the Count's part.]]
* PublicExecution: A public execution during a Roman festival allows the Count to test Franz's character.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:d'Avrigny]] believes that [[spoiler:Valentine]] is [[spoiler:the poisoner]]. It's actually [[spoiler:Madame de Villefort]].
* RelativeError: Mercedes is mistaken for her son's mistress. The fact that Albert just can't shut up about how perfect his mother is really doesn't help matters. The Count probably [[InvokedTrope made that mistake on purpose]] -- he didn't want to expose to Albert that he knew Mercedes.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** After getting caught up on what's been going on with his enemies while he was in prison (see MrExposition above), the Count rewards Caderousse by giving him a valuable diamond. Caderousse can either use the diamond to rebuild his life and become an honest man, or fall victim to greed and let the diamond ultimately destroy him. [[spoiler:He fails. Hard. The Count even gives him a second chance, but he blows ''that'' too. When he's dying in the Count's mansion, Caderousse asks for yet another chance, but the Count refuses, pointing out that he's had two already and failed both times.]]
** The Count gives one to Maximilien at the end to confirm that [[spoiler:he is truly deserving of happiness by his standards]]. Max passes with flying colors by [[spoiler:agreeing to kill himself with a drug given to him by the Count, even when offered large sums of money if he chooses to live]], thus proving that [[spoiler:he has tasted true despair]].
* SeparatedByTheWall: Maximilien and Valentine, in an {{Allusion}} to ''[[AMidsummerNightsDream Pyramus and Thisbe]]''.
* SinsOfOurFathers: The Count plans to kill [[spoiler:Albert]] as part of his revenge on [[spoiler:Fernand]].
* StarCrossedLovers: Maximillien Morrel and Valentine de Villefort, [[spoiler:at first]].
* SoftWater: During his prison escape, Dantes hides in a bodybag that is thrown into the sea from a high cliff. Dantes is in good enough shape to escape the bodybag and swim to shore. Barely.
* SpellMyNameWithABlank: Countess G_____. A subversion, as she's based off of Lord Byron's mistress: Teresa, Countess Guiccioli.
* StrawmanPolitical: All of the good characters are or were supporters of Napoleon, and nearly all of the bad ones are royalists.
* SwordCane: Noirtier carried one before he was paralyzed.
* TranslationConvention: At different times, characters may be speaking French, Italian, Greek, and so on. Occasionally the narrator [[LampshadedTrope informs the reader]] that one of the characters can't understand what another character is saying.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Dumas did this in a fairly transparent way, including his concierge in Italy as a character and including a scene where a character is praised for his collection of paintings by current artists. All of the artists mentioned were friends or acquaintances of Dumas and none are known today except for Delacroix.
* UndisclosedFunds: The amount of money Dantes finds at Monte Cristo is never stated. After many years of purchases and investments, the Count says he has about one hundred million francs at the end of the book. [[hottip:*:Adjusted for inflation, this is equivalent to ''over $400 million USD'' in 2010 money. Not quite enough to make the 20 Richest Men in the World list, but still nothing to scoff at.]]
* UriahGambit: The bandit lord Cucumetto pulls one in Signor Pastrini's NestedStory, shooting a treacherous underling in the back during a skirmish with some soldiers.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: According to [[WordOfGod Dumas]], ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' is loosely based on the story of [[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/thenardier/renee/pierrepicaud.htm Pierre Picaud]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Villefort, who has a complete breakdown and goes insane at the end.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: All of the Count's enemies have risen to high status in Parisian society and are well-respected with good reputations among their peers.
* WhatYearIsThis: It's easy to lose track of time over fourteen years of imprisonment.
* WickedCultured: Luigi Vampa, Benedetto, and the Count himself
* WifeHusbandry: Conveniently ignored by adaptations. Not a straight example, anyway, since the Count isn't even interested in Haydee in that way for most of the story; he just assumed that he was never going to fall in love again, so ''she'' has to make all the moves.
* WigDressAccent: Most likely, Dantes' different personas are this kind of disguise.
* WrongGenreSavvy: The unnamed countess who, seeing the Count's strange demeanor and unnatural pallor, believes him to be a vampire.
* XanatosRoulette: One must imagine how long Dantes had to plan out his revenge, but the final plot is unspeakably convoluted. That he is able to make any of it work [[MagnificentBastard speaks volumes about his control]].
* TheXOfY
* YamatoNadeshiko: Valentine and Haydee are Western variations.
* YouAreNumberSix: Abbe Faria is prisoner number 27; Dantes is number 34.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Betrayed My Father]]: Haydee to [[spoiler:Fernand]]
!!Adaptations with their own trope pages include:
* ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' (2002 film)
* ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' (Anime series)
!!Other adaptations provide examples of:
* AscendedExtra: Jacopo, who obeys the Count's instructions without question in the book, becomes TheRick in some adaptations.
* DeathByAdaptation: Danglars, frequently. In the 1975 TV version, for instance, he gets Fernand's death so that Fernand can go out in a fight scene with Edmond. ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' is perhaps the heaviest offender in this regard, giving Danglars AFateWorseThanDeath, and ultimately [[spoiler:even killing the Count himself.]]
* GenderFlip[=/=]SettingUpdate:
** The Korean soap opera ''Series/CruelTemptation'' features a female protagonist, who survives her own murder by her husband and his dominative mistress, and is of course is set in present day.
** The ABC thriller series ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' is set in present day and has a female protagonist in Amanda/Emily.
* GenreShift: The book is an historical epic and psychological revenge thriller, but adaptations tend to go the route of an action-heavy RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* {{Lost In Imitation}}
* {{Swashbuckler}}
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Major Cavalcanti, Benedetto's fake father chosen by the Count, essentially disappears after Danglars takes a liking to Benedetto. Also the fate of Benedetto himself, who had committed many crimes and whose court sentence is never revealed after he exposes Villefort as his father.
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