History Literature / TheCountOfMonteCristo

* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Downplayed. It doesn't actually rain during the funeral of Valentine's grandparents, but the weather is noted to be "overcast, and so quite appropriate for the dismal ceremony". At the novel's second funeral, the weather is dull and stormy.

* LighterAndSofter: The 1973 series, which makes the Count into TheAce and his group into a RobinHood-like group. Sorta justified, as it's geared towards a younger audience than usual.

* ''Series/{{Revenge|2011}}'' (2011 primetime soap opera)

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,]] [[https://www.amazon.com/Count-Monte-Cristo-Alexandre-Dumas-ebook/dp/B07DGHT6YF Amazon,]] and so on.

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.

** The Korean soap opera ''Series/CruelTemptation'' features a female protagonist, who survives her own murder by her husband and his dominative mistress.

** The Korean soap opera ''Series/CruelTemptation'' is set in the present day.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TheCountOfMonteCristo|1997}}'' (1997)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCountOfMonteCristo1997''

* ''Series/Revenge2011'' (2011 primetime soap opera)

* ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1964}}'' -- BBC series starring Alan Badel.
* ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1998}}'' -- French miniseries starring Creator/GerardDepardieu.

* ''Literature/TheVampireCountOfMonteCristo'' (2013) -- Book from the "classic literature + monsters" mash-up trend)

* BuryYourGays: Inverted. Eugenie Danglars is the only one of the children of Dantès' enemies to reach a happy ending without Dantès having a change of heart.

He returns to France as the [[TallDarkAndHandsome brooding]], [[ManOfWealthAndTaste cultivated]], and [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep no-named]] Count of Monte Cristo. He discovers that Mondego, Danglars and Villefort have all become rich and powerful, and sets about using their evil pasts and tainted passions to enact an [[BestServedCold elaborate and cruel revenge]]. A complication arises in that their children are, by and large, [[VillainByProxyFallacy genuinely good people whom the Count numbers among his few friends.]]

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: The first time the Count reveals himself to his enemy has all the gravity and tension he expected [[spoiler:with Morcef committing suicide shortly after the reveal]].The second time he does it though the conspirator just grab him by the arm [[spoiler:shows him the body of his 9 years old son]] with the Count both confused and alarmed.

Edmond Dantès is a guileless sailor experiencing a run of good luck: he has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercédès. On his wedding day, Fernand Mondego (Mercédès' cousin and Dantès' rival for her affections) and Baron Danglars (Dantès' co-worker, who is jealous of the former's rise to captain) decide to frame Dantès by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantès is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Gerard de Villefort, who is initially sympathetic to Dantès until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a leader in a Neo-Bonapartist conspiracy. Taking no chances, he destroys the evidence of Dantès' innocence and fast-tracks him to the Chateau d'If, a {{hellhole prison}} for enemies of the state.

Edmond Dantès is a guileless sailor experiencing a run of good luck: he has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercédès. On his wedding day, Fernand Mondego (Mercédès' cousin and Dantès' rival for her affections) and Danglars (Dantès' co-worker, who is jealous of the former's rise to captain) decide to frame Dantès by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantès is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Gerard de Villefort, who is initially sympathetic to Dantès until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a leader in a Neo-Bonapartist conspiracy. Taking no chances, he destroys the evidence of Dantès' innocence and fast-tracks him to the Chateau d'If, a {{hellhole prison}} for enemies of the state.

Edmond Dantès is a guileless sailor experiencing a run of good luck: he has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercédès. On his wedding day, Fernand Mondego (Mercédès' cousin and Dantès' rival for her affections) and Danglars (Dantès' co-worker, who is jealous of the former's rise to captain) decide to frame Dantès by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantès is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort, who is initially sympathetic to Dantès until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a leader in a Neo-Bonapartist conspiracy. Taking no chances, he destroys the evidence of Dantès' innocence and fast-tracks him to the Chateau d'If, a {{hellhole prison}} for enemies of the state.

Edmond Dantès is a guileless sailor experiencing a run of good luck: he has just been made captain of his ship, and is newly engaged to the beautiful Mercédès. On his wedding day, Mondego (Mercédès' cousin and Dantès' rival for her affections) and Danglars (Dantès' co-worker, who is jealous of the former's rise to captain) decide to frame Dantès by sending an anonymous letter fingering him as a Napoleonic spy. Dantès is arrested and brought to crown prosecutor Villefort, who is initially sympathetic to Dantès until he finds a letter in his possession that would expose Villefort's father as a leader in a Neo-Bonapartist conspiracy. Taking no chances, he destroys the evidence of Dantès' innocence and fast-tracks him to the Chateau d'If, a {{hellhole prison}} for enemies of the state.

* CameBackWithAVengeance: This novel did a lot to [[TropeCodifier codify]] this archetypal revenge plot, with many authors [[FollowTheLeader following Dumas's lead]] in regards to their own revenge stories.

* CantRefuseTheCallAnymore: Edmond Dantès is initially a benign, trusting, and naive young man with a happy future ahead of him. Then he's falsely imprisoned. He initially hopes that he'll receive justice and return to his friends. But after four years, he realizes that he'll never be released. This is the trope-point where there is no going back to his old life, only ahead. It initially drives him to despair and a suicide attempt. But the unexpected arrival of a fellow prisoner, the remarkable Abbe Faria, turns his thoughts in a new direction, toward escape and revenge. This also marks a change in Dantès's character.

* ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (2024) -- Starring Pierre Niney.

Serialised adventure novel by Creator/AlexandreDumas ''Père'', 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.

* BeMyValentine: Valentine de Villefort, the proper lady-like daughter of one of the Count's enemies, and one half of the book's main romantic subplot.

* ''Series/TheCountOfMonteCristo1964'' -- BBC series starring Alan Badel.
* ''Series/TheCountOfMonteCristo1998'' -- French miniseries starring Creator/GerardDepardieu.

* ''Literature/TheVampireCountOfMonteCristo'' (2013 book from the "classic literature + monsters" mash-up trend)

* ''Series/TheCountOfMonteCristo1964'' (BBC series starring Alan Badel)
* ''Series/TheCountOfMonteCristo1998'' (French miniseries starring Creator/GerardDepardieu)

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Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. It has inspired [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo#Film_and_television at least 40 film and television adaptations]], [[Series/TheCountOfMonteCristo1964 including the 1964 12 part series from BBC]], the {{anime}} ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[RecycledInSpace in space]]!), [[WesternAnimation/TheCountOfMonteCristo1997 a 1997 animated adaption]] and an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo]]''. It also inspired ''[[Literature/Vendetta1886 Vendetta!]]'' (which went on to inspire other works), ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'', Creator/StephenFry's ''Literature/TheStarsTennisBalls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s, and Jeffrey Archer's SettingUpdate ''A Prisoner of Birth''. The Turkish series ''Series/{{Ezel}}'' swaps out nineteenth-century France for [[SettingUpdate modern-day Turkey]], while ABC's ''Series/Revenge2011'' is basically ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' [[RecycledInSpace in the Hamptons]]. A literary mash-up came out in 2014 called ''Literature/TheVampireCountOfMonteCristo'' which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_(musical) musical,]] adapting elements of both the book and the 2002 film, began its run in 2009.

[[folder:Adaptations with their own trope pages include:]]

* ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo2002'' (film starring Creator/JimCaviezel)

** Major Cavalcanti, Benedetto's fake father chosen by the Count, essentially disappears after Danglars takes a liking to Benedetto (to general satisfaction, as his rich aristocrat demeanor doesn't hold up very long in the presence of actual rich aristocrats).
** 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.

Often regarded as the greatest revenge story of all time, this novel remains a popular classic. It has inspired [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo#Film_and_television at least 40 film and television adaptations]], [[Series/TheCountOfMonteCristo1964 including the 1964 12 part series from BBC]], the {{anime}} ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' ([[RecycledInSpace in space]]!), [[WesternAnimation/TheCountOfMonteCristo1997 a 1997 animated adaption]] and an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/MrMagoo The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo]]''. It also inspired ''[[Literature/Vendetta1886 Vendetta!]]'' (which went on to inspire other works), ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'', Creator/StephenFry's ''Literature/TheStarsTennisBalls'' (aka ''Revenge: A Novel'') which has a lot of fun with {{Significant Anagram}}s, and Jeffrey Archer's SettingUpdate ''A Prisoner of Birth''. The Turkish series ''Series/{{Ezel}}'' swaps out nineteenth-century France for [[SettingUpdate modern-day Turkey]], while ABC's ''{{Series/Revenge}}'' is basically ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' [[RecycledInSpace in the Hamptons]]. A literary mash-up came out in 2014 called ''Literature/TheVampireCountOfMonteCristo'' which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_(musical) musical,]] adapting elements of both the book and the 2002 film, began its run in 2009.

* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'' (2011 primetime soap opera)