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* EvilIsSexy:
** One female viewer wrote to the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' regarding the 1997 series, asking if she was the only one to find Creator/MartinShaw's Chauvelin far more attractive than Creator/RichardEGrant's Sir Percy.
** In the musical, Chauvelin sings the sensual “Where’s the Girl”, and lyricist Nan Knighton describes all the women involved in the production of the cast recording as “draped over something, languorous and hanging on his every word” when Mann sung it.

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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Chauvelin, for one, would be guilty of unforgiveable GenreBlindness... except his genre didn't exist yet.



* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Chauvelin, for one, would be guilty of unforgiveable GenreBlindness... except his genre didn't exist yet.
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** It was easier in the earlier 20th century to completely [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized vilify the French Revolution]] and have more sympathy for the [[BlueBlood French aristocracy]]. Granted the titular hero focused his attentions on innocent families, and considering [[ReignOfTerror the events following the revolution]], it's easier to sympathize with the people being rescued.

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** It was easier in the earlier 20th century to completely [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized vilify the French Revolution]] and have more sympathy for the [[BlueBlood French aristocracy]]. Granted the titular hero focused his attentions attention on innocent families, and considering [[ReignOfTerror the events following the revolution]], it's easier to sympathize with the people being rescued.
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* ItWasHisSled: The dramatic revelation, two-thirds of the way through, that the demmed idiot Sir Percy Blakeney is the Scarlet Pimpernel, to the point that ''no'' adaptations try to hide this.

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* ItWasHisSled: The dramatic revelation, two-thirds of the way through, that the demmed idiot Sir Percy Blakeney is the Scarlet Pimpernel, to the point that ''no'' adaptations try tries to hide this.

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* EvilIsSexy: One female viewer wrote to the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' regarding the 1997 series, asking if she was the only one to find Creator/MartinShaw's Chauvelin far more attractive than Creator/RichardEGrant's Sir Percy.

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* EvilIsSexy: One EvilIsSexy:
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female viewer wrote to the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' regarding the 1997 series, asking if she was the only one to find Creator/MartinShaw's Chauvelin far more attractive than Creator/RichardEGrant's Sir Percy.Percy.
** In the musical, Chauvelin sings the sensual “Where’s the Girl”, and lyricist Nan Knighton describes all the women involved in the production of the cast recording as “draped over something, languorous and hanging on his every word” when Mann sung it.
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* TheWoobie: The [[Series/TheScarletPimpernel 1999 TV version]] has Tony Dewhurst, played by Creator/JamieBamber in the middle of the [[Series/{{Horatio Hornblower}} Professional Woobie stage of his career]]. Such a [[TheCutie Cutie]] and killed off so quickly, becoming the first of ''many'' of Bamber's characters to bite the dust (adding insult to injury is that Dewhurst did ''not'' die in the books the series is based on). Wiki/TVTropes send the guy a hug.

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* TheWoobie: The [[Series/TheScarletPimpernel 1999 TV version]] has Tony Dewhurst, played by Creator/JamieBamber in the middle of the [[Series/{{Horatio Hornblower}} Professional Woobie stage of his career]]. Such a [[TheCutie Cutie]] and killed off so quickly, becoming the first of ''many'' of Bamber's characters to bite the dust (adding insult to injury is that Dewhurst did ''not'' die in the books the series is based on). Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes send the guy a hug.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: Modern readers would find the Jew who aids Percy despite the potential danger to himself and his family much more heroic than Orczy would probably have intended.



* UnintentionallySympathetic: Similarly, modern readers would find the Jew who aids Percy despite the potential danger to himself and his family much more heroic than Orczy would probably have intended.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: Similarly, modern readers would find ValuesResonance: Despite the Jew who aids Percy despite the potential danger to himself above issues, in a broad sense, depicting rescuing persecuted refugees and his family much helping them resettle in a new country seems even more heroic than Orczy would probably have intended.relevant amid a number of serious refugee crises in the twenty-first century.

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