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| 2 | These are the main characters of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''. |
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| 4 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | !!TenLittleMurderVictims |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Tropes related to the killer's identity should be listed separately so as to avoid spoiling TheReveal. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [[folder:Dr. Edward Armstrong]] |
| 11 | !!Dr. Edward George Armstrong |
| 12 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/WalterHuston (1945), Creator/DennisPrice (1965), Creator/HerbertLom (1974), Anatoly Romashin (1987), Yehuda Efroni (1989, as Dr. Hans Yokem Werner), Creator/TobyStephens (2015) |
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| 14 | A successful Harley Street surgeon and also a recovering alcoholic at the beginning of the novel. He is accused of killing a patient, Louisa Mary Clees, due to operating on her while drunk. |
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| 16 | * AcquittedTooLate: He became the prime suspect after the fifth death, [[spoiler: until Vera and Philip found his body washed up in the shore after they discovered Blore's murder]]. |
| 17 | * TheAtoner: [[spoiler: He is very repentant of his crime and did give up drinking in order to do no more harm to patients]]. |
| 18 | * TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: |
| 19 | ** He studies treatments for nervousness, yet is the most fidgety and fearful of all the guests. |
| 20 | ** In the 2015 BBC version, he claims to specialize in "female disorders", yet as soon as it's established there's a murderer among them, he immediately fixates on the only young, attractive woman among the guests as the prime suspect. He's also not too fond of the older woman remaining, either… |
| 21 | * GenderFlip: In the 2017 Japanese TV adaptation, Dr. Armstrong becomes a female (named Dr. Erika Konami) and is given a penchant for fishing. Dr. Armstrong is also sometimes performed by an actress in the play adaption to balance out the female to male ratio somewhat. |
| 22 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:He's far too trusting of "proper" authority figures like Wargrave.]] |
| 23 | * LargeHam: In the 2015 BBC version, he's prone to shrill flippancy and rashness, especially in one scene where he discovers a body. |
| 24 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His nervousness and abstinence from drinking are in response to his guilt over causing the death of a patient. |
| 25 | * PetTheDog: |
| 26 | ** In the 2015 version, he's very adamant that he check Mrs. Rogers over after she 'faints.' He also clearly disapproves of Rogers' domestic abuse of his wife. |
| 27 | ** He's the only one to [[TheAtoner try and actually change his ways]] after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone being wracked by guilt over the death of his patient while he was under the effects of alcohol]], and by the time the story begins is a recovering alcoholic. Though clearly not enough for U.N. Owen... |
| 28 | * RecoveredAddict: A recovering alcoholic. |
| 29 | * RedHerringMole: As the novel goes on, the remaining characters begin to suspect he is the killer after his mysterious disappearance, only for it to turn out that [[spoiler:he became an unwitting accomplice in the judge's plan and ended up getting murdered by the judge himself.]] |
| 30 | * ShellShockedVeteran: In the BBC version, he mentions serving in the army medical corps during WWI. He's also a recovering alcoholic, and later, when everyone's partying, he expresses familiarity with cocaine, which he says he would use to stay awake in the army. While he's high, he keeps going on about all the bodies and maimings he saw, and all the amputations he had to do, all in a dissonantly cheerful tone. |
| 31 | * TheTeetotaler: Since he's a recovering alcoholic. |
| 32 | * TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: He makes the fatal mistake of trusting the judge and helping him fake his death, and the judge kills him as well. Justified, as he strongly believes in social class and respectability and thus is convinced that someone as respectable as the judge could not possibly be a killer.]] |
| 33 | * UnwittingPawn: If only he knew whom he was trusting… |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:William Blore]] |
| 37 | !!William Henry Blore |
| 38 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Roland Young (1945), Creator/StanleyHolloway (1965), Gert Froebe (1974), Aleksei Zharkov (1987), Warren Berlinger (1989), Creator/BurnGorman (2015) |
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| 40 | A former policeman who tends to be a bit too bold for his own good. He is accused of being on a crime syndicate's payroll and causing the death of an innocent man named James Landor by planting false evidence and landing him in prison, which caused him to die of untreated tuberculosis in jail. In the game, this is anted up to give him a more personal connection to the character the player controls when it's revealed that he also framed the character's brother to take the heat off himself. |
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| 42 | * ActuallyIAmHim: In the novel and the 1987 and the 2015 versions he comes to the island under the alias of Mr. Davis and confesses to being Blore once the accusations are read aloud. |
| 43 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the 2015 version he comes to show genuine guilt over what he did, culminating in a teary confession, while in the novel he mostly regrets not getting proper compensation for framing Landor. |
| 44 | -->Perhaps we're dead already and we just don't realize it. And this is hell. We're in hell, and we're being punished for what we done. Because I did kill him - Landor. I stomped him until he was pulp. His own mother couldn't see him, couldn't say goodbye! I murdered him, alright. He was helpless and I didn't stop. He must've been so frightened. He was just a young lad. |
| 45 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: |
| 46 | ** In the BBC miniseries, he's portrayed by Burn Gorman, who is younger and leaner than his heavyset, middle-aged novel counterpart. |
| 47 | ** It also applies in the Soviet version, where Aleksei Zharkov, the actor portraying him, was barely in his forties. |
| 48 | * AdaptationalHeroism: See AdaptationalAngstUpgrade above. |
| 49 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 50 | ** In the 2015 version, he is shown beating a young man, arrested for cottaging, gorily to death in a police cell for no other reason but homophobia. Zig-zags into AdaptationalHeroism when he ends up feeling heavy remorse for what he did and wishing he could have done things differently. |
| 51 | ** In the game, he also framed the protagonist's brother when people began to suspect him of being an inside man for the Purcell gang. |
| 52 | * CatchPhrase: "I get it!" in the 1945 film version, and when it seems as though he really ''does'' get it, [[spoiler:he gets it -- on the head from a marble clock.]] |
| 53 | * CharacterExaggeration: The Hollywood adaptations tend to take his basic characteristic of being too bold for his own good and make him TooDumbToLive. |
| 54 | * DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler:In the original novel, he is killed when a marble clock is dropped on his head.]] |
| 55 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Instead of getting a clock dropped on his head, he is stabbed by someone wearing a bearskin rug in the 2015 version]]. |
| 56 | * DirtyCop: "A bad hat", as Assistant Commissioner Legge puts it. The 1989 adaptation takes this to a whole new level -- not only is he TooDumbToLive, he is also paranoid bordering on AxCrazy. After discovering the body of [[spoiler: the General,]] he actually ''tries to shoot Lombard.'' |
| 57 | * DumbMuscle: It's frequently mentioned how he lacks imagination and gets nervous at the face of abstract, unseen threats such as U.N. Owen, but is fearless and determined when faced with concrete, visible problems. He's also described as being equally physically strong as [[GeniusBruiser Lombard]], making them [[{{Foil}} foils]]. |
| 58 | * EnemyMine: Reluctantly works with Patrick in the game in order to save their lives. |
| 59 | * HairTriggerTemper: In the 2015 version he's on the list partially because of being prone to violence and flying off the handle. |
| 60 | * InSeriesNickname: Lombard calls him "Tubs" in the 2015 version, to his constant annoyance. |
| 61 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the 2015 version, his guilt and fear eventually cause a complete emotional breakdown. |
| 62 | * OldFashionedCopper: He predates the milieu associated with the trope (Britain in the 1970s), but he could be considered a precursor of it. |
| 63 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the 2015 version, his violent homophobia gets him onto the deadly island. Also, he instantly suspects Lombard from the start because of his Irish heritage (denoting him as 'Fenian' in his notebook). |
| 64 | * PrecisionFStrike: In the BBC miniseries, he's quite prone to this, much to Emily Brent's dismay. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Emily Brent]] |
| 68 | !!Emily Caroline Brent |
| 69 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Judith Anderson (1945), Daliah Lavi (1965, as Ilona Bergen), Stéphane Audran (1974, as Ilona Morgan), Lyudmila Maksakova (1987), Brenda Vaccaro (1989, as Marion Marshall), Creator/MirandaRichardson (2015) |
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| 71 | A staunchly religious spinster who takes a cold, unforgiving attitude towards anyone who, in her eyes, is a sinner. She is accused of driving her pregnant servant girl, Beatrice Taylor, to suicide after throwing her out of her household. |
| 72 | ---- |
| 73 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the 2015 adaptation, she's more upset than in the book: she gives a prayer to God when [[spoiler: Anthony dies]], where in the book she's the one who finds [[spoiler: the general's corpse]] and seems more worried when [[spoiler: one of her wool balls are stolen]]. |
| 74 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: |
| 75 | ** Her character is completely rewritten in all but one Hollywood adaptations, from an elderly spinster to an attractive movie star. |
| 76 | ** To a lesser extent in the Soviet version, but still – she is played by the very good-looking, then-47-year-old Lyudmila Maksakova, who was famous for roles such as [[Theatre/DieFledermaus Rosalinde]]. |
| 77 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 78 | ** In the 1945 adaptation, she is coldly indifferent about her crime, which is changed to sending her own nephew to a reformatory where he eventually hanged himself, while all other versions of her character show at least some degree of guilt, even if repressed. |
| 79 | ** In the game, [[spoiler: she is the murderer -- Gabrielle Steele, who killed the real Emily Brent.]] |
| 80 | * BeneathTheMask: The other guests may not see it because of her unyielding front, but she's being unconsciously consumed by repressed guilt. |
| 81 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: In the game, [[spoiler: Gabrielle Steele killed the real Emily Brent and impersonates her on the island.]] |
| 82 | * DefiledForever: Brent strongly believes this, and threw her own maid out over it. |
| 83 | * DespairEventHorizon: In the BBC adaptation, after hallucinating about Beatrice, she's overwhelmed by guilt and loses her sanctimonious behavior, somberly accepting the fact that Owen wants to murder everyone on the island. |
| 84 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 85 | ** In one instance, she voices a sentiment of racial equality, taking issue with downplaying Lombard's evil deed because his victims were "natives". She's also disgusted by Marston's crime. |
| 86 | ** [[spoiler: In the game, Gabrielle Steele expresses particular disdain for Brent, calling her a "hateful old hag".]] |
| 87 | * EvilCounterpart: Not to another guest, but still to another Christie's character -- Miss Marple. Both are elderly spinsters who like to knit, but Miss Marple is compassionate and never lets religion hinder her empathy, while Emily Brent is devoted to her principles to the point that she feels no sympathy for anyone who doesn't live up to her standards. Also, Miss Marple is always caring with her maids, while Miss Brent's harshness eventually drove her maid to suicide. |
| 88 | * EvilRedhead: In the 1989 adaptation and in the BBC miniseries. |
| 89 | * TheFundamentalist: She has a strict and insufferable religiosity that seems to permeate her whole life. For instance, when questioning what it was that Dr. Armstrong did to be accused of murder, she immediately suggests that he had performed an "illegal operation", a euphemism for an abortion. |
| 90 | * GambitRoulette: [[spoiler: She attempts this in the game and fails, thanks to one, tiny event she did not foresee: Patrick Narracott being stranded on the island.]] |
| 91 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler:At the end of the game. To explain it would be a bit...[[ArtisticLicensePhysics complex...]] ]] |
| 92 | * HolierThanThou: She looks down on anyone who doesn't meet her insanely strict religious standards. |
| 93 | * {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: In the novel, she is being [[MindRape psychologically]] tortured by Wargrave, as are the rest of the guests. In the game, she's doing this to Wargrave, flipping the tables entirely.]] |
| 94 | * LackOfEmpathy: If you're someone who doesn't meet her high standards, [[NoSympathy you're damned in her eyes]], no ifs, ands, or buts. [[DownplayedTrope Then again]], she chews Lombard out for leaving his men to die for being natives, so she is certainy capable of empathy. |
| 95 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: A trope used in some adaptations, notably the game, [[spoiler:where she's the murderer with her motive being to torture Wargrave by making him watch others die and being powerless to stop it because he sentenced her lover to death,]] and the BBC miniseries, where she's implied to have had feelings for her maid and to have thrown her out due to jealousy. |
| 96 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She eventually comes to realize the gravity of what she has done, although by that point it's too late. |
| 97 | * ObliviouslyEvil: At least in the book, where her judgment is so clouded by her principles that she is unable to understand why U.N. Owen should punish her as well. Although she knows you don't talk about that publicly as she tells Vera she knew the others would consider firing a pregnant woman and showing no guilt over her suicide poor taste. |
| 98 | * PetTheDog: In the 2015 adaptation, she extends some sympathy towards Mrs. Rogers, although this is mainly due to the latter's ability as a cook. She also disapproves of Lombard's nonchalance toward the people he left to die. |
| 99 | * PrinciplesZealot: To the point she didn't feel remorse or sadness when Beatrice Taylor killed herself since the latter was, in Miss Brent's eyes, guilty of two sins. |
| 100 | * PsychoLesbian: In the 1989 adaptation, and implied in the 2015 BBC miniseries. In the 2017 Japanese TV miniseries, she even goes as far as to propose to Beatrice by putting a ring on her finger (Given that the Japan version is set in current times, this would seem appropriate with modern values.) |
| 101 | * PureIsNotGood: She's a staunchly religious person, but her moral inflexibility makes her incredibly cold-hearted. |
| 102 | * SanitySlippage: She starts having nightmares and hallucinations about Beatrice. |
| 103 | * StraightEdgeEvil: She's the only guest who avoids both drinking alcohol and smoking. |
| 104 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: |
| 105 | ** She hates, ''hates'' bees and wasps (in adaptations -- in the novel she mentions quite enjoying honey and never brings up bees). And of course, U.N. Owen uses it to his advantage. |
| 106 | ** In the game, she states she's allergic to bees. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Vera Claythorne]] |
| 110 | !!Vera Elizabeth Claythorne |
| 111 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' June Duprez (1945), Creator/ShirleyEaton (1965, as Ann Clyde), Creator/ElkeSommer (1974, as Vera Clyde), Tatyana Drubich (1987), Sarah Maur Thorp (1989), Maeve Dermody (2015) |
| 112 | |
| 113 | A young former governess, now gym teacher and secretary. She is accused of causing the death of her young charge, Cyril Hamilton, by allowing him to swim out to sea and drown, which she vehemently denies. |
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| 115 | * AdaptationalHeroism: She really ''didn't'' cause Cyril's death in the 1945 movie, the play or the game. In the first two, her sister was the one who did it. In the game, ''Hugo'' was the one who set Cyril up to die and Vera lied to protect him. |
| 116 | * AdaptationalVillainy: She's much more frigid and cruel in the BBC adaptation than she appeared to be in the original novel. In the book, [[spoiler:she is wracked with guilt and slowly begins losing her mind as she comes to terms with what she has done, but in the miniseries it is strongly implied to all be an act of a vicious fully-blown sociopath]]. Also, [[spoiler:little Cyril's death at sea is now shown to be a cold and calculated murder, while in the book it was implied to be a spur-of-the-moment crime of passion.]] |
| 117 | * AllForNothing: [[spoiler:She let Cyril, a child in her care to swim out to sea and drown so her lover, Hugo (who was Cyril's uncle), could inherit his estate and marry her. However, Hugo realized that Vera caused Cyril's death on purpose, and left her in horror.]] |
| 118 | * AssholeVictim: In the BBC adaptation, [[spoiler: she's left to die by Wargrave after [[DirtyCoward she hastily tries to bargain with him]] by having them throw Lombard (who she supposedly cared for) under the bus for all the other murders on the island, and also due to her AdaptationalVillainy she's a lot less sympathetic than in the novel.]] |
| 119 | * AxCrazy: What she eventually becomes by the end. |
| 120 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Vera is perceived by the other guests to be very sweet, but she ends up snapping in one of the worst ways possible at the end. She is also considered the worst guest by the murderer, which is why he keeps her for last. |
| 121 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: She stole Lombard's revolver by faking concern over Armstrong's decency in death; not to mention the crime she's accused of, which she carried out after gaining the trust of a young boy and his family.]] |
| 122 | * BreakTheCutie: So very much. This becomes even worse in the Russian film adaptation as [[spoiler: in addition to the [[MindRape mental rape]] she undergoes, she is also ''actually'' raped by Lombard.]] |
| 123 | * CuteAndPsycho: A gentle, sweet, naive girl who [[spoiler:caused the death of her lover's nephew, who was her charge, by letting him drown in the sea so her lover could inherit the family estate and marry her. She only gets crazier as the story goes on.]] |
| 124 | * DirtyCoward: In the BBC version, [[spoiler: she pathetically begs Wargrave for her life and tries to bargain with him in any way she can to convince him to spare her. It doesn't work.]] |
| 125 | * DontDoThisCoolThing: How the Russian film version implies Vera [[spoiler:goaded Cyril into swimming out to sea and drowning. She kept teasing him that the rock he wanted to swim up to is too far away and he won't be able to reach it.]] |
| 126 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Vera finally reaches the breaking point at the end, where she is faced with the choice to hang herself and does so.]] |
| 127 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: In the two faithful adaptations. |
| 128 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: When Emily Brent gloats about how she drove her "sinful" maid to kill herself, Vera is very unnerved. |
| 129 | * FinalGirl: {{Subverted}}. [[spoiler:She's the last victim left standing, but is DrivenToSuicide anyway. In the play, however, she's rescued just in time.]] |
| 130 | ** Arguably, she's the TropeMaker. [[spoiler:Lampshaded by the murderer in the play. "It's always more fun if the last victim is a girl!"]] |
| 131 | *** In many ways, she's the worst out of all of them in the BBC adaptation, so [[spoiler: her being the last one to be killed is played for catharsis.]] |
| 132 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's blonde in all but the first Alan Towers adaptations, and she's innocent of the crime she's accused of. |
| 133 | * HappyFlashback: Played with in the Russian film version. [[spoiler:As she is driven mad by guilt and about to hang herself, Vera experiences a brief flashback to a happier time as Cyril's governess where the two of them bond and play joyfully on the beach.]] |
| 134 | * HauntedHeroine: Former governess, apparently a normal, sweet young woman, whose neuroses bubble up to the surface as uncanny events pop up. But subverted in that [[spoiler:she ''did'' deliberately cause the death of her charge, and she ends up snapping completely in the end. Though part of her 'haunting' may be the fact that killing Cyril ended up being AllForNothing when Hugo realized what she had done and dumped her.]] |
| 135 | * IronicName: Vera can mean "truth" in Latin. Vera, as it turns out, is one of the most duplicitous characters in the story. |
| 136 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: In the original book and adaptations where she is a murderer, she asphyxiates just like the little boy she allowed to drown, on the same date (August 11th). It's more so in the 2015 BBC series, where as she gave Cyril false hope he could make it to the rock, Wargrave gives her false hope that he'll spare her]]. |
| 137 | * KickTheDog: In the BBC version, [[spoiler: she offers to Wargrave to help him frame Philip (after she took him as a lover then shot him to death in a fit of paranoia) for the murders, all to save her own hide. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Wargrave isn't impressed.]]]] |
| 138 | * LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: Vera allows Cyril to drown, utterly failing to understand the effect that would have on Hugo, and also that he would clearly see right through her.]] |
| 139 | * LoveHurts: [[spoiler:She caused the death of her pupil Cyril so his uncle/her lover could inherit the family fortune, which drove said lover into alcoholism. Vera is constantly tormented by memories of the ordeal.]] |
| 140 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:She allowed a child in her care to swim out to sea and drown so her lover, who also happened to be the child's uncle, could inherit his estate and marry Vera for love, something unlikely when he didn't have a penny.]] |
| 141 | * MsFanservice: Because Vera is the youngest (hence most attractive) guest, she gets subjected to {{Fanservice}} quite a lot in the Harry Alan Towers adaptations. [[FanDisservice And then this is deconstructed in the Russian film version...]] |
| 142 | * NaiveEverygirl: Very much so in the play, viciously deconstructed in the novel. |
| 143 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: In the BBC version, the killer seems to recognize this about Vera. [[spoiler: Wargrave realizes she's just as sociopathic as he is, but whereas he is guided by MoralSociopathy to punish the guilty, Vera is a calculating {{Yandere}} who only truly values herself.]] |
| 144 | * TheOphelia: As time passes. |
| 145 | * ProperLady: ''Mercilessly'' deconstructed. At first, Vera seems to be the typical girl that we'd expect to see married after the resolution of the mystery: she's helpful and considerate, even if a past tragedy still weighs on her and has taken her fiance Hugo away from her. As the story goes on, the veneer starts to crack and we see that her politeness is hiding something really dark. [[spoiler: In the end, she kills Lombard, who in another setting could have been her second LoveInterest, and turns out to be guilty of one of the worst crimes among the guests, the real reason why Hugo broke up with her.]] |
| 146 | * SanitySlippage: In the book and in the faithful adaptations, she progressively becomes more paranoid and nervous, which culminates in her [[spoiler: breaking down at the sight of the noose in her room and hanging herself.]] |
| 147 | * SecondLove: In the various adaptations, she manages to find new love with Lombard, Patrick Narracott, or [[spoiler:Charles Morley]]. |
| 148 | * SilkHidingSteel: [[spoiler: Deconstructed in that the killer exploits this as part of their end game.]] |
| 149 | * TheSociopath: She's heavily implied to be this in the BBC adaptation. While she's still distressed, it seems to be more out of fear for her own safety or of her crime being found out rather than out of actual guilt. She isn't particularly fazed by the deaths happening around her, and [[spoiler: empties the gun on Lombard instead of shooting him once as in the book]], proving to be much colder than expected. [[spoiler: While her decision to hang herself seems to be done out of guilt, she changes her mind as soon as she sees Wargrave entering the room, and tries to bargain for her life.]] |
| 150 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Play and Hollywood adaptations. Depending on what you do in the last chapter of the game, you can either play this straight, or subvert it.]] |
| 151 | * UncannyValleyGirl: She's a beautiful young teacher who is still suffering for the accidental death of a child in her care... at first. As the plot thickens, it becomes clear that there's something off about her, with her sudden nervous outbursts and increasing paranoia. [[spoiler: And it's not just an impression: she did cause the child's death and, by the end, she completely snaps.]] |
| 152 | * UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: After finding Armstrong's dead body, she shoots Lombard, believing him to be Owen and her to be the only guest left alive. As it turns out, Owen had staged the showdown so that she would get rid of Lombard.]] |
| 153 | * VillainProtagonist: She's the closest thing to a main character we have as [[spoiler:she outlives all the other guests, except for U.N. Owen]], but is far from heroic. [[AdaptationalHeroism In several of the adaptations]], she's just TheHero outright. |
| 154 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: The long repressed guilt and the psychological torture at Owen's hands come crashing down on her at the sight of the noose.]] |
| 155 | * WouldHurtAChild: She's accused of letting a child drown so that his uncle could become rich and marry her. [[spoiler: This is revealed to be true in the novel and the BBC adaptation, but subverted in the 1945 film, the play and the game.]] |
| 156 | * {{Yandere}}: In the book, [[spoiler:turns out that she did cause Cyril Hamilton's death so his uncle Hugo, who was her lover, could inherit the child's estate]]. Downplayed in the Russian film adaptation, where a single flashback shows her [[spoiler:coldly watching Cyril run into the sea to his death after Hugo explains why he can't marry her.]] |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Philip Lombard]] |
| 160 | !!Philip Lombard |
| 161 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Louis Hayward (1945), Hugh O'Brien (1965, as Hugh Lombard), Creator/OliverReed (1974, as Hugh Lombard), Aleksandr Kaydanovsky (1987), Frank Stallone (1989), Creator/AidanTurner (2015) |
| 162 | |
| 163 | A cool-headed and intelligent man, once a mercenary having seen various parts of the world. He is accused of leaving twenty-one men from an African tribe to starve and freely admits to it. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: His appearance in the book, while still charming, is described as feral and subtly menacing, while in the various American film adaptations he's portrayed by more conventionally attractive actors. His portrayal in the Russian version is closer to that in the book. In the BBC miniseries, he's played by Creator/AidanTurner. |
| 166 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the stage play and some films, [[spoiler:Lombard is innocent. He went to get help and didn’t come back in time. He just made the story up just so he could see everyone’s reaction to his confession.]] |
| 167 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In the BBC adaptation, he tries to reason with Vera when she's aiming the gun at him, rather than simply charging at her. [[spoiler: It doesn't work anyway.]] He also tries to convince her that there's someone spying on them, [[spoiler: which turns out to be true.]] |
| 168 | * AdaptationalVillainy: |
| 169 | ** In the Russian version, he [[spoiler: rapes Vera.]] |
| 170 | ** In the book, he abandons the tribesmen to starve to death while they were lost, but did not directly kill them. In the 2015 version, he actively murdered the 21 Africans and burned their village in pursuit of securing a diamond mine. |
| 171 | * AnimalMotifs: He's often compared to predatory animals. Wolves and large cats are a recurring theme when it comes to describing his appearance and behavior. |
| 172 | * AtLeastIAdmitIt: He's the only guest who admits upfront to his crime and in the 2015 BBC adaptation, he points out that at least he's willing to own up to what he did instead of lying about or hiding it like everyone else. |
| 173 | * BlackComedy: He loves bringing up the foreboding poem at the worst possible moments. |
| 174 | * ColdHam: In the BBC miniseries, while keeping his typical coldness, he doesn't mind dropping​ some dramatic lines here and there. |
| 175 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: A plot twist in the many Hollywood versions and game turns him into [[spoiler:Charles Morley, a friend of Lombard's impersonating him on the island after the latter's mysterious death]]. |
| 176 | * DeathOfTheHypotenuse: In the game [[spoiler: if you choose not to save him at the end. Even if he lives, however, Vera will still end up with Patrick (assuming ''she's'' saved, too).]] |
| 177 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He definitely has a chivalrous streak in the novel and WouldntHitAGirl [[spoiler: although since he got killed because of it, it could also be considered [[DeathByRacism Death By Sexism.]]]] This is subverted in the Russian version, however; he comes across this way at first, or at least a bit protective of Vera. [[spoiler: Turns out he had [[RapeAsDrama other]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ideas]].]] |
| 178 | * GentlemanAdventurer: What he is the Hollywood versions, although this can be attested to [[spoiler: the character not really being Lombard.]] Novel!Lombard is more like a evil version of the trope. |
| 179 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In the game, or more specifically [[spoiler: in the game's best end, he lets Vera go with Patrick with the instruction to take care of her.]] |
| 180 | * NotQuiteDead: In the play, [[spoiler:Vera gets so anxious that she steals his gun and shoots him, but he lives to save her life a minute later.]] |
| 181 | -->"[[spoiler:Good thing women can't shoot.]]" |
| 182 | * OnlySaneMan: He's probably the most clear-headed person on the island. Special attention is drawn to this in the BBC version. Justified since he is a mercenary, is armed and has zero guilt over what he did. |
| 183 | -->'''Vera:''' [[spoiler: We'll say that it was Philip, that he was mad…]] |
| 184 | -->'''Wargrave:''' [[spoiler: [[DeadpanSnarker Oh, he was quite the sanest of the lot, I thought.]]]] |
| 185 | * PetTheDog: In the 2015 series, he realizes that Vera isn't the killer because she has an alibi when Blore is dead. Lombard tries in vain to protect her knowing the other killer is on the island. [[spoiler:Sadly, it doesn't save him when Vera gets ahold of his gun]]. |
| 186 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Besides his crime, of course, it's kind of interesting that while the newer version of the novel replaced the racist earlier title, Lombard's anti-Semitic and racist sentiments are left intact, and while his chivalry is a redeeming quality, he also displays it in a sexist way. |
| 187 | * TheScapegoat: Downplayed, as Lombard is guilty (something he himself freely admits), but he mentions in passing that there were two other men with him who also stole the food and abandoned the Africans (with it being unclear if they were just as culpable as Lombard, less culpable or even guiltier than he was), who avoid U.N. Owen's radar, unlike Lombard himself. |
| 188 | * TheSocialDarwinist: He freely admits to having left twenty-one African men to starve to death (it's unclear whether all of them actually did die, but Lombard seems to think they did), and is well-known for participating in quasi-legal activities. His justification is, "self-preservation is a man's first duty." However, [[spoiler:this ultimately becomes his own undoing during the showdown between himself and Vera Claythorne at the end.]] |
| 189 | * TheSociopath: He lacks remorse, hides a dangerous nature behind a superficial charm, cares only about himself and works outside the law. He is somewhat protective of Vera, but even this trait is rather ambiguous. The Soviet version cements his status as a sociopath by having him [[spoiler: rape an already unstable Vera after gaining her trust.]] |
| 190 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: The play and Hollywood adaptations (assuming one refers to the person that arrives on the island, since the DeadPersonImpersonation adaptations of course has the ''real'' Philip Lombard already be dead before any of the guests arrived on the island). Depending on what you do in the next-to-last chapter of the game, you can either play this straight, or subvert it.]] |
| 191 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He's frequently described as somewhat young, well-built and good-looking. |
| 192 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: In the stage version, [[spoiler:Lombard actually didn't leave his men to die but tried to save them in every way he could. However, the rumor spread that he had abandoned them, and eventually he got so tired of denying it that he decided to play along.]] |
| 193 | * WouldntHitAGirl: Played straight between him and Vera [[spoiler: with disastrous results in the novel, ending in his death.]] |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:General John Macarthur]] |
| 197 | !!General John Macarthur |
| 198 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1945, as General John Mandrake), Leo Genn (1965, as General John Mandrake), Creator/AdolfoCeli (1974, as General André Salvé), Mikhail Gluzsky (1987), Herbert Lom (1989, as General Romensky), Creator/SamNeill (2015) |
| 199 | |
| 200 | A retired World War I general. He is accused of causing the death of Arthur Richmond, his wife Leslie's lover, by sending him on a mission that guarantees him dead. |
| 201 | ---- |
| 202 | * AdaptationNameChange: His surname is sometimes changed in post-WWII versions, to avoid confusion with the real General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur. |
| 203 | * AllForNothing: His wife died shortly after the war, making his crime entirely fruitless. |
| 204 | * AntiVillain: He committed a crime of passion and was never the same again. Especially after his wife's death, he felt himself dead on the inside. |
| 205 | * CassandraTruth: He predicts none of the guests will be leaving the island alive, but his ranting is first dismissed to him just being older and thus, more likely to be off his rocker. |
| 206 | * DeathSeeker: Because of his deep guilt over his actions, he takes on a fatalistic attitude toward the certainty of the guests being killed and seems to welcome death. In a later Canadian novel adaptation, he was spared because of this. He then admits to the police that he killed the other nine people so they can hang him, but he can't explain the story. |
| 207 | * DespairEventHorizon: He is already riddled with guilt at the start of the novel, but he basically gives up soon after it becomes clear there's a murderer on the island, taking to long walks by himself where he ends up staring into the distance by the ocean waiting for death. |
| 208 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He did commit one of the [[UriahGambit nastiest military crimes]], but even then he was genuinely disgusted with Lombard's act, abandoning his own men to their deaths, which implies that he believed in some level in the responsibility of a commander towards his underlings. |
| 209 | * MayDecemberRomance: Implied among him and Leslie, which explains why she ultimately turned to a much younger man. |
| 210 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He couldn't bear to hear any reminders of what he did. |
| 211 | * NiceGuy: He's actually a very nice and accommodating person, if a bit air-headed in his old age. His crime was done on impulse and it's haunted him every single day since. |
| 212 | * NotAfraidToDie: He is so consumed by guilt that he actually welcomes his impending fate. [[spoiler:Owen rewards him with a quick and painless death.]] |
| 213 | * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His death is the first one that is obviously murder]]. |
| 214 | * SanitySlippage: After his past is brought up, he falls into a deep depression and isolates himself from the other guests. |
| 215 | * UriahGambit: His method of doing away with his wife's lover, in a neat inversion. He stays away from church whenever the passage about David and Uriah is to be read. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Anthony Marston]] |
| 219 | !!Anthony James Marston |
| 220 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Mischa Auer (1945, as Prince Nikita Starloff), Fabian (1965, as Mike Raven), Music/CharlesAznavour (1974, as Michel Raven), Aleksandr Abdulov (1987), Neil [=McCarthy=] (1989), Douglas Booth (2015) |
| 221 | |
| 222 | A spoiled, vain youth with little concern for others. He is accused of causing the death of two young children, John and Lucy Combes, by accidentally running them over. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In the 2017 Japanese miniseries, Antony Marston (named Gomyo Taku) is now an ex-boxer turned mystery crime writer. He is the first one to deduce the anagram of Mr. Owen's name sounding like Unknown even before the record is played. [[spoiler: Of course, it still doesn't save him.]] |
| 225 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the 1945 film, to Nikita "Nicky" Starloff. |
| 226 | * BrainlessBeauty: He's very handsome, and is described in the novel as being godlike in his beauty, but he's also vain, vapid, and only interested in partying. |
| 227 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: He's a very reckless driver, and has accidentally killed two children with his careless driving. At the start of the story, he almost drove Armstrong into a ditch when he was speeding on the road he shared with the doctor. |
| 228 | * {{Foil}}: To Lombard. Both are young, attractive and with a clear lack of empathy that manifests when they both admit their crimes shortly after the accusations are brought up. Lombard is much more conscious of his own nature and recognizes the moral and social implications of his crime but doesn't care, while Marston doesn't even seem to grasp them. |
| 229 | * ItsAllAboutMe: In Marston's worldview, there are two kinds of people in the world: Anthony Marston, and people who don't matter. The only thing that he worries about running over two young children is that he had his license taken away for six months. |
| 230 | * {{Jerkass}}: [[NeverMyFault He pins on others the blame of his own dangerousness]] and shows no remorse for what he has done. The films take a step forward, making him shrug off [[EvenEvilHasStandards Emily Brent's reaction]] with a laconic "We live in the age of speed" (as in the Russian version) or belittling the sacrifices done by his country in the Great War, and even praising German roads in a period of absolute tension with the Third Reich (as in the BBC version). |
| 231 | * LackOfEmpathy: He regards running over two kids as unlucky for ''him'', because his license was suspended, and feels no guilt about it. U.N. Owen characterizes him as essentially an animal [[spoiler:and kills him first]] since he has no morals or empathy to speak of, Marston is the most [[AmbiguousInnocence "innocent".]] Owen can't terrorize him or make him face his guilt; [[spoiler:he opts to put him down quickly instead.]] |
| 232 | * LargeHam: ''Every'' actor who has portrayed his equivalent in the Hollywood adaptations. They all make sure [[spoiler: his death scene]] is the most exciting thing to watch in the whole film. |
| 233 | * ObliviouslyEvil: He is unable to realize the gravity of his crime. |
| 234 | * PrettyBoy: Tall, young and attractive. The only exceptions are the 1945 and 1974 film, where his character is changed quite radically. |
| 235 | * PsychopathicManchild: He has zero grasp over the fact that killing innocent kids is wrong, whining about how he lost his license. |
| 236 | * ShipTease: In the Russian adaptation, he flirts and dances with Vera and [[HeldGaze stares at her]] at dinner. Considering that the actor specialized in PrinceCharming parts, some viewers unfamiliar with canon [[WrongGenreSavvy got the wrong idea of what the plot would be like]]. |
| 237 | * TheSociopath: He shows many traits of low-functioning sociopathy, including recklessness, disregard for rules, inability to learn from past errors and lack of remorse. [[spoiler: It's this sociopathy that marks him as the first to die on the island, as Wargrave reasons he's incapable of feeling remorse for his actions, and therefore wouldn't appreciate the psychological torment the other guests will endure.]] |
| 238 | * SpoiledBrat: A rich asshole who doesn't give a rat's ass for anyone else's life. |
| 239 | * TooDumbToFool: Well, Too Dumb To Torment. Owen doesn't bother including him in the mind games he plays with the other guests, [[spoiler: instead making him the first victim]], because Marston is a low-functioning sociopath who's just ''too stupid'' for any psychological torture to reach him. He'll never be tormented by guilt because he sees nothing wrong with anything he does, and he won't be scared by the others' deaths because he can't understand consequences. [[spoiler: So he's instead made an example to the others that U.N. Owen ''will'' follow through on his threats.]] |
| 240 | * WrongGenreSavvy: When Owen's message was first played, Marston gladly embraces the mystery, believing this to be an amusing game that would bring life to the otherwise dull party. [[spoiler:He is killed almost immediately afterwards.]] |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Thomas and Ethel Rogers]] |
| 244 | !!Thomas and Ethel Rogers |
| 245 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RichardHaydn and Queenie Leonard (1945), Mario Adorf and Marianne Hoppe (1965, as Josef and Elsa Grohmann), Alberto De Mendoza and Maria Rohm (1974, as Otto and Elsa Martino), Aleksei Zolotnitsky and Irina Tereshchenko (1987), Paul L. Smith and Moira Lister (1989, as Elmo and Edna Mae Rodgers), Creator/NoahTaylor and Anna Maxwell Martin (2015) |
| 246 | |
| 247 | The butler and maid who accommodate the other guests. They are accused of causing the death of their former employer, a rich spinster named Jennifer Brady, by withholding a vital drug so that she would die and they could inherit her money. |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * AdaptationalHeroism: The fact that Rogers mentally abused his wife is omitted in the Soviet adaptation. [[spoiler:Which makes it [[AdaptationalVillainy the opposite trope]] for Mrs. Rogers, who is therefore as guilty of murder as him instead of being under duress]]. |
| 250 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the 1965 film, Mrs. Grohmann sternly stands up to her husband, although she still breaks down when they are accused. |
| 251 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the BBC miniseries, Rogers smothers Ms. Brady [[VorpalPillow with a pillow]]. Also, he [[DomesticAbuse beats]] his wife. |
| 252 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite strong suspicion based on the cicurmstances of Mrs. Brady's death and their reactions to being accused, the Rogers' are never explicitly confirmed as having killed her in the book. Their version of her death happening while Rogers was genuinely trying to get her medicine is plausible, and it does seem odd that they would have risked committing an InheritanceMurder when the inheritance was little enough that they were still working as servants a few years later. Unless the murder was committed because of the assumption that the servants would inherit all her money and only later found out that it wasn’t the case, making this a case of AllForNothing. |
| 253 | * TheButlerDidIt: Lampshaded in the game: "Will it ring true this time? Did the butler do it?" In both game and book, [[spoiler: he didn't. Unless you count the backstory, where he ''did'' do it.]] |
| 254 | * DomesticAbuse: Rogers mentally dominated his wife Ethel and essentially forced her into causing the death of Ms. Brady. In the BBC adaptation, he also beats her. |
| 255 | * {{Fainting}}: Mrs. Rogers' reaction when "The Voice" reveals all of the crimes. |
| 256 | * FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Mrs. Rogers feels much more guilt than her husband does and it's implied (or outright shown, as in the BBC adaptation) that her role in the murder was essentially indirect and passive. |
| 257 | * NotSoStoic: In the Russian version, though he carries on with his duties the morning after his wife's death, he is shown wiping off tears when he is alone. |
| 258 | * PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Mrs. Rogers mostly acted under the influence of and out of fear of her husband. |
| 259 | * ShrinkingViolet: Mrs. Rogers, sorta. ''Especially'' after their crime is revealed; ever since then, she seems to be always at the verge of a breakdown. [[spoiler: This is mentioned as one of the reasons why she was killed before her husband ''and'' given a more or less peaceful death: being poisoned while in her sleep.]] |
| 260 | * SlainInTheirSleep: [[spoiler:Mrs. Rogers dies in her sleep from an overdose of chloral hydrate.]] |
| 261 | * StiffUpperLip: Mr. Rogers continues to do his job even as the corpses start piling up – including that of his wife. |
| 262 | * WhenItAllBegan: In the epilogue, the killer states that they were first inspired following a discussion with the GP (family doctor) of the employer of Mr & Mrs Rodgers. The GP stated that he was certain that the Rodgerses had deliberately killed their employer by witholding medication, but knew that there was no way of proving this, and wondered to the killer about how many other similar cases existed, where people had committed murders in ways that could never be proven. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Judge Lawrence Wargrave]] |
| 266 | !!Judge Lawrence John Wargrave |
| 267 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Barry Fitzgerald (1945, as Judge Francis J. Quinncannon), Creator/WilfridHydeWhite (1965, as Judge Arthur Cannon), Creator/RichardAttenborough (1974, as Judge Arthur Cannon), Vladimir Zeldin (1987), Creator/DonaldPleasence (1989), Creator/CharlesDance (2015) |
| 268 | |
| 269 | A retired hanging judge with a no-nonsense attitude. He is accused of deliberately sentencing an innocent man, Edward Seton, to hang. |
| 270 | ---- |
| 271 | * AcquittedTooLate: TropeNamer. |
| 272 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book he's described as having a slumped posture and harsh features, such as a mouth similar to a turtle beak due to him using dentures. The adaptations omit these traits, giving him a much more dignified appearance. |
| 273 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the 2005 game someone else is responsible for the murders on the island and Wargrave's plot to fake his own death comes into play to actually catch Owen and prevent more harm to the others. |
| 274 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the 1945 film, to Francis Quinncannon. |
| 275 | * AffablyEvil: Especially in the film adaptations, where he's [[AdaptationalNiceGuy more polite than his stern book counterpart]], despite his alleged crime. |
| 276 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Even without considering the crime he's accused of, he's an infamous black cap judge. [[spoiler: However, it turns out that Seton really was guilty.]] |
| 277 | * AnimalMotifs: He's frequently compared to a turtle, with his wrinkled face, sunken lips, heavily-lidded eyes, and generally slow, calm demeanor mentioned as shared traits. |
| 278 | * BlackCapOfDeath: He has gained a HangingJudge fame, so this trope is mentioned. In the BBC miniseries, we see him wearing one in a flashback about Edward Seton's process. |
| 279 | * BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How he dies.]] |
| 280 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: His NeverHurtAnInnocent creed is NotAnAct. [[spoiler:Edward Seton ''was'' guilty and Wargrave had evidence that proved him as such]]. |
| 281 | * HangingJudge: He is infamous for being a "hanging judge" for his frequent death sentencing. However, he only convicts those who really are guilty, as he couldn't bring himself to murder innocents due to his strong sense of justice. |
| 282 | * KickTheDog: He's not the only unrepentant one on the island, but one of his viewpoint passages shows him outright ''gleefully'' reminiscing about turning the jury against Seton. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out that Seton really ''did'' do it]]. |
| 283 | -->The shrunken lips fell in. It was a cruel mouth now, cruel and predatory. \ |
| 284 | Hooding his eyes, the judge smiled to himself. \ |
| 285 | He’d cooked Seton’s goose all right! |
| 286 | * MaskOfSanity: A calm rational person in public. |
| 287 | * MeaningfulName: A surname composed of "war" and "grave" really suits a HangingJudge. It still applies with the AdaptationNameChange, since the surname is changed to Cannon (or Quinncannon), which is very similar to "canon" (or "Queen's canon"). His first name is Lawrence. Appropriate, given that he is a judge operating by the law for justice. |
| 288 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Wargrave" certainly doesn't sound like a peaceful man's surname. |
| 289 | * ObfuscatingDisability: Not in canon, but a popular trope for productions of the play is to have him introduced either using a wheelchair or walking with a cane. [[spoiler:And then turns out he doesn't need them.]] |
| 290 | * OnlySaneMan: He is the most level-headed out of all the characters, aside from possibly Lombard. |
| 291 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Has a very strong sense of justice, which drove him to his liberal use of the death sentence to people he believes to be guilty. |
| 292 | * PetTheDog: In the BBC adaptation, he's very sympathetic to Vera and even talks her out of trying to leave the island by swimming, which would surely result in her drowning. |
| 293 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Subverted. He comes across as being an intelligent, cultured man, until you learned he sentenced an innocent man to die. [[spoiler:Double subverted, when it turns he was a actually a ''very'' fair judge, who always wanted to be sure he was punishing guilty people]]. |
| 294 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: As a HangingJudge, he used to wear the typical red cape and BlackCapOfDeath. [[spoiler: Owen also mimics his judicial attire with a red curtain and a black kerchief when his corpse shows up.]] |
| 295 | * VagueAge: While this is true to most of the characters in the book (only Emily Brent's age is stated explicitly), Wargrave is implied to be the oldest guest along with General Macarthur. The adaptations differ greatly on his age: in the looser ones, he's generally younger and possibly not retired yet (Attenborough is the most extreme example, as he was only 51 at the time), while in the more faithful ones he's portrayed by older actors (Zeldin at 72, Dance at 69). |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | !![[WalkingSpoiler Walking Spoilers]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | All spoilers will be unmarked. Proceed accordingly, should you wish. |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:The Killer/U.N. Owen]] |
| 303 | !!Judge Lawrence John Wargrave/U.N. Owen |
| 304 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' See Wargrave's entry above |
| 305 | |
| 306 | Otherwise known as Lawrence John Wargrave. All tropes related to TheReveal are listed here. |
| 307 | ---- |
| 308 | * AcquittedTooLate: Deliberately invoked by him as part of his plan. He keeps saying, "Acquitted too late!" every time someone dies, reinforcing in the others' minds the obvious idea that once someone dies, they're no longer a suspect. So when he later fakes his own death, the remaining survivors no longer suspect him. |
| 309 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the game, where he's NOT the murderer and really did want Armstrong to help him catch the killer. |
| 310 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Most adaptations make him even worse than he was in the book, by either having him try to torment the victims as they're dying or being willing to kill innocent people, sometimes knowingly. This is pretty out of character compared to his novel character. |
| 311 | ** In the BBC version, he comes to taunt Vera while she's hanging herself, explaining his motivations while she slowly suffocates. It isn't just to verify that she did kill Cyril; he has a sadistic smile on his face during the whole thing as she begs for her life. Unlike in the book where he lets her hang herself, here he deliberately pulls the chair away and leaves her to die. |
| 312 | * AffablyEvil: Wargrave is pretty polite considering he's a murderer. He's also U.N. Owen, of course. In the Alan Towers adaptations, he's quite avuncular to Vera as he explains his plan to her, and even recommends her to hang herself as she's alone, since public executions are rather humiliating. |
| 313 | * AllPartOfTheShow: He told the nearby locals and Fred that the island residents were going to be playing a game and to not respond to distress signals. It turns out that Fred didn't buy it, but by the time he arrived, everyone was dead on the island. |
| 314 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: If fighting evil with evil doesn't qualify for ambiguous it is hard to think what does. |
| 315 | * AndThenWhat: He does consider the possibility that the police will uncover him as the murderer by spotting the clues. Owen is actually fine with that. |
| 316 | * AntiVillain: Wargrave is, by his own admission, a complete and utter maniac, but he is also a deeply moral man who chooses to use his final days ending the lives of criminals. What's particularly effective about him is that he doesn't exempt ''himself'' from his extremely rigid moral code: he knows that by committing murders, he will have become just as guilty as the people he killed, and that means he too has to die, a fate which he calmly accepts without question. |
| 317 | * AxCrazy: Lampshaded by himself in the final note. |
| 318 | ** In the play, he's a screaming lunatic that tries to kill Vera himself. |
| 319 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In his confession letter, he mentions "certain experiments" he performed on animals [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior as a little boy]] as one of the early signs of his sociopathy and obsession with death. |
| 320 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Wargrave starts his scheme in earnest when he receives a terminal diagnosis from his doctor. He realizes that he has a choice: wait for the disease to finish him slowly and painfully, or commit the crime he's always dreamed of and either kill himself after succeeding or get hanged as a murderer. He opts for the latter and pulls the whole thing off perfectly. |
| 321 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Being a mentally deranged man, he does not operate by a normal moral code. His criteria for murder depends on several variables. |
| 322 | ** People who are completely innocent of a crime are spared his viciousness, even those who could potentially unravel his scheme. |
| 323 | ** If you are a murderer, but you show honest remorse for your crimes, you will get a quick and painless death. Mrs. Rogers (whose abusive husband pressured her into being an accomplice to his murder of their employer) is allowed to die in her sleep, and [=MacArthur=] (who's a DeathSeeker from the guilt) gets a simple bludgeon to the brain. |
| 324 | ** He only tortures people who have the emotional and mental capability to understand the weight of their crimes; Owen sees low-functioning sociopath Marston as essentially an animal to be put down, since he's incapable of even comprehending that actions have consequences or that murder is wrong, and is too vapid to ever realize otherwise. |
| 325 | *** As a corollary, he only tortures people who make it [[{{Sadist}} fun for him]] by falling for his mind games- [=MacArthur=] doesn't bother because he's a DeathSeeker, and Marston is too dumb to even realize what's happening. |
| 326 | ** Blore and Dr. Armstrong suffer bad fates because they were both men in authority who misused their positions. |
| 327 | ** Vera gets the most prolonged period of emotional agony, because Owen considered her the worst person for not saving her charge from drowning. |
| 328 | * BoomHeadshot: How he was killed... or so it seemed. He later does this to himself for real. |
| 329 | * TheChessmaster: He organises the death of nine others, using a precise method and order to correspond to a poem. In doing so he deliberately creates an unsolvable mystery, which is only illuminated with his confession. |
| 330 | * CreepyChild: He refers to himself as such when recounting his childhood, as he was fascinated with death and murder ever since he was a kid. |
| 331 | * DevilInPlainSight: The most obvious clue that he is Owen is that the latter is motivated by a twisted form of justice, which matches well with a judge. All the murders by the other characters were due to greed, spite or carelessness. |
| 332 | * TheDreaded: Everyone is terrified of him, especially not knowing his identity. |
| 333 | * DrivenToSuicide: At the end, he commits suicide in such a way as to match the details of his "murder." |
| 334 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 335 | ** He is disgusted on finding out that Blore was a DirtyCop and Armstrong killed a woman by operating on her while drunk. Mr. Owen thinks that authority figures ought to behave better. |
| 336 | ** Wargrave assures the reader of his message that he made sure to verify that everyone on the island was guilty, in the book at least. |
| 337 | ** It's implied that he left Vera and Lombard for last because their crimes were the worst. Lombard's was bad in that he killed multiple people, and Vera was the only one responsible for a child's death. Wargrave recounts that he was horrified how Hugo was in a broken state and that Vera did that to him. |
| 338 | ** In the BBC adaption, he is rather unimpressed when Vera offers to help him frame Philip for the murders when his body's not even cold yet. Not to mention that she confirms that she did kill Cyril, an innocent child, to assist Hugo. Also he's a killer that kills killers, so... |
| 339 | * EvilGloating: A rare case where it ''doesn't'' nail him, except in most adaptations. |
| 340 | ** In the book, after he assures himself that everyone is dead, he writes up his summation of the murders, puts it in a bottle, and tosses it into a sea. By the time a fisherman finds the bottle, it's long after the plot has been enacted. |
| 341 | ** In the 2015 BBC adaptation, he explains to Vera about his motivations as she's slowly suffocating and begging for her life. She's in no position to escape and he kills her. |
| 342 | * FakingTheDead: He appears to be the sixth victim, but his first death was faked. He did, however, commit suicide after everything was done, and the police wound up finding 10 dead bodies on the island. |
| 343 | * FramingTheGuiltyParty: A particularly brilliant example; Wargrave sends himself a ForgedLetter from a friend of his and makes sure that he is on the list of the accused. While Lombard accurately measures his character as enjoying power, no one considers that Edward Seton ''was'' guilty and the Judge didn't murder him. |
| 344 | * GambitRoulette: Once you know the full extent of his plans and the circumstances around them, you realize that he was very lucky that the things turned out the way they did. One of the biggest instances would be the fact that the bad weather prevented Narracott from coming back before it was too late. He did use the excuse that it was a social "experiment" to dissuade the villagers from coming. But we later learn that Fred Narracott wanted to bypass these orders as soon as he saw the first distress calls, but couldn't because of the storm. Had he been able to sail, most of the murders could have been prevented. |
| 345 | * KnightTemplar: In the book his stern vision of justice is just as much the motive behind the murders on the island. |
| 346 | * MadArtist: He considers himself this in his confession. He wanted to create ten artistic deaths that no-one could solve, but acknowledges that he's writing the confession to show off the crime as his so that people will see how clever his scheme was. |
| 347 | * MoralSociopathy: From a young age, he's had pronounced sadistic tendencies -- but also a strong moral code that causes him to disdain harm towards the innocent. |
| 348 | * MortonsFork: Wargrave explains that he suffered this trope due to his two biggest personality traits. On the one hand, he was ''obsessed'' with committing a murder and having power over life and death, but on the other, his impossibly strong moral code and belief that only the guilty should be punished left him unable to act on that obsession. He remarks that the whole reason he became a judge was to get relief by sentencing criminals to hang, but it wasn't enough--he was agonizingly trapped between two impulses and couldn't do anything about it until he hit upon his scheme. |
| 349 | * NeverHurtAnInnocent: In the book and 2015 BBC miniseries, he confirms that he made sure all of the victims on the island were guilty of their crimes. He spares Fred Narracott, who was innocent, and in fact orders him not to return to the island. |
| 350 | * NobleDemon: He's an unhinged sadist and killer...but he prefers to direct his cruelties toward those who deserved it. He's even willing to give the genuinely remorseful characters a painless death. |
| 351 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: Two instances in the 2015 BBC miniseries: |
| 352 | ** Seton smiled at Wargrave during his hanging because he knew that Wargrave, like him, was a sociopath who had delighted in reading his accounts of how he had murdered others and would implicitly go on to use these accounts as inspiration for planning his own murders. |
| 353 | ** Additionally, Wargrave telling Vera that she's his "favorite" can be interpreted as an admission that she, like him, is a ManipulativeBastard who conceals her [[AxCrazy Ax Craziness]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing underneath a kindly facade.]] |
| 354 | * OhCrapFakeout: In the 2015 series, he calmly says, "It's all spoiled" in a petulant tone when Vera says that Lombard's gun is out of bullets. He then waits for Vera to beg for her life and to reveal she ''did'' kill Cyril. Cue him pulling the chair away so that she hangs, and revealing he pocketed the bullet that supposedly killed him. |
| 355 | * PetTheDog: |
| 356 | ** He gives Mrs. Rogers and General [=Macarthur=] quick, painless deaths on the grounds that they show genuine remorse and they've already suffered enough for their crimes. |
| 357 | ** He explicitly tells Fred not to return to the island, no matter what, because he doesn't want an innocent man caught up in the murders. In the BBC series, he also spares Isaac Morris, who has undergone AdaptationalHeroism and is thus innocent as well in this version. |
| 358 | ** From the BBC series, Wargrave urging Vera not to risk her life trying to leave the island becomes a massive subversion upon TheReveal that he's the killer and feels the most contempt for Vera. He was more likely concerned she'd spoil his plans if she died too early, since death by drowning would have no correlation to the nursery rhyme his murders are themed after. |
| 359 | * PoeticSerialKiller: He invited nine people who had committed some offense to an isolated island and killed them in order of (in his mind) least guilty to most guilty. |
| 360 | * SerialKillerKiller: He's essentially a proto-[[Literature/DarklyDreamingDexter Dexter]] -- a guy who realizes he's a psycho and chooses to restrict his victims to those who truly deserve it. |
| 361 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Utterly unflappable on the outside, his inner monologues reveal him to be basically a giggling maniac. He is especially this in the 2015 series, never raising his tone once when monologuing to Vera about his motivation. |
| 362 | * ThanatosGambit: His very last victim is himself, since he's fatally ill and wants to leave the world of the living right after the last victim dies. |
| 363 | * ThemeSerialKiller: The deaths of his victims were patterned after the "Ten Little Indians" rhyme. |
| 364 | * VigilanteMan: Although he lacks the physical prowess typical of the trope, he embodies the idea all the same: kill people who have escaped legal justice. |
| 365 | * WalkingSpoiler: Because he's the killer. |
| 366 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: This is at least how Wargrave likes to see himself. He firmly believes that everything he's done is in the name of justice being served, both during his HangingJudge career and during his last hurrah as a self-appointed vigilante punishing those who slipped through the legal system's cracks. |
| 367 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: He mentions in his confession letter that he didn't have the guts to go through with his plans until he received a fatal (though unspecified) diagnosis from his doctor. Wargrave realized that he didn't have much time left and decided to go out not just murdering murderers, but setting up a grandiose mystery in the process. |
| 368 | * YouWillBeSpared: He spares Isaac Morris in the 2015 adaptation, owing to Morris just being an ordinary lawyer. |
| 369 | [[/folder]] |
| 370 | |
| 371 | [[folder:Gabrielle Steele]] |
| 372 | !!Gabrielle Steele |
| 373 | |
| 374 | Near the end of the 2005 game ''Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None'', Patrick stumbles across Vera being held at gunpoint by Emily Brent... who was actually murdered two weeks prior. The woman posing as Emily is a former actress named Gabrielle Steele who harbored a serious grudge against Justice Wargrave after her boyfriend Edward Seton killed himself while he was imprisoned. |
| 375 | ---- |
| 376 | * AdaptationalVillainy: She manages to be worse than the original U.N. Owen as she is perfectly willingly to kill innocent people. |
| 377 | * AdaptationExpansion: A famous actress named Gabrielle ''Turl'' is mentioned in passing in the novel, where she is just one of many people rumored to have purchased the island after it went up for sale, which turns out to be false. In the game, not only is Gabrielle ''Steele'' one of the house's past owners, it turns out she's ''still'' its owner. |
| 378 | * AttackOnTheHeart: One of the game's possible outcomes is Gabrielle fatally shooting Vera in her heart. |
| 379 | * AxCrazy: TheReveal firmly establishes just how much of a crazed mastermind Gabrielle truly is. |
| 380 | * BigBad: Of ''Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None''. |
| 381 | * BludgeonedToDeath: She kills three of the victims this way, using an unspecified blunt instrument with General John Mackenzie, doing Justice Lawrence Wargrave in with his own law book, and a bear-shaped marble clock for William Blore. |
| 382 | * ChekhovsGunman: She even reminds Vera that the house's screening room features posters of her. |
| 383 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: Gabrielle killed Emily Brent two weeks before the game's events, impersonating her from that point on. |
| 384 | * EvilGloating: Gabrielle details everything in detail to Vera in the game's climax, with Patrick witnessing it from Vera's doorway. |
| 385 | * EvilRedhead: It's a given since she's the BigBad of the game. |
| 386 | * FakingTheDead: She has herself stung a few times by bees, takes some curare, and applies Bellman's Universal Embrocation in order to make sure it appear she kicked the bucket from a severe allergic reaction to bee stings. |
| 387 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Thomas Rogers literally gets the axe from Gabrielle, and she uses it to ''cut him into halves''. |
| 388 | * HiddenVillain: Her survival, her true identity, and her murderous personality aren't made known until the game's almost over. |
| 389 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Gabrielle's "Emily Brent" act lays out just how insensitive she was about her role in Beatrice Taylor's suicide. When she lets her identity out of the bag, however, she proves to be even ''worse'' than Emily was. |
| 390 | * TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: After getting into a brief physical confrontation with Patrick, he shoves Gabrielle into the noose she prepared for Vera. |
| 391 | * KillItWithFire: Ship Rock's bonfire is rigged by Gabrielle to explode, and that kills Charles Morely if Patrick takes too long. |
| 392 | * NeverHurtAnInnocent: This is what Gabrielle claims regarding her victims. |
| 393 | -->'''Gabrielle''': Madmen kill for no reason! No sense of justice at ''all!'' I only killed those who ''deserve'' to die! |
| 394 | * OneTrueLove: Gabrielle certainly felt this way about Edward, which is why his death causes her to absolutely [[AxCrazy lose]] [[SerialKillingsSpecificTarget it]]. |
| 395 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Edward Seton committed suicide, Gabrielle plotted to make Justice Wargrave ''suffer'' over the course of three days by surrounding him with death before she killed him. |
| 396 | * SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Justice Wargrave was the true target of her scheme. |
| 397 | * SlainInTheirSleep: Gabrielle overdoses Ethel Rogers with Trional, ensuring that heart failure is what kills her while she's sleeping. |
| 398 | * SmugSnake: After TheReveal, it's clear she's convinced that all will go according to plan. |
| 399 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Gabrielle has a soft voice, and she took pleasure in Wargrave's suffering. |
| 400 | -->'''Gabrielle''': I wanted to extend Wargrave's torture for three excruciating days. What better way than to make him watch others die, crimes committed under his very nose, deaths he was helpless to prevent? How his ego must have been scraped ''raw!'' |
| 401 | * SpeakIllOfTheDead: She calls Lawrence a "venomous old judge" and Emily a "hateful old hag." |
| 402 | * SuicidalSadisticChoice: After voicing her intention to shoot Patrick dead and commit suicide with poison, Gabrielle tries to convince Vera to hang herself unless she wants to be executed for supposedly being the killer. |
| 403 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Anthony Marston dies at Gabrielle's hand after she laces some whiskey with potassium cyanide, resulting in him being fatally asphyxiated. |
| 404 | * ThemeSerialKiller: She makes sure that the deaths happen just like in the rhyme "Ten Little Sailor Boys." |
| 405 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Ulrick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen? Yeah. That's ''all'' Gabrielle. |
| 406 | * WalkingSpoiler: Nobody suspected that Gabrielle was a murderous seeker of vengeance pretending to be Emily or that the Owens were fictitious people she came up with. |
| 407 | * WhamLine: "I've always had a duplicated set of keys, Miss Claythorne, as a former and actually the ''current'' owner of this house." |
| 408 | * WhamShot: Right before the WhamLine is delivered, Patrick opens the door to Vera's bedroom... only to stumble upon "Emily Brent" holding Vera at gunpoint. |
| 409 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Archibald Morris was finished assisting her in finding information about her then-future victims, she murdered him with poison. |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Charles Morley]] |
| 413 | !!Charles Morley |
| 414 | |
| 415 | In some adaptations, Morley is a friend of Philip Lombard who impersonates him and comes to the island in Lombard's place after receiving U.N. Owen's invitation. |
| 416 | ---- |
| 417 | * CanonForeigner: He is a completely original character, often inserted into adaptations to help make them LighterAndSofter. |
| 418 | * CuriosityKilledTheCast: Morley's whole reason for impersonating Lombard and coming to the island was because he was suspicious of U.N. Owen and wanted to investigate him. In the game, this can get him killed. |
| 419 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: Whenver Morley appears, it's mentioned that the real Lombard committed suicide some time prior to the story's beginning. This way the guilty Lombard [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty doesn't get away with his crimes]]. |
| 420 | * GoodCounterpart: To Philip Lombard. He's implied to have been a GentlemanAdventurer like Lombard, but never committed the horrible crime that Lombard did and genuinely tries to save the lives of the other victims. He usually gets a happy ending in most adaptations because of this. |
| 421 | * IdiotBall: He maintains his Lombard persona long after it would make sense to reveal himself, to the point that in some cases it gets him killed. Of course, given [[NeverHurtAnInnocent given the nature of the killer]], Morley revealing his innocence would mean there would likely be no story. |
| 422 | * LoveTriangle: In the game, Morley and Patrick Narracott compete for Vera's affections. Who she winds up with (assuming both she and Morley survive) depends on the player's choices. |
| 423 | * TheReveal: The revelation that he's not actually Philip Lombard is a pretty big moment in the various adaptations. |
| 424 | * TokenGoodTeammate: Of the TenLittleMurderVictims, Morley is the only unambiguously and completely innocent one as he didn't commit the crime Lombard is accused of. As such, he tends to be more heroic. |
| 425 | [[/folder]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | !!Other |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Fred and Patrick Narracott]] |
| 430 | !!Fred and Patrick Narracott |
| 431 | |
| 432 | Fred is the man who brings the victims to the island in the novel, and who later returns and finds the bodies. It is mentioned in the novel that he has a brother, and, as Patrick, the brother has a major role in the game. |
| 433 | ---- |
| 434 | * AscendedExtra: Patrick is only mentioned in the novel, but has a much larger role in the game. |
| 435 | * BadassBystander: Fred's the only one to smell a rat in the story Mr Owen gives the people of Sticklehaven to cut off contact with Soldier Island. When he hears that an SOS signal's been spotted coming from the island, he decides to ignore the orders and gathers a group to sail to the island as soon as the sea is calm enough. |
| 436 | * CaptainObvious: If you click on certain items, Patrick will comment on them by stating the obvious: "It's a painting of an albatross" says he of... a painting of an albatross. |
| 437 | * ChekhovsGunman: In the epilogue, it's mentioned that Fred came back to the island when he realized something's wrong. [[spoiler: In the game Patrick gets stranded on the island as well.]] |
| 438 | * ClearTheirName: Patrick is attempting to clear his brother's name by exposing Blore's lies and landing him in prison. [[spoiler: Of course, he never gets the chance to do so because Blore gets killed anyway. Though if you save either Lombard or Vera, they corroborate Blore's earlier confession]] |
| 439 | * RivalsTeamUp: But this doesn't stop them from occasionally teaming up or confiding clues to one another. |
| 440 | * SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Fred is the only named character to survive the novel, as he has (as far as we know) committed no crimes and is thus not a target of the killer.]] |
| 441 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: In the game, Blore initially believes that Patrick is Fred because of how similar they look. |
| 442 | * UnwittingPawn: He isn't on [[spoiler: Wargrave's]] plan. |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Hugo Hamilton]] |
| 446 | !!Hugo Hamilton |
| 447 | |
| 448 | Hugo was Vera's beau and may have been her fiance if he was wealthy. He was unwilling to marry her while he was poor because he wanted to support her. Unfortunately, that decision had tragic consequences. |
| 449 | ---- |
| 450 | * AdaptationalBadass: Book Hugo is a bit of a wimp who suffers a nervous breakdown after [[spoiler:Vera gets Cyril killed ''on purpose'']]. In the 2015 series, [[spoiler:unlike in the book where he disappears and becomes an alcoholic, he confronts Vera with her testimony that weak-lunged Cyril outran and outswam her. Hugo may be naive, but he is ''not stupid'', and he says that if he could prove it, he would make sure Vera went to the gallows]]. |
| 451 | * AdaptationExplanationExtrication: [[spoiler:Wargrave]] confirms in the book that [[spoiler:Hugo was his unwitting informant about Vera's crimes. The BBC version cuts this but hints that Hugo was Wargrave's informant, this time wanting to find a way to get justice for his nephew rather than babbling about it while drunk. There is his talk about how he wants to see Vera hang if he could prove she let Cyril drown]]. |
| 452 | * AdaptationNameChange: A minor one, but in the play his name is changed to Hugh Hamilton. |
| 453 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In the game and the play, [[spoiler:''he'' murdered Cyril and blamed Vera for it]]. |
| 454 | * BeCarefulWhatYouSay: He tells Vera he doesn't want to marry her because he has no money, thanks to Cyril being born. [[spoiler:He regrets it after [[{{Yandere}} Vera]] murders Cyril so Hugo will inherit his fortune.]] |
| 455 | * ChekhovsGunman: Vera mentions him many times and how she lost him after Cyril died. [[spoiler:Wargrave in the book reveals that Hugo was his informant, who told him about Vera killing his nephew]]. |
| 456 | * DrowningMySorrows: Hugo became an alcoholic [[spoiler:after realizing that Vera killed Cyril because of him.]] |
| 457 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the book. [[spoiler:he is DrowningMySorrows on realizing that he was indirectly responsible for Cyril's death]]. |
| 458 | * PapaWolf: More like Uncle Wolf, but in the 2015 BBC series [[spoiler:He breaks up with Vera and bluntly tells her that if he could find the evidence that she killed his nephew, then she would be hanged.]] |
| 459 | * SmarterThanYouLook: Vera paints him as a naive bachelor in love, and that's why she wanted to marry him. [[spoiler:It turns out he's not an idiot; in both the book and the 2015 BBC adaptation, he reveals that he knows what Vera did but can't prove it.]] |
| 460 | * SpottingTheThread: In the BBC adaptation, he states that [[spoiler: he wasn't sure Vera was guilty until he heard her speak at the inquest, professing her guilt over not being able to catch up with Cyril. He then confronts Vera with the knowledge that Cyril was sickly with weak lungs and couldn't have possibly outrun or outswum Vera, who is still in her prime. It's not enough to prove that Vera committed murder, but it's enough for him to break up with her.]] |
| 461 | * UnableToSupportAWife: He has some old-fashioned ideas about this and refuses to marry Vera because of his income level. [[spoiler: This is what leads to Vera deciding to [[WouldHurtAChild fix that problem]] for him.]] |
| 462 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: What he told Vera about wanting to have the income to support her before marrying her [[spoiler: led Vera to murder Cyril. [[DrowningMySorrows He does not take this realization well.]]]] |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | [[folder:Isaac Morris]] |
| 466 | !!Isaac Morris |
| 467 | |
| 468 | Isaac is a shady businessman and drug dealer who arranged for the purchasing of the island for Mr. Owen and the invitations to the guests. |
| 469 | ---- |
| 470 | * AdaptationalHeroism: The 2015 BBC adaptation has him as an ordinary lawyer and not a drug dealer. For this reason, Mr. Owen spares him. |
| 471 | * AmoralAttorney: A shady lawyer who dealt drugs and would do other suspicious things for money with no questions. |
| 472 | * DeadAllAlong: It's revealed that he died of a drug overdose the day the others left for the island. |
| 473 | * {{Hypochondria}}: He had many imagined physical ailments and was killed with pills he was assured would solve that problem. |
| 474 | * MouthOfSauron: Morris deals with people on behalf of his client due to Mr. Owen being an InventedIndividual whose creator can't afford to let anyone know who they are. |
| 475 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Owen poisoned him once he'd done everything required, and because he himself was a target for getting at least one person killed with his drugs. |
| 476 | * YouWillBeSpared: In the 2015 adaptation owing to Adaptational Heroism, Owen leaves him alive. |
| 477 | [[/folder]] |
| 478 | |
| 479 | [[folder:Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine]] |
| 480 | !!Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine |
| 481 | |
| 482 | Policemen in the epilogue who review the clues and try to figure out what really happened. |
| 483 | ---- |
| 484 | * AdaptedOut: No filmed adaptation so far has featured them, as even the ones that use the book's original ending omit the epilogue. |
| 485 | * MrExposition: The two provide details about things that happened off of the island (away from the ten main characters) as well as the evidence found in the aftermath. |
| 486 | * PoliceAreUseless: Both AC Legge and Inspector Maine are meticulous in analysing the case and trying to work out who the killer was. Maine refuses to use any shortcuts and probes every possible explanation for the deaths, even when this means accepting none of their theories. However, they cannot crack the case. |
| 487 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Legge and Maine do a diligent job of being fair-minded as they discuss the ten guests. They don't leap to judgments about whether Owen's claims are all true and are also willing to acknowledge and consider the misdeeds of public servants like Wargrave and Blore - and in Blore's case, are heavily critical of him and don't hold back on him because he was a police officer like both of them. Most notably, they seem to appreciate how improper Justice Wargrave's summation of the Seton trial seemed, even though it later transpired that Seton was guilty. |
| 488 | * SpeakIllOfTheDead: Both men knew Blore and are willing to agree that he was "a bad hat" who perjured himself and not the kind of man who'd be prone to committing vigilante murders on behalf of other people. |
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