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Characters featured in both novels ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'' and ''Literature/ElFilibusterismo'' written by Jose Rizal.

!!Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

TheHero of the novel. Ibarra is a Spanish ''mestizo''[[note]]''mestizo'' refers to a Filipino with mixed foreign blood, in this case Spanish)[[/note]] who has been studying in Europe for the last seven years. He returns to the Philippines to visit his late father's funeral. A certified WideEyedIdealist... until secrets are revealed and things promptly [[FromBadToWorse go to hell.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: Ibarra is just a normal ''mestizo'' who has no combat experience whatsoever, with Elias being the one protecting him most of the time. [[spoiler:In spite of this, Ibarra manages to fend off a crocodile with just an oar and later evades a platoon of Spanish soldiers thanks to a distraction by Elias.]]
* AuthorAvatar: Of Jose Rizal. Modern illustrations and novel descriptions tend to depict Ibarra with similar features to Rizal (or at least, his most prominent portraits). His life bears several similarities to Rizal's own; including being born and raised in the province of Laguna, returning to the country after studying abroad in Europe, and [[spoiler:losing his beauteous childhood love]]. In addition, the novel ''was'' intended to raise awareness of the societal condition at the time, so Rizal's views are reflected in its protagonist.
%% * Badass Beard: [[spoiler: Sports one in ''El Fili''. Due to now being a VillainProtagonist, it also counts as BeardOfEvil given his unscrupulous methods.]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ibarra is a kind and affable young man who mostly stays that way the entire book. Despite this, Ibarra finally snaps at Damaso when he [[SpeakIllOfTheDead insults Ibarra's father]] and threatens to kill him with a knife.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ibarra, during a fishing trip in the lake, saved the boatman from being devoured by a crocodile.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Being the son of a Creole father and native mother makes him this. His father counts too with Don Rafael's father being a pure-blooded Spaniard.
%% * CoolShades: [[spoiler: Wears one in ''El Fili'']].
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: While he and Maria Clara truly loved each other, him becoming ostracized by his own country because they thought he is the one who caused the uprising caused him and Maria Clara to separate]].
%% * DisneyDeath]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Even after 13 years of separation and becoming a FallenHero, "Simoun" still holds a special place in his heart for Maria Clara and seeks to free her from the convent during his planned revolution. Unfortunately for him, Maria Clara died ''hours'' before the revolution was to be started.]]
%% * FallenHero / FaceHeelTurn: Crisostomo Ibarra becomes the VillainProtagonist Simoun in El Filibusterismo.]]
%% * TheHero
%% * HeroWithBadPublicity
%% * NiceGuy: Nice enough to ignore Father Damaso's blatant insults towards him.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: He's presumed dead at the end of ''Noli Me Tangere'', but he's revealed to have escaped from the soldiers and survived.]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Maria Clara and Ibarra are not betrothed at first, but after their parents saw how much they love each other, they decided to arrange a marriage between them.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: ''A lot'' of bad things happen to him in this very novel that it serves as his breaking point. By the time of [[spoiler: ''El Fili'', he's a full-blown VillainProtagonist.]]
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler: Is falsely implicated as the instigator and main brains behind the uprising stirred by Lucas and Padre Salvi.]]
%% * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy to Elias' Manly Man.
* SharpDressedMan: He is mostly depicted wearing an 19th century suit to illustrate his cultured personality and educated status.
%% * StarcrossedLovers: With Maria Clara.
%% * TookALevelInCynic[=/=]TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: He becomes a very bitter and a very cutthroat VillainProtagonist in ''El Fili''.]]
%% * TraumaCongaLine: The entire plot goes out of its way to break Ibarra [[spoiler: and succeeds]].
* WideEyedIdealist: Believes that he can make San Diego (and by extension, the Philippines) into a better place through progressive and peaceful means. Things don't go well for him, [[spoiler:and by the end of the novel he's been completely broken by his TraumaCongaLine.]]
%% * VictoriousChildhoodFriend: He and Maria Clara [[spoiler: would have been this]].
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: He's the protagonist once again in ''El Fili'', but is now trying to start a revolution through violent and subversive means as Simoun.]]

!!Padre Damaso Verdolagas, OFM

A rude Spanish friar, former parish priest of San Diego, and family friend of the Ibarras. Key word being ''was'', since Damaso hated the Ibarra patriarch, Don Rafael Ibarra -- Crisostomo Ibarra's father, and was not afraid to hide it. This hatred extends to Crisostomo, whom Damaso despises for studying abroad and thus being [[HeKnowsTooMuch enlightened enough to understand the Spanish oppression.]]
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* ArchEnemy: To the Ibarra family, especially Crisostomo. To the point he had to toss Don Rafael's remains in a river to spite him.
%% * CorruptChurch: It doesn't get any more obvious.
* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: He's a friar who rapes Pia Alba who is Maria Clara's mother (making Damaso the biological father).]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He genuinely loves Maria Clara as if she were his own daughter. [[spoiler: She really is.]] He's noticeably more affectionate towards her than any other character in the novel.
* EvilIsHammy: He's a rapist and {{Live Action Adaptation}}s usually portray him as extremely over the top.
%% * FalseFriend: Turns out the "friend" part is not even real to begin with.
%% * FatAndSkinny: The FatBastard to Fray Salvi's LeanAndMean.
%% * FatBastard: Frequently portrayed as short and stout, in contrast to Padre Salvi who is often shown as LeanAndMean.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Damaso seems to be chummy for a corrupt friar while at the same time he's also openly rude and condescending towards anybody he doesn't like.
* HateSink: Damaso is meant to be unlikable on purpose and represents just how low he can get, using his status as a friar to get away with all his transgressions.
%% * HolierThanThou
%% * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
%% * KickTheDog: Absolutely ''loves'' doing this.
* LastDisrespects: Insults the late Don Rafael at any given moment, despite the man being dead for a ''year''. [[spoiler: And let's not forget the time he had his grave dug up and his corpse thrown in a river.]]
* PetTheDog: His only redeeming quality is his genuine fatherly love and fondness towards his godchild Maria Clara. [[spoiler: She's his biological daughter.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: It is revealed that he is Maria Clara's biological father, having raped her mother, Pia Alba, when she and her husband, Santiago de los Santos were trying to conceive a child for years]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Thinks not even the Spanish government is allowed to interfere with his decisions.
%% * SmugSnake

!!Padre Bernardino Salvi, OFM

Padre Damaso's successor as the parish priest of San Diego, Ibarra's hometown. Unlike the loud and boisterous Damaso, Salvi is quiet and sickly... but that doesn't mean [[CorruptChurch he's any better than the former.]] Padre Salvi is often the one who makes decisions for the town of San Diego, something which irks actual town officials. He is bitter enemies with the [[Main.DaChief Alferez]][[labelnote:*]] the Lieutenant Commander of the Civil Guard [[/labelnote]] though they pretend as though they were not in public.
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* BaldOfEvil: He is usually portrayed as a balding old man and somehow manages to outdo Padre Damaso by having ''no'' redeeming qualities whatsoever.
%% * CorruptChurch
* BitchInSheepsClothing: His meeker and sicklier disposition is a cover for his nastier true nature.
* DirtyOldMan: Lusts after the younger Maria Clara.
* FatAndSkinny: Of the novel's two most prominent priests, Salvi is sickly and skinny to Padre Damaso's FatBastard.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's more polite and soft-spoken than Damaso, but this doesn't hide the fact that he is just as, if not more, immoral than the latter.
%% * HolierThanThou: Slightly less than Damaso, but that doesn't make him any less obnoxiously evil.
%% * LeanAndMean: Due to being a sickly man.
* ManipulativeBastard: Pretends to be on Ibarra's side despite characters witnessing his more unsavory actions.
%% * WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He's responsible for Crispin's death.]]

!!Maria Clara de los Santos

Ibarra's [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend and fiancee]]. A sweet and caring young lady, Maria Clara is the only daughter of Kapitan Tiago and Pia Alba.
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%% * BreakoutCharacter: She is a significant name in Philippine culture.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler: She is actually the biological daughter of Father Damaso, who raped her mother, Pia Alba, when she and her husband, Santiago de los Santos, were trying to conceive a child for years.]]
* ChocolateBaby: While Tiago has ''indio'' (native) features, the text explicitly describes Maria Clara as the very picture of Eurasian beauty and notes that she doesn't resemble him at all. [[spoiler:It's because she's not his daughter -- she's the Spanish Damaso's, accounting for her mixed features]].
%% * ExtremeDoormat
* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: She's the illegitimate daughter of Padre Damaso, but she's a total sweetheart.]]
* InSeriesNickname: She is called "Clarita" by Victorina de los Reyes de de Espadaña.
* MixedAncestryIsAttractive: Her Eurasian features make her a great beauty in the mostly-native Filipino town of San Diego.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Explained in-universe; she was named after two of the three patron saints of Obando in Bulacan Province (the Virgin Mary under the title of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Salambao "Our Lady of the Fishnets"]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_of_Assisi Saint Clare]]), upon whose intercession she was believed to be conceived.
* NiceGal: Extends her kindness to a leper in one of the chapters.
* ObliviousAdoption: [[spoiler:Maria Clara's mother was raped by a Spanish priest, but the cover story is that she's the daughter of her legal father Tiago. Not even Maria Clara is aware of this.]]
* ProperLady: TropeCodifier for the Philippines, where the standard for the Proper Lady is actually ''named'' Maria Clara after her. She's a beautiful, demure, and genteel woman who is nevertheless rather frail.
* ShrinkingViolet: She ''fainted'' and ''became bedridden'' after she learned that Crisostomo was excommunicated after [[spoiler:trying to murder Padre Damaso in a fit of rage.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: In ''El Fili'', where she dies ''hours'' before Basilio would have freed her from the nunnery.]]

!!Don Santiago "Capitan Tiago" de los Santos

A wealthy businessman, Don Rafael's good friend, and Ibarra's future father-in-law. His kind heart is overridden by the fact that he's too weak-willed to fight back against the Spanish, to whom he is loyal.
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* TheCaptain: Called as such, as he was once the ''gobernadorcillo''[[labelnote:*]] equivalent to a modern day Mayor, and, despite the title attached to it, is a post held by a civilian [[/labelnote]]of the town of San Diego.
* ExtremeDoormat: While he's indeed filthy rich, most people do not respect him because of his utter loyalty to the Spanish friars and officials. Enough that his InSeriesNickname (according to [[Main.AllThereInTheManual supplementary chapters]]) is Sacristan Tiago.
* LawOfInverseFertility: His wife Pia, Maria Clara's mother, invoked every religious ritual in the Philippines in order to pray to have a child, but to no avail. Subverted when, against all odds, she gets pregnant with Maria Clara. [[spoiler:Double subverted when it turns out Tiago is actually infertile, and Maria Clara is Damaso's ChildByRape.]]
%% * ParentalSubstitute: To Maria Clara.]]
%% * TheStoner: Becomes addicted to opium after [[Main.DownerEnding everything had gone to hell.]]]]

%% !!Donya Victorina
%% A Filipina woman who married a lame Spanish doctor, Don Tiburcio. She often serves as a comic relief.
%% * TheQuisling
%% * RichBitch
%% * SmallNameBigEgo
%% * SmugSnake: Thinks she's better than all Filipinos, despite the fact that she is one.

!!Elias
A fugitive with a dark past living in San Diego who works as a boatman. After being saved from a crocodile by Crisostomo, he starts feeling a sense of debt to Ibarra and saves his life numerous times throughout the novel.
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* AuthorAvatar: Rizal uses him to represent his opinions about the revolution.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appears early on in the story as a random boatman who Ibarra saves. He plays more of a role in later chapters.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: ''Elias' Story'' focuses on his past and how he ended up in a bad situation with such a cynical world view on life. Suffice to say, it isn't pretty. [[spoiler: He was born to a rich family in Manila alongside his twin sister, with his father being the [[SonOfAWhore son of a prostitute]] that was imprisoned and his mother being the daughter of a rich man. Told that his father was dead, Elias witnessed his mother die in his youth. Raised by their maternal grandfather, the two lived happy lives until a sequence of misfortunes ended with Elias renouncing his wealth and his whole family dying.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: His HeroicSacrifice involves using himself as diversion so Ibarra could escape from a ''platoon of riflemen''.
%% * FaceDeathWithDignity: Calmly talks to Basilio before succumbing to his wounds.]]
%% * TheFettered
%% * [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Used himself as a diversion so Ibarra could escape.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: After Ibarra saves his life from a bloodthirsty crocodile, Elias starts feeling indebted to Ibarra and would later protect him from his enemies.
%% * TheLancer: Is this to Ibarra.
%% * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man to Ibarra's Sensitive Guy.

!!Sisa

A loving mother of two boys, Basilio and Crispin. She tries to make ends meet by sewing and selling homegrown vegetables, but her husband's gambling habits and her children's [[CorruptChurch workplace]] obstruct her goals and dreams.
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%% * BreakoutCharacter: Most readers recognize the novel series when they hear of her name.
* BreakTheCutie: Was said to be very beautiful and young-looking. Then her husband turns out to be a drunk gambler and her children are accused of stealing from the church collection.
%% * GoMadFromTheRevelation.
* GoodIsDumb: Her introductory chapter describes her as weak in character, with more heart than intellect.
%% * KillTheCutie: Dies in Basilio's arms.]]
%% * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Literally.
* LoveMartyr: Loves her husband Pedro despite him being a drunk gambler who spends his time betting and generally not giving a damn about his family. She tries to justify it by saying she does it to keep the family from falling apart. It doesn't work.
%% * MamaBear
%% * OnlyOneName
* TheOphelia: Completely loses her mind after her son's death and starts wandering around the town in search of them, but is said to still have kept her beauty despite this.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Her son Crispin's death triggers something in her and she loses her mind.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Slowly loses her mind following Crispin's death and starts wandering around the town in a futile effort to find him.]]
* SayMyName: Started randomly calling out her sons' names as a result of her SanitySlippage.
-->'''Sisa''': Basilio! Crispin!

!!Basilio

A ten-year old sacristan at the parish of San Diego, he is the oldest of Sisa's two children, making him Crispin's elder brother. He tries to make ends meet by working as a sacristan at church alongside his brother. Unfortunately, church work is most probably the [[CorruptChurch least rewarding job]] at the time, and he and Crispin end up being accused of stealing from the church collection. One night, they are confronted by the sacristan mayor and the parish priest...

%% * BreakTheCutie
%% * ButtMonkey: Repeatedly, even in the second novel.
* ChekhovsGunman: Introduced as an innocent sacristan boy, [[spoiler: becomes a major character in the sequel.]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: He loved his mother Sisa who died. Hated his gambling father.]]
%% * DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dreamt his brother's death]].
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Sisa dies and nothing is heard of Pedro after the first couple of chapters.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite being only ten years old, he formulates an optimistic (yet somewhat grounded) plan to bring his mother, brother and himself into a less meagre life. Her understands the injustices against the poor and against his people, and knows that his father is a piece of shit.

!!Crispin

A seven-year old sacristan at the parish of San Diego, he is the youngest of Sisa's two children, making him Basilio's younger brother. He tries to make ends meet by working as a sacristan at church alongside his brother. Unfortunately, church work is most probably the least rewarding job at the time, and he and Basilio (mostly Crispin, though) end up being accused of stealing from the church collection. One night, they are confronted by the sacristan mayor and the parish priest.

%% * CheerfulChild: We don't see much of it, but what we do know of Crispin is based on Sisa and Basilio's narrations.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor little boy gets struck by Padre Salvi's cane after trying to escape... and he dies because of it.]]
* SacrificialLamb: His death marks the fact that Rizal is basically saying, ''AnyoneCanDie''.

%% !!Alfonso Linares

%% A relative of Damaso's and supposed cousin of Don Tiburcio who came to the Philippines to find a wife and a job.

%% * ArrangedMarriage:]] [[spoiler: With Maria Clara.]]
%% * ShrinkingViolet

%% !!Donya Consolacion
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