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Characters: Cyrano de Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Badass Boast
Beast and Beauty: In Cyrano's eyes, at least, but without the beast being made beautiful, as he lampshades.
Berserk Button: His nose.
Be Yourself: Tragically averted.
Birds of a Feather: With Roxane.
Boisterous Bruiser
Broken Ace
Bullying a Dragon: A frequent "victim" of this ploy.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Buy Them Off
Cannot Spit It Out
Deadpan Snarker
Caustic Critic
Conspicuous Consumption
Did Not Get the Girl
Dirty Coward: Cyrano considers himself one because he Cannot Spit It Out.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Please don’t dare. Seriously, don’t.
Duels Decide Everything
Establishing Character Moment
Excuse Me While I Multitask:
Expy: Of Crisóstomo, a character from Don Quixote.
Fatal Flaw: Vanity, as Cyrano admits in his final scene
Gag Nose
Genius Bruiser
Gentleman Snarker
The Grotesque
Grumpy Bear
Heartbroken Badass
Honor Before Reason
Heartbroken Badass: After Act II Scene VI.
I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me
Impoverished Patrician
I Want My Belovedto Be Happy
The Last DJ
Manly Tears
One-Man Army:
Proud Warrior Race Guy
Renaissance Man
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Secret Stab Wound
Small Name, Big Ego In-Universe
Starving Artist
Stepford Smiler: Type A
Team Dad
Unlucky Childhood Friend
Warrior Poet

Madeleine "Roxane" Robin

The Ace
Arranged Marriage: Intended with De Valvert, invoked with Christian.
Expy: Of Marcela, a character of Don Quixote.
Hidden Depths (Cyrano: A heroine? Our intellectual?)
In the Blood
It's All My Fault
Loves My Alter Ego
Meaningful Rename: Madeleine Robin renamed herself Roxane (Persian for "Beautiful Woman") after joining Les Precieuse.
Ojou
Plucky Girl: Act IV
Spell My Name with an S: "Roxana" in the Anthony Burgess translation.
Well, Excuse Me, Princess!
You Go Girl: Again, Act IV

Baron Christian de Neuvillette

Be Yourself
Brainless Beauty: Played Straight and Defied.
Hidden Depths
Hurricane of Puns: He administers one to Cyrano.
I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Let Them Die Happy
Naïve Newcomer
New Meat
Romantic False Lead
Samaritan Syndrome
Shipper on Deck: Deconstructed: He forces Cyrano to admit his feelings hoping Roxanne will choose him.

Count de Guiche

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Aristocrats Are Evil
Arranged Marriage: with Roxane.
Disproportionate Retribution: Against Ligniere and all the Gascon Cadets.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Against the Cadets who offer him food when he is starving.
Even Evil Has Standards: He will never abandon a lady in peril.
Foil: For Cyrano
Heel Face Turn: Act IV
Hidden Depths
Lust
Jerkass: To everyone before his Heel Face Turn.
No True Gascon
Pride
Stalker with a Crush

Ragueneau

Attention Whore
Chefof Iron
Giftedly Bad: His poem about a recipe in verse.
Hero Worshipper: Towards Cyrano.
Hidden Depths
Interrupted Suicide
Plucky Comic Relief
Supreme Chef

Le Bret

Deadpan Snarker
Expy: Of Ambrosio, a character from Don Quixote.
Odd Friendship: With Cyrano
Simpleminded Wisdom
Straight Man
The Watson

Captain Carbon de Castel-Jaloux

The Captain
Composite Character: With Le Bret in the Anthony Burgess version.
A Father to His Men: Deconstructed: He tries to protect his men and ends in a Last Stand with them.
Proud Warrior Race Guy

Viscount De Valvert

Aristocrats Are Evil
Arranged Marriage: Intended with Roxane.
The Beard
Bullying a Dragon
Lame Comeback
What Happened to the Mouse?: Does Viscount de Valvert survive his Sword Fight with Cyrano in Act I Scene IV or not?
Writers Suck:
You Fight Like a Cow: played straight by Cyrano but averted with De Valvert, so busy fighting for his life to quip.

The Gascon Cadets

Aristocrats Are Evil: All of them are Barons who enjoy giving Disproportionate Retribution against those not Of The People.
Cool Loser
Bullying a Dragon: Their charming Initiation Ceremony for those not Of The People.
Culture Clash
Idiot Hero
Impoverished Patrician
Martyrdom Culture
Of The People
Outdated Outfit
Overly-Long Name
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Poirot Speak
Proud Warrior Race Guy: Truth in Television.

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