History Characters / PrinceOfPersia

A character sheet for the video games in the ''Prince of Persia: Sands Of Time Saga'', most of which are recurring, or mentioned throughout the games in the same continuity.

Those looking for the 2008 ''VideoGame/{{Prince of Persia|2008}}'' character sheet can find it [[Characters/PrinceOfPersia2008 here]], while characters of the ''Sands of Time'' film adaptation can be found [[Characters/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime here]].

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!Main Protagonist

[[folder:The Prince of Persia]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuriLowenthal (''The Sands of Time'', ''The Two Thrones'' and ''The Forgotten Sands'') and Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''Warrior Within'')

The main hero of the saga, seen in all the games. A just and honorable warrior prince who wields the powers of the Dagger of Time and the Medallion of Time.

* NinetiesAntiHero: Years of being chased by the Dahaka have turned him into this by the time of ''Warrior Within''. He's more grim, aggressive and foul-mouthed than before -- and ready to do anything to achieve his objective to prevent his own preset death. Aside from this unyielding resolution and some moments of sympathy towards his crew and Kaileena, there really isn't much to admire about him. The Empress of Time is against him essentially because he's violating her home [[spoiler:and is destined to kill her in his misguided quest to prevent her from creating that which she will become upon dying]]. After he has ultimately gotten rid of the Dahaka and witnesses in the following game the damage he has unwittingly wrought upon his own people, he returns back to his more heroic demeanor.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed Terribly]]. The Prince's tendency to try and save his female love interests from death cause him and all of reality more harm than good.
** Him using the Dagger of Time to save Farah resulted in him being relentlessly hunted by the Dahaka for seven years.
** Him using the Mask of the Time Wraith to create a TemporalParadox to save Kaileena's life resulted in a time shift so wrong that it brought the first BigBad back to life and actually let him succeed in his evil plan.
* AntiHero: He's an arrogant glory hound in ''The Sands of Time'' and a self-centered jackass primarily concerned with saving himself in ''Warrior Within''. He matures into a proper hero in ''The Two Thrones''.
* ApologeticAttacker: In the bad ending of ''Warrior Within'', he apologizes to [[spoiler:the Empress of Time for killing her in the present day to save himself from his fate. It's made clear that he would rather just settle things peacefully, but the Empress insists on trying to kill him to defy her own fate and he is ultimately forced to defend himself.]]
* AxCrazy: His in-battle lines in ''Warrior Within'' make it clear that seven years of pursuit and torment at the Dahaka's hands have unhinged him a bit.
-->''"Death! Death to all who stand in my way!"\\
"SLAUGHTERED!"\\
"You have never known pain like this..."\\
"Oh... this is going to hurt you ''far'' more than it's going to hurt me."\\
"Do you hear it? My blade calls for you!"\\
"I can smell your fear from here!"''
* BadassBoast: The Prince gives an epic one in the trailer of ''Warrior Within'' which was unfortunately cut from the game proper:
-->''"I am the Prince of Persia, and the King of Blades!!!"''
* BadassNormal: The Prince has no innate magical powers and gets by using his brains and fighting skills.
* BarbarianLongHair: More prominent in the artwork. In the games it's [[NoFlowInCGI not that noticeable.]]
* {{BFS}}:
** In the [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime first game]], we have [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement the Sword of the Avenging Warrior]], and [[InfinityPlusOneSword the]] [[BlackSwordsAreBetter Sword]] [[OneHitKill of the Enlightened Warrior]].
** In [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin the second game]], we have [[InfinityMinusOneSword the Scorpion Sword]] and [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Water Sword]].
** In the third game, we have the [[HotBlade light-infused sword]] that [[spoiler: belonged to the Prince's father]], which not only [[MundaneUtility lights up dark areas]] and [[OneHitKill turns the rest of the fights except for the last boss]] into [[SingleStrokeBattle Single Stroke Battles]], but [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement marks the Prince's final stage]] of CharacterDevelopment.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: He has one with the Dark Prince in the climax of ''The Two Thrones''. He wins by walking away from him.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When he rejects the Vizier's offer to become immortal in the first game, he declares that he chooses death before performing the Grand Rewind. He becomes hunted by the Dahaka for seven years, a fate he does ''not'' want to submit to.
* BroughtDownToBadass: For the final stretch of ''The Sands of Time'', Farah steals the Dagger of Time, leaving him a medallion he doesn't figure out how to control until the sequel. This forces him to rely on nothing but sheer swordsmanship and acrobatic prowess to complete the final leg of his quest, which he does with aplomb.
* ButNotTooForeign: His father is Persian while his mother, apparently named Queen Mehri in ''Battles of Prince of Persia'', is Indian.
* ButterflyOfDoom: As revealed in ''The Two Thrones'', his actions in ''Warrior Within'' have changed the course of history so that the events of the first game effectively never happened, thus bringing back [[spoiler: the Vizier, who immediately goes about his original EvilPlan]]. He only realizes this once he returns to Babylon to find it in flames.
* CannotSpitItOut: When you reach out the half of ''The Sands of Time'', you can definitely see both he and Farah have fallen in love with each other. [[spoiler: Too bad it doesn't last... until the third game.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a cocky and arrogant conqueror whose major concern is honor and glory, but the hardships of his experiences and the guilt of what his hubris has led to molds him into a wiser, nobler man.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Mentioned only. [[spoiler:It's possible that he doesn't actually have claustrophobia, but was nervous because [[CannotSpitItOut he was really close to Farah]].]]
* ClothingDamage: Most noticeable in the first game; in the ''Two Thrones'', he spends most of his time shirtless.
* CombatParkour: The Prince is an incredibly nimble fighter, often pulling off swift and agile maneuvers in battle that would make an Olympic athlete jealous.
* CoolSword: Oh yeah. A lot of them ''are'' pretty damn cool.
* DarkerAndEdgier: His whole persona and behavior in ''Warrior Within''. Justified, as he spent a lot of time chased by a ruthless avatar of doom.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being a considerable brute in the second game, he's still a nice guy at heart. At the very end, he tries to talk the Empress of Time out of trying to kill him. [[spoiler: Canonically, he succeeds.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: One of the defining traits of his dialogue. And some of his quotes are awesome.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: A habit of the prince. He kills The Empress of Time, the Griffin and The Dahaka in ''Warrior Within'', kills PhysicalGod Zurvan in ''Two Thrones'' and the evil Jinn leader Ratash in ''Forgotten Sands''.
* DualWielding: Typically with a sword in his main hand and the Dagger of Time in his off-hand.
* AFatherToHisMen: He is devastated by the deaths of his crew at the beginning of ''Warrior Within'', and one of his first orders of business is hunting down their killer so he can exact his revenge.
* FlashStep: Primarily seen in the first game; he can slow down time and accelerate himself to the point where he's dashing from foe to foe and striking them down in one blow each.
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler:Near the end of ''The Sands of Time'', after failing to save Farah from getting wounded by the Sand Creatures and falling to her death, he makes an effort to avenge her death by destroying them.]]
-->'''The Prince''': Bravely I had fought, and slain my enemies. Honor and glory were mine. But though I fight until the desert sands themselves were red with blood, I could not bring back the dead.
* TheHero: The main character of the trilogy. However, he is more an AntiHero in ''Warrior Within''.
* HeroesPreferSwords: He is the main hero of the series, and his primary weapons are all swords (save one brief time he has to make do with a stick).
* HeroicResolve: [[spoiler:The sight of his father's corpse in ''The Two Thrones'' and his resulting decision to stop facing the consequences of his actions with the power over time gives him enough willpower to overcome the Dark Prince all by himself.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: By ''Warrior Within'', he's already bitter about the choices he's made that cost him everything, and by ''Two Thrones'', he admits his mistakes, questions his actions, and accepts responsibility for his failures.
* IndyPloy: He's more of a man of improvisation and action than strategy.
-->'''Farah''': What are you doing?\\
'''Prince''': I don't know; I'm working it out as I go!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** In the first game, he's concerned about fixing his mistakes and protecting Farah even when he's at his most arrogant.
** In the second game, his more brutal demeanor softens at the end when he tries to talk the Empress of Time out of trying to kill him.
** And in the third game, he's clearly worried about his kingdom's suffering and ultimately makes choices that help his subjects, even if it delays his chance for revenge against [[spoiler: the Vizier/Zurvan]].
* KnightInSourArmor: In ''The Two Thrones'', he acknowledges that the entire mess is his fault and seeks to set things right, but it doesn't stop him from griping about all the hardships that keep befalling him.
* MadeOfIron: The Prince can survive hits from deadly environmental traps that would realistically kill a person in one hit.
* MakingASplash:
** In ''Forgotten Sands'', Razia lends him power over water, allowing him to manipulate water jets and use them to get to higher locations.
** Also, in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'', the InfinityPlusOneSword is aptly called the "Water Sword".
* MrFanservice: Striking blue eyes, amazingly athletic, has a tendency to [[ShirtlessScene lose his shirt/armor]] revealing a nicely toned chest and abs, and a prince? It's understandable to find him a little dreamy.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: He's named Dastan in the film adaptation.
* {{Narrator}}: He's the one recounting the plot of the first game, with the ending revealing that [[spoiler:he has just reversed time and is telling Farah everything that transpired in order to stop the Vizier and prevent the disaster from taking place]].
* NeverMyFault: Throughout the trilogy, he constantly seeks to use the Sands to reverse time and undo his mistakes rather than simply owning up to what he's done and accepting the consequences of his actions. Realizing this in ''The Two Thrones'' is a significant part of his CharacterDevelopment.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Several examples.
** First, he's duped by the Vizier into releasing the Sands of Time from the hourglass and infecting everyone present with them.
** In that same game, he also activates the castle's security system in an attempt to fight the Sand Creatures. Not only is said system completely useless against them, but he now has to spend the rest of the game evading {{Death Trap}}s.
** Happens in the second game as well. In his quest to prevent the Sands of Time from being created, [[spoiler:he ends up being the one who creates them when he kills Kaileena (who is actually the Sands in human form).]]
** As revealed in ''The Two Thrones'', his meddling with history made it so the events of the first game effectively [[CosmicRetcon never happened]]; thus, [[spoiler: the Vizier never died and is back to pursue his EvilPlan]].
* NoNameGiven: Everyone simply refers to him as "Prince".
* LeParkour: Well, [[TropeCodifier duh]].
* PetTheDog: Even after he becomes a bitter and angry NinetiesAntiHero in ''Warrior Within'', he goes far out of his way to try to save Kaileena.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He's an arrogant, reckless, murderous, misogynistic glory hound who only seems to care for himself and his own fate. He grows out of it by ''The Two Thrones''.
* TheQueensLatin: Played straight in the first game, where American Yuri Lowenthal voices him with an English accent, but subverted in ''Warrior Within'' and ''Two Thrones'', where his accent is now American (ironically, Robin Atkin Downes, who voiced him in the second game, is actually English).
* ResetButton: One of his recurring powers, allowing him to reverse the flow of time to get a second chance if he falls to his death or takes mortal wounds.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Apart from being the series protagonist, the Prince took an active part in the siege on the Maharajah's palace in the first game, fighting on the front lines alongside the soldiers even if it was his first battle according to his father.
* SameCharacterButDifferent: His characterization in ''Warrior Within'' is almost unrecognizable from the previous game.
-->'''Manual:''' The Prince is a vastly different character from the one we met in ''Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time''. His actions during the events of that game inadvertently unleashed the Dahaka: an invincible creature that has been stalking him ever since. Pursued relentlessly by this beast, unable to eat or sleep, the Prince has become a dark and callous shell of his former self. His fate has been written. He will die.
* ScrewDestiny: His actions in the first and second game.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:In the first game, he was forced to kill his father after the latter was transformed into a mindless monster by the Sands of Time.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: His actions have been as much about saving others who paid for his mistakes as well as changing his own fate. [[spoiler:Accepting that his father's death and the plight of his kingdom was the result of his actions, unwittingly or not, marks the first time he's willing to accept his mistakes and that he must learn from them to become a better ruler.]]
* SinisterScimitar: As befitting the Middle Eastern setting, he wields scimitars as his primary weapons in combat. He's also arrogant and cocky in the first game, and a violent AntiHero in the second. However, by the end of his character arc, his swords instead come off as a SuaveSabre instead.
* SuaveSabre: His scimitars come off as this by ''Two Thrones,'' as while he continues to use scimitars, the Prince has grown into TheWisePrince, shedding his GlorySeeker tendencies and owning up to his mistakes instead of trying to constantly rewind them.
* TimeMaster: His interactions with the Sands of Time grant him command of some classic time-related powers.
* TimeStandsStill: Another of his recurring powers, taking place in two forms:
** A variation where he slows time around him to a crawl, giving him more of a fighting chance against foes with greater speed.
** A focused strike against a single foe (usually with the Dagger of Time) that renders them immobile and brittle, allowing the Prince to dispatch a powerful EliteMook in one or two blows.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the second game.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He's considerably more violent and hostile in the second game than in the first. To be fair, he ''has'' spent the seven-year TimeSkip in-between the games fleeing from the Dahaka.
* TooManyBelts: His ''Warrior Within'' outfit has several belts.
* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: As the Dark Prince, he has a much creepier appearance than the transformed Vizier; dark grey skin, waving black FlamingHair, YellowEyesOfSneakiness, a WhipSword bound to his left arm that sometimes glows, and a growling level to his voice. He still tries to use his powers for good, though.
* UnreliableNarrator: In the first game -- mostly due to the fact that due to player mistakes, he ''can'' die during the course of his story, [[NarrativeBackpedaling which he's quick to backtrack upon and claim never happened]]. Probably justified because continuously using the Dagger to rewind time is likely to have scrambled his memory on what ultimately transpired.
* VagueAge: We're never told exactly how old he is, though he certainly doesn't have any gray hairs. According to the defunct website "Prince of Persia Legacy", he was 20 during ''The Sands of Time'' which would make sense considering his need to prove himself and desire for glory. This would make him 27 in the last two games of the series.
* WarriorPrince: He's the crown prince of Persia, and a mighty warrior who kills hundreds of enemies by his lonesome over the course of his story.
* WaterTriggeredChange: The Prince acquires a "Dark Self" that takes over his body during times of extreme danger (though the player is still in control of the Prince), and can only change back if he touches water.
* TheWisePrince: In ''The Two Thrones'', particularly during the final stages of his CharacterDevelopment.
* WouldHitAGirl: Including female enemies, Shahdee, [[spoiler:Kaileena]], and Mahasti. The last case, however, could be arguably chalked up due to the Dark Prince, as the Prince was transformed into him for that battle. In the first and third games, there were many Sand Creatures that were once women -- harem dancers in the first, and members of a warrior tribe in the second.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Even if it's better graphics, in ''The Forgotten Sands'', he looks different -- mostly due to his lips not looking quite right.
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!Introduced in ''The Sands of Time''
[[folder:Farah]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Joanna Wasick (''The Sands of Time''), Helen King (''The Two Thrones'')

The daughter of the Mahrajah, brought to Azad along with the relics of Time. She ends up fighting side to side with the Prince. Wields a bow.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: She surely had known about the dagger's time-twisting power before the adventure began, but after the ResetButton is pressed, she believes that the whole story told by the Prince could be nothing but a fairy-tale.
* ArcherArchetype: She uses bow and arrows, and she's more levelheaded than the Prince.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:She never died due to the Prince changing both their fates by going back in time.]]
* BedlahBabe: She's an Indian princess whose outfit in both games shows off her belly.
* BigDamnHeroes: In ''The Two Thrones'', [[spoiler:she appears just in time to finish the Axe Brother off while he was about to kill the defenseless Prince]].
* BraidsOfAction: She sports a shoulder length braid in her first appearance where she's already a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse. Her braid has grown longer in ''The Two Thrones'' where she's grown tougher as well.
* TheBusCameBack: Farah's absent from ''Warrior Within'', but she returns in ''The Two Thrones''.
* TheCameo: She has one in ''Warrior Within''; [[spoiler:in the vision shown during the canon ending, Farah gets a brief shot as a captive]].
* CutTheSafetyRope: [[spoiler:Near the ending of ''The Sands of Time'', Farah ends up hanging over the Hourglass chamber while holding the Dagger, and the Prince is holding the blade while there are enemies approaching. Knowing that he can't save them both, Farah lets go of the Dagger and falls to her death. Since the Dagger is out of Sand, the Prince cannot reverse her death… until he performs the Grand Rewind.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Definitely. In ''The Two Thrones'', she does this with a SpitefulSpit to [[spoiler:Zurvan's]] face while in captivity as [[spoiler:he attempts to make her his queen]].
* DefrostingIceQueen: While initially distrustful of the Prince, and justifiably so, she ends up warming up to him near the end of their adventures.
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Probably because Kaileena fails to survive and then passes on to another plane of existence.]]
* GoodIsNotSoft: She's more unambiguously heroic than the Prince, but she won't put up with his arrogance and selfishness anymore than she's going to let innocents suffer because of the Vizier and the Sands of Time.
* HoneyTrap: Played with. [[spoiler:After the Prince ends up ruining their first chance to reseal the Sands, Farah seduces him into a bath, steals his sword and the Dagger while he sleeps, and sets out to reseal the Sands by herself. However, she leaves him the Medallion of Time as protection against the Sands' corruption and expresses remorse when she [[CutTheSafetyRope lets herself die in order to save him]].]]
* LongRangeFighter: She uses her arrows to hit Sand Creatures to make it easier for the Prince to finish them off with the Dagger. She's totally helpless when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, though. [[spoiler:Her attempt to fight off the [[EliteMooks Sand Generals]] with the Dagger and the Sword of the Avenging Warrior on her own leads to the Prince being unable to save her life in time.]] Though more capable in ''The Two Thrones'', she still never demonstrates any hand-to-hand combat skills.
* MoralityPet: In ''The Two Thrones'', the Prince begins once again to care about his citizens when he first becomes concerned about Farah's safety and [[WhatTheHellHero is admonished by her for his selfishness]]. Her influence also makes him to seriously question the Dark Prince's influence on him, and [[spoiler:he's able to finally get rid of the Dark Prince by listening to Farah, ceasing to try to destroy his dark alter-ego and simply walk off]].
* NeutralFemale: Justifiably so in the climaxes of ''The Sands of Time'' and ''The Two Thrones''. [[spoiler:With both battles being between the Prince and the Vizier, no less. In ''The Sands of Time'', confused by the strange young man who spent the whole night telling her about their erased future and is now trying to warn her about her father's (as far as she knows) trusted adviser, she runs for cover and watches, though she does give the Vizier two futile commands to stop. In ''The Two Thrones'', she's magically bound by Zurvan and can't do anything to help the Prince fight him.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: In the first game she had an English accent. In ''The Two Thrones'', her accent is American. Then again, so is the Prince's accent. Averted in the trailer for the ''Sands Of Time'' remake, where her accent is plausibly Indian.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:By the end of ''The Two Thrones'', with the Prince.]]
* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: She's able to hold off sand monsters with nothing but an unenchanted bow. Having her kingdom toppled does ''nothing'' to subtract from her badass pedigree.
* TheQueensLatin: She's an Indian princess with an English accent in the first game. In the third game, her accent is now American. Implicitly subverted by the trailer for the upcoming remake, where her accent is clearly Indian.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Farah sees the Prince in the form of the Dark Prince and runs away, she refuses to trust him by bringing up what she's seen of his earlier behavior.
-->'''The Prince''': ''[back in his normal form]'' Do you see now?! The change was physical, nothing more!\\
'''Farah''': Why should I believe you? Everything you have done contradicts this! I have seen the way you hunger for combat! You take pleasure in creating death! Your constant talk of bloody vengeance, your cold disregard for your own people! You heard the women in the brothel as clearly as I did, yet you turned away!\\
'''The Prince''': But I came back. I came back! For you...\\
'''Farah''': You are a prince in title only. Go and reclaim your throne. But know this... you do so alone. ''[runs off]''
* SlapSlapKiss: Her relationship with the Prince.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Justified in the first game, as she was taken prisoner in her home by King Shahraman. The third game implies she was captured and escaped; we have no idea if she was wearing that outfit before just pieced it together after escaping, or it was damaged somehow. Nonetheless, [[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains both her outfits are more sensible than Kaileena or Shahdee's]].
* TookALevelInBadass: In the first game, she's dependent on the Prince for survival against the sand monsters. Not so much in the alternate timeline of ''Two Thrones'', where she's clearly fine on her own.
* WeakButSkilled: In ''The Sands of Time'', Farah is considerably weaker than the Prince and is unable to perform the same climbing/gymnast skills as him, but what she lacks in physical strength she makes up for in her excellent archery skills, an impressive long jump, knowledge about the sands and dagger of time, and ability to squeeze into small areas that the Prince can't. In ''Two Thrones'' she has become more athletic and proves to be considerably more tough and agile than she was in her previous appearance.
* WhatTheHellHero: In ''The Sands of Time'', she berates the Prince for unleashing the Sands and later calls him out of losing their chance to reseal the Sands by starting to mistrust her. In ''The Two Thrones'', she admonishes him of being willing to leave his citizens to their suffering just to get to the BigBad.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Farah gives this to the Prince while apologizing for the way she rejected him with a ReasonYouSuckSpeech when she saw him as the Dark Prince.
-->'''Farah''': It was unfair of me to accuse you of such things.\\
'''The Prince''': But I ''have'' done terrible things.\\
'''Farah''': We all make mistakes, Prince. The difference is that you have accepted yours. I saw [[HeroicFireRescue what you did at the workshop]]. And what the Old Man said is true. You ''are'' a prince.
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[[folder:King Shahraman]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Warren Burton (''The Sands of Time'')

The Prince's father, depicted as a just and merciful ruler. In the first game, he conquers the Maharajah's kingdom with the Vizier's help and takes the Sands of Time as a gift for the Sultan of Azad. When the Prince releases the Sands, Shahraman is turned into a monster.
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* ArchnemesisDad: He's the first boss. Though it's technically a monster inhabiting his body rather than him.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Subverted. He is resurrected due to the events of the first game being undone. However, the Prince's search for his father in ''The Two Thrones'' ends in finding his dead body.]]
* BlingOfWar: Persia has nice armor.
* BodyHorror: His zombie-like form is grotesque.
* CoolSword: [[spoiler:His sword in ''The Two Thrones'' is strong enough to kill any enemies (except for Zurvan) [[OneHitKill with a single blow]] and destroy fractured walls. It also emits light in the dark, helping in navigating through darkness and blinding the light-sensitive Reptus.]]
* GenreBlind: Another ruler's trusted adviser betrayed him to help you conquer his kingdom? Totally trustworthy. Lampshaded by the Prince himself.
-->'''The Prince:''' Trust not a man who has betrayed his master. Nor take him into your own service lest he betray you too.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: As the Sand King, his left eye glows like with all the sand monsters.
* TheGoodKing: Heavily implied through the whole tetralogy as much as a conqueror warrior king can be, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance despite his questionable actions of sacking the Maharajah's palace to take over his kingdom, using dozens of its women as slave girls for his Sultan ally, and capturing and making Farah, the Maharajah's daughter, a slave as well]]. He's implied to be a conqueror who takes no pleasure in ostentatious destruction and killing, with the Prince's disdain at the way the third game's BigBad has conquered Babylon suggesting that his father didn't raise him to believe it's okay to conquer other people with too much violence.[[note]]"To conquer a city is one thing, but to do so with such violence and cruelty is something else entirely."[[/note]]
-->'''Shahraman''': I want no animals or maidens harmed until I have chosen! Let it be known; King Shahraman is merciful in victory!
* InconsistentSpelling: Is it Shahraman or Sharaman?
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:His second death in ''The Two Thrones'' sticks, as the Prince is done monkeying with time for his own benefit.]]
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: As the Sand King, his left eye glows yellow light, while his right, otherwise normally blue eye, has an insane look.
* PromotedToPlayable: He's one of the playable generals in ''Battles of Prince of Persia''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's about as good of a king as a conquering warlord can be. Shame he's so GenreBlind to what the Vizier is up to.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He's renowned as a great warrior, and he indeed first appears taking active part in conquering the Maharajah's kingdom. [[spoiler:His body is ultimately found wearing his panoply.]]
* SinisterScimitar: Played straight during his time as the Sand King. Averted for the rest of the series.
* UnwittingPawn: To the Vizier in the first game.
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[[folder:The Vizier]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BarryDennen (''The Sands of Time''), Harry Standjofski (''The Two Thrones'')

The main villain of the first and third game, bent on using the powers of the Sands of Time in order to TakeOverTheWorld.
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* AnimalMotifs: As another blatant similarity with [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], the head of the Vizier's staff resembles that of a snake.
* AnyLastWords: Delivers this to the Prince during ''The Sands of Time''.
-->'''Vizier:''' Do you have any last words you wish me to communicate to the Princess… before I kill her? Words of love, perhaps?
* ArchEnemy: The Prince has many enemies throughout the games, but the Vizier would be the best candidate for his archenemy. Not only he is the BigBad of the first game, but his act of manipulating the Prince to unleash the Sands of Time carries our protagonist through his following adventures. He's also behind the events of ''Battles of Prince of Persia'' because [[spoiler:he's the one who trapped the daeva in the Box]]. He even returns as the main antagonist of the game in which the Prince finally comes to terms with the Sands and his past. Kaileena is not wrong to refer to the Vizier as the Prince's greatest enemy in narration.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He is killed by the Prince at the end of ''The Sands of Time'', but he's alive in ''The Two Thrones'' due to the Prince altering the timeline and manages to release the Sands of Time by killing Kaileena.]]
* BaldOfEvil: Though he wears a turban over it. [[spoiler:He's bareheaded as Zurvan, though.]]
* BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler: Though he loses it upon assuming the form of Zurvan, "God of Time".]]
* BigBad: In the first game. And the third.
* CaptainErsatz: Of [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], both being {{Evil Sorcerer}}s and {{Evil Chancellor}}s who trick the heroes into getting them powerful magical artifacts in their quests for ultimate power and immortality.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He betrays Farah's father to let Shahraman take over his kingdom. Then he betrays Shahraman by deceiving his son into releasing the Sands of Time which turn Shahraman and everyone else into mindless monsters. [[spoiler:After his death is undone, he murders Farah's father when the latter doesn't let him go to Babylon in search of Kaileena, and then he allies himself with the Scythians to let them subjugate both Farah's people and the Babylonians.]] The Prince lampshades this while lamenting that his father wasn't [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves more rejective]] towards the Vizier.
-->'''The Prince''': Trust not a man who has betrayed his master, nor take him into your own service, lest he betray you too.
%%* ClassicVillain
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: [[spoiler:A non-fatal example. As Zurvan, he attempts this on Farah by making her his goddess queen after she [[SpitefulSpit spits in his face]].]]
-->'''The Vizier''': [[spoiler:You impudent pig! I offer you life eternal, and this is how you respond? Oh, I shall enjoy changing you.]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He's called the Vizier by everyone.
* EvilChancellor: A vizier. Do we even need to tell you?
* EvilOldFolks: A consumptive and black-hearted old vulture.
* EvilSorcerer: Implied. He seems to manipulate the Sands of Time and those they transform through an incantation, summons a whirlwind later in the first game, and uses a mirror duplicate of himself to duel you in the final battle while he himself is protected by an energy shield.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As Zurvan, his voice is a lot deeper and more threatening.
* FacialMarkings: The Vizier has a red tilak on his forehead and several red spots under his eyes (six in ''The Sands of Time'' and four in ''The Two Thrones''). These facial markings are one of the [[spoiler:few things he retains as Zurvan]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: After his true colours are revealed, he speaks to the Prince in an insincerely polite tone.
* FightingAShadow: In the final battle of ''The Sands of Time'', he summons a mirror image of himself to duel you while he hides behind an impenetrable forcefield. Luckily for you (less so for him), this spell seems to be CastFromHitPoints -- each time he's forced to re-cast it, he begins coughing and gasping as his illness takes its toll, allowing the Prince to deal a decisive blow to the real Vizier himself.
* FinalBoss: Of the first game as well as the third [[spoiler: (though after his defeat in the third game, there's still some [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind lingering loose ends to tie up]])]].
* {{Foil}}: To Kaileena after he [[spoiler:becomes Zurvan. As the Empress of Time, Kaileena is a divinely created entity whose body is composed of the Sands of Time, while Zurvan is a mortal man who transforms with the Sands' help into the self-proclaimed God of Time. They both are manipulative and highly knowledgeable, possess similar powers connected to the Sands, and they both command armies of Sand Creatures they created with the Sands. Both also attempt to cheat death (Kaileena by killing the man prophesied to kill her and the Vizier by using the Dagger of Time to become immortal), and yet they both ultimately die by being stabbed with the Dagger of Time. Unlike Zurvan, however, Kaileena never seems to be interested in using her powers to conquer the world, and her antagonism towards the Prince is more reactive than proactive. After Zurvan is killed by the Prince, Kaileena opts to find her place in another world so that the Sands won't be used to do damage anymore]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:As Zurvan, he has the gleaming golden eyes of the Sand creatures.]]
* AGodAmI: After [[spoiler: stabbing himself with the Dagger of Time and being transformed into a Sand monster/human hybrid, he re-christens himself as "Zurvan, God of Time"]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: In ''Battles of Prince of Persia'', despite being dead in the present day, he turns out to be the one who drove Saurva to villainy [[spoiler:having his wife murdered and trapping him and the daevas in the Box of Thousand Restraints]].
* HighCollarOfDoom: His new outfit in ''The Two Thrones'' [[spoiler:before becoming Zurvan]] has a collar that resembles a dark crown.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Vizier's plan revolves around seizing the Dagger of Time and using it in a ritual to make himself immortal. The Prince intends to ''give'' him said dagger... [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pointy end first]]. [[spoiler:And he ultimately does this in the third game.]]
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Suffers from this as the result of a disease (implied to be tuberculosis), fueling his desire to seek out the Dagger of Time as part of a plan to cheat death.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: His general attitude towards [[spoiler: Farah in the third game]] and Sindra in ''Battles of Prince of Persia'' has shades of this.
* ImmortalitySeeker: His main goal is to gain eternal life.
* KickTheDog: When he finds the Prince [[spoiler:grieving over Farah's lifeless body]] in ''The Sands of Time'', he calls [[spoiler:the dead princess]] unimportant [[LackOfEmpathy in a utterly heartless tone]]. During ''The Two Thrones'', he [[spoiler:slices one of the last Persian soldiers [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]] from the waist]] and immediately leaves while laughing mockingly. It's immediately lampshaded by the Prince.
-->'''The Prince''': To conquer a city is one thing, but to do so with such violence and cruelty is something else entirely.
* LackOfEmpathy:
** His reaction to seeing the Prince [[spoiler:grieving over Farah's lifeless body]] is to call [[spoiler:the girl]] unimportant and proceed to his WeCanRuleTogether proposal.
** When he receives a SpitefulSpit in the face from Farah in ''The Two Thrones'', he acts like she should be thankful for [[spoiler:being offered eternal life as his queen]]. Considering the murder of her father as well as the oppression of her people and the Babylonians, why should she feel grateful?
* LargeHam: [[spoiler:When he becomes the Time God Zurvan, and he remains that way right up to the end.]]
* LeanAndMean: He's gaunt and {{obviously evil}}.
* ManipulativeBastard: He tricks the Prince to unlock the Sands from the Hourglass by using flattery on the young and impatient royal.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: As with Farah, in "Sands of Time" he speaks with an English accent (despite his actor Creator/BarryDennen being American) while in "The Two Thrones" he is American. In the remake trailer, he sounds more Indian.
* ObviouslyEvil: Seriously, one ''look'' at this guy should've warned the maharajah and the Prince's father that he ''wasn't'' a man to trust.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Turns into a giant winged demon in the third game.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Despite being present at the beginning of the game to taunt the Prince [[spoiler:(both in ''The Sands of Time'' and ''The Two Thrones'')]], he generally disappears from the plot up till the climax. One would think he might have stepped in to deal with the Prince earlier, when he didn't have as much control over his powers. Potentially justified, as the Vizier is -- by his own admission -- wracked with a sickness, and would thus probably be at a disadvantage in a straight fight. [[spoiler: And in the third game, you catch glimpses of him solidifying his grip over Babylon by slaughtering its final defenders; he's too busy seizing control of the kingdom to worry about its prince right away.]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: Gives one to [[spoiler:Kaileena]] right before using the [[spoiler:Dagger of Time to stab her]].
-->'''The Vizier''': I believe I have something of yours…
* PromotedToPlayable: He's one of the playable generals in ''Battles of Prince of Persia''.
* PurpleIsPowerful: His robes in the first came have a lot of this color, and he ''is'' a rather proficient spellcaster.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Discussed and inverted; the Prince regrets that his father ''didn't'' give the Vizier this treatment, since almost immediately after betraying his former liege and joining them, he betrayed them as well.
* SerpentStaff: He walks and fights with a staff with ornate engravings that make it reminiscent of a cobra. And, as it turns out, said staff is far from simple; given its implied ability to control the Sands of Time and render its wielder invulnerable to its warping effects. If you listen to his speech as you go through the first section of ''The Two Thrones'', he reveals that he found said staff on the Island of Time.
* ShadowArchetype: With his efforts to avoid being killed by consumption through immortality, the Vizier ends up being a reflection of what the Prince were if he remained obsessed with preventing his natural death at whatever cost. When the Vizier offers the grieving Prince immortality in the first game, the latter vehemently refuses to live forever with the guilt of him being partially responsible for the deaths of his loved ones and turns back time to prevent them. However, when the Dahaka tries to kill him during the years following the Vizier's death, the Prince refuses to submit to such a fate and becomes increasingly ruthless in the process. Though he manages to rid himself of the Dahaka without having to [[spoiler:kill Kaileena]], he unwittingly resurrects the Vizier to cause more death in his obsessive quest for immortality. The Prince ultimately realizes how selfish and thoughtless he's been in trying to erase his mistakes and makes the decision to stop putting his fate and fears before everyone else before he finally vanquishes the Vizier.
* SoftSpokenSadist: As monstrous as he is, the Vizier's voice never rises beyond a calm, sinister rasp. [[spoiler: Goes out the window in the third game, when he uses the Dagger of Time to turn himself into a godlike being.]]
* SquishyWizard: Since he's a consumptive old sorcerer, he's not really a match to the Prince once the latter actually gets to hit him instead of his mirror images. [[spoiler:He's a LightningBruiser as Zurvan, though, and the Dagger is required to finish him off.]]
* TreacherousAdvisor: To Farah and her father, the maharajah who has ownership of the Sands of Time.
* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: When he stabs himself with the Dagger of Time, he turns from an old, disease-ravaged man to a bald humanoid with a bare torso, pure white skin, and golden wings and scorpion body below the waist. Compare him to the Sands-mutated Prince…
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When the Prince begins seriously injuring him in ''Two Thrones'', he begins screaming in pain, and eventually, once the killer blow is dealt, he howls out "THIS IS NOT WHAT THE DAGGER PROMISED!!" before exploding into sand.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Of a sort -- he seems genuinely displeased by [[spoiler: the death of his generals in the third game, and even kidnaps Farah so he can transform her to replace them]].
* VillainRespect: While dueling the Prince for the last time, the Vizier admits that such a quick and clever warrior would have made a fine member in his army.
* WeCanRuleTogether: He makes a variant of this offer to the Prince at the end by claiming that he can use the Dagger of Time along with the Sands to make him immortal. [[spoiler: The Prince, having lost his father and Farah to the Vizier's machinations and being indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions, isn't even tempted by the offer.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Seems to view himself as this, as he claims that [[spoiler: his conquest of Babylon will make things better for everyone in the long run, seeing their enslavement under his sand monsters as "the price of progress"]].
* WingedHumanoid: [[spoiler:As Zurvan, God of Time.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: In the first game, he plots to murder both Farah and the Prince and frame the latter for her murder. In the third game, he [[spoiler: murders Kaileena to bring back the Sands of Time]]. Finally in ''Battles of Prince of Persia'', he [[spoiler: murders Sarva's wife he used as a hostage to get the Box of Thousand Restraints then curses Saurva's sister with insanity upon her refusal to marry him]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Maharajah]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maharajah.jpg]]

Farah and Kalim's father and the ruler of India. Prior to the events of the game, he journeyed to the Island of Time in search of its artifacts. While satisfied with what he found, the Vizier betrays him in both timelines, offing him with the intention of using the time artifacts to gain absolute power.
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* DeadManWriting: Whether he actually is dead at the time is unknown, but the Prince finds some very important writing from him on a wall in the Island of Time.
* TheGoodKing: This is a man who wanted the deaths of his fallen subjects to be honored, even after [[spoiler:he undid those deaths with time travel]].
* TheGhost: In the first and third games. In the second, he only appears via flashback. Averted in the spin-off ''Battles of Prince of Persia'' where he fully appears.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: It only becomes apparent in ''Warrior Within'' that the trip to the Island of Time was not a matter of simple archaeology.
* NecessaryFail: [[spoiler:In a strange TimeyWimeyBall, he was killed by an enemy while in the Island of Time, discovered he would be killed from the past, and then used the Mask of the Wraith to kill his own assailant after it killed another version of himself. This allows the Prince to discover the means of changing his fate.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: In the first and third games, he's been killed thanks to the Vizier. He shows up alive in the interquel ''Battles of Prince of Persia''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's satisfied with just a few valuable artifacts and has no interest in using them for something as silly as immortality. Too bad the Vizier didn't agree.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: One who doubles as an AdventureArchaeologist.
* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:Was fated to die on the Island of Time, only to use the Mask of the Wraith to change that.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The man who discovered the Artifacts of Time in the first place, and the man who [[spoiler:discovered what the Mask of the Wraith could do]].
[[/folder]]

!Introduced in ''Warrior Within''
[[folder:The Dahaka]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Dumont

-> ''"!akahaD eht sepacse eno-oN !nellaf evah uoy erofeb emoc evah ohw llA"''

A dark entity, whose task is to preserve the timeline. When the Prince used the sands of time to save his skin, the Dahaka awakened, and soon went after him to make sure that he was erased from the timeline.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In [[UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}} Zoroastrianism]], the Dahaka is a three-headed dragon. Here, the name refers to a HumanoidAbomination.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: [[spoiler:Turns into a colossal version of himself after falling in the Ocean, but [[ClippedWingAngel is dissolved in sand a second later]].]]
* BadassBoast: Most of his dialogue is this, a couple stand-out examples;
-->'''Dahaka:''' All who have come before you have fallen.\\
'''Dahaka:''' You are quick, mortal--quick to die.
* ClockRoaches: The job description of this entity as the being responsible for destroying paradoxes and abnormal time anomalies that mess with the time-stream.
* CombatTentacles: Can sprout tons of them from his eldritch body at will.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Whenever he gets near the Prince during each chase scene, the scene goes to a black and white sepia tone, indicating that the Prince is close to death itself.
* DisneyVillainDeath: After the Library chase, he tries to pursue the Sand Wraith over a frail stone bridge which falls under his weight, sending the roaring behemoth into the depths. It only gets rid of him for the time being.
* DropInNemesis: Will usually appear out of nowhere in certain Present sections. Later he starts appearing in the past too.
* FailedASpotCheck: In the Library, as the Sand Wraith, Dahaka suddenly bursts through a walled entrance overlooking the room and stands there, looking for the Prince... who can be right under him, hanging there unseen. He's spotted only if you climb [[TooDumbToLive right in his face.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: What happens to his targets or anyone unfortunate enough to be standing in his vicinity; The Dahaka is said to pull innocent bystanders into an endless void and if he's to catch the Prince, he doesn't kill him but rather dispatches him into some sort of swirling vortex. What happens to them after that is unknown.
* FlashStep: Is known for being able to teleport to short distances in a jiff. [[spoiler: After depleting half of his health, he starts darting at incredible speed across the battlefield, forcing you to slow down the time to catch up.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: The endless pursuit of the Dahaka makes it clear who the Prince fears most during ''Warrior Within''. In fact, the reason he's up going up against the Empress of Time is to save himself from the creature. [[spoiler:It's only upon stopping the Dahaka threat in both endings that he finally succeeds.]]
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Once uses the dead body of a Crowmaster he killed as a club to strike the Prince.
* HornedHumanoid: His horns form the symbol of Infinity.
* HumanoidAbomination: The image above shows how humanoid it looks. Running from, or fighting it, tells how much of an abomination it is.
* ImplacableMan: When water is not involved, that is. But he reforms eventually.
* InASingleBound: Can leap considerable distances and heights.
* TheJuggernaut: Hitting him with normal weapons is like hitting a stone wall, he can chase someone everywhere and forever, and knows no rest, nor fear. He is stopped by water, but it doesn't stop him for long.
* KickTheDog: While chasing the Prince in the opening cutscene, the Dahaka literally kills a dog that happened to be in the way.
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler:How he's defeated in the true ending.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: The already edgy game turns even more tense whenever the Dahaka shows up to chase the Prince down. [[spoiler:Even the Empress of Time is not safe from him should she be erased from existence.]]
* KryptoniteFactor: The one thing that can hurt him is water. Touching it causes him pain, so he has to temparily cease his pursuit whenever the Prince is able to put water between them. [[spoiler: Fittingly the one weapon that can kill him is the Water Sword.]]
* LightningBruiser: Despite his bulk, he's deceptively fast.
* NighInvulnerable: Without involving water, nothing can hurt him.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Disintegrates after falling into the sea. Could be KarmicDeath since he disintegrates and then absorbs his victims.
* OneHitKill: Getting caught by him means death. [[spoiler: This is gone during the boss fight with him for the sake of fairness.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: As noted above, the Dahaka in actual Zoroastrianism is a three-headed dragon created by [[GodOfEvil Ahriman]], not a HumanoidAbomination [[ClockRoaches tasked with maintaining the flow of time]].
* SuperStrength: Can bring down walls and metal bars with its blows or can simply charge through them, can ragdoll the Prince and its punches can [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom send people soaring several distances]] along with its considerable leaps.
* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:If you've collected all 9 life upgrades and took the Water Sword.]]
* TheUnintelligible: At first, it appears he's speaking gibberish or a strange language. That is until, much to the player's horror, you first rewind time in its presence. It has in fact been speaking to you in reverse or more accurately threatening you whilst you escape it by rewinding time.
* WeaksauceWeakness: As a creature of time and entropy, water will harm him. [[spoiler:Eventually dies when he's dropped in the Ocean after being wounded with the Water Sword.]]
* WorthyOpponent: In one of his victory taunts, he remarks that The Prince fought well against the inevitable. Understandable, given the strong implication that the Prince has outrun the Dahaka longer than any mortal.
--> '''Dahaka:''' "A good fight, but this outcome was inevitable."
* YouCantFightFate: The general nature of its threats to the Prince. Your fate being death at the Dahaka's hands.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shahdee]]
[[quoteright:283:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shadee-001_6341.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Alicyn Packard

A mysterious, half-naked woman in black who works for the Empress of Time and fights the Prince as he tries to reach the Island of Time.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The jury's out on whether she's a sand demon or an empowered human. She looks ''far'' more like a normal person than any other creature on the island, but she does explode into sand [[spoiler: as she dies.]]
* BishonenLine: One of the most powerful and intelligent sand monsters is also the most humanoid.
* ChainmailBikini: She wears a metal thong-type getup that redefines {{Stripperiffic}}.
* CombatStilettos: She wears high-heeled boots. It works against her when she tries to attack the Prince from behind because he can hear her clopping.
* ContemptCrossfire: By the time of her second fight with the Prince, he wants her dead for killing his crew, and the Empress wants her dead for her failure.
* CoolSword: She wields a pair of blades looking like a mix of cutlass and kukri.
* DarkActionGirl: Shahdee is an accomplished swordsman, able to not only hold her own against the Prince in their rematch but also even defeat him on the ship. In addition to being extremely proficient in swordplay, she is also skilled in unarmed combat.
* TheDragon: To the Empress. [[spoiler:Though she does try to then kill her for effectively dooming them all. All because she was trying to change her own fate by killing him first.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: She ultimately attacks Kaileena after being insulted and slapped one time too many.]]
* DualWielding: She wields two broadswords as her primary weapons.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Not only her clothing and hair are black, but the area around her eyes is darkened as well.
* ExposedToTheElements: Goes out to meet the Prince attack the Prince's ship in the middle of a storm. Possibly justified, since she's a Sand Creature.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Only from behind, too.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her fighting style [[spoiler: is the same as the Empress.]]
* HartmanHips: Has a very big butt that takes center stage in many of her shots.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How the Prince kills her.]]
* LightningBruiser: The reason why she's a WakeUpCallBoss both times you fight her.
* MaleGaze: Actively enforced, as her introduction cinematic opens with a six-second close-up shot of her almost totally exposed backside as she walks a flight of stairs.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler:She turned on the Empress because said Empress sent her out on a suicide mission and then turned violent when she inevitably failed.]]
* MsFanservice: Again, six-second close-up ass-shot and her skimpy outfit.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Her body explodes into sand when killed.]]
* OffhandBackhand: She effortlessly cuts down one of the crewmembers of the Prince charging behind her.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: She's the right-handwoman of the Empress and a sand creature, though she's much stronger and more human-like than all the others, as she can apparently cross the water gates to the portal rooms and only reveals her sand nature upon death.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Yep. excluding the strip at her waist and covering her shoulders and a little bit below, her entire rearside from top to bottom is exposed.
* SourSupporter: [[spoiler:Believes the Empress is sending her on a fool's errand to kill the Prince, as her fate is sealed. But she reluctantly does as commanded. Though she eventually turns on Kaileena when it fails.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her infamously skimpy battle gear has a NavelDeepNeckline and also exposes her thighs and buttocks.
* ThongOfShielding: One of the more notorious in gaming, even. It's so skimpy that one could be forgiven for assuming that her costume is completely ass-less.
* YouCantFightFate: [[spoiler:Her last words to the prince. It's later revealed they were actually meant for Kaileena.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kaileena '''(ALL SPOILERS FOR ''WARRIOR WITHIN'' UNMARKED)''']]
[[quoteright:295:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kaileena-001_8999.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MonicaBellucci (''Warrior Within''), Sarah Carlsen (''The Two Thrones'')

A beautiful and mysterious lady in red met on the Island of Time, who helps the Prince. She's actually the Empress of Time and believes killing the Prince will change her fate. Her destiny is to to die at the Prince's hands and upon her death release the Sands of Time into the world. In the [[GoldenEnding true ending]], the Prince manages to save them both from their fates and takes her with him.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Despite her ability, in ''The Two Thrones'', she is easily kidnapped by the Vizier's soldiers. Then again {{justified|Trope}}, since he did so while she was unconscious from the ship crash.
* BadBoss: As the Empress, she's seen reacting harshly to Shahdee's sarcastic obedience, and when she's informed of the latter's failure with the Prince, she outright insults and slaps her. [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal This results in Shahdee having had enough and entering with Kaileena in the tussle]] the Prince finds them in.
* BigBad: Technically yes, but only in the basic ending.
* ButNowIMustGo: In ''The Two Thrones'', [[spoiler:she reappears as a spirit after Zurvan's death, thanks the Prince, and decides to leave this world forever along with the Sands]].
-->'''Kaileena''': [[spoiler:This world was not meant for me, but there are others, and I will find my place, just as you have found yours.]]
* CombatStilettos: She wears high-heeled boots and kicks with them in ''Warrior Within''.
* CoolSword: Her swords of choice are incredibly ornated and quite peculiar, resembling scythes and gifted with a massive armguard and peculiar handle which makes them similar to Katars.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler:Upon being murdered by the Vizier, Kaileena rises afloat in this pose before her body explodes as the Sands.]]
* DamselInDistress: When you first meet her, she's almost killed by Shahdee. Again, in the third game, where she's captured by the Vizier's goons right after the opening cutscene.
* DualWielding: Her weapon of choice seeming to be twin blades. She fights with them exactly like Shahdee.
* DyingCurse: When the Prince delivers the killing blow in their first duel, she calls him a fool whose every effort to cheat death will be for nothing just like with her before she collapses. If you duel her in the basic ending, she warns in her final breath that the Sands will be used by the wicked and ignorant. Though the Dahaka erases the Sands from existence in this ending, the Prince still discovers Babylon in flames.
-->'''Kaileena''': You've… saved yourself it seems, my prince. But still I become the Sands. There will be others like the Maharaja; braggarts and fools who will quest for the Sands and find them. My vengeance will be unleashed once more on your world…
* FaceFramedInShadow: Official artwork of the Empress of Time has her face concealed by shadows, revealing only [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]]. This hides the fact that the Prince's friend Kaileena is actually the Empress herself and the Prince mistook her for one of her own servants.
* FacialMarkings: She has a round marking on her forehead (though only in the cutscenes). It's changed to resemble a star in the following game.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Her legs are the first part shown of her.
* FinalBoss: In the normal ending of ''Warrior Within'' where the Prince kills her.
* FormFittingWardrobe: The parts of her body which are covered are hugged tightly by the material in ''Warrior Within''. Averted in ''The Two Thrones''.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Her new outfit in ''The Two Thrones'' composes of white clothing and golden jewelry. [[spoiler:Her spirit is also colored in golden white like the Sands.]]
* InkSuitActor: In ''Warrior Within'', she's based on and voiced by Creator/MonicaBellucci.
* KingIncognito: She's actually the Empress of Time, not her servant as the Prince assumed.
* LadyInRed: In ''Warrior Within'' where she wears a revealing red outfit. Kaileena was designed by Ubisoft developers to be a sexually alluring temptress.
* MirrorCharacter: Kaileena turns out to be ruthless and ready to do anything in her desperation to prevent her foretold death, just like the Prince. Realizing this similarity prompts the Prince to attempt to offer the peace pipe between them. He canonically succeeds after he saves Kaileena from the Dahaka.
* MotiveRant: Gives two of them after she reveals herself as the Empress: one before the battle, one in the middle of it.
* MsFanservice: Beautiful, buxom, scantly-dressed lady in red voiced by Monica Bellucci (and sound-alike actress Sarah Carlsen)? Yup.
* {{Narrator}}: Of ''The Two Thrones''. [[spoiler:It's also a case of PosthumousNarration because she's killed early in the game. Her spirit reappearing and leaving for another world after Zurvan's demise justifies this.]]
* NavelDeepNeckline: Goes right past her belly button in ''Warrior Within''. Much more subdued in ''The Two thrones'', but still goes below her breasts.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When she dies, the Sands are created from her body.
* RecurringBoss: In the normal ending, she is fought twice - once in the midgame as the ClimaxBoss and again as the FinalBoss.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her entire back is exposed by her ''Warrior Within'' outfit. Her outfit in ''The Two Thrones'' averts this.
* {{Sideboob}}: Her outfit is like this in both the games she appears in.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Kaileena's new outfit in ''The Two Thrones'' serves to mark her more innocent and seer-like than her previous characterization as the hard woman desperate to prevent her fate.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: The upper part of her ''Warrior Within'' outfit consists of two red strips over her boobs connected by some strings. Then there's a belt, a short skirt and then four more strips covering her lady parts and butt. Her new outfit is more modest, but not that much.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: After surviving to the end of ''Warrior Within'' thanks to the Prince, [[spoiler:she's captured by the Vizier and killed early on in ''The Two Thrones'']]. [[spoiler:Except then she ends up ascending to a higher plane of existence as a spirit of the Sands.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her true role in the story and most of her characterization don't become apparent until you discover the big twist that ''she'' is the Empress of Time.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: She looks very different in ''The Two Thrones''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Old Man]]
[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_man_pop.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Hubert Fielden

A wise old hermit who has looked after the Prince since he was a child. He possesses vast knowledge about the Sands of Time, the Island of Time, the Empress of Time and the Dahaka. The Prince seeks his counsel in regards to the Dahaka's reason to hunt him down. Learning that he has to die because he altered the past with the Sands of Time in the previous game, the Prince sets out to the Island of Time with the Old Man's warning that he cannot change his fate.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When [[spoiler:the Vizier's army of sand creatures surround the Prince and Farah from all sides in ''The Two Thrones'']], the Old Man appears [[spoiler:with the remaining citizens of Babylon to attack them, giving the Prince and Farah a chance to enter the palace in search of the Vizier]].
* BlindSeer: The wise mystic is shown to be blind with the way he uses his hand to reach for a vase in ''Warrior Within''.
* GoodCounterpart: He's more or less this to the Vizier. The Old Man is a hermit mystic who has been entrusted with raising King Shahraman's son, while the Vizier is the Maharajah's sorcerous adviser. They are both elderlies who walk with a staff, have a physical affliction (blindness with the Old Man and consumption with the Vizier), and are very knowledgeable in regards to what relates to the Sands of Time. However, the Vizier is a [[TreacherousAdvisor traitor who ultimately gives honeyed advises for his own benefit]]. The Old Man in turn gives the Prince counsel he doesn't like for his protege's own benefit. The Vizier is loyal to no-one but himself, but the Old Man is loyal to the Persian royalty to the point that he [[spoiler:gathers Babylon's remaining citizens to help the Prince in bringing down the Vizier]].
* HandicappedBadass: He proves himself to be this in ''The Two Thrones'' when he [[spoiler:rallies the remaining citizens of Babylon to attack the Vizier's army]] in order to help the Prince in his quest. A blind NonActionGuy or not, there's a good deal of mettle in that.
* HermitGuru: A wise mystic who lives in a tent somewhere deep in Babylon.
* HonestAdvisor: While taking no pleasure in it, the Old Man bluntly tells his former charge that he's fighting a futile battle against destiny.
* MrExposition: In the cut scene the Old Man appears in ''Warrior Within'', he provides insight about the Island of Time and the Dahaka's reason for hunting down the Prince.
* NonActionGuy: The Old Man is a mystic, not a warrior. [[spoiler:While he leads the attack against Vizier's forces, he directs it on the side under the protection of bodyguards.]]
* NoNameGiven: Is called nothing but the Old Man.
* ParentalSubstitute: The official guide of ''Warrior Within'' states that the Old Man cared for the Prince at the request of King Shahraman who was too busy with warfare and expanding the empire.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Inverted; the Old Man's blinded eyes are colored red, but he's a benevolent mentor to TheHero.
* RousingSpeech: Gives one in ''The Two Thrones'' during his aforementioned BigDamnHeroes moment.
--> "All hail the Prince of Persia! A greater hero the land has never known! You have saved the people of this city, and we have come to repay the favor!"
* SmallRoleBigImpact:
** He appears only in a cut scene at the beginning of ''Warrior Within'', but his conversation with the Prince carries the player through the game, down to his words being repeated [[spoiler:at the ending]].
** He also makes two short appearances in the cut scenes of ''The Two Thrones'', but in both of them, he acts as the voice of Babylon's citizens for the Prince as he becomes their hero once more.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:It's unknown whether or not the Old Man survived against the Vizier's forces before they evaporated.]]
* YouCantFightFate: When the Prince decides to journey to the Island of Time, the Old Man offers as parting words his disbelief that anyone can change their fate. Those words are recited when [[spoiler:the ending reveals Babylon in flames]].
--> "Go then, my Prince. But know this: your journey will not end well. [[ArcWords You cannot change your fate]]... No man can."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sand Wraith]]
[[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sandwraith-001_3707.jpg]]

A mysterious dark humanoid creature. It wears a strange mask and has seemingly has some interest in the Prince. Its intentions do not seem positive.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Until you learn it's no more evil than the Prince is. Or any less.]]
* TheCameo: The Sand Wraith is available as a costume/skin in ''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheForgottenSands The Forgotten Sands]]''.
* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:What it subjects the Prince to once put on and which emphasises more the Awesome part. On one hand we have a continous life-drain which, while slow, is barely a problem. The Awesome part comes from the fact that as the Sand Wraith, Prince has constantly replenishing sands of time which can make a difference thorough the later part of the game.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:It's actually you, so yeah.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After being set up as a mysterious adversary to the Prince, [[spoiler:it is unceremoniously captured and executed by the Dahaka]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when the Prince ''becomes'' the Sand Wraith, and meets a better fate than his previous self did.]]
* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:The Prince believes in this trope, at first, when he encounters the Sand Wraith a few times, once asking it who it is, and other times when he thinks it's trying to harm him, once by throwing an ax at him, until its demise at the hands of the Dahaka. Of course, he is unaware that the Wraith is actually his future self trying to warn him of his role in the sands; and that the reason his future self seemingly threw the ax at the Prince is that the former was trying to kill not the latter but actually the enemy coming up to attack him from behind (in other words, his future self saved the Prince's life). The only difference is that while the Dahaka killed the Prince's future self, the Prince later learns his lesson in becoming the Sand Wraith, and when he encounters his past self with the Dahaka, his quick thinking allows the Prince/Wraith to escape death and ensure that the Dahaka kills his past self instead.]]
* InconsistentSpelling: Of a spacing variant - The in-game description spells his name as "Sand Wraith", while the official manual and strategy guide spells his name as "Sandwraith".
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:The only way for the wearer to remove the mask and undo the transformation is to have their other self killed in the same timeline, allowing the wearer to replace their past self.]]
* MaskOfPower: [[spoiler: The mask allows a person to exist twice in the same timeline.]]
* NecessaryFail: [[spoiler:The first Sand Wraith was killed when he attempted to confront his former self but was surprised by the Dahaka, who was chasing down the Prince, and ended up eaten. When the Prince learns the Wraith was actually a future version of himself, he is able to learn from the first Wraith's demise. Knowing full well the Dahaka is about to arrive, he instead ensures his past self is taken. Without another version of himself dying in the attempt, he wouldn't have known how to succeed.]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler:The Mask of the Sand Wraith can only be removed if the "other" self of the wearer dies, allowing them to undo the transformation]].
* OccultBlueEyes: His eyes glow a bright blue.
* PowerAtAPrice: [[spoiler:Once the Prince becomes the Sand Wraith, he gains infinitely regenerating sand powers in exchange for his health draining at a steady rate (although never to the point of killing him unassisted).]]
* RetGone: [[spoiler:What the mask allows its wearers to do to their former selves.]]
* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:This is the purpose and greatest power of the Wraith's mask. It allows an individual to inhabit the same timeline as a past version of their self, thus allowing them to kill them and replace them in the time stream. In essence, with the mask, you quite literally erase your former self's actions from history.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:He's the Prince from the future.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Griffon]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/griffon.jpg]]

A sand creature with unknown origins, the Empress has put it to use guarding the Island of Time. Serves as a boss mid to late game.
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* BlowYouAway: It will be beating its huge wings throughout the fight. The winds made by them can send the Prince over the edge of the platform they're on.
* GiantFlyer: The Griffon is the one of the biggest creatures in the game, second only to the [[GiantMook Brutes]] in terms of size and mass. It can also fly, being part eagle and all.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: You might be expecting an enemy where you encounter it. You probably won't be expecting a griffon, given how nothing you've faced previously evens hints that one even exists. Either way, you find it, you fight it, you beat it, and it is never mentioned again.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Like all sand creatures, it collapses into sand once defeated.
* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: As the image shows, it is a classic griffin, though its status as a sand creature gives it a more demonic appearance.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: It will try to dive bomb the Prince after taking a certain amount of damage. Ramming will only work if the Prince is hit by the attack.
* ShockwaveStomp: It can do this with its front legs, and getting hit by this attack will take out half of the Prince's health.
* TailSlap: One of its easier to dodge attacks.
[[/folder]]

!Introduced in ''The Two Thrones''

[[folder:The Dark Prince]]
[[quoteright:287:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/The-Dark-Prince-001_8960.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Rudder (''Warrior Within''), Creator/RickMiller (''The Two Thrones'')

The Prince's dark side, born from the infection of the Sands of Time. From time to time, he'll take over the Prince, forcing the character to play as him. The Dark Prince is ruthless, powerful, and sand-bound, but depletes health quickly when he's in charge. He uses the Daggertail that was bound into the Prince's arm as a weapon.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: When the Prince tells Farah that what the Vizier has turned himself into is something terrible, the Dark Prince thinks it's wonderful.
* AmbitionIsEvil: While he opposes the BigBad as much as the Prince, he's clearly fascinated by [[PhysicalGod what they have become]], regardless of the price. It eventually becomes clear that he wants the Prince's throne, but doesn't care about the responsibilities of a good ruler.
-->'''Dark Prince''': ''[to the Prince]'' With the ability to manipulate Time itself, you had the chance to be the greatest king the world has ever known! What wars you could have fought! What monuments you could have erected in your honor! What women you could have kept.
* AreYouSureYouCanDriveThisThing: He makes this question when the Prince is about to begin the first chariot race.
* AxCrazy: Has absolutely no qualms about slaughtering and maiming everything in his way.
* TheCorrupter: He tries to be this to the Prince by insisting him to avoid going out of his way to help others if it'll delay their chances of catching up with the BigBad.
* DarkIsEvil: If his name and appearance weren't enough of an indicator that he's a villain, his motives and personality make that very clear.
* DeadpanSnarker: Even more so than the real deal.
* {{Deconstruction}}: He manages to be a deconstruction of DarkerAndEdgier. Basically, the Prince's more dickish characterization in ''Warrior Within'' is attributed to the steady manifestation of an evil split personality born from a combination of trauma and infection from the Sands of Time. The Prince's biggest character moment in ''The Two Thrones'' is in overcoming the Dark Prince.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The Dark Prince made a brief appearance in [[spoiler:the Prince's dream that takes place in the canon ending of ''Warrior Within'']].
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: This'd be basically the Prince if he became a sand monster; capable of healing himself with the Sands of Time, and wielding the Sands-infused Daggertail as a weapon.
* EnemyWithin: He becomes this to the Prince when the latter realizes he's trying to help no one but himself.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Dark Prince has no understanding of selflessness and caring for others. It is justified by the fact that he originates from the Prince's darker traits. He does correctly predict some of their enemies' intentions, but his empathy in regards to the Prince is limited to his darker aspects, as the Prince rightly tells him at one point.
-->'''Dark Prince''': Traipsing through a brothel while your city falls apart. That's not what I call heroic.\\
'''The Prince''': I am here for Farah.\\
'''Dark Prince''': You're not here for her, you're here for you! She made you feel guilty and you hope to prove her wrong. Your reasons for being here are hardly selfless.\\
'''The Prince''': You do not know my motives, and you do not know me!\\
'''Dark Prince''': I AM you! And the sooner you realize it, the better.
* EvilSoundsDeep: In his cameo at the end of ''Warrior Within'' he has a very deep, gravelly voice. In his main appearance, he has a much lighter voice, noticeable when he redubs the original line.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He initially starts out as a helpful voice in the Prince's head, seeming to genuinely want to guide him towards the BigBad -- even if that ''does'' mean ignoring innocents in distress; he claims that their suffering will only continue until the BigBad is dead. However, as the Prince learns of his dark side's interest in personal glory and his dismissal of everything unrelated to vengeance and power, the Dark Prince's true colors are revealed.
* FlamingHair: His upright hair resembles black flames.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Dark Prince never misses an opportunity to mock the Prince for all his failures and flaws. However, these criticisms, along with everything else the Prince experiences, [[CharacterDevelopment is what leads to him finally acknowledging his mistakes]] and allows him to defeat the Dark Prince by walking away from him, symbolically and literally turning his back on the selfish person he once was.
* IfIHadANickel: Uses a similar utterance, only with "Sands", after killing Mahasti.
-->'''Dark Prince''': Oh, wait... (absorb the Sands from Mahasti) I do!
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:When the Prince finds his father's body and is grief-stricken, the Dark Prince uses an unimpressed tone to voice his disbelief that the Prince clung to any hope of Shahraman having survived.]]
* MythologyGag: He is an inter-franchise reference to the Shadow Prince from the first ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'' game, right down to darkened physical appearance, and the manner in which they are defeated; [[spoiler:the Prince has to sheathe his weapon when he has to confront his counterpart for the last time. But there's an added twist in ''The Two Thrones'' where the Prince has to turn away and ignore his dark side, as opposed to the original game where he has to merge with his dark side in order to proceed]].
* NeckSnap: His stealth kills results in this with the Daggertail.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Dark Prince gets close to taking control of the Prince's body while seeking a way out of the Well of Ancestors until they stumble upon [[spoiler:King Shahraman's body]]. As the Prince mourns for [[spoiler:his father]], the Dark Prince asks sarcastically if he's going to undo this setback by changing the past again. This makes the Prince realize how wrong it'd be to once again change what's happened, and he decides to take responsibility for his mistakes. This gives him enough willpower to transform back to his normal self without water.
* OffWithHisHead: The other result of his stealth kills. Notably, he doesn't cut off the head, but rather, he rips it off with the Daggertail.
* PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler:In the third game and, by extension, the saga as a whole, since he's technically the final enemy the Prince faces. After Zurvan is defeated, the very last section of the game mainly serves to conclude the trilogy. It involves chasing the Dark Prince down inside a mental realm, which includes areas from the previous two games, and attacking him along the way (though, he doesn't fight back). At the end, when you face him, the only way to beat him is to walk away.]]
* PowerAtAPrice: The price being his corruption; he'd retain his mind, but it would be twisted into cruel and selfish motivations.
* PowerEchoes: As a mental voice, the Dark Prince sounds like a normal man, but when he takes over the Prince's physical body, their voice changes into a deep and echoing filter.
* PowerTattoo: Shining yellow tattoos all over his body.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a lengthy one to the Prince near the end of the game, calling him out on all his personal shortcomings and mistakes.
* ShadowArchetype: The Dark Prince is the embodiment of the Prince's characterization from ''Warrior Within''; the selfishness and ruthlessness the Prince begins to dislike as he rediscovers his more considerate side that's no longer buried because of his fear of being killed by the Dahaka. [[spoiler:The Dark Prince's gotten rid of only when the Prince [[SheatheYourSword stops trying to destroy him and leaves him behind]], putting the dark part of his life behind him for good.]]
-->'''Dark Prince''': I really expected quite a bit more from you. On the Island of Time you were so focused, so dedicated!\\
'''The Prince''': So selfish.\\
'''Dark Prince''': Nonsense! You were simply trying to protect what was yours. [[LackOfEmpathy Where's the harm in that?]]
* SheatheYourSword: [[spoiler:The only way to beat him.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Relies on brute force moreso than the Prince.
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: He's genuinely shocked when the Prince is able to overcome his corruption through willpower alone.]]
* VariableLengthChain: The Daggertail, which can become as long as it needs to be.
* VillainHasAPoint: As uncaring and bitterly sarcastic as the Dark Prince is, he often provides useful advice while the Prince is fighting enemies and chides him for throwing away the advantage of surprise. He also correctly suspects that the burning workshop with people inside is set as a trap for the Prince. His constant berating of the Prince's methods and opinions also help the Prince become a better person in the end by accepting his faults.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When the Prince decides to SheatheYourSword and walk away from him, he desperately screams for the Prince not to abandon him.]]
* VirtueIsWeakness: He views the Prince's humane side as such, being disgusted whenever he helps innocents in distress, or is in general anything ''but'' cruel, selfish, and vengeful.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Water will force him back like any other Sand monster.
* WhipSword: The Daggertail, a whip made of small, serrated blades.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Klompa]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_of_persia_klompa.jpg]]

One of the Vizier's Scythian generals. The Sands turned him into a huge, hulking brute who dwells in the Arena.
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* AnimalMotifs: Has a [[KillerGorilla gorilla-themed]] mask that befits his role as TheBrute.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: He's a veritable giant.
* BaldOfEvil: Has no hair on his scalp.
* {{BFS}}: He fights with an enormous scimitar.
* BodyHorror: He has no jaw. And yes, that thing on his "chin" is his dangling tongue.
* TheBrute: Not much for brains, but he is the biggest and most physically powerful of Zurvan's army. Even before his transformation, he was a short-tempered brute. He and the Scythians under him contributed to the siege of Babylon by breaking through the city's defenses with their formidable strength in a matter of hours.
* ColossusClimb: How you defeat him.
* CoolMask: Klompa wears a mask that resembles the face of a gorilla.
* EyeScream: Both of his eyes have to be stabbed before he can be seriously hurt anyhow.
* FatBastard: As morbidly obese as a giant can be. Even before his transformation, he was an obese and bad-tempered warrior. Good thing that against the Dagger of Time, {{Kevlard}} doesn't apply.
* HairTriggerTemper: He's described to have been quick to anger and attack when questioned. He hasn't become any calmer as an arena monster.
* HumanPincushion: There are seven arrows stuck all over his shoulders.
* StoutStrength: According to the official guide, Klompa was strong enough to knock any opponent to the ground with his halberd as a mortal man.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mahasti]]
[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_of_persia_mahasti.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Lucinda Davis

One of the Vizier's Scythian generals, and the leader of the House of Cat. She is the woman who put the Daggertail in the Prince's arm. She holds some women hostage inside a brothel.
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* AnimalMotifs: She leads the House of Cat, is skilled in stealth and fights in a gracefully acrobatic way.
* BladeLock: Enters this two times against the Prince and one more time against the Dark Prince. The last one has to be won in order to finish the entire fight.
* CoolMask: Wears an [[AnimalMotifs elephant-themed mask]], though it can appear catlike as well.
* DarkActionGirl: Mahasti seems to be one of the Vizier's most skilled generals out of the ones seen in ''The Two Thrones''. She is proficient in the use of two jagged swords and has been able to battle and hold her own against the likes of the Prince. In addition to swords, she is also proficient in wielding the Daggertail, extremely proficient in stealth, and skilled in unarmed combat, seen as she incorporates kicks in her combos.
* DefiantToTheEnd: She coldly taunts the Dark Prince, "You waste your time! The Vizier has already begun to transform the women I have imprisoned! You buy yourself hours at best!" before he pushes her to her death.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Falls to her death after being pushed off a ledge by the Dark Prince. Her death is also the least nasty death among the bosses of the game, and among most bosses in the entire franchise itself, who tend to get eviscerated by the Prince.
* DualWielding: Wields thin, flamberge-esque blades.
* EvilLaugh: She laughs mockingly when the Dark Prince is giving chase, and should the player die, she laughs in all cruelty.
* GetBackHereBoss: After you transform into the Dark Prince mid-battle.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Was the one responsible for giving the Prince the Daggertail by embedding it to his arm, and she ends up being defeated by it.
* InASingleBound: Leaps across an entire courtyard multiple times.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Starts running like hell when the Dark Prince emerges. In-game, this awkwardly translates to making her a GetBackHereBoss.
* PurpleIsPowerful: She is dressed in a purple tunic.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only woman of the Vizier's generals.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Not exactly at Shahdee's level, but still....
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Shahdee from the previous game. She also fights in a similar way to her [[spoiler:and Kaileena]] for part of the battle (including the BladeLock sequences from the previous game). In fact, her in-game model is Shahdee's with a HeadSwap and different textures.
* TheVamp: Her description says that her guile and charm have kept the women she leads safe from harm amongst the harsh conditions of the Scythian territory.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Knives, but yeah.
* WhipSword: She's the original owner of the Daggertail before she embeds it in the Prince's arm and it becomes fused to him due to the Sands.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: While the Sands haven't altered her physical appearance as much as those of the other generals, she has become more unhinged.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Twins (Axe and Sword)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_of_persia_the_twins.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Axe Twin (Left) and Sword Twin (Right)]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Kwasi Songui

Two of the Vizier's Scythian generals who are bloodthirsty twin brothers with great fighting skills, called Axe Brother and Sword Brother. The Axe Brother leads the House of the Scarab and the Sword Brother leads the House of the Spider. The former traps the Prince in a burning workshop before being chased by him through the streets of Babylon. The Prince then faces both brothers in a ring of fire.
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* AnimalMotifs: Scarab for Axe Brother and spider for Sword Brother.
* BarbarianLonghair: While they're never shown without their helmets, long hair can be seen spreading on their backs from the back of the helmets.
* BashBrothers: The brothers are really formidable together because they help each other when their opponent is focusing on one of them. On a meta level, their houses lack the specialties and finesse of the other Scythian houses, but they were able to hold their own because the Twins' kinship formed the only strategic alliance amidst all the Scythian houses.
* ChariotRace: Axe Brother flees the workshop on a chariot, and the Prince gives chase.
* CoDragons: Though it's not particularly shown if they're any closer to the BigBad than his other generals. However, they were the first Scythian houses recruited, the alliance of their houses used as an example of what all the houses would be capable of if united. Also, they're the ones who have been granted control over the entrance to the royal palace. It should also be noted that when the Prince manages to kill [[spoiler:one of the brothers, he's ''exhausted'' and has to be rescued from the other brother by Farah]]. That didn't happen with Klompa or Mahasti.
* CoolHelmet: Axe Brother wears one that resembles a rhinoceros beetle or a scarab, while the one worn by Sword Brother has a spider-themed mask. In the concept artwork, Sword had a cobra-themed helmet.
* CoolSword: Sword Brother. Doubles as a {{BFS}}.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Sword Brother evaporates after being pushed by the Prince to Axe Brother's embrace. Furious, Axe Brother tries to chop the Prince, only for Farah's arrow to kill him.]]
* DualBoss: Probably the only example in the entire series.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The official guide states that the Sands didn't give the Twins unique enhancements on other attributes than their already high-level teamwork. Because of this, they're able to give the Prince a harder fight than Klompa or Mahasti to the point that [[spoiler:he collapses when he manages to kill just one of them and has to be rescued from the other by Farah]].
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Both of them are killed this way; Sword Brother in the second Speed Kill and Axe Brother by Farah's arrow.]]
* InsistentTerminology: According to the game's official strategy guide, the Twins refuse to be regarded as anything other than the "Twins".
* LeftStuckAfterAttack: When the Prince dodges Axe Brother's overhead attack, the axe gets stuck on the ground, rendering the Axe Brother helpless and defenseless.
* RingOfFire: The boss battle against them happens in one, set ablaze by Sword Brother.
* StoneWall: Sword Brother is nearly unstoppable, and only Speed Kills can hurt him.
[[/folder]]

!Introduced in ''The Forgotten Sands''
[[folder:Malik]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_of_persia_malik.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' John Cygan

The Prince's elder brother and his mentor. He tried to use the Sand Army to stop an invading army... and ends up fighting the evil Ratash and the army.
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* {{BFS}}: Wields a finely-ornated two-handed saber with a handguard and a gilded blade.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He is protective of his younger sibling and is considered wise. After hearing his plan to reunite the talisman to seal Ratash, he ''orders'' his brother to not remove his talisman (protecting them from the enemy) before they're close together.
* BigBrotherMentor: Malik acted as the Prince's mentor and was the one who taught the Prince how to hold and fight with a sword.
* BlingOfWar: The components of his armor are mostly gilded and noble-looking, though surprisingly simple.
* CoolHelmet: In battle he wears a mask-like full helm with golden carvings but otherwise surprisingly lacking in terms of crests and decorations.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Ends up getting possessed by Ratash.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: On a second thought, releasing an ancient evil army wasn't a great idea.
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Given that the DS version of ''The Forgotten Sands'' is a continuation of the console/PC game and set after the events of ''The Two Thrones'', it means his death still happened in the new timeline after the CosmicRetcon in ''Warrior Within''.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Ends up killed by Ratash.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Malik was neither seen nor mentioned in any of the games in the original ''Sands of Time'' Trilogy. [[spoiler:Then again, since the Prince had to kill him in order to kill Ratash at the end of the game, it makes sense that the Prince would not be comfortable talking about him]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He wanted to use Solomon's Army to save his town.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Razia]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_of_persia_razia.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SalliSaffioti

A beautiful Djinn's woman and Queen of the Marid, who helps the Prince against Ratash.
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* BecomeYourWeapon: [[spoiler:Merges with the Prince's sword near the end.]]
* TheBusCameBack: She returns in the Nintendo DS version, which is set after the events of the main game.
* CleavageWindow: Her clothes leave her with a diamond-shaped exposed part right on her lower chest, though this is downplayed, as her breasts are fully covered by cups.
* ElementalPowers: Aside from giving the Prince time-related powers, she can [[AnIcePerson allow the Prince to freeze enemies and use ice to navigate certain obstacles]], [[MakingASplash grant power over water]], [[DishingOutDirt allow the Prince to create stone armor]] which {{No Sell}}s all damage for a while, [[PlayingWithFire create a Fire Trail that leaves damaging flames in the wake of the Prince]], and [[BlowYouAway create a Whirlwind that allows the Prince to knock down all enemies around him]].
* MsFanservice: She's rather beautiful and sensual, though she dresses more modestly than Kaileena or Shahdee.
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Acts as a magical guide that grants the Prince powers through out the game.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She actively aids the Prince in his battle against Ratash.
* WaterIsWomanly: The beautiful, sensual Queen of the Marid who has water powers, symbolic of life, which [[ElementalRivalry contrasts against]] Ifrit Lord Ratash, who has power over both fire and sand which are symbolic of death and entropy.
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[[folder:Ratash]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredTatasciore

An evil ifrit who was imprisoned by King Solomon. Released along the Sand Army, he wants to take over the world.
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* BigBad: Of ''The Forgotten Sands''.
* BlackSpeech: In his Ifrit form, he speaks in a demonic voice and untranslated language of sorts. %%If it's actually a case of BilingualBonus please correct me.
* BreathWeapon: [[spoiler:In his ultimate form, he has a laser-like breath attack.]]
* ClimaxBoss: He's fought in the palace halfway through.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He's the Lord of the Ifrit, and never was a nice guy.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Does this to Malik.]]
* DishingOutDirt: Has control over sand, which he uses to make new creatures.
* EvilIsBigger: He's around the same size of Brutes from ''Warrior Within'', but with a sword and a better posture. You can even finish him the same way, forcing him to kneel before climbing his back and delivering a leaping slash at his head.
* GetBackHereBoss: After you win the first phase of the battle and disarm him, you have to navigate the enviroment to chase him and force him back to the main arena where he regains his sword.
* HornedHumanoid: He has noticeably large curved horns, like all self-respecting demons.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Subverted, he uses it to take over Malik.]]
* MookMaker: [[spoiler:His third form.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:First, he turns into a mix of himself and Malik. Later, he turns into a gargantuan behemoth.]]
* OurGeniesAreDifferent: In his case, ''very different'' from Razia. He doesn't even look human!
* PlayingWithFire: His signature attack is a cracking bullet of heat which burst into flames and destroys everything. [[spoiler: Malik later uses this attack when possessed.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Sealed by King Solomon. [[Literature/TheBible That one.]]
* ShouldersOfDoom: Not only he's a TopHeavyGuy, he has massive horn-like growths on his shoulders.
* SinisterScimitar: Overlaps with SerratedBladeOfPain. He Wields a sword proportionate to his size which is both barbed and hooked.
* TimeAbyss: He seems to have a lost notion of time, as he mistakenly identifies the Prince as Solomon when he sees him.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuriLowenthal (''The Sands of Time'', ''The Two Thrones''), Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''Warrior Within'')

* BedlahBabe: She's a Persian princess whose outfit in both games shows off her belly.