History Characters / ToKillAMockingbird

* BigDamnHeroes: At the end of the book.

* CreepyGood: He's a very scary (intimidating may be a more apt description) person, but he's far from evil.

* TheHermit: In his adolescence, he was arrested by the police for being loud and rowdy with his friends and he was spared prison by his father, who instead keeps him on a tight leash and keeps him at home. While his father has passed away, Boo still lives a life of quiet isolation and keeps to himself. [[spoiler:After saving Scout and her brother, the Sheriff correctly assumes that Boo would be miserable with the mass attention from the public for saving the kids and he urges Atticus to lie about the source of Bob Ewell's death.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: A slightly downplayed example. Atticus is normally very polite, articulate, and mild-mannered, and avoids mean-spirited insults and gossip even towards the more unsavory parts of Maycomb County. However, one point he's talking about Bob Ewell and says "whenever a white man does that (cheats) to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is ''trash''.” It's extremely notable and even Scout has a beat.

-->'''Scout''': Atticus, do you defend "niggers"?
-->'''Atticus''': ''[startled by Scout's use of profanity]'' Don't say "nigger", Scout.

* TheHermit: In his adolescence, he was arrested by the police for being loud and rowdy with his friends and he was spared prison by his father, who instead keeps him on a tight leash and keeps him at home. While his father has passed away, Boo still lives a life of quiet isolation and keeps to himself. [[spoiler: After saving Scout and her brother, the Sheriff correctly assumes that Boo would be miserable with the mass attention from the public for saving the kids and he urges Atticus to lie about the source of Bob Ewell's death.]]

* ShrinkingViolet: While forced into reclusion by his father (or likely because of this), Boo is still very quiet and unsure around others. {{Discussed}} by Sheriff Tate, that Boo would likely find the mass attention of others overwhelming.

!! The Ewells

* FatalFlaw: Wrath. His extreme rage at ''anything'' that slights him drives him to force his daughter to testify against a black man, which damages his reputation even further. His rage at ''that'' drives him to continuously pick more fights [[spoiler: until he tries to kill Atticus' children]].

!! Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose

* SouthernGentleman: A rare heroic example -- a lawyer from a well-heeled Southern family who is well-spoken and always [[PolitenessJudo impeccably polite]]. He even wears the white suits so commonly associated with this trope in the movie. Unfortunately, ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' reveals that he does have the racist views common to this trope -- they were just more acceptable in the '30s than the '60s. However, this is somewhat ambiguous given that book appears to take place in an AlternateContinuity, being an early draft of ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' that Harper Lee considerably changed before it became the finished product.

* SouthernGentleman: A rare heroic example -- a lawyer from a well-heeled Southern family who is well-spoken and always [[PolitenessJudo impeccably polite]]. Unfortunately, ''Literature/GoSetAWatchman'' reveals that he does have the racist views common to this trope -- they were just more acceptable in the '30s than the '60s. However, this is somewhat ambiguous given that book appears to take place in an AlternateContinuity, being an early draft of ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' that Harper Lee considerably changed before it became the finished product.