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** The TV series uses the term \\\"Chosen Men\\\" a lot more than the novels, where it\\\'s just the equivalent of \\\"Lance Corporal\\\" instead of a term for all Rifles.
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington)gives an \\\'\\\'epic\\\'\\\' one to Sir Henry Simmerson in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\':
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley:\\\'\\\'\\\' He says you lost the King\\\'s colours.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[NeverMyFault The fault was not mine, sir]]. Major Lennox must answer.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'[at the top of his voice]\\\'\\\' : Major Lennox answered with his \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'life\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', Sir! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour. \\\'\\\'[calmer]\\\'\\\' You lost the colours of the King of England. You disgraced us, Sir. You \\\'\\\'\\\'shamed\\\'\\\'\\\' us, Sir! You will answer. \\\'\\\'[coldly]\\\'\\\' The South Essex stood down in name. If I wipe the name, I may wipe the shame. I am making a battalion of detachments. You will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight. So I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': ...to be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain Gibbons?
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': To be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'\\\', sir.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir... and I have friends at court]].
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ShutUpHannibal The man who loses the King\\\'s Colours....loses the King\\\'s friendship.]]
* ShamefulStrip
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Sharpe\\\'s reaction to Jane Gibbons
* ShutUpHannibal: Specifically
** Wellesley still reigns supreme with these, though. Before his yelling at Simmerson, he has this exchange, which completely breaks the idiotic Colonel:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': Major Hogan has written a report which differs substantially from your account, Sir Henry.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Sir Henry\\\'\\\'\\\': Major Hogan is an engineer, sir.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Wellington\\\'\\\'\\\': Major Hogan\\\'s coat buttons up tightly over [[TheChessmaster a number of other duties, Sir Henry.]] (*Sir Henry has an OhCrap moment when he realizes that Wellington is going to chew him out instead of letting it drop). Major Hogan\\\'s report details a number of \\\'\\\'losses\\\'\\\', on your part. He says that you first lost your head, and that instead of destroying the bridge you marched over it. He then says that you lost your wits, and deployed skirmishing formations against cavalry, which resulted in the loss of those men. He says that you then lost your sense of honour and destroyed the bridge, cutting off a rescue party led by Lieutenant Sharpe. Major Hogan leaves the worst to the last: He says you lost the King\\\'s Colour!
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
* SecretPath
* SecretUndergroundPassage
* SeparatedByAWall
* ShelteredAristocrat
* ShootTheDog: Literally in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington)gives an \\\'\\\'epic\\\'\\\' one to Sir Henry Simmerson in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\':
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley:\\\'\\\'\\\' He says you lost the King\\\'s colours.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[NeverMyFault The fault was not mine, sir]]. Major Lennox must answer.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'[at the top of his voice]\\\'\\\' : Major Lennox answered with his \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'life\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', Sir! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour. \\\'\\\'[calmer]\\\'\\\' You lost the colours of the King of England. You disgraced us, Sir. You \\\'\\\'\\\'shamed\\\'\\\'\\\' us, Sir! You will answer. \\\'\\\'[coldly]\\\'\\\' The South Essex stood down in name. If I wipe the name, I may wipe the shame. I am making a battalion of detachments. You will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight. So I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': ...to be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain Gibbons?
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': To be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'\\\', sir.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir... and I have friends at court]].
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ShutUpHannibal The man who loses the King\\\'s Colours....loses the King\\\'s friendship.]]
* ShamefulStrip
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Sharpe\\\'s reaction to Jane Gibbons
* ShutUpHannibal: Specifically
** Wellesley still reigns supreme with these, though. Before his yelling at Simmerson, he has this exchange, which completely breaks the idiotic Colonel:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': Major Hogan has written a report which differs substantially from your account, Sir Henry.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Sir Henry\\\'\\\'\\\': Major Hogan is an engineer, sir.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Wellington\\\'\\\'\\\': Major Hogan\\\'s coat buttons up tightly over [[TheChessmaster a number of other duties, Sir Henry.]] (*Sir Henry has an OhCrap moment when he realizes that Wellington is going to chew him out instead of letting it drop). Major Hogan\\\'s report details a number of \\\'\\\'losses\\\'\\\', on your part. He says that you first lost your head, and that instead of destroying the bridge you marched over it. He then says that you lost your wits, and deployed skirmishing formations against cavalry, which resulted in the loss of those men. He says that you then lost your sense of honour and destroyed the bridge, cutting off a rescue party led by Lieutenant Sharpe. Major Hogan leaves the worst to the last: He says you lost the King\\\'s Colour!
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
* SecretPath
* SecretUndergroundPassage
* SeparatedByAWall
* ShelteredAristocrat
* ShootTheDog: Literally in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'
Changed line(s) 9 from:
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** The TV series uses the term \
to:
** The TV series uses the term \\\"Chosen Men\\\" a lot more than the novels, where it\\\'s just the equivalent of \\\"Lance Corporal\\\" instead of a term for all Rifles.
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington)gives an \\\'\\\'epic\\\'\\\' one to Sir Henry Simmerson in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\':
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley:\\\'\\\'\\\' He says you lost the King\\\'s colours.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[NeverMyFault The fault was not mine, sir]]. Major Lennox must answer.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'[at the top of his voice]\\\'\\\' : Major Lennox answered with his \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'life\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', Sir! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour. \\\'\\\'[calmer]\\\'\\\' You lost the colours of the King of England. You disgraced us, Sir. You \\\'\\\'\\\'shamed\\\'\\\'\\\' us, Sir! You will answer. \\\'\\\'[coldly]\\\'\\\' The South Essex stood down in name. If I wipe the name, I may wipe the shame. I am making a battalion of detachments. You will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight. So I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': ...to be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain Gibbons?
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': To be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'\\\', sir.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir... and I have friends at court]].
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ShutUpHannibal The man who loses the King\\\'s Colours....loses the King\\\'s friendship.]]
* ShamefulStrip
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Sharpe\\\'s reaction to Jane Gibbons
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
* SecretPath
* SecretUndergroundPassage
* SeparatedByAWall
* ShelteredAristocrat
* ShootTheDog: Literally in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington)gives an \\\'\\\'epic\\\'\\\' one to Sir Henry Simmerson in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\':
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley:\\\'\\\'\\\' He says you lost the King\\\'s colours.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[NeverMyFault The fault was not mine, sir]]. Major Lennox must answer.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'[at the top of his voice]\\\'\\\' : Major Lennox answered with his \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'life\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', Sir! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour. \\\'\\\'[calmer]\\\'\\\' You lost the colours of the King of England. You disgraced us, Sir. You \\\'\\\'\\\'shamed\\\'\\\'\\\' us, Sir! You will answer. \\\'\\\'[coldly]\\\'\\\' The South Essex stood down in name. If I wipe the name, I may wipe the shame. I am making a battalion of detachments. You will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight. So I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': ...to be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain Gibbons?
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': To be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'\\\', sir.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir... and I have friends at court]].
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ShutUpHannibal The man who loses the King\\\'s Colours....loses the King\\\'s friendship.]]
* ShamefulStrip
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Sharpe\\\'s reaction to Jane Gibbons
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
* SecretPath
* SecretUndergroundPassage
* SeparatedByAWall
* ShelteredAristocrat
* ShootTheDog: Literally in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'
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** The TV series uses the term \
to:
** The TV series uses the term \\\"Chosen Men\\\" a lot more than the novels, where it\\\'s just the equivalent of \\\"Lance Corporal\\\" instead of a term for all Rifles.
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington)gives an \\\'\\\'epic\\\'\\\' one to Sir Henry Simmerson in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\':
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley:\\\'\\\'\\\' He says you lost the King\\\'s colours.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[NeverMyFault The fault was not mine, sir]]. Major Lennox must answer.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'[at the top of his voice]\\\'\\\' : Major Lennox answered with his \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'life\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', Sir! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour. \\\'\\\'[calmer]\\\'\\\' You lost the colours of the King of England. You disgraced us, Sir. You \\\'\\\'\\\'shamed\\\'\\\'\\\' us, Sir! You will answer. \\\'\\\'[coldly]\\\'\\\' The South Essex stood down in name. If I wipe the name, I may wipe the shame. I am making a battalion of detachments. You will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight. So I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': ...to be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain Gibbons?
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': To be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'\\\', sir.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir... and I have friends at court]].
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ShutUpHannibal The man who loses the King\\\'s Colours....loses the King\\\'s friendship.]]
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the later Duke of Wellington)gives an \\\'\\\'epic\\\'\\\' one to Sir Henry Simmerson in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\':
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley:\\\'\\\'\\\' He says you lost the King\\\'s colours.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[NeverMyFault The fault was not mine, sir]]. Major Lennox must answer.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\' \\\'\\\'[at the top of his voice]\\\'\\\' : Major Lennox answered with his \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'life\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', Sir! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour. \\\'\\\'[calmer]\\\'\\\' You lost the colours of the King of England. You disgraced us, Sir. You \\\'\\\'\\\'shamed\\\'\\\'\\\' us, Sir! You will answer. \\\'\\\'[coldly]\\\'\\\' The South Essex stood down in name. If I wipe the name, I may wipe the shame. I am making a battalion of detachments. You will fetch and carry. The Light Company put up a fight. So I will let it stand under the command of a new captain.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': ...to be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain Gibbons?
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': To be commanded by the newly gazetted Captain \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'\\\', sir.
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Simmerson\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir... and I have friends at court]].
--> \\\'\\\'\\\'Wellesley\\\'\\\'\\\': [[ShutUpHannibal The man who loses the King\\\'s Colours....loses the King\\\'s friendship.]]
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
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** The TV series uses the term \\\"Chosen Men\\\" a lot more than the novels, where it\\\'s just the equivalent of \\\"Lance Corporal\\\" instead of a term for all Rifles.
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Characters in early episodes like Captain Leroy and Rifleman Tongue disappear for no reason. In Tongue\\\'s case, his namesake died in the book of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\' though he didn\\\'t appear in its episode, while Leroy eventually becomes a Colonel. Gavin O\\\'Herlihy, who played Captain Leroy, [[HilariousInHindsight actually was Chuck Cunningham.]]
** Leroy is actually one of many characters who only appears in one episode of the series despite being in several books. The various intelligence masters (Hogan, Nairn, Munro) are straighter examples, as is Rifleman Cooper, who actually disappears mid-season. (He is reported injured in his last episode but plays an active role throughout the rest of the story so it doesn\\\'t seem to have been serious.)
* DirtyOldMan: Simmerson is particularly lecherous towards Lass in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Although you perhaps wouldn\\\'t expect it to work, Hagman\\\'s folk rendition of the Rifles\\\' marching song \\\'\\\'Over the Hills and Far Away\\\'\\\' (with altered lyrics to fit the particular episode\\\'s events) often comes close to CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* FinishHim: Twice in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'; first Sharpe willing Lord Keily to finish off a french hussar he\\\'s engaging in single combat and second when Keily\\\'s turncoat lover tells him to kill Sharpe.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Unreciprocated in the case of Lass with Sharpe, but reciprocated with Lucille and Sharpe.
* FriendOrFoe: Often the last line of the poor git on watch
* IronicEcho: The use of \\\"Chosen Men\\\" as a mark of honor becomes a sort of long-running one. Sharpe mocks the term in the first movie by saying \\\"Chosen men, eh? Well, I didn\\\'t choose ya.\\\" By the end of the movie it\\\'s clear he would indeed choose each and every one of them, so they wear the name with pride even if, as the ArtisticLicense entry notes, it was really just a rank.
* IWantMyMommy: Type 2. There is a truly heartbreaking scene in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' when young Rifleman Perkins is stabbed in the stomach and alternately begs for his mother and apologises to Sergeant Harper (not that he did anything wrong - he was bayoneted by a traitor in the ranks after heroically clearing a path for them through the enemy). Harper\\\'s there, at least, holding him as he dies, and tells him \\\"Your mother\\\'s here, lad. Mothers never leave you!\\\"
** Which in turn leads to a HeroicBSOD on the part of Harper who hunts said traitor and his faction through the town (in which the battle is still being fought), wipes the mooks out with a single shot and proceeds to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath stab the traitor in the stomach and kidneys with his own bayonet, kick him to the ground and leave him to slowly die in agony]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, especially with the Nock volley gun.
* ThePornomancer: Richard Sharpe to an almost ridiculous degree in the series. Women, usually some BrokenBird or neglected officer\\\'s wife/mistress will (often literally) throw themselves at Sharpe, although being a good man he will frequently refuse rather than take advantage of them. Sharpe\\\'s GirlOfTheWeek earned the FanNickname of \\\'Sharpe\\\'s Totty\\\'. Among many miraculous effects of Sharpe\\\'s power of love (even unconsumated) include curing a convent girl of trauma-induced mutism
* PrecisionFStrike: Sharpe gets an amusing one in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Waterloo\\\'\\\'. When the Prince of Orange attempts to have Sharpe arrested for desertion[[note]]The Prince of Orange got an entire regiment killed due to his terrible leadership and GloryHound tendencies, and Sharpe wanted no more of it[[/note]], Sharpe gives him the [[FlippingTheBird Reverse Peace Sign]] and says, \\\"F*** you, ya orange \\\'\\\'twat\\\'\\\'\\\", with the \\\"Fuck\\\" cut off by cannon fire.
* RatedMForManly: SeanBean as the title character
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character or situation fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* CharacterTitle
* TheCoatsAreOff
* CoupDeGrace
* CuteMute: \\\'Lass\\\' in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\', played by Emily Mortimer.
* DeathFakedForYou: In \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'
* DeclarationOfProtection: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: The Chosen Men in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Wellington\\\'s relatives in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'.
* DoggedNiceGuy: [[NiceGuy Frederickson]] to Lucille.
* DressingAsTheEnemy
* DrillSergeantNasty: Sergeant Lynch from \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\'.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lord Kiely in the \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\' novel.
* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Sharpe\\\'s \\\'You don\\\'t see a battle\\\' speech.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Keily\\\'s death
* FightMagnet
* FirstNameBasis: In \\\'\\\'Tiger\\\'\\\', he tells the lieutenant that two deserters would be on this.
* {{Flynning}}
* ForgingScene: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Sword\\\'\\\'.
* GeneralFailure: Yep, you guessed it, Sharpe has his share of these too.
* GladiatorGames: El Matarife\\\'s chain fights.
* GloryHound: \\\'Silly Billy\\\', The Prince of Orange springs to mind
* GotVolunteered
* GunpointBanter
* GraveMarkingScene
* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** Lord Pumphrey \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' this trope.
* HeroicBSOD
* HonorBeforeReason:
** Pretty much half the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Honour\\\'\\\'.
** And all of the plot of \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Eagle\\\'\\\'.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although more jerk and less gold, the book version qualifies. More prominent in the TV version.
--> So much sin in him, thought Colonel McCandlass, and so much good.
* LadyMacbeth: Jane Gibbons for Lord Rossendale
* TheNeidermeyer: You could say the Sharpe series has it\\\'s fair share.
* PowderTrail: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* RealMenWearPink
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** The TV series uses the term \\\"Chosen Men\\\" a lot more than the novels, where it\\\'s just the equivalent of \\\"Lance Corporal\\\" instead of a term for all Rifles.
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
* BawdySong: Permanently inebriated General Runcorn (played by Ian McNeice) sings a stunner in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'-
--> Runcorn: So wrap your legs round me and dig in with your heels, \\\'cos the closer we get, the better it feels!
** And Hagman singing a soft little ditty \\\'I watched a maid milk a bull\\\'
* BootCampEpisode: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Regiment\\\'\\\', where Sharpe and Harper have to infiltrate a corrupt recruitment scheme.
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: The King of Spain\\\'s Irish Companions of Honour in \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Battle\\\'\\\'. Subverted since they\\\'re utterly useless... before Sharpe starts training them.
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These entries lack the context to explain how the character fits the trope inside of the story they appear in.
* FauxAffablyEvil: John Lavisser.
* BarrierBustingBlow
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot
* BleedEmAndWeep: \\\'\\\'Sharpe\\\'s Gold\\\'\\\'
* BigHeroicRun
* CampFollower: Ubiquitous
