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* BadassBookworm
* CulturedBadass

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%% * BadassBookworm
%% * CulturedBadass



* HeroicSpirit: Shahrazad's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.

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%% * HeroicSpirit: Shahrazad's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.



* HotConsort
* InconsistentSpelling: The most common spelling of her name in English, "Scheherazade", is derived from German.
* IronLady: With due allowances for limitations by cultural context Scheherazade would qualify quite well for this.
* JumpedAtTheCall: So she could pull off her plan to stave off the sultan's madness.

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%% * HotConsort
* InconsistentSpelling: The most common spelling of her name in English, "Scheherazade", is derived from German.
%% * IronLady: With due allowances for limitations by cultural context Scheherazade would qualify quite well for this.
%% * JumpedAtTheCall: So she could pull off her plan to stave off the sultan's madness.



* OffWithHisHead: Averted.
* PluckyGirl
* ScheherezadeGambit: TropeNamer

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* OffWithHisHead: Averted.
%% * PluckyGirl
%% * ScheherezadeGambit: TropeNamer



* TheStoryteller: Considering her plan wouldn't have worked if she ''wasn't'' a good storyteller...
* TalkingInBed: Or storytelling in bed, as the case may be.

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%% * TheStoryteller: Considering her plan wouldn't have worked if she ''wasn't'' a good storyteller...
%% * TalkingInBed: Or storytelling in bed, as the case may be.



* TheChainsOfCommanding: Which is why he needs the recreation of having adventures.
* TheEmperor

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%% * TheChainsOfCommanding: Which is why he needs the recreation of having adventures.
%% * TheEmperor



* HistoricalHeroUpgrade
* {{Jerkass}}[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It can vary from story to story.
* KingIncognito: Goes around as this.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething

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%% * HistoricalHeroUpgrade
%% * {{Jerkass}}[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: It can vary from story to story.
%% * KingIncognito: Goes around as this.
%% * ReasonableAuthorityFigure
%% * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething



* DoomMagnet: Sindbad is unlucky, very unlucky.
* FatherNeptune
* GuileHero
* IntrepidMerchant

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%% * DoomMagnet: Sindbad is unlucky, very unlucky.
%% * FatherNeptune
%% * GuileHero
%% * IntrepidMerchant



* NonIdleRich
* WalkingTheEarth
* SelfMadeMan
* TheStoryteller
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sinbad with one D. Sindbad with two Ds is closer to the Arabic, but the unintentional pun with "sin" and "bad" probably helped make the other spelling better known.

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%% * NonIdleRich
%% * WalkingTheEarth
%% * SelfMadeMan
%% * TheStoryteller
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sinbad with one D. Sindbad with two Ds is closer to the Arabic, but the unintentional pun with "sin" and "bad" probably helped make the other spelling better known.
TheStoryteller

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* InconsistentSpelling: The most common spelling of her name in English, "Scheherazade", is derived from German.



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The most common spelling of her name in English, "Scheherazade", is derived from German.
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!!Shahryar
The sultan of the world of the framing device. A ruthless, crazed man who has put up the tradition of wedding a young bride and then executing her following their wedding night.
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* TheBluebeard: A classic example. Every day he marries another woman, every night he sleeps with her, and the following day she's killed. The pattern went on for years until Shahrazad came into the picture.
* KarmaHoudini: It's good for the rest of the kingdom that he's pacified, but slaying hundreds of innocent women for the injustices one did to him is something he never gets reprimanded for. However, considering the kind of man he was, it's a wonder who would even ''try'' to directly call him out.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The most common spelling of her name in English, "Scheherazade", is derived from German.



* TheStoryteller

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* TheStorytellerTheStoryteller
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sinbad with one D. Sindbad with two Ds is closer to the Arabic, but the unintentional pun with "sin" and "bad" probably helped make the other spelling better known.
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!!Scheherazade

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!!Scheherazade!!Shahrazad



* HeroicSpirit: Scheherazade's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.

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* HeroicSpirit: Scheherazade's Shahrazad's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.
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* [[GuileHero Guile Heroine]]: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resorting to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).
* HappilyMarried: After the 1,001 nights are over, she becomes this to the ''formerly'' mad sultan, because after her stories he's genuinely in love with her. Apparently the mad sultan can be quite a good husband when he's not threatening to execute every newlywed for fear of her potentially cheating on him. It may also have helped that he's a friggin' ''sultan'', so she gets quite a bit of power and wealth at the [[SarcasmMode small price]] of preventing her own execution for over three years first.

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* [[GuileHero Guile Heroine]]: GuileHero: She converts a tyrant into a benevolent ruler without resorting to violence (although it does take 1,001 nights, but he's still prevented from tyrannical behavior in the interim).
* HappilyMarried: After the 1,001 nights are over, she becomes this to the ''formerly'' mad sultan, because after her stories he's genuinely in love with her. Apparently the mad sultan can be quite a good husband when he's not threatening to execute every newlywed for fear of her potentially cheating on him. It may also have helped that he's a friggin' ''sultan'', so she gets quite a bit of power and wealth at the [[SarcasmMode small price]] "small price" of preventing her own execution for over three years first.



* HeroicSpirit: Shehererzade's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.
* HoldingTheFloor: Probably the UrExample; all 1,001 stories were made up by her, all to stall the sultan from carrying out her execution.

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* HeroicSpirit: Shehererzade's Scheherazade's audacity and sheer nerve for 1001 nights makes her this.
* HoldingTheFloor: Probably the UrExample; all 1,001 stories were made up by her, all to stall the sultan from carrying out her execution.



* [[GentlemanAndAScholar Lady and a Scholar]]: She was as well read as any scholar.

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* [[GentlemanAndAScholar Lady and a Scholar]]: GentlemanAndAScholar: She was as well read as any scholar.



* [[OffWithHisHead Off With Her Head]]: Averted.

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* [[OffWithHisHead Off With Her Head]]: OffWithHisHead: Averted.






* [[WalkingTheEarth Sailing The Ocean]]

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* [[WalkingTheEarth Sailing The Ocean]] WalkingTheEarth
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* TalkingInBed: Storytelling In Bed

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* TalkingInBed: Storytelling In Bed
Or storytelling in bed, as the case may be.
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* {{Determinator}}: She tells her husband stories for almost three years, in which time she gives birth to *three children*. Consider that she has to make up these stories on the fly, even on the nights she's gone through hours of labor. And she still did it.

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* {{Determinator}}: She tells her husband stories for almost three years, in which time she gives birth to *three children*.''three children''. Consider that she has to make up these stories on the fly, even on the nights she's gone through hours of labor. And she still did it.

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