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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: So beautiful that her husband wants to show her off (according to some, wearing ''nothing except'' her crown)off.
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*** I'm not sure that's how the kinsman redeemer rules work. Esther's parents died when she was a child and Esther 2 says that Mordechai pretty much adopted his cousin, ensuring that Esther was taken care of.
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* InformedJudaism: Her Jewishness is a major plot point, but she apparently passed as a non-Jew well enough that her own husband was surprised to find out her nationality.
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* ForgotICouldChangeTheRules: {{Averted}}. Once a rule is put into the law of the Medes and Persians, the king can ''not'' change it.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: He refuses to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel before Haman]], even under threat of death.
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* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: One interpretation of her refusal to come to the party wearing her royal crown is that it was actually a request to wear ''only'' her crown.
* HumiliationConga: Haman's comeuppance is a fairly epic one. First he has to give an elaborate parade to publicly honor his hated rival Mordechai, due to a misunderstanding where Haman was expecting himself to be the honoree. Then his fancy dinner with the king and queen turns out to be a trap to expose him as the villain. Then when he tries to plead for his life, the king [[NotWhatItLooksLike assumes he's trying to assault the queen]]. He winds up literally HoistByHisOwnPetard on the gallows he built for Mordechai. You almost feel sorry for the guy. Almost.
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* KneelBeforeZodKneelBeforeZod: He is completely furious that Mordechai, being a Jew, doesn't bow to him.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Haman's attempt at getting a death warrant for Mordechai becomes the occasion for giving Mordechai a long-overdue celebration for saving the king's life, much to Haman's dismay.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Haman's attempt at getting a death warrant for Mordechai becomes the occasion for giving Mordechai a long-overdue celebration for saving the king's life, much to Haman's dismay.
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** This is also ostensibly the reason that, in modern celebrations of Purim, AudienceParticipation responds to his name with boos and jeers and loud noisemakers.
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** WifeHusbandry: Averted, as he should have married her per the Jewish rules but didn't do so.
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** WifeHusbandry: Averted, [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as he should have married her per the Jewish rules but didn't do so.
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* BigBad: His plan to exterminate the Jewish race drives the plot and Esther's decisions.
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** Also tried to exterminate the entire Hebrew race just because one Jew refused to kneel to him.
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** Possibly Justified if you view it as God's way of supplanting Vashti with Esther.
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* {{Pride}}: As shown in the above quote. It backfires badly on him in a meeting where the king says he wants to lavishly reward someone for their services to him. Haman assumes the king is talking about him and suggests the reward of a parade in their honor... only to find to his horror the king is actually talking about his hated rival Mordechai.
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* {{Pride}}: As shown in the above quote. It backfires badly on him in a meeting where the king says he wants to lavishly reward someone for their services to him. Haman assumes the king is talking about him and suggests the reward of a parade in celebrating their honor...heroism... only to find to his horror the king is actually talking about his hated rival Mordechai.
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* {{Pride}}{{Pride}}: As shown in the above quote. It backfires badly on him in a meeting where the king says he wants to lavishly reward someone for their services to him. Haman assumes the king is talking about him and suggests the reward of a parade in their honor... only to find to his horror the king is actually talking about his hated rival Mordechai.
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* ToiletSeatDivorce: Divorces Vashti because she refused to make an appearance (possibly a naked appearance) at his banquet. Possibly Justified if you view it as God's way of supplanting Vashti with Esther.
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* ToiletSeatDivorce: Divorces Vashti because she refused to make an appearance (possibly a naked appearance) at his banquet. banquet.
** Possibly Justified if you view it as God's way of supplanting Vashti with Esther.
** Possibly Justified if you view it as God's way of supplanting Vashti with Esther.
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* ToiletSeatDivorce: Divorces Vashti because she refused to make an appearance (possibly a naked appearance) at his banquet. Possibly Justified if you view it as God's way of supplanting Vashti with Esther.
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Matzo Fever is being attracted to someone because they\'re Jewish. That\'s not the case with Esther, because Ahasuerus didn\'t know she was Jewish.
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* MatzoFever
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* ToiletSeatDivorce: Divorces Vashti because she refused to make an appearance (possibly a naked appearance) at his banquet.
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* WhatHaveIDone: Regrets sending Vashti away, but once a RoyalDecree made in Ancient Persia, there was no taking it back.
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* WhatHaveIDone: Regrets sending Vashti away, but once a RoyalDecree was made in Ancient Persia, there was no taking it back.
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* ARoundForTheHouse: Throws a lavish six-month party for all his subjects (especially the upper classes) in celebration of his victory.
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* ARoundForEveryoneInTheHouse: Throws a lavish six-month party for all his subjects (especially the upper classes) in celebration of his victory.
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** To be fair, that was because he caved to pressure from his advisors. On the other hand, it's not like he ''had'' to make that choice.
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* SlaveToPR: Relies quite heavily on his advisors...which isn't always a good thing.
* WhatHaveIDone: Regrets sending Vashti away, but once a RoyalDecree made in Ancient Persia, there was no taking it back.
* WhatHaveIDone: Regrets sending Vashti away, but once a RoyalDecree made in Ancient Persia, there was no taking it back.
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* TheUnperson: During ancient celebrations of Purim, people would bring stones or slabs of wood with Haman's name on them. When he is mentioned the audience would use chisels and hammers to deface his name.
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*DrunkWithPower: He's all to eager to throw his weight around.
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*TheUnperson: During ancient celebrations of Purim, people would bring stones or slabs of wood with Haman's name on them. When he is mentioned the audience would use chisels and hammers to deface his name.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the very same meeting when he tries to ask for Mordechai's death, he ends up accidentally telling the king to lavishly reward him and give him a parade in his honor. Haman ends up traveling through the city singing of Mordechai's heroism through his teeth.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the very same meeting when he tries to ask for Mordechai's death, he ends up accidentally telling the king to lavishly reward him and give him a parade in his honor. Haman ends up traveling through the city singing of Mordechai's heroism through his gritted teeth.
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* DeathByIrony / LaserGuidedKarma / HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hanged on his own gallows that were built for Mordechai.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: At the very same meeting when he tries to ask for Mordechai's death, he ends up accidentally telling the king to lavishly reward him and give him a parade in his honor. Haman ends up traveling through the city singing of Mordechai's heroism through his teeth.
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* MoralityPet: Becomes this to the king.Xerxes.
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* MoralityPet: Becomes this to the king.
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She\'s never seen using magic.
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* VainSorceress: She is viewed as vain and conceited for not arriving
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Haman had already ordered the death of the Jews, in a month or so. Mordechai\'s refusal simply resulted in him trying to get him killed EARLY.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Vashti refusing to appear before his guests results in him kicking her out of the place and issuing an edict declaring that the father is the head of the family and the one whose language should be learned by his children.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Either Xerxes I or Artaxerxes II.
* IdiotBall: Because he trusts Haman so much, he doesn't even bother to check which race he's being asked to wipe out. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Maybe genocide was common for him]]?
* DisproportionateRetribution: Vashti refusing to appear before his guests results in him kicking her out of the place and issuing an edict declaring that the father is the head of the family and the one whose language should be learned by his children.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Either Xerxes I or Artaxerxes II.
* IdiotBall: Because he trusts Haman so much, he doesn't even bother to check which race he's being asked to wipe out. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Maybe genocide was common for him]]?
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* TimeSkip: Esther's crowning was delayed by 4 years possibly because Xerxes was [[ThreeHundred fighting those pesky Greeks]].
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* TimeSkip: Esther's crowning was delayed by 4 years possibly because Xerxes was [[ThreeHundred [[Film/ThreeHundred fighting those pesky Greeks]].
* DudeWheresMyReward: It takes several years for him to get rewarded for saving the king's life.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Tried to institute government sanctioned genocide have Mordechai hanged just because one man he refused to bow to him.
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[[WMG: Queen Vashti]]
->"And the king ordered his wife Vashti to appear before his guests wearing her crown, that he might display her beauty before them, but she came not."
* BeautyIsBad: Viewed by some as defiant and haughty
* {{Foil}}: To Esther
* MsFanservice: Averted; her husband asked her to come to his banquet to show her off, but she refused
* PutOnABus
* VainSorceress: She is viewed as vain and conceited for not arriving
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After she is banished from the empire, she is never mentioned again, and it is not known what happened to her.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: So beautiful that her husband wants to show her off (according to some, wearing ''nothing except'' her crown)
[[WMG: Queen Esther]]
->''"I will go to the king, even if it is forbidden. And if I perish, I perish''"
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* {{Guile Hero}}ine: Used her wits and good looks to save the Jews from Haman.
* HotConsort
* HelloNurse: And how.
* MatzoFever
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Saves her people through her husband, the king.
* PluckyGirl
* RagsToRiches
** RagsToRoyalty
* SecondLove: To Ahasuerus/Xerxes, the king
* SelfMadeMan: Manages to be quite successful even with a lack of miracles backing her up. Often used to drive home the point "God only helps when needed"
* StellarName: Her name means "star".
* TimeSkip: Esther's crowning was delayed by 4 years possibly because Xerxes was [[ThreeHundred fighting those pesky Greeks]].
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She was chosen as queen because she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in the Persian Empire. (Which did, in fact, stretch across much of the known world at that time.)
* YamatoNadeshiko
[[WMG: Mordechai]]
->"''See how the king rewards a man he wishes to honor!"''
* OldMaster: To Esther.
* ParentalSubstitute: He took care of Esther after her parents died when she was a little girl
** WifeHusbandry: Averted, as he should have married her per the Jewish rules but didn't do so.
[[WMG: Haman]]
->''"Who else would the king honor aside from me?"''
* DeathByIrony / LaserGuidedKarma / HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hanged on his own gallows that were built for Mordechai.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Tried to institute government sanctioned genocide just because one man refused to bow to him.
* EvilChancellor
* KneelBeforeZod
* OhCrap: Upon realizing that his queen (Esther) is one of the very people he plans to have massacred, right when she outs him to the king.
* {{Pride}}
* SmugSnake
* VillainousBreakdown: Cried to his wife when he found out Mordechai was to be honored for uncovering a conspiracy years before.
->"And the king ordered his wife Vashti to appear before his guests wearing her crown, that he might display her beauty before them, but she came not."
* BeautyIsBad: Viewed by some as defiant and haughty
* {{Foil}}: To Esther
* MsFanservice: Averted; her husband asked her to come to his banquet to show her off, but she refused
* PutOnABus
* VainSorceress: She is viewed as vain and conceited for not arriving
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After she is banished from the empire, she is never mentioned again, and it is not known what happened to her.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: So beautiful that her husband wants to show her off (according to some, wearing ''nothing except'' her crown)
[[WMG: Queen Esther]]
->''"I will go to the king, even if it is forbidden. And if I perish, I perish''"
* BeautyEqualsGoodness
* {{Guile Hero}}ine: Used her wits and good looks to save the Jews from Haman.
* HotConsort
* HelloNurse: And how.
* MatzoFever
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Saves her people through her husband, the king.
* PluckyGirl
* RagsToRiches
** RagsToRoyalty
* SecondLove: To Ahasuerus/Xerxes, the king
* SelfMadeMan: Manages to be quite successful even with a lack of miracles backing her up. Often used to drive home the point "God only helps when needed"
* StellarName: Her name means "star".
* TimeSkip: Esther's crowning was delayed by 4 years possibly because Xerxes was [[ThreeHundred fighting those pesky Greeks]].
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She was chosen as queen because she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in the Persian Empire. (Which did, in fact, stretch across much of the known world at that time.)
* YamatoNadeshiko
[[WMG: Mordechai]]
->"''See how the king rewards a man he wishes to honor!"''
* OldMaster: To Esther.
* ParentalSubstitute: He took care of Esther after her parents died when she was a little girl
** WifeHusbandry: Averted, as he should have married her per the Jewish rules but didn't do so.
[[WMG: Haman]]
->''"Who else would the king honor aside from me?"''
* DeathByIrony / LaserGuidedKarma / HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hanged on his own gallows that were built for Mordechai.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Tried to institute government sanctioned genocide just because one man refused to bow to him.
* EvilChancellor
* KneelBeforeZod
* OhCrap: Upon realizing that his queen (Esther) is one of the very people he plans to have massacred, right when she outs him to the king.
* {{Pride}}
* SmugSnake
* VillainousBreakdown: Cried to his wife when he found out Mordechai was to be honored for uncovering a conspiracy years before.
