History Characters / Innocent

* AmbiguousDisorder: Her lack of empathy and remorse, impulsivity, lack of regard for the lives of others, manipulation and aggression shown throughout the series most likely point to Marie having [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder Antisocial Personality Disorder]].

* BloodBrothers: He once referred to his servant, Andre Legris, as his foster brother.

* PeekABangs: Has one that covers his left eye as he grew up.

* PeekABangs: His hair is tied up aside from a long strand that covers the right side of his face.

* AdaptationalBadass: A minor exemple. The real Sanson was known to be quite clumsy and incompetant according to many historians. (Jacque Delarue, Michel Desmorest, Edvard Radzinski and heck even the Memoirs of the Sanson make plenty of display of his clumsiness and lack of social skills. He did grow out of it, thankfully, albeit quite late in his life). In the manga, Charles-Henri has moderately good social skills (at least he doesn't get his dad's friends drunk just so he can talk to somebody, nor did he stalk a girl, than give her a boring lecture in an attempt to woe her), is a good swordsman and his execution skills are a lot better here and he grew out of his clumsier phase in his mid-twenties. Subverted when it comes to his intelligence. The real Sanson was able to figure out by himself that he should cut the tendons of Damien.

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Charles becomes very much like Jean-Baptiste regarding his desire to uphold family traditions, which occurs right after having his first sexual encounter with [[spoiler: the future Madame du Barry]]. This is also shown when Charles uses the brodequin on his 3-year old son, Henri, for merely breaking the rule of never entering the torture room. Charles, like Jean-Baptiste, also is disappointed whenever his sons exhibit fear and disgust at being an executioner.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Maybe it is all thanks to him being a very minor character with not a lot of story shown, but the real Martin became a HangingJudge on top of his job as executioner(and of course, he arranged the verdict to his benefit) during the Revolution, or mostly was pushed by his wife into this position. Here in the manga he is shown as a devoted son and brother, if a slightly creepy one. Although, look at WouldHurtAChild down below.

* YouGotSpunk: This is his responses after being quickly punched in the face by Marie after [[LecherousLicking licking the back of her hand]]. Of course, he quickly claims to Charles-Henri that he wanted to confirm Marie that Marie possessed the vigor of an executioner.

* BuxomIsBetter: She has a prominent bust that appears to be on the verge of slipping from her bodice. As it turns out, [[spoiler: this was a way to tempt Charles into sleeping with her]].

* BuxomIsBetter: Her large chest is considered her best quality, especially by Louis XV. His dying words to her are, "Adieu, Boobies."

* NiceHat: Zero wears a top hat when they [[spoiler: prepare to leave by the manga's end]].

* CoolHat

[[folder:Nicolas-Gabriel Sanson]]

* {{Meganekko}}: She wore glasses back when she was a nun, and stopped using them as she got older.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Maybe it is all thanks to him being a very minor character with not a lot of story shown, but the real Martin became a Hanging Judge during the Revolution, or mostly was pushed by his wife into this position. Although, look at WouldHurtAChild down below.

* AdaptationalVillainy: A minor exemple. The man presented in the "Mémoires", as well as historical evidence suggest that Jean-Baptiste was a very callous, apathetic and hardened man, who thought it was fine to use the lack of resistence of a convinct as an occasion to give his clumsy son some handiwork practice. His manga adaptation make his true self look like a saint. In Innocent, Jean-Baptiste torture's Charles (although he has several motives to do so, none of them being selfish or sadistic), is emotionally abusive to his oldest son to a point that is disturbing even taking the time period into consideration. Oh, and he has all the vices of his historical counter part.

* SkirtOverSlacks: For Zero's outfit [[spoiler: as they leave for a journey]], they switch out tights for a pair of white flared pants

* BeautyMark: Has one under her right eye.

* [[spoilerTheVamp]]: Marguerite is revealed to be more like this by the end of the "Memoire des Sanson" arc.

* Matriarchy: Corday's "Eden" is this of the enlightened kind, where children to the elderly are allowed to voice their opinions.

* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the music video, Marie, played by Nakashima Mika, is first shown in this pose on a cross covered in blue roses.

* CallingParentsByTheirName: Zero always speak to Marie, their mother, on a FirstNameBasis.

* TheUnapologetic: Marie never once apologizes towards any of the things that she did, in contrast to Charles who, at least in the beginning, ApologizesALot.

* [[spoiler: Bus Crash]]: In the final chapter of Innocent Rouge, Marie is revealed [[spoiler: to have died from an illness offscreen]]. Her [[spoiler: death]] overlaps with [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim]].