History Characters / Innocent

* [[spoiler:ActionMom]]: Marie later becomes this [[spoiler: after having Zero, her child.]]

* [[spoiler: BadassAndBaby]]: Marie becomes this in one chapter; [[spoiler: fighting off her brothers with one hand, while holding Zero in the other]].

* [[spoiler: BodybagTrick]]: [[spoiler: Chapter 87 of Rouge reveals that the real Marie-Joseph was put in the casket [[ReplacedWithReplica while the wax replica was placed on the guillotine]]. Afterwards, it was explained that the fake casket was buried while Marie escaped in a carriage, and left for England.]]
* [[spoiler: BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting]]: [[spoiler: From how Marie and Zero interact with each other, it can be assumed that, unlike Charles', Marie raised Zero without repeating the abusive parenting style that she grew up under]].

* [[spoiler: HealthyInHeaven]]: [[spoiler: Despite having admitted to Charles that she died of an illness, Marie's spirit still appears as beautiful and healthy as when she was alive]].

* [[spoiler: InspirationalMartyr]]: [[spoiler: Marie becomes one following her "death" for the people of France. So much so that Marie-Joseph Sanson costumes are popular, and the ideas that Marie represented leads a man to shoot Robespierre]].

* [[spoiler: JacobMarleyApparel]]: [[spoiler: While Marie's spirit isn't shown with the clothes that she died in, she is shown to wear the red, black ladder jacket that she wore as the Prevote de L'Hotel when she was alive]].

* [[spoiler: ManBitesMan]]: While dueling on horses with [[spoiler: Fersen]] while trying to capture the Royal Family during the Flight to Varennes, Marie and [[spoiler: Fersen]] cross swords with each other, and Fersen appears to have the upper hand due to his claymore. Marie then [[spoiler: bites through Fersen's arm hard enough to bleed]] to have him lower his guard.

* MaritalRapeLicense: [[spoiler: Raped her {{Gonk}} husband to conceive a child whom she named Zèro]]. [[spoiler: Because she deliberately kept the entirety of her pregnancy a secret,]] no one batted a single eye at the whole affair and Marie herself had no further qualms about it. [[spoiler: When the husband himself appears again before Marie's execution he bears no ill will towards his wife. Instead, he states his love and gratitude towards his "Little Marie" and is adamant in saving her life with the help of Charles and Andre]].

* [[spoiler: ParentalAbandonment]]: [[spoiler: Marie leaves Zero, along with the rest of her family behind, because it was the only way to escape Robespierre]].

* [[spoiler: PutOnABus]]: Zig-zagged. At first, [[spoiler: it seemed that Marie escaped the England after her faked execution]], only for her [[spoiler: to make an appearance on the final page, seemingly healed.]] It then gets confirmed in chapter 88 that [[spoiler: the Marie that the audience saw was a man dressed up as her]], meaning that she [[spoiler: she really left France for good]].

* [[spoiler: MySecretPregnancy]]: [[spoiler: Does this on purpose and vanishes for a year]], until Marie is called upon to help take part in an execution via breaking wheel.

* [[spoiler: UnexplainedRecovery]]: In chapter 87, [[spoiler: after Marie had seemingly escaped France]] she's shown in the last page of said chapter [[spoiler: completely recovered from her wounds]]. Given the short time span between October of 1793 and June 10th of 1794, [[spoiler: as well as Marie appearing to have no scars at all]], it becomes clear, [[spoiler: and later confirmed that that's not Marie at all]].

* [[spoiler: FormerlyFat]]:[[spoiler: As a result of searching high and low for Marie following her "disappearance", Jean lost all of his weight and is now a fit man]].

* [[spoiler: UncannyFamilyResemblance]]: [[spoiler: Jean-Louis finally appears again in chapter 87 as an extremely fit man, looking almost exactly like his father now.]]

* [[spoiler: AnArmAndALeg]]: His right arm gets easily cut off by Marie while [[spoiler: he's trying to kill her and her baby]].
* [[spoiler: ArtificialLimbs]]: [[spoiler: gains a metal, articulated arm after Marie hacked his original arm off]]

* ForcedToWatch: Is forced by his mother to observe, at the age of 10, his father break the bones of a convict on the breaking wheel. [[Main/Fainting Henri faints afterwards from the shock]].

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: After witnessing the execution of Pierre, a perfume maker's apprentice who was [[spoiler: falsely accused of anti-revolutionary actions]], Gabriel takes Pierre's head, kisses his lips, and throws himself off the platform. However, it's not the fall that kills Gabriel, but a bayonet that pierces his chest throw that does the deed. See HistoricalHeroUpgrade below.

* [[spoiler: BulletproofHumanShield]]: They're used as this by [[spoiler: Marie]] when they were a baby to stop the axes of her brothers chop them to pieces. [[FearlessInfant Zero didn't mind it one bit]].

* [[spoiler: HimeCut]]: They have blunt bangs and cheek length sidelocks that go with the ElegantGothicLolita outfit they wear [[spoiler: as they grew up]].

* [[spoiler:IGotBigger]]: In the final chapter of Rouge, a time skip occurs that shows the fate of Zero: [[spoiler: 12 year-old Zero setting off on their [[TheHerosJourney journey]] after seeing [[CallToAdventure a meteor shower]],with the desire to see what the new world will bring.]]

* [[spoiler: AndNowYouMustMarryMe]]: [[spoiler: Ropes Charles de Longeval into sleeping with her, then marrying her because she wanted a man, any man, to marry her with blood as cursed as hers]].

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

* TheHedonist: Doesn't spend a lot of time on his Kingly duties. He'd rather party and sleep around, leaving the boring stuff to his advisors.

* [[spoiler: DefiantToTheEnd]]: While [[spoiler: drinking some of the sludge water from the Seine as part of the deal with Marie to escape the Concierge, Antoinette realizes that she'd rather die as the Queen of France than live a harsh life in which her children might die, their corpses floating in the Seine]].

* MarriedTooYoung: As was common in royal houses and nobility, Antoinette and Louis XVI got married as teenagers in an ArrangedMarriage.
* [[spoiler: MaritalRapeLicense]]: Following Marie's advice of "if she wants something then she should take it", Antoinette tried to consummate her and Louis marriage when she was still Dauphine[[spoiler:....despite him not wanting it at all]].It works as well as you'd expect.
* PimpedOutDress: As the Dauphine, and later Queen, she's seldom seen without one.
* TakeAThirdOption: In chapter 81, [[spoiler: Highschool!Antoinette refuses to execute Elisabeth in exchange for her freedom because she'd never live with the guilt. Determined, Antoinette pushes through the crowd, and jumps over the railing, preferring to live in paradise rather than face a world that is ugly and filthy]].

* [[spoiler: CraftedFromAnimals]]: It's revealed in chapter 87 that [[spoiler:Jean-Louis Sanson made a necklace with Blanka's skull as the center-piece]].

* [[spoiler:KarmaHoudini]]: [[spoiler: This woman managed to survive execution TWICE then ran away to England, never fully paying for her crimes for lying about Marie Antoinette.]] Averted in Real Life, where she fell out of a window while hiding from debt collectors in England.

* [[spoiler:RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil]]: [[spoiler: Even though he's seen as a gentleman and a hero, he forced himself on Marie-Joseph before she could become the Prevote de L'Hotel. When she was ''nine''.]]
* [[spoiler: {{Sexual Extortion}}]]: [[spoiler: He only allows nine year old Marie to retrieve the letter of recommendation for her to become the Prevote de L'Hotel on the condition that he has his way with her]]. Even after Griffin [[spoiler: rapes Marie]], he has her visit his mansion as often as possible so that she performs...favors for him, until he is called away to war.

* [[spoiler: BetterToDieThanBeKilled]]: [[spoiler: His eventual fate is revealed later in Innocent Rouge, shown when he scrawled his final words on the walls of his cell: After being arrested and tortured, Jacques committed suicide by stabbing himself rather than get executed like his father]].
* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]]: See [[spoiler: BetterToDieThanBeKilled]] above.
* ItsPersonal: Afterwitnessing his father's execution, the young boy vows to kill every last person responsible for his father's death.

* [[spoiler: OurGhostsOurDifferent]]: His final appearance to [[spoiler: Marie]] right before he [[spoiler: DisappearsIntoLight]].

* 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]].