History Characters / NoliMeTangere

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She is often depicted barefoot. [[spoiler: Mostly during her SanitySlippage when she loses her mind.]]

* WideEyedIdealist: Believes that he can make San Diego (and by extension, the Philippines) into a better place through progressive and peaceful means. Things don't go well for him, [[spoiler:and by the end of the novel he's been completely broken by his TramuaCongaLine.]]

* RatedMForManly: The guy is a total badass [[spoiler: and went out in a DyingMomentOfAwesome]]. Rizal even takes the time to describe his features as manly.

%% * BreakTheCutie: ''Yes.'' The poor woman deserves a hug or two. Or a hundred.
%% * TheChick: Sweet and caring but rather weak.

%% *SanitySlippage.

%% * LeanAndMean: Due to being [[IllGirl a sickly man]].

%% * ActionSurvivor]]

%% * Badass Beard: [[spoiler: Sports one in ''El Fili''. Due to now being a VillainProtagonist, it also counts as BeardOfEvil]].
%% * BewareTheNiceOnes

%% * WideEyedIdealist: At ''first''.

%% * IOweYouMyLife: To Ibarra.

%% * TheOphelia: After her son's death.

%% * SayMyName: Basilio! Crispin!

* ChocolateBaby: While Tiago has ''indio'' (native) features. The text explicitly describes Maria Clara as the very picture of Eurasian beauty and notes that she doesn't resemble him at all. [[spoiler:It's because she's not his daughter -- she's the Spanish Damaso's, accounting for her mixed features]].

%% * ObliviousAdoption]]

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: While Tiago isn't ''ugly'', he has ''indio'' (native) features. The text explicitly describes Maria Clara as the very picture of Eurasian beauty and notes that she doesn't resemble him at all. [[spoiler:It's because she's not his daughter -- she's the Spanish Damaso's, accounting for her mixed features]].

* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: At the luncheon when Damaso insults his father, Ibarra snaps and holds a knife to his throat.]] This marks the novel's shift in tone.

* {{Jerkass}}: ''Big time.'' He's a petty and vindictive man who goes out of his way to antagonize the son of the man he hates for no reason other than his relation to him.

TheHero of the novel. Ibarra is a Spanish ''mestizo''[[note]]''mestizo'' refers to a Filipino with mixed foreign blood, in this case Spanish)[[/note]] who has been studying in Europe for the last seven years. He returns to the Philippines to visit his late father's funeral. A certified WideEyedIdealist... until secrets are revealed and things promptly [[Main.FromBadToWorse go to hell.]]

%% * BaldOfEvil: He is usually portrayed as a balding old man.

* DirtyOldMan: Lusts after Maria Clara.

%% * HeroicBastard]]

%% * ChekhovsGunman: Appears early on in the story as a boatman.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: His HeroicSacrifice involves using himself as diversion so Ibarra could escape from a ''platoon of riflemen''.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome:

%% * NotQuiteDead]]

%% * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome:]] [[spoiler: Well...]]

%% * BadassBeard: [[spoiler: Sports one in ''El Fili''. Due to now being a VillainProtagonist, it also counts as BeardOfEvil]].

%% * [[spoiler:ActionSurvivor]]

%% * [[spoiler: DisneyDeath]]
%% * [[spoiler: FallenHero / FaceHeelTurn: Crisostomo Ibarra becomes the VillainProtagonist Simoun in El Filibusterismo.]]

%% * [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]

%% * [[spoiler: SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome:]] [[spoiler: Well...]]

%% * [[spoiler:HeroicBastard]]

%% * [[spoiler:ObliviousAdoption]]

%% * [[spoiler:ParentalSubstitute: To Maria Clara.]]
%% * [[spoiler:TheStoner: Becomes addicted to opium after [[Main.DownerEnding everything had gone to hell.]]]]

%% * [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome: His HeroicSacrifice involves using himself as diversion so Ibarra could escape from a ''platoon of riflemen''.]]
%% * [[spoiler: FaceDeathWithDignity: Calmly talks to Basilio before succumbing to his wounds.]]

%% * [[spoiler: FamousLastWords: [[Main.BeamMeUpScotty Not as much as they are her last words]], but her screaming of her children's names are very recognizable in Filipino culture and immediately reminds one of Noli Me Tangere.]]
%% * [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation]].

%% * [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Dies in Basilio's arms.]]

%% * [[spoiler: TheOphelia: After her son's death]].

%% * [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]].

%% * [[spoiler: DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: He loved his mother Sisa who died. Hated his gambling father.]]
%% * [[spoiler: DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dreamt his brother's death]].

%% * [[spoiler: SacrificialLamb: His death marks the fact that Rizal is basically saying, ''AnyoneCanDie''.]]

%% * [[spoiler: ArrangedMarriage:]] [[spoiler: With Maria Clara.]]

* ChildByRape: [[spoiler: She is actually the biological daughter of Father Damaso, who raped her mother, Pia Alba, when she and her husband, Santiago de los Santos, were trying to conceive a child for years.

%% * {{Jerkass}}: ''Yes.''

* LastDisrespects: Insults the late Don Rafael at any given moment, despite the man being dead for a ''year''.

%% * [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl]]

%% * [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather Maria Clara, I Am Your Father]]]]

%% * [[spoiler:ChildByRape]]

%% * InSeriesNickname: "Clarita".

TheHero of Noli Me Tangere [[spoiler: and El Filibusterismo.]] He is a ''Creole'' (Filipino with mixed foreign blood, in this case Spanish) who studied abroad in Europe for the past seven years and returns to the Philippines to visit his late father's funeral. A certified WideEyedIdealist... until secrets are revealed and things promptly [[Main.FromBadToWorse go to hell.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Of Jose Rizal. Modern illustrations and novel descriptions tend to depict Ibarra with similar features to Rizal (or at least, his most prominent portraits).

%% * [[spoiler: InferredSurvival]]
%% * LastNameBasis: Everyone. Not that this was unusual at the time.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: [[spoiler: ''A lot'' of bad things happened to him in this very novel that it serves as his breaking point. By the time of ''El Fili'', he's a full-blown VillainProtagonist.]]

A rude Spanish friar who was also a family friend of the Ibarra family. Key word being ''was'', since Damaso definitely hated the guts of the Ibarra patriarch, Don Rafael Ibarra -- Crisostomo Ibarra's father, and was not afraid to hide it. This hatred extends to Crisostomo, whom Damaso despises for studying abroad and thus being [[Main/HeKnowsTooMuch enlightened enough to understand the Spanish oppression.]] Padre Damaso bears a grudge against Filipinos (who they called ''indios'' during those times) and was once the parish priest in Ibarra's hometown, before he reassigned to another town by the Governor General because of [[LastDisrespects something Damaso did]].

Padre Damaso's successor as the parish priest of San Diego, Ibarra's hometown. Unlike the loud and boisterous Damaso, Salvi is quiet and sickly... but that doesn't mean [[Main.CorruptChurch he's any better than the former.]] Padre Salvi is often the one who makes decisions for the town of San Diego, something which irks actual town officials. He is bitter enemies with the [[Main.DaChief Alferez]][[labelnote:*]] the Lieutenant Commander of the Civil Guard [[/labelnote]] though they pretend as though they were not in public. [[spoiler: He is implied to be the one who killed Crispin. Oh, and he also [[Main.DirtyOldMan has his eyes on Maria Clara]].]]

%% * DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: Lusts after Maria Clara. [[GenerationXerox Like his predecessor Father Damaso over her mother.]]]]
%% * FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Padre Damaso's FatBastard.

%% * VictoriousChildhoodFriend: She and Ibarra [[spoiler: would have been this]].

A loving mother of two boys, Basilio and Crispin. Also a loving wife of a gambler. She tries to make ends meet by sewing and selling homegrown vegetables, but her husband's gambling habits and her children's [[CorruptChurch workplace]] kind of obstruct her goals and dreams. [[FromBadToWorse This being a]] CrapsackWorld, Sisa everything goes bad for Sisa.

A ten-year old sacristan at the parish of San Diego, he is the oldest of Sisa's two children, making him Crispin's elder brother. He tries to make ends meet by working as a sacristan at church alongside his brother. Unfortunately, church work is most probably the [[CorruptChurch least rewarding job]] at the time, and he and Crispin end up being accused of stealing from the church collection. One night, they are confronted by the sacristan mayor and the parish priest.

%% * ProperLady: The Philippine standard for the Proper Lady is actually ''named'' Maria Clara. She sets [[TropeCodifier the standard]] for it in the country.

%% * TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: A ''mestiza'' born our of two ''indio'' parents. Pia Alba was quite the looker

A wealthy businessman, Don Rafael's good friend, and Ibarra's future father-in-law [[spoiler: or was supposed to be]]. His kind heart is overridden by the fact that he's too weak-willed to fight back against the Spanish, whom he is [[UndyingLoyalty loyal to]].

Ibarra's [[Main.ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend and fiancee]]. A sweet and caring young lady, Maria Clara is the only daughter of Kapitan Tiago and Pia Alba.

A wealthy businessman, Don Rafael's good friend, and Ibarra's future father-in-law [[spoiler: or was supposed to be]]. His kind heart is overridden by the fact that he's too weak-willed to fight back against the Spanish, whom he is [[Main.UndyingLoyalty loyal to]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Appears early on in the story as a boatman.
* [[spoiler: DyingMomentOfAwesome: His HeroicSacrifice involves using himself as diversion so Ibarra could escape from a ''platoon of riflemen''.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceDeathWithDignity: Calmly talks to Basilio before succumbing to his wounds.]]
* TheFettered
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Used himself as a diversion so Ibarra could escape.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: To Ibarra.
* TheLancer: Is this to Ibarra.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man to Ibarra's Sensitive Guy.

A loving mother of two boys, Basilio and Crispin. Also a loving wife of a gambler. She tries to make ends meet by sewing and selling homegrown vegetables, but her husband's [[Main.TheGambler habits]] and her children's [[Main.CorruptChurch workplace]] kind of obstruct her goals and dreams. [[Main.FromBadToWorse This being a]] CrapsackWorld, Sisa [[spoiler: loses two of her children (Basilio goes missing and Crispin presumably winds up dead) and subsequently goes insane.]]

* BreakoutCharacter: Most readers recognize the novel series when they hear of her name.

** [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Dies in Basilio's arms.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: She is often depicted barefoot. [[spoiler: Mostly during her SanitySlippage]].
* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords: [[Main.BeamMeUpScotty Not as much as they are her last words]], but her screaming of her children's names are very recognizable in Filipino culture and immediately reminds one of Noli Me Tangere.]]
* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation]].

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Literally.

* MamaBear
* OnlyOneName
* [[spoiler: TheOphelia: After her son's death]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Crispin's death triggers her SanitySlippage.]]
* [[spoiler:SanitySlippage]].
* SayMyName: [[MemeticMutation Basilio! Crispin!]]

A ten-year old sacristan at the parish of San Diego, he is the oldest of Sisa's two children, making him Crispin's elder brother. He tries to make ends meet by working as a sacristan at church alongside his brother. Unfortunately, church work is most probably the [[Main.CorruptChurch least rewarding job]] at the time, and he and Crispin end up being accused of stealing from the church collection. One night, they are confronted by the sacristan mayor and the parish priest. [[spoiler: Crispin is captured and tortured while Basilio manages to escape by slipping down the ropes of the church bells.]]

* BreakTheCutie
* ButtMonkey: Repeatedly, even in the second novel.

* [[spoiler: DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Subverted, as he loved his mother Sisa. PlayedWith in that he hated his [[Main.JustifiedTrope gambling father.]]]]
* [[spoiler: DreamingOfThingsToCome: Dreamt his brother's death]].
* [[spoiler: ParentalAbandonment: Sisa dies and nothing is heard of Pedro after the first couple of chapters.]]
* [[Main.AdultsAreUseless Parents Are Useless]]: Thinks his family is better off without his [[Main.AbusiveParents father]], for [[Main.JustifiedTrope justified reasons]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite being only ten years old, he formulates an optimistic (yet somewhat grounded) plan to bring his mother, brother and himself into a less meager life. Her understands the injustices against the poor and against his people, and knows that his father is a piece of shit.

A seven-year old sacristan at the parish of San Diego, he is the youngest of Sisa's two children, making him Basilio's younger brother. He tries to make ends meet by working as a sacristan at church alongside his brother. Unfortunately, church work is most probably the [[Main.CorruptChurch least rewarding job]] at the time, and he and Basilio (mostly Crispin, though) end up being accused of stealing from the church collection. One night, they are confronted by the sacristan mayor and the parish priest. [[spoiler: Crispin is captured and presumably killed during interrogation while Basilio escapes by slipping down the ropes of the church bells.]] From what is seen during interactions with his brother, Crispin is the more idealistic and hopeful person between the two.

* CheerfulChild: We don't see much of it, but what we do know of Crispin is based on Sisa and Basilio's narrations.
* [[spoiler:CynicismCatalyst: His death is this for his mother, Sisa, which drives her crazy.]]
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Poor little boy gets struck by Padre Salvi's cane after trying to escape.]]
* [[spoiler: SacrificialLamb: His death marks the fact that Rizal is basically saying, ''AnyoneCanDie''.]]

!!Alfonso Linares

A relative of Damaso's and supposed cousin of Don Tiburcio who came to the Philippines to find a wife and a job. [[spoiler: Is betrothed to Maria Clara after Ibarra was excommunicated by the Church.]]

* [[spoiler: ArrangedMarriage:]] [[spoiler: With Maria Clara.]]
* ShrinkingViolet

!!Donya Consolacion

* [[spoiler:ActionSurvivor]]

* BadassBeard: [[spoiler: Sports one in ''El Fili''. Due to now being a VillainProtagonist, it also counts as BeardOfEvil]].
* BerserkButton: Don't talk smack about his dad.
* BewareTheNiceOnes

* CoolShades: [[spoiler: Wears one in ''El Fili'']].
* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl]]
* [[spoiler: DisneyDeath]]
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Averted. Maria Clara occasionally refers to her by his middle name as if she's doing it as FirstNameBasis.
* [[spoiler: FallenHero / FaceHeelTurn: Crisostomo Ibarra becomes the VillainProtagonist Simoun in El Filibusterismo.]]
* TheHero
* HeroWithBadPublicity
* [[spoiler: InferredSurvival]]
* LastNameBasis: Everyone. Not that this was unusual at the time.
* NiceGuy: Nice enough to ignore Father Damaso's blatant insults towards him. [[Main.BerserkButton ... Until his father is insulted anyway.]]
* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: An incredible subversion. Maria Clara and Ibarra are not betrothed at first, but after their parents saw how much they love each other, they decided to have them in an ArrangedMarriage.

* RantInducingSlight: [[spoiler: At the luncheon when Damaso insults his father, Ibarra snaps and holds a knife to his throat.]] This pretty much marks the novel's shift in tone.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Sensitive Guy to Elias' Manly Man.

* StarcrossedLovers: With Maria Clara.
* [[spoiler: SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome:]] [[spoiler: Well...]]
* TookALevelInCynic[=/=]TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: He becomes a very bitter and a very cutthroat VillainProtagonist in ''El Fili''.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: The entire plot goes out of its way to break Ibarra [[spoiler: and succeeds]].
* WideEyedIdealist: At ''first''.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: He and Maria Clara [[spoiler: would have been this]].

A rude Spanish friar who was also a family friend of the Ibarra family. Key word being ''was'', since Damaso definitely hated the guts of the Ibarra patriarch, Don Rafael Ibarra -- Crisostomo Ibarra's father, and was not afraid to hide it. This hatred extends to Crisostomo, whom Damaso despises for studying abroad and thus being [[Main/HeKnowsTooMuch enlightened enough to understand the Spanish oppression.]] Padre Damaso bears a grudge against Filipinos (who they called ''indios'' during those times) and was once the parish priest in Ibarra's hometown, before he reassigned to another town by the Governor General because of [[Main/LastDisrespects something Damaso did]].

* CorruptChurch: It doesn't get any more obvious.
* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: Rapes Pia Alba who is Maria Clara's mother (making Damaso the biological father).]]
* EvilIsHammy: {{Live Action Adaptation}}s usually portray him as extremely over the top.
* FalseFriend: Read the ''was'' in his bio? Turns out the "friend" part is not even real to begin with.
* FatAndSkinny: The FatBastard to Fray Salvi's LeanAndMean.
* FatBastard: Frequently portrayed as short and stout, in contrast to Padre Salvi who is often shown as LeanAndMean.
* HolierThanThou
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Yes.''
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* KickTheDog: Absolutely ''loves'' doing this.
* PetTheDog: His only redeeming quality is his genuine fatherly love and fondness towards his godchild Maria Clara. [[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], she's his biological daughter.]]
* [[spoiler:[[LukeIAmYourFather Maria Clara, I Am Your Father]]]]
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Subverted. Still insults the late Don Rafael at any given moment, despite the man being dead for a ''year''.

* SmugSnake: Have you ''seen'' any of the tropes above??

* BaldOfEvil: He is usually portrayed as a balding old man.
* CorruptChurch
* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler: Lusts after Maria Clara. [[Main/GenerationXerox Like his predecessor Father Damaso over her mother.]]]]
* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Padre Damaso's FatBastard.
* HolierThanThou: Slightly less than Damaso, but that doesn't make him any less obnoxiously evil.
* LeanAndMean: Due to being [[IllGirl a sickly man]].

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He's responsible for Crispin's death.]]

* BreakoutCharacter: She is a significant name in Philippine culture.
* BreakTheCutie: ''Yes.'' The poor woman deserves a hug or two. Or a hundred.
* TheChick: Sweet and caring but rather weak.
* [[spoiler:ChildByRape]]
* ExtremeDoormat
* [[spoiler:HeroicBastard]]
* InSeriesNickname: "Clarita".
* [[spoiler:ObliviousAdoption]]

* NiceToTheWaiter: Extends her kindness to a leper in one of the chapters.
* ProperLady: The Philippine standard for the ProperLady is actually ''named'' Maria Clara. She [[TropeMaker sets]] [[TropeCodifier the standard]] for it.

* SpoiledSweet
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: A ''mestiza'' born our of two ''indio'' parents. Pia Alba was quite the looker
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: She and Ibarra [[spoiler: would have been this]].

* [[spoiler:ParentalSubstitute: To Maria Clara.]]
* [[spoiler:TheStoner: Becomes addicted to opium after [[Main.DownerEnding everything had gone to hell.]]]]

!!Donya Victorina
A Filipina woman who married a lame Spanish doctor, Don Tiburcio. She often serves as a comic relief.
* TheQuisling
* RichBitch
* SmallNameBigEgo
* SmugSnake: Thinks she's better than all Filipinos, despite the fact that she is one.