History Characters / PansLabyrinth

* HateSink: [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters is far scarier and eviler than any of the monsters in the Labyrinth]]. He first shows his nastiness when two poachers, a father and son, are brought to him in the dead of night, his men suspecting them of being rebels against the regime. He beats the younger man's face in with a bottle simply for defending his father against Vidal's accusations before shooting them both with a vague air of boredom and pleasure. When the men are proven not to be rebels, Vidal is regretful, [[PragmaticVillainy but only because it means his men wasted his time and weren't careful enough]]. Vidal is married to the young heroine's mother solely so she'll bear him an heir, and shows no concern over the possible death of his wife in childbirth. When the doctor attending her gives the aforementioned stuttering torture victim a mercy kill, Vidal coldly guns him down. At the film's end, [[spoiler:Vidal's stepdaughter Ofelia tries to rescue her baby brother, but Vidal catches her and [[OffingTheOffspring promptly shoots her fatally]]]].

%%* HateSink: At the end of the day he is nothing more than a vicious, soulless monster.

* ParentalFavouritism: He loves his son dearly but thinks nothing of Ofelia except as an unwanted requirement to marrying her mother and getting his son, [[spoiler:And thinks nothing about ''killing'' the girl later on.]]

* RageAgainstTheMirror: In once scene, as he's shaving himself, he raises his razor to his mirror and slits across his reflection's throat. It says quite a lot about what a horrifying man Vidal is that this moment, when his daddy issues and misanthropy spills over into outright suicidal ideation, is one of the only humanizing moments he gets in the entire movie.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Intends to go that way, but ends up subverted: upon being confronted by the rebels after killing Ofelia and knowing that he will be shot down, Vidal hands over his son to Mercedes, telling her to at least tell about the time of his death to his son so that the latter can continue on his legacy. [[SubvertedTrope However, Mercedes refuses by saying that the boy will never even know his father's name, right before Pedro shoots Vidal in the cheek.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: His father was a war hero, and is well-loved even after his death, and Vidal feels he could never live up to him. It's also inverted as he actually wants recognition from everyone else at his father's expense.

* PreMortemOneLiner: To Vidal, who wanted his son to know all about him and his father's clock.

* ImAHumanitarian: He likes to eat human children, even though he used to be a human himself.

* WouldHurtAChild: He hunts and eats children.

[[folder:Pedro]]
!!Pedro
->'''Played By:''' Roger Casamajor

Mercedes' brother, and leader of the Republican cell in the area.

* BigDamnHeroes: He and his rebels save Mercedes from the Captain's henchmen right when they're about to take her back to inflict ColdBloodedTorture on her.
* ChummyCommies: Wears a pin of a red star with a hammer and sickle in it, showing his devotion to communism. He is also the unambiguously heroic leader of LaResistance.
* TheGlomp: He and his sister share a few Big Damn Hugs.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: While the movie focuses on Ofelia, there's fighting going around and he's in the middle of it.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:He is the one to kill Vidal in the end, placing a bullet right in Vidal's cheek.]]
* RebelLeader: Commands the local resistance fighters.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: He wears a blue scarf in the film.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: DefiedTrope. He refuses to give up the fight even when Dr. Ferreiro encourages him to, although after that talk he at least urges Mercedes not to risk her life with him.
-->'''Dr. Ferreiro:''' You must take care of Mercedes. If you love her, take her away. This is a lost cause.\\
'''Pedro:''' I'm staying, doctor. That's it.

[[folder:Garcés & Serrano]]
!!Garcés & Serrano
->'''Played By:''' Manolo Solo (Garcés) & César Vea (Serrano).

Vidal's thuggish sergeants and subordinates.

* DoubleTap: Garcés can be seen performing it on the rebels his men have shot in the battle, much like the rest of the policemen in the movie.
* CoDragons: To Vidal.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Downplayed, they have stone faces in war and executing prisoners, but look shocked by Vidal's brutality against the hunters. Serrano also can't look when Vidal executes a prisoner with a throat wound.
* FatAndSkinny: Downplayed, Garcés is slimmer and while Serrano isn't fat, he's certainly more broad than Garcés.
* KickTheDog: Garcés gloats when he has Mercedes at his mercy, [[KarmicDeath seconds before his death]].
* LeanAndMean: Garcés, thinner, shorter and meaner than Serrano.
* PerpetualFrowner: Serrano usually has a dour expression.
* PetTheDog:
** In the opening scene, Serrano stops the car at Ofelia's request when Carmen feels sick, and asks Carmen if she's okay.
** When Dr. Ferreiro euthanizes the torture victim, Serrano has his back turned (despite Vidal having ordered him to watch the doctor), suggesting that he's letting him do it.
* PunchClockVillain: Serrano comes off as this compared to Garcés, who takes more pleasure in his actions.
* SmugSnake: Garcés especially in his final scene.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Garcés]] is shot repeatedly by the rebels. Though multiple gunshots aren't uncommon in the film as most combatants make sure to shoot their victims more than once to ensure death.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Up until the end they don't get much differentiation in terms of personality until they chase down Mercedes.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Serrano gets wounded by the rebels' BigDamnHeroes that rescues Mercedes, but manages to return to the base to tell Vidal. Presumably he is finished off during or after the final rebel assault, but we don't know for sure.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: When Garcés sees Mercedes making her escape, his first idea is to pull a pistol and try to shoot her, but he's interrupted by Vidal who demands she be taken alive.

!The Underworld

[[folder:Faun]]
!!The Faun
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thefaun.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DougJones\\
'''Voiced By:''' Pablo Adán

An ancient creature, he has been waiting in the Labyrinth for the reincarnated princess to return.

* HateSink: At the end of the day he is nothing more than a vicious, soulless monster.

* WasOnceAMan: The novelization says it used to be a human soldier named Uberto Garces, who was cursed after he helped drown a witch named Rocio.

->'''Played By:''' Maribel Verdú

* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Upon realising that he has been beaten at the end, he calmly hands over his son to the rebels before allowing them to shoot him.]]

* ActionGirl: In the process of the movie she survives nearly getting eaten by a child-eating monster and escape with her baby brother from a household full of fascist stormtroopers with orders to kill her.
* BigSisterInstinct: Once her baby brother is born, she'd die for him. [[spoiler:Literally]].

* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:After Ofelia takes her brother away from him, Vidal eventually tracks down Ofelia, takes her brother back and shoots Ofelia.]]

Ofelia's new stepfather, a loyal Francoist enforcer, and a captain in the Civil Guard.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Knows he's beaten at the end, and calmly hands over his son to the rebels before allowing them to shoot him.]]

* DecompositeCharacter:[[spoiler: One of the intermissions from the novelization includes a tale mentioning the older version of him being a wooden magical replica created by the redhead, younger faun from the Underworld realm]].