History Characters / PrinceOfPersia

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Shahraman or Sharaman?

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Of a spacing variant - The in-game description spells his name as "Sand Wraith", while the official manual and strategy guide spells his name as "Sandwraith".

* NotAsYouKnowThem: His characterization in ''Warrior Within'' is almost unrecognizable from the previous game.
-->'''Manual:''' The Prince is a vastly different character from the one we met in ''Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time''. His actions during the events of that game inadvertently unleashed the Dahaka: an invincible creature that has been stalking him ever since. Pursued relentlessly by this beast, unable to eat or sleep, the Prince has become a dark and callous shell of his former self. His fate has been written. He will die.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Justified in the first game, as she was taken prisoner in her home by King Sharaman. The third game implies she was captured and escaped; we have no idea if she was wearing that outfit before just pieced it together after escaping, or it was damaged somehow. Nonetheless, [[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains both her outfits are more sensible than Kaileena or Shahdee's]].

-->'''Sharaman''': I want no animals or maidens harmed until I have chosen! Let it be known; King Sharaman is merciful in victory!

* CaptainErsatz: Of [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He betrays Farah's father to let Sharaman take over his kingdom. Then he betrays Sharaman by deceiving his son into releasing the Sands of Time which turn Sharaman and everyone else into mindless monsters. [[spoiler:After his death is undone, he murders Farah's father when the latter doesn't let him go to Babylon in search of Kaileena, and then he allies himself with the Scythians to let them subjugate both Farah's people and the Babylonians.]] The Prince lampshades this while lamenting that his father wasn't [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves more rejective]] towards the Vizier.

* GoodCounterpart: He's more or less this to the Vizier. The Old Man is a hermit mystic who has been entrusted with raising King Sharaman's son, while the Vizier is the Maharajah's sorcerous adviser. They are both elderlies who walk with a staff, have a physical affliction (blindness with the Old Man and consumption with the Vizier), and are very knowledgeable in regards to what relates to the Sands of Time. However, the Vizier is a [[TreacherousAdvisor traitor who ultimately gives honeyed advises for his own benefit]]. The Old Man in turn gives the Prince counsel he doesn't like for his protege's own benefit. The Vizier is loyal to no-one but himself, but the Old Man is loyal to the Persian royalty to the point that he [[spoiler:gathers Babylon's remaining citizens to help the Prince in bringing down the Vizier]].

* ParentalSubstitute: The official guide of ''Warrior Within'' states that the Old Man cared for the Prince at the request of King Sharaman who was too busy with warfare and expanding the empire.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:When the Prince finds his father's body and is grief-stricken, the Dark Prince uses an unimpressed tone to voice his disbelief that the Prince clung to any hope of Sharaman having survived.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Dark Prince gets close to taking control of the Prince's body while seeking a way out of the Well of Ancestors until they stumble upon [[spoiler:King Sharaman's body]]. As the Prince mourns for [[spoiler:his father]], the Dark Prince asks sarcastically if he's going to undo this setback by changing the past again. This makes the Prince realize how wrong it'd be to once again change what's happened, and he decides to take responsibility for his mistakes. This gives him enough willpower to transform back to his normal self without water.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: Disintegrates after falling into the sea. Could be KarmicDeath since he disintegrates and then absorbs his victims .

* NinetiesAntiHero: Years of being chased by the Dahaka have turned him into this by the time of ''Warrior Within''. He's more grim, aggressive and foul-mouthed than before -- and ready to do anything to achieve his objective to prevent his own preset death. Aside from this unyielding resolution and some moments of sympathy towards his crew and Kaileena, there really isn't much to admire him about. The Empress of Time is against him essentially because he's violating her home [[spoiler:and is destined to kill her in his misguided quest to prevent her from creating that which she will become upon dying]]. After he has ultimately gotten rid of the Dahaka and witnesses in the following game the damage he has unwittingly wrought upon his own people, he returns back to his more heroic demeanor.

* NotAsYouKnowThem: His characterization is far darker in ''Warrior Within'' than it was previously.

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a cocky and arrogant conqueror whose major concern is honor and glory, but the hardships of his experiences and the guilt of what his hubris has lead to molds him into a wiser, nobler man.

** In the [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime first game]], we have [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement The Sword of the Avenging Warrior]], and [[InfinityPlusOneSword The]] [[BlackSwordsAreBetter Sword]] [[OneHitKill of the Enlightened Warrior]].
** In [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin the second game]], we have [[InfinityMinusOneSword The Scorpion Sword]] and [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Water Sword]].

* BarbarianLongHair: More prominent in the artwork, in the games is [[NoFlowInCGI not that noticeable.]]

* {{Narrator}}: He's the one recounting the plot of the first game, with the ending revealing that [[spoiler:he has just reversed the time and telling Farah everything that transpired in order to stop the Vizier and prevent the disaster from taking place]].

* SinisterScimitar: As befitting the Middle Eastern setting, he wields scimitars as his primary weapons in combat. He's also arrogant and cocky in the first game, and a violent AntiHero in the second. However, by the end of his character arc, his swords instead come off as a SuaveSabre instead, as mentioned below.

* AllThereInTheManual: Her name is actually never mentioned in the game itself, and the objective indicator only calls her the Girl in Black.

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Mentioned only. [[spoiler:It's possible that he doesn't actually have claustrophobia, but was nervous because [[CannotSpitItOut he was really close to Farah]].]]

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a cocky and arrogant conqueror who's major concern is honor and glory, but the hardships of his experiences and the guilt of what his hubris has lead to molds him into a wiser, nobler man.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In ''Battles of Prince of Persia'', despite being dead in present days, he turns out to be the one who drove Saurva to villainy [[spoiler:having his wife murdered and trapping him and the daevas in the Box of Thousand Restraints]].

A sand creature with unknown origins, Kaileena has put it to use guarding the Island of Time. Serves as a boss mid to late game.

* KryptoniteFactor: The one thing that can hurt him is water. Touching it causes him pain, so he has to temparily cease his whenever the Prince is able to put water between them. [[spoiler: Fittingly the one weapon that can kill him is the Water Sword.]]

** Also, in VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin, the InfinityPlusOneSword is aptly called the "Water Sword".

-->'''Farah''': "What are you doing?"\\
'''Prince''': "I don't know; I'm working it out as I go!"

!The Prince

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuriLowenthal, Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''Warrior Within'')

The Prince's father, depicted as a just and merciful ruler. In the first game, he conquers the Maharajah's kingdom with the Vizier's help and takes the Sands of Time as a gift for the Sultan of Azad. When the Prince releases the Sands, Shahraman is turned into a monster and later [[spoiler:killed by his own son yet [[ResetButton brought back to life]] through the Grand Rewind]]. Before the events of the second game, the Prince becomes drifted from him due to being chased by the Dahaka. In the third game, [[spoiler:he is sadly killed by the Vizier during the assault on Babylon and is never resurrected afterwards]].

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Subverted. He was alive due to the events of the first game being altered. However, the Prince's search for his father in ''The Two Thrones'' ends in finding his dead body.]]
* BlingOfWar: Persia has nice armors.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: No matter what, he still ends up dead.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: He's the first boss. Though it's technically a monster inhabiting his body rather than him.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: See TheGoodKing above. Shame he's so GenreBlind to what the Vizier is up to.

* SinisterScimitar: Played straight during his time as the Sand King. Averted for the rest of the time.

The main villain of the first and third game, bent on using the powers of the Sands of Time in order to TakeOverTheWorld. Specifically, in the third game [[spoiler:he kills Kaileena and is mutated into a creature called Zurvan, the God of Time, but is eventually slain by the Prince]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Despite her ability, in ''The Two Thrones'', she is easily kidnapped by Vizier's soldier. Then again {{justified|Trope}}, since he did so while she was unconscious from the ship crash.

[[folder:The Prince]]

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* LeParkour: Well, [[TropeCodifier duh]].

%%* WarriorPrince: And one of the coolest out there.

* WouldHitAGirl: Including female enemies, Shahdee, [[spoiler:Kaileena,]] and Mahasti. The last case, however, could be arguably chalked up due to the Dark Prince, as the Prince was transformed into him for that battle. In the first and third games, there were many Sand Creatures that were once women -- harem dancers in the first, and members of a warrior tribe in the second.

[[folder:''The Sands of Time'']]
!Farah

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!King Shahraman

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!The Vizier

* AGodAmI: After [[spoiler: stabbing himself with the Dagger of Time and being transformed into a Sand monster/human hybrid, he re-christens himself as "Zurvan, God of Time"]].

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!The Maharajah

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[[folder:''Warrior Within'']]
!The Dahaka

* BadassBoast: Most of his dialogue is this, a couple stand examples;
--> '''Dahaka:''' "All who have come before you have fallen."
--> '''Dahaka:''' "You are quick, mortal--quick to die."

* NighInvulnerable: Without involving water, nothing can hurt him
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Disintegrates after falling into the sea. Could be KarmicDeath since he disintegrates and then absorbs his victims

* YouCantFightFate: The general nature of its threats to the Prince. Your fate being death at The Dahaka's hands.
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!Shahdee

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!Kaileena [[spoiler:The Empress of Time]]

A beautiful and mysterious lady in red met on the Island of Time, who helps the Prince. [[spoiler:She's actually the Empress of Time and believes killing the Prince will change her fate. Her destiny is to to die at the Prince's hands and upon her death release the Sands of Time into the world. In the [[GoldenEnding true ending]], the Prince manages to save them both from their fates and takes her with him.]] In ''The Two Thrones'', which she narrates, [[spoiler:the Vizier murders her in order to release the Sands in Babylon]].

* BadBoss: [[spoiler: As the Empress, she's seen reacting harshly to Shahdee's sarcastic obedience, and when she's informed of the latter's failure with the Prince, she outright insults and slaps her. [[MistreatInducedBetrayal This results in Shahdee having had enough and entering with Kaileena in the tussle]] the Prince finds them in.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Technically yes, but only in the basic ending.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:In ''The Two Thrones'', she reappears as a spirit after Zurvan's death, thanks the Prince, and decides to leave this world forever along with the Sands.]]

* DualWielding: Her weapon of choice seeming to be twin blades. [[spoiler: She fights with them exactly like Shahdee.]]
* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:When the Prince delivers the killing blow in their first duel, she calls him a fool whose every effort to cheat death will be for nothing just like with her before she collapses. If you duel her in the basic ending, she warns in her final breath that the Sands will be used by the wicked and ignorant. Though the Dahaka erases the Sands from existence in this ending, the Prince still discovers Babylon in flames.]]
-->'''Kaileena''': [[spoiler:You've… saved yourself it seems, my prince. But still I become the Sands. There will be others like the Maharaja; braggarts and fools who will quest for the Sands and find them. My vengeance will be unleashed once more on your world…]]

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: In one of the endings of ''Warrior Within'' where the Prince kills her.]]

* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:She's actually the Empress of Time, not her servant as the Prince assumed.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Kaileena turns out to be [[spoiler:ruthless and ready to do anything in her desperation to prevent her foretold death, just like the Prince. Realizing this similarity prompts the Prince to attempt to offer the peace pipe between them. He canonically succeeds after he saves Kaileena from the Dahaka]].
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler: Gives two of them after she reveals herself as the Empress: one before the battle, one in the middle of it.]]

* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:When she dies, the Sands are created from her body.]]

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Kaileena's new outfit in ''The Two Thrones'' serves to mark her more innocent and seer-like than her previous characterization as [[spoiler:the hard woman desperate to prevent her fate]].

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:After surviving to the end of ''Warrior Within'' thanks to the Prince, she's captured by the Vizier and killed early on in ''The Two Thrones''. Except then she ends up ascending to a higher plane of existence as a spirit of the Sands.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Because she's the Empress of Time.]]

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!The Old Man

A wise old hermit who has looked after the Prince since he was a child. He possesses vast knowledge about the Sands of Time, the Island of Time, the Empress of Time and the Dahaka. The Prince seeks his counsel in regards to the Dahaka's reason to hunt him down. Learning that he has to die because he altered the past with the Sands of Time in the previous game, the Prince sets out to the Island of Time with the Old Man's warning that he cannot change his fate. In ''The Two Thrones'', the Old Man [[spoiler:leads the oppressed people of Babylon to attack the Vizier's forces in order to give the Prince and Farah a chance to find the Vizier and finish him]].

!Sand Wraith
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A mysterious dark humanoid creature. It wears a strange mask and has seemingly has some interest in the Prince. Its intentions do not seem positive. [[spoiler:It is later revealed to be the Prince wearing a mask capable of allowing two versions of himself to exist in the same timeline.]]
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!Griffon
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A sand creature with unknown origins, Kaileena has put it to use guarding the Island of Time. Serves as a boss mid to late game.
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[[folder:''The Two Thrones'']]

!The Dark Prince

->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Rudder (Warrior Within), Creator/RickMiller (The Two Thrones)

The Prince's dark side, born from the infection of the Sands of Time. From time to time, he'll take over the Prince, forcing the character to play as him. The Dark Prince is ruthless, powerful, and sand-bound, but depletes health quickly when he's in charge. He uses the Daggertail that was bound into the Prince's arm as a weapon. Near the end of the game, he reveals his intentions to take over the Prince's body, which leads to the Prince finding a way to banish him once and for all.

!Klompa
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One of the Vizier's Scythian generals. The Sands turned him into a huge, hulking brute who dwells in the Arena.
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!Mahasti

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!The Twins (Axe and Sword)

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[[folder:''The Forgotten Sands'']]
!Malik

* BlingOfWar: The components of his armor are mostly gilded and noble-looking, though surprisingly simple.

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!Razia

* ElementalPowers: Aside from giving the Prince time-related powers, she has:
** AnIcePerson: Allows to freeze enemies and can be used to navigate certain obstacles.
** MakingASplash: Has power over water.
** DishingOutDirt: Allows the Prince to create a stone armor which NoSell all damage for a while.
** PlayingWithFire: The Fire Trail leaves damaging flames in the wake of the Prince.
** BlowYouAway: The Whirlwind allows the Prince to knock down all enemies around him.

* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Acts as a magical guide that grants The Prince powers through out the game.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She actively aids The Prince in his battle against Ratash.

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!Ratash

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