History Characters / SleepyHollow1999

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His refusal to kill the little girls when he runs across them comes back to bite him. One of them — [[spoiler:the future Lady Van Tassel]] — snaps a twig, giving away his position so that the soldiers can catch up to him. [[spoiler:All so she could use him to get her revenge on the Van Garrets and the Van Tassels.]]

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:The Van Tassels and the Van Garrets seized her family's land and left her and her sister without a home, so she's actually not entirely wrong to be so angry. However, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse it doesn't justify]] murdering her own sister, or the servant girl out of pure spite, nor does it excuse her greed, which makes her just as bad as the families she was seeking revenge against, and probably even worse.]]

* NobleDemon: As the Headless Horseman, he's actually nicer than he was when he was alive. He only kills because he's commanded to, [[spoiler:and once he gets his skull back, he's ''livid'' with the one controlling him.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Has an affair with the Reverend Steenwick behind her husband's back.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: She's implied to be a devil-worshiper[[labelnote:*]]Katrina confirms it in the trailer and the novelization[[/labelnote]] and isn't above animal sacrifice, not to mention her face when the "other" possesses her is utterly horrifying, but her only purpose to help Ichabod find the Horseman. Also, she restrains herself in chains to make sure she can't hurt Ichabod.

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* PetTheDog: A literal example, as he comforts his dying horse while showing genuine sadness.

* NeutralFemale: [spoiler: During the climax when Ichabod and Lady van Tassel are fighting over the Horseman's head, Katrina...just stands and watches them, as opposed to hitting her stepmother like Young Masbath, or running to get the skull. As a result she's grabbed by the Horseman and only saved from beheading in the nick of time.]]

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* CuteWitch: A pretty young woman who regularly practices benevolent magic.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He looked genuinely saddened when his horse was shot.

* ChekhovsGun: The scars on his hands. [[spoiler:When he's leaving Sleepy Hollow upon belief that Katrina is responsible for everything that had been going on, he studies the scars for a bit, is reminded of the scar on Lady Van Tassel's hand, and immediately figures out the truth.]]

%%ZCE* EagleEyeDetection: Ichabod's preferred method for solving the streak of murders.

* GroinAttack: The Magistrate's decapitated head hits him in the crotch.

* HumanShield: He tends to use people as these when threatened.

* ScienceHero: It's the reason he's sent to Sleepy Hollow at all; to show the New York police just how useful science can actually be.

* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: While Ichabod is having a nightmare about his childhood, we see what happened to his mother.

* InfoDump: The conversation she has with Ichabod at the start is obviously one big ChekhovsLecture.
* InformedAttribute: Katrina's relationship with her father. She goes as far as burning evidence possibly convicting Baltus as guilty, also saying that if it actually turned out to be him controlling the Horseman after all, there's no way he'd go after her. Despite this, we don't see much interaction between them, unless you count Katrina's horror when [[spoiler:her father is suddenly impaled and killed.]]

* PimpedOutCape: Katrina greets Ichabod and Young Masbeth while wearing a big cape. She later regularly wears it in scenes taking place outside, as seen [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162661/mediaviewer/rm2204342528 here]].

* InnocentBystander: He is present at, but survives, a few of the Horseman's attacks. This is because the Horseman go after anyone but the intended target as long as said bystander doesn't attempt to interfere.

* OnlySaneMan: He at first believes he is the only sane person in Sleepy Hollow because he believes in science and a rational explanation for the murders, instead of the townspeople, who believe in ghosts and magic. He then gets dragged into the madness along with the rest of the town, but he [[spoiler:is the one who realises that the Horseman isn't acting of his own accord but is manipulated by someone else.]]

* TheIngenue: She's a sweet and kind girl and has the [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold hair]] to go with it.

* ActionSurvivor: He eventually becomes this by the end.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the original, all he did was court a woman and get chased by a guy with a pumpkin as a head, doing nothing to defend himself. Here, he holds off both the indestructible Horseman and the BigBad [[spoiler: herself.]]

* AgentScully: At least at the beginning of the film, until he just simply can't deny the obvious supernatural nature of the crimes.
* BloodyHilarious: Creator/TimBurton finds as many excuses as possible to have Ichabod sprayed in the face with blood. [[spoiler: Later becomes NotFunnyAnymore when the trope is applied to Ichabod's backstory, when he's a young boy and the one who's bleeding all over him is his recently murdered mother.]]
* CatapultNightmare: A ''lot''.
* ChekhovsGun: The scars on his hands. [[spoiler: When he's leaving Sleepy Hollow upon belief that Katrina is responsible for everything that had been going on, he studies the scars for a bit, is reminded of the scar on Lady Van Tassel's hand, and immediately figures out the truth.]]
* CowardlyLion: For the most part, he tends to pass out whenever anything creepy happens. [[spoiler: Until the end at least, when he manages to hold out until the Horseman took Lady Van Tassel [[DraggedOffToHell back to Hell with him before fainting.]]]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite being an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette (and showing up to Sleepy Hollow in a black outfit), he's certainly not anywhere remotely close to a villain.

* EagleEyeDetection: Ichabod's preferred method for solving the streak of murders.

* {{Fainting}}: He does this the most out of anyone else in the film.

* HeroicBSOD: Happens twice.
* HorrorStruck: After getting to see the Horseman killing up close for the first time.

* InnocentBystander: This is basically how he manages to survive the Horseman's attacks, since the Horseman doesn't seem to go after anyone but the intended target, as long as said bystander doesn't attempt to interfere.

* LovableCoward: He ''does'' become braver towards the end, though.
* NonActionGuy: He's clearly more comfortable as this, but he's forced into an ActionSurvivor role.
* OnlySaneMan: He at least believes so. He then gets dragged into the madness along with the rest of the town, but he still attempts to find out who's [[spoiler: manipulating the Horseman while everyone else thinks he's acting of his own accord.]]
* PocketProtector: He's saved from a gunshot wound by Katrina's book.

* WouldHitAGirl: Played very straight when he [[spoiler: tackles Lady Van Tassel off her horse and starts wrestling her for the Horseman's head.]]
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Inverted. Right after Ichabod witnesses the Magistrate being beheaded right in front of him, he freaks out and says this to the townsfolk. They believe him of course, but up until then they had been the ones trying to convince him of the Horseman's existence.

* CuteWitch: A pretty young woman who regularly practices magic.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Katrina has strong whiffs of this trope, what with her enigmatic yet kind presence.
* {{Fainting}}: Twice. First when [[spoiler: her father is impaled by the Horseman and then decapitated, then when her supposedly dead stepmother comes in and casually says hello.]]

* HumanShield: Ichabod uses her as one.

* InformedAttribute: Katrina's relationship with her father. She goes as far as burning evidence possibly convicting Baltus as guilty, also saying that if it actually turned out to be him controlling the Horseman after all, there's no way he'd go after her. Despite this, we don't see much interaction between them, unless you count Katrina's horror when [[spoiler: her father is suddenly impaled and killed.]]
* TheIngenue: Along with her HairOfGoldHeartOfGold status.

* MsFanservice: Along with a Cleavage Window.
* PimpedOutCape: Katrina greets Ichabod and Young Masbeth while wearing one.
* ProtectiveCharm: She casts one in Ichabod's room and one in the church where the townspeople are taking refuge from the Hessian.
* RedHerring: Some clues point to her being the one controlling the Horseman, but it isn't.
* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: [[spoiler: Lady Van Tassel]] tells her this when she walks in the room after the whole town believed [[spoiler: her to be dead.]]

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* AdaptationalBadass: In the original, all he did was court a woman and get chased by a guy with a pumpkin as a head, doing nothing to defend himself. Here, he holds off both the indestructible Horseman and the BigBad herself.

* ChekhovsGun: The scars on his hands. [[spoiler: When he's leaving Sleepy Hollow upon belief that Katrina is responsible for everything that had been going on, he studies the scars for a bit, is remind d of the scar on Lady Van Tassel's hand, and immediately figures out the truth.]]

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* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: [[spoiler: Lady Van Tassel]] tells her this when she walks in the room after the whole town believed [[spoiler: her to be dead.]]

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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Pretty much how Depp is played in most TimBurton films; he has very white skin and dark hair.

* KidDetective: Ichabod is described by TimBurton as a thirteen-year-old girl detective in a man's body.

* BloodyHilarious: TimBurton finds as many excuses as possible to have Ichabod sprayed in the face with blood. [[spoiler: Later becomes NotFunnyAnymore when the trope is applied to Ichabod's backstory, when he's a young boy and the one who's bleeding all over him is his recently murdered mother.]]