History Characters / TheCountOfMonteCristo

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Murdering Caderousse]]. The Count considers this a sign from God that [[spoiler:Caderousse deserved it]].

* RoyaltyToRags: As her mother, Vasiliki, laments, Haydee would have been almost a queen, and the Count muses that she was a princess in her country. When her father is killed, she and her mother are enslaved.

* RoyaltyTo Rags: As her mother, Vasiliki, laments, Haydee would have been almost a queen, and the Count muses that she was a princess in her country. When her father is killed, she and her mother are enslaved.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He starts out as an innocent man whose life was unjustly ruined to a cruel and ruthless avenger willing to ruin the lives of other innocent people just to take down those who wronged him.

* PetTheDog: While torturing Danglars, he forces him to give up his ill-gotten fortune and donates it back to the hospitals he was embezzling money from.

* HideYourLesbians: Just barely. The narration does everything short of outright stating that she is a lesbian, instead using several metaphors from ancient Greek to get the point across while ducking censorship at the same time.

* MayDecemberRomance: Between her and the Count.

* ExactEavesdropping: Part of the reason he's uneasy about the Count--he overhears his conversation with Luigi Vampa in Rome.

* TellMeAboutMyFather: Noirtier tells him the truth about his father, who he believed was murdered by bonapartist agents in an ambush after refusing to go with them. [[spoiler:Noirtier himself was the bonapartist agent that killed him, but over a trivial matter in a duel and not by ambush. Franz's father provoked Noirtier by calling him a DirtyCoward for bringing three men with him to coerce him into going with them. Noirtier didn't like that and decided to show him that he could kill him all by himself.]]

The son of Dantes's old employer. He joined the army and became a decorated officer. During his life in Paris, he has a platonic affair with Valentine Villefort in the hope of to marrying her. The Count considers him like a son.

* OfficerAndAGentleman: He walks in one the circles of Parisian high society, and became a decorated officer before then, with his own honors for valor.

* DaddysGirl: States that she has loved only two men in her life--her father and Monte Cristo.

* RetiredMonster: He killed a man not because he was an enemy but because he bitched that having four people against one is the same as forcing him to sign the document or die. Noirtier simply called him out that if he wants to put his money where his mouth is he was ready to have a fair duel (where Noirtier would be at a disadvantage using just a cane against a sword) and killed him.

* PrepareToDie: Swore a vendetta on Villefort after he refused to investigate his brother's murder.

* DaddysLittleVillain: Subverted: Despite her father being a notorious dictator (Dumas consecrated one of his "Famous Crimes" to Ali Pasha), Haydee is nothing but good (possibly a little ''too'' good).

* KarmaHoudini: Benedetto commits robbery, torture, and murder and although he is arrested and put on trial the verdict is not revealed to the readers following [[spoiler:the revelation that Villefort, his judge, is his own father who tried to bury him alive as a newborn]]. Considering that Dantes promised to Bertuccio that Benedetto will not go unpunished, and that Benedetto is rewarded by finally discovering who his father is, it is surprising that Benedetto's presumed execution is not made more explicit, may also be a case of WhatHappenedToTheMouse.

The children of the above characters.

* HideYourLesbians: Just barely. The narration does everything short of outright stating that she is a lesbian, instead using several metaphors from ancient Greek to get the point across while ducking censorship at the same time.

[[folder: Heloise de Villefort]]
Villefort's second wife.

[[folder: Ali]]
The "Nubian mute" and the Count's servant.
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* ChekovsSkill: Ali's skill with a lasso is sufficient to catch and bring down a tiger or a lion during a hunt; two runaway horses dragging a carriage at full gallop is nothing. This is a key part of the Count's scheme to introduce himself to the Villeforts; the Count sets up a "carriage accident" and Ali intervenes to "save" the passengers.
* TheSpeechless: Ali's tongue has been cut out, and he communicates mainly either through nodding or charades.
* IOweYouMyLife/YouOweMe: How he entered the Count's service. Ali went too near the quarters of the harem of the Bey of Tunis; for this crime, he was sentenced to have his tongue torn out one day, his hand removed the second day, and his head removed on the third day. The Count of Monte Cristo intervened to save Ali's life, and take him into his service - but he did so ONLY after the first stage of the punishment was carried out, because he always wanted a mute servant. Nevertheless, Ali appears loyal, grateful, and with no sign of resentment, despite the Count openly discussing his choices and motives in the intervention.
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[[folder: Ali]]
The "Nubian mute" and the Count's servant.
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