History Characters / ThePrincessBride

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: He's supposed to be Turkish. Wrestling/AndreTheGiant doesn't even pretend to speak in a Turkish accent in the movie and uses his natural French accent.

[[caption-width-right:350:You've got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance - it’s going to get you in trouble someday.]]

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* HidingTheHandicap: Behind the scenes, André’s gigantism was already causing him major health issues, one of which was crippling back pain if any weight was put on it. As it was impossible to find a stunt double due to his size, the production team had to get creative in certain scenes to work around this. During his fight with Wesley, in the scenes where Wesley hangs onto his back, Cary Elwes was actually standing on a wooden platform out of shot and just draping his arms around André’s neck. Robin Wright recalls in interviews about the film that in shots where he’s carrying her or had to catch her in his arms she had to be on wires as even though she was only only 100 pounds as him trying to actually carry her - "it killed him".

* HidingTheHandicap: Behind the scenes, André’s gigantism was already causing him major health issues, one of which was crippling back pain if any weight was put on it. As it was impossible to find a stunt double due to his size, the production team had to get creative in certain scenes to work around this. During his fight with Wesley, in the scenes where Wesley hangs onto his back, Cary Elwes was actually standing on a wooden platform out of shot and just draping his arms around André’s neck. Robin Wright recalls in interviews about the film that in shots where he’s carrying her or had to catch her in his arms she had to be on wires as even though she was only only 100 pounds him trying to actually carry her "absolutely killed him".

** Andre's English was never very strong and his thick French accent makes it very hard to understand him.

-->"It's you."\\

* HeterosexualLifePartners: He's one with Fezzik.

* CatchPhrase: "JustForFun/{{Hello}}. MyNameIsInigoMontoya. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie." He in fact named two of those, and was the TropeCodifier for the latter.

->Portrayed by [[Series/{{Columbo}} Peter Falk]]

--->--'''Inigo Montoya'''

[[caption-width-right:350:As you wish.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: It is curious that out of Vizzini's trio, the only one he actively decided to kill (Vizzini himself) happened to be the evilest of the three.

* LovingAShadow: In the book, it's hinted that [[spoiler:he only really loves Buttercup for her beauty, and projects an imagined personality onto her since, as the narrator points out several times, he always gets annoyed and starts sniping at her whenever they actually talk in person. At the end, the LemonyNarrator "guesses" that once Buttercup's looks start to go, he'll eventually realize that her personality is such that he feels she isn't worth all the trouble he's gone through to get her.]]

* DamselInDistress: She's [[NeutralFemale especially useless]] in the fight with the ROUS. C'mon, swing that branch, don't just jab with it like a pool cue! Or pick up Westley's sword, or ''something''.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Buttercup has her moments in the book, like when she reasons to herself that while it's not ''right'' to marry someone she doesn't love, it's not ''wrong'' either, since it's not hurting anyone (that she knows of) and it's not like she has anything else to live for while she waits to die to rejoin Westley anyway. She also tells Vizzini that his brilliant plan to use his blood to whip the sharks into a frenzy wasn't exactly hard to come up with.
* DumbBlonde: Her hair is golden as the sun, but she's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box. Taken UpToEleven in the book.

* HiddenDepths: She's sometimes hilariously unobservant (see her missing that Westley is the Dread Pirate Roberts), but she is actually smarter and more courageous than she appears, shown particularly well in her [[ShutUpHannibal speeches to Humperdinck]].

* NeutralFemale: Buttercup is hilariously useless, at least until the end (of the book) when she manages to drive off the Brute squad by using her (false) authority as the Queen.

* OnlyOneName: Like almost every one else, with a [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya notable exception.]]

* AdaptationalDumbass: In the novel he is quite cunning, being able to tell what Buttercup was thinking just based on her facial expressions. In the film however, he does little more than boast about how smart he is, it doesn't show.

* {{Troperiffic}}: Look at the number of tropes he ''names''! He may well hold a record.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Somehow this thin, lithe fencing master is strong enough to push 400+ pounds of Fezzik in a wheelbarrow while carrying Westley on his back.

-->'''Vizzini:''' You were not hired for your ''brains''!

[[caption-width-right:350:It's not my fault being the [[TheBigGuy biggest and the strongest]]. I don't even exercise.]]