History Characters / ThePrincessBride

* BadMenAbuseAnimals: In the novel, he is introduced by beating an orangutan to death. It's stated he does this regularly.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Manny Patinkin is the only actor in the film to attempt to match their character's action to their origin. His ''gloriously'' bad and [[LargeHam over-the-top]] Spanish accent becomes a major part of the film's charm.

* FatBastard: Only in the novel, though he isn't fat so much as he is stocky. The first we see of him in the book, he's wrestling an orangutan and ''breaking its neck''.

* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: He's out to exact revenge on Rugen, the man who killed his father Domingo.

* WouldHurtAChild: Cut Inigo’s face several times when they met when Inigo was a boy and Rugen killed his father Domingo.

* ItsPersonal: He's out to exact revenge on Rugen, the man who killed his father Domingo.

* ArchEnemy: Inigo’s life has been spent looking for him to exact revenge for killing Inigo’s father.

-->'''Fezzik:''' I'm 'on' the brute squad...
-->'''Max:''' (sizing him up) You 'are' the brute squad.

'''Fezzik:''' I'm 'on' the brute squad...
'''Max:''' (sizing him up) You 'are' the brute squad.

* RaceLift: In the book, Fezzik is a stereotypical Turk, complete with fez. In the film, he's played by Frenchman Andre the Giant.

* RealityEnsues: Inigo is basically a walking RealityEnsues trope to the classic "live for revenge" plot. He discovers that it's not easy to find a man when all you have to go on is "the man with six fingers," and it takes over twenty years to find his mark. In that time, he discovers there's no money in pursuing revenge, so he has to work for Vizzini to pay the bills. Also, since his entire sense of self-worth is in his sword skills but he worries that they won't be enough to defeat "the man with six fingers," he becomes TheAlcoholic to keep his confidence up. Finally, after he manages to kill Rugen he realizes [[AndThenWhat he doesn't know what to do with his life now that it's over]].
-->'''Westley:''' And you've done nothing but study swordplay?\\
'''Inigo:''' ''[{{Beat}}]'' Well, pursued more than study lately. You see: I cannot find him. It's been twenty years, and I'm starting to lose confidence. I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills. There's not a lot of money in revenge.

-->''"Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder too-day. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, dat dweam wifin a dweam…"''

* CripplingOverspecialization: He's used to fighting multiple people at once, so he loses fast to a single, skilled fighter. He himself [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

** Andre's English was never very strong and his thick French accent makes it very hard to understand him. The fact that he has an extremely deep voice only adds to it.

* ForceAndFinesse: He's the Force to Inigo's Finesse.

* ArchEnemy: Count Rugen, the sadistic torturer who killed his father.
* BadassSpaniard: One of the most ''famous'' examples and badass in every way.

* MasterSwordsman: Only Westley can equal him in swordsmanship.

* PunchClockVillain: He says it in the film — "I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills."

'''Count Rugen''': [[FamousLastWords Anything you want...]]\\

* FamousLastWords: He says "Anything you want!" before he gets stabbed to death by Inigo.

->Portrayed by [[Series/AlasSmithAndJones Mel Smith]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's not seen after Fezzik knocks him out.

* 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. In the film, she's a little more active, making two reasonable attempts to escape captivity, and cutting Humperdinck down to size with a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech - though that has some unfortunate side-effects.

* PressurePoint: Fezzik uses a Vulcan Nerve Pinch on Buttercup. In the book, Vizzini does it.

* ThePowerOfLove: Played with in the wedding scene, where [[spoiler:she fully expects that the PowerOfLove will cause Wesley to '''magically''' appear in the nick of time to stop her wedding — despite all the walls, gates, and guards — but he doesn't come. She has a HeroicBSOD over the fact that "he didn't come," and is almost DrivenToSuicide until Wesley lets her know that since she didn't say "I do," it never happened.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tells Prince Humperdinck he's a prick in ''brutal'' fashion. Unfortunately, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero all this accomplished was driving Humperdinck to his]] RageBreakingPoint, resulting in him going down to Rugen's Pit Of Despair and attempting to painfully kill Westley out of spite.

** PlayedForDrama in the film, when Buttercup finally has enough of "The Dread Pirate Roberts" heckling her about her ArrangedMarriage to Prince Humperdink.

'''Buttercup:''' You mocked me once, never do it again! I DIED THAT DAY!

** Her beauty is enough to get her promoted to future queen, except the Prince threatens to kill her if she refuses. And he's planning to kill her anyway. In fact, if she were slightly less beautiful, the whole conflict wouldn't have happened.