History Literature / TheDeadQueensClub

* AbusiveParents: Henry's father, big time. When his oldest son dies in a car crash, what does he do? Practically straight-out tells his remaining son [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead it should've been him]]. [[spoiler: This is a big part of Henry's FreudianExcuse]].

* TheAce: Henry is [[AcademicAthlete Lancaster High School's star quarterback, an overachieving student]], a musician and composer, and ThePrankster all in one.

** Cat Parr manages to take five AP classes, run the school newspaper, and [[spoiler: date a murderer without doing anything to set him off]].

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Anne of Cleves, historically a sweet, conflict-averse, fairly naive woman, is now a snarky, irreverent feminist rebel.
** Though this version of Anne of Cleves is still pretty non-confrontational, especially when it comes to people she likes or is intimidated by.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' so much as imply to Henry that one of his girlfriends might be cheating. [[spoiler: Weaponized in the finale, when the girls lure him to an isolated location with the idea that Cat is meeting a potential love interest there in order to get him to confess his crimes.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Cleves is generally a friendly, goodhearted person who wants to find peaceful solutions to everything. But if you piss her off, ''no one'' will be able to save you. [[spoiler: Henry finds this out the hard way.]]
** Lina is pretty much universally well-liked, and it's easy to see why, but when her wrath is incurred, it's terrifying to behold.
* BigManOnCampus: This fits Henry to a T.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Katie's final scene]] is ''heartbreaking''. In a few minutes, her entire world comes crumbling down around her, and she's reduced to [[spoiler: running after Henry trying desperately to explain]]. It doesn't help that she [[spoiler: ''dies'' about two seconds later]].
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Anna]] is pretty damn broken in the hours before [[spoiler: her death]].
* BrotherSisterTeam: Anna and George form one of these.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Jane]] in a ''major'' way.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Cleves sees Parker as this when Parker [[spoiler: accuses Henry of killing Anna and Katie]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it turns out [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight she's right]].
* DeadlyPrank: Cleves thinks the Tower explosion was this.

* ExtremeDoormat: Jane Seymour seems to be this, but she's a lot feistier than most give her credit for (she just knows how to be covert about it).

* FirstPersonSmartass: Cleves practically ''defines'' this trope.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After complaining for a week about [[spoiler: Henry's new relationship with Cat being disrespectful to Katie's memory]] and being generally anti-cheating, Cleves ends up [[spoiler: making out with Henry while they're alone together in his house]]. To be fair, she calls herself on it almost immediately and feels pretty terrible afterward.

* GossipyHens: The newspaper crew (Eustace in particular).
** Parker also fills this role.

* HatedByAll: [[AdaptationalNameChange Anna Boleyn]] has virtually no one on her side during her tenure as Henry's paramour, since she's seen as stealing Henry from the [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating popular]] [[AdaptationalNameChange Lina Aragon]].

* AdaptationalNameChange: Plenty. Justified, since in the 16th century names tended to get reused a lot and it would be a source of confusion if half the characters had the same name.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[AdaptationalNameChange Anna Boleyn]] has virtually no one on her side during her tenure as Henry's paramour, since she's seen as stealing Henry from the [[OneHundredPercentAdorationRating popular]] [[AdaptationalNameChange Lina Aragon]].
-->'''Anna:''' Come to Hampton Court some morning when Henry's not there and you'll see. They hate me ten times as much as you do.

* AcademicAlphaBitch: Cat Parr could possibly serve as this
* AlphaBitch: Parker Rochford is very similar to this given how she has an uncontrollable addiction to gossip.