History Trivia / BlackButler

* FakeBrit: In the English dub, the actors are all American, mostly Texan. In Creator/JMichaelTatum's case, it comes from a lifetime of watching ''Doctor Who'' and other British shows, and a British speech therapist when he was a child, who he speaks of a lot at conventions. This trope gets a humorous nod in the "Making of Black Butler II" OVA, although some of the AnimatedActors are just faking different kinds of British accents.

* BTeamSequel: The new season will be animated by CloverWorks.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://kuroshitsuji.wikia.com/wiki/Kuroshitsuji_Wiki Kuroshitsuji Wiki]]

* IKnewIt:
** [[spoiler: A vocal minority of fans spent much time attempting to reassure the rest of the fandom that A-1 were trolling the fanbase and that Ciel and Sebastian would return in full capacity, despite the announcement of the new master and butler. Guess what happened when episode 1 aired?]]
** Some fans were guessing that [[spoiler:Alois was cross-dressing to meet Ciel]] after a preview for episode five. [[spoiler:They were right.]]
** In the murder mystery arc in the manga, a lot of people speculated that [[spoiler: Sebastian was not really dead]]; they were right. Some others also speculated that [[spoiler: a snake]] would be used to commit one or more of the murders; they were also right.
** One person on this site's WMG page predicted that [[spoiler: if Ciel gave up on revenge, he'd be breaking the contract, and Sebastian would be free to devour his soul.]]
** One fan theory speculated that [[spoiler: the Shinigami were all once humans who committed suicide and now must atone for it. This is confirmed in chapter 105.]]
** A lot of theorists speculated that [[spoiler: Ciel had an elder twin brother who was sacrificed to summon Sebastian and that said twin was the original Ciel Phantomhive. His appearance in Chapter 129 confirmed this.]]
** Ciel having experienced [[spoiler: RapeAsBackstory during his month-long imprisonment]] was speculated for a long time before chapter 135 confirmed it, though most fans who guessed it [[NightmareFuel weren't exactly happy about it...]]
** Some viewers noticed that since [[spoiler: Undertaker]] was watching afar from Kelvin's mansion there might be a chance that [[spoiler: Doll or Joker might make a reappearance.]] Come Ch. 192 [[spoiler: Doll has returned, although whether or not she's truly alive or has become a bizarre doll remains to be seen.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JohnSwasey as a [[spoiler: {{Bishonen}}.]] instead of his usual roles as either a CoolOldGuy, Middle-aged men, or EvilOldFolks.

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/KojiYusa Lau]] are [[Manga/BlueExorcist Arthur and Renzo]] and [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Silver and Shadow]].
** [[Creator/JunFukuyama Grell]] and [[Creator/TakahiroSakurai Claude]] are [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch and Suzaku]], [[Anime/{{K}} Yata and Kusanagi]] and [[Anime/OsomatsuSan Ichimatsu and Osomatsu]].
** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/JunFukuyama Grell]] are [[Anime/{{K}} Kuroh and Yata]], [[Manga/{{Wagnaria}} Jun and Souta]], [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Shizuo and Shinra]] and [[Anime/OsomatsuSan Jyushimatsu and Ichimatsu]].
** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/YuukiKaji Finnian]] are [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Shizuo and Walker]], [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Jotaro and Koichi]] and [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Erwin and Eren]].
*** In the latter, [[Creator/RomiPark Angelina]] is [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Hange]].
** [[Creator/JunFukuyama Grell]] and [[Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto Dagger]] are [[Manga/BlueExorcist Yukio and Rin]] and [[Manga/AssassinationClassroom Koro-Sensei and Karma]]; in the latter's case, [[Creator/MamoruMiyano Joker]] is a rival classmate.
** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]], [[Creator/HirokiYasumoto Agni]], [[Creator/JunFukuyama Grell]] and [[Creator/JunichiSuwabe Undertaker]] are [[Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis Tokugawa, Byodoin, Oshitari and Atobe]].
** [[Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto Dagger]] and [[Creator/YukoKaida Beast]] worked together before as [[Anime/TigerAndBunny Ivan and Agnes]]. [[Creator/MaayaSakamoto Ciel]] and [[Creator/NanaMizuki Alois]] also had minor appearances.
** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki Viscount Druitt]] are [[Manga/KurokosBasketball Midorima and Takao]] and [[Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins Dolor and Ban]]. In the same vein, quite a lot of voice actors meet in the [[Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins latter]] such as:
*** [[Creator/MaayaSakamoto Ciel]] is Merlin.
*** [[Creator/YuukiKaji Finnian]] is Meliodas.
*** [[Creator/TakahiroSakurai Claude]] is Griamore.
*** [[Creator/KojiYusa Lau]] is Grayroad.
*** [[Creator/JunFukuyama Grell]] is King.
*** [[Creator/MamoruMiyano Joker]] is Gilthunder.
** A cross-language version happens between the Japanese version and the Latin American Spanish dub, as William T. Spears' voice actors in those languages, Creator/NoriakiSugiyama and Creator/VictorUgarte respectively, already shared roles, especially in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' as Sasuke Uchiha, ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' as Uryu Ishida and in their respective dubs of ''WesternAnimation/TheEltingvilleClub'' as Peter "Pete" [=DiNunzio=].

* NamesTheSame:
** [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11252613/Meet-the-Tetley-tea-blender-whose-tastebuds-are-worth-1m.html Sebastian Michaelis, Master Tea Blender of Tetley Tea]]. They insured his taste buds for ''£1 million''. He also shares his name with an actual priest who wrote a book on demon hierarchy.
** Don't confuse Joker from the Circus arc with the other [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]].
** Nor should you confuse Ronald Knox the Grim Reaper with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Knox Ronald Knox]] the Catholic priest and detective fiction author.

* FanNickname:
** [[spoiler:Ashela, Mangela]] for Ash Landers/Angela Blanc.
** Cielois, [[spoiler:for Ciel [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin when he is possessed by Alois]].]]
** Boxchan,[[note]] A play on the words "box" and "bocchan," the latter of which is Japanese for "young master" and the title Sebastian and the servants use to address Ciel[[/note]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for any time in season II that]] [[GirlInABox Ciel is in a box]].
** After the introduction of what seemed to be [[spoiler: the real Ciel,]] some fans tried to avoid confusion by calling [[spoiler: the boy the manga follows]] "Astre." [[spoiler: It came from "Astre" being a DevelopmentGag to a potential name for Ciel and how it would pair with "Ciel" for [[StellarName Stellar]] ThemeTwinNaming.]] An alternative to "Astre" has been to [[spoiler: simply refer to the boy the manga follows as "our Ciel" and the twin as "real Ciel"]]
*** Others like to call [[spoiler:the real Ciel]] [[PunnyName "Riel"]].
*** On the Latin American fandom, [[spoiler: the twin the manga follows is nicknamed "Panchito", a nickname for people named Francisco, for no reason aside from RuleOfFunny.]]

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/BlackButlerCielPhantomhive Ciel Phantomhive]]

** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/JunFukuyama Grell]] are [[Anime/{{K}} Kuroh and Yata]], [[Manga/{{Working}} Jun and Souta]], [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Shizuo and Shinra]] and [[Anime/OsomatsuSan Jyushimatsu and Ichimatsu]].

** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/YuukiKaji Finnian]] are [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Shizuo and Walker]] and [[Manga/AttackOnTitan Erwin and Eren]].

* CrossdressingVoices: You may know Ciel's Japanese voice actress to be that of [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Haruhi Fujioka]]. He is also voiced by Creator/BrinaPalencia in the English dub.

** Grell is voiced by male actors in almost all versions (Creator/JunFukuyama in Japanese and Daniel Frederick in English) despite being a {{transgender}} woman; this was long before the push to have trans characters in media played and voiced by actors matching their preferred gender.
** On the other hand, this is averted in the Latin American Spanish dub, since Ciel is voiced by the male Marc Winslow.

** A cross-language version happens between the Japanese version and the Latin American Spanish dub, as William T. Spears' voice actors in those languages, Creator/NoriakiSugiyama and Creator/VictorUgarte respectively, already shared roles, especially in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' as Sasuke Uchiha,, ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' as Uryu Ishida and in their respective dubs of ''WesternAnimation/TheEltingvilleClub'' as Peter "Pete" [=DiNunzio=].

** A cross-language version happens between the Japanese version and the Latin American Spanish dub, as William T. Spears' voice actors in those languages, Creator/NoriakiSugiyama and Creator/VictorUgarte respectively, already shared roles, especially in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' as Sasuke Uchiha, and in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' as Uryu Ishida.

* CrossdressingVoices: You may know Ciel's seiyuu to be that of [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Haruhi Fujioka]]. He is also voiced by Creator/BrinaPalencia in the English dub.

* ActorAllusion:
** [[Creator/TakahiroSakurai Claude]]: [[Anime/CodeGeass "Yes, Your Highness."]]
** Creator/JohnSwasey voices a Shinigami called the Undertaker in the English dub, although this wouldn't be the first time he's voiced [[Manga/SoulEater a Grim Reaper.]]

* CharacterSpecificPages:
** [[Characters/BlackButlerCielPhantomhive Ciel Phantomhive]]
** [[Characters/BlackButlerSebastianMichaelis Sebastian Michaelis]]

** [[Creator/DaisukeOno Sebastian]] and [[Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki Viscount Druitt]] are [[Manga/KurokoNoBasuke Midorima and Takao]] and [[Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins Dolor and Ban]]. In the same vein, quite a lot of voice actors meet in the [[Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins latter]] such as: