Characters / Gone with the Wind: Others

Scarlett's children

Wade Hampton Hamilton

• Adapted Out: Wade was going to appear as per Sidney Howard's original screenplay as well as a costume sketch of him as an infant with Prissy◊, but was eventually deleted. He does however appear in the 2008 West End musical adaptation.
• Dead Guy Junior: As per tradition in the South, he's named not after his father, but after his father's general in the war.
• Nervous Wreck: In his toddler years, Wade was frequently shown as being shy and easily frightened, to the point of continually having nightmares about the war, fearing that Yankees would just come after him at any time. Scarlett didn't give two shits about comforting him and being there for him, often scolding him for his frequent crying, seeing him as a nuisance, and telling him to be a man. Obviously, this didn't work, and while his nightmares and fear subsided as he got older, he is still a nervous child. It's telling that the book even outright says that he infinitely preferred Melanie and Rhett over his own mother, which is understandable, since they actually cared about him and didn't constantly yell at him over trivial things, something the book points out.
• Third-Person Person: He talks like that when he's little but grows out of it eventually.
• Troubled Child: The experience of the siege in Atlanta as a tiny child leaves him with lasting trauma.

Ella Lorena Kennedy

• Adapted Out: As with Wade, she is only featured in the 2008 West End musical.
• Dead Guy Junior: Her first name is a version of "Ellen", her maternal grandmother's name.
• Hidden Depths: When Scarlett returns from Tara after her miscarriage, she rather proudly reveals that Ella bit one of Suellen's daughters and that the two squabbled like their mothers used to, implying that for all her silliness, she has some of her mother's fighting spirit.
• Middle Child Syndrome: Whereas her youngest child Bonnie is her favorite and she's genuinely sad to realize that her oldest child Wade is afraid of her, Scarlett irritably dismisses Ella as "silly" after trying to bond with her and it's Ella who she wishes had died instead of Bonnie.
• The Un-Favorite: Out of all her children, Scarlett finds Ella to be the worst, to the point that when Bonnie died, Scarlett wished that Ella had died instead.

Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler

• Death of a Child: She dies no thanks to her own father, her pet pony and a bar raised a little too high...just like her grandfather.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Eugenia Victoria, but because of her blue eyes—"like the bonnie blue flag"—everyone calls her Bonnie.
• Spoiled Sweet: Out of Scarlett's three children, Bonnie is the only one whom is acknowledged by her mother and is fairly nice. Rhett, however, spoils her a bit too much; even Scarlett warns him about her lack of discipline. She is utterly disobedient and he is unable to stop her from making a dangerous jump with her pony that ends with her falling and breaking her neck.
• Symbolically Broken Object: As Scarlett and Rhett's child, she represents their marriage. . . and her death represents its end.

The Robillards

Pierre Robillard

Scarlett's maternal grandfather.

• Abusive Dad: He was very strict and controlling to the point where he is feared by Pauline and Eulalie. Justified by the fact that he was a military officer in Napoleon’s army at some point in his youth.
• Adapted Out: He does not appear in the 1939 movie, but he does appear in the televised adaptation of Scarlett.
• Calling the Old Man Out: After Scarlett refuses his offer to take ownership of his house in the sequel, she tells Pierre that there's more to life than money.
• French Jerk: Is an enormous French snob who looks down on anybody who isn’t even remotely wealthy.
• Grumpy Old Man: Even in his old age, he is still a terror to both his servants and Eulalie and Pauline, but Scarlett doesn’t fear him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: To everyone, especially his own daughters. The reason why he allowed Ellen to marry Gerard was because he feared she would end up as a nun. His nicer qualities are shown in the sequel Scarlett where he offers her his home once he passes...that is, if she makes no contact with the O'Hara's of Savannah. Scarlett, preferring to remain true to her O'Hara lineage, turns his offer down, telling him that there are more important things in life than money. Eventually, he dies midway through the story, leaving his estate in the hands of Pauline and Eulalie.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He loses Ellen to typhoid in 1864.
• Rich Bastard: He sees the O’Hara family, including Gerald, as nothing more than peasants.
• The Scrooge: Scarlett mentally accuses him of being a skinflint in the sequel.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Shows nothing but utter contempt for Gerald O’Hara and his family, even though they are in-laws, caring more about class than character.

Pauline and Eulalie

Scarlett's aunts.

• Adapted Out: They do not appear in the 1939 movie, but they do appear in the televised adaptation of Scarlett.
• Cowardly Lion: Eulalie and Pauline are timid and cowardly around their father and Scarlett calls them out on this, albeit mentally.
• Mrs. Exposition: In both versions of Scarlett, the two bring their niece up to speed on the events going on in Charleston.
• Rich Bitch: Pauline and Eulalie have a rather snobby attitude towards the O’Hara’s of Savannah, even calling them poor and illiterate.
• Those Two Ladies: They are always seen together in both stories.

Solange Robillard

Ellen's mother.

• Like Grandmother, Like Granddaughter: Like Scarlett, Solange married thrice, each marriage producing Pauline, Eulalie and Ellen. She also had any number of beaus and wore shockingly low-cut dresses - very similar to Scarlett wearing her low-necked dancing dress to the barbeque.
• Meaningful Name: Her name means "solemn", "dignified", or "angel of the sun". The first two can be attributed to the Robillard family in general.
• Posthumous Character: She is already dead by the events of the book.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Pierre points out to Scarlett in the televised adaptation of the sequel that she bears some kind of resemblance to Solange.

Philippe Robillard

• Adapted Out: Ellen makes no mention of him in the film.
• Kissing Cousins: He and Ellen were in love before his death in a bar fight.
• The Lost Lenore: He was Ellen's first love.
• Posthumous Character: He is already dead by the beginning of the book.
• Say My Name: Ellen's is his.

The O'Haras

James and Andrew

Gerald's brothers and Scarlett's uncles.

• Adapted Out: James does not appear in the 1939 film, but he does appear in the televised adaptation of Scarlett. Andrew doesn’t appear in either version as he is already dead by the events of said sequel.
• Remember the New Guy?: We get to meet more of their extended family in Scarlett.

The Tarleton Family

Jim Tarleton

The family patriarch.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He loses all four of his sons to the war.

Beatrice Tarleton

The family matriarch.

• Abusive Parents: A pretty mild example. She beats her sons even in their adult years. Generally though she's a good mother and her children all adore her.
• Adapted Out: She does not physically appear in the movie.
• Animal Lover: She likes horses and used to breed them before the war came. She is heartbroken upon losing them.
• Broken Bird: Beatrice becomes this after losing her four boys and her horses. She eventually recovers though.
• Fiery Redhead: Headstrong and vivacious and has passed on her red hair to all her children.
• One of the Boys: She is a grown-up, Southern lady version of a tomboy who can drink and ride as well as any man. She and Gerald are good friends due to both being bold, outspoken and passionate about horses.
• Outliving One's Offspring: She loses all four of her sons to the war.

Boyd Tarleton

The youngest son.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie, despite his twin brothers appearing.
• Death of a Child: Ends up getting killed in the war.

Tom Tarleton

The second son.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie, despite his brothers appearing.
• Death of a Child: Ends up getting killed in the war.

Hetty, Camilla, 'Randa and Betsy

The four Tarelton girls.

• Action Girl: They survive the war.
• Adapted Out: From the movie.

The Calvert Family

Hugh Calvert

The family patriarch.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie.
• Marry the Nanny: His second wife is his children's former governess.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He loses his son Raiford to the war.

The Second Mrs. Calvert

The family matriarch.

• Adapted Out: She does not appear in the movie.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She is only referred to as "the second Mrs. Calvert."
• Fish out of Water: She's Mr Calvert's former governess from the North and a yankee and therefore unable to fit in. Tensions become worse after the war, when the Calverts are forced to live under obligation to their Yankee overseer, Mr Hilton.
  Mrs. Calvert seemed ready to weep. She had somehow made a blunder. She was always blundering. She just couldn't understand Southerners, for all that she had lived in Georgia twenty years.
• Outliving One's Offspring: She loses her son Raiford to the war.

Cathleen Calvert

Scarlett's prewar friend and Raiford and Cade's sister.

• Brainless Beauty: At first in the novel, which is what allows her to be the closest thing Scarlett has to a girl-friend. This disappears rapidly after the war, implying that her empty-headed, girlish veneer was, like Scarlett's, just the result of her being brought up to act the part of a Southern Belle.
• Broken Bird: Loses nearly everything in the war, including her brothers, and like Scarlett goes from an "empty-headed" one-time belle to a hardened and cynical young woman.
• Demoted to Extra: She only appears at the barbecue scene in the movie.
• Defiled Forever: While technically she submits to the marriage of her on volition, it's shown she resents it greatly; and it destroys her, making her nothing but a piece of sad white trash.
• Don'tYouDarePityMe: After she tells Melanie and Scarlett about her marriage of necessity to Mr. Hilton.
  Cathleen: If you cry, Melly, I can't stand it. I shall die!"
• Gossipy Hens: She knows all about Rhett Butler's previous affair that ruined his former girlfriend.
• Small Role, Big Impact: At least in the movie compared to her role in the book. It is she who introduces Scarlett to Rhett Butler.

The Elsing Family

Hugh Elsing

The son of Mrs. Elsing and Fanny's brother.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie.

Mrs. Elsing

The family matriarch.

• Adapted Out: She does not appear in the movie.
• Co-Dragons: To India and Archie, or at least, she sides with them during the feud in Atlanta sparked by Scarlett hugging Ashley in the lumber mill.
• Gossipy Hens / Grand Dame: With Mrs. Merriweather and Mrs. Meade.
• Green-Eyed Monster: She hates Scarlett because of how popular she is compared to her own daughter.
• Terrible Trio: With herself, India and Archie.

Fanny Elsing

The daughter of Mrs. Elsing.

• Demoted to Extra: She only appears at the bazaar scene in the movie.

The Fontaine Family

Dr. Fontaine

The family patriarch.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He loses his son Joe to the war.

"Young Miss" Fontaine

The family matriarch.

• Adapted Out: She is nowhere to be seen in the movie.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": She is mostly referred to as "Young Miss".
• Outliving One's Offspring: She loses her son Joe to the war.

Tony Fontaine

Brother of Joe and Alex.

• Demoted to Extra: He only appears in the charity bazaar scene in the movie, and most of his actions in the novel, such his murders of Jonas Wilkerson and his own foreman Eustis, are either omitted or happened off screen.
• Knight Templar: He kills at least two Asshole Victims in the novel: Jonas Wilkerson and his own foreman Eustis, due to Jonas supposedly telling the freed slaves they had a right to rape black women and one approaching his sister-in-law (although he didn't do anything besides talk to her before Tony shot him down).
• Run for the Border: He flees to Texas after killing Jonas and Eustis.

Alex Fontaine

Brother of Joe and Tony.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie.

Joe Fontaine

Sally Munroe's husband and the brother of Alex and Tony.

• Adapted Out: He is nowhere to be seen in the movie.

Grandma Fontaine

• Adapted Out: From the movie.
• Brutal Honesty: Very sharp-tongued, which intimidates the younger Miss Fontaines. Ties in with No Sympathy.
• Cool Old Lady: She is very wise, as shown when she tries to get India Wilkes to get over the loss of both her fiancées. She shocks the younger Mrs Fontaines when she tells them frankly that if they have to pick the cotton themselves, they'll do it.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her whole family was massacred in the Creek Uprising when she was a teenager. She watched it happen from where she was hiding in the bushes, then walked for three days through the swamps to the nearest settlement.
• Iron Lady: Described as "porcelain-frail but indomitable."
  Grandma Fontaine: I've never been afraid of anything or anybody because I'd known the worst that could happen to me. And that lack of fear has gotten me into a lot of trouble and cost me a lot of happiness. God intended women to be timid frightened creatures and there's something unnatural about a woman who isn't afraid.
• No Sympathy: Her reaction to being told the Yankees burned a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of cotton: "Be glad it wasn't your house."
• Senior Creep: Scarlett sees her as this.
• Sole Survivor: Her brothers, sisters and mother were all murdered right in front of her.

Sally Munroe Fontaine

Joe's widow.

• Adapted Out: From the movie.
• Happily Married: She loses Joe in the war, but she gets married again to his brother Alex.

Eustis

The slave foreman on the Fontaine plantation.

• Adapted Out: From the movie.
• Laser-Guided Karma / Asshole Victim: Tries hitting on Sally, but Tony kills him.

Historical Characters

Governor Bullock

• Adapted Out: The closest thing he gets to a mention in the movie are George Cukor's screen tests of Scarlett and Melanie when the former accuses the latter of insulting her...in a scene that never made it into the movie.
• Dirty Coward: He resigns from office and flees, much to the chagrin of his supporters and fellow Atlanteans.

Ku Klux Klan

• Adapted Out: Due to the controversial KKK scenes in Birth of a Nation, the Hays Office's influence as well as David O. Selznick's sympathies towards the Jews of Europe, all references to the Klan have been removed from the movie.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: Within the context of the book, they're presented as a mundane business club—which Scarlett genuinely believes is what Frank belongs to—only formed to protect innocent white women from the "bad" freed slaves because the local military refuses to do anything. Indeed, the scene where we learn that nearly all of the townsmen are members is when they go out to avenge the attack on Scarlett. India outright tells her that she should have been proud of Frank for being involved. There's conveniently no mention of how the Klan really acted—terrorizing and murdering freed slaves and their supporters for little to no reason.
• Lifesaving Misfortune: Rhett is snubbed by the townspeople because he's not a member and associates with the Yankee soldiers. But because of this, he's aware of the military's plan to arrest and hang them for the Shantytown raid and able to warn them.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: They despise black Americans. Rhett isn't a member, but he still goes all out to help them when he learns of their plan, and even vows to join them if necessary so that Bonnie will be accepted in society.
• Vigilante Militia: They hang a black man arrested for rape and the moment that we learn that all the townsmen are members is when they go out to avenge the attack on Scarlett.