Dragon Quest II/Characters

Prince of Midenhall

 * Badass Normal: He is the only one of the main three who can't use magic.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Goggles Do Nothing: Oddly enough, both Princes wear goggles as part of their headgear.
 * Hello, Insert Name Here: He is the only one of the main three that can be named.
 * The Hero
 * Heroes Prefer Swords
 * Heroic Mime
 * Jumped At the Call: Even shown literally jumping from his throne to listen to the Moonbrooke guard in the Japanese manual.
 * Lightning Bruiser: His main weakness is that he can't cast magic.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something

Princess of Moonbrooke

 * Action Girl: Of the magically inclined variety.
 * Badass Princess
 * Baleful Polymorph: The Princess of Moonbrooke gets turned into a dog before you meet her, forcing you to find out how to break the curse before you can recruit her.
 * Brown Eyes
 * Depending on the Artist: Technically, Akira Toriyama does both of her designs, but several Fan Art depictions have her act in different manners and personalities, depending on whether she has purple or blonde hair.
 * Which could count as a Does This Remind You of Anything? to another Toriyama character.
 * Hair of Gold
 * The Medic: She learns several healing spells and a few buffing spells.
 * Princesses Prefer Pink: She wears pink though it is a rather dark shade.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * Simple Staff: Her weapon of choice.
 * Squishy Wizard
 * Took a Level in Badass
 * White Magician Girl: Quite possibly the Ur Example. She definitely inspired a lot of copycats in Japan. Unlike most others, she can learn the most powerful offensive magic, as well.

Prince of Cannock

 * Anime Hair
 * Blue Eyes
 * Combat Medic: He learns several healing spells.
 * Goggles Do Nothing: Oddly enough, both Princes wear goggles as part of their headgear.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Heroes Prefer Swords: He can wield several of them.
 * Jack of All Stats
 * Playing with Fire
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * Taking You with Me: He eventually learns the Sacrifice spell. As he's also the only member capable of reviving others with his magic in the original version, this is a last-ditch tactic. Unfortunately, certain Random Encounters can also cast this for a Total Party Kill...
 * Took a Level in Badass: In the NES, his best gear was roughly The Prince of Midenhall's early to middle-game gear, and due to everyone only having TWO non-HP/MP stats, he could die A LOT if you weren't careful. He was upgraded notably in the I+II Remix.

Hargon

 * Evil Sorcerer
 * Master of Illusion
 * Religion of Evil: The Shadowtime cult that Hargon leads.

Malroth

 * Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: In the original English translation, at least. The only hint that he even existed at all was a quest item called the Eye of Malroth. More recent and accurate translations avert this, however.