Gankutsuou/Characters

Albert de Morcerf

 * Beauty Mark
 * Bishounen
 * Bi the Way: Arguably
 * Even the Guys Want Him: His best friend Franz liked him
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: In both Japanese and English, is voiced by Lelouch.
 * Ho Yay: With Franz and the Count
 * Horrible Judge of Character
 * Idiot Hero: With tragic results
 * Oedipus Complex
 * Oblivious to Love: Both towards Eugenie's attraction to him and.

The Count of Monte Cristo

 * Affably Evil
 * Badass
 * Beard of Evil: Dantes was clean-shaven, while the Count has a beard
 * Broken Ace
 * Byronic Hero: A villainous example.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Consummate Liar
 * Darker and Edgier: While the Count from the original novel was a Type IV or arguably a Type V Anti-Hero, here's he's undoubtly a Villain Protagonist, and is much more devious and ruthless with some of his tactics. That probably has a lot to do with the  this adapation brings along.
 * Death Glare: He pulls off a few; particularly noticeable during his last meeting with Danglars.
 * Devil in Plain Sight as well as Obviously Evil
 * Evil Versus Evil
 * Fangs Are Evil
 * False Friend: to Albert, but with some Becoming the Mask
 * Large Ham
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Our Vampires Are Different: Technically not a vampire, but looks like one, and is compared to one in more than one occasion as a Shout-Out to the original novel, where he is briefly compared to Polidori's Lord Ruthven, one of the earliest examples of suave gentleman vampires in fiction.
 * Redemption Equals Death
 * Sanity Slippage
 * Slasher Smile
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * The Unfettered
 * Villain Protagonist
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: And blue skin, apparently.
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * The Unfettered
 * Villain Protagonist
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: And blue skin, apparently.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: And blue skin, apparently.

Franz d'Epinay

 * Ho Yay: Toward Albert
 * Impoverished Patrician: reveals later on that this is why he's expected by marry Valentine, who is new money, but wealthy.
 * I Wished You Were Dead: As a child, said this to his father, who died right afterward, and he's been feeling guilt for that ever since.
 * Love Hurts
 * - could definitely be seen this way
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Franz's defining trope.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Franz's defining trope.

Eugenie Danglars

 * Tsundere
 * - implied to ultimately be this

Maximilien Morel

 * Gentle Giant
 * Huge Guy: To Valentine
 * Uptown Girl: He loves Valentine and is considered unsuitable for her, because of his lower class.

Valentine de Vilefort

 * Arranged Marriage: Has been set up to marry Franz since they were both children.
 * : Not intentionally, but this is definitely one reason Franz initially pursues their arranged marriage.
 * Ill Girl.
 * Tiny Girl: To Maximilien
 * Proper Lady

Mercedes de Morcerf

 * Kikuko Inoue
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Fernand de Morcerff aka Fernand Mondego

 * Fake Ultimate Hero
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * Villainous Breakdown

Danglars

 * Cool Shades
 * Fat Bastard- although he was skinnier and better looking as a young man (but always a bastard)
 * Greed
 * Nouveau Riche

Vilefort

 * Hanging Judge
 * I Was Quite a Looker: Flashbacks show the young Vilefort to be a Bishonen with a much friendlier expression. It's suggested that being evil along with age gave him his current appearance.
 * High-Class Glass
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Scary Shiny Monocle

Peppo

 * The Imp - she's not outright malicious, but she LOVES screwing with Albert's naiveté
 * - implied to be the reason she ultimately helps Albert
 * Meido
 * - implied to be the reason she ultimately helps Albert
 * Meido

Andrea Cavalcanti aka Bendetto

 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He briefly seems to be a highly cultured fop and a decent guy, and continues to put on that persona, but he's really a total psychopath.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: Oddly enough, since he's an Evil Redhead in the novel, anime!Beauchamp seems to have gotten novel!Andrea's appearance.
 * Bishonen
 * and : Does the first by Attempted Rape and the second consensually and probably knew what he was doing in both cases (certainly in the second).
 * Complete Monster
 * : Probably because of his unreported fate in the original novel
 * According to Wikipedia, So maybe he didn't get away.
 * Princess Curls
 * : It's not called attention to, but he looks a lot like another character, except for his Hellish Pupils.
 * : It's not called attention to, but he looks a lot like another character, except for his Hellish Pupils.