Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/Characters

Professor Pierre Arronaux
A Professor of nautical science from France.


 * Agent Mulder: He is firmly convinced the sea monster at the beginning of the story is a giant narwhal, and while his reasoning is plausible based on limited evidence, he admits to believing such is the truth based on little more than blind faith.
 * The Professor: It is his title, after all, and as narrator, he often segues into scientific monologues.

Conseil
The loyal Flemish manservant of Professor Arronaux.


 * Undying Loyalty: To Professor Arronaux.
 * Third Person Person: How he refers to everyone, to Arronaux's occasionally annoyance.
 * True Neutral: Explicitly referred to as being unwilling to do anything on his own initiative and accused of being what amounts to this by Ned Land. In truth,m he's closer to an extreme version of Lawful Neutral, that being defined by Professor Arronaux's wishes.

Ned Land
A Canadian harpooner.


 * Agent Scully: Refuses to accept the sea monster is a giant narwhal. His reasoning for this isn't very exact, but he rejects it as being the truth. He discovers he's right, but not for any reasons he is happy about later.

Captain Nemo
The enigmatic captain of the Nautilus.


 * Above Good and Evil: Claims to be above any such notions save for some allowances for natural laws (as in, every human has a right to expect kindness from others if it's in their power to grant it), but otherwise makes clear his morality is disconnected from the ones defined by the "civilized" world.
 * Commanding Coolness: Good or evil, he is no doubt an incredible sailor and a born commander.
 * Deal with the Devil: Offers a deal to spare the lives of the protagonists in exchange for accepting occasional confinement for unspecified reasons at occasional intervals,and given the alternative is being left to die, the protagonists have little choice but to accept at the time.