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* [[Badass Boast]]: Cyrano’s gasconades are spread among the entire play beginning with Act I Scene IV.
{{quote| '''De Guiche:''' Oh, ay! Another Gascon boast!}}
* [[Base Breaker]]: Played [[In -Universe]] at Act II Scene VII when Cyrano finds [[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]] identifiable, compelling, sympathetic and worthy of imitation, whereas Count De Guiche finds him absolutely insufferable.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Being a member of Les Precieuses, Roxane believes that if Christian is fair, [[Beauty Equals Goodness|therefore he must be eloquent]]:
* [[The Beard]]: Viscount de Valvert is willing to marry Roxane so Count De Guiche will bully her to be his [[The Mistress|mistress]].
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* [[Composite Character]]: Le Bret and Carbon in the Burgess adaptation.
* [[Conspicuous Consumption]]: Cyrano combines it with [[A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted]], as he confides to Le Bret that [[Buy Them Off|the bag of crowns he used to pay the entrance fees of the Burgundy Theater]] was his parental bounty, and so he has not money for the rest of the month. Even when Le Bret scolds Cyrano for his folly, Cyrano calls this ''"a graceful act"''. This conduct explains better than anything why Cyrano is condemned to a life of [[Perpetual Poverty]].
* [[Crack is Cheaper]]: This attitude is shown [[In -Universe]] (and deconstructed) by the baker [[Fan Dumb|Ragueneau]] in this play. His wife Lise remembers a time when he was a normal person, a [[Supreme Chef]] with a successful bakery. But then he get infatuated with the poets and his lifestyle. At the first Act, he pays theater’s tickets with pies. At the second Act, he accepts poems in return from his food, [[Conspicuous Consumption|he pays too much money to an assistant for baking a pie with the form of a lyre]] and cannot renounce to even one of his precious poems. He will be completely ruined in the beginning of the third Act, [[Your Cheating Heart|abandoned by his neglected wife Lisa]] and he will attempt an [[Interrupted Suicide]].
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The highly probable outcome of any battle ([[Volleying Insults|of wits]] or [[Sword Fight|of swords]]) with Cyrano.
* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: In this play, the [[Dare to Be Badass]] is not a [[Call to Adventure]] from the [[Threshold Guardians]], but a dare to try [[Bullying a Dragon]] from a [[Jerkass]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]] repeatedly.
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* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Cyrano's performance at the Burgundy Theater.
* [[Excuse Me While I Multitask]]: Cyrano composes a ballad in honor of his opponent while in the midst of a swordfight.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: An example [[In -Universe]], when Cyrano is tempted to accept a patronage from Cardenal Richelieu, but then De Guiche mentions the one thing Cyrano will not tolerate -- someone touching his verses.
* [[Exposition Party]]: Act I Scene II. Before ''La Clorise'' begins, all the important characters are in the theater. Some of them are presented to the [[Naive Newcomer]] Christian, and [[Mr. Exposition]] Ligniere talks about the relationship between Roxane, De Guiche and Valvert. The protagonist himself is absent, so everyone talks about him... because he promised to ruin the play they intend to attend.
* [[Expy]]:
** The Duenna is an expy of The Nurse from ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.
** Raguenau is an expy of M. Jourdain, protagonist of ''Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'' (a play by [[Moliere]].)
** Cyrano is an expy of Grisóstomo, a character from ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]''.
** Le Bret is an expy of Ambrosio, best friend of Grisóstomo, a character from ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]''.
** Roxane is an expy of Marcela, a character from ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]''.
** ''The Hero Of Romance '' is an expy and [[Spear Counterpart]] of Dulcinea, a character from ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]'': A [[Shadow Archetype]] who [[Shallow Love Interest|embodies all that is lovable (and none of the defects) of a woman or a man]], and that only lives in the mind of his lover.
* [[False Friend]]: The poets who frequent Raguenau's company claim to love his poetry, but they only want to leech off him. Le Bret lampshades that the true sign of success in Paris at [[The Cavalier Years]] is being surrounded by False Friends.
* [[Farce]]: A blend of [[Farce]] and [[Tragedy]].
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* [[Large Ham]]: Depardieu as Cyrano in [[The Movie]].
* [[The Last DJ]]: Cyrano dares to refuse Cardinal Richelieu's patronage as a playwright because [[Executive Meddling|Richelieu could alter his lines]].
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: This play is a blend of farce and drama, and his first act is placed at the Burgundy Theater. Cyrano has interrumpted the [[Show Within a Show]] ''La Clorise''. The rest of the theater actors are rehearsing a new play, and Cyrano invites them to look at a [[Sword Fight]] he will have with one hundred men. [[It Makes Sense in Context]], but it still feels as though Cyrano is talking about his own play.
* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]: Cyrano invokes this trope when Roxane and her Duenna met him at the bakery of the poets (Roxane's Duenna is supposed to be her chaperone). Cyrano bribes the Duenna with pastries and ask her to eat them in the street, so he can have some privacy with Roxane.
* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: Cyrano tells Christian that Roxane chose to love him.
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'''Cyrano:''' [[Blatant Lies|None in the world.]] <br />
'''Lise:''' ''(shaking her finger at him)'' Methinks you speak not the truth in saying that! <br />
'''Cyrano:''' [[The Adventures of Pinocchio (Literature)|Did you see my nose quiver when I spoke?]] 'Faith, it must have been a<br />
monstrous lie that should move it! }}
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Invoked by Cyrano's improvised poem ''The Bold Cadets of Gascony'', where he describes the life of a Gascon Cadet as nothing more than brawling, swaggering, hiding they are poor, getting badass sobriquets, chasing married women, and [intimidating their husbands.
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* [[Practical Joke]]: The Pages in the upper gallery pull up a Burgher's wig on the end of a string.
* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]]: Cyrano [[Discussed Trope|discusses this trope]] with Le Bret and vows to [[Defied Trope|defy it]].
* [[Protection From Editors]]: [[In -Universe]]: The real reason behind Cyrano's rejection of patronage.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] meets [[Truth in Television]]: For centuries, the Gascons have had this reputation among the French.
* [[Purple Prose]]: In the [[Show Within a Show]] ''La Clorise''.
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{{quote| '''Cyrano:''' ... And, shortly, you shall see what you shall see!}}
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** After Cyrano fights a duel while improvising a poem early in the play, [[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|d'Artagnan]] (also a Gascon) [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|shows up briefly]] to tell him how cool it was. In real life they were contemporaries -- it would be surprising if Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) and d'Artagnan (1615-1673) had not run into each other quite a bit.
** In Act I Scene VII: Theophrast Reunadet (talented creator of the first paper, [[Wide -Eyed Idealist|famous philanthropist who died in poverty]]) shows up briefly only to be dismissed by Cyrano (''"Who cares?"''). Renaudet was homely, and this affected him throughout his life (the real Cyrano seemed not so affected by this).
** Also to Tito and Berenice and Cesar and Cleopatra, two of the most famous romances in history, ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio (Literature)|The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'', and ''[[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]]''.
* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]: Cyrano picks up one in the theater.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Cyrano accuses Cardinal Richelieu of this when he dismisses the idea of him being bothered by the interruption of ''La Clorise''.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Roxane is known as "Roxana" in the Anthony Burgess version.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: de Guiche for Roxane, despite that he is already married.
* [[Starving Artist]]: From Act I through Act V (that’s fifteen years), Cyrano’s friends constantly comment on how he rarely eats well. It's not that Cyrano is a bad artist; it's just that he writes satiric letters denouncing false people –- namely, everyone.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Cyrano is a Type A, obsessed with not projecting an image of sadness in order to be accepted by his peers.
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* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Between acts, Cyrano fights (and defeats!) one hundred thugs, saves Raguenau’s life doing an [[Interrupted Suicide]], manages to write love letters beautiful enough to make Roxane fall more madly in love with Christian, and to pick De Guiche’s scarf from the battlefield.
* [[Take That]]:
** Cyrano and his troops are enemies of [[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|musketeers]], who are presented as lecherous thugs whose courage doesn't match their boastfulness [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and who don’t pay their theatre tickets]]. Something of this can also possibly be seen toward the famous playwright [[Moliere|Molière]] (in part because, as mentioned in the play, his play ''Scapin'' was plagiarized from Cyrano). Roxane is one of the ''Précieuses'' ridiculed by [[Moliere|Molière]] but is a fairly level-headed, sympathetic character. Ragueneau kind of fits the model of [[Moliere|Molière's]] cuckolded characters and idolizes [[Moliere|Molière]], but when he finally gets a job with him, realizes his idol is an example of [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]. Fictional Cyrano acuses Sercy, ([[Historical Domain Character|the historical editor of the historical Cyrano’s books]]) of practicing [[Vanity Publishing]], [[Don't Explain the Joke|implying that the historical Cyrano indulged in this practice]].
* [[Think Nothing of It]]: Cyrano does not claim the credit for the victory over one hundred thugs; he even denies being the hero. Then subverted Roxane, the only person he cares about, really think's nothing of his victory.
* [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet]]
* [[Triang Relations]]: Type 4.
* [[True Beauty Is Onon the Inside]]: Cyrano is too cynical to believe people actually believe this. Nevertheless, he invokes this trope at Act I Scene IV when Viscount De Valvert mocks his poor clothes:
{{quote| '''Cyrano''': True; all my elegances are within.}}
* [[Two-Person Love Triangle]]: Roxane and Cyrano have become this by the end.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: At Act II Scene VI, Cyrano and Roxane tenderly remember when they were children and played each spring at Cyrano's house at Bergerac. Cyrano is in love with his cousin Roxane, and they were childhoods friends, but but she can only see him as a brother.
* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: de Guiche tries to orchestrate one for Christian.
* [[Vanity Publishing]]: [[In -Universe]]: [[Starving Artist|Cyrano]] [[Discussed Trope|discuss this trope]] with [[The Watson|Le Bret]], claiming that he will [[Defied Trope|not pay an editor named Sercy to print his verses]].
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: A strange case, combined with a subverted [[Roman à Clef]] where the names did not change, according to [http://cyranose.wikispaces.com/the+real+Cyrano this wiki about the play].
* [[Volleying Insults]]: Viscount de Valvert and Cyrano engage in this in Act I Scene IV.
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* [[The Watson]]: Le Bret. In half of his dialogue with Cyrano, he asks Cyrano the same questions the audience must be asking (ex. "Why in hell did you something so jerkish/stupid/selfdestructive?"), and Cyrano explains what's going on.
* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Roxane's requirement that her guy prove how special she is to him via poetic genius is reminiscent of this.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Does Viscount de Valvert survive his [[Sword Fight]] with Cyrano in Act I Scene IV or not? The last we see of him is that his friends carry him offstage after his defeat.
* [[When She Smiles]]: Joked as the reason Roxane made it past enemy lines.
{{quote| '''Carbon:''' True, ''that smile is a passport!''}}
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