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* [[Affably Evil]]: While whether he was good, evil, or somewhere in between has been widely debated for a long time, just about everyone agrees that he was always a genuinely pleasant man.
* [[A God Am I]]: During the Festival of the Supreme Being, as he came down with the festival procession, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot is quoted as saying "Look at the bugger; it's not enough for him to be master, he has to be God."▼
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: in different works.
* [[Anti-Villain]]
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* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Robespierre and his friend-turned-political-enemy Camille Desmoulins were schoolmates, and even classmates. Robespierre then had Camille Desmoulins' head off. Napoleon and Robes' younger brother Augustin were friends, as well.
** In fact Robespierre served as best man at Desmoulin's wedding.
** Also, he was the best Latin student at his school. This meant he was supposed to give a welcoming speech to the newly crowned.... King Louis XVI
* [[French Revolution]]: Obviously.▼
* [[Full-Circle Revolution]]: His downfall was related to one.▼
▲* [[A God Am I]]: During the Festival of the Supreme Being, as he came down with the festival procession, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot is quoted as saying "Look at the bugger; it's not enough for him to be master, he has to be God."
* [[God Is Dead]]: He took part to the dechristianisation of France when he tried to establish the ''Cult of Reason and the Supreme Being''. It didn't work, because of France's strong Catholic roots.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: He was actually against death penalty in his younger ages but during the French Revolutionary Wars, he began to use the guillotine against France's enemies, including the royal family. [[It Got Worse]] when Marat was murdered by a royalist.
* [[Historical Domain Character]] - [[Historical Villain Upgrade]] in most works.
▲* [[French Revolution]]: Obviously.
▲* [[Full-Circle Revolution]]: His downfall was related to one.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: He was eventually executed via guillotine, the fate he and his regime assigned to so many others.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: Going from 'lawyer highly respected by the common people' to 'main figure in a [[Reign of Terror]] who winds up being [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoisted By His Own Petard]]' would be bad enough, but a little bit of [[Verbal Irony|irony]] makes it [[It Got Worse|worse]]: in the early phases of the Revolution, Robespierre wrote a little pamphlet about ''how the death penalty is wrong, and should not be used''.<ref>He went very quickly from 'maybe it can be justified, in certain extreme circumstances' to 'it is a useful tool', thus ''Jumping Off'' The Slippery Slope</ref>
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