Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time/Characters

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The Heroes

Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal)

Dastan was born a street urchin in 6th-century Persia he was adopted by the king, after he shows valor and integrity, in an effort to prevent his two others sons from fighting over the throne.

• Anti-Hero: Type II. He drinks, bloodily dispatches enemies, and causes property damage on a ridiculus scale, though that last one isn't technically all his fualt.
• Badass
• Blue Eyes
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Even if his brothers don't like it, he'll always try to do the right thing.
• Clear My Name
• Combat Pragmatist: He's not above runing away, when the situation calls for it.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Determinator: Even being beaten to a bloody-pulp will not keep him down for long.
• Good Is Not Nice
• Happily Adopted
• I Need a Freaking Drink: His reaction when his father presents Tamina to him for an Arranged Marriage.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He may be a Jerkass at times, but he still cares.
• Made of Iron
• Manly Tears: When he fails to save his father, (both) brothers, and his Love Interest. It's pretty understanable.
• Mr. Fanservice
• Parental Abandonment: Dastan being an orphan is why the king adopted him upon being impressed with his courage and decency.
• Rags to Riches
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong
• Shirtless Scene: How adult Dastan is first introduced.
• Standard Hero Reward
• Stepping Stone Sword: He uses crossbow bolts to scale the city walls.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Dastan, the boy that risked his life to save someone wrongly persecuted ends up leading the attack on an innocent nation, though doing so from misinformation and out of a concern to avoid, as much as possible, the horrendous death tolls that the original attack plan's full frontal assault would most likely incur going by Real Life historical record.
• Warrior Prince
• You Killed My Father

Tamina (Gemma Arterton)

Princess Tamina is second protagonist of the Prince of Persia film. Tamina is a Princess whom Prince Dastan teams up with to protect the Sands of Time. While her relationship with Dastan appears to begin badly, the two eventually get over their differences.

• Action Duo: With Dastan.
• Action Girl
• Badass Damsel
• Bare Your Midriff
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Prince Dastan, of course.
• Composite Character: Princess Tamina, judging by her actions and behavior, is a combination of all the female characters from the games (Farah, Kaileena and Elika).
• Deadpan Snarker
• Defrosting Ice Queen
• Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Go-Go Enslavement
• Hair Decorations
• Hot-Blooded: One of the rare female examples.
• Indy Hat Roll: Tamina does this while she and Dastan are running from Sheik Amar and Seso.
• Informed Attractiveness
• Lady of War: Not as skilled as Dastan perhaps, but she can hold her own if she needs.
• Meet Cute
• Playing Possum: In one of many attempts to get the Dagger back from Dastan.
• Princesses Rule: Tamina, the princess of Alamut.
• Rescue Romance: Subverted, there was romance, but Tamina had to sacrifice herself so that Dastan could focus on stopping Nizan.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Tamina starts to fall for Dastan after realizing what a good person he is and how selfless he is to help her cause. That is, once Tamina tells the truth and they stop backstabbing each other.
• Statuesque Stunner
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Tsundere
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: She and Dastan snark at each other a lot when the first met.
• Woman in White
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Apparently.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Tamina believes this, what with her belief in destiny.

Sheik Amar (Alfred Molina)

Sheik Amar is an entrepreneur and an ostrich racing organizer.

• Action Duo: With Seso, though it takes a while (and the mention of gold) to get him interested in coming along.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Cloudcuckoolander: Dude, the man hosts Ostrich Races... Ostrich Races!. And he thinks he's the sane one.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Has shades of this.
• Let's Get Dangerous: Most of the time he's nothing but a useless goof. After Seso's Heroic Sacrifice, he goes into full on hero mode.
• Loveable Rogue
• Only Sane Man: Well, he'd like to think so anyway.
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Sour Supporter
• Take That: He takes a stab on taxes.
• Troll: "You know what they say about men who use big swords."
• Visual Pun: After running from a fight, he hides behind a chicken coop.
• You Talk Too Much: Seso uses up his speech token to tell his boss this when he's worrying about the dangerous mission.

Seso (Steve Toussaint)

Seso is a Ngbaka, an expert knife thrower and man-servant to Sheik Amar.

• Black Best Friend: to the Sheik Amar.
• Chekhov's Skill: His knife throwing talent.
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Improbable Aiming Skills
• I Owe You My Life: The reason for his loyalty towards Amar.
• Knife Nut: It's Lampshaded, too.
• The Lancer: To Sheik Amar.
• One-Man Army
• The Quiet One: He usually only speaks when he has something important to say.
• Scary Black Man: But he turns friendly later.
• The Silent Bob
• The Stoic
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works
• Weapon of Choice: His knives.
• You Talk Too Much: Seso uses up his speech token to tell his boss this when he's worrying about the dangerous mission.

Tus (Richard Coyle)

Tus is the first son of King Sharaman (and therefore crown prince), and adopted older brother to Dastan.

• Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the crown prince for good reason.
• Blue Eyes
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Inspector Javert: Tus and Garsiv think Dastan killed their father.
• Karmic Death: He delivers one to his treacherus uncle who killed him in the first timeline by sliting his throat. In the new timeline, he staps him first.
• Not So Above It All
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Tries to be a good king, like his father before him. Unfortunatly, his uncle had other plans.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• Sibling Team: With Dastan and Garsiv.
• Warrior Prince

Garsiv (Toby Kebbell)

Garsiv is the second son of King Sharaman and adopted older brother to Dastan. Garsiv is also the hot-headed leader of the Persian Army.

• Boisterous Bruiser: He always likes to fight his opponent head on, not a very subtile guy.
• The Brute
• Deadpan Snarker
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's apparently famous for it.
• Deadly Change-of-Heart: He gets better.
• Inspector Javert: Garsiv and Tus think Dastan killed their father.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Hidden Heart of Gold
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Hot-Blooded: He's famous for this too.
• No Indoor Voice: The one thing he's most famous for!
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• Warrior Prince

The Villains

Nizam (Ben Kingsley)

• Affably Evil
• Batman Gambit
• Bald of Evil
• Beard of Evil
• Cultured Badass
• Diabolical Mastermind
• Disney Villain Death: Subverted, he and Dastan appear to suffer one of these at first. Turns out time had been reversed instead. Though he dies for real a few moments later...
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While beating him up, Nizam remarks to Dastan his dislike of the king adopting the homeless boy and making him Prince.

Nizam: I never understood why my brother brought trash into our house! Enjoy the gutter, Dastan! It's where you will stay under my reign!

• Evil Uncle
• Guyliner
• Kick the Dog: Killing Tus without any mercy or hesitation. How could he not become a Complete Monster after that?
• Make Wrong What Once Went Right: His master plan of going back in time so that he wouldn't save his brothers life and be crowned king himself.
• Revealing Injury: Dastan realizes his uncle is the true Big Bad when he notices that his hands are burned from handling the poisoned mantle that killed the king - despite having never touched the robe onscreen.
• Treacherous Advisor
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Saving his brother's life and all. Well, until he became resentful.
• Wicked Cultured
• Villainous Breakdown: At the end of the movie, with his plans ruined by Dastan (because he had already lived through all the events and knew what would happen), Nizam furiously attacks him, thus making evident he was the conspirator.

The Hassansins' Leader (Zolm) (Gísli Örn Garðarsson)

• The Dragon
• Evil Sounds Deep: Surprisingly so.
• Eye Scream
• Family-Unfriendly Death: bitten in the eye by his own snake, impaled by Dastan's scimitar, and finally thrown into a Bottomless Pit, just to be sure. For a Disney film (and not of a subsidiary, but Disney itself), there's quite a bit of this trope in play.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His favorite tactic was to call one of his pet snakes to attack, so Tamina grabs it and forces it to bite HIM in the climax.
• Icy Blue Eyes
• Made of Iron
• Perpetual Frowner

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