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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]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|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]]
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* [[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<ref> there's a reason attacking walled cities tended towards long sieges to starve out the defenders, after all</ref>.
* [[Warrior Prince]]
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* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* [[Go -Go Enslavement]]
* [[Hair Decorations]]
* [[Hot Blooded]]: One of the rare female examples.
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* [[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]]
* [[Worlds Most Beautiful Woman]]: Apparently.
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* [[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. {{spoiler|After Seso's [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he goes into full on hero mode.}}
* [[Loveable Rogue]]
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* [[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.
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* [[The Brute]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: He's apparently famous for it.
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]: He gets better.
* [[Inspector Javert]]: Garsiv and Tus think Dastan [[You Killed My Father|killed their father]].
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* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The one thing he's ''most'' famous for!
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]
* [[Warrior Prince]]
 
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* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Surprisingly so.
* [[Eye Scream]]
* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: [[Eye Scream|bitten in the eye]] by {{spoiler|his own snake}}, impaled by Dastan's scimitar, ''[[Rule of Three|and]]'' finally thrown into a [[Bottomless Pit]], [[No Kill Like Overkill|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, {{spoiler|so Tamina grabs it and forces it to bite ''HIM'' in the climax.}}
* [[Icy Blue Eyes]]