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[[The Protagonist]], Edmond Dantes stumbles upon a great fortune after escaping from a years-long imprisonment and returns to France to seek vengeance on his enemies.
* [[A God Am I]]: Not literally, but the Count initially sees himself as an avenging angel, sent by God to reward the just (the Morrel family) and punish the wicked (Danglars, Villefort, Caderousse and Mondego). His hubris comes back to haunt him in the worst way possible.
* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV]].
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
* [[Secret Identity Identity]]: Not only is Dantes' personality swallowed up into the persona of the Count, but he also has other personas (Lord Wilmore and Sinbad the Sailor) which he takes on when performing charitable actions, not to mention that of a priest, the Abbe Busoni, who has a similar personality to Abbe Faria. (''Gankutsuou'' pushes this trope to the extreme by making the Count unable to identify with or as Edmond Dantes, whom he repeatedly says "died in prison and was reborn as the Count of Monte Cristo".) In the end, he reconciles the two identities, signing his last known letter as "Your friend Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo". <br /><br />The Wilmore one is particularly weird, since Wilmore has light hair as opposed to the Count's dark hair, and identifies himself as an enemy of the Count- so basically, the main personality (The Count) is the evil (or at least ruthless) one and Wilmore is Dantes' suppressed good side.
* [[Took a Level
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: At first, he's portrayed sympathetically, with many parallels to Dantes. However, he becomes a villain when he discovers Dantes has information that makes him a threat to his reputation, and, panicking, sends an innocent man to rot in a dungeon.
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* [[Hanging Judge]]
* [[Hypocrite]]
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: In an unusual twist, this trope is applied to Villefort at the ''start'' of the novel. He initially feels a terrible guilt at framing Dantes and sending him to prison, but he represses it and lets Dantes rot anyway. Even then, though, it's implied that his guilt doesn't go away so easily.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The most severe of any of Dantes' enemies. By the end of the book, {{spoiler|he's babbling nonsense and digging holes in his yard, completely insane}}.
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Monte Cristo's revenge on Danglars consists of having him kidnapped and imprisoned by Luigi Vampa. Vampa and the Count then put Danglars through the same hell that Dantes went through, with the added twist of forcing him to choose between his money and his life by charging him exorbitant prices for his food. Monte Cristo takes the money and returns it to the French hospitals Danglars embezzled it from.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]
* [[Driven by Envy]]
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: After the ordeal the Count puts him through, Danglars' hair turns completely white.
* [[Morally-Bankrupt Banker]]
* [[Redemption Equals Life]]: After learning the hard way to value his life more than his money, Danglars repents and begs for forgiveness. Monte Cristo ultimately grants Danglars' request, and lets him leave with 50,000 francs he earned honestly. The Count [[Lampshades]] the fact that Danglars got off more easily than Mondego and Caderousse (who are both dead), and Villefort (who's completely insane).
* [[The Resenter]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]
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* [[Fatal Flaw]]: She cannot bear loneliness, and marries Fernand out of desperation rather than love while still grieving for Edmond. {{spoiler|After Fernand's death and Albert joins the army, leaving her all alone once more, she sinks into depression.}}
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Initially, keeps insisting to Fernand that they are this.
* [[Princess in Rags]]: {{spoiler|At the end, she loses most of her possessions and joins a convent.}}
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Death Equals Redemption]]: Dantes' revealing his identity causes him to realize the existence/goodness of God and pray for forgiveness as he dies}}
* [[Gold Fever]]
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Caderousse, the one member of the conspiracy who ''doesn't'' become fabulously wealthy, is both very greedy and very jealous of those who have wealth. His avarice leads him to commit at least one murder and several robberies, the last of which is his attempt to rob Monte Cristo's house.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Caderousse gets one of these when he's murdered by Benedetto after a botched attempt to rob Monte Cristo's house.}}
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: In disguise as the Abbe Busoni, one of the Count's first actions after his escape is to visit Caderousse, who by now is working as an innkeeper in a provincial town. Caderousse brings both the Count and the audience up to speed on what's been happening while the Count was in the Chateau d'If.
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* [[Nerves of Steel]]: In the 2002 film, Albert remains calm, composed, and defiant when bandits have a knife to his throat; the Count later praises him for his bravery.
** In the book, too: he takes a nap while waiting to be either ransomed or murdered. Seeing this, the Count smiles, saying that's not bad for a man about to be executed. Vampa agrees; "This man must be one of your friends."
* [[Redemption Quest]]: Joins the army to escape the shame of his father's actions.
* [[Relative Button]]: Hearing his father accused of [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]].
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: [[Discussed]]. Albert is said to believe that any problem of logistics can be solved by application of money.
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* [[May-December Romance]]: Between her and the Count.
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Mondego betrayed her father, Ali Pasha, leading to his death.}}
=== Eugenie Danglars ===
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* [[The Old Convict]]
* [[Omniglot]]
* [[The Professor]]: Faria is knowledgeable on a number of subjects such as multiple languages, economics, history, and clearly some science as well. He writes a book on Italian politics while in prison. On paper he made out of old shirts, with pens he made out of bones and ink he made out of ashes, using light from a homemade oil lamp lit with fat from the meat he was fed.
=== Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort ===
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: He taught himself to shoot.
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]] Except for the whole deal with kidnapping random foreigners for ransom...
* [[Rags to Riches]]: So to speak.
* [[Young Conqueror]]: He's jokingly compared to one, but he does kind of fit the descriptor (albeit on a small scale) and it probably explains his choice of reading.
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