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* [[Pick on Someone Your Own Size]]: Dantes includes the innocent children of his enemies in his plan for revenge. {{spoiler|Most of them survive, and some of them end up better off, but that's more through luck than from any sentiment on the Count's part.}}
* [[Public Execution]]: A public execution during a Roman festival allows the Count to test Franz's character.
* [[Rebellious Prisoner]]: Zigzagged with Edmond Dantes when he is framed for treason and sentenced to life in prison in Chateau d'Ilf, the French equivalent of [[The Alcatraz]]. He maintains his innocence, but becomes hardened as the years pass. A [[Cool Old Guy]] prisoner who's dying helps lead Edmond to a great treasure, piece together who framed him, and crafts a plan of escape. When Edmond becomes the Count with the treasure, however, he cannot forget his trauma, and does not feel his enemies deserve forgiveness. He uses his wealth to ruin Danglars, Villefort, and Fernand. Danglars ends up anything but this trope, begging for his life, when the Count pays bandits to kidnap him and make him pay for food, planning for him to starve. {{spoiler|The Count changes the plan to merely bankrupting him and leaving him with 50,000 francs to start anew somewhere}}.
* [[Red Herring]]: {{spoiler|d'Avrigny}} believes that {{spoiler|Valentine}} is {{spoiler|the poisoner}}. It's actually {{spoiler|Madame de Villefort}}.
* [[Relative Error]]: Mercedes is mistaken for her son's mistress. The fact that Albert just can't shut up about how perfect his mother is really doesn't help matters. The Count probably [[Invoked Trope|made that mistake on purpose]] -- he didn't want to expose to Albert that he knew Mercedes.
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