The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Driven By Envy]]

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: After the ordeal the Count puts him through, Danglars' hair turns completely white.

* [[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]]

* [[No Hero to His Valet]]: His rapid rise to prominence in Parisian society doesn't faze his old fellow prisoner {{spoiler|Caderousse}}, who still calls him Benedetto and more or less ignores his new status as a prince.

* [[Psycho Sidekick]]: The Count isn't exactly morally spotless himself, but Benedetto is a pretty bad guy and the Count is happy to use him to his ends. For his part, Benedetto is very loyal to the Count because of his generosity and because he thinks the Count is his true father.

* [[Tenor Boy]]: The evil kind.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

Dantes's [[Mentor]] when he is in prison; tells Dantes the location of the treasure that eventually makes him rich.

 

* [[MacGyvering]]: The Abbe is surprisingly self-sufficient for a man living in a dungeon; he manages to make his own candles, paper, pens and ink, needles and thread, chisel, knife...

* [[Mentor]]

 

* [[Acquired Poison Immunity]]: He survives a murder attempt using brucine because he has been taking it as medicine, and has built up a resistance to it.

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]]: For Villefort, as Noirtier's political views are a liability to his ambitious son.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

The Count's servant and an ex-smuggler. The adoptive father of Bendetto.

 

* [[The Watson]]: Actually inverted: he tells the Count about Benedetto.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]