The Bartimaeus Trilogy/Characters
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Characters from The Bartimaeus Trilogy include:
Spirits
Bartimaeus
One of the series' main protagonists. His chapters are always written in first person. Bartimaeus is a fourth (or fourteenth) level and ancient djinn, summoned in the trilogy by Nathaniel.
Tropes exhibited by Bartimaeus include:
- Combat Pragmatist
- Deadpan Snarker
- The Gump: He often talks about past historical events he had a hand in.
- Jackass Genie
- Large Ham
- Literal Genie
- Miles Gloriosus
- Noble Djinni
- Restored My Faith in Humanity: When Kitty proves her trust by coming over to the other side, he chooses to help them stop the spirit rebellion even though it would be incredibly dangerous.
- Small Name, Big Ego: However, he is quite competent so it's not an irritating example.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Grows into this with Johnathan. Well, sort of.
Faquarl
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Tropes exhibited by Faquarl include:
- Alas, Poor Villain: Right before Nathaniel and Bartimaeus kill him, Faquarl implies that he envies the bond Bartimaeus has with Nathaniel.
- Chef of Iron: He is inexplicably fond of taking the form of a meat-cleaver wielding chef
- The Dragon: To Simon Lovelace, and later to Quentin Makepeace and Nouda.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Faquarl may be weaker than Nouda, but Faquarl is the one who does most of the plotting for the spirit rebellion.
- Evil Chef
- Evil Counterpart: To Bartimaeus. The author even describes the relationship between the two as the friendship gone horribly wrong and that many similarities they share only magnify the enmity between them.
- Magnificent Bastard: He plays every other villain in the series like a fiddle.
- The Man Behind the Man
- Not So Different: By stealing magician's body and starting a violent spirit revolt, he becomes the very thing he resents.
- The Rival: To Bartimaeus.
- Villainous Breakdown: He has one when he confronts Nathaniel and Bartimaeus, who are mind-linked together, and realizes that neither of them has any dominance over another.
- White-Haired Pretty Boy: None of his forms are desribed as having white hair, but he has the personality down pat.
Jabor
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Tropes exhibited by Jabor include:
- Big Eater
- Blood Knight
- The Brute
- Dumb Muscle: Described as "moronically strong to the point of indestructable".
- No Indoor Voice
- One Djinn Army
- Unstoppable Rage
Simpkin
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by Simpkin include:
Honorius
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by Honorius include:
- And I Must Scream: Until Kitty's gang came along, he was sealed inside Gladstone's body, permanently unable to return to the other side where spirits come from. It did not help his state of mind.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Cool Mask
- Dem Bones
- Psychopathic Manchild: Well, Psycopathic Afrit-child.
Ammet
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by Ammet include:
- Interspecies Romance
- Living Shadow
- Happiness in Slavery
- Not So Different: One wonders what Bartimaeus thought of Ammet once he met Ptolemy.
Nouda
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Tropes exhibited by Nouda include:
Humans
Nathaniel/John Mandrake
One of the series' main protagonist. At the start of the series, he is an ambitious and talented magician-in-training.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Ambition Is Evil
- Character Development: Goes from Wide-Eyed Idealist to Anti-Villain Knight Templar to finally The Messiah.
- Child Prodigy: Although no one gave him any attention for it, even his own master.
- Good All Along
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Improbable Age
- Kid with the Leash: Deconstructed.
- Loners Are Freaks: As a child, once the other children recognized him as an apprentice magician.
- Magicians Apprentice: Deconstructed. All his mentors are perfectly happy to discard him to save their own careers.
- Parental Abandonment: While his biological parents are only mentioned very briefly at the beginning of the series, they did give up their child for money.
- Teen Genius
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until certain events embittered him to the world. Like Ms. Lutyens getting sacked and Mrs. Underwood's death.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Kind of with Bartimaeus. Despite their constant bickering, he does grow to respect and rely on him a lot.
Kitty Jones
One of the series' main protagonists. She is a commoner who later joins the the Resistance to fight the injustices of the magicians.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Action Girl
- Anti-Magic
- Badass Normal
- Foe Yay: With Nathaniel.
- The Power of Trust: It's her trust in Bartimaeus that ultimately proves to be pivotal in stopping the spirit rebellion in the last book.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Appears briefly in the first book, is roughly co-protagonist in the second book, and is definitely the dominant protagonist in the last book.
Simon Lovelace
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Evil Counterpart: To Nathaniel.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He is destroyed by the very spirit he summoned to destroy all his opposition in the government.
- Kick the Dog: What he did to Nathaniel.
- Smug Snake
- Villainous Breakdown: After Nathaniel steals the amulet he loses his cool and after Bartimaeus gets the horn he just completely loses it.
- Villain with Good Publicity
The Mercenary
A.k.a. Verroq
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Tropes exhibited by The Mercenary include:
- Anti-Magic
- Badass
- Badass Beard
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is only mentioned once in the last book. Other than that, he's just known as "The Mercenary".
- Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer
- Scarily Competent Tracker
Quentin Makepeace
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
- Big Bad
- Complete Monster
- Karmic Death
- Large Ham
- Magnificent Bastard: (Yes, he actually pulls both off.)
- Smug Snake
- The Chessmaster
- The Man Behind the Man
- Unwitting Pawn: To Faquarl
Ptolemy
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by Ptolemy include:
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Ho Yay: With Bartimaeus.
- The Messiah
- Morality Pet: to Bartimaeus.
- Restored My Faith in Humanity
- Posthumous Character
- Wide-Eyed Idealist
- Technical Pacifist
- Younger Than They Look: Once he gets back from the Other Place, anyway.
Asmira
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by Asmira include:
- Action Girl
- Amazon Brigade: A ridiculously loyal member of it, until the last third of The Ring of Solomon, anyway...
- Expy: Of Kitty in several ways.
- Freud Was Right: almost every action Asmira takes is so she can be more like her mother.
Khaba the Cruel
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Tropes exhibited by Khaba the Cruel include:
- The Starscream
- Interspecies Romance or Ho Yay, with Ammet. It's not made very clear.
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