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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.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV]].

* [[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.

 

 

 

* [[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.

* [[Hanging Judge]]

* [[Hypocrite]]

* [[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}}.

 

 

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

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

* [[The Resenter]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]

* [[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]]

* [[Princess in Rags]]: {{spoiler|At the end, she loses most of her possessions and joins a convent.}}

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

* {{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]]

* [[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.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Despite being an amoral cutthroat who when younger was an [[Enfant Terrible]] who abused his adoptive parents, Benedetto has the personality of a handsome and charming rogue and is able to masquarade with ease as an educated aristocrat.

* [[Enfante Terrible]]

* [[Evil Redhead]]: Benedetto has strawberry blond hair, and his adoptive father, Bertuccio, [[Lampshaded Trope|cites a proverb]] about redheads either being completely good or completely evil (Benedetto being the latter).

* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Twice. At first, he believes the Count is his father, since he supports him financially and provides him with a socially-acceptable "father" (an old Italian major who had lost his son long ago -- it takes Benedetto less than a page to realize that Major Cavalcanti is just as much a fraud as himself, albeit a ''titled'' fraud). Near the end, Bertuccio reveals the truth to him and he very cheerfully reveals {{spoiler|Villefort}} as his father at his own trial.

* [[Mock Millionaire]]

* [[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]]

* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: "p.s. I now believe in Italian banditti."

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: During the Carnival, a male bandit disguises himself as a young lady to lure Albert into a trap.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: After being suckered into a trap by Italian bandits, he still managed to nearly strangle one of them.

* [[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."

* [[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.

 

=== Valentine Villefort ===

* [[May-December Romance]]: Between her and the Count.

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

 

=== Eugenie Danglars ===

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]]

* [[The Old Convict]]

* [[Omniglot]]

 

=== Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort ===

 

* [[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]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard|ManipulativeBitch]]

* [[Perfect Poison]]

 

=== Hermine Danglars ===

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: He taught himself to shoot.

* [[Just Like Robin Hood]] Except for the whole deal with kidnapping random foreigners for ransom...

* [[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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