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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Although he's presented as/intended as an [[Anti
** [[Affably Evil]]
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** [[Villain Protagonist]]
** [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Benedetto crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] when he burns his foster mother alive.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: One of the oldest and best.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: the Depardieu film has a moment where Danglars' wife (in the movie, they're childless) starts ranting that she ''did'' have a son, with Villefort, the one Monte Cristo was [[I Know You Know I Know|ever so subtly hinting at earlier]], [[Kubrick Stare|staring at him]] the whole time while wearing a kind of [[The Un
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Among other things, the book is one of the first to introduce invisible ink and the treasure map as concepts, and the scheme employed to bankrupt Danglars is not only a version of the con known as the wire, but is essentially the same trick done in the Eddie Murphy movie, ''Trading Places''. Also, although invisible ink was used earlier by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] in his story "The Gold Bug", this novel is one of the earlier uses of the idea before it became a cliche.
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