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== [[Real Life]] Von Trope Examples ==
=== von Trope ===
* The trope name is a pun on the von Trapp family, of ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' fame.
* [[The Dick Van Dyke Show|Dick Van Dyke]]▼
* Professor Sebastian Van Strien at Warwick University. Aside from being [[The Unintelligible]] and setting [[Nintendo Hard|impossible exams]], he's not exactly ''evil''.▼
* [[Ungern-Sternberg|Roman Ungern von Sternberg]], crazy tinpot dictator extraordinaire.
* Erich von Stroheim, an actor who specialized in Evil German roles.
* Dita Von Teese, burlesque model and former fiancee of [[Marilyn Manson]]'s, presumably chose her stage name for its darker exotic qualities.
* Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the movies ''[[The Lives of Others]]'' and ''[[The Tourist]]''.▼
* Wernher von Braun is a combination of the light and dark. Member of the Nazi party, inventor of the V2 rocket, one of the principle brains (if not '''the''' principle brain) behind the American side of the Space Race. (There is still some controversy as to whether he was a ''willing'' Nazi collaborator.)▼
* [[w:Ambrosia (band)|Multitalented]] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2100945/ musician], [http://forbassplayersonly.com/interview-shem-von-schroeck/ singer] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shem_Schroeck sex symbol] Shem von Schroeck.▼
=== van Trope ===
▲* [[The Dick Van Dyke Show|Dick Van Dyke]]
▲* Professor Sebastian Van Strien at Warwick University. Aside from being [[The Unintelligible]] and setting [[Nintendo Hard|impossible exams]], he's not exactly ''evil''.
* The famous Dutch football (soccer) player, Marco van Basten, regarded as one of the all-time best forwards in the game.
** Just like... well... a third of all Dutch.
*** [[Comically Missing the Point|A third of all Dutch are great forwards?]]
▲* Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director of the movies ''[[The Lives of Others]]'' and ''[[The Tourist]]''.
* Architect Maria Ludwig Michael Mies, to seem more impressive, appended his mother's surname, "van der Rohe."
▲* Wernher von Braun is a combination of the light and dark. Member of the Nazi party, inventor of the V2 rocket, one of the principle brains (if not '''the''' principle brain) behind the American side of the Space Race. (There is still some controversy as to whether he was a ''willing'' Nazi collaborator.)
* [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] - But wait, why does a German man have a Dutch surname, you ask? It's just so happens Beethoven was of Belgian descent. His birth name was actually "Lodewijk".
** This is the reason ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' can get away with referring to him as "Ludwig van". There a lot of people with one of those words, or the other, but it's a rare combination.
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* Jean-Claude Van Damme
* Actor Casper Van Dien played the character Brom Van Brunt in ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]''. The Van Diens are reportedly distant relatives of the real-life Van Brunt clan.
▲* [[w:Ambrosia (band)|Multitalented]] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2100945/ musician], [http://forbassplayersonly.com/interview-shem-von-schroeck/ singer] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shem_Schroeck sex symbol] Shem von Schroeck.
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