Cyrano De Bergerac/Characters

Cyrano de Bergerac

• Badass Boast
• Beast and Beauty: In Cyrano's eyes, at least, but without the beast being made beautiful, as he lampshades.
• Berserk Button: His nose.
• Be Yourself: Tragically averted.
• Birds of a Feather: With Roxane.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Broken Ace
• Bullying a Dragon: A frequent "victim" of this ploy.
• But for Me It Was Tuesday
• Buy Them Off
• Cannot Spit It Out
• Deadpan Snarker
• Caustic Critic
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Did Not Get the Girl
• Dirty Coward: Cyrano considers himself one because he Cannot Spit It Out.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Please don’t dare. Seriously, don’t.
• Duels Decide Everything
• Establishing Character Moment
• Excuse Me While I Multitask:
• Expy: Of Crisóstomo, a character from Don Quixote.
• Fatal Flaw: Vanity, as Cyrano admits in his final scene
• Gag Nose
• Genius Bruiser
• Gentleman Snarker
• The Grotesque
• Grumpy Bear
• Heartbroken Badass
• Honor Before Reason
• Heartbroken Badass: After Act II Scene VI.
• I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me
• Impoverished Patrician
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
• The Last DJ
• Manly Tears
• One-Man Army:
• Proud Warrior Race Guy
• Renaissance Man
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules
• Secret Stab Wound
• Small Name, Big Ego In-Universe
• Starving Artist
• Stepford Smiler: Type A
• Team Dad
• Unlucky Childhood Friend
• Warrior Poet

Madeleine "Roxane" Robin

• The Ace
• Arranged Marriage: Intended with De Valvert, invoked with Christian.
• Expy: Of Marcela, a character of Don Quixote.
• Hidden Depths (Cyrano: A heroine? Our intellectual?)
• In the Blood
• It's All My Fault
• Loves My Alter Ego
• Meaningful Rename: Madeleine Robin renamed herself Roxane (Persian for "Beautiful Woman") after joining Les Precieuse.
• Ojou
• Plucky Girl: Act IV
• Spell My Name with an "S": "Roxana" in the Anthony Burgess translation.
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!
• You Go, Girl!: Again, Act IV

Baron Christian de Neuvillette

• Be Yourself
• Brainless Beauty: Played Straight and Defied.
• Hidden Depths
• Hurricane of Puns: He administers one to Cyrano.
• I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
• Let Them Die Happy
• Naive Newcomer
• New Meat
• Romantic False Lead
• Samaritan Syndrome
• Shipper on Deck: Deconstructed: He forces Cyrano to admit his feelings hoping Roxanne will choose him.

Count de Guiche

• 0% Approval Rating
• Aristocrats Are Evil
• Arranged Marriage: with Roxane.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Against Ligniere and all the Gascon Cadets.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Against the Cadets who offer him food when he is starving.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He will never abandon a lady in peril.
• Foil: For Cyrano
• Heel Face Turn: Act IV
• Hidden Depths
• Lust
• Jerkass: To everyone before his Heel Face Turn.
• No True Gascon
• Pride
• Stalker with a Crush

Ragueneau

• Attention Whore
• Chef of Iron
• Giftedly Bad: His poem about a recipe in verse.
• Hero Worshipper: Towards Cyrano.
• Hidden Depths
• Interrupted Suicide
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Supreme Chef

Le Bret

• Deadpan Snarker
• Expy: Of Ambrosio, a character from Don Quixote.
• Odd Friendship: With Cyrano
• Simpleminded Wisdom
• Straight Man
• The Watson

Captain Carbon de Castel-Jaloux

• The Captain
• Composite Character: With Le Bret in the Anthony Burgess version.
• A Father to His Men: Deconstructed: He tries to protect his men and ends in a Last Stand with them.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy

Viscount De Valvert

• Aristocrats Are Evil
• Arranged Marriage: Intended with Roxane.
• The Beard
• Bullying a Dragon
• Lame Comeback
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Does Viscount de Valvert survive his Sword Fight with Cyrano in Act I Scene IV or not?
• Writers Suck:
• You Fight Like a Cow: played straight by Cyrano but averted with De Valvert, so busy fighting for his life to quip.

The Gascon Cadets

• Aristocrats Are Evil: All of them are Barons who enjoy giving Disproportionate Retribution against those not Of the People.
• Cool Loser
• Bullying a Dragon: Their charming Initiation Ceremony for those not Of the People.
• Culture Clash
• Idiot Hero
• Impoverished Patrician
• Martyrdom Culture
• Of the People
• Outdated Outfit
• Overly Long Name
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
• Poirot Speak
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Truth in Television.