Gankutsuou/Characters

Albert de Morcerf

• Beauty Mark
• Bishounen
• Bi the Way: Arguably
• Even the Guys Want Him: His best friend Franz liked him
• Hey, It's That Voice!: In both Japanese and English, is voiced by Lelouch.
• Ho Yay: With Franz and the Count
• Horrible Judge of Character
• Idiot Hero: With tragic results
• Oedipus Complex
• Oblivious to Love: Both towards Eugenie's attraction to him and Franz's.

The Count of Monte Cristo aka Edmond Dantes

• Affably Evil
• Badass
• Beard of Evil: Dantes was clean-shaven, while the Count has a beard
• Broken Ace
• Byronic Hero: A villainous example.
• The Chessmaster
• Consummate Liar
• Darker and Edgier: While the Count from the original novel was a Type IV or arguably a Type V Anti-Hero, here's he's undoubtly a Villain Protagonist, and is much more devious and ruthless with some of his tactics. That probably has a lot to do with the Deal with the Devil this adapation brings along.
• Deal with the Devil
• Death Glare: He pulls off a few; particularly noticeable during his last meeting with Danglars.
• Devil in Plain Sight as well as Obviously Evil
• Evil Versus Evil
• Eldritch Abomination- probably what Gankutsuou is
• Fangs Are Evil
• False Friend: to Albert, but with some Becoming the Mask
• Large Ham
• Love Redeems
• Manipulative Bastard
• Our Vampires Are Different: Technically not a vampire, but looks like one, and is compared to one in more than one occasion as a Shout-Out to the original novel, where he is briefly compared to Polidori's Lord Ruthven, one of the earliest examples of suave gentleman vampires in fiction.
• Redemption Equals Death
• Sanity Slippage
• Slasher Smile
• Split Personality Takeover
• Super-Powered Evil Side- The titular Gankutsuou
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• The Unfettered
• Villain Protagonist
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: And blue skin, apparently.

Franz d'Epinay

• Ho Yay: Toward Albert in his case, he's actually in love with him
• Impoverished Patrician: reveals later on that this is why he's expected by marry Valentine, who is new money, but wealthy.
• I Wished You Were Dead: As a child, said this to his father, who died right afterward, and he's been feeling guilt for that ever since.
• Love Hurts
• Magical Queer- could definitely be seen this way
• What Does He See In Him- his relationship with Albert
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Franz's defining trope.

Eugenie Danglars

• Tsundere
• Victorious Childhood Friend- implied to ultimately be this

Maximilien Morel

• Gentle Giant
• Huge Guy: To Valentine
• Uptown Girl: He loves Valentine and is considered unsuitable for her, because of his lower class.

Valentine de Vilefort

• Arranged Marriage: Has been set up to marry Franz since they were both children.
• The Beard: Not intentionally, but this is definitely one reason Franz initially pursues their arranged marriage.
• Ill Girl because her stepmother is poisoning her.
• Tiny Girl: To Maximilien
• Proper Lady

Mercedes de Morcerf

• Kikuko Inoue
• Yamato Nadeshiko

Fernand de Morcerff aka Fernand Mondego

• Fake Ultimate Hero
• Redemption Equals Death
• Villainous Breakdown

Danglars

• Cool Shades
• Fat Bastard- although he was skinnier and better looking as a young man (but always a bastard)
• Greed
• Nouveau Riche

Vilefort

• Hanging Judge
• I Was Quite a Looker: Flashbacks show the young Vilefort to be a Bishonen with a much friendlier expression. It's suggested that being evil along with age gave him his current appearance.
• High-Class Glass
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Scary Shiny Monocle

Peppo

• Dropped a Bridget On Him
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• The Imp - she's not outright malicious, but she LOVES screwing with Albert's naiveté
• Love Redeems- implied to be the reason she ultimately helps Albert
• Meido
• The Mole- was the Count's spy
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The reason she gives for helping Albert crash Eugenie's wedding. And from the look on her face as they drive away, she's not just messing with him this time.

Andrea Cavalcanti aka Bendetto

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He briefly seems to be a highly cultured fop and a decent guy, and continues to put on that persona, but he's really a total psychopath.
• Blond Guys Are Evil: Oddly enough, since he's an Evil Redhead in the novel, anime!Beauchamp seems to have gotten novel!Andrea's appearance.
• Bishonen
• Brother-Sister Incest and Parental Incest: Does the first by Attempted Rape and the second consensually and probably knew what he was doing in both cases (certainly in the second).
• Complete Monster
• Karma Houdini: Probably because of his unreported fate in the original novel
  • According to Wikipedia, he got arrested at a wedding. So maybe he didn't get away.
• Vilefort, You Are My Father
• Princess Curls
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: It's not called attention to, but he looks a lot like another character Eugenie, his half-sister, except for his Hellish Pupils.