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

 * Zero-Percent 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.