The Bartimaeus Trilogy/Characters

Bartimaeus
One of the series' main protagonists. His chapters are always written in first person. Bartimaeus is a fourth (or fourteenth) level and ancient djinn, summoned in the trilogy by Nathaniel.


 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * The Gump: He often talks about past historical events he had a hand in.
 * Jackass Genie
 * Large Ham
 * Literal Genie
 * Miles Gloriosus
 * Noble Djinni
 * Ted Baxter: However, he is quite competent so it's not an irritating example.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: Grows into this with Johnathan. Well, sort of.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: Grows into this with Johnathan. Well, sort of.

Faquarl

 * Chef of Iron: He is inexplicably fond of taking the form of a meat-cleaver wielding chef
 * The Dragon: To Simon Lovelace, and later
 * Dragon-in-Chief:
 * Evil Chef
 * Evil Counterpart: To Bartimaeus. The author even describes the relationship between the two as the friendship gone horribly wrong and that many similarities they share only magnify the enmity between them.
 * Magnificent Bastard:
 * Not So Different:
 * The Rival: To Bartimaeus.
 * Villainous Breakdown:
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: None of his forms are desribed as having white hair, but he has the personality down pat.
 * Villainous Breakdown:
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: None of his forms are desribed as having white hair, but he has the personality down pat.

Jabor

 * Big Eater
 * Blood Knight
 * The Brute
 * Dumb Muscle: Described as "moronically strong to the point of indestructable".
 * No Indoor Voice
 * One Djinn Army
 * Unstoppable Rage

Simpkin

 * Happiness in Slavery

Honorius

 * And I Must Scream: It did not help his state of mind.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Cool Mask
 * Dem Bones
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Well, Psycopathic Afrit-child.

Ammet

 * Living Shadow
 * Happiness in Slavery
 * Not So Different: One wonders what Bartimaeus thought of Ammet
 * Not So Different: One wonders what Bartimaeus thought of Ammet

Nouda

 * Big Bad
 * Big Eater
 * Eldritch Abomination

Nathaniel/John Mandrake
One of the series' main protagonist. At the start of the series, he is an ambitious and talented magician-in-training.


 * Ambition Is Evil
 * Character Development:
 * Child Prodigy: Although no one gave him any attention for it, even his own master.
 * Good All Along
 * Improbable Age
 * The Kid With the Leash: Deconstructed.
 * Loners Are Freaks: As a child, once the other children recognized him as an apprentice magician.
 * Magicians Apprentice: Deconstructed. All his mentors are perfectly happy to discard him to save their own careers.
 * Parental Abandonment: While his biological parents are only mentioned very briefly at the beginning of the series, they did give up their child for money.
 * Teen Genius
 * Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Until certain events embittered him to the world.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: Kind of with Bartimaeus. Despite their constant bickering, he does grow to respect and rely on him a lot.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: Kind of with Bartimaeus. Despite their constant bickering, he does grow to respect and rely on him a lot.

Kitty Jones
One of the series' main protagonists. She is a commoner who later joins the the Resistance to fight the injustices of the magicians.


 * Action Girl
 * Anti-Magic
 * Badass Normal
 * Foe Yay: With Nathaniel.
 * Power of Trust:
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Appears briefly in the first book, is roughly co-protagonist in the second book, and is definitely the dominant protagonist in the last book.

Simon Lovelace

 * Evil Counterpart: To Nathaniel.
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Hoist by His Own Petard:
 * Kick the Dog: What he did to Nathaniel.
 * Smug Snake
 * Villainous Breakdown: After Nathaniel steals the amulet he loses his cool and after Bartimaeus gets the horn he just completely loses it.
 * Villain with Good Publicity

The Mercenary /

 * Anti-Magic
 * Badass
 * Badass Beard
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is only mentioned once in the last book. Other than that, he's just known as "The Mercenary".
 * Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer
 * Scarily Competent Tracker

Quentin Makepeace

 * Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
 * Big Bad
 * Complete Monster
 * Karmic Death
 * Large Ham
 * Magnificent Bastard: (Yes, he actually pulls both off.)
 * Smug Snake
 * The Chessmaster
 * The Man Behind the Man
 * Unwitting Pawn:

Ptolemy

 * Ho Yay: With Bartimaeus.
 * The Messiah
 * Morality Pet: to Bartimaeus.
 * Restored My Faith in Humanity
 * Posthumous Character
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist
 * Technical Pacifist
 * Younger Than They Look:
 * Younger Than They Look:

Asmira

 * Action Girl
 * Amazon Brigade: A ridiculously loyal member of it,
 * Expy: Of Kitty in several ways.
 * Freud Was Right: almost every action Asmira takes is so she can be more like her mother.

Khaba the Cruel

 * The Starscream
 * It's not made very clear.