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The Man Who Laughs

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The Man Who Laughs	comment	A 1869 Victor Hugo novel.The eponymous protagonist, Gwynplaine, bears a face disfigured by torture into a permanent smile. It was done to him as a child in order to punish him for his nobleman father's offense to the king. One night, after being abandoned in the snow, Gwynplaine wanders aimlessly, seeking shelter. He comes across the corpse of a woman who had frozen to death underneath a dead man hanging from a gibbet. In her arms, he finds a still living, blind baby girl. Eventually, Gwynplaine comes to the home of the charlatan Ursus and his wolf companion Homo. Ursus has pity upon the two orphan children and takes them in.Several years later, we see that the group have been making a living traveling from place to place performing plays which all showcase Gwynplaine revealing his disfigured, smiling face to the crowd. The blind child has also survived, growing up to be the virtuous, graceful beauty known as Dea. Dea is in love with Gwynplaine who, though he reciprocates, feels unworthy of her because of his disfigurement.Upon doing a show at a village fair, Gwynplaine attracts the attention of the bored, sexy duchess Josiana. He soon gains even more attention from the Queen Anne as it is found out that Gwynplaine is the son and heir to Lord Linnaeus Clancharlie's position and estate.The original novel follows a path similar to many of Hugo's other novels, ending in a depressing Downer Ending. Though not the author's most well-known work, there have been several film versions of the story (only one of which is in sound). The most well-known and best remembered adaptation is the heart-wrenchingly beautiful 1928 movie. It featured Conrad Veidt as the main character, whose freakish grin and clown-like appearance was the primary inspiration for Batman's Arch-Enemy The Joker, which came full circle in the 1989 Short Story, The Man Who Laughs (by Stuart M Kaminsky), first published in The Further Adventures of Batman. Referenced again in 2005 with "Batman: The Man Who Laughs", the sequel to Batman: Year One, and again with Dark Nights: Metal, which introduced The Batman Who Laughs as a villain.A new, French adaptation of the film was released in 2012, starring GÃ©rard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Seigner. Musical adaptations have been produced in London and South Korea (composed by Frank Wildhorn).
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The Man Who Laughs / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Man Who Laughs / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Dea is found as a small child by Gwynplaine in the 2012 movie, rather than as a baby.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
The Man Who Laughs / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: Very briefly in the 2012 film, with Gwynplaine looking into the river before skipping stones.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
The Man Who Laughs / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Queen Anne and Duchess Josiana are half sisters, and they do not see eye to eye at all.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_1b6f11d2	type	The Cutie
The Man Who Laughs / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: The helpless and innocent Dea.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
The Man Who Laughs / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Duchess Josiana only really seems to care about doing what she wants and screwing over expectations.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Man Who Laughs / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The bottle left in the sea when a ship sank at the start of the book is found years later, revealing Gwynplaine's heritage.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
The Man Who Laughs / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptations have had some problems depicting this. In the silent film, Conrad Veidt wore a device that pulled his mouth all the way open and he couldn't speak at all with it, turning the film into a silent. The later movie and musicals that required him to talk have gone with a painted on smile that is able to let the actors talk but is clear Adaptation Deviation.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Man Who Laughs / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Tom-Jim-Jack, also known as Lord David Clancharie, turns out to be the only benevolent person from all the aristocrats in the book. He is also Gwynplaine's half-brother. Although he rather likes him, he provokes him in duel for casting serious aspersion on their mother - AFTER provoking in duel a dozen aristocrats who insulted him.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_2969dda7	type	Nightmare Fetishist
The Man Who Laughs / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: Josiana seems to have a huge attraction to disfigured people. Her scheme to embarrass royalty only required a partner of low-class; the deformity is just her personal taste. As such, when she sees Gwynplaine, he's exactly perfect for her because he appears to be both. This is foreshadowed early as her intended husband David, who can't seem to get anywhere with her, takes her to such charming places as old school fist fighting and freak shows as her idea of a hot date locale.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Man Who Laughs / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Implied at the end of the book when Gwynplaine commits suicide.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
The Man Who Laughs / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Gwynplaine loves Dea but feels conflicted over his deformities, while Dea loves him anyway. Josiana is in an Arranged Marriage to David but she wants to have a sexual relationship with a lower class man to spite the Queen, her sister. Josiana wants Gwynplaine to be that person, but Gwynplaine and David are brothers and Gwynplaine is the rightful heir to David's title, and because the arranged marriage was to the holder of the title, Gwynplaine is her actual arranged husband, which prompts Josiana to no longer want him and then to consider David for a lover.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
The Man Who Laughs / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: Ursus is knowledgeable in Latin, and frequently uses Latin phrases in everyday speech.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_4a0ec47a	type	Cheshire Cat Grin
The Man Who Laughs / int_4a0ec47a	comment	Cheshire Cat Grin: Gwynplaine always has one whether he wants to or not.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Man Who Laughs / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Dea and Gwynplaine's idealism doesn't go well in a Victor Hugo setting where Humans Are Flawed.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Man Who Laughs / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Dea dies and Gwynplaine (apparently) drowns himself. This is not the case, however, in the 1928 movie, which has a much more upbeat ending.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_50488b6e	type	Freaky Is Cool
The Man Who Laughs / int_50488b6e	comment	Freaky Is Cool: Gwynplaine is understandably unhappy with his freakish appearance, but Dea loves that no matter how bad things are, he is always smiling when she "sees" his face. Also, Josiana thinks he's sexy.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Man Who Laughs / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The French movie shows Gwynplaine being chased down and mocked by kids his age after one of Ursus' countryside shows.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_6339e2bd	type	Disabled Love Interest
The Man Who Laughs / int_6339e2bd	comment	Disabled Love Interest: Dea is blind and in general weak health due to spending time as a baby out in the cold. However Gwynplaine is technically one himself to her and Josiana given his face is forever mutilated.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Man Who Laughs / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Dea" (Goddess), "Ursus" (Bear), "Homo" (Stop snickering, it means Human).
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The Man Who Laughs / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Man Who Laughs / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Gwynplaine drowns himself after Dea dies. Interestingly, the 2012 film has Dea take arsenic after she hears Gwynplaine and Josiana together.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Man Who Laughs / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Homo, Ursus' pet wolf, is named for the Latin phrase "Homo homini lupus", or "Man is a wolf to man".
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The Man Who Laughs / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Man Who Laughs / int_6edc54d5	comment	Josiana refuses to get with her intended husband, David, and wants Gwynplaine. When Gwynplaine becomes her intended husband, she doesn't want him and will consider David as a lover. With Gwynplaine abandoning his title and his suicide, David is likely back to being her intended husband and, well, Here We Go Again!.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_73d1a356	type	The Noun Who Verbed
The Man Who Laughs / int_73d1a356	comment	The Noun Who Verbed: The Man Who Laughs.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Man Who Laughs / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the book, Dea dies of a broken heart just before she is re-united with Gwynplaine, who promptly drowns himself. They are still alive at the end of the 1928 film.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_7896ecc3	type	Perpetual Smiler
The Man Who Laughs / int_7896ecc3	comment	Perpetual Smiler: Gwynplaine, thanks to his torture.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
The Man Who Laughs / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: As Gwynplaine finds out, being Lord Clancharlie isn't very good, and he runs back to his real home.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Man Who Laughs / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: King Charles II sets up one that seems to tie up the loose ends to his problems by arranging his illegitimate daughter to marry the son of his lover's son, who has the title the King stole from his rival's son who was the proper heir.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Man Who Laughs / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Debated. Comprachicos is a word coined by Victor Hugo himself, but the trade itself was rumored to have existed in the period Hugo set his story. There is very little evidence to outright prove as such, but if we are being fair, these would have been people who would have done a lot of work to avoid leaving much evidence behind in their day. The folk tales of the common people would obviously be one of the hardest things to stamp out, and it is in the folk that they seem to be mostly documented.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
The Man Who Laughs / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Gwynplaine arrives too late as he is only just in time to see his lover Dea die. He then commits suicide. Josiana refuses to get with her intended husband, David, and wants Gwynplaine. When Gwynplaine becomes her intended husband, she doesn't want him and will consider David as a lover. With Gwynplaine abandoning his title and his suicide, David is likely back to being her intended husband and, well, Here We Go Again!.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Man Who Laughs / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Saintly Dea who loves Gwynplaine in spite of his deformity, or glamourous Josiana who wants him because of his deformity?
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The Man Who Laughs / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Man Who Laughs / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The House of Lords is a nasty place. Given what was done to Gwynplaine to kick off the plot, this isn't very surprising.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Man Who Laughs / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Barkilphedroâ€™s plans for getting Gwynplaineâ€™s favor and humiliating Josiana fail, but, other than that, he receives no punishment whatsoever.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
The Man Who Laughs / int_ab1064b3	comment	Modesty Towel: In the 1928 film, after the Duchess gets out of the bath, she wraps a long towel around her body and walks around her room with Homo.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Man Who Laughs / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Josiana believes in this trope because she'd rather sleep with someone other than her husband to embarrass her sister the Queen. As she puts it her "bedroom is for her lover, not her husband".
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The Man Who Laughs / int_b5f7c29b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Man Who Laughs / int_b5f7c29b	comment	Starcrossed Lovers: Dea and Gwynplaine are in love but seem to be kept apart by forces beyond their control in the novel; the 1928 film averts this for them.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Man Who Laughs / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The characters' names are pretty weird, considering the time and place of the novelâ€™s setting: Linnaeuss Clancharlie, David Dirry-Moir, Josiana, Barkilphedro. Somewhat subverted with Gwynplaine, who, supposedly, got his name from Flemish doctor Hardquannone, and Ursus, who gave up his Christian name in favor of Latin nickname. Dea herself was christened by Ursus.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Man Who Laughs / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Although Gwynplaine's not a bad guy, he sports a permanent one.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
The Man Who Laughs / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Homo the wolf.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
The Man Who Laughs / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: The Duchess Josiana falls in love with the disfigured freak showman Gwynplaine.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Man Who Laughs / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Gwynplaine grows up a poor mountebank only to find he's actually the rightful Lord Claincharlie.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_d2fb51b5	type	Blind and the Beast
The Man Who Laughs / int_d2fb51b5	comment	Blind and the Beast: Dea is blind due to her being out in the elements as a baby, Gwynplaine her lover is hideously deformed.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
The Man Who Laughs / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: A played with concept in that Josiana wants a lover that will embarrass her sister and the other royalty. If her father was still alive, he most certainly would have hated and been embarrassed just as much.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
The Man Who Laughs / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: This is how most aristocrats are represented, descending into Aristocrats Are Evil or, in Josiana's case, into The Hedonist. Though Josiana herself is considered a Black Sheep even among this crowd.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
The Man Who Laughs / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Barkilphedro works his day job but essentially resents Josiana and is only out for himself, which, in a way, helps drive the plot when he finds the message in a bottle.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Man Who Laughs / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Just to name a few (Victor apparently likes to reuse his characters)... Ursus - Valjean Gwynplaine/Fermain - Quasimodo Dea - Esmeralda (well, somewhat) Homo - Djali Barkilphedro - Thenardier
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The Man Who Laughs / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
The Man Who Laughs / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: Ursus raises both Gwynplaine and Dea together. They are like brother and sister, but also fall in love.
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The Man Who Laughs / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
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