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Dramatis Personae
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })From Latin, "the persons of the drama." A list of characters at the beginning or at the end of a work of fiction. This stemmed from the necessity of casting a play, and has somehow drifted into fiction from there; the end credits roll of a movie or TV show evolved from this practice too. Usually lists them by name with a short description, most often relaying who is related to whom. In works which fit into a large continuity with a large number of characters (such as comic books), this helps the reader keep up with the characters involved in the work. A Dramatis Personae is quite often written in a slightly olde-world style, evoking the Shakespearean style of writing. Sometimes this is done separately at the beginning of each chapter as part of In Which a Trope Is Described. If the characters are not strictly listed alongside which actors are playing them in a live drama, expect identity-based shenanigans. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare with Boss Subtitles, which is a variation of this trope often used to introduce videogame bosses. Examples: |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) generally do a quick list of all the characters who feature in each particular issue. | |
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The playbill in the original production of RENT had a page listing the main characters and their relationships to each other, in case anyone got confused. | |
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You'd think clicking the cast page in Terror Island would lead you to a page listing the actual webcomic characters. Instead... | |
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X-Men occasionally did this during the 70s and 80s as their cast of characters expanded. Same for The Avengers. In fact, a variation on this was used in every Marvel comic published for a while in the late 90s, via a foldout page on the inside front cover. During the 1980s, when Marvel placed a picture of a character in a box in the upper left-hand corner of the cover (Different, but issue-specific pics of Spider-Man, for example, or the faces of each member of the X-Men), that box on an Alpha Flight cover only pictured the characters appearing in that issue (Most of the John Byrne issues, especially No.s 1-11, focused on specific characters). Modern Marvel comics tend to open with a page giving a brief text recap of the comic's premise and the story to this point, along with portraits of the major characters involved. |
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The Silmarillion has the first chapter preceded by the "Valaquenta", a full description of the Valar and associated powerful entities. | |
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Rather necessary in David Weber's Honor Harrington series of books, as his series now has more characters than a large country. | |
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Intelligence's opening title does this with the core cast of Gabriel, Riley, Lillian, and Dr. Cassidy, popping up their name and a brief description. | |
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The German hardback first edition of The Name of the Rose included a special book mark with a Dramatis Personae printed on its back side | |
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The Outer Limits (1963) episode "Counterweight" does this at the end, presumably as Filler. | |
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During the 1980s, when Marvel placed a picture of a character in a box in the upper left-hand corner of the cover (Different, but issue-specific pics of Spider-Man, for example, or the faces of each member of the X-Men), that box on an Alpha Flight cover only pictured the characters appearing in that issue (Most of the John Byrne issues, especially No.s 1-11, focused on specific characters). | |
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In the pilot episode of Arrested Development, not only does the Narrator introduce every main character (except for George Sr and Tobias, who were at first meant not to stay for the entire series) , their first appearance is also accompanied by a subtitle similar to the Boss Subtitles. | |
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The Kushiel's Legacy novels by Jacqueline Carey have large casts and therefore have a dramatis personae that can go on for pages and pages. | |
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With Strings Attached has a four-page character list at the end. | |
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Where the Truth Lies (Animorphs) begins with a list of all the characters, but notes that "all of the above is a lie." | |
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The Order of the Stick compilations after the first. There's also this. | |
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Stravaganza by Mary Hoffman | |
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The Justice League and Justice Society of America have also had Roll Calls, similar to the Legion version. In the Silver Age, the League was more likely to have each character's title appear next to them after they'd separated into two-person teams (which they did a lot). At least one book during the Ligntning Saga (a JLA/JSA crossover which reintroduced the pre-Zero Hour Legion) gave all three teams a separate roll call. | |
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The Pevear/Volokhonsky translations of The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and War and Peace. | |
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An edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle has such a list, including real characters such as Stalin and Abakumov. Although Stalin is depicted in the text, Viktor Abakumov is merely referred to in passing. | |
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In The Most Happy Fella, the chorus is credited as "All the Neighbors, and All the Neighbors' Neighbors," a line sung in the Crowd Song "Sposalizio." | |
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The Borderlands series introduces playable characters and major NPCs this way. | |
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The X-Wing series depending on the book may also give the squad numbers of the pilots. | |
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Also Wyrd Sisters, in-story, with its parody of Macbeth. | |
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Something of a necessity in The Wheel of Time novels, in the back of each book there is a combined glossary/dramatis personae, pointing out and telling you how to pronounce different who's and whats that appeared in the book in question, or in the story overall, as well as provide some extra information that, while nice to know, isn't important enough to have a character mention in the book. | |
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The characters of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 are introduced sequentially in the opening song "Prologue". Even lampshaded, as the company asks the audience to keep their programs onhand due to all the confusing names. | |
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All of the Pusher films begin with a montage of the major characters and their names, set to a pounding rock beat. Each character is harshly lit from above as they glare at the camera. | |
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In Snatch. a montage of short vignettes introduces each character, with freeze frames giving their names. The whole thing is set to Klint's "Diamond." | |
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Most if not all ongoing Shonen Sunday series, most notably Case Closed, put bite-sized introductions to the main cast in the margins of the first page on any new chapter. | |
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The Warriors introduces characters and gangs with a freeze-frame featuring their name. | |
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Given the large cast in George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, the epic Dramatis Personae at the end of each volume is very helpful. | |
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple does by showing a box with the name of any character who is showing up for the first time and any character who hasn't been seen in a while. Often with a brief description. | |
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Collected volumes of One Piece have a special section called "The Story of One Piece" meant for just this, along with recapping the story so far. Interestingly, every single volume includes Shanks in this section, when statistically speaking he shows up in less than 10% of the manga. | |
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, which explicitly parodies the Shakespearean dramatis personae. Also Wyrd Sisters, in-story, with its parody of Macbeth. |
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Raptor Red has a dramatis personae not of the characters, but of the various species that appear, all in scale to each other, with a silhouette of the writer and his dog to show size. Utahraptors are big. | |
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen and its related side stories by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont each open with a Dramatis Personae (explicitly labelled as such). In the later books of the series, these can stretch over many pages. | |
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The first episode of Leverage also does this, when the team (except Sophie) is first introduced. In seasons two and three, a shortened version appears during the Title Sequence. | |
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Blaze of Glory does this in its first pages, and then again in the third issue, after all the players were properly introduced. | |
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During the Silver Age, Legion of Super-Heroes had the Legionnaire Roll Call so you'd know which of the many Legionnaires were starring in each particular story. Brought back in the post-Zero Hour version, with occasional variants (the Elseworld in which they're typical 1950s teenagers has "class attendence", for instance). Brought back in different form in the post-Final Crisis "deboot" Legion, where the first appearance of a character in an issue is accompanied by a caption giving name, codename, and powers. Becomes tedious in collected editions, where the same character will get introduced half-a-dozen times. (One must learn to ignore it.) |
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The Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy books include a list of all the people in it at the beginning to help keep track of who is part of what group. the lists are even titled Dramatis Personae |
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When the number of characters grew very large, the Left Behind novels began inserting a dramatis personae, divided handily into Good, Undecided, and Bad, at the beginning of each book. | |
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Black Adder season 3 has, true to its Romantic stylistics, credits in form of a period drama Dramatis Personae. | |
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Most of the Asterix books have a brief description of "A Few of the Gauls" on page 4, with the actual comic starting on page 5. Mansion of the Gods omits this page so that a 2-page spread later on (pages 28 & 29) doesn't have to be broken. | |
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Person of Interest plays its Title Sequence as clips of how the Machine sees the world, with the main cast showing up with no names, just brief descriptions. | |
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Twilight Saga book 4, Breaking Dawn has a character sheet at the end (characters are divided according to their vampire covens). | |
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Lucifer's Hammer | |
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Starting with the second book, Survivors lists every dog, a short description of their looks, and their rank in the pack at the start of every book. | |
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Harry Turtledove's Into the Darkness. Most of Harry Turtledove's work. This is actually necessary, because Turtledove likes to write large novels with several intertwining plotlines seen from the viewpoint of different characters. So the book will have, say, six major protagonists. And each of them has several family members or comrades-in-arms. Plus a lot of throwaway characters that you only see once. The Dramatis Personae list runs for pages. |
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The Mote in God's Eye | |
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Tailchaser's Song has a 4 page appendix of every named character, minor or major, at the end. It mostly tells the face name of every character, but Grassnettle, Tailchaser's mother, is only fully named in the appendix. | |
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Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter lists all the clan cats, and some cats outside the clans at the beginning of each book. Sometimes including characters that never appear. Ever. The character list is also a common source of small continuity errors. The greatest victims of these errors are the unfortunate extras that appear only on the list and thus have their entire lives mangled played out on the list. Some don't age, others live for far too long, others have physical descriptions that change constantly, some go through genderbenders, dead Red Shirts mysteriously come back to life... | |
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The American Girl books all begin with a two-page "photo album" of the heroine's family and friends. | |
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Durarara!! and Baccano! both throw a list of the characters over the opening. They also play around with this a bit - certain important characters are shown, but the names are withheld. Baccano gives Axe-Crazy Claire Stanfield aka The Rail Tracer aka Vino aka The Young Conductor the same amount of screen time as every other character, but withholds his name and successfully tricks the audience into assuming he's just an extra. Something similar is true for Durarara's first opening, which withholds the name of another character, but this time it clearly shows that the character will be important - it does the same freeze frame that the other characters get, but leaves out the name. This is promptly subject to Fridge Brilliance followed by a subversion: At first we think her name isn't listed because it's already been shown for another character, then we realize that isn't actually true. The second opening shows her actual name. | |
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The Colonel's Bequest, being constructed as a stage play, introduces the characters this way. | |
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Twice Upon a Time features an Opening Narration setting up the plot, followed by a list of the main characters and brief descriptions of them playing over Bruce Hornsby's "Heartbreak Town". | |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy books 2 and 3 begin with a list of main characters, handily divided into Magicians, Commoners and Spirits | |
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Lindsey Davis's Marcus Didius Falco novels have dramatis personae written in character with snarky comments by Falco himself. She says she does it because Roman names follow such similar patterns that she gets confused herself. Done tongue-in-cheek in Last Act in Palmyra in which Falco joins a travelling theatre troupe. | |
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After finishing a story, the Belgian/Dutch daily newspaper comic Suske en Wiske announces the following story with a short strip mentioning the main characters - which always includes the famous five (Suske, Wiske, Aunt Sidonia, Lambik and Jerom), and occasionally includes a few more important extras, though that is not always so. It also gives a short indication about the story to come, though it omits any twists and turns. | |
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Can You Spare a Quarter?: Like all stories hosted by PZA/ASSTR this one has a like before the beginning describing the main characters, their genders and ages. | |
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Early Dragonriders of Pern novels had this at the end of each book, but later novels either omitted or simply gave only names and a location for a character | |
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The Royal Tenenbaums combines this with an Age Cut: the prologue shows the Tenenbaum siblings as children, and the Dramatis Personae credits introduce the actors playing them as adults. | |
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Children of the Red King contained several pages at the beginning of each book listing all the current major characters and their powers, as well as a copy of Charlie's ever expanding family tree and in later books, the family of the Red King. | |
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