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This is a character who brings into question various philosophical concepts, and discusses them at length. This is usually a supporting character, but can sometimes be the main protagonist, depending on the scenario. In either case, other characters tend to flock to them, looking for answers. While usually highly intelligent, the Philosopher differs from The Smart Guy and The Strategist in one vital area; while the philosopher is clever, his great thoughts rarely amount to any direct, effective action. It's up to the more practical heroes to make sense of what he's saying and implement a plan. The characterisation of the Philosopher is dependent on the nature of the show/book/comic they're appearing in. A straight fantasy tale will usually make the Philosopher sage-like, a valuable source of information for the characters. If it's a video game, this is probably the guy to talk to if you want a hint as to what to do next — though he'll probably tell you in a roundabout way. Instead of saying "Go to the harbour," he's likely to muse out loud that all life comes from the sea. Usually male, he's generally a mage, a sage, or a bookkeeper of some sort. In action series, though, the Philosopher might be surprising — in superhero teams anyone can fall into this category, as even the most vicious and seemingly cynical member of the team can suddenly start quoting Socrates. In a comedy series, particularly Sadist Shows and dark comedies, however, The Philosopher is extremely rare and if they do exist, may vary from the Only Sane Man to the Butt-Monkey. Perhaps due to the assumed anti-intellectualism of television culture, or simply the perception that people who like to ponder the nature of life never get around to doing anything useful, the fact that this character "thinks too much" is likely to get him punched or killed off, mostly if the philosopher is a Wide-Eyed Idealist (cynics are often portrayed as Deadpan Snarkers). An alternative tactic is to have said idealist ponder something at great length while coming to no useful conclusion, whereupon The Ditz (or other appropriate character type) will pipe up with a mind-numbingly simple and effective solution. Another version is the tragic philosopher, someone who understands life at a deeper level because life has made them suffer for that knowledge. This can go one of three ways; he is either motivated to change the world around him, using his personal angst as proof that the world is basically unfair and needs to be remodeled, and, in the process, becoming a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Or, he is totally paralysed by "knowing too much", and virtually useless, unless the hero can snap him out of it. Still another, more extreme one, is, of course, the Straw Nihilist. A tragic philosopher is difficult to write without descending into Wangst, however, as he's not only angsty, but pretty verbose about it. Many people find this type of character to be annoying or heavy-handed, but keep in mind that this trope is not, intrinsically, a bad thing. When written well, this character can give another layer of importance, or meaning, to the overall story. When done sloppily, however, this can fall into Fauxlosophic Narration, which can often contain an overload of Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. When writing about people like this, tread carefully, for it can be a very fine line. Compare The Fatalist. The Warrior Poet may have aspects of this... Indeed, if the Philosopher holds his own in combat, they'll often overlap. He may also be an Erudite Stoner. If he holds a position of power, he would be a Philosopher King. These characters are particularly prone to Leaning on the Fourth Wall and other ways of invoking Metafiction, especially through discussing The Power of Language. |
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Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities, who spend most of their time sitting around and talking about cities rather than trading and ruling, respectively. | |
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Naruto plays with philosophy from time to time. Characters like Neji, Gaara, Rock Lee, Pain, Obito, Madara, Kakashi and Naruto himself amongst others will now and then exposit musings on war and peace, destiny and free will, hard work, bonds and other such topics. | |
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Classic literary example: Dr. Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide. His insistence that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds" leads his faithful student Candide to wonder how horrible the other worlds could be. This was a deliberate satire by Voltaire or some ideas current at the time which he vehemently disagreed with. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist has many characters muse on the meaning of life and what it means to be human. The most notable example, however, is probably Mad Bomber Solf J. Kimblee, who combines Rousseau Was Right with a dose of Social Darwinism for a truly unusual outlook on life. | |
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In Pillars of Eternity: This is a possible background for an Ixamitl player character, and the one given for Zahua. Like any background, they get unique lines, including some great ones in The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire introduces a Godlike philosopher-pirate, from the aforementioned Ixamitl. He shows up in Pallegina's personal quest and asks a bunch of seemingly only loosely-related questions that determine whether the animancer who convinced Pallegina to not commit suicide lives or dies. |
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In Princess Tutu, Edel leads the heroine (and occasionally other main characters) through the plot with a series of riddles musing on emotions and fairytale tropes. Drosselmeyer, himself, can get rather philosophical when he wishes. | |
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire introduces a Godlike philosopher-pirate, from the aforementioned Ixamitl. He shows up in Pallegina's personal quest and asks a bunch of seemingly only loosely-related questions that determine whether the animancer who convinced Pallegina to not commit suicide lives or dies. | |
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Almost all of the cast of Neon Genesis Evangelion are Philosophers to some degree, most notably Rei, Gendo, Fuyuski, Ritsuko and the SEELE members. Most of them also fall into the second category of "tragic philosopher" or "Nietzsche Wannabe", except for the fact that everyone else is too psychologically messed up to save them. Asuka lampshades this after Rei delivers her oft-quoted "mankind has always feared the darkness" line. |
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Discworld's Lord Vetinari gets disturbingly philosophical at times, especially towards the later books. He does generally have some kind of point, though...ish. The Unseen Academicals blurb: But the important thing about football — the really important thing about football — is that it is not just about football. Ephebe seems to be inhabited almost entirely by Philosophers, particularly in Pyramids and Small Gods. |
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In Transformers: Beast Wars, Dinobot spent the second season see-sawing between the Philosopher and the Warrior Poet, pondering heavy questions of honor, loyalty, and free will that have started hitting a little too close to home. Silverbolt, the Knight in Shining Armor to Dinobot's Samurai, does the same thing from time to time, albeit in a more lighthearted fashion. While he does muse on honour — specifically, chivalry — he likes to mix romance in as well, particularly regarding Blackarachnia. Unfortunately, come Beast Machines, Silverbolt returns with a radically altered personality...and starts stealing Dinobot's lines. |
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There's also the philosophy professor from Decision of Fate, who spends the first third or so of the short story giving a lecture on fate. | |
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Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5 could be seen as this, given that as a student of the artist Ichiryusai Madarame, the subject of the game's second Palace, he speaks eloquently and profoundly, even about such mundane creatures as lobsters, which he believes are as beautiful as Ann. | |
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Lister, in Red Dwarf, was surprisingly effective as the Philosopher, but his more intelligent insights and musings were often undermined by the plot — Red Dwarf is, after all, a comedy. One particularly memorable example of Lister's more thoughtful attributes can be found in "Justice"; after escaping a world where law-abiding behaviour is cleverly enforced by turning the effects of any misdeed back on the perpetrator (for example, hitting someone means you get hurt), Lister reflects on how the nature of reality has to be unfair in order to allow for free will...then promptly falls down a manhole mid-rant, much to his comrades' relief. |
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Most of the characters in The Brothers Karamazov do their fair bit of philosophizing when any topics subject to an Author Tract come up in polite conversation, but Ivan Karamazov and Father Zosima come across most strongly as the Philosopher in their discussions with the protagonist. | |
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The Unseen Academicals blurb: But the important thing about football — the really important thing about football — is that it is not just about football. | |
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Itsuki of Haruhi Suzumiya. Not only effective as the Philosopher but nearly as difficult to follow as his ancient Greek forerunners. Just trying to make sense of what he's saying is a mental workout, for the audience as well as Kyon. Kyon himself is a more down-to-Earth version of the Philosopher (especially in the books), but unlike Itsuki, usually keeps it to himself. Shamisen deserves an honorable mention. Although he only has one speech, he's a good enough philosopher that upon being introduced he manages to sidetrack the brigade members into a debate over the nature of conversation and away from the fact that, you know, he's a talking cat. Sasaki exemplifies this trope, so much that even the aforementioned Itsuki is impressed. You have to admire someone who can come up with a clever and confusing speech about light and quantum mechanics on the drop of the hat while talking about schoolwork. |
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A good chunk of the cast from Dies Irae fall into this category one way or the other, but the two main Big Bad's are by far the most prominent thinkers, often musing about their place in the universe and the underlying meaning of things or various other esoteric concepts. | |
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A large variety of characters from the Mass Effect series will wax philosophical, particularly allies. They vary from Mordin to Wrex. Heck even Shepard can get in on the action. | |
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Aion, the villain of Chrono Crusade has a tendency to go into long speeches about how demons need to "break free from the system". Chrono is presented as Aion's much more emotional (and less rational) counterpart, but when the plot calls for one of the heroes to be philosophical it's normally him. By the end of the manga they're trading speeches back and forth. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is fairly heavy on the philosophy of its conflict and setting. Several characters spend their time contemplating and commenting on it throughout the series and its sequel. Each one represents conflicting viewpoints: The most prolific is the original series Big Bad Rau Le Creuset. He presents many perspectives, from The Cynic, to The Fatalist , all the way to a complete Straw Nihilist. His eloquence and conviction to his worldview can crush many people he shares it with and leave deep scars on the remainder. ZAFT Supreme Chairman Gilbert Durandal of the sequel takes up for Rau. He ruminates on the nature of humans, fate, and how genetics plays into both. Like his predecessor, he is very fatalistic, almost descending into Straw Nihilist territory as well, but he differs in his belief that a "correct" path exists and that he can lead humanity to it. Contrasting both is the series Big Good Lacus Clyne. She believes that humans could potentially reach a state where they do not need to war but that the unilateralism of both sides is crushing any chance of reaching it. In the original series, she's also self-aware enough to see the contradictions in the heroes' need to resort to force and the potentially warping influences of power and violence. Her philosophy gets messy in the sequel. |
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Besides the regular God-gazing sinners and saints of The Divine Comedy, a sphere in Heaven is dedicated to those who in life embodied wisdom and knowledge of God. This includes the likes of Doctor Thomas Aquinas, Saint Francis, Saint Dominic, and the many scholars and writers from the history of Christianity up to 1300. A number of other pagan philosophers who were admired also have the nicest spot in the Inferno (as they cannot reach heaven without Christ, but were virtuous) such as Aristotle and Plato. However, others such as Epicurus and his followers are eternally tormented (as their philosophy denied there was an afterlife) in the first circle, for the heretics. | |
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Dawn of Crafting: Parodied with a man named Filos O'Fiero that you encounter, who claims to your character that they are all characters within a video game. Your character borders toward Existential Horror in great disbelief of such claims, believing Filos O'Fiero to be insane. | |
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Detective Watts from Murdoch Mysteries, whose musings on Marx, Kierkegaard etc. cause the more pragmatic Detective Murdoch to have a bad first impression of him. | |
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Alien in a Small Town: both protagonists, the human woman and the Starfish Alien, would qualify as this. Part of why they are such close friends is that they're the only people with whom they can engage in conversations like this. | |
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Stealing Heaven: Abelard, who is a famous teacher at the University of Paris. Héloïse is to a lesser degree too, with her questions impressing him. In reality, they were both renowned philosophers, and their work is still read, with lasting influence. | |
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My Name Is Emily: Robert appears to have taught philosophy, advocating for people to enjoy their life by having more sex and swimming, along with epistemic relativism ("a fact is a point of view"). Emily later argues for the latter while talking to Arden, which annoys him, since he disagrees but can't rebut what she says. | |
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Citan Uzuki from Xenogears, doubtlessly. Of course, he is also The Professor, a Double Agent, the best swordsman in the world, and rather the Magnificent Bastard, and therefore a living reminder that one very well ought to Beware the Nice Ones. | |
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Tom Edison in Dogville. | |
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Godot from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations. You'd be surprised how philosophical you can get about coffee. | |
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Amon Garam of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX often quotes René Descartes and other famous philosophers. He later puts some of his own thoughts into action. | |
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Chidi Anagonye in The Good Place. In fact, he is literally a moral philosophy professor who had a doctoral thesis in the thousands of pages, and part of the reason he is so well-respected by the rest of the cast is because he offers the perfect advice at the perfect time. However, his extensive knowledge of moral dilemmas and competing theories, coupled with an unspecified mental disorder and his former Child Prodigy status, have led to him being shy and extremely indecisive. Being a rare example of a philosopher as a sitcom lead, Chidi eventually undergoes tons of Character Development to become more confident and assured, enough to almost single-handedly reform a demon into an angel and redesign the entire afterlife even though he already starts out much more well-written than most comedic examples of this trope. | |
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There are a worrying amount of philosophers in the Pokémon games — every third person you meet will wax lyrical about the nature and origin of Pokemon and the right way to train them. Most of these musings are useless, but some provide a clue as to what you should do next, or hint at a secret location. | |
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Herakles aka Greece from Hetalia: Axis Powers looks like a relaxed slacker, but if you read his lines carefully, you'll see that he can have quite the trains of thoughts under the Cloud Cuckoo Lander facade. | |
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Tons of characters in Chrono Cross — even random NPCs! | |
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Victoria's ex-military protagonist John Rumford makes constant references to philosophers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Chesterton to John Boyd as he struggles to defend his embattled community, and wonders how the great thinkers of old would have applied their ideas to his problems. | |
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Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew... for about two seconds. Then he sees Bianca and his plans to study at the University of Padua instantly fly out the window, to be replaced by a Zany Scheme to win her which occupies him for the rest of the play. | |
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Wilson from Home Improvement tended to deliver the show's aesop with stories and quotes, much to the confusion of Tim Allen's character. However, even though the show was a comedy, he was almost never the Butt-Monkey. | |
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Koan of the Day: The central character is a guru who waxes philosophical. | |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Ruler of the Universe is a crazy old guy in a hut somewhere who doesn't believe in anything. Zaphod and Trillian think that the universe is in good hands. | |
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Chris Stevens spun many philosophical musings between records on Northern Exposure. | |
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The Neverending Story is full of them. However, special mentions goes to the Three Deep Thinkers, leaders of the Star Cloister of Ghigam, who head an entire order to monks who are dedicated to knowledge and the discovery of the secrets of Fantastica. | |
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In the film Blazing Saddles, Mongo of all characters is surprisingly philosophical. When asked what "where the choo-choo go?" has to do with Rock Ridge, he responds, "Don't know. Mongo only pawn in game of life." | |
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Zizek from The Closer: Game of the Year Edition; not only is he based on the real-life Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, he's also a playable character whose combat is essentially holding impromptu debates against enemies and applying a couple types of critiques at them. To deal "damage", you have to pick the appropriate response to a certain dilemma according to the chosen philosophy. For that matter, his combat tutorial is not against any person or concrete thing, but rather the Concept Of Irony. | |
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A lot of the characters in Vagabond could qualify as this, notably the monk Takuan and the protagonist Musashi as time goes on and he becomes wiser. | |
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Many, many examples in The Sandman (1989). Even the peripheral characters are apt to wax philosophical to some degree. For a specific case, try this remark by Destruction: | |
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Knowledge Of Angels: Beneditx and Palinor. Also oft-mentioned is Thomas Aquinas, a real example. | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! — Galatea uses alien tech to create a superhuman artificial intelligence — and is then dismayed to find that he's more concerned with abstract philosophical questions than any of the tasks she wanted him to do. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer kind of averts this with Oz, who apparently has an elaborately philosophical internal monologue, but one that only becomes apparent when Buffy gains the ability to read his thoughts. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi has Yue doing this on occasion. She usually engages in Walls of Text only to find that everyone else is ignoring her. | |
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Jubal Early from the Firefly episode "Objects In Space" was a bounty hunter prone to quasi-philosophical ramblings while engaged in a mission. He often followed such comments with the rhetorical question, "Does that seem right to you?" | |
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Sostratos in Over the Wine-Dark Sea is this. He is an amateur of course and his job was as an Intrepid Merchant. Though when you think about it a number of famous philosophers were "dabblers" and held jobs that had little relation to philosophy. Socrates was a farmer and Marcus Aurlerius was an Emperor and C. S. Lewis was a Literature professor and so on. It's not surprising, since, except for philosophy professors and the now-obsolete job of court philosopher, no one is going to pay you to sit around and philosophize. Viewed economically, even full-time sages have the "job" of beggar or monastery factotum. | |
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Pierre Bezukhov falls into this characterization often in War and Peace, and is made more tragic in that he attempts to enact his ideals on the real world only to be deceived into thinking he's making a difference. | |
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Flame Warriors: Philosopher, naturally. | |
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Babylon 5 in general likes to wax philosophical, and most of the characters get at least an occasional turn in the Philosopher's chair. At its best, the ideas it puts forward are genuinely thought-provoking and contribute to the great depth and richness of the show. At its worst, it devolves into Contemplate Our Navels and Fauxlosophic Narration. | |
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Reading Altaïr's codex pages are philosophical in themselves. Someone on tumblr even once wrote “The man was a philosopher first and an assassin second." | |
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YuYu Hakusho: And speaking of characters named Itsuki... the Yu Yu version is somewhat of a subversion, as he is arguably unhinged. His personality is arguably a response to the Koan, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" | |
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A surprising number of these moments can be can be found in Conan the Barbarian (1982), first with Conan's father (whose speech becomes a Chekhov's Sword), and later in various conversations with Subotai. | |
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In Captain America, the Red Skull is often found alluding more or less clearly to various fascist or reactionary German philosophers in the Nietzsche-Spengler-Juenger tradition, as well as offering his own philosophical observations on the sad and heroic nature of the universe. As we would expect, since he is essentially an exaggerated Expy of Adolf Hitler. | |
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Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation is shown to be extremely erudite and well-read, and he frequently takes a philosophical approach to the various Moral Dilemmas the crew of the Enterprise find themselves entangled in. (In fact, this is such a trademark of his character that there's a trope named for it.) That being said, Picard is rarely long-winded, and is always ready to take action when the time for talking has passed. | |
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