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Robert Langdon[]
- Claustrophobia:Not completely explained on this book, but closed spaces are not his style. We are informed of this when he gets locked in a library with a limited supply of air. He still manages to keep his cool to escape, thankfully.
- Decoy Protagonist: Despite his knowledge of religious symbolism, he's more or less an accessory to Victoria's quest for Revenge.
- Marty Stu: Although not as much as in the sequel
- Insufferable Genius: YMMV
- The Smart Guy:He is a symbologist, that helps a lot when a murder involving a weird symbol happens.
- Unfazed Everyman
Kohler[]
- Enemy Mine: Thanks to his past, he has nothing but hate and disgust for everything religious. But he can't just let people die as result of a terrorist attack.
- Hollywood Atheist
- Jerkass:Specially around members of the church.
- Red Herring:The whole chapter before he talks with The Camerlengo hints that he's the Illuminati leader. Turns out his aggressive thoughts towards the church are result of a Freudian Excuse.
The Camerlengo[]
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:God damn. The trope should be renamed The Camerlengo. He would have played everyone for fools if Koch wasn't filming their conversation.
- Big Bad:He manages to be this with his incredible capacity for manipulation.
- The Chessmaster:There's no Illumminati. There's only him and the Hassassin, and the Hassassin thinks he's working for the Illumminati.
- Driven to Suicide: When he discovers that he is the Pope's son.
- Freudian Excuse:Averted with his mother's death as the result of an terrorist attack. What truly sets him in the path of unspeakable evil is discovering that the Pope had a son(that to his own horror is him) and the discovery of Vetra that launched him on a crusade to make science look evil and religion good.
- Genghis Gambit: the Camerlengo does in the movie with the Illuminati.
- Go Mad From the Revelation: Two times, surprisingly so.
- The first one Template:Spoiler:happens when the Pope reveals to the Camerlengo that science allowed him to have a son. Cues murder and conspiratio.
- The second one {{spoiler:makes The Camerlengo: go a little whacked at having found out the Pope's innocent of his accusation of breaking the vow of celibacy and is his father.]]
- The Heart:If not for the good guys, for the Catholic Church itself as temporary leader of Vatican.Template:Spoiler: He is doing this to divert the attention of himself.
- Movie only: Magnificent Bastard
- Knight Templar:He believes his actions will at the same time save the Catholic Church and at the very least prejudice the image of science on the public.
- Religious Stereotype:He avert this completely, being a kind and respectable member of the Church, and he is such a Hope Bringer that Template:Spoiler:the cardinals even think in making him Pope, and in fact do it through proclamation. Then he plays it so straight that makes the Hassassin look moderate.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He certainly inspires people around him.
- Walking Spoiler:Do you think who you know everything about him? Think again.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Hassassin/The Hitman[]
- Enemy Mine: He is much of a radical muslim as you can imagine in the book. He is only fighting for the Illuminati because he sees the Catholic Church as a bigger threat to eliminate.
- In Name Only: If the hitman didn't fulfill the exact same role of The Hassassin, they wouldn't share a character sheet in first place.
- Light Is Not Good: Movie version only, in which he wears white.
- The Dragon
- Too Dumb to Live: In the movie, is there anyone who couldn't predict that his car was rigged to explode?
- Sex Is Violence: His idea of maximum pleasure in the book? Having sex with a woman and kill her in the moment of orgasm. Urgh.
- Unfortunate Implications: An Arab who's a sadistic, religious fanatic.
- Averted in the movie, where he's European and played more like a Noble Demon than an Ax Crazy rapist.
Vittoria Vetra[]
- Action Girl: Her yoga training has...interesting uses in the book.
- Alliterative Name: You may ask if her father did it on purpose.
- Always V Sexy
- Hot Scientist:Her skirt in the book cause the expected reactions you would see from members of the conservative Vatican.
- Shallow Love Interest