History Characters / GlassOnion

* HistoryWithCelebrity: Miles' island is filled with evidence of his celebrity associations: artist Creator/{{Banksy}} designed the dock to his island, he's hawking products from actors Creator/JaredLeto and Creator/JeremyRenner, writer Creator/GillianFlynn wrote his initial murder mystery plan, composer Music/PhilipGlass composed the hourly "dong" noise, and tennis superstar Serena Williams is his personal trainer.

* {{Catchphrase}}: A panicked "Oh my god!"

** She's willing to pay lip-service to politics she doesn't believe in advance her career, but she thinks it was super messed up of the Disruptors to throw Andi under the bus.

** She's compromising her morals to get ahead and advance her career, but she thinks it was super messed up of the Disruptors to throw Andi under the bus.

* TheCameo: For Creator/EthanHawke, who was filming ''Series/MoonKnight'' in Greece at the same time as ''Glass Onion''.

* FatalFlaw: Arrogance. Even at a young age, she always envisioned that she was going to be prominent, which is why she started writing a diary of herself, not because of wanting to keep memories of her day-to-day life, but because she was aiming to one day give it to the writers of her biography. Afterwards, she would meet with Miles Bron and the rest of the Disruptors, where due them all having lower levels of intelligence than her, she would always see herself as the smartest person in the room, which inflated her ego even more. She disregarded her sister Helen's warnings about the Disruptors because she thought she had them all on check. When she found her napkin which proved her being right after the trial, she didn't give it to the authorities right away because she wanted to rub it in to the ones who betrayed her beforehand; and when she met with Miles as he visited her home she thought that she had the situation under control, which is why ultimately she didn't notice that Miles was trying to kill her, only realizing it after she was already drugged.

* CantHoldHerLiquor: She gets drunk very easily, very quickly. Moreover, she's an ''angry'' drunk who becomes very gung-ho, fired-up and confrontational when she has a bit of LiquidCourage in her. [[spoiler:After Miles burns the real napkin, Blanc bets everything on this trait of hers to ''literally'' burn his entire house down.]] ''It works.''

* AbusiveParents: She's not the warmest or most supportive mother, even slapping Duke across the face just for talking back to her. As awful as Duke is, she interrupts him while livestreaming over ''laundry'', and disrupts the team's attempts to solve the puzzle box.

* SelfMadeMan: Downplayed. The group's members are legitimately talented and built up their careers with their skills, but because of their modest backgrounds they had to rely on help from Miles' wealth and connections to get their careers going. Before they met him, they were all working dead end jobs. Even with his backing, only Lionel and Claire (the ones most directly reliant on Miles for funding) actually appear to have any degree of competency, as Duke's streaming career is tanking and he's been pushing into the Alt-Right market to compensate, and Birdie grossly mismanaged her sweatpants line by using sweatshop labour and has to be constantly managed by her assistant to prevent her tweeting slurs. It's only Andi who's genuinely able to build a profitable business, and even she was unable to prevent said business being taken from her by shady moves from Miles.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:While Andi and Duke die, and Miles will go to prison for murdering both, it's unclear what him going under will do to the rest of them. However, seeing as he can no longer hold their careers hostage -- and that the Disruptors' association with him will tarnish their own reputations regardless, meaning they have nothing to lose -- the rest of the group decide they might as well help do him in.]]

* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Miles has built a reputation of being a groundbreaking genius. [[spoiler:The truth is that he is a complete buffoon whose ideas are stupid at best and dangerous at worst, and who owes all of his success to Andi -- whose company he stole and took all the credit for.]]

* ConspicuousConsumption: Miles ''oozes'' this. Virtually every corner of his mansion is filled with artworks and artifacts that belonged to famous people, such as a Matisse, a Rothko, and (allegedly) Paul [=McCartney=]'s guitar and the Mona Lisa. In addition, he's commissioned various people such as Serena Williams for personal training and Philip Glass for the Hourly Dong. However, this also showcases how he's RichInDollarsPoorInSense - the Rothko is hung upside down and he's being absolutely ''fleeced'' by the people he commmissioned.

** [[spoiler:The methods of murder they employ also greatly contrast: Ransom concocts a deviously clever plot to murder his grandfather Harlan and frame Marta for it using a secret trick window on Harlan's mansion, goes largely undetected in his execution of it save for a couple of dogs and his senile great-grandmother, and engages in copious amounts of XanatosSpeedChess in order to smooth out the complications that arise to achieve his intended outcome -- while Harlan ends up making nearly the same plan to create an alibi for Marta when he commits suicide, he does so ''after'' Ransom's plan and is completely unaware of his grandson's machinations. Meanwhile, Miles' murder of Andi is ineptly blunt and direct, to the point that he even ''uses his signature baby-blue Porsche'' as his ''getaway vehicle'', is witnessed by Duke as he's fleeing the scene of the crime in said car (his only attempt at obscuring this after the fact is forcing a LastMinuteWordSwap when Duke's about to give an anecdote about it), and when it comes time to kill Duke when he attempts to blackmail Miles once the news of Andi's death breaks out, he just hands him pineapple-spiked whiskey in plain view of everyone and just lies very loudly shortly afterwards. He does have a single idea with panache of shooting Helen with Duke's gun in the middle of his scheduled blackout, but he stole this directly from Blanc's hypothetical scenario earlier in the night. He could have also gotten rid of Duke's phone during the blackout when he was alone, but instead he kept it in his pocket, and thus Blanc is easily able to find it on his person, especially since it was established he doesn't own a phone.]]

* TheFace: Miles was this for The Disruptors as a unit, being the slick, socially gifted talker and “salesman” who helped get everyone either their current jobs or resurgence in standing. He tried to portray himself as TheSmartGuy, but that was actually Andi. [[spoiler:And he serves as a deconstruction of the trope, as his removal of Andi from the group and murder of her leaves the Disruptors doomed to an inevitable slide into disarray and obscurity, as even the most competent of them are chained to Miles' Klear scheme.]]

* FeigningIntelligence: [[spoiler:Miles is constantly trying to seem much smarter than he is through misuse of fancy sounding terms, talking about subjects he has an at best limited understanding of and using other people's work to make himself seem more impressive. It's eventually revealed that not only is Miles not as smart as he wants to seem, he's a complete idiot who just benefitted from Andi's work.]]

* {{Malaproper}}: The guy invents and misapplies several big sounding words to sound smarter than he actually is. Blanc eventually points out that [[spoiler:it's a telltale sign of him being an idiot rather than the eccentric genius that the general public sees him as]].

** His product Klear, a supposedly revolutionary technology that doesn't work but is being fast tracked and hyped due to publicity, is reminiscent of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos who was convicted of fraud. Both cosplayed Steve Jobs while portraying themselves as visionaries. There is even a photo of him holding his napkin similar to Holmes' famous pose of holding her blood testing product (though Creator/EdwardNorton stated [[https://twitter.com/EdwardNorton/status/1610520222586535936 on Twitter]] that the photo referenced was a slightly different, but still similar one).

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:Miles might be a pretentious goon and a moron with zero impulse control, but he still personally murdered two people, tried to kill Helen, and threatened to follow through on it should she attempt to stand against him. If anything, Miles' stupidity and lack of imagination actually makes him ''more'' dangerous as he will either forego elaborate scams, such as when he immediately poisons Duke, or does things a smarter villain would avoid, such as killing Andi to begin with and then Duke in front of everyone. It even confounds Benoit who is used to dealing with complex schemes and intelligent criminals and so isn't used to someone who just acts without thinking.]]

* RedHerring: Played with and even invoked as an explicit plot point, with Blanc even pointing out a real-life reason why red herrings might not be the obvious choice after all: when one is the obvious suspect, they would have to be a complete fool to actually commit the crime, and Miles is a genius. When the mysteries start piling up, [[spoiler:Helen points out that as the one with the most to lose, Miles is the obvious suspect for her sister's murder, due to her unearthing the evidence of her stealing his idea. Blanc points out that since he publically feuded with Andi, her house was ransacked, and Andi sent an easily exposeable email, a genius like Miles would know he'd be the first suspect. Then Blanc realizes, towards the end, that Miles isn't a genius – he's a superficial fool who, after all, ''would'' make such an obvious, desperate move, believing his lies to be invincible.]]

* RichGenius: Miles Bron, who owns his own private island and sends invitations to his friends in the form of puzzle boxes. [[spoiler:Ultimately, the "genius" part is subverted, as Blanc points out in the denouement, because Miles is really a KnowNothingKnowItAll who relies on others to do anything clever, starting with stealing Andi's ideas for his company.]]
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Miles is filthy rich, and has made multiple bad decisions using that money, such as building a dock which can only be used at low tide at the one docking point of his personal island, and installing an easily accessed bypass on the ''Mona Lisa'''s protective case. [[spoiler:He also decided to run his entire compound on a dangerous and untested experimental fuel which he got from a Norwegian scientist at an ayahuasca retreat, kept damning evidence in a picture frame instead of destroying it, and utilized an easily recognizable car as his getaway vehicle.]]

* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Miles is not intelligent enough to be a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]], so the ideas he uses in the spur of the moment to outmaneuver his rivals are all stolen from someone else. He doesn't think about shooting Andi in the dark until Blanc mentions it could happen to him, and he doesn't burn the real napkin until Lionel asks why he hasn't already. This is one of the factors that leads to him being defeated by Helen.]]

* FatalFlaw: Arrogance. Even at a young age, she always envisioned that she was going to be prominent, which is why she started writing a diary of herself, not because of wanting to keep memories of her day to day life, but because she was aiming to one day give it to the writers of her biography. Afterwards, she would meet with Miles Bron and the rest of the Disruptors, where due them all having lower levels of intelligence than her, she would always see herself as the smartest person in the room, which inflated her ego even more. She disregarded her sister Helen's warnings about the Disruptors because she thought she had them all on check. When she found her napkin which proved her being right after the trial, she didn't give it to the authorities right away because she wanted to rub it in to the ones who betrayed her beforehand; and when she met with Miles as he visited her home she thought that she had the situation under control, which is why ultimately she didn't notice that Miles was trying to kill her, only realizing it after she was already drugged.

* BlingBlingBang: His beloved Tokarev handgun is elaborately engraved, and has a gleaming chrome or silver finish accompanied with a highly-polished reddish wood grip.

* AnimalMotifs: Birds, unsurprisingly. Her full name is '''Birdie Jay''', she's constantly making social gaffes with her 'tweets', she shows up to the dock in Greece wearing a feather-patterned sundress and a gold feather necklace, Miles' murder mystery has her killing Miles with a Jayhawk brand crossbow, and she owns a famous jewel called the Wren Diamond. Fitting, considering her role as a beautiful yet [[IncrediblyLamePun flighty]] member of Miles's crew.

** She's compromising her morals to get ahead and advance her career, but she thinks it was super messed-up of the Disruptors to throw Andi under the bus.

* RecurringElement: Like Marta in ''Knives Out'', she's an honest, working class minority woman who wins by playing the game her own way.

* AbusiveParents: She's not the warmest or most supportive mother, even slapping Duke across the face just for talking back to her. As awful as Duke is, she interupts him while livestreaming over ''laundry'', and disrupts the team's attempts to solve the puzzle box.

* NerdsAreSexy: A suave, well-dressed, and handsome scientist. [[BrainlessBeauty Birdie]] comments that he's too good-looking to be a scientist.

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:During his VillainousBreakdown, he calls Helen a baby for blowing up the Glass Onion and destroying the ''Mona Lisa'', before doubling over in a very childlike fit of rage. There's also the fact that his reaction to its destruction consists of him screaming and crying like, well, a baby.]]

* TestosteronePoisoning: He frequently does cartoonishly manly things like bringing his own gun to the island, which ends up making him seem even more pathetic and buffoonish.

* AmbiguoslyEvil: He works for Miles, [[spoiler: the main villain of the film]], and his behavior is definitely suspicious but he doesn't do anything directly evil so it's hard to say where he lands on the good/evil scale.

** [[spoiler:He personally murders Andi and even does so using his signature car. Pretty much any competent investigator would've made him a suspect right away due to their public falling out and found out about the envelope by searching Andi's emails, giving Miles a clear motive, and any person or camera in the vicinity would've spotted him going to and from the house on the day]].

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:Miles might be a pretentious goon, but he still personally murdered two people, tried to kill Helen, and threatened to follow through on it should she attempt to stand against him. If anything, Miles' stupidity and lack of imagination actually makes him ''more'' dangerous as he will either forego elaborate scams, such as when he immediately poisons Duke, or does things a smarter villain would avoid, such as killing Andi to begin with and then Duke in front of everyone. It even confounds Benoit who is used to dealing with complex schemes and intelligent criminals and so isn't used to someone who just acts without thinking.]]

** His product Klear, a supposedly revolutionary technology that doesn't work but is being fast tracked and hyped due to publicity, is reminiscent of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos who was convicted of fraud. There is even a photo of him holding his napkin similar to Holmes' famous pose of holding her blood testing product (though Creator/EdwardNorton stated [[https://twitter.com/EdwardNorton/status/1610520222586535936 on Twitter]] that the photo referenced was a slightly different, but still similar one).

* ConspicuousConsumption: Miles ''oozes'' this. Virtually every corner of his mansion is filled with artworks and artifacts that belonged to famous people, such as a Matisse, a Rothko, and (allegedly) Paul McCartney's guitar and the Mona Lisa. In addition, he's commissioned various people such as Serena Williams for personal training and Philip Glass for the Hourly Dong. However, this also showcases how he's RichInDollarsPoorInSense - the Rothko is hung upside down and he's being absolutely ''fleeced'' by the people he commmissioned.

* TheEighties: Between his greasy ponytail, outdated sunglasses and loud pinstripe suit complete with sockless loafers, he could be mistaken for a lost and confused time traveler.

* AbusiveParents: She's not the warmest or most supportive mother, even slapping Duke across the face just for talking back to her. As awful as Duke is, she interupts him while livestreaming over ''laundry''.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: She knew full well that Miles was a fool and had no reason to truly fear him, but she didn't anticipate he would be reckless and stupid enough to kill her after all that they went through.

* InsufferableImbecile: [[spoiler:What he actually turns out to be is an overgrown jock who's spent his whole life bullying smarter people into doing his homework for him.]]