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* MrFanservice: Templar, even when he's wearing all his clothes.
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* InnocentBlueEyes: The Saint has these and is very, very aware of it. He loves giving beatifically innocent looks at his most infuriating.
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* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Certainly all The Saint's marks would say this, especially when he pulls off his wide-eyed innocent look and his beatific smile that usually marks his being particularly mischievous.
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* GentlemanAdventurer: Even invokes this trope by name when describing himself.
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* TheCharmer: The Saint. Women attract to him like flies, but he would never take advantage of a woman.
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* IShallTauntYou: Templar doesn't have an off button when he's around the police or villains. All of his insults are very snarky, generally ForTheFunnyz, and (if he's in a poetic mood and you've pissed him off) occasionally very flowery.
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* IShallTauntYou: Templar doesn't have an off button when he's around the police or villains. All of his insults are very snarky, generally ForTheFunnyz, snarky and (if he's in a poetic mood both for his own (and his comrades) amusement and you've pissed him off) occasionally very flowery.to keep villains and policemen off their balance.
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* FloweryInsults: Occasionally, when Templar is in a very poetic
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* GentlemanSnarker: The Saint, obviously.
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* CondescendingCompassion: Templar loves pretending this attitude around and in regards to the police.
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* KansasCityShuffle: Another thing The Saint loves with a holy love.
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* FlawExploitation: Often used by The Saint; is often attempted against him, but it is the rare time that he doesn't have a contingency for someone trying to do this.
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* BatmanGambit: The Saint loves these with a holy love.
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* ActionGirl: a number of early novels and stories feature Templar's girlfriend, Patricia Holm, who becomes an active accomplice in a number of his exploits. She's also noted to be a better shot than Templar and the person he trusts to [[BadassDriver drive the getaway car when the police or villains are on their tail.]]
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* ActionGirl: a number of early novels and stories feature Templar's girlfriend, Patricia Holm, who becomes an active accomplice in a number of his exploits. She's also noted to be a better shot than Templar and is the person he trusts to [[BadassDriver drive the getaway car when the police or villains are on their tail.chase is particularly hot.]]
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* JustLikeRobinHood: The Saint steals from criminals and gives all but 10% of it to a charity.
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* JustLikeRobinHood: The Saint steals from criminals and gives all but 10% of it to a charity.charities.
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* LoveableRogue: The Saint steals from criminals and gives all but 10% of it to a charity.
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* ConMan: Lots of The Saints exploits revolve around elaborate cons he devises to separate the ungodly from their ill-gotten gains.
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* TheTrickster: The Saint. Oh hallowed heavens, The Saint!
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* SharpDressedMan: Prefers to dress like this whenever possible, however it is noted (several times over) that he simply looks phenomenal in whatever he happens to be wearing by virtue of good looks and sheer personality.
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* GeniusBruiser: The Saint who not only can kick ass, designs his own security systems.
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* GeniusBruiser: The Saint who not only can kick ass, he designs his own security/alarm systems and invents gadgets, can dismantle any security systems.system (though prefers not to, if there's another more dangerous option that would be more fun), and is quite knowledgeable in just about any field you'd care to ask about.
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* GeniusBruiser: The Saint who not only can kick ass, designs his own security systems.
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* WarriorPoet: The Saint, of course. Writes poetry (in comic and satirical vein to entertain and amuse his compatriots and to annoy his enemies, then sometimes more serious stuff about justice and chivalry). Is also prone to, amidst jokes, philosophize on battle, honor, chivalry, love, how modern man has lost his thirst for adventure, and any numbers of those combined.
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* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: In ''Salvage For The Saint'', Charles Tatenor's real name is revealed to be Schwarzkopf. As literally translating his surname into English would have sounded ridiculous ('blackhead'), he went for something that sounded like blackhead in French (''tête noire'').
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Newdick Helicopter", a ConMan sells a mark plans for a 'helicopter' (actually a gyrocopter). When the mark assembles the helicopter, he discovers it cannot take off vertically as he expected it to. Assuming he had put it together wrong, he starts tinkering with it and ends up inventing a fully functioning helicopter. (Note that this story was published in 1933, several years before the first fully functioning helicopter was built.)
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Newdick Helicopter", a ConMan sells a mark plans for a 'helicopter' (actually a gyrocopter). When the mark assembles the helicopter, he discovers it cannot take off vertically as he expected it to. Assuming he had put it together wrong, he starts tinkering with it and ends up inventing a fully functioning helicopter. (Note that this story was published in 1933, several years before the first [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_61 fully functioning helicopter helicopter]] was built.)
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* ActionGirl: a number of early novels and stories feature Templar's girlfriend, Patricia Holm, who becomes an active accomplice in a number of his exploits.
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* KnightInShiningArmour: In "The Last Hero", one of the earlier Saint novels (1931), Simon Templar takes backstage to his gallant and tragic associate Norman Kent, who falls in love hopelessly with Templar's girlfriend Patricia Holm (who hardly notices him) and at the end of the book sacrifices his life to let Templar and his other comrades-in-arms escape the current villain and fight again another day. A book called "Knights Errant of the Nineeteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" by Caroline Whitehead and George Mc Leod says it all: "Norman Kent is an archetypal knight-errant. Though formally a man of 20th Century England, he lives (and dies) by the Code of Chivalry. He loves totally his Lady, Patricia Holm - who, like Don Quixote's Dulcinea, is not aware of that love. He is totally loyal to his Liege Lord, Simon Templar. Like Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Norman Kent takes on the threats to his Lord. Not only physicial threats to life and limb, but also the sometimes inavoidable need to take dishourable acts which would have reflected badly on the reputation of King Arthur/Simon Templar is taken on, wholly and without reservation, by Sir Gawain/Norman Kent."
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* KnightInShiningArmour: In "The Last Hero", one of the earlier Saint novels (1931), Simon Templar takes backstage to his gallant and tragic associate Norman Kent, who falls in love hopelessly with Templar's girlfriend Patricia Holm (who hardly notices him) and at the end of the book sacrifices his life to let Templar and his other comrades-in-arms escape the current villain and fight again another day. A book called "Knights Errant of the Nineeteenth Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" by Caroline Whitehead and George Mc Leod says it all: "Norman Kent is an archetypal knight-errant. Though formally a man of 20th Century England, he lives (and dies) by the Code of Chivalry. He loves totally his Lady, Patricia Holm - who, like Don Quixote's Dulcinea, is not aware of that love. He is totally loyal to his Liege Lord, Simon Templar. Like Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Norman Kent takes on the threats to his Lord. Not only physicial threats to life and limb, but also the sometimes inavoidable need to take dishourable acts which would have reflected badly on the reputation of King Arthur/Simon Templar is taken on, wholly and without reservation, by Sir Gawain/Norman Kent."
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* ThePardon: The one thing the cop had him under arrest and dead to rights, he had just saved a train with members of the royal family on it from being blown up.
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Master thief Simon Templar, also known by his nickname "the Saint" due to his initials S.T., as well as the fact that his heroic exploits fly in the face of a nefarious reputation. While he uses many aliases, usually also incorporating the intitials S.T., his true name is unknown. Instead, he took his inspiration for the name Simon Templar from reading about the exploits of the Knights Templar.
Templar’s usual targets are those he considers “ungodly”, such as corrupt politicians, warmongers, and other unsavory types, leading to comparisons, both favorable and otherwise, to Robin Hood. However, Templar is willing to ruin the lives of the ungodly or even kill them, justifying these admitted murders as necessary to defend the lives of the innocent.
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The character of Simon Templar was created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books which ran until 1983, published as '''''The Saint'''''.
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!!''The Saint'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Newdick Helicopter", a ConMan sells a mark plans for a 'helicopter' (actually a gyrocopter). When the mark assembles the helicopter, he discovers it cannot take off vertically as he expected it to. Assuming he had put it together wrong, he starts tinkering with it and ends up inventing a fully functioning helicopter. (Note that this story was published in 1933, several years before the first fully functioning helicopter was built.)
* GoToAlias: Sebastian Toombs
* KnightInShiningArmour: In "The Last Hero", one of the earlier Saint novels (1931), Simon Templar takes backstage to his gallant and tragic associate Norman Kent, who falls in love hopelessly with Templar's girlfriend Patricia Holm (who hardly notices him) and at the end of the book sacrifices his life to let Templar and his other comrades-in-arms escape the current villain and fight again another day. A book called "Knights Errant of the Nineeteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" by Caroline Whitehead and George Mc Leod says it all: "Norman Kent is an archetypal knight-errant. Though formally a man of 20th Century England, he lives (and dies) by the Code of Chivalry. He loves totally his Lady, Patricia Holm - who, like Don Quixote's Dulcinea, is not aware of that love. He is totally loyal to his Liege Lord, Simon Templar. Like Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Norman Kent takes on the threats to his Lord. Not only physicial threats to life and limb, but also the sometimes inavoidable need to take dishourable acts which would have reflected badly on the reputation of King Arthur/Simon Templar is taken on, wholly and without reservation, by Sir Gawain/Norman Kent."
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* ThemedAliases: Simon's aliases often use the initials "S.T."
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!!''The Saint'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: In "The Newdick Helicopter", a ConMan sells a mark plans for a 'helicopter' (actually a gyrocopter). When the mark assembles the helicopter, he discovers it cannot take off vertically as he expected it to. Assuming he had put it together wrong, he starts tinkering with it and ends up inventing a fully functioning helicopter. (Note that this story was published in 1933, several years before the first fully functioning helicopter was built.)
* GoToAlias: Sebastian Toombs
* KnightInShiningArmour: In "The Last Hero", one of the earlier Saint novels (1931), Simon Templar takes backstage to his gallant and tragic associate Norman Kent, who falls in love hopelessly with Templar's girlfriend Patricia Holm (who hardly notices him) and at the end of the book sacrifices his life to let Templar and his other comrades-in-arms escape the current villain and fight again another day. A book called "Knights Errant of the Nineeteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" by Caroline Whitehead and George Mc Leod says it all: "Norman Kent is an archetypal knight-errant. Though formally a man of 20th Century England, he lives (and dies) by the Code of Chivalry. He loves totally his Lady, Patricia Holm - who, like Don Quixote's Dulcinea, is not aware of that love. He is totally loyal to his Liege Lord, Simon Templar. Like Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Norman Kent takes on the threats to his Lord. Not only physicial threats to life and limb, but also the sometimes inavoidable need to take dishourable acts which would have reflected badly on the reputation of King Arthur/Simon Templar is taken on, wholly and without reservation, by Sir Gawain/Norman Kent."
* LongRunningBookSeries
* ThemedAliases: Simon's aliases often use the initials "S.T."
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