History Main / LooksLikeCesare

* Unsurprisingly, given that it's based off a Tim Burton movie, [[Manga/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasZerosJourney ''Zero's Journey'']] has an elf named Mr. Myzer. He evokes a lighter version of this trope with his dark brown hair, pale skin, black coat, and dark circles under his eyes.

* Unsurprisingly, given it's based off a Tim Burton movie, [[Manga/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasZerosJourney Zero's Journey]] has an elf named Mr. Myzer. He evokes a lighter version of this with his dark brown hair, pale skin, black coat, and dark circles under his eyes.

* The Enchantress from ''Film/SuicideSquad'', at least until she [[spoiler: regains her stolen heart and reclaims her true power]].

*** So how would the actor portraying The Joker in the 1966 ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series fit in? His name was Creator/CesarRomero...

* Creator/PeterLorre, in films like ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'' where he didn't comb his hair.

A subtrope of EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette. (Which is to say, if the character's hair isn't dark or [[MulticoloredHair mostly dark]], they don't count.)

* The original example is, [[CaptainObvious of course]], [[ShapedLikeItself Cesare]], Conrad Veidt's BrainwashedAndCrazy sleepwalker character from ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', a silent film made in 1919 Germany. Interestingly enough, he is specifically stated in the shooting script to be wearing makeup ''in-story'' to achieve the effect. However, it should be noted that the archetype of a skinny, pale-skinned, ill-looking character all dressed in black can be found already in romantic literature of the 19th century (generally as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] or a LivingMemory).

* The original example is, [[CaptainObvious of course]], [[ShapedLikeItself Cesare]], Conrad Veidt's BrainwashedAndCrazy sleepwalker character from ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', a silent film made in 1919 Germany. Interestingly enough, he is specifically stated in the shooting script to be wearing makeup ''in-story'' to achieve the effect. However, it should be noted that the archetype of a skinny, pale skinned, ill looking character all dressed in black can be found already in romantic literature of the 19th century (generally as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] or a LivingMemory).

* Creator/PeterJackson's film series ''Film/TheHobbit'' has Radagast the Brown, as portrayed by Creator/SylvesterMcCoy.

*** And his "EvilTwin" Beyond Birthday from the prequel LightNovel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote''.

* Oswald Cobblepot (aka the Penguin) as portrayed by Robin Lord Taylor on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' fits this to a tee. Even more so than his older self, in fact, as young Oswald is quite slender.
* [[TheOphelia River Tam]] from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' [[http://screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Summer-Glau-as-River-Tam-in-Firefly.jpg has]] [[http://academic.depauw.edu/aevans_web/HONR101-02/WebPages/Spring2006/Rooney(Julie)/FireflyWebSite/Firefly%20Images/River3.jpg this]] [[http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/thisisrivertam_Large.jpg look]] [[http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsG/55592.gif at]] [[https://33.media.tumblr.com/04ba467e873e3c589f0aca4d590b4327/tumblr_n250i2a5011ram1ilo1_r2_250.gif times.]]

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* Simon Blackquill from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', probably due to his time in prison.
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*** So how would the actor portraying The Joker in the 1966 ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series fit in? His name was Cesar Romero...

* [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]].

This trope can be [[AppliedMathematics loosely summed up]] as EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette + CreepyShadowedUndereyes + MessyHair.

* [[Creator/UmaThurman Mia Wallace]] in ''Film/PulpFiction'' looks like this after her cocaine overdose.

* Ryuk from ''Manga/DeathNote'', who looks like Cesare would have if Conrad Veidt had been born in [[Creator/HPLovecraft Innsmouth]] instead of Germany.

* Controversial pickup artist and antifeminist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosh_V Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh]]. You can really see it [[http://www.commdiginews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/roosh1.jpg in]] [[https://cdn.datingskillsreview.com/photos/thumbnail/340x340s/c0/a6/3a/2690_rooshv1_1313777235.jpg pictures]] [[https://hailtothegynocracy.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/roosh-v.png like]] [[https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/image_edited-1.jpg?w=620 these]].

* Music/BillyJoel, [[http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2013/12/Express-Newspapers-Hulton-A.jpg particularly]] [[http://www.moosevilleusa.com/uploads/6/7/5/9/6759109/4503061_orig.jpg in]] [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W1wIZN4pQVo/hqdefault.jpg his]] [[http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/video/flashback-billy-joel-performs-piano-man-on-the-bbc-in-1975-20121108/20121108-billy-joel-x624-1352390828.jpg younger]] [[http://static.webshopapp.com/shops/008295/files/002152522/billy-joel-piano-man.jpg years]].

* [[TheOphelia River Tam]] from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' [[http://screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Summer-Glau-as-River-Tam-in-Firefly.jpg has]] [[http://academic.depauw.edu/aevans_web/HONR101-02/WebPages/Spring2006/Rooney(Julie)/FireflyWebSite/Firefly%20Images/River3.jpg this]] [[http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/thisisrivertam_Large.jpg look]] [[http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsG/55592.gif at]] [[https://33.media.tumblr.com/04ba467e873e3c589f0aca4d590b4327/tumblr_n250i2a5011ram1ilo1_r2_250.gif times]].

* Wrestling/JeffHardy sported this look on a 2008 episode of ''WWESmackDown'', as he got in touch with his "extreme side" to take out TheUndertaker.

* In the ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' novels ''Cesare'' is actually a term used to describe one particular type of servant of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Nobility]] - a human who has been given the "kiss" of the Noble without having all their blood drained away, resulting in a servant who utterly lack free will, reminiscent [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier the ghouls]] of some other vampire stories, and naturally looks like the TropeNamer.

* The original example is, [[CaptainObvious of course]], [[ShapedLikeItself Cesare]], Conrad Veidt's BrainwashedAndCrazy sleepwalker character from ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', a silent film made in 1919 Germany. Interestingly enough, he is specifically stated in the shooting script to be wearing makeup ''in-story'' to achieve the effect.
** However, it should be noted that the archetype of a skinny, pale skinned, ill looking character all dressed in black can be found already in romantic literature of the 19th century (generally as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]] or a LivingMemory).

* Kayako and Toshio Saeki from the ''Film/{{Juon}}'' movies and the ''TheGrudge'' (the American remake series).

** Even Lydia Deetz of ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' has a touch of this trope. She's an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette to start with, her hair is worn in a peculiar updo that defies gravity and frizzes out all over the place, and her eyes are a bit sunken. That last part is particularly noticeable when she's wearing her big black hat.
*** In the [[WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} cartoon]], though, she just wears a lot of eye makeup.

* The Joker was based upon the silent film version of ''TheManWhoLaughs.'' The actor portraying title character in ''that'' movie also played Cesare. So, it's hardly coincidence that the Joker is often given Cesare's dark, sunken-in eyelids.

* Brad Dourif as [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Wormtongue]] fits.

* The Penguin from ''Film/BatmanReturns'' looks like a cross between Cesare and [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok]].

* Credence from Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem, who's clearly TheWoobie [[spoiler: and also, it turns out, a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].

* Roose Bolton from Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire.
* Mary Shelley probably intended the monster in ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' to look a good deal this way; she describes him with pale skin, blank eyes, dark flowing hair, and "straight black lips." Since ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' was at least in part inspired by ''Frankenstein'', that film was arguably the first faithful adaptation of Shelley's vision.

* Music/TheCure: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxk-fgcg7c Lullaby]]

* [[TheSavageIndian Tatanka]] ''very'' briefly donned whiteface and black lipstick and eyeshadow late in 2006 after he suffered an emotional meltdown after losing too many matches and announced that his degradation had awakened a "vengeful spirit" that would avenge the Native American people.

* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, almost a century before the TropeNamer. Another nineteenth-century literary example was Creator/OscarWilde.

* Sara from the WhateleyUniverse. She's described as "Gothy", but it's her actual skin colouration, and it looks exactly like this.

** Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts in Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' fits every criterion except for the scraggly hair. (His hair ''is'' long and dark, though.)