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| - Assorted character YMMVs
* Alternate Character Interpretation: Eragon: A hero or sociopath?
* Murtagh:
* A Jerkass reveling in his new power, or someone making the best out of his situation?
* Arya: Badass Lady of War, or Jerkass?
* Galbatorix: Evil tyrant, but to some, a Draco in Leather Pants (or an in-universe Ron the Death Eater.)
* The Varden: Idealistic freedom fighters or ruthless terrorists?
* The elven Lord Dathedr gets a few of these - despite being nothing more than an advisor to Queen Islanzadi in the series, some fanfics have portrayed him as a elf behind the she-elf, Magnificent Bastard type who is manipulating events for his own ends. On the basis of a somewhat over-flowery compliment he pays Eragon (which some have argued is sarcastic), some anti-f
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| - Assorted character YMMVs
* Alternate Character Interpretation: Eragon: A hero or sociopath?
* Murtagh:
* A Jerkass reveling in his new power, or someone making the best out of his situation?
* Arya: Badass Lady of War, or Jerkass?
* Galbatorix: Evil tyrant, but to some, a Draco in Leather Pants (or an in-universe Ron the Death Eater.)
* The Varden: Idealistic freedom fighters or ruthless terrorists?
* The elven Lord Dathedr gets a few of these - despite being nothing more than an advisor to Queen Islanzadi in the series, some fanfics have portrayed him as a elf behind the she-elf, Magnificent Bastard type who is manipulating events for his own ends. On the basis of a somewhat over-flowery compliment he pays Eragon (which some have argued is sarcastic), some anti-fanfics have portrayed him as an Only Sane Man, Surrounded by Idiots. Bizarre, given he has perhaps ten lines of dialogue across the whole series (although he does pierce Galbatorix's anti-scrying spells, which is a Crowning Moment of Awesome in itself).
* Base Breaker: Nasuada, following her decision to have Roran whipped for insubordination in Brisingr.
* Complete Monster: Morzan, Murtagh's horrible father.
* Ensemble Darkhorse: Murtagh
* Fan-Preferred Couple:
* Nasuada with Murtagh, since she seems to like him.
* Seeing as Inheritance decides to deal with their relationship directly, don't be surprised if it becomes even more Fan Preferred.
* Dangerously Genre Savvy: Galbatorix, in Inheritance. He hijacks the magical language itself in the final battle such that only he can use it, effectively depowering nearly every other character. The only reason he lost was that Murtagh was not as loyal as he thought.
* Magnificent Bastard: Galbatorix. By Inheritance, its clear that his cunning and manipulation go much deeper than anyone would previously have guessed.
* Real Women Never Wear Dresses:
* Arya shows disdain for human women, who she considers to be weak and helpless. She briefly wears a dress in Brisingr, and when Eragon comments on it, she says that she never really understood why humans insist on separating their men and women in these ways.
* Subverted by Nasuada, who is never seen outside of a dress, thinks it's sketchy that Arya wears pants, and finances the war by selling fine lace.
* Unintentionally Sympathetic: Sloan.
* The Woobie:
* Murtagh. Also an Iron Woobie and Jerkass Woobie.
* Thorn.
* Eragon at the end of the series. At around 16, he's facing complete isolation for years, having to explore a vast new continent that is extremely difficult to reach, and establish a new order of dragon riders there virtually by himself. He does not expect to see any of his loved ones alive again (which a certain prediction makes explicit), and has given up all thoughts of romance or pleasurable company. Kind of harsh for a band of grown men, let alone a single teenager.
* King Orrin - after years of busting a gut for the Varden (in Eragon Orik flat out says: "The Varden couldn't exist without Orrin,"), living in terror that Galbatorix is going to roll over and crush his kingdom and enslave his people, and sheltering the Varden's noncombatants, he is completely supplanted in La Résistance by Nasuada, insulted by Roran and seems destined to spend the post-war period as a "second-fiddle" nation to the Empire. No wonder he takes to the drink.
* Durza - Carseib never wanted to become a Shade.
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