Assisting Michael in drugging Rudolf to miss the coronation, Rupert centers in on Rudolf's replacement Rudolf Rassendyll, luring him into a trap while also attempting to seduce Michael's mistress Antoinette.
Magnificent Bastard: Rupert of Hentzau is the bold subordinate of Prince Michael and the chief enforcer of the prince's attempt to assume the throne of Zenda from Rudolf V. True he was a pompous womanising drunk beforehand, but it's implied he got Break the Haughty as a result of it. Jerkass Woobie: Rudolph gets locked in a prison with barely any food and water, and is nearly drowned. Ho Yay: Between Rupert and his cousin Rischenheim in the sequel. Harsher in Hindsight: The remake becomes a little harsh to watch if you follow it up with Young Bess - where this time it's Deborah Kerr with unrequited love for Stewart Granger and she dies rather than their amicable parting here. In a case of amusing irony, Colman's character in Around the World is indifferent to the inconvenience Niven suffers, while Niven's character in Zenda is one of Colman's most loyal supporters. Fast forward to Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and Niven plays the main character while Colman has a short cameo as a railway official. In the 1937 film Ronald Colman plays the main character while David Niven has a supporting role. This can lead to confusion when reading Rupert of Hentzau for the first time. Two years later (and a year before the sequel was published), Dracula included a major character named Professor van Helsing. 
The sequel, written in 1895, includes a minor character named Baron von Helsing. 
Rupert is a villain and blackmailer but looking to regain his title and lands while the heroes are very ruthless in their schemes and from a certain point of view are the ones toying with treason.
The sequel, Rupert of Hentzau takes this further. Grey-and-Grey Morality: That Black Michael's motivations and actions are less than pure is given, but King Rudolf is a drunk and a bully who is only loved by the nobility and army, whereas Michael is the people's champion and would probably make a far better king. FILM THE PRISONER OF ZENDA FULL
In the sequel, Fritz calls Rupert the handsomest man in Ruritania, and specifically mentions his "firm, full lips". While the original has a few moments, the sheer mass of them in the sequel may be a signal that Hope is trolling us rather than Have a Gay Old Time. Neither man spoke their eyes met each heard the other's breathing and felt the vapor of it on his face." The sequel features a scene where our hero " gripped Rupert's wrists, and with his greater strength he bent back the count's pliant body till trunk and head lay flat on the table. There was a prequel to The Prisoner of Zenda, The Heart of Princess Osra, about a previous Elphberg. This is also the case with the rest of Anthony Hope's quite prolific career, with Zenda being his only work that's still well remembered. The Downer Ending in which both Rudolfs die may have much to do with its fall into oblivion. Nobody seems to remember there is a second part for Rudolf's adventures, called as his enemy, Rupert of Hentzau. "Rupert is bisexual" shows up in almost every fan-work, and there are enough hints in both novels and their adaptations to make it practically canon. It started because the book's description of Michael sounds like the typical Victorian-novel way of describing someone with tuberculosis. 
"Michael has tuberculosis" is a widespread idea in the fandom.Evil Is Cool: Rupert of Hentzau is beloved even by modern viewers for being incredibly charming, a master planner, and let's not forget the swordfighting from Douglas Fairbanks Jr.The popularity of the novels inspired the Ruritanian romance genre of literature, film, and theatre that features stories set in a fictional country, usually in Central Europe and Eastern Europe, such as Ruritania, the Central European realm that named the genre, Graustark from the novels by George Barr McCutcheon, and the neighbouring countries Syldavia and Borduria in the Tintin comics. The name of the villain in The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau, is the title of the sequel novel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898), published four years later and included in some editions of The Prisoner of Zenda.
Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an effort to save the unstable political situation of the interregnum. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony.
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