He enjoys employing the word 'inconceivable,' often in inappropriate contexts. He angers quickly and shouts constantly, and treats his subordinates poorly despite relying on their skills to do work that he cannot. Vizzini is a calculating but ultimately buffoonish crime boss from Sicily. He enjoys rhyming, as he demonstrates aboard the boat used to kidnap Buttercup, and proves himself to have a huge heart over the course of the film. He opposes killing either Buttercup or Westley when Vizzini instructs him to. Despite his hulking size, he is gentle and kind. Fezzikįezzik is an enormous man from Greenland working reluctantly under Vizzini. It's implied that he succeeds Westley as the next Dread Pirate Roberts after the story ends. He is polite, determined, and incredibly skilled with a sword. He has spent the last 20 years studying fencing in preparation to defeat the six-fingered man who killed his father, whom he loved deeply. Inigo is an honorable, kind-hearted fencer working for Vizzini to stave off his poverty and alcoholism. He is intelligent but exceedingly dishonest, and not immune to love's sting himself, as Buttercup's disgust with him leads him to (almost) murder Westley in the Pit of Despair. The conniving, cruel prince of Florin, Humperdinck arranges to marry Buttercup so that he may have her murdered and frame the enemy nation of Guilder for the crime, creating a reason to instigate war. She is brave, quick-thinking, and very passionate. She becomes deeply depressed upon falsely concluding that Westley has been murdered, a depression that leads her to agree to marry Florin's dishonorable Prince Humperdinck. As his master when they are younger, she is initially demanding toward him, but softens upon realizing her love for him, and his for her.

The doe-eyed farm owner turned forlorn princess and eventual damsel in distress, Buttercup is Westley's true love. He is kind, fair, quick-witted, and brave. He returns to Florin upon hearing of Buttercup's betrothal to Prince Humperdinck. Not long after sailing away to secure a financial future for the two of them, he is taken captive aboard the ship of the Dread Pirate Roberts, where he learns to fence, fight, and eventually takes over as captain. A passionate, handsome farm boy turned daring, fearless pirate, Westley is Buttercup's true love.

Buttercup character