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* HereditarySuicide: Robert's wife jumped out of a window to her death after seeing her badly-disfigured face. Her daughter with Robert, Norma, was badly traumatised by witnessing it. After Vincente tried to rape her, Norma finally became so unstable that she killed herself in the same way.
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* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: Norma's mother was horrifically burned in a car accident, but Robert saved her life. When she saw how badly disfigured she was, though, she jumped out of a window and died.
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* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity]].]]
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* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] Zeca. In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity]].]]
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''La Piel Que Habito'' (known in the US as ''The Skin I Live In'') is a Creator/PedroAlmodovar film about a mysterious woman (Creator/ElenaAnaya) undergoing equally mysterious skin transplant procedures by a secretive plastic surgeon (Creator/AntonioBanderas) as part of his research into "a skin that accepts a caring touch, yet resists all harmful attacks." But why is she held in a locked room, almost prison-like, without any contact from the outside world? Why is the doctor so adamant about keeping her hidden away? How did the two ever meet, and why is she being subjected to such procedures, which seem to be against her will?
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''La Piel Que Habito'' piel que habito'' (known in the US as ''The Skin I Live In'') is a Creator/PedroAlmodovar film about a mysterious woman (Creator/ElenaAnaya) undergoing equally mysterious skin transplant procedures by a secretive plastic surgeon (Creator/AntonioBanderas) as part of his research into "a skin that accepts a caring touch, yet resists all harmful attacks." But why is she held in a locked room, almost prison-like, without any contact from the outside world? Why is the doctor so adamant about keeping her hidden away? How did the two ever meet, and why is she being subjected to such procedures, which seem to be against her will?
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* RapeLeadsToInsanity: [[spoiler:Norma's loos of sexual innocence while hearing a childhood song her mother committed suicide to]] left her in a traumatic state where she wouldn't even recognize her father anymore [[spoiler:and which ultimately leads to her suicide]].
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* RapeLeadsToInsanity: [[spoiler:Norma's loos loss of sexual innocence while hearing a childhood song her mother committed suicide to]] left her in a traumatic state where she wouldn't even recognize her father anymore [[spoiler:and which ultimately leads to her suicide]].
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Mygale''/''Tarantula'', [[spoiler:Vincent and Alex raped Viviane together, and Vincent is very aware of what he did]].
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* AdaptationNameChange: In changing the setting from France to Spain, Richard and Viviane Lafargue become Robert and Norma Ledgard, Vincent Moreau becomes Vicente Guillén Piñeiro, and "Eve" becomes "Vera."
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* ShoutOut: Many shots, the setting and part of the plot reference heavily ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace''. Another part references ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' [[spoiler: and the last par remembers ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'']].
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* ShoutOut: Many shots, the setting and part of the plot reference heavily ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace''. Another part references ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' [[spoiler: and the last par remembers part references ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'']].
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* ReplacementGoldfish: At a certain point, it becomes clear that this Robert intends [[spoiler: to make Vicente into one for his dead wife. Believing that he has succeeded is what leads to his downfall.]]
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity]].]]
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity]].]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: At a certain point, it becomes clear that this Robert intends [[spoiler: to make Vicente into one for his dead wife. Believing that he has succeeded is what leads to his downfall.]]
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity]].]] ]]
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity]].
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* MalevolentMaskedMen: Zeca first appears wearing a tiger mask to go with his tiger striped leather costume. Robert wears a strange synthetic face over his own to conceal his appearance when he goes to [[spoiler: abduct Vicente.]] Both men are definitely malevolent. Averted with [[spoiler: Vicente/Vera,]] who is forced to wear haunting masks but is not evil.
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* SituationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Vicente is a very heterosexual man, who is abducted and subjected to forced sexual reassignment surgeries that give him the appearance of an exquisitely beautiful woman. He eventually realizes that his only chance of escape is to (very, ''very'' reluctantly) use this to his advantage, forcing him to give in to the sexual advances of Zeca, a homicidal brute, and Robert, his deranged captor. This goes double for Robert, who is able to delude himself into believing he's made a perfect recreation of his dead and beloved wife. Despite being fully aware that "Vera" is really just a man that he imprisoned, physically altered and literally objectified for years does not stop him from eagerly trying to have sex with his plaything.
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* SituationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Vicente is a very heterosexual man, who is abducted and subjected to forced sexual reassignment surgeries that give him the appearance of an exquisitely beautiful woman. He eventually realizes that his only chance of escape is to (very, ''very'' reluctantly) use this to his advantage, forcing him to give in to the sexual advances of Zeca, a homicidal brute, and Robert, his deranged captor. ]]
** This goes double for [[spoiler: Robert, who is able to delude himself into believing he's made a perfect recreation of his dead and beloved wife. Despite being fully aware that "Vera" is really just a man that he imprisoned, physically altered and literally objectified for years does not stop him from eagerly trying to have sex with his plaything.]]
** This goes double for [[spoiler: Robert, who is able to delude himself into believing he's made a perfect recreation of his dead and beloved wife. Despite being fully aware that "Vera" is really just a man that he imprisoned, physically altered and literally objectified for years does not stop him from eagerly trying to have sex with his plaything.]]
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** After Robert [[spoiler: kills Zeca and saves Vera, he realizes that he desires her too. Convinced she has become dependent on him after rescuing him, he makes love to her. He lets his toxic feelings blind him to the reality that Vera is still Vicente, the man he captured and used as an experiment for years, who is desperate enough to allow Zeca and Robert to rape him if it means a chance to get away. Vera uses the "bond" between him and his captor to catch Robert with his guard down, killing him and escaping to freedom.]]
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** After Robert [[spoiler: kills Zeca and saves Vera, he realizes that he desires her too. Convinced Believing she has become completely dependent on him after rescuing him, coming to her rescue, he makes love to her. He lets his toxic feelings blind him to the reality that Vera is still Vicente, the man he captured and used as an experiment for years, who is desperate enough to allow Zeca and Robert to rape him if it means a chance to get away. Vera uses the "bond" between him and his captor to catch Robert with his guard down, killing him and escaping to freedom.]]
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* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity.]]
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* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity.]] captivity]].]]
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* FadeToBlack: How the movie ends [[spoiler: as Vicente reunites with his mother.]]
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* ForcedToWatch: Marilia is bound and gagged by her criminal son, Zeca, who leaves her in front of the security monitors, where she is forced to watch as Zeca violently rapes Vera.
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* FreudianExcuse: Marilia [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself]] for the way her sons, [[spoiler: Robert and Zeca,]] turned out. She believes they both get their madness from her.
* ForScience: One of the motives behind Robert's "experiment." It doesn't exactly hold up by the end.
* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler: Marilia is bound and gagged by her criminal son, Zeca, who leaves her in front of the security monitors, where she is forced to watch as Zeca violently rapes Vera.]]
* ForScience: One of the motives behind Robert's "experiment." It doesn't exactly hold up by the end.
* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler: Marilia is bound and gagged by her criminal son, Zeca, who leaves her in front of the security monitors, where she is forced to watch as Zeca violently rapes Vera.]]
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* LackOfEmpathy: Played straight with Robert, Marilia and Zeca, who have no true regard for anyone but themselves and (for Robert and Marilia, at least) each other. [[spoiler: Subverted in the case of Vicente, who first tries to forcefully have sex with Norma and knocking her out when she struggles against him. Realizing what he's done, he attempts to redress her and, overwhelmed with fear and shame, leaves her. Unfortunately for him and Norma, the damage he'd done already was too great.]]
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* LackOfEmpathy: Played straight with Robert, Marilia and Zeca, who have no true regard for anyone but themselves and (for Robert and Marilia, at least) each other.the people ''they'' care about. [[spoiler: Subverted in the case of Vicente, who first tries to forcefully have sex with Norma and knocking her out when she struggles against him. Realizing what he's done, he attempts to redress her and, overwhelmed with fear and shame, leaves her. Unfortunately for him and Norma, the damage he'd done already was too great.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Robert Ledgard, a revolutionary Spanish plastic surgeon who devolves into an unscrupulous madman.
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* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being violently raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity.]] ]]
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* SituationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Vicente is a very heterosexual man, who is abducted and subjected to forced sexual reassignment surgeries that give him the appearance of an exquisitely beautiful woman. He eventually realizes that his only chance of escape is to (very, ''very'' reluctantly) use this to his advantage, forcing him to give in to the sexual advances of Zeca, a homicidal brute, and Robert, his deranged captor. This goes double for Robert, who is able to delude himself into believing he's made a perfect recreation of his dead and beloved wife. Despite being fully aware that "Vera" is really just a man that he imprisoned, physically altered and literally objectified for years does not stop him from eagerly trying to have sex with his plaything.
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* TheSociopath: Robert Ledgard.Ledgard, an otherwise brilliant and sophisticated man whose pursuit of vengeance results in him developing a cold and calculating disregard for human life, until he sees other people as objects that he can use for his own purposes.
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* AbductionIsLove: Played with, then thankfully subverted.
** This trope is ultimately fulfilled by [[spoiler: Robert]] as well.
* AxCrazy: Zeca, a totally immoral criminal who thinks nothing of blackmailing people, raping women, or brutalizing his own mother. All while dressed in a ludicrous tiger costume.
* CainAndAbel: Robert and [[spoiler: Zeca.]]
* CallForward: In the flashback, Robert laments the separation between him and his mentally disturbed daughter, Norma. After a violent sexual encounter, Norma is physically repulsed by other men, especially her father, who found her after she'd been assaulted. Robert is extremely frustrated that his daughter doesn't recognize him and identifies him as her attacker. By this time, we know that Robert [[spoiler: has already kidnapped Vicente, his daughter's actual attacker, and that he will go on to sexually assault him over the next six years. His daughter's repulsion was more appropriate than either one realized.]]
* CallForward: In the flashback, Robert laments the separation between him and his mentally disturbed daughter, Norma. After a violent sexual encounter, Norma is physically repulsed by other men, especially her father, who found her after she'd been assaulted. Robert is extremely frustrated that his daughter doesn't recognize him and identifies him as her attacker. By this time, we know that Robert [[spoiler: has already kidnapped Vicente, his daughter's actual attacker, and that he will go on to sexually assault him over the next six years. His daughter's repulsion was more appropriate than either one realized.]]
* ForcedToWatch: Marilia is bound and gagged by her criminal son, Zeca, who leaves her in front of the security monitors, where she is forced to watch as Zeca violently rapes Vera.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: Robert began a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to make Vicente pay for his daughter's NearRapeExperience. Six years later, Robert's crimes have far surpassed Vicente's, using his surgical skills to transform the latter into a beautiful woman whom he can use as he pleases, and is fully willing to murder people in order to keep his captive all to himself.]]
* InMediasRes: The movie begins near the end of the story. Near the middle, we have a flashback which explains how our characters got to this point.
* LackOfEmpathy: Played straight with Robert, Marilia and Zeca, who have no true regard for anyone but themselves and (for Robert and Marilia, at least) each other. [[spoiler: Subverted in the case of Vicente, who first tries to forcefully have sex with Norma and knocking her out when she struggles against him. Realizing what he's done, he attempts to redress her and, overwhelmed with fear and shame, leaves her. Unfortunately for him and Norma, the damage he'd done already was too great.]]
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** All of the tragic events that befall [[spoiler: Vicente]] are the result of him nearly raping and traumatizing [[spoiler: Robert's daughter, Norma,]] while high on drugs. As far as [[spoiler: Robert]] is concerned, [[spoiler: Vicente]] raped her, [[spoiler: and he uses this to justify abducting him and physically/psychologically abusing him for years until he's successfully transformed Vicente into a woman named Vera, who is essentially the ghost of his late wife]]...
** This works too well when [[spoiler: Zeca -- Robert's deranged half-brother who eloped with his late wife (whom Zeca left to die) -- returns when Robert's away, discovers Vera, mistakes her for Robert's wife, and immediately goes out of his way to rape her, not knowing Vera is really a man...]]
** After Robert [[spoiler: kills Zeca and saves Vera, he realizes that he desires her too. Convinced she has become dependent on him after rescuing him, he makes love to her. He lets his toxic feelings blind him to the reality that Vera is still Vicente, the man he captured and used as an experiment for years, who is desperate enough to allow Zeca and Robert to rape him if it means a chance to get away. Vera uses the "bond" between him and his captor to catch Robert with his guard down, killing him and escaping to freedom.]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: At a certain point, it becomes clear that this Robert intends [[spoiler: to make Vicente into one for his dead wife. Believing that he has succeeded is what leads to his downfall.]]
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity.]]
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Robert saving Vera from Zeca, at first, looks like a bizarre variation of this. He even tries to pull off RescueSex, but relents due to [[RealityEnsues Vera's soreness from being raped by Zeca.]] In reality, [[ExploitedTrope Vera is taking advantage of this trope in order to finally escape from Robert's captivity.]]
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** Zeca himself, who can't seem to go ten seconds without proving what a heinous, psychopathic thug he is.
** Also Gal, Robert's deceased wife, who was foolish enough to "take a liking" to [[StupidEvil Zeca]] and run away with him. [[spoiler: They got into a car crash, and Zeca fled as Gal burned "like a torch", leaving her horribly disfigured until the day she took her own life.]]
** Also Gal, Robert's deceased wife, who was foolish enough to "take a liking" to [[StupidEvil Zeca]] and run away with him. [[spoiler: They got into a car crash, and Zeca fled as Gal burned "like a torch", leaving her horribly disfigured until the day she took her own life.]]
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''La Piel Que Habito'' (known in the US as ''The Skin I Live In'') is a Creator/PedroAlmodovar film about a mysterious woman undergoing equally mysterious skin transplant procedures by a secretive plastic surgeon as part of his research into "a skin that accepts a caring touch, yet resists all harmful attacks." But why is she held in a locked room, almost prison-like, without any contact from the outside world? Why is the doctor so adamant about keeping her hidden away? How did the two ever meet, and why is she being subjected to such procedures, which seem to be against her will?
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''La Piel Que Habito'' (known in the US as ''The Skin I Live In'') is a Creator/PedroAlmodovar film about a mysterious woman (Creator/ElenaAnaya) undergoing equally mysterious skin transplant procedures by a secretive plastic surgeon (Creator/AntonioBanderas) as part of his research into "a skin that accepts a caring touch, yet resists all harmful attacks." But why is she held in a locked room, almost prison-like, without any contact from the outside world? Why is the doctor so adamant about keeping her hidden away? How did the two ever meet, and why is she being subjected to such procedures, which seem to be against her will?
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* TheDogBitesBack: Vera[[spoiler:/Vicente]] [[spoiler: killing Robert]] at the end of the movie.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Vera[[spoiler: /Vicente]] [[spoiler: killing Robert]] at the end of the movie.
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* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions were irresponsible) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life depended on it]].
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* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions were irresponsible) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life - or as it turned out, his physical gender - depended on it]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: Norma, when [[spoiler:Vicente rapes her (even if there was no penetration, it had the same effect)]]. Robert, when [[spoiler:Norma kills herself]]. Finally, [[spoiler:Vicente, after seeing the results of the vaginoplasty]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: Norma, when [[spoiler:Vicente rapes tries to have sex with her, as she hears a song he sang her (even if there was no penetration, it had the same effect)]].mother committed suicide to]]. Robert, when [[spoiler:Norma kills herself]]. Finally, [[spoiler:Vicente, after seeing the results of the vaginoplasty]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vicente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from his books to cut himself, but as Robert states, if he had really meant it, he would have cut his throat instead of his chest]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} sexual aggression while hearing the song she sang while her mother committed suicide in front of her completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vicente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from his books to cut himself, but as Robert states, if he had really meant it, he would have cut his throat instead of his chest]].
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* NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler:Vicente to Norma. It's only after he slaps her unconscious (she kept crying and screaming "No!") that he realizes what he's doing and redresses her as best as he can, but he still leaves her lying there in the garden for Robert to find]].
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* NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler:Vicente to Norma. It's only after he slaps her unconscious (she kept crying and screaming "No!") that he realizes what he's doing finding them like this would imply, and redresses her as best as he can, but he still leaves her lying there in the garden for Robert to find]].
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* RapeLeadsToInsanity: Norma's (near) rape left her in a traumatic state where she wouldn't even recognize her father anymore [[spoiler:and which ultimately leads to her suicide]].
* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions were heinous enough) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life depended on it]].
* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions were heinous enough) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life depended on it]].
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* RapeLeadsToInsanity: Norma's (near) rape [[spoiler:Norma's loos of sexual innocence while hearing a childhood song her mother committed suicide to]] left her in a traumatic state where she wouldn't even recognize her father anymore [[spoiler:and which ultimately leads to her suicide]].
* RashomonStyle: At a friend's wedding, Robert finds evidence that his daughter [[spoiler:was dragged into the dark and raped]]. Much later on, Vicente's flashback shows that [[spoiler:(although his actions wereheinous enough) irresponsible) he didn't go all the way. Too bad for him that he was too high to ''remember'' what actually happened that night when his life depended on it]].
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* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After Norma[[spoiler:'s NearRapeExperience, loss of sexual innocence and hearing a traumatizing music, she forgets her father, because she now sees all men as embodiments of her rapist]].
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More explicit list of the horrors Vincente experienced.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Vera is actually Vicente, the man who ended up being unfortunate enough to mistake Robert's daughter's insanity for weed buzz ''and'' stupid enough to try and have sex with her. As a part of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge he has been ''operated on to appear assigned female at birth''.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Vera is actually Vicente, the man who ended up being unfortunate enough to mistake Robert's daughter's insanity for weed buzz ''and'' stupid enough to try and have sex with her. As a part of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge he has been ''operated on Robert's RoaringRampageOfRevenge, Vincente was ''given a vagina, forced to appear assigned female at birth''.rape himself with dilators, and made to look like Robert's dead wife!''.]]
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* EasySexChange: [[spoiler: Vera is actually Vicente after Robert's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]] Averted - it takes ''years''. Years of dilation every day, batch after batch of skin grafts, more surgeries (where'd that feminine voice come from?), and estrogen in Vera's drink.]] This last one, [[FreezeFrameBonus Blink And You'll Miss It]] in the first scene!
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* ChekhovsGun: Yoga, [[spoiler: it helps Vicente with keeping his self despite the radical changes his body has suffered]], the head sculptures Vera makes [[spoiler: which are identical to the one Vicente left unfinished before getting kidnapped]] and a woman's dress [[spoiler: which helps him with convincing his friend who he actually is]].
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** Yoga, [[spoiler: it helps Vicente with keeping his self despite the radical changes his body has suffered]], the head sculptures Vera makes [[spoiler: which are identical to the one Vicente left unfinished before getting kidnapped]] and a woman's dress [[spoiler: which helps him with convincing his friend who he actually is]].
** Yoga, [[spoiler: it helps Vicente with keeping his self despite the radical changes his body has suffered]], the head sculptures Vera makes [[spoiler: which are identical to the one Vicente left unfinished before getting kidnapped]] and a woman's dress [[spoiler: which helps him with convincing his friend who he actually is]].
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* CreepyHousekeeper: Marilia.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Robert.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Robert.]]
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%% * CreepyHousekeeper: Marilia.
%% * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Robert.]]
%% * DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Robert.]]
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* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:Norma]]. ''[[BreakTheCutie Twice]]''.
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%% * DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:Norma]]. ''[[BreakTheCutie Twice]]''.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Robert]]
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making Vicente look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...
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%% * LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: LoveMakesYouCrazy: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making Vicente look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...wife]].
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* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: At least according to Robert.]]
* KnightTemplarParent: And ''how''.
* MadScientist: Robert.
* KnightTemplarParent: And ''how''.
* MadScientist: Robert.
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%% * KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler: At least according to Robert.]]
%% * KnightTemplarParent: And ''how''.
%% * MadScientist: Robert.
%% * KnightTemplarParent: And ''how''.
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* NearRapeExperience[=/=]DateRapeAverted: [[spoiler:Vicente to Norma. It's only after he slaps her unconscious (she kept crying and screaming "No!") that he realizes what he's doing and redresses her as best as he can, but he still leaves her lying there in the garden for Robert to find]].
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* NearRapeExperience[=/=]DateRapeAverted: NearRapeExperience: [[spoiler:Vicente to Norma. It's only after he slaps her unconscious (she kept crying and screaming "No!") that he realizes what he's doing and redresses her as best as he can, but he still leaves her lying there in the garden for Robert to find]].
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* PunnyName: Unintentional. See {{Narm}} for details.
* RapeAndRevenge
* RapeAndRevenge
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Unintentional.
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* ScaleOfScientificSins: Robert's breakthroughs in artificial skin are hailed as nigh-miraculous, until he confides with his superiors that he's using transgenic material from pigs (the animal with tissues closest to humans') to manufacture it. He's immediately chastised for it, since not only is it ''illegal'' and banned by the European scientific community, but because it's "unethical."
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* ScaleOfScientificSins: ScaleOfScientificSins:
** Robert's breakthroughs in artificial skin are hailed as nigh-miraculous, until he confides with his superiors that he's using transgenic material from pigs (the animal with tissues closest to humans') to manufacture it. He's immediately chastised for it, since not only is it ''illegal'' and banned by the European scientific community, but because it's "unethical."
** Robert's breakthroughs in artificial skin are hailed as nigh-miraculous, until he confides with his superiors that he's using transgenic material from pigs (the animal with tissues closest to humans') to manufacture it. He's immediately chastised for it, since not only is it ''illegal'' and banned by the European scientific community, but because it's "unethical."
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* TooDumbToLive: Vicente [[spoiler: trying to have sex with an obviously deranged woman.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: TooDumbToLive:
** Vicente [[spoiler: trying to have sex with an obviously deranged woman.]]
** Vicente [[spoiler: trying to have sex with an obviously deranged woman.]]
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** Vera's bodysuit, a "second skin" that becomes his identity as much as the one Robert grafts on him.
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** Vera's bodysuit, a [[spoiler:a "second skin" that becomes his identity as much as the one Robert grafts on him.]]
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* BecomingTheMask: [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] and [[spoiler: ulitmatly subverted with Vicente/Vera]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Vicente has had his revenge against Robert and managed to escape the mansion he was confined into, but he now female-assigned primary and secondary sex characteristics.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Vicente has had his revenge against Robert and managed to escape the mansion he was confined into, but he now female-assigned primary and secondary sex characteristics.]]
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* BecomingTheMask: [[ZigZaggingTrope Played with]] and [[spoiler: ulitmatly ultimately subverted with Vicente/Vera]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Vicente has had his revenge against Robert and managed to escape the mansion he was confined into, buthe now the female-assigned primary and secondary sex characteristics.characteristics he's been assigned won't be undone easily. Nor will all the trauma.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Vicente has had his revenge against Robert and managed to escape the mansion he was confined into, but
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vicente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from his books to cut herself, but as Robert states, if she had really meant it, he would have cut his throat instead of her chest]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vicente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from his books to cut herself, himself, but as Robert states, if she he had really meant it, he would have cut his throat instead of her his chest]].
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: What Richard does to his daughter rapist.]] And what [[spoiler:Vera does when he's freed from captivity]].
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: What Richard does to his daughter daughter's rapist.]] And what [[spoiler:Vera does when he's freed from captivity]].
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* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Vera is having one of [[spoiler: his]] own.
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* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Vera is having has one of [[spoiler: his]] own.
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* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Vicente does a phenomenal job of faking this.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vincente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from his books to cut herself, but as Robert states, if she had really meant it, he would have cut his throat instead of her chest]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vincente Vicente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from his books to cut herself, but as Robert states, if she had really meant it, he would have cut his throat instead of her chest]].
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making Vincente look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making Vincente Vicente look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vera tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing her any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:Vera half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from her books to cut herself, but as Robert states, if she had really meant it, she would have cut her throat instead of her chest]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Robert's first wife, upon seeing her disfigured face for the first time, takes a flying leap off her balcony... right before their daughter's eyes]]. The incident traumatized the latter severely, and [[spoiler:just when she seems to get well enough to socialize in public again, Vicente's [[AttemptedRape attempted]] {{date rape}} completely ''broke her'' and she soon follows in her mother's footsteps]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Vera Vincente tries to kill himself by slicing his throat open with a knife, which is why the mansion's staff is forbidden from handing her him any edged or bladed items]]. In present time, [[spoiler:Vera [[spoiler:He half-heartedly attempts it again by using the ''paper'' from her his books to cut herself, but as Robert states, if she had really meant it, she he would have cut her his throat instead of her chest]].
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: [[spoiler:Vera when raped by Zeca, and again when lying with Robert, in order to earn both men's trust so she could escape]].
* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making Vera look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...
* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making Vera look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: [[spoiler:Vera when raped by Zeca, and again when lying with Robert, in order to earn both men's trust so she he could escape]].
* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including makingVera Vincente look just like his own wife]], which ended up as...
* LoveMakesYouCrazy/[[LoveMakesYouEvil Evil]]: The extent of [[spoiler:Robert's revenge, up to and including making
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: What Richard does to his daughter rapist.]] And what [[spoiler:Vera does when she's freed from captivity]].
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Vera invokes this [[spoiler:to be recognized as "Vicente" by Cristina, his mother's assistant]].
* TailorMadePrison: Vera's room in the mansion. A GildedCage it may be, catering to her needs and requests, but it's still custom-made to prevent her escape [[spoiler:or suicide]].
* TailorMadePrison: Vera's room in the mansion. A GildedCage it may be, catering to her needs and requests, but it's still custom-made to prevent her escape [[spoiler:or suicide]].
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Vera invokes this [[spoiler:to be recognized as "Vicente" Vicente by Cristina, his mother's assistant]].
* TailorMadePrison: Vera's room in the mansion. A GildedCage it may be, catering toher his needs and requests, but it's still custom-made to prevent her his escape [[spoiler:or suicide]].
* TailorMadePrison: Vera's room in the mansion. A GildedCage it may be, catering to
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Not only was [[spoiler: Vicente operated on repeatedly but [[spoiler: he]] was also used as ''a Guinea Pig for experiments with transgenic skin''.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Not only was [[spoiler: Vicente operated on repeatedly but [[spoiler: he]] was also used as ''a Guinea Pig for experiments with transgenic skin''.
