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* MadDreamerMadDreamer: The first part of the novel settles DonQuixote as LordErrorProne. MisaimedFandom insisted to see him as the UrExample of the much more sympathetic MadDreamer. [[UnbuiltTrope Cervantes wanted to explore all ramifications of this new trope:]] Don Quixote is welcomed by people of all classes… [[PityingPerversion because they want to mock him]]. One character even gives the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that '' "the gain by Don Quixote’s sanity can never equal the enjoyment his crazes give" ''
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted: Don Quixote goes mad trying to make sense of the PurpleProse that plagued the chivalry books he has read, but [[TheUnreveal there never was any reveal]] because even {{Aristotle}} [[MindScrew could not have made sense of it]].

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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Inverted: Don Quixote goes mad trying to make sense of the PurpleProse that plagued the chivalry books he has read, but [[TheUnreveal there never was any reveal]] because even {{Aristotle}} Creator/{{Aristotle}} [[MindScrew could not have made sense of it]].
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* SweetPollyOliver: Dorotea, from the first part, Plays this trope perfectly straight. At the second part, this trope will be parodied and deconstructed
** [[NoNameGiven The daughter of Don Pedro de la Llana]] parodies this trope showing us will use it in RealLife: TheIngenue who has been in a GildedCage all his life and asked his brother to show her the world… that is, the little town they live… at night. Justified because she is JustAKid who has lived in a GildedCage and really don’t know better.

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* SweetPollyOliver: Dorotea, from the first part, Plays plays this trope perfectly straight. At the second part, this trope will be parodied and deconstructed
** [[NoNameGiven The daughter of Don Pedro de la Llana]] parodies this trope showing us will use it in RealLife: TheIngenue who has been in a GildedCage all his life and asked his brother to show her the world… that is, the little town they live… at night. Justified because she is JustAKid who has lived in a GildedCage and really don’t doesn’t know better.

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* SweetPollyOliver: Dorotea, from the first part.

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* SweetPollyOliver: Dorotea, from the first part.part, Plays this trope perfectly straight. At the second part, this trope will be parodied and deconstructed
** [[NoNameGiven The daughter of Don Pedro de la Llana]] parodies this trope showing us will use it in RealLife: TheIngenue who has been in a GildedCage all his life and asked his brother to show her the world… that is, the little town they live… at night. Justified because she is JustAKid who has lived in a GildedCage and really don’t know better.
** ClingyJealousGirl Claudia Jeronima deconstructs this trope: She is wearing man’s clothes because [[IfICantHaveYou she has murdered a supposedly unfaithful lover]] and Barcelona is having a CivilWar. She wants to conceal her identity so her family would not be harmed by {{revenge}}.
** TheExile Ana Felix deconstructs this trope: Fleeing for Spain for having muslim fathers, she enters Algiers, where the King blackmails her to steal his family treasure hidden in Spain. So she wears man’s clothes to come back with the King’s soldiers and mislead the Spanish authorities.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Played perfectly straight: In the Chapter I, Part I, Cervantes mentions the people who lived in Don Quixote’s house: his niece, his housekeeper and a lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace… whom we’ll never see or hear of again. Obviously, Cervantes completely forgotten about this character, and didn't want to write him even in the Second Part of the novel, but in his defense, one of Don Quixote’s themes is about how silly it is to detect errors of continuity in a [[strike:literary work]] silly fictional tale.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Played perfectly straight: In the Chapter I, Part I, Cervantes mentions the people who lived in Don Quixote’s house: his niece, his housekeeper and a lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace… whom we’ll never see or hear of again. Obviously, Cervantes completely forgotten about this character, and didn't want to write him even in the Second Part of the novel, but in his defense, one of Don Quixote’s themes is about how silly it is to detect errors of continuity in a [[strike:literary work]] silly fictional tale. tale.
* CivilWar: DonQuixote travels to Barcelona, a Spanish province that is at a CivilWar at TheCavalierYears
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* MookChivalry: At chapter IV, Don Quixote lampshades it and invokes it, but he concedes to the VictimizedBystander that they don’t have to follow it:

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* MookChivalry: At chapter IV, Don Quixote lampshades it and invokes it, but he concedes to the VictimizedBystander {{Victimized Bystander}}s that they don’t have to follow it:
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* MookChivalry: At chapter IV, Don Quixote lampshades it and invokes it, but he concedes to the VictimizedBystanders that they don’t have to follow it:

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* MookChivalry: At chapter IV, Don Quixote lampshades it and invokes it, but he concedes to the VictimizedBystanders VictimizedBystander that they don’t have to follow it:
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* MookChivalry: At chapter IV, Don Quixote lampshades it and invokes it, but he concedes to the VictimizedBystanders that they don’t have to follow it:
-->''...else ye have to do with me in battle, [[{{Mooks}} ill-conditioned, arrogant rabble that ye are]]; [[MookChivalry and come ye on, one by one as the order of knighthood requires]], [[ZergRush or all together as is the custom and vile usage of your breed...]]''
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* FlyoverCountry: Critics have said La Mancha, don Quixote's home, is the Spanish version of this trope, as the preface to the Gutenberg project said:
--> ''on many of his readers in Spain, and most of his readers out of it, the significance of his choice of a country for his hero is completely lost. It would be going too far to say that no one can thoroughly comprehend "Don Quixote" without having seen La Mancha, but undoubtedly even a glimpse of La Mancha will give an insight into the meaning of Cervantes such as no commentator can give. Of all the regions of Spain it is the last that would suggest the idea of romance. Of all the dull central plateau of the Peninsula it is the dullest tract. There is something impressive about the grim solitudes of Estremadura; and if the plains of Leon and Old Castile are bald and dreary, they are studded with old cities renowned in history and rich in relics of the past. But there is no redeeming feature in the Manchegan landscape; it has all the sameness of the desert without its dignity; the few towns and villages that break its monotony are mean and commonplace, there is nothing venerable about them, they have not even the picturesqueness of poverty; indeed, Don Quixote's own village, Argamasilla, has a sort of oppressive respectability in the prim regularity of its streets and houses; everything is ignoble; the very windmills are the ugliest and shabbiest of the windmill kind''.
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** An special mention deserves the Spanish word ''insula'', an AltumVidetur that means ''island'' or ''place limited and isolated'', the StandardHeroReward Don Quixote has promised to Sancho. [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Sancho keeps using that word]] even when he doesn’t know what is it.
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* LostInTranslation: A joke in the Spanish version is that even when everyone understands the term ''island'', only truly sophisticated people understand the term [[AltumVidetur ''insula'']]. So, Sancho doesn’t really understand what an ''insula'' really is, but he desperately wants to rule one, so he would be tricked later in a MassiveMultiplayerScam to rule a little town that is not an island. In some English translations (for example, [[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/996/pg996.html the Gutenberg project]] this joke is LostInTranslation).
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* BuffySpeak: See YouKeepUsingThatWord.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord / BuffySpeak: Sancho doesn’t really understand that the ''insula'' he was promised as a StandardHeroReward by DonQuixote means an ''island'', as we see at Chapter II of the Second part:
--> "May evil ''insulas'' [islands] choke thee, thou detestable Sancho," said the niece; "What are ''insulas'' [islands]? Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that thou art?"
--> "It is not something to eat," replied Sancho, "[[BuffySpeak but something to govern and rule]], and better than four cities or four judgeships at court."
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* ThresholdGuardians: Don Quixote family asks [[ThoseTwoGuys the curate and the barber]] help as {{MoralGuardian}}s to destroy Don Quixote delusions, but their PityingPerversion makes them pull a RevealingCoverup that enforces those delusions, making them ThresholdGuardians.

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* ThresholdGuardians: Don Quixote family asks Deconsctructed by [[ThoseTwoGuys the curate and the barber]] barber]]: Don Quixote family asks help as {{MoralGuardian}}s to destroy Don Quixote delusions, but their PityingPerversion makes them pull a RevealingCoverup that enforces those delusions, making them ThresholdGuardians.
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*ThresholdGuardians: Don Quixote family asks [[ThoseTwoGuys the curate and the barber]] help as {{MoralGuardian}}s to destroy Don Quixote delusions, but their PityingPerversion makes them pull a RevealingCoverup that enforces those delusions, making them ThresholdGuardians.
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* WackyWaysideTribe: The last chapters of the First Part are dedicated to solve a RomanticPlotTumor, reading a [[ShowWithinAShow NovelWithinANovel named ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] and to [[ForgottenTrope hear the tale of the Captive Captain]], leaving Don Quixote as a mere spectator in his own book. In the Second Part In the Second Part Cervantes makes a AuthorsSavingThrow when Don Quixote opines:

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* WackyWaysideTribe: The last chapters of the First Part are dedicated to solve a RomanticPlotTumor, reading a [[ShowWithinAShow NovelWithinANovel Novel Within A Novel named ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] and to [[ForgottenTrope hear the tale of the Captive Captain]], leaving Don Quixote as a mere spectator in his own book. In the Second Part In the Second Part Cervantes makes a AuthorsSavingThrow when Don Quixote opines:
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* BoredWithInsanity: In the last chapter of Literature/DonQuixote, a poster boy for {{Fandumb}} of ChivalricRomance, his FanDisillusionment is so great that he gets BoredWithInsanity and comes back to his senses.

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* BoredWithInsanity: In the last chapter of Literature/DonQuixote, a poster boy for {{Fandumb}} of ChivalricRomance, his FanDisillusionment is so great that he gets BoredWithInsanity and comes back to his senses.
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* RashomonStyle: At chapter XII of Part I, DonQuixote hears conflicted versions of the story of Chrysostom and Marcela in his way to Chrysostom’s funeral: Shepherd Pedro thinks Marcela is a good person. Ambrosio, Chrysostom’s best friend, calls her cruel, but admits it’s an InformedFlaw. Chrysostom poem claims he is a LoveMartyr and Marcela is cruel. At the end, Marcela claims she is SoBeautifulItsACurse and he has the right, as a free woman, to reject anyone. Nobody says, but everybody implies, SpurnedIntoSuicide.
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* HourglassPlot: In the first part of the novel, DonQuixote is a DaydreamBeliever MadDreamer and Sancho Panza has SimplemindedWisdom and represents realism. Both are {{StaticCharacter}}s. At the second part, Sancho is influenced by DonQuixote and becomes more and more of a DaydreamBeliever, while at the end, Don Quixote will become BoredWithInsanity by Sancho’s influence. The relevance is that they maybe were the very first characters in literature to use this trope and become {{DynamicCharacter}}s
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** Deconstructed again at chapter LII from the first part, Eugenio tells the story of the beautiful Leandra, who elopes with a soldier that left her. Leandra gets LockedAwayInAMonastery while her various {{CityMouse}}s admirers decided to become shepherds and make poems about how Leandra betrayed them… [[InsaneTrollLogic even when she never gave them any hope]]. Eugenio tells that all those shepherds curse Leandra’s indiscretion and they seem so unhappy that he lampshades that Arcadia is really a living hell. Eugenio then says he has decided to follow the easier way, claim AllWomenAreLustful and become a PoliticallyIncorrectHero.

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** Deconstructed again at chapter LII from the first part, Eugenio tells the story of the beautiful Leandra, who elopes with a soldier that left her. Leandra gets LockedAwayInAMonastery while her various {{CityMouse}}s admirers decided to become shepherds and make poems about how Leandra betrayed them… [[InsaneTrollLogic even when she never gave them any hope]]. Eugenio tells that all those shepherds curse Leandra’s indiscretion and they seem so unhappy that he lampshades that Arcadia is really a living hell. Eugenio then says he has decided to follow the easier way, claim AllWomenAreLustful and become a PoliticallyIncorrectHero.PoliticallyIncorrectHero who hates all women.
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** Parodied at the chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdess who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play to be shepherd and shepherdess. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (In Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). [[{{Irony}} Only the truly rich {{CityMouse}}s can afford to live in a happy Arcadia]].

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** Parodied at the chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdess who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play to be shepherd and shepherdess. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (In Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). [[{{Irony}} Only the truly rich {{CityMouse}}s CityMouse can afford to live in a happy Arcadia]].
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** Parodied at the chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdess who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play to be shepherd and shepherdess. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (In Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). Only the truly rich {{CityMouse}}s can afford to live in a happy Arcadia.

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** Parodied at the chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdess who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play to be shepherd and shepherdess. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (In Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). [[{{Irony}} Only the truly rich {{CityMouse}}s can afford to live in a happy Arcadia.Arcadia]].

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* {{Arcadia}}: Don Quixote considers becoming a shepherd instead of a knight at the end. {{Foreshadowed}} by the Golden Age speech he gives to the shepherds in the book's beginning; pastoral tropes in general are very important in the novel.

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* {{Arcadia}}: Don Quixote considers becoming a shepherd instead of a knight at the end. {{Foreshadowed}} by the Golden Age speech he gives to the shepherds in the book's beginning; pastoral tropes in general are very important in the novel.novel for deconstruction and parody: The real shepherds are {{CountryMouse}}s ignorant people who have enough common sense and work as sheperds by need. They want to help and are sympathetic enough. The problem comes when a lot of {{CityMouse}}s try to invoke this trope:
** At the Sierra Morena, Don Quixote [[ConversedTrope converses this trope]] with the goatherds at Chapter XXI, delivering an AuthorFilibuster, “Discourse on the Golden Age”, comparing the goatherds with {{NobleSavage}}s. [[GenreBlind None of them understand a word]]. One of the goatherds sings a song, but he didn’t compose it (because he doesn’t know how), it was his uncle who composed it, a cleric who has studied.
-->''All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared) our knight delivered because the acorns they gave him reminded him of the golden age; and the whim seized him to address all this unnecessary argument to the goatherds, who listened to him gaping in amazement without saying a word in reply''.
** In any Arcadia poem, one or various [[LoveMartyr shepherds complains about]] the shepherdess that ignores him. Marcela and Grisostomo deconstruct this at chapter XII – XIV, were the Shepherdess claims she is SoBeautifulItsACurse and so she had to be a shepherdess only to get her freedom, but all the {{CityMouse}}s [[FlockOfWolves that court her decided to be shepherds too]]. and if that [[SpurnedIntoSuicide Grisóstomo killed himself]], [[FairForItsDay is unjust to blame her]].
** Deconstructed again at chapter LII from the first part, Eugenio tells the story of the beautiful Leandra, who elopes with a soldier that left her. Leandra gets LockedAwayInAMonastery while her various {{CityMouse}}s admirers decided to become shepherds and make poems about how Leandra betrayed them… [[InsaneTrollLogic even when she never gave them any hope]]. Eugenio tells that all those shepherds curse Leandra’s indiscretion and they seem so unhappy that he lampshades that Arcadia is really a living hell. Eugenio then says he has decided to follow the easier way, claim AllWomenAreLustful and become a PoliticallyIncorrectHero.
** Parodied at the chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdess who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play to be shepherd and shepherdess. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (In Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). Only the truly rich {{CityMouse}}s can afford to live in a happy Arcadia.
** Don Quixote considers becoming a shepherd instead of a knight at the end of the second part, before he can invoke this trope, his housekeeper [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy tries to dissuade him by]] lampshading the truth:
-->''will your worship be able to bear, out in the fields, the heats of summer, and the chills of winter, and the howling of the wolves? Not you; for that's a life and a business for hardy men, bred and seasoned to such work almost from the time they were in swaddling-clothes. [[FunnyMoments Why, to make choice of evils, it's better to be a knight-errant than a shepherd!]]
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*** That is because in the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute his own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… [[FridgeBrilliance so this trope is unnecessary for him]].
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*** That is because in the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… [[FridgeBrilliance so this trope is unnecessary for him]].

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*** That is because in the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her his own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… [[FridgeBrilliance so this trope is unnecessary for him]].
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*** That is because in the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… [[FridgeBrilliance: so this trope is unnecessary for him]].

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*** That is because in the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… [[FridgeBrilliance: [[FridgeBrilliance so this trope is unnecessary for him]].
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*** FridgeBrilliance: In the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… so this trope is unnecessary for him.

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*** FridgeBrilliance: In That is because in the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… [[FridgeBrilliance: so this trope is unnecessary for him.him]].
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*** FridgeBrilliance: In the first part, Don Quixote is a DiscoDan in a world when ChivalricRomance is DeaderThanDisco, so he uses this trope to [[{{IRejectYourReality}} Reject everyone’s reality and substitute her own]]. In the Second Part, [[MemeticMutation everyone has read the first Part]], knew about ChivalricRomance and stage {{MassiveMultiplayerScam}}s to convince Don Quixote he really is an KnightErrant… so this trope is unnecessary for him.

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* DeadpanSnarker / SarcasticDevotee / ServileSnarker: Deconstructed by Sancho Panza: What happens in RealLife to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXV of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI. The problem is that a lot of people enjoys Sancho’s sarcasm (he is good at it) and so he feels compelled to say it, even when he is in perilous situations, like when he denied payment to a Innkeeper (Chapter XVII part I), [[TooDumbToLive and he mocked the entire people of the Braying Town or the highwaymen of Barcelona]] (Chapters XXVII and LX of the part II) The first give him a beating, the highwaymen almost kill him.



* DeadpanSnarker / SarcasticDevotee / ServileSnarker: Deconstructed by Sancho Panza: What happens in RealLife to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXV of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI. The problem is that a lot of people enjoys Sancho’s sarcasm (he is good at it) and so he feels compelled to say it, even when he is in perilous situations, like when he denied payment to a Innkeeper (Chapter XVII part I), [[TooDumbToLive and he mocked the entire people of the Braying Town or the highwaymen of Barcelona]] (Chapters XXVII and LX of the part II) The first give him a beating, the highwaymen almost kill him.
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* RevealingCoverup, parodied by the {{MoralGuardian}}s who become {{ThresholdGuardian}}s: In his first sally, Don Quixote. doesn’t find any [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragon]], [[RobeAndWizardHat enchanter ]]nor any DamselInDistress. He is very disappointed when he comes back to his house, where their family and two {{MoralGuardian}}s have made a BookBurning of his ChivalricRomance books. To avoid Don Quixote’s ire, the {{MoralGuardian}}s [[PityingPerversion advise the family to tell him, literally]], that AWizardDidIt. ''That excuse was the Don Quixote’s first contact with the MedievalEuropeanFantasy he so desperately wanted to live!'' If the MoralGuardians would have tell him the truth, he never would persevered in his madness.

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* RevealingCoverup, parodied by the {{MoralGuardian}}s who become {{ThresholdGuardian}}s: In his first sally, Don Quixote. doesn’t find any [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragon]], [[RobeAndWizardHat enchanter ]]nor any DamselInDistress. He is very disappointed when he comes back to his house, where their family and two {{MoralGuardian}}s have made a BookBurning of his ChivalricRomance books. To avoid Don Quixote’s ire, the {{MoralGuardian}}s [[PityingPerversion advise the family to tell him, literally]], that AWizardDidIt. ''That excuse was the Don Quixote’s first contact with the MedievalEuropeanFantasy he so desperately wanted to live!'' If the MoralGuardians would have tell him the truth, he would never would have persevered in his madness.

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