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* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: The character of Eddie is introduced late in the story in order to be a LoveInterest to Valeria, since her crush on Diego is fated to remain unreciprocated.
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''The Fragility Of Bodies'' (''La fragilidad de los cuerpos'') is an Angetinine Crime / Mystery / {{Thriller}} by Argentine author [[Creator/SergioOlguin Sergio Olguín]]. It was released in 2007 and received an English translation by Miranda France in 2019.
In 2017 it receive a Spanish-language [[TheShowOfTheBooks live-action adaptation]] in the form of an 8 episode MiniSeries, as a joint production by [[Creator/PolkaProducciones Pol-ka Producciones]], [[Creator/ElTrece eltrece]], Creator/{{Cablevision}} and Creator/{{TNT}}.
In 2017 it receive a Spanish-language [[TheShowOfTheBooks live-action adaptation]] in the form of an 8 episode MiniSeries, as a joint production by [[Creator/PolkaProducciones Pol-ka Producciones]], [[Creator/ElTrece eltrece]], Creator/{{Cablevision}} and Creator/{{TNT}}.
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''The Fragility Of of Bodies'' (''La fragilidad de los cuerpos'') is an Angetinine Crime / Mystery / Argentinian crime/mystery {{Thriller}} by Argentine Argentinian author [[Creator/SergioOlguin Sergio Olguín]]. It was released in 2007 and received an English translation by Miranda France in 2019.
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In2017 2017, it receive received a Spanish-language [[TheShowOfTheBooks live-action adaptation]] in the form of an 8 episode 8-episode MiniSeries, as a joint production by [[Creator/PolkaProducciones Pol-ka Producciones]], [[Creator/ElTrece eltrece]], Creator/{{Cablevision}} and Creator/{{TNT}}.
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* ActionSurvivor: Verónica is just a normal middle-aged woman, yet she manages to survive several attempts on her life by trained [[TheCartel cartel]] killers, such as saving Rafa from assassins via some crazy maneuvers with her car, and in the end when she outsmarts Rivero when he comes to her apartment to kill her.
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* TheBadGuysWin: The MiniSeries makes the BigBad comes out more victorious, despite events playing out similarly. [[spoiler:In the book, Verónica corners [[TheDon Juan Garcia]] by herself, tracking him to his hideout and fearlessly going there to force a deal on him, making him give up his underlings on the GameOfChicken scheme in order to save himself. The MiniSeries has Garcia be the one ordering her to come to his hideout, and he's also the one who offers the deal to her, and when she initially refuses, her AmoralAttorney father forces her to take it. In the book, there's also a HopeSpot, with Verónica passing on the info she has on Garcia to another fellow IntrepidJournalist, meaning he might face justice one day, even if she's not the one who catches him. Meanwhile, the last we see of Garcia in the MiniSeries is him casually talking about starting another BloodSports operation, with the implication he might still use children for them too.]]
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* TheBadGuysWin: The MiniSeries makes the BigBad comes out more victorious, despite events playing out similarly. [[spoiler:In the book, Verónica corners [[TheDon Juan Garcia]] by herself, tracking him to his hideout and fearlessly going there to force a deal on him, making him give up his underlings on the GameOfChicken scheme in order to save himself. The MiniSeries has Garcia be the one ordering her to come to his hideout, and he's also the one who offers the deal to her, and when she initially refuses, her AmoralAttorney father forces her to take it. In the book, there's also a HopeSpot, with Verónica passing on the info she has on Garcia to another fellow IntrepidJournalist, IntrepidReporter, meaning he might face justice one day, even if she's not the one who catches him. Meanwhile, the last we see of Garcia in the MiniSeries is him casually talking about starting another BloodSports operation, with the implication he might still use children for them too.]]
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* BigBad: Juan Garcia TheDon of TheCartel, a corrupt businessman and politician that controls all sorts of criminal schemes all over Argentina, such as smuggling operations and illegal gambling rings. The railway GameOfChicken's scheme is just one of his many businesses.
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* BigBad: Juan Garcia TheDon of TheCartel, TheCartel is the main antagonist of the story. He's a corrupt businessman and politician that controls all sorts of criminal schemes all over Argentina, such as smuggling operations and illegal gambling rings. The railway GameOfChicken's scheme that Verónica investigates is just one of his many businesses.
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* BrokenPedestal: In the books [[spoiler:Verónica and Federico become shocked to learn her father is an AmoralAttorney who worked for Garcia in the past. It doesn't completely ruin their relationship, but she can't bring herself to talk about work to him anymore.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: In the books MiniSeries [[spoiler:Verónica and Federico become shocked to learn her father is an AmoralAttorney who worked for Garcia in the past. It doesn't completely ruin their relationship, but she can't bring herself to talk about work to him anymore.past.]]
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* TheCartel: The main antagonist of the story is a cartel group in Buenos Aires that is behind the GameOfChicken competition that is getting children killed in train tracks. But they also deal in all the crimes one comes to expect from cartels, such as drug trafficking, intimidation, blackmail, assassination, and kidnapping.
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* TheCartel: The main antagonist antagonists of the story is are a cartel group in Buenos Aires that is behind the GameOfChicken competition that is getting children killed in on train tracks. But they They also deal in all the crimes one comes to expect from cartels, such as drug trafficking, intimidation, blackmail, assassination, and kidnapping.
* TheDon: Juan Garcia is the ruthless head of TheCartel that Verónica is investigating. He used to be a corrupt mayor but ended up being exposed, and while he managed to get away with a slap on the wrist, his political career still went under, and he's been downgraded to being a crime boss.
* AGodAmI: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Garcia doesn't truly believe this, but when he puts his number on Verónica's, he names the number "God", illustrating his incredible arrogance.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: TheCartel tends to do this to people who get too close to uncovering their BloodSport. They usually just bribe people, which works well in the poorer areas of town. But people who are determined to expose the truth, such as Rafa and Verónica, are marked for death.
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* HumanTraffickers: Rivero used to be a human trafficker before he took charge of the Buenos Aires GameOfChicken.
* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to envoke this, but Verónica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to envoke this, but Verónica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
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* HumanTraffickers: Rivero used to be a human trafficker for Garcia before he took charge of the Buenos Aires GameOfChicken.
GameOfChicken. It's not relevant to the story, other than to enforce Rivero's status as a HateSink.
* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order toenvoke invoke this, but Verónica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to
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* IntrepidReporter: Verónica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.
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* IntrepidReporter: TheProtagonist Verónica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.herself. In te story, this materializes as her going up against TheCartel, and persevering in exposing their schemes despite multiple assassination attempts.
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* LustObject: Verónica is this to many of the male characters, whenever they get a POV segment of a man thinking about her, they're also often lusting or fantasizing about her.
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* LustObject: Verónica is this to many of the male characters, whenever they get a POV segment of a man thinking about her, they're also often lusting or fantasizing about her. This includes the doorman to her building and even a ''priest''.
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* RecoveredAddict: Rafael used to be TheAlcoholic and a cocaine addict, which led to his wife divorcing him. By the time we met him, he's recovered but struggled constantly with the temptation to drink. The Mini Series, when he learns about the GameOfChicken competition and the part he unwittingly played on it, it almost causes him to relapse in a fit of DrowningMySorrows.
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* RecoveredAddict: Rafael used to be TheAlcoholic and a cocaine addict, which led to his wife divorcing him. By the time we met him, he's recovered but struggled constantly with the temptation to drink. The Mini Series, when he learns about the GameOfChicken competition and the part he unwittingly played on it, it almost causes him to relapse in into a fit of DrowningMySorrows.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: The character of Eddie is introduced late in the story in order to be a LoveInterest to Valeria, since her crush on Diego is fated to remain unreciprocated.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken about putting kids in incredible danger to gamble on their lives, but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken about putting kids in incredible danger to [[BloodSport gamble on their lives, lives]], but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
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* BrokenPedestal: In the books [[spoiler:Veronica and Federico become shocked to learn her father is an AmoralAttorney who worked for Garcia in the past. It doesn't completely ruin their relationship, but she can't bring herself to talk about work to him anymore.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: In the books [[spoiler:Veronica [[spoiler:Verónica and Federico become shocked to learn her father is an AmoralAttorney who worked for Garcia in the past. It doesn't completely ruin their relationship, but she can't bring herself to talk about work to him anymore.]]
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* DemotedToExtra: In the book, Veronica has several co-workers with distinctive personalities that she interacts and talks about on occasion. In the show, only her editors get any screen time and very little characterization.
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* DemotedToExtra: In the book, Veronica Verónica has several co-workers with distinctive personalities that she interacts and talks about on occasion. In the show, only her editors get any screen time and very little characterization.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Federico is genuinely in love with Veronica and wants to have a stable and lasting relationship, but her CommitmentIssues get in the way, as she's unwilling to settle down with a single man.
* DrivenToSuicide: The plot is kicked off by the suicide of Carranza, a train machinist who commits suicide due to the guilt he feels over running over people for years during the job. In particular, his last victim was one of the children who took part in the GameOfChicken and his suicide note hinting at it is what sets Veronica on track to dismantle the operation.
* DrivenToSuicide: The plot is kicked off by the suicide of Carranza, a train machinist who commits suicide due to the guilt he feels over running over people for years during the job. In particular, his last victim was one of the children who took part in the GameOfChicken and his suicide note hinting at it is what sets Veronica on track to dismantle the operation.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Federico is genuinely in love with Veronica Verónica and wants to have a stable and lasting relationship, but her CommitmentIssues get in the way, as she's unwilling to settle down with a single man.
* DrivenToSuicide: The plot is kicked off by the suicide of Carranza, a train machinist who commits suicide due to the guilt he feels over running over people for years during the job. In particular, his last victim was one of the children who took part in the GameOfChicken and his suicide note hinting at it is what setsVeronica Verónica on track to dismantle the operation.
* DrivenToSuicide: The plot is kicked off by the suicide of Carranza, a train machinist who commits suicide due to the guilt he feels over running over people for years during the job. In particular, his last victim was one of the children who took part in the GameOfChicken and his suicide note hinting at it is what sets
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* EvilDuo: In the MiniSeries, TheCartel always sends the same two henchmen to deal with the nastier jobs (In the book they're described as a larger group), such as assassination and intimidation. When they attempt to assassinate Rafa and Veronica, one gets killed by Lucio while the other is left paralyzed after getting ran over by Veronica's car. Garcia later laments their loss, since he says "[[TokenCompetentMinion good help is hard to find]]".
* FamilyVersusCareer: Veronica starts missing family events when she starts to become more invested in her case, to her family's disapproval and annoyance.
* FilmTheHand: In the MiniSeries. Lucio blocks the camera on his cabin with a cloth when Veronica sneaks into it to talk to him. It only delays the bad guys finding out about her talking to Lucio though.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Veronica and Federico seem to have this kind of arrangement in the MiniSeries. In the books, they had a brief romance, before Veronica broke things off.
* FamilyVersusCareer: Veronica starts missing family events when she starts to become more invested in her case, to her family's disapproval and annoyance.
* FilmTheHand: In the MiniSeries. Lucio blocks the camera on his cabin with a cloth when Veronica sneaks into it to talk to him. It only delays the bad guys finding out about her talking to Lucio though.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Veronica and Federico seem to have this kind of arrangement in the MiniSeries. In the books, they had a brief romance, before Veronica broke things off.
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* EvilDuo: In the MiniSeries, TheCartel always sends the same two henchmen to deal with the nastier jobs (In the book they're described as a larger group), such as assassination and intimidation. When they attempt to assassinate Rafa and Veronica, Verónica, one gets killed by Lucio while the other is left paralyzed after getting ran run over by Veronica's Verónica's car. Garcia later laments their loss, since he says "[[TokenCompetentMinion good help is hard to find]]".
* FamilyVersusCareer:Veronica Verónica starts missing family events when she starts to become more invested in her case, to her family's disapproval and annoyance.
* FilmTheHand: In the MiniSeries. Lucio blocks the camera on his cabin with a cloth whenVeronica Verónica sneaks into it to talk to him. It only delays the bad guys finding out about her talking to Lucio though.
* FriendsWithBenefits:Veronica Verónica and Federico seem to have this kind of arrangement in the MiniSeries. In the books, they had a brief romance, before Veronica Verónica broke things off.
* FamilyVersusCareer:
* FilmTheHand: In the MiniSeries. Lucio blocks the camera on his cabin with a cloth when
* FriendsWithBenefits:
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* GoingForTheBigScoop: Veronica often becomes so invested in her stories that she starts to deprioritize her personal life. Even getting mixed up with a dangerous mob boss and his [[TheCartel cartel]] doesn't stop her from pursuing her story, no matter how hard they try to intimidate her.
* GoodBadGirl: Veronica shamelessly enjoys her borderline hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, smoking and casual sex but she's also a NiceGirl with a strong moral character.
* GoodShepherd: One of Veronica's allies in her quest to expose the GameOfChicken is Father Pedro, the priest of a poor community where many kids keep "disappearing". He even breaks some of his vows when helping her, but he feels it's for the greater good.
* GoodBadGirl: Veronica shamelessly enjoys her borderline hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, smoking and casual sex but she's also a NiceGirl with a strong moral character.
* GoodShepherd: One of Veronica's allies in her quest to expose the GameOfChicken is Father Pedro, the priest of a poor community where many kids keep "disappearing". He even breaks some of his vows when helping her, but he feels it's for the greater good.
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* GoingForTheBigScoop: Veronica Verónica often becomes so invested in her stories that she starts to deprioritize her personal life. Even getting mixed up with a dangerous mob boss and his [[TheCartel cartel]] doesn't stop her from pursuing her story, no matter how hard they try to intimidate her.
* GoodBadGirl:Veronica Verónica shamelessly enjoys her borderline hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, smoking smoking, and casual sex but she's also a NiceGirl with a strong moral character.
character, who works as an IntrepidReporter due to her strong sense of justice.
* GoodShepherd: One ofVeronica's Verónica's allies in her quest to expose the GameOfChicken is Father Pedro, the priest of a poor community where many kids keep "disappearing". He even breaks some of his vows when helping her, but he feels it's for the greater good.
* GoodBadGirl:
* GoodShepherd: One of
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* TheHeavy: Rivero, the soccer club's coach that personally picks and trains the kids to be part of the GameOfChicken is the antagonist with the most presence and screentime, as we constantly see him via El Peque and Rafa's POV segments. In the MiniSeries, he also has a final climactic confrontation with Veronica after her deal with Juan Garcia, when he invades her apartment to kill her for {{Revenge}} for her role in "ruining his life", but she manages to [[ActionSurvivor fight him off]] and he gets arrested.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Veronica is often mentioned to be gorgeous by both the narration and other male characters, even being a LustObject for a couple.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In the book, Veronica is painfully aware that she's just turned 30 and while she's still a HeadTurningBeauty, can see the signs in her body that her youthful looks and health are starting to vanish.
* HopelessSuitor: Veronica's doorman has a massive crush on her, but she's completely dismissive of it.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Veronica is often mentioned to be gorgeous by both the narration and other male characters, even being a LustObject for a couple.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In the book, Veronica is painfully aware that she's just turned 30 and while she's still a HeadTurningBeauty, can see the signs in her body that her youthful looks and health are starting to vanish.
* HopelessSuitor: Veronica's doorman has a massive crush on her, but she's completely dismissive of it.
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* TheHeavy: Rivero, the soccer club's coach that personally picks and trains the kids to be part of the GameOfChicken is the antagonist with the most presence and screentime, as we constantly see him via El Peque and Rafa's POV segments. In the MiniSeries, he also has a final climactic confrontation with Veronica Verónica after her deal with Juan Garcia, when he invades her apartment to kill her for {{Revenge}} for her role in "ruining his life", but she manages to [[ActionSurvivor fight him off]] and he gets arrested.
* HeadTurningBeauty:Veronica Verónica is often mentioned to be gorgeous by both the narration and other male characters, even being a LustObject for a couple.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In the book,Veronica Verónica is painfully aware that she's just turned 30 and while she's still a HeadTurningBeauty, can see the signs in her body that her youthful looks and health are starting to vanish.
* HopelessSuitor:Veronica's Verónica's doorman Marcelo has a massive crush on her, but she's completely dismissive of it.
* HeadTurningBeauty:
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In the book,
* HopelessSuitor:
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* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to envoke this, but Veronica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
* IntimateTelecommunications: Veronica and Lucio have "phone sex" shortly after they begin their affair.
* IntrepidReporter: Veronica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.
* IronLady: Veronica is a fearless IntrepidReporter who doesn't show fear even talking to the mob boss who ordered countless hits on her and her friends.
* IntimateTelecommunications: Veronica and Lucio have "phone sex" shortly after they begin their affair.
* IntrepidReporter: Veronica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.
* IronLady: Veronica is a fearless IntrepidReporter who doesn't show fear even talking to the mob boss who ordered countless hits on her and her friends.
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* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to envoke this, but Veronica Verónica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
* IntimateTelecommunications:Veronica Verónica and Lucio have "phone sex" shortly after they begin their affair.
* IntrepidReporter:Veronica Verónica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.
* IronLady:Veronica Verónica is a fearless IntrepidReporter who doesn't show fear even talking to the mob boss who ordered countless hits on her and her friends.
* IntimateTelecommunications:
* IntrepidReporter:
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:BigBad Juan Garcia decides to put a stop to the GameOfChicken competition after his EvilDuo fails to assassinate Veronica, and he offers her a deal, giving up everyone bellow him in the organization, while he gets away. After much angst, she reluctantly accepts.]]
* TheLadette: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in regards to Veronica. While she exhibits many traits often associated with men, such as being a heaver smoker/drinker, enjoying casual sex and being a late sleeper, she still maintains a feminine personality. Lucio is often surprised at how gracious she manages to look even while doing things [[WomenAreDelicate he never associates women doing]].
* TheLadette: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in regards to Veronica. While she exhibits many traits often associated with men, such as being a heaver smoker/drinker, enjoying casual sex and being a late sleeper, she still maintains a feminine personality. Lucio is often surprised at how gracious she manages to look even while doing things [[WomenAreDelicate he never associates women doing]].
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:BigBad Juan Garcia decides to put a stop to the GameOfChicken competition after his EvilDuo fails to assassinate Veronica, Verónica, and he offers her a deal, giving up everyone bellow below him in the organization, while he gets away. After much angst, she reluctantly accepts.]]
* TheLadette: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in regards toVeronica.Verónica. While she exhibits many traits often associated with men, such as being a heaver smoker/drinker, enjoying casual sex and being a late sleeper, she still maintains a feminine personality. Lucio is often surprised at how gracious she manages to look even while doing things [[WomenAreDelicate he never associates women doing]].
* TheLadette: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in regards to
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* LustObject: Veronica is this to many of the male characters, whenever they get a POV segment of a man thinking about her, they're also often lusting or fantasizing about her.
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* LustObject: Veronica Verónica is this to many of the male characters, whenever they get a POV segment of a man thinking about her, they're also often lusting or fantasizing about her.
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* MissingMom: Veronica's mother passed away a few years before the start of the story, but her death caused a great impact on the family dynamic since Veronica's mother was TheHeart that kept the family united.
* TheMistress: Veronica becomes Lucio's lover knowing full well he's married with children and has no intention of leaving them, and has no desire for him to leave them herself.
* TheModestOrgasm: In the MiniSeries, we only have close-ups of Veronica or Lucio's faces as they quietly reach orgasm.
* MustHaveNicotine: Veronica is already a heavy smoker due to habit, but the stress of working on the train story makes her smoke even more.
* TheMistress: Veronica becomes Lucio's lover knowing full well he's married with children and has no intention of leaving them, and has no desire for him to leave them herself.
* TheModestOrgasm: In the MiniSeries, we only have close-ups of Veronica or Lucio's faces as they quietly reach orgasm.
* MustHaveNicotine: Veronica is already a heavy smoker due to habit, but the stress of working on the train story makes her smoke even more.
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* MissingMom: Veronica's Verónica's mother passed away a few years before the start of the story, but her death caused a great impact on the family dynamic since Veronica's Verónica's mother was TheHeart that kept the family united.
* TheMistress:Veronica Verónica becomes Lucio's lover knowing full well he's married with children and has no intention of leaving them, and has no desire for him to leave them herself.
* TheModestOrgasm: In the MiniSeries, we only have close-ups ofVeronica Verónica or Lucio's faces as they quietly reach orgasm.
* MustHaveNicotine:Veronica Verónica is already a heavy smoker due to habit, but the stress of working on the train story makes her smoke even more.
* TheMistress:
* TheModestOrgasm: In the MiniSeries, we only have close-ups of
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Veronica treats the doorman at her building very well, to the point he often does favors to her. Although we also learn in his brief POV segment that he does [[FavorsForTheSexy favors to her hoping he'll get to sleep with her someday]].
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Veronica Verónica treats the doorman at her building very well, to the point he often does favors to her. Although we also learn in his brief POV segment that he does [[FavorsForTheSexy favors to her hoping he'll get to sleep with her someday]].
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* NonIdleRich: Veronica's family has enough money that she could easily spend her life as an IdleRich, but she decides to be her own woman and have her own career.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: PlayedWith, Veronica kicks out her casual lovers from her room apartment after they're done having sex.
* OddCouple: Privileged IntrepidReporter Veronica and working-class train conductor Lucio make quite an unusual pairing.
* OffTheRecord: Juan Garcia makes sure to take Veronica's cell phone for their one-on-one meetings.
* OhCrap: Juan Garcia is a very private man who enjoys running his criminal organization from the shadows, so when he learns that Veronica has managed to find out who he is he becomes visibly distressed.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: PlayedWith, Veronica kicks out her casual lovers from her room apartment after they're done having sex.
* OddCouple: Privileged IntrepidReporter Veronica and working-class train conductor Lucio make quite an unusual pairing.
* OffTheRecord: Juan Garcia makes sure to take Veronica's cell phone for their one-on-one meetings.
* OhCrap: Juan Garcia is a very private man who enjoys running his criminal organization from the shadows, so when he learns that Veronica has managed to find out who he is he becomes visibly distressed.
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* NonIdleRich: Veronica's Verónica's family has enough money that she could easily spend her life as an IdleRich, but she decides to be her own woman and have her own career.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: PlayedWith,Veronica Verónica kicks out her casual lovers from her room apartment after they're done having sex.
* OddCouple: Privileged IntrepidReporterVeronica Verónica and working-class train conductor Lucio make quite an unusual pairing.
* OffTheRecord: Juan Garcia makes sure to takeVeronica's Verónica's cell phone for their one-on-one meetings.
* OhCrap: Juan Garcia is a very private man who enjoys running his criminal organization from the shadows, so when he learns thatVeronica Verónica has managed to find out who he is he becomes visibly distressed.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: PlayedWith,
* OddCouple: Privileged IntrepidReporter
* OffTheRecord: Juan Garcia makes sure to take
* OhCrap: Juan Garcia is a very private man who enjoys running his criminal organization from the shadows, so when he learns that
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* PragmaticVillainy: Juan Garcia wants to stop the GameOfChicken competition during the time Veronica starts snooping to avoid the attention, but his clients keep insisting thus forcing his hand. [[spoiler: It's implied that part of of the reason he gave Veronica info on them as part of their deal was to punish them.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: Juan Garcia wants to stop the GameOfChicken competition during the time Veronica Verónica starts snooping to avoid the attention, but his clients keep insisting thus forcing his hand. [[spoiler: It's implied that part of of the reason he gave Veronica Verónica info on them as part of their deal was to punish them.]]
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* SexGoddess: Veronica is described as an incredibly skilled lover, and she explains she actually researches for sexual techniques, bragging to Lucio she's an expert in Geisha lovemaking arts.
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* SexGoddess: Veronica Verónica is described as an incredibly skilled lover, and she explains she actually researches for sexual techniques, bragging to Lucio she's an expert in Geisha lovemaking arts.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Federico is an old friend of Veronica's family and works closely with her father, and her entire family pushes the two to be together.
* ShouldersUpNudity: During sex scenes, Veronica's nudity is mostly depicted from the shoulders up, with the occasional ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Sideboob}} shots to assure the audience she's really naked.
* ShouldersUpNudity: During sex scenes, Veronica's nudity is mostly depicted from the shoulders up, with the occasional ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Sideboob}} shots to assure the audience she's really naked.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Federico is an old friend of Veronica's Verónica's family and works closely with her father, and her entire family pushes the two to be together.
* ShouldersUpNudity: During sex scenes,Veronica's Verónica's nudity is mostly depicted from the shoulders up, with the occasional ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Sideboob}} shots to assure the audience she's really naked.
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* SmokingIsNotCool: Veronica's smoking habit is criticized by POV character's internal's thoughts. They don't really have the guts the tell it to her face.
* SpoiledSweet: Veronica has lived a privileged life in a country struck by poverty and inequality, but that doesn't stop her from being a woman of strong character who puts her life on the line
* SpoiledSweet: Veronica has lived a privileged life in a country struck by poverty and inequality, but that doesn't stop her from being a woman of strong character who puts her life on the line
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* SmokingIsNotCool: Veronica's Verónica's smoking habit is criticized by POV character's internal's thoughts. They don't really have the guts the tell it to her face.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: {{Averted|Trope}}. While protagonists Veronica and Lucio are sympathetic, the fact they're cheating on his wife in their affair is still portrayed as immoral and Lucios explicitly thinks that his wife has done nothing to deserve his infidelity. The only thing that gives them a smidge of sympathy is the fact they both feel great guilt about it.
* TamerAndChaster: While the MiniSeries adaptation still has its fair share of sex scenes, they're tastefully shot and [[ShouldersUpNudity contain no actual nudity]]. The book goes into far more detail on Veronica's and Lucio's sex life, and due to the FirstPersonNarration we often get to read the lustful thoughts they think about each other.
* TamerAndChaster: While the MiniSeries adaptation still has its fair share of sex scenes, they're tastefully shot and [[ShouldersUpNudity contain no actual nudity]]. The book goes into far more detail on Veronica's and Lucio's sex life, and due to the FirstPersonNarration we often get to read the lustful thoughts they think about each other.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: {{Averted|Trope}}. While protagonists Veronica Verónica and Lucio are sympathetic, the fact they're cheating on his wife in their affair is still portrayed as immoral and Lucios explicitly thinks that his wife has done nothing to deserve his infidelity. The only thing that gives them a smidge of sympathy is the fact they both feel great guilt about it.
* TamerAndChaster: While the MiniSeries adaptation still has its fair share of sex scenes, they're tastefully shot and [[ShouldersUpNudity contain no actual nudity]]. The book goes into far more detail onVeronica's Verónica's and Lucio's sex life, and due to the FirstPersonNarration we often get to read the lustful thoughts they think about each other.
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** TheCartel thugs warn Lucio they know where he and his family live, as a threat to stop him from helping Veronica.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: MiniSeries only but {{Justified|Trope}}. Juan Garcia's underlings are puzzled by his reluctance to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution simply order Veronica to be killed]] when her investigations start to get too close to him, but he says her important lawyer father could cause killing her to become too complicated. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Veronica's father isn't just an important attorney but has actually worked as Garcia's AmoralAttorney before, and Garcia doesn't want to antagonize someone who has dirt on him.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: In the MiniSeries, our first impression of TheCartel's EvilDuo henchmen is of them violently evicting a middle-aged woman from her former home. They're also the ones who got assigned to assassinate Veronica.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken is about putting kids in incredible danger to gamble on their lives, but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: MiniSeries only but {{Justified|Trope}}. Juan Garcia's underlings are puzzled by his reluctance to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution simply order Veronica to be killed]] when her investigations start to get too close to him, but he says her important lawyer father could cause killing her to become too complicated. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Veronica's father isn't just an important attorney but has actually worked as Garcia's AmoralAttorney before, and Garcia doesn't want to antagonize someone who has dirt on him.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: In the MiniSeries, our first impression of TheCartel's EvilDuo henchmen is of them violently evicting a middle-aged woman from her former home. They're also the ones who got assigned to assassinate Veronica.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken is about putting kids in incredible danger to gamble on their lives, but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
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** TheCartel thugs warn Lucio they know where he and his family live, as a threat to stop him from helping Veronica.
Verónica.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: MiniSeries only but {{Justified|Trope}}. Juan Garcia's underlings are puzzled by his reluctance to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution simply orderVeronica Verónica to be killed]] when her investigations start to get too close to him, but he says her important lawyer father could cause killing her to become too complicated. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Veronica's [[spoiler:Verónica's father isn't just an important attorney but has actually worked as Garcia's AmoralAttorney before, and Garcia doesn't want to antagonize someone who has dirt on him.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: In the MiniSeries, our first impression of TheCartel's EvilDuo henchmen is of them violently evicting a middle-aged woman from her former home. They're also the ones who got assigned to assassinateVeronica.
Verónica.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChickenis about putting kids in incredible danger to gamble on their lives, but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: MiniSeries only but {{Justified|Trope}}. Juan Garcia's underlings are puzzled by his reluctance to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution simply order
* WouldHitAGirl: In the MiniSeries, our first impression of TheCartel's EvilDuo henchmen is of them violently evicting a middle-aged woman from her former home. They're also the ones who got assigned to assassinate
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken
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''The Fragility Of Bodies'' (''La fragilidad de los cuerpos'' is an Angetinine Crime/Mystery/{{Thriller}} by Argentine author [[Creator/SergioOlguin Sergio Olguín]]. It was released in 2007 and received an English translation by Miranda France in 2019.
In 2017 it receive a Spanish-language [[TheShowOfTheBooks live-action adaptation]] in the form of an 8 episode MiniSeries, as a joint production by [[Creator/PolkaProducciones Pol-ka Producciones]], [[Creator/ElTrece eltrece]], Creator/{{Cablevision}} and Creator/{{TNT}}.
The story stars Verónica Rosenthal (Creator/EvaDeDominici), a journalist investigating the suicide of a train machinist. Which the help of her lawyer friend Federico (Creator/JuanGilNavarro) and train machinist Lucio (Creator/GermanPalacios) she begins to uncover something much sinister is happening on the train tracks of Buenos Aires.
---- Verónica
!!This work provides examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: The deputy editor of Verónica's maganize, Alex Vilna, has a huge crush on her and makes constant passes at her, despite her disliking him. In the books, she finds him too pompous and vain while in the MiniSeries he's ''much'' older than her.
* AdaptationExpansion: The MiniSeries spends far more time with other characters, such as Rafa, El Peque, Dientes, Rivero, and Juan Garcia, who only had the occasional brief [[SwitchingPOV POV segment]].
* AdaptedOut: Marcelo, the doorman to Verónica's building, is a minor character in the book that is absent in the MiniSeries.
* AffectionateNickname:
** Verónica is referred to as Vero by some of her close friends and family.
** Verónica calls her editor and boss Patricia by the nickname "Pato". She also refers to Federico as "Fedo".
** Peque and Dientes are both OnlyKnownByTheirNickname, with only their families using their real names (Cristian and Kevin). Peque got his due to being small as a child (Peque is short for pequeño, which is small in Spanish) while Dientes was named after his odd teeth (Dientes means teeth in Spanish).
* AgeGapRomance: PlayedWith. Verónica is thirty years old while Lucio is in his only in his late thirties, but she ''looks'' younger for her age while he looks considerably older for his age. This is especially notable in the MiniSeries, where Lucio is grizzled and already has a lot of white hair.
* AmoralAttorney: MiniSeries-only. [[spoiler: Near the end of the story, Verónica's father is revealed to be Juan Garcia's attorney who previously defended him on many corruption charges and he uses his connection to him to force them to make a deal]].
* AngryGuardDog: One guards a store Peque and Dientes want to steal, and they attempt poisoning it to get rid of it, showing how desperate they are for cash. The MiniSeries actually makes it a BlackComedy RunningGag since they constantly fail to kill the dog via poison.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: TheCartel's way of dealing with the families of the GameOfChicken's children. Their thugs pay the family a visit, offering hush money and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened the promise to ruin their lives if they ever speak anything]]. Given they're all impoverished families with little recourse, this is very effective.
* BadBoss: It becomes very clear to Verónica right at the start of the investigation that the railway company treats its employers as expendable, wanting them to quickly come back to work even after they suffered the trauma of running over suicidal people and even children. And that's before she finds out that many of the higher-ups get bribed by TheCartel to let them run their BloodSport schemes.
* BadGuysPlayPool: One of the meetings Juan Garcia has with his underlings has them playing pool in a bar.
* TheBadGuysWin: The MiniSeries makes the BigBad comes out more victorious, despite events playing out similarly. [[spoiler:In the book, Verónica corners [[TheDon Juan Garcia]] by herself, tracking him to his hideout and fearlessly going there to force a deal on him, making him give up his underlings on the GameOfChicken scheme in order to save himself. The MiniSeries has Garcia be the one ordering her to come to his hideout, and he's also the one who offers the deal to her, and when she initially refuses, her AmoralAttorney father forces her to take it. In the book, there's also a HopeSpot, with Verónica passing on the info she has on Garcia to another fellow IntrepidJournalist, meaning he might face justice one day, even if she's not the one who catches him. Meanwhile, the last we see of Garcia in the MiniSeries is him casually talking about starting another BloodSports operation, with the implication he might still use children for them too.]]
* BenevolentBoss: In the book, Verónica's editor Pato is a benevolent figure who greatly assists Verónica in her investigations. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the novel, where Pato simply attempts to look out for Verónica, but the magazine's higher-ups see Verónica as a BunnyEarsLawyer that pressures her on giving up on the railway gaze when it starts taking too long.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Federico/Verónica/Lucio LoveTriangle. Federico is the Betty, an overall NiceGuy and longtime friend of Verónica's family who supports her IntrepidReporter career, while Lucio is a shady train machinist whom Verónica has just met and has a hurricane romance with, despite the fact he's a married man with a family.
* BigBad: Juan Garcia TheDon of TheCartel, a corrupt businessman and politician that controls all sorts of criminal schemes all over Argentina, such as smuggling operations and illegal gambling rings. The railway GameOfChicken's scheme is just one of his many businesses.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Verónica manages to put an end to the railway GameOfChicken, arresting many of the ringleaders and implicating several others involved. But she had to let go of BigBaf Juan Garcia, Lucio and other people still ended up dying during the process. The MiniSeries also has Verónica discovering her father is a major AmoralAttorney, which has seriously damaged their relationship.]]
* BloodSport: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel]] apparently makes several of these, with the railway GameOfChicken that puts child lives at the risk of being run over by trains being just one of many.
* BrainsAndBondage: The book has the intellectual Verónica be into bondage.
* BrokenPedestal: In the books [[spoiler:Veronica and Federico become shocked to learn her father is an AmoralAttorney who worked for Garcia in the past. It doesn't completely ruin their relationship, but she can't bring herself to talk about work to him anymore.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Verónica is treated as one in the MiniSeries, which her bosses find her IntrepidReporter that is always GoingForTheBigScoop to be more trouble than it's worth, and they encourage (or demand) her to work on things more mundane news stories.
* TheCartel: The main antagonist of the story is a cartel group in Buenos Aires that is behind the GameOfChicken competition that is getting children killed in train tracks. But they also deal in all the crimes one comes to expect from cartels, such as drug trafficking, intimidation, blackmail, assassination, and kidnapping.
* CatapultNightmare: Lucio is shown waking up scared in this manner whenever he has nightmares about the people he ran over with his train over the years.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety:
** Verónica often resorts to smoking more when she gets anxious.
** In the MiniSeries, her father also smokes for the first time since the death of his wife when he has to [[spoiler:force Verónica into accepting Gracia's deal.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Rafael's store owner friend and his wife and brutally tortured and killed by TheCartel so they can find out Rafael's location.
* CommitmentIssues: Verónica doesn't dwell much on it, but it's fairly obvious she has issues dealing with having an actually serious relationship.
* ComicallySmallBribe: PlayedForDrama. The money Rivero offers the GameOfChicken kids is comically small, but it feels like a lot to them, since they're often miserably poor children from shantytowns.
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Due to her busy schedule, Verónica has to resort to this when picking a gift for her niece, but something comes up that prevents her from even going to the convenience store, so her gift ends up being just cash instead. Her sister isn't amused.
* CoolAunt: Verónica is mentioned by her sisters to be the favorite aunt of their kids, and are annoyed when Verónica starts neglecting them due to her work.
* CorruptionOfAMinor: Rivero's coaching methods always try to bring out the worst in kids, with him encouraging them to beat each other up and shaming them if they hesitate. This is all part of his plan to get them ready for the GameOfChicken competition.
* CrusadingLawyer: Federico is a lawyer who fully supports Verónica's work as an IntrepidReporter, doing constant favors for her not only due to their romantic connection, but over a mutual desire to see justice done.
* DaEditor: Verónica's boss and editor Pato is demanding and hard to please, but she also gives good advice and acts reasonably to Verónica. Played more straight in the MiniSeries where Verónica is seen as a BunnyEarsLawyer and gets constant pressure to finish the story from Pato and the other editors.
* DangerousWorkplace: The Buenos Aires train tracks are in a bad shape, with many of the security measures meant to ensure people don't walk into the tracks not working or not existing. This is a big part of why the GameOfChicken competition started happening there.
* DeathOfAChild: Several children have died getting hit by the train during the GameOfChicken competition.
* DeadlyGame: Garcia and his cartel specialize in this, proving bizarre "games" where the participants are the impoverished citizens of the slums, with rich and powerful people placing bets on which will survive.
* DemotedToExtra: In the book, Veronica has several co-workers with distinctive personalities that she interacts and talks about on occasion. In the show, only her editors get any screen time and very little characterization.
* DirtyCop: The Argentine police has never found out or done anything about the GameOfChicken competition because they're all paid to look the other way. When Rafa finds out about the competition and attempts to report it to the police, they do nothing except inform Garcia's men, who track down Rafa to kill him because HeKnowsTooMuch.
* DisappearedDad: Both Peque and Dientes parents are absent from their lives. El Peque's father apparently walked out on them while Diente's father was killed for an unknown reason by a local gang.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Federico is genuinely in love with Veronica and wants to have a stable and lasting relationship, but her CommitmentIssues get in the way, as she's unwilling to settle down with a single man.
* DrivenToSuicide: The plot is kicked off by the suicide of Carranza, a train machinist who commits suicide due to the guilt he feels over running over people for years during the job. In particular, his last victim was one of the children who took part in the GameOfChicken and his suicide note hinting at it is what sets Veronica on track to dismantle the operation.
* EthicalSlut: Verónica is an IntrepidReporter of strong moral character and ethics, but is also [[ReallyGetsAround very promiscuous]] and has a borderline hedonistic sexual appetite, to the point she often browses the internet for scandalous and kinky sex stories and sometimes even writes them herself. She's also perfectly willing to sleep with Lucio even though she knows he's a married man with two kids.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The corrupt union boss is horrified when Juan Garcia [[WouldHurtAChild orders the last two child competitors to be killed]], despite having been fine with the GameOfChicken competition beforehand, since he saw some kids dying as accidents, and feels actively killing them is too much.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: What allowed Juan Garcia's BloodSport criminal empire to exist is that it mostly revolves around exploiting poor people, who are cheap to bribe.
* EvilDuo: In the MiniSeries, TheCartel always sends the same two henchmen to deal with the nastier jobs (In the book they're described as a larger group), such as assassination and intimidation. When they attempt to assassinate Rafa and Veronica, one gets killed by Lucio while the other is left paralyzed after getting ran over by Veronica's car. Garcia later laments their loss, since he says "[[TokenCompetentMinion good help is hard to find]]".
* FamilyVersusCareer: Veronica starts missing family events when she starts to become more invested in her case, to her family's disapproval and annoyance.
* FilmTheHand: In the MiniSeries. Lucio blocks the camera on his cabin with a cloth when Veronica sneaks into it to talk to him. It only delays the bad guys finding out about her talking to Lucio though.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Veronica and Federico seem to have this kind of arrangement in the MiniSeries. In the books, they had a brief romance, before Veronica broke things off.
* GameOfChicken: The BloodSport that Rivero is in charge of for TheCartel. Rivero picks two "brave" 10~ year old boys from the soccer club and offers them cheap cash in order to participate. He drives them to the train station at night, and orders them to stand on the track and to wait until the last possible moment before jumping out of the way of the incoming train, with wealthy people betting on the winner. And sometimes, [[DeathOfAChild they wait too long]].
* GoingForTheBigScoop: Veronica often becomes so invested in her stories that she starts to deprioritize her personal life. Even getting mixed up with a dangerous mob boss and his [[TheCartel cartel]] doesn't stop her from pursuing her story, no matter how hard they try to intimidate her.
* GoodBadGirl: Veronica shamelessly enjoys her borderline hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, smoking and casual sex but she's also a NiceGirl with a strong moral character.
* GoodShepherd: One of Veronica's allies in her quest to expose the GameOfChicken is Father Pedro, the priest of a poor community where many kids keep "disappearing". He even breaks some of his vows when helping her, but he feels it's for the greater good.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The opening scene of the MiniSeries has Carranzo performing suicide by shooting himself in the head on top of a building, with his head being just out of frame when he pulls the trigger.
* TheHeavy: Rivero, the soccer club's coach that personally picks and trains the kids to be part of the GameOfChicken is the antagonist with the most presence and screentime, as we constantly see him via El Peque and Rafa's POV segments. In the MiniSeries, he also has a final climactic confrontation with Veronica after her deal with Juan Garcia, when he invades her apartment to kill her for {{Revenge}} for her role in "ruining his life", but she manages to [[ActionSurvivor fight him off]] and he gets arrested.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Veronica is often mentioned to be gorgeous by both the narration and other male characters, even being a LustObject for a couple.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In the book, Veronica is painfully aware that she's just turned 30 and while she's still a HeadTurningBeauty, can see the signs in her body that her youthful looks and health are starting to vanish.
* HopelessSuitor: Veronica's doorman has a massive crush on her, but she's completely dismissive of it.
* HumanTraffickers: Rivero used to be a human trafficker before he took charge of the Buenos Aires GameOfChicken.
* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to envoke this, but Veronica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
* IntimateTelecommunications: Veronica and Lucio have "phone sex" shortly after they begin their affair.
* IntrepidReporter: Veronica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.
* IronLady: Veronica is a fearless IntrepidReporter who doesn't show fear even talking to the mob boss who ordered countless hits on her and her friends.
* ItsAllMyFault
** The train machinists feel incredible guilt over the people they run over in the trains, despite the fact they're not at fault since they're incapable of actually stopping the train in time.
** In the MiniSeries Rafael is plagued by great guilt once he finds out that the kids he recruited to the soccer club actually ended up in the railway GameOfChicken. He also feels responsible when TheCartel's thugs that go after him end up going after his friend and killing him to get information on Rafa.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:BigBad Juan Garcia decides to put a stop to the GameOfChicken competition after his EvilDuo fails to assassinate Veronica, and he offers her a deal, giving up everyone bellow him in the organization, while he gets away. After much angst, she reluctantly accepts.]]
* TheLadette: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in regards to Veronica. While she exhibits many traits often associated with men, such as being a heaver smoker/drinker, enjoying casual sex and being a late sleeper, she still maintains a feminine personality. Lucio is often surprised at how gracious she manages to look even while doing things [[WomenAreDelicate he never associates women doing]].
* LudicrousGibs: Part of what's so horrifying about the train accidents and suicides is that the people that get run over are often reduced to pieces, especially the children. This is convenient for TheCartel running the GameOfChicken, since any child that dies is reduced to a state where they can't be recognized.
* LustObject: Veronica is this to many of the male characters, whenever they get a POV segment of a man thinking about her, they're also often lusting or fantasizing about her.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Juan Garcia is often seen wearing expensive suits and drinking expensive drinks while relaxing in his extravagant restaurant.
* MissingMom: Veronica's mother passed away a few years before the start of the story, but her death caused a great impact on the family dynamic since Veronica's mother was TheHeart that kept the family united.
* TheMistress: Veronica becomes Lucio's lover knowing full well he's married with children and has no intention of leaving them, and has no desire for him to leave them herself.
* TheModestOrgasm: In the MiniSeries, we only have close-ups of Veronica or Lucio's faces as they quietly reach orgasm.
* MustHaveNicotine: Veronica is already a heavy smoker due to habit, but the stress of working on the train story makes her smoke even more.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the MiniSeries, Rafa is horrified when he discovers the kids he has been recruiting for the soccer club were actually for the GameOfChicken competition.
* NearDeathExperience: Most kids who take part in the GameOfChicken go through one, as the whole point of the game is to jump out of the way of the train at the last second. El Peque becomes traumatized on his second GameOfChicken, when not only does the train barely miss him, but it kills the boy he was competing against.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Veronica treats the doorman at her building very well, to the point he often does favors to her. Although we also learn in his brief POV segment that he does [[FavorsForTheSexy favors to her hoping he'll get to sleep with her someday]].
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Rivero uses this tactic while coaching kids, calling them cowards or sissies whenever they hesitate to do what he asks.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Buenos Aires train tracks are very unsafe due to the company's neglect, with many security cameras or basic safety features missing, which leads to many accidents. This is also what allows the GameOfChicken to take place in them, as the lack of cameras and security makes it very easy for criminals to set the whole thing up.
* NonIdleRich: Veronica's family has enough money that she could easily spend her life as an IdleRich, but she decides to be her own woman and have her own career.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: PlayedWith, Veronica kicks out her casual lovers from her room apartment after they're done having sex.
* OddCouple: Privileged IntrepidReporter Veronica and working-class train conductor Lucio make quite an unusual pairing.
* OffTheRecord: Juan Garcia makes sure to take Veronica's cell phone for their one-on-one meetings.
* OhCrap: Juan Garcia is a very private man who enjoys running his criminal organization from the shadows, so when he learns that Veronica has managed to find out who he is he becomes visibly distressed.
* PaedoHunt: The dirt Juan Garcia gives on the corrupt union boss for the train workers involves him making out with several underage girls.
* ParentalNeglect: Because Peque and Dientes both have {{Struggling Single Mother}}s who don't have time to pay attention to them, allowing the kids to get involved in all sorts of schemes.
* PoliceAreUseless: As Federico says, a sad reality of Argentine police is that even if they weren't bribed to look the other way, they don't have the resources or time to put on the mysterious deaths and disappearances of poor kids who die in the train tracks.
* PragmaticVillainy: Juan Garcia wants to stop the GameOfChicken competition during the time Veronica starts snooping to avoid the attention, but his clients keep insisting thus forcing his hand. [[spoiler: It's implied that part of of the reason he gave Veronica info on them as part of their deal was to punish them.]]
* PredatoryBusiness: Rivero's soccer is actually just a front for the GameOfChicken competition, with him picking out the "bravest" kids to take part in the BloodSport.
* RecoveredAddict: Rafael used to be TheAlcoholic and a cocaine addict, which led to his wife divorcing him. By the time we met him, he's recovered but struggled constantly with the temptation to drink. The Mini Series, when he learns about the GameOfChicken competition and the part he unwittingly played on it, it almost causes him to relapse in a fit of DrowningMySorrows.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Federico is a rich and successful lawyer while Lucio is a working-class train conductor.
* SexGoddess: Veronica is described as an incredibly skilled lover, and she explains she actually researches for sexual techniques, bragging to Lucio she's an expert in Geisha lovemaking arts.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: TheCartel's method of dealing with people that find out about the GameOfChicken competition is to offer them some hush money, along with explicit threats of the terrible things they'd do to their loved ones if they blad about the GameOfChicken to anyone.
* ShipperOnDeck: Federico is an old friend of Veronica's family and works closely with her father, and her entire family pushes the two to be together.
* ShouldersUpNudity: During sex scenes, Veronica's nudity is mostly depicted from the shoulders up, with the occasional ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Sideboob}} shots to assure the audience she's really naked.
* TheShowOfTheBooks: The book was released in 2007 and received a live-action Spanish-language MiniSeries in 2017.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Veronica's smoking habit is criticized by POV character's internal's thoughts. They don't really have the guts the tell it to her face.
* SpoiledSweet: Veronica has lived a privileged life in a country struck by poverty and inequality, but that doesn't stop her from being a woman of strong character who puts her life on the line
* StrugglingSingleMother: Peque and Dientes both have {{Disappeared Dad}}s, so they're both raised by their mothers, who are [[ParentalNeglect too busy working to pay much attention to them]], leading to them getting involved in the plot.
* SwitchingPOV: Most of the story is told from Verónica's point of view, but there are occasional segments where we see the point of view of other characters, such as El Peque, Lucio, and Rafa.
* SympatheticAdulterer: {{Averted|Trope}}. While protagonists Veronica and Lucio are sympathetic, the fact they're cheating on his wife in their affair is still portrayed as immoral and Lucios explicitly thinks that his wife has done nothing to deserve his infidelity. The only thing that gives them a smidge of sympathy is the fact they both feel great guilt about it.
* TamerAndChaster: While the MiniSeries adaptation still has its fair share of sex scenes, they're tastefully shot and [[ShouldersUpNudity contain no actual nudity]]. The book goes into far more detail on Veronica's and Lucio's sex life, and due to the FirstPersonNarration we often get to read the lustful thoughts they think about each other.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: PlayedWith. The train machinists that get traumatized by the accidents and deaths are assigned to a therapist by the railway company, but Lucio describes the therapist as completely useless, who only offers them medication and gives them a couple of days off before assigning them as being fit to go back to work.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Peque and Dientes are a child duo who are almost always seen together, and their interactions are frequently comical in nature.
* UselessSecurityCamera: Most of the security cameras on the Buenos Aires train station don't work, which is what allows the GameOfChicken to happen there.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive
** Rivero shows up at El Peque's home to intimidate the boy to keep quiet about the competitions.
** TheCartel thugs warn Lucio they know where he and his family live, as a threat to stop him from helping Veronica.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: MiniSeries only but {{Justified|Trope}}. Juan Garcia's underlings are puzzled by his reluctance to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution simply order Veronica to be killed]] when her investigations start to get too close to him, but he says her important lawyer father could cause killing her to become too complicated. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Veronica's father isn't just an important attorney but has actually worked as Garcia's AmoralAttorney before, and Garcia doesn't want to antagonize someone who has dirt on him.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: In the MiniSeries, our first impression of TheCartel's EvilDuo henchmen is of them violently evicting a middle-aged woman from her former home. They're also the ones who got assigned to assassinate Veronica.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken is about putting kids in incredible danger to gamble on their lives, but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
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''The Fragility Of Bodies'' (''La fragilidad de los cuerpos'' is an Angetinine Crime/Mystery/{{Thriller}} by Argentine author [[Creator/SergioOlguin Sergio Olguín]]. It was released in 2007 and received an English translation by Miranda France in 2019.
In 2017 it receive a Spanish-language [[TheShowOfTheBooks live-action adaptation]] in the form of an 8 episode MiniSeries, as a joint production by [[Creator/PolkaProducciones Pol-ka Producciones]], [[Creator/ElTrece eltrece]], Creator/{{Cablevision}} and Creator/{{TNT}}.
The story stars Verónica Rosenthal (Creator/EvaDeDominici), a journalist investigating the suicide of a train machinist. Which the help of her lawyer friend Federico (Creator/JuanGilNavarro) and train machinist Lucio (Creator/GermanPalacios) she begins to uncover something much sinister is happening on the train tracks of Buenos Aires.
---- Verónica
!!This work provides examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: The deputy editor of Verónica's maganize, Alex Vilna, has a huge crush on her and makes constant passes at her, despite her disliking him. In the books, she finds him too pompous and vain while in the MiniSeries he's ''much'' older than her.
* AdaptationExpansion: The MiniSeries spends far more time with other characters, such as Rafa, El Peque, Dientes, Rivero, and Juan Garcia, who only had the occasional brief [[SwitchingPOV POV segment]].
* AdaptedOut: Marcelo, the doorman to Verónica's building, is a minor character in the book that is absent in the MiniSeries.
* AffectionateNickname:
** Verónica is referred to as Vero by some of her close friends and family.
** Verónica calls her editor and boss Patricia by the nickname "Pato". She also refers to Federico as "Fedo".
** Peque and Dientes are both OnlyKnownByTheirNickname, with only their families using their real names (Cristian and Kevin). Peque got his due to being small as a child (Peque is short for pequeño, which is small in Spanish) while Dientes was named after his odd teeth (Dientes means teeth in Spanish).
* AgeGapRomance: PlayedWith. Verónica is thirty years old while Lucio is in his only in his late thirties, but she ''looks'' younger for her age while he looks considerably older for his age. This is especially notable in the MiniSeries, where Lucio is grizzled and already has a lot of white hair.
* AmoralAttorney: MiniSeries-only. [[spoiler: Near the end of the story, Verónica's father is revealed to be Juan Garcia's attorney who previously defended him on many corruption charges and he uses his connection to him to force them to make a deal]].
* AngryGuardDog: One guards a store Peque and Dientes want to steal, and they attempt poisoning it to get rid of it, showing how desperate they are for cash. The MiniSeries actually makes it a BlackComedy RunningGag since they constantly fail to kill the dog via poison.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: TheCartel's way of dealing with the families of the GameOfChicken's children. Their thugs pay the family a visit, offering hush money and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened the promise to ruin their lives if they ever speak anything]]. Given they're all impoverished families with little recourse, this is very effective.
* BadBoss: It becomes very clear to Verónica right at the start of the investigation that the railway company treats its employers as expendable, wanting them to quickly come back to work even after they suffered the trauma of running over suicidal people and even children. And that's before she finds out that many of the higher-ups get bribed by TheCartel to let them run their BloodSport schemes.
* BadGuysPlayPool: One of the meetings Juan Garcia has with his underlings has them playing pool in a bar.
* TheBadGuysWin: The MiniSeries makes the BigBad comes out more victorious, despite events playing out similarly. [[spoiler:In the book, Verónica corners [[TheDon Juan Garcia]] by herself, tracking him to his hideout and fearlessly going there to force a deal on him, making him give up his underlings on the GameOfChicken scheme in order to save himself. The MiniSeries has Garcia be the one ordering her to come to his hideout, and he's also the one who offers the deal to her, and when she initially refuses, her AmoralAttorney father forces her to take it. In the book, there's also a HopeSpot, with Verónica passing on the info she has on Garcia to another fellow IntrepidJournalist, meaning he might face justice one day, even if she's not the one who catches him. Meanwhile, the last we see of Garcia in the MiniSeries is him casually talking about starting another BloodSports operation, with the implication he might still use children for them too.]]
* BenevolentBoss: In the book, Verónica's editor Pato is a benevolent figure who greatly assists Verónica in her investigations. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the novel, where Pato simply attempts to look out for Verónica, but the magazine's higher-ups see Verónica as a BunnyEarsLawyer that pressures her on giving up on the railway gaze when it starts taking too long.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Federico/Verónica/Lucio LoveTriangle. Federico is the Betty, an overall NiceGuy and longtime friend of Verónica's family who supports her IntrepidReporter career, while Lucio is a shady train machinist whom Verónica has just met and has a hurricane romance with, despite the fact he's a married man with a family.
* BigBad: Juan Garcia TheDon of TheCartel, a corrupt businessman and politician that controls all sorts of criminal schemes all over Argentina, such as smuggling operations and illegal gambling rings. The railway GameOfChicken's scheme is just one of his many businesses.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Verónica manages to put an end to the railway GameOfChicken, arresting many of the ringleaders and implicating several others involved. But she had to let go of BigBaf Juan Garcia, Lucio and other people still ended up dying during the process. The MiniSeries also has Verónica discovering her father is a major AmoralAttorney, which has seriously damaged their relationship.]]
* BloodSport: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel]] apparently makes several of these, with the railway GameOfChicken that puts child lives at the risk of being run over by trains being just one of many.
* BrainsAndBondage: The book has the intellectual Verónica be into bondage.
* BrokenPedestal: In the books [[spoiler:Veronica and Federico become shocked to learn her father is an AmoralAttorney who worked for Garcia in the past. It doesn't completely ruin their relationship, but she can't bring herself to talk about work to him anymore.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Verónica is treated as one in the MiniSeries, which her bosses find her IntrepidReporter that is always GoingForTheBigScoop to be more trouble than it's worth, and they encourage (or demand) her to work on things more mundane news stories.
* TheCartel: The main antagonist of the story is a cartel group in Buenos Aires that is behind the GameOfChicken competition that is getting children killed in train tracks. But they also deal in all the crimes one comes to expect from cartels, such as drug trafficking, intimidation, blackmail, assassination, and kidnapping.
* CatapultNightmare: Lucio is shown waking up scared in this manner whenever he has nightmares about the people he ran over with his train over the years.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety:
** Verónica often resorts to smoking more when she gets anxious.
** In the MiniSeries, her father also smokes for the first time since the death of his wife when he has to [[spoiler:force Verónica into accepting Gracia's deal.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Rafael's store owner friend and his wife and brutally tortured and killed by TheCartel so they can find out Rafael's location.
* CommitmentIssues: Verónica doesn't dwell much on it, but it's fairly obvious she has issues dealing with having an actually serious relationship.
* ComicallySmallBribe: PlayedForDrama. The money Rivero offers the GameOfChicken kids is comically small, but it feels like a lot to them, since they're often miserably poor children from shantytowns.
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Due to her busy schedule, Verónica has to resort to this when picking a gift for her niece, but something comes up that prevents her from even going to the convenience store, so her gift ends up being just cash instead. Her sister isn't amused.
* CoolAunt: Verónica is mentioned by her sisters to be the favorite aunt of their kids, and are annoyed when Verónica starts neglecting them due to her work.
* CorruptionOfAMinor: Rivero's coaching methods always try to bring out the worst in kids, with him encouraging them to beat each other up and shaming them if they hesitate. This is all part of his plan to get them ready for the GameOfChicken competition.
* CrusadingLawyer: Federico is a lawyer who fully supports Verónica's work as an IntrepidReporter, doing constant favors for her not only due to their romantic connection, but over a mutual desire to see justice done.
* DaEditor: Verónica's boss and editor Pato is demanding and hard to please, but she also gives good advice and acts reasonably to Verónica. Played more straight in the MiniSeries where Verónica is seen as a BunnyEarsLawyer and gets constant pressure to finish the story from Pato and the other editors.
* DangerousWorkplace: The Buenos Aires train tracks are in a bad shape, with many of the security measures meant to ensure people don't walk into the tracks not working or not existing. This is a big part of why the GameOfChicken competition started happening there.
* DeathOfAChild: Several children have died getting hit by the train during the GameOfChicken competition.
* DeadlyGame: Garcia and his cartel specialize in this, proving bizarre "games" where the participants are the impoverished citizens of the slums, with rich and powerful people placing bets on which will survive.
* DemotedToExtra: In the book, Veronica has several co-workers with distinctive personalities that she interacts and talks about on occasion. In the show, only her editors get any screen time and very little characterization.
* DirtyCop: The Argentine police has never found out or done anything about the GameOfChicken competition because they're all paid to look the other way. When Rafa finds out about the competition and attempts to report it to the police, they do nothing except inform Garcia's men, who track down Rafa to kill him because HeKnowsTooMuch.
* DisappearedDad: Both Peque and Dientes parents are absent from their lives. El Peque's father apparently walked out on them while Diente's father was killed for an unknown reason by a local gang.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Federico is genuinely in love with Veronica and wants to have a stable and lasting relationship, but her CommitmentIssues get in the way, as she's unwilling to settle down with a single man.
* DrivenToSuicide: The plot is kicked off by the suicide of Carranza, a train machinist who commits suicide due to the guilt he feels over running over people for years during the job. In particular, his last victim was one of the children who took part in the GameOfChicken and his suicide note hinting at it is what sets Veronica on track to dismantle the operation.
* EthicalSlut: Verónica is an IntrepidReporter of strong moral character and ethics, but is also [[ReallyGetsAround very promiscuous]] and has a borderline hedonistic sexual appetite, to the point she often browses the internet for scandalous and kinky sex stories and sometimes even writes them herself. She's also perfectly willing to sleep with Lucio even though she knows he's a married man with two kids.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The corrupt union boss is horrified when Juan Garcia [[WouldHurtAChild orders the last two child competitors to be killed]], despite having been fine with the GameOfChicken competition beforehand, since he saw some kids dying as accidents, and feels actively killing them is too much.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: What allowed Juan Garcia's BloodSport criminal empire to exist is that it mostly revolves around exploiting poor people, who are cheap to bribe.
* EvilDuo: In the MiniSeries, TheCartel always sends the same two henchmen to deal with the nastier jobs (In the book they're described as a larger group), such as assassination and intimidation. When they attempt to assassinate Rafa and Veronica, one gets killed by Lucio while the other is left paralyzed after getting ran over by Veronica's car. Garcia later laments their loss, since he says "[[TokenCompetentMinion good help is hard to find]]".
* FamilyVersusCareer: Veronica starts missing family events when she starts to become more invested in her case, to her family's disapproval and annoyance.
* FilmTheHand: In the MiniSeries. Lucio blocks the camera on his cabin with a cloth when Veronica sneaks into it to talk to him. It only delays the bad guys finding out about her talking to Lucio though.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Veronica and Federico seem to have this kind of arrangement in the MiniSeries. In the books, they had a brief romance, before Veronica broke things off.
* GameOfChicken: The BloodSport that Rivero is in charge of for TheCartel. Rivero picks two "brave" 10~ year old boys from the soccer club and offers them cheap cash in order to participate. He drives them to the train station at night, and orders them to stand on the track and to wait until the last possible moment before jumping out of the way of the incoming train, with wealthy people betting on the winner. And sometimes, [[DeathOfAChild they wait too long]].
* GoingForTheBigScoop: Veronica often becomes so invested in her stories that she starts to deprioritize her personal life. Even getting mixed up with a dangerous mob boss and his [[TheCartel cartel]] doesn't stop her from pursuing her story, no matter how hard they try to intimidate her.
* GoodBadGirl: Veronica shamelessly enjoys her borderline hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, smoking and casual sex but she's also a NiceGirl with a strong moral character.
* GoodShepherd: One of Veronica's allies in her quest to expose the GameOfChicken is Father Pedro, the priest of a poor community where many kids keep "disappearing". He even breaks some of his vows when helping her, but he feels it's for the greater good.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The opening scene of the MiniSeries has Carranzo performing suicide by shooting himself in the head on top of a building, with his head being just out of frame when he pulls the trigger.
* TheHeavy: Rivero, the soccer club's coach that personally picks and trains the kids to be part of the GameOfChicken is the antagonist with the most presence and screentime, as we constantly see him via El Peque and Rafa's POV segments. In the MiniSeries, he also has a final climactic confrontation with Veronica after her deal with Juan Garcia, when he invades her apartment to kill her for {{Revenge}} for her role in "ruining his life", but she manages to [[ActionSurvivor fight him off]] and he gets arrested.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Veronica is often mentioned to be gorgeous by both the narration and other male characters, even being a LustObject for a couple.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In the book, Veronica is painfully aware that she's just turned 30 and while she's still a HeadTurningBeauty, can see the signs in her body that her youthful looks and health are starting to vanish.
* HopelessSuitor: Veronica's doorman has a massive crush on her, but she's completely dismissive of it.
* HumanTraffickers: Rivero used to be a human trafficker before he took charge of the Buenos Aires GameOfChicken.
* IHaveYourWife: Garcia's [[TheCartel cartel thugs]] attempt to get their hands on Rafa's daughter after they failed to kill him, in order to envoke this, but Veronica manages to get there first and saves her JustInTime.
* IntimateTelecommunications: Veronica and Lucio have "phone sex" shortly after they begin their affair.
* IntrepidReporter: Veronica became a reporter due to her distaste for injustice and desire to expose corruption to the world, and is willing to go to great lengths to pursue these goals, even if it endangers herself.
* IronLady: Veronica is a fearless IntrepidReporter who doesn't show fear even talking to the mob boss who ordered countless hits on her and her friends.
* ItsAllMyFault
** The train machinists feel incredible guilt over the people they run over in the trains, despite the fact they're not at fault since they're incapable of actually stopping the train in time.
** In the MiniSeries Rafael is plagued by great guilt once he finds out that the kids he recruited to the soccer club actually ended up in the railway GameOfChicken. He also feels responsible when TheCartel's thugs that go after him end up going after his friend and killing him to get information on Rafa.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:BigBad Juan Garcia decides to put a stop to the GameOfChicken competition after his EvilDuo fails to assassinate Veronica, and he offers her a deal, giving up everyone bellow him in the organization, while he gets away. After much angst, she reluctantly accepts.]]
* TheLadette: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in regards to Veronica. While she exhibits many traits often associated with men, such as being a heaver smoker/drinker, enjoying casual sex and being a late sleeper, she still maintains a feminine personality. Lucio is often surprised at how gracious she manages to look even while doing things [[WomenAreDelicate he never associates women doing]].
* LudicrousGibs: Part of what's so horrifying about the train accidents and suicides is that the people that get run over are often reduced to pieces, especially the children. This is convenient for TheCartel running the GameOfChicken, since any child that dies is reduced to a state where they can't be recognized.
* LustObject: Veronica is this to many of the male characters, whenever they get a POV segment of a man thinking about her, they're also often lusting or fantasizing about her.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Juan Garcia is often seen wearing expensive suits and drinking expensive drinks while relaxing in his extravagant restaurant.
* MissingMom: Veronica's mother passed away a few years before the start of the story, but her death caused a great impact on the family dynamic since Veronica's mother was TheHeart that kept the family united.
* TheMistress: Veronica becomes Lucio's lover knowing full well he's married with children and has no intention of leaving them, and has no desire for him to leave them herself.
* TheModestOrgasm: In the MiniSeries, we only have close-ups of Veronica or Lucio's faces as they quietly reach orgasm.
* MustHaveNicotine: Veronica is already a heavy smoker due to habit, but the stress of working on the train story makes her smoke even more.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the MiniSeries, Rafa is horrified when he discovers the kids he has been recruiting for the soccer club were actually for the GameOfChicken competition.
* NearDeathExperience: Most kids who take part in the GameOfChicken go through one, as the whole point of the game is to jump out of the way of the train at the last second. El Peque becomes traumatized on his second GameOfChicken, when not only does the train barely miss him, but it kills the boy he was competing against.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Veronica treats the doorman at her building very well, to the point he often does favors to her. Although we also learn in his brief POV segment that he does [[FavorsForTheSexy favors to her hoping he'll get to sleep with her someday]].
* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Rivero uses this tactic while coaching kids, calling them cowards or sissies whenever they hesitate to do what he asks.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Buenos Aires train tracks are very unsafe due to the company's neglect, with many security cameras or basic safety features missing, which leads to many accidents. This is also what allows the GameOfChicken to take place in them, as the lack of cameras and security makes it very easy for criminals to set the whole thing up.
* NonIdleRich: Veronica's family has enough money that she could easily spend her life as an IdleRich, but she decides to be her own woman and have her own career.
* NotStayingForBreakfast: PlayedWith, Veronica kicks out her casual lovers from her room apartment after they're done having sex.
* OddCouple: Privileged IntrepidReporter Veronica and working-class train conductor Lucio make quite an unusual pairing.
* OffTheRecord: Juan Garcia makes sure to take Veronica's cell phone for their one-on-one meetings.
* OhCrap: Juan Garcia is a very private man who enjoys running his criminal organization from the shadows, so when he learns that Veronica has managed to find out who he is he becomes visibly distressed.
* PaedoHunt: The dirt Juan Garcia gives on the corrupt union boss for the train workers involves him making out with several underage girls.
* ParentalNeglect: Because Peque and Dientes both have {{Struggling Single Mother}}s who don't have time to pay attention to them, allowing the kids to get involved in all sorts of schemes.
* PoliceAreUseless: As Federico says, a sad reality of Argentine police is that even if they weren't bribed to look the other way, they don't have the resources or time to put on the mysterious deaths and disappearances of poor kids who die in the train tracks.
* PragmaticVillainy: Juan Garcia wants to stop the GameOfChicken competition during the time Veronica starts snooping to avoid the attention, but his clients keep insisting thus forcing his hand. [[spoiler: It's implied that part of of the reason he gave Veronica info on them as part of their deal was to punish them.]]
* PredatoryBusiness: Rivero's soccer is actually just a front for the GameOfChicken competition, with him picking out the "bravest" kids to take part in the BloodSport.
* RecoveredAddict: Rafael used to be TheAlcoholic and a cocaine addict, which led to his wife divorcing him. By the time we met him, he's recovered but struggled constantly with the temptation to drink. The Mini Series, when he learns about the GameOfChicken competition and the part he unwittingly played on it, it almost causes him to relapse in a fit of DrowningMySorrows.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Federico is a rich and successful lawyer while Lucio is a working-class train conductor.
* SexGoddess: Veronica is described as an incredibly skilled lover, and she explains she actually researches for sexual techniques, bragging to Lucio she's an expert in Geisha lovemaking arts.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: TheCartel's method of dealing with people that find out about the GameOfChicken competition is to offer them some hush money, along with explicit threats of the terrible things they'd do to their loved ones if they blad about the GameOfChicken to anyone.
* ShipperOnDeck: Federico is an old friend of Veronica's family and works closely with her father, and her entire family pushes the two to be together.
* ShouldersUpNudity: During sex scenes, Veronica's nudity is mostly depicted from the shoulders up, with the occasional ToplessnessFromTheBack and {{Sideboob}} shots to assure the audience she's really naked.
* TheShowOfTheBooks: The book was released in 2007 and received a live-action Spanish-language MiniSeries in 2017.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Veronica's smoking habit is criticized by POV character's internal's thoughts. They don't really have the guts the tell it to her face.
* SpoiledSweet: Veronica has lived a privileged life in a country struck by poverty and inequality, but that doesn't stop her from being a woman of strong character who puts her life on the line
* StrugglingSingleMother: Peque and Dientes both have {{Disappeared Dad}}s, so they're both raised by their mothers, who are [[ParentalNeglect too busy working to pay much attention to them]], leading to them getting involved in the plot.
* SwitchingPOV: Most of the story is told from Verónica's point of view, but there are occasional segments where we see the point of view of other characters, such as El Peque, Lucio, and Rafa.
* SympatheticAdulterer: {{Averted|Trope}}. While protagonists Veronica and Lucio are sympathetic, the fact they're cheating on his wife in their affair is still portrayed as immoral and Lucios explicitly thinks that his wife has done nothing to deserve his infidelity. The only thing that gives them a smidge of sympathy is the fact they both feel great guilt about it.
* TamerAndChaster: While the MiniSeries adaptation still has its fair share of sex scenes, they're tastefully shot and [[ShouldersUpNudity contain no actual nudity]]. The book goes into far more detail on Veronica's and Lucio's sex life, and due to the FirstPersonNarration we often get to read the lustful thoughts they think about each other.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: PlayedWith. The train machinists that get traumatized by the accidents and deaths are assigned to a therapist by the railway company, but Lucio describes the therapist as completely useless, who only offers them medication and gives them a couple of days off before assigning them as being fit to go back to work.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Peque and Dientes are a child duo who are almost always seen together, and their interactions are frequently comical in nature.
* UselessSecurityCamera: Most of the security cameras on the Buenos Aires train station don't work, which is what allows the GameOfChicken to happen there.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive
** Rivero shows up at El Peque's home to intimidate the boy to keep quiet about the competitions.
** TheCartel thugs warn Lucio they know where he and his family live, as a threat to stop him from helping Veronica.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: MiniSeries only but {{Justified|Trope}}. Juan Garcia's underlings are puzzled by his reluctance to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution simply order Veronica to be killed]] when her investigations start to get too close to him, but he says her important lawyer father could cause killing her to become too complicated. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Veronica's father isn't just an important attorney but has actually worked as Garcia's AmoralAttorney before, and Garcia doesn't want to antagonize someone who has dirt on him.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: In the MiniSeries, our first impression of TheCartel's EvilDuo henchmen is of them violently evicting a middle-aged woman from her former home. They're also the ones who got assigned to assassinate Veronica.
* WouldHurtAChild: Not only is the entire railway GameOfChicken is about putting kids in incredible danger to gamble on their lives, but Juan Garcia orders his henchmen to kill the two kids in the final game just so they can tie in loose ends.
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