History MoneyHeist / TropesAToL

* DeathTrap: The Bank's vault wasn't designed specifically to kill intruders but once the security system is tripped, the vault will fill with water within minutes and anyone still in it will drown.

* DecidedByOneVote: Midway through the Season 2 premiere, after the Professor doesn't respond the robbers in any call for about 18 hours (due to him being busy with external measures regarding the police), Berlin casts a voting between all the robbers on whether they should continue trusting for the Professor's possible next call in 6 hours or not. By the time there are three votes on both sides, Berlin lampshades the trope by telling Nairobi, the last voter, to choose "the decisive vote", at which she votes for continuing to trust the Professor.

** The Professor makes it look like [[spoiler:Ángel]] has been passing information to the robbers, when it was all because [[spoiler:of the microphone the group sneaked in his glasses.]]

* ItsAllJunk: Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would [[DestroyTheEvidence become potential evidence]] leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists.

* LampshadeHanging: Mónica, formerly a hostage who fell in love with her kidnapper, adopts the alias of [[UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome Estocolmo.]]

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Said almost verbatim by Pietro to [[spoiler:Murillo]] in the final episode of Season 2: "Not only do you know [where the Professor's hideout is], but you know that I know you know, so let's spare ourselves this part."

* ItsAllJunk: Invoked by the Professor in a flashback from the Season 2 premiere, when he explains to Berlin why he's burning sentimental photos and other objects with correlation to his father in the countryhouse's chimney furnace; they would become potential evidence leading to the Professor's own identity, not to mention that they could potentially make nostalgic mesmerizing get in his way during his occupation for the heists.

* ItsAllJunk: Invoked by the Professor.

** The series' very final episode from Season 5 has a much longer and detailed closing credits sequence with footage from numerous other episodes.

** The very final episode from Season 5 has a much longer and detailed closing credits sequence with footage from numerous other episodes.

* FinaleCredits: While the ClosingCredits of most episodes consist of simple text without much aesthetic that address the crew in each individual episode/season (with the first season using OnTheNext footage), the final episode has a much longer and detailed closing credits sequence with footage from numerous other episodes.

* DefiantCaptive: Thoroughly deconstructed with Arturo. He wishes to be seen as a brave and heroic leader to the other hostages but, comes off as nothing more than a [[DirtyCoward cowardly and entitled]] {{Manchild}}. His increasingly desperate plans to escape and resist the robbers only make things worse for everyone including himself, and both heists eventually get to the point where even the other hostages tell him to sit down and shut up.

* DefiantCaptive: Thoroughly deconstructed with Arturo. He wishes to be seen as a brave and heroic leader to the other hostages but is nothing more than a [[DirtyCoward cowardly and entitled]] ManChild. His increasingly desperate plans to escape and resist the robbers only make things worse for everyone including himself, and both heists get to the point where even the other hostages eventually tell him to sit down and shut up.

* DefiantCaptive: ''Thoroughly'' deconstructed with Arturo. He wishes to be seen as a brave and heroic leader to the other hostages but is nothing more than a [[DirtyCoward cowardly and entitled]] ManChild. His increasingly desperate plans to escape and resist the robbers only make things worse for everyone including himself, and both heists get to the point where even the other hostages eventually tell him to sit down and shut up.

** It's even lampshaded in a flashback from Episode 12 of Season 1, wherein the Professor teaches the team on how to act when the hostages begin to defy them and how to get the hostages to comply again. Nairobi scoffs that the hostages would rebel, saying they're not all going to turn into Creator/BruceWillis.

** Eventually, the group of hostages trapped in the Mint start devising plans to escape and ways to overcome their hostage takers.
** It's even lampshaded in a flashback, wherein the Professor says that he saw this coming, and strategizes with the team on how to get the hostages to comply again. Nairobi scoffs that the hostages would rebel, saying they're not all going to turn into Creator/BruceWillis.

* AllMenArePerverts: Discussed by Berlin in a conversation with Mercedes. He tells a joke about a husband who comes home with an aspirin pill so he and his wife can finally have sex, and adds that many jokes portray men as sex-obsessed (and conversely, [[AllWomenArePrudes their wives as sex-averse]]).
* AnachronicOrder: In each of the two heist storylines, the story constantly jumps back and forth between the ongoing heist in the present and flashbacks detailing how the robbers planned it. The Bank of Spain part also has flashbacks whose events have nothing to do with the heist at all (although most of them ''do'' turn up to be relevant in the present).
* AndStarring: The first two seasons' cast lists end with "...y Kiti Mánver"
* AnyoneCanDie: The series is not shy about killing off the core heist members. Of the original nine criminals, over half of them are dead by the end.

* CockFight: In Episode 12 of Season 1, Arturo deliberately starts a physical one against Denver in an attempt to get Mónica back. He ends up failing quickly, without landing any hit on Denver before the latter overpowers him.

** Between Episodes 11 and 12 of Season 1, Jacinto, an employee of the Mint who had little screentime until then, becomes the one who carries out Arturo's first escape plan with notably successful results.

* ChekhovsGunman: Berlin's son Rafael, introduced in the previous season, turns out to be [[spoiler: a SpannerInTheWorks for the Professor's plans, as his own gang hijacks the scheme and steals the gold from the Heist Team]].

* FakingTheDead: In the middle of the first season, starting from Episode 3, Denver tries to fake Mónica's death after she gets caught with a mobile phone and Berlin orders him to kill her. It doesn't take long before Berlin finds out Mónica is still alive in Episode 9, though he lets her live.

* FakingTheDead: In the first season starting from Episode 3, Denver tries to fake Mónica's death after she gets caught with a mobile phone and Berlin orders him to kill her. It doesn't take long before Berlin finds out Mónica is still alive in Episode 9, though he lets her live.

* FakingTheDead: In the first season starting from Episode 3, Denver tries to fake Mónica's death after she gets caught with a mobile phone and Berlin orders him to kill her. It doesn't take long before Berlin finds out Mónica is still alive in Episode 10, though he lets her live.

* FakingTheDead: Between the first season's second and third episodes, Denver tries to fake Mónica's death after she gets caught with a mobile phone and Berlin orders him to kill her. It doesn't take long before Berlin finds out, however.

* FakingTheDead: Between the first season's second and third episodes, Denver tries to fake Mónica's death after she gets caught with a mobile phone and Berlin orders him to kill her. It doesn't take long before they're exposed, however.

* FlashbackWithinAFlashback: Used occasionally, such as when Moscow talks to Tokyo about how Denver had to join him as part of the heist team, while the two are cleaning the "classroom" where the Professor explained the Royal Mint heist's plans and rules.

* FeudEpisode: Episodes 11 and 12 of Season 1 are a pair of these for Raquel and Ángel, who begin to blame each other for being "traitors" in the police operation for various things regarding their respective contributions. It ends when Ángel ends up having a drunk driving accident while trying to tell Raquel on the phone that he found out who the Professor was.