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* AntagonisticOffspring: At the beginning of the story, Thusnelda is already on bad terms with her parents, considering her father Segestes a coward and a traitor for wanting to make peace with the Romans and her mother an [[AccompliceByInaction accomplice]] due to not standing up for her. It gets worse after her younger brother Ansgar is mentally broken by Roman soldiers. After Thusnelda marries Arminius and becomes a respected heroine among the Germanic tribes, she refuses to make peace with her parents, even declaring them outcasts so that they'll face hardships no matter where they go in Germania. Realizing that it's unlikely that his stubborn daughter will forgive them, Segestes and his wife eventually betray Thusnelda to the Romans in the hope of earning Roman citizenship and the right to raise Thusnelda's own son, Thumelicus, themselves. Instead, the Romans [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves execute the treacherous couple]] while taking both Thusnelda and Thumelicus hostage.
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** The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart is decapitated by Arminius under Varus' orders. [[spoiler:Varus himself is decapitated post mortem by Segestes.]]
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** The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart is decapitated by Arminius under Varus' orders. [[spoiler:Varus himself is decapitated post mortem post-mortem by Segestes.]]
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''Barbarians'' (''Barbaren'') is a 2020 German {{historical|fiction}} war drama TV series created by Andreas Heckmann and LooselyBasedOnATrueStory. It can be watched on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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''Barbarians'' (''Barbaren'') is a 2020 German {{historical|fiction}} war drama TV series about the UsefulNotes/GermanicWars created by Andreas Heckmann and LooselyBasedOnATrueStory. It can be watched [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely based on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
a true story]].
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The series was renewed for a second season, which came out in 2022.
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It can be watched on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series was renewed for a second season, which came out in 2022.
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* WhamShot: In the first episode, Arminius finds Folkwin's tooth necklace on the ground. He then rushes back to his tent and opens a box, out of which he pulls an identical necklace, revealing that he was childhood friends with Thusnelda and Folkwin.
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* WhamShot: In the first episode, Arminius finds Folkwin's tooth necklace on the ground. He then rushes back to his tent and opens a box, out of which he pulls an identical necklace, revealing that he was childhood friends with Thusnelda and Folkwin.Folkwin.
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** The original name of Arminius is unknown, as "Arminius" seems to be a Latinized MeaningfulRename he got. Traditionally, his original or "true" German name is assumed to be Hermann (and he became a symbol of 19th-century German nationalism under that name), but the show names him Ari.
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* PeriodPieceModernLanguage: Antiquity-era Germanic barbarians speak in modern-day German whereas Ancient Romans speak in Latin.
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* CainandAbel: Will very likely be the main premise for season 2, where Armininus' Roman loyalist brother Flavus is formally introduced.
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* CainandAbel: Will very likely be the main premise for season 2, where Flavus, Armininus' Roman loyalist brother Flavus is formally introduced.brother, arrives in the second season to hunt down his brother.
* CrusadingWidow: [[spoiler:Marbod finally agrees to go against the Romans when they kill his wife while attacking the chieftains during their meeting.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart is decapitated by Arminius under Varus' orders. [[spoiler:Varus himself is decapitated post mortem by Segestes.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: OffWithHisHead:
** The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart is decapitated by Arminius under Varus' orders. [[spoiler:Varus himself is decapitated post mortem by Segestes.]]
** [[spoiler:Thusnelda's parents suffer this fate in the second season finale [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves after they hand their daughter and grandson over to Tiberius]].]]
** The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart is decapitated by Arminius under Varus' orders. [[spoiler:Varus himself is decapitated post mortem by Segestes.]]
** [[spoiler:Thusnelda's parents suffer this fate in the second season finale [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves after they hand their daughter and grandson over to Tiberius]].]]
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After Arminius convinces Luco to tell him that Folkwin is hiding in the Dark Land, Metellus stabs him to death. He then quotes Caesar to Arminius: "I love treason, but I hate a traitor."
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: RewardedAsATraitorDeserves:
** After Arminius convinces Luco to tell him that Folkwin is hiding in the Dark Land, Metellus stabs him to death. He then quotes Caesar to Arminius: "I love treason, but I hate a traitor." "
** In the second season finale, [[spoiler:Thusnelda's parents lure her and Thumelicus to Tiberius' clutches in exchange for a position in Rome. He has them both decapitated for their troubles]] and even uses the above-mentioned quote of Caesar as well.
** After Arminius convinces Luco to tell him that Folkwin is hiding in the Dark Land, Metellus stabs him to death. He then quotes Caesar to Arminius: "I love treason, but I hate a traitor.
** In the second season finale, [[spoiler:Thusnelda's parents lure her and Thumelicus to Tiberius' clutches in exchange for a position in Rome. He has them both decapitated for their troubles]] and even uses the above-mentioned quote of Caesar as well.
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* TranslationWithAnAgenda: Segestes is the only one of the Cherusci who can understand and speak Latin fluently enough in dealing with the Romans, so he translates for Segimer. When Metellus shows up to announce that Varus expects a tribute of "20 cows or 50 hundredweights of grain", Segestes relays this as "They want cattle ''and'' grain", which makes Segimer protest, and Metellus intimidates him into compliance. This early on, it's ambiguous if it's just a mistake, but as Segestes's ambitions to become Reik become clear it's apparent that he was trying to undermine or else make trouble for Segimer.
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* TalkingToTheDead: In the first season finale, Arminius makes a heartwrenching monologue to [[spoiler:Varus' staked head]]..
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* TalkingToTheDead: In the first season finale, Arminius makes a heartwrenching monologue to [[spoiler:Varus' staked head]]..head]].
* ThisMeansWarpaint: The Germans sport various types of warpaint during the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest. Arminius does a DramaticUnmask of his full-face helmet among his fellow Romans to reveal that he also has warpaint on.
* ThisMeansWarpaint: The Germans sport various types of warpaint during the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest. Arminius does a DramaticUnmask of his full-face helmet among his fellow Romans to reveal that he also has warpaint on.
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* TheMagnificent: As a boy, Folkwin speared a wolf to save Arminius, so years later he is known by such an epithet.
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* TalkingToTheDead: In the first season finale, Arminius makes a heartwrenching monologue to [[spoiler:Varus' staked head]].
* TheMagnificent: As a boy, Folkwin speared a wolf to save Arminius, so years later he is known by such an epithet.
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* TalkingToTheDead: In the first season finale, Arminius makes a heartwrenching monologue to [[spoiler:Varus' staked head]].
* TheMagnificent: As a boy, Folkwin speared a wolf to save Arminius, so years later he is known by such an epithet.head]]..
* TheMagnificent: As a boy, Folkwin speared a wolf to save Arminius, so years later he is known by such an epithet.
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: The Roman officer Arminius being a German, and in fact the son of the Cherusci chieftain. It's foreshadowed a bit by having him understand the German language. Notably, the production avoids doing PeopleOfHairColor like making the Germans mostly blonde and red-haired vs. the Romans being brunette as there are a lot of brunette Germans too, and so the actor for Arminius was cast in part because his black hair makes him blend into the Romans better, and because it doesn't match the traditional imaginary picture of Arminius as blond (like in the French comics series ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome''), so the twist is saved for the end of the first episode.
* TheMagnificent: As a boy, Folkwin speared a wolf to save Arminius, so years later he is known by such an epithet.
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* WhamLine: At the end of the first episode, a lone Arminius approaches Segimer, somehow having tracked down where the eagle standard was stolen. The final line in the episode ends with him speaking in German, "Hello father". [[spoiler:The next episode immediately reveals he was in fact Segimer's son, and was taken away by Rome]]
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* WhamLine: At the end of the first episode, a lone Arminius approaches Segimer, somehow having tracked down where the eagle standard was stolen. The final line in the episode ends with him speaking in German, "Hello father". [[spoiler:The next episode immediately reveals he was in fact Segimer's son, and was taken away by Rome]]Rome.]]
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* SarcasticConfession: Segestes arrives shortly after Varus gives the orders for the three legions to march on the Germanic tribes. He tells Varus that Arminius plans to betray him, and that Folkwin Wolfspeer is actually alive and a slave in their camp. Arminius plays it up as a joke, suggesting that he was somehow going to defeat fifteen thousand men with a token force, and that somehow the bandit that stole their eagle just also happens to be enslaved right there. Varus takes Arminius's side, and has Segestes thrown out.
