History Series / ElInternado

** Amaia does this twice in the last episode of the 6th season, saving Marcos from being shot [[spoiler:although considering that she is one of the bad guys, it would be more of a BigDamnVillains thing]].

* YouAreNotMyFather: Iván pulls this one against María because Jacques Noiret has shown him proof that María can't actually have sons (this is because, after she gave birth, Jacques had her uterus removed). When Iván realises what Noiret did, he does this against him.

However, things soon take a turn towards the weird and mysterious when one of the professors, Alfonso Ceballos (Paco Merino) tells Carol and Vicky that they are in danger of dying, and disappears a few days later. From there on, the teenagers start to investigate what happened to him, without knowing that behind of not only Alfonso's disappearance, but also Marcos' parents' disappearance and indeed the very past and future of everyone living in the school is an old conspiracy tied to the origins of the boarding school as an orphanage and the actions of a group of people trying to prevent that conspiracy from actually taking fruit.

* AbusiveParents: Jacques Noiret killed his own wife when Iván was 1 year old, and the next fifteen years he mistreated both his son and all of his girlfriends. This has many consequences in that Iván has a very hard time to connect with other people, and a time later Iván testifies against his father.
* ActionGirl: between the adults, Nora and Rebeca (and maybe María). Among the girls, Julia and perhaps Carol.
* AFatherToHisMen: Saúl, the boss of the Organization, although he is a bit cold and calculating, does his best to help the men under his orders.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The Adoration of the Magi (a.k.a. The Epiphany) by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: the actual real-life painting is painted on wooden panels (the use of canvas was still uncommon at the time). The size and shape of the three pieces shown on screen is wrong as well. The original also has a grisaille painting on the other side (visible when the triptych is closed) which the triptych in the series lacks.

** Iván pulls this off several times: the first to save María from an armed man, the second to save Julia from her former lover [[spoiler:(who is also one of the bad guys)]], the third to save Julia from dying when [[ItMakesSenseInContext the top of the water she is having a hot bath in is suddenly frozen by Eva]].
** Héctor manages to pull this off in the end of the series, preventing a group of soldiers from shooting at the teenagers (amongst them [[spoiler:his nephew and niece]] Marcos and Paula).

* BlessedWithSuck: Julia can talk with the dead, but it terrifies her, and the first time she saw a ghost (her father's) she told her mother and was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Lucas may be able to dream about the future, but he wets his bed whenever it happens (although, at least he knows when a dream will become reality and when not). Rebeca can see the bad things people have done, but this includes assassinations and the like - it really screwed her over when she was six and was asked to see where a serial killer was holding his last would-be-victim.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Not exactly like that for nearly everyone in the school (in fact it's quite nice). It gains this category for the main teenager characters when they realise what the hell is actually going on and the bad guys know that the teens are in the secret.

* ButtMonkey: Roque.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Evelyn is very much like this - whenever she hears something that she doesn't understand, she often twists that in some way - and very often drags Paula into her (mis-)adventures.

* DeadpanSnarker: Iván and Julia.

** Also inverted with Jacques Noiret. He is perfectly willing to blackmail his son Iván if he doesn't do what he (Jacques) wants, but when he meets his son from other relationship, he realises what a bastard he has been and [[spoiler:lets Iván go when having to choose between shooting him or letting him destroy the plans Wulf has been working on for many years]]. Of course, [[VillainousBreakdown this turns him mad]].

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:Amaia]] is holding Paula, threatening to kill her unless Marcos backs up... and then [[BigDamnHeroes Vicky arrives]] and [[ShovelStrike hits her on her head with a shovel]], saying "Puta acoplada".

* SuperpowerLottery: Surprising for this kind of TV series, four characters have something that could be said to be a superpower. Julia (2nd season) sees ghosts and can talk with them, Lucas (4th season) can dream with the future, Rebeca (5th season) can see the bad things people have done by touching them and Max (7th season) is able to hijack people's dreams in order to talk with them.

* VillainousBreakdown: Jacques Noiret suffers this at the end of the 6th season. [[spoiler:He meets his son from other relationship, who suffers photophobia, and the kid tells him he wants to be as courageous as him and Iván (here he realises that he has been a great prick). Then, after Roque finally grows a spine and tells him he isn't going to collaborate with him anymore, Jacques infects him with TheVirus and tells Roque that he is a coward: when Roque says he prefers being a coward than a monster, it unsettles him really bad. And when he faces Iván and has to choose between obeying orders from Ritter Wulf or letting his son go, he chooses the latter and finally runs away.]] All of this [[spoiler:combined with the "help" of a psychiatrist that works for the Proyecto Géminis]] is more than enough to make him go mad.

** Also, Iván and Julia. They spend seasons 3 to 7 breaking up and coming back. It is clear from season 4 that they love each other deeply, but Iván's jealousness and their easily irritable tempers always get the best of them. Season 7 had Iván break up with Julia and lie to her because [[spoiler:he had just learned that he had Alzheimer [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and was determined not to become a load for Julia]]]]. Eventually, Julia would learn what was going on with him, but it still took Iván some time to realise that he couldn't go on without Julia.

Years after the end of the series, Creator/{{Amazon}} acquired the rights to stream the show and produce a reboot, ''El internado: Las Cumbres'', which premiered on Creator/PrimeVideo on February 2021.

* YouAreNotMyFather: Iván pulls this one against María because Jacques Noiret has shown him proof that María can't actually have sons (this is because, after she gave birth, Jacques had her uterus extracted). When Iván realises what Noiret did, he does this against him.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The Adoration of the Magi ( a.k.a. The Epiphany)by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: The actual real-life painting is painted on wooden panels(the use of canvas was still uncommon at the time).The size and shape of the three pieces shown on screen is wrong as well.The original also has a grisaille painting on the other side(visible when the triptych is closed) which the triptych in the series lacks.

* InfantImmortality: Very much averted. One of Héctor's flashbacks shows how his friends were captured by the bad guys when the school was an orphanage, and several years later Marcos and his friends discover Héctor's friends' corpses. Also, Jacinta's granddaughter died in a car accident.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The Adoration of the Magi ( a.k.a. The Epiphany)by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: The actual real-life painting is painted on wooden panels (canvas was still uncommon at the time,anyway).The size and shape of the three pieces shown on screen is wrong as well.The original has a grisaille painting on the other side(visible when the triptych is closed) which the triptych in the series lacks.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The Adoration of the Magi ( a.k.a. The Epiphany) triptych by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: The actual real-life painting is painted on wooden panels (canvas was still uncommon at the time,anyway).The size and shape of the three pieces shown on screen is wrong as well.The original has grisaille paintings on the other side(visible when the triptych is closed) which the painting in the series lacks.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The lost triptych by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: while canvas paintings already existed in the 15th century,they were still uncommon in that time period,and all of Bosch's known paintings are on wooden panel rather than canvas.Even more blatant because the particular painting they show on screen (Adoration of the Magi, a.k.a. The Epiphany) actually exists and is painted on panel (also, the three panels are not rectangular).

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The lost triptych by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: while canvas paintings already existed in the 15th century,they were still uncommon in that time period,and all of Bosch's known paintings are on wooden panel rather than canvas.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: The triptych by Hieronymus Bosch is shown to be painted on canvas: while canvas paintings already existed in the 15th century,they were still uncommon in that time period,and all of Bosch's known paintings are on wooden panel rather than canvas.

* ArtisticLicenceArt:

''El Internado'' ("The Boarding School") is a Spanish TV drama thriller that debuted in 24 May 2007 and finished on 13 October 2010, after 7 seasons and 71 episodes. It is considered one of the best Spanish TV series ever due to its successful mix of drama, romance and mystery, that attracted many people from all ages.

There, both Marcos and Paula will meet people their age. He will make friends with Iván Noiret León (Yon González), son of the main shareholder of the boarding school [[spoiler:and María's son]]; Carolina "Carol" Leal Solís (Ana de Armas), Iván's girlfriend, and whom Marcos is immediately attracted to; Roque Sánchez Navas (Daniel Retuerta), one of Iván's best friends, and Victoria "Vicky" Martínez (Elena Furiase), a very intelligent girl and best friends with Carol. Meanwhile, Paula makes friends with Evelyn (Denissé Peña), a happy-go-lucky girl who seems to be very knowledgeable of the adult world, but with twisted facts as she doesn't actually understand everything.

* BigDamnHeroes: Iván pulls this off several times: the first to save María from an armed man, the second to save Julia from her former lover [[spoiler:(who is also one of the bad guys)]], the third to save Julia from dying when [[ItMakesSenseInContext the top of the water she is having a hot bath in is suddenly frozen by Eva]].

* BigNo: when Ritter Wulf [[spoiler:sees the grenades falling down the tube just when he was about to revive his daughter Eva]].

* BilingualBonus: the flashbacks conversations in German.
* BittersweetEnding: sure, the students are healthy, Iván is with Julia, the Espí siblings are finally together and with Marcos, Paula and Samuel, the still surviving members of the Proyecto Géminis have been arrested but... [[spoiler:Carol, Marcos' greatest love, is dead]], [[spoiler:Elsa, Héctor's former girlfriend, is dead]], [[spoiler:Fermín died in the hands of María, with whom he had gotten married just two days before]], [[spoiler:Iván has Alzheimer]] and [[spoiler:the school has been destroyed by the main characters in a ploy to distract the bad guys]].

* ButNotTooForeign: some of the guys are German, but you wouldn't know if they didn't tell you since they have no accent at all and never do anything German-y.
** Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that all of the Germans have been living in Spain for decades, and have been making a great effort to supress anything that might point others towards their true identities.

* CloudCuckooLander: Evelyn is very much like this - whenever she hears something that she doesn't understand, she often twists that in some way - and very often drags Paula into her (mis-)adventures.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jacques Noiret is a successful businessman and a cinema productor. At one point he becomes the director of a pharmaceutical company called OTTOX [[spoiler:which is a front for the Proyecto Géminis' experiments,]] thanks to his ownership of stock in the company [[spoiler:which is actually Iván's and Jacques got after deceiving Iván so that he signed his consent for Jacques to have parental custody]]. It takes him till the end of season 6 to actually do something good for Iván.

* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler:Carol]] nearly dies this way by falling down a tower after [[spoiler:Roque]] hits her so that she doesn't discover he's TheMole. However, [[TearJerker the injuries cause her death a day later]]...

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: it takes Iván some time to accept that María is his mother, but when he does, he will do anything to protect her.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Roque]] does this so that the bad guys don't use him as a guinea pig for TheVirus.

* FlashBack: how many of the most important details are presented to the viewers.
* FlashForward: during seasons 5 and 6, a series of interviews between a policewoman and several characters, stated to be about 3-4 years after the actual series, were held so that some extra details could be revealed and to help viewers remember what was happening in the boarding school. [[spoiler:After Carol's death, it had to be [[RetCon RetConned]] because one of the interviews was with her; the last interview revealed that all of them were actually the hallucinations of a mad Jacques Noiret, imagining them again and again.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: when Carol starts to think that maybe Amelia is part of the bad guys, most of her friends (especially Marcos, who is in a relation with Amelia) think it's just envy. Carol was right.

* HumanPopsicle: the most important one is Eva [[spoiler:Wulf: she has been held in a criogenization machine since 1945 (the series start in september 2007 and ends in october 2008) and cloned twice so that her father could invent a cure for TheVirus he had created and she had been accidentally infected with]]. Also, Julia becomes this for a few seconds [[spoiler:when Eva attempts to force her to go to the underground passageways and free her]] and nearly dies from hypothermia.

* Informed Judaism: Fermín. JustifiedTrope since [[spoiler: it's not convenient to be "too jewish" in a place filled with Nazis]].
* {{Irony}}: in one of the first episodes, Roque, with the help of Cayetano and Iván, pulled a prank on María where Roque simulated that he had hanged himself in the bathroom. In season 7, he nearly kills himself by hanging on the shed, but stops because someone enters the shed. The day before everyone is healed, he is found hanging from a tree. [[spoiler:He didn't actually commit suicide, but was killed by [[TheMole Lt Garrido]] and he simulated his suicide so that he didn't get caught.]]

* KillItWithFire: averted with Camilo. [[spoiler:At the end of season 5, he burns alive, but season 6 shows that he survived, although with horrific burns.]] Played straight with Hugo [[spoiler:who burns alive in an incident similar to that of Camilo, but this time he dies]], the healing machine and the school building.
* MayDecemberRomance: Marcos enters a relationship with Amelia, the 5 and 6-years-old teacher, after he realises that being with Carol would be very difficult due to his friendship with Iván. Amelia ends up being fired for having a romantic relationship with a student, but she comes back later. [[spoiler:She was being blackmailed into seducing Marcos so that the BigBad could learn what the teenagers knew about the conspiracy.]]
* MrFanservice: scenes with Marcos or Iván without their top are quite a hit among teenage girls.
* MsFanservice: In her first class, Julia wears a T-shirt saying "Don't look at my boobies". When Héctor tells her to pull it off (as in telling her to go back to her room and change into the uniform), Julia pulls the T-shirt off in the class and stands there in her bra.

* PrecisionFStrike: [[spoiler:Amaia]] is holding Paula, threatening to kill her unless Marcos backs up... and then [[BigDamnHeroes Vicky arrives]] and [[MomentOfAwesome hits her on her head with a shovel]], saying "Puta acoplada".
* ProductPlacement: Funny thing, Maria or Jacinta seem to have to stop and sign for a big package from Mailboxes Etc. every week before resuming the mysteries, secrets, and conspiracies.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Roque is killed, but [[spoiler:he managed to record on his mobile phone how Garrido was burying Lucía before the soldier saw him. The phone would be found by Julia later, and this would clue them into the fact that Garrido was not actually helping them.]]

* SlapSlapKiss: the initial basis for Iván and Julia's relationship.
* SuperpowerLottery: surprising for this kind of TV series, four characters have something that could be said to be a superpower. Julia (2nd season) sees ghosts and can talk with them, Lucas (4th season) can dream with the future, Rebeca (5th season) can see the bad things people have done by touching them and Max (7th season) is able to hijack people's dreams in order to talk with them.
* {{Tearjerker}}: [[spoiler:Cayetano's death]] in between the 1st and 2nd season.
** Most fights [[spoiler:between Iván and Julia]] and [[spoiler:Marcos and Carol]].
** The Gnome ([[spoiler:Elsa's twin brother whom she had never known was alive]]) dying when the police shoot at him.
** [[spoiler:Nacho's death from TheVirus]] and [[spoiler:having to leave his body behind so that they don't get caught by the bad guys]] in the 5th season.
** [[spoiler:Carolina's death]] was one of the biggest in the whole series, and made everyone sad, especially [[spoiler:when Carol dies in Marcos' arms, considering that the last thing they had done was to fight]]. Compounded when [[spoiler:a few days later, in the anniversary of their first kiss, Marcos gets a bottle of wine with a letter from Carol forgiving him for the fights they have gotten into, and Marcos has a flashback to the happiest day of his life, when he and Carol made love in the pigeon house]].
** [[spoiler:Elsa's death from TheVirus]], with only Jacinta, who had hated her for most of the series, making her company (not that she wasn't beloved, she just didn't want people to know that she was dying).
** [[spoiler:Fermín's death]] just when everyone was healed and saved from death, also [[spoiler:in the arms of his beloved, María]].

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Roque]] becomes this when he discovers that he is going to be killed with TheVirus.

* TheVideogameOfTheSeries: a videogame for UsefulNotes/NintendoDS was released in 2008, featuring gameplay through the first four seasons.
* TheVirus: The one here can kill in 48 hours unless you have a special medicine every day. It starts becoming an important issue in the 5th season; [[spoiler:the main characters are purposefully infected with it by the bad guys]] in the end of the 5th season; in the end of the 6th season, [[spoiler:a flask with the virus breaks in the middle of the school]]; [[spoiler:most of the school becomes infected by it]] mid-season 7; by the end of the series, [[spoiler:three main characters (Nacho, Saúl and Elsa), plus several unnamed beggars, have died from it, and everyone else is healed thanks to a weird machine that completely eliminates it]].
* [[spoiler:ThoseWackyNazis]]: A group of them is the Big Bad behind everything that happens in this series.
* ThrowItIn: Amaia's FanNickname, Heidi, was one that that was coined before the writers decided to use it in-universe.

** TheHero: Marcos (probably).
** TheLancer: shared between Carol and Iván.
** TheBigGuy: shared between Marcos and Iván.
** TheSmartGuy: Vicky.
** TheChick: Carol, Julia, Roque and Vicky sometimes occupy this role.
** ActionGirl: Julia mostly, although Carol and Vicky would sometimes do this as well.
** SixthRanger: Roque's and Amaia's territory. [[spoiler:The fact that BOTH of them turn out to be TheMole turns out to be an important thing...]]
* VillainousBreakdown / VillainousBSOD: Jacques Noiret suffers this at the end of the 6th season. [[spoiler:He meets his son from other relationship, who suffers photophobia, and the kid tells him he wants to be as courageous as him and Iván (here he realises that he has been a great prick). Then, after Roque finally grows a spine and tells him he isn't going to collaborate with him anymore, Jacques infects him with TheVirus and tells Roque that he is a coward: when Roque says he prefers being a coward than a monster, it unsettles him really bad. And when he faces Iván and has to choose between obeying orders from Ritter Wulf or letting his son go, he chooses the latter and finally runs away.]] All of this[[spoiler:, combined with the "help" of a psychiatrist that works for the Proyecto Géminis]] is more than enough to make him go mad.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Marcos and Carol go through this for several seasons, with some blissful moments (such as the encounter in the bath) until they seem to finally settle down in the fifth-sixth season. Then, [[spoiler:Carol dies, and Marcos never has other girlfriend in the run of the series (admittedly, between Carol's death and the end of the series only a few weeks pass]].

* TheVideogameOfTheSeries: a videogame for NintendoDS was released in 2008, featuring gameplay through the first four seasons.

* EasterEgg: the numbers 07 15 24 35 44 57. They appear in the third-to-last episode, but they become fundamental as they are required to make the healing machine work. Sharp-eyed fans realised why those numbers were chosen: they were the numbers of the first episodes of each season, starting with season 2.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: one of the things the Proyecto Géminis have been developing ever since it started [[spoiler:back into the 1940s]].

* InfantImmortality: very much averted. One of Héctor's flashbacks shows how his friends were captured by the bad guys when the school was an orphanage, and several years later Marcos and his friends discover Héctor's friends' corpses. Also, Jacinta's granddaughter died in a car accident.
* Informed Judaism: Fermín. JustifiedTrope since [[spoiler: it's not convenient to be "too jewish" in a place filled with nazis]].

* TheVirus: the one here can kill in 48 hours unless you have a special medicine every day. It starts becoming an important issue in the 5th season; [[spoiler:the main characters are purposefully infected with it by the bad guys]] in the end of the 5th season; in the end of the 6th season, [[spoiler:a flask with the virus breaks in the middle of the school]]; [[spoiler:most of the school becomes infected by it]] mid-season 7; by the end of the series, [[spoiler:three main characters (Nacho, Saúl and Elsa), plus several unnamed beggars, have died from it, and everyone else is healed thanks to a weird machine that completely eliminates it]].

* VillainousBreakdown / VillainousBSOD: Jacques Noiret suffers this at the end of the 6th season. [[spoiler:He meets his son from other relationship, who suffers photophobia, and the kid tells him he wants to be as courageous as him and Iván (here he realises that he has been a great prick). Then, after Roque finally grows a spine and tells him he isn't going to collaborate with him anymore, Jacques infects him with TheVirus and tells Roque that he is a coward: when Roque says he prefers being a coward than a monster, it unsettles him really bad. And when he faces Iván and has to choose between obeying orders from Ritter Wulf or letting his son go, he chooses the latter and finally runs away.]] All of this[[spoiler:,combined with the "help" of a psychiatrist that works for the Proyecto Géminis]] is more than enough to make him go mad.

* BoardingSchool: it is where 99% of the series takes place.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: not exactly like that for nearly everyone in the school (in fact it's quite nice). It gains this category for the main teenager characters when they realise what the hell is actually going on and the bad guys know that the teens are in the secret.

* {{Badass}}: Fermín is this, all the way to hell.

* FanNickname: Amaia suffers the most from this. In an interesting case, the fans at Zona El Internado (the biggest community of fans for this TV series) called her Heidi (after [[Literature/{{Heidi}} the animation character]]) because she seemed to be strolling happily into danger without knowing what was going on, and then the storywriters had the characters call her that derisively (especially Iván). Her other most popular nickname is ''la acoplada'' (literally translated, ''the coupled''), which is what Vicky calls her, because she tried to join the group after occupying Carol's bed in the girls' room. [[spoiler:Of course, when, in the last episode, Vicky discovers Amaia (whom she has never trusted for her attempts to replace Carol, who was her best friend ever) is TheMole, she manages to knock her out with a shovel and spits out "Puta acoplada")]].

* McLeaned: This happened to [[spoiler:Carol]] after [[spoiler:Ana de Armas]] decided to leave the series.
** Also to [[spoiler:Jacques Noiret]] when the actor went to the United States.

* DawsonCasting: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] at the start of the series, because the main teenager characters' and the actors' ages were quite similar - never more than 1 or 2 years older. Four years later, the difference was about 4-5 years.

''El Internado'' is a Spanish TV drama thriller that debuted in 24 May 2007 and finished on 13 October 2010, after 7 seasons and 71 episodes. It is considered one of the best Spanish TV series ever due to its successful mix of drama, romance and mystery, that attracted many people from all ages.

* TakahashiCouple: Iván and Julia.

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