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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Judge; while he is initially skeptical of Miguel's claims (and only humors them because the Governor's son vouches for him) he does ultimately have Jaime jailed when presented with clear proof of his guilt.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Miguel makes sure that Jaime doesn't get away with murdering Rosita; Nicolas is also sent to the mines after getting away with his crimes for two decades.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Miguel only wins the trial by getting Jaime so angry he lashes out and admits his guilt in the middle of the courtroom.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Miguel only wins the trial by getting Jaime so angry that he lashes out and admits his guilt in the middle of the courtroom.
* BeyondRedemption: Nicolas is ultimately this; notably both his daughter and his mother ultimately write him off in the end.
** Jesus and his sister also have one in how their mother (a white woman) was beaten to death by her own father for having children with a black man.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Nicolás ultimately gets sentenced to 30 years of hard labor, where he's subjected to the same treatment he inflicted on his slaves.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Nicolás ultimately gets sentenced to 30 years of hard labor, where he's subjected to the same treatment he inflicted on his slaves.
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* KickTheDog: Granados had no reason to engineer the death of Catalina Restrepo besides being an asshole.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Nicolás ultimately gets sentenced to 30 years of hard labor, where he's subjected to the same treatment he inflicted on his slaves.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Nicolás ultimately gets sentenced to 30 years of hard labor, where he's subjected to the same treatment he inflicted on his slaves.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Miguel only survives and becomes a symbol because Nicolas helped him fake his death.
* PetTheDog: Nicolas DOES initially try to do right by Miguel, even helping him fake his death to save his life. Ultimately subverted in that Nicolas values the system of slavery more, and ultimately throws away any redeeming qualities.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Nicolas is a villain from the word go, but he does initially have some redeeming qualities (his relationship with a slave, trying to help Miguel). As the series progresses he looses those qualities until he finally tries to outright murder his son, which shows that he's beyond redemption.
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* SympatheticSlaveOwner: Played with; while Victoria's father is relatively benevolent it the show doesn't sugarcoat the fact that he is still a slave owner.owner (while he's willing to give Tomas his freedom he's notably hesitant to let his wife and daughter go free as well). Granados' wife is also relatively nice, but even she ultimately comes to believe slavery needs to be abolished.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Granados is so horrible that when Miguel and the others break in to torture him his wife asks if she can watch.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Rueben is given 1,200 lashes.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Pretty much the only redeeming qualities Jaime and Arturo Lopez have is that they care for each other.
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* KickTheDog: Granados had no reason to engineer the death of Catalina Restrepo besides being an asshole.
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* HateSink: Nicolás Parreño, serial embezzler, rapist, and murderer.
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* EvilMatriarch: Adela is quite a nasty piece of work, and thoroughly oppressive to Isabelita and Miguel (though in his case they don’t know they’re related for much of the story).
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* FreudianExcuse: Apparently Adela’s husband and Nicolás’s father was horribly abusive to both of them but by the time the audience learns they’ve both committed so many atrocities it’s worth no sympathy points.
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* TheBigGuy: Trinidad. Notably he takes down Granados.
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* NobleBigot: Victoria's biological father is relatively nice by slaveowner standards, but it's still clear that at the end of the day he is a slave owner (when Tomas asks to buy his wife and daughter's freedom he visibly hesitates to do so.)
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* SympatheticSlaveOwner: Played with; while Victoria's father is relatively benevolent it doesn't sugarcoat the fact that he is still a slave owner. Granados' wife is also relatively nice, but even she ultimately comes to believe slavery needs to be abolished.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Alonso Marquez, the middle son of the general, is as gay coded as one could get away given the period.
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* BuryYourGays: Poor, poor Bunme (and possibly Alonso).
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* ArchnemesisDad: Nicolás, the BigBad, is Miguel's biological father. He really isn’t much better to Isabelita.
* ArchnemesisDad: Nicolás, the BigBad, is Miguel's biological father. He really isn’t much better to Isabelita.
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* AllLovingHero: In a thoroughly dark WorldOfJerkass, two people standout, Remedios who remains loyal to Victoria and repeatedly persuades her to abandon her quest for vengeance and Felipe Restrepo, the white person most committed to the abolition of slavery.
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* ArchnemesisDad: Nicolás, the BigBad, is Miguel's biological father.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: Inverted with the General’s children. Alonso, the middle son is the gentlest and most well-adjusted of the three. Though the general clearly preferred Joaquin the oldest, he has an incredible soft spot for Alonso and it’s the youngest, Gabriel, who’s the black sheep of the family.
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* NobleBigot: Victoria's biological father is relatively nice by slaveowner standards, but it's still clear that at the end of the day he is a slave owner (when Tomas asks to buy his wife and daughter's freedom he visibly hesitates to do so.)
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* RichBitch: The original Marquise De Bracamont is a thoroughly unpleasant person; her anger at learning about Victoria impersonating her is as much due to the fact that Victoria is a servant as it is the identity theft.
* SociopathicSoldier: Francisco Granados is an example of this.
* RichBitch: The original Marquise De Bracamont is a thoroughly unpleasant person; her anger at learning about Victoria impersonating her is as much due to the fact that Victoria is a servant as it is the identity theft.
* SociopathicSoldier: Francisco Granados is an example of this.
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A Columbian Colombian Telenovela set between 1821 and 1843. Victoria Quintero was born as the daughter of Don Diego Quintero and his wife Maria; when a rival landowner burns their farm down and kills them, an infant Victoria is adopted by his slaves, who escape into the jungle and join a community of Maroons. When the community is recaptured 12 years later, Victoria escapes to Spain, embarking on a quest to return one day and free her adopted family.
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* WorldOfJerkass: Justified since the series focuses on slave owners. The good guys themselves have been hardened by the horrors of slavery.
* WorldOfJerkass: Justified since the series focuses on slave owners. The good guys themselves have been hardened by the horrors of slavery.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The show is NOT subtle about how awful slavery was as an institution, and the fact that many viewers were offended by this shows that it was a point that needed to be made.
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* BreakTheCutie: Isabelita gets put through the wringer over the course of the show; at the same time, she does get much needed character development out of it.
* BrokenPedestal: Isabelita starts out idolizing her father.....by the end of the series she wants nothing more to do with him.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Many of the white characters arevery casually racist; horrifically racist, and even most some of the more the sympathetic whites have to undergo character development in order bigotry that they need to grow out of it.of.
* BrokenPedestal: Isabelita starts out idolizing her father.....by the end of the series she wants nothing more to do with him.
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*AbusiveParents: Nicholas is technically Miguel's birth father; doesn't stop him from treating him like garbage.
*BigBad: Nicholas Pereno, the rival landowner who killed Victoria's family.
*DeliberateValuesDissonance: Many of the white characters are very casually racist; even most of the more the sympathetic whites have to undergo character development in order to grow out of it.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: Morales (the guy who burns Eden down) balks at killing a baby and instead lets one of the slaves take her away. Adela also becomes increasingly disgusted with her son's actions as he goes further off the deep end.
*FalseFlagOperation: When Nicholas has Eden burned to the ground, he frames the Quintero's slaves so that he convince people to keep slavery in effect.
*IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Why the slaves don't kill Granados. That said, they still give him 60 lashes and brand him.
*JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: There are multiple instances where Nicholas seems to display redeeming qualities.....only to brutally subvert them.
*PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Given that the antagonists are slave holders, this is kind of a given.
*SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The show is NOT subtle about how awful slavery was as an institution, and the fact that many viewers were offended by this shows that it was a point that needed to be made.
*VillainousBreakdown: Nicholas looses it when he's sentenced to 30 years of hard labor (The kind of punishment reserved for slaves).
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*AbusiveParents: Nicholas is technically Miguel's birth father; doesn't stop him from treating him like garbage.
*BigBad: Nicholas Pereno, the rival landowner who killed Victoria's family.
*DeliberateValuesDissonance: Many of the white characters are very casually racist; even most of the more the sympathetic whites have to undergo character development in order to grow out of it.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: Morales (the guy who burns Eden down) balks at killing a baby and instead lets one of the slaves take her away. Adela also becomes increasingly disgusted with her son's actions as he goes further off the deep end.
*FalseFlagOperation: When Nicholas has Eden burned to the ground, he frames the Quintero's slaves so that he convince people to keep slavery in effect.
*IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Why the slaves don't kill Granados. That said, they still give him 60 lashes and brand him.
*JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: There are multiple instances where Nicholas seems to display redeeming qualities.....only to brutally subvert them.
*PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Given that the antagonists are slave holders, this is kind of a given.
*SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The show is NOT subtle about how awful slavery was as an institution, and the fact that many viewers were offended by this shows that it was a point that needed to be made.
*VillainousBreakdown: Nicholas looses it when he's sentenced to 30 years of hard labor (The kind of punishment reserved for slaves).
