History Series / Leonardo

* TranslationConvention: Everyone speaks English, with occasional breaks into Gratuitious Italian, such as ''mi scusi'' and ''magnifico''. In "The Fugitive", the Milanese accent is apparently OopNorth.

* TranslationConvention: Everyone speaks English, with occasional breaks into Gratuitious Italian, such as ''mi scusi'' and ''magnifico''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Happens to [[spoiler: Professor Pico]] in "Da Vinci's Code", and to [[spoiler: Dr Pentageli and Scarpa]] in "The Mask of Death". [[spoiler: Scarpa]]'s last words are to ask [[TheDragon his killer]] how long it'll be before Piero decides ''he's'' outlived his usefulness too.

* StepfordSmiler: Lorenzo's mother. Probably a Type B, but we haven't seen the mask crask sufficiently to be sure.

* DefrostingIceQueen: In "Stupid Cupid", Angelina, who's spent the previous seven episodes alternating between demure and bitchy, suddenly turns out to be a RebelliousPrincess in conversation with Mac. However, after "The Tortoise And The Hare", she realises [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids being rebellious isn't going to do her any good]], and freezes over again.

* DefrostingIceQueen: In "Stupid Cupid", Angelina, who's spent the previous seven episodes alternating between demure and bitchy, suddenly turns out to be a RebelliousPrincess in conversation with Mac. However, after "The Tortoise And The Hair", she realises [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids being rebellious isn't going to do her any good]], and freezes over again.

* DefrostingIceQueen: In "Stupid Cupid", Angelina, who's spent the previous seven episodes alternating between demure and bitchy, suddenly turns out to be a RebelliousPrincess in conversation with Mac.

* ReturnOfTheKing: At the end of "Stupid Cupid" [[spoiler: the Duke's son Rocco returns from five years at sea ... right in the middle of Piero's AwesomeMomentOfCrowning]].

A second season began in September 2012.

* Big Eater: Angelina, who goes to an expensive restaurant with Mac and basically orders the entire menu. This is at least partly to wind up Mac, who she knows has been paid to take her off Lorenzo's hands, and who will be cleaned out by the bill, but she does eat it all.

* LoveTriangle: Mac loves Lisa, who loves Leo, who is ObliviousToLove.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Happens to [[spoiler: Professor Pico]] in "Da Vinci's Code".

* TheFrameup: The opening episode of Season 2, "Framed" has Piero [[spoiler: frame Verocchio for murder to get revenge on Leo]].

** Leo's dad appears in the opening two parte of season 2, and turns out to be an AmoralAttorney. He cares for Leo, but doesn't understand him, and won't believe Piero is evil. Also, he's getting married, and never actually told his fiance he has a son.

* BatmanGambit: Piero seems fond of these. The final two episodes of the first season both have Leonardo believing Piero plans to kill the Duke, only to learn his ''real'' plan is more convoluted, and Leo's own actions have played into it.

* FaceHeelTurn: In the final episode of the first season [[spoiler: Lorenzo discovers his father's plans, but is convinced they're [[WellIntentionedExtremist for the good of the city]]. He therefore turns agains Leo and his friends.]]
** As of season 2 [[spoiler: he's trying desperately to pretend it never happened, and they're all still friends.]]

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Leo at the end of "Fireball", when he tries to convince the Duke that Piero plans to assassinate him.

* AnachronismStew. Mostly Leo's ahead-of-their-time inventions, but also moments like Lorenzo wishing the strolling players in "Diabolical Acts" would put on a {{Pantomime}}, which just about works if you assume he means ''CommediaDellArte'' until he says "At a panto you can shout 'He's behind you!' and 'Oh no, it isn't!'", putting it firmly in the 19th century British tradition.

* AnachronismStew.

* ArrangedMarriage: Lisa is escaping one. In "Something Wicked", CompleteMonster moneylender Lucio Zengari is marrying a woman in exchange for not sending her father to debtor's prison. And in "The Betrothal Ball", as the title suggests, Lorenzo's engagement to the daughter of the Duke of Milan is announced, much to his horror.

* GilliganCut: Leo needs a bird of prey to study. Lorenzo casually mentions that his dad has just got a falcon.

* RaceLift: Mac is black.
* TheRenaissance
* RevealingInjury: In "The Lighning Box", Lorenzo tells Leo that someone tries to steal the titular "lightning box", but his father's guards put an arrow in the man's leg. Cut to Mac's old friend Carlo bandaging his leg.

* ArrangedMarriage: Lisa is escaping one. In Episode 4, CompleteMonster moneylender Lucio Zengari is marrying a woman in exchange for not sending her father to debtor's prison. And in the second episode of Season 2, Lorenzo's engagement to the daughter of the Duke of Milan is announced, much to his horror.
* AttractiveBentGender: In Episode 5, Leo falls for Lorenzo's manipulative cousin Valentina. Valentina, while flirting with Leo out of habit, falls in love with "Tom", in part because [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou her usual seduction techniques don't work]].

* BatmanGambit: Piero seems fond of these. The final two episodes both have Leonardo believing Piero plans to kill the Duke, only to learn his ''real'' plan is more convoluted, and Leo's own actions have played into it.
* TheBeard: In Episode 9, Lisa tries to convince her mother she's married to Mac.

* ChaseScene: Episode 3 has Mac on the run from a nobleman he sold a fake gold chain to. Instead of a FruitCart or SheetOfGlass, they get blocked by Leo and Lisa carrying Leo's glider wings.

* CoolBike: Leo invents the bicycle in Episode 1. In Episode 5, he adds a gunpowder engine: the Boom Bike.

** In Episode 8, Michelangelo dresses in purple silk and is healded by the BGM playing Adam Ant's "Stand and Deliver".
* DarkHorseVictory: The painting contest in episode 8 presented as all about Leo and Michelangelo. The winner is [[spoiler: "Tomaso"]].

* FriendsAllAlong: Mac and Carlo Cazali in Episode 6.

* HistoricalInJoke: In Episode 4, Leo's BatmanGambit involves pretending that he creates copies of stolen paintings and sells them to people who think they're getting the original -- exactly what happened when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911.

* HypocriticalHumour: In episode 13, a man comes running down the street screaming. Mac comments "Probably seen a three-legged dog. You know what these peasants are like; still living in the [[DarkAgeEurope DarkAges]]." When Mac actualy sees the mechanical man the peasant was running from, his reaction is "Run! Run! It's a demon!"

* JerkJock: Michelangelo, with painting instead of sports. Represents the [[OpposingSportsTeam Opposing Art School]] in Episode 8.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Episode 7 involved an incredibly accurate (but backwards) pocket watch that both Leo and Piero believe allows TimeTravel. A scene near the end suggests they may be right.

* RevealingInjury: In Episode 6, Lorenzo tells Leo that someone tries to steal the "lightning box", but his father's guards put an arrow in the man's leg. Cut to Mac's old friend Carlo bandaging his leg.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Happens to [[spoiler: Professor Pico]] in Episode 2.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Leo at the end of episode 12, when he tries to convince the Duke that Piero plans to assassinate him.

* ArrangedMarriage: Lisa is escaping one. In Episode 4, CompleteMonster moneylender Lucio Zengari is marrying a woman in exchange for not sending her father to debtor's prison.

* FaceHeelTurn: In the final episode [[spoiler: Lorenzo discovers his father's plans, but is convinced they're [[WellIntentionedExtremist for the good of the city]]. He therefore turns agains Leo and his friends.]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch: There was no Duke of Florence in 1467. When the title was created in 1532, it was given to Piero's great-grandson, Alessandro de' Medici, because ''the Medicis had been ''de facto'' rulers of Florence since 1434.''
** In episode 8, Michelangelo's painting is presumably meant to be the real Michelangelo's famous ''Battle of Cascini''. Except it's actually ''The Battle of Anghiari'', which was by ''Leonardo''.
** Not to mention that before his commission for the Sistine Chapel in 1508, Michelangelo was better known as a sculptor.

Leonardo is a {{CBBC}} series about a teenage LeonardoDaVinci.