History Series / Narcos

** Amado is quick to remind Pacho that he never judged him for being gay, and commends him for his loyalty to the other Cali godfathers.

* BreakTheHaughty: The Arellano brothers get ''way'' too cocky after Félix's downfall. Because they control the most important corridor on the US-Mexico border, they heavily tax the Sinaloa Cartel for moving their product through Tijuana. The final straw for the Sinaloans is Ramón murdering another one of their partners over a drunken insult and Benjamin rejecting their offer to buy their own piece of the border, which would have settled the conflict for good and let them go their own separate ways. This leads to a MobWar between the two that claims the life of Enedina's husband and the collateral damage of a dead cardinal wrecks their credibility with the Mexican elites forever. Being hunted down by the Mexican Army and seeing their empire implode before them, they strike back against the rival Cartels and associates such as El Mayo who were merely in debt to them in a desperate bid to maintain control, which only serves to [[EnemyMine unite everybody against them]] and speed up their decline.

* BreakTheHaughty: The Arellano brothers get ''way'' too cocky after Félix's downfall. Because they control the most important corridor on the US-Mexico border, they heavily tax the Sinaloa Cartel for moving their product through Tijuana. The final straw for the Sinaloans is Ramón murdering another one of their partners over a drunken insult and Benjamin rejecting their offer to buy their own piece of the border, which would have settled the conflict for good and let them go their own separate ways. This leads to a MobWar between the two that claims the life of Enedina's husband and the collateral damage of a dead cardinal wrecks their credibility with the Mexican elites forever. Being hunted down by the Mexican Army and seeing their empire implode before them, they strike back against the rival Cartels and neutral associates such as El Mayo who were merely in debt to them in a desperate bid to maintain control, which only serves to [[EnemyMine unite everybody against them]] and speed up their decline.

* BreakTheHaughty: The Arellano brothers get ''way'' too cocky after Félix's downfall. Because they control the most important corridor on the US-Mexico border, they heavily tax the Sinaloa Cartel for moving their product through Tijuana. The final straw for the Sinaloans is Ramón murdering another one of their partners over a drunken insult and Benjamin rejecting their offer to buy their own piece of the border, which would have settled the conflict for good and let them go their own separate ways. This leads to a MobWar between the two that claims the life of Enedina's husband and the collateral damage of a dead cardinal wrecks their credibility with the Mexican elites forever. Being hunted down by the Mexican Army and seeing their empire implode before them, they strike back against the rival Cartels and neutral associates such as El Mayo who were merely in debt to them in a desperate bid to maintain control, which only serves to [[EnemyMine unite everybody against them]] and speed up their demise.

** The Arellano-Félix family recruit the Logan Heights street gang from San Diego to serve as their muscle/protection. One member in particular, David Barron, becomes Benjamin's {{Dragon}} after proving how valuable a soldier he is by saving his life from numerous Sinaloan gunmen.

The show features Creator/WagnerMoura as Pablo Escobar, and Creator/BoydHolbrook and Creator/PedroPascal as the DEA agents on his trail. ''Mexico'' features Creator/DiegoLuna as Félix and Creator/MichaelPena as DEA agent Kiki Camarena. Jose Padilha, director of the first two episodes of the series, is also an executive producer.

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** The scene in [=S3E3=] where Salcedo notices a stray bundle of $100 bills on the floor in Pallomari's office during a police raid, and kicks it under a piece of furniture, is a shout-out to a similar sequence at the end of [[Film/TheTakingofPelham123 The Taking of Pelham 123]].

''Narcos'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original CriminalProcedural series produced by Gaumont International Television. It premiered in August 2015 and ran for three seasons between it was announced in July 2018 that season 4 would instead reset as the first season of a new SoftReboot series titled ''Narcos: Mexico''. That series also ran for three seasons before coming to an end.

The first and second seasons of the original series respectively follow [[RiseAndFallGangsterArc the rise and fall]] of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, while the third depicts the conflict between the DEA and the Cali Cartel. Following the switch to ''Narcos: Mexico'', the first season of that series follows the early origins of the Mexican drug war alongside the creation and rise of the Guadalajara Cartel, the second chronicles the downfall of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo as leader of the Guadalajara Cartel, and the third follows the inter-cartel {{Mob War}}s that ensued.

''Narcos'' has branched out into other forms of media. Creator/{{CMON}} published ''Narcos: The Board Game'' in 2018, which has one player take the role of El Patrón while the other players take role of the factions tring to hunt him down; a TurnBasedTactics game developed by Kuju and published by Creator/CurveGames called ''Narcos: Rise of the Cartels'' was released in November 2019; and Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}} published a ''ComicBook/{{Narcos}}'' comicbook series from December 2019 to July 2020.

''Narcos'' is a 2015 Creator/{{Netflix}} Original CriminalProcedural series, produced by Gaumont International Television, chronicling the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's attempts to stem the drug flow from South and Central America into the U.S., related from the perspective of hardbitten deep cover DEA Agents in the 1980s and 1990s. Along the way much chaos, corruption, and bloodshed occur in the pursuit of fortune and justice. The series is filmed in both Spanish and English, and mixes drama scenes with a semi-documentary style narration and real life news footage.

The first season follows [[RiseAndFallGangsterArc the rise of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar]] and the DEA's attempt to stop him. The second season [[RiseAndFallGangsterArc chronicles Escobar's fall]]. The third season is the DEA versus the Cali Cartel. The fourth season goes to Mexico for a SoftReboot as ''Narcos: Mexico''. The fifth season chronicles the downfall of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo as leader of the Guadalajara Cartel. The sixth season follows the inter-cartel {{Mob War}}s that ensued.

Features Creator/WagnerMoura as the famous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and Creator/BoydHolbrook and Creator/PedroPascal as the DEA agents on his trail. Season four moves the story to the Mexican drug trade, with Creator/DiegoLuna as Félix, and Creator/MichaelPena as DEA agent Kiki Camarena. The series also has as its executive producer (and director of the first two episodes) Jose Padilha.

Creator/{{CMON}} published ''TabletopGame/NarcosTheBoardGame'' in 2018 which has one player take the role of El Patrón while the other players take role of the factions tring to hunt him down.

A TurnBasedTactics game developed by Kuju and published by Creator/CurveGames called ''VideoGame/NarcosRiseOfTheCartels'' was released November, 2019.

Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}} published a ''ComicBook/{{Narcos}}'' comicbook series from December, 2019 to July, 2020.