History Series / PadreCoraje

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Eva befriended Coraje when he showed her around the town, and personally endorsed Amanda's electoral bid, even giving Amanda the brooch from her own dress - of course, Eva's cancer is also foreshadowed. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, where he got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine to poor patients for free, and challenging the mayor's reactionary ideas. Perón begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes, and recited prayers for Eva together with him.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Eva befriended Coraje when he showed her around the town, and personally endorsed Amanda's electoral bid, even giving Amanda the brooch from her own dress. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, where he got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine to poor patients for free, and challenging the mayor's reactionary ideas. Perón begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes, and recited prayers for Eva together with him.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Eva befriended Coraje when he showed her around the town, and personally endorsed Amanda's electoral bid, even giving Amanda her own brooch. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, where he got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine to poor patients for free, and challenging the mayor's reactionary ideas. Perón begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes, and recited prayers for Eva together with him.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, where he got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine to poor patients for free, and challenging the mayor's reactionary ideas. Perón begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes, and recited prayers for Eva together with him.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron is always presented as a great hero and a noble soul, when in reality he was as authoritarian as Mayor Costa - ironically, Costa hates Perón, all Peronists and Peronism. However, Perón's jovial and friendly attitude to Coraje and his friends, who he trusts, is accurate to who he was.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, and immediately got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine and his motorcycle jacket to a poor woman and her child for free, as well as challenging the mayor's reactionary ideas. Perón even begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron is presented as a gentleman and a noble soul, when in reality he was as authoritarian as Mayor Costa - ironically, Costa hates Perón, all Peronists and Peronism.

* MessianicArchetype: the entire plot leads towards this. In the finale, [[spoiler: Coraje is crucified by Costa in a reenactment of the passion of Christ, complete with the crown of thorns and all.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: the bad guys constantly belittle dr Ponce for his orientation, while the good guys show acceptance. Highlighted by Amanda, who blackmails Ponce about it when she's against him but becomes accepting when they bury the hatchet.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, and immediately got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine and his motorcycle jacket to a poor woman and her child for free, as well as being a famous communist by then. Perón even begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Che worked in the town hospital for his residency, and immediately got into trouble with the mayor for giving medicine and his motorcycle jacket to a poor woman and her child for free, as well as being a famous communist by then. Perón even begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes.

* BuryYourGays: played straight for [[spoiler: Fernando Guzman]], who dies shielding the man he loves with his body.
* CardboardPrison: the jail cell in La Cruz is this. Very much. Hardly anyone stays there longer than two days.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: mayor Costa genuinely cares about his sons, although in his own, violent and rude way.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and a young, pre-Cuba UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Perón even begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes.

The provincial town of La Cruz is governed by Manuel Costa, a conservative mayor whose family held the post since the town was founded. Power hungry and utterly corrupt, Costa is more than just another dishonest politician: he also runs a secret, murderous religious cult in La Cruz together with the town's other prestigious figures. The poor people are exploited by the elites throughout the country and region, and locally their only hope [[JustLikeRobinHood is the folk hero Coraje]] (lit. "courage"), a handsome vigilante wearing a monk-like robe who steals from the rich and gives to the poor and is known for [[ThouShaltNotKill never killing his enemies.]] Living on the run, he and his band have become something of a legend among the rural population, but are, in fact, criminals, and are treated as such by the establishment.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: UsefulNotes/EvaPeron, UsefulNotes/JuanDomingoPeron, and UsefulNotes/CheGuevara appeared as characters and always took the side of the good guys. Perón even begged for Coraje's help to save Eva from cancer in two special episodes.

* TheRemnant: The series takes place during the rise of Peronism, but the mayor is very much not Peronist. He's a firm believer in the "good old order," meaning hard class divisions and the occasional spot of starving the workers.

* BecomingTheMask: Coraje gets amnesia and tries to become an earnest, honest priest. It doesn't stick.

* BoundAndGagged: numerous characters, but Clara most often.

* GeneralRipper: everything that goes wrong for the mayor is Coraje's fault, in mayor's opinion.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Both UsefulNotes/EvaPeron and Juan Domingo Perón appeared as characters and took the side of the good guys. So did Ernesto Guevara.

* IncompatibleOrientation: dr Ponce can't help himself, he loves Manuel Costa, even though Costa is disgusted by the very idea.

''Padre Coraje'' (''Father Courage'') is a 2004 Argentine [[SoapOpera telenovela]]. [[PeriodPiece It takes place in 1952]], during the rise of peronism in Argentina.

The provincial town of La Cruz is governed by Manuel Costa, a conservative mayor whose family held the post since the town was founded. Power hungry and utterly corrupt, Costa is more than just another dishonest politician: he also runs a secret, murderous religious cult in La Cruz together with the town's other prestigious figures. The poor people are exploited by the elites throughout the country and region, and locally their only hope [[JustLikeRobinHood is the folk hero Coraje]] (lit. "courage"), a vigilante wearing a monk-like robe who steals from the rich and gives to the poor and is known for [[ThouShaltNotKill never killing his enemies.]] Living on the run, he and his band have become something of a legend among the rural population, but are, in fact, criminals, and are treated as such by the establishment.

* SexyPriest: and how. Most women of La Cruz are attracted to him. Clara is conflicted because of the perceived taboo while also giving him bedroom eyes when taking communion. Ana, on her part, is unfazed by the theological problem even though she's a pious Catholic: she just thinks they are special and rules don't apply to them. There's also an old flame of Coraje's who knows he's not a priest but finds the cassock very alluring.

* Fire-Forged Friends: despite coming from completely opposite social backgrounds, Amanda and Messina form a strong alliance that turns into friendship after Messina helps Amanda in an hour of desperate need.

* HappilyMarried: Amanda and Ignacio seems to have been this, and Manuel claims so were he and his wife. May be actually true, from the few things his sons say. Elisa and Alejandro are presented as this, but it turns out untrue.

* TookALevelInKindness: Amanda and Ponce by the end of the series.

** subverted with Nora, who claims to want love from her family but keeps trying to murder them.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: the mayor had most people convinced that he has killed Coraje and even staged a funeral with him. One of Coraje's band then made an appearance as Coraje at "his own" funeral.
* SexyPriest: and how. Most women of La Cruz are attracted to him. Clara is conflicted because of the perceived taboo while also giving him bedroom eyes when taking communion. Ana, on her part, is unfazed by the theological problem even though she's a pious Catholic: she just thinks they are special and rules don't apply to them. There's also Sylvia, an old flame who knows he's not a priest but finds the cassock very alluring.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: quite a few. When Mercedes sneaks in the night to destroy a damning letter that Clara has written, Clara calmly tells her that she will just write another. When Amanda decides to run for mayor, she gets enthusiastic support from the women in town, but is still outmanoeuvred by Costa, who has more experience in political dishonesty. When rumours of miracles in La Cruz reach the bishop, the church is sceptical and launches a cautious investigation.

* LoveDodecahedron: as befits the genre, of course.

* NotBloodSiblings: Coraje, Mercedes and Santo grew up together in an orphanage and are not related by blood. There's also a triangle of unrequited love between them, and the one having feelings will use this argument a lot. So do other interested characters, such as other love interests.

* TheRemnant: The series takes place during the rise of Peronism, but the mayor is very much not peronist. He's a firm believer in the "good old order," meaning hard class divisions and the occasional spot of starving the workers.

* Gayngst: Dr. Ponce and, later, [[spoiler: Nando.]]

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Both UsefulNotes/EvaPeron and Juan Domingo Perón appeared as characters and took the side of the good guys.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Messina the brothel madam and pretty much all of her workers.

* SexyPriest: and how. Most women of La Cruz are attracted to him. Clara is conflicted because of the perceived taboo while also giving him bedroom eyes when taking communion. Ana, on her part, is unfazed by the theological problem even though she's a pious Catholic: she just thinks they are special. There's also Sylvia, an old flame who knows he's not a priest but finds the cassock very alluring.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Ana began in a wheelchair, and began walking halfway through the series. It may have been a miracle.

The provincial town of La Cruz is governed by Manuel Costa, a conservative mayor whose family held the post since the town was founded. Power hungry and utterly corrupt, Costa is more than just another dishonest politician: he also runs a secret, murderous religious cult in La Cruz together with the town's other prestigious figures. The poor people are exploited by the elites throughout the country and region, and locally their only hope [[JustLikeRobinHood is the folk hero Coraje]] (lit. "courage"), a vigilante wearing a monk-like robe who steals from the rich and gives to the poor and is known for not killing his enemies. Living on the run, he and his band have become something of a legend among the rural population, but are, in fact, criminals, and are treated as such by the establishment.

* AntiVillain: Amanda. Eventually.
* AxCrazy: both [[spoiler: Nora Ponce]] and [[spoiler: Pedro Olmos-Rey]] become homicidal maniacs.

* CardboardPrison: the jail cell in La Cruz is this. Very much.
* TheCommissionerGordon: Clara and Amanda play this role several times.

* DoomedByCanon: Eva Perón.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: mayor Costa genuinely cares about his sons, but in his own way.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Both UsefulNotes/EvaPeron and Juan Domingo Perón appeared at special episodes. They took the side of the good guys.

* MommasBoy: Pipo

* TheRemnant: The series takes place during the rise of Peronism, but the mayor is very much not peronist, he's a firm believer in class warfare and uses classist slurs.

The provincial town of La Cruz is governed by Manuel Costa, a conservative mayor whose family held the post since the town was founded. Power hungry and utterly corrupt, Costa is more than just another dishonest politician: he also runs a secret, murderous religious cult in La Cruz together with the town's other prestigious figures. The poor people are exploited by the elites throughout the country and region, and locally their only hope is the folk hero Coraje (lit. "courage"), a vigilante wearing a monk-like robe who steals from the rich and gives to the poor and is known for not killing his enemies. Living on the run, he and his band have become something of a legend among the rural population, but are, in fact, criminals, and are treated as such by the establishment.

%%* AntiVillain: Amanda
* BecomingTheMask: When Juan had amnesia, he was informed that he was the priest. He was informed later that he was not really a priest, that it was all a masquerade... too late: now he ''likes'' being a priest.
%%* BeleagueredAssistant: Marcia, assistant of Ana
%%* TheCommissionerGordon: Clara and Amanda usually play this role.
* DecapitationPresentation: Rudolfo's ultimate fate. [[spoiler: After Nora murders him and manipulates her father into dismembering and hiding the corpse, she leaves his head in a box under her half-sister's bed]].
%%* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Ana Guerrico.
%%* DisabledLoveInterest: Ana Guerrico
* DoomedByCanon: Eva Perón. Juan Domingo Perón himself visited La Cruz, to request a miracle from Juan.
* EurekaMoment: When Clara remembered several details from here and there, and realized that the priest is Coraje.
** Dr. Ponce has his own when he finds the gauze leftover from Coraje's injury and, seeing the white spot left by the scar tissue, realizes Padre Juan is the "emissary," [[spoiler: Amanda's infant son who he branded as part of a cult ritual.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Do NOT get between Costa and his sons' happiness.
** Slightly inverted with Nora, who ultimately rejects her father and half-sister, both of whom bend over backwards multiple times to try and make her happy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Perla, who abandoned Nora and has spent decades extorting her ex-husband, Ponce, appears deeply shocked by their daughter's (loud) pleas for him to let Nena die.
* UsefulNotes/{{Feminism}}: The mayor Costa runs for reelection, and Amanda Jauregui runs against him. Costa [[EvilGloating gloated]] that she had no chances. She does. Thanks to Eva Perón (remember that the story is set in that time period, not the present), women are allowed to vote, and they are majority. And so, she began to recluit all the women of the village for political action... even the hookers.

* GeneralRipper: For the mayor, each problem he has (either if Coraje foiled his crime, or his son does not respect him, or the budget for paving the streets is a bit small) is Coraje's fault.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: All the girls of the hostel.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Coraje has fallen in love with Clara Guerrico, but can't have anything with her while pretending to be a priest, nor reveal to her his double identity.
%%* MommasBoy: Pipo
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The agent sent by the governor of the Buenos Aires province (similar to a state governor in the US), who must investigate the whole issue regarding Coraje... and the Mayor, as well.
%%* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The secret lodge.
* TheRemnant: The series takes place during the rise of Peronism, but the mayor is not peronist: he's the type of rulers that dominated Argentina during the "''Infamous Decade''".

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The mayor staged a scene where he killed a man robbed as Coraje, and claimed that he killed him. He organized the funeral, to lower the rural worker's morale. Of course, there's no body, so he used a coffin full of rocks. What can Coraje do? He attended the funeral, as Father (he couldn't have evaded it), and an ally robbed as Coraje threatened to kill him, declaring to be alive, and ordering the mayor to open the coffin.
* SexyPriest: Well, he's not really a priest, so he's not breaking any celibacy oath. Still, And and Clara like him, even when to their knowledge he ''is'' the priest.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Ana began in a wheelchair, and left it halfway the series. It happened that, even if not being a priest, somehow Coraje ''is'' capable of making miracles. Of course, he has no control over it, and does not like to be treated as a miracle man.

* TranquilFury: There was a celebration at the hostel, and "the girl" was killed in a room, the others had the music on and did not realize anything. The killer then left the room and joined the party. Mesina left the party for a moment, passed by the room, and saw the corpse. She left the room horrorized, the camera focused on her horrorized face, and focused out when she shot the killer.
%%* UltimateAuthorityMayor
* TheUnintelligible: The "Mute", a girl of the hostel. Despite her given name, she's not mute, it's simply hard to understand her.

->''"Forbidden is this love, so what? Forbidden is this passion, so what?"''

''Padre Coraje'' (''Father Courage'') is a 2004 Argentine [[SoapOpera telenovela]]. It takes place in the 1950s, in the remote village of La Cruz. There is an evil mayor in the village, who exploits the rural workers. They have a folk hero, Coraje, a robed man who avenges evil. To fight against the mayor he needs to get into the village, into a position of power, but does not know how. A new Father comes to the local church, Father Juan, who is attacked. Coraje could not save him, but found what he needed: he headed to the village as the Father Juan (that nobody had seen before), and became the confident of the mayor, while still avenging evil as Coraje.