History Series / Vincenzo

* OneHundredAndEight: Vincenzo and Mr. Cho claim they are doing the 108 ceremonial bows to Buddha in the temple. What they are actually doing is making an excuse for their presence, after narrowly avoiding being caught exiting the gold vault.

** [[spoiler: Vincenzo's partner in crime Mr. Cho is revealed to be one for the NIS too in episode 13.]]

* SpitTake: Vincenzo's reaction in episode 8 when Cha-young tells him that he must pretend to be gay in order to romance Hwang Min-sung, the president of Shinkwang Bank. (Shinkwang is about to extend a big loan to Babel Group and our heroes want to stop it.)

** Possibly any lawyer that works for Wusang, notably Choi Myung-hee and Han Seung-hyeok.
** The attorney in episode 5 representing the families of the victims of Babel Chemicals is one, as he is under Wusang's payroll.

* TheGlomp: Team Leader Ahn's AmbiguouslyGay affection for Vincenzo reaches its peak in episode 10. Ahn pulls strings to get Vincenzo released from custody, offers his help in Vincenzo's campaign against Babel, and in return asks for...a hug. Vincenzo offers a handshake but instead Ahn leaps into his arms, his legs wrapped around Vincenzo's waist while a stunned Vincenzo is left grabbing onto Ahn's butt.

* KubrickStare: Episode 11 ends with a dramatic confrontation where Vincenzo confronts Joon-woo with a gun, orders Joon-woo to kneel, and says that he knows Joon-woo is the real chairman of Babel. Joon-woo's kneeling, so his gaze up at Vincenzo turns into a disturbing KubrickStare as he drops the mask of humility and asks how Vincenzo figured it out.

* TheMafia: In a K-drama! Vincenzo was the consigliere for his adoptive father in Italy. Rather than fight a power struggle he can't win with his ethnic Italian adoptive brother, Vincenzo flies back to Korea.

* RussianRoulette: In episode 11, Vincenzo uses this as a means of interrogation on an arms dealer who's been feeding information on his mafia past to Babel Group. It successfully gets the man to crack.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: [[spoiler:Jang Han-seok/Jang Joon-woo]] and Vincenzo. The former is an irredeemable psychopath who would murder anyone, including his own family and friends. The latter is an anti-hero who has good deeds, but is only willing to achieve them through bad ways. He is a ruthless Mafia consigliere who murders and tortures a lot of people, after all.

** In the series finale, Vincenzo [[spoiler: breaks this rule when he killed Choi Myung-hee, but he justifies it saying, "To me, you're not a woman. You're just a monster driven by desires."]]

* {{Flipping The Table}}: [[spoiler: In episode 11, Joon-woo dramatically flips over a dining table (and his lunch with it) when Han-seo suggests he let him run Babel Pharmaceuticals on his own, showing that Han-seo trying to cut his puppet strings is a big {{Berserk Button}} for him.]]

*** Mr. Tak, the tailor [[spoiler:manages to take down a bunch of thugs all by himself with just a pair of scissors in episode 10, by stabbing all of them, JohnWick style, making him a CoolOldGuy.]]

* {{Decoy Leader}} / {{Puppet King}}: It becomes obvious to Vincenzo and Myung-hee early on that Jang Han-seo may be the chairman of Babel Group to the public, but he [[TheDitz isn't smart enough]] to be the one calling all the shots. [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan The real 'king']] of Babel Group is his step brother Jang Han-seok / Jang Joon-woo. The decoy part is [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by Joon-woo, as he tells Myung-hee in episode 10 that him staying in the shadows helps him avoid jail time if things go wrong.]]

** Cha-young getting irritated at people for using languages she doesn't speak. She yells at both Joon-woo and Vincenzo, who have a habit of dropping into English and Italian respectively.

** Episode 4. [[spoiler: Jang Joon-woo is revealed to be the real Chairman of Babel Group. He had been putting up an act as a happy-go-lucky, ditzy intern all the while.]]

* {{You Killed My Father}}: [[spoiler: Cha-young's dad is killed by a truck driven by a hitman sent by Choi Myung-hee. This spurs her to quit Wusang and take over her dad's law firm Jipuragi to take down Babel Group and Wusang.]]

* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: In episode 3 Vincenzo calls Cha-young "Stupid. Idiot." in Italian. This pisses Cha-young off and pisses her off even more when he ignores her demand to "translate!"

* MatchCut: From Vincenzo raising his espresso cup in episode 7 to toast a witness, to that witness in court holding up a memory stick with extremely damaging info against Babel Pharmaceuticals.

* PlotHole: How likely is it that Vincenzo, given away for adoption as a small child, raised in Italy by an Italian mobster, would speak fluent, unaccented Korean?

'''[[spoiler:Jang Han-seok]]''': It really sounds like the one Ring in LOTR.
'''Choi Myung-hee''': You watched it, so you must know.

** Mr. Nam's reaction in episode 13 [[spoiler: when Vincenzo tells him that are no longer able to open the gold vault.]]

** A lot of the examples are very dark, but still, it seems that ''everything'' Babel Group makes is evil or terrible or both. They market a pain reliever that is basically glorified heroin. They make another medicine that apparently causes leukemia. They build a courthouse, and the courthouse leaks from the ceiling.

* PlotHole: How likely is it that Vincenzo, given away for adoption as a baby, raised in Italy by an Italian mobster, would speak fluent, unaccented Korean?

* CourtroomAntic: In episode 6 Cha-young, arguing a suit against Babel Group in court, pretends to collapse as a delaying tactic. When that doesn't work she and Vincenzo go to Plan B: cut power to the courtroom. When ''that'' doesn't work (the stenographer gets a laptop), they go to Plan C: release giant hornets on the courtroom and cause a panic. That works.