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''Herederos de una Venganza'' (English: ''Heirs to a Vendetta'') was a 2011 Argentine telenovela.

Antonio Puentes is engaged to Angie and takes a trip to her home city of Vidisterra (a small fictional village of wineries) for the wedding. Once there, Angie is murdered by a secret lodge, who use her as a human sacrifice. Antonio stays in the village, trying to discover who murdered Angie. Soon, he falls in love with Mercedes Leiva. The lodge believes that Antonio and Mercedes are "the foreigner" and "the chosen one", of their book of prophecies. The villain Benicio Echague has come from Chile and joined the lodge, and has always thought himself "the foreigner" and sought the love of Mercedes. To separate Antonia and Mercedes, he arranges things so that it appears Antonio has Mercedes' cousin. Antonio is jailed, and the car taking him to trial explodes.

Antonio survives the explosion, and stays in the shadows, until he is released as innocent. There are further complications but there is a happy end.

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!!''Herederos de una venganza'' contains examples of:
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* AncientConspiracy: The secret lodge has ruled the village from the shadows since it was established decades ago.
* AnyoneCanDie: Angie, Regina, Octavio, Vicente, Martín, Benicio, Gretel and a surprising amount of minor/supporting characters.
* {{Angrish}}: Octavio Capogreco
* AlliterativeName: Lucas Leiva, Cosme Capogrecco, Miguel Morán.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Lola has a crush on Lucas, who doesn't return her feelings.
** Estrella, the maid who works for the Piaves, is into Pedro, a married man.
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: The members of the lodge are the heirs of fugitive nazis that have changed their names
* ArrangedMarriage: Octavio sets one up between his closeted homosexual son Cosme and the local nurse Frida.
* AssholeVictim: Luis, Mercedes' husband, was verbally and physically abusive towards her. He is murdered by Octavio, who turns out to be his father, but pinned the crime on Mercedes to save himself. However, given how a vile man he was while married to Mercedes, is really hard to have any sympathy for him.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** NiceGirl Mercedes is Betty and ManipulativeBitch Julia is Veronica to Antonio's Archie.
** Antonio is the Betty to Martín, and later Benicio, as the respective Veronicas for Mercedes' Archie.
** Emilia serves as the Archie to Lucas' Betty and Rafael's Veronica.
** Lucas is the Archie to Emilia's Betty and Lola's Veronica.
* BigBookOfWar: The book of the lodge
* CatchPhrase: "Carajo!"
* ClingyJealousGirl: Mercedes and Emilia become kind of hysterical when they see Antonio and Lucas with Julia and Lola respectively.
* DirtyCop: Vicente.
* DragonInChief: Martín until he is killed off.
* EroticDream: Cosme has one with Miguel.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Rafael, whose sister Angie (and Antonio's short-lived wife) was taken away from him by the lodge.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Lucas and Rafael are both attracted to Emilia.
* GreenEyedMonster: Julia to Mercedes for Antonio/Rafael to Lucas for Emilia.
* HateSink: Because it's a telenovela, almost all of the villains earn this spotlight, including Octavio, Rafael, Gretel and Julia.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Mercedes is loathed by most of the village for supposedly murdering her husband, but it turns out that Octavio was the true culprit and that Mercedes had spent years in prison for a crime she didn't even commit.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Since he was popular at the village, many of the people who admired Luis were completely blind to realizing how much of an abusive husband he was to Mercedes.
* KarmaHoudini: Paula, Benicio's right-hand woman and lover, is revealed to be still at large with an international hunt set on her.
* LonelyTogether: Antonio and Mercedes/Lucas and Emilia.
* LoveTriangle: Both Lucas and Rafael are attracted to Emilia, while Antonio, Martín and later Benicio are attracted to Mercedes.
* LukeIAmYourFather:
** The real mother of Antonio is [[spoiler:Regina Piave]].
** The real father of Mercedes is [[spoiler:Vicente Roca]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Rafael, Martín, Benicio and Julia make Emilia, Mercedes and Antonio believe they are on their side and are quite good liars when the people trying to expose them are unfairly proven wrong.
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Vidisterra is similar to the cities in the west side of Argentina, but it is fictional.
* NotQuiteDead: The car moving Antonio blow up, and everybody thought him dead... but he was taken out of it before the explosion.
* ParentalSubstitute: While enduring a lot of abuse from Octavio, Gretel always acts a motherly figure to Cosme.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Angie, Rafael's sister and Antonio's wife is murdered by the lodge, which sets off the plot.
* PutOnAPrisonBus: Rafael and Cosme, the lodge's sole survivors, are arrested in the finale for their crimes against humanity.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Rafael is the rich suitor and Lucas the poor suitor for Emilia.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Played with during the wedding of Mercedes and Benicio, when everybody thought that he was dead. Of course he was not, and he was actually lurking in the shadows, watching the wedding.
* TheChosenOne: Antonio and Mercedes, with their specific titles. Other characters claimed those titles too.
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The secret lodge
* UndyingLoyalty: Gretel and Rafael to Octavio.
* VaguenessIsComing: A recurring "prophecy". And only TheChosenOne may save them.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Octavio Capogreco and Luis, Mercedes' deceased husband. However, after the truth of Octavio's crimes comes out, he is legally and posthumously condemned with the ''Damnatio memoriae''.