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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Sabas' entire extended family dies a couple or so issues into the story. That leaves him free to strike out on his own afterwards.
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Sometimes also called "''Sabas, ang Barbaro''", as Sabas is the eponymous Barbaro's actual name. The graphic novel establishes him as a dutiful, honest, and hardworking peasant youth living with his father and mute sister in a typical rural Luzon town in the mid-19th century, in the late-Spanish-colonial Philippines. Sabas shows promise as a young student, and to that end the kindly Spanish friar of his town pays for his Manila studies out-of-pocket; but while there, the brutal realities of Spanish colonialism hit hard: his father is killed, his sister is raped and dies by suicide soon afterward, and the greedy and cruel local chief refuses to allow them a proper burial, and certainly not on his land. When Sabas finds this out and returns home, he is arrested and tortured by colonial cops for attempting to come to their defence, and his friar patron is too weak to do much about it either, appealing to colonial authorities in vain.
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Sometimes also called "''Sabas, ang Barbaro''", as Sabas is the eponymous Barbaro's actual name. The graphic novel establishes him as a dutiful, honest, and hardworking peasant youth living with his father and mute sister in a typical rural Luzon town in the mid-19th century, in the late-Spanish-colonial Philippines. Sabas shows promise as a young student, and to that end the kindly Spanish friar of his town pays for his Manila studies out-of-pocket; but while there, the brutal realities of Spanish colonialism hit hard: his father is killed, his sister is raped and dies by suicide soon afterward, and the greedy and cruel local chief SmallTownTyrant refuses to allow them a proper burial, and certainly not on his land. When Sabas finds this out and returns home, he is arrested and tortured by colonial cops for attempting to come to their defence, and his friar patron is too weak to do much about it either, appealing to colonial authorities in vain.
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Also spawned a sequel, ''El Indio'', which involves [[spoiler:Barbaro's son with Blanquita]].
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Also spawned a sequel, ''El Indio'', which involves [[spoiler:Barbaro's son with Blanquita]].
Blanquita, who is born and raised in Spain but comes to the Philippines to learn more of his parentage whilst also experiencing colourist and classist discrimination from whiter and more elite Spaniards]].
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* TranslationConvention: Even when full-blooded Spaniards are talking to one another, their dialogue is still rendered mostly in Tagalog for the benefit of Coching's mass audience[[note]]Spanish was still a school subject in the 1950s Philippines and was spoken frequently enough by the educated and elite, but the vast majority of the native population would not have been particularly fluent in it—even in the Spanish era per se it never really penetrated the populace to the degree it did in most of Latin America[[/note]], though a lot of Spanish loanwords (and at most, common short phrases or exclamations) still bleed through.
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* TranslationConvention: Even when full-blooded Spaniards are talking to one another, their dialogue is still rendered mostly in Tagalog for the benefit of Coching's mass audience[[note]]Spanish was still a school subject in the 1950s Philippines and was spoken frequently enough by the educated and elite, but the vast majority of the native population population, being mostly working-class and with minimal education, would not have been particularly fluent in it—even in the Spanish era per se it never really penetrated the populace to the degree it did in most of Latin America[[/note]], though a lot of Spanish loanwords (and at most, common short phrases or exclamations) still bleed through.
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* TranslationConvention: Even when full-blooded Spaniards are talking to one another, their dialogue is still rendered mostly in Tagalog for the benefit of Coching's mass audience[[note]]Spanish was still a school subject in the 1950s Philippines, but the vast majority of the native population would not have been particularly fluent in it—even in the Spanish era per se it never really penetrated the populace to the degree it did in most of Latin America[[/note]], though a lot of Spanish loanwords (and at most, common short phrases or exclamations) still bleed through.
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* TranslationConvention: Even when full-blooded Spaniards are talking to one another, their dialogue is still rendered mostly in Tagalog for the benefit of Coching's mass audience[[note]]Spanish was still a school subject in the 1950s Philippines, Philippines and was spoken frequently enough by the educated and elite, but the vast majority of the native population would not have been particularly fluent in it—even in the Spanish era per se it never really penetrated the populace to the degree it did in most of Latin America[[/note]], though a lot of Spanish loanwords (and at most, common short phrases or exclamations) still bleed through.
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* TranslationConvention: Even when full-blooded Spaniards are talking to one another, their dialogue is still rendered mostly in Tagalog for the benefit of Coching's mass audience[[note]]Spanish was still a school subject in the 1950s Philippines, but the vast majority of the native population would not have been particularly fluent in it—even in the Spanish era per se it never really penetrated the populace to the degree it did in most of Latin America[[/note]], though a lot of Spanish loanwords (and at most, common short phrases or exclamations) still bleed through.
