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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Lizaveta finally gets something good come her way when she marries the son of the Countess's former steward.
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* WeaponForIntimidation: Hermann attempts to force information out of Countess *** by holding a gun to intimidate her. She ends up suffering a heart attack and dying without telling him anything.
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* WeaponForIntimidation: Hermann attempts to force information out of Countess *** by holding a gun to intimidate her. It doesn't work. [[spoiler: She ends up suffering a heart attack and dying without telling him anything.]]
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* WeaponForIntimidation: Hermann attempts to force information out of Countess *** by holding a gun to her. It doesn't work (see AccidentalMurder above).
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* WeaponForIntimidation: Hermann attempts to force information out of Countess *** by holding a gun to intimidate her. It doesn't work (see AccidentalMurder above).She ends up suffering a heart attack and dying without telling him anything.
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables. When he hears from an acquaintance the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost at a faro (a gambling card game) in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain, he takes an immediate interest.
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables. When tables despite living off a decent sum of money. However, when he hears from an acquaintance the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost at a faro (a gambling card game) in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain, he takes an immediate interest.
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* AllOrNothing: Hermann places high bets, succeeding twice. But on the third round...
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables. When he hears from an acquaintance the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost at a faro (a gambling card game) in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain, he takes an immediate interest.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Hermann does this after the Countess's funeral in an attempt to rid his guilt of what he'd done.
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables. When he hears the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain.
Obsessed with gaining the secret for himself, Hermann plots out a way to get access to the Countess through her ward Lizaveta. When he does reach and accost the Countess, demanding her secret, things don't go to plan when she frights kills her. But days later, after her funeral, he is visited by her ghost who tells him the secret three cards - three, seven and ace - and tells him to play once each night on the condition he marry Lizaveta.
Obsessed with gaining the secret for himself, Hermann plots out a way to get access to the Countess through her ward Lizaveta. When he does reach and accost the Countess, demanding her secret, things don't go to plan when she frights kills her. But days later, after her funeral, he is visited by her ghost who tells him the secret three cards - three, seven and ace - and tells him to play once each night on the condition he marry Lizaveta.
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables. When he hears the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost at a faro (a gambling card game) in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain.
Saint-Germain, he takes an immediate interest.
Obsessed with gaining the secret for himself, Hermann plots out a way to get access to the Countess through her ward Lizaveta. When he does reach and accost the Countess, demanding her secret, things don't go to plan whenshe frights fright kills her. But days later, after her funeral, he is visited by her ghost who tells him the secret three cards - three, seven and ace - and tells him to play once each night on the condition he marry Lizaveta.
Obsessed with gaining the secret for himself, Hermann plots out a way to get access to the Countess through her ward Lizaveta. When he does reach and accost the Countess, demanding her secret, things don't go to plan when
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The story tells of Hermann, an ethnic German officer in the Imperial Russian Army, who has never participated at the gambling tables. When he hears the story of a Countess who somehow won back the fortune she lost in France with the secret of the three winning cards learned from the notorious Count of Saint-Germain.
Obsessed with gaining the secret for himself, Hermann plots out a way to get access to the Countess through her ward Lizaveta. When he does reach and accost the Countess, demanding her secret, things don't go to plan when she frights kills her. But days later, after her funeral, he is visited by her ghost who tells him the secret three cards - three, seven and ace - and tells him to play once each night on the condition he marry Lizaveta.
Armed with the knowledge, Hermann takes his chance at the gambling table, where his success or failure will be decided by the three cards...
Obsessed with gaining the secret for himself, Hermann plots out a way to get access to the Countess through her ward Lizaveta. When he does reach and accost the Countess, demanding her secret, things don't go to plan when she frights kills her. But days later, after her funeral, he is visited by her ghost who tells him the secret three cards - three, seven and ace - and tells him to play once each night on the condition he marry Lizaveta.
Armed with the knowledge, Hermann takes his chance at the gambling table, where his success or failure will be decided by the three cards...
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* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: pIt seems like Hermann is doing well with his combination, as he wins everything when he first goes for three, and then the seven, just as the formula told to him by the countess suggested. When it comes for the final showdown, however, he expected to get an ace, in accordance with the formula, and so bet everything. Instead, he got the titular Queen of Spades, and goes completely broke]].
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* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: pIt It seems like Hermann is doing well with his combination, as he wins everything when he first goes for three, and then the seven, just as the formula told to him by the countess suggested. When it comes for the final showdown, however, he expected to get an ace, in accordance with the formula, and so bet everything. Instead, he got the titular Queen of Spades, and goes completely broke]].
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Countess *** suffers a heart attack when Herman points a gun to scare her.]]
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* GoldDigger: Hermann considers seducing the Countess to learn the three cards' secret. He only decides not to do it because it will take too long, and she is ''eighty-seven'' and might die at any moment, so he focuses on an easier target in Lizaveta.
* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler:It pIt seems like Herman Hermann is doing well with his combination, as he wins everything when he first goes for three, and then the seven, just as the formula told to him by the countess suggested. When it comes for the final showdown, however, he expected to get an ace, in accordance with the formula, and so bet everything. Instead, he got the titular Queen of Spades, and goes completely broke.]]broke]].
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* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: Herman]] loses all his money from the gambling and completely loses his mind as a result.
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* AdaptationalWealth: Liza is the Countess's penniless and insignificant distant relation who doesn't even get anything like pocket money. In [[Theatre/TheQueenOfSpades the opera]] by Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky, she is the Countess's granddaughter and heiress, engaged to marry a prince. It is extremely plot-relevant, since in the opera, Herman really does fall in love with her, and hadn't she been beyond his reach, there would have been no barrier to their relationship.
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* AdaptationalWealth: Liza is the Countess's penniless and insignificant distant relation who doesn't even get anything like pocket money. In [[Theatre/TheQueenOfSpades the opera]] by Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky, she is the Countess's granddaughter and heiress, engaged to marry a prince. It is extremely plot-relevant, since in the opera, Herman really does fall in love with her, and hadn't she been beyond his reach, there would have been no barrier to their relationship.
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* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Herman is driven into utter madness, and all he can mumble is "Three, seven, ace! Three, seven — queen!"]]
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* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: Herman loses all his money in the gamble and completely loses his mind as a result.]]
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* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: Herman]] loses all his money from the gambling and completely loses his mind as a result.
* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler: It seems like Herman is doing well with his combination, as he wins everything when he first goes for three, and then the seven, just as the formula told to him by the countess suggested. When it comes for the final showdown, however, he expected to get an ace, in accordance with the formula, and so bet everything. Instead, he got the titular Queen of Spades, and goes completely broke. It's all-but-outright stated that
* MadnessMantra:[[spoiler: At the end,[[spoiler: Herman is driven into utter madness, and all he can mumble is "Three, seven, ace! Three, seven — queen!"]]
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MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Did the magic formula really work? Did it ever exist in the first place?
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* TheMusical: There is an opera adaptation.
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* TheMusical: There is an opera adaptation.
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A brilliant short-story from a card gambling setting by Russian poet and writer AlexanderPushkin.
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DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: Herman.]]
GermanRussians: Herman.
KarmicTwistEnding
MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Herman is driven into utter madness, and all he can mumble is "Tray, seven, ace! Tray, seven — queen!"]]
MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Did the magic formula really work? Did it ever exist in the first place?
TheMusical: There is an opera adaptation.
SpellMyNameWithABlank: Old countess *** in The Queen of Spades.
VillainProtagonist: Herman deliberately tricks Lizaveta into falling in love with him and he never truly cared for her feelings.
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DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler: Herman.]]
GermanRussians: Herman.
KarmicTwistEnding
MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Herman is driven into utter madness, and all he can mumble is "Tray, seven, ace! Tray, seven — queen!"]]
MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Did the magic formula really work? Did it ever exist in the first place?
TheMusical: There is an opera adaptation.
SpellMyNameWithABlank: Old countess *** in The Queen of Spades.
VillainProtagonist: Herman deliberately tricks Lizaveta into falling in love with him and he never truly cared for her feelings.
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