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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Collins is quite clear with his ButterFace description of Marian in the novel. Unsurprisingly, this is never done in adaptations. In the 1948 film she's played by Alexis Smith, in the 1997 TV adaptation by Tara Fitzgerald, in the musical by Ruthie Henshall, and in the 2018 TV adaptation by Jessie Buckley—lovely women all.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Collins is quite clear with his ButterFace description of Marian in the novel. Unsurprisingly, this is never done in adaptations. In the 1948 film she's played by Alexis Smith, in the 1997 TV adaptation by Tara Fitzgerald, in the musical by Ruthie Henshall, and in the 2018 TV adaptation by Jessie Buckley—lovely women all.
all. In the 1981 Soviet adaptation, Akveliīna Līvmane is plainer-looking but in no way near to the shockingly ugly Marian of the book.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: While in the novel, Walter is a pretty successful and well-known drawing teacher, here, he is extremely hard up, so the position at Limmeridge comes as practically a salvation.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Laura has a horse and loves riding.
* CerebusRetcon: At Count Fosco's first appearance he is sitting at the table with his white mice crawling all over him. His last appearance is exactly the same... except that this time [[NightmareFuel he is dead]].
* HeavySleeper: Mrs. Vesey. She is always either slumbering or sleeping.
* IronicEcho: When Laura's marriage contract is discussed, Mr. Gilmore notes that they can't be sure whether there will be any children, and Mr. Fairlie says: "Is it possible that a young woman would marry a respectable middle-aged man and not bear him a lot of children?" In the ending scene, Mr. Fairlie is being his usual whiny self and hoping that Laura will never have kids because they are just so annoying. Louis says:
-->Don't make me laugh, Mr. Fairlie. Is it possible that a young woman would marry a nice young man and not bear him a lot of children?
* PicnicEpisode: Has two of them.
** Walter, Laura, Marian and Mrs. Vesey have an outing to the seaside (later PlayedForDrama when Walter walks to the same place alone after learning about Laura's engagement).
** At Blackwater Park, Sir Percival, Laura, Count and Countess Fosco, and Marian have a dinner in the open air on the estate's grounds, discussing [[{{Foreshadowing}} unsolved crimes]].
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: While in the novel, Walter is a pretty successful and well-known drawing teacher, here, he is extremely hard up, so the position at Limmeridge comes as practically a salvation.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Laura has a horse and loves riding.
* CerebusRetcon: At Count Fosco's first appearance he is sitting at the table with his white mice crawling all over him. His last appearance is exactly the same... except that this time [[NightmareFuel he is dead]].
* HeavySleeper: Mrs. Vesey. She is always either slumbering or sleeping.
* IronicEcho: When Laura's marriage contract is discussed, Mr. Gilmore notes that they can't be sure whether there will be any children, and Mr. Fairlie says: "Is it possible that a young woman would marry a respectable middle-aged man and not bear him a lot of children?" In the ending scene, Mr. Fairlie is being his usual whiny self and hoping that Laura will never have kids because they are just so annoying. Louis says:
-->Don't make me laugh, Mr. Fairlie. Is it possible that a young woman would marry a nice young man and not bear him a lot of children?
* PicnicEpisode: Has two of them.
** Walter, Laura, Marian and Mrs. Vesey have an outing to the seaside (later PlayedForDrama when Walter walks to the same place alone after learning about Laura's engagement).
** At Blackwater Park, Sir Percival, Laura, Count and Countess Fosco, and Marian have a dinner in the open air on the estate's grounds, discussing [[{{Foreshadowing}} unsolved crimes]].
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* CanonForeigner: Erasmus Nash, who collects the characters' evidence and advises Walter and Marian how to run their investigation.
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* CompositeCharacter: Pesca is the only member of the Brotherhood we see, and he inflicts their vengeance in person.
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* ShoutOut: The music box that plays Mozart comes from another Collins novel, ''The Dead Secret''.
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* OhCrap: Fosco's horrified expression when he recognises Pesca at the theatre.
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* AgeLift: Fosco is de-aged from 60 to more like 40.
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* ForcefulKiss: Fosco plants one on Marian.
* ForcefulKiss: Fosco plants one on Marian.
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* TattooedCrook: Members of the Brotherhood have the mark of the society branded and inked on their upper arm.
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* SlippingAMickey: Prior to drugging Laura's maid,Madame Countess Fosco puts Marian temporarily out of action with the same trick.
* SlippingAMickey: Prior to drugging Laura's maid,
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In episode 3, Fosco has a BathtubScene, meaning that his Brotherhood mark is on display.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Laura is given a more quirky personality than the ProperLady of the book -- she sees sounds as colours, and (suggesting that they go [[SkinnyDipping swimming]]) begins to pull her clothes off in front of Walter and Marian.
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AdaptationPersonalityChange: Laura is given a more quirky personality than the ProperLady of the book -- she sees sounds as colours, and (suggesting that they go [[SkinnyDipping swimming]]) begins to pull her clothes off in front of Walter and Marian.
!! Tropes found in the 2018 BBC adaptation:
AdaptationPersonalityChange: Laura is given a more quirky personality than the ProperLady of the book -- she sees sounds as colours, and (suggesting that they go [[SkinnyDipping swimming]]) begins to pull her clothes off in front of Walter and Marian.
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* ActingForTwo: Olivia Vinall plays both Laura and Anne.
* ActingForTwo: Olivia Vinall plays both Laura and Anne.
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* ActingForTwo: Olivia Vinall plays both Laura and Anne.
* ActingForTwo: Olivia Vinall plays both Laura and Anne.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Walter rescues Pesca from drowning, which is initially played for laughs but becomes very important later.
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* TheMafia: Walter's buddy Pesca is a member. [[spoiler: So was Fosco. They're not happy with him.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: ProfessorPesca.Pesca does this all the time.
* {{Malaproper}}: Professor
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** When he goes to share what he's learned with Fosco, he takes precautions so that, when he's asked "HaveYouToldAnyoneElse", he can assure Fosco that he ''has'', and killing him would therefore not solve anything.
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** When he goes to share what he's learned with Fosco, he takes precautions so that, when he's asked "HaveYouToldAnyoneElse", he can assure prove to Fosco that he ''has'', and killing him would therefore not solve anything.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Collins got annoyed by reviewers who nitpicked about mistakes in dating, which he later fixed in a future edition. He consoled himself by thinking that [[TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Shakespeare was guilty of the same thing]].
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Collins got annoyed by reviewers who nitpicked about mistakes in dating, which he later fixed in a future edition. He consoled himself by thinking that [[TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples Shakespeare was guilty of the same thing]].
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Marian is good at it. When she plays with Count Fosco, she discovers very quickly that her let her win on purpose. She immediately tells him what the hell, he apologizes and utterly destroys her in their next game.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Marian is good at it. When she plays with Count Fosco, she discovers very quickly that her he let her win on purpose. She immediately tells him what the hell, he apologizes and utterly destroys her in their next game.
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* VictorianBritain
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* StereotypeFlip: In the Victorian Era, fat characters were generally [[BigFun jolly]] [[FatComicRelief comic relief]] characters. Fosco, however, is the (admittedly [[AffablyEvil still jolly]]) main villain of the book.
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The book is often considered the first Victorian sensation novel. It has been adapted many times: a play, several films (at least five films just in the silent era, as well as a 1948 film from Creator/WarnerBros), two different BBC television adaptations, and an Creator/AndrewLloydWebber musical.
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The book is often considered the first Victorian sensation novel. It has been adapted many times: a play, several films (at least five films just in the silent era, as well as a 1948 film from Creator/WarnerBros), two different BBC television adaptations, and an Creator/AndrewLloydWebber musical.musical, and a much LighterAndSofter [[http://www.bigfishgames.com/games/6544/victorian-mysteries-woman-in-white/?pc PC game]]..
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* GoldDigger: When the marriage settlement for Sir Percival's marriage to Laura is drawn up, his demands make it clear that he's after her money. Mr Fairlie nods it through anyway, over the strong objections of the family lawyer.
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* IdenticalStranger: Anne and Laura, apparently (Walter discovers that Anne was Laura's half-sister.)
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* IllGirl: Anne, Marian and Laura all take their turns. In Anne's case it's a heart condition; Marian [[CatchYourDeathOfCold gets soaked in the rain]] and promptly goes down with typhoid fever; and Laura takes months to recover from what Fosco's machinations did to her.
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* IllGirl: Anne, Marian and Laura all take their turns. In Anne's case it's a heart condition; Marian [[CatchYourDeathOfCold gets soaked in the rain]] and promptly goes comes down with typhoid fever; and Laura takes months to recover from what Fosco's machinations did to her.
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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Two half-sisters (not Marian and Laura). Exascerbated in the 1948 film in which they are not sisters but cousins.
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* VillainousBSOD: Fosco has one when Anne dies before Laura has even set out for London. He gets over it, but is well aware of the weak spot it leaves in his masterplan.
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* VillainousBSOD: Fosco has one when Anne dies before Laura has even set out for London. He gets over it, but is well aware of the weak spot it leaves in his masterplan.master plan.
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* BastardAngst: [[spoiler:Sir Percival Glyde]] is revealed to be illegitimate. He knew about this, and went to great lengths to conceal it in order to preserve his title and estate.
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* AffablyEvil: Count Fosco.Fosco, charming and courteous even when his plans involve kidnapping, MindRape, and murder. In the 1948 film he has Laura locked in an asylum and is driving her mad, but he still makes the help there be nice to her.
* BaitTheDog: EnigmaticMinion Count Fosco. Fosco is so friendly and charming that the heroines turn to him for help against the seemingly main villain, Sir Percival Glyde, who is a DastardlyWhiplash type. Turns out that Fosco is actually a master villain who is aiding Glyde. It's also shown that Fosco has cowed and abused his wife into becoming a StepfordSmiler and it has been argued by British critic John Sutherland that the discrepancies in time between [[spoiler:what Fosco says it took for Anne Catherick's death and what another character reports]] is meant to suggest that Fosco killed her after a prolonged period of [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and rape.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Cheerful, pet-loving Count Fosco is the Victorian-era poster boy for this trope.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Cheerful, pet-loving Count Fosco is the Victorian-era poster boy for this trope.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Sir Percival Glyde is this, involved in the standard financial scheming and wife imprisonment.
* NamesToTrustImmediately: Walter Hartright ("heart-right").
* SweetTooth: Fosco loves sweets.
* SwitchingPOV: Various first-person narrations, with a couple of extra bits such as "The Narrative of the Tombstone".
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* BabiesEverAfter: A common Victorian cliche, and perhaps more peculiar than most in this novel, as Laura has been the IllGirl for most of it.
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* SmokingIsEvil: Once Percival and Laura are married, he tries to get her to start smoking.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Collins is quite clear with his ButterFace description of Marian in the novel. Unsurprisingly, this is never done in adaptations. In the 1948 film she's played by Alexis Smith, in the 1997 TV adaptation by Tara Fitzgerald, in the musical by Ruthie Henshall--lovley women all.
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Walter Hartright, a young drawing master from VictorianLondon, gets a job teaching art to two young women, half-sisters Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie, at Limmeridge house in Cumberland. He soon is tangled in a web of dastardly deeds involving an ArrangedMarriage and a MysteriousWaif in the form of escaped mental patient Anne Catherick.
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Walter Hartright, a young drawing master from VictorianLondon, gets a job teaching art to two young women, half-sisters Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie, at Limmeridge house in Cumberland. While on the road to the house he encounters a mysterious woman in white. He soon is tangled in a web of dastardly deeds involving an ArrangedMarriage and a tries to help her, but she runs away. Upon arrival, he discovers that the MysteriousWaif in the form of is an escaped mental patient named Anne Catherick.
Catherick, and that Anne bears a striking resemblance to Laura Fairlie. Walter and Laura fall in love, but she has been promised in an ArrangedMarriage to local nobleman Sir Percival Glyde. However, nothing is as it seems, and a dark conspiracy is being hatched.
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* OneParagraphChapter: "The Narrative of the Tombstone", which happens to be Laura's tombstone.
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* CelebrityResemblance: Fosco looks like a taller and fatter NapoleonBonaparte (according to Marian, who's narrating at the time).
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Italian Professor]]: Pesca, who ends up [[spoiler: being responsible for Fosco's death]].
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* CelebrityResemblance: Fosco looks like a taller and fatter NapoleonBonaparte UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte (according to Marian, who's narrating at the time).
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Italian Professor]]: Pesca, who ends up[[spoiler: being responsible for Fosco's death]].death.
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* FakeAristocrat: As it turns out, [[spoiler:Sir Percival]]'s claim to rank and title is based on a forged marriage certificate.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Sir Percival's attempt to destroy the incriminating evidence against him. [[spoiler:He sets light to it, and dies in the resulting fire.]]
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* IdenticalStranger: Anne and Laura, apparently ([[spoiler: Walter discovers that Anne was Laura's half-sister.]]).
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* VillainousBSOD: Fosco has one when [[spoiler:Anne dies before Laura has even set out for London.]] He gets over it, but is well aware of the weak spot it leaves in his masterplan.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Collins is quite clear with his ButterFace description of Marian in the novel. Unsurprisingly, this is never done in adaptations. In the 1948 film she's played by Alexis Smith, in the 1997 TV adaptation by Tara Fitzgerald, in the musical by Ruthie Henshall--lovley women all.
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* HitlerCam: Used for Fosco as he is explaining the conspiracy to Marian.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: Marian and Laura figure out that Percival intercepted the letters that Laura was sending her about how terrible Percival is.
* MindRape: Fosco is doing this to Laura in the asylum, convincing her that she is actually Anne.
* PleaseIWillDoAnything: Marian offers to give herself to Count Fosco and run away with him if he will confess and restore Laura to her life. He is in the process of taking her up on it when Walter and the cops arrive.
* {{Polyamory}}: Surprisingly, this is hinted at in the 1948 film even more strongly than it is in the Collins novel. In the film, Walter expresses his love for Marian after earlier expressing it for Laura, and in the end Marian has borne Walter a son, and the whole clan is living together as in the book. Notably, nothing in the movie indicates that Walter is out of love with Laura.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The character of Professor Pesca is eliminated, Sir Percival is killed accidentally by a {{Mook}}, and Count Fosco is killed by his wife the Countess, who turns out to be Anne Catherick's mother (making Laura and Anne cousins, not half-sisters as in the book). And the SexlessMarriage implication of the book is definitely averted, as Laura is pregnant with Percival's child.
* SmokingIsEvil: Once Percival and Laura are married, he tries to get her to start smoking.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: Marian is standing on a window ledge eavesdropping on Fosco and Percival. One clap of thunder is followed by a drenching rain.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Collins is quite clear with his ButterFace description of Marian in the novel. Unsurprisingly, this is never done in adaptations. In the 1948 film she's played by Alexis Smith, in the 1997 TV adaptation by Tara Fitzgerald, in the musical by Ruthie Henshall--lovley women all.
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* HitlerCam: Used for Fosco as he is explaining the conspiracy to Marian.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: Marian and Laura figure out that Percival intercepted the letters that Laura was sending her about how terrible Percival is.
* MindRape: Fosco is doing this to Laura in the asylum, convincing her that she is actually Anne.
* PleaseIWillDoAnything: Marian offers to give herself to Count Fosco and run away with him if he will confess and restore Laura to her life. He is in the process of taking her up on it when Walter and the cops arrive.
* {{Polyamory}}: Surprisingly, this is hinted at in the 1948 film even more strongly than it is in the Collins novel. In the film, Walter expresses his love for Marian after earlier expressing it for Laura, and in the end Marian has borne Walter a son, and the whole clan is living together as in the book. Notably, nothing in the movie indicates that Walter is out of love with Laura.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The character of Professor Pesca is eliminated, Sir Percival is killed accidentally by a {{Mook}}, and Count Fosco is killed by his wife the Countess, who turns out to be Anne Catherick's mother (making Laura and Anne cousins, not half-sisters as in the book). And the SexlessMarriage implication of the book is definitely averted, as Laura is pregnant with Percival's child.
* SmokingIsEvil: Once Percival and Laura are married, he tries to get her to start smoking.
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: Marian is standing on a window ledge eavesdropping on Fosco and Percival. One clap of thunder is followed by a drenching rain.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Marian. Good GOD, Marian. In the book, she's described as being ugly and masculine. In the musical, she was played by Ruthie Henshall, a very attractive actress. The tradeoff, however, is that she's ''still'' considered undesirable, except this time it's due to being a ChristmasCake in her late thirties rather than young and ugly.
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