History Series / Alatriste

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In this series, Angélica is shown to be the ([[OnlySaneMan only]]) brain of the Alquézar family. Her book version was implied to assist occasionally her uncle's schemes, but he was a mastermind in his own right without any input from her part.

** Alatriste is a heart-breaker and tricky LovableRogue, instead of the bitter, quiet mercenary from the books.

* FilleFatale: Angélica promises Íñigo a reward for helping her, only that she denies it will be money, and it's instead implied, judging from her non-verbal language and her personality in the books, that this is suggestion of sexual favors. Not a particularly pleasant instance of this, however, as she is 14 years old and he looks even younger.

* VoodooShark: The thick native accent of Ukrainian actress Natasha Yarovenko, cast as Madrid's top theatre actress María de Castro, was {{handwave}}d as this version of Castro being from [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Flanders]]. And that was it. There was never an explanation to why a Flemish woman was named María de Castro, how she became a theatre actress in Madrid, or why she spoke with a thick Ukrainian accent.

* VoodooShark: The thick native accent of Ukrainian actress Natasha Yarovenko, cast as Madrid's top theatre actress María de Castro, was {{handwave}}d as this version of Castro being from Flanders. And that was it. There was never an explanation to why a Flemish woman was named María de Castro, how she became a theatre actress in Madrid, or why she spoke with a thick Ukrainian accent.

* VoodooShark: The thick native accent of Ukrainian actress Natasha Yarovenko, [[WTHCastingAgency cast]] as Madrid's top theatre actress María de Castro, was handwaved as this version of Castro being from Flanders. And that was it. There was no explanation to why a Flemish woman was named María de Castro, how she became a theatre actress in Madrid, or why she spoke with a thick Ukrainian accent.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Quevedo busts out a good ol' chokeslam to throw a mook from a staircase.

** Alatriste himself is a heart-breaker and tricky LovableRogue, instead of the bitter, quiet mercenary from the books.
** The quiet and kind Sebastián Copons is turned into a grumpy, somewhat unpleasant snarker. His biggest change, however, is his physical size: in the books, he is a very short and petite guy, while his TV series homologue is huge and fat and towers effectively over most characters.
** Angélica also gets hit hard with this. In the books, she is very quiet and sultry, and usually acts in a subtle mocking way when interacting with narrator Íñigo. Her TV series version, on the other hand, is much more extroverted, arrogant and classically evil, and it's shown to be an overt SpoiledBrat, something which was only half-implied on the books with her informed SweetTooth trait.

** Teresa de Alquézar, Luis’s wife and Angélica’s aunt, is briefly mentioned in the books, but here she is a full fledged character.

** Along with the colourful sets, attires and personalities, the series makes the setting look vaguely like a big party, removing the original's seriousness and gloominess and instead adding a lot of humor and comedic ''enredo''. Many of the books' most dramatic plot points and relationships between characters are here fully played up for laughs too.

* FatBastard: Asunta.

''Alatriste'' (marketed as ''The Adventures of Captain Alatriste'') is a Spanish TV series, based on the homonymous book series by Creator/ArturoPerezReverte. It takes the books's character and events and shows them in a more classical swashbuckle light, narrating as always the exploits of Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, here played by Aitor Luna.

This long anticipated series was produced by Mediaset España and shot in Budapest along with German producer Beta Film. It aired in Telecinco from January to April 2015. Despite its significant share (and the blessings from Pérez-Reverte himself - something which even the film of the books with Creator/ViggoMortensen lacked!), the series's infamously TroubledProduction and overwhelmingly negative reaction from critics and fans impeded any future endeavour for the franchise, to the point the very producers disowned the series ''before'' it hit TV. Reasons for the bad reviews ranged from shooting to acting, including also a freakton of changes and deviations from the books which made it almost an adaptation InNameOnly.

!!Tropes in Alatriste:

** The Íñigo from this series has almost zero loyalty to Alatriste, diverging from the characteristic UndyingLoyalty of his book counterpart, and his only reason to stay with him is to use him to get a military career.

** The quiet but reliable Sebastián Copons is turned into a grumpy, somewhat unpleasant snarker. His biggest change, however, is his physical size: in the books, he is a very short and petite guy, while his TV series homologue is huge and fat and towers effectively over most characters.
** Angélica also gets hit hard with this. In the books, she is very quiet and sultry, and usually acts in a subtle mocking way when interacting with narrator Íñigo. Her TV series version, on the other hand, is much more extroverted, arrogant and classically evil, and it's shown to be an overt SpoiledBrat, something which was only mildly implied on the books.
* AdaptationalWimp:
** In the books, Quevedo is one of the best swordfighters around, to the point people are afraid of dueling him even [[DrunkenMaster whenever he's drunk.]] In the series, while he retains some flashy brawling skills, he usually loses every time he goes against a serious opponent, and is visibly much less influential and confident in the Court. He notably gets defeated [[CurbStompBattle in mere seconds]] by Malatesta, which never happens in the books and seems farfetched for what we read about their level of ability (Alatriste himself, who is Malatesta's superior, fully respects Quevedo as a fighter - even if Malatesta could best a drunk Quevedo, it would absolutely ''not'' be in a couple moves).
** The Alquézar family. In the book series, both of their shown members were criminal masterminds, Luis being a full-fledged rival to the Count-Duke of Olivares and Angélica a FilleFatale who rolled people around her little finger. In the TV series, ''both'' of them are degraded to comic relief, the former to an incompetent villain and HenpeckedHusband (who is even implied to be a puppet of his wife and niece all the time) and the latter to a parody of herself that gets outsmarted even by Íñigo of all people. The only Alquézar who is not portrayed as incompetent is Teresa, who ironically doesn't even appear in the books.

* CanonForeigner: Asunta, Dorotea and other characters are created for the series.

* AdaptationExpansion:
** Sebastián Copons is a very secondary character in the books (if a rather memorable one), while in the series he is upgraded to official BigGuy of the main cast.
** Teresa de Alquézar, Luis’s wife and Angélica’s aunt, is briefly mentioned in the books, but here she is a full fledged character.

''Alatriste'' (marketed as ''The Adventures of Captain Alatriste'') is a Spanish TV series, based on the homonymous book series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It takes the books's character and events and shows them in a more classical swashbuckle light, narrating as always the exploits of Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, here played by Aitor Luna.

This long anticipated series was produced by Mediaset España and shot in Budapest along with German producer Beta Film. It aired in Telecinco from January to April 2015. Despite its significant share (and the blessings from Pérez-Reverte himself - something which even the film of the books with Creator/ViggoMortensen lacked!), the series's infamously TroubledProduction and overwhelmingly negative reaction from critics and fans impeded any future endeavour for the franchise, to the point the very producers disowned the series ''before'' it hit TV. Reasons for the bad reviews ranged from shooting to acting, including a freakton of changes and deviations from the books which made it almost an adaptation InNameOnly.

** María de Castro dressing as a man and fighting with a sword is something that never happens in the books.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In this series, Angélica is shown to be the ([[OnlySaneMan only]]) brain of the Alquézar family, something which is never implied in the books.

** Angélica also gets hit hard. In the books, it's difficult to profile her personality, as she is both naturally quiet and deliberately seductive when interacting with narrator Íñigo. However, her TV series version is much more extroverted and classically evil, perhaps even a sadist, and it's shown to be an overt SpoiledBrat, something which was only mildly implied on the books.

** In the books, Quevedo is one of the best swordfighters around, to the point people are afraid of dueling him even [[DrunkenMaster whenever he's drunk.]] In the series, while he retains some brawling skills, he usually loses every time he goes against a serious opponent, and is visibly much less influential and confident in the Court. He notably gets defeated [[CurbStompBattle in mere seconds]] by Malatesta, something that doesn't happen in the books and seems farfetched for what we read about their level of ability (Alatriste himself, who is Malatesta's superior, fully trusts Quevedo as a fighter - even if Malatesta could best a drunk Quevedo, it would absolutely ''not'' be in a couple moves).

** Not that Alatriste was not badass enough in any media, but this version of him is downright spectacular, being badass enough to face swordfighters while barehanded and indulging in artistic twirling and even some spin kicks here and there.
** María de Castro dressing as a man and going around swordfighting probably counts too.
* AdaptationExpansion: Teresa de Alquézar, Luis’s wife and Angélica’s aunt, is briefly mentioned in the books, but here she is a full fledged character.

** Depending of the episode, Quevedo gets this treatment. He is shown to be a competent fighter, but he loses a duel [[CurbStompBattle in mere seconds]] to Malatesta (granted, Quevedo was drunken at the time, but the books precisely establish him as a borderline DrunkenMaster with the sword) and is infinitely less worldly in his interactions with the Court.
** Luis de Alquézar is changed from a criminal mastermind to an incompetent, beleaguered husband for comedic effect, who is just a puppet of his wife and even his daughter.

* CompositeCharacter: In this series, Juan Vicuña seems to be a mixture of his original book character and the graduate Calzas, another friend to Alatriste.

* HellBentForLeather: Alatriste's somewhat anachronistic leather jacket, which also cramps RedIsHeroic.

This long-anticipated series was produced by Mediaset España and shot in Budapest along with German producer Beta Film. It aired in Telecinco from January to April 2015. Despite its significant share (and the blessings from Pérez-Reverte himself, something which even the film of the books with Creator/ViggoMortensen lacked), the series's infamously TroubledProduction and overwhelmingly negative reaction from the fans impeded any future endeavour for the franchise, to the point the very producers disowned the series ''before'' it hit TV. Reasons for the bad reviews ranged from shooting to acting, including a freakton of changes and deviations from the books which made it almost an adaptation InNameOnly.

* AdaptationalBadass: Not that Alatriste was not badass enough in any media, but this version of him is downright spectacular, being able to face swordfighters barehanded and indulging in artistic twirling and even spin kicks.

* AdaptationExpansion: Teresa de Alquézar, Luis’s wife and Angélica’s aunt, is mentioned in the books, but here she is a full fledged character.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: In this series, Angélica is shown to be the brain of the Alquézar family, something which is never implied in the books.

** The Íñigo from this series has almost zero loyalty to Alatriste, unlike the characteristic UndyingLoyalty from his book counterpart, and his only reason to stay with him is to using him to get a military career.
** Alatriste himself is a heartbreaking, tricky LovableRogue, instead of the bitter, quiet mercenary from the books.
** The quiet but reliable Sebastián Copons is turned into a grumpy, somewhat unpleasant snarker. His biggest change, however, is his physical size: in the books, he is a very short and petite guy, while his TV series homologue is huge and fat and towers over most characters.
** Angélica also gets hit hard. In the books, it’s difficult to profile her personality, as she is both quiet and deliberately seductive when interacting with narrator Íñigo. However, her TV series version is much more extroverted and classically evil, perhaps even a sadist, and it’s shown to be a SpoiledBrat, something which was only mildly implied on the books.

** Depending of the episode, Quevedo gets this treatment. He is shown to be a competent fighter, but he loses a duel [[CurbStompBattle in mere seconds]] to Malatesta (granted, Quevedo was drunken at the time, but the books precisely establish him as a border DrunkenMaster with the sword) and is much less worldly in his interactions with the Court.

* CanonForeigner: Asunta, Dorotea and other characters are made up for the series.
* CompositeCharacter: In this series, Juan Vicuña seems to be a mixture of his original book character and graduate Calzas, another friend to Alatriste.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Quevedo busts out a good ol’ chokeslam to throw a mook from a staircase.

** Depending of the episode, Quevedo gets this treatment. He is shown to be a competent fighter, but he loses a duel in mere seconds to Malatesta (granted, Quevedo was drunken at the time, but the books precisely establish him as a border DrunkenMaster with the sword) and is much less worldly in his interactions with the Court.