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* LadyMacbeth: Amena may be the most ambitious character in the show and she does nothing but plot and intrigue to manipulate her husband to get it.
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* HistoricalFantasy: The series retells the Roman invasion of Britain, but makes the magic of the Druids a real thing.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Emperor Claudius is the one who commanded the invasion if Britannia and the Outcast in particular believes that even of they repel the invaders, he would have to go to Rome and kill the emperor in order to really keep them from coming back.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Amena resents the respect and interest that Lindon shows towards Kerra, and tries to turn King Pellenor against her whenever he can.
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* SergeantRock: Vitus Aurelius (whose rank of optio is roughly equivalent to that of a modern First Sergeant) is one of the toughest, most disciplined soldiers in the Roman invasion force.
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* DivideAndConquer: The Romans' tactic to conquer Britannia is to exacerbate and exploit the enmities between the Briton tribes.
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* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:The Optio]] is so tough and his loyalty to Rome so strong that he doesn't break even when the Cantii are [[FlayingAlive cutting chunks of his skin]] during interrogation.
* DivideAndConquer: The Romans' tactic to conquer Britannia is to exacerbate and exploit the enmities between the Briton tribes.
* DivideAndConquer: The Romans' tactic to conquer Britannia is to exacerbate and exploit the enmities between the Briton tribes.
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* CoveredWithScars: Vitus Aurelius, optio of the Eighth Legion, has a face covered in ritual scars.
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* FlayingAlive:
** [[spoiler:King Pellenor]] ordered his execution of his beloved wife on orders of the Druids, just because she had a Roman grandfather.
** The Cantii use a slow version of this as torture to interrogate prisoners.
** [[spoiler:King Pellenor]] ordered his execution of his beloved wife on orders of the Druids, just because she had a Roman grandfather.
** The Cantii use a slow version of this as torture to interrogate prisoners.
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* CompellingVoice: The Outcast has the power to make people do what he wants with his voice.
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* AGodAmI: Princess Ania of the Regni believes herself to be the earthly incarnation of Brenna, the goddess of war, dreams, [[OddJobGods and wells]].
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* ButtMonkey: Phelan. His wife (who he really doesn't like) is very publicly sleeping with another man (who is also her husband, on the orders of the Druids), and very publicly tells everyone how much more of a man Lindon is. Then [[spoiler:his father dies, and despite being the official heir he's passed over in favour of his sister. And then he's persuaded to run away with an enemy princess who believes herself to be the incarnation of a goddess, only to be told by Veran that she's mistaken and he's thrown away everything he once had for nothing. Oh, and he spends most of his time on the run suffering from diarrhea.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Phelan. His wife Amena (who he really doesn't like) is very publicly sleeping with another man (who is also her husband, on the orders of the Druids), and very publicly tells everyone how much more of a man Lindon is. Then [[spoiler:his father dies, and despite being the official heir he's passed over in favour of his sister. And then he's persuaded to run away with an enemy princess who believes herself to be the incarnation of a goddess, only to be told by Veran that she's mistaken and he's thrown away everything he once had for nothing. Oh, and he spends most of his time on the run suffering from diarrhea.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: The Outcast hypnotises a pair of Roman soldiers into becoming his captors/escorts/friends. First he turns them against each other, then calms down their quarrel and makes them into best friends. [[spoiler:Then he has one of them decapitate the other, leaving him traumatised for the next few episodes]].
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* MadeASlave: Anyone that the Romans don't kill during an attack, they turn into slaves.
* MoodWhiplash: The Outcasthypnotises hypnotizes a pair of Roman soldiers into becoming his captors/escorts/friends. First he turns them against each other, then calms down their quarrel and makes them into best friends. [[spoiler:Then he has one of them decapitate the other, leaving him traumatised traumatized for the next few episodes]].
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* NastyParty: An arranged marriage between King Pellenor's nephew and Queen Antedia's daughter [[spoiler:turns out to be an ambush by Antedia in order to try an kill Pellenor. The groom gets his throat cut, but the bride is taken prisoner by the Cantii.]]
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* NastyParty: An arranged marriage between King Pellenor's nephew and Queen Antedia's daughter niece [[spoiler:turns out to be an ambush by Antedia in order to try an kill Pellenor. The groom gets his throat cut, but the bride is taken prisoner by the Cantii.]]
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* BaddassBoast: The Outcast matter-of-factly says he is going to destroy the entire Roman Empire, ''by himself'':
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-->'''Cait:''' Wow. You must be really important. So what's the mission?
-->'''Outcast:''' Isn't it obvious? I have to stop the Romans. I have to send them home. Then, to make sure it doesn't happen again, I have to go to Rome and kill the Emperor. Then I have to face down The Great Earth Demon Lokka himself and to be perfectly honest, I haven't thought that far yet.
-->'''Cait:''' Wow. You must be really important. So what's the mission?
-->'''Outcast:''' Isn't it obvious? I have to stop the Romans. I have to send them home. Then, to make sure it doesn't happen again, I have to go to Rome and kill the Emperor. Then I have to face down The Great Earth Demon Lokka himself and to be perfectly honest, I haven't thought that far yet.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Roman leader Aulus Plautius is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulus_Plautius the historical leader of the Roman invasion of Britain]].
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* WorldOfActionGirls: Britannia from the Roman perspective, as they run into warrior women whenever they go.
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* ActionGirl: Hella, the Irish bounty hunter. [[spoiler:First she slaughters the other bounty hunters, then she becomes the only person to get the better of the Outcast, nearly killing him with a well-timed ambush.]]
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* TheChosenOne: Played with a ''lot''. Various characters believe themselves to be chosen by the Gods for one role or another. Some of them turn out to be right, some die ignonimously, and some simply get told that they've misunderstood the prophecy.
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* DemonicPossession: Claimed by the Outcast, for both himself and [[spoiler:Aulus Plautius]]. There's extremely strong evidence that he's right about both of them, too.
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* GenreSavvy: When the Optio tells his fellow prisoner that it's very important they not tell the Cantii anything, it's immediately obvious to the audience that he's getting ready to kill the other man because he's clearly not going to be able to hold out against torture. Then the soldier suggests cutting out his tongue, and it becomes clear that he ''also'' understood what the Optio was saying.
* KneelBeforeZod: Queen Antedia tries to get Plautius to seal their alliance by kissing her feet. He persuades her to accept a compromise of him kissing her hand. Then she demands that his second in command, Lucius, kiss her feet. Plautius is okay with that.
* KneelBeforeZod: Queen Antedia tries to get Plautius to seal their alliance by kissing her feet. He persuades her to accept a compromise of him kissing her hand. Then she demands that his second in command, Lucius, kiss her feet. Plautius is okay with that.
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* TheNameless: The teenaged girl referred to in most material as Cait actually has no name -- Cait was her child name, which she discarded on the Solstice; then the Romans attacked before she could take an adult name.
* TheNameless: The teenaged girl referred to in most material as Cait actually has no name -- Cait was her child name, which she discarded on the Solstice; then the Romans attacked before she could take an adult name.
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* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:King Pellenor]] suffers a traditional Threefold Death at the hands of the Druids.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Veran is said to be the second man ever created, and claims to have met Julius Caesar 98 years previously. Given how much magic is present, either or both of these claims may be true.
* TheUnfavorite: Cait. Her father spends far too much time telling her how her sister was the special one, and makes it pretty clear that he'd rather Cait had died instead.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Veran is said to be the second man ever created, and claims to have met Julius Caesar 98 years previously. Given how much magic is present, either or both of these claims may be true.
* TheUnfavorite: Cait. Her father spends far too much time telling her how her sister was the special one, and makes it pretty clear that he'd rather Cait had died instead.
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* NastyParty: An arranged marriage between King Pellenor's nephew and Queen Antedia's daughter [[spoiler:turns out to be an ambush by Antedia in order to try an kill Pellenor. The groom gets his throat cut, but the bride is taken prisoner by the Cantii.]]
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** The "arrangement" between Lindon and Amena is said to be the druids' idea in order to strengthen the bonds between the Cantii and the "Bretons" in Gaul. There's 2 problems with this: at that point in time the peninsula of Armorica had been part of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis for decades, and it wouldn't be called Brittany for another four centuries, when Britons from the island began to emigrate there.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Antonius]] is introduced as a main character and [[spoiler:the point of view character for the common Roman soldier]], but he is killed by the end of the first episode.
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** Plautius claims to not even know the names if the local tribes in the area were he landed. In reality, the pretext for the invasion was to re-instate Verica, an exiled king of the Atrebates tribe, so he would've been well aware of the political situation on the island.
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** Plautius reminds Lucius of an incident they were involved in while in Egypt and mentions Cairo. While the are was already home to various cities and settlements, Cairo wouldn’d get that name until the 10th century AD.
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The Kuba Kingdom encompasses more than the Bushongo alone, and there's no reason why the actor's skin colour may not have identified him as Numidian given at the time, Berber people looked more like modern Touaregs than modern Tunisians
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''Britannia'' is a is a British historical period drama the first co-production between Creator/{{Sky}} and [[Creator/AmazonStudios Amazon Prime Video]], and stars Kelly Reilly, Creator/DavidMorrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Liana Cornell and Stanley Weber.
Set in 43AD, it follows the Roman army led by Aulus Plautius (Morrissey) as they launch an invasion of the island of Britannia, a mysterious land led by warrior women and powerful Druids who claim to channel the powerful forces of the underworld.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Besides the obvious fact that the Druids didn’t have any real magic, there are some places were the series takes liberties with the historical facts:
** Plautius reminds Lucius of an incident they were involved in while in Egypt and mentions Cairo. While the are was already home to various cities and settlements, Cairo wouldn’d get that name until the 10th century AD.
** The Romans are seen drinking wine out of modern glass goblets, instead of ones made out in the style of the period.
* BadassAndChildDuo: The Outcast reluctantly takes Cait under his wing after her village is destroyed.
* DoomedHometown: Cait’s village is the first place the Roman army attacks. They destroy it and take the survivors as slaves.
* LittleMissSnarker: Once she gets over the initial shock of her village being destroyed Cait proves to have quite a cutting tongue.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Britannia has a reputation as a monster infested hellhole, such that the legionnaires
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The Romans' invasion if the island is helped by the fact that the different tribes of Britons are more worried about fighting each other than they are about dealing with the Romans. Lampshaded by Plaitius himself:
-->'''Plaitius:''' Nine decades ago, when Caesar landed, the Celts were waiting on the beach in their thousands. Yesterday, not a single Celt was there to greet us. We march 50,000 men clear across Gaul, spend six weeks at the coast, quelling mutiny after mutiny, and still no word gets through. Tell you anything?
-->'''Prefectus: '' 'The tribes are divided. We knew that.
-->'''Plaitius: ''' I'll wager not a single Celt knew we were coming. We've met no organized resistance inland. This place is at war with itself.
Set in 43AD, it follows the Roman army led by Aulus Plautius (Morrissey) as they launch an invasion of the island of Britannia, a mysterious land led by warrior women and powerful Druids who claim to channel the powerful forces of the underworld.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Besides the obvious fact that the Druids didn’t have any real magic, there are some places were the series takes liberties with the historical facts:
** Plautius reminds Lucius of an incident they were involved in while in Egypt and mentions Cairo. While the are was already home to various cities and settlements, Cairo wouldn’d get that name until the 10th century AD.
** The Romans are seen drinking wine out of modern glass goblets, instead of ones made out in the style of the period.
* BadassAndChildDuo: The Outcast reluctantly takes Cait under his wing after her village is destroyed.
* DoomedHometown: Cait’s village is the first place the Roman army attacks. They destroy it and take the survivors as slaves.
* LittleMissSnarker: Once she gets over the initial shock of her village being destroyed Cait proves to have quite a cutting tongue.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Britannia has a reputation as a monster infested hellhole, such that the legionnaires
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: The Romans' invasion if the island is helped by the fact that the different tribes of Britons are more worried about fighting each other than they are about dealing with the Romans. Lampshaded by Plaitius himself:
-->'''Plaitius:''' Nine decades ago, when Caesar landed, the Celts were waiting on the beach in their thousands. Yesterday, not a single Celt was there to greet us. We march 50,000 men clear across Gaul, spend six weeks at the coast, quelling mutiny after mutiny, and still no word gets through. Tell you anything?
-->'''Prefectus: '' 'The tribes are divided. We knew that.
-->'''Plaitius: ''' I'll wager not a single Celt knew we were coming. We've met no organized resistance inland. This place is at war with itself.
