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-->[[AppropriatedAppellation "Y a mucha honra]], [[TitleDrop María la del Barrio soy..."]]

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-->[[AppropriatedAppellation ->''[[AppropriatedAppellation "Y a mucha honra]], [[TitleDrop María la del Barrio soy..."]]"]]''



[[caption-width-right:300:[[GratuitousForeignLanguage "Y tú qué me andas vicenteando, mi buen?"]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:[[GratuitousForeignLanguage [[caption-width-right:300:''[[GratuitousForeignLanguage "Y tú qué me andas vicenteando, mi buen?"]]]]buen?"]]]]''



Rumor has it a {{Televisa}} remake is in the works and will be released in Mexico in late 2014-early 2015.

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Rumor has it a {{Televisa}} Creator/{{Televisa}} remake is in the works and will be released in Mexico in late 2014-early 2015.



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* TheBabyTrap: Luis Fernando thought that Maria was pulling one with him, that their son was actually Vladimir's son. Eventually, he accepts the truth.
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* FakePregnancy: Soraya got married with Luis Fernando with this trick, as he already hated her.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Soraya and Nandito, Aldo and Tita, and Tita and Nandito. In each case, the first one started a fake romance with a secret intention, and then fell in love for real. However, Aldo and Tita was the only romance that stayed for the happy ending.

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* InLoveWithTheMark: Soraya and Nandito, Durantes and Maria, Aldo and Tita, and Tita and Nandito. In each case, the first one started a fake romance with a secret intention, and then fell in love for real. However, Aldo and Tita was the only romance that stayed for the happy ending.
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* OnNoNotAgain: It seemed that Luis Fernando's days as an alcoholic were just a dark and well forgotten past. Carlota mentioned this when Nandito first came drunk, and then Luis Fernando himself.

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* OnNoNotAgain: OhNoNotAgain: It seemed that Luis Fernando's days as an alcoholic were just a dark and well forgotten past. Carlota mentioned this when Nandito first came drunk, and then Luis Fernando himself.
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* OnNoNotAgain: It seemed that Luis Fernando's days as an alcoholic were just a dark and well forgotten past. Carlota mentioned this when Nandito first came drunk, and then Luis Fernando himself.

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* EasyAmnesia - María has two such instances of amnesia, [[spoiler: the first of which after her pregnancy when she gives up her child, and the second after her time in prison.]]
** When an old lady finds out that [[spoiler: María can't remember anything about herself]], she points out that [[LampshadeHanging it's just like a telenovela]].

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* EasyAmnesia - María has two such instances of amnesia, [[spoiler: the first of which after her pregnancy when she gives up her child, and the second after her time in prison.]]
** When an old lady finds out that [[spoiler: María can't remember anything about herself]], she points out that [[LampshadeHanging it's just like a telenovela]].
]] Esperanza also had it for some time.
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* MonochromePast: Since the second half of the series onwards, each flashback of something important said by someone does not replay the scene, but rather places the character on a sepia color and talking to the screen (not as a FourthWallObserver, but meaning that it's the way that the quotation is remembered by the one that heard it).
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* InLoveWithTheMark: Soraya and Nandito, Aldo and Tita, and Tita and Nandito. In each case, the first one started a fake romance with a secret intention, and then fell in love for real. However, Aldo and Tita was the only romance that stayed for the happy ending.
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* TheBusCameBack: When María was sent to prison, she ended in the same room with [[spoiler:Penélope]]
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* BondVillainStupidity: In the final episode, [[spoiler:Soraya had María at gun point. The JustBetweenYouAndMe gloat took HOURS, and allowed the police to locate her. And even yet, she could have ended things before they enter to the house, but no.]]
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* PlotHole: Nandito lost his wallet at Soraya's house the same day [[spoiler:Calixta]] died, which made him the main suspect. María claimed to be the murderer, to prevent Nandito from going to jail. Some days later, the police officers told that there was no reason to suspect from nandito, and that María had clearly lied to protect him. Still, it was never specified ''which'' new information arised to deny such a heavy smoking gun against nandito.
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* OhCrap: The face of Soraya when Esperanza returned, with her memory recovered and no longer fearing her.
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not true. When Maria was in prison, Soraya resumed her attempts to seduce Luis Fernando


* MurderTheHypotenuse - Soraya's usual MO for dealing with people, particularly Maria. Weirdly enough, later on the series when she returns, she doesn't even care about Luis Fernando anymore and is mostly out for revenge on Maria for ruining her life.

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* MurderTheHypotenuse - Soraya's usual MO for dealing with people, particularly Maria. Weirdly enough, later on the series when she returns, she doesn't even care about Luis Fernando anymore and is mostly out for revenge on Maria for ruining her life.

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* LoveMakesYouEvil / MotiveDecay - Most of Soraya's actions were driven by her love / obsession for Luis Fernando, but by the second half of the show, she just didn't care anymore.

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* LoveMakesYouEvil / MotiveDecay - Most of Soraya's actions were driven by her LoveMakesYouEvil
** Soraya had a genuine
love / obsession for Luis Fernando, even if a little twisted, but by it only led her to manipulate him to get married with her against his will, attempt revenge schemes when he rejected her, and more revenge schemes against María, that she blamed of Luis Fernando's rejection.
** It got worse when Soraya actually fell in love with Nandito. It led to
the second half of the show, she just didn't care anymore.whole "¡¡¿¿QUÉ HACES BESANDO A LA LISIADA??!! scandal.
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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Alicia got her legs healed at the last episode.
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* WeddingsForEveryone: In the last episode, Maria and Luis Fernando get married again. And we also get informed of several new happy couples and marriage anouncements: [[spoiler:Veracruz and Gripina, Nando and Alicia, Tita and Aldo, Urbano and Felipa, the doctor and María's friend in the prison, Dorantes and a lawyer of his buffet, etc.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Neither Luis Fernando nor Abelardo should have been allowed to be the lawyers in the trial against Soraya. Both of their respective sons, Nandito and Aldo, were called as witnesses. It does not matter for which side. They don't have to resign to the case, just give it to another lawyer of their buffet, but TheMainCharactersDoEverything.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Luis Fernando began as one, but got a job as part of his slow redemption. Maria refused to become this kind of rich and insisted to have a job; but gave it up when she lost her son and started looking for him all day (which became her job). She finally found her son, but did not return to work then.
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%%* BlackWidow - Soraya

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%%* BlackWidow - Soraya* BlackWidow: Soraya seduced the doctor that healed her, got married with him, and killed him at the first chance she got, to receive his money.
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* CassandraTruth: When Nandito started dating Soraya, Luis Fernando told him that she was not her "lover" as she claimed, she was her wife. The wife who cheated him, pretended to be dead, tried to flirt with him when she returned, swore vengueance against the family, and now uses Nandito to continue her plans. Nandito simply refused to believe it.
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* OpenSecret: That Nandito is the lost son of María. Right before revealing it to Luis Fernando, ''everybody else'' already knew it. To the point that María took her home, in the absence of Luis Fernando, and had no need for any secrecy.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Soraya eventually became this for Luis Fernando, who always rejects her.

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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Soraya eventually became this for Luis Fernando, who always rejects her. her.
-->'''Soraya:''' Are you rejecting me?!
-->'''Luis Fernando:''' I ''have always'' rejected you! Don't you remember?
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Soraya eventually became this for Luis Fernando, who always rejects her.

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* JustEatGilligan: María [[spoiler:gave his son to a random woman in the park, while being a bit crazy for Luis Fernando's request for divorce, and then tried to locate again that woman or her son. She has been doing that for MORE THAN 14 YEARS, including 2 timeskips]]. She never thought about hiring some private detectives, who may be better seekers than her...

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* JustEatGilligan: JustEatGilligan
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María [[spoiler:gave his son to a random woman in the park, while being a bit crazy for Luis Fernando's request for divorce, and then tried to locate again that woman or her son. She has been doing that for MORE THAN 14 YEARS, including 2 timeskips]]. She never thought about hiring some private detectives, who may be better seekers than her...her...
** The second arc with [[spoiler:Soraya]] could have been stopped on its tracks, if they denounced her for her murder attempt at the end of the first arc. They police takes her prisoner, end of story.
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%%* CatFight

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%%* CatFight* CatFight: In the initial times, when María was still impulsive and savage, an insult from Soraya usually led to this. When she grows up, she tells her to leave, before "I kicked you the way I used to".
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Luis Fernando ordered her secretary that Soraya is not allowed in his office and had to be removed from the building if she returns. Soraya simply appears as if she was at home, hangs up the secretary's phone, and tell her that she'll go in unannounced. Nobody stops her, and nobody thinks about calling the security guards either.
** The next day, the secretary stops her, but Soraya says that she will not leave until she talks with Luis Fernando. Luis Fernando reminds his secretary of his explicit orders; but again, she's allowed in, instead of taken outside by the security.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Soraya, when she got married in the United States and killed her husband, and then lorded over his disabled daughter and her maid.
** She also tried to do it when she got married with Luis Fernando, but he and his family were always ready to put her in her place.
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-->[[AppropriatedAppellation "Y a mucha honra, María la del Barrio soy..."]]

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-->[[AppropriatedAppellation "Y a mucha honra, honra]], [[TitleDrop María la del Barrio soy..."]]
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%%* GossipyHens - Carlota, mainly.
* HandWave: Although Carlota is always trying to hear conversations from behind the door, at no point she managed to hear that Nandito was María's son. And yet, when the truth was revealed, she already knew.

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%%* * GossipyHens - Carlota, mainly.
Carlota. She's always staying behind the doors to try to spy the things going on, discover some nasty secret, and then go triumphant to the cook and tell the other maids "Did you know that...?"
* HandWave: Although Carlota is always trying to hear conversations from behind the door, at no point she managed to hear that Nandito was María's son. And yet, when the truth was revealed, she already knew. Somehow.

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