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* AbductionIsLove: When Hector discovers that Rubí only married him for his money and that she's pregnant with Alejandro's child, he becomes insane and kidnaps her in their home, not only to get back at her for ruining his life but also to force her to love him.
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* FalseFriend: Rubí to Maribel, as she only befriended her because of her wealth and because Maribel gave her fancy gifts as jewelry, but Rubí still was envíous of Maribel's social status and even insulted her behind her back, and eventually betrayed her by stealing her boyfriend only for his money.
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* FalseFriend: Rubí to Maribel, as she only befriended her because of her wealth and because Maribel gave her fancy gifts as jewelry, but Rubí still was envíous of Maribel's social status and even insulted her behind her back, and eventually betrayed her by stealing her boyfriend only for his money.
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* HopelessSuitor: Subverted woth Héctor as he was married to Rubí, but she's in love with Alejandro, and Héctor ends up begging her for another chance together which results in his death.
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* FalseFriend: Rubí to Maribel, as she only befriended her because of her wealth and because Maribel gave her fancy gifts as jewelry, but Rubí still was envíous of Maribel's social status and even insulted her behind her back, and eventually betrayed her by stealing her boyfriend only for his money.
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* ColorMotifs: Rubí usually dresses in red outfits and wears red makeup which is the color of rubies.
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* Irony: After betraying Maribel, Rubí mocks her by telling that no man would love her, and she latter gets a photographer named Ernesto, a count named Lucio Montemayor and more importantly ''Alejandro'' interested on her, while Rubí only has Héctor who is insanely jealous of Alejandro and mistreats Rubi for that.
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* ParentalAbandonment: It has been implied that Rubi's father might have abandoned her, her mother and sister
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* ScholarshipStudent: Rubi at least at the very beginningbeginning until she abandons her studies when she escapes with Héctor.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Fernanda to her aunt Rubi in her adult years, with the only difference being Fernanda's blonde hair.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Fernanda to her aunt Rubi in her adult years, with the only difference being Fernanda's blonde hair.
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* FreudianExcuse: the 2010 remake goes hard in giving Rubi a tragic past and several Freudian excuses for being a bitch, including having her biological father leave her mother and marry into a rich family (and Rubi's wealthy female friend Maribel retconned her half-sister) to the backstory that Rubi's single mother briefly lost her daughter in a crowded city, which led to Rubi spending several years a child homeless and wandering the streets starving; which is why her mother (upon finding her) spoiled her rotten.
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Maribel and Alejandro
* YourCheatingHeart: Hector is the greatest example here. Rubi also counts too [[spoiler: as she ended up getting pregnant for Alejandro despite being married to Hector]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Hector is the greatest example here. Rubi also counts too [[spoiler: as she ended up getting pregnant for Alejandro despite being married to Hector]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Maribel and Alejandro
* YourCheatingHeart: Hector is the greatest example here. Rubi also counts too [[spoiler: as she ended up getting pregnant for Alejandro despite being married to Hector]]Alejandro
* YourCheatingHeart: Hector is the greatest example here. Rubi also counts too [[spoiler: as she ended up getting pregnant for Alejandro despite being married to Hector]]
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* SpoiledSweet: Maribel
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* Blondebrunetteredhead: BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hector, Alejandro, and Maribel, respectively. Interestingly, both Alejandro and Maribel are rather brainy, whereas Hector is both dumb and fiery.
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''Rubi'' (2004-2005) is a {{telenovela}} produced and distributed by Creator/{{Televisa}} in Mexico, and distributed in the United States by Creator/{{Univision}}.The original story ([[CharacterTitle with the same name]]) was a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amorfirst. The first telenovela adaptation aired in 1968 and was remade in 2010 in the Phillipines.
The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as Rubi Perez, a beautiful smart student on a scholarship at a prestigious school thanks to the hardwork and efforts of her older sister Cristina. She desires to be rich by marrying her way out of poverty. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente, a wealthy yet kindhearted lady with a defect on her left leg which prevents her from having a normal social life.
Rubí meets Maribel's boyfriend Héctor Ferrer , an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas, a doctor. Héctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart. Rubi's mother tries to make Rubi see that money is not everything and that she will regret leaving Alejandro. She then sets out to seduce Héctor and makes it her mission to escape the poverty she is in.
The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as Rubi Perez, a beautiful smart student on a scholarship at a prestigious school thanks to the hardwork and efforts of her older sister Cristina. She desires to be rich by marrying her way out of poverty. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente, a wealthy yet kindhearted lady with a defect on her left leg which prevents her from having a normal social life.
Rubí meets Maribel's boyfriend Héctor Ferrer , an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas, a doctor. Héctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart. Rubi's mother tries to make Rubi see that money is not everything and that she will regret leaving Alejandro. She then sets out to seduce Héctor and makes it her mission to escape the poverty she is in.
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The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as
Rubí meets Maribel's boyfriend Héctor Ferrer , an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas, a doctor. Héctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Best way to describe Rubi
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The bitter:Rubi Rubí losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.]]
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* Blondebrunetteredhead: Hector, Alejandro, and Maribel, respectively.
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Rubi (Cynic), Alejandro (Realist), Maribel (Optimist), Hector (Conflicted), Loreto (Apathetic).
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** Rubi was already a bitch but she hid the bitch part[[spoiler:until after she married Hector.]]
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** Rubi was already a bitch but she hid the bitch part[[spoiler:until rich part [[spoiler:until after she married Hector.]]
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Teresa's reaction to Alejandro breaking up with her in the ending of the series. This also happens to Alejandro himself as Rubi dumped him earlier after finding out he was from a middle-class background.]]
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Teresa's [[spoiler:Rubi's reaction to Alejandro breaking up with her in the ending of the series. This also happens to Alejandro himself as Rubi dumped him earlier after finding out he was from a middle-class background.]]
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Rubi protects her niece Fernanda from getting hit by a car]]
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Rubi protects her niece Fernanda from getting hit by a car]]car and loses her baby as a result]]
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*** [[spoiler: The 2010 version ends with Rubi bearing a scar on her face and crippled after Hector, who in this version becomes deranged, tries to kill her. However, she finally understands the destruction she has caused and becomes free of her own greed, even happy that Maribel and Alejandro get married. In the end, she apologizes in her mother's grave and lives with her aunt. She's poor, but says she is free to love without allowing greed to get in the way]]
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* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: Rubi ends up teaching Fernanda her evil ways and tells her to go cause chaos between Hector and his son thus causing serious heartbreak for Maribel out of sheer spite.]]
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* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: Rubi ends up teaching Fernanda her evil ways and tells her to go cause chaos between Hector Alejandro and his son thus causing serious heartbreak for Maribel out of sheer spite.]]
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The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as Rubi Perez, a beautiful smart student on a scholarship at a prestigious school thanks to the hardwork and efforts of her older sister Cristina. She desires to be rich by befriending the rich kids around her and also marrying her way out of poverty. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente, a wealthy yet kindhearted lady with a defect on her left leg which prevents her from having a normal social life.
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The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as Rubi Perez, a beautiful smart student on a scholarship at a prestigious school thanks to the hardwork and efforts of her older sister Cristina. She desires to be rich by befriending the rich kids around her.her and also marrying her way out of poverty. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente, a wealthy yet kindhearted lady with a defect on her left leg which prevents her from having a normal social life.
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** Rubi was already a bitch but she hid that the bitch part[[spoiler:until after she married Hector.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: ** The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: ** The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.]]
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*TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: Rubi ends up teaching Fernanda her evil ways and tells her to go cause chaos between Hector and his son thus causing serious heartbreak for Maribel out of sheer spite.]]
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"Rubi" (2004-2005) is a {{telenovela}} produced and distributed by Creator/{{Televisa}} in Mexico, and distributed in the United States by Creator/{{Univision}.Creator/{{Univision}}.The original story ([[CharacterTitle with the same name]]) was a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amorfirst. The first telenovela adaptation aired in 1968 and was remade in 2010 in the Phillipines.
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CoolBigSis: Fernanda treats her aunt [[The corruptor [[TheCorrupter Rubi this way.]]
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gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: ** The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face.]]
face gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.]]
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"Rubi" (2004-2005) is a {{telenovela}} produced and distributed by Creator/{{Televisa}} in Mexico, and distributed in the United States by Creator/{{Univision}.The original story ([[CharacterTitle with the same name]]) was a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amorfirst. The first telenovela adaptation aired in 1968 and was remade in 2010 in the Phillipines.
The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as Rubi Perez, a beautiful smart student on a scholarship at a prestigious school thanks to the hardwork and efforts of her older sister Cristina. She desires to be rich by befriending the rich kids around her. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente, a wealthy yet kindhearted lady with a defect on her left leg which prevents her from having a normal social life.
Rubí meets Maribel's boyfriend Héctor Ferrer , an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas, a doctor. Héctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart. Rubi's mother tries to make Rubi see that money is not everything and that she will regret leaving Alejandro. She then sets out to seduce Héctor and makes it her mission to escape the poverty she is in.
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*BitchInSHeepsClothing: Best way to describe Rubi
*BittersweetEnding:
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**The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face
gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.
**The sweet: Alejandro becomes a successful man later in life and marries Maribel.]]
CoolBigSis: Fernanda treats her aunt [[The corruptor Rubi this way.]]
* DestructiveRomance: Rubi's relationship with Hector in spades
**[[spoiler: She married Hector for his money and manipulated and lied to him. The irony of this is that she still loved Alejandro. As a result, Hector dies in a car accident.]]
* GoldDigger: The central premise of the series. Rubi wants to escape poverty by all means by marrying a rich man.
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:For Maribel and Alejandro.]]
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Maribel and Alejandro.]]
* HumiliationConga: Shortly after Rubi ''finally'' gets the power and wealth that she had always wanted, [[spoiler:she stole Hector from Maribel to get to the top and this in turn causes a lot of problem for her as her friends and family turn their backs on her and she is left alone to suffer for her actions.]]
**Lovable Alpha Bitch: Maribel
* ParentalAbandonment: It has been implied that Rubi's father might have abandoned her, her mother and sister
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Teresa's reaction to Alejandro breaking up with her in the ending of the series. This also happens to Alejandro himself as Rubi dumped him earlier after finding out he was from a middle-class background.]]
* RagstoRiches: Rubi's entire modus operandi
* RichBitch
** Rubi was already a bitch but she hid that part[[spoiler:until after she married Hector.]]
** Maribel is the much nicer version and the only reason she counts here is because she was born into a wealthy family
* RunawayFiancee: [[spoiler: Hector runs away from the altar during his marriage to Maribel and runs off with Rubi]]
* ScholarshipStudent: Rubi at least at the very begginnig
* SpoiledSweet: Maribel
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Rubi protects her niece Fernanda from getting hit by a car]]
* VillainProtagonist: Rubi big time. Her greed gets in the way of whatever love she feels for anyone deep down. [[HumiliationConga which should not come as a surprise given what happens to her years later.]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Maribel and Alejandro
* YourCheatingHeart: Hector is the greatest example here. Rubi also counts too [[spoiler: as she ended up getting pregnant for Alejandro despite being married to Hector]]
"Rubi" (2004-2005) is a {{telenovela}} produced and distributed by Creator/{{Televisa}} in Mexico, and distributed in the United States by Creator/{{Univision}.The original story ([[CharacterTitle with the same name]]) was a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amorfirst. The first telenovela adaptation aired in 1968 and was remade in 2010 in the Phillipines.
The 2004 remake stars Barbara Mori as Rubi Perez, a beautiful smart student on a scholarship at a prestigious school thanks to the hardwork and efforts of her older sister Cristina. She desires to be rich by befriending the rich kids around her. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente, a wealthy yet kindhearted lady with a defect on her left leg which prevents her from having a normal social life.
Rubí meets Maribel's boyfriend Héctor Ferrer , an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas, a doctor. Héctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart. Rubi's mother tries to make Rubi see that money is not everything and that she will regret leaving Alejandro. She then sets out to seduce Héctor and makes it her mission to escape the poverty she is in.
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*BitchInSHeepsClothing: Best way to describe Rubi
*BittersweetEnding:
[[spoiler:
**The bitter: Rubi losing everything she ever held dear; her husband dies, her friends, Alejandro and family octracize her. Worst of all her face
gets disfigured and she is now a cripple. The alternate ending shows her finding solitude elsewhere but still very much alone.
**The sweet: Alejandro becomes a successful man later in life and marries Maribel.]]
CoolBigSis: Fernanda treats her aunt [[The corruptor Rubi this way.]]
* DestructiveRomance: Rubi's relationship with Hector in spades
**[[spoiler: She married Hector for his money and manipulated and lied to him. The irony of this is that she still loved Alejandro. As a result, Hector dies in a car accident.]]
* GoldDigger: The central premise of the series. Rubi wants to escape poverty by all means by marrying a rich man.
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:For Maribel and Alejandro.]]
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Maribel and Alejandro.]]
* HumiliationConga: Shortly after Rubi ''finally'' gets the power and wealth that she had always wanted, [[spoiler:she stole Hector from Maribel to get to the top and this in turn causes a lot of problem for her as her friends and family turn their backs on her and she is left alone to suffer for her actions.]]
**Lovable Alpha Bitch: Maribel
* ParentalAbandonment: It has been implied that Rubi's father might have abandoned her, her mother and sister
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:Teresa's reaction to Alejandro breaking up with her in the ending of the series. This also happens to Alejandro himself as Rubi dumped him earlier after finding out he was from a middle-class background.]]
* RagstoRiches: Rubi's entire modus operandi
* RichBitch
** Rubi was already a bitch but she hid that part[[spoiler:until after she married Hector.]]
** Maribel is the much nicer version and the only reason she counts here is because she was born into a wealthy family
* RunawayFiancee: [[spoiler: Hector runs away from the altar during his marriage to Maribel and runs off with Rubi]]
* ScholarshipStudent: Rubi at least at the very begginnig
* SpoiledSweet: Maribel
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Rubi protects her niece Fernanda from getting hit by a car]]
* VillainProtagonist: Rubi big time. Her greed gets in the way of whatever love she feels for anyone deep down. [[HumiliationConga which should not come as a surprise given what happens to her years later.]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Maribel and Alejandro
* YourCheatingHeart: Hector is the greatest example here. Rubi also counts too [[spoiler: as she ended up getting pregnant for Alejandro despite being married to Hector]]
