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* SeekingSanctuary: Played very straight -- to surprisingly good effect -- in an episode. While they're driving into town together, Don Diego's mentor is shot by government officials convinced he's a traitor. The only way for Diego to get him treatment is to duck into the nearby pueblo church and claim sanctuary... then try to figure out how he's going to either A) putting his Zorro clothes on without giving the secret away or B) get out of this as his meek alter ego.
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* SeekingSanctuary: Played very straight -- to surprisingly good effect -- in an episode. While they're driving into town together, Don Diego's mentor is shot by government officials convinced he's a traitor. The only way for Diego to get him treatment is to duck into the nearby pueblo church and claim sanctuary... then try to figure out how he's going to either A) putting put his Zorro clothes on without giving the secret away or B) get out of this as his meek alter ego.
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* LegacyHero: In the two-parter "One For All", Don Diego visits France and meets the descendants of Literature/TheThreeMusketeers.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: In "It's A Wonderful Zorro", Don Diego, laid up with a cold, considers retiring the mask, until a mysterious gentleman shows him what the pueblo would be like if he had never become Zorro.
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In early 19th-century Spanish UsefulNotes/{{California}}, when the commandant of Los Angeles Alcalde Luis Ramone terrorizes the people of the pueblo and oppresses them, Don Alejandro de la Vega summons home from Spain his son Diego to fight the alcalde and his men. When Diego arrives, he finds his town in a sorry state, and while pretending to have little interest in anything but books and his experiments, he creates the SecretIdentity of Zorro. With his mute servant, the teenage Felipe, Diego starts battling the alcalde's tyranny.
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In early 19th-century Spanish UsefulNotes/{{California}}, when the commandant of Los Angeles Alcalde Alcalde[[note]]Spanish for Mayor[[/note]] Luis Ramone terrorizes the people of the pueblo and oppresses them, Don Alejandro de la Vega summons home from Spain his son Diego to fight the alcalde and his men. When Diego arrives, he finds his town in a sorry state, and while pretending to have little interest in anything but books and his experiments, he creates the SecretIdentity of Zorro. With his mute servant, the teenage Felipe, Diego starts battling the alcalde's tyranny.
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* GeneralRipper: Colonel Palomarez. He takes over Los Angeles twice, and on both occasions, he rules the Pueblo with an iron fist.
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''Zorro'' (also known as ''The New Zorro'' and ''New World Zorro'', after producer New World Television) is a 4-season {{swashbuckler}} series starring Duncan Regehr as the [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} eponymous character]]. It aired on The Family Channel (an early version of what eventually became ABC Family, later rebranded as Creator/{{Freeform}}) from 1990 to 1993 for a total of 88 episodes, which was ten more than the 1950s ''Series/{{Zorro|1957}} '' series starring Creator/GuyWilliams.
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''Zorro'' (also known as ''The New Zorro'' and ''New World Zorro'', after producer New World Television) is a 4-season {{swashbuckler}} series starring Duncan Regehr as [[Literature/{{Zorro}} the [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} eponymous character]]. It aired on The Family Channel (an early version of what eventually became ABC Family, later rebranded as Creator/{{Freeform}}) from 1990 to 1993 for a total of 88 episodes, which was ten more than the 1950s ''Series/{{Zorro|1957}} '' series starring Creator/GuyWilliams.
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''Zorro'' (also known as ''The New Zorro'' and ''New World Zorro'', after producer New World Television) is a 4-season {{swashbuckler}} series starring Duncan Regehr as the [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} eponymous character]]. It aired on The Family Channel (an early version of what eventually became ABC Family, later rebranded as Creator/{{Freeform}}) from 1990 to 1993 for a total of 88 episodes, which was ten more than the 1950s Creator/GuyWilliams ''Series/{{Zorro|1957}} '' series.
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''Zorro'' (also known as ''The New Zorro'' and ''New World Zorro'', after producer New World Television) is a 4-season {{swashbuckler}} series starring Duncan Regehr as the [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} eponymous character]]. It aired on The Family Channel (an early version of what eventually became ABC Family, later rebranded as Creator/{{Freeform}}) from 1990 to 1993 for a total of 88 episodes, which was ten more than the 1950s Creator/GuyWilliams ''Series/{{Zorro|1957}} '' series.
series starring Creator/GuyWilliams.
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* {{Catfishing}}: Played with. In one episode, a woman Alejandro has fallen in love with through correspondence shows up and turns out to be a pretty girl in her twenties. Rather than being pleased, Alejandro is put off by this, especially since a cameo portrait that came with one of her letters depicts someone closer to his age. The girl explains that she sent him a picture of her grandmother because she wanted to be sure he loved her for her mind and not her looks, which Alejandro concedes is a reasonable precaution. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he really was writing to the old lady in the cameo and the girl is a ConArtist who (with the help of her boyfriend) murdered the lady and took her place to get at Alejandro's wealth. Alejandro is heartbroken, especially when the con artist confesses that his real pen pal had grown to love him in return.]]
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* ExpositoryThemeTune: Oh boy, ''[[https://youtu.be/xxhud0q5FOE yes]]''.
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* ExpositoryThemeTune: Oh boy, ''[[https://youtu.be/xxhud0q5FOE yes]]''. The song neatly summarizes the corruption and injustice in Los Angeles and Zorro's motives for taking up a masked identity to fight back against it.
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* ScienceHero: This version of Zorro stands out from other incarnations of the chracter by relying heavily on current (for the setting) scientific principles and technology in his work, not unlike [[{{Franchise/Batman}} a more modern superhero who was inspired by Zorro]]. Since the setting is the early 1800s, however, he's limited in how much he can accomplish with science alone and has to supplement it with investigative work and swordplay.
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* InstantSedation: In the episode “Pride of the Pueblo”, Don Diego shows Felipe the impressive knockout power of the newly discovered ether, asking him to smell a cloth with ether on it and Felipe immediately passes out after sniffing it. The ether is used later in the episode to make sure a boxing match doesn’t end with unnecessary bloodshed, by applying it on the boxing gloves of one of the fighters, hoping they sniff them when they bring their guard up to block.
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* InstantSedation: In the episode “Pride of the Pueblo”, Don Diego shows Felipe the impressive knockout power of the newly discovered ether, asking him to smell a cloth with ether on it and Felipe immediately passes out after sniffing it. The ether is used later in the episode to make sure a boxing match doesn’t end with unnecessary bloodshed, by applying it on the boxing gloves of one of the fighters, hoping they sniff them when they bring their guard up to block.
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* InstantSedation: In the episode “Pride of the Pueblo”, Don Diego shows Felipe the impressive knockout power of the newly discovered ether, asking him to smell a cloth with ether on it and Felipe immediately passes out after sniffing it. The ether is used later in the episode to make sure a boxing match doesn’t end with unnecessary bloodshed, by applying it on the boxing gloves of one of the fighters, hoping they sniff them when they bring their guard up to block.
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* WinYourFreedom: In the episode of “Pride of the Pueblo”, an unjustly jailed freedman is given the chance to regain his freedom and leave town by defeating the strongest local guard in a boxing match. The alcalde later goes back on his word, keeping the freedman in jail.
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Since 2011, the series airs in the United States on Retro Television Network as ''The New Zorro''. Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision is the distributor for this version.
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* LaxativePrank: In "Dead Men Tell No Tales", Don Diego is visiting Victoria who has been imprisoned by the Alcade. Knowing that Mendoza will sample all the food he is bringing to her, he doctors the custard to send Mendoza running for the privy so he and Victoria can speak in private.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: In "Dead Men Tell no Tales", Victoria finds one of her guests murdered. she screams and picks up the bloody knife, and is holding it when Sgt. Mendoza arrives.
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* BladeLick: In one episode, Zorro fights a duel during a dinner party, makes his trademark Z in a cake, licks the frosting off his sword and compliments the chef.
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* LickingTheBlade: In one episode, Zorro fights a duel during a dinner party, makes his trademark Z in a cake, licks the frosting off his sword and compliments the chef.
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* CastingGag: Henry Darrow played Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro twice before, in the 1981 animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{The New Adventures of Zorro|1981}}'' (through voice acting) and in the short-lived series ''Zorro and Son'' in 1983. Here he got to play Don Alejandro de la Vega (Diego's father) starting with season 2.
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* RemakeCameo: Henry Darrow played Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro twice before, in the 1981 animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{The New Adventures of Zorro|1981}}'' (through voice acting) and in the short-lived series ''Zorro and Son'' in 1983. Here he got to play Don Alejandro de la Vega (Diego's father) starting with season 2.
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* MasterSwordsman: Zorro is the finest blade in Los Angeles, as is typical for the franchise. To keep up the dramatic tension, some episodes introduce swordmasters from out of town for him to face so that he doesn't always fight the same foes that the audience knows from experience aren't in his league.
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* LovesMyAlterEgo: Unfortunately, Diego's foppish public persona means that he can only flirt with her as Zorro.
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* TechnicalPacifist: For all his swordfighting, Zorro never kills. In fact, he injures his opponents so rarely that in one episode where the Alcalde has hired an impersonator to ruin Zorro's reputation with the townsfolk, Sergeant Garcia realizes something is odd when after a fight with the impostor, he notes that for all the times that Zorro had sliced up his uniform, this was the first time that he had ''ever'' actually wounded him.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alcalde Ramone is initially pleased to see Colonel Palomarez and his goal of capturing Zorro, but is stunned and horrified to find that Palomarez plans to locate Zorro by having an innocent inhabitant of the pueblo hanged each morning until Zorro is found. While he may flog criminals and try to make himself rich by taxing the people, he would never kill those who haven't committed a crime.
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* CarryingTheAntidote: In one episode, Zorro is poisoned. Knowing that he doesn't have time to figure out what the antidote is, but figuring that the poisoner must have one cached somewhere close by in case of accidents, he tricks the man into thinking that he had been given the same poison, and then followed him to it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alcalde Ramone is initially pleased to see Colonel Palomarez and his goal of capturing Zorro, but is stunned and horrified to find that Palomarez plans to locate Zorro by having an innocent inhabitant of the pueblo hanged each morning until Zorro is found. While he may flog criminals and try to make himself rich by taxing the people, and on at least one occasion tried to hang an innocent man he honestly believed was guilty, he would never kill those who he knows haven't committed a crime.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Alcalde Ramone is initially pleased to see Colonel Palomarez and his goal of capturing Zorro, but is stunned and horrified to find that Palomarez plans to locate Zorro by having an innocent inhabitant of the pueblo hanged each morning until Zorro is found. While he may flog criminals and try to make himself rich by taxing the people, and on at least one occasion tried to hang an innocent man he honestly believed was guilty, he would never kill those who he knows haven't committed a crime.
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* TheCorpseStopsHere: In one episode, a tenant farmer drives away a criminal who just murdered his landlord with his musket. Then the Alcalde shows up, sees a dead man and a man holding a recently fired gun, and concludes that the man with the gun did it. Cue the entire town trying to buy time for the only witness to regain consciousness and testify as to what really happened before the Alcalde can hang his prisoner.
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* RevealingInjury: In an episode, Zorro himself uses this as a SpotTheImposter trick. Facing both the Alcalde and his impersonator at the same time, he conclusively proves which one is the real Alcalde to all present by pointing out that he had wounded the true Alcalde on the wrist some time previous, then slashing the sleeves of his opponents to see which one had a scar there.
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* ZorroMark: Often left on his opponents' clothes or the scenery.
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* ZorroMark: Often left by Zorro on his opponents' clothes or the scenery.
