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| 4 | ->''"Arsène Lupin is more than a book. It’s my heritage. My method. My path. I am Lupin."'' |
| 5 | -->---'''Assane Diop''' |
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| 7 | ''Lupin'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}}-produced French crime thriller series created by George Kay and François Uzan and directed by Creator/LouisLeterrier, Marcela Said, Ludovic Bernard, Hugo Gélin, Daniel Grou and Xavier Gens. It began streaming on on January 8, 2021. Upon its release, ''Lupin'' became Netflix' most successful non-English-language series of all time, maintaining this distinction until ''Series/SquidGame'' came out later that year. |
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| 9 | The show stars Creator/OmarSy in the role of [[LovableRogue Assane Diop]], a professional thief whose father [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest Babakar]], an immigrant from UsefulNotes/{{Senegal}}, died by an apparent suicide in his prison cell after his employer, the wealthy and powerful [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hubert Pellegrini]], framed him for the theft of an expensive diamond necklace that once belonged to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette. |
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| 11 | Twenty-five years later, Assane, inspired by his love for ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' novels after Babakar gifted him one for his 14th birthday, uses his charisma and his mastery of thievery, subterfuge and disguise, as well as some help from his antiquarian best friend [[HypercompetentSidekick Benjamin]], to get revenge on the Pellegrini family and to find proof of his father's innocence. However, Assane struggles to balance his quest for vengeance with his duties to his estranged wife [[GirlNextDoor Claire]] and their young son [[TheQuietOne Raoul]]. And to complicate matters further, a [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist shrewd police detective]]--who is also a huge fan of the Lupin stories--has begun to connect the dots regarding Assane's activities. |
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| 13 | In addition to Sy, the series stars Creator/LudivineSagnier as Claire Laurent, Antoine Gouy as Benjamin Férel, Soufiane Guerrab as Detective Youssef Guédira, Creator/ShirineBoutella as Lieutenant (later Captain) Sofia Belkacem, Hervé Pierre as Hubert Pellegrini, Clotilde Hesme as Juliette Pellegrini, and Etan Simon as Raoul Diop. |
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| 15 | A second season was released on June 11, 2021, and a third came out on October 5, 2023. |
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| 17 | It is not related to ''Franchise/LupinIII'', although they [[DerivativeWorks/ArseneLupin share the same inspiration]]. |
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| 19 | !!''Lupin'' provides examples of: |
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| 24 | * TheNineties: The flashbacks to Assane's youth take place in 1995 (and, in Part 3, 1998). The cars seen in the streets, the fact that francs (rather than euros) are being used as currency, Benjamin's shaggy hairstyle and Claire's double-denim outfits are all era-appropriate. In Part 3, the 1998 World Cup, which France famously won, is also a plot point. |
| 25 | * AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Humorously subverted. By the beginning of Part 3 Assane has spent a full year on the run away from Claire. He then sees her exactly once (resulting in her reprimanding him for allowing her and Raoul to be abused by the media), before [[spoiler:"dying" in a fall]] immediately afterwards. Claire is genuinely distraught by this, but nonetheless grows increasingly close to Raoul's new basketball coach, Alex...who turns out to be Assane in heavy prosthetics. |
| 26 | * AccentsArentHereditary: Babakar and Mariama have accents typical of French speakers from West Africa, but teenaged Assane just sounds like a kid from the Parisian banlieues, even though it's implied that he and Babakar had moved from Senegal not too long before 1995. |
| 27 | * ActorAllusion: |
| 28 | ** There are a number of possible references to ''Film/{{Intouchables}}'', the film which first made Creator/OmarSy (as Driss) an international success: |
| 29 | *** Assane's dancing to the Four Tops in his apartment seems to be a nod to Driss dancing to "Boogie Wonderland" by Music/EarthWindAndFire. |
| 30 | *** In ''Intouchables'', Driss steals a Fabergé egg from Philippe, his wealthy employer. In ''Lupin'', Assane repeats the feat while scamming a rich older woman. |
| 31 | *** There's also a scene in which Fabienne states that Hubert Pellegrini is "untouchable." |
| 32 | ** Assane's final disguise as a fireman looks a ''lot'' like Omar Sy's Bishop get-up from ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast.'' |
| 33 | * AdaptationAmalgamation: The show mixes and matches elements from different Arsène Lupin stories rather than making any attempt to adapt them directly. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that it's not a true adaptation but rather the story of a man who is inspired by the Lupin books. |
| 34 | * AllForNothing: Assane's decision to appear on ''The Other Edition.'' Not only does it fail to take down Hubert, it also leads to [[spoiler:Fabienne's murder]] and more indirectly to every major problem that Assane faces from there on out. |
| 35 | * AllWomenAreLustful: Downplayed but nonetheless present. Claire, Juliette, and Fleur are far more forward about their romantic and sexual feelings than the likes of Guédira, Benjamin, Bruno, and Philippe, who either CannotSpitItOut or lack love interests entirely. Even Assane is depicted as being rather inexperienced as a teenager--Claire and Juliette are the ones who initiate physical intimacy with him, rather than the other way around. |
| 36 | ** Belkacem is a notable aversion, as she's rather prudish and uptight when it comes to matters of the heart. |
| 37 | * AlternateUniverse: The first two parts of the series are set in 2020 (as seen on various newspapers and with a mention of Raoul's birthday on December 11, 2020), but there isn't a single visible sign of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic (restaurants are open while they weren't in France back then, and no one wears a protective mask), which 2020 will be forever associated with. It would probably have been too impractical to include it in the plot, and half of the series was filmed before it broke out. |
| 38 | * AnachronicOrder: The present timeline is regularly intercut with flashbacks which [[HowWeGotHere contextualize the events occurring currently]], or represent analogous situations which Assane remembers in order to figure out the best course of action. |
| 39 | ** The flashbacks in Part 3 take a slightly different approach, following a linear storyline in which Assane joins a boxing club. It's not until around two thirds of the way through the season that it becomes clear exactly how this is relevant to the present-day events. |
| 40 | * TheAnnotatedEdition: Assane gives Raoul his old copy of the ''Arsène Lupin'' book, which has his own notes scribbled all over it. |
| 41 | * ApatheticCitizens: While Assane and Claire's backs are turned, Raoul [[spoiler: gets abducted by Léonard. From a crowded beach, in broad daylight. And none of the many people standing near him seem to have noticed or cared, aside from Guédira.]] |
| 42 | * AristocratsAreEvil: Played straight with Hubert Pellegrini, but downplayed for his wife and daughter, who respectively come across as being WeakWilled and [[RichBitch a bit snobby]] but generally well-meaning. |
| 43 | * TheArtifact: |
| 44 | ** J'accuse has started to become this, particularly since his trademark RunningGag of barking whenever the name "Pellegrini" is said around him is irrelevant with Hubert Pellegrini OutOfFocus in Part 3. It's common for him to disappear for long periods of time, only to turn up in a random scene seemingly just to assure audiences that the writers didn't forget about his existence. |
| 45 | ** Benjamin's status as the proprietor of a successful antique shop was largely an InformedAttribute to begin with--he sells a grand total of one item onscreen and his only evident "customers" are Assane, Claire and whomever they happen to bring over--but as of Part 3, although he still owns the business, this aspect of his characterization has faded into the background, as he becomes more of a GadgeteerGenius who seemingly assists Assane full-time. |
| 46 | ** Surprisingly inverted for Claire's job. It was established early on that she worked at a hospital but this had no bearing on the plot in Parts 1 and 2; however in Part 3 it actually does become relevant. |
| 47 | * ArtisticLicense: |
| 48 | ** The Website/{{Wikipedia}} of the show's universe apparently has some ''very'' lax editing standards, given that Assane is able to create entire detailed entries for nonexistent people such as Paul Sernine. Were this RealLife, something like that would have been removed immediately. |
| 49 | ** Had Guédira actually read all of the Lupin stories as he claims to have done, he'd have been well aware that the [[SignificantAnagram Significant Anagrams]] "Luis Perenna" and "Paul Sernine" are both canonical aliases of Arsène Lupin--which is to say, he shouldn't have needed to put any effort into decoding them. The series likely ignores this to give him his first EurekaMoment. |
| 50 | ** Raoul's fourteenth birthday is established to be on December 11th, 2020. However, this fell on a Friday, and December 11th is not typically part of the Christmas holiday as observed by French schools, which means that Raoul would have had to have skipped school in order to take a day trip to Étretat with his parents. No indication is given that he did so. |
| 51 | ** In episode 3.04, Claire goes to the library to find the Arsène Lupin book ''Edith au Cou de Cygne'' ("Edith Swan-Neck"). There is no standalone Lupin book with this title; rather it's a short story which was published in the 1913 anthology ''Les Confidences d'Arsène Lupin''. |
| 52 | ** The extent to which people are depicted as being reliant on print media seems rather fanciful for a show which is unambiguously set in TheNewTwenties. This is especially noticeable in Part 3, in which the characters routinely seek out physical copies of newspapers and books when they could easily have found the information they were looking for online--particularly when one considers that the Arsène Lupin character has been in the public domain in France since 2012. |
| 53 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Assane and Claire's conversation on "Raoul's bridge" in the 2006 flashback indicates that they are already aware that their unborn child is going to be a boy. However, it's strongly implied that Claire had discovered that she was pregnant very shortly before revealing it to Assane, meaning that it would have been too early for the baby's biological sex to be determined. |
| 54 | * ArtisticLicenseEducation: The school that Assane is sent to in 1995 is called the "College d'Andrésy." In France, ''college'' refers to the first part of a student's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education_in_France secondary education,]] between the ages of 11 and 15. This is fair enough since Assane is 14 when he begins attending, but in the 1998 flashbacks he and Benjamin are still at the same school, despite the fact that they're now 17 and would have graduated to a ''lycée'' (the final stage of secondary education, from ages 15 to 18). Some older ''lycées'' carry a ''college'' section, but if that were the case for Assane's school it should have been called the "Lycée d'Andrésy." (For more information, see UsefulNotes/LesGrandesEcoles.) |
| 55 | * ArtisticLicenseGeography: |
| 56 | ** The series suggests that there are train connections directly from Le Havre to Étretat; these were discontinued years before 2020, when Part 1 is set. |
| 57 | ** The various journeys taken between Paris and Normandy seem to last anywhere between two and seven hours, given the depicted sunset and sunrise times. An actual car ride from the middle of Paris to Étretat would take around three hours. |
| 58 | *** The sun should have been starting to set at the time of [[spoiler:Raoul's kidnapping]], given that it happens in the middle of the afternoon in northern France, less than two weeks away from the winter solstice. However, in the series, there are evidently several more hours of full daylight following the abduction. |
| 59 | ** In Parts 1 and 2, Benjamin's antique shop is located in the flea markets at Saint-Ouen, a suburb just north of Paris. However, right after he flees the shop when [[spoiler: he and Assane are found out]], he's suddenly walking around Bercy, a neighborhood in the southeast of the city. |
| 60 | ** At the end of the Part 2 finale, Assane sends a message to Claire and Raoul, telling them to be at the Passerelle Mornay (a.k.a. "Raoul's Bridge") in half an hour. When they get there, Assane hasn't arrived yet, even though the speedboat he was on when he contacted them would have gotten him from the Théâtre du Châtelet to the bridge in less than fifteen minutes. |
| 61 | * ArtisticLicenseHistory: |
| 62 | ** The Marie Antoinette necklace doesn't look like its historical counterpart, which has disappeared, but copies have survived. |
| 63 | ** There really was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Tahitian_War Franco-Tahitian War.]] It did not have anything to do with a black pearl. (To give the writers credit where it's due--Tahiti actually ''is'' known for its black pearls, produced by local black lip pearl oysters.) |
| 64 | * ArtisticLicenseLaw: Guédira uses the recording of [[spoiler:Hubert admitting to all of his crimes]] in order to take him into custody. However, since the confession was clearly coerced under duress by Assane, it would almost certainly be considered inadmissible as evidence in RealLife. |
| 65 | * TheBadGuysAreCops: Over the course of the series, we learn that there is an alarming amount of corruption in the Paris police department, starting straight from the top. However, Laugier, Belkacem and Guédira avert this trope. |
| 66 | * BalkanBastard: |
| 67 | ** Bogdan, the thug who threatens Assane in prison, seems to be one of these. |
| 68 | ** The name of the sex trafficker whom Assane accuses Dumont of having accepted bribes from ("Damir Cilic") indicates that he's of ex-Yugoslav ancestry. |
| 69 | * BatmanGambit: |
| 70 | ** The Marie Antoinette necklace heist has Assane [[spoiler:expecting his gang to betray him and turn all the police attention on themselves like thugs of their kind usually do, thereby allowing him to steal the necklace under everyone's noses while throwing the fake one on the ground.]] |
| 71 | ** Assane understands Juliette's nostalgia for their old fling well enough to know exactly what to do and say to her so that she'll fall further and further into his arms and turn on her father. |
| 72 | * BearHug: Assane often gives these to his family. |
| 73 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Can apply to the major female characters in the series. |
| 74 | ** Juliette represents beauty: a tall, sophisticated heiress who clearly invests a lot of time into looking her best, but who tends towards naiveté and thus gets taken for a ride--both literally and metaphorically--by Assane. |
| 75 | ** Claire represents brains: an unassuming yet quick-witted single mother who is an ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter and, being one of the very few people who truly understands Assane, is even able to get the better of him on occasion. |
| 76 | ** Belkacem represents brawn: a tough, {{Tsundere}}-ish ActionGirl who makes up for her relative lack of cleverness with [[{{Determinator}} her tenacity and grit.]] |
| 77 | ** Part 3 introduces new female characters in Manon and Fleur, who can be grouped under brawn and brains respectively. |
| 78 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the beginning of Part 3, Claire ruefully tells Assane that the only way he would be able to make things right for her and Raoul would be to turn himself in to the police. [[BookEnds By the end of the season]], [[spoiler:that's exactly what he's done]]--except by that point Claire is devastated by the decision. |
| 79 | * BecomingTheMask: In Assane's words, "I am Lupin." |
| 80 | * BettyAndVeronica: Claire is the caring and down-to-earth Betty to Juliette's more ostentatious and outgoing Veronica. Since Claire is blonde and Juliette is brunette, they also qualify as LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine. Fittingly, Juliette is [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys drawn to Assane's more roguish side]], as opposed to Claire, who [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan fell for Assane when he described himself as a "gentleman."]] |
| 81 | * BigBadEnsemble: Hubert Pellegrini, his associates, and the police all function as antagonists in the series, although (aside from Dumont) the last of these may be more accurately described as [[HeroAntagonist Hero Antagonists]], since their main desire is simply to do their job by capturing a notorious criminal. And by the end, the three-officer unit of Laugier, Belkacem and Guédira have pretty much crossed over into being protagonists, as they're the ones who wind up [[spoiler: taking Hubert and Dumont into custody]]. |
| 82 | ** Keller and his crew fulfill this role in Part 3. |
| 83 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 84 | ** Guédira, when he saves [[spoiler: Raoul]] from getting [[spoiler: burned alive]] by Léonard. |
| 85 | ** Guédira, Belkacem and Laugier when they [[spoiler: arrest Dumont while allowing Assane to walk free]], for the time being at least. |
| 86 | * BigDamnReunion: These seem to happen around OnceASeason for Assane, Claire and Raoul. |
| 87 | * ABirthdayNotABreak: |
| 88 | ** Apparently, Babakar died around the time of his son's birthday. After the funeral, Assane finds the present (an Arsène Lupin book) that his father had intended to give to him. |
| 89 | ** Poor Raoul [[spoiler:gets kidnapped and nearly killed]] on his fourteenth birthday. |
| 90 | *** His fifteenth birthday doesn't seem to have been that great either since it occurred two days after [[spoiler:Assane's funeral.]] |
| 91 | * BittersweetEnding: |
| 92 | ** The ending to Part 2, which has Assane, [[spoiler: having seen off both Hubert and Dumont]], [[BigDamnReunion finally reuniting with his family]] but telling them that [[ButNowIMustGo he needs to leave town for a while to keep them safe.]] |
| 93 | ** Part 3 has one as well. To summarize: Assane [[spoiler:turns himself in to the police in return for his family's safety and Benjamin's release]]. Although she's now free from media harassment, Claire is distraught that she, Raoul and Assane will once again not be able to be together. Oh, and Assane's old friends the Pellegrinis are back on the scene in a major way. Plus, it's vaguely implied that Mariama is not quite what she seems. The only characters who really get a happy ending are Manon and Bruno, who decide to re-open Keller's old boxing club, but without the toxic masculinity and with a Lupin-inspired theme. |
| 94 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: Sure, Hubert Pellegrini is a completely unrepentant {{Jerkass}} on every level, but Assane has certainly done questionable things as well... |
| 95 | * BlackAndNerdy: Assane is a Lupin-loving nerd, and it seems like Babakar was a fan of the stories before him. Raoul may count, too, although he's mixed-race since his mother is Caucasian. |
| 96 | * BlackIsBiggerInBed: A young Juliette invokes this when seducing 14-yea- old Assane when he comes to the house of the Pelligrinis...even though [[LastSecondWordSwap the thing she ends up saying]] is that she heard that Black people "can't swim well." |
| 97 | * BookSafe: When he was 14, Assane hollowed out the Bible he was given to hide ''Arsène Lupin'' novels in it. |
| 98 | * BoringInsult: After Assane breaks off his and Juliette's affair in order to commit to his relationship with Claire, Juliette complains that Claire's name is boring, and that this means that her personality must be boring as well. Later on, when she and Assane meet in the present day, Juliette insinuates that Claire's life is dull and unfulfilling. |
| 99 | * BrandX: |
| 100 | ** "Deli + Eat" stands in for Uber Eats. |
| 101 | ** Dumont's Siri/Alexa-like virtual assistant is called "Circe." |
| 102 | * BrokenPedestal: |
| 103 | ** Assane, during the period in which he thinks that Babakar was truly responsible for the necklace theft. |
| 104 | ** Another one for teenaged Assane when he realizes what a bad guy Keller is. |
| 105 | ** Juliette experiences this when she finds out that the father [[DaddysGirl she's been close with her entire life]] is a murderous monster who [[spoiler: wanted to steal millions of euros from her own foundation.]] |
| 106 | ** Manon, when Assane tells her the full story of how Keller took advantage of everyone he claimed to be protecting. |
| 107 | * BrutalBrawl: Assane gets involved in several, but his fight with Pascal in Chapter 10 of Part 2 stands out in particular. |
| 108 | * CallBack: |
| 109 | ** Part 2's final scene on "Raoul's bridge" is a reference to the 2006 flashback sequence in which Assane and Claire choose Raoul's name. |
| 110 | *** The bridge also appears in the final episode of Part 3, as it's the location where Assane steals a motorboat. |
| 111 | ** ''The Objector'', the newspaper where Fleur works, is the one that Fabienne originally helped to get off the ground. |
| 112 | * TheCameo: |
| 113 | ** Mathieu Lamboley, the composer of the series' soundtrack, conducts the orchestra in the Part 2 finale. |
| 114 | ** TV journalists Aurélie Casse and Cécile Ollivier can be seen [[AsHimself as themselves]] in several InUniverse news broadcasts on Assane's activities. |
| 115 | ** Co-creator and writer François Uzan [[CreatorCameo appears as the dock inspector]] in episode 3.07. |
| 116 | * CastingGag: |
| 117 | ** This isn't [[Film/LoveSongs the first time]] that Ludivine Sagnier and Clotilde Hesme have played women in love with the same man. |
| 118 | ** Probably unintentional, but Antoine Gouy as Benjamin bears a passing resemblance to Fred Testot, Omar Sy's former comedy partner. |
| 119 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Most of the supporting characters experienced this in some capacity as their personalities got defined more clearly in Part 3. |
| 120 | ** Claire started out as a weak-kneed WetBlanketWife who spent most of her screen time begging Assane to stop lying to her and fretting over how his criminal activity was affecting Raoul. She's since become a bit braver and more playful, gaining a mischievous streak while still remaining TheHeart and an ActualPacifist overall. Ironically, this shift has brought her adult characterization closer to how she'd always been depicted as a teenager in the 1990s flashbacks. |
| 121 | *** Parts 1 and 2 showed her making a concerted effort to move on from Assane by dating other men, but in Part 3 it's strongly implied that she has a SingleTargetSexuality for him. |
| 122 | ** Benjamin was initially something of a PragmaticAntiHero, as Assane's voiceover narration during his introduction described him as someone with questionable morals but UndyingLoyalty. Over time he transitioned into being more of a NiceGuy, with a greater emphasis placed on his helpfulness and his protective attitude towards Claire and Raoul. |
| 123 | ** Guédira went from being a PerpetualFrowner and SicklyNeuroticGeek--with Belkacem even making sarcastic comments about his always looking unwell--to a DitzyGenius with NoSocialSkills as the show increasingly played up his eccentricities. He's also gotten more confident and proactive about directly going against the wishes of his superiors in the police department, thus becoming a particularly nerdy variant of the CowboyCop. |
| 124 | ** Belkacem has kept her HairTriggerTemper, but her impulsivity and GunNut tendencies have been toned down slightly since she took over Laugier's old role as TheCaptain. |
| 125 | ** Raoul has gotten a bit more assertive, and in Part 3 he demonstrates a heretofore unknown interest in basketball. |
| 126 | * ChekhovsGun: In one of the 1998 flashbacks, Claire teases Assane for his habit of placing ketchup bottles in the refrigerator upside-down. In the present day, her knowledge of this quirk clues her into the fact that Raoul's basketball coach "Alex", who does the same thing, is actually Assane in disguise. |
| 127 | * ChekhovsGunman: |
| 128 | ** Two prisoners that Assane meets in Chapter 2 reappear in [[spoiler:Chapter 8 disguised as police officers meeting with Juliette.]] |
| 129 | ** Philippe Courbet, Hubert's young, bespectacled accountant, [[spoiler:is actually an accomplice of Assane and Benjamin.]] |
| 130 | * ChevalierVsRogue: Teenaged Claire invokes this trope near verbatim when she suggests that there are two kinds of men (and initially claims not to like either category, although she's more than willing to accept Assane as a companion even after designating him as a "chevalier"). Assane later claims that he's a third type, the "gentleman", which moves Claire to kiss him. |
| 131 | * ChillyReception: |
| 132 | ** Assane gets one in prison. |
| 133 | ** Léonard, Assane and Guédira all experience this in the sleepy Normandy town of Bourneville. It's implied that this is because none of the three are white (Assane and Léonard are Black while Guédira is North African). |
| 134 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: |
| 135 | ** Captain Romain Laugier, a fairly important character in Parts 1 and 2, simply disappears from Part 3 with no explanation as to where he went. In his absence Belkacem is promoted from lieutenant to captain, and neither she nor Guédira ever brings him up in casual conversation. OutOfUniverse it seems likely that the showrunners decided that Guédira and Belkacem worked better as a duo and wanted to play up the BelligerentSexualTension between them; thus rather than risk Laugier becoming TheArtifact he was preemptively written out. |
| 136 | ** A minor Part 2 arc sees Claire, having [[spoiler:severed ties with Assane in the wake of Raoul's abduction]], going OnTheRebound with a co-worker named Marc. After the guy makes an awkward attempt to chat with Raoul in episode 2.04, he's never seen or mentioned again, in what is a clear-cut case of CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds since Part 3 cements Assane and Claire as the show's OfficialCouple. |
| 137 | * ClearMyName: Outside of getting revenge against the Pellegrini family, Assane's main drive is to prove that his deceased father was not guilty of stealing Marie-Antoinette's diamond necklace and was framed for it instead. By the end of Part 2, he's also forced to prove [[spoiler: that he's not a murderer.]] |
| 138 | * {{Cliffhanger}}: |
| 139 | ** The ending of Part 1 has [[spoiler: Raoul getting kidnapped, Claire and Assane desperately searching for him, and Assane finally coming face to face with Guédira.]] |
| 140 | ** Episode 2.01's conclusion leads the viewer (and Assane) to believe that [[spoiler: Raoul has been killed.]] |
| 141 | ** Episode 2.02 ends with Claire telling Assane to [[spoiler: run away before he can be caught by the police.]] |
| 142 | ** The first episode in Part 3 ends with Assane [[spoiler:falling multiple stories from a roof, seemingly to his death.]] |
| 143 | ** The final scene in Episode 3.06 has [[spoiler:Keller breaking into Claire's apartment.]] |
| 144 | ** Part 3's finale ends with a RevealShot showing that Assane's [[spoiler:neighbor in prison is Hubert Pellegrini]]. |
| 145 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Belkacem for Guédira and Claire for Raoul. In terms of how they demonstrate their somewhat exasperated affection, [[GentleTouchVsFirmHand Belkacem is the firm hand to Claire's gentle touch.]] |
| 146 | * CommonalityConnection: Benjamin and Claire are depicted as being good friends due to their both having close relationships with Assane. |
| 147 | * TheCon: The series isn't short on them. |
| 148 | * ConsistentClothingStyle: |
| 149 | ** Assane and his black trenchcoats, flat caps, and Fred Perry jackets, and ''particularly'' his Air Jordan sneakers, of which he seems to own upwards of twenty pairs. It's also common for him to wear at least one orange article of clothing, orange being his [[ColorMotifs Color Motif.]] |
| 150 | ** In keeping with TrueBlueFemininity, Claire almost always wears denim bottoms. When outside she's generally dressed in an overcoat, which is beige in early episodes but switches to black later on. |
| 151 | ** Benjamin usually wears skinny jeans, button-down shirts and brown jackets. |
| 152 | ** Guédira and Belkacem both typically sport bomber jackets (Guédira's is black while Belkacem's is khaki-colored) with requisite police arm bands. Belkacem also wears combat boots. |
| 153 | ** Raoul undergoes a SignificantWardrobeShift between Parts 2 and 3, as he begins wearing Nike sportswear almost exclusively, indicating his increased interest in athletics. |
| 154 | ** Léonard is easily distinguished by his habit of wearing [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat a long beige trenchcoat all the time.]] |
| 155 | * ContrivedCoincidence: Given that there are multiple hospitals in the Paris area, it's more than a little convenient that Assane picked ''the one where Claire works'' as the location for his [[spoiler:fake autopsy.]] This is what ultimately allows Claire to figure out that [[spoiler:Assane is still alive]], as she discovers that "Doctor Vernes" (a.k.a. Philippe Courbet) was never in the hospital's database. |
| 156 | * CorruptPolitician: Thierry Floron, the minister of the interior. |
| 157 | * CrystalBallScheduling: While it's not a direct adaptation of the ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' stories, it essentially [[SettingUpdate updates them for the twenty-first century]], with Assane recreating some of Lupin's famous heists, and with many of the other characters being inspired by actual ''Lupin'' characters. Usually, in-story, this is referenced by someone in the episode (most often Guédira or Raoul) reading the corresponding Lupin adventure, and at least in the early episodes the stories were in publishing order. |
| 158 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: |
| 159 | ** The other police officers are alternately amused or dismayed by Guédira's attempts to link the crimes they are investigating with the Arsène Lupin stories; however, this makes him [[CassandraTruth the only one who is able to deduce what Assane's plans really are.]] Eventually, Laugier and Belkacem realize that he was correct about essentially everything and begin to trust his insights more and more. |
| 160 | ** In Part 3, the series' resident Lupin nerds Guédira and Raoul are both convinced that [[spoiler:Assane is faking his death.]] Belkacem dismisses Guédira's ideas out of hand, while Claire worries that Raoul hasn't progressed past the denial stage of grief. The two cloudcuckoolanders are ultimately proved right, although the reactions of [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder their minders]] couldn't be more different: Claire breaks down in TearsOfJoy while Belkacem is ''furious''. |
| 161 | * CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: Depends on the extent to which one views this as an adaptation, but the show's values are certainly more in tune with modern ones than those of its inspiration. AdaptationalDiversity ensures that the racial identities of the characters are more reflective of the current population of Paris (not just Assane, but also via the likes of Guédira and Belkacem). Additionally, while most of the original Arsène Lupin's girlfriends were disposable [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of The Week]], Assane has a long-term love interest with whom he has a child. |
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| 164 | [[folder:D to L]] |
| 165 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The tone of the series shifts towards the somber with [[spoiler: Fabienne's death]], and becomes outright dark with [[spoiler: Raoul's kidnapping.]] Once the latter plotline is resolved, however, the lightness of the early episodes [[LighterAndSofter returns]] (to an extent at least). |
| 166 | * DatingCatwoman: Assane and Juliette have this dynamic when they're together, since Juliette is the daughter of Assane's number one enemy. |
| 167 | * DealWithTheDevil: |
| 168 | ** Dumont's descent into villainy began when he accepted [[spoiler: Hubert's proposal to frame Babakar for the necklace theft.]] |
| 169 | ** [[spoiler:Claire agrees to turn Assane over to Hubert in exchange for his giving Raoul back to her, although she regrets it and warns Assane before he can get caught.]] |
| 170 | ** Pretty much all of the disadvantaged kids who joined Keller's boxing club and paid him to pose as their legal guardians. Downplayed slightly in that they weren't aware that they were actually buying their way into a criminal gang. |
| 171 | * DeathGlare: Assane, whenever he's upset with someone. He gives a particularly intimidating one when he's extracting [[spoiler: Hubert's confession.]] |
| 172 | * DeclarationOfProtection: Assane makes one to Claire regarding their child, after she tells him that she is pregnant. |
| 173 | * {{Deconstruction}}: The series gradually becomes one for the Lupin stories, as it shows how Assane's life of crime and habitual lying puts strain on his relationships with his loved ones. By the end of Part 2, [[spoiler: Assane gets to experience the full reality of being an internationally famous criminal, including [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor being forced to go on the run]].]] |
| 174 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: Happens in the 1995 flashbacks, where Assane and Babakar both experience fairly blatant, unapologetic racism and classism (Assane is still on the receiving end of this in the present timeline, but it's a lot less overt). Claire, meanwhile, gets sexually harassed by a group of boys on a regular basis. |
| 175 | * DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Apparently nobody in the Parisian social services department ever found it odd that Keller was the godfather to a whole crew of teenaged orphans, or attempted to run a simple background check on him. |
| 176 | * DestroyTheSecurityCamera: Part of Assane's plan for the Louvre heist involves the loan sharks disabling all of the security cameras. |
| 177 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Claire, Benjamin and Guédira take turns being this depending on the episode. |
| 178 | * DidIMentionItsChristmas: Although a large portion of the series takes place in mid to late December, there is no indication whatsoever that it's Christmas time, aside from a couple of newspaper headlines ("Merry Christmas, Mr. Johnson," in reference to Boris Johnson, at that time the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom). |
| 179 | ** Part 3 is set exactly a year later, and the signs of the holiday season are a bit more obvious: for instance, in episode 3.01, the Place Vendôme is ringed by Christmas trees. The trope is still played straight, however, in that nobody ever wishes anyone a "joyeux noël", and Claire and Raoul don't have any Christmas decorations up in their apartment. |
| 180 | * DidNotDieThatWay: Babakar didn't [[spoiler: commit suicide]]; rather, he was [[spoiler: murdered by Léonard.]] |
| 181 | * DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: |
| 182 | ** Assane whistles his musical motif while dressed in his janitor getup at the end of the first episode. |
| 183 | ** The main themes of the series crop up in the symphony that the orchestra is playing in Chapter 10. |
| 184 | * DontYouDarePityMe: After Babakar dies in prison, Anne offers to help Assane in any way she can. Assane, however, wants nothing to do with the Pellegrinis and tells her to [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck herself.]] |
| 185 | * DramaticIrony: PlayedForLaughs during the subplot in which Claire begins falling for Raoul's basketball coach Alex, unaware that he is actually Assane in heavy prosthetics. |
| 186 | -->'''Claire:''' It's funny--you're absolutely nothing like Assane. You're considerate, you're calm...but the one thing you two have in common is that you both never worry. |
| 187 | -->'''Assane, as Alex:''' But I do. I worry all the time. |
| 188 | ** This gets flipped around when Claire discovers the coach's true identity. She chooses not to tell Assane that she's found him out and instead behaves very flirtatiously towards "Alex" in order to make him squirm. |
| 189 | * DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Averted, as no snow is seen although a lot of the series takes place in December. Significant snowfall in this part of France is rare even in winter. |
| 190 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 191 | ** Assane's voiceover in the debut episode implies that he subscribes to the philosophy of IWorkAlone, only involving others in his plans when he really needs to. While he actually sticks to this credo early on in the show, starting with Chapter 4 in Part 1 nearly every caper he undertakes sees him enlist the help of at least one trusted accomplice, making him something of an InformedLoner. |
| 192 | ** One of the very first scenes in the show has Claire forgive Assane for being late on a scheduled alimony payment that he is supposed to make to her, suggesting a far more formalized nature to their separation than what is depicted in the rest of the series. Starting with the second episode, neither alimony nor child support are ever brought up again. |
| 193 | * EarlyPersonalitySigns: |
| 194 | ** Assane is characterized by his dislike for formal authority, his ability to think quickly in a crisis and his willingness to attempt daring feats. His fourteen-year-old self demonstrates this by trying to escape out a window rather than being taken to social services by Dumont after Babakar's death. |
| 195 | ** Benjamin is always willing to help Assane out, but prefers to do it in a more "behind-the-scenes" fashion. He assists Assane in his theft of a violin...by offering to stand outside and keep watch. |
| 196 | ** In 1995, Claire tries to stop Assane from fighting their bullies on her behalf (but he does it anyway, and she winds up giving him an AfterActionPatchUp). In the present, although she still cares about Assane, she prefers to stay away from his criminal life and instead focuses on raising their son while supporting them by working at a hospital. |
| 197 | * EpicFail: |
| 198 | ** Assane's theft of the violin ends up being this when he gets caught in the middle of Claire's audition, particularly since Claire gets apprehended as well, likely destroying any possible future she had as a professional violinist. |
| 199 | ** The season three premiere shows a flashback in which Assane tries to steal the Black Pearl and is caught. He tries to get out of it by passing himself off as a cop using a stolen badge only for one of the arresting officers to recognize the badge as his own. |
| 200 | * EvidenceDungeon: A subversion in that it belongs to the protagonist, but Assane's apartment is ''crammed'' with Arsène Lupin-related stuff. When the police raid it, they realize that Guédira's theory about the Lupin connection [[{{Understatement}} wasn't so far-fetched after all!]] |
| 201 | * EvilDetectingDog: Fabienne's dog, [[MeaningfulName J'accuse]], is trained to bark whenever he hears the name "Pellegrini." |
| 202 | * {{Expy}}: The crux of the series is that Assane is a modern day Arsène Lupin, being a GentlemanThief and PhantomThief who pulls off high profile heists, but with his own different background. He styles himself after the character InUniverse, having been a fan since his teenage years. |
| 203 | ** Not just Assane, either. Many of the other characters are at least inspired by people encountered by the actual Arsène Lupin. |
| 204 | *** Youssef Guédira is essentially an updated version of Inspector Ganimard, a police officer who makes repeated attempts to catch Lupin. This gets referenced InUniverse, with Assane frequently referring to Guédira as [[AffectionateNickname "Ganimard."]] Somewhat subverted in that Guédira is more clever and insightful than his [[TheLestrade Lestrade-like]] literary counterpart, who relies more than anything on dogged willpower (and is thus more akin to Belkacem). |
| 205 | *** Babakar is largely based on Lupin's mother Henriette d'Andrésy (who was also mistreated while working for a wealthy family); however, his death in prison appears to be inspired by the fate of Lupin's father Theophraste. |
| 206 | *** Claire's name, at the very least, seems to have been taken from that of Clarice d'Etigues, a childhood sweetheart of Lupin. |
| 207 | *** Josephine Balsamo, one of the major antagonists in the Lupin books, has her characterization split between Hubert and Juliette Pellegrini. |
| 208 | * ExtremelyShortTimespan: Not counting the flashbacks, the fifth, sixth and seventh episodes together take place entirely on December 11th and 12th, 2020. Parts 1 and 2 as a whole span mid-October to late December. |
| 209 | * FakeCharity: Played with. Juliette, like all of her wealthy donors, fully believes that her foundation for disadvantaged children is entirely legitimate. However, Hubert has set things up so that [[spoiler: 85% of the donations go to a personal offshore bank account in the Cayman Islands]], which renders the entire project a scam. Luckily, [[spoiler: Assane and Benjamin manage to reroute the money back to the foundation.]] |
| 210 | * FakingTheDead: Done by Assane at the beginning of Part 3. |
| 211 | * FallenOnHardTimesJob: Subverted. At first it appears that Assane's job as a janitor at the Louvre is this, but it's all just an act. |
| 212 | * FamilyBusiness: Hubert appears to be mentoring Juliette to succeed him as the head of the Pellegrini business empire. |
| 213 | * FathersQuest: Assane [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rampages across the Normandy countryside]] in order to retrieve [[spoiler: Raoul]] from the clutches of his enemies. |
| 214 | * FemalesAreMoreInnocent: |
| 215 | ** Anne and Juliette Pellegrini are, respectively, uninvolved in and unaware of Hubert's crimes. |
| 216 | ** Claire absents herself from Assane's criminal life, though she does know about it. Downplayed somewhat as the series goes on, however, as she gets a number of CorruptTheCutie moments which have her snooping around and manipulating or tricking others in a Lupin-esque fashion. |
| 217 | ** Averted for Manon, who plays TheDragon to Keller (although even she winds up doing a HeelFaceTurn). |
| 218 | * FeudingFamilies: The Diops and the Pellegrinis. |
| 219 | * FirstEpisodeTwist: When we're first introduced to Assane, he seems to be little more than a down-on-his-luck janitor who struggles to pay alimony to his ex-wife and comes up with a harebrained scheme to rob the Louvre in order to make a quick sum. By the end of the first episode, we learn that none of this is true. |
| 220 | * FirstGirlWins: Claire is the first of Assane's love interests that the audience encounters, and the show ultimately establishes that she is Assane's OneTrueLove. Averted if you consider Juliette to be the first girl, since Assane met her first chronologically. |
| 221 | * FishOutOfWater: 14-year-old Assane--an orphaned black boy from a working-class background--is this when he gets transferred to the College d'Andrésy, experiencing bullying from some of the largely wealthy and white student body. Fortunately, Benjamin comes to his aid. |
| 222 | * FiveTokenBand: The main characters are a black Senegalese man (Assane), his white French love interest (Claire), his white French best friend (Benjamin), and a pair of [[MinorityPoliceOfficer police officers of North African descent]] (Guédira and Belkacem). |
| 223 | * {{Flashback}}: How most of the characters' backstories are revealed. Flashbacks to Assane's youth or young adulthood are shown in every episode aside from 1.04. |
| 224 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: |
| 225 | ** Assane is the Optimist, who possesses an unfailing belief in his own greatness as a GentlemanThief, and who can [[{{Determinator}} get past nearly any obstacle]] with both ForceAndFinesse. |
| 226 | ** Hubert Pellegrini is the Cynic, a CorruptCorporateExecutive whose main desire is profit and doesn't care at all about the people he harms in achieving his aims. |
| 227 | ** Benjamin is the Realist, who frequently questions exactly how he and Assane are going to accomplish a certain caper, and acts as the AgentScully when he senses that Assane is [[HonorBeforeReason letting his emotions get the better of him.]] |
| 228 | ** Claire is the Conflicted, as she is always caught between her genuine affection for Assane and her optimistic hope that he'll finally turn things around, and her more pragmatic desire to keep herself and Raoul out of harm's way. |
| 229 | * {{Frameup}}: |
| 230 | ** Assane's father was accused by Hubert Pellegrini of stealing Marie-Antoinette's necklace in the 1990s. [[spoiler:Anne Pellegrini then made him sign a fake confession for the theft, after which he gets sent to prison.]] The whole ordeal is set up to make it look as if it [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to commit suicide]], but it's later revealed that [[spoiler:Hubert's {{Mook}} Léonard actually killed him]]. |
| 231 | ** Assane attempts to frame Léonard for being behind the robbery of the necklace by slipping one of the diamonds into his pocket and then calling the police; however, the cops find out that he bears little physical resemblance to descriptions of the actual thief (which is to say, Assane) and that he has a solid alibi for the time of the theft, so he is released. It's also entirely possible that Dumont called in a favor to get him out. |
| 232 | ** Hubert tries to remove two of his problems at once by having [[spoiler: Léonard]] murdered and framing Assane for it. |
| 233 | ** In Part 3, Assane and Benjamin plan to steal a bracelet together, but at the behest of Mariama's kidnappers, Assane [[spoiler:sets Benjamin up as the FallGuy.]] |
| 234 | * FreezeFrameBonus: Many. By pausing at the right point, the viewer is able to read much of Babakar's police file, the Wikipedia page for "Paul Sernine", Hubert's official 1995 statement to the police about the missing necklace, [[spoiler: Fabienne's obituary]] and more. |
| 235 | * FrequentlyBrokenUnbreakableVow: Shortly after Claire reveals her pregnancy, Assane promises to stop all his "fuck-ups" and commit fully to being a father. [[SarcasmMode And that's exactly what he does.]] |
| 236 | * FriendlyEnemy: Although Assane and Guédira are operating on opposite sides of the law, the two clearly have a good deal of respect for one another, particularly after Guédira [[spoiler: saves Raoul from a fiery death.]] Guédira, meanwhile, can't help but think that the idea of being the Ganimard in a real-life Lupin story is just ''so cool.'' |
| 237 | * TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Assane's extensive network of influence means that he's friends with people who rarely, if ever, interact, and sometimes don't like each other all that much. For instance, Claire and Benjamin are very close but relations between them and Juliette are rather frosty, and neither seems to have much time for Guédira either (partly due to Guédira's antics at Assane's "funeral"). Meanwhile, Benjamin and Bruno are cordial with one another when they interact at the beginning of Part 3 but they're not depicted as being close friends. |
| 238 | ** If Guédira is viewed as the central friend, then Assane and Belkacem ''definitely'' qualify as this. |
| 239 | * GambitPileUp: A common feature of the more convoluted episodes. |
| 240 | ** Chapter 7 of Part 2 sees Guédira rescuing Raoul without Assane's knowledge, Assane finding out that Raoul is alive and escaping Belkacem and her gendarmerie companion, Hubert forcing Claire into [[spoiler:handing Assane over in exchange for Raoul]], Hubert and Dumont deciding to hold Raoul hostage as bait, Pascal Oblet duping Guédira into taking Raoul to the Park Hyatt hotel, Assane manipulating Dumont into handing Raoul over to him, and Claire ultimately tricking Pascal and reneging on her deal with Hubert. |
| 241 | ** Chapter 5 of Part 3 is another good example. You have Benjamin refusing to tell Guédira that Assane is still alive, Assane appearing in Guédira's office and teaming up with him to conduct a fake art sale in order to catch Mariama's kidnappers, Assane anonymously calling Belkacem in to break up the sale (Guédira is shocked when she arrives on the scene and discovers him), Assane ALSO working in secret to set Guédira and Belkacem up romantically, and Claire deceiving Benjamin into revealing the truth about Assane's "death." |
| 242 | * GayParee: Somewhat subverted, in that you get glimpses of the banlieues and prisons of Paris in addition to shots of the Louvre, the Seine, the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Coeur. |
| 243 | * GenerationXerox: Three generations of Diop males are harmed, directly or indirectly, by Hubert. |
| 244 | * GetawayDriver: Rudy for the Louvre heist, and Benjamin for the opera house showdown (although in both cases, Assane ends up leaving separately). |
| 245 | * GoodAngelBadAngel: The flashback sequences in Part 3 have this dynamic, as Assane is pulled between the contrasting influences of Claire (the kindhearted, pacifistic Good Angel) and Keller (the controlling, violent Bad Angel). He eventually sides with Claire, but only after Keller [[spoiler:forces Assane and Bruno to take part in a robbery and nearly gets them all killed in a car crash in the process.]] |
| 246 | * GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt: Assane's first major Lupin-inspired crime has him stealing a violin from a racist vendor to give to Claire. |
| 247 | * HesJustHiding: InUniverse this becomes a major plot point in Part 3 after Assane [[spoiler: fakes his death.]] Guédira and Raoul are immediately convinced that Assane is [[spoiler:still alive]], and it's not too long before Claire starts having doubts as well. |
| 248 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Assane and Benjamin have this dynamic. |
| 249 | * HollywoodGenetics: Babakar and Mariama were/are both short while their son Assane is [=6ft3in=] tall [=(1m90.5cm)=] and is built akin to a tight end in UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball. |
| 250 | * HollywoodHacking: Assane is a skilled hacker. He easily gets into the Ministry of the Interior's prison files to search for clues to [[ClearMyName clear his father's name]]. |
| 251 | * HopeSpot: |
| 252 | ** Things appear to be looking up for Assane, Claire and Raoul on the latter's birthday in Étretat, as all three are joking, laughing and having a good time. And then [[spoiler: Raoul gets abducted.]] |
| 253 | ** Similarly, in the finale to Part 3, it seems like Assane has finally found a way for him, Claire and Raoul to be together again as a family. Then he promptly ruins it by [[spoiler:allowing himself to be taken to jail.]] |
| 254 | * HostageForMacGuffin: Claire tries to trade [[spoiler: the diamonds from the necklace for her kidnapped son.]] Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler: Hubert actually wants Assane.]] |
| 255 | * HowDadMetMom: Flashbacks show Assane and Claire's lengthy (and fraught) romantic history, from their first meeting up to Claire becoming pregnant with Raoul. |
| 256 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Assane is a full foot taller than Claire. Downplayed in the 1990s flashbacks, though, where he's only a few inches taller. Apparently Assane had a massive growth spurt sometime in his late teens. |
| 257 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The episodes are called "chapters" and the seasons are called "parts". To underscore the fact that Part 2 is a continuation of Part 1, its chapters are numbered 6 through 10, rather than 1 through 5. For Part 3, which begins an entirely new set of story arcs, the counter resets to 1. |
| 258 | * IdiotBall: |
| 259 | ** Lorenzo the music store owner may have been a racist {{Jerkass}}, but Assane could still have just asked Benjamin to help him rent a violin for Claire rather than going straight in and stealing the most expensive one in the store. Somewhat justified in that he was an impulsive fourteen-year-old at the time, although one would think that Benjamin, who is consistently the more sober-minded of the two, would have thought to stop him rather than participating. |
| 260 | ** Keller drives like a complete maniac following his, Assane's and Bruno's robbery of the jewelry store. This both alerts the police ''and'' causes him to crash. |
| 261 | ** Guédira's lead on Assane's connection to Arsène Lupin is dismissed by his colleagues. Sure, it was a little...whimsical, but it was also the only thing they really had, and it made a lot of sense. |
| 262 | ** For some incomprehensible reason Assane fails to make copies of Fabienne's tape, allowing the footage of Hubert selling arms to the Malaysian terrorists to be permanently erased. |
| 263 | *** Assane's decision to go on ''The Other Edition'' in general. Even ignoring his failure to factor in the potential issue of the host being friends with Hubert, the "Salvator" tweet was already gaining a lot of traction, and he could have done more damage anyway by just leaking the footage online. |
| 264 | ** In attempt to stop Assane from getting away after his successful carjacking at the gas station, Belkacem fires a gun ''directly into oncoming traffic.'' It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure out why that's an awful idea. |
| 265 | ** Pascal and the other officers agree to let Claire have a moment alone with Raoul when Assane [[spoiler: brings him back home.]] Upon seeing Assane, she tells him to flee, and the police are unable to find him when they show up. |
| 266 | ** PlayedForLaughs when Assane manages to convince Madame Simon, the receptionist at the Maison Everlin, that he isn't actually Assane Diop--because he has ''brown eyes.'' Much to her embarrassment, she is later informed that Assane does in fact have brown eyes. This becomes even funnier when you consider that, from a genetic perspective, it's extremely improbable that someone whose skin is as dark as Assane's would have anything ''but'' brown eyes. |
| 267 | ** Martinez, the doctor at the morgue, is somehow fine with taking "Dr. Vernes"' proclamation of Assane's death and its cause at face value, despite the fact that he's literally never seen Vernes (aka Philippe Courbet) before in his life and has no clue of what his qualifications are. |
| 268 | ** Following Assane's "funeral," Mariama accepts an offer of a ride from a shady-looking crew driving a car with black-tinted windows. These people turn out to be [[spoiler:Keller's squad]]. |
| 269 | ** Despite having seemingly learned to trust Guédira with regards to his theories concerning Assane at the end of Part 2, Belkacem undergoes AesopAmnesia and in Part 3 she's once again refusing to listen to him. And of course he's still completely right, making Belkacem seem rather silly and obstinate, particularly as her investigation into the disappearance of the black pearl goes absolutely nowhere. |
| 270 | ** The audience is apparently supposed to suspend their disbelief that neither Claire nor Raoul would notice that there's something quite obviously ''off'' about Coach Alex's appearance. |
| 271 | ** As revenge for Assane getting Manon sent to prison, Keller orders his henchman, Ferdinand, to kill Claire. Unfortunately for Keller, Ferdinand makes a complete hash of it, first following Claire through the streets of Paris in an IncrediblyObviousTail (she spots him easily and manages to escape in a cab), and then stalking her while she's in a crowded department store. |
| 272 | *** Seemingly as a punishment for failing to get to Claire, as well as general frustration that all of his plans are going wrong, Keller tosses Ferdinand off of a balcony. This only serves to badly injure and alienate Ferdinand, who--in a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal--gives Keller's name up to the police shortly afterward. |
| 273 | ** Belkacem chews Guédira out for lying to her about [[spoiler:working with Assane]], whom she has just discovered is actually alive, and makes him promise to tell her if Assane ever gets in contact with him again. Fair enough...But then when Guédira does ''exactly what she's asked,'' informing her that Assane is likely to be at the Palais Garnier that night, she refuses to believe him and fails to send him any reinforcements. |
| 274 | ** Keller isn't suspicious when Manon [[spoiler:(who has recently turned on him)]] calls him up and instructs him to meet the buyer for the black pearl at the top of the Arc de Triomphe--you know, an extremely famous, touristy location whose exits can easily be blocked. |
| 275 | * IfItBleedsItLeads: |
| 276 | ** The death of [[spoiler: Fabienne, a journalist who hasn't worked in twenty-four years]], makes headlines in the French papers the day after her body is discovered. One such article, including a photo of "[=Salvator813=]" and detailing the pair's fight against Hubert Pellegrini, is spotted by a distraught Claire on the train back from Étretat. She immediately recognizes Assane and, upon reading the piece, [[spoiler: realizes to her horror that Hubert is involved in Raoul's kidnapping.]] |
| 277 | ** Assane's supposed [[spoiler: murder of Léonard]], when combined with the fact that he was the mastermind behind the Louvre heist, instantly makes him the most famous criminal in France, with his exploits being discussed almost constantly both on TV and in print media. |
| 278 | ** Later on, Assane's [[spoiler:"death"]] is given a huge amount of coverage in the news. |
| 279 | * ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Assane often manages to enter places he isn't supposed to by flashing stolen police badges. |
| 280 | ** However, his hasty attempt to pull this trick during his first attempt to steal the ''Black Pearl'' (Part 3, Chapter 1) falls apart pretty quickly when it becomes apparent that he pickpocketed ''the guy who tackled him to the floor''. The fact the badges contain photographic ID didn't help, either. |
| 281 | * ImpersonationGambit: "Philippe Courbet" is really just [[spoiler: an emo delinquent that Assane and Benjamin discovered trying to steal Arsène Lupin books from the library.]] Despite this, he proves to be very convincing to Hubert. |
| 282 | * ImplausibleDeniability: A lot of the claims Assane makes to Claire about what he's doing come across as being this. Having endured years of evasions, half-truths, and outright lies from him, she sees right through it, but is unable to get him to admit to what's really going on. |
| 283 | -->'''Assane:''' I'm filling out old paperwork. |
| 284 | * TheInfiltration: Assane's visit to prison, his smuggling himself into the opera house, his getting himself into Cisco's gang, and much, much more. |
| 285 | * InformedAttractiveness: Juliette is characterized as the sexier of Assane's two love interests, contrasting Claire who is supposedly the plainer one. Although Juliette does dress a lot more elegantly than Claire, she's not really any more or less pretty--and if anything Juliette's rather severe facial features make her the more unconventionally attractive of the two. Outside of this show, Creator/LudivineSagnier (Claire) is known for frequently being a MsFanservice, while Clotilde Hesme (Juliette) tends to play [[{{Tomboy}} Tomboys.]] |
| 286 | * InformedAttribute: |
| 287 | ** Assane is a MasterOfDisguise. Or is he? Many of his ostensible disguises consist of him throwing on a weird outfit and one or two accessories (sunglasses, a goofy wig, a distinctive hat, etc); this somehow makes him nearly unrecognizable to most of the French public. The one time he really goes all-out with prosthetics for a disguise--when he's posing as Raoul's coach in Part 3--he doesn't look like ''himself'' but he does look [[UncannyValley rather weird.]] |
| 288 | ** In episode 3.05, Raoul tells Claire that she is a BadLiar, suggesting that she gets a DeerInTheHeadlights expression whenever she does it. However, over the course of the series we see Claire lie successfully on a number of occasions, including later in that very episode when she tricks Benjamin into revealing that Assane is alive. A potential explanation for this is that she just struggles to lie convincingly to Raoul, since he's her son. |
| 289 | ** PlayedForLaughs when Guédira, who is clearly blinded by his crush on Belkacem, does a bit of CharacterShilling for her by describing her to Assane as someone who is polite and considerate. Viewers, of course, are well-acquainted with multiple seasons' worth of Belkacem displaying a HairTriggerTemper and a propensity for [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F-Bombs]]. |
| 290 | ** Belkacem's characterization as a successful policewoman is often felt to be an InformedAbility, with a number of fans questioning why she got promoted over Guédira offscreen between Parts 2 and 3 when he was consistently the one doing most of the actual detective work. To be fair to Belkacem, it's plausible that she's better when it comes to handling the more "normal" police cases, and that Guédira's {{Troperiffic}} fixation on Arsène Lupin helps him enormously when he's tracking Assane but is something of a CripplingOverspecialization in other scenarios. |
| 291 | * InternalAffairs: By the end of Part 2, the police department is at war with itself when Laugier, Belkacem and Guédira decide to root out the corruption in their own department by [[spoiler: arresting Dumont.]] |
| 292 | * InvoluntaryCharityDonation: Zigzagged. Juliette's sponsors believe that they are donating to a legitimate organization; however, unbeknownst to them (and Juliette), [[spoiler: 85% of the money is set up to go to Hubert.]] However, Assane and Benjamin [[spoiler: redirect the money to the foundation's bank account.]] |
| 293 | * ItWasAGift: The Arsène Lupin book given to Assane by his father, and subsequently given by Assane to Raoul. |
| 294 | * IWillFindYou: Both Assane and Claire do this separately for [[spoiler: Raoul after his kidnapping.]] Their respective approaches are...pretty different. |
| 295 | ** After a tense car chase, and the tremendous scare of [[spoiler:Raoul possibly having been burned alive]], Assane gets [[spoiler:his son]] out of Hubert Pellegrini's grasp in his usual confident and creative fashion, even managing to hilariously troll both Hubert and Dumont as he's doing it. |
| 296 | ** Claire, on the other hand, is both worried sick and woefully out of her depth in the cutthroat world of kidnappings and revenge quests. She tries her best to save Raoul in her own way, but gets forced by Hubert Pellegrini into [[spoiler:betraying Assane]], and while she does manage to [[spoiler:tip him off]] before he can get caught, overall her efforts [[NiceJobBreakingItHero just wind up causing more problems than they solve.]] |
| 297 | * KilledOffscreen: We never actually see exactly how [[spoiler:Léonard]] killed [[spoiler:Babakar]] and [[spoiler:Fabienne.]] |
| 298 | * LaserGuidedKarma: In one of the flashbacks to Assane's early con-man life, we see him clean out a sweet old woman of all her valuables... while she brags about her family having been involved in colonialism, gushing right in front of him about how the diamonds he's swindling off of her were stolen from people in Africa. He even gains her trust by playing on her disdain for the poor. |
| 299 | * LawOfInverseFertility: Raoul was an unplanned child, and Claire is shown to have been quite anxious about Assane's reaction when she told him she was pregnant. |
| 300 | * LetsGetOutOfHere: |
| 301 | ** Benjamin and Philippe use the frenzy created by Assane's crashing Juliette's concert to make a quick getaway. Benjamin assures Philippe that Assane will catch up with them. |
| 302 | ** At the beginning of Part 3 Assane tries to persuade Claire and Raoul to [[StartingANewLife run away with him to another country.]] |
| 303 | * LighterAndSofter: Part 3 is generally lighter in tone than Part 2, since the revenge-quest aspect is less prominent, while more emphasis is placed on capers and Assane's goofy disguises, not to mention that the Coach Alex arc borders on romantic comedy with thematic nods to films like ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Film/YouveGotMail''. |
| 304 | * LongGame: It's slowly revealed across the final three episodes how involved Assane and Benjamin's plan to get Hubert to face justice at the charity concert was, from Assane's courtship of Juliette, to the disguising of [[spoiler: Philippe Courbet]], even down to Assane leaving an electronic watch in Claire's apartment that would go off when the whole thing was finished so that he would get to see her and Raoul one more time. |
| 305 | * LoserSonOfLoserDad: Raoul becomes incensed when Hubert tells him that Assane is a loser son, while Babakar was his loser dad. |
| 306 | * LostInTranslation: |
| 307 | ** In the English dub of one of the flashback scenes, Assane tells Claire that he's the man of her dreams. However, what he actually says in the original French is "Je suis l'homme de ta vie," or "I'm the man of your life." Understanding that helps make Claire's response (that he ''technically'' is, since he's the only guy whose company she enjoys) make a lot more sense. |
| 308 | ** At another point, teenaged Claire sees Assane reading his Arsène Lupin book and says, "c'est un chaud Lupin, non?" This is a {{Pun}} based on the French expression "un chaud lapin," literally meaning "a hot rabbit" and used to refer to someone who is TheCasanova. The subtitles try to get around the impossibility of directly translating this by having her say that Lupin is "kind of a Romeo," but the cleverness of the original joke is lost. |
| 309 | ** Surprisingly inverted when Hubert tells Dumont that Babakar is "malin comme un singe," an expression used as an equivalent to the English "sharp as a tack" (although Hubert was no doubt using it in an ironic fashion). The subtitles translate the phrase literally and have Hubert say that Babakar is "clever as an ape." This only adds to his characterization as a smug racist. |
| 310 | * LoveHurts: Our protagonist leaves quite a trail of emotional damage in his wake... |
| 311 | ** It seems as though the show's writing team revels in coming up with imaginative new ways for Claire to have her heart broken by Assane. In a 2006 flashback scene, her therapist describes her relationship with him as a "vicious cycle." Luckily, she's able to bounce back quickly. |
| 312 | ** Juliette gets tricked by Assane into falling for him as part of his overall plan to ruin her family's reputation. Then, to add insult to injury, once he's accomplished his aims he essentially ghosts her in favor of Claire (of whom Juliette is already highly jealous). |
| 313 | ** This can even be seen in a platonic sense with Benjamin, as his close friendship with Assane leads directly to his getting [[spoiler:arrested by the police]] after Assane [[spoiler:sets him up]] at the behest of his mother's kidnappers. |
| 314 | * LuxuryPrisonSuite: Downplayed. In return for [[spoiler:his confession, Assane gets a sweet collection of Arsène Lupin books in his otherwise plain cell. Hubert Pellegrini in the neighbouring cell also has minor luxuries like books, a chessboard and a pipe.]] |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:M to Z]] |
| 318 | * MacGuffin: The queen's necklace in Parts 1 and 2, and the black pearl in Part 3. |
| 319 | * MakeoverMontage: |
| 320 | ** [[spoiler: Philippe]] is transformed by Assane and Benjamin from an emo teenager into a respectable, if youthful-looking, broker. |
| 321 | ** In Part 3 Assane helps transform Guédira into art collector "Justin Avisto" in order to capture Manon. |
| 322 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Downplayed. While Guédira can't really be called "feminine" (he's more of a nerd), his thoughtful and intellectual nature contrasts sharply with his more action-oriented, aggressive female partner Belkacem. |
| 323 | * MaybeEverAfter: Assane and Claire's relationship in a nutshell. Both of them truly want to be together, but Assane's addiction to crime invariably gets in the way. |
| 324 | * MayDecemberRomance: Babakar and Mariama seem to have been this, since Babakar's police file reveals that he was born in the forties, while Mariama's indicates that she was born in 1960. |
| 325 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 326 | ** "Assane" sounds a ''lot'' like the French pronunciation of "Arsène," although it's not entirely clear whether or not this was intentional. |
| 327 | ** Fabienne's dog is named J'accuse ("I accuse"). This was the title of famous [[JAccuse letter by Emile Zola]] that became part of the Dreyfus Affair, a racially-motivated MiscarriageOfJustice in which a Jewish man was falsely imprisoned for theft, not unlike what happened to Assane's father. |
| 328 | * MinorityPoliceOfficer: Guédira is explicitly stated to be of North African descent, and Belkacem is AmbiguouslyBrown (the actress, Shirine Boutella, is from Algeria). |
| 329 | * MirrorCharacter: |
| 330 | ** Guédira and Dumont. Although their motivations and rewards couldn't be more dissimilar, both are police officers working with those regularly carrying out illegal acts (Assane and Hubert, respectively). |
| 331 | ** Assane and Léonard, in that they are both are crafty career criminals who regularly experience racial prejudice. |
| 332 | * MissingChild: Claire and Assane get a major scare when Raoul [[spoiler: disappears in Étretat.]] in Chapter 6 and part of Chapter 7. It gets worse when [[spoiler: Guédira tells them that he saw Raoul getting kidnapped by Léonard.]] The entire sixth and seventh episodes revolve around both parents' [[RescueArc desperate attempts]] to recover him. |
| 333 | * MistakenForRacist: Played with in that Assane uses his wealthy but socially conscious targets' fear of this to his advantage. |
| 334 | -->'''Auctioneer:''' I must admit, Monsieur Sernine, that I wasn't expecting someone like you as a buyer. |
| 335 | -->'''Assane:''' ''(frowns)'' Like me...what do you mean? |
| 336 | -->'''Auctioneer:''' ''(laughs nervously)'' Well--so young. |
| 337 | * MoodDissonance: |
| 338 | ** Assane makes dinner for J'accuse while dancing to the Four Tops' "Reach Out (I'll Be There)." In another room, Pascal strangles [[spoiler: Léonard]] to death. |
| 339 | ** If Johnny Nash's jaunty reggae song "I Can See Clearly Now" begins playing, it's a sign that something bad is about to happen to whoever is onscreen. |
| 340 | * MotherhoodIsSuperior: Downplayed. Although Assane loves his son, his [[{{Understatement}} unstable lifestyle]] means that Claire is basically raising Raoul alone. |
| 341 | * MundaneObjectAmazement: While searching Assane's apartment for evidence following [[spoiler:Léonard's murder]], Guédira is fascinated by his extensive collection of Arsène Lupin memorabilia. Laugier and Belkacem find this amusing. |
| 342 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 343 | ** Assane, when he thinks that he's [[spoiler: gotten Raoul killed.]] |
| 344 | ** Claire when she sees Assane returning with [[spoiler: Raoul after the kidnapping]], knowing full well that the decisions she made in the meantime will result in [[spoiler: his arrest--or worse--should he enter her apartment.]] |
| 345 | * MythologyGag: |
| 346 | ** The name of the Andrésy school that Assane attends after his father's death is taken from the maiden name of Arsène Lupin's mother. |
| 347 | ** "Raoul" is canonically Lupin's middle name, and one of his aliases. |
| 348 | ** "Horace Velmont," the name of the businessman whom Benjamin and Assane make up in order to fool Juliette, is another of Lupin's aliases. |
| 349 | *** So are "Jean Daspry" and "Guillaume Berlat," the names Assane gives to Fabienne upon initially meeting her. |
| 350 | ** The number "813," the name of a Lupin book, crops up a few times. |
| 351 | ** "Léonard" was the name of an assassin employed by Josephine Balsamo, one of the primary antagonists in the Lupin books. |
| 352 | ** Benjamin's yellow Fiat 500 is a reference to ''Franchise/LupinIII.'' |
| 353 | ** "Gentleman Cambrioleur," the Jacques Dutronc song that plays as [[spoiler: Assane ditches the cops in a speedboat in Chapter 10]], was the EndingTheme of the ''[[Series/ArseneLupin1971 Arsène Lupin]]'' TV series that aired in the early 1970s on the Creator/{{ORTF}} channel and starred Georges Descrières in the title role. |
| 354 | ** Fleur Bélanger's InUniverse story on Assane's connection to Arsène Lupin winds up rekindling public interest in the Lupin books...much as the Netflix series did in RealLife. |
| 355 | ** In episode 3.05 Assane disguises Guédira as an art collector named Justin Avisto. "Justin" is the first name of Inspector Ganimard in the Lupin stories. |
| 356 | ** The code for the electronic lock in Claire's apartment is "1864", a reference to Maurice Leblanc's birth year. |
| 357 | * TheNameless: We never do find out [[spoiler:Philippe Courbet]]'s real name. As of Part 3 it appears he's begun using the "Courbet" moniker permanently. |
| 358 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: The ending to Part 3 suggests that [[spoiler:Assane has been emotionally weakened after unwittingly allowing an enemy into his inner circle.]] The most common theory is that the culprit is [[spoiler:his mother, or at least the woman he believes to be his mother.]] |
| 359 | * NoFullNameGiven: Bruno and Manon are only ever referred to by their first names. |
| 360 | ** This was also true in Claire in the first two parts, but in Part 3 her surname is given as "Laurent" on several InUniverse headlines. |
| 361 | * OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: Assane and Claire's relationship gets put through the wringer across the series, from Assane ruining any chance of Claire being a professional violinist, to his cheating and lying, to his not spending enough time with Raoul, to Raoul [[spoiler: getting kidnapped as a result of Assane's actions]], to Claire [[spoiler: betraying Assane to Hubert Pellegrini because she thinks it will save her son]], to Assane's activities [[spoiler:igniting a media explosion which essentially destroys Claire and Raoul's lives]], and a whole lot more. Even so, it's made clear that they'll never stop loving one another. |
| 362 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: |
| 363 | ** Episode 1.01: [[spoiler:Assane got his Louvre janitor job because the woman in charge originates from Senegal just like him so they easily bonded over it, he lied about his identity to the {{loan shark}}s and threw the necklace in a trash can in the struggle in order to retrieve it later as a janitor. And he [[BatmanGambit expected them to betray him]] all along.]] |
| 364 | ** Episode 1.02: [[spoiler:How Assane fakes suicide to get out of prison -- he [[MacGyvering built himself a safety harness with a basketball basket's net]] so the hanging won't be fatal, and swallowed some meds to reduce his heartbeats.]] |
| 365 | ** Episode 2.03: [[spoiler:Assane planned every bit of his supposedly "spontaneous" date with Juliette, up to faking her meeting with an investor and bribing the wait staff at the restaurant, as well as faking the heist of a painting at a museum.]] |
| 366 | ** Episode 3.02: [[spoiler:Assane planned to fake his death in order to draw media attention away from Claire and Raoul so that they would finally be able to run off together as a family. Too bad the reappearance of his mother made him throw those plans in the trash.]] |
| 367 | * OneLastJob: Assane envisions the black pearl heist as being this. Predictably, it's not. |
| 368 | * TheOneThatGotAway: |
| 369 | ** Assane is this for Juliette. It doesn't take him much effort to get her to fall back under his spell. |
| 370 | ** At one point Assane jokingly refers to Claire as being this for him. |
| 371 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: |
| 372 | ** Assane is generally a highly confident and capable person, so the few times he seems to genuinely lose the plot, it's a sign that something has gone incredibly wrong. The most obvious example is his absolute ''devastation'' when he thinks [[spoiler: that Raoul has been burned to death in the boot of Léonard's car]]. When Belkacem arrives to arrest him, he's too upset to even fight it, and basically just lets himself be taken in. |
| 373 | ** When Claire finds out that [[spoiler:her child has been kidnapped]], her typically amiable and forbearing nature temporarily disappears as she has a very public breakdown and chews out a pair of police officers who, in her view, aren't doing enough to help. The next day, after she's made aware of Hubert Pellegrini's involvement in the kidnapping, Claire is desperate enough to pay a visit to him directly in order to negotiate [[spoiler:Raoul's release]], despite having spent the previous two decades doing her best to avoid any association with Assane's myriad of dangerous exploits. |
| 374 | ** Raoul is a stoic kid who is extremely difficult to faze. So when even he starts getting on Assane's case about taking forever with his revenge quest, Assane is legitimately perturbed. |
| 375 | * {{Outgambitted}}: Happens all over the place. Generally Assane is the one doing it to his foes, but there are also moments where Hubert Pellegrini manages to outsmart him. |
| 376 | * PitbullDatesPuppy: Assane is an outgoing, charismatic and vengeful man who throws himself into dangerous situations. Claire is a forgiving, pacifistic woman who prefers to stay away from conflict. OppositesAttract as the two find one another irresistible. |
| 377 | * PoliceAreUseless: With the exception of a few officers (mainly Guédira), the cops aren't depicted as being particularly brilliant at their jobs. |
| 378 | * PopCultureHoliday: InUniverse, the town of Étretat holds an annual festival to celebrate Maurice Leblanc's birthday. |
| 379 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: As talented as he is, Assane couldn't have accomplished much of what he did in Part 2 without Benjamin's help. |
| 380 | * PronouncingMyNameForYou: Assane's (and Babakar's and Raoul's) surname is spoken aloud numerous times over the course of the series. The pronunciation is not "DEE-op," as native English speakers might suspect, but is instead closer to "Jopp." |
| 381 | * PuppyDogEyes: |
| 382 | ** PlayedForLaughs when Raoul and Assane jokingly do this to Claire while trying to get her to come to Étretat with them. |
| 383 | ** Later PlayedForDrama when Claire begs Pascal to let her have a moment alone with Raoul [[spoiler: in order to tip Assane off about Pascal and his minions' presence in her apartment.]] |
| 384 | * PutOnAPrisonBus: At the end of Part 2, [[spoiler: Hubert and Dumont]] are seen being arrested and driven to the police station in squad cars. [[spoiler:In Hubert's case, [[TheBusCameBack the bus comes back]] at the end of Part 3, when he's briefly shown in prison.]] |
| 385 | * ReadingIsCoolAesop: Assane's father encouraged him to read when he offered him a ''Arsène Lupin'' novel, and Assane does the same with Raoul, who virtually stops playing video games as a result. |
| 386 | * RealWomenDontWearDresses: Subverted. The ladies of ''Lupin'' are nearly always depicted wearing pants, from [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] Belkacem and Manon to gentler, more traditionally feminine women like Claire. |
| 387 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Monsieur Bouchard, the director of the Andrésy school, is a genuinely nice man who wants to see Assane succeed in life. |
| 388 | * RedOniBlueOni: |
| 389 | ** Charismatic, confident Assane is the red to Benjamin's more sarcastic, nervous blue. |
| 390 | ** Confrontational, aggressive Belkacem is the red to Guédira's logical, geeky blue. |
| 391 | ** Outgoing adrenaline junkie Juliette is the red to Claire's sentimental yet conflicted blue. |
| 392 | * RevengeByProxy: |
| 393 | ** Léonard targets [[spoiler: Raoul]], both to bait Assane and out of spite. After Assane [[spoiler: rescues his son]], he and Benjamin try to weaken Hubert by going after Juliette. |
| 394 | ** In Part 3 Keller is so incensed that Assane has [[spoiler:managed to get Manon thrown in jail]] that he sends his henchman Ferdinand off to [[spoiler:kill Claire and Raoul]]. It doesn't work. |
| 395 | * RewatchBonus: In the prison flashback scene in the first episode, there's a brief glimpse of [[EarlyBirdCameo Léonard]] through the visiting room window... right before Assane's father is found dead as an apparent suicide, hanging in his cell. [[spoiler:A few episodes later, in the present, Fabienne is murdered by Léonard who makes it look like a suicide by hanging.]] It's revealed in the final episode of Part 2 that [[spoiler: Léonard was indeed the one who killed Babakar.]] |
| 396 | * {{Roofhopping}}: |
| 397 | ** Assane does this to get away from Léonard at the beginning of Chapter 5 in Part 1. |
| 398 | ** A (seemingly) failed attempt at this leads to a ''bad'' fall for Assane in the Part 3 premiere. |
| 399 | * RunningGag: Fabienne's dog, J'Accuse, barks any time "Pellegrini" is said around him. This eventually becomes [[SidekickCreatureNuisance a major nuisance]] for Benjamin. |
| 400 | * SceneryPorn: The aerial shots of Paris and Étretat certainly qualify as this. |
| 401 | * ShipTease: Guédira is confirmed to have a crush on Belkacem, and several scenes hint at the possibility for a developing romance between them, but as of yet nothing has come of it. |
| 402 | * ShowWithinAShow: ''The Other Edition'', which seems to be a play on the shows which can commonly be seen on the right-leaning French TV channel [=CNews=]. |
| 403 | * TheShrink: In a flashback sequence, Claire visits one to express her frustrations about her relationship with Assane. |
| 404 | * SignificantAnagram: The aliases Assane takes, "Luis Perenna" and "Paul Sernine", are both anagrams of "Arsène Lupin". |
| 405 | * SinsOfOurFathers: Raoul [[spoiler: is kidnapped by Léonard]] because of the actions Assane took against Hubert. |
| 406 | * SkippingSchool: Assane and Benjamin often did this together when they were teenagers. |
| 407 | * SmittenTeenageGirl: Both Claire and Juliette for Assane, in the flashbacks. |
| 408 | * StolenByStayingStill: In order to convince Juliette that he means business, Assane has Benjamin fake a priceless Pissarro painting. The two send it to Juliette and create news alerts that suggest that it has been stolen from the Musée d'Orsay. Juliette falls for it completely. |
| 409 | * StrawmanNewsMedia: |
| 410 | ** Deconstructed with the various journalists who work(ed) at ''The Objector'', the fictional newspaper that is at the center of most of the media-related subplots in the series. On the one hand you have the likes of [[IntrepidJournalist Fabienne]], a muckraker who seemingly did her investigative work purely for the common good. On the other hand there are Fleur Bélanger and her [[TheRival rival]] Arnold de Garmeaux, who take their jobs very seriously but are also self-interested backstabbers who fight over front page headlines and sometimes commit [[ImmoralJournalist morally questionable acts]] in attempt to get their hands on good stories. Their boss, the current editor of ''The Objector'', actively encourages this as he thinks it will help the paper stay ahead of the competition. |
| 411 | ** ''The Other Edition'', the show that Assane appears on in Chapter 4 of Part 1, is characterized as "not real journalism" by Fabienne. (It turns out that the host is in cahoots with Hubert Pellegrini.) |
| 412 | ** Played entirely straight with the tabloids that torment Claire with sensationalist headlines such as "Assane Diop: Is his wife brainwashed? Crime doesn't pay but it is seductive." |
| 413 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: |
| 414 | ** Assane's James Bond-esque lifestyle wreaks havoc on his family life: he and Claire have separated, he isn't around for his son as much as he wants to be, and worse, Pellegrini has [[TheDragon Léonard]] [[spoiler:kidnap Raoul at the end of Part 1 and nearly kills him]], which further strains his relationship with Claire, who considers cutting Assane completely out her and Raoul's lives for the sake of their safety. |
| 415 | ** The chloroform spray Assane gives the loan sharks for the Louvre heist doesn't knock out the security guards right away, forcing them to beat the guards unconscious. |
| 416 | ** Assane assigns one of the loan sharks (who's into racing games) to be the getaway driver for the Louvre heist. However, come the actual heist, the guy gets a red Ferrari as a getaway car, that [[AwesomeButimpractical while fast and cool looking, ends up attracting the police when the heist goes south]]. Also, it turns out that video games are the ''only'' experience the dude has in driving fast cars, leading to the escape going wrong when he can't handle driving the Ferrari and ends up crashing into a statue under a glass skylight. |
| 417 | ** Assane is able to fool people with disguises, but when the police find out his identity and post his picture everywhere, he has difficulty fooling people with his costumes, especially with his distinctive features ([[GagNose his wide nose]] and [[TheBigGuy his height]]). |
| 418 | ** Assane succeeds in [[spoiler:[[ClearMyName clearing his and Babakar's names]] (for Léonard's murder and the theft of the necklace, respectively), while also getting Hubert and Dumont arrested for conspiracy and collusion]]. However, he's still wanted for multiple high-profile thefts that he was genuinely responsible for, meaning that he has to go into hiding after stopping to say goodbye to Claire and Raoul. |
| 419 | ** The season 3 premiere shows how much of a negative impact Assane's actions have had on Claire and Raoul. They are the subject of vicious media scrutiny that causes them no end of stress, are repeatedly harassed, and are being observed by the police. Turns out that being the wife and son of France's most famous thief isn't fun. |
| 420 | * TakeItToTheBridge: A small footbridge crossing the Port d'Arsenal holds a special significance for Assane and Claire, as it was there where they chose Raoul's name (as such, they refer to it as "Raoul's Bridge"). After [[spoiler: completing his revenge quest against Pellegrini]], Assane arranges to meet both Claire and Raoul on the bridge before going into hiding. |
| 421 | * TechnicianVsPerformer: When it comes to their criminal activity, Assane is the Performer while Benjamin is the Technician. |
| 422 | * ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Claire tells Assane this during one of the 1998 flashbacks, when he asks to stay with her for a few days. Being a HormoneAddledTeenager, he is rather excited at the prospect of sleeping with her, but is disappointed when Claire [[TheTease reveals that she was kidding.]] |
| 423 | * TimeShiftedActor: The younger versions of most of the major characters in the {{flashback}}s are played by age-appropriate actors and actresses. |
| 424 | * TimeSkip: Part 3 takes place a year after the events of Part 2, from late November 2021 to early January 2022. |
| 425 | * TrickedIntoSigning: |
| 426 | ** Babakar is made to believe that confessing to stealing the necklace will reduce his sentence. It doesn't. |
| 427 | ** In episode 3.04, Assane poses as an electrician and tricks Gérard, one of the footmen at the Château de Thoiry, into signing a letter of resignation by telling him that it is a consent form regarding new repairs set to be performed on the man's street. |
| 428 | * UsingYouAllAlong: Unfortunately for Juliette, Assane's whole courtship of her was done with the express purpose of turning her against her father. And it works like a charm. |
| 429 | * VehicularKidnapping: |
| 430 | ** ''Subverted.'' To throw the police off the trail, Assane pretends to offload Dumont onto a van heading for a Parisian suburb, while actually bringing him to a room in the depths of City Hall (which is to say, the same building he'd kidnapped him from). |
| 431 | ** Unfortunately played straight with [[spoiler: Léonard's kidnapping of Raoul.]] Then again in a more positive light when Assane [[spoiler: uses a VanInBlack to re-kidnap him from Hubert's goons.]] |
| 432 | ** Keller's crew [[spoiler:kidnaps Mariama]] by offering her a ride. |
| 433 | * VisitByDivorcedDad: Assane takes Raoul on a walk and offers him the ''Arsène Lupin'' novel he got from his father at the end of the first episode. Later, he visits Raoul and plays video games with him. |
| 434 | ** These end when Claire, furious with Assane after [[spoiler: Raoul's kidnapping]] and horrified by the danger that he has brought into their lives, bans him from contacting them. This doesn't last too long, though, since Claire can seemingly never stay upset with Assane for much time. |
| 435 | * VoiceChangeling: |
| 436 | ** Assane fools Dumont with a recording of his voice that has been doctored to sound identical to Hubert's. |
| 437 | ** Assane's disguise as Raoul's basketball coach sees him using a voice modifier to turn his usual BaritoneOfStrength into a thinner, reedier sound. |
| 438 | * WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: In the 2006 flashbacks, Claire's therapist is flummoxed by her attachment to Assane, given that he lies to her constantly, frequently blows off their engagements, and generally fails to meet even the lowest possible standard of being a good boyfriend. |
| 439 | * WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Both of Assane's love interests are white women. In Juliette's case, this causes problems when Hubert [[ForbiddenLove bans the two from contacting each other]]. |
| 440 | * WhiteMansBurden: While she truly does mean well, some of Juliette's speeches about her foundation have fairly strong overtones of this. |
| 441 | * WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Claire jokingly rejects three of Assane's more ridiculous suggestions for the name of their child ("Maurice" [after Leblanc], "Assane Junior" and, of course, "Arsène") before accepting "Raoul." |
| 442 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: |
| 443 | ** Assane after [[spoiler: Léonard's death]] and Benjamin after he is implicated in Assane's situation. |
| 444 | ** Claire and Raoul flee their apartment to Assane's hideout after [[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive Keller tracks them down]]. |
| 445 | * YouDoNotWantToKnow: Prior to [[spoiler: Raoul's kidnapping]], this was the closest Assane got to coming clean to Claire about his revenge quest against the Pellegrini family. |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
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