Series / Saramandaia

Just another normal day in Saramandaia. ^note  From left to right: Marcos Palmeira as Seu Cazuza, Ana Beatriz Nogueira as Maria Aparadeira, André Frateschi as Dr. Rochinha, Vera Holtz as Dona Redonda, Matheus Nachtergaele as Seu Encolheu (front) and André Bankoff as Pedro Vilar (back).

^{Click here to see the logos.} Above, the logo for the 1976 version. Below, the logo for the 2013 version.

Saramandaia is a Brazilian telenovela originally written by Dias Gomes in 1976. It's considered remarkable because of the Magical Realism (used by the author to subtly criticize the Military Regime of the time) and had 160 episodes.

The story centers on the name change that the city undergoes, promoted by the younger citizens and reviled by the older ones. It also focuses on the lives of the city's quirky residents.

It got a remake in 2013 by Ricardo Linhares, with 56 episodes and mixed reactions.

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Saramandaia contains examples of:

• The '70s: The original is set in 1976.
• 13th Birthday Milestone: Aristóbulo began turning into a werewolf after his thirteenth birthday.
• Actor Allusion: The remake is not the first time Débora Bloch (Risoleta) and Laura Neiva (Stela) acted together as mother and daughter, they also did the Brazilian movie À Deriva ^note Adrift, from 2009.
  • José Mayer (Zico Rosado) and Lilia Cabral (Vitória Vilar) are once again playing a couple. That also happened História de Amor (1995), Viver a Vida (2009) and in Fina Estampa (2011).
  • Ana Beatriz Nogueira (Maria Aparadeira) is again playing a domineering, close-minded mother who ends up doing more harm than good to their kid(s), after doing it in A Vida da Gente (2011).
  • Gabriel Braga Nunes (Professor Aristóbulo) played a character with supernatural abilities for the fourth time: first in O Beijo do Vampiro (2002, played a vampire), secondly in the Os Mutantes duology (2007-2008, vampire once more) and again in Amor Eterno Amor (2012, a guy who could tame animals by looking at them and heal people by touch).
• Adaptational Name Change: Santinha Rosado became Helena in the remake; the same happened to Dulce, who got her named changed to Stela.
  • Laura Rosado was Dalva in the original.
  • The Vilar family were originally named Tavares.
    • On their side, Dirceu, the youngest son, was renamed Tiago. The middle son, Nato, became Pedro. The family patriarch, Tenório, had a milder change: his new name is Tibério.
  • Dr. Rochinha's name was changed from Antonio to Álvaro.
  • Zélia and Lua's first son is named Felipe in the remake, but in the original version he was posthumously named Gabriel.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Zélia, Nato and Dirceu were all Tenório's kids in the original. In the remake, with the addition of Vitória, they became Tenório's grandkids.
  • In the original, Candinha was actually Tenório Tavares' mother; the remake makes her Zico Rosado's mother, and she's now Tenório's (with his name changed to Tibério) love interest.
• Adaptational Villainy: Dona Redonda, who was simply a lady that loved eating and got changed into a hypocritical bigot in the remake.
• Adapted Out: Emilia, Carlito Prata's ex-wife who tries to get the judge to agree with giving her half of Carlito's earnings as a pension.
  • Homão, a con man who pretends to be a government officer to scam the town's population. His assistant, Hominho, also got cut.
  • Beata^note  A beato/beata is somebody who is profoundly devout to his/her religion. Miúda^note  Tiny, in English . Maestro Totó's sister who's very religious, being considered a leader, along with Maria Aparadeira, of Bole-Bole's more religious folk.
  • The ghosts/illusions of Dom Pedro I and Tiradentes, who appear (separately, in two different occasions) to João Gibão and Professor Aristóbulo while they nightwalk.
• Aerith and Bob: On one side you have everyday names like Maria, Pedro, João and Romeu, on the other you have Aristóbulo, Risoleta, Petronílio and Bitela.
• Affably Evil: Carlito Prata always charms everyone in his way to keep them from finding about his crimes.
• The Alcoholic: Dr. Rochinha, mostly because his bride, Laura Rosado, ran away the day of their wedding to be with Carlito Prata.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Seems to be the reason behind Laura and Carlito's relationship.
  • The same goes for Vitória Vilar and Zico Rosado.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Dora spends most of the novela in love with Dr. Rochinha, who only has eyes for Laura. Rochinha eventually finds out Laura is cheating on him with Carlito and finally notices Dora's affections, seemingly starting a relationship with her.
  • Cazuza briefly falls in love with Risoleta after feeling disillusioned with Maria Aparadeira, but she snaps him out of it, citing his idealization of her.
• All There in the Manual: It's said in one of the blogs updated by the characters (Diário de Bole-Bole ^note  Diary of Bole-Bole, in English, specifically) that Zico and Helena got married in 1983.
  • Also in the Diário de Bole-Bole: Dona Fifi still has seven daughters with Maestro Cursino, although her subplot was cut in the remake.
  • The reason why Bia wasn't at her parents 25th wedding anniversary was that her parents simply did not invite her, according to the Saramandaia Já! ^note  Saramandaia Now!, in English, blog.
  • Also in Saramandaia Já we find out that Dep. Petronílio started working as a deputy after his father died of a heart attack.
• Alternate Identity Amnesia: Professor Aristóbulo suffers from this, although some of his memories come back the day after. He eventually starts to remember everything, thanks in part to Risoleta.
• Always Identical Twins: Dona Redonda and Dona Bitela. The only difference between them is their hair color. When Bitela arrives at Saramandaia, after her sister's death, Seu Encolheu passes out from shock, thinking Redonda resuscitated.
  • In the remake, Bitela's arrival causes a mild frenzy, with Dona Fifi also thinking that Dona Redonda resuscitated.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents : Dona Pupu and her husband, Belisário, to their son, Prof. Aristóbulo.
• Anachronism Stew: The remake is filled with this. The characters still use modern technology like computers and cellphones, but Dona Redonda, Seu Encolheu and Dona Risoleta dress like it's still the 50s, Professor Aristóbulo owns a house in Victorian style and is director of a Civic Center, Dona Maria Aparadeira is a midwife and characters frequently use candles to illuminate places, alongside lamps.
• And This Is for...: When João Gibão fights Carlito Prata due to his trickery, he specifically mentions the car bomb (which didn't feature him directly) and the fake miracle (which he planned) before punching him.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Aristóbulo declares his love for Risoleta after getting his lycanthropy exposed. He also asks her to forgive him about all the times he mistreated her, promising to love her forever. They seem to be on the verge of definite reconciliation and willing to try having a relationship (and start making out right there). Unfortunately for them, he becomes a werewolf on the wrong day and ends up hurting Risoleta, after getting scared by the noise people outside her bedroom were making (to find out if Risoleta was fine, fearing the werewolf would harm or kill her), leaving claw mars on her body.
  Aristóbulo: I love you Risoleta. I love you so much, we have lost way too much time with unnecessary cautions... I am willing to accept you the way I am willing to accept everything else in my life. From now on, a new man I am... I only ask that you forgive my mistakes, and that you give me a new chance to make you happy.
• Animal Motif: Birds are João's motif, of course. In both versions he even owns a bird store.
  • Ants are these for Zico Rosado, representing both his workers (which he controls with an iron fist) and his sugarcane farm. They are also what cause his death: the ants build over in his home's structure, destroying it from inside out. Zico refuses to leave his home, and it falls down with him still inside.
• Antiquated Linguistics: One reason why Professor Aristóbulo's speeches are nearly incomprehensible to the townspeople, as he uses words and expressions that have fallen out of common use some hundred years ago, being mainly used in academic settings nowadays. Lampshaded by Risoleta:
  Aristóbulo, while declaring his love for her: There's no need for prolegomena between us.
  Risoleta: Professor, I'm a learned woman, but some of the things you say...
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Professor Aristóbulo lives in Saramandaia, a town in which a man literally throws his heart up, a woman just exploded (and almost took the whole town with her) and even he becomes a werewolf every Thursday night. Somehow, he can't believe that his dad's headless body came back home and waltzed with his mom while he was away.
• Armour-Piercing Question: When discussing the Saint Dias miracle, Seu Cazuza wholeheartedly believes the Saint spoke his will through the statue. Risoleta, however, questions it. She makes Cazuza start questioning it too, through a simple statement:
  Risoleta: If the Saint had said Saramandaia, instead of Bole-Bole, would you still believe it? Or would you think it is a con?
• Arranged Marriage: In the remake, Dona Candinha says her dad sent her to the state's capital so she would be apart from Tibério. When she came back, he'd already chosen a husband for her, the man who would eventually become Zico's dad.
  • Maria Aparadeira tried to do this to Aristóbulo and Marcina. The disinterest of the latter (who was still very in love with former boyfriend João Gibão) and the former being publicly outed as a werewolf (and also very much in love with Risoleta, despite having spurned her advances) put the plan to rest.
• Babies Ever After: Both Marcina and Zélia in the last chapter.
• Back from the Dead: Seu Cazuza, when stressed, ends up throwing up his heart. In the first episode, he dies after swallowing his heart again and it ending up on the wrong side of his body. The day of his funeral, there are two political rallies (one by the Bole-Bolenses, who want to keep the city's name and one by the Saramandistas, who want to change it), one of which arrives by surprise (the Saramandistas, who arrive by quadricycle and throwing paint at everyone), shocking the people carrying the coffin, which falls to the ground and makes Cazuza's heart go back into place, reviving him.
  • Dona Candinha, overwhelmed by the emotion of seeing the love of her life after decades, promptly dies. But her great-granddaughter Stela is there, and her tears make her come back to life.
  • She isn't the only one saved by Stela's tears, while she's running away with Tiago and getting chased by Firmino the car they're driving gets into an accident, killing Tiago instantly. She cries on his body, reviving him and both promptly resume their escape, this time with Firmino's car.
• Bait-and-Switch: Seu Belisário's headless body comes back home and, after putting his head where it should be, says there's something he's dying to do again with his wife, Dona Pupu. It's waltzing with her, of course!
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: A villainous example with Dona Fifi (the one who isn't particularly strong or smart; in the original version has seven daughters and is pregnant by the end of it), Dona Maria Aparadeira (the one who makes the most plans to solve her problems, most of the time to separate Marcina and João) and Dona Redonda (literally Mrs. Round; has great physical strength and constantly solves her problems by fighting). It gets undone after Dona Redonda explodes and Maria Aparadeira has a Heel–Face Turn though.
• Berserk Button: Never mention changing the city's name to Seu Cazuza, the least you'll get is a telling off that might end with his heart jumping out of his mouth. When he dies, Zico even says he died of cardiac indignation provoked by discussing the name change.
  • Don't ever harm or threaten to harm Risoleta, as Firmino and Zico Rosado found out in the hard way (i.e. having a furious, fully werewolf shaped Professor Aristóbulo grabbing them by the throat).
• Best Friends-in-Law: Risoleta and Dona Pupu have a great relationship since meeting each other, even at the times where Risoleta wanted nothing to do with Aristóbulo. Dona Pupu is, for much of the telenovela, their Shipper on Deck.
• Big Little Brother: Judging by this picture◊, Professor Aristóbulo is taller than all of his sisters.^note  The picture only appears in a Freeze-Frame Bonus, when Risoleta starts to explore Aristóbulo's house at Dona Pupu's invite, during episode 14.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Carlito Prata in both versions. He is more cunning than Zico (and in fact has been embezzling the money from his beer for a long time), seduced Laura (who had hopes to marry him) then left her and planned the Saint Dias voice faking. He still managed to fool most bole-bolenses into believing him.
• Blame the Paramour + Woman Scorned: Helena immediately blames Vitória upon finding out she's the one whom her husband has been cheating with (it's also implied she did the same to the other lovers Zico had taken throughout their marriage). This eventually leads into a vehicular manslaughter attempt. Luckily, Vitória is saved by Risoleta. Helena then proceeds to go through with the saner option: divorce.
• Blood Transfusion Plot: Happens in both versions of the telenovela, with the same character: Zélia and Lua's first son. In the original, the baby dies because his father only authorized the transfusion after it was too late. In the remake the boy survives, due to a donation by Zico Rosado, his grandfather.
  • AB Negative: In the remake, Felipe's blood type is O- and the only person who happens to have that type is Zico Rosado.
  Zélia: To save my son, I'll accept blood donations from everyone, even from you.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Laura does this to Zico after Helena's suicide attempt at first she blames Zico for what happened, as his philandering was partly responsible for what happened, while also calling him out for ignoring her even at a moment like that. He doesn't mind it until she mentioned he'd lose everything, even his beer brand, as a new one, with the name of Saramandaia, was gonna take that market. Zico then speaks to Laura for the first time since she arrived at the farm, just to try and find out who's planning to sell a beer with the name Saramandaia. Laura promptly chews him out further:
  Laura: Now that it matters and is convenient to yourself specifically you start speaking with me again, that's it? I've been here for a long time Dad, I was ill, needing my family's love and from you I only got rudeness and indifference[...] It's astonishing, Mom's like that and you only think about yourself. What kind of man and husband are you? Because I already know what kind of father[...] The Bole-Bole beer only stokes your pride. You value it more than you value a lot of people.
  (After Zico says it was awfully hard to lose both of his kids: Zé Mário died and after that Laura ran away).
  Laura: You never actually valued us while we were here, Dad. You always argued with Zé Mário and never allowed him to go against your orders. Have you already forgotten? I was fearful, shy and you despised me. You never actually cared for what we were feeling. We grew up without a dad's love. What we felt for you wasn't even respect, it was fear.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Dona Pupu (and Seu Belisário, arguably, even though he hasn't any vocal chords anymore. His son still calls him the king of mimics). In the remake they're responsible for telling Risoleta about Aristóbulo's dead fiancée and telling Aristóbulo that Risoleta has a daughter. All that in the span of hours!
  • They also tell Risoleta that Aristóbulo believes his fiancée's death was his fault, because that's what it seemed like. That prompts her to actually research it, and find out it was a case of Poor Communication Kills.
  • She's also responsible for telling Risoleta that Aristóbulo is a werewolf, but only in the original version.
  • Dona Fifi thrives on this trope: she's the biggest gossiper in town and at least once she spilled the beans about something she and Maria Aparadeira were planning because she was drunk and ends up saving João Gibão from prison for a false charge of selling trafficked birds.
• Canon Foreigner: Vitória Vilar didn't exist in the original version, as Zélia, Nato and Dirceu were all Tenório's kids.
  • And neither did Maria Aparadeira's family.
  • Nor Adélia.
• Cardboard Prison: The city's prison cell always has its door open (and there never was a single escape). Except when Zico Rosado is arrested in the remake, that is.
• Cassandra Truth: Happens repeatedly to João Gibão, the city's prophet. The worst offender was Dona Redonda.
• Circus Brat: Maria Aparadeira turns out to be one, as her mother is the bearded lady, her father's a little person and her brother's the strong man and trapeze artist.
• Christianity is Catholic: Justified Trope, as Brazil in the 70s was (and still is, although with smaller numbers) hugely Catholic, with Protestant churches only gaining popularity later.
• Chubby Chaser: Seu Encolheu qualifies, as he is married to Dona Redonda and later starts dating her sister, Bitela.
• Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: Dona Redonda and Seu Encolheu are that to Bia.
  • Dona Pupu and Seu Belisário are shown to be this as well, specially after Belisário's headless body comes for a visit.
• Church Lady: Maria Aparadeira, Redonda and Fifi, for villainous examples, of course. But also Helena Rosado and Dona Leocádia, for kinder examples.
• Clothing Reflects Personality: Deliberately invoked, in spades, in the remake.
  • Edible Theme Clothing: Dona Redonda wears those to reflect her love of eating, with little candy-like accessories. It's also ironic as she's anything but sweet.
  • Elderly Orange-Haired Lady: Dona Pupu has bright orange hair (said by the creators to reference Vivienne Westwood) which contrasts with her old-fashioned, either plain or dark colored dresses and ascots. This shows how she's a smart, cheeky old lady who'll stop at nothing to see her son happy (and is also a bit ditzy).
  • Ethereal White Dress: Adélia, Aristóbulo's deceased fiancée.
  • Pink Means Feminine: Stela usually wears pastel pink clothing, showing how she's gentle, sweet, innocent and a bit sheltered.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: Professor Aristóbulo, who usually wears black three-piece suits with purple shirts or neckties and blatantly old-fashioned details. He also wears longcoats at night and black sunglasses. This reflects part of his personality: traditional, sober, town's public speaker, a secret werewolf trying to camouflage by overcompensating.
  • Maria Aparadeira and Dona Fifi wear dresses with plain (darker in the first's case, lighter in the latter's, with some exceptions) colors and cuts, signalling their old-fashioned ways and close mindedness.
  • Dona Risoleta, on the other way, wears bold, dark and light colors alike, rife with shiny, attention grabbing accessories, high heels, form fitting skirts and low cuts, reflecting her playfulness and sensuality. Also attracting the ire of the former ladies. This also shows up on her Unconventional Wedding Dress, an off-white knee-length dress with ruffles, lace and flower details, cleavage and asymmetrical skirt.
    • Dora and Rosalice follow the same line as Risoleta, although with shorter clothes, use of romantic leanings (in Dora's case) or even bolder cleavage cuts (in Rosalice's case).
  • In the Rosado household there's Helena, who wears traditional dresses but with smarter cuts, befitting the wife of a powerful, rich Colonel.
  • Candinha wears a mismatch of various eras, symbolizing how long she's been around and how long she's been waiting for Tibério.
  • Zélia and Vitória kinda match, being daughter and mother, but Zélia seems to follow a rougher dress (with softer edges), matching with her younger, outspoken idealist views and Vitória wears bespoke shirts and classic pants, befitting her status as a strong, established businesswoman.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Dona Pupu. The things she's done include: walking around with her husband's severed head (that is alive, by the way) and talking about the deceased fiancée of her son as if she was still alive.
  • Dona Candinha also fits the bill, as she speaks and cares for her chickens which are invisible to everyone else. She is, however, very sharp and politically aware.
• Continuity Cameo: The doctor that takes care of Zico in the remake is played by José Augusto Branco, who played Dr. Rochinha in the original version.
• Corrupt Politician: Zico Rosado, who offers to pay seu Cazuza to convince other politicians and do another plebiscite to change back the city's name to Bole-Bole.
• Cursed with Awesome: João Gibão can fly, see the future (though that seems more like Blessed with Suck) and control things with his mind. He hates it and wishes to be normal. In the end, he accepts his gifts.
• Cycle of Revenge: Between the Vilar and the Rosado, resulting in many deaths.
• Daddy's Girl: Marcina is this to Seu Cazuza, who complies with most of his daughter's wishes and tries to keep Maria Aparadeira from meddling with her romantic life.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Professor Aristóbulo dresses almost exclusively in black, walks around all night due to an insomnia that lasts at least ten years and is a werewolf, but is probably the nicest and most polite werewolf you've ever met (although he's a very no-nonsense, serious man with a penchant for Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness). In fact, his mysterious ways are the reason Risoleta feels attracted to him.
  • Dona Pupu never leaves her home, which is fully decorated with antiques and lives with her husband, Seu Belisário, who's only a disembodied head. Both are very respectful and gentle people, even though Seu Belisário freaks almost everyone out.
• Dead Guy Junior: Happens in the remake, with Zélia and Lua naming their son Felipe after her father. Or so she thought, at the time.
  • Marcina and João also do this, naming their daughter Vitória, who chose to die with Zico Rosado, to spare her grandson from him.
• Deadpan Snarker : Carlito Prata in the remake.
  • Maestro Totó also, who'll always have the time and wits to snark on the Bole-bolenses.
• Death of a Child: In the 1976 version, Zélia and Lua's first son dies due to the lack of a blood transfusion: Lua didn't want to authorize the transfusion because it was against his religion, and when he authorized it, it was already too late. The death ends up separating the couple for a while. That plot wasn't included at all in the remake.
• Death by Gluttony: Befalls Dona Redonda, because she refused João's advice. She ends up exploding from eating too much.
• Death by Adaptation: Carlito Prata in the original version accidentally gets seriously hurt by a gunshot inflicted by João Gibão, after scheming to take a picture of the latter's wings, but doesn't die. However, in the remake, Laura Rosado breaks a vase on his head, killing him, after she sees him threatening to kill Zico.
  • Happens to Dona Candinha and Tibério Vilar in the remake, who after waiting for one another for 50 years, finally get face to face, kiss, and promptly begin turning into a tree.
• December–December Romance: Candinha Rosado and Tibério Vilar are this trope, after falling in love young and being separated by decades, they finally reunite and start flirting again, thanks to their grandkids Stela and Tiago.
• Decided by One Vote: Saramandaia wins over Bole-Bole by only seven votes.
• Diving Save: How Prof. Aristóbulo ends up saving Risoleta from being run over by Zico Rosado.
• Double Entendre: "I'm really impressed with your wife's hole, Mr. Encolheu. All respect due." - Zico Rosado, talking about the crater Dona Redonda left after she exploded.
• The Dragon: Carlito Prata is this to Zico Rosado, often scheming with him to take down the Saramandistas.
• Driven to Suicide: Helena Rosado, after getting tired of her husband's cheating ways. Thankfully, it gets bungled, due to Zico finding her in time and calling Dr. Rochinha.
• Dying Alone: Zico Rosado in the first version, who chooses to stay in his house which was taken over by ants. Averted in the remake, however.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Dona Pupu keeps calling Professor Aristóbulo, a grown man, Neném ^note  Baby, in Portuguese.
• Enter Stage Window: Professor Aristóbulo is fond of this trope in the remake, as he, either to watch Risoleta sleep or to talk to her, frequently enters by her bedroom's window. It's so pervasive that it actually shows up in Risoleta's dreams about him.
  • There Was a Door: Gets lampshaded by Risoleta after Aristóbulo goes through the window yet again, this time to declare his love for her again, also to tell her he's finally free from the ghost of his ex-fiancée.
  Risoleta: Do you have any restrictions about using the door?
• Erotic Dream: Risoleta tries to forget Professor Aristóbulo, but keeps having these....
• Establishing Character Moment: The first time we see Professor Aristóbulo, he's doing a long-winded, confusing speech full of difficult words, showing how much he loves the public's attention and aligns with the Bole-bolenses.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Seu Encolheu is completely shocked by Bia, his daughter, exposing his and Dona Redonda's dossier full of lies against João Gibão.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even though he causes a lot of grief, Zico surely loves his granddaughter and Vitória.
• Fake Pregnancy: In the remake Marcina fakes being pregnant, with João being the father, so Maria Aparadeira won't tell the whole town that Zélia's baby has wings. She tells her father the truth, however.
  • The fear of having a "deformed" grandson makes Aparadeira try to give Marcina an tea made with abortion-inducing plants, but give up at the last second.
• Fantastic Racism: The moment the townspeople find out for sure that Professor Aristóbulo is a werewolf, they subject him to a series of prejudiced remarks (specially the bole-bolenses, his former allies). Despite most of the hate dying down after a few months (and Aristóbulo finding new allies on the local "weirdos" Marcina and João Gibão), Dona Fifi, her husband and a few others decide to march in protest of Aristóbulo's wedding with Risoleta, believing him to be more akin to a sterile animal, rather than a human.
  • João Gibão is also subject to this, due to his visions and telekinesis (also his hunchback).
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: there's a werewolf, a ghost, a winged prophet man, a woman explodes, one man has ants coming out of his nose, another man's heart comes out of his mouth^note In this case, a Literal Metaphor for a Brazilian idiom used for cases of extreme fear or physical exhaustion, and it only builds from there.
  • Also, in the remake a guy has roots binding him to the ground.
• Fat and Skinny: Maestro Cursino and Maestro Totó, respectively.
  • Dona Redonda and Seu Encolheu.
• Fat Bastard: Dona Redonda has shades of this in the remake.
• Feuding Families: The Rosado and the Tavares (Vilar in the remake).
• Feet of Clay: Mentioned in-universe by Professor Aristóbulo when talking with Delegado Petronílio in the front of Risoleta's inn after having his lycanthropy exposed.
  Professor Aristóbulo: The bulwark fell apart, he had feet of clay.
• Foil: Dona Risoleta and Dona Maria Aparadeira, with the first one being a sex-positive, ex-prostitute, bar owner who has a soft spot for almost anyone on earth and the second being an ultra religious homeowner who will judge harshly anyone not up to her moral compass. Naturally, their origin stories also contrast: Risoleta unwillingly abandoned her daughter, Maria Aparadeira willingly abandoned her mother (and the rest of her family). They almost come to blows during the story's course, specially when Cazuza starts developing romantic feelings for Risoleta.
  • Carlito Prata has two foils between the men of Bole-Bole: the first one is, obviously, João Gibão, who can clearly see through his lies and was raised to be honest to a fault, while outcast by the townsfolk (Carlito, due to being aligned to Zico, enjoyed great popularity).
    • The second one is Professor Aristóbulo, who, while seemingly similar (both are, in different moments, Zico Rosado's right hand man, both are affiliated to the Bole-Bole party and present themselves as traditional/conservative men) softly contrasts with him, due to also being a profoundly honest man, the member of a founding family of Bole-Bole (while Carlito is a newcomer), speaking/dressing in an old-fashioned way (while Carlito wants to be seen as a modern man all the way through, considering Aristóbulo to be a "freak", thus unfit to run for mayor) and the different way in which their political opinions affects them (Aristóbulo can't actually come out as a werewolf due to his social status, abstained from pursuing Risoleta, almost enters a loveless marriage and eventually comes to resent some of his views, all while Carlito is a huge hypocrite, has no problem with sleeping around, deceiving Laura into thinking he would marry her and then leaving her to fend for herself, deceiving the town's population to earn votes and even stealing from his godfather, Zico, as revenge.
• Four Lines, All Waiting: As is common for telenovelas. Most of the time at least two of the week's plotlines come together.
• Freakiness Shame: João Gibão absolutely loathes his wings in the remake. His family, however, accepts him. Dona Leocádia, his mom, supports him from the beginning, and constantly pleads with him to accept himself, to the point of regretting everytime he asks her to cut his wings. Lua and Zélia, who find out after seeing their son also has wings are floored, but become fully understanding and loving to him. Marcina, who found out during their first time, is absolutely enchanted and enamored by his wings, wishing he had told her about them sooner.
  • Aristóbulo is mostly neutral towards his lycanthropy, but starts to resent it after he accidentally hurts Risoleta. Dona Pupu, his mom, never regretted having a werewolf son and wishes he could accept himself wholeheartedly as much as she does. Risoleta has an outright werewolf obsession (finding his turned form very attractive and wanting to bed him like that), and despite backing away after what happened, she doesn't stop loving him and his curse nor believes he killed his former fiancée. Aristóbulo gets better after realizing his mom and future wife are right.
• From New York to Nowhere: For Tiago, this trope could've been named From São Paulo to Saramandaia, as he initially struggles to adapt to the town. This only lasts until he meets Stela.
• Functional Addict: Doctor Álvaro Rocha, known as Dr. Rochinha, is an alcoholic man who nevertheless is the only doctor in the entire town.
• Fun with Acronyms: The group made of Dona Maria Aparadeira, Dona Redonda and Dona Fifi, the League of Decent Ladies, who reunite to complain about people on the city. Only works in Portuguese though: Liga das Senhoras Decentes, or LSD.
• Fly Or Die: Happens at the last episode from the original version. João Gibão, after being imprisoned for shooting Carlito, running away from prison with help of Marcina and finding a place to hide, starts considering leaving the town for good. His hiding place is then found by a recovered Carlito and his henchmen, leading João to show off his wings and start flying away, with the awed look of Saramandaia's citizens below him.
• Generation Xerox: Mild. Turns out that at least three generations of the Rosado fell in love with one of the Vilar, with mixed results.
• The Ghost: Professor Aristóbulo's seven sisters. They're only mentioned when somebody needs to explain why he is a werewolf. It's eventually said they live scattered around different cities (which makes their brother think they all ran away from him, at a low point in his life).
• Glass-Shattering Sound: Dona Redonda's scream after seeing Belisário's head (shown intentionally by Dona Pupu) not only shatters glass but also literally breaks part of the ceiling.
• God Guise: In both versions, Carlito makes it seem like the city's patron saint (Saint Onofre in the original, Saint Dias in the remake, as a homage to the original author, Dias Gomes) says "Bole-Bole" in the middle of a church service, to convince people to vote for keeping the city's name. In the remake he even cuts his own finger to make it look like the saint cried blood.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted, as Laura Rosado does indeed get a back alley abortion, but isn't treated any worse by the characters for it. While Laura isn't exactly a good girl, this is not one of the reasons why.
• Good Shepherd: Father Romeu, who is constantly giving good advice to the citizens and being against the use of people's faith for political propaganda. He even marries Professor Aristóbulo and Dona Risoleta despite the former being a werewolf and the latter being a ex-prostitute. As No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Father Romeu ends up excommunicated but doesn't regret it a single bit.
• Gossipy Hens: Maria Aparadeira, Dona Fifi ^note  The name, in Brazil, is even a slang synonymous with someone who keeps gossiping about other people's lives and Dona Redonda. They not only reunite to gossip about the people of the city, but also sent an email telling Prof. Aristóbulo about Risoleta's past as a prostitute to keep him away from her.
• Gratuitous English: Carlito Prata regularly uses English words in his speech, confusing Zico Rosado.
• Groin Attack: After Dona Redonda explodes, her body parts end up scattered around the town. One of her feet ended up at the local police station's prison cell and hit the (only) prisoner right on his groin.
• Happily Ever After + Wedding Finale: Risoleta and Prof. Aristóbulo. Their wedding happens at the penultimate chapter, however.
  • João Gibão and Marcina.
• Heel–Face Turn: Maria Aparadeira.
• Hidden Depths: Dona Redonda is an explosive (no pun intended), intolerant woman who makes life a living hell for anyone she considers different (and for anyone who tries to make her lose weight). That behavior came about after she and her sister got bullied in childhood due to their weight and it's implied she uses it to mask her own insecurities.
• Historical Domain Character: In the original telenovela, Dom Pedro I and Tiradentes show up in brief scenes.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: Zico Rosado has one after Vitória tells him Zélia is his daughter. João Gibão even tried to tell him to take good care of his heart beforehand too.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: More like ex-hooker, but Risoleta is one of those.
  • Dora and Rosalice also qualify, depending on the viewer's interpretation.
• How Dare You Die on Me!: Maria Aparadeira has this reaction to Cazuza dying in the first chapter.
  Maria Aparadeira: I'll never forgive you for going before me!
• Hypocrite: Dona Redonda and Maria Aparadeira disrespect everyone they consider different, despite the former being on the verge of exploding due to eating too much, and the latter having a husband that throws up his heart, a daughter that heats up when thinking about her boyfriend, and being the daughter of the bearded lady and a circus little person.
• Icarus Allusion: Is mentioned in the remake after Aristóbulo's lycanthropy is exposed at the Bole-Bole's political party event. Aristóbulo seems to consider having planned to run for mayor "flying too high".
  Professor Aristóbulo, while lying on his mom's chest: This time was worse... Because I dreamed high and the fall was terrible.
• Identical Twin ID Tag : In the remake, Dona Redonda has red hair (later revealed to be a wig) while Dona Bitela has blond hair. This is an inversion of the original version, however.
• Identity Amnesia: Aristóbulo doesn't know who he is after getting hit by the car's explosion, the only thing he knows for sure it's that Risoleta is very attractive and Smells Sexy. He doesn't hesitate in telling her this, and the two almost sleep together.
  • He even forgets he needs to transform into a werewolf. When the transformation starts, he freaks Risoleta out and she ends up throwing a vase on him (which, after he falls down from impact and hits his head, makes his memory come back).
• I Have No Son!: Zico Rosado has no daughter, not since she ran away and left her boyfriend standing at the altar.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: João Gibão's plight for most of the telenovela; he eventually accepts himself though.
• I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Dona Pupu says just that to Aristóbulo when telling him that Risoleta has a daughter.
  Dona Pupu: If we really were such tattle tellers then we'd already have told you that Risoleta has a daughter!
  Professor Aristóbulo: Risoleta has a what?
  Dona Pupu: An island! Risoleta has an island! ^note  In Portuguese, the words for daughter (filha) and island (ilha) sound alike.
• Impoverished Patrician: Helena's parents, according to Candinha Rosado, were impoverished farmers.
• The Insomniac: Prof. Aristóbulo hasn't been able to sleep in 10 years, due to thinking he caused his fiancee's death. It's eventually said that she had a heart condition.
• Instrumental Theme Tune: In the remake, which angered fans of the original version (used to hearing Pavão Mysteriozo instead).
• Intergenerational Friendship: Tibério Vilar is his grandson's, Tiago, best friend while in the city. It helps that he encourages his romance with Stela and Tiago in turn encourages his grandfather's romance of Candinha Rosado, despite their families being enemies.
  • The same can be said of Candinha Rosado in relation to her great-granddaughter, Stela. She also encourages her romance with Tiago Vilar. The day Tiago was caught with Stela on the Rosado's house, Candinha immediately went to defend the boy, telling Firmino (and Zico) not to mess with him. She gets even prouder of Stela when she manages to run away with Tiago.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: Comes with being a werewolf, as Prof. Aristóbulo could tell you. By the end of the telenovela, it's implied that he's getting some sort of control over it, however.
• It's Always Sunny at Funerals: Cazuza's funeral happens at a sunny day (although a storm seems to be building over). He ends up resuscitating, though.
  • And so is Zico's funeral at the original version's ending.
• Jerkass: Dona Maria Aparadeira makes the lives of everyone who is a Saramandista and/or has some physical difference a living hell. The same applies to Dona Redonda and Dona Fifi.
• Kids Are Cruel: In the remake, kids are frequently seen making fun of Dona Redonda due to her weight, at one point placing firecrackers on the church she and Encolheu were celebrating their wedding anniversary.
  • Dona Redonda said she and Bitela were bullied as kids, and that's when she started to become a bully herself (as opposed to Bitela, who kept being kind into adulthood).
  • Dona Maria Aparadeira is the daughter of a circus family, but ran away in her teens due to bullying from her classmates and started pretending to be an orphan.
• Kitsch Collection: Risoleta had a pretty big collection of dolls in the original, including one called Dulce, which is her daughter's name. The remake reduced that to one single doll that she plans to give to her daughter, who due to Adaptational Name Change became Stela.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Aristóbulo is hit with this after surviving the car explosion (planned by Zico Rosado). He can't remember his name or social expectations, and as a result becomes a lot more... Lively. Specially towards Risoleta. It also makes him forget that he becomes a werewolf every Thursday night. It takes Risoleta throwing a vase at him for his memory to come back.
• Leitmotif: Pavão Mysteriozo is this for João Gibão.
  • Canção da Meia-noite was this for Prof. Aristóbulo in the original version.
  • Eu sou o Estopim was this for Marcina, only in the 1976 version.
• Legacy Seeker: Professor Aristóbulo in the remake, who dreams of being elected mayor and becoming a part of Bole-Bole's history.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Seu Cazuza is generally calm and collected, while also being a conservative man who disapproves of his wife's and daughter's schemes. Dona Maria Aparadeira is a hypocritical Church Lady who spends most of her time judging other people from her town and firmly abhors people she finds weird. Marcina is a young, spirited and very impulsive saramandista that heats up when thinking about her boyfriend, João Gibão^note  While also making a part of her goals to lose her virginity to him, marriage or not, who is loathed by her mom for having the idea to change the city's name and for looking weird due to his hunchback.
  • Bia is a sweet saramandista who insists that her mother should control her food intake and start eating healthier food. Dona Redonda is a brash and loud woman who will gladly eat everything that is edible and despises saramandistas.
  • Dona Pupu and Seu Belisário are carefree, approachable people that are quite quirky, with the first making no secret of the latter's lack of a body. Professor Aristóbulo is a most formal and serious man who reacts rudely to his parents' eccentricities, preferring to keep his own oddity (and his parents') to himself, due mostly to fear of exclusion and judgement from others.
  (After another rant by her son about their oddities).
  Dona Pupu: Oh Belisário, I wonder about where did he get it from.
• Losing Your Head: Belisário, D. Pupu's beheaded husband.
• Magic Realism: In both versions. There's a werewolf, an angel, one man knows the weather by his aching bones, other throws up his heart in distressing situations, one woman explodes, etc.
• Marriage of Convenience: Aristóbulo plans to do this in the remake, marrying Marcina to keep a good political image, even though he doesn't feel anything for her.
• Massively Numbered Siblings: Dona Pupu and Seu Belisário had eight kids, seven girls and one boy (who naturally, according to Brazilian folklore, is a werewolf).
  • In the original, Dona Fifi was anti birth control and also had seven girls. By the end of the story she was pregnant again and it was strongly suggested that the baby was going to be a boy.
• Mirror Character: In the remake, Professor Aristóbulo and João Gibão are men who choose to hide their differences (becoming a werewolf in Aristóbulo's case and having wings in João's) for fear of the reactions from other citizens of Bole-Bole. Both have supportive families, with their mothers (Dona Pupu and Dona Leocádia, respectively) being their biggest supporters (and being who primarily raised them, with João's father dying before the novela began and Aristóbulo's father being only a sentient head). Both fall in love with women who wholeheartedly support them (Risoleta and Marcina), but they back away for fear of hurting/scaring their lovers, refusing to tell them the truth about themselves. The main difference between them is their political opinions: Aristóbulo is, for most of the telenovela, a conservative/pro-Bole-Bole and João Gibão is a liberal/pro-Saramandaia. Another one is the way the exposition of their conditions happen: Aristóbulo is basically outed after a disastrous political campaign, with Risoleta helping to hide it, but João chooses to show his wings to the public (and, before that, to Marcina). In the original version it was to fly away from the town after being persecuted, in the remake it was to fly back in time and save Marcina from death. In the end, they start working more closely together, striking a friendship. Also both Professor Aristóbulo and João Gibão end the novela married.
• Missing Mom: Stela's mom, who died in childbirth. she's actually Risoleta's daughter, but Risoleta left the city because Zico Rosado threatened her.
• Miss Kitty: Risoleta to Dora and Rosalice, as she defends and cares for "her girls" while also dragging them by the ear if something's off. Rosa Palmeirão was implied to be this for her, way back when.
• The Mistress: In the remake, Vitória Vilar is this to Zico Rosado, who doesn't want to divorce Helena (even though he doesn't love her anymore and it's implied he never really did) to keep the image of a traditional, God-fearing Bole-Bolense family.
• Moral Guardians: Maria Aparadeira, Dona Redonda and Dona Fifi in the remake.
• Mundane Utility: João Gibão, attending Priest Romeo's request, plays the church's bells with his telekinesis to announce Cazuza's death.
• My Beloved Smother: Maria Aparadeira is this to Marcina, trying to get her to break up with João Gibão.
• My Blood Runs Hot: Marcina, when she is aroused by her boyfriend, Gibão. When they break up and she starts "dating" Sheriff Petronílio Marcina starts growing colder every day.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Seu Encolheu realizes far too late that Dona Redonda really is about to explode and he enabled her to get to that point.
• Mythical Motifs: Stela and Tiago start seeing an Unicorn when going out together, representing the innocence of their relationship.
• Mythology Gag: In the remake the town's patron saint is called Saint Dias.
• Named After the Injury: The reason for Seu Encolheu's ^note Mr. Shrunk, in English. nickname is that a Zebu bull broke all of his bones when he was a teen, stunting his growth. It also made him able to give the town's weather forecast by his aching bones. He seems to consider this a fair deal.
• Neologisms: Oh boy. The citizens of Bole-Bole are surely fond of these. Examples include "admirância" for admiration, "treschapado" for surprised and "mexericância" for gossip.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the remake Padre Romeu accepts to marry Professor Aristóbulo and Dona Risoleta, despite the first being a werewolf and the second an ex-prostitute, and ends up excommunicated; he doesn't regret it.
  Father Romeu: If the werewolf searches for God and has good will, then who am I to deny it?
• The Nose Knows: Risoleta's smell comes to play a part in the plot when Aristóbulo uses it to easily track her down after Zico Rosado kidnaps and plans to kill her.
• Not What It Looks Like: Aristóbulo sees Tiago in his underwear laying on Risoleta's bed. Tiago was planning to sleep with Rosalice, but then got drunk and mixed up the rooms. Risoleta didn't see him breaking in, as she was bathing at the time. Aristóbulo went to the inn to try and reconcile with her, but when he found Tiago, he started to transform into the werewolf. Tiago freezes, scared, and Aristóbulo runs away angry. Risoleta tries to explain that to him the morning after, but he doesn't believe her.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Maria Aparadeira hates her daughter's love (and later engagement) for João Gibão, due to him being in favor of changing the city's name (and having the dream that sparked the whole movement) and for considering him a weirdo, due to his hunchback. She constantly tries to make Marcina date Prof. Aristóbulo (only until his lycanthropy is exposed, that is) and later Deputy Petronílio.
  • Candinha Rosado dislikes and bullies her daughter-in-law, Helena, because she considers Helena a cowardly weakling, specially after Helena's suicide attempt. She only opposes the idea of Helena divorcing Zico due to being strictly set in her old, traditional ways.
    • Helena got her own chance at hating a daughter-in-law with Risoleta. Both she and Zico considered Risoleta unfit to be Zé Mário's wife and Stela's mother due to previously being a prostitute. So not only they hid the truth from Stela for eighteen years but also Zico schemed to kill Risoleta, which indirectly resulted in his son's death, then convinced Risoleta that the Vilar family were responsible for the attempt, that they would come back to kill her along with baby Stela and that the baby was better off at his and Helena's care, telling Risoleta that if the "Vilar" came back he'd only protect his granddaughter. He also gave Risoleta money to start her life again in another place. She only regrets her mistreatment of her former daughter-in-law after realizing her own husband's monstrosity.
• Obsessively Normal: Maria Aparadeira in the remake.
• Offing the Offspring: The Rosado family heavily disapproved of the relationship between their son, Zé Mário, and Risoleta, due to her being a prostitute. One day, after Stela was born, Zico sent his foreman to kill Risoleta, but he missed the shot because Zé Mário tried to protect his family and thus Firmino ended up accidentally killing the Rosado instead.
• Old Flame: Zico and Vitória are this for each other.
  • And so are Candinha and Tibério.
• Old Retainer: Cleide is this for the Vilar family. She's been working there since the times of "Doctor" ^note  In Brazil, it used to be common to call important people by the titles of doctor or colonel, the latter specially used to call big landowners. Tibério.
  • Das Dores is also this, but for the Rosados.
• Old Shame: For many of the townsfolk, Risoleta having been a prostitute. For Risoleta herself having accepted money in exchange for giving away her daughter to Zico, "for her security".
• One Head Taller: Pedro is this to Bia in the remake, being also Huge Guy, Tiny Girl material.
• One-Person Birthday Party: A variation happens in the remake, in which Dona Redonda and Seu Encolheu are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, but everyone else makes up excuses not to go, as they're all afraid of Dona Redonda exploding.This makes Redonda eat all of the party's food and then explode in the middle of the town.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: A number of characters, really: Dona Evangelina is mostly known as Redonda, Seu Virgílio only gets called that in church, the rest of the time he's Encolheu, also, Maria Aparadeira ^note  Aparar, in Brazil, can also mean to help (someone/something). Thus, she's aparando/helping women giving birth. is actually Maria Aparecida, but gets called that due to being a midwife. That is actually very, very common in small cities from Brazil.
  • João Gibão ^note  A gibão is a kind of leather vest common in the Brazilian northeast. is actually João Evangelista. He's called that for never taking off said vest, that he uses to hide his wings.
  • The mayor's name is Luís Viana, but he's always called Lua.
  • Milder examples are Dona Fifi ^note  which is also a Brazilian saying, see Gossipy Hens entry, which is short for Filomena and Dona Pupu, which is short for Eponina.
  • Maestro Totó's name is never actually mentioned onscreen.
  • Bia is actually named Bibiana.
  • Risoleta's actual name is Vera Lúcia.
• Only Shop in Town: Seu Cazuza has the only drugstore in town, and Dr. Rochinha is the only physician.
  • João Gibão seems to be the only bird vendor.
• Opposites Attract: The joyous, sensual Risoleta and the serious, straight-laced Prof. Aristóbulo.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Prof. Aristóbulo doesn't become a werewolf once every full moon, he does it once every week, usually at thursday nights.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Zico outlived his son, José Mário. Due to an accidental Offing the Offspring: he ordered his bodyguard to kill Risoleta, but he missed the shot and killed José Mário instead.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Risoleta has claw marks on her chest, made accidentally by Aristóbulo. It not only shows how she wasn't completely prepared to deal with his lycantrophy, but also shows how hurt and scared she is by Aristóbulo harming her, after promising to make her happy.
  Risoleta: Is there a remedy for soul bruises?
• Plant Person: Tibério Vilar spent so much time sitting on his armchair that he started to develop roots. By the time he tried to get up to go get Candinha the roots were so deep that he needed help from his grandson, Pedro, to move away, enduring pain from being uprooted. And when he actually finds Candinha, they kiss and merge into a tree.
• Please Select New City Name: The central theme in both versions. The younger people want to rename the city to Saramandaia, the older folks prefer the original name: Bole-Bole.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Dona Redonda and Bitela in the remake. The first one is abrasive and bigoted, the latter is gentle and very polite.
• Poor Communication Kills: Happens between Professor Aristóbulo and his fiancee; she didn't say she had a heart condition, he didn't tell her about being a werewolf in a non-scary way.
  • João Gibão never told Marcina he'd already lost his virginity to Rosalice. Marcina is furious when she finds out and they break up.
• "Pop!" Goes the Human: Guess who?
• Pride Before a Fall: Professor Aristóbulo shows shades of this in his mayoral campaign: at first, he forbids his dad from meeting Marcina (his supposed First Lady), he at first scorns Risoleta due to her past and then asks her to be his secret lover, so he doesn't lose political support. He also forbids his parents from attending the official pre-campaign party. Everything goes down awfully: Zico delays his arrival due to Helena's suicide attempt, the party itself gets marred by Bia and Pedro, who expose Seu Encolheu for trying to give a secret dossier, full of lies, on João Gibão to Firmino and to top it all, Aristóbulo loses track of time and ends up changing into a werewolf in the middle of the party room. Luckily, the lights were out at the time, courtesy of Risoleta. This single-handedly destroys Aristóbulo's reputation in the town, going from respected public figure to social pariah.
• Quirky Household: Nothing to see here, just a little old lady, her werewolf son (who attends by Professor Aristóbulo, after a string of seven daughters) and her late husband turned disembodied head, living on an old, Victorian-style, house.
• Quirky Town: Bole-Bole (later changed to Saramandaia), of course.
• Ripped from the Headlines: A city from Rio Grande do Sul really tried to change it's name from Não-Me-Toque ^note Don't-Touch-Me to Campo Real ^note  Royal Field through a plebiscite in 1971. But differently than what happened in the novela, there was a new plebiscite in 1976 and the citizens chose the older name back.
• Rule of Seven: Saramandaia wins over Bole-Bole by only seven votes.
• Runaway Bride : Laura Rosado left Dr. Rochinha at the altar, which triggered his alcoholism.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Dona Pupu has shades of this in the remake, forgetting who Dr. Rochinha is when he's visiting her, forgetting about when was the last time they met and never quite realizing that Belisário freaks out people.
• Second Love: Aristóbulo and Risoleta to each other, as they're both widowed by the start of the story.
  • Dora is this to Dr. Rochinha.
• Secret-Keeper: Dona Leocádia is this to her son João Gibão, being the only one who knows he has wings initially.
  • Doctor Rochinha also becomes this after he takes care of João's gun wound. In the original, so does the local priest.
  • Dona Leocádia is also this to Vitória Vilar when the latter tells her that she's dating Zico Rosado and Zélia is actually his daughter.
  • Aparadeira is this reluctantly to Zélia's son, Felipe, who she knows has wings. At first she wanted to expose the baby, but Marcina fakes being pregnant by João to shut her up.
  • Laura is this to Risoleta regarding Stela. Later, Professor Aristóbulo becomes this for her as well.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper: Dora is this to Laura, as Dora knows she's cheating on Dr. Rochinha with Carlito. She doesn't tell him so he won't get his heart broken again. Later, so does Rosalice.
    • Lua Viana becomes this to Vitória and Zico, getting angry at her for not telling Zélia.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: João Gibão quietly tells Dona Redonda that she should take better care of her health and food intake, as doing otherwise would make her explode. Dona Redonda doubles down on the food and the bitterness, which comes to a head after her wedding anniversary party, in which she eats the entire food of the party, finds out about João's wings and goes to expose him, only to explode.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Professor Aristóbulo, in spades, especially in his official speeches. Lampshaded almost every time.
• Shout-Out: The town of Serro Azul is mentioned a lot. Which also happens in other telenovelas, specially the fantastically realistic ones or those with Aguinaldo Silva's involvement. It has been mentioned in Pedra Sobre Pedra (1992), Fera Ferida (1993), A Indomada (1997), Meu Bem Querer (1998), Porto dos Milagres (2001) and in Fina Estampa (2011).
  • At one point, Seu Encolheu mentions that the previous innkeeper moved away to Resplendor. Resplendor is the town in which the characters of Pedra Sobre Pedra (1992) live.
  • In the first episode, when a truck driver wants to get to Bole-Bole only to find out about the protests to change the town's name, we can see a board◊ signalling that Bole-Bole is next to Greenville (the town featured in A Indomada), Tubiacanga (featured in Fera Ferida) and Sucupira (featured in O Bem-Amado, from 1973).
  • Risoleta mentions she first encountered Zico when she came from Porto dos Milagres.
  • After accidentally harming her and fearing he'd kill her like he believes to have done with Adélia, Professor Aristóbulo tells Risoleta he's going to move away to Pasárgada and that everything was already set up. Pasárgada is a town featured on the poem "Vou-me Embora pra Pasárgada" ^note  I'm Going Away to Pasárgada, in English. written by Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira.
• Small Town, Big Hell: Bole-Bole, later Saramandaia, is a little town in rural Pernambuco in which everyone knows each other, and thus the drama is constantly shared between everyone. The biggest example is obviously the change made to the town's name, but also the time when Aristóbulo's lycanthropy was found out by the population in the remake.
• Smells Sexy: According to amnesiac Aristóbulo, Risoleta is this.
• Son of a Whore: Stela, as Risoleta used to be a prostitute. Zico and Helena told the girl her mother died at childbirth.
• The Speechless: Seu Belisário, as when he got decapitated he lost his vocal chords.
  • Suddenly Speaking: After an electrical storm, his headless body comes back to visit Dona Pupu. And then he puts his head back in his body and is able to speak again.
  • Professor Aristóbulo's ex-fiancée Adélia. Of course, this seems to have something to do with her being a ghost.
• Spoiled Sweet: Stela Rosado. Zico makes it so she doesn't ever want for anything, but Stela is probably one of the sweetest girls at Bole-Bole.
• Super Drowning Skills: After Marcina fakes drowning in the town's sea to attract João, she finds out he has these. The explanation he gives his mom (and by extension, the viewers) it's that the wings weigh him down and make it almost impossible for him to swim, so he almost died. He only found out she was lying when he was already in the water, which angers him enough that he breaks up with Marcina.
• Super Window Jump: Aristóbulo does this in both versions: in the original, he had started to become a werewolf in front of Risoleta, Dora and Rosalice. In the remake, he also starts to become a werewolf, but this time only in front of Risoleta (in her bedroom, no less), after recovering his memories (lost due to getting hit by the car explosion). They both end up causing significant destruction to the window.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Due to the family feud above, Tiago Vilar and Stela Rosado, it happened for three generations at least, because Tibério Vilar and Candinha Rosado also were in love and so were Zico and Vitória.
• The Starscream: In the remake, Carlito Prata is this for Zico Rosado, planning to steal his money as revenge, as apparently Zico Rosado ruined financially his father. He reveals he's been stealing money from the sales of Bole-Bole beer for years, while threatening to kill Zico. His reign doesn't last long, however, because Laura kills him mid-threat.
• Stellar Name: In the remake, Zico granddaughter is named Stela.
• Stinky Flower: The flower Dona Redonda becomes after exploding starts out with the smell of her perfume, but after an electrical storm the plant not only doubles in size, but in smell too, making it unpleasant enough to nauseate the pregnant Zélia and urge the citizens to ask Seu Encolheu to cut it. According to Bitela, becoming a flower after death is a family thing.
• Straight Gay: Delegado Petronilio and the Strong Man, in the remake.
• Swiss-Army Tears: Stela Rosado's tears can revive anyone in the remake.
• Taking the Bullet: Zico does this for Vitória in the remake, after a worker of his tries to shoot her.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Maria Aparadeira, fearing having a deformed grandson, plans on giving Marcina an abortion-inducing tea. She chickens out of it at the last possible moment, taking the tea cup away from Marcina. Luckily for her, Marcina was not actually pregnant. Unluckily for her, Cazuza was at the scene and completely gives up on his wife.
• Tantrum Throwing: Risoleta throws two vases in Aristóbulo's direction, which miss him by centimeters, in the remake. Due to his proposal to her: he wanted her to be The Mistress to him, so he could guarantee the approval of Bole-Bole's more traditional citizens and still be together with her. She understandably freaks out.
• Tap on the Head: Aristóbulo received one after getting hit by a vase (thrown by Risoleta), it's enough only to make his memory come back.
  • This is the only side effect of him getting hit by a car explosion and flying at least one meter away. No burns, no broken bones, just hit his head and lost his memory.
  • João Gibão only faints after getting hit by a handgun on the head.
• Tears of Blood: Carlito Prata makes it seem like the town's patron saint (St. Onofre in the original version, St. Dias in the remake) cried tears of blood (due to the proposal of changing the town's name) and said Bole-Bole (the town's original name).
• Their First Time: João Gibão rekindles his relationship with Marcina after a months-long break up and takes her to the town's forest, while it's raining. He then finally decides to show her his wings, leaving Marcina speechless. After that, they have sex, this being Marcina's first time.
  • After Professor Aristóbulo receives forgiveness from Adélia's ghost (and forgives her back), she leaves the mortal plane and Aristóbulo rapidly goes to Risoleta's bedroom to tell her that he's now free, declaring his love again. They start immediately to make out. Remembering what happened the last time they were this intimate, he fears hurting Risoleta again and tries to leave, but she convinces him to stay. They have sex for the first time then, with Risoleta making Aristóbulo sleep for the first time in a decade.
• Theme Song: Pavão Mysteriozo, sung by Ednardo.
  • Averted in 2013, as the song is only used as João Gibão's theme in the remake.
• Those Two Girls: Dora and Rosalice.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Seu Encolheu and Dona Redonda have this dynamic (later is that with Bitela too).
  • In the 1976 version, Aristóbulo and Risoleta were this as well.
• Together in Death: The fate of Zico Rosado and Vitória Vilar in the remake. Zico kidnaps his grandson and takes him to his home, which is falling apart due to the ants. This makes Vitória, Zélia and Lua go inside, but after taking her grandson and giving him back to his parents, Vitória chooses to stay back with Zico, dying with him when the house finally falls down.
  Vitória: You aren't going to leave, are you?
  Zico: No.
  The home starts to break apart, things are falling down.
  Zico: Could you live without me?
  Vitória: I've never been able to live without you.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: All male ancestors of Zico Rosado looked exactly like him.
• Unfinished Business: Adélia, Professor Aristóbulo's ex-fiancée, starts to appear to him and briefly to Risoleta too. She wants Aristóbulo to find out the truth about her death, which Risoleta starts to research. After Risoleta uncovers it and tells Aristóbulo she had a heart disease which could kill her anytime, Adélia appears one last time to say goodbye to him.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Professor Aristóbulo and Dona Risoleta, who keep an on-off relationship on the remake, constantly on the rocks due to their own messy lives. It gets solved in the end, as they end up married.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Zico Rosado, despite being a corrupt politician, enjoys great privilege in the city due to the Conservatives, who consider him a saint-like man, even being leader of the Bole-Bole Party.
• Virgin Vision: Aparadeira just knows something's different about Marcina the day after she had sex with João.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Maestro Cursino and Maestro Totó disagree in everything political, as Totó is very liberal and Cursino is a staunch conservative, yet they run a barbershop/lan house together and are frequently going out for drinks.
• Vow of Celibacy: Dep. Petronilio always states he made one. He rethinks that decision when he meets Vantuil, the Strong Man, in the remake, and they start dating.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Dona Redonda and Seu Encolheu are this to their daughter Bia.
  • Dona Pupu is also this to Prof. Aristóbulo.
• When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Of course Aristóbulo has to become a werewolf at this time.
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Although the citizens mention a lot of Brazilian states and other fictional cities, we're never told where Saramandaia (née Bole-Bole) is.
  • Averted by the original version, which is explicitly set on the rural area of Pernambuco.
• Will They or Won't They?: Professor Aristóbulo and Risoleta; Zico Rosado and Vitória Vilar (only in the remake).
• Winged Humanoid: João Gibão, of course.
  • Zélia and Lua's first kid Felipe is also this.
  • And so is João and Marcina's daughter, Vitória.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: According to Maria Aparadeira (in the Bole-Bolenses blog), Zico and Helena got married in 1983, thus Zé Mário and Laura would have to be born during the 80s as well. Well, before dying Zé Mário had a daughter, Stela, who in 2013 (the year the remake aired) was 18 years old, having been born presumably in 1995. Apparently Zé Mário had a kid at the ripe old age of twelve, at the latest.
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: The theme song's name is Pavão Mysteriozo.
• Your Son All Along: In the remake, Zélia Vilar is actually Zico Rosado's daughter. She doesn't take it well (neither did him), and doesn't really see Zico as her father, naming her son after her mother's husband, who she considers her true father.
• You Sexy Beast: Risoleta first gets attracted to Aristóbulo due to his supposed werewolf transformation, even having a werewolf fetish. In the end, it's implied that they do have sex while he's changed into a werewolf.
• Zany Scheme: The ploy imagined by the Bole-bolenses (mainly Maria Aparadeira, Dona Fifi and Dona Redonda) to win the mayoral election: ask Professor Aristóbulo to run, then make him marry Marcina (who at first didn't want anything to do with it, but later is only in it to make João Gibão jealous. Note that the first didn't know anything about the plan, thinking his "friends" only wanted what's best for him), thus finding an "appropriate" first lady for him (instead of Risoleta) and an "appropriate" husband for her (instead of João Gibão). Then Zico Rosado finds out and only barely excuses the scheme, at first thinking it's a ploy to end his political power, but later asking for a dossier to incriminate João Gibão so he'll allow it to happen. Of course, it crashes horribly.

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Pavão misterioso
Pássaro formoso
Tudo é mistério nesse teu voar
Ah, se eu corresse assim, tantos céus assim
Muita história eu tinha pra contar ^note Mysterious peacock, Handsome bird, Everything is a mystery in your flight, Oh, if I ran like that, (through) so many skies like that, I'd have a lot of stories to tell.