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Petra and Michael will hook up.

Pair the Spares (although to what extent Jane/Raf/Petra can be considered a triangle is...debatable) is pretty common in soaps, and Jane the Virgin will lampoon this by having Michael and Petra spend some quality time together...but it will be humorously unsatisfying for both.

  • Jossed, but Chapter Eighty-Two did suggest his brainwashed persona Jason had the hots for her.

Michael will die sometime soon.

At the end of Chapter 11, Michael told Xiomara that he was still in love with Jane and that he'd never give up hope that they'd eventually get back together, after which the narrator says that Michael wholeheartedly believed this until the day he died. This could be foreshadowing Michael's impending death which, one can guess, will be in the not too distant future, given that by that time he still won't be over Jane.

  • As of Chapter 54, confirmed.

Tying into the above WMG, Michael will die...

But will be brought back by Hollywood Science / telenovela magic (eg. Magical Defibrillator, CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable, etc., any way he can be declared functionally dead before being brought back at the last minute). This way, his character won't be tied down by the narrator's promise to always love Jane should the writers decide to go in a different direction. Obviously, the telenovela cheesiness of this trope will be lampshaded.

  • Alternatively he'll go into a Coma for an extended period of time, a common telenovela trope, and this will be lampshaded
  • Jossed, Until "Chapter Eighty-One", where he is seemingly alive.

Petra has a twin
  • Magda's secret
    • Magda killed Ivan because the secret Magda had could make Petra never forgive her. Maybe Magda knows Petra wouldn't forgive her if she knew Magda was lying about her being an only child, especially if Magda got rid of Petra's twin for a selfish reason. Petra forgave her mother for pretending to be paralyzed for years, so it would have to be a pretty terrible secret.
  • Twin's run in the family
    • During Petra's ultrasound, the OBGYN asked Petra if twins ran in her family, which Petra quickly says no to. This could be the writers' way of foreshadowing that twins do run in the family as Petra was actually one herself.
  • Magda's comments on Petra being too big in the middle already
    • After Magda is released from prison, Magda says that Petra is too big around the middle. Petra quickly reminds her mother that she is having twins, which Magda replies that her middle is still too big anyway. This does fit Magda's personality, but it she might also have this opinion from her own experience carrying twins.
  • As of Chapter 39, confirmed. Chapter 100 reveals Petra and Anezka are two members of a set of triplets.

Jonathan Chavez (Jane's advisor) will be the Third-Option Love Interest for the Michael x Jane x Raf love triangle

They went to the trouble of casting a very attractive actor in this role, and he doesn't look much older than her (all though the actor is quite a bit older than Gina Rodriguez in real life). Jane started out disliking him but he was never actually all that unreasonable, and his advice is actually helpful to her as a writer - and the winter finale showed that he will look out for her and stand up for her if she actually tells him what she needs. It would be a really interesting relationship if only because it would develop in the opposite direction as her relationship with Michael and Raf - instead of starting out thinking he hung the moon and being disillusioned, she'd slowly be learning to value a person she initially disliked. And of course the fact it's probably kind of inappropriate for an advisor to date their advisee could only fuel the telenovela drama goodness.

  • As of Chapter 33, confirmed.

Petra's twins aren't Rafael's
They're Roman's. I don't remember how much time passed between Episode 19 and the start of season 2, but the timing of her hookup with him and insemination may have been just right for her to think the twins are Rafael's. (Even though, as noted above, twins don't seem to run in the Solano family...) Why? Uh, I dunno, Rule of Drama.
  • Considering how pale skinned they are I think that's safely jossed.

The Narrator is grownup Mateo.
The show will possibly reveal this, if true, at the end in …And That Little Girl Was Me fashion at the last episode.
  • Seconded. Word of God has said that the Lemony Narrator is highly connected to the Villanueva family and simply hasn't been "outed" yet. He would have natural storytelling talent from Alba (as seen, the girl can write when she wants to!), Xiomara (singers tell stories, just through music), Rogelio as an actor, and Jane the writer herself. He would know all the details, with Alba and Xo telling him stories at their knee and Rogelio acting it all out to please him (because you know Rogelio would do a one-man-show on this for his favorite audience of one). He'd know the stories. All of them. And with way too many details if he just asks multiple people.
  • Confirmed!

The Narrator is Rogelio.
We know via Word of God that the Lemony Narrator is highly involved in the Villanueva family. The whole narration plays like a telenovela, and this could be an attempt at a "inspired by real life" telenovela from a between-jobs Rogelio, who decides to write himself the role of a lifetime. What little he doesn't know can easily be charmed out of multiple sources. It would be a telenovela, just grounded in real life instead of the El Presidente, pirates, time-travel, or space conceits done before. Write What You Know. And it would stroke his ego several ways - not only does he become the creator, executive producer, star as his Large Ham self, but he gets to provide the snarky ongoing commentary as well.
  • Jossed.

The Narrator is Alba's Dead Husband Mateo.
Word of God has said that the Lemony Narrator is highly connected to the Villanueva family and simply hasn't been "outed" yet, and being dead would allow for his Omniscient Third-Person perspective.
  • Jossed.

Michael has amnesia post-season 4.
This would explain why he shows up out of the blue at the end of season four, seemingly none the worse for wear. It would explain why he never tried to get in touch during/after the timeskip despite Rose being locked up by mid-season, and (if the show continues with Jane/Rafael) will provide an easy out for the love triangle since he doesn't remember his relationship with Jane. Worth noting that amnesia was brought up in the show twice before: once when he survives his operation (he reassures Jane that he doesn't have it), and alongside Surprise Incest as a hallmark plot twist of Santos. The latter was definitively jossed in-universe as applying to Jane's life.
  • As of Chapter 82, confirmed.

Post-Season 4 Michael isn't Michael at all.
He's some guy that Rose, using the same resources that allowed her to set up a secret and profitable plastic-surgery ring, had altered to look like Michael. His original purpose might have been to replace Michael during his involvement with Rose's storyline, like to get the police off her case once Michael started closing in or to get one of her agents close to Luisa (who has alternated between adoring her and trying to escape her influence) or Rafael (largely concerned with his family's wealth and properties) via Jane. He's been deployed because Rose now knows that Rafael knows Luisa's whereabouts and is hoping that, through Jane, Not!Michael can learn Luisa's location, along with potentially helping Rose escape or maybe discrediting the case against her by having "Michael" be "exposed" as being somehow unreliable. Not!Michael will pretend to have amnesia so he'll have an excuse for any mistakes that might ruin his cover, like getting facts wrong that Michael should know or showing different preferences (ex. food) than Michael did.
  • Jossed, but with elements of truth. He definitely is Michael but Rose and her team did kidnap and brainwash him into thinking he was somebody else. She used another agent instead to spy on Luisa and her family

In season five, the Generational Saga Jane decides to write will wind up being Jane the Virgin itself.
Allowing the writers to play with a whole new level of Meta Fiction.

  • This could mean the Narrator could be any of the above guesses in-universe, but filtered through Jane's writing.
  • Confirmed as of Chapter One Hundred; the episode implies that Mateo is the narrator in a future retelling.

Jane and Rafael will get married in the series finale, or Jane and Michael will remarry
This will keep to the theme of someone getting married during a season finale.
  • The former — confirmed as of Chapter One Hundred

Xiomara is the one writing Jane The Virgin
The finale could pull some sort of twist that a young Xiomara had an abortion when she was carrying Jane, which will cause her to carry almost 30 years of guilt and will lose touch with Alba. Xo decides to write Jane The Virgin in order to forget the fact that she aborted Jane. This means that pivotal points of the series, such as her getting back together with Rogelio, and her relationship with Jane and Alba was just fictional. This also means that Xiomara is also the Latin Lover Narrator.
  • Jossed as of Chapter One Hundred

JR shot Luisa
  • Jossed, JR shot Milos

Rose will be Killed Off for Real
It’s clear that she’s dangerous even behind bars, so assuming she doesn’t stay there for long, she may go out in a Taking You with Me Heroic Sacrifice move on Luisa’s part if Rose threatens Jane and/or Raf.
  • Confirmed in Chapter Ninety-Eight after Luisa pushes Rose off a roof onto a statue of Rogelio, however this wasn't a Heroic Sacrifice - Luisa comfortably remains on the roof.

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