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Barbarians

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Barbarians	label	Barbarians
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Barbarians	comment	Barbarians (Barbaren) is a 2020 German historical drama TV series about the Germanic Wars created by Andreas Heckmann and loosely based on a true story.The Roman Empire's rule of the Germanic tribes grows ever more tyrannical, demands for tribute growing and the brutality of the legionaries increasing. But the tribes are fractious and cannot agree on a course of action—they don't even agree they're all Germans. As tensions rise, three young people will decide the fate of Germany: Thusnelda, a headstrong young Cherusci woman; Folkwin, Cherusci warrior and her lover; and Arminius, the long-lost son of the Cherusci chieftain, raised as a Roman. But who is he really loyal to?It can be watched on Netflix. The series was renewed for a second season, which came out in 2022.
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Barbarians / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Barbarians / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Folkwin takes up Berulf's name and identity after a captive woman claims that Folkwin's head was stuck on a pike nearby. He then shares the latter's backstory with her about being stuck in two different worlds due to his familial ties with two different prominent Germanic tribes.
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Barbarians / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Barbarians / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Folkwin Wolfspeer is an original character.
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Barbarians / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
Barbarians / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: A German mercenary Talio makes fun of the Romans in his own language just after Arminius has given him an assignment, not knowing it's Arminius's mother tongue. This gets Talio flogged. Unsurprisingly averted when Arminius visits the Roman camp with Thusnelda later on. While she hurles insults left and right in her native language, he is quick to warn her when an interpreter arrives.
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Barbarians / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Barbarians / int_1777688d	comment	Unsurprisingly averted when Arminius visits the Roman camp with Thusnelda later on. While she hurles insults left and right in her native language, he is quick to warn her when an interpreter arrives.
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Barbarians / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Barbarians / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: After Arminius gives Varus a head he claims to belong to Folkwin, it's put on a stake in the Roman camp. After Varus kills himself in the midst of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Segestes cuts off his head and holds in up as a gesture of the tribes' victory. The head is later on a stake when Arminius talks to it.
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Barbarians / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Barbarians / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: After the eagle is stolen in the camp, Arminius finds a necklace with a wolf's tooth on it. He immediately checks his personal belongings and reveals a similar tooth. This is how he immediately knew who the culprits were and was able to track them down quickly. It turns out he was a childhood friend of Thusnelda and Folkwin, and was taken away by the Romans at a young age.
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Barbarians / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Barbarians / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Metellus and Arminius have a brief moment of this where the two share old war stories. Metellus finds out that it was a cavalry charge led by Arminius that saved his legion in a previous battle, and the two share scars they obtained. Subverted when Arminius ends up killing him and his other Roman bodyguards to save Folkwin.
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Barbarians / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Barbarians / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: Arminius forcefully takes away the sons of the Reiks with a heavy Roman presence as ordered by Varus in an attempt to suppress any attempts at rebellion. He reveals later that he never planned to send them to the Romans, and lets them reunite with their families later. It was mostly for show as a way to unite them together lest Rome continues to oppress them with tributary demands as well as manpower for their wars.
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Barbarians / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
Barbarians / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: Marbod finally agrees to go against the Romans when they kill his wife while attacking the chieftains during their meeting.
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Barbarians / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Barbarians / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: After killing his Roman companions when having Folkwin at his mercy, Arminius decapitates one of Folkwin's deceased companions and lies to Varus that the head is Folkwin's, leading to the Romans believing he's dead.
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Barbarians / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Barbarians / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The Battle of Teutoberg Forest is a real historical event, so the outcome is set. It's not a question of whether Arminius is going to switch sides and slaughter the Romans, it's about how he gets there.
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Barbarians / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Barbarians / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: When the Romans demand the Cherusci chieftain kiss their eagle, an intensely humiliating move, Thusnelda snaps and shoves him away, screaming, even though the Romans vastly outnumber the Cherusci and this cannot end well. The Romans attack and nearly kill both her and her little brother in retaliation.
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Barbarians / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Barbarians / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Arminius loves his Roman father and wants to please him — at first.
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Barbarians / int_4b2500a1	type	This Means Warpaint
Barbarians / int_4b2500a1	comment	This Means Warpaint: The Germans sport various types of warpaint during the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest. Arminius does a Dramatic Unmask of his full-face helmet among his fellow Romans to reveal that he also has warpaint on.
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Barbarians / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Barbarians / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: At the end of the first episode, a lone Arminius approaches Segimer, somehow having tracked down where the eagle standard was stolen. The final line in the episode ends with him speaking in German, "Hello father". The next episode immediately reveals he was in fact Segimer's son, and was taken away by Rome.
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Barbarians / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Barbarians / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In the first episode, Arminius finds Folkwin's tooth necklace on the ground. He then rushes back to his tent and opens a box, out of which he pulls an identical necklace, revealing that he was childhood friends with Thusnelda and Folkwin.
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Barbarians / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Barbarians / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Folkwin is at first assumed to be dead, as there's a burnt body in the woods with a wolf-tooth necklace nearby when Thusnelda and Arminius investigate. However, he's revealed to be alive, and was taken captive by a passing Roman patrol. During his drunken bout with them, another captive tried to escape, but was killed and his body dumped onto Folkwin's campfire.
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Barbarians / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Barbarians / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Likely in order to make them more sympathetic to modern sensibilities, the Germanic tribes don't seem to practice slavery here. At the time and place, virtually all tribes and peoples in the world did, and the Germans weren't an exception. The original name of Arminius is unknown, as "Arminius" seems to be a Latinized Meaningful Rename he got. Traditionally, his original or "true" German name is assumed to be Hermann (and he became a symbol of 19th-century German nationalism under that name), but the show names him Ari. The historical Arminius was educated in Rome, but not as a sort of hostage extracted to sign a treaty as the series shows, but as a full-fledged Roman citizen. His tribe had been subjected by Rome for a long time before Arminius arrived, and there was simply no need for hostages by this point. The series shows Publius Quinctilius Varus adopting Arminius as his son after he was taken from his tribe. In real life, Varus had no family relationship to Arminius, and it would have been difficult anyways given that Varus was not even in Germany back then; he first arrived in 9 AD, only two years before the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Despite Arminius’s barbaric origins, it is unlikely that an actual Roman Centurion like Metellus would have been so disrespectful towards a Praefectus and the adoptive son of a powerful Roman Senator and the commander of the legions stationed in Germania. Discipline in the Roman army was notoriously draconian and insulting or belittling an outranking officer would have been a serious offence subject to harsh punishments. This is partially justified as it is implied that Metellus is a battle hardened veteran, a category to which a certain leeway was granted even by the Romans. Still, the Roman society was organised around strong family bonds between the members of the aristocracy and networks of personal loyalties to the heads of the noble extended families. An insult to Arminius would have been considered an insult to Varus and that would have definitively been a step too far for anybody. In the series, Arminius and Thusnelda marry before Teutoburg, while in real life they did so afterwards. Barbarians also makes Thusnelda a seer, while the real one was presumably just a noblewoman without any religious occupations. Losing a Roman standard or aquilae was considered an incredible disgrace for the Romans, so the standards themselves would be heavily protected. It would certainly have not been possible to steal with with relative ease as in the series. It's true that three Roman standards were lost in Germania around this time, but they were lost due to the massacre of Teutoburg forest, not beforehand. The series' version of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest takes less than a single day to end, when the principal Roman account is that it lasted three whole days, enough time for the Romans to even build fortifications during its course. Also, the portrayal of the battle itself shows the Germans as outnumbered, while in real life both sides had similar numbers. Varus offers and then presents Arminius with a knighthood. The Romans didn't have knights, and the closest equivalent, to be an equestrian, was based solely on wealth.
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Barbarians / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Barbarians / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Arminius desperately wants to get reassigned to a different province, since he doesn't want to kill his childhood friends nor his Germanic kinsman. Unfortunately for him, Varus reveals that he wants Arminius to become a Reik, and lead one of the Germanic tribes to subjugate them under Rome's rule.
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Barbarians / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Barbarians / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Varus seems to genuinely value his adopted son Arminius. Realizing Arminius led the legions into a trap is so devastating to Varus that he takes his own life.
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Barbarians / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Barbarians / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: When the Bructeri attack Folkwin to collect his bounty, Berulf gives him and their companions time to escape by holding the door closed until he's stabbed through it with a sword.
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Barbarians / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Barbarians / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Arminius murders at the infirmary the only survivor of the group of Romans he chose to slay instead of killing Folkwin. He then realizes that the murder was witnessed by Talio who's wise not to try to rat on him.
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Barbarians / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
Barbarians / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: When Arminius presents his new wife Thusnelda to Varus, he translates her threats as compliments until the arrival of the interpreter Pelagios forces her to watch her tongue.
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Barbarians / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Barbarians / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Varus' Villainous BSoD leads to him stabbing himself with the sword he gifted Arminius with.
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Barbarians / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
Barbarians / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: Varus enters one during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest when he sees that Arminius has truly betrayed the Romans to the Germanic tribes.
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Barbarians / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Barbarians / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Downplayed. While the Germans are portrayed as rude and primitive, they are solidly heroic compared to the Romans, as they doesn't practice slavery, show much more honor and give value to freedom. In contrast, the Romans are predominantly greedy, de-humanizing conqueror types.
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Barbarians / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Barbarians / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart is decapitated by Arminius under Varus' orders. Varus himself is decapitated post mortem by Segestes. Thusnelda's parents suffer this fate in the second season finale after they hand their daughter and grandson over to Tiberius.
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Barbarians / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Barbarians / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Thusnelda's parents try to marry her to Reik Hadgan for five horses. She flees before he returns to fetch her, so he threatens her parents with severe repercussions.
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Barbarians / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Barbarians / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: After Arminius convinces Luco to tell him that Folkwin is hiding in the Dark Land, Metellus stabs him to death. He then quotes Caesar to Arminius: "I love treason, but I hate a traitor." In the second season finale, Thusnelda's parents lure her and Thumelicus to Tiberius' clutches in exchange for a position in Rome. He has them both decapitated for their troubles and even uses the above-mentioned quote of Caesar as well.
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Barbarians / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Barbarians / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: The Roman officer Arminius being a German, and in fact the son of the Cherusci chieftain. It's foreshadowed a bit by having him understand the German language. Notably, the production avoids doing People of Hair Color like making the Germans mostly blonde and red-haired vs. the Romans being brunette as there are a lot of brunette Germans too, and so the actor for Arminius was cast in part because his black hair makes him blend into the Romans better, and because it doesn't match the traditional imaginary picture of Arminius as blond (like in the French comics series The Eagles of Rome), so the twist is saved for the end of the first episode.
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Barbarians / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Barbarians / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: After Arminius and Thusnelda marry, Folkwin is captured and enslaved by Romans until he gets free during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
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Barbarians / int_886e0897	type	Cain and Abel
Barbarians / int_886e0897	comment	Cainand Abel: Flavus, Armininus' Roman loyalist brother, arrives in the second season to hunt down his brother.
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Barbarians / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Barbarians / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: The Bructeri reik Gernot Rotbart turns down Varus' last offer to submit to Rome by spitting on the standard he's supposed to kiss, and he proceeds to calmly look Arminius in the eye when the latter is ordered to execute him.
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Barbarians / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Barbarians / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Not once does Thusnelda for a second consider that Ansgar's crippling is the result of her above mentioned Honor Before Reason actions. YMMV if the show is trying to show that she hates the Romans so much she considers everything their fault or if they didn't think of having a few minutes of her blaming herself and being comforted.
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Barbarians / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Barbarians / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: After the theft of the Romans' standard, Folkwin's parents and siblings are killed and crucified when Segimer doesn't turn Folkwin in, with Varus forbidding the bodies to be taken down and buried under the threat of hanging until he's given the standard and Folkwin. The Cherusci defy the order in the next episode and get away with it thanks to Arminius.
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Barbarians / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Barbarians / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: Segestes arrives shortly after Varus gives the orders for the three legions to march on the Germanic tribes. He tells Varus that Arminius plans to betray him, and that Folkwin Wolfspeer is actually alive and a slave in their camp. Arminius plays it up as a joke, suggesting that he was somehow going to defeat fifteen thousand men with a token force, and that somehow the bandit that stole their eagle just also happens to be enslaved right there. Varus takes Arminius's side, and has Segestes thrown out.
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Barbarians / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Barbarians / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: When Hanno teases Eigil about marrying the latter's sister, a Roman spear is thrown through his neck in the middle of his speech.
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Barbarians / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Barbarians / int_a65288e2	comment	Presumably will become an Ascended Extra for season 2.
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Barbarians / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Barbarians / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: When the Romans realize they are being ambushed they immediately throw down all their javelins and defend with short swords behind their tower shields, one or two lines deep. This formation is hapless; ambush or not the Romans knew better and the Germans have no problem using their javelins.
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Barbarians / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Barbarians / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: After Arminius is told that one of the Romans he slaughtered to save Folkwin is alive, he proceeds to kill the survivor in the infirmary to protect his secret.
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Barbarians / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Barbarians / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: After the Bructeri host Folkwin and his companions, Reik Kunolf leads them to attack them in an effort to collect the bounty on Folkwin's head and kills his second cousin Berulf. Golmad expresses afterwards his dismay that they attacked their guests.
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Barbarians / int_b4a7b5ef	type	The Queen's Latin
Barbarians / int_b4a7b5ef	comment	The Queen's Latin: Notably averted. All Roman characters speak real Classical Latin, while the proto-Germanic that the Germanii presumably spoke is rendered as modern German.
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Barbarians / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Barbarians / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Flavus, Arminius' brother, is demoted to a mere mention. Presumably will become an Ascended Extra for season 2.
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Barbarians / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
Barbarians / int_bf72d5e8	comment	Despite Arminius’s barbaric origins, it is unlikely that an actual Roman Centurion like Metellus would have been so disrespectful towards a Praefectus and the adoptive son of a powerful Roman Senator and the commander of the legions stationed in Germania. Discipline in the Roman army was notoriously draconian and insulting or belittling an outranking officer would have been a serious offence subject to harsh punishments. This is partially justified as it is implied that Metellus is a battle hardened veteran, a category to which a certain leeway was granted even by the Romans. Still, the Roman society was organised around strong family bonds between the members of the aristocracy and networks of personal loyalties to the heads of the noble extended families. An insult to Arminius would have been considered an insult to Varus and that would have definitively been a step too far for anybody.
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Barbarians / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Barbarians / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Despite living in the same place and having cultural similarities, the various tribes are all politically distinct and don't agree on whether they should risk fighting the Romans, which leads to a lot of arguing, even verging on violence. Some of them are even working for the Romans.
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Barbarians / int_ce090f4b	comment	Translation with an Agenda: Segestes is the only one of the Cherusci who can understand and speak Latin fluently enough in dealing with the Romans, so he translates for Segimer. When Metellus shows up to announce that Varus expects a tribute of "20 cows or 50 hundredweights of grain", Segestes relays this as "They want cattle and grain", which makes Segimer protest, and Metellus intimidates him into compliance. This early on, it's ambiguous if it's just a mistake, but as Segestes's ambitions to become Reik become clear it's apparent that he was trying to undermine or else make trouble for Segimer.
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Barbarians / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Barbarians / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When Folkwin shares his name with a captive woman, she immediately dismisses it, and says Folkwin's head is stuck on a pike nearby. He then takes up Berulf's name. Segestes arrives shortly after Varus gives the orders for the three legions to march on the Germanic tribes. He tells Varus that Arminius plans to betray him, and that Folkwin Wolfspeer is actually alive and a slave in their camp. Arminius plays it up as a joke, suggesting that he was somehow going to defeat fifteen thousand men with a token force, and that somehow the bandit that stole their eagle just also happens to be enslaved right there. Varus takes Arminius's side, and has Segestes thrown out.
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Barbarians / int_e6a901a3	comment	The original name of Arminius is unknown, as "Arminius" seems to be a Latinized Meaningful Rename he got. Traditionally, his original or "true" German name is assumed to be Hermann (and he became a symbol of 19th-century German nationalism under that name), but the show names him Ari.
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Barbarians / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Barbarians / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: In the first season finale, Arminius makes a heartwrenching monologue to Varus' staked head.
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Barbarians / int_ec95ec5f	type	Period Piece, Modern Language
Barbarians / int_ec95ec5f	comment	Period Piece, Modern Language: Antiquity-era Germanic barbarians speak in modern-day German whereas Ancient Romans speak in Latin.
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Barbarians / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Barbarians / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Unable to bear to see her son Ansgar living physically and mentally handicapped, Irmina tries to trick him into walking off a cliff, only for Thusnelda to save him at the last minute.
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Barbarians / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Barbarians / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Hadgan tries to force himself on Thusnelda in the first season finale, but she pulls a knife on his throat.
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Barbarians / int_fdb6b8ad	type	The Magnificent
Barbarians / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: As a boy, Folkwin speared a wolf to save Arminius, so years later he is known by such an epithet.
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