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Isabel	comment	Isabel is a Spanish Historical Fiction series produced by Diagonal TV and aired by national broadcaster Televisión Española (or TVE for short) and its international channel, TVE Internacional from 2012. It is also available in DramaFever in Spanish with English subtitles.Conceived as a Spanish answer to The Tudors, the three-season series follows closely the various shenanigans that marked the life and reign of Queen Isabella I of Castile "The Catholic" (1451-1504), beginning in the time when a teenage Isabel and her brother Alfonso were brought from reclusion in the Castle of Arévalo to the Decadent Court of her half-brother, King Enrique IV, in Segovia. While surviving ridiculous levels of court intrigue, wars and treacherous advisors, what was once a little girl so far in the line of succession that nobody though she had a hope to rule, puts to good use her strenght and ambition to become the historical figure that we remember today as the Queen that united the crowns of Castile and Aragon through her unauthorized marriage to King Ferdinand II, conquered Granada, sponsored Christopher Columbus, founded The Spanish Inquisition, and expelled the Jews from Spain. A film depicting the aftermath of Isabel's death, The Broken Crown, was produced by the same cast and crew and was originally intended to be followed by the sequel series Carlos, Rey Emperador (about Isabel's grandson, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V), but ended being released after CRE finished its run.Even before airing, Isabel acquired fame in Spain for its very Troubled Production that nearly got it cancelled before debut. Isabel was expected (and advertised) to begin airing fall 2011, but in a example of Loophole Abuse, TVE pushed the premiere back a whole year to meet its government-approved budget, which is based on the cost of programs aired during the year. Meanwhile, the second season was put on hold, the sets were dismantled, and Diagonal TV even organized a theatre premiere in May 28, 2012 to pressure TVE into airing it. Yet after release in fall, Isabel became an unexpected success and one of TVE's most popular programs (averaging 20% share), earning the praise of viewers and critics due to its acting, historical accuracy, sets, and fabulous wardrobe design.Since the vast majority of the series content is History, there will be no covered spoilers bellow. Read at your own risk.
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Isabel / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
Isabel / int_121865ac	comment	Although we don't get to see much of the Mexica Empire, it's notable that every Amerindian appeared onscreen is a honorable Noble Savage displeased by the ways of Cortés and company, while all of the nastiest aspects of their cultures, like cannibalism, imperialism and Human Sacrifice, either happen offscreen or aren't mentioned at all. Moctezuma actually berates Cortés because the Alvarado Massacre ended with many butchered Mexicas, an especially funny claim considering that the Aztec religion involved constant sacrifice of imperial subjects (the very festival the massacre interrupted included sacrifices, in fact).
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Isabel / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Isabel / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: As you might have noted by the introduction above, Isabel was 10 when she was taken to the Court, but in the series she's still played by then 25 years old Michelle Jenner, who looks 14 in the first scene at the very least. 20 years-old Víctor Elías plays the Infante Alfonso, who would be 8 at the beginning of the series, making him more as a cocky, unfitted teenager than the clueless kid he would have been at the time of the Farce of Avila. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (played by 36 years old Sergio Peris-Mencheta) joins Alfonso's entourage as a late teenager at the very least, already trained and seasoned in combat, rather than at 13 as in Real Life. Alfonso and Gonzalo' ages are never mentioned on screen, so Vague Age is also at work. On the other hand, 36 year-old Rodolfo Sancho's Fernando of Aragon very much stands out, being 11 years older than Jenner, even though the fact that the two have the same age is an important plot point.
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Isabel / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Isabel / int_17501df2	comment	Juan II of Aragon, a Cool Old Guy Reasonable Authority Figure with no prejudices against Jews (unlike his son), is adamant that no woman will inherit his kingdom, and sees nothing wrong in raiding French territory in peace time. Looking at Juan's actual biography, these might as well be implications that he is a semi-Retired Monster.
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Isabel / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Isabel / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Tomás de Torquemada's own Jewish origins are not hinted. Beatriz Galindo (the royal children's tutor) and Francisco García (Fernando's top artilleryman) were wife and husband in Real Life.
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Isabel / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Isabel / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Happens to Pacheco (coupled with Blood from the Mouth), Carrillo and Mendoza.
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Isabel / int_1b8cef9c	type	The High Queen
Isabel / int_1b8cef9c	comment	The High Queen: Isabel, in spades.
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Isabel / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Isabel / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Everyone but Enrique probably qualifies.
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Isabel / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Isabel / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Muley-Hacén is fond of doing this, to his son's desperation.
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Isabel / int_21ec9741	type	Exploited Trope
Isabel / int_21ec9741	comment	Exploited when Isabel wants to test Cisneros and trades dresses with her handmaiden Catalina. Cisneros sees through the ruse.
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Isabel / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Isabel / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch Juana de Avis acts the way she acts because 1) she loves her daughter and 2) her husband won't stand for her or even touch her.
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Isabel / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Isabel / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: One of Alfonso's first acts as "king" is giving his sister Isabel a town. Juan II of Aragon makes his 7 year-old grandson Archbishop of Zaragoza. The highest Church office in Aragon. Andrés Cabrera substitutes an antisemite mayor with his own father-in-law, Pedro de Bobadilla. The guy immediately reveals himself to not be very fit.
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Isabel / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Isabel / int_23ff95fb	comment	Fernando flat out refuses to promise Isabel fidelity. The show makes no secret of the fact that men sleeping around (even priests) is far better looked at than women doing so.
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Isabel / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Isabel / int_24321e44	comment	The Vatican was at its worst in this time and is depicted as such. Excluding Veneris, the top bishops in Spain are just members of the local nobility who use their position to gather more power for themselves and their families, fight in wars and father bastards.
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Isabel / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Isabel / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: The peasant Juan to Pedro Girón, because for him it was Tuesday. Beatriz Osorio to Isabel. Cañamares to Fernando.
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Isabel / int_27ebe639	type	Prince Charming
Isabel / int_27ebe639	comment	Prince Charming: Fernando, infidelities aside.
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Isabel / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
Isabel / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: Princess Juana is widely believed to be illegitimate. Diego Pacheco is not as smart as his father, and thinks (hilariously) that Juan was moved by Honor Before Reason. He has the hardest time weasseling his way into power like his old man did. Mulay-Hacén sees Boabdil as a poet not fit for Emirship. Prince Juan of Castile is hinted to be this. He is sickly and not very interested in war. He also adknowledges that his sister Juana is smarter than him and the country would be better if she was the heir.
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Isabel / int_2a73577e	type	Fur Bikini
Isabel / int_2a73577e	comment	As it could not be otherwise in pop culture, Cortés and his men wear the ubiquitous morrión helm, which in real life wasn't used until half a century later, and leather kneeboots, instead of the alpargates more proper for hot climates. Marina and the indigenous women also wear fantastic Fur Bikini-like attires that have nothing to do with the long hupil robes they would have worn in real life, and Moctezuma and his circule are dressed solely in loincloths more in the style of Mayans than Aztecs. Speaking of Moctezuma, in this series he speaks fluent Spanish, while in real life he needed Marina to translate.
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Isabel / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Isabel / int_2d4fa515	comment	Cañamares to Fernando.
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Isabel / int_30849c3e	type	Ruling Couple
Isabel / int_30849c3e	comment	Ruling Couple: As per history.
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Isabel / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Isabel / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Andrés Cabrera substitutes an antisemite mayor with his own father-in-law, Pedro de Bobadilla. The guy immediately reveals himself to not be very fit.
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Isabel / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Isabel / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Carrillo is disgusted by Pedro Girón's rapist impulses.
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Isabel / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Isabel / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Carrillo conspires to place Isabel on the throne, hoping to become as powerful as her and Fernando (or more), and also to become a Cardinal. He ends getting neither.
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Isabel / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Isabel / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Carrillo. When his old enemy Isabel comes to visit him just before his death, he dressed in the full rober of a bishop and receives her standing.
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Isabel / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Isabel / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Juan Pacheco to Enrique IV. Carrillo's plan is to become this to Fernando and Isabel. Diego Pacheco's plan is to be this to Enrique, and failing that, the King of Portugal.
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Isabel / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Isabel / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Álvaro de Luna's execution, years before the timeframe of the series. We know that Pacheco "conspired" to make it happen and that Isabel's mother blames herself for it and the guilt may have driven her insane. This would have been shown in a prologue scene, but the studio vetoed it. Enrique mentions that he rebelled against his own father, apparently under Pacheco's influence. Some of Fernando's life before his introduction in the first episode, such as the fact that he lead armies and won his first battle at 12, or that he was under siege with his mother before Verntallat rescued them.
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Isabel / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Isabel / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Isabel also prays all night for her ill son, at some point asking God to take other child in his place. Her son recovers, and her son-in-law (and daughter's dream match) dies in an... accident. Cue My God, What Have I Done?.
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Isabel / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Isabel / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Gonzalo Chacón for Alfonso and Isabel.
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Isabel / int_403ffe5c	type	Spin-Off Babies
Isabel / int_403ffe5c	comment	Spin-Off Babies: The second half of the third series has Isabel and Fernando's children as more or less co-protagonists. Then The Broken Crown has Juana (Joan the Mad) taking Isabel's place among the main characters.
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Isabel / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Isabel / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Isabel to Fernando, because of his constant infidelities. It acquires epic proportions in the Season 2 premiere, when he also fails to deliver as a tactician. Aixa plunges Granada into civil war at the worst possible time because she can't get over the fact that she is not her husband's first wife anymore. Beatriz Pacheco does not forgive Isabel for marrying Fernando when she was bethrothed to him first.
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Isabel / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Isabel / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Juan Pacheco is the biggest example, but there are many others: Archbishop Carrillo, Cardinal Borja, Fernando of Aragon and Juan (Joao II) of Portugal.
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Isabel / int_4412f4d	type	Guess Who I'm Marrying?
Isabel / int_4412f4d	comment	Guess Who I'm Marrying?: More like Guess Who You Are Marrying? Enrique gives Isabel's hand in marriage to Pedro Girón, the man who tried to rape her mother. Juana de Trastámara is married to her mother's brother, who is also 30 years older than her.
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Isabel / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Isabel / int_44fc28e8	comment	Diego Pacheco's visions of his father while in prison are very likely happening inside his head, if only for the very un-Pacheco way he behaves.
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Isabel / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Isabel / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: The Infante Alfonso says that he'd rather been born a peasant, earning him a slap from his sister. Cisneros would rather be an enclosed monk but keeps getting promotions to his dismay. When he is named Archbishop of Toledo and is forced to reside in his predecessors' palace, he sleeps in a wooden table next to his rich bed. Isabel's daughter Juana would rather be an uninvolved and dutiful wife than the Queen of Castile (when she doesn't have Mood Swings in the opposite direction).
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Isabel / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
Isabel / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Just how many Juans and Juanas are there?
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Isabel / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
Isabel / int_4e6e9b64	comment	Some of Fernando's life before his introduction in the first episode, such as the fact that he lead armies and won his first battle at 12, or that he was under siege with his mother before Verntallat rescued them.
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Isabel / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Isabel / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Most notably the Pachecos and their relative, Alfonso Carrillo. In the second half of the second season the spot is filled by King Juan II of Portugal and Tomás de Torquemada.
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Isabel / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
Isabel / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: Not as pimped as they could, though.
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Isabel / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Isabel / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: It snows when Isabel becomes Queen, and it snows when Fernando relinguishes the Castilian Crown after her death.
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Isabel / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Isabel / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Isabel.
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Isabel / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Isabel / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: It snows when Enrique and Isabel die.
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Isabel / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Isabel / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Vatican was at its worst in this time and is depicted as such. Excluding Veneris, the top bishops in Spain are just members of the local nobility who use their position to gather more power for themselves and their families, fight in wars and father bastards. Despite being one of these very same nobles, Mendoza has a change of heart in his deathbed and advices Isabel to name a non-noble as the next Archbishop of Toledo (head of the Church in Spain). The chosen one is Cisneros, already in a campaign to fight corruption within the Church. Historians credit Cisneros as the reason Spain skipped the Reformation.
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Isabel / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Isabel / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: While the writers do strive for accuracy they are clear that this is a drama and not a documentary. Some events are simplified, moved in the timeline, given to different characters or affected by Rule of Drama. The TVE website features interviews with the show's historical consultants telling what is real and what fictional in each episode. The Granadans' style of dressing is closer to Ottoman, if not full-fledged "Arabian Nights" Days, than properly Nasrid. Granadan soldiers are also almost all armed with scimitars, when they used straight swords in real life. Finally, in a phenomenon that would need its own trope for how often it happens, the Berber Gomeres from Northern Morocco are portrayed by black actors instead of, well, Berbers. Although he was not the heir of his family, meaning his position in the court was relatively low, the real Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba still came from an aristocratic family and was in fact a relative to Fernando himself. Nothing of this is mentioned in the series, possibly to make his Ship Tease with Isabel feel more like the impossible love between a high queen and a lowly soldier. Also, Fernando's beef with Gonzalo after Isabel's death is either cut or happens offscreen. Tomás de Torquemada is characteristically portrayed as more of a bloodthirsty loon than he was by all accounts. Christopher Columbus' characterization, which makes him arrogant, uncultured, a con man and a liar, also reflects more classical pop culture preconceptions about him than what we know for sure about his personality. It's also notable that in the series, Columbus is helped in the intellectual tasks of his projects by Moor sages rather than Franciscan monks (consultants like Juan Pérez and Antonio de Marchena are fully excised, and it's not even mentioned that the Franciscans were who put him in contact with the crown in the first place), making it look like the merit of his enterprise was more due to Muslim brainpower than their own devices. This caused a bout of controversy in real life, with Andalusian politician Elena Tobar criticizing the series for the deviation. In the sequel Carlos, Rey Emperador, Hernán Cortés finds Gerónimo de Aguilar entirely by chance outside of his camp. In real life, Cortés was already informed about him and sent people to his village in order to recruit him. This version of Aguilar is still dressed as a churchman and looks a bit shell-shocked from his years there, while the real deal had adapted rather happily and was wearing native garments to the point he looked like one of them. The same scene also introduces La Malinche in spectacular fashion by pulling a knife on Cortés, which would have been utterly out of character for what we now about her personality and intelligence, and also reveals that Malinche is her indigenous name (presumably Malintzin), which in real life is Dated History, it being believed to be rather the indigenous form of her Christian name, Marina. As it could not be otherwise in pop culture, Cortés and his men wear the ubiquitous morrión helm, which in real life wasn't used until half a century later, and leather kneeboots, instead of the alpargates more proper for hot climates. Marina and the indigenous women also wear fantastic Fur Bikini-like attires that have nothing to do with the long hupil robes they would have worn in real life, and Moctezuma and his circule are dressed solely in loincloths more in the style of Mayans than Aztecs. Speaking of Moctezuma, in this series he speaks fluent Spanish, while in real life he needed Marina to translate. Although we don't get to see much of the Mexica Empire, it's notable that every Amerindian appeared onscreen is a honorable Noble Savage displeased by the ways of Cortés and company, while all of the nastiest aspects of their cultures, like cannibalism, imperialism and Human Sacrifice, either happen offscreen or aren't mentioned at all. Moctezuma actually berates Cortés because the Alvarado Massacre ended with many butchered Mexicas, an especially funny claim considering that the Aztec religion involved constant sacrifice of imperial subjects (the very festival the massacre interrupted included sacrifices, in fact). It's already notable that the Alvarado Massacre happens without Pedro de Alvarado, who in this series is Adapted Out and seemingly replaced by Juan Velázquez, but even more than all of the massacre seems to happen in mere seconds while Cortés and Malinche are getting love-dovey in a hammock. In real life, it happened while (and because) Cortés was away warring against a rival conquistador, Pánfilo de Narváez, who had been sent to capture him due to political enmities. The massacre of the series, which receives no justification (in real life, Alvarado apparently believed the festival was actually a trap to kill them), also has the Spaniards randomly going to sack the royal treasure, after which Moctezuma is murdered by his courtiers in his throne room, nothing of which happened in real life. Also, as it is usual in portrayals of the Conquest of America, Cortés and his men are here alone in their war against the natives, instead of being at the head of a massive army of Tlaxcaltecs and other native states that allied with them against the Mexica (there is a throwaway line by Malinche that Cortés will need the help of the Mexica's enemies, but this doesn't happen onscreen). Only in the scenes mentioned above, Cortés' men should have been accompanied by a Tlaxcaltec guard almost twice their own number, who in real life would be instrumental for Cortés and company to get out of the city alive. In the series, Cortés screams to his wife Catalina that he is the god in the New World (no, not that way, but almost). The real Cortés was extremely Catholic even by his time's standards and would have likely never been so casually blasphemous. Also, Catalina's threat of destroying his career by denouncing his infidelity is treated as Serious Business, with Cortés strangling her to death to impede it, but this would have not been the case. While it's true that Cortés had an exceptionally bitter marriage with her and all the evidence implies he did murder her, male infidelity was hardly a rarity in the setting and would not have given him much trouble in the court (in fact, the real Cortés was a known womanizer yet this was never much of a political impediment for him). Contrary to what Carlos shows, Cortés and Francisco Pizarro were not cousins, but nephew and uncle respectively, and they were distant enough that it's believed they didn't know each other personally, rather than being close comrades as in the series (also, Pizarro never returned to Spain after the conquest of the Inca). The incident happened right after their encounter, where Cortés unsheaths his sword for King Carlos to kill him with it, seems to be inspired by a similar scene where another conquistador, Miguel Díaz, did it on Cortés. The rest of the meeting, even if more faithful to history, is just as histrionic, as in real life Cortés was never arrested and there's no evidence that the king was so disdainful on him right on his face. In real life, Cortés executed Cuauhtemoc while they were both in an expedition to the Mayan lands, where hunger and perils eventually drove the Mexica auxiliars to consider revolting. In the series, Cortés executes him much later, back in the Mexica Empire and for an unspecified act of treason, and it's strongly implied that this was an excuse for Cortés to eliminate an untrustworthy chieftain before starting his sea exploration travels. The point about Cuauhtemoc accusing Cortés of having many deaths on his conscience, coming from the huey tlatoani of the bloodthirsty and iron-handed Mexica Empire, is definitely ironic. Carlos adapts out Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy and puts Fernando Álvarez de Toledo in his place during the Battle of St. Quentin. In real life, Álvarez was busy guarding Italy from a French invasion, the latter of which is mentioned in the series as a menace immediately after the battle.
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Isabel / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Isabel / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Attempted with Isabel multiple times by arranging her marriage in Portugal and France. Chacón's designation as Isabel and Alfonso's tutor in Arévalo, which in essence exiled him from the Royal Court. Beatriz de Osorio being given in marriage to the viceroy of the Canary Islands.
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Isabel / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Isabel / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: Enrique IV to Juan Pacheco. Even when Pacheco betrays him. "Alfonso XII" to the rebels in the first season, who think that Enrique is not puppet enough. Carrillo's plan for Isabel and Fernando. It fails. Juana to the Portuguese.
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Isabel / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Isabel / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Every now and then, some town complains that events that happened there in Real Life are depicted in the show as happening in a bigger town like Segovia, Valladolid or Seville. This is obviously tied to the tourism to these places generated by the series. The establishment of the Inquisition and the "Susón conspiracy" are simplified and combined into a single event. Historically the Susón was a rich Jewish merchant family (not Convert as in the show) whose head Diego Susón was accused of planning, along with others, to stage a coup against the Christian knightly class in Seville in collaboration with the Kingdom of Granada. According to the story (how much real and how much legend is debated), Diego's daughter Susana heard of the plot and warned her boyfriend, a Christian knight, leading to the authors being hanged (rather than burned by the Inquisition, as this was a civil offense). Susana (Ben) Susón wasn't Isabel's handmaiden. The Granada plotline is very streamlined. Isabel de Solís was captured and became Muley-Hacén's wife 20 years before shown in the show, and her eldest child was already an adult by the beginning of the Granada War, which makes Muley-Hacén's in show decision to name him heir ahead of 22 year-old Boabdil because "Granada needs a warrior" far more reasonable (this was never as clear stated either, but Aixa certainly feared it and plotted for her son to take the throne as a result). Granada's decision to not continue paying tribute to Castile was thus not spinned from a reclamation to release De Solís, but an opportunist move while Isabel and Juana were distracted fighting each other. Al-Sarray and Abén Hud are fictional characters used to give a face to the Abencerraje (Ibn Sarray) tribe, who were enemies of Mulay-Hacén and his brother. The siege of Malaga is followed in the next episode by the siege of Granada itself, omiting the Almeria campaign that happened in the years in between. As explained in the accompanying web video, Spanish inquisitors actually didn't interrogate the suspects during the torture sessions, many times were not even present during them, and a confession extracted during torture was in fact not admitted (one under threat of torture or between sessions was fair game, however). These are all disregarded to occupy less time, but at least the show has no inquisitors pulling the torture machines or lighting the pyres themselves and it is civil servants doing it instead. The tortures are also the simple ones that were really used like the rack or water cure, not the imaginative ones that were made up by fiction writers from the 17th century on. Nobody ever says the word "Spain". It was actually common in the Middle Ages, though only as a geographic name of the Iberian Peninsula since there was no state with that name (and the Portuguese considered themselves as "Spanish" as their neighbors). This omision is obviously intended to avoid misunderstandings among the viewers.
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Isabel / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
Isabel / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: God's sake Enrique. You can avoid everything if you just do something!
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Isabel / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Isabel / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Many examples. Enrique is successively extorted into giving up his brother, sister, daughter and wife to the conspirators, always as leverage. After being captured, Boabdil is freed at the cost of leaving his son Ahmed in his place.
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Isabel / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Isabel / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Ah, poor Juana...
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Isabel / int_627f7c90	type	Genghis Gambit
Isabel / int_627f7c90	comment	Genghis Gambit: Going to war with Granada helps unify the infighting Castilian nobles (less so the Aragonese), puts Castilians and Aragonese under one command, and secures the peace with Portugal and France because no Christian nation will risk the PR disaster that comes from attacking Christians fighting a war with Muslims that, to top it, has been given treatment of Crusade by the Pope.
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Isabel / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Isabel / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Say what you want of Juan Pacheco, but the man loves his family.
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Isabel / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Isabel / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Most things Pedro Girón does.
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Isabel / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Isabel / int_72cdfc33	comment	The second season lacks a central villain. The most significant threat in the first half is the King of Portugal, and the King of Granada and his brother in the second half, forming a Big Bad Ensemble.
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Isabel / int_76dc4f31	type	"Arabian Nights" Days
Isabel / int_76dc4f31	comment	The Granadans' style of dressing is closer to Ottoman, if not full-fledged "Arabian Nights" Days, than properly Nasrid. Granadan soldiers are also almost all armed with scimitars, when they used straight swords in real life. Finally, in a phenomenon that would need its own trope for how often it happens, the Berber Gomeres from Northern Morocco are portrayed by black actors instead of, well, Berbers.
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Isabel / int_76f0d7a5	type	Historical Fiction
Isabel / int_76f0d7a5	comment	Historical Fiction
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Isabel / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
Isabel / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba joins Alfonso's entourage as a trained and seasoned warrior, rather than as the 13 year-old page he was by that point in real life.
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Isabel / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Isabel / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Juan Pacheco boasts that he can make the kingdom believe anything, and the king can do nothing about it.
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Isabel / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Isabel / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: To Isabel, Alfonso Carrillo and later Tomás de Torquemada.
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Isabel / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Isabel / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Juan Pacheco builds his life this way. Aixa becomes this after being dumped by her husband.
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Isabel / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Isabel / int_7f080f98	comment	Debatable in the case of the Infante Alfonso, who was historically proclaimed king at 11, but is (somewhat) older in the show.
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Isabel / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Isabel / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Want to kidnap a king? Murder a queen in her sleep? Just abduct a woman and her daughter and tell their husband/father to do it. Or else.
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Isabel / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Isabel / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Though unplanned, Isabel is first seen during her coronation as the ambitious and stern monarch who will accept orders from no one, not even her husband. Ignoring that short scene in the first episode (which was originally going to be in the season finale, same as above), Fernando first appears in bed with his mistress while his father negotiates his marriage. Alfonso Carrillo bests his nephew during sword practice. Then he puts on his priest robes. Juan Pacheco immediately lies down the exposition on the King's lack of interest in sex and how they have to manouvre to get their hands on his brother, dismissing Isabel as a tool to forge international alliances through marriage. Rodrigo Borgia is in bed with two women. In the Vatican. Cisneros living a strict monacal life and tightening a cilice around his arm until it bleeds.
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Isabel / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Isabel / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Each season begins with a scene from the finale. After that, the action jumps to a scene set "a few years earlier" and proceeds to show how the last scene came to be.
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Isabel / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Isabel / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: All over the place, successful and otherwise. Most of the plot in Season 1 is directly related to the different attempts by Enrique IV to marry his sister and daughter to different guys. Happily Arranged Marriage is enforced by Isabel, who chooses Fernando because he is the most likely candidate to give her one (and yet still has its downsides). Played straight by Beatriz de Bobadilla and Andrés Cabrera, despite her initial opposition. Princess Juana and Alfonso V end having some kind of 'understanding' with him becoming sort of a Parental Substitute, disturbing implications notwithstanding.
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Isabel / int_83a4df2	type	AllPropheciesAreTrue
Isabel / int_83a4df2	comment	All Prophecies Are True: An astrologist predicts that Muley-Hacén's youngest son Nasr will "win a thousand battles" and that his eldest, Boabdil, will surrender the city to the Christians. Muley-Hacén replies that that doesn't make sense, but Boabdil does indeed become emir against his wishes and surrenders the city. He's also right about Nasr, but not the way it sounds like.note In Real Life he converted to Christianity, married into Castilian nobility and led troops to victory... against Muslim uprisings in Granada, and later also against the Comuneros rebels in Castile during the reign of Charles V.
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Isabel / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Isabel / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Christians and Muslims enslave each other in times of war. In the Granadan border, this war is continuous.
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Isabel / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Isabel / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Alonso de Palencia, a minor but constant character in the first season, is nowhere to be seen in Season 2, even though in real life he remained part of the Royal Court until 1480. Diego Pacheco disappears after he begrudgingly accepts Isabel's leadership. In real life he took part in the conquest of Granada and eventually weaseled his way back in the Court. Susana disappears after Moisés takes her away from her father's execution. El Zagal disappears after escaping from the siege of Málaga. Gutierre de Cárdenas is missing from the third season. Notably, he was the man that wrote the Treaty of Tordesillas in real life.
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Isabel / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Isabel / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Juan Pacheco and Tomás de Torquemada.
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Isabel / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Isabel / int_890d4ef2	comment	The third season has the Portuguese, French, and later the Burgundian courts as recurring threats. Though it could be argued Fate is the greatest enemy here.
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Isabel / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
Isabel / int_8976acda	comment	Civil War: The episode where there isn't one going on is rare. The noble revolt against Enrique IV in 1465-1468. The civil wars in Catalonia of 1462-1472 and 1485-1486, though these happen mostly off-screen. The War of Castilian Succession in 1475-1479. The civil war in Granada between members of the royal family vying for the throne (1481-1492), at the same time they are fighting a war of conquest with the Christians. The Comuneros Revolt in Castile (1520-1522) dominates the early episodes of Carlos, Rey Emperador.
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Isabel / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Isabel / int_8b568cb7	comment	Álvaro de Luna's execution, years before the timeframe of the series. We know that Pacheco "conspired" to make it happen and that Isabel's mother blames herself for it and the guilt may have driven her insane. This would have been shown in a prologue scene, but the studio vetoed it.
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Isabel / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Isabel / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: Enrique IV is technically a main antagonist in the first season, but he rarely does more than surrendering, negotiating and accepting accomplished facts.
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Isabel / int_8ebe70fe	type	HairOfGold
Isabel / int_8ebe70fe	comment	Hair of Gold: Isabel of course. Fittingly, her adoption of the white cowl in the second season is coincident with the final loss of her innocence.
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Isabel / int_8f7059b	type	A Match Made in Stockholm
Isabel / int_8f7059b	comment	A Match Made in Stockholm: Isabel de Solís falls in love with Muley-Hacén after being made his slave. She denies it later, though.
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Isabel / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Isabel / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Isabel and Fernando. Enrique and Juana would be too, if they actually kissed.
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Isabel / int_91bac88	type	VoiceOfReason
Isabel / int_91bac88	comment	Chacón, who has been the Voice of Reason up to that point, supports the expulsion of the Jews arguing that they are residents, not subjects, and that Castile and Aragon won't be different from other countries who have done it already.
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Isabel / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Isabel / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Carrillo and the Dominicans (Ojeda and Torquemada. Yes, that one).
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Isabel / int_94389bb8	type	Athens and Sparta
Isabel / int_94389bb8	comment	Athens and Sparta: Through the series Castile, and to a lesser extent Aragon, is consistently shown as a pious, warlike, and austere Sparta to a rotating cast of opulent, corrupt, and lustful Athens. First Portugal (thanks to the riches of its African colonies), then Italy, France, Seville, Granada, and Burgundy.
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Isabel / int_95a4c6df	type	Wild Card
Isabel / int_95a4c6df	comment	Wild Card: The Papacy, especially when Borgia becomes Pope.
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Isabel / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Isabel / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Isabel and Fernando outlived their son Juan, daughter Isabel and two of their grandchildren, John's stillborn daughter and Isabel's son Miguel.
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Isabel / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Isabel / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Though very few go to the lenghts of Juan Pacheco and his family.
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Isabel / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Isabel / int_966da803	comment	Diego Susón uses his last words to curse those around him. Seville is then hit by The Plague.
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Isabel / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Isabel / int_970c790a	comment	After Fernando receives a life-threatening injury, Charles VIII says that the Aragonese will be in his prayers.
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Isabel / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Isabel / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Fernando.
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Isabel / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Isabel / int_9a1d239e	comment	The peasant Juan to Pedro Girón, because for him it was Tuesday.
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Isabel / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Isabel / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Why Pacheco and Carrillo don't even consider Isabel a heir at the beginning of the series. When Alfonso dies, Carrillo decides to work for Isabel figuring that she'll be docile and easy to control.
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Isabel / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Isabel / int_a01f88a7	comment	Boabdil is depicted as being barely able to hold a sword. In real life he was actually a great swordsman, but a General Failure.
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Isabel / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Isabel / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Each season homages a famous painting in its Bookends: Season 1: The proclamation of Isabel as queen◊, to the mural in the Alcazar of Segovia◊. The surrender of Granada◊, to the 1882 painting◊. Isabel's death◊, to Isabel the Catholic dictating her will◊ (1864).
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Isabel / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Isabel / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Isabel asks herself this when she is told that her son-in-law died, as she had asked God to take other child in her ill son's place and he ended recovering. Interestingly, this happens after she is also told that the Inquisition likely murdered eight innocents for a crime they didn't commit (or even existed), but she thinks nothing of it.
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Isabel / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Isabel / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: Generally avoided. When it happens it's usually characters born during the series, like Princess Juana and Isabel's children.
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Isabel / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
Isabel / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: Torquemada doesn't care if you did it, only that you admit it.
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Isabel / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Isabel / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Aldonza disguises herself as a boy to follow Fernando to Valladolid. She fools no one.
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Isabel / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Isabel / int_a8559a9f	comment	Every now and then, some town complains that events that happened there in Real Life are depicted in the show as happening in a bigger town like Segovia, Valladolid or Seville. This is obviously tied to the tourism to these places generated by the series.
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Isabel / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
Isabel / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: Torquemada, in contrast to his usual portrayal as a high-pitched, frothing-in-the-mouth fanatic, is instead a courteous and very soft-spoken individual that plays the good cop and the bad cop at the same time.
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Isabel / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Isabel / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: At the time and place, it was.
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Isabel / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Isabel / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Isabel and Fernando, Isabel Jr. and Prince Alfonso of Portugal. Fernando and Beatriz Osorio have at least a big desire at first sight.
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Isabel / int_a96a045c	type	Droit du Seigneur
Isabel / int_a96a045c	comment	Droit du Seigneur: Appears in the series as a simplification of the "Evil Customs" in Old Catalonia, which Ferdinand II abolished.
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Isabel / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Isabel / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: In the first season, the nobles rebel against Enrique IV while accusing him of being a homosexual, a willing cuckold, a pacifist, and a ruler too nice to religious minorities. Fernando flat out refuses to promise Isabel fidelity. The show makes no secret of the fact that men sleeping around (even priests) is far better looked at than women doing so. Isabel finds slavery shocking and horrible... if the slave is Christian. She's also okay with corporal punishment and the death penalty if the offender is guilty of blood crimes. Isabel doesn't like the idea of a new civil war in Castile... because she wants all the nobles to march together against Granada, who has done nothing in recent memory but existing and being Muslim. Juan II of Aragon, a Cool Old Guy Reasonable Authority Figure with no prejudices against Jews (unlike his son), is adamant that no woman will inherit his kingdom, and sees nothing wrong in raiding French territory in peace time. Looking at Juan's actual biography, these might as well be implications that he is a semi-Retired Monster. "Judaizing" (i.e. Jews that pretend to be Christians in public, or are Christians but follow some Jewish practices from their ancestors out of custom, sometimes without being aware of their origin) is seen as one of the worst crimes possible. Muslims and Christians call each other infidels, even in the presence of the other. Others converting to your religion is cool and desired, people converting from your religion to another is worse than murder. Witnesses are present for the consummation of a royal marriage and the birth of their children. At best, the new couple can hope they agree to be behind the door and just listening, but they will demand to see the bloodied sheets to certify that the bride was a virgin. Enrique IV actually gets flack because he refused to do this and later outlawed the practice, fueling rumors that he is impotent, homosexual or both. Chacón, who has been the Voice of Reason up to that point, supports the expulsion of the Jews arguing that they are residents, not subjects, and that Castile and Aragon won't be different from other countries who have done it already.
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Isabel / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Isabel / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Enrique IV is uninterested in sex. When he finally brings himself to have sex with his gorgeous wife for the sake of producing a heir, he still can't achieve penetration.
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Isabel / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Isabel / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Seville is the largest and richest city in Castile, has trade with the most exotic locales far away, and the oppulence of its nobles make the Royal Court dull and backwards in comparison. It's also a place with high crime and corruption, rivalry between noble families, fundamentalist preachers and the highest slave population in the kingdom.
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Isabel / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Isabel / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Enrique IV is not a bad guy, he's actually too nice to be king. Alpha Bitch Juana de Avis acts the way she acts because 1) she loves her daughter and 2) her husband won't stand for her or even touch her.
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Isabel / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Isabel / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Pushed by Enrique until it becomes literal: He dies of indigestion.
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Isabel / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Isabel / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: Given how closely related most monarchs are, this trope is in full force. When Isabel tells Juan II of Portugal that she'd rather be at peace with a relative, he mockingly replies that disputes are more common with relatives than with strangers. Of course, Isabel is only queen at this point because she waged war on her half-brother, got on several disputes about whom she should marry, and then basically usurped her niece's inheritance and played everything she could to make sure she didn't marry and start a family. Alfonso V of Portugal marries his 13 year-old niece, consummates, and is at least implied to be okay with poisoning his own sister when she tries to keep her daughter's kingdom in one piece. Fernando is his father's heir because his older half-brother rebelled against him years ago and lost. His half-sister is queen in Navarre and she believes that he is trying to usurp her kingdom. Fernando then has his own son-in-law murdered, whom his daughter loves madly, when he fears that his son might die of an illness and leave his kingdoms to be inherited by the Portuguese. Juan of Portugal tries to usurp his father while he is negotiating an alliance in France. When he inherits the throne legally, he immediately has his aunt's family (the Braganças) arrested and dispossesed of lands, and his cousin executed, to secure his absolute rule. Aixa and Boabdil try to overthrow their husband/father after he takes another wife and names her child heir.
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Isabel / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Isabel / int_b6de94d1	comment	Though unplanned, Isabel is first seen during her coronation as the ambitious and stern monarch who will accept orders from no one, not even her husband.
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Isabel / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Isabel / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Not to an extreme degree, but Torquemada is introduced later than he joined Isabella's court in real life and the fact that he was one of her confessors is glossed over. In the show, his nomination as Grand Inquisitor of Castile seems to be an imposition of the Vatican, possibly in an attempt to not make Isabel too unsympathetic.
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Isabel / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Isabel / int_beb9a361	comment	Philip I grows into the main villain of The Broken Crown, although Fernando is not far behind.
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Isabel / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
Isabel / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: Played for Drama when an assassin mistakes Beatriz de Bobadilla for Isabel. Exploited when Isabel wants to test Cisneros and trades dresses with her handmaiden Catalina. Cisneros sees through the ruse.
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Isabel / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
Isabel / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: The show's opening.
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Isabel / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Isabel / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Surprisingly many, despite the great number of cutthroat and backstabbing characters: Gonzalo Chacón, Andrés Cabrera, his wife Beatriz, etc. Every problem of Enrique IV stems from the fact that he is too nice to be king.
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Isabel / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Isabel / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Torquemada's opinion of suspects is that they are all guilty because God wouldn't let an innocent suffer torture and murder. Nevermind that he follows a religion that worships hundreds of martyrs for being tortured and murdered, and in one episode his case is the (claimed) torture and murder of an innocent child.
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Isabel / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Isabel / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Isabel slaps Alfonso when he says that he'd rather have them be peasants than princes.
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Isabel / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Isabel / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Enrique's Court in Segovia is not particularly well run. Muley-Hacén's Granada is even worse, with emphasis on the 'deadly'. Averted with the court of Isabel and Fernando. There is stately opulence, but decorous and not decadent. When Marguerite's servants misbehave, she makes a good impression by telling them off for doing so in front of Isabel and Fernando.
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Isabel / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Isabel / int_ca22ca46	comment	Madwoman in the Attic: Isabel's mother is insane and has been locked away in a castle for years. Felipe has Juana locked in a room at times, which makes her damaged psyche slip even further.
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Isabel / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Isabel / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Every royal suffers from this.
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Isabel / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Isabel / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: After being bethrothed to Pedro Girón, Isabel prays for a whole night and is later informed that he has died of the plague, which she takes as a miracle (he was poisoned instead). Before that, Girón sees a bunch of storks behaving in a strange manner that his men take as an omen, though he thinks nothing of it. Isabel also prays all night for her ill son, at some point asking God to take other child in his place. Her son recovers, and her son-in-law (and daughter's dream match) dies in an... accident. Cue My God, What Have I Done?. The kid Enrique IV sees in the first season finale is either his imagination, an angel or a doppelgänger. Diego Pacheco's visions of his father while in prison are very likely happening inside his head, if only for the very un-Pacheco way he behaves. Diego Susón uses his last words to curse those around him. Seville is then hit by The Plague.
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Isabel / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Isabel / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Granada bleeds itself in civil war while it should be using all its men to fight the Christians, with predictable results.
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Isabel / int_cfd5cbd3	type	Unexpected Character
Isabel / int_cfd5cbd3	comment	Unexpected Character: Cardinal Rodrigo Borja (or Borgia) in the first season counts, unless the viewer is aware of his historical visit to Castile, of course.
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Isabel / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Isabel / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Hernando de Talavera, the only recurrent priest that is not some kind of hypocrite, be it for lack of zeal (Carrillo, Mendoza, Borja) or excess (Torquemada). Third season's Cisneros is another example, his more severe and humorless character notwithstanding.
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Isabel / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
Isabel / int_d1da2c36	comment	Played for Drama when an assassin mistakes Beatriz de Bobadilla for Isabel.
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Isabel / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
Isabel / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness: The first time they meet, Cisneros fishes Isabel among her handmaidens when she wants to test him.
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Isabel / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Isabel / int_d45c0b86	comment	Diego Pacheco disappears after he begrudgingly accepts Isabel's leadership. In real life he took part in the conquest of Granada and eventually weaseled his way back in the Court.
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Isabel / int_d500b978	type	Adaptational Wimp
Isabel / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Diego Pacheco surrenders after Fernando's victory in Zamora and breaks down crying when he is threatened with execution. In real life he had to be subdued a second time when the Portuguese invaded Extremadura, then served in Granada where he lost an arm in combat. Boabdil is depicted as being barely able to hold a sword. In real life he was actually a great swordsman, but a General Failure.
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Isabel / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Isabel / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Cesare Borgia scoffs at the legitimacy of the Trastamara branch of Naples because it is descended from bastards.
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Isabel / int_d67f0a23	type	Modest Royalty
Isabel / int_d67f0a23	comment	Modest Royalty: The clothes are realistic, functional (medieval castles were cold), and ofter somewhat simple, particularly young Isabel's. Truth in Television: The Iberian courts that take most of the screen time were not as lavish as the ones in other countries that spring to mind when we hear the word "Renaissance". This is reflected by the brief apparitions of the French court, or when Cardinal Borja mentions that he finds Castile dull compared to Rome. The opulence of Seville's nobility in the second season makes the Royal Court in Segovia seem poor and backwards in comparison, and Muslim Granada is just fabulous. It's no wonder that Isabel's wardrobe takes a step upward after visiting Andalusia.
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Isabel / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Isabel / int_dc1761bd	comment	In the series, Cortés screams to his wife Catalina that he is the god in the New World (no, not that way, but almost). The real Cortés was extremely Catholic even by his time's standards and would have likely never been so casually blasphemous. Also, Catalina's threat of destroying his career by denouncing his infidelity is treated as Serious Business, with Cortés strangling her to death to impede it, but this would have not been the case. While it's true that Cortés had an exceptionally bitter marriage with her and all the evidence implies he did murder her, male infidelity was hardly a rarity in the setting and would not have given him much trouble in the court (in fact, the real Cortés was a known womanizer yet this was never much of a political impediment for him).
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Isabel / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Isabel / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Enrique IV.
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Isabel / int_dc57d1e6	type	Hilarious in Hindsight
Isabel / int_dc57d1e6	comment	Princess Juana's fate after losing the succession war and having her marriage declared void by the Pope. The alternative would be to remain unmarried until 35, when, according to the treaty, Isabel and Fernando's son would come of age and decide if he wanted to marry her or free her of the vow.
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Isabel / int_dcaaab60	type	Old Friend
Isabel / int_dcaaab60	comment	Old Friend: Francesc de Verntallat, to Fernando of Aragon.
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Isabel / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
Isabel / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: Enrique wants to marry Isabel to the King of Portugal, his wife's brother, which would make them siblings by blood and on law at the same time. His daughter is at different points promised or proposed to marry two of her uncles and a cousin, and develops romantic feelings for another cousin.
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Isabel / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Isabel / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: The Infante Alfonso says at one point that it'd been better if they'd been born to peasants, unwittingly echoing the last words of his father, John II of Castile. The words Isabel says to Catherine before sending her away to England were actually said by Catherine to her daughter Mary when she last saw her.
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Isabel / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Isabel / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Every character speaks modern Spanish (only somewhat old-fashioned) in Standard (Northern) Castilian accent, regardless of origin. The only time this doesn't happen is during prayer, which Christian characters do in Latin, Muslims in Arabic and Jews in Hebrew, and in a rare instance in the first season when a guard introduces the Duke of Guyenne in French. Handwritten letters are in the original Arabic or 15th Century Spanish, however.
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Isabel / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Isabel / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Beatriz Osorio is blamed in show both for Prince Juan's sickliness and Isabel's difficult twin pregnancy that ended with one baby stillborn. These are presented as a result of her poisoning or making sure in some other way that they get sick, hoping that this gets Fernando for herself. There no evidence for any of this besides the fact that Osorio was at Isabel's service at the time, and the first historical mention that Isabel sent her away because she was "making eyes" with Fernando appears 40 years after the event. Osorio did build a bad reputation as a cruel schemer once she arrived in the Canaries, however, where she was nicknamed "The Bloodthirsty".
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Isabel / int_e2abcbfd	type	Turbulent Priest
Isabel / int_e2abcbfd	comment	Turbulent Priest: Carrillo is a villainous version.
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Isabel / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Isabel / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In history, Fernando is known for not having treated his daughter Juana very nicely after her husband died and she was locked away. In this series it's shown that he blames her for Isabel's detoriating health and despairing that Isabel is more important to the future of Castile.
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Isabel / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Isabel / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Isabel.
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Isabel / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Isabel / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: "Zúñiga" plays the part of Álvaro de Zúñiga, who rebelled against Enrique IV and joined Alfonso (Afonso) V in Extremadura, and his son Íñigo, who was besieged at Burgos.
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Isabel / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Isabel / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Juan Pacheco and El Zagal dress in all black.
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Isabel / int_e9550e66	type	Nun Too Holy
Isabel / int_e9550e66	comment	Nun Too Holy: Rampant: Alexander VI is Pope in the third season, after all. When Cisneros decides to correct this, he realizes that the problem is even worse than he imagined.
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Isabel / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Isabel / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Fernando gets a rebel leader to surrender after promising amnesty to his men and their families. The leader, however, is arrested and executed. After Fernando receives a life-threatening injury, Charles VIII says that the Aragonese will be in his prayers.
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Isabel / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Isabel / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Beatriz Osorio to Isabel.
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Isabel / int_eb7a5313	type	Famous Ancestor
Isabel / int_eb7a5313	comment	Famous Ancestor: The Mendozas are descendants of El Cid Campeador. Juana de Avis' lover is a great-grandson of Pedro the Cruel, the king that the Trastámaras overthrew and murdered to found their dynasty. He has as much respect for them as you imagine.
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Isabel / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Isabel / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Too many to count.
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Isabel / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Isabel / int_ed874c14	comment	Juan Pacheco builds his life this way.
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Isabel / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Isabel / int_f1492605	comment	Despite being one of these very same nobles, Mendoza has a change of heart in his deathbed and advices Isabel to name a non-noble as the next Archbishop of Toledo (head of the Church in Spain). The chosen one is Cisneros, already in a campaign to fight corruption within the Church. Historians credit Cisneros as the reason Spain skipped the Reformation.
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Isabel / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Isabel / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty to the Crown is a famous trait to the Mendozas, although Enrique's constant blunders ends alienating even them.
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Isabel / int_f740a274	type	Historical Beauty Update
Isabel / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: Isabel and Fernando were considered handsome, but she was still more on the portly side than Jenner (and even more after the pregnancies). Fernando definitely didn't look much like Sancho◊ - Word of God is that Sancho was chosen because he conveyed best Fernando's charisma and volcanic persona, as well as being suited for the Chick Magnet part. Enrique IV is often described as having gigantism and a broken nose among other things. Pablo Derqui has neither. On the other hand, it's been suggested that this is the result of confusion with his father Juan II, or outright fabrication by Isabel's propagandists.
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Isabel / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Isabel / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The Dominican friars, with Tomás de Torquemada at their helm. In Real Life they were nicknamed Domini Canes, or Hounds of the Lord.
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Isabel / int_f93e1eb7	type	Locked Away in a Monastery
Isabel / int_f93e1eb7	comment	Locked Away in a Monastery / Taking the Veil: Princess Juana's fate after losing the succession war and having her marriage declared void by the Pope. The alternative would be to remain unmarried until 35, when, according to the treaty, Isabel and Fernando's son would come of age and decide if he wanted to marry her or free her of the vow. Princess Isabel, Isabel and Fernando's first child, wants to do this after her first husband dies but they won't allow it. What Talavera and Cisneros would rather do than being at the Royal Court. Talavera copes a lot better than the second.
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Isabel / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Isabel / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: In the second season, a miller complains about the new mayor's "sisas". "Sisar" survives in modern Spanish as slang for stealing, but it originally meant taxing. Only Moors say "ojalá", and they do it very serious and solemnly. This is because it stands in dialogue for its root, sha'a Allah, or "God willing" in Arabic, which later passed into colloquial Spanish as slang for "I hope".
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Isabel / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Isabel / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: As a matter of course, Isabel and Fernando will be generous and negotiate. Once.
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Isabel / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Isabel / int_fea42091	comment	Alfonso Carrillo bests his nephew during sword practice. Then he puts on his priest robes. Juan Pacheco immediately lies down the exposition on the King's lack of interest in sex and how they have to manouvre to get their hands on his brother, dismissing Isabel as a tool to forge international alliances through marriage.
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Isabel / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
Isabel / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Isabel, obviously, debuts as a young girl that no one expects to inherit the throne. The future Pope Alexander VI as a Papal envoy to Castile. Beatriz Osorio appears in the second season as a young servant of Isabel, years before she gained fame as an ambitious, ruthless schemer worthy of the Borgia family during her stay in the Canary Islands. The future Henry VIII as a nice 9 year old boy consoling Catherine of Aragon on her first bethrothed's passing.
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