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Roman Empire
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Roman Empire is a series made by Netflix. Each season puts the spotlight on a different, famous individual from Roman History.So far, Emperor Commodus, Julius Caesar, and Emperor Caligula have all been the focus of a season.It's presented as somewhat between a documentary as part is narrated and part is acted out by actors. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Lots of people die. The seasons all end with the murder of the protagonist. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Julio-Claudio dynasty. Have fun looking up their family tree. | |
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Universally Beloved Leader | |
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Universally Beloved Leader: Germanicus. Even now he is known as the greatest emperor that never was. This extended to his family as well, who were also very popular. Caligula at the beginning of his reign. This changes once he sleeps with his sisters, reinstitutes a Reign of Terror and increases taxes to cover his huge debt. | |
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Bed Full of Women | |
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Bed Full of Women: Emperor Tiberius removes himself from public life to the island of Capri where he engages in decadent pleasures. Naturally this involves him watching three beautiful prostitutes have sex with each other, and at one point he invites a young Caligula in and insists that he join them so he can "learn what it is to be an emperor". When Caligula falls into debauchery, he shown bedding other men's wives, his sisters and the obligatory Bed Full of Women. | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Averted hard with Tiberius, who spent years in Capri living a debauched lifestyle. | |
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Decapitation Presentation | |
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Decapitation Presentation: Caesar is not pleased to have this done with Pompey's head. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Sentor Quintianus is about as corrupt as they come, yet even he is disturbed by how much Lucilla hates and wants her own brother dead. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Although Commodus is in prime of youth and did undergo some military training from his father beforehand, Commodus quickly realizes during training with Narcissus that one cannot just become a gladiator in a couple weeks. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Much like another earlier production on the life of Caesar, Servilla appears to have been driven towards influencing Brutus towards Caesar's assassination due to his connection with Cleopatra. While Brutus implies as much, she instead argues that Brutus's position as Caesar's closest ally (and possible successor) is likely to be usurped by any son he might have. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Averted by almost everyone when it comes down to it. | |
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Full-Circle Revolution | |
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Full-Circle Revolution: Caligula earns early popularity with the people and senate by ending the abuses of Tiberius, carrying out public works and burning the records of the Treason Trials. However he becomes increasingly detached after the death of Drusilla and wastes so much money in self-aggrandizing projects that he reinstates the Treason Trials just so he can execute wealthy senators to clear his debts. Oh and those records he burnt? "I Made Copies." | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress | |
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Gorgeous Period Dress: All over the place as most of the female main characters are aristocrats, part of the imperial family or Cleopatra. | |
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The Big Guy | |
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The Big Guy: Narcissus | |
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Et Tu, Brute? | |
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Et Tu, Brute?: Ironically, he doesn't actually say that here. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Caesar and Pompey. Also, Caesar and Brutus in the end. | |
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The Caligula | |
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The Caligula: It is about the Trope Namer after all. | |
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Villain Respect | |
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Villain Respect: Despite Cleander's betrayal, Lucilla admits that she is impressed how he used her assassination plot to gain power for himself. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: The writers have shown their work in some ways, but sometimes rumors are presented as facts, instead of as likely gossip. | |
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Appeal to Force | |
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Appeal to Force: The Roman way. | |
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Gladiator Games | |
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Gladiator Games: Caligula stages them at the start of the reign. Since they hadn't happened for a long time, this makes him very popular. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: It is mentioned this happens to Cleopatra and Mark Antony. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Agrippina seduces her brother, promising to give him an heir. When she doesn't conceive, he turns his attentions to his other two sisters, who aren't in a position to refuse the emperor. Drusilla falls pregnant but dies; as Caligula was genuinely fond of her, it further increases his instability. | |
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Point of No Return | |
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Point of No Return: When Caesar crosses the Rubicon. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Narcissus to Commodus in the end. A rather epic one at that. | |
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Lonely at the Top | |
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Lonely at the Top: All protagonists suffer this in some way. | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves | |
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Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves:Caligula sees right through Agrippine's lies that she had no part in his assassination attempt, so he exiles her along with their younger sister and brother-in-law. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Is it? Did Caligula really sleep with all or one of his sisters? There is no conclusive evidence, though it is enacted in this series as if he did. | |
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Band of Brothers | |
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Band of Brothers: Gladiators. It's very important to Narcissus. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Many of the women are portrayed this way. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Tatina, the servant of Lucilla and the one Cleander used to expose her regicide plot, ends up being the one to finally expose Cleander's treachery to Commodus himself. | |
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Nothing Personal | |
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Nothing Personal: Pompey to Caesar when both he and Crassus decide to stop supporting Caesar as Consul due to him making too many enemies in senate. To Pompey's credit, however, he does help Caesar attain governorship. | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil | |
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Aristocrats Are Evil: Caesar used this trope to become head of the reformist faction and get the people behind him. Even though he was an aristocrat himself. | |
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Government in Exile | |
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Government in Exile: Most senators flee Rome when Caesar crosses the Rubicon. | |
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Defiant to the End | |
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Defiant to the End: His mother, Agrippina. Marco ties up his horse and dismounts to fight the soldiers sent to execute him. On losing the fight, he defiantly falls on his sword before he can be given the Coup de Grâce. | |
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Odd Couple | |
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Odd Couple: Roman generals are not supposed to take up with foreign queens and then have them hang around in Rome. In this series, Cleopatra bringing her son to Rome is also what turns Servilia against Caesar, as she sees the boy as a threat to Brutus. | |
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Coup de Grâce | |
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Marco ties up his horse and dismounts to fight the soldiers sent to execute him. On losing the fight, he defiantly falls on his sword before he can be given the Coup de Grâce. | |
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Appeal to Tradition | |
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Appeal to Tradition: All protagonists get in conflict with older more traditional men from the senate. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Caligula had coins made to honor his mother, once he became emperor. | |
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General Failure | |
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General Failure: Caligula decides to regain his popularity by invading Britain. The soldiers, unused to the open sea, wet and miserable from the onset of winter, and fearful of these unknown islands on the edge of the known world, threaten to mutiny. Caligula resorts to dressing his soldiers up as British captives and marching them in chains through Rome in an attempt to fool people into thinking he was victorious. | |
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Doomed by Canon | |
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Doomed by Canon: A lot of the characters die by being murdered. | |
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The Evil Prince | |
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The Evil Prince: Unlike in the movie Gladiator, where Commodus was portrayed as evil from the get-go, he is seen struggling with the death of his mother and the weight of responsibility that will come upon him once his father dies. | |
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Evil Chancellor | |
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Evil Chancellor: Cleander uses Lucilla's plot to murder his friend. Once he becomes powerful, he messes with the grain supply, Roman citizens grow weak and fall victim to the plague. This is not necessarily all Truth in Television. | |
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Graffiti of the Resistance | |
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Graffiti of the Resistance: Used against Caligula once the populace turns on him because of his incestuous relationships. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: Lucilla looks on stoically most of the time until she expresses her hatred of Commodus. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Commodus the emperor and Narcissus the gladiator while the latter teaches him how to fight as a gladiator. This goes out the window when Narcissus discovers Commodus has been fixing the games. | |
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Antagonist in Mourning | |
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Antagonist in Mourning: When Pompey gets killed in Egypt. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: With all the protagonists to some extent. | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Caesar actually received the title of tyrant for ten years and then for life. This was a function belonging to the Roman Republic in times of crisis but was never meant to last as long. It is this that makes a lot of people nervous, including political rivals and those who genuinely fear for the Republic. It is one of the main reasons for the murder plot against Caesar. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Judging by the attacks she made on Tiberius after the death of Germanicus, Agrippina loved her husband very much. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Many of Caesar's battles are not shown. This probably both due to budget and time constraints. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The execution or exile of his family, years of house arrest and constant fear of execution at the whim of Tiberius, then his sudden ascent to absolute power are implied to have played a part in Caligula's increasing paranoia and mental instability. | |
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Decadent Court | |
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Decadent Court | |
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Reign of Terror | |
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Caligula at the beginning of his reign. This changes once he sleeps with his sisters, reinstitutes a Reign of Terror and increases taxes to cover his huge debt. | |
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Permission to Speak Freely | |
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Permission to Speak Freely: Senator Dio invokes this before giving Commodus his opinion on whether or not to go to war in order to regain the citizens goodwill. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: Even though emperors were often deified after their deaths, Caligula takes this further. | |
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Good Republic, Evil Empire | |
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Good Republic, Evil Empire: From the perspective of the traditionalists this was the case. However, the major conquests of the previous century or so had made Rome's old system quite unwieldy, especially with soldiers who were loyal to generals before they were loyal to the senate or republic. In addition, slave work had replaced a lot of the Roman workforce, which caused resentment amongst the people. The republic also provided opportunities mostly to the upper classes, which is why someone like Caesar got so much popular support. | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade: It is quite possible that Servilia pushed Brutus to kill Caesar, but there is not enough known about that. | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Caesar wasn't entirely a nobody as he was from a patrician family, but they had little political influence before he came around. He turned into one of the biggest nightmares for the Gauls, republicans, and traditionalists. | |
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Pretext for War | |
| Roman Empire / int_e22dae0a | comment |
Pretext for War: Caesar's wars in Gaul look very suspicious to the senate as they believe he doesn't have enough of this trope. | |
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Barbarian Tribe | |
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Barbarian Tribe: Julius Caesar gained his fame and power by overpowering the Gauls. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: There is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Claudius orchestrated Caligula's assassination, in order to seize power for himself, but the show implies that's what he did in order to prevent the Empire from being turned back into a Republic by the Senate. Fearful of what will happen to their influence if Caligula gets a male heir, his sisters conspire to kill him, only Agrippina then denounces the plot to advance her own position. It doesn't work and Caligula has both his sisters exiled to a small island off the Italian coast for the remainder of his reign. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: And thus Commodus breaks off his father's war against the Germans. This makes him popular with the people, with the troops and senate not so much. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Caesar is known for this, but only for his fellow Romans. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: A very common trope in this series. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
| Roman Empire / int_f818b637 | comment |
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Crassus ended Spartacus' rebellion, only for Pompey to have stolen the credit for it. This left Crassus and Pompey at each other's throat until Caesar offers an alliance between the three of them. | |
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BigSisterInstinct | |
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Big Sister Instinct: Merica to Tatina. She is seen shielding Tatina from Cleander while he's threating to kill her. | |
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Young Future Famous People | |
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Young Future Famous People: The seasons start when the protagonists are either children or not famous yet. | |
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