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Rome

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Rome	label	Rome
Rome	page	Rome
Rome	comment	Rome (2005-2007) is a semi-historical drama series co-produced by HBO and the BBC. It follows the lives of Real Life politicians, socialites, and soldiers in Ancient Rome starting with Caesar's conquest of Gaul and progressing through the power struggles and ascension of Augustus as the first Roman emperor. It focuses on the adventures of two (semi-fictional)note Vorenus and Pullo are mentioned briefly in Caesar's writings, but nothing is known about them beyond that, making their characters almost entirely an invention of the show's creators soldiers, Centurion Lucius Vorenus and Legionary Titus Pullo, who witness, and sometimes influence, the major events of the era. Features one of the most notable Evil Matriarch characters in contemporary TV history, Atia of the Julii.One of its most innovative ideas was to focus on the lives of ordinary fictional Romans, rather than just historical figures like Julius Caesar or Augustus. This had been explored before in literature and in sitcoms, but Rome was the first television drama to do so. It was a great concept. The show had a tremendous ensemble cast, incredible production values and was both epic in scope and paid meticulous, loving attention to detail. It ended after its second series due to insufficient ratings to justify its massive expense. HBO executives later regretted the decision as DVD sales turned out to be very good.For the capital of Italy, see Rome.
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Rome / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Rome / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And many do. By the end of the series, Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Cicero, Cato, Brutus, Cassius, Servilia, Vercingetorix, Metellus Scipio and Ptolemy VIII are all dead, and that's just the historical characters. It's Truth in Television, as all of the above really did die during the series' timeframe. Roman politics were often violent and grubby, and invariably fatal for the losers in power struggles.
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Rome / int_129a9466	type	Erotic Asphyxiation
Rome / int_129a9466	comment	Erotic Asphyxiation: When Octavian selects Livia as his wife, he tells her that he may beat her during sex. It turns out that he enjoys being beaten and strangled just as much.
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Rome / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Rome / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Once the Unstoppable Rage has worn off, Vorenus has one of these after believing his whole family is dead. Pullo also has one towards the end of Season One when Vorenus rejects him. Pullo has another one after one too many murders as a mob hitman. Pompey after the battle of Pharsalus.
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Rome / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Rome / int_153299b4	comment	A condensed triple one at the start of the second episode (shown in the middle of the first one in the BBC recut); Rowdy Pullo makes a lewd remark, Vorenus commands him to show decency as he is under Rome's standard. Pullo talks back pointing at General Antony, who is raping a young shepherdress by a tree with his entire personal escort watching and paused, even though they are supposed to be marching towards Rome on the double. Legalist Vorenus replies that Antony is not under the standard.
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Rome / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Rome / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Several inUniverse examples: Heavy storm. The army is embarked. Rough sea. Played seriously when Julius Caesar refuses to execute Vorenus and Pullo for having let Pompey escape, because their incredible luck implies they're protected by powerful gods. Vorenus uses a Blasphemous Boast to frighten the criminal underworld into accepting him as their leader. Pullo warns him the gods doesn't like that sort of thing, but Vorenus thinks he's lost everything anyway. "What more can they do to me?" At the end of the episode, it's revealed his family hasn't been killed, but have been sold as slaves.
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Rome / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
Rome / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: After suffering a defeat by Caesar in Greece, the Senatorial faction argues about what to do next. Cicero and Brutus decide they're tired of running and are going to surrender to Caesar. Brutus then calls Pompey Magnus an old fool just when Pompey walks into the tent. Subverted in that Pompey isn't angry with Brutus and admits that they have reason to question his leadership. Cicero is paying his respects to Brutus and the fellow conspirators in the murder of Julius Caesar, but complains when he finds they've left Mark Antony alive. Cicero then decides he's got urgent business in the country and makes to leave, but not before saluting the "immortal liberators" from the tyrannic Caesar. Cicero then turns and bumps into Mark Antony who's just entered the room. Everyone enjoys his discomfiture.
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Rome / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Rome / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: At some point, Caesar, Antony and specially Octavian are underestimated or written off as power-players. The two Julii regularly cultivate this perception, concealing their real strengths and intentions and playing-up their alleged weaknesses. Played with, with Brutus and Servilia, and Cicero and his Senators. It looks as if they will finally harm the heroes, just this once... then they get butt monkeyed once more.
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Rome / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Rome / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: In the marketplace, we see traders selling exotic birds, among them macaws, which come from South and Central America, and Australian cockatoos. The Americas and Australia were completely unknown to the Romans.
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Rome / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Rome / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Cicero, affable and calmly collected to the very end.
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Rome / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Rome / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Pullo is sentenced to die in the arena. However, the murder that got him convicted also gave him a Heroic BSoD so he doesn't want to fight and tells the gladiators to just execute him. As this would not be spectacular enough for the crowd, they first plead with him to fight back just a bit and then try to provoke him. They don't have much success, until they mention his old Legion. Happy to have found something that angers him, they keep insulting the Thirteenth Legion. Then they find out what Pullo is like when DOES want to fight. As do the next few gladiators that are send in.
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Rome / int_19e13868	type	Ancient Rome
Rome / int_19e13868	comment	Ancient Rome: Of course. The series is about the final period of The Roman Republic from Julius Caesar's ascension to power after crossing the Rubicon to his eventual assassination in the Senate.
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Rome / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Rome / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Erastes Fulmen to Vorenus, repeatedly. Fulmen shows up with his gang of thugs and tries to intimidate Vorenus on a few occasions; when he finally crosses the line, Vorenus and Pullo kill every last one of them without breaking sweat.
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Rome / int_1bcfe069	type	Absurdism
Rome / int_1bcfe069	comment	Absurdism: The glory of ancient Rome is stripped away to show its ridiculousness.
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Rome / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
Rome / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: Antony and Octavian are shrewd rulers; they avert Caesar's mistakes regarding clemency and thus purge a great amount of political enemies. They also kill some men who just happen to be very rich while the rulers have great expenses. In the aftermath of Caesar's demise, the conspirators start planning a purge but Brutus successfully argues that they are "tyrant killers, liberators, not murderers" and the planned whackings are halted.
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Rome / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Rome / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Vorenus and Pullo are treated as such by their superiors.
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Rome / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Rome / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: When Octavian is taken to the whorehouse for his first ever boning, he strikes up a conversation with the prostitute. She relates her story of how her father, mother, and brothers were killed and she was sold into slavery, eventually ending up working at a whorehouse in Rome. For a moment Octavian's sympathies appear to be stirred; that is until he starts undoing his belt and telling her to get on her hands and knees.
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Rome / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Rome / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Vorenus, as a Foil to Pullo. At one point, he states, "I talk when I need to. There's nothing to say."
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Rome / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Rome / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Vorenus and Pullo, bordering on Ho Yay, which is lampshaded in-universe. Brutus and Cassius in season two.
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Rome / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Rome / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Many of the large, famous battles. The battle which forces Pompey to flee to Egypt is basically a hazy shot of a few soldiers fighting. The scene later on where he explains what happened by drawing in the dirt with a stick is actually a much more effective representation.
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Rome / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Rome / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Vorenus and Antony. Early in the show Vorenus deeply dislikes everything that Antony stands for, but he grows to like him as time passes. The two share moments of common soul exploration and when Vorenus reluctantly leaves Antony, he even utters the famous parting words It Has Been an Honor, much to Antony's surprise. Finally Antony asks Vorenus for his sword to kill himself, assisted by Vorenus.
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Rome / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
Rome / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: The Forum newsreader played by Ian McNeice punctuates his Large Ham news bulletins with stylized gestures and poses that were actually used by professional speakers and politicians at the time. At one point Lucius Vorenus tries to use them during his brief attempt at politics, but completely fails to make them seem impressive.
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Rome / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Rome / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Pullo's trial for murder is little more than a Kangaroo Court. But he is actually guilty.
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Rome / int_21a1776a	type	Great Way to Go
Rome / int_21a1776a	comment	Great Way to Go: Servilia's theatrical suicide. When Antony decides to commit suicide himself, he notes that Cleopatra's throne room isn't a bad place to make your exit. "Men who knew Alexander once stood here."
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Rome / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Rome / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Turned into a Running Gag in an episode, where multiple severed heads are displayed on spikes above the door of the Egyptian royal palace because the owners of the heads kept pissing the wrong people off. Vorenus keeps the severed head of Erastes Fulmen during one bad case of Heroic BSoD. The head of the man who abducted Octavian and stole the legion's standard is brought to Caesar, but that's because it has a vital clue — Pompey's name is tattooed on the man's head, showing that his rival is moving against him.
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Rome / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
Rome / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: Octavian (Real life Trope Codifier) surrounds himself with one. No doubt influenced by the fate of Caesar.
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Rome / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Rome / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Ancient Rome's glory is stripped away to reveal the Wretched Hive it really was.
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Rome / int_22854489	type	Coins for the Dead
Rome / int_22854489	comment	Coins for the Dead: When Niobe dies, a coin is placed on her lips.
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Rome / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
Rome / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Octavia is seen cutting herself, and later her sleeves are pulled up to show the injuries.
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Rome / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Rome / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The truth about Vorenus' grandson is later used by Caesar's would-be murderers to get Vorenus out of the picture.
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Rome / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Rome / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Timon's subplot peters out after only a few episodes before he's Put on a Bus. It's been suggested that, had the series gone on longer, the final season would have dealt with the rise of the Messiah in Judea. Had this actually happened, he probably would have had a much bigger role.
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Rome / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Rome / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Vorenus and Pullo, naturally: Bash Brothers and Back-to-Back Badasses. Brutus and Cassius. Pullo and Octavian: their first exploit together results in them sharing a secret that becomes the root of their Intergenerational Friendship. Vorenus and Antony. Early in the show Vorenus deeply dislikes everything that Antony stands for, but he grows to like him as time passes. The two share moments of common soul exploration and when Vorenus reluctantly leaves Antony, he even utters the famous parting words It Has Been an Honor, much to Antony's surprise. Finally Antony asks Vorenus for his sword to kill himself, assisted by Vorenus.
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Rome / int_24fa0857	type	Line in the Sand
Rome / int_24fa0857	comment	Line in the Sand: Caesar does an excellent version when he plays on the emotions of his 13th Legion to get them to march on Rome.
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Rome / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Rome / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: Due to the extreme corruption and brutality in Rome many citizens are indifferent to the violence that goes on around them. This is best seen after Servilia escapes Atias villa after being brutally tortured and gangraped by her men. Despite the fact her clothes are soaked in blood and she's looking pleadingly at any of the crowd outside of the villa to help her she gets, at most, some mildly unsettled looks before shes forced to run back to her home unaided through the crowded streets.
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Rome / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Rome / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: Brutus says those words before sending his men away. Vorenus says it to Antony, who is surprised and touched by the words and replies; "Has it? I hope so."
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Rome / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Rome / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Caesar dies in silence, without ever delivering his famous "You too, my son?" to Brutus. Instead, Brutus gets to ask "You too, mother?" early in Season 2.
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Rome / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Rome / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Erastes Fulman hastily changes his mind about attacking Vorenus (after finding the place being guarded by legionaries) a few onlookers can be heard laughing at him.
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Rome / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Rome / int_285b66d7	comment	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: When Posca and Jocasta are attempting to flee from Egypt to escape the depravities of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Vorenus catches them packing. He plays along with Posca's "go out to watch the ships" ruse even after Jocasta dispensed with it and begged Vorenus not to tell, and hints at fleeing aboard the ship that ferried the ladies of the Julii. Little did he know that he sealed Antony's fate by doing so, as Posca had smuggled out the last will and testament of Antony and Cleopatra, which was delivered to Octavian, providing Octavian with a casus belli against Mark Antony with its contents.
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Rome / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Rome / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Vorenus is a male example.
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Rome / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Rome / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Lots of Latin graffiti, some of which (ATIA FELLAT OMNES comes to mind) are self-explanatory even if you don't know Latin. When Cato points out that Antony should not be wearing his soldier's uniform within the city of Rome, Antony nonchalantly remarks "Quae bruta figura" ("what an idiot").
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Rome / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Rome / int_29ad1d69	comment	The fate of Caesar, without the actual sentence being pronounced. Ciaran Hinds' facial expression, especially his eyes, carries the question "Et tu, Brute?" silently. Very effective.
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Rome / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Rome / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Julius Caesar doesn't kill Pullo and Vorenus for not arresting Pompey because "They have powerful gods on their side", noting the extreme unlikeliness of their many exploits as the show's leads.
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Rome / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
Rome / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Zigzagged; we see Vorenus having sex with Niobe for the first time in eight years — she clearly isn't enjoying it. Then cut to Atia and Antony's enthusiastic coupling. But Pullo gives some pragmatic advice to Vorenus on the matter, and when he reconciles with Niobe the sex is shown to be mutually satisfying.
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Rome / int_2d2e3275	type	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
Rome / int_2d2e3275	comment	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: Erastes Fulman heads to Vorenus' house with his henchmen, intending to kill Vorenus, only to find the Caesar's personal guard standing outside. He quickly changes his mind and leaves.
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Rome / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
Rome / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: Vorenus is rigidly bound by honor and continues to serve both Caesar and Mark Antony after having serious doubts about the morality of their orders.
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Rome / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Rome / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Vorenus reluctantly coerces Atia into leaving Egypt by threatening to have her physically removed by a squad of Nubian guards, who he warns her have no scruples about manhandling highborn Roman women.
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Rome / int_303e9b7e	type	Blood on the Debate Floor
Rome / int_303e9b7e	comment	Blood on the Debate Floor: A full on fight breaks out in the Senate when Pompey's supporters pass a motion that calls on Caesar to return and surrender or be labeled a traitor and condemned to death. Caesar's supporters don't take this well, as might be expected. Two janitors are seen cleaning blood from the floor afterwards. A second fights ensues (just outside the Senate House and not triggered by political reasons) before Antony attempts to enter the Senate to try to veto the motion again, as the previous session was resumed due to a technicality. The fights prevent Mark Antony from vetoing the motion, which was what Pompey wanted in the first place and make a perfect Casus Belli for the Civil War, as People's Tribunes are inviolable. The motion was supposed to show Caesar he was alone, nothing more and was not expected nor wanted to be approved. Although the die-hard optimates do in fact want to destroy Caesar bluntly, so it is not a total blunder to everyone. Caesar's assassination is the climax of Season 1. Cicero sends a message to be read in the Senate in his absence, which turns out to be a scathing attack on Antony. All the Senators begin to leave in a hurry and Antony demands that the clerk read out the whole thing and then bludgeons the poor bastard to death with the scroll. Earlier on, Antony pretends to be appalled by this trope, but in his usual insincere but lovable fashion he is only using stealth puns and oblique insults.
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Rome / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Rome / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Pullo with Eirene.
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Rome / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Rome / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: This was a custom in Ancient Rome. Mark Antony grows a beard after Octavian crushes his rebellion. By a historical account, this actually happened. Vorenus and Pullo after the death of Niobe.
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Rome / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Rome / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards Erastes Fulman, the Roman equivalent of a mob boss, flies into a rage when he hears that Mark Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral incited a riot. Amusingly enough, he threatens to 'disjoint' his men if they participate in the uproar. Vorenus cows the meanest gang leaders to submission by smashing a statue of a goddess they all worship, and other blasphemes.
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Rome / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
Rome / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Pompey can only oppose green young recruits against the advancing forces of Caesar in Italy. Pompey's boys are no match for Caesar's seasoned, hardened veterans.
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Rome / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
Rome / int_3255968b	comment	Implied Death Threat: Consul Antony and Cicero are verbally fencing. Cicero wants the cards on the table. Antony enjoys himself. A slight variation early in the show. Antony again. Seems to be a Running Gag with the character. Caesar and Antony are seeking to bribe a priest, offering money as a "gift" for his wife. The priest keeps bumping up the price, saying his wife has expensive tastes. Antony makes a senator consul under condition that he pass certain legislation. To make it clear this is An Offer You Can't Refuse, he flirts with the senator's attractive wife and asks her to consider marrying him if her husband should die. Husband and wife then share an alarmed look.
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Rome / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
Rome / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Gaia gets her revenge on Eirene for sending Pullo to beat her after an argument by poisoning her with abortifacients to terminate her pregnancy, which also end up killing her.
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Rome / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Rome / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Pullo beats the slave boy Oedipus to death when he discovers that he and Eirene are lovers and planning to marry. Antony severely beats (and possibly kills) the hapless Senator who reads out Cicero's mocking speech in the latter's absence.
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Rome / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Rome / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: "I'm Titus Fucking Pullo, Cunt!" among many, many others.
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Rome / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Rome / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Kevin McKidd as Lucius Vorenus affects a vaguely middle-class English accent, but you can hear his Scottish coming through a lot, especially when he's angry.
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Rome / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Rome / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: Noting the Slavic accent of the prostitute he's been sent to lose his virginity with, Octavian asks where she is from. She doesn't know, as the Roman army massacred her family and had her brought to Rome while very young as a spoil of war. In Season 2, Vorenus' daugther among other nameless characters in a slave camp.
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Rome / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Rome / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Frequent, given the GambitPileups going on. Lampshaded by Cicero:
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Rome / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Rome / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Cleopatra's son is ordered to be killed, but Titus Pullo just pretends he did it. Because the boy is his son.
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Rome / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Rome / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: The producers admitted that they ignored Atia's historical date of death because they wanted to keep the darkly awesome character around.
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Rome / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Rome / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Standard procedure for resolving romantic complications.
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Rome / int_38a1e0eb	type	Foreign Cuss Word
Rome / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: Pullo's favourite exclamations are Gerrae and Cack, Latin words (the last one also exists in English but is not widely used as such).
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Rome / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Rome / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Cicero remains calm and polite when Pullo arrives to kill him. He even tells his slave to stop making a fuss. It helps that Pullo himself is perfectly respectful throughout the affair. This is based on fact, as Cicero is said to have told his assassins, "There is nothing proper in what you do, but try to do it properly." When Erastes Fulmen realizes that there's no getting out of this one, he leans back, calmly drinks his last ale and mocks his killers. When he realises that all is lost, Brutus quietly unfastens his armor and goes down marching alone against an entire army. When Gaia is bleeding out, she gives a Deathbed Confession that she killed his wife and unborn son by poisoning. She accepts getting murdered by a furious Pullo as a fair punishment, giving a final "Bye, love" before the strangling begins.
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Rome / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Rome / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Upon his return from Gaul, Vorenus spots Niobe holding a baby and accuses her of adultery. He was right, but doesn't learn this until much later.
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Rome / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Rome / int_3b113b7	comment	Due to Character Development, Vorenus has a new one in Season 2: "I am a son of HADES! I fuck Concord in her ASS!" — Video
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Rome / int_3bf27a8d	type	Right Through the Wall
Rome / int_3bf27a8d	comment	Right Through the Wall: In the second episode Octavia overhears her mother Atia having very loud sex with Mark Antony, which she mockingly imitates at a party later. Antony finds it funny and comments in praise: "She has you exact."
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Rome / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
Rome / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: The poison Duro drops into Atia's food, which kills Althea instantly when she tastes it.
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Rome / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Rome / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Lucius Vorenus is complimented in Egypt by Atia for averting this and staying properly Roman; the other Roman officials including triumvir Mark Antony did not, a thing that is used politically against him, as happened in Real Life.
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Rome / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Rome / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Pullo, eager to take advantage of his newfound celebrity status in the wake of his botched execution, simply sits down in the middle of the street and expectantly waits for admirers to swarm him. Of course, this doesn't work, as in a world without videos or photographs, only the hundred or so people who attended his execution would know what he actually looked like.
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Rome / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
Rome / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: Niobe's illegitimate son is presented as a grandson to fool Vorenus.
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Rome / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
Rome / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: The actions in the allegation that Cato makes against Caesar in the first episode (illegal warfare, theft, bribery, and treason) have already happened when the series start. In this case, exploited by the creators to leave the audience wondering how much of that is true, and how much of it is trumped up by Caesar's enemies.
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Rome / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Rome / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: A pileup here, as usual. Calpurnia threatens Caesar with divorce if he doesn't end his relation with Servilia. Caesar complies, as he needs her family political influence and money. Servilia sets in motion the plot to assassinate Caesar purely out of spite from being rejected by him. Atia, oh gerrae! Atia. All of the above happens thanks to her machinations. Plus humiliating her is Antony's final mistake, as after that she begs Octavian to destroy him. By the end of the series she is maneuvering against her daughter-in-law; from Atia's point of view the wife of her little boy Octavian / Augustus is just an intolerable usurper to the "First Lady of Rome" dignity.
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Rome / int_40b1c664	type	The Patriarch
Rome / int_40b1c664	comment	When Vorenus returns from the Gallic War to see his children for the first time in years, they're reluctant to approach this stranger. Niobe urges them to greet their father in the proper manner, which they do by kneeling before him. Later Niobe prostrates herself when Julius Caesar himself turns up at their household.
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Rome / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Rome / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The Guild of Millers' slogan "True Roman bread for true Romans". Roman bread is made from Egyptian wheat. The prostitute who takes Octavian's virginity smoothly states that he was "like a bull" in the bedroom.
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Rome / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Rome / int_40c57041	comment	Julius Caesar sends Vorenus to bribe a former army colleague. Honest to a fault but loyal to his superior, Vorenus does so and reports back. Caesar comments that he didn't think the man would sell out so cheaply. "I must send you to handle all of my corruptions." Manipulative Bastard that he is, Caesar quickly sees how uncomfortable this makes Vorunus and says that he was only joking.
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Rome / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Rome / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Octavian manages to fight his way out of his mother's shadow and become emperor, but with the implication that he may turn out to be just as depraved as Antony was. Meanwhile, Pullo manages to save Caesarion (who is really his biological son) from Octavius, and goes off to raise him as his own. As for Vorenus, he makes peace with his children for their mother's death. Word of God says he survives..
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Rome / int_4130657a	type	Cincinnatus
Rome / int_4130657a	comment	Cincinnatus: Antony states during the aftermath of Caesar's death that he will follow trope namer's example and retire once his mandate expires.
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Rome / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Rome / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Octavian and Pullo interrogate a man regarding Vorenus' grandson. Pullo hesitates and admits he doesn't know what to do, since in the army "they have specialists." Octavian suggests they start by cutting off the man's thumbs. In the first episode an army torture detachment crucifies Gaullish prisoners for information, though Vorenus orders them taken down when one of them talks readily. After renegade soldiers steal the treasury gold that is needed by Pompey, his son has another specialist torture the information of what happened to it out of the ringleader. In Season Two Servilia is tortured by Atia's men. Torture methods included gang rape and partial flaying. Also in season two, Atia has Timon torture a slave boy who tried to poison her. Truth in Television as a slave's confessions were only legal in court if they were made under torture.
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Rome / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
Rome / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: After Niobe commits suicide and Vorenus curses his own children, he staggers out into the narrow crowded streets which appear to have become a nightmare, with fleeing men and crippled beggars shouting that Caesar is dead. Vorenus grabs a priest and begs to be woken up. The priest agrees to do so then headbutts Vorenus unconscious and robs him.
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Rome / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
Rome / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: Or, if you're Mark Antony, beat his brains out with the scroll he was reading from.
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Rome / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Rome / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: In the aftermath of Caesar's death, his heirs Octavian and Mark Antony become enemies over time. When Antony steps all over the Senate and takes his legions north to seize Gaul for himself, Octavian joins forces with the Senate (run by sympathizers of Caesar's murderers) to crush Antony's rebellion. Antony is defeated, but Octavian turns on his allies by using his new position of Consul to take control of the Senate and make Rome his own dictatorship. As Brutus begins marching on Rome, he allies with Antony once again, because it's the only way they can survive. After winning the battle, Octavian and Antony are now joint dictators of Rome. But Octavian then blackmails Antony into leaving Rome and taking up his seat of power in Egypt. Over the years, Antony and Cleopatra provoke him into declaring war, which he does. He wins this war, and ends up as the first Emperor of the Roman Empire.
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Rome / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Rome / int_44fc28e8	comment	Vorenus really does love Niobe and his children, but his Honor Before Reason attitude and Hair-Trigger Temper if he thinks his honor is threatened keep getting in the way. This leads to his wife's suicide, and his children despising him to the point they just barely bring themselves to visit him on his deathbed.
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Rome / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Rome / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Inherent in the System, it would be easier to list the honest ones... if such men exist in the show. Legalist catonians allegedly; Vorenus tries to be a straight one during his brief stint in Season I.
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Rome / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Rome / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Caesar believes this of his enemies in the civil war, and is one to them as well, although they'd never admit it. And as the above Badass Boast shows, Atia acknowledges Servilia was this after her death.
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Rome / int_46b5a2f2	type	Historical Character's Fictional Relative
Rome / int_46b5a2f2	comment	Historical Character's Fictional Relative: It is very strongly implied that Ptolemy XV (Caesarion), in real life the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra was actually fathered by the fictional Titus Pullo. At the end of the series, Pullo is charged with executing Caesarion on Octavian's orders, but instead he spirits him away and raises his son in Rome.
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Rome / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Rome / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: The show plays this a few different ways during its run. In season 1, once Pollo leaves the legion he has little in the way of job prospects and becomes a thug for hire, the most notable case is when he's paid to kill a political enemy of Caesar's. In the same season Vorenus almost falls into this trope by mistake, as Vorenus is under the misconception that Erastes Fulmen is a respected merchant who is offering Vorenus a job as a bodyguard, when in reality Fulmen is an underworld figure trying to turn Vorenus into a debt collector/enforcer. Vorenus doesn't quite get what's going on until Fulmen orders him to break a guy's arm. In the second season however, Vorenus hits this for real when he is more or less sponsored by the nobility to become the head of the underworld so it's under the control of the city's elites. Pullo becomes Vorenus' right hand man, and at least several other comrades from the legion are also in their group.
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Rome / int_4781a9e4	type	Face Realization
Rome / int_4781a9e4	comment	Timon astonishingly in season 2 grows out of being a sex-obsessed mercenary to become a proud Jew, who has a Face Realization, going from a soulless brute to a Jewish Zealot to a full-out Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Rome / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Rome / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Lucius Vorenus has instances of this. Despite his wife cheating on him, he allows her son to live and raises him as his own. In Ancient Rome, it was legal for a man to kill his family. The fact he doesn't and even rescues them from slavery shows a lot of character. He is happy for the boy when Pullo mentions how he got an apprenticeship to be a stonemason and discourages his dream to be a soldier as he knows how dangerous it is.
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Rome / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Rome / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Octavian and Pullo.
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Rome / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Rome / int_47fea76b	comment	Played with, with Brutus and Servilia, and Cicero and his Senators. It looks as if they will finally harm the heroes, just this once... then they get butt monkeyed once more.
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Rome / int_487b1e5b	type	Marry for Love
Rome / int_487b1e5b	comment	Marry for Love: Vorena the Elder wanted this for her love life but Niobe and Vorenus scoffed at the idea, being adamant to simply marry her off to a wealthy old man she could manipulate to shower her with jewels, dresses, and slaves for the sake of protection and status, and feeling she would grow to love her husband over time.
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Rome / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
Rome / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: Atia and Mark Antony. Though not with each other.
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Rome / int_49541738	type	Flame Bait
Rome / int_49541738	comment	The first Senate session: A radical Cato — the only senator dressed in black — gives a condemnatory and incendiary speech against Caesar (a war hero still in Gaul), while the flexible Cicero suggests a more subtle opposition.
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Rome / int_49d3b595	type	Cradle of Loneliness
Rome / int_49d3b595	comment	Cradle of Loneliness: Cleopatra cradles Antony's body and makes it hold her after she sees just how ruthless and cold-blooded Octavian is, realizing that she should have believed Antony's description of Octavian's character and committed suicide along with Antony rather than remain alive to be captured by Octavian.
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Rome / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
Rome / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Discussed between Mark Antony and Lucius Vorenus as the former prepares himself for his own suicide after his historic defeat against Caesar Augustus. They get drunk and start waxing philosophical about the prospects of life after death, or whether this life is really all there is and they'll just vanish after death.
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Rome / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Rome / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Calpurnia spits on Servilia's face twice when she visits to see Caesar's body.
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Rome / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Rome / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Subverted with Lucius Vorenus. He is a dour straight man prone to flying off the handle at the slightest hint of dishonesty. He eventually snaps. Octavia breaks, but eventually snaps back into a less stressed version of herself. Jocasta is raped and "socially ruined" due to Atia's machinations because she is a bad low-birth influence to Octavia and her father is being purged for being very rich. She's then forced to marry Posca, but adapts to the situation quite well.
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Rome / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Rome / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: Antony, Brutus, Pullo and the "turtle slave".
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Rome / int_4e0444f2	type	No Guy Wants to Be Chased
Rome / int_4e0444f2	comment	No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Cleopatra plans to seduce Caesar and have a son with him. To hedge her bets she decides to seduce one of the Roman soldiers escorting her to Caesar. Lucius Vorenus however is a traditionally-minded Roman who refuses to sleep with a woman at her command. Cleopatra is outraged, so Vorenus sends in Pullo who has no such scruples. Cleopatra learns from this mistake and adopts a more submissive attitude when meeting Caesar, allowing him to seduce her.
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Rome / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
Rome / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: It has to be pronounced sometimes when the main characters, soldiers, are disinclined towards something. One particularly significative instance when Vorenus is reluctant to give his personal opinion about an insult (You are cowardly scum) to Antony, who has to resort to this phrase and yet they end up sharing a moment of mutual understanding and bonding. This also occurs early on when Pullo is trying to weasel his way into keeping the gold he found, but Vorenus orders him to do the right thing. When Pullo objects, Vorenus shouts, "an ORDER!!!" and Pullo straightens up, immediately acquiescing. It should be noted at this point, Vorenus technically isn't in the army anymore, but it's just so ingrained in each man's character it would be sacrilege to do otherwise. Lampshaded when Octavian wants Pullo to act as an intermediary when waging war on Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian says he doesn't want to order Pullo to go, but Pullo is in fact entirely willing as he has his own agenda.
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Rome / int_4eddbc06	type	Animated Credits Opening
Rome / int_4eddbc06	comment	Animated Credits Opening: A special case, the credits feature animated graffiti and paintings over the walls of the city.
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Rome / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Rome / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Octavian.
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Rome / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Rome / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Atia. The messenger sent from Pompey to convince Antony to change sides. Up until he realises Antony isn't going for the deal after all. He was lucky to get away with a sock on the jaw.
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Rome / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Rome / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: For both Brutus and Mark Antony, being sent to govern Macedonia is portrayed as a shorthand for being sent to a godforsaken place in the middle of nowhere where they will no longer be a factor in Roman politics. Neither of them accepts the position.
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Rome / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
Rome / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: If you're a patrician.
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Rome / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Rome / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: The fate of Caesar, without the actual sentence being pronounced. Ciaran Hinds' facial expression, especially his eyes, carries the question "Et tu, Brute?" silently. Very effective. Pompey, in front of his family, gets offed by one of his former soldiers. Pompey thinks he's being greeted by a friend, but the killer has found a new job as a mercenary for the Egyptians.
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Rome / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Rome / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Caesar and Pompey were originally friends and allies, who effectively ruled the Republic (along with Crassus) during the First Triumvirate. The series begins just as their alliance is starting to fall apart, as the glory and wealth that Caesar achieves with his conquest of Gaul threatens to eclipse Pompey. Then Julia, Pompey's wife and Caesar's daughter, dies and the Senate seduces Pompey to turn against Caesar. At first, Pompey is reluctant to betray a friend and they share a mutual respect. Eventually, Caesar is deeply affected by Pompey's fate.
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Rome / int_52132531	type	Marriage Before Romance
Rome / int_52132531	comment	Marriage Before Romance: Arranged marriage is the norm in Rome, but it still produces some loving couples. Jocasta is horrified to be married to an older man of extremely low station: Posca, a freedman. However, her new husband spoils her with gifts, so she quickly falls in love with him. Vorenus and Niobe were married at a very young age and barely knew each other before he shipped off to a decade of soldiering. Once he returns, they manage to cobble together a relationship. Pompey's arranged marriage is happy while it lasts.
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Rome / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Rome / int_52aa0c4a	comment	Jocasta says when Cleopatra is acting The Caligula she just pretends to be mad. Given that Jocasta is something of a Talkative Loon at this point, it's clear this doesn't take much acting.
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Rome / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Rome / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Octavian and Caesar hide in a closet during one of Caesar's epileptic attacks. A servant overhears moaning and the two exiting and assumes sex ensued. Atia discovers it and compliments his son for seducing the most powerful man of Rome and becoming a romantic rival to Servilia, her hatred enemy.
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Rome / int_52e52099	type	Deathbed Confession
Rome / int_52e52099	comment	When Gaia is bleeding out, she gives a Deathbed Confession that she killed his wife and unborn son by poisoning. She accepts getting murdered by a furious Pullo as a fair punishment, giving a final "Bye, love" before the strangling begins.
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Rome / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Rome / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Mark Antony, so very much.
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Rome / int_550f2108	type	Combat Breakdown
Rome / int_550f2108	comment	Combat Breakdown: The Battle of Philippi starts out as a relatively orderly Roman vs Roman battle, with both sides fighting using the "fight for a few minutes, switch" approach, though it quickly degenerates into a chaotic melee.
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Rome / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Rome / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: Julius Caesar asks the augurs to study the flights of birds and provide a reading from these omens, to demonstrate to the people that the gods support his actions. The Chief Augur points out that given that Caesar has just marched his troops into the city, the omens in these cases seldom prove favorable. That night Caesar ensures the omens will be in his favour by offering a sizeable bribe to the Chief Augur (though not without an Implied Death Threat from Mark Antony to ensure the bribe is not too expensive). Octavia runs away to a cult, and Octavian goes to fetch her back. When she says the priests will stop her being removed by force, Octavian replies that he's already bought them. Quite cheaply.
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Rome / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Rome / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire. The ur-example, although we don't actually get there until the very end of the series, in an absolutely spine-chilling moment when the true extent of Octavian's power finally becomes clear.
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Rome / int_55ab1be5	type	Royal Brat
Rome / int_55ab1be5	comment	Royal Brat: Ptolemy XIII, and in the second season, Caesarion. Nothing makes a Royal Brat bigger than telling him he is a god since birth.
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Rome / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Rome / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Many, many times. The most memorable is when Mark Antony's slave writes a letter to Caesar, saying "...and the Tribune's behavior was just as offensive as you thought". While the slave writes that, we hear Antony having rough sex with Atia in the background while roaring "JUNO'S CUNT!" (his actual Catchphrase)
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Rome / int_564d4e71	type	Tired of Running
Rome / int_564d4e71	comment	Tired of Running: After the disastrous Battle of Pharsalus, Cicero and Brutus abandon the other Optimates to surrender themselves to Caesar instead of fleeing to Egypt (Pompey) or Africa (Cato and Scipio). They fully expect Caesar to kill them, but they say they're simply tired of running. Caesar welcomes them into his camp with open arms, especially Brutus.
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Rome / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Rome / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: See its own article.
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Rome / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Rome / int_5798bfbf	comment	During one scene, Caesar harbors vague suspicion against Brutus and thus appoints him governor of a far-away province, just in case. Brutus realizes he is practically being exiled, which gives him grounds for his own suspicion and makes him embrace the cause of the conspirators against Caesar: "Only tyrants need to worry about tyrant killers!". The support of Brutus is the key-element to the plot, and until that moment Brutus was on-the-fence at best. The aforementioned scene.
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Rome / int_58154a14	type	Bribe Backfire
Rome / int_58154a14	comment	Bribe Backfire: Ptolemy's advisors attempt to curry favour with Caesar by killing Pompey and presenting him with his head, apparently unaware of Caesar's policy of pardoning his Roman enemies. It only enrages him. A downplayed example occurs with Cicero's assassination. Cicero tentatively floats the possibility that he might be able to pay Pullo generously to spare him, but Pullo (politely) refuses by replying that it wouldn't be worth it, as Cicero is far too famous and important for his (lack of) death to go unnoticed, and his employers would kill him for disobeying their orders before he could enjoy it. It's also pretty clear that Cicero doesn't seriously expect the ploy to work, but clearly figures he might as well try.
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Rome / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Rome / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality And the gray is really, REALLY dark. This makes hard to clearly define many a character as Anti-Villain or Anti-Hero.
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Rome / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Rome / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Antony and Octavian team up against the senatorial forces.
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Rome / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Rome / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: Cleopatra takes to role with gusto. She explicitly refers to herself as Caesar's puppet queen, and doesn't care so long as being one gets her back on the throne. Smart move, considering her brother refused to entertain the notion that a great Ptolemy like himself could ever be beneath anyone, and ended up getting unceremoniously offed by his Roman masters.
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Rome / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Rome / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Done between arch-enemies and subverted. Atia and Servilia are socially polite and behave as friends in public and sometimes in private, but they both know it's all an act and a display of power and alternated supremacy. Antony enjoys acting like if he and Cicero were friends and Cicero follows suit, but it's just a pantomime, almost sadistic. One rarely misses a chance to hurt the other when the political tide is favourable. This also later on becomes Antony and Octavian. They become political partners when Rome is divided and Antony marries Octavia. After his family betrays him, he banishes Antony to Egypt, threatening to expose him as a cuckold. Later on, they both look for an opportunity to wage war, in which Octavian ultimately wins.
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Rome / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Rome / int_5ad80bf8	comment	After suffering a defeat by Caesar in Greece, the Senatorial faction argues about what to do next. Cicero and Brutus decide they're tired of running and are going to surrender to Caesar. Brutus then calls Pompey Magnus an old fool just when Pompey walks into the tent. Subverted in that Pompey isn't angry with Brutus and admits that they have reason to question his leadership.
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Rome / int_5b92d2f	type	Virgin-Shaming
Rome / int_5b92d2f	comment	Virgin-Shaming: Atia firmly believes in this. Which is why she arranges for Octavian to visit a brothel, so that he can become a real man.
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Rome / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
Rome / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Pullo, and Vorenus by extension most of the time. One example early in the Civil War has Pullo under strict orders about not attacking Pompeyan forces, disregarding those orders and charging against the easily outmatched green soldiers of Pompey. Caesar benefits greatly by this insubordination as he realizes his enemy is very weak in Italy.
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Rome / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Rome / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Livia's first introduction comes at a banquet where Octavian exposes Atia's continuing affair with Marc Antony and Octavia's with Aggrippa's, blackmails them all into splitting up, and drives Antony out of Rome. Livia does not bat an eye once, not even when Octavia warns her she's marrying a monster.
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Rome / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Rome / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Julius Caesar dies. Antony and Cleopatra hook up, but it doesn't end well.
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Rome / int_5f9fbd83	type	Not Allowed to Grow Up
Rome / int_5f9fbd83	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Up: Vorenus' children are a particularly glaring example. As the real life events depicted took place over several decades, Vorenus' younger daughter, who was about eight when first seen at the start of season one, ought to have been in her twenties by the time the show ended. Instead, she is still played by the same child actress. Averted by Octavian, who starts out as a 13-year-old and is replaced by an older actor in season two. Caesarion is a newborn baby in season one and about ten years old by the end of the next season.
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Rome / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Rome / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: There is a leap forward of several years between episodes 8 and 9 of season 2.
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Rome / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Rome / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The conspiracy to kill Caesar runs into a problem when Vorenus, who has become a popular hero, is promoted to senator and so follows Caesar around as his understudy (actually his unknowing bodyguard). Brutus rejects dishonorable yet pragmatic alternatives like poison or attacking Caesar in his sleep, yet Vorenus cannot be attacked without risking public disapproval. Unfortunately having learnt of Niobe's infidelity, they use this information to make Vorenus rush home on the day of the assassination. Pullo presents one to his would-be executioners at his trial in the arena when he sits down and refuses to fight back: Althea tastes the food intended for Atia which Duro has poisoned. When Althea is asked to sing, she collapses and dies before Atia can eat her food.
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Rome / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Rome / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Memmio, Cilnius Maecenas, Hannibal Cotta, "TITUS FUCKING PULLO".
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Rome / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Rome / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The screams Servilia makes as she's tortured and raped by Atias men are inhuman. Atias slaves are notably portrayed as being extremely disturbed and unsettled at hearing them.
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Rome / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Rome / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Atia sends Servilia a gift of a slave with a wang that would make Doctor Manhattan blush. That had to have been a hell of a casting call.
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Rome / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Rome / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Octavian gives one to Servilia after her Evil Gloating about her role in Caesar's downfall. Servilia of course has no reason to fear what seems to be a petulant teenager at the time. Pullo gives one to Gaia after she admits that she poisoned Eirene. He then strangles her.
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Rome / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Rome / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Erastes Fulmen is always either boisterously Affably Evil or seething with rage. One of his funniest moments is when he rages at a slave who whistles: "For fuck's sake, stop that Teutonic droning! If you have to whistle like someone's bum-boy, at least whistle a Roman song!"
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Rome / int_646407bd	type	We Named the Monkey "Jack"
Rome / int_646407bd	comment	We Named the Monkey "Jack": When Vorenus brings home the one little boy who survived the wasting disease that killed the rest of his slaves, the girls coo over him and one of them says, "We'll call him Rubio after my pigeon that died."
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Rome / int_64a5e4f	type	Black Vikings
Rome / int_64a5e4f	comment	Black Vikings: The show presents Cleopatra's escort as made up mostly of Black actors. Probably because unlike Cleopatra herself (who was Greek) the rest were supposed to be native Egyptians. However though this is a complex and contentious matter the exact race of the Egyptians but most historians consider they were mostly not Black in the modern sense of the word.note Not including the Nubians who, indeed, ruled Egypt for a while. Also possibly meant to be a special unit from a specific location, like the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emperor, which was made up of actual Vikings, or the Janissaries of the Ottoman Sultan, who were mostly Balkan Christian slave-warriors.
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Rome / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Rome / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: The characters aggressively use their personal armies to forcefully install themselves as rulers and subvert the constitutional order. Around the times of the series, using an army inside Italy for political purposes was a novelty (Sulla started the precedent only years before, which was viewed as great sacrilege, as mentioned by Vorenus and Antony). Enforced over Caesar, as his enemies would make him face trial if he returned to Rome as a normal citizen.
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Rome / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
Rome / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Antony abandons Egyptian style and returns to Roman attire and weapons to commit suicide: "Tell the people I died well, I died Roman."
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Rome / int_68f6e811	type	Made of Plasticine
Rome / int_68f6e811	comment	Made of Plasticine: The gladiator sequence. The Rule of Cool excuses it, but it's not that easy to sever someone's head when all you're using is a blunt shield.
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Rome / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
Rome / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: Pullo is sentenced to fight and die in the arena. He kills five of the gladiators instead.
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Rome / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Rome / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Very much averted. There are plenty of ruthless female characters such as Atia, Servilia, Gaia and Cleopatra and even the more sympathetic women like Niobe and Octavia do some highly questionable things
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Rome / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Rome / int_6b35bdff	comment	After discovering his wife's infidelity, and realizing his children conspired to keep the secret from him, Vorenus curses them all to damnation. This is Serious Business for a Roman so Vorenus is aghast when he returns to his house and finds them missing. Pullo assures him he can just lift the curse when his children return. They don't.
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Rome / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Rome / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Pullo and Vorenus, more than once. But the stand-out example is when Vorenus slaughters Erastes Fulmen's entire gang.
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Rome / int_6bd9e644	type	Meaningful Look
Rome / int_6bd9e644	comment	Meaningful Look: Subverted; when Caesar gives Brutus a friendly wave, it throws the conspirators into a panic as they (incorrectly) fear he knows about their plot and is toying with them.
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Rome / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Rome / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Doubles with Genius Bonus. Eirene's ill-fated first lover is known as Oedipus. This may seem like an odd choice, given the associations with that name. But slaves were given names based upon their traits. The name Oedipus translates to "club-footed," and Oedipus the slave walks with a limp.
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Rome / int_6c913a7d	type	Chessmaster
Rome / int_6c913a7d	comment	Chess Master: Julius Caesar is a first class political manipulator, and while it may seem that he lets empathy and compassion get in the way due to repeatedly showing mercy to enemies, the show makes it very clear that his mercy is a political tactic meant to appeal to the masses and get powerful opponents in his debt rather than stemming from actual compassion. One need only see his absolute fury when Vorenus shows mercy and lets Pompey go after the Battle of Pharsalus. Octavian manipulates everyone like a ruthless genius. Atia likes to think she's this but since her plans fail at least half the time and she seems to act on whim a lot she's more of a Smug Snake.
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Rome / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Rome / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Eirene only learns Latin during a Time Skip in the first season, so her command of the language remains pretty crude through her time on the show.
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Rome / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Rome / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Many characters, most of them historical examples. Overlaps with Better to Die than Be Killed.
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Rome / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Rome / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Most Romans are very dismissive or worse about anything foreign, as Caesar puts it when the Egyptian chancellor doubts his consular jurisdiction, since it's based on "Roman law." Caesar very casually and mildly replies "Is there some other form of law, you wretched woman?"
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Rome / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Rome / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: After all is lost at Philippi, Brutus charges the enemy army all by himself, taking care to take off his armor first. Antony enlists Vorenus' help to commit suicide.
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Rome / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Rome / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Atia, who in real life died not long after Caesar.
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Rome / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
Rome / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: Pullo repeats (or explains) the punchline of a joke we never hear for the sake of Eirene. "Bulls can't have three testicles!" Eirene protests, "I hear. Is not funny."
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Rome / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
Rome / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: After surrendering, Vercingetorix kneels before Caesar. Caesar and Octavian (after becoming Caesar) use a soldier as a footstool when climbing onto a horse. Erastes Fulman demands that Vorenus kiss his feet in public or he and his family will be killed. When Vorenus returns from the Gallic War to see his children for the first time in years, they're reluctant to approach this stranger. Niobe urges them to greet their father in the proper manner, which they do by kneeling before him. Later Niobe prostrates herself when Julius Caesar himself turns up at their household.
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Rome / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Rome / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: In Season 2: Timon leaves to live in Jerusalem after he fails to assassinate King Herod.
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Rome / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Rome / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Pullo and Gaia.
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Rome / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Rome / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: When Octavian asks Pullo to join his invasion of Egypt, the young emperor says it'll be just like one of their old adventures. Pullo's uncertain smile shows he remembers all too well that they involved torture and murder.
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Rome / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Rome / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Octavian and Octavia. Cleopatra calls her brother her husband. This one was very common, Egyptian royals would often marry their siblings in order to keep the blood line pure.
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Rome / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Rome / int_7870735b	comment	The conspirators think that killing Caesar will end his tyranny and restore the Republic, but it merely leads to another civil war which ends with Caesar's heirs Antony and Octavian in power. They turn out to be much more ruthless, amoral, and violent than Caesar ever was.
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Rome / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Rome / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Lucius Vorenus orders Titus Pullo to go to Cicero's villa in the countryside. Pullo is on his way out the door when Eirene asks him where he's going (she suspects him—wrongly, at this stage—of carrying on with their slave, Gaia.) Pullo tells her it's just a job he has to do, but when he sees that she's upset at his leaving, he suggests that they all go because "it's lovely country down there." So, Pullo, Eirene, Vorenus, his sister-in-law Lyde and his kids all go for a lovely lunch in the countryside. Meanwhile, at his villa, Cicero knows that death is on the way but he pauses to write an urgent letter to Brutus, warning him that Octavian and Antony have joined forces. He gives it to a courier and tells him that the letter must reach Brutus. The courier gallops off. Meanwhile, Lucius, Vorenus' little son by Evander, runs off as he usually does and strays into the country road, where he almost gets knocked down by the courier. The courier swears at him and Vorenus pulls the guy off his horse and is about to beat him up when Lyde stops him. Vorenus lets the courier go and he gallops off... failing to notice that the container with his urgent letter to Brutus is lying on the ground from when he fell off the horse. Vorenus' daughter Vorena the Younger and little Lucius open it and find the letter, which they can't read, and Lucius runs off with it. Later on we see that Lucius is wearing it as a hat. The letter never reaches Brutus, and he and Cassius are surprised at Philippi to learn much too late that they're not just facing Octavian's legions, but Antony's too. They decide to fight anyway, knowing that they're probably doomed. Cassius and Brutus are killed and their armies are routed, and the last opposition to the second triumvirate is destroyed. All because Titus Pullo wanted to cheer up his wife.
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Rome / int_7ae4d273	type	Point of No Return
Rome / int_7ae4d273	comment	Point of No Return: Caesar reaches this when he crosses the Rubicon, the formal boundary between Italy and his province of Gaul, with his army. Entering Italy under arms was long considered a sacrilege and an act of high treason note one that prior to Caesar only Sulla had violated, notoriously.
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Rome / int_7cb9e33	type	Dying Declaration of Hate
Rome / int_7cb9e33	comment	Dying Declaration of Hate: Cleopatra gives one to Octavian as she's literally seconds away from death.
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Rome / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Rome / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	The Opening Narration states that Romeâ€”a Republic with many democratic traitsâ€”cannot govern itself. Magistrates are elected but many of the characters work to avoid what they call rule of the mob, consider elections a mere formality, just a matter of bribes and demagoguery and some are deeply offended when the Senate becomes less restrictive and incorporates pleb citizens and non-roman ones. Nobody really believes in democracy anyway, everything is done behind the scenes by the oligarchy, although the Caesarians are somehow the people's party as they draw a lot of their power from the plebs.
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Rome / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Rome / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Spectacularly done by Cicero against Antony. Villainous Breakdown ensues.note The Real Life Cicero dedicated 14 speechs against Antony, the Philippicae
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Rome / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Rome / int_7f38c0cd	comment	Antony makes a senator consul under condition that he pass certain legislation. To make it clear this is An Offer You Can't Refuse, he flirts with the senator's attractive wife and asks her to consider marrying him if her husband should die. Husband and wife then share an alarmed look.
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Rome / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Rome / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Atia. She ends the series as the mother of the most powerful man in the Roman Empire once Octavian becomes Emperor, but she's both completely in his power and has lost all influence over him and his wife Livia clearly now has his ear. Her cruel personality has completely isolated everyone around her, including her children. The man she loved most spurned her for someone else and has committed suicide, leaving her completely alone in a luxurious but utterly meaningless existence.
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Rome / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Rome / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero / Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Several instances: A condemnatory but symbolic Senate motion against Caesar, only intended to show Caesar his relative isolation, making him less adventurous, is put forward by Pompey because he knows that Mark Antony, as Tribune of the Plebs, will veto it. However Antony is unable to do so when the session descends into a brawl, so they arrange a second attempt for him to veto the motion. Enter Titus Pullo, who has just killed a man in a gambling dispute. While escorting Antony through the forum, a friend of the man Pullo killed attacks him, which is mistaken for an attempt on Antony's life, a great sacrilege as tribunes were long considered inviolable. Antony and his men flee to Caesar without the motion being vetoed. This gives a now cornered Caesar a Pretext for War against them. Cue the Civil War. The Republicans. During the civil war, Pompey knows that they need only keep Caesar bottled up in Greece and wait, and Caesar's tired, hungry and outnumbered army will eventually melt away. However the other Republicans, principally Cato and Scipio, want a decisive victory over Caesar and goad Pompey into giving battle. They are routed, Pompey, Cato and Scipio all die soon afterwards, and Caesar is left unchallenged ruler of the Roman world. During one scene, Caesar harbors vague suspicion against Brutus and thus appoints him governor of a far-away province, just in case. Brutus realizes he is practically being exiled, which gives him grounds for his own suspicion and makes him embrace the cause of the conspirators against Caesar: "Only tyrants need to worry about tyrant killers!". The support of Brutus is the key-element to the plot, and until that moment Brutus was on-the-fence at best. The aforementioned scene. Vorenus really does love Niobe and his children, but his Honor Before Reason attitude and Hair-Trigger Temper if he thinks his honor is threatened keep getting in the way. This leads to his wife's suicide, and his children despising him to the point they just barely bring themselves to visit him on his deathbed. After the demise of Caesar, Brutus stops further killings ("We are liberators, not murderers") and spares the life of Antony (who already had escaped an attempt on his life). Days later Antony masterfully manipulates the masses during Caesar's funeral and forces the conspirators to leave the city, Antony becomes the successor of Caesar and sole ruler of Rome. The conspirators think that killing Caesar will end his tyranny and restore the Republic, but it merely leads to another civil war which ends with Caesar's heirs Antony and Octavian in power. They turn out to be much more ruthless, amoral, and violent than Caesar ever was. Cicero plays and empowers Octavian against Antony, who is the continuator of Caesar, convinced that Octavian is a mere boy who can be manipulated into furthering the Senate's aims and then discarded. Octavian lets Cicero think this. Eventually Cicero is outmaneuvered by Octavian who, after assuming the Consulship with Cicero's support, marches his army into Rome and the Senate itself, something that even Caesar never dared to do. Setting Pompey free leads Vorenus and Pullo to Egypt. The war is prolonged and Pompey is killed by the locals to impress Caesar, despite the fact that Caesar often spares his Roman enemies. In Egypt Caesarion ensues. Years later, in the final episode Vorenus is probably mortally wounded while defending Caesarion. Word of God says he survives but it's a narrow thing.
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Rome / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Rome / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When told of his daughter's death, Caesar says "Pompey will need a new wife". It shows how he uses people he loves as pawns. Pullo breaking formation to kick some Gaul ass, then quipping "Already? I was just beginning to enjoy myself!" when his superiors are done whipping him for insubordination. Vorenus' first shown mission; He suggests, under duress, that the best way to find a thief among the conquered tribes would be to crucify members of each clan one by one until they talk. He shows no pleasure at this, even slightly pained by their screams, but still does it. When one gives him the information, he orders all of them to be taken down while lamenting his own situation (pretty rich for a guy at the foot of a currently occupied cross). This sets up the moral overtones of most of the series, and shows how honor-bound Vorenus is. Vorenus eagerly anticipating seeing his wife again, then flying into a rage and calling her a whore when he suspects that she might have been unfaithful. Antony strolling into Caesar's tent covered in blood, bantering with Brutus, and then, when given a mission to accomplish on a strict budget, unabashedly stealing half the money anyway. This doubles as a Historical In-Joke: true to his characterization on the show, the real Mark Antony had an extremely wild youth that left him in staggering levels of debt. Atia unabashedly assigning a politically oriented errand to a man the moment the two finish having sex. Then she parades herself naked in front of her son after her bath. Then she forces her daughter to divorce the man she loves on the off chance that Pompey might marry her, then calling her a "torpid little she-cow" when the plan fails. Octavian has been kidnapped, beaten, and generally mistreated when he's discovered by Pullo and Vorenus, who are searching for some stolen infantry standards. While still tied up and on his knees, he immediately explains to them why they were sent on their mission, how Caesar is using it to feint weakness, why Pompey will likely fall for the trap, and exactly what will come next. Then they untie him and he beats one of his (already defeated) captors to death with a stick. Octavian is cold, calculating, a political prodigy, and utterly without mercy. A condensed triple one at the start of the second episode (shown in the middle of the first one in the BBC recut); Rowdy Pullo makes a lewd remark, Vorenus commands him to show decency as he is under Rome's standard. Pullo talks back pointing at General Antony, who is raping a young shepherdress by a tree with his entire personal escort watching and paused, even though they are supposed to be marching towards Rome on the double. Legalist Vorenus replies that Antony is not under the standard. The first Senate session: A radical Cato — the only senator dressed in black — gives a condemnatory and incendiary speech against Caesar (a war hero still in Gaul), while the flexible Cicero suggests a more subtle opposition. Due to Character Development, Vorenus has a new one in Season 2: "I am a son of HADES! I fuck Concord in her ASS!" — Video When Octavian wins his first big battle, the two generals who make it happen die. With them out of the way, Maecenas tells Octavian he can now take sole credit for the victory. This shows him as an unscrupulous character. Octavian tells Livia what he expects of her as his wife, all the squeezing her hand tighter and tighter. She looks alarmed and pained, but when he politely and resolutely tells her he will beat her, not for any misbehaviour on her part but for his own sexual pleasure, she stiffens her spine and agrees, unflinching. Even Octavian can see what kind of woman she is, and he's very pleased.
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Rome / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
Rome / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: The Forum newsreader remains the same through the series and his news are nothing but pure propaganda for whoever is in charge at the moment. The news are often followed by advertisements read in the same hamming tone.
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Rome / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Rome / int_80621707	comment	This also later on becomes Antony and Octavian. They become political partners when Rome is divided and Antony marries Octavia. After his family betrays him, he banishes Antony to Egypt, threatening to expose him as a cuckold. Later on, they both look for an opportunity to wage war, in which Octavian ultimately wins.
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Rome / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Rome / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Rome / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Rome / int_813afa05	comment	Jocasta is raped and "socially ruined" due to Atia's machinations because she is a bad low-birth influence to Octavia and her father is being purged for being very rich. She's then forced to marry Posca, but adapts to the situation quite well.
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Rome / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Rome / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Atia is the epitome of this trope. Later, Servilia becomes one as well.
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Rome / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Rome / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Many in-universe examples. There's the Forum newsreader, for one. "OUR GLORIOUS FATHER — GAIUS! JULIUS! CAESAR!" Erastes Fulmen also fits, especially when he wants to emphasize something. "DIFFERENT FUCKING RULES!"
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Rome / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Rome / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: After his defeat at Pharsalus, Pompey travels the countryside incognito with just his family and some hired help. When they run into Pullo and Vorenus washed up on the shore, the slavemaster suggests killing Pompey's men so they can deliver him to Caesar for the reward. Pullo and Vorenus kill him instead and take Pompey prisoner themselves (although they later let him go).
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Rome / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Rome / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Pullo and Vorenus most of the time. They actually deconstruct the idea as their respective Red and Blue Oni stances eventually drive them further into danger. Pullo's passionate and hedonistic red oni nature nearly gets him killed and disgraced repeatedly, and things only improve for him when he starts to use some reason. Vorenu's rigid and rule abiding blue oni nature causes him great personal loss, destroys his family, and makes him an easy pawn to corrupt officials which he could have avoided if he showed some self-indulgence. Mark Antony and Caesar in season one. Octavian takes up Caesar's blue mantle rather well in the second season. Also Atia and Servilia in a villainous version: passionate, indulgent, vulgar Atia tends to wear reds and purples, while the more calculating, elegant, reserved Servilia tends to wear blues and greens. Octavia and Octavian also have this dynamic: gentle, emotional, romantic Octavia wears pinks, purples and corals, while cold, emotionless Octavian wears a lot of blue and white when he's grown up (not counting his consul's and senator's togas).
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Rome / int_8591611a	type	Shameful Strip
Rome / int_8591611a	comment	Shameful Strip: Vercingetorix in episode 1.
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Rome / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
Rome / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: Atia arranges for Octavian to lose his virginity, so that he can become a man.
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Rome / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Rome / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Lepidus, the third triumvir, is given Africa to govern when Octavian and Antony divide up Rome's provinces, but isn't heard from again.note The real Lepidus fell out with Octavian and was removed from power in 36BC, after which he was permitted to retire quietly.
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Rome / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Rome / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Brutus regards Caesar as a father figure and starts with "Well Done, Son" Guy traits. He is gradually manipulated by his mother Servilia and finally breaks with Caesar when Brutus is appointed governor of a far-away province by a wary Caesar. Mutual suspicions arise and as Brutus puts it "Only tyrants need fear tyrant killers."
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Rome / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Rome / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Vorenus proudly remarks that his family fought in Zama and Magnesia and his father rode with Sulla.note Strangely, Vorenus is outraged by Caesar marching his army into Italy to seize power, even though Sulla did exactly the same thing. Simply, "I'm Titus Pullo, right!" Mark Antony buggers boys like Octavian for his morning snack. "I got a bit carried away". Antony "consoling" Brutus, who has to hastily retreat from Rome after Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral raises a very angry mob against the conspirators. "I am a son of HADES! I fuck Concord in her ASS!" A relatively rare female example in Atia's last dialogue "You're swearing now that someday you'll destroy me. Remember, far better women than you have sworn to do the same. Go and look for them now.". "Flavio's not coming." Don't even know which one of your goons was Flavio, but he ain't coming.
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Rome / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Rome / int_875615dd	comment	Also in season two, Atia has Timon torture a slave boy who tried to poison her. Truth in Television as a slave's confessions were only legal in court if they were made under torture.
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Rome / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
Rome / int_8976acda	comment	Vorenus wants to make up with Niobe because he's convinced he'll be dead soon in the coming Civil War, and someone has to perform the proper religious rites in his memory. Pullo offers to do so himself. Vorenus is touched, but points out that Pullo will likely be dead too.
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Rome / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Rome / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Pullo is sentenced to death in the arena, but he kills five gladiators, rallying the crowd to his side before collapsing from his wounds. Then Vorenus jumps in and kills the remaining gladiators to rescue him. While healing, Pullo hears that he's become famous, but when he gets into the streets, he discovers to his dismay that everyone remembers Vorenus as the hero, while he's just the guy who got rescued.
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Rome / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Rome / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: A viewer could be forgiven for thinking Vorenus' younger daughter is totally mute. She makes only the slightest of sounds on very rare occasions. Word of God from the DVD commentary is the actress who played her the longest was Italian and refused to learn English lines phonetically. Rather than argue with a little kid, they simply cut out her dialogue and even Lampshaded it later.
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Rome / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
Rome / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Subverted for Antony's speech after Caesar's funeral (the one that became known as Shakespeare's famed, although entirely fictional, "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech). We see the results of his speech, and even have several characters describe what happened, but none of the actual speech is shown or heard.
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Rome / int_8fe962f3	type	Battle Discretion Shot
Rome / int_8fe962f3	comment	The tactical brilliance of Caesar is never shown; the conqueror of Gaul wins battle after battle.
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Rome / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Rome / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Atia yet again. Gaia and Cleopatra count as well.
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Rome / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Rome / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Brutus' Death by Irony.
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Rome / int_91a2039b	type	I Am the Noun
Rome / int_91a2039b	comment	I Am the Noun: After Pharsalus, Cicero and Brutus head to Caesar's camp to surrender:
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Rome / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Rome / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: When sent to kill Cicero, Pullo is perfectly respectful and considerate. Afterwards, he tells Vorenus that he was a pretty cool guy.
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Rome / int_9457dc3f	type	Not Allowed to Grow Old
Rome / int_9457dc3f	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Old: The show's timeline spans 21 years, between Caesar's conquest of Gaul (52BC) and Octavian's defeat of Antony and Cleopatra (31BC), yet most of the characters do not visibly age at all.
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Rome / int_945b15da	type	PassiveAggressiveCombat
Rome / int_945b15da	comment	Passive Aggressive Combat: Atia and Sevilla make a game of pretending to be friends while exchanging backhanded compliments and intriguing against each other.
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Rome / int_94860a65	type	Un-Confession
Rome / int_94860a65	comment	Un-Confession: When Vorenus drops his jerkass act, Niobe almost blurts out the truth about her infidelity. Vorenus assures her that it doesn't matter what she's done while he was away; they're going to start afresh. Unfortunately Niobe's crime is far more serious (according to Roman values) than mere infidelity.
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Rome / int_952eba7e	type	To Win Without Fighting
Rome / int_952eba7e	comment	To Win Without Fighting: When it becomes apparent that Julius Caesar has crossed the Rubicon with a single legion and started a civil war, the Republican faction in the city discuss how they can stop his advance. Pompey has to concede that an adequate defense cannot be mustered in time to stop him, and they must retreat from the capital. Cato mercilessly chews him out for this.
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Rome / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Rome / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Everyone who's lost a battle. Brutus is the sole exception.
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Rome / int_9646cd74	type	Government in Exile
Rome / int_9646cd74	comment	Government in Exile: In season 1 the senators who flee from Caesar and act like the legitimate rulers of Rome until the end. Cassius and Brutus in season 2.
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Rome / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Rome / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Lucius Vorenus, though rather than being above the silliness he was above the corruption. Vorenus eventually goes from being a honourable soldier to the Godfather of Rome's criminal underworld.
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Rome / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Rome / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad and Big Good: Julius Caesar. To the senate, he is the former. To large parts of the Roman army and people he is the latter.
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Rome / int_97105187	type	BioPic
Rome / int_97105187	comment	Bio Pic: The first season chronicles the rise and fall of Caesar, as well as the childhood of Octavian, whose growth into Emperor Augustus is the arc of the second season.
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Rome / int_9724d6fa	type	Call That a Formation?
Rome / int_9724d6fa	comment	Call That a Formation?: Averted; Caesar's legions are shown forming a testudo (turtle, wall of shields) and rotating their troops in a disciplined way. Legionary Titus Pullo leaves the formation and is punished for that. Played with later at the battle of Philippi; both sides start in organized formations but the battle later degenerates into a massive confused brawl. It can be seen later that Octavian and Antony's forces have the clear upper hand when significant numbers have reformed into tight formation to advance toward the command position of Brutus and Cassius.
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Rome / int_97cd3d59	type	Remember the Alamo
Rome / int_97cd3d59	comment	Remember the Alamo: "THIRTEENTH! THIRTEENTH!"
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Rome / int_97e96e2b	type	The Unblinking
Rome / int_97e96e2b	comment	The Unblinking: Octavian has this habit during confrontations when he's older. Exaggerated during his meeting with Cleopatra, where he doesn't blink once.
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Rome / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Rome / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Between Vorenus and Antony.
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Rome / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Rome / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: A lot of characters take this option after losing out in the various power struggles. Truth in Television. Inverted by Cato. He probably would have been spared by Caesar (who already pardoned Cicero, Brutus etc) but decides it is better to die than live thanks to Caesar's mercy.
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Rome / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Rome / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Vorenus and Pullo. One episode is even called "How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic."
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Rome / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Rome / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Averted here, as the Thirteenth is Caesar's most distinguished legion.
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Rome / int_9af42bed	type	Appeal to Tradition
Rome / int_9af42bed	comment	Appeal to Tradition: Lucius Vorenus (a commoner) brings this up when he's a guest at the Julii household and Atia (an aristocrat) asks him what he thinks of the institutional problems of the Roman Republic. He skirts the issue of reform with an appeal to the longevity of the republic.
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Rome / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Rome / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Brutus' death resembles that of Caesar's, in which Brutus played a major part.
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Rome / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Rome / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Brutus starts the series as an Idle Rich more concerned with his poetry than with politics. He eventually becomes a killer, a reasonableâ€”albeit naÃ¯veâ€”leader and an army General. Octavian starts out as a weak and scrawny bookworm. After Caesar's death he raises his own army and becomes an important power broker, graduates to blood-spattered triumvir and ends up as unchallenged master of Rome.
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Rome / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Rome / int_9bfb2f41	comment	After helping Mark Antony kill himself, Vorenus cleans the makeup off Antony's face, dresses him in armor and seats him on the throne.
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Rome / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Rome / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: The senatorial leaders in exile resort to an Asian ruler who casually request an interspecies erotica show (baboon meets woman) as the condition for his help. The Romans awkwardly seal the deal and comply. The scene serves as in-universe Values Dissonance, Cassius points out it's not an entertainment but a punishment (used by Romans) and is subtly shocked by the requirement (but complies).
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Rome / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Rome / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: An Establishing Character Moment for Pullo, during the first scene of the series.
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Rome / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Rome / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Subverted with Octavian in the second season. ''Silence.''
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Rome / int_a2d1661a	type	HappilyArrangedMarriage
Rome / int_a2d1661a	comment	Happily Arranged Marriage: Atia arranges for Posca to marry Jocasta, in part to humiliate Jocasta, whom Atia considers a jumped-up merchant's daughter, by marrying her to an ex-slave. But she and Posca legitimately fall in love and become one of the few couples in the series who remain happily married.
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Rome / int_a2e96d18	type	Just the First Citizen
Rome / int_a2e96d18	comment	Just the First Citizen: A Genius Bonus kicks in if you know that the Latin for "First Citizen" is princeps, which is the root word for "Prince." In Ancient Rome, it was actually an insult to be called a king because they believed that Rome truly became great when they abandoned their faulty monarchy centuries before.
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Rome / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Rome / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Maecenas is this to Octavian. Evil Eunuch Pothinus tries to be this to Ptolemy XIII, along with Theodotus of Chios, only for both of them to fail spectacularly.
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Rome / int_a46881f2	type	Believer Fakes Evidence
Rome / int_a46881f2	comment	Believer Fakes Evidence: Julius Caesar, with the help of the priests of Jupiter, engineers a good omen before he goes off to war so that the people would believe his cause was just and blessed by the gods. It may also have been intended to demoralize the Pompeian faction as well. Something of a Genius Bonus as well, as Julius Caesar was the pontifex maximus in real life, so this was a subtle way of showing how Caesar utilized his position to give himself an advantage in this civil war.
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Rome / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Rome / int_a4be7043	comment	Vorenus has an unfortunate amount of these. Lampshaded by one of his interactions with Da Chief Mark Antony.
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Rome / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Rome / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: One minute, Pullo is joyous at having bought Eirene's freedom and plans to marry her. The next he's brutally beating her (hitherto unknown to him) slave fiance to death in a fit of jealousy.
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Rome / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Rome / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Posca enjoys a trusted position as Caesar's slave and there is clearly considerable affection between the two, to the extent that Posca weeps bitterly over Caesar's death and Caesar explicitly freed him in his will. The same goes for Cicero's secretary Tiro, as well. In Real Life, the two men became friends and Cicero freed him.
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Rome / int_a63a8586	type	Graffiti of the Resistance
Rome / int_a63a8586	comment	Graffiti of the Resistance: An extremely cynical use of it shows up. The conspiracy against Caesar is looking to recruit Brutus to their cause, but he has resisted any efforts they make. Eventually they begin a graffiti campaign supposedly done by the people pleading for Brutus to end the tyranny of Caesar, much as Brutus' ancestor overthrew the ancient king/tyrant of Rome. Brutus does his best to ignore the graffiti, but it makes Caesar paranoid and wary of Brutus, and he basically asks Brutus to voluntarily exile himself from Rome. That, and the fallout from the rest of their confrontation, drives Brutus to join the conspiracy and seals Caesar's fate.
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Rome / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Rome / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Vorenus wants to make up with Niobe because he's convinced he'll be dead soon in the coming Civil War, and someone has to perform the proper religious rites in his memory. Pullo offers to do so himself. Vorenus is touched, but points out that Pullo will likely be dead too. Pullo buries Eirene with proper ceremony for her people, even though it's not the Roman way. When Gaia admits on her deathbed to having poisoned Eirene, Pullo smothers Gaia and callously dumps her body in the river, which for Ancient Romans is a way of cursing her to spend eternity in limbo. After helping Mark Antony kill himself, Vorenus cleans the makeup off Antony's face, dresses him in armor and seats him on the throne.
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Rome / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Rome / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: A great deal of Season One involves Vorenus and Pullo being excused for offenses they should be executed for.
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Rome / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Rome / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Octavian tricks Cicero into making him consul, suggesting that he wants the title out of vanity and that, being so young, he would require Cicero's constant guidance. If you watch closely, you can see the moment he pastes a naÃ¯ve, Upper-Class Twit look on his face. Jocasta says when Cleopatra is acting The Caligula she just pretends to be mad. Given that Jocasta is something of a Talkative Loon at this point, it's clear this doesn't take much acting.
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Rome / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Rome / int_a7b3134	comment	Vorenus says it to Antony, who is surprised and touched by the words and replies; "Has it? I hope so."
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Rome / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Rome / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Julius Caesar sends Vorenus to bribe a former army colleague. Honest to a fault but loyal to his superior, Vorenus does so and reports back. Caesar comments that he didn't think the man would sell out so cheaply. "I must send you to handle all of my corruptions." Manipulative Bastard that he is, Caesar quickly sees how uncomfortable this makes Vorunus and says that he was only joking. After Brutus stabs Caesar, Longinus holds up his hand and cries, "Thus ever for tyrants!" Brutus tears his hand free in disgust. Realising that war is coming between Mark Antony and Octavian, Posca flees back to Rome but makes sure to bring Antony's last will and testament with him. Realising the contents of the will contain everything he needs as a Pretext for War, Octavian thanks Posca for his "loyalty". Posca has the grace to look embarrassed.
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Rome / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Rome / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: The killing of Cicero. Pullo has to go to Cicero's villa to do it, but he doesn't want Eirene to be lonely without him, so he suggests everyone goes. Vorenus brings his sister-in-law Lyde and the kids, and everyone has a lovely picnic lunch while Pullo cheerfully rides off to Cicero's place, rather like a handyman who's come to do some work on the house. He is unhurried, respectful and even friendly to Cicero, who knows exactly why he's there; admires his peach tree, and even asks if he can take some, to which Cicero says yes. Cicero's slave runs out with a sword and hysterically threatens to kill Pullo, who calmly advises him to put the sword down and not be silly. Cicero looks around at the world for the last time and then tells Pullo to kill him, and Pullo helpfully suggests "It's best if you kneel." Cicero duly kneels down, Pullo puts the tip of his sword at Cicero's neck, and then says over his shoulder to the weeping slave "You might want to turn away at this point," before killing Cicero in a single stroke. He then rides back to the picnic and cheerfully hands out peaches to everyone, telling Vorenus "He's all right, that Cicero. Not stuck up like some of the others." A little later, in accordance with Antony's orders we see Cicero's hands being nailed to the door of the Senate, implying that Pullo had cut them off and was keeping them in a bag about his person.
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Rome / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Rome / int_a8559a9f	comment	Technically, Octavian would have been called "Gaius" by his family and close friends in Real Life. He's always referred to as "Octavian" to avoid confusion with his great uncle. Later he invokes his Meaningful Rename.
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Rome / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
Rome / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: Lucius Vorenus. He often cites examples from Roman history during his Honour Before Reason rants, sometimes talks about other cultures (eg. the Egyptian gods) as if he's read up about them and the reason he was sent on the mission to find Caesar's stolen eagle in the first place was because his superior officer thought he was clever.
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Rome / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Rome / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Prophesied by Mark Antony but averted, Vorenus is the only one who does not fall into debauchery in the Egyptian Palace and stays "true Roman."
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Rome / int_a90df178	type	Guyliner
Rome / int_a90df178	comment	Guyliner: On Mark Antony, when he's in Egypt.
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Rome / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Rome / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship / Odd Couple: Octavia and Servilia. Vorenus and Pullo, as pointed out by Atia.
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Rome / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Rome / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Pullo, who knows very little about history, philosophy or politics and sometimes acts like an outright moron (taking the words "your work here today will grant you immortality" to mean he's never going to die, for instance) but he is one of the most badass characters on the show. The moronic part fades as the show goes on.
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Rome / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
Rome / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: A major subplot of the second season involves Titus and Lucius taking control of a collegium, a social club little different from a street gang, to keep the peace for Mark Antony. They end up going to war with some other collegia.
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Rome / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Rome / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Many. Infidelity is considered a matter of life and death. Pullo and Octavian torture and murder a man who had an affair with Vorenus' wife and find him reprehensible. Vorenus even feels honor-bound to kill his unfaithful wife as well as the child of her affair, though he's unusually rigid in his sense of traditional honor. Atia calming discussing with her family which of them will kill who so that they won't be taken alive by their enemies. She even offhandedly tells a slave to kill himself because it "wouldn't be appropriate" for the slave to outlive his masters. Indeed, Servilia's slave kills herself immediately after Servilia commits suicide. Arranged marriage is the norm. Niobe states, "Love doesn't come unbidden. You must work for her. Strange marriage it would be if you loved each other from the start." Atia pimps her own daughter Octavia to Pompey in order to secure a political marriage. Pompey is offered a "taste the merchandise" first. Cue Octavia naked on all fours like an animal. When Atia suggests a marriage between herself and Mark Antony, Octavian brusquely kicks her out of the room, saying that a marriage contract can't be discussed with a woman present. He later states that a purely political marriage would be seen as more legitimate than one driven by romantic desire. Slavery is simply a fact of life and the institution is never called into question. Good and bad characters alike own slaves and casually regard them as property to be bought and sold as they please. Pullo, the son of a slave, and Posca, a former slave, have no compunctions about owning slaves themselves. Pullo beats a slave boy to death in a jealous rage. His excuse? "He angered me." Vorenus is furious ("This boy was my property!"). Pullo promises to make amends ("I'll pay you back."). But Vorenus isn't concerned about the money ("It's the disrespect"). Romans have much different standards of modesty. Mark Antony speaks to inferiors while stark naked. Many Romans have sex in the presence of others, even taking beverages from awaiting slaves. Atia chastises her teenage son for not having enough sex. She even forces him to eat sheep testicles to make him more virile, and eventually insists that he visit a brothel so he won't dishonour his family by being a virgin. Sex with boys is treated as a normal thing. Atia is overjoyed when she believes that Octavian has become the lover of Julius Caesar, his powerful great-uncle. Later, Atia tells her slave to find a prostitute if he wants to have sex with a boy rather than find one in the street. A Roman form of punishment is to allow a baboon to rape a woman. One eastern king seems to be aroused by the thought, which is too bizarre even for Romans. Anti-Semitism is tolerated. When Herod visits, citizens are told to keep the mockery of Jews and their solitary god at an "appropriate minimum". The class divide between patricians and plebeians is often brought up. Even wealthy plebeians are looked down upon by patricians, such as when Atia passive-aggressively insults Jocasta by asking Octavia not to stoop any lower down the social ladder for friends.
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Rome / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Rome / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Many Special mention to Julius Caesar's speech just before he marches on the walled capital Rome with only an armed gang. And wins. Subverted for Antony's speech after Caesar's funeral (the one that became known as Shakespeare's famed, although entirely fictional, "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech). We see the results of his speech, and even have several characters describe what happened, but none of the actual speech is shown or heard. Lampshaded when Octavian has to speak to his gathered troops.
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Rome / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Rome / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Caesar, Maecenas, Posca, Cicero, sometimes Cato. Antony too, when he is not throwing a tantrum, and others. Even many of the secondary characters are good at this. When one Egyptian leader tries to convince the commander of the Egyptian army to rise against Caesar:
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Rome / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
Rome / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: Done in-universe Caesar rehearses how to favorably spin and manipulate a peace proposal in terms accessible and understandable by the hoi polloi (a derogatory word for the masses, the riff-raff) Antony affably taunts Brutus for giving a speech "too cerebral for that kind of audience". Manipulative Bastard Antony instead delivers (offscreen) the other famous Shakespearean speech full of energy, demagoguery and dramatic effect that infuriates the masses against Caesar's assassins.
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Rome / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Rome / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: With his army heavily outnumbered by Pompey's in Greece, Caesar sends urgent word to Antony in Rome to join him with his remaining legion. Meanwhile an envoy from Pompey offers Antony a deal: money and a province in return for betraying Caesar. Antony hesitates until Atia also suggests that he leave Caesar to his fate and set himself up as a king in Rome. This snaps him out of it and he promptly decides to go to Caesar's aid.
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Rome / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
Rome / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: Octavian's wife Livia, though she's playing the part, and is in fact just as intelligent and politically astute as her husband. Jocasta.
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Rome / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Rome / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Antony's "By Juno's cunt!"
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Rome / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
Rome / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: Averted. To say the least. Brutus, Mark Antony and Pullo all have scenes involving full frontal nudity (and Brutus became a lot more popular because of it), while many others are shown naked but not full frontal.
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Rome / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Rome / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Referenced by Pompey after Antony is attacked en route to the session of the Senate, after Cato and the Pompeian faction have successfully had Caesar declared enemy of Rome. Previously, session had not formally ended and had to resume, and Mark Antony was going to exercise Tribune's Veto to maintain the status quo and prevent escalation of hostilities. Pompey delivered strict orders that Antony is not to be attacked. After an unrelated scuffle results in a fight breaking out in the forum and Antony fleeing for his safety, all Pompey can do is bemoan this to Cato directly. After discovering his wife's infidelity, and realizing his children conspired to keep the secret from him, Vorenus curses them all to damnation. This is Serious Business for a Roman so Vorenus is aghast when he returns to his house and finds them missing. Pullo assures him he can just lift the curse when his children return. They don't.
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Rome / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
Rome / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: Withholding shipments of grain is coldly used as a political leverage, because shortages of bread (generously provided by the state) would make the ruler of Rome tumble thanks to internal unrest.
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Rome / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Rome / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Lucius "Fortune pisses on me again" Vorenus. The gods seem to take perverse pleasure in putting him into awful situations and having him escape by the skin of his teeth, only to wind up in another mess, and occasionally happiness is dangled before him, only to be snatched away. In the first series, he even gets offered a position in the senate, no less! But once again, fate and patrician political machinations conspire to tear his life apart at a critical moment. Also In a major chain of events Vorenus sparing Pompey leads to Caesar in Egypt -> Pullo -> Caesarion -> Last episode Vorenus being seriously wounded defending him.
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Rome / int_b2adf5ad	type	Destructo-Nookie
Rome / int_b2adf5ad	comment	Destructo-Nookie: Pullo and Gaia.
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Rome / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Rome / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Timon murders, beats, rapes and tortures on Atia's orders, but having spent hours mercilessly torturing Servilia, finally snaps and walks out when Atia tells him to kill her.
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Rome / int_b4a7b5ef	type	The Queen's Latin
Rome / int_b4a7b5ef	comment	The Queen's Latin: British English stands in for Latin throughout the series. Variations in accent usually indicate class and origin. Upper-class Romans speak pure RP. Working-class characters speak lower-class English accents, such as Cockney. Foreigners and slaves often speak in Italian accents. Specifically Greek characters speak with Greek accents.
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Rome / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Rome / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: "HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!" Caesar when presented with Pompey's head.
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Rome / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Rome / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Very briefly, but memorably with Pullo's "It's a sphucking sphinx!" line.
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Rome / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
Rome / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: Brutus and the other conspirators were appointed by Caesar, but presenting him as a tyrant and his murder as a tyrannicide would make all his edicts and appointments null and void, and the conspirators would lose all their power. Brutus is thus unable to justify Caesar's death to the people so they turn against him.
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Rome / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Rome / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Antony (advised by Octavian) uses this brilliantly to force a truce with Caesar's killers. After Antony is defeated in battle Posca urges him to come to terms, which Antony angrily rejects, saying they'll retreat to the mountains instead. When Posca asks this trope, Antony cheerfully says he'll work out the rest later.
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Rome / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Rome / int_b7c53a22	comment	Even Pullo looks grim when he comes across the aftermath of the battle at Mutina.
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Rome / int_b89ab683	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Rome / int_b89ab683	comment	Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Agrippa, who wins most of Octavian's battles for him.
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Rome / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Rome / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: It may not seem like much Atia calling Octavian a king. However, she's actually thrown him a great insult. The Romans considered their culture established only when they got rid of their monarchy 500 years before the events of this series. This is why he quickly corrects her. Also why they feared Caesar's growing influence as they were afraid of a return of the monarchy.
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Rome / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Rome / int_bb18a227	comment	Subverted: Antony has been slow to aid a campaigning Caesar who is under threat from Pompey. Antony seems to be on the fence about leaving Rome and going to aid Caesar. Atia learns of the threat to Caesar and tries to convince Antony to betray Caesar and seize Rome for himself (herself more like it). But instead of goading him into betrayal, it seems to snap Antony out of his indecisiveness. He quickly rebukes Atia and quickly runs to help Caesar.
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Rome / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Rome / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Naturally, given the timeframe of the series being the period when the Roman Republic died and was replaced by the Roman Empire.
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Rome / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Rome / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Vorenus is actually very knowledgeable about Roman history. He speaks of Cincinnatus, the Gracchi, Sulla, and Marius, and is also aware that Egypt was a great nation long before Rome.
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Rome / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Rome / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted with Lucius Vorenus. He is a dour straight man prone to flying off the handle at the slightest hint of dishonesty. He eventually snaps.
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Rome / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Rome / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't insult the Thirteenth Legion, just don't. Or cheat at dice, or be a Smug Snake (you might get your tongue bitten out), or have affairs with a certain lovely slave girl and, and, and... Pullo is basically a nice chap and possibly the most sane character of the series, but he definitely also has a temper on him and a ruthless streak as wide as the Via Appia. By the same token, try not to be the person reading a speech of Cicero's where he calls Mark Antony "Rome's Helen of Troy" and says that it fits him, because "a woman's role always suited you best" if the person in question is in earshot. Also not a good idea to suggest to Vorenus that he do anything dishonourable for his own profit. The look on Pullo's face as he watches some poor Mook suggest they team up to sell out Pompey pricelessly says it all. Vorenus calmly tells the mook that he has until Vorenus finishes speaking to run away and then coldly stabs him through the throat when the warning is not heeded.
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Rome / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Rome / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Used several times, first by Atia to expose Octavia's relationship to Agrippa, and by an Egyptian guard to expose an undercover Caesarion.
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Rome / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Rome / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The battle of Actium is never seen which leads to much speculation. Octavia and Jocasta even argue about it.
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Rome / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Rome / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Posca and Jocasta. Octavia and Glabius before Atia has Glabius murdered Octavian and Livia, in spite of early awkwardness, bond with some rough sex.
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Rome / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Rome / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Lucius Vorenus and Niobe, according to quite a few characters on the show. Out-universe this doubles as informed unattractiveness for Kevin McKidd's character. At least, informed by modern standards: The Romans had different ideas about male beauty, which didn't really include the rugged look. Posca and Jocasta. Plus he is much older than her.
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Rome / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
Rome / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: Antony and Cleopatra, obviously. The show alters the conventional story a bit, though, by having Cleopatra fake her death off-screen, causing Antony to kill himself for real so she could sell him out to Octavian and save herself. But when she realizes that Octavian is a coldhearted badass who can't be persuaded, she kills herself as well.
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Rome / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
Rome / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: Posca to Mark Antony when he threatens to forcefully move Calpurnia from Rome:
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Rome / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Rome / int_c0d598fe	comment	Octavian gives one to Servilia after her Evil Gloating about her role in Caesar's downfall. Servilia of course has no reason to fear what seems to be a petulant teenager at the time.
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Rome / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
Rome / int_c325f125	comment	Vorenus and Pullo, bordering on Ho Yay, which is lampshaded in-universe.
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Rome / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Rome / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: A particularly cruel one for Eirene. Pullo informs her that he's freed her from slavery and even bought her a nice wedding dress. She runs off for to change into the dress, in what must have been the two happiest minutes of her life. When she gets back, she finds the corpse of her lover and intended husband, whom Pullo brutally murdered out of jealousy.
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Rome / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Rome / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: CiarÃ¡n Hinds as Caesar. James Purefoy as Mark Antony takes this spot in Season 2.
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Rome / int_c41a5bac	type	Neutral No Longer
Rome / int_c41a5bac	comment	Neutral No Longer: While Cicero is a senator with deep republican convictions, he is wise enough not to antagonize the Caesarians in public and maintain a moderate status. His position gets untenable when his Arch-Enemy Antony becomes the ruler of Rome and forces him into his side. Cicero instead openly confronts and insults Antony and unleashes Octavian against him.
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Rome / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Rome / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Agrippa in the second season. In a cast of characters including Antony, Octavian, Atia, Servilia, and Vorenus, Agrippa's behavior is chivalrous by comparison, especially if it involves Octavia.
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Rome / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Rome / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The tactical brilliance of Caesar is never shown; the conqueror of Gaul wins battle after battle. Antony mentions the fate of Crassus, co-Triumvir of Caesar and Pompey, who died fighting the Parthians shortly before the events of the series, reputedly by having molten gold poured down his throat. Antony's speech after Caesar's funeral singlehandedly turns the Roman people against the conspirators and installs him as the sole ruler of the city. Only indirect references and reactions are shown, as the only options for the writers would be to crib Shakespeare, or try and outdo him. Vorenus and Pullo massacre an entire bar of Erastes Fulmen's men offscreen. Agrippa's decisive defeat of Antony and Cleopatra's fleet at Actium. Only the aftermath is shown.
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Rome / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Rome / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Vorenus and Pullo become thug enforcers after they are demobilized and without income. Eventually they are required to actually kill people. Vorenus however draws the line at murder and quits.
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Rome / int_c676a2f8	type	Blah, Blah, Blah
Rome / int_c676a2f8	comment	Blah, Blah, Blah: A minor character recalls Brutus' eulogy for Caesar in these terms.
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Rome / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Rome / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: After the shipwreck of Lucius and Titus's fleet, the two characters devise a means of escape from their desert island which will be very familiar to anyone who's read Watchmen. During the opening titles, one of the animated sequences is of a snake slithering across the screen.
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Rome / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
Rome / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: Cato strikes a blade in his own stomach after he loses a battle against Caesar's army and realizes he is done for.
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Rome / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Rome / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: The show just ends when Pullo seems to be about to deliver the line to Caesarion.
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Rome / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Rome / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: More than once, especially with Pullo and Gaia (they come close to a "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization) and with Octavian and his wife Livia—he flat-out tells her that he will beat her occasionally during their marriage because it gives him sexual pleasure, and she seems to be into it later on.
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Rome / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Rome / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The newsreader.
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Rome / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Rome / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Lucius Vorenus again; it's amazingly funny compared to the dirtbags he serves, who would screw anyone. Also Agrippa.
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Rome / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rome / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: After a slave brings Pompey the message that Caesar's army is advancing, he's faced with a decision: should he fight or flee? Pompey then gives a monologue saying how envious he is of the slave, who has all his decisions made for him.
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Rome / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Rome / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Prayers, curses and even prophetic dreams often come true in this series. Whether or not its origin is divine is never definitively answered.
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Rome / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Rome / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God from the DVD commentary is the actress who played her the longest was Italian and refused to learn English lines phonetically. Rather than argue with a little kid, they simply cut out her dialogue and even Lampshaded it later.
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Rome / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Rome / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Antony invokes one.
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Rome / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
Rome / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: After the Roman Senators leave the city to escape Julius Caesar's advancing troops, the treasury is raided but subsequently found by Pullo and Vorenus, two soldiers loyal to Caesar. Pullo considers keeping the gold for themselves and goes on a spending spree around the city, visiting dozens of taverns and giving away money for free. Vorenus points out that anyone with a brain will be wondering where a Centurion with a measly salary managed to come about such a fortune, and tells Pullo to give the money back to Caesar before his men come calling. This ends up saving Pullo's life from possible execution, since Caesar is so happy to have deprived Pompey Magnus of any funds for his war effort that he rewards Pullo instead of punishing him for thievery.
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Rome / int_d04d13d0	type	Hemo Erotic
Rome / int_d04d13d0	comment	Hemo Erotic: While Mark Antony is left to keep the peace in Rome while Caesar is away campaigning, he passes the time by having two prostitutes fight each other with swords. When one of them wounds the other, he licks up the blood.
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Rome / int_d246d18b	type	Historical Relationship Overhaul
Rome / int_d246d18b	comment	Historical Relationship Overhaul: Servilia, a (former) mistress of Julius Caesar, and Octavia become lovers, and after Octavia accidentally tells her that her brother, Octavian and Caesar might have been formerly lovers (which is a false rumour that was started after a servant heard strange noises coming from a room were Octavian and Caesar were in together, even though Caesar was having a seizure), although Octavian denies it and claims Caesar has a "serious affliction". Servilia then instructs Octavia to seduce Octavian, and find out more about Caesar's affliction. Octavia does seduce Octavian (although he doesn't tell her anything after the incest). None of this, either Servilia's and Octavia's relationship, or Octavia's and Octavian's incest ever actually happened. Octavia also becomes the lover of the friend of her brother, Marcus Agrippa, and might even have a child from him, all the while she is married to Mark Antony. This also didn't happen. Real Life Octavia was the model matron of the early Roman Empire, and had no adulterous or controversial relationships. This kind of description suits the real daughter of Octavian, Julia, more. Unlike in the series, the real Servilia never turned against her lover Caesar, and she most likely knew nothing of the plot to assassinate him. Although Titus Pullo did exist, he was much more insignificant in real life, so it's basically impossible he was ever the lover of Cleopatra VII and the father of her son Caesarion.
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Rome / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Rome / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Vorenus has an unfortunate amount of these. Lampshaded by one of his interactions with Da Chief Mark Antony. Vorenus had this reaction when Pullo killed one of his slaves just because he was in a relationship with the girl he loves.
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Rome / int_d3f33049	type	Blasphemous Boast
Rome / int_d3f33049	comment	Vorenus uses a Blasphemous Boast to frighten the criminal underworld into accepting him as their leader. Pullo warns him the gods doesn't like that sort of thing, but Vorenus thinks he's lost everything anyway. "What more can they do to me?" At the end of the episode, it's revealed his family hasn't been killed, but have been sold as slaves.
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Rome / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Rome / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Vorenus and Pullo have a ton of these, but Brutus and Cassius have one as well.
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Rome / int_d89c1e6	type	Longest Pregnancy Ever
Rome / int_d89c1e6	comment	Longest Pregnancy Ever: Eirene tells Pullo of her pregnancy during historical events that occur around 42 B.C. Judging by other historical events, like the betrothal of Octavian and Livia, she is still pregnant in 39 or 38 B.C. This is reportedly due to the necessary rewriting of the last few scripts.
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Rome / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Rome / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Cicero sends a message to be read in the Senate in his absence, which turns out to be a scathing attack on Antony. All the Senators begin to leave in a hurry and Antony demands that the clerk read out the whole thing and then bludgeons the poor bastard to death with the scroll.
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Rome / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Rome / int_db38d6ca	comment	Octavian and Pullo interrogate a man regarding Vorenus' grandson. Pullo hesitates and admits he doesn't know what to do, since in the army "they have specialists." Octavian suggests they start by cutting off the man's thumbs.
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Rome / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Rome / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: When Vorenus confronts Erastes Fulmen to find out his children's whereabouts, Erastes tells him that he raped and murdered them, even though he actually sold them into slavery. Vorenus kills him in a fit of rage, and doesn't find out what really happened to his children until much later. Erastes knew that Vorenus would kill him either way, so he told an extremely provocative lie: saying in a nonchalant tone that he "fucked them, killed them and dumped the bodies in the Tiber". This could have been to prevent Vorenus from being able to rescue his children in a final act of spite or possibly just to provoke Vorenus into killing him quickly in anger instead of something slower and more deliberate..
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Rome / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Rome / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: After their exploits in the arena, Pullo and to a lesser extent Vorenus enjoy a celebrity status for a while.
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Rome / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Rome / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Caesar claims to be the son of Venus. After his death, Caesar is declared a god by the Senate at Octavian's instigation. The significance isn't lost on Antony:
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Rome / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Rome / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: A lot of these happen to Vorenus and Pullo. It's even lampshaded at one point by Caesar, who attributes it to them being under the protection of powerful gods.
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Rome / int_dc7c48c6	type	Historical Downgrade
Rome / int_dc7c48c6	comment	Historical Downgrade: Agrippa is portrayed as an amiable but rather naÃ¯ve, soft-hearted, and weak-willed young man who's never shown on-screen as particularly valuable to Octavian's faction, with the majority of his screentime given to his ahistorical love affair with Octavia instead. In reality, Agrippa was a gifted general who essentially fought Octavian's battles for him, most notably in defeating Antony at Actium, and as an administrator he bears as much credit as Octavian for "finding Rome a city of brick and leaving it a city of marble."note Agrippa's name still adorns the Pantheon today, for instance.
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Rome / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Rome / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: A casual and comical mention:
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Rome / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Rome / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Though Rome generally manages to keep its historical inaccuracies to a minimum, the Senate set is, rather noticeably, much smaller than the real deal (as in, a tiny fraction of the place's actual size). As high as the show's production values are, exact-size recreation of the real building would have cost a small fortune. Also, the real-life Senate chambers were not semicircular (like the modern U.S. Congress), but lengthwise, with tiers of Senate seats facing each other (more like the British Parliament).
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Rome / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Rome / int_deea2fb5	comment	Brutus starts the series as an Idle Rich more concerned with his poetry than with politics. He eventually becomes a killer, a reasonableâ€”albeit naÃ¯veâ€”leader and an army General.
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Rome / int_dfc3e10a	type	The Dung Ages
Rome / int_dfc3e10a	comment	The Dung Ages: If you're a pleb.
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Rome / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Rome / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Pullo's gambling related troubles and antagonisms ensuring the fall of the Republic. Pullo fathering Caesarion. Caesar is killed because Vorenus is not there to protect him.
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Rome / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Rome / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Caesar and Antony's downfall is both brought about when they reject the women they love.
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Rome / int_e03533c8	type	Blood Bath
Rome / int_e03533c8	comment	Blood Bath: Atia takes a shower in the blood pouring down from a slaughtered bull in the first episode (probably inspired by an actual religious ceremony that was popular in ancient Rome, albeit a couple of centuries later).
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Rome / int_e0723cbb	type	You Talk Too Much!
Rome / int_e0723cbb	comment	You Talk Too Much!: Vorenus to Pullo, again and again. Actually, any time they are both part of a meeting with powerful or violent people, Pullo will talk too much, and Vorenus will correct him.
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Rome / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Rome / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Latin is rendered as English, though a few Latin words and phrases remain in Latin. For example, many characters great each other with "Salve!" A character's class and origin is often indicated by the accent they speak, with standard Romans speaking The Queen's Latin.
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Rome / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Rome / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Atia is portrayed as seductive, manipulative and evil. There's absolutely no historical evidence for this; Tacitus actually describes her as a pious, devoted mother and an ideal Roman matron.
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Rome / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Rome / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Though not exactly a nobody (he is a member of one of the oldest noble families in Rome, after all), Octavian starts out as a snotty and precocious youngster, uninvolved in the cut and thrust of Roman politics, and generally treated dismissively by the adults in the room. As the series progresses, it becomes evident that he is as ruthless as he is intelligent, and by the end he is the one who rules Rome.
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Rome / int_e22dae0a	type	Pretext for War
Rome / int_e22dae0a	comment	Realising that war is coming between Mark Antony and Octavian, Posca flees back to Rome but makes sure to bring Antony's last will and testament with him. Realising the contents of the will contain everything he needs as a Pretext for War, Octavian thanks Posca for his "loyalty". Posca has the grace to look embarrassed.
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Rome / int_e280b250	type	Hard Head
Rome / int_e280b250	comment	Hard Head: Played with. Pullo is knocked unconscious and falls into a coma when a blow to the head puts a splinter inside his scalp. He undergoes painful surgery and finally makes a full recovery.
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Rome / int_e313bcdc	type	Ignore the Fanservice
Rome / int_e313bcdc	comment	Ignore the Fanservice: When Cleopatra meets with Octavian, she attempts to flirt with him to win him over to her side as she did successfully with both Caesar and Antony and hopefully prevent him from having Caesarion killed as a rival claimant to Caesar's legacy. While Octavian is not really asexual, having a fulfilling sex life with his wife Livia, he simply ignores her overtures. This causes Cleopatra to realize that she truly is out of options and commits to suicide.
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Rome / int_e3a9a78d	type	Forced Miscarriage
Rome / int_e3a9a78d	comment	Forced Miscarriage: Out of jealousy Gaia gives Pullo's pregnant wife, Eirene tea laced with herbs. The seller had told Gaia that the herbs could safely terminate an early pregnancy, but one farther along, not so much. Indeed, the mother-to-be goes into early labor and she and her unborn child end up dying, just as Gaia intended.
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Rome / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Rome / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Vorenus and Pullo, naturally: Bash Brothers and Back-to-Back Badasses.
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Rome / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Rome / int_e407c172	comment	Octavian tells Livia what he expects of her as his wife, all the squeezing her hand tighter and tighter. She looks alarmed and pained, but when he politely and resolutely tells her he will beat her, not for any misbehaviour on her part but for his own sexual pleasure, she stiffens her spine and agrees, unflinching. Even Octavian can see what kind of woman she is, and he's very pleased.
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Rome / int_e46f71c3	type	Hollywood Costuming
Rome / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: Egypt.
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Rome / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Rome / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Augustus actually had two sisters, both named Octavia. His sister in this series is based off of Octavia minor who was also the fourth wife of Mark Antony and raised his children by Cleopatra after the couple committed suicide. Their daughter Antonia counts as well, as they had two daughters, Antonia major and Antonia minor. The show's Atia borrows aspects from the historical figure Fulvia, who doesn't exist in the show. Like the real Atia, the show's version is the mother of Octavian and Octavia Minor, but that's pretty much where the similarities stop. The real Atia was an exceptionally religious and moral woman. The show's version gets her aggressive meddling in Roman politics and her love affair with Mark Antony from Mark Antony's actual wife Fulvia, who was known as a power-player behind the scenes of Roman politics.
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Rome / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Rome / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The series is quite loose on many aspects of history. Some of them are forgivable for the sake of dramatic/artistic license, but others are questionable. It may work better if you think of the series as a sort of "Rome, as seen by Romans." There are all sorts of oddities in their interpretation of other cultures (the wild German cavalrymen, the long-haired Gauls, the dark, effeminate Egyptians) but it is entirely possible to look at these oddities as a dramatization of "Roman Stereotypes." The real Atia, besides being a dull Roman matron, died one year after Caesar and thus shouldn't have been around for the second season. There is no record of a romantic relationship between her and Mark Antony. Likewise, Octavia was praised as a paragon of Roman feminine virtue. Her participation in orgies and numerous extra-marital affairs may be based on Octavian's daughter Julia, whose behavior led to her being exiled in disgrace by her father. There is no historical evidence for her affairs with Agrippa and Servilia, or her incest with Octavian. Agrippa did later become Julia's second husband. Octavia's first husband Marcellus (here renamed "Glabius") was not killed on Atia's orders. For one thing, the real Atia died several years before him. There were actually two battles at Philippi. In the first, Antony defeated Cassius while Brutus overran Octavian's camp. Mistakenly believing that all was lost, Cassius took his own life. The second battle occurred some three weeks later, and after Brutus was defeated, he ordered a slave to kill him. He did not suicidally charge the enemy as portrayed in the series. This scene may have been inspired by Brutus' brother-in-law, Marcus Porcius Catonote Son of the Cato who appears in Rome, who, according to Plutarch, died in that fashion at Philippi.
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Rome / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Rome / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Cleopatra. "I must have him or I will die... So I will have him." Vorenus. Once he's sworn loyalty to someone or something he will maintain that loyalty come hell or high water. Octavian once he decides to take up his adoptive father's legacy.
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Rome / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Rome / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Octavian's informed monologue about the events of the first episode not only filled in the finer political points of the episode to Pullo and Vorenus but the audience as well.
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Rome / int_e66e9bfb	type	New Era Speech
Rome / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: Caesar and his magistrates produce several after their triumph. Tellingly, when Vorenus delivers one in the Aventine about the end of the Patrician tyranny, a heckler who complains about the end of freedoms is quietly taken away for his dissent. Octavian delivers one after becoming Consul.
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Rome / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Rome / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: To emphasize that he is the lawful heir to his great uncle, Octavian changes his name to Gaius Caesar. and finally to Caesar Augustus. Noted by Cicero, very wary of the implication. Octavian was very fond of these in Real Life, and in fact never went by "Octavian"; it's just what historians decided to call him for the period before he became Augustus, because otherwise the histories would be too confusing.
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Rome / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
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Rome / int_e8aa2b1d	type	Tactical Withdrawal
Rome / int_e8aa2b1d	comment	Tactical Withdrawal: Pompey says that he only needs to stomp his feet, and legions would spring up all over Italy. The first thing Pompey does when Caesar crosses the Rubicon river with "only an armed gang" is to run away from Rome.
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Rome / int_e9454d0f	type	Blood-Splattered Warrior
Rome / int_e9454d0f	comment	Blood-Splattered Warrior: Exploited. Immediately after being assaulted by Pompey's men, Antony rushes back to Gaul with him and his white toga stained with the blood of his enemies. Caesar, clearly pleased his gambit to provoke Pompey worked beyond expectation, told Antony to not clean himself of it ("like Leonidas at Thermopylae")—so the threat to his life can be vividly illustrated (exaggerated even) to Caesar's legions and rile them up against Pompey and the Senate.
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Rome / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Rome / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: After Caesar's assassination, Mark Antony surprises everyone by turning up at Brutus' house to discuss a truce. After Brutus steps outside so the conspirators can discuss his proposal, they unanimously urge Brutus to kill him. At the end of Season 2, Caesarion asks Vorenus about his father, which he thinks is Caesar. Vorenus proceeds to tell him about his father...the real one, Pullo. At first, he manages to pull it and to enjoy it, then a major difference between Pullo and Caesar comes up. Doubles as Comically Missing the Point, since the kid believes it all. Vorenus appears to escort Atia and Octavia to their ship without seeing Mark Antony. When Atia refuses to leave, Vorenus says he's been authorised to use whatever force is necessary.
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Rome / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Rome / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes Pullo saves Cleopatra from assassins. Caesar arrives at the Vorenus house to offer Lucius a position as magistrate, just when the latter thought he and his family will be killed by a crime lord.
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Rome / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Rome / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Caesar is merciful (by Roman standards) and spares all the leading Republicans who fought against him in the civil war. (Although it should be noted that by historical Roman values, the way he welcomes Brutus and Cicero could have been seen as a dismissive slight against them because he refuses to treat them as though they were ever actually opponents or a threat, but would still have put them in an I Owe You My Life situation). His reward for this is to be brutally murdered by the very men he spared. Octavian and Antony decide not to risk the same fate befalling them.
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Rome / int_ec8290b6	type	Snap Back
Rome / int_ec8290b6	comment	Octavia breaks, but eventually snaps back into a less stressed version of herself.
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Rome / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Rome / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer and staunch legalist Vorenus is disgusted when he discovers the fraud about Roman democracy but Posca convinces him it's for the best.
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Rome / int_ee302ebd	type	Barbarian Tribe
Rome / int_ee302ebd	comment	Barbarian Tribe: The series starts with Caesar in Gaul crushing the remaining Arvernian forces of Vercingetorix, who is vanquished and thrown into a dungeon. He reappears during Caesar's triumph to be displayed and publicly executed. Another tribe plays a role in the first episode, the Blue Spaniards, agents of Pompey. Some relatively refined members of Celtic tribes are later appointed senators by Caesar. Traditional Roman senators are appalled by that, and it helps lead to Caesar's assassination.
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Rome / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Rome / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Technically, Octavian would have been called "Gaius" by his family and close friends in Real Life. He's always referred to as "Octavian" to avoid confusion with his great uncle. Later he invokes his Meaningful Rename. Vorenus' daughters are Vorena (the Elder) and Vorena (the Younger). Justified, as Roman daughters were typically just given the feminine form of their fathers' name. Families would often have several daughters with the same name.note For instance, Octavia's daughters by Mark Antony were both called Antonia.
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Rome / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Rome / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Played with. Subverted: Antony has been slow to aid a campaigning Caesar who is under threat from Pompey. Antony seems to be on the fence about leaving Rome and going to aid Caesar. Atia learns of the threat to Caesar and tries to convince Antony to betray Caesar and seize Rome for himself (herself more like it). But instead of goading him into betrayal, it seems to snap Antony out of his indecisiveness. He quickly rebukes Atia and quickly runs to help Caesar. Under orders from Octavian, Pullo makes a half-hearted attempt to flip Vorenus against Antony. It's a foregone conclusion how that turns out.
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Rome / int_ef1921bb	type	Is That the Best You Can Do?
Rome / int_ef1921bb	comment	Pullo breaking formation to kick some Gaul ass, then quipping "Already? I was just beginning to enjoy myself!" when his superiors are done whipping him for insubordination.
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Rome / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
Rome / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Posca often talks back to Caesar, and so do Gaia to Pullo & Vorenus and Cleopatra's slave to her.
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Rome / int_f0864fd9	type	Combat by Champion
Rome / int_f0864fd9	comment	Combat by Champion: A surrounded Antony challenges Octavian to this kind of personal resolution, who just laughs at the idea.
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Rome / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Rome / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Many of the body slaves to their masters; some even commit suicide so they'll be Together in Death. Pullo to Vorenus. Vorenus to whomever he's sworn loyalty to.
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Rome / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Rome / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Octavian asks a prostitute with a Slavic accent where she's from, and is surprised to be told she doesn't know. She explains that's because when she was a child the Roman army carried her off to Rome as a slave, after massacring everyone else in her family. After his defeat in Africa Cato contemplates a dying War Elephant, lying on its side in the desert heat and unable to rise again. Even Pullo looks grim when he comes across the aftermath of the battle at Mutina.
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Rome / int_f2802897	type	Tyrannicide
Rome / int_f2802897	comment	Tyrannicide: The series depicts the assassination of Julius Caesar by Brutus and his allies at the end of the first season. When they later discuss the aftermath with Caesar's surviving ally Mark Antony, the latter points out that justifying Caesar's murder as tyrannicide has created a conundrum for everyone, as all of Caesar's motions, including the appointment of Brutus' and Antony's offices, are legally null and void. The factions agree to forego a new election by declaring Caesar's death accidental.
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Rome / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Rome / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Caesar can be ruthless but manages to fit this trope fairly well. He spares Vorenus and Pullo several times and his response to Brutus and Cicero trying to surrender is to hug them, apologize to Brutus while kissing his cheek, beg them to tell him that Pompey, an even bigger enemy, is still alive, and then, drag them off to have food since it must have been awhile since they had a decent meal. More than one character points out that forgiving people is Caesar's shtick, doing double duty as a way to be seen as a Reasonable Authority Figure and to make people beholden to him. Note that this was the modus operandi too of the real life Caesar.
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Rome / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Rome / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Caesar, Antony and Timon, amongst others.
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Rome / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Rome / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: An in-universe example; the Forum newsreader closes several of his news decrees with the same advertisement. "This month's public bread is provided by the Capitoline Brotherhood of Millers! The Brotherhood uses only the finest flour! True Roman bread for true Romans." He seems increasingly tired of reading it each time.
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Rome / int_f54f1401	type	Passed-Over Inheritance
Rome / int_f54f1401	comment	Passed-Over Inheritance: During the reading of Caesar's will, Atia and Antony are shocked that Octavian gets it all. Antony's reaction also foreshadows the conflict between him and Octavian.
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Rome / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Rome / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Memmio to Erastes Fulmen, with even both characters being played by actors that look very much like each other. A weird example since Erastes Fulmen's "departure" was a natural part of the script, rather than a last minute addition.
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Rome / int_f5c3983a	type	Camping a Crapper
Rome / int_f5c3983a	comment	Camping a Crapper: Vorenus started a gang war by having his men rape a guy in the toilet.
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Rome / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Rome / int_f6624c30	comment	Many of the body slaves to their masters; some even commit suicide so they'll be Together in Death.
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Rome / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Rome / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Frequently adopted by many characters. Pullo and Vorenus leave a trail of dead bodies wherever they go.
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Rome / int_f786350a	type	Dying Curse
Rome / int_f786350a	comment	Dying Curse: After the death of her son and the extinction of her political cause (partly due to Atia's machinations), Servilia goes to Atia's house with a knife, chants incessantly until Atia comes out to confront her. Then, with the full attention of everybody around, she indulges in a lengthy curse of Atia, damning her to have nothing but "bitterness and despair" for the rest of her life. To seal the deal, she then stabs herself, with her servant following suit. While Atia achieves the goal she's been aiming for the entire series, she finds it's Lonely at the Top.
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Rome / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Rome / int_f96f8980	comment	Vorenus had this reaction when Pullo killed one of his slaves just because he was in a relationship with the girl he loves.
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Rome / int_f9814fe7	type	Improvised Lockpick
Rome / int_f9814fe7	comment	Improvised Lockpick: Titus Pullo keeps one of his thugs in a locked cage, feeding him off scraps, in punishment for trying to steal from him. Unfortunately he picks the lock with a piece of bone and nearly kills Pullo.
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Rome / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Rome / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Cleopatra's servant fatally tricks Antony — who is a political liability by then — into thinking her master / his lover is dead. Vorenus is appalled when he discovers the ruse.
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Rome / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Rome / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Cato and Scipio leads this after dumping Pompeii. They are defeated very handily.
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Rome / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Rome / int_f9f2c33	comment	Seems to be a Running Gag with the character. Caesar and Antony are seeking to bribe a priest, offering money as a "gift" for his wife. The priest keeps bumping up the price, saying his wife has expensive tastes.
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Rome / int_fa9cd4db	type	Democracy Is Bad
Rome / int_fa9cd4db	comment	Democracy Is Bad: The Opening Narration states that Romeâ€”a Republic with many democratic traitsâ€”cannot govern itself. Magistrates are elected but many of the characters work to avoid what they call rule of the mob, consider elections a mere formality, just a matter of bribes and demagoguery and some are deeply offended when the Senate becomes less restrictive and incorporates pleb citizens and non-roman ones. Nobody really believes in democracy anyway, everything is done behind the scenes by the oligarchy, although the Caesarians are somehow the people's party as they draw a lot of their power from the plebs. NaÃ¯ve Newcomer and staunch legalist Vorenus is disgusted when he discovers the fraud about Roman democracy but Posca convinces him it's for the best. Antony plays the elections card when he negotiates the aftermath of Caesar's assassination. "Messy things elections." The conspirators are horrified as they would have to validate their taken-for-granted powers. They reach a compromise and no democracy is needed. By the end of the show the city is ruled by a sole dictator, and the order is achieved (in Real Life an unprecedented era of prosperity ensued, the Pax Augusta aka Pax Romana).
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Rome / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Rome / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: When mollifying Eirene's jealousy over Pullo's friendship with Vorenus, Pullo says that if the two of them were drowning, he'd save Eirene first every time. She's touched, but after a moment, he decides to ruin the moment with a joke, "You're half his size!" She doesn't understand, so he explains, "You're lighter. Easier to rescue!" But she still doesn't get it, so he decides to cut his losses and accept her reconciliation.
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Rome / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Rome / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Unlike Caesar, Antony is particularly cruel to Posca when Posca achieves his freedom, even though he relies on his administrative knowledge to run his portion of the empire. Tiring of Antony's moods, Posca steals his will and shares it with Octavian.
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Rome / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Rome / int_fbd285b7	comment	At the end of Season 2, Caesarion asks Vorenus about his father, which he thinks is Caesar. Vorenus proceeds to tell him about his father...the real one, Pullo. At first, he manages to pull it and to enjoy it, then a major difference between Pullo and Caesar comes up. Doubles as Comically Missing the Point, since the kid believes it all.
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Rome / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Rome / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Brutus, whose only goal is the preservation of a sacred Republic started by an ancient kin. He reluctantly joins the plot to kill Caesar when he realizes that Caesar may be a threat to the constitutional order. He insists that only Caesar be killed, as "we are tyrant killers, liberators, not murderers". He thus spares Antony, which backfires as Antony eventually continues the civil war and helps the survivors of Caesar's party defeat Brutus and the other conspirators.
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Rome / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Rome / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Very minute details of the Roman world are constantly and unemphatically recreated by the show. The arena set, for instance, is completely realistic. On the DVD commentary, the show runners point out that most gladiator fights were everyday local events and took place in the Forum Romanum, not in large-scale arenas. The not yet built Colosseum would be the exception, the small temporary arena in the Forum that we see in Rome was the norm. It's a case of Reality Is Unrealistic. The opening battle in Gaul is likely one of the most accurate depictions of legion warfare every put to film. The legionaries work in a tight, highly-disciplined formation. The front rank is regularly replaced by fresh men, all coordinated by whistle-blowing centurions. It's simple, mechanical, almost boring, and devastatingly effective against chaotic Gaulish tribesmen. Just as telling, the Military Maverick who goes rogue is not lauded for his bravery: he's brutally flogged and sentenced to death.
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Rome	hasFeature	Diegetic Switch / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dishonored Dead / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Do-Anything Soldier / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dominance Through Furniture / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dreadlock Warrior / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dreaming of Things to Come / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dressing to Die / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	During the War / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Dying Curse / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Edited for Syndication / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Enemies List / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Erotic Asphyxiation / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Escort Distraction / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Eternal Sexual Freedom / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Everybody Hates Hades / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Evil Matriarch / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Face Framed in Shadow / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Facial Dialogue / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Fade to White / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Family Relationship Switcheroo / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Famous Ancestor / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Fascinating Eyebrow / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Finish Him! / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Forced Miscarriage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Forced Prize Fight / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Forging the Will / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Freedom from Choice / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Friendship Moment / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	From Camouflage to Criminal / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Generic Graffiti / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Get It Over With / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Gladiator Games / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Gladiator Revolt / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Go Out with a Smile / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Going Cold Turkey / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Good Republic, Evil Empire / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Graffiti of the Resistance / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Grapes of Luxury / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Gratuitous Rape / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Great Way to Go / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Ham-to-Ham Combat / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Hangover Sensitivity / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Happiness in Slavery / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Happy Flashback / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Harp of Femininity / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Hemo Erotic / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Herald / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Hero Stole My Bike / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Historical Character's Fictional Relative / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Historical In-Joke / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Historical Relationship Overhaul / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Hollywood Costuming / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Honorable Warrior's Death / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	How the Mighty Have Fallen / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	How Would You Like to Die? / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Human Doorstop / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Human Sacrifice / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	I Am the Noun / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	I Banged Your Mom / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	I Didn't Tell You Because You'd Be Unhappy / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	I Kiss Your Foot / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	I Kiss Your Hand / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Ignore the Fanservice / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Ignored Epiphany / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Immediate Sequel / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Improvised Lockpick / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Infraction Distraction / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Intergenerational Friendship / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	International Coproduction / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	It's Not About the Request / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Just a Kid / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Just Following Orders / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	"Just Joking" Justification / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Just the First Citizen / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Keep the Reward / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Kosher Nostra / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Ladykiller in Love / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Large-Ham Announcer / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Last Episode Theme Reprise / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Lawful Neutral / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Leave No Witnesses / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Lecherous Licking / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Legally Dead / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Let Us Never Speak of This Again / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Line in the Sand / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Little People Are Surreal / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Local Reference / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Lonely at the Top / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Longest Pregnancy Ever / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Lost Will and Testament / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Love Ruins the Realm / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Lover and Beloved / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Lying Finger Cross / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Made of Plasticine / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Makeup Is Evil / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Male Frontal Nudity / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Man Bites Man / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mangst / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Marriage Before Romance / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mayâ€“December Romance / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Meaningful Look / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Meatgrinder Surgery / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mid-Season Twist / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Milking the Giant Cow / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mob War / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Momma's Boy / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Money to Throw Away / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mooning / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Moving the Goalposts / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Mundane Object Amazement / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Murder the Hypotenuse / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Music for Courage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	My Master, Right or Wrong / int_8d84363c
NathanielParker	seeAlso	Rome
Rome	hasFeature	No Guy Wants to Be Chased / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	No Party Like a Donner Party / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	No Pregger Sex / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Noble Savage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Not Allowed to Grow Old / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Odd Couple / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Odd Job Gods / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Off the Table / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Offerings to the Gods / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Officer and a Gentleman / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Oh, My Gods! / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	One-Woman Wail / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Orgasmic Combat / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Passed-Over Inheritance / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Passive-Aggressive Kombat / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Perfectly Arranged Marriage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Pinned to the Wall / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Plausible Deniability / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Please Shoot the Messenger / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Plot-Triggering Death / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Portent of Doom / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Pragmatic Pansexuality / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Prayer of Malice / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Pretext for War / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Professional Sex Ed / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Promotion, Not Punishment / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Puppet State / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Racial Face Blindness / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Rape, Pillage, and Burn / int_8d84363c
RayStevenson	seeAlso	Rome
Rome	hasFeature	Relationship Sabotage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Relative Button / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Rescue Sex / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Revealing Hug / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Right Through the Wall / int_8d84363c
Rome	seeAlso	Rome
Rome	hasFeature	Royal Brat / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Sacred Hospitality / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Sarcastic Clapping / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Servile Snarker / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Sex as Rite-of-Passage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Sex for Services / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Sex Montage / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Shield Bash / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Shiny New Australia / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Shoot the Messenger / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Silence, You Fool! / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Silent Whisper / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Slip into Something More Comfortable / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Smells Sexy / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Snipe Hunt / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Suspicious Spending / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Swirlie / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Sword and Sandal / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Tag Team Suicide / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Talkative Loon / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Tastes Like Chicken / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	That's an Order! / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Dung Ages / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Easy Way or the Hard Way / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Immodest Orgasm / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Noseless / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Patient Has Left the Building / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Place / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Purge / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Snack Is More Interesting / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Women Are Safe with Us / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	This Is Wrong on So Many Levels! / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Those Two Guys / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Tired of Running / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Title Theme Drop / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	To Win Without Fighting / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Tongue Trauma / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Too Good to Last / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Too Important to Walk / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Torture Always Works / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Totem Pole Trench / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Tragic Mistake / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Traumatic Haircut / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Tyrannicide / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Un-Confession / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Understatement / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Viewers Are Morons / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Villain Respect / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Villainous Face Hold / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Virgin-Shaming / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Wall Bang Her / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	War Elephants / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Warding Gestures / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	We Do the Impossible / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	What a Drag / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	What Did I Do Last Night? / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	While Rome Burns / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	White Shirt of Death / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	White Stallion / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Window Love / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Wise Beyond Their Years / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	With Due Respect / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Woman Scorned / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Written by the Winners / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	You Just Had to Say It / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame / int_8d84363c
Rome (Music)	seeAlso	Rome
Hogwarts Hocus (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Rome
Spartacus: Blood and Sand	seeAlso	Rome
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox	seeAlso	Rome
Rome	hasFeature	Mutilation Interrogation / int_8d84363c
Rome	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_8d84363c
rome	sameAs	Rome

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