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The Borgias

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The Borgias	comment	The Borgias is a television series that ran on Showtime for three seasons.Having had such a big success with The Tudors, Showtime has continued the theme of sexy period drama by turning to another turbulent period of history, and another notorious family. Stage left; enter the Borgias.The Borgias, or at least this particular branch of the family, have become a byword for corruption and decadence in Renaissance Italy. It doesn't help that the head of the family, Rodrigo (Jeremy Irons), is often believed to have bought, murdered, and blackmailed his way into the papacy. Or that he had a string of mistresses well into his sixties, despite the fact that he was, you know, a cardinal and then Pope. Or that he installed at least one of those mistresses in the Vatican itself. Or that he also had at least four acknowledged children, again despite the cardinal and Pope schtick. Or that one of his sons, Cesare (François Arnaud), was a Magnificent Bastard in every sense of the word. Or that his daughter, Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger), has something of a reputation as a poisoner and a femme fatale. Or that one of her husbands accused her of committing incest with her father and brother. Or that Cesare is rumored to have killed his brother, Giovanni, and either murdered or ordered the murder of his sister's second husband. Or that...Well, you get the picture. Let's not even start on 'The Banquet of the Chestnuts'. To be fair, the Borgias had many enemies and faced much more scrutiny than was typical of the time due to xenophobia (Rodrigo being a Spaniard who moved to Italy to advance his career) and much that was written about them was quite possibly exaggerated, expanded upon, or possibly even made up, to demonize the family. Not that this means that they were particularly nice people; they weren't, even by the standards of the time. Considering the world they lived in - Rome in the 15th century had corruption up to the ears - they couldn't afford to be.In other words, sex, plots, betrayal, hypocrisy, the Catholic Church, exaggeration and fabrication of historical facts—the perfect recipe for a TV show!All this is portrayed in the series and then some. Jeremy Irons has top billing as Pope Alexander VI, and the series debuted in April 2011. It has garnered some of the highest ratings on Showtime, and was renewed for a second, and then a third season. Shortly before the end of the third season, Showtime announced they were cancelling the series. Plans for a TV movie to wrap up the series were shelved due to the expense of the project, with the proposed script being released as an e-book instead.Not to be confused with a 1981 series, also called The Borgias, which was produced by The BBC. That version was one in a series of failures by the BBC to create "the new I, Claudius".See also the rival production Borgia, the European 2011 version produced by Canal+ and created by Tom Fontana from Oz.
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The Borgias / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
The Borgias / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Cesare gives one to Lucrezia in an attempt to calm her down after she discovers that she'll have to publicly consummate a marriage she regrets.
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The Borgias / int_117c6f30	type	Old Man Marrying a Child
The Borgias / int_117c6f30	comment	Old Man Marrying a Child: 14-year-old Lucrezia is forced to marry the much older Giovanni Sforza. Unfortunately, he believes in Marital Rape License.
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The Borgias / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Borgias / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Juan runs away from "The Siege of Forlì" after the Sforza army defeats his.
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The Borgias / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
The Borgias / int_126ce03c	comment	He was rumored by his contemporaries to be one of the most handsome guys around (at least when he was younger), much like Cesare later on (minus the syphilis marks). Maybe by the time of the portrait he just didn't care anymore, being pope and all.
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The Borgias / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Borgias / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Teenage Lucrezia is raped repeatedly after she is married to the sadist Giovanni Sforza. The trauma of the experience apparently morphs her into the scheming and lustful character she has entered the History books as.
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The Borgias / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
The Borgias / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Juan is this to Cesare. As François Arnaud put it in a recent interview, "Cesare profoundly believes that his brother is an idiot." A belief which is frequently borne out.
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The Borgias / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Borgias / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Lucrezia after Paolo's death.
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The Borgias / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Borgias / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Borgias would count more if there were more than six of them. The Sforzas definitely do.
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The Borgias / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
The Borgias / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Cesare turns reluctantly being this into an art. Not so much anymore.
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The Borgias / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
The Borgias / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: The first episode features a pet Capuchin Monkey from South America in a prominent way. Notice that the scene takes place within days of Rodrigo's election in August 1492, when Columbus still had to complete his first voyage. There's also Caterina Sforza's Harris hawk. Harris hawks are a North American species, and weren't brought to Europe until long after the time period of the series (whatever it is.)
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The Borgias / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
The Borgias / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry: Cesare carrying the sleeping Lucrezia to bed on her wedding night. He does it again after she faints during the discovery of Paolo's corpse.
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The Borgias / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Borgias / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Various episode titles, including Cesare in "Nessuno" (which is Italian for "nobody"). Also a Chekhov's Gun.
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The Borgias / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
The Borgias / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Cesare and Juan, despise one another. The cunning, intelligent Cesare bitterly resents the fact that his father forced him to become a Cardinal while his incompetent, Spoiled Brat little brother becomes heir to the family estate and gets the command of the papal military forces, a position Cesare himself always wanted. And Juan, fully aware that Cesare would have preferred a secular career, persistently teases his brother, telling him a cleric can't or shouldn't fight.
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The Borgias / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Borgias / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: In one of the promos for the first season, a completely nude Giulia Farnese advises Lucrezia to use her female beauty for gain, reassuring that "it can be deadly"; the two are apparently modeling for Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. This scene does not appear in the actual series, even though Giulia says the exact same words to Lucrezia at some point. Also, if all you knew about the series came from the promo material, you might think Cesare and Lucrezia's relationship is a lot more incestuous than it actually is. Nowadays, Cesare and Lucrezia's relationship is exactly as incestuous as the trailers imply.
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The Borgias / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
The Borgias / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: Lucrezia. In season 3, she begins to utilize her newly developed knowledge in poisons in order to save her father and assist her husband into a painless death.
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The Borgias / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
The Borgias / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Juan claims this happened with him and his men during the battle at Forlì, but it was a lie.
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The Borgias / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Borgias / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Rodrigo's appointments and politicking in the name of all of his children is seen as this, but the elevation of Cesare to Cardinal is perceived as the most appalling.
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The Borgias / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Borgias / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Rodrigo and Giulia Farnese. In real life Rodrigo was somewhere around his sixties and Giulia sixteen when they first hooked up. In the series, she is clearly much younger than him, but not that young, since she's old enough to have had a child and act as a mentor to the 14 year old Lucrezia.
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The Borgias / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Borgias / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Savonarola's prophecy in "The Borgias in Love" is echoed in "Death on a Pale Horse", when it finally hits Giuliano della Rovere that Savonarola foresaw the French invasion Giuliano della Rovere himself brought about. The reason Giovanni Sforza is such a Jerkass to Lucrezia is because he regards the events of the wedding party to be "A public HUMILIATION!" His divorce ended up teaching the Italian snob the true meaning of "public humiliation".
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The Borgias / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Borgias / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Lucrezia says in "The Prince" that another child is the only thing that would make her happy and implies that she wants Cesare to impregnate her.
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The Borgias / int_24115bb4	type	Pass Fail
The Borgias / int_24115bb4	comment	Pass Fail: Rodrigo's enemies believe him and his family to be marranos- that is, Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism sometime ago. Giuliano della Rovere, who has no liking for the Borgia family, nevertheless finds this to be an unfair accusation and a grave insult.
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The Borgias / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Borgias / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Cardinal della Rovere and Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, and even they have to get their hands dirty to survive.
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The Borgias / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Borgias / int_2493b31d	comment	In season two, Giulia and Vannozza fall into this, with a side of Fire-Forged Friends.
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The Borgias / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Borgias / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: There is no way the Borgias would have publicly acknowledged any illegitimate child of Lucrezia's. Her main value to the family, politically, was in her marriageability, which would have been seriously damaged by the scandal of a son out of wedlock. Nor would she have had the freedom to choose her second husband as she does in the show; the main object of such marriages was to secure alliances, money and/or other political advantages, with the feelings of the bride ranking very low on the list of priorities. In the first episode, Handel's Coronation anthem, "Zadok the Priest," is played during Rodrigo's coronation as Pope. This Coronation theme, the traditional theme for the crowning of British Monarchs, however, was written in the 1720's, nearly 250 years after the events of the shows.
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The Borgias / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Borgias / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: In the French invasion of Lucca in "Death on a Pale Horse", where a young girl is skewered by one of the French soldiers. And again in "The Choice", when several choirboys are hit by falling masonry after the ceiling of the Lateran basilica caves in.
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The Borgias / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Borgias / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: Savonarola quotes Revelation 6:8 in "Death on a Pale Horse". Two other episodes share their titles with works of Niccolò Machiavelli, appropriately: "The Art of War" and the series finale "The Prince."
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The Borgias / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Borgias / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To The Tudors, though Neil Jordan had been attempting to get the project made as a film long before The Tudors existed on television. It's an odd case of a preexisting concept being turned into a kind of Dolled-Up Installment when it comes to spiritual succession.
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The Borgias / int_28b08686	type	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy
The Borgias / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Giulia organizes this for the cardinals in "The Banquet of Chestnuts". The idea is to give Rodrigo blackmail ammo to keep the cardinals loyal.
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The Borgias / int_298b1a12	type	Knocking on Heathens' Door
The Borgias / int_298b1a12	comment	Knocking on Heathens' Door: A very dark variant, as the boys who follow Savonarola are not looking to share any good news; they're looking to collect vanities for burning, and will vandalize property in order to get people to comply.
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The Borgias / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
The Borgias / int_2a6bf668	comment	Inadequate Inheritor: Basically everyone except Rodrigo considers Juan to be this. Although Rodrigo does mention it after Juan curb-stomps poor Theo, voicing the popular opinion that Cesare would be better suited to the position and subtly threatening to disinherit Juan if he doesn't apologise and promise to restrain himself in the future.
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The Borgias / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
The Borgias / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Both Ludovico and Giovanni Sforza. Cardinal della Rovere grows one for season 2.
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The Borgias / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Borgias / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Rodrigo in "The Borgias in Love", dreaming of Lucrezia.
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The Borgias / int_2fd5d26d	type	Dramatic Deadpan
The Borgias / int_2fd5d26d	comment	Dramatic Deadpan: Micheletto is utterly matter-of-fact when he informs Cesare that he murdered his own father, and Cesare's reaction is equally unfazed.
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The Borgias / int_32ae7812	type	Inbred and Evil
The Borgias / int_32ae7812	comment	Inbred and Evil: As Juan undergoes Sanity Slippage while he's dying from an STD and dulling the pain with opium, he muses about the possibility of his siblings Cesare and Lucrezia being lovers and starts to suspect that Lucrezia's child is really Cesare's and might well be The Antichrist. This puts his later endangerment of the child in front of his mother (by dangling it over a balcony) in a different light.
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The Borgias / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
The Borgias / int_33ba37ca	comment	Juan and one of his conquests also find themselves in this position—they're in regular bed, but they're also under a very pointy chandelier, and Lucrezia, having learned that Juan murdered Paolo, has set a candle right under the rope holding it aloft. It falls and kills Juan's bedmate while they're in the middle of sex.
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The Borgias / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Borgias / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Leonardo da Vinci doesn't appear in the show at all (though his work is seen and he has something of a Written-In Absence), despite having been connected to the Borgias in real life. It's a bizarre omission considering the vast array of other historical figures that were written into the show in very different ways from their actual history. Isabella d'Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga, was one of the most important women of Renaissance and even defined "The First Lady of the world". She was, however, cut out and in her place there is the fictional Bianca Gonzaga. As Leonardo, Isabella was connected to the Borgia: she later became Lucrezia's sister in law, and Lucrezia had a relationship with Isabella's husband. Pedro-Luis Borgia, Rodrigo's eldest bastard son. Of course, he was long dead by the time of the series, but a mention might have been nice, especially since it explains why Rodrigo is so adamant that Cesare must be an ecclesiastic: in influential families of the Renaissance, the first son was bred to be a warrior, and the second son to be a priest.
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The Borgias / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
The Borgias / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Giulia's strategy to maintain Rodrigo's affections. It worked.
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The Borgias / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
The Borgias / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Rodrigo gives two hilarious ones to Cardinal Orsini and Cardinal della Rovere, two of the cardinals who oppose him. Classic example of Throw It In; Irons just thought it'd be funny to see the looks on their faces and went for it. He also gave one to the Spanish Ambassador in "The Art of War", saying "Judas Iscariot kissed our Savior thus".
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The Borgias / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Borgias / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Poor Theo gets his ass kicked by Juan basically for being a commoner and his mother's actual husband. He believes the local gossip that Theo is his real father, and not Rodrigo. Juan has a habit of doing bad things for this reason; his murder of Paolo for daring to have a relationship with Lucrezia is at least a case of this trope, if not a full-blown Moral Event Horizon.
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The Borgias / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Borgias / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: How peasants kill time in Florence in "World of Wonders".
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The Borgias / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
The Borgias / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Or villainous Incest Subtext. Ironically, where that would normally make Cesare and Lucrezia look more villainous, it instead makes them more sympathetic and tragic.
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The Borgias / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
The Borgias / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Lucrezia gives one to Cesare during a tearful fight.
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The Borgias / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
The Borgias / int_36215b80	comment	In one of the promos for the first season, a completely nude Giulia Farnese advises Lucrezia to use her female beauty for gain, reassuring that "it can be deadly"; the two are apparently modeling for Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. This scene does not appear in the actual series, even though Giulia says the exact same words to Lucrezia at some point. Also, if all you knew about the series came from the promo material, you might think Cesare and Lucrezia's relationship is a lot more incestuous than it actually is.
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The Borgias / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
The Borgias / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: As soon as Cesare says that he needs to confess before telling him who killed Juan, Rodrigo knows that something terrible is afoot.
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The Borgias / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
The Borgias / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Book, art, fine clothing, furniture and taxidermied owl burning, as the Bonfire of the Vanities takes place in the episode "The Siege at Forli."
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The Borgias / int_36ae9f5d	type	Traumatic Haircut
The Borgias / int_36ae9f5d	comment	Traumatic Haircut: When Ursula enters a convent after her husband's death, her hair is cut off. Notable, though, in that this is by choice, and the trauma in question is what lead to her making this decision rather than the haircut itself.
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The Borgias / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
The Borgias / int_373e2b9f	comment	Ursula asks Cesare to "liberate" her from her husband... and when he does, she suffers a massive Freak Out and becomes a nun.
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The Borgias / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Borgias / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Rodrigo sends the French forces to take over their new kingdom of Naples... where The Black Death is waiting.
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The Borgias / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Borgias / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: For anyone who knows the real history. Della Rovere becomes Pope Julius II. Amusingly, Giulia Farnese's dopey little brother who can't make sense of the Vatican account books becomes Pope Paul III some thirty years after the timeline of the show. Juan dies under mysterious circumstances and his body is found floating in the Tiber. Savonarola is burned, after being condemned as heretic. Of course, given the liberties the show has been known to take with history, historical facts might not necessarily be Foregone Conclusions.
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The Borgias / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
The Borgias / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: Sometimes played straight, as when Cardinal Orsini is offed or the dose of cantarella in the second-season cliffhanger. Also averted on a couple of occasions when poisonings are botched.
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The Borgias / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Borgias / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Theo is on the losing end of one from Juan, who is pissed off that people are gossiping that he's Theo's son instead of Rodrigo's. Vannozza is not pleased and throws him out of her house, and Rodrigo gives him a blistering Reason You Suck Speech before slapping him and ordering him to beg forgiveness from his mother. The city state of Lucca receives one from the French armies, who tore down the city fortifications with their cannon and slaughtered the population of the city. After they surrendered. The French take out the first line of the Roman Army (who they already outnumber massively) with a single cannon salvo, and the only thing that stops them from completely wiping it out is Lucrezia's intervention.
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The Borgias / int_3d69ca47	type	AmicablyDivorced
The Borgias / int_3d69ca47	comment	Amicably Divorced: Vannozza and Theo are the 15th century version of this; he's retired to a farm paid for by Rodrigo in exchange for allowing Vannozza to do as she pleases. Vannozza and Rodrigo also have this sort of relationship once he becomes Pope.
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The Borgias / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Borgias / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: While Cesare is ready to murder Alfonso in cold blood, the later precipitates his own end by drunkenly charging into his knife, making it partly his fault. The death of his historical alter ego was a genuine, deliberate assassination.
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The Borgias / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Borgias / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Prince Djem really didn't know where he was getting into. Neither, for that matter, did della Rovere when he sought help from the French army or Paolo when he fell in love with Lucrezia.
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The Borgias / int_4059fbd2	type	Naughty Under the Table
The Borgias / int_4059fbd2	comment	Naughty Under the Table: Sancia feels up Juan.
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The Borgias / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Borgias / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Vannozza, especially in "The Assassin", when she discovers Rodrigo is sleeping with Giulia Farnese.
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The Borgias / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Borgias / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For the series as a whole: The Borgias outgambit all their foes (including Cardinal Della Rovere and The Sforza Family) and stand in the height of the power, rulling Italy unmatched. However, by this point, Cesare has lost all traces of humanity he ever had and became a power-hungry madman, Lucrezia has been completely ravaged by misery and lost her innocence, Rodrigo's ambition caused both Cesare and Lucrezia to become stranded from him and Vanozza. The family won politically, but emotionally, they have hit rock bottom permanently. Might count as a Downer Ending, depending on the viewer.* It gets worse if you know history: Rodrigo's dream of building a papal dynasty was never accomplished, and three years after the events of the third season, Rodrigo dies poisoned, Cesare is outgambitted by Della Rovere, The Borgia family is stripped of all lands, titles and political power it could ever have by Pope Julius II/Cardinal Della Rovere, Cesare and Micheletto are both murdered in skirmishes, and Lucrezia dies at childbirth not too long thereafter.
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The Borgias / int_41379078	type	Instant Seduction
The Borgias / int_41379078	comment	Instant Seduction: Gender-flipped—Lucrezia being Lucrezia. She manages to get Cesare to go from shocked hesitance to French kissing in about two seconds. If only the dressmakers hadn't walked in!
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The Borgias / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Borgias / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Cesare and Micheletto love this. Perhaps a little too much. Of course, one could say any amount of love is too much, especially when Micheletto's first two solutions to any problem seem to be either torture or murder. Under the reign of the Borgias, the Castel Sant'angelo has been turned into a torture chamber. Cardinal Sforza introduces Cardinal DeLuca to it in "The Purge".
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The Borgias / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Borgias / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: After Lucrezia and Giulia Farnese's flight, Giovanni Sforza whips Paolo asking him where they're heading. Well, genius, one is the Pope's daughter and the other the Pope's mistress. Maybe, just maybe, they're going to Rome?
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The Borgias / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
The Borgias / int_44e64e96	comment	Female Gaze: Oh, Cesare. The best example would be his slow-motion shirt-stripping scene in 3x05, done as several women watch giggling. It comes complete with a striptease-esque glance at his wife. It's made pretty clear that he knows his effect on women and the camera pays attention to that.
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The Borgias / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Borgias / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: By the end of season 1, Cesare seems to think this about della Rovere. In season 2, Rodrigo's reaction to the news of the French King's death shows that he considered him this. It doesn't quite get into Antagonist in Mourning territory, but he's not in the least bit amused by the ignominity of his end, and is not happy that the cardinals find it so funny. In season two, Giulia and Vannozza fall into this, with a side of Fire-Forged Friends.
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The Borgias / int_46cd696	type	Eye Open
The Borgias / int_46cd696	comment	Eye Open: Savonarola in "The Borgias in Love".
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The Borgias / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
The Borgias / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: Lucrezia in "Nessuno", though she's a bit better than most, with lots of standard grunting and heavy breathing too. Plus, let's be honest—she's a teen mom living in an era when half the women die during/shortly after childbirth. And there isn't any pain medication. She did pretty well, considering.
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The Borgias / int_47570927	type	Break the Cutie
The Borgias / int_47570927	comment	The reason Giovanni Sforza is such a Jerkass to Lucrezia is because he regards the events of the wedding party to be "A public HUMILIATION!" His divorce ended up teaching the Italian snob the true meaning of "public humiliation".
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The Borgias / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Borgias / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The French soldiers. Micheletto drowns an altar boy.
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The Borgias / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Borgias / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Vittoria is not particularly convincing as a boy.
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The Borgias / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
The Borgias / int_499499e6	comment	Leonardo da Vinci doesn't appear in the show at all (though his work is seen and he has something of a Written-In Absence), despite having been connected to the Borgias in real life. It's a bizarre omission considering the vast array of other historical figures that were written into the show in very different ways from their actual history.
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The Borgias / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Borgias / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: This show takes an unholy glee in subverting it. The absolute crowner though, must be the demonstration of the French chained cannonballs in "The Art of War", wherein we see soldiers bisected.
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The Borgias / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
The Borgias / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: Cesare with Ursula, to some degree. Cesare is a big fan of this, as he does it in season 3 with Lucrezia. Though not without reason, it doesn't go over well with her.
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The Borgias / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
The Borgias / int_4d422f71	comment	Classic example of Throw It In; Irons just thought it'd be funny to see the looks on their faces and went for it.
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The Borgias / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
The Borgias / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: Cardinal della Rovere in Naples. Micheletto while lounging around with his lover in "Tears of Blood".
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The Borgias / int_4dd6313f	type	It's Always Spring
The Borgias / int_4dd6313f	comment	It's Always Spring: While remaining deliberately vague about the passing of time and moving some events up and down the time table for story-telling purposes, the first season seems to cover the years 1492-1495, but no sign of changing seasons is ever seen. Although the climate in Italy is generally divided into two seasons, with mostly persistent weather throughout each of them.
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The Borgias / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
The Borgias / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Micheletto and his lover Augustino do it in a graveyard. Juan and one of his conquests also find themselves in this position—they're in regular bed, but they're also under a very pointy chandelier, and Lucrezia, having learned that Juan murdered Paolo, has set a candle right under the rope holding it aloft. It falls and kills Juan's bedmate while they're in the middle of sex. Juan and Sancia on the table in the banquet room where the king of Naples keeps dead guests.
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The Borgias / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
The Borgias / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Just look the assassin in "Lucrezia's Wedding", goddamn.
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The Borgias / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
The Borgias / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: It's set in Italy during the Renaissance; elaborate historical clothes are something of a given. Especially for the Pope and, of course, the women.
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The Borgias / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Borgias / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In "World of Wonders", Cesare delivers an excellent one to Juan, before stabbing him and dumping his body in the Tiber.
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The Borgias / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Borgias / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Giuliano della Rovere takes out two highwaymen who threaten him and the nun he is traveling with and says "Forgive me sister, sometimes goodness needs the help of a little badness."
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The Borgias / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Borgias / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Season 2 begins and ends with poisonings. Lucrezia's marriage to Giovanni Sforza begins and ends with him being humiliated - although the first is only in his head, while the last is a deliberate set-up to vilify and embarrass him as much as possible. Season 3 begins and ends with Lucrezia using her knowledge of poisons to help a loved one.
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The Borgias / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
The Borgias / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: Very mild example—Rodrigo gives his papal name a Latin number when spoken aloud ("Alexander Sextus" instead of "Alexander the Sixth"). Justified by the fact that at this point in history (and indeed until the 1960s), Church business was conducted in Latin.
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The Borgias / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Borgias / int_537dd8fe	comment	Rodrigo, with his many Affably Evil Pet the Dog moments, and his sincerely held belief that the common people should be able to benefit from his plans to restore Rome, is trying to be this.
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The Borgias / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Borgias / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Micheletto to Cesare. Cesare and Ascanio Sforza to Rodrigo. Though Ascanio is a Dragon with an Agenda. And by the end of series 2, Cesare is Dragon-in-Chief. Machiavelli to the House of Medici. Giovanni Sforza might be this to Caterina, depending on how much she depends on him. Alternatively, he may just be The Brute.
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The Borgias / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Borgias / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: However bad Rodrigo may be, imagine how messed up the religious system that allowed him to come to power is. Considering the time period and the sort of environment that would lead to the Reformation, this is (for some, sadly) Truth in Television. Indulgences, the practice that more than any other brought on the Reformation, are instituted by Rodrigo in the third season. If you want absolution you have to pay.
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The Borgias / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Borgias / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Lucrezia, Vannozza, and Giulia delight in outsmarting the powerful men around them in order to help the poor. Though that doesn't stop them from having a bit of fun, either.
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The Borgias / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Borgias / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: All over the place. It's to be expected, since the show is produced by the same company that made The Tudors, which was known for not inviting realism over for tea. For one, the Siege of Lucca never happened (Rule of Drama, of course, but with the city whose walls still exist and are one of the greatest example of urban fortification?). The presence of Machiavelli is an example too; the time frame isn't very clear after the 1492 title in the pilot episode, but most of the events depicted took place between 1492 and 1496 in real life. Machiavelli was elected head of the Second Chancery in 1498 and didn't hold any political position in Florence before that. Then again, the show seems to be under the impression that he worked for the Medici, so the year alone isn't the only bit of artistic license (in reality they were his arch enemies who had him imprisoned and tortured-many think he wrote his infamous book The Prince in part as veiled criticism of them). Juan Borgia never laid siege to Forli. Cesare did, successfully, and that siege is shown in series finale "The Prince". It's safe to say that The Borgias' setting is more like an alternative universe than a historical one. The page quote, allegedly attributed to Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici and also paraphrased, is in fact a common and incorrect misquotation. What he actually said was; Also notable is the manner in which Cesare and Micheletto first meet. In fact, the two were friends from childhood and had attended university together in Pisa. Far from the lowly origins his fictional character is portrayed as having, the historical Miquel de Corella was the bastard son of a nobleman from Valencia.
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The Borgias / int_5aa2b7c8	type	Powder Trail
The Borgias / int_5aa2b7c8	comment	Powder Trail: Used in an assassination attempt on Cesare by Caterina Sforza; she knows he will want to investigate her (fake) relic inside a cave, and lays a powder trail to blow him up while he's doing so. He lives though.
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The Borgias / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Borgias / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: After Prospero plots to betray Cesare in "The Gunpowder Plot", Cesare lights him on fire.
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The Borgias / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
The Borgias / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: Micheletto's failed assassination of Cardinal della Rovere in Naples results in this, as he garrotes an unfortunate mook who attacks him after he is recognised by the target.
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The Borgias / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Borgias / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Rodrigo keeps dreaming of Lucrezia after her marriage to Giovanni Sforza.
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The Borgias / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
The Borgias / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Rodrigo and Giulia, with Cesare left to run interference to keep Vannozza from making scenes.
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The Borgias / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
The Borgias / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Cardinal Orsini in "The Poisoned Chalice", Paolo in "Paolo", Ursula Bonadeo in "Stray Dogs", Giovanni Sforza in "The Choice", and Juan in "World of Wonders".
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The Borgias / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
The Borgias / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex??: A rather creepy version in which Rodrigo judges from Lucrezia's smile and blush that her wedding night was all she had hoped it would be. She did have great sex; just with her brother rather than her husband.
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The Borgias / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Borgias / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: YMMV, but many fans think that Ursula Bonadeo was this for Cesare after Lucrezia was married off. She's blonde, wears hairnets, and suffers from an abusive husband... Hmmm...
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The Borgias / int_65331274	type	Flynning
The Borgias / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Between the elder Borgia brothers in "The Borgia Bull". Possibly justified, in that while they are getting increasingly hostile, they are not really trying to kill each other.
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The Borgias / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
The Borgias / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: In "The Moor," Lucrezia and Djem share a dance that starts out fun and playful, then becomes more and more intense. Also, Lucrezia's dance with Cesare seems to be this as well during the season two finale, which their mother and her fiance seem to notice.
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The Borgias / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
The Borgias / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: The final step in Giovanni Sforza's Humiliation Conga.
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The Borgias / int_6a25c388	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
The Borgias / int_6a25c388	comment	Juan and Sancia on the table in the banquet room where the king of Naples keeps dead guests.
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The Borgias / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
The Borgias / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: Of the L-shaped variety for Cesare and Ursula in "The French King". Giulia wears one in this◊ promotional poster.
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The Borgias / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Borgias / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: In "Nessuno", scenes of the Black Plague-ravaged corpses of Naples are intercut with Lucrezia giving birth to her son and the entire extended Borgia family - Giulia and Ursula as well - gathered together.
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The Borgias / int_6e514f2	type	Moment of Awesome / Sugar Wiki
The Borgias / int_6e514f2	comment	Actually, a lot of Borgia successes seem to rely on this. Consequently, a lot of them appear on the series' Moment of Awesome page.
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The Borgias / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Borgias / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Rodrigo spends all of season two trying to bring his family closer together—and has spent all of the first two seasons sewing the seeds for Juan's military career and Cesare's papal destiny—only to end up hearing, rather callously, that Cesare has murdered Juan and still cares most about abandoning the cardinalate. Oh, and Lucrezia is very, very happy to hear about Juan's death—her shrinking violet act is gone. He can have all the power in the world, but he can't change his kids' natures.
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The Borgias / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Borgias / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Placing Juan, a military commander with no battle experience, at the head of an army cobbled together to face the French (one of the most dominant and ruthless in the world)?! BAD PLAN, RODRIGO. The look on Cesare's face is pretty priceless, as well.
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The Borgias / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Borgias / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: As the show takes place during the power struggles between the rival Italian states and factions of the Renaissance, it fully embraces the moral ambiguity of the period, with few genuine heroes or outright villains. The Borgias don't shy away from using deplorable means to secure their power while continuing to do sympathetic things. Their enemies are not much different, and are defined as villains more for opposing the protagonists of the series than much exceptional vileness compared to the Borgias.
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The Borgias / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Borgias / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Joffre, Sancia, and Johannes Burchard all disappear after the first season. While Sancia and Joffre are never mentioned again, Burchard returns briefly in season three to narrate an orgy.
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The Borgias / int_7702408c	type	Big Brother Attraction
The Borgias / int_7702408c	comment	Big Brother Attraction: Well, Lucrezia and Cesare start out as this.
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The Borgias / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Borgias / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Long contested and now canon in season 3. Francois Arnaud confirmed in an interview that on an emotional level, Cesare and Lucrezia have been romantically in love with one another from the first episode, even if the relationship is not yet physical. Many viewers apparently thought that Micheletto's secret hometown lover Augustino was his brother because of the familiar way Micheletto's mother greeted him when he strolled into her home. This is never stated, however (and they look nothing alike), and are much more likely childhood friends or Not Blood Siblings at the most.
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The Borgias / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
The Borgias / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: The family needs to arrange a politically favourable marriage for Lucrezia but is lacking the money for a dowry. They engage in political murder-for-hire to raise the money.
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The Borgias / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Borgias / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Cesare kills his girlfriend Ursula's husband in "The Borgias In Love". He uses this trope to justify the killing, claiming there was no murder.
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The Borgias / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
The Borgias / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Vannozza's actual husband, Theo.
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The Borgias / int_7a6fc5ab	type	Man in the Iron Mask
The Borgias / int_7a6fc5ab	comment	Man in the Iron Mask: Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, keeps the rightful holder of his dukedom in a tiny, filthy cell set into the floor of his dining room.
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The Borgias / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Borgias / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Prince Alfonso. Young, spoiled, ruling in his father's stead in Naples, and very funny. Unfortunately, the French king does not seem to find him amusing enough to forgive him for letting the plague into "his" city.
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The Borgias / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Borgias / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Rodrigo gives one to Juan in "The French King", after Juan curb-stomps Theo.
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The Borgias / int_8061f788	type	Separated by the Wall
The Borgias / int_8061f788	comment	Separated by the Wall: The frequent confessional scenes, but particularly Cesare and Ursula.
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The Borgias / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Borgias / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: All of the Borgia children, save Cesare, but poor Lucrezia really gets the worst of it. Cesare, too, as he was ordered to marry a French princess to cement negotiations between the Vatican and the French king. Rodrigo wasn't too concerned which princess, just so long as there was one. To be fair, Cesare didn't much care either and he didn't seem too displeased with the one he ended up with.
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The Borgias / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Borgias / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Jeremy Irons, not as much as one might expect, though he turns it up to eleven in "Death on a Pale Horse". Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, even more than Rodrigo. He has absolutely No Indoor Voice.
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The Borgias / int_8344209e	type	BFG
The Borgias / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: King Charles of France and his cannons. Caterina Sforza inherits them from him later.
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The Borgias / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Borgias / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Cardinal della Rovere struggles with whether or not he can bring himself to be what he sees as this, even asking aloud during confession if one act of evil can be excused if it prevents many greater ones. Rodrigo, with his many Affably Evil Pet the Dog moments, and his sincerely held belief that the common people should be able to benefit from his plans to restore Rome, is trying to be this. Ascanio Sforza hits this one in S3.
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The Borgias / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Borgias / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Apparently the producers could have stuck to a more historically accurate story, but chose not to out of fear that the audience wouldn't believe it actually happened, according to one analysis.
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The Borgias / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
The Borgias / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Lucrezia, and to a lesser extent Giulia and Ursula, are type 1. Lucrezia manages to get a divorce out of type 4. She later graduates to type 5 when she begins an affair with the younger brother of a man she still has yet to marry (though this is short-lived, as said affair ends up being what quashes the engagement).
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The Borgias / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Borgias / int_875615dd	comment	Considering the time period and the sort of environment that would lead to the Reformation, this is (for some, sadly) Truth in Television.
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The Borgias / int_8805822f	type	Naughty Nuns
The Borgias / int_8805822f	comment	Naughty Nuns: Gender-flipped with pretty much every male cleric we see except Savonarola. Ursula, after joining the convent, is trying really hard to not become one, despite Cesare making this very difficult for her. Played straight in "The Banquet of Chestnuts" when the "nuns" turn out to be hookers.
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The Borgias / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
The Borgias / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: Juan's fancy armor. Cesare's getting some similarly fancy armor in season 3.
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The Borgias / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Borgias / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: While Rodrigo is ambitious for all of his children and is doing his best to boost all of them up in the world, he's blinded to Juan's more unsavoury character traits and refuses to allow the far-more capable Cesare to replace him in his career. Lucrezia, however, is clearly his favorite.
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The Borgias / int_88c6e936	type	Masquerade Ball
The Borgias / int_88c6e936	comment	Masquerade Ball: In Season 2 premiere "The Borgia Bull".
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The Borgias / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Borgias / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Happens (and deservingly so) to Giovanni Sforza in "Nessuno". The process of annulling his marriage to Lucrezia involves either proving his "potency" in public in front of the entire College of Cardinals (and a deeply amused Rodrigo) or admitting he's impotent and lying about the consummation of his marriage. He chooses option B and leaves Rome to much mockery from the public, which includes a masked man holding a fruit as a Gag Penis, which is then chopped off by another man with a sword.
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The Borgias / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Borgias / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The Borgia family may be sympathetic, but straightforwardly heroic they are not. It does give us a fascinating look at a Spanner in the Works Non-Action Guy Sternly Chased hero from the eyes of the Magnificent Bastard antagonists (though it's not as though said hero hasn't been learning the ways of magnificent bastardry himself).
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The Borgias / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The Borgias / int_8a9eb844	comment	It does give us a fascinating look at a Spanner in the Works Non-Action Guy Sternly Chased hero from the eyes of the Magnificent Bastard antagonists (though it's not as though said hero hasn't been learning the ways of magnificent bastardry himself).
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The Borgias / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Borgias / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill like Overkill: Cesare firmly believes in this, especially in regards to his murder of Giovanni Sforza. It's not enough for him to kill him, but he has to stab him repeatedly and then attempt to cut his heart out of his body. Too bad he gets interrupted before he can find it.
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The Borgias / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Borgias / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Cesare and Ascanio Sforza to Rodrigo. Though Ascanio is a Dragon with an Agenda. And by the end of series 2, Cesare is Dragon-in-Chief.
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The Borgias / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Borgias / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Almost every time the Borgias kill someone, that person gets at least a scene beforehand establishing that they're unredeemably evil anyway. Notably, Savonarola sanctionning the burning of a woman, Juan threating to rape and murder a dancer, Alfonso becoming a bitter, violent alcoholic in half an episode, basically everything about Giovanni Sforza.
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The Borgias / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Borgias / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Rodrigo catches Cardinal Sforza with his second cousin, and later, listens to him make a bawdy joke about Caterina. Although, really, there are a lot of Sforza cousins.
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The Borgias / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Borgias / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The Borgias is The Tudors...SET IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
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The Borgias / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Borgias / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Lucrezia may turn out to be this. Caterina Sforza, who has an incredibly easy time seducing Cesare. Twice. The French queen sees Charlotte d'Albret as this, but mostly, she's a perfect match for her eventual husband Cesare.
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The Borgias / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
The Borgias / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Apparently a place to meet up with your girlfriend, plot with your partners in crime, and occasionally murder someone.
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The Borgias / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Borgias / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Gioffre is completely unaware of what goes around him. Lucrezia too, at least at first.
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The Borgias / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Borgias / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Accomplices or stooges who take part in a Borgia assassination, if there is no further need of their services. Micheletto takes them out of the picture.
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The Borgias / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
The Borgias / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Cesare gives one to Lucrezia in "Siblings". Though they'd already played with the relationship in previous scenes, the kiss changes everything permanently and leaves both of them very visibly shaken.
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The Borgias / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Borgias / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When Rodrigo finally awakens in "The Face of Death", it's to throw up the charcoal mixture Lucrezia gave him. All over a nearby cardinal's robes.
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The Borgias / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
The Borgias / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: At the start of "Truth and Lies," we learn that King Charles is dead after bumping his head on a doorway. Truth in Television as well!
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The Borgias / int_9597a894	type	Sexual Euphemism
The Borgias / int_9597a894	comment	Sexual Euphemism: Rodrigo's politics lesson to Giulia. Her calf is Naples, her knee is Rome, her - er, "source of disquiet" is France, and he's about to "invade France".
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The Borgias / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
The Borgias / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Much is made of "Borgia blood", particularly by Giovanni Sforza "forgiving" Lucrezia the sin of her blood and informing her that when France invades Rome, her father, the source of the bad blood, will be deposed and killed. After Paolo's murder, Lucrezia mentions that he loved her despite her "Borgia blood", and her feelings of guilt suggest that she is starting to believe that her blood might be tainted.
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The Borgias / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Borgias / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: In "The Beautiful Deception", Rodrigo tells Juan that Juan must go back to "our ancestral homeland, Spain". Presumably Juan knows where his family comes from. Especially considering how much verbal abuse the entire family has suffered for being Spaniards in Rome.
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The Borgias / int_98c4ea5f	type	Falling Chandelier of Doom
The Borgias / int_98c4ea5f	comment	Falling Chandelier of Doom: Lucrezia rigs one to fall on Juan as revenge but the random girl he's having sex with at the time ends up being an unintentional human shield.
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The Borgias / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
The Borgias / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: He may not completely be there yet, but Cesare is willing to get his hands bloody for love and family—and if history's any indication, he's probably shaping up to be the less honorable sociopath as well.
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The Borgias / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
The Borgias / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: That Micheletto is a dangerous guy.
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The Borgias / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
The Borgias / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Ask King Ferrante of Naples about his "Last Supper".
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The Borgias / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Borgias / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Lucrezia asking Cesare in "World of Wonders" to "tell me about poison" is this, along with foreshadowing.
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The Borgias / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
The Borgias / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: Young Franciscan Antonello agrees to go on one for Cardinal della Rovere in order to remove “the Borgia Pope” from power. In “The Confession,” he seems to succeed.
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The Borgias / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Borgias / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Do not insult Cesare's mother Vannozza by, say, calling her a Spanish whore. It will simply get your throat cut. In "The Choice", we meet Micheletto's mother. It's safe to say that she's the one person who can pinch his cheeks and call him a sweet boy.
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The Borgias / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
The Borgias / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Machiavelli to the Medici. Vannozza to the rest of her family, as well as Giulia.
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The Borgias / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Borgias / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: When Rodrigo becomes Pope. Charles gets one when Rodrigo crowns him King of France and Naples.
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The Borgias / int_a0bb0b37	type	Knight Templar Big Brother
The Borgias / int_a0bb0b37	comment	Knight Templar Big Brother: Cesare promises Lucrezia that he will cut out her husband's heart with a dinner knife and serve it to her if he is "ungallant", a promise he mostly follows through on.
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The Borgias / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Borgias / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Cardinal della Rovere's reaction to the French sacking of Lucca.
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The Borgias / int_a201dad2	type	Passive-Aggressive Kombat
The Borgias / int_a201dad2	comment	Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Machiavelli engages in this with Charles. Piero de Medici has just basically surrendered Florence to the French, against Machiavelli's wishes. When he meets Charles at the gates he politely asks him to not point his lance forward, as this is not how you enter the city of a friend. Charles complies and points it upwards, but then it would not fit beneath the gate, forcing him to point it backwards.
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The Borgias / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Borgias / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Micheletto treats us to some by jamming his thumbs into a guard's eyes, underwater, in Naples ("The Moor"). One of Cesare's agents, posing as a monk, also gets stabbed in the eye by della Rovere.
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The Borgias / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
The Borgias / int_a3673c4c	comment	Which is more than mildly surprising, given Cardinal della Rovere's historical actions after the time-frame of the series. Perhaps the series intends to show that for him, it will eventually get easier. Historically, he was at times something akin to a condottiere even BEFORE the time-frame of the series.
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The Borgias / int_a42f56b0	type	Royal "We"
The Borgias / int_a42f56b0	comment	Royal "We": Rodrigo adopts this after being elevated to Pope. King Charles of France also uses it.
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The Borgias / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
The Borgias / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Subverted when Rodrigo finds out about the death of King Charles. Cardinals Sforza and Piccolomini are in high spirits, but Rodrigo quickly rebukes them and orders them each to recite three dozen rosaries for the soul of the deceased. Played with by the death of Juan - while Rodrigo is beside himself with grief, none of his other children are particularly saddened, and even Vannozza says that while she didn't wish for Juan's death, she has wished many times that he had never been born.
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The Borgias / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
The Borgias / int_a5f0752f	comment	For one, the Siege of Lucca never happened (Rule of Drama, of course, but with the city whose walls still exist and are one of the greatest example of urban fortification?).
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The Borgias / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Borgias / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Juan thinks that Giovanni is the result of an incestuous union between Cesare and Lucrezia—and will therefore kill them all.
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The Borgias / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
The Borgias / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Lucrezia spies on Cesare having sex in the first episode. Cesare—along with the creepy king of Naples—is forced to watch Lucrezia have sex with her husband in a public consummation. It's a lot less innocent this time around.
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The Borgias / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
The Borgias / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Vittoria the artisan's apprentice in S2
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The Borgias / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Borgias / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Truth in Television in Italy both then and now.
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The Borgias / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
The Borgias / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: We hope you didn't come into this show for Derek Jacobi.
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The Borgias / int_aacd292e	type	Offing the Mouth
The Borgias / int_aacd292e	comment	Offing the Mouth: In season 2, Cesare hatches a scheme to build fake cannons to dissuade a siege of Rome by the French army. The workers notice that the cannons are fake as they're being mounted on the city walls, and one absolute idiot starts to joke and boast that the French will crush them. Micheletto kills him on the spot and reminds the others that in order to save the city they're supposed to sell the ruse, not undermine it.
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The Borgias / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Borgias / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Every single Borgia has one: Rodrigo's blind love for his children; Juan's desperate insecurity; Cesare's ambition/obsessiveness/bloodlust... oh, pick one; Lucrezia's ultimate loyalty to the men who worship her (Cesare).
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The Borgias / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
The Borgias / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Micheletto. Lucrezia Borgia may become this in the future, depending on how many of the rumors about her the show runs with. Averted with the anonymous kitchen hand who botches the poisoning of Djem the Moor.
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The Borgias / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Borgias / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Three in quick succession in "The Art of War": Juan's reaction to seeing the French Army. His plan is to flank the French, but it is so huge he cannot see their flank, and his vaunted 'stratagem' is entirely meaningless. Lucrezia, as the King of France explains how he will use his cannons. Giuliano della Rovere, as Lucrezia convinces King Charles to concentrate on conquering Naples rather than sacking Rome and deposing Pope Alexander. In a more humorous use, there's an epic reaction from Rodrigo when he's in the bath with a one night stand and Giulia Farnese arrives.
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The Borgias / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
The Borgias / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Played straight with Rodrigo and Giulia in "The Purge"; Rodrigo apparently doesn't have the same problem with Vannozza.
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The Borgias / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
The Borgias / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: The final scene of "Nessuno" has aspects of this, with Vannozza and Giulia coming face to face for the first time. However, none of the jealousy-related bits of the trope ever come to pass; in fact, Vannozza and Giulia team up in season two.
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The Borgias / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
The Borgias / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: Cardinal Versucci, having successfully disbursed the money and properties he raided from the Vatican treasury, kills himself in this way in "The Banquet of Chestnuts".
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The Borgias / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Borgias / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Machiavelli. Rodrigo upon occasion as well, especially in the latter half of the first season. Also Cardinal Ascanio Sforza. Most of the time you get the feeling that he's vaguely mocking everything, yet his expression and tone rarely change.
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The Borgias / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Borgias / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Savonarola, relating the future French invasion.
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The Borgias / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Borgias / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Ursula asks Cesare to "liberate" her from her husband... and when he does, she suffers a massive Freak Out and becomes a nun. At the start of the series' final episode, "The Prince," Lucrezia tells Cesare that she is tired of being pushed away by him. By the end of the episode, he has murdered her husband against her wishes, and claimed her as his exclusive property.
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The Borgias / int_b0ae741	type	The Black Death
The Borgias / int_b0ae741	comment	Charles of France, who wants glory and battle and kills without mercy, is crowned King of Naples by Pope Alexander and sent to his new dominion. Shame about that plague.
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The Borgias / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
The Borgias / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: Part of the Pope's plan to bring Rome to glory.
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The Borgias / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Borgias / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Lucrezia's husband has one moment where he half-admits that he "perhaps was not kind" to Lucrezia, and "forgives [her] the accident of her birth" (ie. being lower-born than him and a Borgia.) While this is a combination of a massive understatement and truly staggering arrogance (in addition to insulting her beloved family), it is an attempt to be nice to her.
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The Borgias / int_b2d56	type	Arson, Murder, and Admiration
The Borgias / int_b2d56	comment	Arson, Murder, and Admiration: Cesare is deeply impressed by how well Giuliano della Rovere has managed to evade the Borgia assassins, kill one of them himself, and nearly had his father deposed. He offers to team up, because della Rovere is the one man who can stand up to Rodrigo and keep him in line. della Rovere, unfortunately, declines.
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The Borgias / int_b30db865	type	Space Compression
The Borgias / int_b30db865	comment	Space Compression: In the first season, Cesare and Micheletto travel by cart from Pesaro to Rome (a distance of nearly 200 miles) in less than a day.
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The Borgias / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
The Borgias / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	In season 2, Rodrigo's reaction to the news of the French King's death shows that he considered him this. It doesn't quite get into Antagonist in Mourning territory, but he's not in the least bit amused by the ignominity of his end, and is not happy that the cardinals find it so funny.
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The Borgias / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Borgias / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: In "Nessuno"—Really, French soldiers? You're going to hold Micheletto and Cesare hostage and then ask them about their silently efficient killing methods and then ASK THEM TO SHOW YOU? And you don't think they're going to demonstrate on you? Good grief.
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The Borgias / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
The Borgias / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Lucrezia is gradually becoming a case of this, after her marriage to Giovanni Sforza. It's not her fault, but with a Big, Screwed-Up Family like hers, corruption's kind of unavoidable.
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The Borgias / int_b6927d71	type	Hot for Preacher
The Borgias / int_b6927d71	comment	Hot for Preacher: Ursula. She ends up entering a nunnery in penance for being accidentally party to said hot preacher's murder of her husband, though.
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The Borgias / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Borgias / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: King Charles, though subverted in that while he enjoys battles and war, he doesn't get involved in the actual fighting and killing. He also does have some feelings of remorse, if not for making war, but for reveling in it. Caterina Sforza has shades of this, considering her offer to join Charles in "bathing in the blood of the Borgia Pope". Bonus points for the fact that she seemed dead serious, so much so that Charles doesn't look sure if he's repulsed or turned on.
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The Borgias / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Borgias / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Lucrezia is in the middle of a very interesting one with Alfonso, the husband she claims to love, and Cesare, the brother she claims to love more.
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The Borgias / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Borgias / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: "The Moor." Again in Season 2's finale “The Confession” with Antonello and Rodrigo.
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The Borgias / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
The Borgias / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The French armies sack Lucca, throwing fear into the rest of Italy.
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The Borgias / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Borgias / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Charles VIII leads his French army to rape and plunder across Italy on his way to Naples and back, although Milan and Rome manage to escape such a fate through careful diplomacy and trickery.
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The Borgias / int_bae79c50	type	Kink Meme
The Borgias / int_bae79c50	comment	Kink Meme: Over here. Comes complete with a High School AU.
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The Borgias / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Borgias / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Threaten Lucrezia in front of Cesare, I dare you. For that matter, don't call his mom a whore, either. Don't lie to Vannozza, or tell her that the Pope has to be chaste and then turn around and start sleeping with another woman. Lucrezia's continuing circus of suitors in season two seems to raise Rodrigo's blood pressure.
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The Borgias / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
The Borgias / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Lucrezia and Cesare. Unsurprisingly, due to the many contemporary allegations. Juan speculates about this in "World of Wonders". In Season 2 finale "The Confession" Lucrezia asks Cesare a question about marrying her new suitor. Cesare playfully misinterprets it as asking about marrying him, and spins a scenario about moving to some little town and changing their names. Lucrezia corrects him.
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The Borgias / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Borgias / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Rodrigo isn't overly malevolent; he rarely gives the order for an assassination, and seems to love his family, placing him somewhere around type IV. Cesare is soundly type IV, but quickly heading toward type V and hitting it officially in "The Confession".
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The Borgias / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
The Borgias / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Lucrezia faints during a confrontation in season three where she discovers that all her plotting resulted in the crowning of a king who did not have her or her family's best interests at heart.
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The Borgias / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
The Borgias / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Double Agent: In the first episodes Micheletto serves Cesare and Giuliano della Rovere simultaneously.
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The Borgias / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Borgias / int_c2c92862	comment	Unwanted Spouse: Ursula's husband and Giovanni Sforza. Gioffre and Sancia may become this for each other. Historically, Gioffre loved Sancia, but Sancia clearly slept around on Gioffre.
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The Borgias / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The Borgias / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Micheletto the assassin does this in "The Moor", twice. He does this again in "Paolo" to a prostitute who was acting as a spy, though he seemed to strangle her for a bit first.
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The Borgias / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Borgias / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Juan is one giant walking example. Just to recapitulate: He refuses to marry Sancia because he considers that an illegitimate wife is beneath him, despite being illegitimate himself. He is, in fact, terrified of the possibility of not being actually Rodrigo's son but of his mother's actual husband and thus legitimate. Confused yet? Then you should know that he has an affair with the same illegitimate woman he refused to marry (who is basically his soul mate), both before and after she is married to his brother.
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The Borgias / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Borgias / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Gioffre is nowhere to be seen and isn't even mentioned in season 2 (except for one oblique reference when Lucrezia talks to Cesare about their "brothers"); in season 3, Rodrigo refers to Cesare as "my only son." Unsurprisingly, the same is true of Gioffre's wife Sancia.
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The Borgias / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
The Borgias / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Cardinal Orsini tries to poison the Pope during a dinner, but Cesare bribes the assassin to switch their cups.
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The Borgias / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Borgias / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Cesare tries a variation of this with Giuliano della Rovere. Although it's more of a "Dude, help me rein in my dad" kind of deal.
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The Borgias / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Borgias / int_c4240537	comment	Juan has a habit of doing bad things for this reason; his murder of Paolo for daring to have a relationship with Lucrezia is at least a case of this trope, if not a full-blown Moral Event Horizon.
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The Borgias / int_c4caad92	type	Opium Den
The Borgias / int_c4caad92	comment	Opium Den: In the second season Juan starts to frequent an opium den in Rome on the advice of his physician to cope with a leg wound and an STD. The drugs only seem to heighten his paranoia and mental breakdown.
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The Borgias / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The Borgias / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Rodrigo suffers a severe case of this post-election.
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The Borgias / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Borgias / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Abound in this show, but Micheletto is the most prominent example.
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The Borgias / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
The Borgias / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Probably the most spectacularly grisly aversion in recent memory. The French characters in this show are defined by how pitiless and terrifying they are as opponents in warfare.
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The Borgias / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
The Borgias / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Averted in the first season. The second season featured a classic Cliffhanger.
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The Borgias / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
The Borgias / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Lucrezia arranges for her Domestic Abuser huntsman husband to have a fall from his horse. When they're setting his broken leg, she tells him to "be brave", thoroughly enjoying the pain he's experiencing for once.
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The Borgias / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Borgias / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: In "The Poisoned Chalice", both Giulia and Lucrezia have their portraits painted by "a new genius" called Pinturicchio. It's blink and you'll miss it, but in "The Moor" we see the portraits he's done on a wall, and they're about as good as the average third grader's.
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The Borgias / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Borgias / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Leaning strongly towards "mundane." We're never explicitly told whether or not The Lance of Longinus is a fake, let alone whether or not it has supernatural powers.
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The Borgias / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
The Borgias / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. Giulia Farnese tells Rodrigo they can't have sex because it's her time of the month. He doesn't care. (And we even see a spot of menstrual blood on her nightie.)
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The Borgias / int_d246d18b	type	Historical Relationship Overhaul
The Borgias / int_d246d18b	comment	Historical Relationship Overhaul: Giovanni Sforza abuses and rapes Lucrezia, when he actually ignored her and only consummated the marriage fairly late into it in real life.
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The Borgias / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Borgias / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Lucrezia arranges for her Domestic Abuser huntsman husband to have a fall from his horse. When they're setting his broken leg, she tells him to "be brave", thoroughly enjoying the pain he's experiencing for once. Charles of France, who wants glory and battle and kills without mercy, is crowned King of Naples by Pope Alexander and sent to his new dominion. Shame about that plague. Cardinal Orsini in the first episode. Rodrigo, who threatens to support Ludovico Sforza's nephew's claim over Milan if Ludovico cooperates with Cardinal della Rovere. While said nephew was prisoner of Ludovico. Cut to Ludovico killing the guy and helping della Rovere to prove the point to Rodrigo. Cesare, who murders Giovanni Sforza, ends up potentially starting a war between the Sforzas and the Borgias and forcing Lucrezia to marry again.
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The Borgias / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Borgias / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The only reason Cesare is able to kill Giovanni Sforza is because, even though his enemies knew he was dangerous and ruthless, nobody thought he would be reckless enough to brutally murder a man of that rank on his own turf in broad daylight with no pre-planning. Actually, a lot of Borgia successes seem to rely on this. Consequently, a lot of them appear on the series' Moment of Awesome page.
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The Borgias / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Borgias / int_d62dd556	comment	Giovanni Sforza might be this to Caterina, depending on how much she depends on him. Alternatively, he may just be The Brute.
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The Borgias / int_daba0e87	type	Acquired Poison Immunity
The Borgias / int_daba0e87	comment	Acquired Poison Immunity: In "Day of Ashes" Giuliano della Rovere gives his chosen assassin doses of cantarella poison to give him a limited immunity - the idea being that the assassin will live just long enough to taste the poison and give it to Rodrigo. While it is possible to acquire some sort of immunity against cantarella (an arsenic compound), it would not lead to death as quickly as shown in the series (see Perfect Poison). Most poisons had to be given in high doses to be deadly and would reveal themselves through bitter taste, which the taster was supposed to detect and report.
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The Borgias / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
The Borgias / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: Cesare wants to be a soldier, but Rodrigo is adamant that his eldest son become a priest like him.
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The Borgias / int_db2727e0	type	The Book Cipher
The Borgias / int_db2727e0	comment	The Book Cipher: This is how Pascal passes info to his Sforza masters.
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The Borgias / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Borgias / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Even though Word Of God has repeatedly said they're not gonna go "there" with Cesare/Lucrezia, the promo material and the occasional ambiguous scene or line throw a bone to the (quite sizable) part of the fandom that wouldn't mind. As of season 3 episode 3, they have now "gone there" very explicitly.
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The Borgias / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Borgias / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The naked young lady in Rodrigo's bath in "The Borgia Bull"? We find out three episodes later in "Stray Dogs" she is Duchessa Bianca de Gonzaga of Milan, and allied with the Sforza family.
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The Borgias / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
The Borgias / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: The doctor recommends to Juan two things to help him with his syphilis: freaking mercury to heal his madness (Hint: It has the precise opposite effect, mercury causes the brain to decay into batshit insanity at ridiculous speed) and then...opium to deal with his pain. He actually made Juan worse. Truth in Television all the way.
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The Borgias / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
The Borgias / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Rodrigo's got the market cornered, though Cesare has apparently inherited it.
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The Borgias / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Borgias / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: When news of the death of Prince Alfonso of Naples spreads to Rome, Rodrigo laments that he would have been a good match for Lucrezia. Cardinal della Rovere names his pet monkey "Julius". Lucrezia asking Cesare in "World of Wonders" to "tell me about poison" is this, along with foreshadowing.
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The Borgias / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Borgias / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Season one is arguably this for Cesare and Lucrezia, though it isn't solidified until season two. Being raped and Paolo's death were arguably the most defined moments for her. He is noticeably different after killing Giovanni Sforza.
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The Borgias / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Borgias / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Vanozza says that she would have helped Cesare murder Giovanni Sforza if she'd been there. Lucrezia all but begs Cesare to kill Juan when his instability puts her child in danger, and when her new husband's family refuse to let her baby live with her, she plans to kill him herself until Micheletto offers to do it.
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The Borgias / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Borgias / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: In the series Giovanni Sforza is an abusive husband and rapes Lucrezia. In real life Sforza didn't touch Lucrezia for months because she was young and childlike when they married.
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The Borgias / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
The Borgias / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: The season 1 blooper reel has already hit the internet, and it's hysterical. Watching Jeremy Irons get his dress stepped on and try valiantly (but fail) to keep from dropping a Cluster F-Bomb in front of a child actor is worth the watch.
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The Borgias / int_e268e2	type	The Clan
The Borgias / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: 15th-century Italy abounds with them; the city-states are all constantly dealing with Feuding Families, and it's this atmosphere into which the Borgias (who are too small a family to count themselves) enter as outsiders. The most prominent family is the Sforzas, of whom we have already met four members (Caterina, Ascanio, Ludovico and Giovanni).
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The Borgias / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Borgias / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: The doctor of Juan while explaining the treatment for his affliction. Cesare and Micheletto employ this; first to the French soldiers in "Stray Dogs", and then to Savonarola in "The Confession".
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The Borgias / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Borgias / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Theo is an amalgam of two of Vanozza's four Real Life husbands (none of which were named Theo) while Alfonso seems to combine the historical King Alfonso II of Naples and his two surviving sons one of whom eventually married Lucrezia.
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The Borgias / int_e57965c6	type	Covered in Mud
The Borgias / int_e57965c6	comment	Covered in Mud: In "The Moor", assassin Micheletto goes to a sauna and has himself covered in mud as a disguise.
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The Borgias / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Borgias / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: As of season 3, Cesare and Lucrezia are this in the worst possible way.
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The Borgias / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Borgias / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: To contrast Rodrigo, Cesare and their Hero Antagonist Della Rovere, Giovanni Sforza has virtually no admirable or sympathetic qualities and is very easy to hate.
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The Borgias / int_e81f5639	type	Moe Greene Special
The Borgias / int_e81f5639	comment	Moe Greene Special: Cardinal della Rovere dispatches a spy with a dagger in "Lucrezia's Wedding".
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The Borgias / int_e96b33b9	type	Loose Lips
The Borgias / int_e96b33b9	comment	Loose Lips: A worker discovers that the new cannons are actually made from plaster and has the bright idea to announce that he is going to tell all his buddies about it. However, Cesare and Micheletto are standing nearby and the worker has an 'accident' before he can tell anyone what he discovered.
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The Borgias / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
The Borgias / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Rodrigo, in a way. He has no problem with letting innocent Jews banished from Spain emigrate to Rome, something which appalls his fellow Catholics. However, the Jews aren't his mooks, like the trope usually implies. They're just desperate immigrants. In Season 2, he has no problem giving tasks of great importance to women, and again ignores the complaints about it. In Season 3 he enlists the leader of the Jewish community in Rome as one of his minions.
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The Borgias / int_e9e28bd7	type	Sexy Priest
The Borgias / int_e9e28bd7	comment	Sexy Priest: Though Cesare wants desperately to stop being the second part. Rodrigo as well.
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The Borgias / int_e9f0ad4d	type	Nuns 'n' Rosaries
The Borgias / int_e9f0ad4d	comment	Nuns 'n' Rosaries: Ursula feels guilty.
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The Borgias / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Borgias / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	The doctor of Juan while explaining the treatment for his affliction.
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The Borgias / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
The Borgias / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Even Jerkass Alfonso, who mocks his aged and deaf father, is still distraught when the old man dies.
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The Borgias / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Borgias / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Cesare and Juan. In the end utterly played straight, complete with Cesare asking if he's to be his brother's keeper. Ironically enough, the first attempt on Juan's life comes from Lucrezia, who was turned into a Cain when Juan murdered Paolo.
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The Borgias / int_ecf4f7ce	type	Constantly Curious
The Borgias / int_ecf4f7ce	comment	Constantly Curious: Gioffre's curiosity provides his doting father Rodrigo with an opportunity for an Infodump in which Rodrigo explains to him (and the viewers) what all the petty kingdoms on the Italian peninsula are, and how they're fitting into the power struggle.
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The Borgias / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
The Borgias / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": In "The Wolf and the Lamb", Micheletto offs King Ferdinand of Naples on a hunting expedition, by chucking him into a pool full of hungry lampreys.
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The Borgias / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Borgias / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: after his father, the Pope is poisoned Cesare goes ballistic and takes charge, making arrangements for his beloved sister's wedding the day after his brother's funeral even undermining Rodrigo himself. Lucrezia has her moment in Season 3 Finale where she sets the example of the perfect murder which her brother Cesare and father failed to do. It really is a political food chain in the Borgia family where she always comes out on top.
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The Borgias / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
The Borgias / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. Some subtitlers transcribed his dialogue in all caps. Savonarola also. His loudness is justified when he actually is preaching to the public. Less so when Cesare and Machiavelli are two feet in front of him and he still yells at them.
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The Borgias / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Borgias / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The French troops march into Lucca and kill any man, woman, or child in their way. Charles attempts to justify it to a shocked Giuliano della Rovere by saying "'Tis war, Cardinal, plain and simple". Which is more than mildly surprising, given Cardinal della Rovere's historical actions after the time-frame of the series. Perhaps the series intends to show that for him, it will eventually get easier. Historically, he was at times something akin to a condottiere even BEFORE the time-frame of the series.
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The Borgias / int_f21e9901	type	Headbutt of Love
The Borgias / int_f21e9901	comment	Head Butt Of Love: Cesare and Lucrezia do this several times.
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The Borgias / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Borgias / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Alfonso asks Lucrezia to end his life after he's slowly dying from being fatally stabbed by Cesare. She reluctantly complies and is found by Cesare numbly lying on top of Alfonso's body.
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The Borgias / int_f55d739f	type	The Baroness
The Borgias / int_f55d739f	comment	The Baroness: Caterina Sforza, who is implied to be the brains behind the entire Sforza family.
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The Borgias / int_f740a274	type	Historical Beauty Update
The Borgias / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: Apparent, but not to the same degree it was in The Tudors. Except for a few differences in hair color, it's possible to picture that if Renaissance artists painted the actors in costume, they wouldn't look too dissimilar from their real counterparts, with the notable exception of Rodrigo. Even Jeremy Irons thinks he doesn't look a thing like the actual Rodrigo◊ and that they probably should have cast someone like James Gandolfini. He was rumored by his contemporaries to be one of the most handsome guys around (at least when he was younger), much like Cesare later on (minus the syphilis marks). Maybe by the time of the portrait he just didn't care anymore, being pope and all.
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The Borgias / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Borgias / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Savonarola, who not only compares Rome with the Whore of Babylon and accuses Florence of usury, but also condemns wealth, art and comfort.
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The Borgias / int_f8c079b3	type	With Us or Against Us
The Borgias / int_f8c079b3	comment	With Us or Against Us: Rodrigo actually delivers this line to the Cardinals when demanding Florence to resist against the French army and decides that Savonarola must burn
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