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The Tudors

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The Tudors	comment	Showtime's Emmy-nominated retelling of the life of King Henry VIII.The first two seasons devote most of their time to the dissolution of his marriage to the older Catherine of Aragon and his deepening relationship with the saucy Anne Boleyn, who was to become his second wife. Gone from this series is the traditional vision of Henry as the bearded, bloated, jewel-encrusted, aging monarch who gleefully sent his wives to the chopping block. Instead, Jonathan Rhys Meyers' portrayal is that of a young, dynamic king determined to use his position to squeeze as much pleasure as he can out of life whilst balancing atop the ruthless world of Renaissance politics.(He does get a beard as of the second season, however.)In the third season, the story continues with Henry's third and fourth wife, and introduces the fifth. Season 4 covers wives five and six.Despite this series' claim to tell the real story, this production is mostly a cut down version of history, playing fast and loose with the facts to tell a dramatic tale of intrigue, sex, disease, sex, tragedy, sex, death and sex. Despite the constant sex, the show is very good at showing a lot of the intrigue and events that went on between Henry and his aides, and the reformation is handled reasonably accurately, with a great emphasis on the rebellions and difficulties it made.The series formally debuted on Showtime on April 1, 2007, and the fourth and final season ended June 20, 2010.A Spiritual Successor to The Tudors called The Borgias based on the life of other figures of The Renaissance, Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander VI) and his family, began airing April 2011.
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The Tudors / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
The Tudors / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: This is definitely one of the more... carnal adaptations of Henry VIII's reign.
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The Tudors / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Tudors / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Will Sommers, Henry's favourite court jester, is portrayed as an older man. The real Sommers was younger, to the point of thinking of Henry as an uncle, and was still in service by Elizabeth's reign.
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The Tudors / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Tudors / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Anyone who upsets king Henry VIII regardless of whether they are Catholic or Protestant, can get executed. Bishop Gardiner, Thomas Howard and Mary Tudor keep their Catholic views in secret, hidden from king Henry VIII. That is why they survive. Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell are outspoken Protestants who get executed. Thomas Cranmer is the only outspoken Protestant of the main three (Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer) who survives.
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The Tudors / int_127d0031	type	Opinion Flip-Flop
The Tudors / int_127d0031	comment	Opinion Flip-Flop: After Bishop Gardiner is dismissed from court. He's barely left the room, before everyone starts fawning over and switching their allegiance to Edward Seymour.
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The Tudors / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Tudors / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Henry, when his wife Jane Seymour dies of childbed fever after giving birth to Prince Edward.
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The Tudors / int_147996f2	type	Love Ruins the Realm
The Tudors / int_147996f2	comment	Love Ruins the Realm: Henry goes too far to be able to marry Anne Boleyn. The result is political and religious chaos.
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The Tudors / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Tudors / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: One of the darkest and edgiest interpetations of the Tudor era, alongside Wolf Hall.
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The Tudors / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
The Tudors / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Charles Brandon has an official one! And besides the ones he married, Henry has a couple of other girls on the side, like Mary Boleyn and Bessie Blount.
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The Tudors / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Tudors / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In Season 2, Henry expresses a wish to be remembered forever (see Stealth Insult above). Henry remains one of the most famous monarchs in British history, but he's remembered for going through wives like tissues and fathering his least favourite child and arguably the most famous monarch in British history, Elizabeth I.
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The Tudors / int_17b7ab65	type	Universally Beloved Leader
The Tudors / int_17b7ab65	comment	Universally Beloved Leader: Catherine of Aragon. Not just the great majority of the English people, but also Rome and her powerful nephew were on her side. Even the French King remained half-hearted in his support of Anne, not wanting to engage his son to her daughter but rather to Catherine's daughter Mary. This shows that even in France, people believed Catherine to be Henry's legitimate wife. That is especially important: France was the sworn enemy of Catherine's family, and yet they recognized her marriage as valid. In real life, even Martin Luther, John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli supported her. Literally no one in Europe thought Henry was in the right. Catherine of Aragon was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, considered some of the best monarchs (and best 'people') to ever reign...ever. It's 'still' met with academic gasps to insinuate that either ruler wasn't the saint they are remembered as. Jane Seymour also counts. She is almost universally loved both in England and by most of Europe.
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The Tudors / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
The Tudors / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: The show downplayed the villainy of some Protestant characters, such as Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, and Thomas Cranmer. It also downplays the fanaticism of Edward VI and says that King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I changed the history of the United Kingdom forever. The show also refers to Elizabeth I's reign as the "golden age". That is not exactly subtle. It even insinuates that the Protestant side was much more tolerant (though not exactly more heroic) than their Catholic counterparts. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the Protestant Reformation knows that is objectively not true and Protestant fundamentalism is very much a real thing.
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The Tudors / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
The Tudors / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Season 1. The events in this season at a minimum cover the period from 1520-1530, including some events thay occurred before and after these years, but dates are never used and all adult characters avoid aging. This approach to time passing is likely to avoid the confusion of different storylines playing out of sync, and to avoid jarring time skips after almost every episode. Later seasons are much more centered around specific years.
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The Tudors / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Tudors / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Henry's sister. Also, several people came down with the "Slight Dizziness of Death" when the Sweating Sickness rolled into town... Historically, the sweating sickness did actually kill a lot of people at the time and then vanished with nary a trace. To this day, people aren't quite sure what it was, although the prime suspect is some variety of hantavirus. At the time, pretty much any cough — especially coughing blood, a symptom of tuberculosis — was a potential Incurable Cough of Death.
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The Tudors / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
The Tudors / int_1a09b4f9	comment	Mary Tudor, who is almost always portrayed as the evil side in The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry with Elizabeth. Here there's some foreshadowing of her future retaliation against Protestant supporters, but she's still portrayed in a very sympathetic light.
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The Tudors / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Tudors / int_1b596e24	comment	Thomas Tallis seems to be played more as a subversion as he's played as genuinely attracted to both his lovers. George Boleyn and Mark Smeaton are The Beard played straight.
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The Tudors / int_1b8cef9c	type	The High Queen
The Tudors / int_1b8cef9c	comment	After Mary's death without issue, Elizabeth began the 44-year reign that would be known as "the Golden Age."
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The Tudors / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Tudors / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: If Henry reassures you of your importance to him while your position is already unstable, you should really beware. Thomas Cromwell and the Boleyns learned this, as did Wolsey & Thomas More.
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The Tudors / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Tudors / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Henry was a patron of the arts and humanism, composed music and led troops into battle. Catherine of Aragon personally gave alms to the poor after Easter mass. Anne Boleyn worked hard to promote her religious ideals. Catherine Parr published two books (including the first to be published by an English queen under her own name) and served as regent. Averted with Catherine Howard, who is portrayed as being solely interested in having fun, presents and men. Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward were all intellectual prodigies who studied a vast array of subjects and were renowned for their learning. The King's daughters were both accomplished musicians, and all three of them spoke a variety of languages.
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The Tudors / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Tudors / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Anne and George are framed for incest and treason, which they are innocent of. But they also are heavily implied to have poisoned Catherine of Aragon.
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The Tudors / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Tudors / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Katherine Howard is only 17 and a little younger than Henry's daughter Mary. This is Truth in Television for the Tudor age, but we don't know exactly how old Katherine really was; 17 is about the upper limit for modern educated guesses, but many historians suspect she was only 15.
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The Tudors / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Tudors / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The departure from the series of Henry Czerny, who played the Duke of Norfolk, caused endless problems for the show given how very important the real Norfolk was to the story. Some of his actions were reassigned to Suffolk and Edward Seymour (in reality Norfolk was possibly the one who orchestrated the affair between Catherine Howard and Henry). For Season 4, Norfolk's son, the Earl of Surrey, became Katherine Howard's uncle. Historically, Norfolk was her uncle and Surrey was a man in his twenties or thirties at this point. Since Katherine was seventeen, that would have worked, but they made Surrey at least in his forties if not older. One also has to mention Thomas Cranmer, who disappears from the show after Season 2 but in real life played an important role in the downfall of Katherine Howard. A letter detailing Katherine's indiscretions, which historically Cranmer presented to Henry personally, is instead given anonymously. The Pope, his Cardinals and Reginald Pole's attempts to undermine Henry and the Reformation from Rome, and Henry's attempts to eliminate Pole, are given significant screen time in Seasons 2 and 3. But in Season 4 Pole disappears with barely a mention, and Rome is not seen or heard from again.
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The Tudors / int_2676e225	type	Girl Posse
The Tudors / int_2676e225	comment	Girl Posse: Catherine Howard's ladies behave more like her giggling best friends than her courtly servants, and are often seen gossiping, playing, and trying on her royal accessories.
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The Tudors / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Tudors / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: A Real Life example — in a scene in series one, Henry is seen composing 'Greensleeves' for Anne Boleyn, though it is now believed that the tune was composed in the Elizabethan era.
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The Tudors / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
The Tudors / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Anne of Cleves, after getting released from being queen and not having to worry about being executed for failing to give Henry a son, cheered up considerably. Ironically, this new side of her might have made Henry start to wish he'd consummated their marriage after all. In Season 4, Henry finally does sleep with her (after having already re-married). However, he literally appears to JUST be sleeping with her, spooning really. In their very last scene together Henry definitely has Anne in his arms as they lay in bed (apparently fully clothed) and there is no indication that they engaged in intercourse.
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The Tudors / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Tudors / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: All of the prayers and religious ceremonies are conducted in historically-accurate Latin. Although with such horrible pronunciation that it's barely understandable.
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The Tudors / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Tudors / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Poor Katherine wets herself before her execution.
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The Tudors / int_2c136406	type	Standard Royal Court
The Tudors / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court In Season 2, this has definitely turned into a Decadent Court. As in real life, the Queen sets the tone for the court. The decadence is emphasized under Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard; Jane Seymour's efforts at reining things in are less obvious.
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The Tudors / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Tudors / int_2fa6b075	comment	Averted also with Mary and Elizabeth. Mary takes care of her and even helps her get back into the king's family circle. Of course, the series is set well before Mary became queen.
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The Tudors / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
The Tudors / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Cinderella style, but subverted. Anne Boleyn gets there mostly by pretending to be pure-hearted. The same could be said for Katherine Howard. It says something that these two end up losing their heads by Henry.
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The Tudors / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
The Tudors / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: Each season's opening sequence includes new footage of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Henry Cavill, in order to reflect subtle changes in their appearances, usually their facial hair. As well, only the wives who are alive at the time of the episode appear in the credits, with three notable exceptions in the credits for the finale.
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The Tudors / int_3322e9cd	type	Hollywood Old
The Tudors / int_3322e9cd	comment	Hollywood Old: The adult Mary is 17 when we see her first, and the actress who played her was 16. However, in her last appearance, Sarah Bolger was 18, while Mary is 30. It creates some confusion for the viewer when Katherine Howard spitefully claims Mary is much older than her and past the age to marry; Tamzin Merchant is four years older than Sarah Bolger, and Sarah looks nowhere near "old maid" status in the scene.
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The Tudors / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Tudors / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Jonathan Rhys Meyers starts to slip in Season 3, and it seems the strain of doing an 'old man' voice makes it more difficult to hold the English accent as his Irish comes through even more in the last two episodes of Season 4.
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The Tudors / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Tudors / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Anne Boleyn, Thomas More and Bishop Fisher. And Katherine Howard, who actually asks that the executioner's block be brought to her so that she may practice laying her head upon it. Kitty's request is Truth in Television, which makes it deeply unsettling. Although you do have to wonder if she really decided to try it out while totally naked... Subverted with Thomas Cromwell — not only is he reduced to a sobbing wreck, faced with a jeering crowd, but it takes five shots to actually kill him. In Cromwell's case, two of the conspirators against him (Sir Francis Bryan and Thomas Seymour) got the headsman drunk so Cromwell's execution would be as painful as possible (after both they are the third conspirator, Charles Brandon, are shown giddy with anticipation about the last laugh they'll derive at Cromwell's expense). It's only made worse by the fact Cromwell sees the headsman staggering, so he knows what's coming. By the third stroke — which lands in his shoulder blades, even Sir Francis and Duke Brandon are disgusted. As is fellow conspirator and cold fish Edward Seymour, who wasn't involved in getting the headsman drunk. Thomas Seymour, on the other hand, seems unfazed. Eventually someone else takes away the blade and finishes the job.
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The Tudors / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Tudors / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Obviously this is the case with a historical drama, although enhanced by the facts that a lot of it has to do with the deaths of various characters.
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The Tudors / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Tudors / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Thomas Cromwell and above all, Anne Boleyn. Traditionally (before the 1960s at least) portrayed as the ruthless, evil villains in depictions of Henry's life. The show breaks away from that by simply making them human. Cromwell does some pretty bad things, but James Frain plays him in a way that makes it clear that he doesn't like everything he does. He just turns loyalty into a vice. Anne meanwhile is portrayed as a spirited young woman who falls in love with the king and is driven by that love, rather than greed. She is also shown to be a very loving mother, which she was in real life. Mary Tudor, who is almost always portrayed as the evil side in The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry with Elizabeth. Here there's some foreshadowing of her future retaliation against Protestant supporters, but she's still portrayed in a very sympathetic light.
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The Tudors / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Tudors / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: And how. Most of the show's characters wear elaborate, lavish costumes especially those in the court of Henry VI.
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The Tudors / int_3fafbfd4	type	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
The Tudors / int_3fafbfd4	comment	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: Where the adult actors show the passing years via changing hairstyles, the youngest characters (Elizabeth, Mary and Edward especially) frequently get new actors several years older than the previous ones.
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The Tudors / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Tudors / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The Protestant propaganda plays. They take place after the sack of Rome in the 16th century. So calling the Pope "a rich fellow" at this point is objectively wrong. It's also unfair to Cardinal Campeggio who was trying to help king Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. To add insult to injury, Cardinal Campeggio lost everything during the sack of Rome in Real Life and is one of the only Catholic characters who is kind towards Anne Boleyn. Henry himself indulges in this. Many of his victims would be promised pardons and his favour before he backstabs them by having them banished or executed. And to be quite fair a lot of people at court spew blatant lies as easy as they breathe; from Henry to his courtiers and even other European monarchs. It would be easier to list down people who are actually being truthful and follow through with it.
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The Tudors / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Tudors / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The favorite way of extracting a confession in the Renaissance era. Many real life torture methods of the era are shown rather graphically on screen.
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The Tudors / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
The Tudors / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: Invoked and ultimately averted: After receiving some extremely bad news from one messenger (namely that the King of Scotland has rebuffed Henry's offer of a peace between them and a Scottish army has invaded and is laying waste to northern England), when a second messenger arrives, before he can open his mouth, Henry rounds on the man, holds a knife to his throat and threatens the messenger with death if he speaks. However, he relents when the messenger tells him that his son Edward is seriously ill at Windsor.
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The Tudors / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Tudors / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Although fake fur is used, either for budget or to avoid offending viewers.
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The Tudors / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Tudors / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The Earl of Surrey.
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The Tudors / int_4557702e	type	The Conscience
The Tudors / int_4557702e	comment	The Conscience: Catherine Brandon to her husband. When Jane Seymour lies dying, Henry begs God not to take her, and calls her his "light in this dark world".
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The Tudors / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Tudors / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Thomas Cromwell got his former friends beheaded and ordered the hanging of hundreds of those who wanted to stick to the old religion. He will have his reformation for the good of the realm. Mary Tudor also showed signs of this.
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The Tudors / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Tudors / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: The real Henry FitzRoy died when he was seventeen, not when he was a small child.
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The Tudors / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
The Tudors / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: Multiple examples.
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The Tudors / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Tudors / int_4e6e9b64	comment	Prince Edward became king at the age of nine and died of illness at the age of 15.
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The Tudors / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Tudors / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Thomas Cromwell.
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The Tudors / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
The Tudors / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: Everyone, all the time, but especially Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour.
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The Tudors / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Tudors / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The plotting courtiers against Cromwell. Brandon blamed him for his harsh policies against the rebels, which basically forced Brandon into an impossible position. Gardner is his religious enemy. But what did he ever do to the others that they want him to suffer extra and be humiliated on the scaffold?
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The Tudors / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Tudors / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The series follows the general trajectory of history, but the inaccuracies could fill up a page on their own. Not to mention that everything is sexed up a metric ton. To be fair, they do avoid some of the most common myths about Henry VIII's reign, such as portraying Henry as The Caligula.
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The Tudors / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Tudors / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Sir Francis Bryan throughout Season 3. Charles Brandon on a more consistent (and ethical) basis.
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The Tudors / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
The Tudors / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: There's a few here and there, Lady Elizabeth Darrell being among them.
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The Tudors / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Tudors / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: This appears to be the case with the Catholic Church in England (which was very much Truth in Television), which is precisely what spurs the English Reformation, alongside Henry's marital problems. It becomes a problem of Offstage Villainy: while we hear all about the excesses of the Church, we don't see many of them, with the exception of Cardinal Wolsey's corrupt activities.
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The Tudors / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Tudors / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Many, many examples throughout the series, but perhaps the most striking change is Queen Claude of France, played by the stunning Gabriella Wright. The real Queen Claude was pale, obese, and sickly, with a hunched back due to scoliosis.
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The Tudors / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Tudors / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The series follows the general trajectory of history, but the inaccuracies could fill up a page on their own. Not to mention that everything is sexed up a metric ton. To be fair, they do avoid some of the most common myths about Henry VIII's reign, such as portraying Henry as The Caligula. The show has Thomas More being drawn on a hurdle to his execution. In real life this only happened if you were being hung, drawn and quartered; More's sentence had been reduced to simple beheading. Wolseley died of a fever, not suicide (although this one is portrayed as being covered up). It wasn't Thomas and Anne who disowned Mary for marrying Stafford but Henry was furious and disowned her while Anne simply sided with him. These are just two of many changes from history. The worst example is probably the treatment Marguerite De Navarre received. In reality, she was a very intellectual and brave woman, who was a gifted writer and also traveled tirelessly to get her brother Francis freed when he had been taken captive at Pavia. Anne Boleyn was greatly influenced by her, and would as queen write that seeing her again was her greatest wish next to having a son. In the series, Marguerite is portrayed as The Ditz, who sleeps with Henry right after meeting him. Thomas Boleyn is portrayed as a cruel, abusive father who was only interested in using his children to further his own political gain and put his daughters in front of the king to increase his station. In fact, the real Thomas Boleyn was a brilliant politician in his own right and an ambassador to the Netherlands. His promotion had as much to do with his own merit as it did Henry taking a liking to Anne. There's no evidence that he was ever abusive to his children and evidence shows that he actually discouraged Anne from pursuing marriage to Henry.
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The Tudors / int_589661ad	type	Renaissance Man
The Tudors / int_589661ad	comment	Renaissance Man: Quite a few. Makes sense, considering the proximity to the literal Renaissance. Henry composed music, knew his languages, wrote a rebuttal to Luther and proclaimed himself a humanist. His children, especially Elizabeth, also grew up to be this. Thomas More: Statesman, lawyer, theologian, writer of Utopia, friend of Erasmus, and diplomat. His daughter Margaret, who was one of the greatest Latin experts in England, too. Lots in the aristocracy were this actually. It had become fashionable for first boys (Henry's generation) and then also girls (his children's generation) to become exceptionally learned. Anne Boleyn to an extent as well, mostly because she grew up at the courts of Margaret of Austria and the French court. In Real Life, this, not her looks (which were unremarkable) is what charmed Henry. Catherine Parr, easily one of the most erudite of Henry's wives.
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The Tudors / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
The Tudors / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: Henry VIII's armies are laying siege to Boulogne, but the men are suffering badly from the "bloody flux", i.e., dysenterynote For those of you wondering, dysentery is really bad. Imagine the worst diarrhea in the world... now fill it with blood... now die from it. That is what it is. It is extreme shitting followed by death.
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The Tudors / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
The Tudors / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Charles and Catherine Brandon, until they are separated in Season 4.
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The Tudors / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Tudors / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Every season Charles Brandon teams up with people he will try to bring down in the next season. In European politics at that time, the Holy Roman Emperor (who also had scores of other lands in Spain, the Low Countries etc) and the king of France were the most powerful. Henry was third. France and the emperor often sought Henry's alliance, while once binding against him as a heretic. In Season 3, the German States also get involved. Done on a smaller scale in court, where especially Charles Brandon allies with others against his enemy of the season. Only to make his former allies his new enemies the next. Also Cromwell teaming up with the Seymours against the Boleyns. Edward Seymour and Francis Bryan, while Edward knows Francis sleeps with his wife. Historically, Anne Stanhope was his second wife — the first slept with his father. Perhaps Bryan is an improvement? Although in Season 4, Anne sleeps with his brother, and perhaps even has a son by him — she insists on naming him after the brother, anyway — so maybe not so much. Wolsey and Catherine of Aragon, whom he has spent the better part of a season trying to denounce as an illegitimate wife. It's a sign of how desperate the former is to get his titles back, but ironically it's what gets him charged with treason.
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The Tudors / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Tudors / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Henry is very scared of getting sick. Justified because he needs to live long enough to sire an heir. Also Truth in Television — the real Henry was a notorious hypochondriac.
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The Tudors / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
The Tudors / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Francis Bryan, whose many talents include assassination, politics, seduction and poetry.
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The Tudors / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
The Tudors / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Anyone who Henry thinks is against him but is too prominent to simply destroy (such as Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell and the Earl of Surrey) are subjected to such trials, Cromwell and Anne Boleyn are not even allowed to speak in their own defence.note This was actually standard then - the accused lacked any right to speak, call witnesses, question prosecution witnesses, or have an attorney. It's not for nothing those are in the Bill of Rights. It's common for the Council to resort to torture in order to get a confession. However, it's pretty obvious that they will cease to torture only after the victims confess to the crimes that they want them to confess. Several people in the series get sentenced due to forced confessions such as those or false testimonies. This gets even lampshaded in Season 4. During the trial of the Earl of Surrey, the judges state that there aren't enough proof to sentence him. The Earl of Hertford then state that his innocence isn't excuse enough for him not to be sentenced. Surrey is then sentenced to death.
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The Tudors / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
The Tudors / int_5da3f522	comment	Back in Season 2, Cromwell is discussing how his spies have informed him a priest in Tewksbury has been offering prayers to his congregation for Queen Catherine, not Queen Anne...
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The Tudors / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Tudors / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Charles Brandon in the first season.
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The Tudors / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
The Tudors / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: of the first three wives, Jane Seymour is nice, Anne Boleyn is mean and Catherine of Aragon is inbetween. Of the second trio of wives, Anne of Cleves is nice, Katherine Howard is mean and Catherine Parr is inbetween.
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The Tudors / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
The Tudors / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, is Henry's oldest friend and trusted confidante. He retained the King's favor for forty years and died peacefully, unlike pretty much everyone else of note in the royal court at the time. Fittingly, Henry Cavill is the only actor besides Jonathan Rhys Meyers to appear in every episode.
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The Tudors / int_63cbd757	type	Binding Ancient Treaty
The Tudors / int_63cbd757	comment	Binding Ancient Treaty: Averted; In Season 1, a treaty of universal and perpetual peace is concluded. It does not last long. Lampshaded by Mary's slight eye-roll when the French ambassador raises the possibility of yet another betrothal to a French prince.
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The Tudors / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
The Tudors / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Henry. Thomas More has been worried about this for a long time.
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The Tudors / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
The Tudors / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: This supercut[1] shows astonishing similarities between Henry's elevation of Anne Boleyn over Catherine of Aragon and his subsequent elevation of Jane Seymour over Anne.
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The Tudors / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
The Tudors / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Henry produces a fine example when he designs Nonsuch Palace in solitude after Jane Seymour's death.
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The Tudors / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The Tudors / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: The Pope excommunicating Henry. And oh boy, did they give him a LOT of scenery to munch on!
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The Tudors / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Tudors / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: In episode two, while Buckingham is sentenced and executed, Lady Blount gives birth and Henry finds to his joy she has given him a son.
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The Tudors / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Tudors / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: In a manner of speaking. Henry writes a pamphlet attacking Martin Luther and praising the Pope as the true ruler of Christendom, and seeks More's approval before publishing it. More advises against some of the strong wording, but agrees with it mostly. When Henry splits from the church, More throws the words of the pamphlet back at him. The pamphlet comes back again when the Archbishop accuses More of pressuring Henry to write it.
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The Tudors / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
The Tudors / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Cleves and England. Anne thinks she's offended the king because she's not used to English manners, but he's really just upset that she's (apparently) not pretty enough.
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The Tudors / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
The Tudors / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: How Margaret kills the King of Portugal.
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The Tudors / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Tudors / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Katherine Howard and Thomas Culpeper practically had Idiot Balls superglued to their hands. Joan Bulmer, Francis Dereham and Lady Rochford each had their moments carrying one, too.
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The Tudors / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
The Tudors / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Thomas Moore. John Fisher. Catherine of Aragon. Jane Seymour. The peasant revolutionaries, just to name a few based on their portrayals in the show. Wolsey is a bit of a Doomed Amoral Victor. He is right about how to manage Henry, right about what refusing the divorce will do to Papal authority in England, and right that war with France isn't likely to be profitable (as shown in later seasons). His lack of morals is the only way to win in Henry's court, but he's still doomed.
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The Tudors / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
The Tudors / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles: Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves.
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The Tudors / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Tudors / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Sir Thomas More. The man is an effective administrator, intelligent, virtuous within the boundaries of his religion, and a close friend of the King's, but this doesn't stop him from being taken apart by the Boleyns.
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The Tudors / int_75111e3e	type	The Tourney
The Tudors / int_75111e3e	comment	The Tourney: We see a couple of them throughout the show, most of which end with Henry getting injured.
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The Tudors / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
The Tudors / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: The Catholic side of the conflict is certainly not tolerant, but does come off as the more heroic side. The Protestant side is generally more tolerant, but does not come off as being the more heroic side. Many historians point to the Protestant Reformation as being a proto-liberal movement. Liberals, (at least prior to the 20th century) were largely allied with Protestant churches in Protestant majority countries. Liberalism in Catholic majority countries was much more secular, anti-religious and atheistic.
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The Tudors / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Tudors / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Never shown or even hinted at in the programme; no suggestion that it was anything more than slander in history.
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The Tudors / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
The Tudors / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Quite a bunch of people did this to Thomas Cromwell.
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The Tudors / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Tudors / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "But tell me first, how is your beautiful wife?" The Queen of France to Charles Brandon, when he suggests that she jumps into bed with him to get back at her own cheating husband. "Can you not be more like her?" Anne is floored when her brother breaks it to her that Catherine was a good queen and that Anne would do well to take a few lessons from her as to personal conduct and social policy.
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The Tudors / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Tudors / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Henry, the King of France, and the Holy Roman Emperor are constantly signing treaties with one another, then breaking them the very second they stop being in their short-term interest.
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The Tudors / int_7d44b017	type	Balance of Power
The Tudors / int_7d44b017	comment	Balance of Power: The Emperor's lands is A, France is B and England is sometimes C and sometimes D. It becomes scary for England when A and B temporarily ally, so it then tries to ally with E (the Protestant League). England became known for doing this in the centuries to come. Ironically, Henry is not good at maintaining this at his own court, allowing new favourites to cause the downfall of former (and sometimes very useful) favourites.
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The Tudors / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Tudors / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In the final episode of Season 2, Charles Brandon, furious at Thomas Boleyn's greater concern being for the fact he gets to keep his title and his head rather than that his son has already been executed and his daughter will soon follow suit, slams Boleyn against a wall and makes his contempt clear about Boleyn's seeming indifference to the fact he willingly sacrificed his children for his own ambition. Henry gives one to his advisors in Episode 2 of Season 4, lambasting them for appearing to put their agendas above his wishes and the needs of England, as well as chewing them out for poisoning him against Cromwell.
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The Tudors / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Tudors / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Lots of people. It's what Henry is known for.
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The Tudors / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Tudors / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Tons of them. Hardly any actually work out. If it does work out, it doesn't last long. Interestingly, however, five out of six of Henry's wives were chosen by him personally. They still don't end happily.
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The Tudors / int_808324e1	type	The Runner-Up Takes It All
The Tudors / int_808324e1	comment	The Runner-Up Takes It All: King Henry VIII inadvertently ends up secularizing, liberalizing and modernizing the United Kingdom by undermining feudalism, promoting "Renaissance Humanism" and making treason a bigger cause for execution then hersey. He also allied with the Northern European Protestant-majority countries which are among the most liberal in all of Europe. The dissolution of the monasteries ended up leading to a decline in religiosity in the United Kingdom. It was panned in most of continental Europe at the time however. While King Henry VIII was "liberal" for 16th/17th standards, he would have little in common with 18th century secular liberals like David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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The Tudors / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Tudors / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Peter O'Toole as THE POPE!
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The Tudors / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Tudors / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Yes, the Field of the Cloth of Gold and ensuing wrestling match really did happen. Multiple viewers expressed confusion and dismay in regards to how Catherine of Aragon was portrayed as physically much older than Henry. In real life, Henry and Catherine were married for 23 years and were both in their early-mid forties by the time he finally divorced her and she was his longest marriage by far (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr are tied for second place at a comparatively measly 3 years each). It often gets overlooked due to her simply being the first wife of six. In addition, while Catherine was reportedly quite beautiful in her youth, by that point, the multiple stillbirths and deaths of her children in infancy had understandably aged her quite a bit (Mary was the only one of six children the pair had together who survived to adulthood.) If anything, rather than Catherine looking too old, Henry looks far too young (Jonathan Rhys Meyers was 29 during the filming of Season 1.)
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The Tudors / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Tudors / int_875615dd	comment	Anne Boleyn would have liked to see Mary killed and developed a paranoia that Mary would eventually have Anne herself burned alive. She does try to make amends with Mary, however, but Mary understandably rejects this. A Truth in Television, Anne actually asked Mary several times to acknowledge her as Queen with the promise of reconciliation with Henry if she does so. Mary would always throw it back to her face. Though not shown, Anne during her imprisonment, actually begged one of her jailors to send a message of apology for how Anne had treated her and stated she only feared Mary because of what she and Catherine of Aragon stood for. Unfortunately, Mary would reject this as well for she believed Anne was this trope so much even when it became increasingly clear that a lot of Mary's misery came from her father, she still blamed Anne for all her ills.
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The Tudors / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Tudors / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In Episode 1 of Season 4, Henry, about to leave London for a time, asks his advisors who is being kept prisoner at the Tower of London. His advisors inform him that there are four awaiting his judgement, amongst them his new queen, Katherine Howard's cousin, Lord Dacre, who is guilty of killing an old man in a drunken brawl during a night out, and that the young man's father has written to the King, begging him to show mercy on account of Dacre's youth and this being his first offence. Henry decides the first three prisoners are to be beheaded, but insists that Lord Dacre is different...because if he's going to behave like a common criminal, that's how he'll be punished; Henry gives the order for the man to be dragged by his feet to Tyburn, and hanged there like a common thief. Back in Season 2, Cromwell is discussing how his spies have informed him a priest in Tewksbury has been offering prayers to his congregation for Queen Catherine, not Queen Anne...
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The Tudors / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Tudors / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Robert Aske demurs the invitation to lead the Pilgrimage of Grace at first because he loathes the idea of rebelling against the king.
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The Tudors / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Tudors / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Mary might think it okay that their father is more fond of Edward, but Elizabeth does not.
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The Tudors / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Tudors / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Henry VIII is pretty much a terrible person who backstabs everyone, is given to fits of temper, and operates on the principle of It's All About Me at all times. He's the protagonist.
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The Tudors / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Tudors / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: There are occassional allusions throughout the series to Henry VII, Henry VIII's father. Not many of which are flattering.
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The Tudors / int_8cf75a5c	type	Lipstick-and-Load Montage
The Tudors / int_8cf75a5c	comment	Lipstick-and-Load Montage: Catherine of Aragon, grimly dressing for the Legatine Court. Anne Boleyn, grimly dressing for her execution. Ironically juxtaposed with Jane Seymour happily dressing for a visit from Henry at her family's home.
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The Tudors / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
The Tudors / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Katherine Howard is portrayed as such. Mary Boleyn can be seen as this as well as her family uses her as a pawn in affairs with the king of France and then Henry. Later on, she marries a commoner without asking for permission and is subsequently disowned by her family. This may have been what saved her as she is not executed like her brother and sister.
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The Tudors / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Tudors / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The King of Portugal is portrayed as a misogynistic Dirty Old Man when Margaret is forced to marry him, so we don't feel bad for him at all when she strangles him to death nor can we blame her.
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The Tudors / int_90dfa0d0	type	Noble Top Enforcer
The Tudors / int_90dfa0d0	comment	Noble Top Enforcer: Suffolk, despite having some less than noble moments surrounding Anne Boleyn's fall, comes off as this for the rest of the series, especially during the Pilgrimage of Grace, where he negotiates with the rebels, and later is disturbed when Henry intends to renege on all the promises he made to Aske. His punishment of the rebels amounts to executing a handful of the leaders while leaving the multitudes following them unharmed. Unfortunately, under the threat of censure (and probably more) from Cromwell and Henry, Charles eventually goes through with putting down the rebels violently.
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The Tudors / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
The Tudors / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Henry wants to meet a couple of French ladies so he can inspect them before he decides to marry them. The French ambassador then jokes to Henry that he tries them all out before making a choice. Clearly he was unaware about what kind of man Henry was because hilarity does not ensue.
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The Tudors / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Tudors / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Henry to Anne Boleyn: "Your neck... I love your neck." Three guesses what happens to her neck in Season 2! Henry to Thomas More, after offering him a knighthood: "You're not a saint, Thomas". (St. Thomas More was canonized in 1935.) In a conversation between sisters Mary and Elizabeth, not long after Edward's birth, Mary tells a young Elizabeth that while their father still loves them, a boy is more important. Elizabeth, who out of her own choice would never marry and still be a competent queen, playfully replies "I don't think so". Especially considering that his daughters ended up becoming even more famous and powerful than Henry himself. When the ghosts of Henry's first three wives appear to him in the series finale, Catherine of Aragon and Jane Seymour berate him for how he's ruined their children's futures, but Anne Boleyn only mentions how proud she is of her daughter, hinting that Elizabeth has the best fate in store.
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The Tudors / int_9f063f19	type	Tough Leader FaÃ§ade
The Tudors / int_9f063f19	comment	Tough Leader Façade: Subverted in that she was not supreme ruler. Otherwise fitting with Catherine Parr, who was married to a king who thought nothing of sending her sister and ladies to the Tower while also agreeing to a warrant for her arrest. She still managed to greet her most bitter enemies with a smile and then get the king on her side in the end.
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The Tudors / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Tudors / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: For Anne Boleyn. At her coronation, Henry crowns her himself using St Edward's Crown, usually reserved for the reigning monarch. For Henry's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, when he is given his ducal coronet as a toddler.
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The Tudors / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Tudors / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Henry, of all people, seems to get one (shocking, I know) when Cromwell tells him that Wolsey committed suicide. He makes haste to cover up by ordering that no one must ever know, then shouts for everyone around him to leave before he starts to sniffle... Kind of a repeating pattern for Henry; he mourns Cromwell in the similar fashion after he allows him to be executed. Brandon and Bryan, who sabotage Cromwell's execution out of spite (along with Thomas Seymour) by getting the executioner drunk, clearly seem to repent having done so when it takes five blows to get his head off.
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The Tudors / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Tudors / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Henry VIII was a redhead in real life, but he's a brunette in the show. Similarly, Catherine of Aragon had reddish-blonde hair in real life, but she has black hair in the show. Very nearly happened with Anne Boleyn, but Natalie Dormer, a blonde in real life, stood firm about playing her as a brunette. Mary had her father's red hair, not dark brown — not surprising as her mother also had reddish hair. Kathryn Howard's hair was described as auburn, whereas in the show she's a blonde.
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The Tudors / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Tudors / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: The premiere episode, "In Cold Blood": Henry's uncle is assassinated by the French. The Duke of Buckingham plots Henry's assassination. Four kings are at the centre of the Season 1 episode "His Majesty the King": Henry, Francis I, Charles V, and the unnamed king of Portugal. The Season 1 episode "Arise, My Lord": Henry bestows titles upon his illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, as well as Thomas Boleyn. He also attempts to make Anne his official mistress (maîtresse en titre), but she refuses. Cardinal Wolsey, who was recently denied the opportunity to rise to the papacy, is reminded that he does not have the authority to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine. The Season 1 episode "Look to God First": Judgment regarding Henry and Catherine's marriage reverts to the Roman Curia. Anne encourages Henry to read a book that says only God, not the Pope, can have authority over a king. The Season 2 episode "Checkmate": The main focus of the episode is Henry's efforts to outmaneuver the Catholic Church in order to marry Anne Boleyn. At the very end of the episode, Henry plays with chess pieces on the naked body of one of Anne's ladies. The Season 2 episode "His Majesty's Pleasure": Cardinal John Fisher is "to be tried according to His Majesty's pleasure." Henry enjoys a spur-of-the-moment dalliance with a woman he meets in the woods. A triple-meaning title for the Season 2 episode "Lady in Waiting": Jane Seymour arrives at court to serve as a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. Soon after, Jane and her family begin waiting for Henry to cast Anne aside in her favor. Meanwhile, a heavily pregnant Anne is impatient for her son to be born, as this is what she needs in order to get rid of the Seymours. The Season 4 episode "Moment of Nostalgia": Brandon is plagued by memories of his role in defeating the northern uprising. Henry's marriage to Katherine Howard makes him feel like the young, virile king he used to be. The final episode, "Death of a Monarchy": Henry dies off-screen at the end of the episode. The ghost of Jane Seymour warns Henry that Prince Edward will die young. The epilogue notes that Elizabeth would become the last Tudor monarch.
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The Tudors / int_a5439ea9	type	Cool Crown
The Tudors / int_a5439ea9	comment	For Anne Boleyn. At her coronation, Henry crowns her himself using St Edward's Crown, usually reserved for the reigning monarch.
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The Tudors / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Tudors / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Thomas Boleyn is an absolutely infuriating example. He escapes the executioner's axe only because he wholeheartedly denounces his son and daughter to the King's investigators, and while they are put to death he only cares about whether he keeps his title and estate as Earl of Wiltshire or not. What a dick. It's better if you know your history, as he would die just two years later, having lost everything he and his daughters worked for. Of course, if you really know your history you'll know that he was never imprisoned or blamed up in real life, even by Henry. Sir Richard Rich and Thomas Wriothesley definitely count, too. What about two of the most self-serving and treacherous bastards in this show, persecuting their former fellow Protestants and torturing Anne Askew, in a most vile and inhumane manner? The punishment for both of them is...let's see...Uh, right, getting promoted to even higher ranks. (According to Henry's testament, Wriothesley will be, next to Cranmer, the highest minister under the Procterate of Somerset. That he will be Seymour's underdog and under his constant watch helps a bit, at least. Well, and Rich will also not only keep his head, but prosper, making it even into the reign of Queen Elizabeth, being considered to be a respectable and trustworthy person by all.) Francis Bryan, the most bastardly member of King Henry's court, and one of the few who never takes a fall.
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The Tudors / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Tudors / int_a8559a9f	comment	Anne Boleyn to an extent as well, mostly because she grew up at the courts of Margaret of Austria and the French court. In Real Life, this, not her looks (which were unremarkable) is what charmed Henry.
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The Tudors / int_a8b68a9c	type	No Pregger Sex
The Tudors / int_a8b68a9c	comment	No Pregger Sex: Anne Boleyn turns away Henry when she's pregnant. This was really a belief back then that sex during pregnancy could harm the unborn child.
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The Tudors / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Tudors / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Henry's great desire to continue the Tudor line ends up indirectly causing it to end, since the audience either already knows or learns in the show's finale that none of his children will have children of their own because of his actions. Edward, due to being overprotected by his father (or so the ghost of Jane Seymour claims) grew up sickly and died before he had a chance to marry and produce his own heir. Henry never gets around to arranging a marriage for Mary due to her constantly fluctuating status and the threat her husband might prove to Henry himself...so by the time she became queen she was in her late thirties with no children, and unlikely at that stage to be able to have any; her unsuccessful marriage to Philip II of Spain also failed to produce an heir. Elizabeth tells Mary that after seeing what happened to Katherine Howard (and no doubt remembering what happened to her own mother) she has decided she will never marry; this is Truth in Television as Elizabeth really did say this at age 9. For various reasons she stuck to this decision throughout her life, and upon her death, the English throne passed to the House of Stuart.
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The Tudors / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Tudors / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Wolsey's prayer in the last episode of Season 1. Thomas Cromwell's monologue and prayer prior to being executed in the Season 3 finale. Any bad guy who is executed, in general. Especially those who are hanged, drawn and quartered. Anne Boleyn may not have been popular, within in England or abroad, but few thought she was guilty of her charges or that she deserved to be executed. This causes many potential brides to turn Henry down after the death of Jane Seymour in fear of him. When Princess Christina of Denmark is proposed to by Henry's ambassadors, she replies that she would only marry Henry if she had two heads.
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The Tudors / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Tudors / int_ad1db87c	comment	Cardinal Wolsey suffers a series of Oh, Crap! moments, starting with his learning of the King's love for Anne Boleyn (whom he'd just treated with withering contempt) and ending with his arrest.
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The Tudors / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Tudors / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Henry goes through deplorable lengths in order to beget the son he always wanted for the sake of securing the Tudor Dynasty. As history would show, and as constantly foreshadowed by the series itself, all his efforts come to naught because his long awaited heir dies as a teenager before he could have any children himself, and would end up having a comparatively unremarkable reign to the ones his older sisters would have. To pour even more salt in the wound, Henry himself is to blame for the dynasty dying out, as his refusal to let Mary get married during his reign led to her marrying at too old an age to have children, while Elizabeth absolutely refused to get married herself due to her view of marriage being warped by his actions.
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The Tudors / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Tudors / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Brandon's French mistress was a fairly obvious device to introduce some more sex into the plot after Henry VIII was getting old and infirm and not catting around anymore. Not to mention, most if not all of the women on this show get naked at one point or another.
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The Tudors / int_b056fe9e	type	Revolving Door Revolution
The Tudors / int_b056fe9e	comment	Revolving Door Revolution: Henry's constant religious changes left people very unsure of what he really wanted them to believe. Cromwell became a victim of this. Protestants and Catholics did too, as Chapuys highlights in a letter to the emperor.
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The Tudors / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Tudors / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Anne Boleyn would have liked to see Mary killed and developed a paranoia that Mary would eventually have Anne herself burned alive. She does try to make amends with Mary, however, but Mary understandably rejects this. A Truth in Television, Anne actually asked Mary several times to acknowledge her as Queen with the promise of reconciliation with Henry if she does so. Mary would always throw it back to her face. Though not shown, Anne during her imprisonment, actually begged one of her jailors to send a message of apology for how Anne had treated her and stated she only feared Mary because of what she and Catherine of Aragon stood for. Unfortunately, Mary would reject this as well for she believed Anne was this trope so much even when it became increasingly clear that a lot of Mary's misery came from her father, she still blamed Anne for all her ills. Averted with Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, who are both very nice to Mary. Admittedly, Mary didn't like Anne of Cleves very much to start with because a) She's a Protestant and b) She's the replacement for Jane Seymour, who Mary adored. But Anne eventually wins her over, enough that she is not too keen on the next wife in line. Katherine Howard doesn't get along with Mary either. She did try, but Mary rebuffed her, and she responded by getting nasty. Inverted with Catherine Parr. She is very kind to her, but Mary has turned into a wicked stepdaughter. She does have a good relationship with her two other stepchildren, though.
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The Tudors / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Tudors / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Anne of Cleves, which allowed her to get out of the marriage while at the first opportunity, and in appreciation, King Henry gave her everything she wanted. Which allows Anne to end the series with her own manor, retinue, freedom, and not to mention life, unlike wives one, two and five.
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The Tudors / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Tudors / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Thomas Boleyn is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He will do anything to his children if it means power for him. He forcibly persuades Mary to become Henry's mistress, then places Anne in her place when the king tires of her. He later disowns Mary after she marries a commoner and tells her she and her husband can burn in hell. He forces George to marry a woman he can't stand and abuses Anne to keep Henry's interest. After Anne has her first miscarriage, he blames her for it and is only concerned that the unborn child is his ticket to power. He later protests against Anne and George to save himself. When he is released he is only relieved that he gets to keep his earldom and totally ignores that both his children will die. The last time Anne sees him is him giving her a nasty look. Henry is this as well. He makes his daughters illegitimate and takes away their titles. Even to his long-awaited son Edward, he becomes overprotective and expects far too much. Jane Seymour later calls him out on this, saying Edward will die young.
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The Tudors / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Tudors / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: George Boleyn uses this in his arranged marriage to Jane Rochford.
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The Tudors / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
The Tudors / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: The whole reason why Henry had six wives. Extremely ironic when you know that both his daughters not only got to be the queen's regnant but also were both competent rulers and are remembered to this day.
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The Tudors / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Tudors / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Really, Henry? You're upending the Catholic Church and trying to get an annulment on spurious grounds because your latest fling won't give it up to you, never mind who or what you're hurting in the process, and you're calling Catherine of Aragon heartless? That's more than a bit rich!
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The Tudors / int_b545453b	type	Internal Homage
The Tudors / int_b545453b	comment	Internal Homage: Some parallels between the executions of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard: both wear a blue dress for the occasion, and both are seen taking one last look at the sky before the blade strikes.
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The Tudors / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Tudors / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Katherine Howard. Francis Dereham and Lady Rochford also deserve honorable mentions. Despite being equally stupid, Joan Bulmer somehow manages to emerge unscathed. Dereham seems to be the worst. While all the others at least try to conceal what they are doing, Dereham goes out of his way to spread it far and wide. The Duke of Buckingham, who told way too many unreliable people that he was planning treason, and also couldn't control his temper in front of the king.
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The Tudors / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Tudors / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: It's okay for Henry to stray, but that one of his wives might be doing the same does not please him. As he is king he tends to have this reaction about a lot of things, such that behavior that would in others be unacceptable is fine for him. Possibly justified: the King needs a legitimate heir, and anything that could call an heir's legitimacy into question including the infidelity of his Queen could cause generations of bloodshed.
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The Tudors / int_b6e1d40b	type	Acceptable Breaks from Reality
The Tudors / int_b6e1d40b	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Reality: As a trim young ruler, Henry was considered world-beating handsome; famously, though, over the course of his reign he became morbidly obese. To reflect this, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers could have worn a fat suit, gained weight deliberately, or subjected himself to CGI tricks, but virtually any such measures risked becoming the focus of the audience's attention, at the expense of his performance. In the end, Rhys-Meyers wore minimal aging makeup, communicated Henry's increasing ungainliness and ill health mainly through body language and bulky clothes, and let Willing Suspension of Disbelief do the rest. Yet by avoiding his obesity and the health issues that accompanied it, many character motivations are altered by perception — his mood swings began as his health declined, rather than being a part of his base character as the show implies, and Kathryn Howard's dalliance with Culpepper is more understandable as a teenager married to a old man who could not rise without help of mechanical instruments, had to be carried around, and stank from the suppurating ulcers in his leg.
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The Tudors / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Tudors / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The series ends with a quick summary of the Tudor dynasty after Henry's death: Prince Edward became king at the age of nine and died of illness at the age of 15. After an attempt to stop her accession, Mary ruled as queen for five years, earning her "Bloody Mary" moniker by burning hundreds of Protestants. After Mary's death without issue, Elizabeth began the 44-year reign that would be known as "the Golden Age."
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The Tudors / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
The Tudors / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: Since Reginald Pole is out of Henry's reach in continental Europe, Henry has both his mother and brother executed. And perhaps his nephew, a child we last see being led away by the power-grubbing Edward Seymour.
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The Tudors / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
The Tudors / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: In the fourth season episode "As It Should Be", Henry refuses to believe his doctor when said doctor tells him that "the bloody flux" is sweeping through the camp, devastating their army. Henry orders him to get the "cowards" out of their sickbeds to fight, with predictable results. Incredibly, despite this, Henry's troops eventually succeed in taking Boulogne.
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The Tudors / int_bafa1190	type	Unfinished Business
The Tudors / int_bafa1190	comment	Unfinished Business: In the last episode, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour all come back to give Henry a piece of their mind.
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The Tudors / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Tudors / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Henry VIII wins, although Charles Brandon and others also qualify.
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The Tudors / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
The Tudors / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: A few in the Season 1 episode "Message to the Emperor," in which Henry's paranoia amid an outbreak of sweating sickness leads to some terrifying Hallucinations.
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The Tudors / int_c194d0f9	type	Cuteness Overload
The Tudors / int_c194d0f9	comment	For Henry's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, when he is given his ducal coronet as a toddler.
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The Tudors / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Tudors / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Strictly fictional but: Henry refused to have Jane crowned until she gave birth to a son. She died after giving birth to a son but before being crowned. As a result, some people are questioning Edward's place in the succession. In Real Life, Jane wasn't crowned because there was an outbreak of plague in the planned spot for the coronation and, obviously, she as the king's wife wasn't going to go anywhere near there until the threat was over. Also, Edward's place was never threatened by her not being crowned. Coronation or not, with Catherine and Anne dead, Jane was religiously and legally Henry's wife, and therefore, he was the legitimate male heir of a king. Still, that's a pretty sweet bit of irony the show's throwing at Henry. Thomas More uses Henry's own arguments in defense of Catholicism to defend himself. Henry indeed had done this, attacking Luther in print and was named Defender of the Faith by the Pope for it (a title the British monarchs carry to this day).
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The Tudors / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Tudors / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The Duke of Norfolk, Anthony Knivert and Thomas Tallis after Season 1, though Norfolk is mentioned once in Season 2. Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, is similarly given a single mention in Season 3, although as noted above, historically he should have played a huge role in Season 4. Although, his letter to Henry about Katherine Howard's adultery is given anonymously, so it can easily be assumed to be from him. Pope Paul III actually outlived Henry, but he is not seen after Season 2, since Peter O'Toole did not return to the cast. Reginald Pole is given significant screen time in Season 3, but disappears for Season 4.
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The Tudors / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
The Tudors / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: Especially heard upon the execution of Anne Boleyn.
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The Tudors / int_c675d08c	type	Compliment Backfire
The Tudors / int_c675d08c	comment	Compliment Backfire: Henry thinks he's paying Anne Boleyn a great compliment by offering her to become his one and only mistress. She does not.
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The Tudors / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Tudors / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Macbeth: Brandon seeing Lord Darcy's ghost during a feast at Pontefract Castle. American Beauty: Catherine Howard's fondness for rose petals.
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The Tudors / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
The Tudors / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: Wolsey in his final prayer insists that while he is not a good man he is not evil, "pray louder, seek Penance, and are more certain that they are closer to Heaven than I am." Immediately smash cuts to Thomas More praying just after he's burned a Protestant.
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The Tudors / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
The Tudors / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Six wives altogether, and which two are the ones that get the most nude and sex scenes? The two that eventually get their heads cut off. Coincidence?
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The Tudors / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
The Tudors / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Domestic Abuser: Henry emotionally and verbally abuses Catherine of Aragon. Later, the emotional abuse crops up again with Anne Boleyn and in one rather unsettling scene with Jane Seymour — where an implied threat of meeting Anne's fate is paired with a physically affectionate gesture after.
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The Tudors / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Tudors / int_c9790040	comment	In Season 2, this has definitely turned into a Decadent Court.
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The Tudors / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Tudors / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Henry VIII actually had two sisters, Mary and Margaret. The character portrayed in the show is given the biography of Mary, but the name of Margaret, because they feared that the audience could have her mistaken with the daughter of Henry and Catherine (or, if Michael Hurst is to be believed, so that the actors wouldn't get confused on set). In Season 3, he refers to the King of Scotland as his nephew, even though as far as anyone knows, he did not have another sister to be the Scots King's mother. Margaret Tudor, Henry's sister, married James IV of Scotland and was mother to James the V of the Scotland. But if the viewer doesn't know that, the show doesn't make sense.
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The Tudors / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Tudors / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Suffolk, to the northern rebels. He elects to execute only the leaders of the rebellion (74 out of 40,000) after they had disbanded. Henry, through Cromwell, demands that he slaughter hundreds more to teach the rebels a lesson. Charles isn't happy about what he must do to retain the favor of the king.
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The Tudors / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Tudors / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Jane Seymour passed away from Childbed Fever shortly after the birth of Prince Edward. A tragic case of Truth in Television.
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The Tudors / int_d72edeb0	type	Fake Guest Star
The Tudors / int_d72edeb0	comment	Fake Guest Star: There were only three actors that featured in all four seasons: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, and Anthony Brophy. Anthony who? Yes, even though ambassador Chapuys continued to play a big part in the story, he was never even in the opening credits. This in contrast to Lothaire Bluteau, who had only a few minutes here and there in the last season as the French ambassador, but was a regular during that time.
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The Tudors / int_da14a081	type	Artistic License â€“ Traditional Christianity
The Tudors / int_da14a081	comment	Artistic License – Traditional Christianity: Jane Boleyn saying how George's sexual relationship with Mark Smeaton will cause him to spend eternity in purgatory. No one spends eternity in purgatory. It is where souls intended for heaven go when they die to cleanse themselves to be holy enough for heaven, but they will not stay forever.
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The Tudors / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The Tudors / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Sir Francis Bryan. Later Thomas Seymour with Catherine Parr.
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The Tudors / int_db912a80	type	The Good King
The Tudors / int_db912a80	comment	The Good King: Charles V and King Francis 1. Both are potrayed as being better monarchs then Henry VIII.
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The Tudors / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Tudors / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Constantly, thanks to all the Ms. Fanservice characters. Perhaps most frequently with Katherine Howard who is highly sexualized in the show. Most interestingly, in one scene, Katherine dances in the rain whilst Henry and Thomas Culpepper watch her from their windows, where she dances in the rain: in Henry’s gaze, Katherine‘s dance is innocent and childish, almost ethereally so (Henry envisioning her as a “perfect jewel of womanhood”) whilst in Culpepper’s, her dance is a lot more sexual, with camera close ups on her breasts and legs— both men dehumanizing her and seeing her as an object, but in different ways.
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The Tudors / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
The Tudors / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: At one point Catherine of Aragon catches her servant Anne with a necklace given to her by the King, Catherine explodes at Anne while also declaring that Henry will tire of her. Only a few years later Anne is Queen and finds her servant Jane Seymour with a locket with Henry's image inside. She responds fairly similarly to Catherine.
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The Tudors / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Tudors / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Thomas Boleyn gets this, so very much (and so does many of his media adaptations). He for one is appalled at the very idea of his daughters being made whores by anyone, even by his King. When he found out that Mary had become mistress to King Francis, he was horrified and brought her back to wed someone just to save her reputation. And when Anne first caught Henry's attentions, he took a great risk to bring her back to Hever to lay low with hopes that Henry's feelings would cool down (to no avail). He even kept Anne's letters from her childhood for safekeeping and they were so well preserved historians still used it as a source centuries later. George Boleyn. Nothing is actually known, good or bad, about his marriage to Jane Parker; to depict him as a rapist without even one person he knew ever even hinting at such a thing in their writing is harsh. For that matter, Jane herself. There's no historical evidence that she testified against her husband, or any evidence that she was a schemer. Even earlier beliefs that she somehow arranged Katherine Howard's affair with Thomas Culpeper (incidentally, a real villain and about as bad as the show portrays him) have recently been challenged. Edward Seymour, for one. While he probably wasn't a great guy — he was a major force at court for a good amount of time, you didn't do that and be nice — he was definitely not the bastard shown in the series. When he was Lord Protector (read: de facto King) during Edward VI's minority, he was pretty well-liked by the common people because his policies were helpful to them. When he fell from power and was executed, they actually needed extra guards to make sure there wasn't a riot over it. In a mild case, Katherine Howard. While the show portrays her as definitely guilty of adultery and insinuates that she had a promiscuous past even by modern standards, while in Real Life Katherine Howard was never actually found guilty of committing adultery and most modern historians assert that she was a victim of sexual abuse - being a child when her adult piano teacher began a sexual relationship with her. Bishop Gardiner is much more villainous here than he was in Real Life. Catherine de Medici is shown to be one of the worst 16th/17th century monarchs to have ever lived. In reality,, she was no worse than any other nobleman or noblewoman in Europe.
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The Tudors / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
The Tudors / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: Charles Brandon with Thomas Darcy in Pontefract Castle. Also Henry with Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour in the last episode.
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The Tudors / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Tudors / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Katherine Howard, in addition to being Too Dumb to Live.
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The Tudors / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Tudors / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The show ended before getting into Mary's reign, possibly because there wasn't as much sexy time involved, but her loathing of Protestants, her comments about wanting to burn Cromwell, and her promises when on tours with her father that "all will be well" are Calls Forward to her attempt at a Counter-Reformation after she becomes queen. Similarly, several characters prophetically murmur about how Elizabeth will become a great woman; Mary even curtseys to her and calls her 'Queen Elizabeth'.
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The Tudors / int_e46f71c3	type	Hollywood Costuming
The Tudors / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: Needless to say, some of the costumes are certainly not accurate to 16th century England.
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The Tudors / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Tudors / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Henry VIII actually had two sisters, Mary and Margaret. The character portrayed in the show is given the biography of Mary, but the name of Margaret, because they feared that the audience could have her mistaken with the daughter of Henry and Catherine (or, if Michael Hurst is to be believed, so that the actors wouldn't get confused on set). In Season 3, he refers to the King of Scotland as his nephew, even though as far as anyone knows, he did not have another sister to be the Scots King's mother. Margaret Tudor, Henry's sister, married James IV of Scotland and was mother to James the V of the Scotland. But if the viewer doesn't know that, the show doesn't make sense. Anne Stanhope's character storyline, especially in Season 4, sounds like a rewrite of what happened with Edward Seymour's first wife, only with his second wife's name attached.
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The Tudors / int_e905c892	type	The Heretic
The Tudors / int_e905c892	comment	The Heretic: Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn, Cranmer and quite a few others, not helped by the fact that the definition of heresy changes at least once per season. By Season 4, there are loads of them. Henry's last queen, many of her ladies, the Seymours and Anne Askew all had reason to fear being branded as such. Not to mention, Edward and Elizabeth are being raised as heretics, or so Mary complains.
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The Tudors / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Tudors / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Henry VIII, a man of fiery passions, quick to anger and swift to act like a complete ass at all times and condemn at the drop of a hat, albeit likely to show some regret afterwards (after the executions are done that is) once he's calmed down. Thomas Boleyn. He cares only about his children as political pawns and is ready and willing to denounce them and send them to the executioner in order to save his own life. It's no wonder why he ends up dying alone. Edward Seymour. He is one of the biggest dicks in the show.
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The Tudors / int_eba4e300	type	Honorary Uncle
The Tudors / int_eba4e300	comment	Honorary Uncle: Ambassador Chapuys to the Lady Mary.
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The Tudors / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
The Tudors / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: In the first season, Wolsey was never loved by many, but even those who owed him a lot drop him as he falls. Anne Boleyn and infant Elizabeth: "Because the pope, and he, and the emperor all AGREE. She is a bastard and you are not my wife." Sadly for Anne, this also went for most of the English people at that time. She does end up regaining some of her reputation after her death, because regardless of her previous actions, she was innocent of the crimes she was accused of and her execution was considered unjust. North of London, Cromwell, Cranmer and their policies were hated to the point that thousands rebelled.
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The Tudors / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Tudors / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: The popularity of the name Mary at the time caused some issues, including the writers compositing Henry's sisters Mary and Margaret into one character called Margaret to reduce the number of Marys to keep track of. Averted with other common names of the period, with two Annes, two Janes, four Catherines/Katherines, and ten Thomases. In Season 2, up to five Thomases were in the opening credits at any given time, six if you count the silhouettes of Wolsey. Thankfully they are usually referred to by last name and/or title.
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The Tudors / int_f09e6c1c	type	Ironic Juxtaposition
The Tudors / int_f09e6c1c	comment	Anne Boleyn, grimly dressing for her execution. Ironically juxtaposed with Jane Seymour happily dressing for a visit from Henry at her family's home.
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The Tudors / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
The Tudors / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Katherine Howard is a giggly teenage airhead totally out of her depth in court. Mary Boleyn also fits this category.
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The Tudors / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
The Tudors / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The war of the roses. King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York were both involved in it.
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The Tudors / int_f740a274	type	Historical Beauty Update
The Tudors / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: A parade of pouty-lipped sexpots of both genders in Gorgeous Period Dress? The Tudors is the god of this trope. After all, we can't have all that hot and sexy sex being had by ugly actors, can we? Not to mention that the women are all very thin. When someone comments on Katherine Howard's round bum, well... it isn't (historically, she was described as 'pleasingly plump' as having some extra weight was desirable in those times). Noted in this Kate Beaton comic.
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The Tudors / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
The Tudors / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: After he dies, it is mentioned that the only attendees at Thomas Boleyn's funeral were "the ghosts of his children."
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The Tudors / int_f844a17c	type	Blame Game
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The Tudors / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Thomas More on the Catholic side of the religious dispute, Thomas Cromwell and Archbishop Cranmer on the Protestant side.
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The Tudors / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: What Henry imagined Isabella of Spain to be, and therefore also suspected her daughter Catherine to become if he gave her half the chance. Averted in that Catherine would never wage war against her husband or England.
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The Tudors / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In spite of the fact that Henry could be a real asshole of a ruler, he did have his moments with Jane Seymour in that he truly did love her. Towards the end of his life, he also had this with Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, and to a lesser extent Catherine Parr. A quiet, beautiful scene of him laying hands on sick people to cure them is also this. Made especially poignant, since his own body is declining as well. George Boleyn presents a cruel twist on this. He is an arrogant prick who rapes his own wife on their wedding night, but his one sympathetic quality is that he seems to genuinely care about his sister Anne's well-being, as opposed to their father who very clearly sees her as nothing more than a political pawn. Yet his one sympathetic quality results directly in his downfall and death, when his close relationship with his sister is twisted into an accusation of incest for which he is tried and executed.
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