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The Young Pope

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The Young Pope	label	The Young Pope
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The Young Pope	comment	The Young Pope is a miniseries directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Jude Law, Silvio Orlando, CÃ©cile de France, Scott Shepherd and Diane Keaton. It is produced by HBO, Sky Atlantic, and Canal+, and premiered on October 21, 2016.It features a fictional Pope, Pius XIII (born Lenny Belardo), who's the first to come from the United States of America and gets elected in his late forties. He takes up the quest of revolutionizing the Catholic Church and Vatican City while fighting his own personal crisis of faith.The miniseries got a sequel (or second season?) in the same format, The New Pope, which premiered in January 2020.
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The Young Pope / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
The Young Pope / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: The show was marketed this way, attention is frequently drawn (often by Lenny himself) to how handsome Lenny is, and there are a handful of sex scenes — but, interestingly, Lenny himself is a devotedly celibate virgin. Lenny markets himself this way, oftentimes comparing his own, supposedly magnetic appearance to Jesus.
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The Young Pope / int_1411ae39	type	Likes Older Men
The Young Pope / int_1411ae39	comment	Likes Older Men: Freddy, a young gay man who appears to be exclusively attracted to older men, like Gutierrez.
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The Young Pope / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Young Pope / int_1869b4b1	comment	As a teenager, he prays over a dying woman, who then miraculously recovered. This is told in flashback, making it a possible case of Unreliable Narrator. Recoveries of even terminal illnesses do, rarely, occur.
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The Young Pope / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Young Pope / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Played with. While Lenny is presented as eye candy for the audience and is very smugly vain (up to and including his dressing for an address to his cardinals being set to LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It"), he is nevertheless very committed to celibacy and is surprisingly absent from any of the show's sex scenes (the closest he gets to one is seeing Esther and her husband having sex, and going down on his knees to pray to God to give her a child).
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The Young Pope / int_1bf4aeb3	type	The Merch
The Young Pope / int_1bf4aeb3	comment	The Merch: In-universe, apparently, the Vatican has an official line of merchandise that makes up a sizable part of Holy See income. Pius XIII decides to stop the line. This obviously doesn't stop everyone else but the Vatican from making their own.
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The Young Pope / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
The Young Pope / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: Lenny and Andrew, who were raised together by Sister Mary.
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The Young Pope / int_23747fd7	type	Ironic Fear
The Young Pope / int_23747fd7	comment	Ironic Fear: The pope frequently scares internal Catholic Church members into submission by describing to them what life would be like without the perks they enjoy. Oftentimes, the environment he describes is a modern take of the environment Jesus rose up from.
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The Young Pope / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Young Pope / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Pope Pius XIII. Thirteen is also the number commonly associated with Judas, Jesusâ€™ betrayer.
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The Young Pope / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
The Young Pope / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Lenny sometimes comes across as this due to his somewhat androgynous mannerisms, it doesn't help that Lenny is more than willing to use his beauty and sex appeal to manipulate both men and women equally.
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The Young Pope / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Young Pope / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Lenny grew up in an orphanage, left there by his hippie parents, who were more interested in partying and having fun than raising a child. This drags behind him for the rest of his life. To a lesser extent, Sister Mary forbids him from calling her Ma, which she does allow from her other foster son.
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The Young Pope / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Young Pope / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Subverted and discussed. Lenny admits to weaponizing the trope. He hides his appearance to create an aura of mystery about him, knowing that the first time he shows his face, people will be entranced by his angelic good looks and follow whatever he says no matter their previous opinion of him. Voiello is a short, pudgy, balding man with a gigantic mole on his cheek who is introduced as an egotistical manipulator opposing our main character Lenny, teasing him as a villain. He later not only joins forces with Lenny but proves to be a much more moral and sympathetic person than he appeared.
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The Young Pope / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Young Pope / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Lenny hides his true feelings most of the time.
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The Young Pope / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
The Young Pope / int_316e9da2	comment	LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" makes a somewhat Internet-infamous invoked appearance later on, as Lenny dresses to address the cardinals.
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The Young Pope / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Young Pope / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The mob not punishing Dussolier's replacement for denying eucharist for drug lords and weddings for their daughters.
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The Young Pope / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
The Young Pope / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Dussolier gets killed for banging the wife of a Honduran crime lord.
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The Young Pope / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
The Young Pope / int_3a4522df	comment	PietÃ Plagiarism: In the third episode, when Esther is brought to see Lenny so she can tell him how much she loved his sermon, he grows distressed and suddenly faints into her arms. He's so heavy and she's so slight that this brings them both very nearly to the floor, echoing the Pieta even more. The last shot of the finale. On the ground in front of the real PiÃ¨ta, no less.
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The Young Pope / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Young Pope / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Lenny combines being petty and vindictive with the inability to see the consequences of his actions, assuming that those who are the "true believers" will understand or outright ignore them, being more focused on God than the machinations of the pope.
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The Young Pope / int_3e87fc1f	type	Psychological Projection
The Young Pope / int_3e87fc1f	comment	Psychological Projection: Lenny's commandment, made while out of view of the faithful, to obsessively strive for both him and God, despite his private doubts that God even exists, seems calculated to force the Catholic population into a constant state of longing and fears of abandonment and being unloved- exactly what he feels about the parents who left him in an orphanage as a child.
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The Young Pope / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Young Pope / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Whole scenes are dedicated to Lenny trying on his opulent ceremonial pope vestments. Most of the main characters are high-ranking clergymen wearing elaborate clerical outfits.
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The Young Pope / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Young Pope / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Despite Lenny getting away with lots of things, he still has few massive fumbles. Most notably, after giving a highly controversial, aggressive, and outright reactionary address, Pius XIII causes a huge stir-up in the Church, both for clergy and laymen, which translates into a sharp drop in church attendance and a general feeling of confusion. Cutting off anyone who isn't just as extreme as the leader never works well for any organization. Pius XIII openly ignores this as a real problem or something to take into consideration.
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The Young Pope / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Young Pope / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Sister Mary raised Lenny as a "good Christian." It doesn't make him treat her as a mother, but she still remains a very close associate of his.
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The Young Pope / int_47b6a1e5	type	"Just Joking" Justification
The Young Pope / int_47b6a1e5	comment	"Just Joking" Justification: Used repeatedly by Lenny. He will often say something extremely rude or upsetting and then claim to be joking. It's not always clear if he's being intentionally manipulative or just socially awkward.
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The Young Pope / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Young Pope / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The drug lord killing Dussolier for sleeping with his wife. Ironically, according to the Old Testament, it would be lawful for him to kill both.
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The Young Pope / int_51ed5fb9	type	Straw Hypocrite
The Young Pope / int_51ed5fb9	comment	Straw Hypocrite: Lenny privately claims to not believe in God at all, which is bad enough from any pope, but particularly nasty coming from a pope who demands 24/7 soul-searching for closeness to God from his flock. He withdraws this immediately with a "Just Joking" Justification. Later comments indicate he takes a particularly grim deist view of the situation, but this could easily be viewed as doubly hypocritical given how easily he presents himself as both a nonchalant atheist and a fanatical true believer seated at God's right hand.
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The Young Pope / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Young Pope / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Lenny fits the bill in most accounts when he first ascends to the papacy, with the notable exception of sexual debauchery or personal indulgence (unless you count cigarettes or Cherry Coke Zero). The pettiness, autocracy and psychological instability are all present and accounted for, however, and he gets about as close to A God Am I as you can get without blaspheming.
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The Young Pope / int_52d4cd25	type	Anonymous Ringer
The Young Pope / int_52d4cd25	comment	Anonymous Ringer: The previous pope is never mentioned by name. He is, instead, referred to as "the predecessor of Pius XIII".
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The Young Pope / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Young Pope / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: Notably subverted. The Catholic Church is portrayed in all its complicity, but at the same time, issues like homosexuality, pedophilia, and power games among the clergy are addressed as wrong and something that needs to be dealt with. By the clergy itself, while their new pope just scoffs this off as semi-important at best.
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The Young Pope / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Young Pope / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Promotional materials for the show describe Lenny, who's 47, as the youngest pope in history. In reality, he would only be the youngest pope in almost 500 years, since Pope Clement VII. There were also several popes in their twenties or younger during the nadir of the papacy in the 10th and 11th centuries.
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The Young Pope / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Young Pope / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Lenny punishes clergymen he doesn't like by forcing them to point to a random spot on a globe in his office and send them there. And when the spot isn't "far away" enough, he still sends them to Alaska. Routinely.
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The Young Pope / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
The Young Pope / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Pius XIII tends to have a lot of these.
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The Young Pope / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Young Pope / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Cardinal Voiello embodies this trope, being a Vatican Secretary of State and playing political games for his entire life, while also being a trained diplomat. He is not evil per se, but is not above blackmail, lying, backroom deals, and throwing the rotten apples out when it works for the good of the Church. Pope Pius XIII is a subversion. He acts without any bigger plan and assumes that everyone who won't follow his orders — no matter what said orders are going to be — is just a non-believer and should be simply ignored. He does a lot of harm before he finally wises up a bit.
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The Young Pope / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Young Pope / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The show is heavy on symbolism and liturgy - and without knowing a bit of theology or Catholicism administration trivia, tends to be unfathomable. The â€œNon-Expeditâ€� clause Lenny threatens the Prime Minister with. It refers to an event early in Italian history, when the Pope disallowed Italians from participating in the elections. It did not end well, for the Pope at least.
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The Young Pope / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Young Pope / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Both Cardinal Voiello and Spencer have their moments of outbursts (especially Spencer), but their reasoning is always right. Lenny can't just come in, make a revolution and expect everyone will fall in line, since he threatens the very existence of the Church with his petty, often childish behavior.
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The Young Pope / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Young Pope / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In-universe, on par with papal tradition, Lenny names himself after a predecessor, in this case as Pius XIII. What makes it meaningful is that this serves as a reference to Pius IX, X, XI, and XII, all are known for being both extremely conservative and infamous for their political decisions related to pre- and wartime Italy: Pius IX was the first person to introduce the â€œNon-Expeditâ€�, which Lenny himself threatens the Prime Minister with, while the largest group of Traditional Catholic — a group who is against the changes introduced in Vatican-II — named themselves after Pius X, and is still Canonically Irregular. Pius XIII's name is also ironic in that the name means "pious," while Lenny's faith is shown to be greatly conflicted, to say the least.
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The Young Pope / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Young Pope / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Cardinal Spencer who was supposed to be the new pope, not his pupil. He is stopped by a group of nuns. A young man commits suicide after being denied entry to seminary.
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The Young Pope / int_6fb59931	type	Being Personal Isn't Professional
The Young Pope / int_6fb59931	comment	Being Personal Isn't Professional: In the first episode, Lenny insists on having a strictly professional relationship with all of his staff and fires a cook who is too friendly. He then spends the rest of the show contradicting that rule, most notably in the very same episode when he makes his surrogate mother, Sister Mary, his primary advisor. In the final episode, he calls all of his staff together and tearfully tells them that he loves them all.
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The Young Pope / int_745a43fc	type	Fun T-Shirt
The Young Pope / int_745a43fc	comment	Generally averted with Sister Mary, with the notable exception of her pajamas: a t-shirt that says "I'M A VIRGIN BUT THIS IS AN OLD SHIRT."
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The Young Pope / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
The Young Pope / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Lenny is a cocky, smug, prideful, and outright reactionary person, acting in the most shortsighted way imaginable and always trying to use his authority to get things done his way. As a cherry topping, he also starts each day with a can of Cherry Coke Zero and is offended by the possibility of having anything else for a breakfast. Cardinal Spencer, who basically trained him as his protegee, takes it a step further, being extremely rude to everyone when things don't go as he envisioned - he goes as far as spitting grape seeds when talking with the pope.
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The Young Pope / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Young Pope / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Cardinal Spencer delivers a few of those in his outbursts of anger. He is not above chewing up the new pope and his former protegee for acting like a 5-year-old boy with a desire to let the entire world suffer due to his personal issues. This impacts Lenny strong enough to have a nightmare in which he is a 5-year-old, still in papal robes, chasing after his escaping parents.
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The Young Pope / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Young Pope / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Monsignor Gutierrez, which Cardinal Voiello uses for blackmail.
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The Young Pope / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Young Pope / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: After an emotionally draining episode, the final shot of episode 4 is of the Prime Minister of Greenland dancing to an Italian record while facts about Greenland appear in subtitles at the bottom of the frame.
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The Young Pope / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Young Pope / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Discussed. Lenny strongly opposes abortion and believes the church should oppose it wholeheartedly, while Cardinal Michael Spencer believes only the termination of late-term pregnancies counts as abortion. It's revealed that this issue is Close to Home for Lenny since his mother abandoned him at an orphanage.
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The Young Pope / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Young Pope / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext: Most seminarians actually enter with a rather conservative mindset; It's not just old nostalgic people who are traditionalists. However, there does exist two branches of Traditionalist (Society of Pius X and Fraternity Society of St Peter) who are growing in numbers among the younger generations of the laity who attempt to adhere to things that were eliminated during Vatican-II and have a longing for the pre-Vatican-II papacy, Church administration, liturgy, and canons. While officially speaking, SSPX is canonically irregular, not seeing Vatican-II as an infallible council, while FSSP is in full communion and accepts Vatican-II, in practice some FSSP priests do privately align more with SSPX in thoughts. In addition, being fiction, it is possible that SSPX and Holy See agree to disagree, allowing someone like Lenny to be elected.
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The Young Pope / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
The Young Pope / int_97522514	comment	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door: Cardinal Spencer, who alternates between being vindictive and petty to Lenny, to practically begging to be part of his counsel. After being passed over to be chosen as Pope, he tries to commit suicide and tells Lenny he'll be the worst Pope in history and will go down in infamy.
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The Young Pope / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Young Pope / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Andrew Dussolier
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The Young Pope / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
The Young Pope / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Subverted with Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, who is very much Straight Gay, and more importantly, with no scandals and no known sexual relationships, but still admits his sexual orientation when asked about it. Of course, that technically makes him unfit for his line of work anyway, but the show itself supports the view that this is unfair and outdated.
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The Young Pope / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
The Young Pope / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: Despite being only 47, Lenny plays this trope to a T. He himself admits orphans are never young.
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The Young Pope / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Young Pope / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Lenny is so devoted to his vows of celibacy that many suspect he is asexual, however it is revealed that he briefly had a romantic relationship with an American girl as a teenager.
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The Young Pope / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Young Pope / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Lenny is extremely vindictive and arbitrary, making sure to harm everyone who he doesn't like or is resentful towards.
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The Young Pope / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Young Pope / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The opening credits are set, in every episode but one, to a remixed cover of "All Along the Watchtower" as Lenny walks in front of a gallery of Renaissance artwork. LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" makes a somewhat Internet-infamous invoked appearance later on, as Lenny dresses to address the cardinals. A number of other scenes depicting formally dressed clergy and dignified Catholic ritual are set to electronic pop music.
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The Young Pope / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Young Pope / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Cherry Coke Zero really stands out as the only breakfast the new pope has.
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The Young Pope / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
The Young Pope / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Lenny doesn't take "no" as an answer. Whoever opposes him or just makes a funny remark about him, but is in the same time not essential for the existence of Vatican City or the Church itself, is instantly dealt with in extremely petty ways.
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The Young Pope / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Young Pope / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Lenny is a curious blend of a master manipulator and an utter social klutz. He can threaten, browbeat and inspire fervent loyalty, yet many of his attempts at levity and normal social interaction fall completely flat. He's prone to say something incredibly rude and upsetting before claiming that he was "only joking."
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The Young Pope / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Young Pope / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Lenny is a very complicated person and has many flaws that drive most of his actions. The viewer is not expected to agree with him on much of anything, but he's still sympathetic.
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The Young Pope / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Young Pope / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Esther looks almost like some sort of Camp Follower. And she works in Vatican City.
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The Young Pope / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Young Pope / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The title sequence features Lenny walking past a series of religious paintings with a meteor animated to shoot through them and cause destruction (much like Lenny is himself). It ends with a statue of Pope John Paul II getting hit by a physical meteor. This final image is actually based on another work of art, Maurizio Cattelan's "The Ninth Hour," which indeed is a statue of Pope John Paul II on his side, struck by a meteor.
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The Young Pope / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Young Pope / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The story frequently refers to Lennyâ€™s emotional baggage regarding his orphan status as forming the basis for a lot of his actions.
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The Young Pope / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
The Young Pope / int_ca5eda76	comment	Heteronormative Crusader: Lenny, who conflates homosexuality with pedophilia. It seems to be the biggest issue he chooses to focus on, as he wants to force out any gay priests from the Catholic Church. Somewhat ironic, considering some of the figures closest to him are not straight, like Dussolier and Gutierrez. By the end of the series, it seems like he might soften up, considering he chooses Gutierrez to be his personal secretary.
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The Young Pope / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Young Pope / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Lenny apparently performs at least three miracles, all of which could be explained in a secular fashion as well. As a teenager, he prays over a dying woman, who then miraculously recovered. This is told in flashback, making it a possible case of Unreliable Narrator. Recoveries of even terminal illnesses do, rarely, occur. He prays for a sterile couple, who then miraculously conceived and gave birth to a child. Some types of sterility are less than 100% guaranteed; many couples try for years but eventually do conceive. He prays for the nun withholding water from desperately poor Africans to face justice rather than removing her through his power in the church. She has a heart attack soon afterward, which is taken as divine justice. However, people of her age do have heart attacks.
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The Young Pope / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
The Young Pope / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: "I was joking" for Lenny, using it each time he confuses people with his statements or confessions. Lenny also frequently uses "I want to be very clear with you" and many variations thereof.
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The Young Pope / int_d4cd68be	type	Unwanted Gift Plot
The Young Pope / int_d4cd68be	comment	Unwanted Gift Plot: The gift from the Foreign Minister of Australia is a live kangaroo. Subverted, as Lenny decides to keep it in the Papal Gardens.
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The Young Pope / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Young Pope / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: A defining feature of Lenny. He rails against mixing personal and professional relationships, then does just that. He tries to purge gays from the priesthood but keeps a gay priest as one of his closest confidantes. He tells the world that faith in God is the only thing they should concern themselves with, yet grapples with his own faith. He talks a lot about love but often seems only interested in punishment.
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The Young Pope / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Young Pope / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Or at least, popes can't. The Pope threatens the Italian Prime Minister, who according to the stated numbers gets 80+ percent of the non-Catholic vote, with forbidding Catholics from participating in the election. Since this would mean only non-Catholics would vote this would give the Prime Minister a supermajority of 80+%.
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The Young Pope / int_dc26326	type	Two Decades Behind
The Young Pope / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: Possibly with some Fridge Brilliance. While it is not spelled out, Lenny seems to be a Traditional Catholic, adhere to things that were suppressed (removed) after 1962, such as the papacy and Church administration. Lenny's mentor was Cardinal Spencer, an ultra-conservative member of the clergy who it is implied is a traditionalist, possibly even anti-Vatican II, and basically the leading pillars of the conservative portion of the church. When Voiello and Spencer talk in Episode Three about the disaster that is Lenny as Pope, Spencer pretty much tells Voiello that he was intensely stupid to think that Lenny was anything remotely moderate, given that A) Spencer molded Lenny in his own image as his mentor and that B) The younger generation is ALWAYS more extreme than the older generation, meaning that Lenny's conservativism is not tempered by Spencer's own pragmatism in terms of having to bend in order to be a member of the clergy. Reality Subtext: Most seminarians actually enter with a rather conservative mindset; It's not just old nostalgic people who are traditionalists. However, there does exist two branches of Traditionalist (Society of Pius X and Fraternity Society of St Peter) who are growing in numbers among the younger generations of the laity who attempt to adhere to things that were eliminated during Vatican-II and have a longing for the pre-Vatican-II papacy, Church administration, liturgy, and canons. While officially speaking, SSPX is canonically irregular, not seeing Vatican-II as an infallible council, while FSSP is in full communion and accepts Vatican-II, in practice some FSSP priests do privately align more with SSPX in thoughts. In addition, being fiction, it is possible that SSPX and Holy See agree to disagree, allowing someone like Lenny to be elected.
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The Young Pope / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
The Young Pope / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Played with. The Italian Prime Minister seems to be portrayed as a strawman liberal, the most important parts of his political program being the legalization of common-law marriages, gay marriages, abortion, euthanasia, and ending the tax cuts for the Church, but these are also very common views in Italy, and also the side the show itself takes.
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The Young Pope / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Young Pope / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Voiello also has one in the form of Girolamo, a young disabled man that he cares for.
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The Young Pope / int_e407c52e	type	Double Subversion
The Young Pope / int_e407c52e	comment	Double Subversion: It's heavily implied in the title, and with Lennyâ€™s background, he could be a very liberal pope, despite having a notoriously conservative mentor. Then he turns out to be so extremely conservative that the more traditional members of the church start looking like moderates.
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The Young Pope / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
The Young Pope / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Lenny invokes this on himself. Until the last episode.
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The Young Pope / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The Young Pope / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Lenny dresses almost exclusively in white (not only his papal robes, but also the tracksuit he wears while going out as a King Incognito), and the outdoor scenes are almost all bright, lush, and summery. None of this dispels the deep sense of spiritual corruption running the Vatican itself.
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The Young Pope / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Young Pope / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Voiello eventually has a short, non-diplomatic outburst of anger, when he shouts at the pope his plan concerning the Conclave, no longer able to keep a docile tone and cordial face. Lenny's reaction of shock and fury at Sister Antonia's pride and manipulation of the African locals seems very OOC, especially considering "pride" and "manipulation" are hallmarks of his own character. It's Serious Business because it seriously foreshadows Lenny's shifts in attitude at the end of the series.
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The Young Pope / int_e9550e66	type	Nun Too Holy
The Young Pope / int_e9550e66	comment	Nun Too Holy: Generally averted with Sister Mary, with the notable exception of her pajamas: a t-shirt that says "I'M A VIRGIN BUT THIS IS AN OLD SHIRT." Played straight with Sister Antonia.
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The Young Pope / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Young Pope / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: While Ketchikan, Alaska is not exactly a bustling metropolis, it is a seaside city in southern Alaska that's home to 8,000 people. It's a far cry from the windswept wasteland with a population of approximately five Inuits that it's depicted as in the show.
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The Young Pope / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Young Pope / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: The very opening scene, where Lenny dreams about making an address after being elected Pope. It quickly reveals itself as a Nightmare Sequence.
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The Young Pope / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
The Young Pope / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Lenny at the beginning is considered this as the show progress it is subverted.
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The Young Pope / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Young Pope / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Lenny insists on a daily breakfast of Cherry Coke Zero and nothing else. He's shown drinking the beverage several times.
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The Young Pope / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
The Young Pope / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: In contrast with pretty much every other case of adultery in the show, the past one between Esther and Father Valente is portrayed sympathetically. Predominately due to being all about her getting more and more desperate with attempts to get pregnant.
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The Young Pope / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Young Pope / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Cardinal Voiello. If he does something, his ultimate goal is always the well-being of the Church in the modern world. He is no saint and he's aware of all his flaws, but it doesn't make his actions any less toward the ultimate goal of making sure the Church survives at all. Pius XIII sees himself as one. Compared with his actions, it doesn't work or even look too well, not to mention being amazingly inefficient at first.
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The Young Pope / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Young Pope / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Monsignor Gutierrez who was sexually abused as a child and uses alcohol as a way to cope. It's one of the reasons Pius sends him to New York to deal with Archbishop Kurtwell.
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