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Wolf Hall

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Wolf Hall	comment	Hilary Mantel's 2009 novel Wolf Hall was adapted for television by Peter Straughan, and first broadcast on BBC 2 in the UK in January 2015. It stars Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Damian Lewis as Henry VIII, Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn, and Bernard Hill as the Duke of Norfolk. Covering both the eponymous novel and its 2012 sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, the series is quite faithful to the books.This is the familiar story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn from the point-of-view of his closest adviser, Thomas Cromwell. It rehabilitates the character of Cromwell—rather than an amoral schemer, the Cromwell of Wolf Hall is a man with true depth of feeling and principles. His rise from abused blacksmith's boy to the king's right hand is not shown as evil but a well-earned and admirable achievement. It also paints a dimmer view of some of Cromwell's adversaries, particularly Thomas More—ultimately, however, it does not shy away from Cromwell's unscrupulous role in Anne's fatal downfall.A second series, covering the final book, was confirmed to be in production on 27th May 2022.
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Wolf Hall / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Wolf Hall / int_101500e	comment	Cromwell's distaste for More began when they were boys and Cromwell was a servant. More would always treat Cromwell as Beneath Notice.
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Wolf Hall / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
Wolf Hall / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: Cromwell at one point is seen to be reaching out and stroking Anne Boleyn's chest (with her oddly unconcerned by it) after he solves the Lord Percy problem for her—and then we see it's just in his head. He later has a particularly nightmarish one at the beginning of the season finale: having received Henry's hints that he wants Anne disposed of, he then drifts off to daydream being at a banquet table together with noble folk openly identified as Anne's enemies. Anne is then literally dragged along the table like roasted meat to be served, and Cromwell then takes a knife to plunge into her face—all while she is dissonantly smiling at him.
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Wolf Hall / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Wolf Hall / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: Anne accuses Cromwell of faking sick to get out of negotiating a French marriage contract for her daughter. When he says that he was sick (and almost died), she replies that he wouldn't get sick unless he wanted to.
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Wolf Hall / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Wolf Hall / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The last shot of Thomas More is him kneeling with his head resting on the block; his actual execution is never seen. Likewise, Anne's execution in the final episode is also fairly clean, and the most graphic it gets is when her severed head and body are lifted into the coffin, and shots of her ladies' hands now stained in blood.
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Wolf Hall / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Wolf Hall / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Henry VIII is this in many ways, but the juvenile good humour can turn into childish petulance and spite at the drop of a hat.
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Wolf Hall / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Wolf Hall / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Downplayed due to time constraints, but the Boleyns and their relatives would make an unhappy family picnic. Anne treats her sister Mary terribly, and her cousin and uncle later plot in her fatal downfall. The Seymours, what with John Seymour's affair with his own daughter-in-law. His sons Edward and Thomas talk about their sister Jane like a commodity to be bought and traded to her face, and require Cromwell's prompting to show her fairly basic courtesy.
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Wolf Hall / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Wolf Hall / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: When Elizabeth Barton confronts Henry with her prophecies, Henry laughs them off to the amusement of the crowd—when she says he won't reign seven months, he jokes that she should at least round it up. Then she says she can see his mother's spirit surrounded by pale flames, and he instantly turns grave and questions "where?"note One must remember that Henry, not originally his father's heir (that would be Arthur, Prince of Wales), grew up in Queen Elizabeth of York's household—and was considerably closer to her than he would ever be to his father. Him taking any negative reference to his mother badly is quite understandable.
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Wolf Hall / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
Wolf Hall / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: Occurs at a dinner with Thomas More's retinue in the first episode. Cromwell suggests people stick to Greek if they want to talk about him in his presence.
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Wolf Hall / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Wolf Hall / int_1869b4b1	comment	According to Stephen Gardiner, Cromwell's father also paid off the people planning to lynch him after killing a man and leaving London, without Cromwell ever knowing.
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Wolf Hall / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Wolf Hall / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: It's the name of an actual location, but the first time it's mentioned is as the last words in a scene with Anne's shot of "those sinners down at Wolf Hall!" The fifth episode's opening title cards also leave quite a long Beat between informing the audience that Henry's retinue has a stop at the Seymour family residence and the place's actual name.
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Wolf Hall / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Wolf Hall / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Thomas More's daughter Meg, who thanks to his indulgence received a far better education than most Tudor women. He writes to her often from prison and after his execution, Meg even secretly retrieved her father's head from Tower Bridge. Thomas Cromwell clearly favors his daughters. He criticizes his son's Latin while praising his daughter's intelligence, joking that she'd make a fine mayor of London.
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Wolf Hall / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Wolf Hall / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Cromwell, though he may let his guard down at times, very rarely lets his feelings slip out without his permission. In another use of the trope, his lack of expression feeds into his Refuge in Audacity approach above, as the lack of any smirk or contempt on his face makes it difficult for the noble he's just insulted with his words or tone to be sure of what's happened. However, when he watches Henry talking to Jane Seymour during the king's stay in Wolf Hall, he looks completely disheartened, since Jane is now out of his reach.
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Wolf Hall / int_1c96f945	type	Wrong-Name Outburst
Wolf Hall / int_1c96f945	comment	Wrong-Name Outburst: It's in a quiet moment, but Cromwell inadvertently calls Johane "Liz" after a conversation about their dim prospects for a future together. She's not happy.
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Wolf Hall / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Wolf Hall / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Cromwell. Amusingly played up when he starts to tell a story about his early life; it's established that he does this so rarely that when his other apprentices come over to hear him, he laughs and looks embarrassed before continuing.
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Wolf Hall / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Wolf Hall / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Richard says he didn't want to read the Tyndale letter he's delivering so he wouldn't have anything to say if he got arrested. Cromwell smiles and says that if Richard was arrested, he'd take Thomas More and beat some Christian principles into it on the cobblestones.
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Wolf Hall / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Wolf Hall / int_1f250372	comment	Though he exits calmly after Henry's very public explosion of temper, Cromwell's hands are shaking visibly as he grasps a cup of wine to settle his nerves afterwards.
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Wolf Hall / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Wolf Hall / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Has Anne Boleyn cheated on Henry? It's certainly rumoured, but the show remains as ambivalent as history.
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Wolf Hall / int_21af9165	type	Heroic Vow
Wolf Hall / int_21af9165	comment	Heroic Vow: Doubling here as a Badass Boast. Cromwell's friend George Cavendish tearfully tells Cromwell of Wolsey's last days, before praying that God will take revenge for Wolsey's ignominious death.
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Wolf Hall / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Wolf Hall / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: A few moments. The best example is probably when Cromwell, having prepared himself for a long Battle of Wits to get ammunition against Anne in a conversation with a man he has decided to scapegoat, is instead confronted with the man boasting about how Anne is in love with him. Cromwell afterwards says "Well, there aren't many men alive who can say they took me by surprise."
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Wolf Hall / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Wolf Hall / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Occasionally invoked by Cromwell which either charms or terrifies people. During a scene with Henry VIII, Cromwell defends his critique of war with France on the practicality basis. When Henry rhetorically asks if he should live a life opposite of what is expected of a Medieval King, Cromwell gives a Blunt "Yes", and then goes into detail again emphasizing the reality of the price of war against the romantic notions. Henry, an utter Romantic, is impressed. Cromwell is utterly blunt to Sir Henry Norris when he is accused of adultery with Anne. Cromwell says that Anne will be condemned as King Henry has made his mind, and Cromwell is forced to bring "evidence" to corroborate the adultery. This is the only person who seems to understand and hold no delusions.
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Wolf Hall / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Wolf Hall / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Mary Boleyn, former mistress to King Francis and then King Henry. She's still catty and flirtatious, and has a try at Cromwell a few times, but she's also deeply unhappy with having been used as a means for her family to advance only for them to turn around and call her a whore—she wants a husband so she can be in a house where she's not constantly insulted (hence her attentions to Cromwell). In deleted scenes, she marries a poor knight without anyone's permission and gets banished from court, but she's not too broken up about it.
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Wolf Hall / int_293f8cd8	type	I Meant to Do That
Wolf Hall / int_293f8cd8	comment	I Meant to Do That: Cromwell is summoned to Henry's bedchamber in the middle of the night and finds the king distraught about a dream he'd had in which his late brother appeared to him. Henry feels that his brother was reproaching him, but Cromwell (who badly wants Henry to regard him as a Hypercompetent Sidekick) suggests that the brother was urging Henry to become the best king he can be and throw off the influence of the Catholic church. Henry, who is a bit of a ditz, cheers up immediately and says "I always send for the right people."
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Wolf Hall / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Wolf Hall / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: In the sense of color. While everyone around him is in Gorgeous Period Dress of crimsons, purples, and greens, Cromwell's clothing is always dark. It's made of increasingly fine cloth and fur, but it's still dark. When he tells Anne he's wearing scarlet in keeping with her wishes about her coronation, she replies that it's a very black scarlet.
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Wolf Hall / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Wolf Hall / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Sir Thomas More can swear in Latin.
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Wolf Hall / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Wolf Hall / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: The background to the plot, driving all events. Henry needs a son to inherit, and his lords expect the same, but Katherine of Aragon can't seem to give him one. Barely averted in Episode 5, when a fall appears to kill Henry. Everyone immediately panics, courtiers side with Princess Mary or the Boleyns, and Cromwell's cronies advise him to flee the country before his foes avenge themselves.
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Wolf Hall / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Wolf Hall / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": How Cromwell responds to Anne's command to discredit Mary Tudor, letting everyone know that he doesn't answer to her.
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Wolf Hall / int_2f074524	type	Enigmatic Minion
Wolf Hall / int_2f074524	comment	Enigmatic Minion: Various people are willing to be Cromwell's patron, but only Wolsey can have any claim to knowing much about him, and even that's only because Cromwell trusted him enough to let his guard down. Attempts to accurately describe or categorise Cromwell rarely seem to get beyond that he is a "person" of some kind.
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Wolf Hall / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
Wolf Hall / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Cromwell's story arc is pretty much defined by his intent to avenge Cardinal Wolsey against his political opponents, methodically learning their weaknesses while working with them at court, then finally pulling off his masterstroke and implicating them all to be executed.
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Wolf Hall / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Wolf Hall / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In the books, Cromwell is assisted (particularly in interrogating Mark Smeaton) by Christophe, a comically French Psycho Sidekick. In the series, Christophe doesn't appear (which makes sense since he's the only fictional character in the books), and his role is split between Rafe and Richard. The series also leaves out most of Cromwell's domestic concerns, so characters like Cromwell's nieces only appear briefly and some (like Helen Barre, Rafe's future wife) not at all. Thomas Wyatt's accusation and acquittal is not included. Wyatt was known to have a giant crush on Anne and wrote ambiguous poems about it, and his acquittal was shown as a result of Cromwell's friendship with him and his father.
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Wolf Hall / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Wolf Hall / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Cromwell tries to avoid this by refraining from torture as much as possible, saying that torturing "sad creatures" like Mark Smeaton is one step away from "stamping on dormice". He also absolutely opposes the lawyers who insist Anne's death should be by burning (coming close to open anger as he does so), and ensures she gets cleanly beheaded by an expert. Henry's treatment towards both of his wives also counts. Anne does this rather a lot with Lady Rochford, which turns out to be a bad idea. A literal case in the fifth episode, in which somebody has kicked (or shoved) Anne's dog out a window. Lady Rochford herself is fond of venting her own misery by kicking those weaker than herself. She (only half-jokingly) laments that Jane Seymour is such a pushover there's not even any sport in tormenting her.
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Wolf Hall / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Wolf Hall / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Thomas More refuses to speak, and legally that silence is an effective defense, imperiling the desired outcome of Cromwell's Kangaroo Court. So when Cromwell applies more pressure by taking away his books, he instructs Richard Riche to take them away personally—gambling that More will speak more freely around someone he's always dismissed as an unimportant wastrel. It works, and Riche uses their hypothetical "putting cases" as the fatal testimony in court.
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Wolf Hall / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Wolf Hall / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Thomas More walks to the block not happy, but with composure as he lays his head down on it for the axe. Anne Boleyn is visibly terrified, but she quietly distributes money and gives a brief, formal speech before undressing. Cromwell tells the executioner beforehand that he knows she'll be still enough for the cut, and while she is shaking from head to foot as she kneels, she manages it. Most of those who get scapegoated for adultery with Anne act with some combination of fear, disbelief or outrage. The one who gracefully accepts that the case against him will be too strong to beat, and expresses simple sadness about not having more time gets a compassionate hand on the shoulder from Cromwell, despite having been one of the men who took part in the Wolsey pantomime.
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Wolf Hall / int_3974efe4	type	Requisite Royal Regalia
Wolf Hall / int_3974efe4	comment	Requisite Royal Regalia: Damian Lewis is suitably impressive in Henry's outfits, though the size of his codpiece was reduced to avoid scandalising some audiences. Anne Boleyn is also depicted as very fashionable from her time in France, even before becoming queen.
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Wolf Hall / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Wolf Hall / int_3bc88a7f	comment	At the end of Episode 5, while Cromwell is considering how to get rid of Anne, Wolsey appears as an hallucination and states that it was his failure to give Henry a new wife that killed him. When Cromwell tries to create an alliance between Cleves and England some years later, the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves is precisely what gets Cromwell killed.
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Wolf Hall / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Wolf Hall / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: Cromwell does this to the king, of all people. Henry seems impressed by his boldness.
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Wolf Hall / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Wolf Hall / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: After Anne escapes a suspicious fire that broke out in her bedroom and everyone is checking for signs of arson, Henry is seen inspecting the bedcurtains and complaining that such a good set was burnt.
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Wolf Hall / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Wolf Hall / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Cromwell is at best remembered as an amoral bureaucrat; more often he's characterized as a wicked schemer who got what was coming to him. Here, he's depicted as a man who has rightfully earned his position in society, with intense personal loyalty and distaste for unnecessary cruelty. While the events have him Slowly Slipping Into Evil, he seems far from proud of himself for doing so and treats Anne's execution with far more gravity than those around him despite being the one who engineered it.
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Wolf Hall / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Wolf Hall / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: A rare Tudor Drama that makes a serious effort to get the clothes right, women wear hoods, there's not a zipper in sight and Henry wears a codpiece. Sure, the codpiece is downsized for contemporary audiences, but it's there.
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Wolf Hall / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Wolf Hall / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Cromwell is a surrogate father for his ward Rafe and his nephew Richard. Richard goes so far as to take Cromwell's name after his own father's death. Cardinal Wolsey serves as this to Cromwell himself, acting as a mentor and bonding with him over the fact they are both self-made men of lowly birth.
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Wolf Hall / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Wolf Hall / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Cromwell himself falls into this. He's quite sympathetic throughout the series and there's even some Adaptational Heroism on top of what was already a borderline Historical Hero Upgrade in the books. However, the final episode calls this into question by showing Cromwell as succumbing to corruption and evil, using his cleverness and audacity (formerly used in sympathetic contexts) to arrange the deaths of people whose worst crime was that they were jerks. And unlike with Thomas More, there's no longer an excuse/justification of it being for the greater good.
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Wolf Hall / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Wolf Hall / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The Boleyns would still just be a middling noble family (though distinguished by Thomas Boleyn's ambassadorship) who had a king's mistress among them if it hadn't been for Thomas Cromwell Cutting the Knot over the annulment. But they decide that they're responsible for his rise, and as soon as he shows that he's not willing to be a mindless Yes-Man, Anne declares him her enemy and her relatives promise to have him killed the second it looks like Henry is gone.
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Wolf Hall / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Wolf Hall / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Aside from members of his household, the only person who addresses Cromwell as "Thomas" is Cardinal Wolsey.
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Wolf Hall / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Wolf Hall / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: A key character trait of Cromwell, much commented upon.
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Wolf Hall / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Wolf Hall / int_434d893c	comment	In the books, Cromwell is assisted (particularly in interrogating Mark Smeaton) by Christophe, a comically French Psycho Sidekick. In the series, Christophe doesn't appear (which makes sense since he's the only fictional character in the books), and his role is split between Rafe and Richard.
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Wolf Hall / int_43702f21	type	Bear Hug
Wolf Hall / int_43702f21	comment	Bear Hug: Henry surprises Cromwell by giving him one of these upon learning that Anne is pregnant again.
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Wolf Hall / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Wolf Hall / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Cromwell visits James Bainham in prison and offers to pull strings to get him released. Bainham tells him it's no good; his beliefs would compel him to keep reading the Bible in English and he'd just be arrested again.
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Wolf Hall / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Wolf Hall / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: It's extremely rare for Cromwell to raise his voice. But there's no denying the intensity of his anger when someone makes an enemy of him.
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Wolf Hall / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Wolf Hall / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: When Cromwell befriends Henry, the latter suggests sneaking onto Cromwell's estate in disguise to take part in its weekly archery competition as a member of his team. Henry is recorded as having performed such antics when jousting. Cromwell's reaction suggests that he doesn't have much confidence of winning if Henry does.
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Wolf Hall / int_45f52f5	type	Dynamic Akimbo
Wolf Hall / int_45f52f5	comment	Dynamic Akimbo: Damian Lewis often strikes the wide-legged, arms akimbo pose that the real Henry did in the most famous portrait of him.
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Wolf Hall / int_45f52f5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Wolf Hall / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Wolf Hall / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Thomas More states in his last conversation with Cromwell that he hopes the two shall reunite in Heaven and be able to be friends, but states in this life they unfortunately disagree. Cromwell for his part is annoyed at More's stubborn refusal and insists that he admired him and did not want him to die.
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Wolf Hall / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Wolf Hall / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: The first episode's title cards explain that annuling Henry's marriage to Katherine is the only time Cardinal Wolsey has failed him. That one incident is all it takes to get him killed.
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Wolf Hall / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Wolf Hall / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: At odds with his reputation as a debauched tyrant, Henry initially seems like a fairly decent guy, albeit one with an eye for the ladies and who is perhaps a bit dim and self-centred. There's hints of his darker side in earlier episodes, but it really comes out after his jousting accident in Episode 5 with his callousness toward Katherine's death and him totally losing it against Chapuys and Cromwell. Then, Episode 6 rubs it in by showing Henry's positively gleeful reaction to Anne's execution, and it hits the viewer and Cromwell that yes, Henry is a completely horrible person. Cromwell himself falls into this. He's quite sympathetic throughout the series and there's even some Adaptational Heroism on top of what was already a borderline Historical Hero Upgrade in the books. However, the final episode calls this into question by showing Cromwell as succumbing to corruption and evil, using his cleverness and audacity (formerly used in sympathetic contexts) to arrange the deaths of people whose worst crime was that they were jerks. And unlike with Thomas More, there's no longer an excuse/justification of it being for the greater good.
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Wolf Hall / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Wolf Hall / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Anne's death. The executioner distracts her, she turns her head, then it briefly focuses on him taking the swing and cuts to Cromwell watching in the crowd as the sound of her body collapsing is heard.
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Wolf Hall / int_4c506837	type	The Snack Is More Interesting
Wolf Hall / int_4c506837	comment	The Snack Is More Interesting: Cromwell is often snacking on a plate of food when dealing with matters of state. After delivering a verbal beatdown to More at dinner, causing More to retreat from the room, Cromwell casually munches on the food and asks for the recipe. He has a plate of food on his desk as he interviews the various individuals conspiring to use Elizabeth Barton's prophecies to undermine Henry. He munches from it casually as, ignoring their insults and excuses, he details how much he knows (everything) and which servants were really his spies, and instructs them on just what humiliating things they should say of themselves in pleading for mercy and forgiveness from the king.
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Wolf Hall / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Wolf Hall / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In-universe, the news that Henry is apparently dead in a joust causes a Mass "Oh, Crap!", though the audience know he'll survive. Similarly, Henry stating that he thinks he was deceived into marrying Anne lets Cromwell and Cranmer know that the time has come to ensure their own survival.
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Wolf Hall / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Wolf Hall / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Mixed with What You Are in the Dark, the final moment of the series after the execution of Anne is a saddened Cromwell coming to Henry, who smiles and gives him a hug.
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Wolf Hall / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Wolf Hall / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: George Boleyn repeatedly tells Cromwell not to interfere with those above him, but is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is. After Cromwell has been publicly shouted at by a raging Henry (which Boleyn implies he had a hand in arranging), he then goes to gloat, thus tipping Cromwell off as to who was behind it and needs dealing with. This is clearest at his trial, where he tells Cromwell to bring it on, as he's confident of confounding Cromwell's questions. He then falls for Reverse Psychology with comical ease. Thomas More also counts with his show of contempt towards Cromwell; it doesn't end well for him either.
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Wolf Hall / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Wolf Hall / int_50b05d30	comment	Anne does this rather a lot with Lady Rochford, which turns out to be a bad idea.
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Wolf Hall / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Wolf Hall / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Gregory is not exactly the smartest of weapons in Cromwell's arsenal. He is, however, more adorkable than anyone else in the show.
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Wolf Hall / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Wolf Hall / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Cromwell recalls asking More what he was reading when they were both youths, and More responding, "Words." The casual dismissal is apparently one of many times that More treated Cromwell as Beneath Notice, and Cromwell has never forgotten.
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Wolf Hall / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Wolf Hall / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Faced with an unconscious Henry, Cromwell apparently restarts his heart by thumping his chest.
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Wolf Hall / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Wolf Hall / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In the books, Anne Boleyn is described as not being particularly pretty, while Claire Foy is very conventionally attractive. Historical accounts also generally give Boleyn's appearance rather mild praise. Mark Rylance is certainly not as thuggish as Cromwell is described in the book—and way better-looking than the bulldog of a man Holbein portrayed in his portrait. Catherine of Aragon as portrayed by Joanne Whalley looks remarkably waifish, even if she is made up to look tired and sickly. In her later years, Catherine is shown as having put on weight after all her pregnancies.
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Wolf Hall / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Wolf Hall / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: When Cromwell hears that Henry has (supposedly) died, he immediately grabs and hides his dagger in anticipation of an attack.
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Wolf Hall / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Wolf Hall / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: The show takes a number of liberties with history to compress the action and maintain some of its characterizations Anne Boleyn was said to have a "devilish spirit" as she walked to the scaffold, while in the series she is more understandably afraid. George Boleyn gave, by all accounts, a masterful self-defense during his trial, causing popular opinion in the audience to expect that he would be found innocent. In the show, he's tricked into mocking the king on the stand and then stupidly realizes that he's angered his judges.
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Wolf Hall / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Wolf Hall / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Pretty much all save for Francis Weston of the condemned "lovers" of Anne Boleyn are utter horrendous elites that come with a snobby attitude to Cromwell and who all ridiculed the downfall of Wolsey. A rutlhlessly cold Cromwell states, "Life pays you out," when Norris horrified understands why he's really dying.
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Wolf Hall / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
Wolf Hall / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Mark Rylance gives quite an impressive pair to Cromwell.
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Wolf Hall / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Wolf Hall / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Poor James Bainham is burned at the stake at the end of Episode 3.
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Wolf Hall / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Wolf Hall / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Henry can be this, though what makes him so dangerous is that it's impossible to tell when he'll explode and when he'll laugh if something displeases him. Cromwell and More discuss how being friends with him is like being with a tame lion; you can pet it, you can even pull its ears, but you can never forget about those claws.
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Wolf Hall / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Wolf Hall / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Cromwell brings up a case of some years ago when a man was murdered on Will Brereton's land over a bowls match, Brereton brushes it off by saying "the game can get very heated." Cromwell then details a more recent offense in which Brereton arranged the lynching of a man who was lawfully acquitted and says, "You think nobody remembers, but I remember." Cromwell keeps bringing up details of his and Thomas More's shared youth, but More repeatedly insists that he has no memory of Cromwell. Since Cromwell was a servant, he was Beneath Notice to More.
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Wolf Hall / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Wolf Hall / int_6b35bdff	comment	When Cromwell brings up a case of some years ago when a man was murdered on Will Brereton's land over a bowls match, Brereton brushes it off by saying "the game can get very heated." Cromwell then details a more recent offense in which Brereton arranged the lynching of a man who was lawfully acquitted and says, "You think nobody remembers, but I remember."
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Wolf Hall / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Wolf Hall / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Thomas Brodie-Sangster looks really good in leather.
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Wolf Hall / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Wolf Hall / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Thomas More is constantly reminding Richard Rich of his misbehavior as a young man, calling him a creature of vice and the despair of his family. Cromwell is able to use this against him.
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Wolf Hall / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Wolf Hall / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Invoked by More, according to Cromwell at least. He is indeed planning to become a sacrifice for the Catholic Church to taint the image of Henry, the British Parliament, and all other supporters of the Church of England. Cromwell's not impressed, but he doesn't think much of his friend Tyndale's refusal to do the pragmatic thing and support Henry's marriage, referring to both as "mules who pose as men."
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Wolf Hall / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Wolf Hall / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Cromwell comes off most sympathetically as the protagonist, but no side is a saint. Every one largely acts in their own interests, with secondary motives such as the well-being of England, the Church or allies, and all of them are aware of the axeman's shadow if they should make a misstep.
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Wolf Hall / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Wolf Hall / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Lady Rochford claims that Anne and George are lovers, specifies that when she says "they kiss" she means with tongues, and says that Anne does this so that if she has a bastard it will at least look like a Boleyn. Cromwell decides to run with it and when making the accusation formally says that siblings who were raised apart (as Anne and George were) would lack the natural inhibition against it. Cromwell's affair with his sister-in-law is also viewed as incest, which prevents them being together.
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Wolf Hall / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Wolf Hall / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: It's heavily implied that Mark Smeaton was in love with Anne Boleyn. Anne breaks his heart in Episode 6, making it clear that she will always see him as nothing but her dog. This leads to Smeaton's Too Dumb to Live moment.
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Wolf Hall / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Wolf Hall / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Thomas More defends his refusal to take the Oath by saying that he doesn't speak against it, he thinks no harm, and he does no harm. Cromwell's retort is "What about Bilney? What about Bainham?" and it's one of the only times he is openly, vividly angry. After Anne is arrested, she pointedly asks Cromwell, "You don't believe these charges? Do you Cromwell?" He gives her a long look implying he doesn't but turns away any way.
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Wolf Hall / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Wolf Hall / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Not shown as often as in the book, but Cromwell pulls off a Surprise Checkmate against one of the Seymour boys in Episode 3, and his chess set is seen on his desk in Austen Friars.
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Wolf Hall / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Wolf Hall / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Thomas More and Anne Boleyn have their executions depicted, albeit with a cut away just before the final blow.
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Wolf Hall / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Wolf Hall / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Thomas Cromwell and Mary Boleyn, but they're interrupted by William Stafford—who she had actually arranged to meet, but arrived so late she thought he'd stood her up. (She eventually did marry Stafford.)
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Wolf Hall / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Wolf Hall / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Cromwell's first conversation with More seems expressly designed to shock any viewer expecting a similar dynamic to the one they shared in A Man for All Seasons. Here it's Cromwell who displays all the wit and moral fiber, running circles around More while accusing him of being a gossip and a hypocrite. For his part, More mounts almost no defense of himself before retreating from the room.
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Wolf Hall / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Wolf Hall / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The first episode begins with Cardinal Wolsey packing for his journey north in disgrace, then goes back to the unsuccessful hearings to get an annulment from Rome to separate Henry from Katherine of Aragon.
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Wolf Hall / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Wolf Hall / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Cromwell has every reason to dislike the Duke of Norfolk, but when he curses by "the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus" Cromwell can't help but crack a smile.
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Wolf Hall / int_80ebdcb2	type	Mobstacle Course
Wolf Hall / int_80ebdcb2	comment	Mobstacle Course: The hospital tent after Henry suffers his accident. It's full of people panicking, or Boleyns opportunistically staking their claim on the kingdom, all yelling their heads off. When Cromwell arrives he has to bull his way through the crowd to get to Henry and determine if he really is dead or if he can be saved. (This ended up being an instance of Enforced Method Acting; the other actors were supposed to move aside but didn't, so Mark Rylance really did have to grab them and shove them out of his way.)
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Wolf Hall / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Wolf Hall / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: For those who think of Bernard Hill as the regal and dignified Theoden King, prepare for a surprise. Mantel's Norfolk is a loud, crass, violent old bastard and Hill was clearly enjoying every minute of it.
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Wolf Hall / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
Wolf Hall / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Arguably Anne for Henry after Katherine, but his feelings seem far too shallow and capricious for that. Cromwell's relationship with his sister-in-law Johane is a much straighter example. He even asks a hallucination of his wife to let him love her.
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Wolf Hall / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Wolf Hall / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: In addition to his Heroic Vow below, Will Brereton's threat gets calmly returned with "You made a mistake, threatening me, sir." His chilling summation to Henry Norris of why he, George Boleyn and his fellow accused lovers of Anne Boleyn had to die goes down as a memorable villainous one:
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Wolf Hall / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Wolf Hall / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: In a way. Do remember that this is the story of Thomas Cromwell, who has been portrayed for centuries of Tudor historiography/historical fiction as either a slimy, unprincipled courtier or as the first iconic Beleaguered Bureaucrat. Making him sympathetic despite him still committing some of the most contentious policies of Henry VIII's reign is pretty much within the scope of this. That being said, it still works.
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Wolf Hall / int_8e3f54c	type	Spare to the Throne
Wolf Hall / int_8e3f54c	comment	Spare to the Throne: Henry has a dream of his brother Arthur centred around his issues in this role.
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Wolf Hall / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Wolf Hall / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: All of Anne's lovers, except Smeaton (who's Too Dumb to Live) and Weston (who, despite being part of the crime described here seems to have become a genuine Family Man), were egotistical elitists who parodied the downfall of Wolsey in a play where he was dragged to Hell. The worst of the bunch is Sir William Brereton, a man who ignored the acquittal of John ap Eyton and executed him.
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Wolf Hall / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Wolf Hall / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: The Duke of Norfolk can't seem to get through a scene without swearing, often creatively. If he misses out on a chance to curse, it's probably because he was making a violent threat or a crude sexual reference.
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Wolf Hall / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Wolf Hall / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: How George Boleyn's downfall happens. In his trial, Cromwell passes him a piece of paper with a slanderous statement about Henry that he is alleged to have spoken, and is told not to say anything out loud, but to confirm whether he recognizes it or not. George, who is something of a Jerkass anyway, proceeds to read out the statement in a mocking voice ... and then realises, far too late, what he's just done.
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Wolf Hall / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Wolf Hall / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: When Anne accuses him of "betraying" her by reaching out to Princess Mary as soon as it looked like Henry might die, Cromwell simply says "none of this is personal". This echoes a previous conversation, where Anne complained about the Act of Succession he drew up not explicitly declaring Mary a bastard, and Cromwell's reply that laws are meant to be impersonal was refuted by Anne.
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Wolf Hall / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Wolf Hall / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Thomas More. Say what you want about him, but the guy shows no repentance for his utter hatred towards the newly established Church of England, even in the face of certain death.
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Wolf Hall / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Wolf Hall / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Anne admits offscreen that she is guilty. But what is she guilty of?
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Wolf Hall / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
Wolf Hall / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: When helping an extremely drunk Henry back to bed, Henry tells Cromwell much more about himself than he would sober. However, the next morning Cromwell discovers that Henry has gifted him with a tapestry they discussed at the time, proving Henry does remember the conversation and might not have been as out of it as he appeared.
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Wolf Hall / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Wolf Hall / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Arguably Henry, as he is without the doubt the most dangerous character and the most ruthless of them all.
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Wolf Hall / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Wolf Hall / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Wolsey gives Cromwell his turquoise ring but tells him not to open the box until after his death. At the end of the second episode, Cromwell puts the ring on; he wears it for the rest of the series.note In the book, the gift references a rumor that one of Wolsey's rings conveyed immortality; he'd joked that if he figured out which one it was, he'd make a replica and give it to Cromwell.
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Wolf Hall / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Wolf Hall / int_97fa0a10	comment	In-universe, the news that Henry is apparently dead in a joust causes a Mass "Oh, Crap!", though the audience know he'll survive.
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Wolf Hall / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Wolf Hall / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Off for the day, Cromwell says goodbye to his wife. He's going down the stairs when he glimpses his daughter at the top of them. He tells her to return to bed, and the camera pans back to her, but she's vanished. He'll never see either alive again. Similarly, the night before the deaths of his wife and daughters Cromwell seems both troubled and amused at the sight of his youngest, Grace, walking away in costume angel-wings to say her bedtime prayers, after having complained of being "too warm", an early sign of the sweating sickness which kills her. Katherine of Aragon, while dying, seems aghast that Henry would think their daughter, the Princess Mary, would rebel against him due to her banishment, especially when Cromwell reports she has been conversing with the ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor, Eustace Chapuys ("What does Henry imagine? Mary, returning with an army, turning him out of his kingdom?"). While it was not covered in the series, Mary would indeed "return with an army" and turn out the "lawful" heir to Henry's line. note The tumultuous case is that Lady Jane Grey, named by Mary's half-brother Edward VI as his heir, was the legal queen, which Mary contravened (not without her own legal basis of course). At the end of Episode 5, while Cromwell is considering how to get rid of Anne, Wolsey appears as an hallucination and states that it was his failure to give Henry a new wife that killed him. When Cromwell tries to create an alliance between Cleves and England some years later, the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves is precisely what gets Cromwell killed.
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Wolf Hall / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Wolf Hall / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Jane Seymour shows off the sleeves she made from the pattern book Cromwell sent her in the third episode. A close look in her subsequent appearances shows that she's still using "Thomas Cromwell's sleeves" on different dresses.
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Wolf Hall / int_9e016800	type	Student and Master Team
Wolf Hall / int_9e016800	comment	Student–Master Team: Rafe is Cromwell's closest agent, sidekick and spy.
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Wolf Hall / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Wolf Hall / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Katharine, as far as Henry is concerned. One day he just rides off without saying goodbye and never sees her again. Though he is forced to acknowledge that she still exists, he ignores all communication from her and even tells Cromwell to get rid of her deathbed letter. Their daughter Mary suffers the same.
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Wolf Hall / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
Wolf Hall / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Cromwell initially gains Henry's approval by refusing to back down from a speech he made criticizing Henry's efforts to recapture France. He's one of the only people who can get Henry to reconsider something or see a different point of view, and Henry considers Cromwell his right hand—that said, Cromwell has to step very carefully about it.
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Wolf Hall / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
Wolf Hall / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: Happens during a meeting where everyone is arguing about whether Henry should divorce Katherine of Aragon or not. One person insists that Katherine did consummate her marriage with Arthur, Henry's older brother, because he recalls that the following day, Arthur told him he was in Spain last night. He tries to tell it as a joke, and nobody laughs along with him.
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Wolf Hall / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Wolf Hall / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Cromwell remains sympathetic for most of the series and gets a chance to defend policies like the Dissolution of the Monasteries; he even brings another side to the execution of Thomas More. When Henry turns on Anne, however, Cromwell is not just trying to save himself from Wolsey's fate. He takes it as an opportunity to get back at the men who loudly jeered Wolsey's demise, ignoring the fact that Henry was at the root of it all, and uses the whim of a tyrant to avenge an insult made years ago. He seems to be well aware that he's left his morals behind him judging by some of his words in the Tower, and the look on his face when he goes to inform Henry that the execution has been carried out.
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Wolf Hall / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Wolf Hall / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Anne Boleyn is one of the series' main characters, but we all know how things work out for her.
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Wolf Hall / int_a20460b8	type	Hot Consort
Wolf Hall / int_a20460b8	comment	Hot Consort: Anne Boleyn—at least in visible contrast to Henry's ageing first wife (Katherine of Aragon) and to his modest soon-to-be-third (Jane Seymour).
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Wolf Hall / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Wolf Hall / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Threatened; one of Anne's accused lovers smugly says that, as he's a gentleman, Henry would never permit his torture. Cromwell promptly grabs him and threatens to gouge out his eyes just to show how easy it would be.
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Wolf Hall / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Wolf Hall / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Anne averting this trope, with her poor treatment of those close to her ensures that there is no shortage of people willing to corroborate the charges against her. Played straight with Cromwell, who treats his inferiors very well, and is rewarded with their sincere respect and loyalty. Cromwell's distaste for More began when they were boys and Cromwell was a servant. More would always treat Cromwell as Beneath Notice.
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Wolf Hall / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Wolf Hall / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Also applying to the source material. It might be curious that the story which bothered itself with the drama of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn would be entitled with the home estate of Jane Seymour, the queen that followed the latter, but it supposedly refers to: On a literal note, "Wolf Hall", beyond the original estate, becomes a metaphor for the Decadent Court of The House of Tudor, as per the Latin phrase Homo homini lupus ("Man is wolf to man"). Second, precisely by invoking the spectre of Jane Seymour, it casts the entire relationship of Henry and Anne with the menace of inevitablity and Dramatic Irony—not only because we, the audience, knows how it ends but they don't, but also because the entire drama will carry on to three more successions of queens, with as much politicking and bloodshed to follow.
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Wolf Hall / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Wolf Hall / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: After sleeping with Johane for the first time, Cromwell is in a good mood as he strolls his grounds and uncharacteristically tells a funny story from his time in Italy. As soon as he goes back in, he's met by George Cavendish telling him that Cardinal Wolsey has died. King Henry and Cromwell are walking through a garden, where the King is delicately complimenting him as his "right hand" only a day after publicly reprimanding him for overstepping. It's the sweetest moment between Henry and Cromwell, then Henry immediately asks Cromwell to help him get out of his marriage to Anne Boleyn.
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Wolf Hall / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Wolf Hall / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Cromwell has a few flights of fancy, including one where he imagines fondling Anne while they're standing at a window.
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Wolf Hall / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Wolf Hall / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Jane Seymour appears to be something of a Cloudcuckoolander who cries easily and can't stand up for herself, but the way she handles Henry's attention shows that she's much more clever than she looks.
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Wolf Hall / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Wolf Hall / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: After Anne's execution, her own cousin Francis Bryan congratulates Cromwell on a job well done, then makes a crude joke about Anne and gleefully goes to inform the Seymours of her death. Both Cromwell and Gregory watch him go with a look of complete disgust. At the end of the final episode, Henry gives Cromwell a great big hug. Cromwell seems significantly less enthused to get a brotherly embrace for killing a man's wife.
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Wolf Hall / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Wolf Hall / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Thomas Cromwell and Lady Jane Rochford seem to have this reputation at court (the former for his enigmatic and generally suspicious presence, and the latter for being too humorless and free-speaking against Anne Boleyn for a lady in waitingnote Episodes 5 and 6 pretty much suggest that she was the one who threw Anne's dog Purkoy out a window and tried immolating her while she was asleep.) It is therefore no surprise that they would work quite well as accomplices.
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Wolf Hall / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Wolf Hall / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: The sudden deaths of Liz and their daughters Anne and Grace leave Cromwell looking as though he's been hollowed out and he's noticeably distracted in his work when Wolsey returns from France. Though he exits calmly after Henry's very public explosion of temper, Cromwell's hands are shaking visibly as he grasps a cup of wine to settle his nerves afterwards.
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Wolf Hall / int_aab624e5	type	Is That a Threat?
Wolf Hall / int_aab624e5	comment	Is That a Threat?: Both variants occur in the third episode. When More drops by Austen Friars to say he knows Cromwell is using his influence to protect Protestants and corresponding with Tyndale: After More resigns as Chancellor, he tells Cromwell he intends now to write and pray.
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Wolf Hall / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Wolf Hall / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The common belief that a woman on the throne would ruin England drives most of the plot as Henry desperately pursues a son. It's ironic when he becomes despondent upon discovering that Anne gave birth to a girl, not knowing that Elizabeth would become one of England's most beloved and respected rulers. The way women are discussed is also rather coldblooded, with both of Henry's queens valued only for their fertility and discarded when it apparently fails.note Which probably had more to do with him, but naturally he's not the one who gets blamed.
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Wolf Hall / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Wolf Hall / int_ab5eea65	comment	It is sometimes remarkable how Anne Boleyn puts people down (such as her claim that Cromwell, being made, can be unmade, as well as her cattiness about Jane Seymour's affair with Henry) and yet her insults may as well apply to herself. It can, nonetheless, also be a source of Dramatic Irony.
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Wolf Hall / int_ab6e01e	type	Clean Cut
Wolf Hall / int_ab6e01e	comment	Clean Cut: Anne's head is severed in a single blow. Justified, and Truth in Television, as they specifically hired an expert famed as a swift executioner to come over from France, and he is shown to be both extremely skilled with a specially-made sword and to have a technique to ensure she is in the right position for him to cut cleanly. Furthermore, he tells Cromwell that even he can't guarantee an instant death if she isn't steady.
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Wolf Hall / int_acb01a17	type	Nothing Up My Sleeve
Wolf Hall / int_acb01a17	comment	Nothing Up My Sleeve: It appears that Cromwell keeps a small knife up his sleeve at all times.
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Wolf Hall / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Wolf Hall / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Invoked in the looks Cromwell and Cranmer give each other while Henry is convincing himself that he had been bewitched into marrying Anne. Anne and all of the people who go down with her get at least one as they realise just how much trouble they're in. Of note is Anne's reaction when she has to admit in court that she gave one of her alleged lovers money. Rafe's voice is absolutely filled with terror at the news of Henry's apparent death. Bishop Fisher and the aristocrats who supported Elizabeth Barton are all self-assured at the beginning of their interviews with Cromwell, then collapse once they realize that Cromwell has been spying on all of them.
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Wolf Hall / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Wolf Hall / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Anne Boleyn, even without directly interacting with Princess Mary. Though being concerned over Elizabeth's standing is understandable (not being a son, the only advantage she has over Mary is Anne's marriage), she seems inordinately spiteful. Anne plots to ruin Mary's engagements and tries to have her seduced to damage her reputation. In a particularly petty move, she renames her dwarfish fool after her.
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Wolf Hall / int_b1d2b799	type	Artistic Age
Wolf Hall / int_b1d2b799	comment	Artistic Age: The series doesn't use makeup or other methods to show the passage of time. Rafe Sadler is as youthful during Anne Boleyn's fall as he was during Katherine's (though he'd married and established his own household) and Henry likewise is the same fit man (although his famous weight gain didn't get away from him until the jousting accident in episode 5 made him effectively unable to exercise).
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Wolf Hall / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Wolf Hall / int_b2f4114e	comment	The background to the plot, driving all events. Henry needs a son to inherit, and his lords expect the same, but Katherine of Aragon can't seem to give him one.
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Wolf Hall / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Wolf Hall / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Cromwell will ruin men legally and financially and organize Kangaroo Courts that end in beheadings, but he doesn't like using torture on people, and ensures that when death does come it's as clean as possible. He also treats Katharine, Princess Mary, and even Anne with courtesy even though he's working against them—in Anne's case he's one of the only people involved in her downfall to treat her death with the gravity it deserves.
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Wolf Hall / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Wolf Hall / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Mark Smeaton brags out of spite against Cromwell and other titled men that he is having an affair with Anne Boleyn and that lower born guys can seduce and take the women of powerful men. Not only is admitting to such a thing treason in itself, but he doesn't realize that Cromwell is intentionally building a case against the Queen until it is too late. By the time Cromwell is done with a terrified Smeaton, he names all the people Cromwell wants him to name as adulterers, which so happens to be all of Cromwell's enemies at court, including Anne's own brother. And it's heavily implied that Mark Smeaton lied about sleeping with Anne in the first place, and Cromwell knows it.
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Wolf Hall / int_b5c562be	type	Face Framed in Shadow
Wolf Hall / int_b5c562be	comment	Face Framed in Shadow: When Wolsey appears at the end of Episode 5, he's lit only from the back. The natural lighting makes this happen a lot in general, but it's used to particular effect with Cromwell in the final episode. He looks quite menacing with only half his face visible as he interrogates the men he's picked to accuse of adultery with Anne.
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Wolf Hall / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Wolf Hall / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When Cromwell is informing Henry and Brandon (who's a bit of an Upper-Class Twit) of the conspirators around Elizabeth Barton, Henry is aghast to hear the names of some old friends whom he'd played with as a boy. Cromwell continues on with the evidence and suggestions for punishment when Brandon suddenly remembers and starts babbling happily about that one Christmas where Henry got "lost" in a snowdrift with some girl. Cromwell quietly backs out as the two instantly fall to reminiscing.
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Wolf Hall / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Wolf Hall / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Richard Rich (or Riche), who is significant in the drama between Cromwell and Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons, is only a minor character in the Wolf Hall novels and series.
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Wolf Hall / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Wolf Hall / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Henry, so very much. Possibly the best example of this comes when Anne has been arrested (on almost certainly bogus charges, after Henry has hinted to Cromwell that he's fully aware the reason for being rid of her may just be a pretext), and is awaiting execution; he tells Cromwell "I've written a play. A tragedy... my own story." This interaction is taken directly from the historical record.
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Wolf Hall / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Wolf Hall / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Cromwell unleashes one on More in the first episode.
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Wolf Hall / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Wolf Hall / int_bd4264a3	comment	He later has a particularly nightmarish one at the beginning of the season finale: having received Henry's hints that he wants Anne disposed of, he then drifts off to daydream being at a banquet table together with noble folk openly identified as Anne's enemies. Anne is then literally dragged along the table like roasted meat to be served, and Cromwell then takes a knife to plunge into her face—all while she is dissonantly smiling at him.
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Wolf Hall / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
Wolf Hall / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Cromwell as a boy seems much more open and friendly, compared to the increasingly guarded man.
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Wolf Hall / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
Wolf Hall / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Virtually everyone at court counts as this to Henry and Anne (at least while she's queen). Played with in the case of Cromwell himself; Henry (who doesn't want to hear that the legal case against More is slender) says that he doesn't keep Cromwell around for the pleasure of his company, but because he's a "serpent" who's clever enough to carry out the more difficult commands. However, the fact that Cromwell still carries out all the commands, even ones with which he's clearly uncomfortable, essentially makes Cromwell somewhere between this trope and the Hypercompetent Sidekick.
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Wolf Hall / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Wolf Hall / int_bedd799b	comment	During a scene with Henry VIII, Cromwell defends his critique of war with France on the practicality basis. When Henry rhetorically asks if he should live a life opposite of what is expected of a Medieval King, Cromwell gives a Blunt "Yes", and then goes into detail again emphasizing the reality of the price of war against the romantic notions. Henry, an utter Romantic, is impressed.
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Wolf Hall / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Wolf Hall / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: This happens to Mary Boleyn; while in Real Life and in the books she was banished from court for marrying without her family's permission - and beneath her, to boot - in the broadcast version of the series she just disappears for the last three episodes with no explanation. There are some deleted scenes on the DVD that show Anne throwing a strop and banishing her sister from court, and Mary packing to leave, with help from Jane Seymour and less help from Jane Rochford.
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Wolf Hall / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Wolf Hall / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Cromwell doesn't look particularly dangerous and spends the series as a government minister, but he reveals that he was a soldier in his youth. Although he claims that he was too short to be an archer, he manages to strike a bullseye when handed a bow.
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Wolf Hall / int_c91dcba1	comment	Perma-Stubble: Thomas More has a perpetual two-days beard (though the effect is to make him look slovenly rather than tough).
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Wolf Hall / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Wolf Hall / int_c9790040	comment	On a literal note, "Wolf Hall", beyond the original estate, becomes a metaphor for the Decadent Court of The House of Tudor, as per the Latin phrase Homo homini lupus ("Man is wolf to man").
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Wolf Hall / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Wolf Hall / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: After discussing his plans to take a job with Cardinal Wolsey, which will mean lots of travel away from home, Cromwell tells Liz that she's sweeter to look at than the Cardinal. She laughs and calls it the smallest compliment a woman's ever received.
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Wolf Hall / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Wolf Hall / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Cromwell to Wolsey and then to Henry. Finally acknowledged as such when Henry tells him that he's his right hand (as a sort-of apology for publicly shouting at him earlier).
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Wolf Hall / int_d259fea2	type	Speak Ill of the Dead
Wolf Hall / int_d259fea2	comment	Speak Ill of the Dead: The "Cardinal Wolsey dragged to Hell" masque, in which Wolsey is dragged into Satan's maw and mocked for being a butcher's son, is pretty cruel (and was downright obscene in the book). Cromwell marks the men who played the demons for revenge, but Henry is laughing as loud as anybody. Anne reacts to Katherine's death by pointedly wearing yellow, which represented joy.
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Wolf Hall / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Wolf Hall / int_d45c0b86	comment	In another use of the trope, his lack of expression feeds into his Refuge in Audacity approach above, as the lack of any smirk or contempt on his face makes it difficult for the noble he's just insulted with his words or tone to be sure of what's happened.
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Wolf Hall / int_d50a5478	type	Unlimited Wardrobe
Wolf Hall / int_d50a5478	comment	Unlimited Wardrobe: Anne Boleyn. She wears seven different dresses in Episode 3 alone.
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Wolf Hall / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Wolf Hall / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Cromwell sees Thomas More as one. He accuses More of hiding behind false humility, claiming to want no elevation of position and yet somehow climbing his way up the social ranks. In conversations with others, Cromwell describes More's behavior as one big performance, implying that More's piety is more about how he wants people to see him than how he truly is. When More claims that he never hurt anyone, Cromwell hotly reminds him that he not only had Bainham burned at the stake for heresy, he had the man tortured to such a degree that he had to be carried to the scaffold. It is sometimes remarkable how Anne Boleyn puts people down (such as her claim that Cromwell, being made, can be unmade, as well as her cattiness about Jane Seymour's affair with Henry) and yet her insults may as well apply to herself. It can, nonetheless, also be a source of Dramatic Irony.
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Wolf Hall / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Wolf Hall / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the deleted scenes, Mary Boleyn marries beneath her station and is banished from court. She's glad to go, since she's sick of the poisonous atmosphere and constant pressure from her family to put up with being a royal mistress; she wants to spend her life with someone she actually loves.
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Wolf Hall / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Wolf Hall / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: "Crumb" to a few, including Henry.
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Wolf Hall / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
Wolf Hall / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: King Henry is a deconstruction. He's not a particularly good strategist, and his campaigns are far too costly. However from what we see he's a good shot with a bow and arrow, albeit apparently not quite as good as Cromwell, and enjoys jousting.
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Wolf Hall / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Wolf Hall / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: After Henry's apparent death, Cromwell details the possibilities for the immediate future: they have to get Princess Mary out of the country to protect her from the Boleyns; when told she's already in their care, he concludes that she'll die. But if the Catholics set her up on the throne, Cromwell and his people will die instead, and either way it's a civil war. At most he sounds slightly distracted as he pushes his way through the crowd around the king.
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Wolf Hall / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Wolf Hall / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: The last shot of the series. Henry embraces Cromwell with a beatific smile, and Cromwell is staring dead-eyed over his shoulder.
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Wolf Hall / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Wolf Hall / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Thomas More is depicted in a negative light as a ruthless (though well-meaning) extremist. It is a matter of record that he presided over the burning of six Lutherans, though the charge that he personally tortured people is less certain, and he's depicted as having a more arrogant and unpleasant personality than in, say, A Man for All Seasons. Cromwell charges him with hubris and hypocrisy when More speaks out against the injustice being done to him. Cromwell also recalls More when they were both youths, remembering how Cromwell looked up to More and More consistently treated him as Beneath Notice. Lady Rochford probably wasn't the malicious gossip she's portrayed as. Mantel herself admits in the book that the idea of her as one was imposed in retrospect due to her involvement with Katherine Howardnote Anne's cousin, the other wife Henry executed and doesn't have much basis in historical fact, but she was used as a composite for a few individuals who supplied rumors against Anne. Henry VIII believe it or not, well, maybe not that surprising. It's something of a debate about how much Henry VIII came to Cromwell to get him out of his marriage to Anne, or Cromwell independently gathered evidence against Anne. Here, Henry indisputably is the one who all but tells Cromwell to find a reason to get out of the marriage from the first place and later is shown jubilant after Anne's execution.
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Wolf Hall / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Wolf Hall / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Henry himself. He has the attention span, temper and capacity for introspection of a four-year-old boy. There's some thought now that the head injury from his jousting accident altered his personality for the worse, but he was hardly a paragon of good behavior beforehand.
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Wolf Hall / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Wolf Hall / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In one scene, Jane Seymour discusses her uncertainty for her future, and Cromwell reassures her that she is pretty enough to get herself anywhere she wants to. Anyone who knows their Tudor history can tell you what happens next.
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Wolf Hall / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Wolf Hall / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: It's a grey, windy day when Anne Boleyn ascends the scaffold, and there is thunder and imminent rain after she is killed. By contrast, the corridors of Whitehall are incongruously sunny as Cromwell goes to inform Henry and sees the joyful look on his face.
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Wolf Hall / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Wolf Hall / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: When Harry Percy refuses to back down from his claims that he and Anne Boleyn had a precontract to marry, Cromwell informs him that the world is not run from castles, strongholds, or even Whitehall—it's run by the banking capitals like Florence and Antwerp, where Cromwell knows everyone, including Percy's many creditors. He threatens to call in Percy's debts all at once, leaving him penniless. If Percy is penniless, he can't pay the soldiers he needs to hold the northern border. If he can't hold the northern border, Henry will replace him with someone who can. Then picture the happy marriage he'd have with Anne in some hovel, wearing homespun, eating rabbits. Finally, Cromwell informs Percy that whatever Anne may have felt in the past, she now despises him for getting between her and queendom. Percy shuts up.
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Wolf Hall / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Wolf Hall / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Executed Tyndale followers Little Bilney, James Bainham, and John Frith were condensed into the single character of James Bainham for the series (though Bilney does speak in the first episode and his death is mentioned). In the book it was Bilney who tested his hand in a candle flame the night before his death at the stake, and Frith was the one who told Cromwell it was pointless to arrange an escape because he could not unbelieve what he believed and would just get arrested for public preaching again.
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Wolf Hall / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Wolf Hall / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Cromwell has been estranged from his abusive father for years. When he finally returns to confront him, he grabs a hammer, apparently unsure whether he's going to attack him. His father gets the best of their conversation, however, and Cromwell simply drops the hammer and walks away.
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Wolf Hall / int_e5a6888c	type	Quick Draw
Wolf Hall / int_e5a6888c	comment	Quick Draw: When Cromwell gets surprised by someone coming up behind him, that knife is in his hand and at the man's throat in an eyeblink.
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Wolf Hall / int_e6299112	type	Who Forgot The Lights?
Wolf Hall / int_e6299112	comment	Who Forgot The Lights?: Several scenes in the series used natural lighting, which made them difficult for viewers to see properly.
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Wolf Hall / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Wolf Hall / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: Cromwell hallucinates talking to his wife when fevered, mistaking his sister-in-law Johane for her. He later imagines a warning from Wolsey to successfully divorce Henry from Anne or be similarly punished as his former master was. note (Which will happen four years later, with a different Queen Anne)
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Wolf Hall / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Wolf Hall / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Cromwell very rarely loses his temper, and only in situations that are extremely emotional for him: The first time is after More says he does harm to no one—Cromwell slams the desk and says that he's treating More far more mercifully than James Bainham and the other Lutherans he had tortured and burnt, and his voice cracks when he says that More ought to be grateful that they're not doing to him what he did to Cromwell's friends. The second is when he's building his sham case against Anne's "lovers" and Risley suggests he's not going far enough. Cromwell yells at him that he's not one to go too soft on young men, displaying his inner turmoil; he's arranging this of his own free will and to exact revenge for Wolsey, but he's got enough morals that he's not particularly happy about it. He just barely keeps himself under control on a third occasion; Anne has been convicted and some lawyers are insisting that she be burned rather than decapitated. Cromwell, feeling guilty enough already, absolutely refuses to make it worse for her than necessary, and comes as close as he ever does to raising his voice in anger. The lawyers are suitably cowed, and Anne gets a clean death.
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Wolf Hall / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Wolf Hall / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Apparently, Henry VIII. In a deleted scene, Henry visits Cromwell during his illness, with the entire Cromwell household in tow. While they exchange pleasantries, the women of the household were surprised at how gentle and eager he is, even complimenting his looks. Henry, clearly thinking it's the opposite trope, proudly proclaims he'll be "45 in June". As he leaves, one of the younger women interjects deadpan:
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Wolf Hall / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Wolf Hall / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The Duke of Norfolk is one of the rudest, crudest, and most aggressive old gits you could ever meet. Later, he assists in his niece Anne's downfall on the grounds that it might convince the king to listen to him more, and even presides at her (obviously staged) trial.
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Wolf Hall / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Wolf Hall / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Cromwell started as the son of a blacksmith, ran away to be a mercenary in Italy, trained in law on his return, and entered the political sphere through his service to Cardinal Wolsey. Wolsey himself is delighted when Cromwell tells his father's occupation, as he himself came from a family of butchers.
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Wolf Hall / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Wolf Hall / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Anne always pronounces Cromwell's name with a continental accent to reference his past, fighting foreign wars as a mercenary.
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Wolf Hall / int_efa2d938	type	Homage Shot
Wolf Hall / int_efa2d938	comment	Homage Shot: A scene virtually reproduces◊ Cromwell's portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger◊, presented as him sitting for the portrait. Almost every element in the shot corresponds to the historical portrait.
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Wolf Hall / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Wolf Hall / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Jane Seymour in Episode 2. Although her first name isn't mentioned, she introduces herself as the daughter of John Seymour of Wolf Hall.
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Wolf Hall / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Wolf Hall / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Cromwell is loyal to Wolsey to the very end, and though he left his service he tried everything he could to get the Cardinal back in favour. Wolsey did after all act as Cromwell's supporter, patron and friend for much of Cromwell's adult life. After Wolsey falls, and a pantomime is put on showing him being dragged to hell, he mentally marks the people involved in the mockery. Cromwell also appears to be enjoying taking revenge on those who hounded Wolsey to his death while following unrelated missions, such as More and Percy.
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Wolf Hall / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Wolf Hall / int_f36c4f98	comment	Cromwell lays out how Francis Weston is going to be framed for planning to assassinate King Henry. Surprisingly, Weston just accepts it and is not mad at Cromwell, seeing it's nothing personal. Weston is simply sad at the idea of dying so soon, to which a pitying Cromwell offers some condolences and pats him on the shoulder.
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Wolf Hall / int_f3abffb6	type	Platonic Declaration of Love
Wolf Hall / int_f3abffb6	comment	Henry, after exploding at Cromwell, witnesses Cromwell be insulted by the Council. After their meeting the two walk together and reconcile with Henry stating that Cromwell is his ''right hand''. Then, he asks Cromwell to help get him out of his marriage.
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Wolf Hall / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Wolf Hall / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Cromwell asks Mary Boleyn to get him a real job in Henry's circle and says he'd like to be keeper of the jewelhouse. A little later, Anne offers him the position like it's her idea. Not long after that, a tipsy Henry says that he is the one who will make Cromwell keeper of the jewelhouse.
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Wolf Hall / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
Wolf Hall / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn repeatedly miscarry, "cheating" Henry of a son and a solid succession. However, this is a matter of historical record, and so realistic.
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Wolf Hall / int_f7588306	type	Reverse Psychology
Wolf Hall / int_f7588306	comment	George Boleyn repeatedly tells Cromwell not to interfere with those above him, but is nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is. After Cromwell has been publicly shouted at by a raging Henry (which Boleyn implies he had a hand in arranging), he then goes to gloat, thus tipping Cromwell off as to who was behind it and needs dealing with. This is clearest at his trial, where he tells Cromwell to bring it on, as he's confident of confounding Cromwell's questions. He then falls for Reverse Psychology with comical ease.
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Wolf Hall / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
Wolf Hall / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: How Lady Rochford brings down Anne.note Whether or not it was true is irrelevant: it worked because Cromwell needed to bring down Anne, and Lady Rochford gave him a plausible reason to. George Boleyn, her husband, was widely rumoured to be the type who'd hit on anyone, and historians speculate that one of the reasons Lady Rochford was so quick to accuse him of adultery was her disgust with his penchant for forcing her to have unnatural sex. This is alluded to in the series, when she comments to Cromwell "There is nothing natural in George" in a tone of uncharacteristic vehemence. In the book, she says that he'd mount a terrier if it wagged its tail at him.
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Wolf Hall / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Wolf Hall / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke/Lampshaded Double Entendre: A witness at Katharine of Aragon's trial insists that Arthur must have consummated his marriage to Katharine because on the morning after their wedding night, Arthur made a joke about having been "in Spain." When nobody laughs, the witness explains "The Queen was Spanish, you see..."
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Wolf Hall / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Wolf Hall / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Cromwell; his actions might not be the cleanest nor most honorable, but he did intend the best for England... and for himself. Thomas More also is a more classic version of this.
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Wolf Hall / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Wolf Hall / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: What Gregory often turns out to be to his father, such as when he's offered a kitten to adopt and complains that his dogs will kill it.
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Wolf Hall / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
Wolf Hall / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: A very young Rafe Sadler acts as Cromwell's apprentice, not much more than a lackey and a spy of a man with humble beginnings himself. He will later become Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a key ambassador, Secretary of State, and Privy Councillor to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I, with possibly his most impressive achievement being to serve three monarchs and then die of old age.
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Wolf Hall / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Wolf Hall / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In one flashback, Cromwell's father does advise him on how to treat a burnt hand—it's the one decent thing we see him do. According to Stephen Gardiner, Cromwell's father also paid off the people planning to lynch him after killing a man and leaving London, without Cromwell ever knowing. The Duke of Norfolk, despite being someone who had utterly dismissed Cromwell in the past, calls Anne out when she claims to have made him, pointing out that Cromwell made her in turn. In a deleted scene, he also visits Cromwell during his illness and gives him a medallion supposedly blessed by the Pope (while complaining a lot about his own health and, after leaving, yelling at someone for telling him that Cromwell was almost dead in a manner that suggests he wasted the trip). Henry, after exploding at Cromwell, witnesses Cromwell be insulted by the Council. After their meeting the two walk together and reconcile with Henry stating that Cromwell is his ''right hand''. Then, he asks Cromwell to help get him out of his marriage. Cromwell lays out how Francis Weston is going to be framed for planning to assassinate King Henry. Surprisingly, Weston just accepts it and is not mad at Cromwell, seeing it's nothing personal. Weston is simply sad at the idea of dying so soon, to which a pitying Cromwell offers some condolences and pats him on the shoulder.
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Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Empathic Environment / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Enigmatic Minion / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Evil All Along / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Face Framed in Shadow / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Glad I Thought of It / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Good Bad Girl / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Heir Club for Men / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Heroic Vow / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Homage / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	In Vino Veritas / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Kill It with Fire / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Little "No" / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Malicious Slander / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Mobstacle Course / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Mysterious Past / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Perma-Stubble / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Quick Draw / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Reaction Shot / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Reverse Psychology / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Significant Wardrobe Shift / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Student and Master Team / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	The Place / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	The Snack Is More Interesting / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Thousand-Yard Stare / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Who Forgot The Lights? / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Wrong-Name Outburst / int_2da80bd2
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame / int_2da80bd2

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