Alatriste: Difference between revisions

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* [[Eighty Years' War]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Gualterio Malatesta is basically Alatriste without the [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]] part.

* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: This comes up '''a lot'''. A whole chapter in ''The King's Gold'' is devoted to how one convict prepares for his execution, and the serene look on his face as the rope strangling him is tightened.

* [[Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon]]: Angélica, whose name is appropriate to her '''appearance'''.

* [[Famous Ancestor]]: A joke in the later books reveals that Alatriste is a grand-nephew of [[Don Juan|Don Juan Tenorio]] (the author had in fact chosen Tenorio as Alatriste's mother's family name in homage to Don Juan, when he was writing the first book).

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* [[Fille Fatale]]: Angélica de Alquézar, becoming also a [[Rich Bitch]] as she grows up.

* [[First-Person Peripheral Narrator]]: Íñigo Balboa y Aguirre, the young Basque squire of Alatriste, is the first person narrator of each of the books.

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: In ''The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet'', Malatesta claims that he is Alatriste's "[[Worthy Opponent|adversary]]" but not his enemy. (He's quite displeased when the Inquisitor slaps Alatriste's face. "Among their kind, killing was one thing—part of the job—but humiliation was another matter entirely.") Captain Alatriste doesn't reciprocate the "friendly" feeling.

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Lots of them.

* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Alatriste.

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There was both anger and admiration in his voice...}}

* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: "Your king is your king" (even if he is a jackass).

** By the time that he's telling the story, Íñigo has become very cynical about Spain and the Spanish people as a whole, remarking that the Spanish are "quite rightly, hated throughout Europe and half the known world." He also says that "'Spaniard' and 'ingratitude' are two concepts that always go hand in hand..." But he never '''fought''' against Spain.

* [[Naughty Nuns]]: ''Purity of Blood'' deals with a Sinister Minister treating a convent as his harem, although he's said to manipulate the women's piety so they believe getting boinked by a clergyman is a holy act, making '''those''' nuns foolish more than naughty. ''The King's Gold'' mentions King Philip IV enjoying several night-time excursions to convents. "Convents are his specialty," Quevedo remarks. Some of the nuns, it's stated, having been sent into seclusion against their will, welcome a noble's (or king's) advances.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: María de Castro is a rather obvious stand-in for the real actress [[wikipedia:Maria Calderon|María Calderón]] with a few changes for story purposes.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Several instances. It's also pointed out in the first book that sailors learn insults phonetically in other languages to shout at the opponent before the expected [[Boarding Party]].

* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Alatriste is paid to slay two men but refuses when the first one he is about to kill begs him to spare ''his companion''. This makes him an enemy of the people who hired him.

* [[Shown Their Work]]

* [[Sinister Minister]]: Inquisitor Bocanegra.

* [[Sinister Minister]]: Inquisitor Bocanegra. Fray Juan Coroada in ''Purity of Blood''.

* [[Suspiciously Small Army]]: In the movie. All we see of the battle of Rocroi is about a dozen Spanish foot soldiers and twice as many Frenchmen on horse.

* [[Swashbuckler]]