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* [[Eighty Years' War]]
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Gualterio Malatesta is basically Alatriste without the [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]] part.
* [[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).
** Note that in the original legend (and especially Zorrilla's play ''Don Juan Tenorio'', which is the one most Spaniards are familiar with), Don Juan is just as famous as a duelist as a, er, "seducer", so this also works as a sort of [[In the Blood]] for Alatriste.
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* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Subverted in ''The King's Gold'' because Alatriste never actually inflicts pain on the victim. Instead, he holds a candle flame to his '''own''' arm for several seconds, then says, "If I can do this to myself, imagine what I would be capable of doing to you."
* [[King Incognito]]: The point over what two of the books revolve {{spoiler|The Englishman that Alatriste is hired to kill in ''Captain Alatriste'' is the Prince of Walles and future king Charles I of England travelling in disguise, and Alatriste's rival for the actress' love in ''The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet'' is none other but Philip IV of Spain.}}
* [[Leave Him to Me]]: Said word for word by {{Spoiler|Gualterio Malatesta about Íñigo}} in ''The King's Gold'', apparently considering him enough of a [[Worthy Opponent]] that he shouldn't be overwhelmed by a pack of thugs.
{{Quote|"You're going to die like a man, {{Spoiler|boy," said Malatesta}}.
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).
* [[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.
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