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The story is about an old [[Blue Blood|''hidalgo'']] named Alonso Quijano, [[You Watch Too Much X|who was so into]] [[Chivalric Romance|chivalric novels]] that he became insane and [[Ascended Fanboy|decided that he was a vagrant knight]]. [[Meaningful Rename|Quijano renames himself as "Don Quixote de La Mancha"]] and decides to [[Glory Seeker|win eternal fame]] through [[Knight in Shining Armor|the besting of wrongdoers and general upholding of the Chivalric Code]]. Unfortunately for a lot of innocent people, his delusions [[Lord Error-Prone|make him pick fights]] with <s>other knights</s> innocent bystanders, some of whom do not fight back because Don Quixote is obviously <s>superior in his fighting skills</s> crazy. Of course, there are strangers who are not that sympathetic, and after one of those [[Hilarity Ensues|delivers a brutal beating to Don Quixote]], a neighbor from his village meets the wounded Don Quixote and takes him home, where his friends and family burn out the accursed [[Chivalric Romance|books of chivalry]] to try to cure him, but he soon returns to his <s>heroic quest</s> delusion and journey. This time he manages to <s>inspire</s> convince a simple farm-man, [[Foil|Sancho Panza]], to become his squire and sidekick under the [[Standard Hero Reward|promise of a governorship in the future]]. Then they live [[Troperiffic|a lot of adventures]], including the famous one where [[Windmill Crusader|Don Quixote attacks some windmills]] because they <s>are</s> might be [[Windmill Political|giants in disguise]]. At the end of the book, [[Those Two Guys|Don Quixote’s friends]] trick him [[Wrong Genre Savvy|by making him believe he is enchanted]] and take him back to his village.

 

 

 

 

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* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]

* [[The Rocinante]]: Or as it's more commonly known on these boards, [[The Alleged Steed]].

* [[Windmill Crusader]]: With Don Quixote being the [[Ur Example]].

* [[Windmill Political]]: The [[Ur Example]], but in most other examples the windmills are not literal.

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'' "There is the point," replied Don Quixote, "[[Insane Troll Logic|and that is the beauty of this business of mine; no thanks to a knight-errant for going mad when he has cause; the thing is to turn crazy without any provocation, and let my lady know, if I do this in the dry, what I would do in the moist;]] '' }}

** This shows up in some translations as a [[Woolseyism]]: Don Quixote simply uses more archaic vocabulary than everyone else around.

** Really toned down in the second part, so it appears that the Spanish language was modernized in 10 years, or for the people missing the joke (because they don't know if words like 'fermosa' were used back in the 1600s) thinking it's a more up to date transcription.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Cervantes was a connoisseur of chivalry novels (evidenced by the famous scene where the priest and the barber go into a lengthy discussion of Don Quixote's library), and his parody of the genre isn't as vicious and destructive as commonly thought.

* [[Altum Videtur]]: This trope is lampshaded twice by Cervantes:

** Another example is lampshaded in Part II, chapter LI. Sancho has been made [[Massive Multiplayer Scam|governor of the "Island of Barataria]]". In the seventeen century, it was expected that the people who were part of the government and the aristocracy were well educated, and this education included Latin. Don Quixote never uses Latin words in his sentences with Sancho because he is not interested in impress him with his superior knowledge, but he expects that now that Sancho is a governor he has learned Latin.

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: [[Hanna-Barbera|"Don Coyote & Sancho Panda"]]

** And a ''hilarious'' anime adaptation, too: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TDP540GASY Zukkoke Knight Don de la Mancha].

** At the Sierra Morena, Don Quixote [[Conversed Trope|converses this trope]] with the goatherds at Chapter XXI, delivering an [[Author Filibuster]], “Discourse on the Golden Age”, comparing the goatherds with [[Noble Savage|NobleSavages]]. [[Genre Blind|None of them understand a word]]. One of the goatherds sings a song, but he didn’t compose it (because he doesn’t know how), it was his uncle who composed it, a cleric who has studied.

** In any Arcadia poem, one or various [[Love Martyr|shepherds complains about]] [[Ice Queen|the shepherdess that ignores him]]. Marcela and Grisostomo deconstruct this at chapter XII – XIV, were the Shepherdess [[Ice Queen]] claims she is [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]] and so she had to be a shepherdess only to get her freedom, but all the [[City Mouse|CityMouses]] [[Flock of Wolves|that court her decided to be shepherds too]]. and if that [[Spurned Into Suicide|Grisóstomo killed himself]], [[Fair for Its Day|is unjust to blame her]].

** Parodied at the chapter LVIII of the Second Part: Don Quixote meets some beautiful shepherdess who are part of a crew of noble and rich people who invoke this trope by retiring to a forest to play to be shepherd and shepherdess. They are so sophisticated that they have studied two poems from Garcilaso (In Spanish) and Camoes (in Portuguese). [[Irony|Only the truly rich CityMouse can afford to live in a happy Arcadia]].

** Don Quixote considers becoming a shepherd instead of a knight at the end of the second part, before he can invoke this trope, his housekeeper [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|tries to dissuade him by]] lampshading the truth:

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Quixote takes a more proactive approach than most.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Cervantes dedicates some chapters of the first part of the novel to ''“The story of the Captive Captain”'', Ruy Pérez de Viedma, a Spanish captain who was prisoner of the Moors. Curiously, this man, like the Priest, claims to know some guy called “de Saavedra”.

* [[Badass Spaniard]]: Don Quixote aspires to be one, and actually does pull off some real badassery (e.g., his adventure with the lion).

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Lampshaded: In the Preface of the Author, Part I, Cervantes’s friend mentions a quote in Latin that a lot of people attributed to Horace, but Cervantes's friend [[Shown Their Work|really has done the research]], so he mentions ''"or whoever said it"''.

** There are some cases of this trope in the Spanish pop culture, see some examples in the link.

* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]: Sancho Panza

* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: Subverted with the Biscayan, who is another of the many [[Victimized Bystander|VictimizedBystanders]] Don Quixote will find in his adventures. He talks exclusively in this fashion when he engages with Don Quixote in a duel to the death, even when Don Quixote understand him perfectly:

Don Quixote understood him quite well, and answered him very quietly, "If thou wert a knight, as thou art none, I should have already chastised thy folly and rashness, miserable creature." To which the Biscayan returned, "I no gentleman!—I swear to God thou liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, soon shalt thou see thou art carrying water to the cat: Biscayan on land, hidalgo at sea, hidalgo at the devil, and look, if thou sayest otherwise thou liest." }}

* [[Buffy-Speak]]: See [[You Keep Using That Word]].

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: In a way, Álvaro Tarfe may be one of the first examples, if not the first. He is a character from the non canon sequel written by Avellaneda, who appears at the end of the legitimate second part of the Quijote, the one written by Cervantes, talking to the ''real'' Don Quijote and Sancho.

** Lacquey Tosilos appear at chapter LVI of the second part when Don Quixote is trying to [[We Help the Helpless]], and comes back in chapter LXVII to inform Don Quixote that all was a [[Shaggy Dog Story]].

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Played perfectly straight: In the Chapter I, Part I, Cervantes mentions the people who lived in Don Quixote’s house: his niece, his housekeeper and a lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace… whom we’ll never see or hear of again. Obviously, Cervantes completely forgotten about this character, and didn't want to write him even in the Second Part of the novel, but in his defense, one of Don Quixote’s themes is about how silly it is to detect errors of continuity in a <s>literary work</s> silly fictional tale.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: There is nothing else to call a man who attacks windmills.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Bernardo del Carpio is one of Alonso Quixano favorite knights, because he found the way to defeat [[Nigh Invulnerable|Roland]] [[A Wizard Did It|the enchanted]]: instead of attacking him with a sword, Bernardo just strangle him.

* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: Sancho is very aware that the man he is following is pretty insane and often tells him so, but sometimes has to act according to his master's delusions.

* [[Crack is Cheaper]]: <s>Don Quixote</s> Alonso Quijano was a victim of this phenomenon. At chapter I Part I we learn that he has acquired a lot of chivalry books (almost three hundred), and if you think that the printing had been discovered in Europe only some years ago, it's a considerable feat. But alas! Then as now, his relatives and friends, who certainly think that this hobby is getting out of control, had no second thoughts to send a lot of his books to the bonfire, even if Don Quixote has spent a lot of money in those books:

** It should be noted that just having a few hundred books in the time in which the story was written would have been a ''huge'' expense. It's not like they had Barnes and Noble back then.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Although Don Quixote is [[Cloudcuckoolander|a loon]] and almost always beaten and humiliated, sometimes he shows that he's got some real balls and fighting chops (e.g., the lion episode).

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Deconstructed and [[Played for Laughs]]. Don Quixote believes that just about every lady he meets needs to be rescued from villains. Then, [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* [[Deconstruction]].

* [[Daydream Believer]]: Quixote himself is the archetype of this. And he does not only believe in chivalry books, in Part II, Chapter LXXI, he declares that if he had lived in [[Homer|Homeric times]], he could have saved Troy and Carthage by slaying Paris.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]] / [[Sarcastic Devotee]] / [[Servile Snarker]]: Deconstructed by Sancho Panza: What happens in [[Real Life]] to the employee that cannot say anything about his master without being sarcastic? Why, Sancho is beaten by Don Quixote at chapters XX and XXV of Part I, and gives him a hurricane of insults at chapter XLVI. The problem is that a lot of people enjoys Sancho’s sarcasm (he is good at it) and so he feels compelled to say it, even when he is in perilous situations, like when he denied payment to a Innkeeper (Chapter XVII part I), [[Too Dumb to Live|and he mocked the entire people of the Braying Town or the highwaymen of Barcelona]] (Chapters XXVII and LX of the part II) The first give him a beating, the highwaymen almost kill him.

** Parodied by the ''"resurrection"'' of Altisidora, a girl who claims to love Don Quixote and invokes this trope (it’s really a prank). Don Quixote and Sancho didn’t believe it for a minute. When Don Quixote rejects her again:

''"That I can well believe," said Sancho; "for all that about lovers pining to death is absurd; they may talk of it, but as for doing it-Judas may believe that!"'' }}

** Played straight at the end of the novel by Don Quixote, whom could not survive his [[Fan Disillusionment]].

** The other trope deconstructed and parodied is [[Fan Dumb]].

* [[Doorstopper]]: It's quite a long book, although not obscenely so. The romances of chivalry it parodies tended to be even lengthier.

* [[Fan Disillusionment]]: After two novels being a literal [[Ascended Fanboy]] [[Up to Eleven]] of the [[Chivalric Romance]], Don Quixote must accept in the last chapter that the [[Cliché Storm]] that he read as the adventures of a [[Knight Errant]] is not [[Deconstructed Trope|as joyous as he thought it would be]]:

*** Chapter I, part I: <s>Don Quixote</s> Alonso Quijano has read ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:'' ]] and notes that the author has not finished that adventure, so he planned to write a continuation of it, and it would have been a great continuation if not because he abandoned that idea to become Don Quixote (this is not an [[Informed Ability]]: In Part I, Chapter II, Don Quixote begins the story of his own heroic exploits, that will undoubtedly write a sage in the future, and in Part I, Chapter XXI, Don Quixote narrates Sancho a perfect summary of the plot and all the typical situations of a chivalry book):

*** At Part I, Chapter XLVIII, Don Quixote and his party meet a man [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|who is referred only as]] [[Meaningful Name|the canon]], who knows all the rules to write a good book, in the next chapter, he confess that he [[Fanfic|wrote a hundred pages of a chivalry book]], [[Dead Fic|but then he cites the reasons that made him desist his intent]]:

** In [[Real Life]]:

*** Fanfiction of the book itself. In the 10 years between the first and second part of the novel, there were some "apocryphal" continuations, which Cervantes himself references and afterwards rejects, saying he is the original writer. Which probably makes it one of the oldest examples.

* [[Flyover Country]]: Critics have said La Mancha, don Quixote's home, is the Spanish version of this trope, as the preface to the Gutenberg project said:

* [[Folk Hero]]

* [[Forgotten Trope]]: The novel show us an example of the Captivity Narrative when [[Author Avatar|Ruy Pérez de Viedma]] relates all his biography in ''“The story of the Captive Captain”'', you can see more at [[Life Embellished]].

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Apart from the protagonist (who is [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]), many other characters are familiar with chivalric tropes and [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] or [[Discussed Trope|discuss them]]. Note that at the end of both volumes, Don Quixote is defeated and forced to return to his village in strict accordance with the laws of the genre.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Part I Chapter I reveals that the giant Morgante is one of the <s>Don Quixote</s> Alonso Quixano’s favorite characters, because despite being a giant, he is [[Affably Evil|affable and well bred]].

* [[Heroic Wannabe]]: Practically made this trope.

* [[Hikikomori]]: Somewhat of an [[Ur Example]]. Don Quixote seems to be living in his village for years, doing nothing but hunting, reading romances of chivalry, selling his property to pay for them ([[Conspicuous Consumption|books were a lot more expensive then]]) and discussing them with [[Those Two Guys|his friends]]. Justified, because landed gentry of the time was expected to do little else.

'' "A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he has changed my name."'' }}

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The protagonist falls victim to this trope countless times.

* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Practically [[Once an Episode|every single chapter]] ends up being this to Quixote and Sancho.

* [[Hurricane of Aphorisms]]: Sancho Panza does this, usually so poorly that it just makes him look stupider. Interestingly, in the First part of the novel he does it only once. In the second part, [[Flanderization|he gives those almost always]].

* [[Idiot Hero]]: If not the [[Trope Maker]], pretty much the [[Trope Codifier]]. [[Up to Eleven]] if you think that in the end when he denies chivalry, Don Quixote is portrayed as the [[Only Sane Man]] and even as [[Messiah Creep|the ideal man]].

* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Part II, chapter LX, Claudia Jeronima and Don Vicente Tornellas, from different factions of the civil war that was plaguing Barcelona, secretly fall in love and planned to marry, but one day Claudia Jerónima learned that Don Vicente wants to marry another woman. The next day, overwhelmed and exasperated, she shot him. [[Tear Jerker|And then she learns that he never intended to marry any other woman that Claudia]].

* [[In Name Only]]: Joel Silver is threatening to produce a big-budget, "''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''-like" film about a [[Swashbuckler]] Don Quixote that [[Completely Missing the Point|is not crazy]] and [[He Who Fights Monsters|fights real monsters]] from [[Another Dimension]].

** Ironically, Don Quixote would have preferred [[Rule of Cool|this kind of adaptation]] to any other.

* [[The Insomniac]]: Alonso Quijano is a type B, as described in Part I Chapter I: lead by his obsession to read chivalry books, he sleeps less and less while reading more and more and that sends him over the edge.

* [[Insanity Defense]]: The reason why Don Quixote is never killed (but often beaten) by the poor [[Innocent Bystander]] of the day.

* [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Played Straight with Almost All the Chapters of the Two Parts because the Beginning of a Chapter Summarizes the Chapter's Events]], but then [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in Some Chapters that Do Not Summarize Anything:

** Part II, Chapter 66 WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO HIM WILL HEAR }}

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]] and [[Knight Errant]]: What Don Quixote thinks he is, and thereby thoroughly [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs.]]

* [[Life Embellished]]: [[Author Avatar|Ruy Pérez de Viedma]] relates all his biography in ''“The story of the Captive Captain”''. He was a handsome captive captain who wanted to escape the Moors and was helped by a Zoraida, a beautiful moor princess who wanted to convert to Christianity, organized a successful evasion to Spain, was well received by his powerful and rich relatives and married Zoraida. Cervantes was a captive who failed all his evasion intents, his family paid his rescue and always was an [[Impoverished Patrician]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Critics have counted six hundred characters in the book (a lot of them unnamed).

* [[Long List]]: This trope is played straight and parodied:

** Played straight at the Preface of the Author, Part I: a friend of Cervantes advices him to get [[Long List|a book that quotes famous authors from A to Z]] [[Did Not Do the Research|and just insert the examples in his own book, so Cervantes can feign that he knows all those authors, because some]] [[Viewers are Morons|readers are simple enough to believe that the author can use all those quotes in any book]].

** Parodied at Chapter XVIII, Part I. Since [[Homer]], the description of the forces and the generals of an army was an important part of the heroic literature, and books of chivalry were pleased to develop it, (Amadis of Gaul has a similar scene). In that chapter, Don Quixote describes what he sees at two contending armies to Sancho, whom only can see… two droves of sheep.

* [[Lost in Translation]]: A joke in the Spanish version is that even when everyone understands the term ''island'', only truly sophisticated people understand the term [[Altum Videtur|''insula'']]. So, Sancho doesn’t really understand what an ''insula'' really is, but he desperately wants to rule one, so he would be tricked later in a [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]] to rule a little town that is not an island. In some English translations (for example, [http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/996/pg996.html the Gutenberg project] this joke is [[Lost in Translation]]).

* [[The Musical]]: ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'', with showtune standard "The Impossible Dream".

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Countless times, Don Quixote's chivalric antics make things only worse. All Don Quixote’s adventures end like this, just to see the first of them:

** Chapter IV Part I: Don Quixote rescues Andres, a boy shepherd who was flogged by his master Juan Haduldo, and trusts Juan to pay Andres his salary ([[Wrong Genre Savvy|because the knights in]] [[Chivalric Romance]] [[I Gave My Word|always keep their word]]). Just after Don Quixote leaves, [[Reality Ensues|Juan brutally flogs Andres and doesn’t pay him]].

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Numerous characters in the second part recognize Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by having read the first part.

** Considering that this was written in the 17th century, it's a textbook case of a trope [[Older Than They Think|used ''avant la lettre'']].

On hearing this Don Quixote, full of wrath and indignation, lifted up his voice and said, [[Take That|"Whoever he may be who says that Don Quixote of La Mancha has forgotten or can forget Dulcinea del Toboso, I will teach him with equal arms that what he says is very far from the truth; for neither can the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso be forgotten, nor can forgetfulness have a place in Don Quixote; his motto is constancy, and his profession to maintain the same with his life and never wrong it."]] }}

* [[Older Than They Think]]:

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Sancho. And even then, he still willingly follows Quixote and even believes some of the ridiculous things he's told, because he's a simple peasant who doesn't know any better.

* [[Pitying Perversion]]: The Barber and the Curate, two [[Moral Guardians]], and later [[Loony Fan]] Sanson Carrásco, whose sincere desire to help that poor fool, Don Quixote and cure his madness is sabotaged by this attitude, rendering all of them into [[Threshold Guardians]]. ([[Not So Different|Also, all three do things to help him that could be easily described as "crazy"]])

* [[Punny Name]]: In a 17th century's pun, Quixote means "cuisse", the piece of armor covering the thigh. Modern Spanish form is ''quijote''.

** Don Quixote's real name, Alonso Quijano, is a pun on "quijada" (jaw), as he's also a rather skinny guy.

*** Even better: Rocinante is a contraction from "rocín antes", which means that it was a "rocín" before.

* [[Purple Prose]]: Parodied and Lampshaded: Cervantes achieved the rare miracle of having a florid style that is clearly understandable. But he recognized and denounced this trope:

** Another example is obtained in Chapter II, Part I: Don Quixote has begun his lefting his home through a back door and now travels the countryside, [[Glory Seeker|thinking about]] [[Famed in Story|how some wise wizard will write the beginning of his adventure]]. Don Quixote uses a style perhaps not as exaggerated as some examples of purple prose, but certainly is overdeveloped and fancy. You can find the quote at the link of this trope.

* [[Reality Ensues]]: This is what happens when an aging nobleman with little fighting skills and crappy armaments imagines himself a knight-errant.

* [[Retcon]]: In Part II, Cervantes tried to correct some of the most glaring continuity errors of the first book, particularly the mysterious disappearance of Sancho's donkey.

* [[Sarcastic Devotee]]: Sancho Panza deconstructs this trope, see [[Deadpan Snarker]].

* [[Scheherazade Gambit]]: Sancho tries to do this to Quixote to keep him from charging against a watermill (Quixote had something with mills). He forgets about what he was telling.

** It's actually even funnier than that: the story he tells Quixote was a common children's story of the time, and is supposed to work like a lullaby, repeating a useless element over and over until the kid goes to sleep.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: Deconstructed in the [[Show Within a Show|Novel Within A Novel ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] where [[Too Dumb to Live|Anselmo]] asks his best friend Lotario to test the fidelity of his wife, Camila. In any other story, Lucinda will pass the test and everyone will have lived [[Happily Ever After]]. In the novel, Lucinda and Lotario became lovers [[Kill Them All|causing the tragic deaths of the three]].

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: For a book that only has one continuation, there are various examples of those errors. Then again, Cervantes was mocking [[Fan Dumbthose|fans who put too much attention to continuity]]… There are two types:

*** Chapter I, part I: Alonso Quijano has some continuity questions about ''The tale of Don Belianis of Greece:''

** Played straight In the book (and [[Conversed Trope|conversed]] by Don Quixote, Sancho and Sansón Carrasco):

*** [[Plot Hole|Sancho’s donkey disappearance]]

** Played straight In the book:

*** Sancho talks about using a sword at Part I Chapter XV and the Barber mentions Sancho has a sword in his hips at Part I Chapter XLVI, but at Part II Chapter XIV, Sancho denies ever having a sword.

*** The name of Sancho’s wife changes at the same page in Part I Chapter 7 (''Juana Gutiérrez'' and ''Mari Gutiérrez''), in Part I Chapter LII (''Juana Panza''), changes again at Part II Chapter V (''Teresa Panza'' and ''Teresa Cascajo'') and in Part II Chapter L (''Teresa Panza'').

*** [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|The lad who helps them with the field and the marketplace]].

* [[Serious Business]]: This is the theme of the novel: The first part, only Don Quixote is affected with the chivalry lifestyle, but in the second, a sizable portion of the Spanish population takes it far more seriously than it should be. There are various examples:

*** '''The Duke and the Duchess:''' They spent a lot of money and organize truly [[Massive Multiplayer Scam]] (Dulcinea’s enchantment has all the people in their castle, the Insula Barataria involucres all the people of a town) only to laugh at Don Quixote and Sancho.

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Aldonza Lorenzo a.k.a Dulcinea Del Toboso, who isn't even aware of her status as love interest of Don Quixote.

* [[Show Within a Show]] (in Part 1, a number of short stories told by other characters). For example, "The Ill-Advised Curiosity" is a true novel within the novel, and [[Those Two Guys|the priest]] reads it to all the guests in the inn completely through two chapters of the first part.

* [[Simpleminded Wisdom]]: Sancho Panza has this trait.

* [[Slapstick]]: And charging against a windmill is just in chapter 8 '''of 126 chapters!!!'''

* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Deconstructed with Marcela: At Chrysostom’s funeral, she makes a speech claiming she is not an [[Ice Queen]], and she states her beauty is a drawback, in a remote and inaccessible forest, claiming that she is free and if Chrysostom chose to be [[Spurned Into Suicide]] was his decision… but no one of her audience ([[All Men Are Perverts|made by men) hears anything and they are only interested in Marcela’s beauty]]. They want to follow her, but Marcela, being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], was in a remote point to prevent them to follow her… because she has been through this situation all her life.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Dorotea, from the first part, plays this trope perfectly straight. At the second part, this trope will be parodied and deconstructed

** [[No Name Given|The daughter of Don Pedro de la Llana]] parodies this trope showing us will use it in [[Real Life]]: [[The Ingenue]] who has been in a [[Gilded Cage]] all his life and asked his brother to show her the world… that is, the little town they live… at night. Justified because she is [[Just a Kid]] who has lived in a [[Gilded Cage]] and really doesn’t know better.

** [[The Exile]] Ana Felix deconstructs this trope: Fleeing for Spain for having muslim fathers, she enters Algiers, where the King blackmails her to steal his family treasure hidden in Spain. So she wears man’s clothes to come back with the King’s soldiers and mislead the Spanish authorities.

* [[Take That]]: '''AND HOW!''' Cervantes uses his book to attack several people and institutions of the XVII century, always in a funny manner:

*** The first advice of his friend is [[Dan Browned|to make himself (Cervantes) the commendatory verses, and then claim they were made from some famous or powerful characters of his time, even claiming that some of them were famous poets]], when [[Did Not Do the Research|the truth is that a lot of the powerful Spanish people of his time could not be poets, and even were illiterate]].

*** Cervantes also mocks the authors attributed to another author some famous line by way of [[Popcultural Osmosis]] (in the Spain of the 17th century), [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|despite the fact that those lines were never uttered by them]]. Cervantes’s friend mentions a line that a lot of people attributed to Horace, but this [[Shown Their Work|friend really has done the research]], so he mentions ''"or whoever said it"''.

* [[Technical Pacifist]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Pedro Perez, The priest, and Maese Nicholas, The barber. Better known as "The priest and the barber", two guys from the same town as Don Quixote, who are fond of chivalry books, like Don Quixote, and that are completely sane, unlike Don Quixote, and... well, you would not find any other personality trait in them.

'' "Try that bone on another dog," said the innkeeper; "as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool. It is a good joke for your worship to try and persuade me that everything these good books say is nonsense and lies, and they printed by the license of the Lords of the Royal Council, as if they were people who would allow such a lot of lies to be printed all together, and so many battles and enchantments that they take away one's senses."'' }}

* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: Alonso Quijano and his friends [[Those Two Guys|the curate and the barber]] were [[Fan Boy|victims of this phenomenon]] and in the very first chapter of part I we learn that they had a lot of discussions about [[Who Would Win|who had been the better knight]]... Keep in mind this book was written more than four hundred years ago!

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Several layers of this, actually.

** Lampshaded: In the very first paragraph, Don Quixote's literary portrait has the narrator NOT telling us the name of Don Quixote's town, and the narrator admits he doesn't know very well if his name was Quixada, Quesada or Quexana. For the people of the seventeen century, this was an infringement of a very well known rule of the literary portrait, and so they immediately had the real impression that the author was a liar. Also, [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the original author (Cide Hamete Benengeli) and the Translator (an anonymous moor)]] comment the text when the plot is being implausible, and the second author (Cervantes), [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|constantly remind us that this is a true history]]. All these tricks show that Cervantes clearly want the reader realizes that this tale cannot be true.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: Well, they try to.

* [[Wanting Is Better Than Having]]: Don Quixote perceives this as a [[Courtly Love|common theme for a knight and his lady]]. Part II, Chapter XXXII:

** All the first part of the novel, Sancho has ride with Don Quixote [[Standard Hero Reward|under the promise of a governorship]]. At chapter VII of the second part, Sancho demands a salary for his work. [[Genre Savvy|Don Quixote claims that he had never read a Chivalry book where a squire would get a wage and he will never disturb the ancient usage of Knight – Errantry]], so he invokes this trope telling Sancho:

* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]: The last chapters of the First Part are dedicated to solve a [[Romantic Plot Tumor]], reading a [[Show Within a Show|Novel Within A Novel named ''"The Ill-Advised Curiosity"'']] and to [[Forgotten Trope|hear the tale of the Captive Captain]], leaving Don Quixote as a mere spectator in his own book. In the Second Part In the Second Part Cervantes makes a [[Author's Saving Throw]] when Don Quixote opines:

* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: First line: "In a village of La Mancha the name of which I have no desire to recall." It's even lampshaded in the very last chapter: Part II, chapter 74: '' "Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer".''

** Which, guess what, is what happened.

** Well, it is where the word 'quixotic' comes from...

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: All over the place in the books Don Quixote reads, so naturally when reality blatantly deviates from how he imagines it, he assumes that enchanters are behind it.

** Much more literally, when the priest and the barber burn Don Quixote's books, they tell him that a wizard stole them. Don Quixote goes off to find the wizard.

"It is not something to eat," replied Sancho, "[[Buffy-Speak|but something to govern and rule]], and better than four cities or four judgeships at court." }}

* [[You Watch Too Much X]]: Even when Quixote could be the [[Ur Example]] and [[Trope Maker]] for this trope, in the novel this is a [[Unbuilt Trope]]: the [[Stock Phrase]] never appears in the novel, and Don Quixote is not [[Genre Savvy]] but [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: When in some situation Don Quixote comments about how similar situation have happened in the tales he has read in his chivalry books , the people hearing him don’t answer with “You read too much X”. Even so, there are some examples that are very near to this situation, and the fact that Don Quixote read too much and that drove him to believe that he was a knight errand is the core of the novel, and is lampshaded by the narrator since the very beginning (Chapter I Part I).

 

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