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** Don't insult William's {{spoiler|late}} mother in front of him.
** Robert is the most even-tempered man imaginable until {{spoiler|his [[Daddy's Girl|youngest daughter]] gets herself involved in political riots}}.
** Anna {{spoiler|flatly refuses to have "no proper place" in Mr. Bates' life when Vera's final scheme takes effect, and orders him to marry her despite his protests. He doesn't want to drag her into his troubles, but she swears that they "will face [this crisis] as man and wife" and finally lays down the law}}.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Anna/Bates and Sybil/{{spoiler|Branson}}.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: And how. The real Highclere Castle has a starring role as Downton Abbey.
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** Sybil had one. We didn't see it.
** The Servants' Ball in the Christmas Special.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Series two, due to it being set largely during [[World War
* [[Dark Secret]]: Mary, Bates, O'Brien. Mr. Carson's is really more of a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] because no one cares about it as much as he does. More of these will probably be revealed for other characters as the show progresses.
* [[Dashed Plotline]]: Each season is stretched over two or three years.
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* [[Don't Split Us Up]]: Ethel's reaction when Major Bryant's parents ask her to let them adopt her baby and walk out of his life. {{spoiler|She refuses}}.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Bates to Anna.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Why hello there, [[World War
* [[Drama Bomb Finale]]: [[Foregone Conclusion]] though it might be, it doesn't get much more dramatic than the outbreak of [[World War
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Cora, Anna, and Mary carry a naked dead body from one end of the house to the other, by themselves, and without anyone noticing (except Daisy). The following day, after the body has been discovered, Lord Grantham worries about the ladies and female servants' state of mind. After all:
{{quote|''"We must have a care for feminine sensibilities. They are finer and more fragile than our own."''}}
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Vera}}, apparently with {{spoiler|[[Divorce Requires Death|arsenic bought by Bates]]}}, no less.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Kemal Pamuk just... dies, for no apparent reason, after spending the night with Mary}}.
* [[The Edwardian Era]]: Even though Edward VII's successor George V is king during the show's setting, [[The Edwardian Era]] is generally accepted as lasting until the outbreak of [[World War
▲* [[The Edwardian Era]]: Even though Edward VII's successor George V is king during the show's setting, [[The Edwardian Era]] is generally accepted as lasting until the outbreak of [[World War One]] in 1914.
* [[The Eeyore]]: Mr. Carson.
* [[Endangered
* [[Enforced Cold War]]: Thomas and O'Brien vs. the rest of the servants.
* [[Ensemble Cast]]
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* [[Hello, Attorney!]]: Matthew.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Branson and Sybil are prevented from {{spoiler|eloping when Mary and Edith, who he taught to drive, chase after them in the car}}.
* [[Holding Hands]]: {{spoiler|Sybil and Branson have a bit of a moment with this in Episode 7}}.
** And again in Series 2 Episode 8, {{spoiler|after Robert gives his consent to their marriage}}.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Poor Molesley. He's got no chance with Anna, considering how desperately she loves Mr. Bates.
* [[Hope Spot]]:
** Cora {{spoiler|getting pregnant... and then ''losing the baby''. And then finding out that it was a ''boy''}}.
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* [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time]]
* [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]]: Mary and Pamuk. He knows what he's doing, and whatever she might say afterwards about lovers and her choice, he took total psychological control in that situation. It was rape the moment he entered her room.
* [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies]]: Mr. Bates to Anna. {{spoiler|She essentially tells him where he can shove it, and they get married anyway as she refuses to have no legal standing in his life, whatever happens}}.
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: "... About as likely as war breaking out." [[Foregone Conclusion|And the viewership winced as one.]]
** When someone asks Mrs. Hughes what she'll do if the family sells the estate she brushes the possibility off, saying "What if there's a tidal wave? What if there's a [[wikipedia:1918 flu pandemic|plague]]? What if there's a [[wikipedia:World war i|war]]?"
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** O'Brien: she caused {{spoiler|Cora's miscarriage}}, informed Edith about {{spoiler|Kamal Pamuk}} creating a problem that reverberates throughout Mary's life, narced on Bates creating another avenue for the {{spoiler|Pamuk}} scandal to potentially ruin Mary's life, along with hurting Bates and Anna, caused various smaller problems and NOTHING has happened to her. NOTHING!
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|William. Lavinia. Vera Bates}}.
* [[Kindly Housekeeper]]: Mrs. Hughes.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Second cousins Mary and Patrick were informally engaged, though they [[Arranged Marriage|didn't have much say in it]]; Edith was in love with Patrick as well. Mary and Matthew are fourth cousins.
* [[Lady in Red]]: Lady Mary.
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* [[Shot At Dawn]]: The fate of {{spoiler|Mrs. Patmore's nephew, for cowardice}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Matthew remarks that "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131227022455/http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/cat.htm I am the cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me]" -- a reference to one of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]''.
** In the Christmas Special Mary {{spoiler|compares herself and Matthew to [[Tess of the D'Urbervilles|Tess Durbeyfield and Angel Clare]]}}.
* [[Shown Their Work]]/[[Truth in Television]]:
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: The penultimate episode of Series 2 - where to ''start''? {{spoiler|Richard tries to pay Anna to spy on Mary, Carson finds out and refuses to work for him; Matthew [[Throwing Off the Disability|gets almost total use of his legs back]] over the course of about ten minutes, and Violet wastes no time in trying to set him back up with Mary; Ethel bursts in on dinner to present her lovechild to its grandparents; Bates reveals he bought the rat poison his wife killed herself with; Thomas invests all his money in a black market business and gets screwed over; Sybil elopes with Branson and her sisters chase her down and bring her back to the house}}. ''[Deep breath]''. ''Think'' that about covers it.
* [[Wham! Line]]: Even if you knew this was coming, the last line from the first series changes everything:
{{quote|'''Robert''': I am sorry to announce that we are [[World War
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** Matthew's initial treatment of Moseley.
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* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Mr. Bates and Anna, Matthew and Mary, Branson and Sybil, {{spoiler|Robert and Jane}}.
** Answers so far, in order: {{spoiler|[[They Do]]... if Bates ever gets out}}, {{spoiler|[[They Do]]}}, {{spoiler|[[They Do]]}}, and {{spoiler|They Don't}}.
* [[World War
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Basically all of [[The Chew Toy|Molesley's]] subplots.
* [[You Didn't Ask]]: Bates. Word for word.
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