For Whom the Bell Tolls: Difference between revisions

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* [[Blood Knight]]; [[Axe Crazy]]: The anarchists are portrayed this way from the perspective of the main characters.

* {{spoiler|[[Bolivian Army Ending]]}}

* [[Changed My Mind Kid]]: {{spoiler|Pablo}}.

* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: {{spoiler|Pablo}}.

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|El Sordo and his men}}.

* [[Eagle Squadron]]: The many foreigners who come to fight on both sides in the Civil War, Robert Jordan being one of them.

* [[Fourth Date Marriage]]: Robert Jordan plans to marry Maria after only knowing him for a few days.

* [[Full Name Basis]]: Robert Jordan is almost always referred to by his full name by the narrator.

* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Robert Jordan is almost always referred to by his full name by the narrator.

* [[Go On Without Me]]: {{spoiler|Robert Jordan}}, after being immobilised, decides to stay and [[Taking You With Me|kill as many enemies as he can]].

* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: While the Republicans are generally portrayed more sympathetically, neither side is generally shown in a very positive light, especially when it comes to the leadership. Atrocities are committed by both sides. Some of the individual soldiers in the Nationalist army are shown to be just regular people rather than villainous lackeys.

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* [[Meaningful Name]]: El Sordo's nickname literally means "The Deaf One".

* [[Mistaken Nationality]]: Robert Jordan is usually called "Inglés" by his comrades, though he's American.

* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: The partisans [[Cluster F Bomb|curse like sailors]], but the reader is inevitably given a sanitised version of the relevant words and phrases, like "muck", "unnameable" or "obscenity". This leads to many bizarre [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]] like "I obscenity in the milk". There are also some [[Bilingual Bonus|untranslated]] Spanish swear words left in the text.

* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]]: The partisans [[Cluster F-Bomb|curse like sailors]], but the reader is inevitably given a sanitised version of the relevant words and phrases, like "muck", "unnameable" or "obscenity". This leads to many bizarre [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]] like "I obscenity in the milk". There are also some [[Bilingual Bonus|untranslated]] Spanish swear words left in the text.

* [[Snow Means Death]]: Specifically, the unexpected snowfall means that certain characters end up being tracked by the footprints they leave, with deadly consequences.

* [[Team Mom]]: Pilar.