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{{quote|''I swear to you that, each night, there will be one less Roman in Hispania!''|'''Viriato''' in the first chapter.}}

 

 

The series proper starts with the attack to one town where the people are celebrating the wedding between Paulo and Nerea. The Romans kill several people and imprison many more to sell them as slaves, amongst them Nerea, who is taken away while Paulo can't do anything but watch as the Romans do so.

 

 

When Teodoro goes to tell Galba that the Hispanian people are willing to make a deal with him, Galba says that if the men of Hispania go to a certain plain and give out all of their weapons, he will stop making war with them. Viriato, and many others with him - his brother-in-law Sandro one of them - go to the designated place, because they don't want war. Altea comes with her father, and he relents. However, everything is a trap: when the Hispanians give their weapons, Roman troops surround them and start a massacre. Few people survive: Viriato fell to the ground, injured, and the last thing he saw was her daughter being corralled by the Romans. Believing her to be dead, Viriato swears a [[Blood Oath]] to fight the Romans as revenge for what they have done to his people and, especially, his daughter.

* [[Action Girl]]: Nerea is one starting from season 2.

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: in the second-to-last episode, the rebels' refuge is found by the Romans.

* [[Annoying Arrows]]: Paulo manages to survive an arrow that goes through him but becomes stuck, and decides to break off the shaft twice. This becomes quite painful for him.

* [[Badass Spaniard]]: Viriato. It might actually be Badass Portuguese, considering that Lusitania consists of modern Portugal and western Spain, but he nonetheless qualifies with his role.

* [[Battle Couple]]: Paulo and Nerea.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: {{spoiler|after Nerea dies in the arms of Paulo, her ghost guides him out of the Roman camp.}}

* [[Double Agent]]: Héctor's lies and deals with other people backfire in several ways, and he ends up having to join the Roman army as a mercenary, which later Viriato thinks it'll be useful to get information from the Roman camp.

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: pretty much all the boys, those short tunics don't leave much to the imagination.

* [[Fetish Fuel]]: Ana de Armas is a slave? Where does one sign to get that?

* [[Five-Man Band]]: the initial group of rebels that Viriato manages to make in the first episodes.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Viriato suffers this when his sister Bárbara commits suicide. It takes a dream with his first wife, his sister and his daughter to go back.

** Paulo suffers one when {{spoiler|Nerea dies.}}

** Hospital Central's psychiatrist makes a Face Heel Turn from a nice guy to a Complete Monster.

** [[El Internado|Carolina]] becomes engaged to [[El Bola]] but then is captured and taken as a slave by Dani from LEX (unrelated to [[Lexx]]). She marries his fiancé after he rescues her.

** Héctor. A couple of times, he goes to the Romans, because he believes that they are going to win and would like to save his skin. Doesn't work when he gets crucified. During the second season, he becomes a mole for the Hispanians when he enrols as a mercenary in the Roman army.

* [[Mooks]]: the Roman soldiers.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Sandro is prone to have this. The biggest one: when he learns that Teodoro told the Romans about Barbara (his wife and Viriato's sister).

* [[Rule of Cool]]: the writers have acknowledged that the Roman uniform wasn't standard, because the soldiers had to pay for their uniforms, but they have all Romans wear the same armour for this reason.

* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: somewhat averted with a shot where Viriato and Helena are having sex.

** Viriato and Helena. The only reason she was about to marry Alejo was because her father was ruined.

** Averted with Galba and Claudia. Galba sleeps whenever he wants with Sabina and is attempting to have sex with Nerea, while Claudia seems interested in Viriato and, in the middle of the series, manages to seduce Marco.

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: The second season's last episode announced that a character would die. {{spoiler|Nerea is killed by Marco.}}

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: When the rebels manage to steal several sacks of wheat, Viriato asks them how they got them. The circumstances (the Romans were going away from the camp, there were very few soldiers) makes him realise that the wheat is poisoned. [[Tear Jerker|It comes too late for a family they had given some of the wheat to, though]].

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