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* [[Arc Words]]: ''Am I complete?''

* [[Beauty to Beast]]: {{spoiler|Robert's wife was burned to within an inch to her life in a car crash. She was disfigured horribly, and Robert and the mansion's staff removed all mirrors when she regained consciousness for fear of her reaction}}. It worked, for a while... {{spoiler|until she caught her reflection on a window pane}}.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Vicente has had his revenge against Robert and managed to escape the mansion he was confined into, but he is now physically a woman.}}

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: There is not one innocent party in the plot, except {{spoiler|Vicente's mom}}.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Yoga {{spoiler|it helps Vicente with keeping his self despite the radical changes his body has suffered}}, the head sculptures Vera makes {{spoiler|which are identical to the one Vicente left unfinished before getting kidnapped}} and a woman's dress {{spoiler|which helps him with convincing his friend who he actually is}}.

* [[Creepy Housekeeper]]: Marilia.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Norma, when {{spoiler|Vicente rapes her (even if there was no penetration, it had the same effect)}}. Robert, when {{spoiler|Norma kills herself}}. Finally, {{spoiler|Vicente, after seeing the results of the gender-reassignment surgery}}.

* [[Determinator]]: Vicente's mother, and {{spoiler|Vicente himself, who hung on to his personality and the hope of release for over ''six years'' of forced gender-reassignment treatments}}.

* {{spoiler|[[The Dog Bites Back]]:}} Vera {{spoiler|/Vicente}} {{spoiler|killing Robert}} at the end of the movie.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Vicente makes (harmless and pointless) passes at Cristina, his lesbian coworker, and he's quite attractive to Norma and her teenage friends.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Marilia knew full well what kind of man Zeca was, and she knew that Robert didn't want anyone coming anywhere ''near'' Vera, yet she {{spoiler|allowed him into the mansion with hardly a complaint}}. Robert giving Vera {{spoiler|his wife's face}} when he had absolutely no reason to was even ''worse''.

* [[I Lied]]: Vera says this to Robert as she {{spoiler|/he}} is about to {{spoiler|shoot him}}.

* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: And ''how''.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Robert.

* [[Near-Rape Experience]]/[[Date Rape Averted]]: {{spoiler|Vicente to Norma. It's only after he slaps her unconscious (she kept crying and screaming "No!") that he realizes what he's doing and redresses her as best as he can, but he still leaves her lying there in the garden for Robert to find}}.

* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|Vicente's mother}} invokes this when {{spoiler|his motorcycle is found (planted by Robert) crashed at the bottom of a cliff}}. Possibly, it happens ''literally'' with {{spoiler|Zeca, since the only people who know where he was buried are killed}}.

* [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]: Robert's breakthroughs in artificial skin are hailed as nigh-miraculous, until he confides with his superiors that he's using transgenic material from pigs (the animal with tissues closest to humans') to manufacture it. He's immediately chastised for it, since not only is it ''illegal'' and banned by the European scientific community, but because it's "unethical."

** Compounded further when {{spoiler|a trusted colleague and friend discovers that}} Robert is using a human guinea pig (Vera) for his research, and not mice as he claimed to the medical board. But since said guinea pig {{spoiler|is a kidnapped, transgendered Vicente}}, the "transgenic research is banned" part is just a tiny cherry on top of a bigger scientific blasphemy sundae.

* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: Vera invokes this {{spoiler|to be recognized as "Vicente" by Cristina, his mother's assistant}}.

* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: Vera's room in the mansion. A [[Gilded Cage]] it may be, catering to her needs and requests, but it's still custom-made to prevent her escape {{spoiler|or suicide}}.