One Hundred Years of Solitude: Difference between revisions

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Melquíades. Twice.}}

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Colonel Aureliano Buendía.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Mauricio is the [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], Meme is the Type B [[Tsundere]]. [[Tear Jerker|It ends in tragedy]].

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|José Arcadio saves Colonel Aureliano Buendía from the firing squad.}}

* [[Broken Bird]]: Amaranta (starting, but not ending, with her rivalry with Rebeca over Pietro Crespi). Meme after {{spoiler|losing Mauricio Babilonia.}}

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]] and [[Parental Incest]]: Or incest in general. One of the biggest driving plot forces is to ''keep'' these from happening. {{spoiler|Rebeca and José Arcadio marry, but Rebeca is adopted and a child of distant relatives}}. {{spoiler|Incest happens anyway, in the end, between an aunt and nephew with the same blood. They actually don't know it until the very end, when she's dead and he's the last one standing.}}

* [[Building of Adventure]]: After the rains, when all the action is centered in or around the now-decrepit Buendía mansion.

* [[Call Back]]: Jose Arcadio Buendía discovers a Spanish galleon during one of his expeditions. It shows up every now and then as the generations pass.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Pietro Crespi.

* [[Death by Childbirth]]: In a variation, little Remedios dies after a terrible miscarriage. {{spoiler|Played straight with Amaranta Úrsula.}}

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Melquíades.

* [[Death Seeker]]: Played with in the case of {{spoiler|Colonel Aureliano. He isn't actively seeking death, just waiting for the right time to die.}}

* [[Determinator]]: José Arcadio Buendía. His sheer inability to give up on one mad dream after another results in the foundation of Macondo and drives the plot for the first several chapters of the book.

* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Amaranta and Rebeca.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Amaranta's burnt hand.

* [[Happily Adopted]]: Aureliano Babilonia ''thinks'' he's this. This is what leads him to {{spoiler|have relations with Amaranta Úrsula, setting off the events that culminate in [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|the end of Macondo and the Buendía family.]]}}

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Subverted by Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Through the war's course he becomes increasingly cold and cruel, and one of his subordinates and personal friend even lampshades it, but he ends up becoming an apathetic [[Hikikomori]] making gold fish.}}

*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: of course you did. Úrsula was the leader of the clan, after she died the Buendias quickly fell into decadence and the last survivors were just ghosts of their former glory.

* [[Lolicon]]: See [[Wife Husbandry]].

* [[Mad Dreamer]]: José Arcadio Buendía, who devolves into a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in his old age.

* [[Magic Realism]]: This ''is'' a Gabriel García Márquez novel, after all.

* [[Rape Is Love]]: {{spoiler|When Aureliano Babilonia rapes Amaranta Úrsula}}. This is also how Pilar Ternera lost her virginity, and which made her join the caravan that founded Macondo in the first place.

* [[Redemption in the Rain]]: ''The whole town''. Not that it helps, anyway.

* [[Roma]]: Several. Melquíades eventually becomes a permanent fixture in the house after he comes [[Back From the Dead]]. {{spoiler|Then he dies ''again'', then comes back again, then just [[What Happened to the Mouse?|sort of vanishes…]]}}

* [[Scars Are Forever]]: {{spoiler|Amaranta, who burns her own hand as self-punishment for Pietro Crespi's suicide.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: To some earlier stories by Márquez, such as ''Big Mama's Funeral''.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] / [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Any pair of brothers named José Arcadio and Aureliano. Reversed with the Segundos.

* [[So Beautiful, It's A Curse]]: Remedios The Beauty, albeit the curse part is less for her and more for the people ''around'' her.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Meme by Aureliano Segundo, who lets her fish money right out of his pocket.

* [[Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism]]

** Played with in the third and fourth generations of the Buendía family. While Arcadio and Aureliano José each take after their fathers (José Arcadio and Aureliano, respectively), Arcadio's sons Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo take on the opposite personalities from what their names indicate. See [[Twin Switch]].

* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Little Remedios and Remedios the Beauty.}}

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Amaranta's black bandage.