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* [[Historical Domain Character]]: Lots of them.
* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Alatriste.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: ''The Sun over Breda'' has one about how [[wikipedia:The Surrender of Breda|this painting]] was made (and why Alatriste ''does not'' appear on it).<ref>Except that theThe fourth page of the first book remarks that Alatriste ''is'' in the painting; he's one of the men behind the horse. PerhapsAn he[[Literary Agent Hypothesis|"editor's thenote"]] almost-completely-hiddenin fellow''The whoseSun noseOver looksBreda'' asstates ifthat it'sthe practicallyimage touchingof Alatriste was evidently removed from the saddlepainting at some time after Íñigo last saw it. That'sThis certainlyseems ato have been part of an attempt to make Alatriste Badassan Mustache[[Unperson]].</ref>
* [[Homage Shot]]: In the movie, the scene of the surrender of Breda is modelled after Velazquez's famous painting.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Many, many times.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: ShwasbucklersSwashbucklers use their cape both as a weapon (throwing it over the opponent's sword to destabilize him or over his head) and as a shield. This is historically accurate.
* [[It Got Worse]]: The movie is one long series of misfortunes for Alatriste and just about everybody connected with him.
* [[King Incognito]]: The point over what two of the books revolve {{spoiler|The Englishman that Alatriste is hired to kill in ''Captain Alatriste'' is the Prince of Walles and future king Charles I of England travelling in disguise, and Alatriste's rival for the actress' love in ''The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet'' is none other but Philip IV of Spain.}}
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