The Tudors: Difference between revisions

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: All of the prayers and religious ceremonies are conducted in historically-accurate Latin.

** Although with such horrible pronounciation that it's barely understandable.

* [[Blame Game]]

* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Katherine Howard is a giggly teenage airhead totally out of her depth in court.

** Mary Boleyn also fits this category.

* [[Bring It]]: "And what if he does not?"

* [[Brother Chuck]]: The duke of Norfolk, Anthony Knivert and Thomas Tallis after season 1, though Norfolk is mentioned once in season 2.

** Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury is similarly given a single mention in season 3, although as noted above, historically he should have played a ''huge'' role in season 4.

* [[Heir Club for Men]]: The whole reason why Henry had six wives. Extremely ironic when you know that both his daughters not only got to be queens regnant but also were both competent rulers and are remembered to this day.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Henry, when {{spoiler|his wife Jane Seymour dies of childbed fever after giving birth to Prince Edward}}.

** Also happens with more prominent members of the cast...Wolsey, for example, is [[Jurassic Park|Dr. Grant]].

** Katherine Parr is [[King Ralph|Princess Anna]]

* [[The Mistress]]: Charles Brandon has an official one!

* [[Mythology Gag]]: A [[Real Life]] example - in a scene in series one, Henry is seen composing 'Greensleeves' for Anne Boleyn, though it is now believed that the tune was composed in the Elizabethan era.

** Played straight with Charles Brandon and Princess Margaret.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Anne of Cleves. Henry has his moments too. As does Katherine of Aragon.

** George Boleyn presents a cruel twist on this. He is an arrogant prick who {{spoiler|rapes his own wife on their wedding night}}, but his one sympathetic quality is that he seems to genuinely care about his sister Anne's well-being, as opposed to their father who very clearly sees her as nothing more than a political pawn. Yet his one sympathetic quality results directly in his downfall and death, when his close relationship with his sister is twisted into an accusation of incest for which he is tried and executed.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]

* [[Rags to Royalty]]: Cinderella style, but subverted. Anne Boleyn gets there mostly by ''pretending'' to be pure-hearted.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: Other characters, but Henry had many extramarital affairs. To date, he has 32 living descendants that we know of.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Anne of Cleves, now that she's no longer queen and doesn't have to worry about being executed for failing to give Henry a son, has cheered up considerably. {{spoiler|Ironically, this new side of her might have made Henry start to wish he'd consummated their marriage after all.}}

** In season four, {{spoiler|Henry finally does sleep with her. Yes, he's married again by that time.}}

** [[Macbeth]]: Brandon seeing Lord Darcy's ghost during a feast at Pontefract Castle.

** [[American Beauty]]: Catherine Howard's fondness for rose petals.

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