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** The last two episodes of Season 1 show Lucrezia to be either a [[Magnificent Bitch]] or a [[Guile Hero]].

** The three of them each have subtley different takes on this trope. Rodrigo is at his best with one-on-one manipulation and charm. Cesare is mainly [[The Strategist]] and prefers to cleverly outwit the enemy rather than manipulate him. Lucrezia relies mainly on personal magnetism and an innocent persona that is only partly an act.

** Any meme associated with [[Troll|trolling]] already and then put in conjunction with Juan. Hell, his nickname is "Juantroll".

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]

** Cesare's candidates: He ordered the murder of an innocent bystander in order to save his father's political career. Building a relationship with Ursula completely around lies, then killing her husband. {{spoiler|The ruthless torture of French soldiers, and lastly, the murder of Giovanni Sforza}}, though we hardly mourn for either. .

** And now, {{spoiler|Ursula is dead too. Since she's regarded as [[The Scrappy]] by most people, it's unlikely anyone will be too upset by this, even though Cesare all but lampshades the fact that her role was to make him more ruthless; "[her death] has released my heart of all emotions but one: vengeance".}}

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: The murder of {{spoiler|Paolo is more or less resolved in logical but very undramatic fashion in the first fifteen minutes of the episode following. Lucrezia remembers Paolo did not read or write and couldn't sign his name, much less leave a suicide note; she knows of only three people who even possibly knew about them and two of them, if not in favor, were at least accepting; and the third reacted violently to even the possiblity. She mentions Juan to Rodrigo, who confronts him with Cesare and their mother, and Juan admits it, because he's ''proud'' of "defending her honor".}}

 

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