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* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Joaquín Balaguer. The man started as a puppet of Trujillo, with no power whatsoever. After his murder, he calmly keeps things moving while he makes strong allies to avoid a possible coup. After a while, he effectively becomes the president, gaining admiration from other world leaders and expelling Trujillo’s family from the island to keep them away.}} In [[Real Life]], he actually became president two more times, the third when he was over 90 and completely blind; not to mention that he ended becoming a dictator very much like Trujillo before him.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Joaquín Balaguer. The man started as a puppet of Trujillo, with no power whatsoever. After his murder, he calmly keeps things moving while he makes strong allies to avoid a possible coup. After a while, he effectively becomes the president, gaining admiration from other world leaders and expelling Trujillo’s family from the island to keep them away.}} In [[Real Life]], he actually became president two more times, the third when he was over 90 and completely blind; not to mention that he ended becoming a dictator very much like Trujillo before him.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The SIM’s specialty.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The SIM’s specialty.
* [[Defiant to The End]]: {{spoiler|Tunti Cáceres takes his time to insult Ramfis before being executed.}}
* [[Defiant to the End]]: {{spoiler|Tunti Cáceres takes his time to insult Ramfis before being executed.}}
* [[Egopolis]]: Starting with the fact that the capital was renamed Ciudad Trujillo, not to mentions the ''hundreds'' of streets and places named by his family.
* [[Egopolis]]: Starting with the fact that the capital was renamed Ciudad Trujillo, not to mentions the ''hundreds'' of streets and places named by his family.
* [[Electric Torture]]
* [[Electric Torture]]
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Trujillo.
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Trujillo.
* [[Eye Scream]]: There’s no need to elaborate what Ramfis and Abbes’ lackeys do with {{spoiler|‘Pupo’ Román’s}} eyes. [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|Seriously]].
* [[Eye Scream]]: There’s no need to elaborate what Ramfis and Abbes’ lackeys do with {{spoiler|‘Pupo’ Román’s}} eyes. [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|Seriously]].
* [[Face Death With Dignity]]: {{spoiler|The Turk.}}
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: {{spoiler|The Turk.}}
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Johnny Abbes.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Johnny Abbes.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The conspirators consider torture this, since they know they’ll be killed afterwards anyway. {{spoiler|They’re right.}}
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The conspirators consider torture this, since they know they’ll be killed afterwards anyway. {{spoiler|They’re right.}}
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* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Balaguer.
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Balaguer.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Abbes. Balanguer once found him laughing with a book about chinese torture.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Abbes. Balanguer once found him laughing with a book about chinese torture.
* [[Revenge By Proxy]] / [[Sins of Our Fathers]]: When Trujillo’s family starts chasing the conspirators, suddenly all their families become fair game.
* [[Revenge by Proxy]] / [[Sins of Our Fathers]]: When Trujillo’s family starts chasing the conspirators, suddenly all their families become fair game.
* [[Room 101]]: The different torture centers.
* [[Room 101]]: The different torture centers.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: It must have felt that way for most of the conspirators. {{spoiler|They killed the dictator, waiting to see a transition to democracy}}; instead of that, {{spoiler|Trujillo’s followers went on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against anyone even suspected of being anti-Trujillist. Most of them end up dead.}}
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: It must have felt that way for most of the conspirators. {{spoiler|They killed the dictator, waiting to see a transition to democracy}}; instead of that, {{spoiler|Trujillo’s followers went on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against anyone even suspected of being anti-Trujillist. Most of them end up dead.}}
** Then there's Urania's story {{spoiler|or rather her father's actions. He's suddenly in Trujillo's black list and is suddenly losing power and his assets frozen. Some friends, and part of the book, say that Trujillo is just testing his loyalty as he tended to do at times. Cabral then serves up young Urania for Trujillo to bed in hopes of staying in favor with him. Turns out Trujillo, in spite of him not being able to get it up, was about to give everything back to Cabral he's then assassinated.}} Leaving Cabral quite poor AND a daughter who hates him.
** Then there's Urania's story {{spoiler|or rather her father's actions. He's suddenly in Trujillo's black list and is suddenly losing power and his assets frozen. Some friends, and part of the book, say that Trujillo is just testing his loyalty as he tended to do at times. Cabral then serves up young Urania for Trujillo to bed in hopes of staying in favor with him. Turns out Trujillo, in spite of him not being able to get it up, was about to give everything back to Cabral he's then assassinated.}} Leaving Cabral quite poor AND a daughter who hates him.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Ramfis Trujillo.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Ramfis Trujillo.
* [[Suicide By Cop]]: {{spoiler|Antonio de la Maza, Juan Tomás Díaz and Amador García Guerrero.}}
* [[Suicide by Cop]]: {{spoiler|Antonio de la Maza, Juan Tomás Díaz and Amador García Guerrero.}}
* [[Torture Cellar]]
* [[Torture Cellar]]
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Urania. She wonders the same thing.
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Urania. She wonders the same thing.
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