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** Though the Holy Office per se only had direct jurisdiction over the Italian peninsula at most The Holy Office reported directly to the Pope, while the well-known Spanish office, as said above, reported to El Escorial first.
* One of the main reasons for the villain status of the Inquisition: Their host country was nearly continually at war with primarily Protestant nations such as England and the Netherlands, where printing presses and popular literature were much more common. This meant that at the beginning they criticized the Spanish Inquisition's poor job on executions and conversions. When the Inquisition became a bit harsher, they went [[Berserk Button|apeshit]] and exaggerated its reputation of being a blood-thirsty organization. Some modern-day Spaniards refer to this as the "Black Legend."
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{{examples|The Spanish Inquisition in fiction:}}
* The classic film ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' is the story of [[Don Quixote]] as told by Miguel de Cervantes to a group of inmates while
* One episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has a [[Running Gag]] where a frustrated character would grumble, "I didn't expect some kind of/this kind of/the Spanish Inquisition!" After a "jarring chord," several anachronistic Spanish Inquisitors would burst in and seize control of the skit.
* A ''[[Batman]]'' episode actually plays a version of the famous [[Monty Python]] sketch completely straight.
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