The Tudors: Difference between revisions

* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: While the series has a deserved reputation for playing fast and loose with history, some of the more outrageous events depicted are historically accurate. An example would be the Field of Cloth of Gold summit in the 2nd episode, where Francis really did beat Henry in an impromptu wrestling match, spoiling the English king's mood for the rest of the conference.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Tons of them. Hardly any actually work out. If it ''does'' work out, it doesn't last long.

** The Portuguese lines delivered in the scene with Margaret's husband are spoken fairly accurately, in the proper European Portuguese accent. They fail to take into account the archaic Portuguese of the time (which sounds more like Brazilian Portuguese), but then again the English spoken is hardly "period". The entire scene, incidentally, depicts events that never actually happened; Margaret was married off to the King of Scotland, while Henry's other sister - ''Mary'', the one who actually married {{spoiler|the Duke of Suffolk}} - was married off to an elderly French king, father-in-law of ''Francis I''.

* [[Ass in Ambassador]]: Henry wants to meet a couple of French ladies so he can inspect them before he decides to marry them. The French ambassador then jokes to Henry that he tries them all out before making a choice. Clearly he was unaware about what kind of man Henry was because [[Berserk Button|hilarity does not ensue]].

* [[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.

* {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest]]}}: Sorta kinda technically maybe ''perhaps''.

* [[Brother-Sister Team]]: Anne and George Boleyn.

* [[Culture Clash]]: Cleves and England.

* [[Dances and Balls]]: A ''lot'' of them.

* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Charles Brandon with {{spoiler|Thomas Darcy}} in Pontefract Castle. Also Henry with Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour in the last episode.

* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: Thomas Moore. Katherine of Aragon. The peasant revolutionaries, just to name a few based on their portrayals in the show.

** Four. Cate Parr did live another year after Henry.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Francis Bryan, whose many talents include assassination, politics, seduction and poetry.

** Kitty's request is [[Truth in Television]], which makes it deeply unsettling. Although you do have to wonder if she really decided to try it out while totally naked...

** Subverted with Thomas Cromwell - not only is he reduced to a sobbing wreck, faced with a jeering crowd, but it takes five shots to actually kill him.

* [[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]]

** IMHO, Sir Richard Rich and Thomas Wriothesley definitely count, too. What about two of the most self-serving and treacherous bastards in this show, persecuting their former fellow Protestants and torturing Anne Askew, in a most vile and inhumane manner? The punishment for both of them is...let's see...Uh, right, getting promoted to even higher ranks. (According to Henry's testament, Wriothesley will be, next to Cranmer, the highest minister under the Procterate of Somerset. That he will be Seymour's underdog and under his constant watch helps a bit, at least. Well, and Rich will also not only keep his head, but prosper, making it even into the reign of Queen Elizabeth, being considered to be a respectable and trustworthy person by all.)

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: {{spoiler|Quite a bunch of people did this to Thomas Cromwell.}}

* [[Licensed Game]]: [http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/6536/the-tudors/index.html?src=frmtrygame&osdetect=true For the PC.]

* [[Love Ruins the Realm]]: Henry goes very far to be able to marry Anne Boleyn.

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

** And Mary Tudor in the season 4 trailer.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Surrey, when {{spoiler|he is told the king refuses him an audience. Before that he still has the confidence he can set matters right by talking to him}}

** Similarly, the Bishop.

* [[Requisite Royal Regalia]]

* [[The Renaissance]]

** And his nephew, who's probably about ten.

* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: Henry produces a fine example when he designs Nonsuch Palace in solitude after Jane Seymour's death.