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* BedTrick:
** Arcadio Buendía is fascinated by Pilar Ternera but he's the only Buendía son that she refuses to sleep with, [[spoiler:since she's his ''[[ParentalIncest mother]]'' but Arcadio [[LockedOutofTheLoop doesn't know that]]]]. Pilar tells him to wait for her in his room one night, but the one who actually goes is a local girl named [[spoiler:Santa Sofia de la Piedad]], whom Pilar paid so she would take her place. Arcadio realizes the deal when she slips into his hammock, but goes along with it anyway; [[spoiler:from then on, they stay together and, when Arcadio is executed, Santa Sofia and her children by Arcadio (a daughter and the twin boys she's pregnant with) are taken in by the Buendia family.]]
** Twenty-something years later, HookerWithAHeartOfGold Petra Cotes sleeps with [[spoiler:Santa Sofia's twins]], Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo, mistakenly thinking they're the same guy; the deal's revealed [[spoiler:when the three contract STD's; once they get better, Aureliano Segundo takes Petra as his mistress and they stay together until his and his brother's deaths.]]

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* BedTrick:
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BedTrick: Arcadio Buendía is fascinated by Pilar Ternera but he's the only Buendía son that she refuses wants to sleep with, [[spoiler:since she's his ''[[ParentalIncest mother]]'' with Pilar Ternera, saying he knows she sleeps with everyone so she has no right to refuse, but Arcadio [[LockedOutofTheLoop Pilar is secretly Arcadio's mother and doesn't know that]]]]. Pilar tells him want to wait for her in his room one night, but the one who actually goes is a local girl named [[spoiler:Santa Sofia de la Piedad]], whom Pilar paid admit it, so she would take spends half of her place. Arcadio realizes the deal when she slips into his hammock, but goes along with it anyway; [[spoiler:from then on, they stay together and, when Arcadio is executed, money to have Santa Sofia and Sofía de la Piedad visit him in her children by Arcadio (a daughter and the twin boys she's pregnant with) are taken in by the Buendia family.]]
** Twenty-something years later, HookerWithAHeartOfGold Petra Cotes sleeps with [[spoiler:Santa Sofia's twins]], Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo, mistakenly thinking they're the same guy; the deal's revealed [[spoiler:when the three contract STD's; once they get better, Aureliano Segundo takes Petra as his mistress and they stay together until his and his brother's deaths.]]
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* FamilyExtermination: All of Colonel Aureliano's sons are killed at the same time when he threatens to arm them against the government, except for Aureliano Amador who manages to escape until he is killed much later.

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* FamilyExtermination: All of Colonel Aureliano's sons (16 in total) are killed at the same time when he threatens to arm them against the government, except for Aureliano José who was killed earlier, Aureliano Amador who manages to escape until he is killed much later.

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* BedTrick: Arcadio wants to sleep with Pilar Ternera, saying he knows she sleeps with everyone so she has no right to refuse, but Pilar is secretly Arcadio's mother and doesn't want to admit it, so she spends half of her money to have Santa Sofía de la Piedad visit him in her stead.

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* BedTrick: BedTrick:
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Arcadio wants Buendía is fascinated by Pilar Ternera but he's the only Buendía son that she refuses to sleep with Pilar Ternera, saying he knows she sleeps with everyone so she has no right to refuse, with, [[spoiler:since she's his ''[[ParentalIncest mother]]'' but Pilar is secretly Arcadio's mother and Arcadio [[LockedOutofTheLoop doesn't want know that]]]]. Pilar tells him to admit it, wait for her in his room one night, but the one who actually goes is a local girl named [[spoiler:Santa Sofia de la Piedad]], whom Pilar paid so she spends half of would take her money to have place. Arcadio realizes the deal when she slips into his hammock, but goes along with it anyway; [[spoiler:from then on, they stay together and, when Arcadio is executed, Santa Sofía de la Piedad visit him in Sofia and her stead. children by Arcadio (a daughter and the twin boys she's pregnant with) are taken in by the Buendia family.]]
** Twenty-something years later, HookerWithAHeartOfGold Petra Cotes sleeps with [[spoiler:Santa Sofia's twins]], Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo, mistakenly thinking they're the same guy; the deal's revealed [[spoiler:when the three contract STD's; once they get better, Aureliano Segundo takes Petra as his mistress and they stay together until his and his brother's deaths.]]
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* EatDirtCheap: Rebeca has a habit of eating dirt and wall plaster when she is first adopted by the Buendías. She is trained out of it picks up this habit again during times of stress.
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* KarmaHoudini: Amaranta. She first plans to kill Rebeca just to prevent her from marrying the man they both love, Pietro Crespi. She then drives the same suitor to [[DrivenToSuicide slit his wrists]] and another wastes his entire life with her cat-and-mouse EmotionlessGirl act. Oh, and then there's the fact she molests both her nephew ''and'' great-great-nephew when they are children, leading both of them to have terrible emotional problems and obsess over her their entire lives. Her only punishment? [[spoiler: Knowing she will die when she finishes weaving her own shroud.]]
** [[spoiler: The four punks who kill José Arcadio, steal all the gold coins, and are never heard from again.]]
** [[spoiler: The banana company never faces any consequences for the massacre of thousands of people.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: Amaranta. She first plans to kill Rebeca just to prevent her from marrying the man they both love, Pietro Crespi. She then drives the same suitor to [[DrivenToSuicide slit his wrists]] and another wastes his entire life with her cat-and-mouse EmotionlessGirl act. Oh, and then there's the fact she molests both her nephew ''and'' great-great-nephew when they are children, leading both of them to have terrible emotional problems and obsess over her their entire lives. Her only punishment? [[spoiler: Knowing she will die when she finishes weaving her own shroud.]]
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** [[spoiler: The four punks who kill José Arcadio, [[spoiler:José Arcadio,]] steal all the gold coins, and are never heard from again.]]
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** [[spoiler: The banana company company]] never faces any consequences for the [[spoiler:the massacre of thousands of people.]]

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* AlmightyMom: When Arcadio takes over Macondo and is killing people in violent reprisals, his grandmother/adopted mother Úrsula stands up to him, calling him out and whipping him while chasing him away. From then on she has authority in Macondo.

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* AlmightyMom: When Arcadio takes over Macondo and is killing people in violent reprisals, his grandmother/adopted mother Úrsula stands up to him, calling him out and whipping him while chasing him away. From then on she has authority in Macondo. She also later gathers the mothers of revolutionaries together to try to stop her son Colonel Aureliano Buendía from having General Moncada executed.
--> '''Úrsula''': You have taken this horrible game very seriously and you have done well because you are doing your duty. But don't forget that as long as God gives us life we will still be mothers and no matter how revolutionary you may be, we have the right to pull down your pants and give you a whipping at the first sign of disrespect.



* BedTrick: Arcadio wants to sleep with Pilar Ternera, saying he knows she sleeps with everyone so she has no right to refuse, but Pilar is secretly Arcadio's mother and doesn't want to admit it, so she spends half of her money to have Santa Sofía de la Piedad visit him in her stead.



* FullCircleRevolution: Emissaries suggest to Colonel Aureliano Buendía that he makes major concessions to the Conservatives like giving back land titles, ending the fight against the church and giving up on fighting for equal rights for illegitimate children, in order to make peace and gain popular support. Colonel Gerineldo M´rquez objects because this would mean they would be just like the conservatives and would be fighting for nothing, but Aureliano accepts the terms, having become cynical and convinced they are just fighting for power and pride anyway.



* OnlySaneMan: For most of the book, Úrsula is the most (and sometimes only) sane voice in the house. Lampshaded now and then. Santa Sofia de la Piedad is sane enough to avoid most of the conflict in the plot.

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* OnlySaneMan: For most of the book, Úrsula is the most (and sometimes only) sane voice in the house. Lampshaded now and then. Santa Sofia Sofía de la Piedad is sane enough to avoid most of the conflict in the plot.



* TwinTelepathy: When twins Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo are children, their mother gives one a glass of lemonade and the other, who had not tasted it, correctly says that it needed sugar.



* WiseBeyondTheirYears: As mentioned, Little Remedios matured ''very'' quickly after marrying Aureliano, becoming [[ProperLady a competent and cheerful homemaker]] loved by everyone. [[spoiler:Hence, why her early death hit everyone so hard.]]

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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: WiseBeyondTheirYears:
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As mentioned, Little Remedios matured ''very'' quickly after marrying Aureliano, becoming [[ProperLady a competent and cheerful homemaker]] loved by everyone. [[spoiler:Hence, why her early death hit everyone so hard.]]]]
** Aureliano Babilonia is constantly reading books in Melquíades' office and giving lectures to people about the injustices of history when he is a young child, impressing everyone.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Rebeca with José Arcadio. Ursula Amaranta with Arcadio Babilonia.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Rebeca with José Arcadio. Ursula Úrsula Amaranta with Arcadio Babilonia.Babilonia.
* AlmightyMom: When Arcadio takes over Macondo and is killing people in violent reprisals, his grandmother/adopted mother Úrsula stands up to him, calling him out and whipping him while chasing him away. From then on she has authority in Macondo.



* ApronMatron: Úrsula.

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* ApronMatron: Úrsula.Úrsula is a strong-willed matriarch who keeps the house in order and is capable of standing up to even the most willful of her family.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite the [[MagicRealism constant fanatical happenings around Macondo]], everyone looks at José Arcadio Buendía as a crank for believing he can make the Gypsies' inventions work and for his fantastical plans, and they turn out to be right about this skepticism.



* AssassinOutclassin: Colonel Aureliano Buendía manages to avoid many assassination attempts due to a combination of luck and his premonitions.



* BastardBastard: Arcadio is born of an affair between José Arcadio and Pilar Ternera, and grows up to be a murderous and tyrannical ruler of Macondo during the war.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Amaranta desperately hopes for something to delay Rebeca's wedding with Pietro Crespi so she won't feel she has to kill Rebeca. She gets her wish when Remedios dies, and she's horrified by it.



** Aureliano Segundo becomes this, to incredible degrees. In an eating contest, he eats (among many other things) a whole pig, and suffers a stroke as a result.

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** Aureliano Segundo becomes this, to incredible degrees. In an eating contest, he eats (among many other things) a whole pig, and suffers a stroke as a result. He once has an eating contest against Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume, who can eat just as much as him.



* BigFun: Aureliano Segundo is fat for most of his life and is a fun person to be around as he eats in feasts, plays the accordion and gives constant raffles.



* BrainlessBeauty: Remedios the Beauty is renowned for her incredible beauty and is also likely mentally disabled, though some are convinced she is secretly wiser than everyone.



* TheBusCameBack: José Arcadio (son of Úrsula and the original José Arcadio Blendía) leaves to join the gypsies after finding out Pilar Ternera is pregnant with his child while he is only 14 years old. He later returns, having seen much of the world and being able to regale people with many stories.



** Arcadio faces his death remarkably calmly, with the anxiety he's suffered his whole life fading away. However his last-second regret about not suggesting Remedios as a name for his daughter leads to him feeling fear again at the last moment.
** Colonel Aureliano faces his death by firing squad with dignity, though he ends up being saved in the end.



* FamilyExtermination: All of Colonel Aureliano's sons are killed at the same time when he threatens to arm them against the government, except for Aureliano Amador who manages to escape until he is killed much later.



* FreudianExcuse: Arcadio being neglected and forgotten within the family leads to him going to extreme, violent lengths when he has a chance to have power over Macondo.



* GenerationalSaga

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* GenerationalSagaGenerationalSaga: Follows the Buendía family through many generations over more than a century.



* GoodScarsEvilScars: Amaranta's burnt hand.

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* %%* GoodScarsEvilScars: Amaranta's burnt hand.



* HarmlessLadyDisguise: Colonel Gregorio Stevenson disguises himself as an old woman to safely get to Macondo to warn them of their incoming defeat and advise them to surrender, without getting caught and killed along the way.
* HauntingTheGuilty: José Arcadio Buendía is haunted by the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, who he killed. They eventually form an odd friendship, because Prudencio is lonely in death and only has his enemy to talk to.



* MeaningfulEcho: A much older Úrsula echoes her son Aureliano's line while he was awaiting the firing squad, responding to then statement that time passes with "That's how it goes, but not so much."
* MethuselahSyndrome: Úrsula lives at least 120 years or so, and Pilar Ternera lives to 145.



* MistakenForGay: José Arcadio reassures Úrsula that Pietro Crespi isn't a threat to her daughters because he's a "fairy", though he does turn out to be interested at least in Amaranta.



* MurderTheHypotenuse: Amaranta is willing to kill Rebeca to stop her from getting married to Pietro Crespi, who she loves herself. She doesn't go through with it because the wedding is delayed enough by the death of Remedios that Rebeca ends up falling in love with José Arcadio instead.



* OhAndXDies: The first line of the book reveals that Colonel Aureliano Buendía will die by firing squad by describing his thoughts as he faces that firing squad, and Arcadio is revealed to die in the same way by similarly describing his thoughts. [[spoiler: While Arcadio actually does die by firing squad, Aureliano is saved at the last minute.]] It also gets mentioned early on that the 17 Aurelianos (sons of the colonel) will be massacred.



* ThePenance: Amaranta badly burns her own hands as self-punishment for driving Pietro Crespi to suicide with her rejection of him.



* RelationshipSabotage: Amaranta does everything she can to sabotage Rebeca and Pietro Crespi's wedding, first convincing everyone to have the wedding in the new church which won't be build in years, and then taking the mothballs from her wedding dress so it will be eaten by moths. When the wedding is about to come anyway, she is at the point of resorting to [[MurderTheHypotenuse killing Rebeca.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: No one, including the reader, ever finds out who killed José Arcadio, though he had made many enemies by taking people's land.



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* ShellShockedVeteran: Colonel Aureliano Buendía. After he comes back (for real) from his various wars he retreats from the world, behind apathetic to his family and only dedicates himself to making golden fish.

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* ShellShockedVeteran: Colonel Aureliano Buendía. After he comes back (for real) from his various wars he retreats from the world, behind becoming apathetic to his family and only dedicates himself to making golden fish.



* SmallTownTyrant: Arcadio takes over Macondo in the name of the liberals during the wars, and proves a tyrannical ruler, killing those who cross or even annoy him.



* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Santa Sofía de la Piedad gives birth to twins José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo five months after Arcadio's execution via firing squad.]]

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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Santa Sofía de la Piedad Piedad]] gives birth to twins José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo five months after Arcadio's [[spoiler:Arcadio's execution via firing squad.]]]]
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: Pietro Crespi falls in love with Amaranta, and kills himself after she rejects him.



* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman (and the son of the oldest one is raised by his grandparents only, who make him believe they're his parents), the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the eldest son of the youngest brother goes on to fall in love with his aunt, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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* SurpriseIncest: Arcadio tries to sleep with Pilar Ternera, who unbeknownst to him is his biological mother. Pilar, who is aware of this, tries to dissuade him and, unwilling to tell him the truth, sends Santa Sofía de la Piedad in her stead.
** The last Aureliano has an affair with Amaranta Úrsula, believing he is adopted so they are not biologically related, without knowing he is actually her biological nephew. He does suspect there might be secret incest going on, except his idea is that they might be half siblings through Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes.
* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula Úrsula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman (and the son of the oldest one is raised by his grandparents only, who make him believe they're his parents), the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Ursula Úrsula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the eldest son of the youngest brother goes on to fall in love with his aunt, the son of the oldest son of Ursula Úrsula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.



* TitleDrop: During the ending.

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* ThreadOfProphecySevered: Aureliano Jos´ was destined to marry Carmelita Montreal, have seven children, and die of old age, but instead he ends up getting murdered at a young age due to not listening to Pilar Ternera's advice.
* TitleDrop: During The title is used for the ending. first time in the very last sentence of the book.


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* TwinDesynch: Twins José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo initially look and act the same way, but when they grow up both look very different (due to Aureliano Segundo gaining wait) and have drastically different personalities.


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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Arcadio takes over Macondo during the wars and rules harshly, killing many people.


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* VoteEarlyVoteOften: The conservatives rig the first election in Macondo, getting rid of most of the liberal ballots. This inspires Aureliano to fight in wars on behalf of the liberals.

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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the eldest son of the youngest brother goes on to fall in love with his aunt, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, woman (and the son of the oldest one is raised by his grandparents only, who make him believe they're his parents), the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the eldest son of the youngest brother goes on to fall in love with his aunt, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.
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* QuirkyTown: Even without the Buendía family's interference, Macondo is pretty odd: it once rained for years, yellow flowers fell out of the sky after José Arcadio Buendía dies, the local brothel has a tiger, etc.

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* QuirkyTown: Even without the Buendía family's interference, Macondo is pretty odd: it once rained for years, yellow flowers fell out of the sky after José Arcadio Buendía dies, the local brothel has a tiger, dog, etc.
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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the eldest son of the youngest brother goes on to fall in love with his aunt, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.
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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: José Arcadio is between sixteen-twenty when Amaranta is born. He already had a gotten Pilar pregnant when she was born, Arcadio and Amaranta being together.

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* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: José Arcadio is between sixteen-twenty sixteen-eighteen when Amaranta is born. He already had a gotten gets Pilar pregnant when briefly after she was born, thus Arcadio and Amaranta being were raised together.

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* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta]]) and at least twenty-one Aurelianos (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano Ternera (son of the Colonel with Pilar Ternera), the seventeen Aurelianos, Aureliano Segundo and [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia]]).
* PrincessInRags: Fernanda. Lampshaded when she goes on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-sentence rant that lasts more than two pages]] about how she was raised to be a queen, only to be treated like a servant by her in-laws, who have no respect for her or her golden chamberpot.
* ProperLady: Little Remedios, and later Santa Sofía de la Piedad. Subverted with Úrsula, who is very devoted to her family, but also extremely stubborn and more than capable of standing up to her husband and children.

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* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta]]) and at least twenty-one Aurelianos (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano Ternera José (son of the Colonel with Pilar Ternera), the seventeen Aurelianos, Aureliano Segundo and [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia]]).
* PrincessInRags: Fernanda. Lampshaded PracticallyDifferentGenerations: José Arcadio is between sixteen-twenty when Amaranta is born. He already had a gotten Pilar pregnant when she goes on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-sentence rant that lasts was born, Arcadio and Amaranta being together.
** Meme and Amaranta Úrsula have an age difference of
more than or less twenty years, as [[spoiler: Meme had already completed her studies when she had a son and he's roughly the same age (maybe older by two pages]] about how she was raised to be a queen, only to be treated like a servant by her in-laws, who have no respect for her or her golden chamberpot.
* ProperLady: Little Remedios, and later Santa Sofía de la Piedad. Subverted with
three years) of Amaranta Úrsula, who is very devoted to her family, but also extremely stubborn and more than capable of standing up to her husband and children.[[HistoryRepeats the two being raised together]]]].



* PrincessInRags: Fernanda. Lampshaded when she goes on a [[CharacterFilibuster two-sentence rant that lasts more than two pages]] about how she was raised to be a queen, only to be treated like a servant by her in-laws, who have no respect for her or her golden chamberpot.
* ProperLady: Little Remedios, and later Santa Sofía de la Piedad. Subverted with Úrsula, who is very devoted to her family, but also extremely stubborn and more than capable of standing up to her husband and children.



* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman (and later the oldest son marries a cousin so distant not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman woman, the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) [[HistoryRepeats briefly fight for the same guy]] (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a cousin so distant cousin not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: [[HistoryRepeats both of them briefly sharing the same lover]], who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them,[[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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%% * StigmaticPregnancyEuphemismStigmaticPregnancyEuphemism: [[spoiler: Fernanda Del Carpio, after separating Meme from Mauricio and finding out Meme is pregnant, sends her to a convent.]]
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* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta]]) and at least twenty-one Aurelianos (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano Ternera (son of the Colonel with Pilar Ternera), the seventeen Aurelianos, Aureliano Segundo and [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia]]).

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* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta]]) and at least twenty-one Aurelianos (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano Ternera (son of the Colonel with Pilar Ternera), the seventeen Aurelianos, Aureliano Segundo and [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia]]).



* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman (and later the oldest son marries a cousin so distant not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the first one has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman (and later the oldest son marries a cousin so distant not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the first one oldest son of Ursula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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%% ** BookEnds: [[spoiler:A relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place. In the ending, Aureliano Babilonia (son of Meme Buendía with Mauricio Babilonia and hidden by Fernanda Del Carpio, Meme's mother, due to being an out-of-wedlock baby) falls in love with Amaranta, (daughter of Fernanda with her husband, Aureliano Segundo, making her Aureliano's aunt) and has a baby with her, who is born with a pig's tail.]]

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%% ** *** BookEnds: [[spoiler:A [[spoiler: In the beginning, a relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place. In the ending, Aureliano Babilonia (son of Meme Buendía with Mauricio Babilonia and hidden by Fernanda Del Carpio, Meme's mother, due to being an out-of-wedlock baby) falls in love with Amaranta, (daughter of Fernanda with her husband, Aureliano Segundo, making her Aureliano's aunt) and has a baby with her, who is born with a pig's tail.]]



* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta.]]

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* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta.]]Amaranta]]) and at least twenty-one Aurelianos (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano Ternera (son of the Colonel with Pilar Ternera), the seventeen Aurelianos, Aureliano Segundo and [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia]]).

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%% ** BookEnds: [[spoiler:A relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place. In the ending, Aureliano Babilonia (son of Meme Buendía with Mauricio Babilonia and hidden by Fernanda Del Carpio, Meme's mother, due to being an out-of-wedlock baby) falls in love with Amaranta, (daughter of Fernanda with her husband, Aureliano Segundo, making her Aureliano's aunt) and has a baby with her, who is born with a pig's tail.]]

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%% ** BookEnds: [[spoiler:A relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place. In the ending, Aureliano Babilonia (son of Meme Buendía with Mauricio Babilonia and hidden by Fernanda Del Carpio, Meme's mother, due to being an out-of-wedlock baby) falls in love with Amaranta, (daughter of Fernanda with her husband, Aureliano Segundo, making her Aureliano's aunt) and has a baby with her, who is born with a pig's tail.]]



%%* PlanetOfSteves

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%%* PlanetOfSteves* PlanetOfSteves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and [[spoiler: José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta.]]



%% There are indications that the quirkiness isn't limited to Macondo. See, for example, the endless train journey mentioned near the end.
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%% * QuirkyTown: Even without the Buendía family's interference, Macondo is pretty odd: it once rained for years, yellow flowers fell out of the sky after José Arcadio Buendía dies, the local brothel has a tiger, etc.
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There are indications that the quirkiness isn't limited to Macondo. See, for example, the endless train journey mentioned near the end.
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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the first one has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, woman (and later the oldest son marries a cousin so distant not even Ursula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the first one has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.



%% * WrongGenreSavvy: Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Úrsula were both raised to believe that Aureliano Babilonia was adopted, therefore thinking that [[spoiler:being each other's {{Victorious Childhood Friend}}s, screwing each other and having a child]] would have no harmful consequences. They were proven wrong, with tragic consequences.
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%% * WrongGenreSavvy: Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Úrsula were both raised to believe that Aureliano Babilonia was adopted, therefore thinking that [[spoiler:being each other's {{Victorious Childhood Friend}}s, screwing each other and having a child]] would have no harmful consequences. They were proven wrong, with tragic consequences.
%% * YouCantFightFateYouCantFightFate: The family's history was written from the beginning to the end by Melquíades, thus they were damned from the start. However, his manuscripts were written in a hard to decipher way, only being read in full by [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia.]] The book could have been named You Can't Fight Fate: The Book.

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* KarmaHoudini:
%%** Amaranta. She first plans to kill Rebeca just to prevent her from marrying the man they both love, Pietro Crespi. She then drives the same suitor to [[DrivenToSuicide slit his wrists]] and another wastes his entire life with her cat-and-mouse EmotionlessGirl act. Oh, and then there's the fact she molests both her nephew ''and'' great-great-nephew when they are children, leading both of them to have terrible emotional problems and obsess over her their entire lives. Her only punishment? [[spoiler: Knowing she will die when she finishes weaving her own shroud.]]

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* KarmaHoudini:
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KarmaHoudini: Amaranta. She first plans to kill Rebeca just to prevent her from marrying the man they both love, Pietro Crespi. She then drives the same suitor to [[DrivenToSuicide slit his wrists]] and another wastes his entire life with her cat-and-mouse EmotionlessGirl act. Oh, and then there's the fact she molests both her nephew ''and'' great-great-nephew when they are children, leading both of them to have terrible emotional problems and obsess over her their entire lives. Her only punishment? [[spoiler: Knowing she will die when she finishes weaving her own shroud.]]



%% ** BookEnds: [[spoiler:A relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place.]]
%% * KnightTemplarParent: Fernanda, so damn much.

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%% ** BookEnds: [[spoiler:A relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place. In the ending, Aureliano Babilonia (son of Meme Buendía with Mauricio Babilonia and hidden by Fernanda Del Carpio, Meme's mother, due to being an out-of-wedlock baby) falls in love with Amaranta, (daughter of Fernanda with her husband, Aureliano Segundo, making her Aureliano's aunt) and has a baby with her, who is born with a pig's tail.]]
%% * KnightTemplarParent: Fernanda, so damn much.much. She [[spoiler: disapproves of Meme's relationship with Mauricio Babilonia, due to him being lower class, finds out they've been sleeping together and Meme is pregnant and then plans to pay someone to shoot him (which paralyzed him from the waist down) and frame him as a dangerous chicken robber, send Meme to a nunnery and hide their baby from the world, due to him being born out of wedlock.]]



%% * ShellShockedVeteran: Colonel Aureliano Buendía.

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%% * ShellShockedVeteran: Colonel Aureliano Buendía.Buendía. After he comes back (for real) from his various wars he retreats from the world, behind apathetic to his family and only dedicates himself to making golden fish.



%%* TangledFamilyTree

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%%* TangledFamilyTree* TangledFamilyTree: Ursula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman, one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the son of the first one has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, [[spoiler: the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt and having a baby with her]], and they keep repeating names between generations.

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%%* EmpathicEnvironment: Arguably.

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%%* * EmpathicEnvironment: Arguably.Arguably, Macondo reflects what the characters are going through: being mostly abandoned after the Buendía family had lost their glory, being full of life at the start of the novel, while the family had just settled in, etc. The Buendía house also reflects this strongly: going from the biggest house at the beginning to a decaying mess at the end.

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%% * ChickMagnet: Pietro Crespi.

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%% * ChickMagnet: Pietro Crespi.Crespi, due to his musical talents, angelical appearance and sensibility.
** Also José Arcadio, due to the opposite reasons: his great physical strength, brutish ways and [[BiggerIsBetterInBed mythical penis size]].
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** In the last few generations, Amaranta Úrsula starts an affair with her nephew [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia,]] bringing Uacute;rsula's fear to fruition.

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** In the last few generations, Amaranta Úrsula starts an affair with her nephew [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia,]] Babilonia, bringing Uacute;rsula's Úrsula's fear to fruition.fruition]].

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* KissingCousins: [[ThePatriarch José Arcadio Buendía]] and [[ApronMatron Úrsula Iguarán]], who are also the first Buendías, were cousins. However, Úrsula spends most of her life desperately trying to prevent incest from continuing on to other generations and destroying the family (by originating the birth of a pig-tailed child). [[spoiler: In the end, it happens anyway.]]



* KissingCousins: José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula, doubling as ChildhoodFriendRomance. The same was true of two of their older relatives.

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* KissingCousins: [[ThePatriarch José Arcadio Buendía Buendía]] and Úrsula, [[ApronMatron Úrsula Iguarán]], who are also the first Buendías, were cousins. Also doubling as ChildhoodFriendRomance. The same was true of two of their older relatives. However, Úrsula spends most of her life desperately trying to prevent incest from continuing on to other generations and destroying the family (by originating the birth of a pig-tailed child). [[spoiler: In the end, it happens anyway.]]
** José Arcadio, and Rebeca could also count as this, coupled with NotBloodSiblings; the latter is mentioned to be a daughter of some distant maternal relatives of the former.
** Amaranta provokes this in her nephew and great-great-nephew, but never follows through with it.
** In the last few generations, Amaranta Úrsula starts an affair with her nephew [[spoiler: Aureliano Babilonia,]] bringing Uacute;rsula's fear to fruition.



** Amaranta provokes this in her nephew and great-great-nephew, but never follows through with it.
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** José Arcadio Segundo takes up having sex with donkeys at one point.
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* NiceHat: Melquíades has one with a brim "like the wings of a crow".
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The last of the 17 sons of Colonel Aureliano Buendi­a being killed.]]

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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
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[[spoiler:The last of the 17 sons of Colonel Aureliano Buendi­a being killed.]] ]]
** [[spoiler:The last member of the Buendía family is born with a pig's tail, just as Úrsula had feared, many years ago, and it spells doom for the entire town they founded.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The English version of the book comes with an invaluable family tree. Everyone born into or marrying into the family has ADayInTheLimelight. Some characters get more love than others, but there isn't a single character that can be considered the protagonist of the story.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Rebeca with José Arcadio.

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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Rebeca with José Arcadio. Ursula Amaranta with Arcadio Babilonia.



* OnlySaneMan: For most of the book, Úrsula is the most (and sometimes only) sane voice in the house. Lampshaded now and then.

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* OnlySaneMan: For most of the book, Úrsula is the most (and sometimes only) sane voice in the house. Lampshaded now and then. Santa Sofia de la Piedad is sane enough to avoid most of the conflict in the plot.
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* AchievementsInIgnorance: During the eating challenge between Aureliano Segundo and Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume, the latter reveals that her technique is based on "absolute tranquility of spirit"--she has no issues of conscience weighing on her heart and can thus eat without stopping. Towards the end of their challenge, Camila realizes that Aureliano has inadvertently stumbled on the same strategy, but in an unexpected way--he has such LackOfEmpathy that his conscience is clear because he doesn't think of anyone or anything but himself and his own pleasures.
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* FormerlyFat/FormerlyFit: After becoming wildly rich and successful, Aureliano Segundo balloons up from a svelte athlete to a fat glutton. When the rains begin, he finds himself with nothing to do but putter around the house repairing things and doing chores, and the exercise (plus the floods causing a forced diet) helps him slim down again.

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* FormerlyFat/FormerlyFit: FormerlyFat / FormerlyFit: After becoming wildly rich and successful, Aureliano Segundo balloons up from a svelte athlete to a fat glutton. When the rains begin, he finds himself with nothing to do but putter around the house repairing things and doing chores, and the exercise (plus the floods causing a forced diet) helps him slim down again.
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* FormerlyFat/FormerlyFit: After becoming wildly rich and successful, Aureliano Segundo balloons up from a svelte athlete to a fat glutton. When the rains begin, he finds himself with nothing to do but putter around the house repairing things and doing chores, and the exercise (plus the floods causing a forced diet) helps him slim down again.
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* AttackOfTheTownFestival

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* AttackOfTheTownFestivalAttackOfTheTownFestival: Guerrillas open fire on the citizens of Macondo as they're holding a carnival.
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