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* BerserkButton: Turns out Illithyia does ''not'' like being laughed at.
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* BerserkButton: Turns out Illithyia does ''not'' like being laughed at. Although it's less the laughter in this case and more being laughed at for being tricked into sleeping with her husband's ArchEnemy, and being told she's about to be ruined because of it.
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* FemaleGaze: There are lots of lingering shots of Spartacus's body as the slaves apply his body paint.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Of a sort. Andy Whitfield wore a fake penis for his nude scene.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Of a sort. Andy Whitfield wore a fake penis for his nude scene. Still, it's the only time in the series that we see Spartacus fully nude.
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* StupidEvil:
** By far one of Lucretia's most idiotic moments in the entire series. She obviously did not see how tricking Illithyia into sleeping with Spartacus would go down with either person. To be charitable, perhaps vaguely she felt that Licinia's status might protect her.
** Licinia herself is no slouch either. She outright tells Illithyia that she'll "set every tongue in Rome wagging", forgetting that she brought no slaves or attendants, meaning no one but themselves know she even came there. She instantly made herself more valuable dead than alive.
** By far one of Lucretia's most idiotic moments in the entire series. She obviously did not see how tricking Illithyia into sleeping with Spartacus would go down with either person. To be charitable, perhaps vaguely she felt that Licinia's status might protect her.
** Licinia herself is no slouch either. She outright tells Illithyia that she'll "set every tongue in Rome wagging", forgetting that she brought no slaves or attendants, meaning no one but themselves know she even came there. She instantly made herself more valuable dead than alive.
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* MythologyGag: The way Spartacus meets Mira here is similar to the way he met Varinia in the [[{{Film/Spartacus}} 1959 movie.]]
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Licinia is only in this one episode. However her death provides Quintus and Lucretia with means to blackmail Glaber and discredit Illithyia. Likewise as a result of this, Illithyia leaves the two of them to be slaughtered by their own gladiators in the season finale.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Licinia is only in this one & the previous episode. However her death provides Quintus and Lucretia with means to blackmail Glaber and discredit Illithyia. Likewise as a result of this, Illithyia leaves the two of them to be slaughtered by their own gladiators in the season finale.
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* BedTrick: It's revealed that the woman Spartacus was sleeping with is Illithyia and not Licinia.
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* BedTrick: It's revealed that the woman Spartacus was sleeping with is Illithyia and not Licinia. Given that she was expecting Crixus, this is a rare case where ''both'' members suffered this.
* ClingyJealousGirl[=/=]WomanScorned: Lucretia does ''not'' take Illithyia asking to sleep with Crixus well.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Batiatus is outraged when he learns of the BedTrick. While part of this could be excused as pragmatism (they now have a murder victim to deal with), he also apologizes to Spartacus over it and seems sincere.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Invoked. Lucretia picks a slave with a resemblance to Spartacus's dead wife to 'prepare' him for Licinia.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Invoked. Lucretia picks a slave with a resemblance to Spartacus's dead wife to 'prepare' him for Licinia. He's not amused.
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* BerserkButton: Turns out Illithyia does ''not'' like being laughed at.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Agron is warned against his, giving Duro a chance to stand on his own.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Agron is warned against his, giving Duro a chance to stand on his own.
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* ExactWords: Mira is sent to sleep with Spartacus in preparation for his night with Licinia. He refuses and Lucretia sends her back. This time Spartacus cuts a deal with Mira, and she simply tells Lucretia "he made many demands of me."
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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
** Mira is sent to sleep with Spartacus in preparation for his night with Licinia. He refuses and Lucretia sends her back. This time Spartacus cuts a deal with Mira, and she simply tells Lucretia "he made many demands of me.""
** Likewise Lucretia thinks back to Crixus facing Theokoles in the arena and thought he was looking to her - when it was Naevia standing beside her. When she asks him what he was thinking, he replies something about "the arms of a goddess".
** Mira is sent to sleep with Spartacus in preparation for his night with Licinia. He refuses and Lucretia sends her back. This time Spartacus cuts a deal with Mira, and she simply tells Lucretia "he made many demands of me.
** Likewise Lucretia thinks back to Crixus facing Theokoles in the arena and thought he was looking to her - when it was Naevia standing beside her. When she asks him what he was thinking, he replies something about "the arms of a goddess".
* NeverFoundTheBody: Spartacus advises Varo on this, since Aurelia's house was found empty and with blood on the floor - but no bodies found. He's quite right; since it turns out Aurelia castrated the rapist.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Crixus spies Naevia flirting with a guard. It turns out she was distracting him so she could steal a key - and therefore allow them an opportunity to embrace.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: NotWhatItLooksLike:
** Crixus spies Naevia flirting with a guard. It turns out she was distracting him so she could steal a key - and therefore allow them an opportunity toembrace.embrace.
** A swap around where the person assumes something tame, when it's actually something raunchy. Illithyia sees Licinia hiding a mask, and assumes Lucretia is planning a masquerade ball.
** Crixus spies Naevia flirting with a guard. It turns out she was distracting him so she could steal a key - and therefore allow them an opportunity to
** A swap around where the person assumes something tame, when it's actually something raunchy. Illithyia sees Licinia hiding a mask, and assumes Lucretia is planning a masquerade ball.
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* ChekhovsGun: The discretion used whenever a noblewoman wants to sleep with a gladiator - notably Licinia coming without any slaves or attendants, and without telling anyone. This proves accidentally useful when she's murdered and they can easily hide the body.
* FanserviceExtra: There's rather a lot of naked slaves in the background here.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Licinia's participation in the humiliation of Illithyia bites her in the ass when the latter beats her to death right there.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
** Licinia's participation in the humiliation of Illithyia bites her in the ass when the latter beats her to death rightthere.there.
** Illithyia getting pranked is this to trying to get Segovax to murder Spartacus.
** Licinia's participation in the humiliation of Illithyia bites her in the ass when the latter beats her to death right
** Illithyia getting pranked is this to trying to get Segovax to murder Spartacus.
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* NakedOnArrival: Mira does this twice in one episode. She is nude in her first scene, as one of the topless slaves modelling the masks for Licinia. And when Spartacus finds her in his cell, she's naked.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Spartacus does not care for Mira being naked in his cell.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Crixus spies Naevia flirting with a guard. It turns out she was distracting him so she could steal a key - and therefore allow them an opportunity to embrace.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Spartacus does not care for Mira being naked in his cell.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Crixus spies Naevia flirting with a guard. It turns out she was distracting him so she could steal a key - and therefore allow them an opportunity to embrace.
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Licinia, a rich noblewoman, desires a gladiator to sleep with - and Lucretia arranges for it to be Spartacus himself. However Illithyia also expresses desire to sleep with a gladiator - and Lucretia is none too pleased when she requests Crixus.
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* AlphaBitch: Licinia is the cousin of Marcus Crassus and therefore an elite noblewoman. Given that she's perfectly willing to laugh at the trick Lucretia pulled, the bitch part is true as well.
* BedTrick: It's revealed that the woman Spartacus was sleeping with is Illithyia and not Licinia.
* TheDogBitesBack: After Illithyia has been humiliated from the above trick, she beats Licinia to death.
* ExactWords: Mira is sent to sleep with Spartacus in preparation for his night with Licinia. He refuses and Lucretia sends her back. This time Spartacus cuts a deal with Mira, and she simply tells Lucretia "he made many demands of me."
* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Both participants in the love scene are covered in gold paint, and wearing golden masks.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Licinia's participation in the humiliation of Illithyia bites her in the ass when the latter beats her to death right there.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Of a sort. Andy Whitfield wore a fake penis for his nude scene.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Invoked. Lucretia picks a slave with a resemblance to Spartacus's dead wife to 'prepare' him for Licinia.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Licinia is only in this one episode. However her death provides Quintus and Lucretia with means to blackmail Glaber and discredit Illithyia. Likewise as a result of this, Illithyia leaves the two of them to be slaughtered by their own gladiators in the season finale.
* WhamLine: "Apologies, Licinia. Illithyia is not yet finished with Spartacus."
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* AlphaBitch: Licinia is the cousin of Marcus Crassus and therefore an elite noblewoman. Given that she's perfectly willing to laugh at the trick Lucretia pulled, the bitch part is true as well.
* BedTrick: It's revealed that the woman Spartacus was sleeping with is Illithyia and not Licinia.
* TheDogBitesBack: After Illithyia has been humiliated from the above trick, she beats Licinia to death.
* ExactWords: Mira is sent to sleep with Spartacus in preparation for his night with Licinia. He refuses and Lucretia sends her back. This time Spartacus cuts a deal with Mira, and she simply tells Lucretia "he made many demands of me."
* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Both participants in the love scene are covered in gold paint, and wearing golden masks.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Licinia's participation in the humiliation of Illithyia bites her in the ass when the latter beats her to death right there.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Of a sort. Andy Whitfield wore a fake penis for his nude scene.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Invoked. Lucretia picks a slave with a resemblance to Spartacus's dead wife to 'prepare' him for Licinia.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Licinia is only in this one episode. However her death provides Quintus and Lucretia with means to blackmail Glaber and discredit Illithyia. Likewise as a result of this, Illithyia leaves the two of them to be slaughtered by their own gladiators in the season finale.
* WhamLine: "Apologies, Licinia. Illithyia is not yet finished with Spartacus."
