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* DeliverUsFromEvil: Petra is an all-out villain in the first season, but becomes a DefrostingIceQueen who is able to get along with the rest of the cast after getting pregnant and having children.


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* PrisonChangesPeople: [[spoiler:Rafael goes to prison during the TimeSkip in Season 3, and comes out a more relaxed, "zen" individual.]]
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After [[spoiler:recovering from being drugged and replaced by her EvilTwin for months]], Petra is furious with the characters she tried to get close to in Season 2 as a DefrostingIceQueen and returns to her sinister schemes from the first season.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jane's love of grilled cheese sandwiches has been well-documented.

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** Sin Rostro is fond of powdered donuts, and donut powder residue at a crime scene tips off the cops that she is FakingTheDead.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Rogelio's passwords are all "Rogelio", except for ones that require a number, in which case he uses "Rogelio1".

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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Rogelio's passwords are all "Rogelio", except for ones that require a number, in which case he uses "Rogelio1"."[=Rogelio1=]".
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* ParodyProductPlacement: Rogelio is forced to do ProductPlacement for Honey Bunches of Oats on his telenovela, only for him to discover he loves it and shamelessly tout his support for the product many times.

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* ProductPlacement: The Villanueva women are truly enchanted by Target, with the Black Friday sale in Chapter Twenty-Nine being particularly shameless and bordering on ParodyProductPlacement.

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** In-Universe, Rogelio is forced to do product integration for Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, even though it is a ProchronicProduct on his time-traveling telenovela, ''Tiago a Través del Tiempo''.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Roman Zazo in Chapter Two [[spoiler:who turns out to actually be his twin brother, Aaron]], [[spoiler:the ''real'' Roman Zazo in Chapter Nineteen]], and [[spoiler:Sin Rostro in the GrandFinale.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Roman Zazo in Chapter Two [[spoiler:who turns out to actually be his twin brother, Aaron]], [[spoiler:the ''real'' Roman Zazo in Chapter Nineteen]], and [[spoiler:Sin Rostro in the GrandFinale.Chapter Ninety-Nine.]]
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* HesBack: Petra returns to her villainous persona in Season 3 after spending most of the previous season as a DefrostingIceQueen and the first half of Season 3 [[spoiler:drugged into a fake locked-in syndrome]], in response to [[spoiler:nobody noticing that her EvilTwin paralyzed and replaced her]]. {{Lampshaded}} by the LatinLover Narrator.
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** [[spoiler:A body double of Sin Rostro is killed in Season 2, and she takes the opportunity to shore up her status as TheMole within Miami PD.]]
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* BitingTheHandHumor: Rogelio pitches an American adaptation of ''The Passions of Santos'' to Creator/TheCW, and the show takes plenty of potshots at the network and its lineup.
--> '''Rogelio''': [[Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} A superhero for every weekday]]... you guys are programming masterminds!

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* DoubleEntendre: Jane and Michael's dialogue near the beginning of Chapter Three, after she's told him that they should have sex. It's easily some of the steamiest dialogue you'll ''ever'' hear on non-pay TV... and then, we find that it's just Michael talking to Jane about talking to the police about the murder at the hotel, the night before. The way that the scene was shot, with extreme close-ups of both as if they're in bed, only magnifies the implied content of the scene.

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Jane and Michael's dialogue near the beginning of Chapter Three, after she's told him that they should have sex. It's easily some of the steamiest dialogue you'll ''ever'' hear on non-pay TV... and then, we find that it's just Michael talking to Jane about talking to the police about the murder at the hotel, the night before. The way that the scene was shot, with extreme close-ups of both as if they're in bed, only magnifies the implied content of the scene.scene.
** After a {{Cliffhanger}} where Michael and Jane run off to have sex for the first time, the next episode starts with a {{Flashback}} to the pair moving in with each other, with some very suggestive dialogue.
--> '''Michael''': It's too big, it won't fit.
--> '''Jane''': Come on! Be gentle with my box.
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* InstantSedation: {{Subverted}} when Rafael is drugged by [[spoiler:his mother]]; the two have a short conversation before he loses consciousness. PlayedStraight when [[spoiler:Anezka drugs Petra]], who passes out instantly.
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* ListOfTransgressions: A bit of a RunningGag once Petra goes from GoldDigger to DefrostingIceQueen is for characters to mention that she's done some bad things in the past, only for the chyrons to pause the scene and explicitly list them all.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Rogelio is stalked by an obsessed fan in Season 2, culminating in a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/{{Misery}}''.
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* TheBeard: Rogelio's father has a LateComingOut during the series. His mother claims that his father blindsided her with the news, but it's later revealed that she always knew and had agreed to be his "beard".


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* ButICantBePregnant: The inciting incident of the series: Jane has never had sex, but winds up pregnant due to an accidental artificial insemination. She and Xo nearly laugh the doctor who identifies her pregnancy out of the room.


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* FadeToWhite: Occurs often in the series, most notably when characters finally deliver their baby during a ScreamingBirth.


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* FreudianExcuse: Petra's GoldDigger and AlphaBitch tendencies are in part habits she picked up from being manipulated by an EvilMatriarch her whole life, and more recently, a response to her miscarriage and subsequent HappyMarriageCharade.


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* FunnyConceptionStory: The writers relish the opportunity to mine awkward humor out of making characters explain the bizarre circumstances behind Jane's, and later [[spoiler:Petra's]], pregnancies.


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* IntimateTelecommunications: Jane is saving herself for marriage, but puts her writing skills to good use many times while sexting her partners.


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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Rogelio's passwords are all "Rogelio", except for ones that require a number, in which case he uses "Rogelio1".


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* ScreamingBirth: All of the delivery scenes over the course of the series.


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* TeacherStudentRomance: Jane has a brief fling with her HotTeacher and Academic Advisor, Professor Chavez.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The show isn't squeamish about depicting characters being shot or ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, but the sequence where Michael removes a microchip buried under his skin by reopening a wound with a razor blade was a bridge too far and they cut to a ReactionShot.
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** In-universe, Rogelio attempts to create a telenovela adaptation of the series ''Series/MadMen'' titled ''Hombres Locos''. While both are about a man who works for an advertising agency, by the end of ''Hombres Locos'''s first episode "Don Juan Draper" has already shot a man begun to sell cocaine.

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** In-universe, Rogelio attempts to create a telenovela adaptation of the series ''Series/MadMen'' titled ''Hombres Locos''. While both are about a man who works for an advertising agency, by the end of ''Hombres Locos'''s first episode "Don Juan Draper" has already shot a man and begun to sell cocaine.

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* AdaptationInspiration: While ostensibly based on the Venezuelan ''telenovela'' ''Juana la virgen'', it mostly only retains the basic idea of a virgin getting artifically inseminated and the issues that develop afterward as well as the telenovela style (which the show pokes fun at as well).

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** In-universe, Rogelio attempts to create a telenovela adaptation of the series ''Series/MadMen'' titled ''Hombres Locos''. While both are about a man who works for an advertising agency, by the end of ''Hombres Locos'''s first episode "Don Juan Draper" has already shot a man begun to sell cocaine.
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* MillionairePlayboy: Rafael, although he's trying to leave the "playboy" part behind after his marriage to Petra and battle with cancer.
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* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Rafael the MillionairePlayboy chases Jane the Virgin.
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* EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Rose, a.k.a. Sin Rostro.]]
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* SignificantAnagram: The "Elodea Gale Vigor" scholarship paying for Jane's grad school is an anagram for Rogelia De La Vega, who is actually footing the bill.
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* SpousalPrivilege: One of Miloš's motivations to force Petra to marry him - if they're married, she can't be compelled to testify against him and his smuggling operation.

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** Rogelio's insistence that he "doesn't pop in peach" when selecting his wardrobe, his constant lies about his real age, and his repeated bragging about his social media following count.

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** Rogelio's insistence that he "doesn't pop in peach" when selecting his wardrobe, his constant lies about his real age, and his repeated bragging about his social media following count.count and friendship with Gloria Estefan.
** Any time one of Sin Rostro's former lovers winds up in a police interview, they can't help but lose their train of thought [[TooMuchInformation describing their transcendent sexual escapades with her]].
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* RevengePornBlackmail: Petra allows Lachlan to make a sex tape with her to prove she won't betray him. [[spoiler:When he attempts to use the tape against her, [[BlackmailBackfire she releases it herself]].]]
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jane's love of grilled cheese sandwiches has been well-documented.

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* HappyDance: Done by Jane when she learns she is going to meet one of her favorite authors in Chapter Fifteen.

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* HappyDance: Done by Jane Jane, Rafael and Petra have been known to break out into happy dances when she learns she things go their way. The LatinLover Narrator is going to meet one of her favorite authors in Chapter Fifteen.particularly amused by Petra's, who [[SucksAtDancing Sucks At Happy Dancing]].


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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: PlayedWith when it comes to the OddFriendship between Michael and Rogelio. On a surface level, Rogelio is the Sensitive Guy and Michael is the Manly Man; Rogelio is a pampered actor who wears concealer and enjoys pedicures, while Michael is a no-nonsense detective. When it comes to their relationships however, the dynamic is inverted; Rogelio is cagey about expressing his feelings to protect his pride and has a string of sexual conquests prior to the series, while Michael was committed to a chaste relationship with Jane before the events of the series and is often open about his feelings to a fault, which leads Rogelio to call him a "wuss" at several points.
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* BatmanGambit: Jane and Rafael pull one on Petra, knowing she would be willing to turn in her own mother if she thought she and Rafael had a chance of getting back together. All it takes is a little flirting and some hints that he needs the rift between her and Jane fixed if they're ever going to be together, and Petra throws her mother under the bus.


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* MiseryPoker: The night Jane gives birth, Michael is [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] at a bar. He and another patron share their woes.
--> '''Bar Patron''': I got passed over for a promotion again.
--> '''Michael''': That sucks. My ex-fiancé was accidentally artificially inseminated with the sperm of this rich hotel owner who she just happened to have a crush on in high school. They had their baby tonight, so...
--> '''Bar Patron''': Wow. You win.
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* ClassReunion: Jane attends a class reunion she herself organized prior to her unexpected pregnancy in Chapter Twenty-One.


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* CuttingBackToReality: Many of the show's [[FantasySequence Fantasy Sequences]] are initially presented as reality, such as Xo's fear that Jane and Rogelio will spend their first meeting together as father and daughter burning Xo in effigy or Jane's disastrous speech that ends in her water breaking at her ClassReunion. {{Subverted}} in Chapter Fifteen where the LatinLover Narrator has to point out that something really ''is'' happening and isn't just in Jane's head.


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* PursueTheDreamJob: One of the main plotlines in Season 1 involves Jane choosing to pursue her dream of being a writer, rather than stick with a steady teaching job.

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* EurekaMoment: After Michael finds the underground surgery beneath the Marbella, the exact reason for its existence still evades him--until a few hotel guests ''who look like they've had some work done--some more than others''--walk by. Then it hits him.

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** Michael realizes the numbers tied to Sin Rostro are for a shipping container, not a cell phone, when he watches the docks after Jane leaves him.
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After Michael finds the underground surgery beneath the Marbella, the exact reason for its existence still evades him--until a few hotel guests ''who look like they've had some work done--some more than others''--walk by. Then it hits him.him.
** When Rogelio mentions that he is constantly being photographed by paparazzi during the Melee at the Marbella, Jane realizes she can disprove Petra's story of what happened to Alba the night of the Paloma Awards using photos from the party.

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