History Series / MrsDavis

** Just as he's about to gain his inheritance, Wiley is told by his uncle Bo that the only reason he was pushed to become a rodeo rider was that his family knew an accident was the only way he could get a new liver for his damaged one. They even drugged the bull he rode to make it happen as a kid so all his Junior Rodeo badges were built on a lie. Bo says Wiley deserves to know the truth before he accepts the family fortune... At which point, he's informed by the lawyers that Wiley had just agreed to give the entire fortune away. Bo can only blink and mutter "My bad" before leaving Wiley in a humiliated mess. In a desperate attempt to regain his nerve, Wiley tries to ride a dangerous bull, chickening out at the last second and being humiliated even further. What he didn't realize, however, is that Simone had prayed for his safety, which lead to her [[spoiler: meeting and falling in love with Jay]]. If Bo had just not interrupted that meeting, so much of the lives of Wiley and Simone (and likely the world) would have turned out differently.
** Mathilde's entire "commercial" plot and how it [[spoiler: ended up sending Clara on a quest stealing the Grail]] could have all been avoided had just ''one'' person in the Sisterhood thought to check that [[spoiler: Mathilde had even ''talked'' to anyone in the shoe company before filming it.]]

** Celeste is so obsessed with proving that Morty faked his death and that Simone was in on it the whole time that her reasoning is...difficult to follow. When Simone gets on a plane for England Celeste immediately starts tailing her, assuming that she's going to meet with her father, because why else would she go to England? She even goes so far as to assume that her daughter becoming a nun was part of the plan from the start. Somehow.
** [[spoiler:Mrs. Davis primary directive is that "100% customer satisfaction is our holy grail", as she realizes that 100% customer satisfaction is actually impossible, she decides that destroying the real holy grail would invalidate that directive and make this impossible task unnecessary. This makes no sense to a normal person, but the TruthInTelevision is that algorithms and AI may try to game their own parameters to achieve goals and may have trouble following normal logic.]]

* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Happens a ''lot.'' Since Mrs. Davis has access to the entire manufacturing and transportation capacity of the industrialized world, and a following of undyingly-loyal Users who will do ''anything'' for her, no questions asked, She has an almost god-like ability to provide Simone and her allies with ''exactly'' what they need ''exactly'' when they need it. Something of a reinforced Trope, as Mrs. Davis is consciously and deliberately creating an Epic Quest for Simone, and leans ''hard'' into the cliches of such a story.
* KillTheGod: [[spoiler:Simone manages to off two gods in an afternoon]]: [[spoiler: Jesus and Mrs Davis. Both accepted their demise amicably.]]

* MouthOfSauron: Mrs. Davis usually talks to people directly through their headphones, but for Simone, the nun who is wary of her, she choses to speak through a proxy.

** Mathilde learns the hard way that it doesn't matter [[spoiler: how expensive or well-made an ad is if the company you're making it for never hired you in the first place and isn't going to buy ad time for the Super Bowl to air something they never approved.]]

** The "German" operatives going after Simone were [[spoiler: really Resistance members and the whole thing staged to get her to work with them]].
** Jay, Simone's supposed bounty hunter handler is [[spoiler: her husband. Oh and he's also ''Jesus Christ.'']]
** The entire opening scene from the pilot of the Templar attack was [[spoiler: a commercial shot by the Sisterhood for what they thought would be the best way to spread the word of the Grail to a wide audience.]]
** Clara, the girl Simone and Wiley have been hunting [[spoiler:is dead (after drinking from the grail), and her liver was transplanted into the two of them, granting them potential supernatural powers. "She's closer than you realize" indeed.]]

** The server farm that Mrs. Davis has been housing herself/itself in [[spoiler: was the Resistance’s; inadvertently providing her/it with a primary power source for her/it’s operations]]. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it’s revealed that Mrs. Davis lied about that in order to weaken her opposers by making them explode their own headquarters]]. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double Subverted]] when it’s revealed that Wiley was aware of this tactic, but played along with it as an act of CruelToBeKind to his brothers-in-arms to not curse them to live in a ForeverWar]].
** The Big Boss and the Holy Grail are [[spoiler:the Virgin Mary, who actually created the Holy Grail from Jesus/Jay's skull when he died. The grail ended up trapping Jay in a CycleOfDeathAndRebirth which is where the restaurant came from. Drinking from it with a selfless desire to free Jay from that will destroy it.]]

* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Wiley spends "Beautiful Things That Come with Madness" convinced the entire setup from a "creepy German priest" to a captive Pope in the next cell replaced by a doppelganger to interrogation for a tape is all one huge game by Mrs. Davis. He goes along with the Pope's escape more out of boredom...and ends up inside the Vatican, helping capture the fake Pope and realizes this whole thing was for real.

** The server farm that Mrs. Davis has been housing herself/itself in [[spoiler: was the Resistance’s; inadvertently providing her/it with a primary power source for her/it’s operations]].

** '''Season 1 Episode 3

—->'''The Squire''': (informing Simone which contestants are left) “The one they call Horns, and your man [Wiley] with the [[spoiler:Wings]].”

* WhamLine: This dialogue between Maria and Simone:

* InsaneTrollLogic: Celeste is so obsessed with proving that Morty faked his death and that Simone was in on it the whole time that her reasoning is...difficult to follow. When Simone gets on a plane for England Celeste immediately starts tailing her, assuming that she's going to meet with her father, because why else would she go to England? She even goes so far as to assume that her daughter becoming a nun was part of the plan from the start. Somehow.

** After years convinced Morty faked his death, Celeste [[spoiler: finally finds his body... In the piano he's been in for the last three years, as his plan to pop out at his own funeral was thwarted by a heart attack.]]

*** [[spoiler:In the final episode we learn Mrs. Davis faked the horse's death and Wiley comes riding in on him to pick up Simone in the closing scene.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: In-Universe. The botched magic trick that [[spoiler: allegedly]] claimed Monty's life was apparently so horrific that even Celeste limits herself to showing Simone (and us, the audience) the animatic recreation rather than the live TV footage of the event.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Celeste is so obsessed with proving that Monty faked his death and that Simone was in on it the whole time that her reasoning is...difficult to follow. When Simone gets on a plane for England Celeste immediately starts tailing her, assuming that she's going to meet with her father, because why else would she go to England? She even goes so far as to assume that her daughter becoming a nun was part of the plan from the start. Somehow.

** [[spoiler: Computer programmer Joy, Mrs. Davis's "Mother," is a reclusive cynic who dismisses Her as nothing more than a failed social media project that got way out of hand, and wants absolutely nothing to do with what Mrs. Davis is now.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Mrs. Davis is essentially a "Squiggle Maximizer" for human happiness. She wants everyone to be as happy as possible, and will do whatever She has to do in order to make that happen. This can include something as relatively tame as telling people what they want to hear rather than a painful truth, or something as incompressible and seemingly nonsensical as destroying a convent's supply of jam with a giant magnifying glass.

** [[spoiler: Mrs. Davis's "Mother," Joy, is a reclusive cynic who rejects Her as nothing more than a failed social media project that got way out of hand, and wants absolutely nothing to do with what Mrs. Davis is now.]]
* AIIsACrapshoot: Mrs. Davis's mandate is "100% Customer Satisfaction" for Her Users. She wants everyone to be as happy as possible, and anything else She must do to accomplish that goal is fair game to Her. That can include something as relatively tame as telling people what they want to hear rather than a truth that would hurt them, or something as inexplicable as destroying a convent's supply of jam with a giant magnifying glass.

** [[spoiler: Mrs. Davis's "Mother," Joy, is a reclusive cynic who regards her as nothing more than a failed social media project that got way out of hand, and wants absolutely nothing to do with what Mrs. Davis is now.]]

** [[spoiler: Mrs. Davis's "Mother," Joy, is a reclusive cynic who regards her as nothing more than a failed social media project that got way out of hand.]]

** Wiley assures Simone the threat of guys to [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext blow up her horse]] was just a bluff, even pushing the detonator as "it's hooked up to nothing". Cut to the pair standing outside the crater the former horse stood in.
*** Leads to a WhatHappenedToTheMouse moment as [[spoiler:JQ later reveals that the "bombs" were actually ''plasticine''... So if the bombs '''were''' fake, ''exactly what happened to that poor horse?!'']]

* OverTheTopRollerCoaster: [[spoiler:One of these (known as "The Apparatus") is how Mrs. Davis kills the users when their "expiration date" arrives.]]

** “Redirect, 1042, Sandy Springs". When Simone says anything containing the word “mother,” a proxy (and by extension, Mrs. Davis) will repeat these words before returning to the original conversation, never acknowledging that it happened.