History Series / Outlander

** In Episode 6.6, [[spoiler: First, Claire almost dies from an illness. Then, Malva claims she and Jamie had consensual sex, and he is the father of her baby. Jamie vehemently denies this, but Malva insists it is true. At the end of the episode, Malva is found murdered outside of the Fraser’s home. ]]

** [[spoiler: After the Committee of Safety take Jamie and threaten to return him to Scotland, the Cherokee and Young Ian rescue him.]]

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: [[spoiler: When the Committee of Safety arrest Jamie and Claire for their alleged crimes, the townsfolk believe they are guilty even before a trial. The members of the Committee of Safety make things worse when they vocally declare who Jamie and Claire are and what their crimes are in every village they travel. This behavior leads to a violent riot where Jamie and Claire’s wagon is stoned, injuring Claire.]]

** In Episode 6.6, [[spoiler: Malva claims she and Jamie had consensual sex, and he is the father of her baby. Jamie vehemently denies this, but Malva insists it is true. At the end of the episode, Malva is found murdered outside of the Fraser’s home.]]

* TorchesAndPitchforks: In Season 4, an angry mob storms River Run to lynch Rufus.

** Brianna tells Young Ian about the injustices Native Americans will face in the United States. Additionally, Brianna tells Jamie how the Cherokee will be forcibly removed from their ancestral home in the Trail of Tears. Later, [[spoiler: Jamie tells Chief Bird this information, hoping Chief Bird's future descendants can protect themselves from this tragedy.]]

** Brianna tells Young Ian about the injustices Native Americans will face in the United States. Additionally, Brianna tells Jamie how the Cherokee will be forcibly removed from their ancestral home in the Trail of Tears. Later, [[spoiler: Jamie tells Chief Bird this information, hoping Chief Bird's future generations can protect themselves from this tragedy.]]

** Brianna tells Jamie about the injustices Native Americans will face in the United States, including the Trail of Tears. Later, [[spoiler: Jamie tells Chief Bird this information, hoping Chief Bird's future generations can protect themselves from this tragedy.]]

** In "The Devil's Mark," [[spoiler: Claire learns that Geillis comes from 1968. This is followed by Claire revealing to Jamie that she comes from the future.]]

%%* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: After the Committee of Safety take Jamie and threaten to return him to Scotland, the Cherokee and Young Ian rescue him.]]

%%* BigDamnHeroes

* CessationOfExistence: {{Discussed}} by [[spoiler:Roger]] and [[spoiler:Ian]] after the first stops the latter's attempted suicide. Since he had nearly died by hanging, [[spoiler:Ian]] asks [[spoiler:Roger]] what he saw. [[spoiler:Roger]] says he saw his wife, which [[spoiler:Ian]] interprets as there being an afterlife. He is disappointed, stating that he'd hoped it would be over (it turns out his attempt was due to losing a woman).

* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:Brianna]] isn't sure whether her baby is fathered by [[spoiler:Roger or her rapist]] since the rape took place on the same day as her having consensual sex with [[spoiler:Roger]]. However, [[spoiler:they later realize that he's Roger's son, as he grows the same mole.]]

* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:Brianna]] isn't sure whether her baby is fathered by [[spoiler:Roger or her rapist]] since the rape took place on the same day as her having consensual sex with [[spoiler:Roger]]. However, [[spoiler:they later realize that he's Roger's son, as he grows she same mole.]]

* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler:Brianna]] isn't sure whether her baby is fathered by [[spoiler:Roger or her rapist]] since the rape took place on the same day as her having consensual sex with [[spoiler:Roger]].

* TimeTravelRomance: Claire and Jamie.

* MementoMacGuffin: Ellen [=MacKenzie] Fraser's pearls really get around. They are given to her by a suitor. Following her death, they are giving to Jamie for his eventual wife. He gives them to Claire shortly after they marry. Claire offers them to [=MacRannoch=] as payment for helping free Jamie, only to discover he was the original suitor. He tells her to keep them. After being forced to leave Jamie and return to the 20th century, Claire gives the pearls to Mrs. Graham to thank her for being a confidante. Mrs. Graham gives them to her granddaughter Fiona as an heirloom. When Claire returns to get help researching Jamie, Fiona returns the pearls. When Claire decides to go back to Jamie, she gives Brianna the pearls as a keepsake from her parents. When Brianna marries, she wears the pearls as a reminder of the original [=MacKenzie=] Fraser.

* MementoMacGuffin: Ellen [[=MacKenzie]] Fraser's pearls really get around. They are given to her by a suitor. Following her death, they are giving to Jamie for his eventual wife. He gives them to Claire shortly after they marry. Claire offers them to [=MacRannoch=] as payment for helping free Jamie, only to discover he was the original suitor. He tells her to keep them. After being forced to leave Jamie and return to the 20th century, Claire gives the pearls to Mrs. Graham to thank her for being a confidante. Mrs. Graham gives them to her granddaughter Fiona as an heirloom. When Claire returns to get help researching Jamie, Fiona returns the pearls. When Claire decides to go back to Jamie, she gives Brianna the pearls as a keepsake from her parents. When Brianna marries, she wears the pearls as a reminder of the original [=MacKenzie=] Fraser.

* MementoMacGuffin: Ellen [[MacKenzie]] Fraser's pearls really get around. They are given to her by a suitor. Following her death, they are giving to Jamie for his eventual wife. He gives them to Claire shortly after they marry. Claire offers them to [=MacRannoch=] as payment for helping free Jamie, only to discover he was the original suitor. He tells her to keep them. After being forced to leave Jamie and return to the 20th century, Claire gives the pearls to Mrs. Graham to thank her for being a confidante. Mrs. Graham gives them to her granddaughter Fiona as an heirloom. When Claire returns to get help researching Jamie, Fiona returns the pearls. When Claire decides to go back to Jamie, she gives Brianna the pearls as a keepsake from her parents. When Brianna marries, she wears the pearls as a reminder of the original [=MacKenzie=] Fraser.

** In "Providence" Roger meets Father Alexandre Ferigault, who's a French Catholic priest held captive by the Mohawk because he offended them in not performing a baptism on his son. He tells Roger that is Catholic doctrine as he's not in a state of grace, due to violating his vows by conceiving the boy. This is wrong though. Catholic doctrine is that a sacrament stays valid regardless of the spiritual state of the person who performs it, because in their belief it's God not the human being who has done it. The opposite view, called Donatism, is actually condemned as a [[UsefulNotes/HeresiesAndHeretics heresy]] by the Church.

* BlackWidow: Geillis Duncan, who murders her husband Arthur Duncan with cyanide in "By the Pricking of my Thumbs" and is later revealed to have killed her 20th-century husband to get through the stones at Craigh na Dun.

** Similarly, lily-of-the-valley does exist in Scotland, and is probably more common than wild garlic (whose leaves, not berries, are sometimes confused with the poisonous plant). Treating with Digitalis, which has a similar heart-effective poison, is risky at best, and might worsen the symptoms at worst.

---> '''Randall:''' But then, of course, the Duke... ''[takes some rope out of his desk]'' ...never married.

** [[spoiler:Jack Randall isn't Frank's direct ancestor for a similar reason. Frank's direct Randall ancestor is ''Alex'' Randall, Jack's younger brother, the only person Black Jack actually loves. Alex and Mary Hawkins conceive a child together. Because Alex is fatally ill and too unwell to wed or provide for Mary, he pleads for Jack to wed Mary in his place so that as an officer's wife, Mary will be taken care of after his death; even if Jack dies as well, Mary will receive a widow's pension. Jack agrees to marry her, promising Alex he will protect and provide for Mary. As a result, Mary and Alex's child is recorded as the child of Mary and Jack on the family tree]].

** [[spoiler:Jack Randall isn't Frank's direct ancestor for a similar reason. Frank's direct Randall ancestor is ''Alex'' Randall, Jack's younger brother. Alex and Mary Hawkins conceive a child together. Because Alex is fatally ill and too unwell to wed or provide for Mary, he pleads for Jack to wed Mary in his place so that as an officer's wife, Mary will be taken care of after his death; even if Jack dies as well, Mary will receive a widow's pension. Jack agrees to marry her, promising Alex he will protect and provide for Mary. As a result, Mary and Alex's child is recorded as the child of Mary and Jack on the family tree]].