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[[caption-width-right:328:From left to right: Beatriz "Betty" Pinzón, Armando Mendoza, Marcela Valencia, Hugo Lombardi, Patricia Fernández, and Nicolás Mora.]]

->"Mi belleza es natural"
-->-- Betty.

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* BettyAndVeronica: As a classic Telenovela, this show loves this trope.
* The love triangle between Betty, Armando and Marcela is the most prominent example but is also very interesting. From Betty's point of view she is obviously the Betty (Sweet, shy and [[HollywoodHomely not quite attractive]] as the stunning Marcela) while Marcela is more of TheVamp, more outspoken and jealous, putting her into Veronica's territory, however from Marcela's perspective, she is Betty, as she knew Armando from early childhood and has supported him from the begining, contrasting with Betty who is a new comer, exotic and different. Betty later becomes the Archie to Armando's Veronica and Michel's Betty. Let's not forget that Armando was the center of another triangle, or more like a square, between Marcela's Veronica and her two Bettys, Betty and Alejandra. The resolution made Armando stay with Betty.

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* BettyAndVeronica: As a classic Telenovela, this show loves this trope.
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The love triangle between Betty, Armando and Marcela is the most prominent example but is also very interesting. From Betty's point of view she is obviously the Betty (Sweet, shy and [[HollywoodHomely not quite attractive]] as the stunning Marcela) while Marcela is more of TheVamp, more outspoken and jealous, putting her into Veronica's territory, however from Marcela's perspective, she is Betty, as she knew Armando from early childhood and has supported him from the begining, contrasting with Betty who is a new comer, exotic and different. Betty later becomes the Archie to Armando's Veronica and Michel's Betty. Let's not forget that Armando was the center of another triangle, or more like a square, between Marcela's Veronica and her two Bettys, Betty and Alejandra. The resolution made Armando stay with Betty.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Betty and Nicolás.

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* PlatonicLifePartners: Betty and Nicolás. Two very good friends since university who trust each other, have many intimate talks and support each other with their problems. But they never feel romantic attraction for each other, and they even often make fun of the idea. In fact they usually talk in Betty's own room, and even the overprotective Don Hermes doesn't feel so worried. In the end Nícolas, is more like a brother to Betty.
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%%* MultiNationalShows

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%%* MultiNationalShows* MultiNationalShows: The success of the soap led to many a ForeignRemake, most notably Series/UglyBetty, but Mexico, Brazil, Spain, India and China, to name a few, also made their own versions.

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* AbortedArc: Inés's incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofía's. They both probably had to be ignored or cut short for time issues.

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* AbortedArc: Inés's incredibly emotionally charged subplot with her husband Rafael gets left in the dust without much of an explanation, as does Sofía's.Sofía's side plot with her ex-husband and his younger girlfriend. They both probably had to be ignored or cut short for time issues.



* BettyAndVeronica: As a classic Telenovela, this show loves this trope. The love triangle between Betty, Armando and Marcela is the most prominent example but is also very interesting. From Betty's point of view she is obviously the Betty (Sweet, shy and [[HollywoodHomely not quite attractive]] as the stunning Marcela) while Marcela is more of TheVamp, more outspoken and jealous, putting her into Veronica's territory, however from Marcela's perspective, she is Betty, as she knew Armando from early childhood and has supported him from the begining, contrasting with Betty who is a new comer, exotic and different. Betty later becomes the Archie to Armando's Veronica and Michel's Betty. Let's not forget that Armando was the center of another triangle, or more like a square, between Marcela's Veronica and her two Bettys, Betty and Alejandra. The resolution made Armando stay with Betty.
%%** Also there's Efrain's Archie to Sofia's Betty and Jenny's Veronica, Sofia loses.

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* BettyAndVeronica: As a classic Telenovela, this show loves this trope. trope.
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The love triangle between Betty, Armando and Marcela is the most prominent example but is also very interesting. From Betty's point of view she is obviously the Betty (Sweet, shy and [[HollywoodHomely not quite attractive]] as the stunning Marcela) while Marcela is more of TheVamp, more outspoken and jealous, putting her into Veronica's territory, however from Marcela's perspective, she is Betty, as she knew Armando from early childhood and has supported him from the begining, contrasting with Betty who is a new comer, exotic and different. Betty later becomes the Archie to Armando's Veronica and Michel's Betty. Let's not forget that Armando was the center of another triangle, or more like a square, between Marcela's Veronica and her two Bettys, Betty and Alejandra. The resolution made Armando stay with Betty.
%%** Also there's ** Sofia is the Betty for her ex-husband Efrain's Archie to Sofia's Betty Archie, whom she still loves and Jenny's has a few tender moments with. However, Efrain is completely enamored with Jenny, the Veronica, a younger woman who is far more attractive than Sofia. While it initially seems like Jenny is only with Efrain for his money, they stay together after he loses his job and Jenny has to work to support them both, making Sofia loses.the loser of this triangle.



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%% * MeaningfulName: several.Most prominently Catalina Angel, who is almost a saint and acts as Betty's own guardian angel.



%%* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Marcela. See SmallNameBigEgo (which she is definitely not).

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%%* * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Marcela. See SmallNameBigEgo (which She has been in love with her childhood friend Armando since they were young, but Armando doesn't quite reciprocate, only agreeing to marrying her so she would support him as president of Ecomoda, and is definitely not).quite happy slipping away to sleep with models. Afterwards, he falls in love for real with Betty, leaving Marcela heartbroken.

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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Hermes Pinzón, Betty's father. He seems to notice all the awkwardness and ugliness of his daughter, but still insists on advising her against men with "bad intentions" and drives away any prospective son-in-law. Given what happened the one time his daughter ''did'' had a boyfriend, you couldn't blame him.



* OverprotectiveDad: Hermes Pinzón, Betty's father. He seems to notice all the awkwardness and ugliness of his daughter, but still insists on advising her against men with "bad intentions" and drives away any prospective son-in-law. Given what happened the one time his daughter ''did'' had a boyfriend, you couldn't blame him.
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%% * WeddingEnhancedFertility: At the end of the series, because of our main protagonists.
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* BreakfastClub: The secretaries of the company, dubbed "The Ugly Squad" by Hugo Lombardi, because none of them have perfect, supermodel looks. Besides Betty, they are an elderly lady, an angry WomanScorned in her forties, an ''angrier'' ChristmasCake over 6 feet tall, a [[TokenBlackFriend dark skinned woman who likes to play tarot]], the attractive but short (and [[TheDitz ditzy]]) company receptionist, and the fat BigEater gossiper who, ironically, is the only happily married one, and the best adjusted of all the group.

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* BreakfastClub: The secretaries of the company, dubbed "The Ugly Squad" by Hugo Lombardi, because none of them have perfect, supermodel looks. Besides Betty, they are an elderly lady, an angry WomanScorned in her forties, an ''angrier'' ChristmasCake OldMaid over 6 feet tall, a [[TokenBlackFriend dark skinned woman who likes to play read tarot]], the attractive but short (and [[TheDitz ditzy]]) company receptionist, and the fat BigEater gossiper who, ironically, is the only happily married one, and the best adjusted of all the group.
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Literally: "I'm Betty, The Ugly One" (1999-2001). Probably the most famous Hispanic SoapOpera in the world, it is a {{Dramedy}} that also [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the [[BeautyEqualsGoodness paradigm of the beautiful heroine]] by instead starring an ugly one. In Hispanic countries, everybody and their cat has watched it (the Mexican adaptation's finale ''was actually a real parade!'').

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Literally: "I'm Betty, The Ugly One" (1999-2001). Probably the most famous Hispanic SoapOpera in the world, it is a {{Dramedy}} that also [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the [[BeautyEqualsGoodness paradigm of the beautiful heroine]] by instead starring an ugly one. In Hispanic countries, everybody and their cat has watched it (the Mexican adaptation's finale ''was actually a real parade!'').
parade!''). Unsurprisingly [[MultiNationalShows it got many]] {{Foreign Remake}}s like ''Series/UglyBetty'' and ''Series/BelaAFeia''.
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** ''"El diablo es puerco"'' ("The Devil is a pig"), a phrase always spoken by Betty's father, Don Hermes. Particular because it hits the nail while really saying nonsense.

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** ''"El diablo es puerco"'' ("The Devil is a pig"), pig" but more accurately translated as "The devil plays dirty"), a phrase always spoken by Betty's father, Don Hermes. Particular because it hits the nail while really saying nonsense.

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