| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jtv_title_9.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[FemmeFatale Petra]], [[CoolOldLady Alba]], [[FairCop Michael]], [[NiceGirl Jane]], [[TallDarkAndHandsome Rafael]], [[SpicyLatina Xiomara]], [[CampStraight Rogelio]].]] |
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| 4 | ->''"Alas, it was too late. Jane's life was now the stuff of telenovelas."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Narrator''' |
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| 7 | ''Jane the Virgin'' is a 2014 [[Creator/TheCW CW]] satirical {{dramedy}}, and an Americanization of the popular (and frequently adapted) Venezuelan {{telenovela}} ''Juana la virgen''. It ran for 100 episodes over five seasons, with its final episode airing in 2019. |
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| 9 | Jane Gloriana Villanueva is a 23-year-old hotel worker studying to become a teacher. Although she's been dating FairCop Michael Cordero for the last two years, she has sworn to God and her grandmother Alba that she would save herself for marriage, much to the chagrin of her GlamorousSingleMother Xiomara. When not doting on her boyfriend, she spends time with her family, eating grilled cheese and watching ''telenovelas'' with her mother and grandmother. |
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| 11 | Then one day, when she goes in for a routine pap smear, a distracted doctor accidentally artificially inseminates Jane, and Jane becomes pregnant. Oops. |
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| 13 | Now, the sperm belonged to TallDarkAndHandsome Rafael Solano, the new owner of the hotel at which Jane works, and with whom Jane shared a dizzying kiss five years earlier. It transpires that chemotherapy treatments Rafael underwent to fight cancer have rendered him unable to biologically father children, and he pressures Jane to keep the child. Also, the sample was meant for his wife, GoldDigger Petra, who had intended to use it to [[TheBabyTrap get pregnant]] and [[GoldDigger make some serious bank]], though there's more to her than meets the eye. |
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| 15 | Additionally, the doctor that made this mistake is Rafael's sister Luisa, and this event sets Luisa on the path to reconciling with her ex, Rose, in her quest for legal aid. Meanwhile, Michael begins to dig into a criminal conspiracy centered around "Sin Rostro," "the man without a face," a drug dealer who apparently operates out of Rafael's hotel, instantly implicating Rafael, Luisa, their father Emilio and his third wife Rose -- yes, the same Rose that Luisa just hooked up with. Oh, and Jane's DisappearedDad Rogelio, the SmallNameBigEgo star of a popular telenovela, is back in town and wants to reconnect, both with her and with her mother. |
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| 17 | And then, in the ''second'' episode, things get ''really'' complicated. |
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| 19 | The series is entrenched in a number of SoapOpera and ''telenovela'' tropes. However, it's also an AffectionateParody and DeconReconSwitch of said tropes, leading to a lot of subversions and twists. It also features an external {{Narrator}} (credited as "LatinLover Narrator") who is practically a character in his own right. He provides {{infodump}}s, commentary, recaps, segues between {{flashback}}s and the modern day, and occasional {{Lampshade Hanging}}s or {{Deadpan Snarker}}y. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_third Chyrons]] and captions help him keep the plot moving smoothly. |
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| 21 | The show's primary focus, despite the drama (and occasional melodrama) of the plot, is the relationship between all the characters, particularly between the three generations of the Villanueva family and the new {{blended family|drama}} Jane is attempting to create between herself, Rafael, and their newly-conceived baby (eventually revealed to be a son named Mateo). This is complicated by an ever-shifting love square with two separate BettyAndVeronica dynamics, starring Jane, Rafael, Michael, and Petra. |
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| 23 | ->''[[CatchPhrase Which brings us... here. Now.]]'' |
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| 25 | ---- |
| 26 | !!This series provides examples of: |
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| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder: A to E]] |
| 31 | * AbileneParadox: One episode has Petra invite Jane and her family to a Mother's Day brunch before Anezka throws a wrench into their friendship. Jane, her mother, and her grandmother don't want to do go because it interferes with their established traditions for Mother's Day; later, Jane and Petra fight on the phone due to [[PoorCommunicationKills poor communication]], and both refuse to cancel because they want to seem like the bigger person. Rafael also doesn't feel like being there because of external problems, but all parties go for the sake of their large mixed family. This results in a lunch so awkward that the narrator invites the audience to make a DrinkingGame out of it. |
| 32 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Rogelio is stalked by an obsessed fan in Season 2, culminating in a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/{{Misery}}''. |
| 33 | * AbortedArc: |
| 34 | ** Michael's brother Billy and their shared criminal past gets a couple of seemingly important mentions in season one, but is never brought up again, with Billy getting only another brief mention in season 2. |
| 35 | ** In Season 5 when [[spoiler:Michael comes BackFromTheDead, it's revealed that the insurance company that paid out his life insurance to Jane is now demanding all the money back and accusing them of insurance fraud. After Jane chooses Rafael over Michael, the issue never comes up again.]] |
| 36 | * AccidentalMarriage: [[spoiler: Xo and Rogelio get a drunken Vegas wedding in the first season finale, much to their horror]]. |
| 37 | * AdamWesting: Music/BritneySpears appears in Chapter Twenty-Seven, and when every single move she makes is perfectly mimicked by her troupe of backup dancers, there's no finer example of this around. |
| 38 | * AdaptationInspiration: |
| 39 | ** 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). |
| 40 | ** 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. |
| 41 | * AffectionateParody: The show is one part telenovela and one part a parody of one. Chapter Fourteen takes this and runs with it, skewering the inherent drama in pivotal scenes by portraying them in "telenovela-vision"--character actions and reactions are heightened, clothing is more lavender, and there's an out-of-place sunset background. The show also benefits from telenovela superstar Rogelio and his over-the-top shows, which discuss, converse, and hang lampshades on many of the tropes used both in- and out-of-universe. |
| 42 | * AgeInsecurity: Rogelio refuses to acknowledge his actual age despite it being common knowledge, insisting that he is five years younger. |
| 43 | * AirplaneOfLove: When Jane meets her FirstLove Adam again at Rogelio and Xiomara's wedding, a gust of wind carries paper airplanes swirling into the air around them. |
| 44 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: As noted below, the two men in the primary Love Triangle are {{former teen rebel}}s. But it's subverted, as Jane prioritizes Mateo over anything else and primarily wants to keep him safe, something a 'bad boy' can't do. |
| 45 | * AlwaysIdenticalTwins: |
| 46 | ** Rogelio's ex-stepdaughters Valeria and Victoria, who are identically prissy and bitchy. |
| 47 | ** Roman Zazo has an identical twin brother named Aaron. Jane runs out of things to say when they meet and mentions her stepsisters. |
| 48 | -->'''Jane''': One of them has a bigger dimple than the other, I think... |
| 49 | ** Petra gives birth to identical twins. |
| 50 | ** Petra is revealed to have an identical twin sister, Anezka, whom she didn't even know existed. "Chapter One Hundred" [[spoiler:reveals the sisters are triplets, with their brother Pyotr hiding out in Siberia]]. |
| 51 | ** Jean-Luc the wedding planner turns out to be a pair of identical twins named Jean and Luc. |
| 52 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Xo and Rogelio, for Jane. Xo tends to act like "a drunken sorority girl" when allowed to, and Rogelio is extremely over-the-top with his gestures. |
| 53 | * AmbiguouslyBi: The narrator, who has no problem commenting on the attractiveness of both men and women on the show. |
| 54 | * AmicableExes: |
| 55 | ** Even though Michael is still in love with Jane, and she knows it, the two still share a close and friendly relationship, [[spoiler:with Michael helping to sweep Alba's immigration troubles under the rug, and expressly telling Xo to keep it from Jane, lest she think he did it to win her back]] When Jane finds out, she immediately goes to see him and without saying a thing, hugs him tightly. Jane even asks Michael to be Mateo's Godfather, even before learning the full extent of lengths he went to ensure Mateo's safe return. [[spoiler:And later subverted, since they get back together and eventually married.]] |
| 56 | ** Rogelio and his Ex-Wife appear to be this. Seems somewhat necessary as she's also his manager. |
| 57 | ** Rafael and Petra are on the verge of becoming this as the two are now business partners and co-owners of his hotel, until Jane helps him set her up to reveal her true colors. Even still they seem to be moving past it for the sake of their unborn babies. |
| 58 | ** Jane and Rafael. While things were awkward at first for them since [[spoiler: he still had feelings for her and she was moving on, having fallen back in love with Michael, they're now happy co-parenting together and have zero-''ish'' bad blood between them at all. After Jane marries Michael, Rafael finally is able to move on, and the two of them are comfortable enough with each other to joke about her sex life with Michael.]] |
| 59 | ** Rogelio and Xo, the two broke it off because she didn't want to have anymore children, and he wanted to put some space between the two so he could deal. After Jane get's re-engaged to Michael, however, they both set aside their personal problems to help plan her wedding, as well as continue to be doting grandparents to Mateo. [[spoiler:They get back together in the season 3 finale]]. |
| 60 | * AnArmAndALeg: Magda loses her hand to a grenade blast and, later, her leg to a car crash. |
| 61 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Anezka is left completely paralyzed and unable to speak as a result of her past seizures, with only her eyes being able to move. It gets even worse when it's revealed that it's actually ''Petra'' that is paralyzed because Anezka drugged her and switched their identities. Petra can't do anything at all except watch as Anezka steals her identity and leaves her in the hospital.]] |
| 62 | * ArcSymbol: |
| 63 | ** Jane's relationships with her two main love interests both have one that comes from where she had a important kiss with them: a tree for Rafael and snow for Micheal. [[spoiler:Michael's even serves as a MemoryTrigger to help him recover from LaserGuidedAmnesia.]] |
| 64 | ** Characters hearts will appear to glow throughout the series whenever they are overwhelmed with love. |
| 65 | * ArcWords: "Inhala, exhala" - first said to Jane by a hallucinated Rogelio de la Vega in the pilot, and repeated by many characters in times of crisis throughout the series. |
| 66 | * ArousedByTheirVoice: There's a reason the Narrator's closed-captioned dialogue is attributed to "Latin Lover Narrator." |
| 67 | * ArtifactTitle: Given Jane's MO of "SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan," it was inevitable that she would eventually be initiated into the secrets of the flesh. After it happens, the title card {{lampshades}} this by [[EvolvingCredits scratching out "The Virgin"]] and replacing it with something pertaining to the episode. |
| 68 | * ArtisticLicenseHistory: InUniverse, Rogelio's telenovela ''Tiago a Través del Tiempo'' obviously plays fast and loose with history, with the titular Tiago using time travel to appear at crucial, dramatized points in history to heroically correct the problems of said time period. Even lampshaded with the chyrons after Rogelio's Tiago strikes a deal with Franklin Delano Roosevelt to institute his public reforms if Rogelio sleeps with Eleanor Roosevelt's lesbian chanteuse lover. |
| 69 | -->[[AC:[=#HistoricallyInaccurate=]]] |
| 70 | * AsHimself: |
| 71 | ** Paulina Rubio appears as herself and gives Xo a motivational speech in Chapter 9. |
| 72 | ** David Bisbal is hired to perform at the hotel in Chapter 16. |
| 73 | ** Music/BritneySpears passes through the hotel in Chapter 27. |
| 74 | ** Creator/{{Charo}} shows up in Chapter 38. |
| 75 | ** Bruno Mars sings at [[spoiler:Jane's wedding]]--being Rogelio's third best friend in the world, and all. |
| 76 | ** Gloria and Emilio Estefan appear in Chapter 47. |
| 77 | ** Creator/DeniseRichards, Carmen Electra, and Brooke Burke-Charvet all turn up in Chapter 51 as some of the potential dates for Rogelio. |
| 78 | ** Isabel Allende in Chapter 70 [[spoiler: at the launch party for Jane's book]]. |
| 79 | ** Mario Lopez in Chapter 79 as a client of the nanny Rogelio wants to hire. |
| 80 | * AssholeVictim: |
| 81 | ** Roman Zazo is the first murder victim in the series, a sleazy guy who is having an affair with his best friend's wife. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in that he is actually FakingTheDead and killed his identical twin.]] |
| 82 | ** The bellboy known as "Disgusting Tom" creeps on Jane and Lina in his introductory scene, then winds up murdered shortly after. |
| 83 | * AttendingYourOwnFuneral: [[spoiler:Anezka]] does this after FakingTheDead, to see who really cares about her and who she can really trust. |
| 84 | * BabysFirstWords: In one episode, Mateo says his first word: "dada". This creates drama between his father Rafael and his stepfather Michael, because he said it to Michael, not Rafael. |
| 85 | * TheBabyTrap: The plot is started when Petra attempts this with Rafael's sperm sample in order to maintain her and Rafael's marriage. She tries it ''again'' in the first season finale. |
| 86 | * BackForTheFinale: Rogelio's parents return for the finale after last appearing in Season 2. |
| 87 | * BackgroundHalo: Present in promotional material, where a halo is formed around Jane's head by things like the setting sun to emphasize her virginity and Catholic upbringing. |
| 88 | * BackupTwin: Roman Zazo dies early in the series, but his identical twin brother Aaron appears later in the show. [[spoiler:It's actually Roman all along, who killed his brother and has been FakingTheDead.]] |
| 89 | * BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:Anezka is found dead hanging in her room]] and the LatinLover Narrator informs the audience that she didn't kill herself. [[spoiler:At first it seems like the Narrator is implying someone murdered her and staged her death as a suicide, but it's later revealed to be a case of ExactWords and Anezka is FakingTheDead.]] |
| 90 | * 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. |
| 91 | * 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". |
| 92 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo:[[spoiler: Jane and Rafael’s love story. They meet for the first time 5 years before the series’ events and she accidentally gets inseminated with his sperm and gets pregnant, having her child, Mateo, with him. The fact that the two seem to be destined to be together is touched several times over the course of the series, with at least Alba, Xo and Petra pointing it.]] |
| 93 | * BecomingTheMask: Rafael and Petra married each other for ulterior motives, Rafael to get back at [[TheRival Lachlan]], Petra for Rafael's money, but in a flashback, the two seem to have genuinely been in love at one point in their marriage before Rafe fell out of love with Petra, though Petra's feelings for Rafe never ''quite'' went away. |
| 94 | * BedTrick: [[spoiler: Anezka pretends to be a distraught Petra, and has sex with Rafael.]] |
| 95 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: In-universe, the premise of ''Tiago a Través del Tiempo'', Rogelio's season 2 telenovela, is Tiago using time travel to arrive at crucial points in history (such as the Stonewall riots or the Roaring Twenties) and bombastically correct the said time period's problems. |
| 96 | * BettyAndVeronica: Has two: |
| 97 | ** Jane (Archie) between Jane's nice, safe, cop boyfriend-turned-fiance Michael (Betty) and Jane's sexy, rich, and emotionally troubled accidental babydaddy Rafael (Veronica). This dynamic between the three of them is highlighted in Chapter 15, which contrasts Jane and Rafael's fantasy whirlwind romance and her more grounded but genuine relationship with Michael. In season 2, Jane gets a ThirdOptionLoveInterest when she tires of the triangle. [[spoiler:Both Betty and Veronica "win" here -- Jane marries Michael first; after his DisneyDeath, she ultimately marries Rafael after a few years and much healing.]] |
| 98 | ** Rafael as Archie between Jane and Petra. Petra is his wife of five years, but she is a glamorous manipulator with a shady past. Jane is his already-engaged employee, but she's kind, down-to-earth, and represents the familial ideal he is chasing. |
| 99 | * BigBad: Sin Rostro, though they are intermittently PutOnABus throughout the series. |
| 100 | * TheBigDamnKiss: The narrator lampshades how Jane secretly wants one telenovela-style, cheesy background and falling snow and all. Her first kiss with Michael was decidedly not this, but was still very sweet (with ceiling dust standing in for snow). Her second kiss with Rafael ''is'' this, with FootPopping and flower petals (standing in for snow) and all. [[spoiler:Her second first kiss with Michael goes into [[WallBangHer up-against-a-wall mode]], complete with accidentally triggering an artificial snow button.]] |
| 101 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: The wealthy Solanos are messed up even by telenovela standards. Rafael and Petra's marriage is on the rocks, so GoldDigger Petra attempts to artificially inseminate herself in order to stay married long enough to get the money specified in the prenup. This is at the behest of her murderous, manipulative mother Magda. Meanwhile, Rafael has to deal with his past of cancer, his disapproving father, his mother whom his father bribed to abandon him, and making sure the hotel doesn't go under. His half-sister Luisa is a recovering alcoholic whose marriage is also on the rocks, and is responsible for accidentally bringing Jane into the mess in the first place. To say nothing about how stepmother Rose is having an affair with Luisa in addition to [[spoiler: being sinister BigBad Sin Rostro; on top of that, Rafael seems to be the son of ''another'' criminal mastermind, drug lord Mutter]]. It is frequently lampshaded how their dysfunction is straight out of a telenovela. |
| 102 | * BilingualDialogue: |
| 103 | ** Spanish; justified as the characters are Latino. Alba speaks Spanish almost exclusively (she demonstrates the ability to speak English when she feels it's needed), but the other characters understand her perfectly and respond to her in English. Spanish is also occasionally spoken by Rogelio and his parents, Liliana and Manuel. |
| 104 | ** Petra and her family will occasionally sprinkle Czech in their dialogue. |
| 105 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: |
| 106 | ** Petra at first seems like a loving wife, caring and supportive of Raf. However, she's just a {{golddigger}} trying to keep him married to her long enough to get access to his money. Also, she used his only sperm sample to further this goal, ruining any chances he had at having a biological family of his own. Also, she's cheating on him. It does seem like she did genuinely care about Raf early in their marriage, and that she still has some residual feelings for him, but her miscarriage and his cancer put a lot of strain on the relationship that may not be mendable. |
| 107 | ** Rose is a TrophyWife who only married her husband for his money, and not only is she having an affair [[spoiler:with her stepdaughter]], when Luisa wanted to expose the affair--[[spoiler:not out of malice but just to clear the air between her and her father]]--Rose used her family's history of psychotic breaks to convince Raf and her husband that Luisa was insane and have her committed. [[spoiler:Also, she's Sin Rostro.]] |
| 108 | ** Michael, to Jane, is the sweet and responsible fiance who's open about his feelings. To Rafael, Michael's the cop whose jealousy drives him to spend a year [[spoiler: wrongly]] trying to pin the Sin Rostro drug empire on him, which mid-Season 2 culminates in [[spoiler: Michael accusing Rafael of turning him in for letting his criminal partner go, then punching Rafael and throwing him through a glass table in front of Jane and Mateo.]] Eventually, he acknowledges that he had acted less than desirably, and Jane forgives him. |
| 109 | ** Rafael, when thing are going his way, seems to be a nice and easy going guy, [[spoiler: however after breaking up with Jane, as stated above, he goes to underhanded tactics to keep Jane and Michael, from reconnecting, after finding out that Jane was going to choose Michael over him, by turning Michael in for letting Nadine walk away in return for Mateo. After Jane informs them that they are getting back together, he makes up an excuse that he worries for Mateo's safety due to Michael's job, Michael genuinely decides to quit his job on the force for Jane. Of course when Jane tells Rafael, she already knows it was just an excuse. Immediately after Jane makes it clear that she loves Michael, Rafael tries to get back together with Petra, who also turns him down, not wanting to be the rebound. After Petra turns him down, he hooks up with a random bar girl.]] |
| 110 | ** Elena, Rafael's mother, seems to genuinely regret trading him for a payout of $10 million and tries to reconnect with him. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Rafael is two-for-two on maternal figures who turn out to be murderous crime lords]]. |
| 111 | * 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. |
| 112 | --> '''Rogelio''': [[Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} A superhero for every weekday]]... you guys are programming masterminds! |
| 113 | * BittersweetEnding: The second season finale. Jane and Michael are finally married, and Petra and Rafael seem to be reconciled. However, it comes at the cost of [[spoiler: Anezka pulling a TwinSwitch and leaving Petra in the hospital with]] [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream locked-in syndrome]]]], [[spoiler: Rose turning out to be alive and running off with Luisa,]] and worst of all, [[spoiler: Michael being double-crossed once again, this time by Susanna, who shoots him in the hall of the Marbella.]] |
| 114 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Zaz is the most unambiguously black character, and by the end of chapter 2 he's the most unambiguously dead. |
| 115 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Petra is blonde, the Villanueva women are all brunette (Jane), and Rose has red hair. |
| 116 | * BookEnds: |
| 117 | ** At the end of the second episode, [[spoiler:Zaz]] dies by falling from a great height and being impaled. In the second to last episode, [[spoiler:Rose]], dies the same way. |
| 118 | ** In the first episode, "Una Flor" is played as the intro to Rogelio's show, ''The Passions of Santos''. In the last episode, the song is played [[spoiler:as Jane walks down the aisle to marry Rafael]]. |
| 119 | * BrainlessBeauty: Rogelio's costar Fabian, who Jane dates for a while. He seems like a well-meaning KindheartedSimpleton [[spoiler:but TookALevelInJerkass when he learns Jane is going to dump him.]] |
| 120 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: The chyrons in Episode Eleven, describing Milos: |
| 121 | -->[[AC:Milos--Petra's ex]]\ |
| 122 | [[AC:A really bad guy]]\ |
| 123 | [[AC:Forgot her birthday, twice]]\ |
| 124 | [[AC:Threw acid at her mom, once]] |
| 125 | * BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Rafael does this to Jane in Chapter Nineteen. After the two almost had sex at Jane's request, he realises that he's a bad influence on her, and uses this since she hadn't accepted his previous requests. |
| 126 | * BromanticFoil: Played with. Rafael and Michael seem to be gravitating towards this to one another, in relation to Jane (and the status of their relationships with her); however, it's noted that it's ''always'' going to be somewhat awkward between them because of Jane and Mateo. |
| 127 | * BusCrash: [[spoiler:Rafael's half-brother Derek skips town after ripping off Mutter and handing her over to the police. He is never seen by the audience again, but after Rose's hit list is discovered, it's revealed Rose had him KilledOffscreen.]] |
| 128 | * 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. |
| 129 | * CainAndAbel: Roman and Aaron. |
| 130 | * CampStraight: Rogelio. He's an extremely flamboyant, well-groomed, well-dressed man who enjoys pedicures and wears makeup, but he only ever shows interest in women. |
| 131 | * CastingGag: |
| 132 | ** Creator/CharlesMichaelDavis, a main character on the vampire-themed ''Series/TheOriginals'', plays a book agent who rejects Jane's proposal because the market is oversaturated with vampire stories. |
| 133 | ** Creator/HaleyLuRichardson, Creator/BrettDier's real-life then-fiancee plays Charlie, a rival rancher who hates Michael's guts. [[spoiler:They end up engaged with a baby on the way.]] |
| 134 | * CatapultNightmare: PlayedWith. Jane catapults awake from an EroticDream about Rafael while she and Michael are still engaged. Rafael later does the same. |
| 135 | * CelebrityCameo: Music/{{Kesha}} plays an obnoxious neighbor in Chapter 24. |
| 136 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 137 | ** "Una Flor" by Juanes plays constantly over the pilot and is mentioned as the theme song to ''The Passions of Santos''. Juanes himself guest stars in Chapter 8. |
| 138 | ** In Episode 14, Jane mentions ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''. Diane Guerrero, who plays Jane's friend Lina, plays an inmate on ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''. |
| 139 | ** Michael calls Jane "Series/VeronicaMars" at one point. Creator/RyanDevlin, who plays Billy (Michael's brother) also played a significant character in the show's third season. |
| 140 | * CharacterBlog: [[https://twitter.com/RogelioDeLaVega Rogelio de la Vega's twitter account]]. |
| 141 | * CharacterTitle: |
| 142 | ** ''Jane'' the Virgin. |
| 143 | ** On the ShowWithinAShow, ''The Passions of Santos'' and later, ''The Mystery of Tiago''. |
| 144 | * TheChewToy: A RunningGag in the later seasons involves Rogelio repeatedly accidentally causing AmusingInjuries to his co-star, River Fields. |
| 145 | * ChosenConceptionPartner: Darci Factor the matchmaker chooses Rogelio to father her child, strictly platonically, because both want to have a child but neither wants full custody. Rogelio starts to have feelings for her, complicating matters, [[spoiler:and after the TimeSkip it's revealed they never followed through because they grew to despise one another.]] |
| 146 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: What happened to Mateo's aide Alex? |
| 147 | * CitizenshipMarriage: [[spoiler:Alba and Jorge marry after Alba gains citizenship so Jorge can visit his sick mother in Mexico. They later remarry in a small ceremony, but for love instead of citizenship.]] |
| 148 | * ClassReunion: Jane attends a class reunion she herself organized prior to her unexpected pregnancy in Chapter Twenty-One. |
| 149 | * CliffHanger: |
| 150 | ** The season one finale. At the conclusion, for a moment everything is perfect... [[spoiler: then Jane's son gets kidnapped by Sin Rostro.]] Other minor sequel hooks include: [[spoiler: there being a second sample of Rafael's sperm, the tracker in Nadine's phone, and Rogelio and Xiomara's drunken Vegas wedding.]] |
| 151 | ** The second season ends with [[spoiler: Rose being NotQuiteDead and running off with Luisa, Xo being pregnant, Anezka leaving Petra comatose and switching places with her, then sleeping with Rafael, and Michael being shot by Susanna on his and Jane's wedding night.]] |
| 152 | ** Season four ends with [[spoiler:Michael coming BackFromTheDead and J.R. shooting her blackmailer, whose identity is not revealed.]] |
| 153 | * ClosetKey: Jane Ramos is this to Petra. After a long history of dating men, many of whom were abusive and/or manipulative, Petra falls for JR and realizes she is bisexual. {{Lampshaded}} when she admits that she lied when she said she'd been with women before to get JR to have sex with her for the first time. |
| 154 | * ConstructiveBodyDisposal: Sin Rostro kills [[spoiler:Emilio Salano]] by luring him to the construction site of the hotel's new pool and burying him in cement. |
| 155 | * ContinuityLockOut: It's possible to miss a single episode and get by on the LatinLover Narrator's PreviouslyOn recaps, but in a world where characters are constantly FakingTheDead, coming BackFromTheDead, or being replaced by their identical EvilTwin, all with multiple ever-shifting [[LoveTriangle Love Triangles]], it's nearly impossible to jump into the series without starting from the beginning. |
| 156 | * ContrivedCoincidence: |
| 157 | ** As is expected of a ''telenovela'', Jane's pregnancy is rife with them. In order for things to happen as they did, Jane and Petra had to go to the same OB at the same time, Jane met (and kissed) Petra's husband five years ago, he's her new boss, Luisa had to botch her job spectacularly (thanks to the timing of her wife cheating on her then calling her back) and inseminate Jane instead of Petra (who is being investigated by Jane's boyfriend as of the first episode)... it's a very small world, apparently. |
| 158 | ** Lampshaded in "Chapter Forty-Five", where Petra's anesthetic [[spoiler:wears off at the exact same moment Michael gets out of surgery, distracting the cop keeping an eye on Anezka (who had been impersonating Petra) long enough for Anezka to inject Petra with another dose.]] |
| 159 | --->'''Narrator''': I told you their fates were linked. |
| 160 | * CouchGag: After Jane finally loses her virginity, the second half of the title is removed in various ways. |
| 161 | * CulturalTranslation: |
| 162 | ** The entire show is an Americanized version of a Venezuelan telenovela. |
| 163 | ** In-universe, Rogelio pitches a ''telenovela'' version of ''Series/MadMen'' (''Hombres Locos'') as his next passion project. |
| 164 | ** Rogelio later gets the go-ahead to produce an American version of ''The Passions of Santos''. The cultural differences between telenovelas and American soaps are explored in his clash with his co-star River Fields ([[AdamWesting not Brooke Shields]]); the latter wants to cut down the more outlandish plot twists and dramatic aspects for a more 'grounded' narrative. Rogelio eventually gets his way. |
| 165 | * 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. |
| 166 | * DancePartyEnding: Chapter Sixteen ends with most of the main cast joining in, or cheering on, a dance number, but it is revealed to be a FantasySequence. |
| 167 | * DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Downplayed, then subverted. [[spoiler:Michael's death paves the way for Jane and Rafael getting back together]], but only after a few years and at least one TemporaryLoveInterest on both sides. But as it turns out, [[spoiler:Michael's death was faked...]] |
| 168 | * DeceptiveDisciple: [[spoiler:Nicolas, Rogelio's assistant.]] |
| 169 | * DeadpanSnarker: The Narrator, in conjunction with the chyrons, is the snarkiest character on the show. |
| 170 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Luisa realizes that money is the root of all of her BigScrewedUpFamily's problems. [[spoiler:When she gets her hands on her father's entire fortune after taking Rafael's cut of the inheritance, she gives it all to charity.]] |
| 171 | * DefiledForever: The show's opening. Jane's grandmother has her (then a preteen) hold a pure white magnolia, and then tells her to crumple it up. When Jane opens her hand again, the flower is battered and bruised, and her grandmother explains that her virginity is the same way. That it's something that makes her valuable, and thus something to be guarded and treasured until her wedding night, and that once she loses it, she "can never go back." This scares young Jane, and spurs her to make a promise to abstain from sex until marriage. The flower (bruises and all) has been preserved and framed on Jane's wall, as a reminder of this lesson, and growing past this mentality and becoming more sex-positive is part of her character arc. |
| 172 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: How morally reprehensible the messages in Rogelio's telenovelas sometimes are is presumably intentional. In one, he (a man) sleeps with a lesbian, which is just unspeakably lesbophobic. In addition to the existence of multiple canon lesbians who not once show romantic/sexual interest in men, however, there's also the fact that an AbductionIsLove relationship in Rogelio's past telenovela encourages his stalker Lola to kidnap him and make him "fall in love" with her in the same way Rogelio's character got the woman he imprisoned to "fall in love" with him. Programs marketed as harmless romance can perpetuate incredibly damaging notions; it's TruthInTelevision, unfortunately. |
| 173 | * 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. |
| 174 | * DiabolicalMastermind: |
| 175 | ** ''Sin Rostro'', "The Man Without a Face," is apparently a major drug dealer who completely vanished six months prior to the start of the story, but also appears to be responsible for a series of incidents that happen in the show. [[spoiler:Zaz is supposed to be Sin Rostro's point man until his murder in Chapter Two, then "Disgusting Tom" is a bellboy that may have been connected to his murder, but is murdered himself--apparently by Sin Rostro, if Tom's last words are to be believed--in Chapter Five.]] Michael and the Miami PD have been investigating this case since before the start of the series. |
| 176 | ** ''Mutter'' is another one, who seems to have recently resurfaced. Michael and the Miami PD seem to be on the hunt for her too. |
| 177 | * DiegeticSwitch: |
| 178 | ** "Una Flor" by Juanes is the theme song of Rogelio's ShowWithinAShow, and frequently morphs into part of the soundtrack. |
| 179 | ** In Chapter 2 "Let It Go" by Music/JamesBay starts off playing on Michael's phone, before shifting to part of the soundtrack. |
| 180 | * DistractedByTheSexy: Rose treats Rafael's dad to a bit of outdoors undressing at the end of Chapter Twelve as a prelude to what's next. [[spoiler: Thus caught off guard, he doesn't expect to be hit by a stream of cement triggered by Rose--a.k.a. Sin Rostro--and knocked into a hole by said cement, in which he drowns. And then she sashays off whistling cheerfully, and cut to the credits...]] |
| 181 | * ADogNamedDog: [[spoiler: Darci and Rogelio decide to name their newborn baby "[[EmbarrassingFirstName Baby Michaelina De La Vega Factor]]."]] |
| 182 | * DoubleEntendre: |
| 183 | ** 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. |
| 184 | ** 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. |
| 185 | --> '''Michael''': It's too big, it won't fit. |
| 186 | --> '''Jane''': Come on! Be gentle with my box. |
| 187 | * DramaticDrop: Jane, [[spoiler: upon learning of Michael's death. She drops her phone in slo-mo, before she herself collapses to the ground.]] |
| 188 | * DramaticIrony: Occurs very, very frequently, often accentuated with a GilliganCut or commentary from the LemonyNarrator. One of the earliest examples involves Jane and her family saying they can trust Rafael has abandoned his playboy ways as he is now HappilyMarried, before a SmashCut to Rafael demanding a divorce. |
| 189 | * DramaticThunder: All throughout the hurricane in Chapter Ten. |
| 190 | * DramatisPersonae: The first episode introduces the major characters through an EstablishingCharacterMoment followed by a freeze frame accompanied by relevant descriptions in the subtitles. |
| 191 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: The point of the show. This is invoked by Jane during the Season 3 finale [[spoiler: once to describe her journey to finally becoming a published author which later inspires her to invoke it once more to describe her parents' tumultuous relationship as she officiates their wedding.]] In the GrandFinale [[spoiler:Jane, Xiomara and Alba are married to Rafael, Rogelio and Jorge, respectively. Jane's novel sells for a whopping half a million dollars. Rogelio's new series becomes a BreakthroughHit in America. Luisa is accepted by her family again after killing the BigBad, Rose. Xo is accepted to a nursing program and moves to New York with Rogelio. Petra and J.R. reconnect. Michael has returned to his life in Montana and is engaged to his old rival, Charlie. Lastly, in the DistantFuture, Mateo becomes a successful voice actor and is revealed to be the LatinLover Narrator.]] |
| 192 | * ElevatorFailure: In Chapter Ten, invoked directly by the narrator. |
| 193 | --> '''Narrator''': That, my dear, is the classic telenovela trope known as the 'stuck in the elevator' scenario, in which [[LockedInARoom two characters at odds]] are... [[ShapedLikeItself stuck in an elevator]]. |
| 194 | * EroticDream: Jane is plagued by them in Chapter 4. |
| 195 | * EurekaMoment: |
| 196 | ** 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. |
| 197 | ** 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. |
| 198 | ** 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. |
| 199 | * EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: And they're often very good at it, too. Probably to an unrealistic degree, but, hey — the events in the show are [[CatchPhrase straight out of a telenovela,]] [[LampshadeHanging after all.]] Subversions include Michael, who's not horrendously bad at sex so much as he is... well, a ''realistic'' degree of skilled at it, with him overestimating his abilities to please until Jane lets him know he needs to improve. |
| 200 | * EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler:When Jane and Rafael finally decide to reveal their secret relationship to their family, it turns out Xo, Rogelio and Alba all already knew and were taking bets on when the two would confess.]] |
| 201 | * EvilRedhead: [[spoiler:Rose, a.k.a. Sin Rostro.]] |
| 202 | * EvilTwin: |
| 203 | ** Rogelio, for his part, [[DiscussedTrope thinks this trope is a terrible cliche]]. As soon as he says it, of course, the narrator points out that just an episode ago, [[spoiler: Roman had been revealed to be this for Aaron Zazo]]. |
| 204 | ** [[spoiler:Anezka is this for Petra]], as she tries to steal the latter's life. |
| 205 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: |
| 206 | ** In "Chapter Fifty-Four", after the show jumps ahead three years, we see that Jane has cut her long hair to above her shoulders, something that both shows the TimeSkip as well as implies Jane has changed. |
| 207 | ** Also happens to Petra in "Chapter Seventy-Four", around the time she meets [[spoiler:her ClosetKey, JR.]] |
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| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder: F to K]] |
| 211 | * FadeToWhite: Occurs often in the series, most notably when characters finally deliver their baby during a ScreamingBirth. |
| 212 | * FairCop: |
| 213 | ** Michael is a detective with the Miami PD. |
| 214 | ** His partner Nadine is pretty easy on the eyes, too. [[spoiler:Which makes their hookup after Michael's breakup with Jane virtually inevitable.]] |
| 215 | ** Michael's second partner, Susanna, is also good-looking. [[spoiler: And even better looking as Sin Rostro.]] |
| 216 | * FakeFaithHealer: The Catholic school Jane works at tacitly allows her to become one without her knowledge, when churchgoers come to seek hugs from as a blessing after learning of her presumed MysticalPregnancy. |
| 217 | * FakeOrgasm: While Jane loses her virginity to her new husband, Michael, in "[[Recap/JaneTheVirginS3E3ChapterFortySeven Chapter Forty-Seven]]", she lies that she finished to Michael as not to disappoint him. After learning some lessons about spontaneity, communication, and processing one's loss of virginity, Jane and Michael are able to have mutually satisfying sex. |
| 218 | * FakingTheDead: |
| 219 | ** [[spoiler:Roman Zazo killed his identical twin so he could fake his death.]] |
| 220 | ** [[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.]] |
| 221 | ** [[spoiler:Anezka pretends to hang herself in Chapter Seventy.]] |
| 222 | * FallenOnHardTimesJob: |
| 223 | ** Rogelio and Xo sing on a cruise ship after Rogelio's show ends in early Season 2, but it's only this for Rogelio; Xo is happy to have a paying singing gig. |
| 224 | ** [[spoiler:Rafael]] and [[spoiler:Jane Ramos]] both resort to bartending after losing their high-paying jobs. The latter is particularly unhappy about this. |
| 225 | * FamilyVersusCareer: An uncommon [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] example of the trope with Rogelio throughout the series, who wrestles with prioritizing his new relationship with his daughter, Jane, [[spoiler:as well as later being a caretaker for his and Darci's child]] over his acting ambitions. |
| 226 | * FanCommunityNicknames: In-universe, "Rogelifans" for Rogelio's legion of fangirls. |
| 227 | * FantasticVoyagePlot: Rogelio's ShowWithinAShow ''Los Viajes de Guillermo'' involves his character being shrunken down and traveling through the body of a beautiful scientist he is in love with. |
| 228 | * FireAlarmDistraction: Luisa does this to avoid being caught sleeping with her stepmother, Rose. |
| 229 | * FirstEpisodeTwist: Rogelio de la Vega, star of ''The Passions of Santos,'' is Jane's father and Xiomara's ex. |
| 230 | * FiveFiveFive: In Chapter Six, a dock where Sin Rostro is receiving a shipment is given the number 55-5; when included with other information and disguised as a phone number, the number has the FiveFiveFive prefix. |
| 231 | * FlatWhat: |
| 232 | ** Lampshaded by Rogelio in Chapter Four: |
| 233 | ---> '''Rogelio''': I'm your father.\ |
| 234 | '''Jane''': ''What?''\ |
| 235 | '''Rogelio''': ...I'm your father.\ |
| 236 | '''Jane''': No, I heard you.\ |
| 237 | '''Rogelio''': Yeah, but you said "What?" so I thought you didn't. |
| 238 | * FlowerMotifs: |
| 239 | ** Alba (and by extension Jane) uses crumpled or otherwise ruined white flowers as a metaphor for losing your virginity--once you do it, you can no longer restore it to its previous beauty. |
| 240 | ** Milos is associated with yellow tulips. |
| 241 | * FlowersOfRomance: White flower petals rain down on Jane and Rafael during their first kiss. |
| 242 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: |
| 243 | ** Michael as the Responsible and his brother Billy as the Foolish. Although they have a shared criminal past, Michael became an upstanding (for the most part) police detective while Billy is still considered a good-for-nothing who consistently tries to mooch off his brother. |
| 244 | ** Zig-zagged with Luisa and Rafael. Five years ago, Luisa was considered the Responsible (she was still a doctor despite her stint in rehab for alcoholism) and Rafael the Foolish (as he was without a life plan, flirting with different girls and wasting his father's money notwithstanding). It's more muddled in present-day. Season 2 casts Rafael as the Responsible (as he's managing the Marbella) and Luisa as the Foolish (having swung back into alcoholism and not-so-sane misdeeds). [[spoiler:Both siblings eventually settle on Responsible in Season 5]]. |
| 245 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 246 | ** Small bits in the pilot, leading to the FirstEpisodeTwist as mentioned above: |
| 247 | *** First, Jane catches Xo looking at her while watching ''The Passions of Santos''. While initially it's framed to be about Xo seeing how obsessed Jane is about the TV show, it happens right after a closeup of the main character, Santos. |
| 248 | *** Later, when Jane finds out she is, in fact, pregnant, she catches a tabloid with an article about "Rogelio de la Vega" and Santos' actor's face on the cover. |
| 249 | *** Then, the narrator mentions that Xo's ex, Rogelio, asked her to have an abortion, and that Xo decided afterwards that she needed the baby and not Rogelio. |
| 250 | *** When the narrator states that Xo saw Jane's father in plain daylight at Carla's Croquetas, "Una Flor," the theme to "The Passions of Santos," is playing. |
| 251 | ** The hooker hired to set up Rafael comes clean with Jane, mentioning that she'd been separated from her own son for some time, and during Jane's lactation classes, the overdramatic teacher warns parents not to let the nurses [[spoiler: snatch their baby. Guess what happens to Jane's son when he's finally born.]] |
| 252 | ** In Chapter Ten the LatinLover Narrator very explicitly hints that [[spoiler:Michael is going to die]]. |
| 253 | ** Jane attends a writing workshop in Chapter Sixteen. The story they are discussing ends on a twist where two characters are revealed to be the same person all along. [[spoiler:In the next episode, Aaron Zazo is revealed to have been Roman Zazo FakingTheDead all along.]] |
| 254 | ** Rogelio is furious a LaserGuidedAmnesia plotline is cut from his ShowWithinAShow because the writers found it to be too cheesy of a telenovela trope. [[spoiler:Just one episode later, Michael comes BackFromTheDead... with LaserGuidedAmnesia.]] |
| 255 | ** There are many hints that [[spoiler:the LatinLover Narrator is a grown up Mateo]]. [[spoiler:When Jane tells Mateo he can read her novel when he's older, the Narrator mentions that he's now read it immediately after. The narrator claims to be good at telling twins apart since he's had a lot of experience with twins - which makes sense as he grew up with Anna and Elsa. When Jane brings Mateo to his first day of kindergarten, the Narrator wistfully says "ah, memories". In the episode where Mateo receives an ADHD diagnosis the Narrator is also acting oddly, confessing that he's got a hard time keeping focus at various points throughout the episode]]. |
| 256 | * FormerTeenRebel: Both Michael and Rafael have criminal pasts. However, Michael reformed sometime in the past and is now a police detective, and Rafael bounced back from the deep end after his cancer went into remission. |
| 257 | * FreezeFrameBonus: Petra apparently has Scott's name [[PopUpTexting on her phone]] as "Scott([[LimitedWardrobe vests]])," as indicated in Chapter Twenty-Four. |
| 258 | * TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: Petra and Rogelio are the only two characters who never share a storyline together, with the closest thing being Rogelio's ShowWithinAShow serving as a CoincidentalBroadcast helping Petra's hostage escape in Season 1. The two only interact in a Season 3 scene that lasts less than a minute, where both struggle to understand the other's accent. |
| 259 | * 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. |
| 260 | * FriendOnTheForce: Michael is this to the rest of the cast, keeping Petra out of prison at the start of the series, using his connections to prevent Alba's deportation, and boosting Rogelio's acting career by letting him be a TagAlongActor during an investigation. |
| 261 | * FriendshipMoment: |
| 262 | ** Jane and Petra get two, one on the stairwell and one as [[spoiler: Jane tries to convince her to stop her wedding]], both about Petra's convoluted life. |
| 263 | --->'''Jane''': ...and I ''do'' care about you, in the "I-don't-want-you-to-marry-a-psycho" kind of way. |
| 264 | ** A third, more genuine one happens as [[spoiler:Petra gives birth and Jane is the only one helping her through it in the hospital since Michael and Rafael were stuck in traffic.]] It's clear that a genuine bond was formed afterwards. |
| 265 | * FunWithSubtitles: And how. The onscreen chyrons are being input by the narrator, who happens to be the snarkiest character on the show: |
| 266 | ** One of the {{establishing character moment}}s for the ''chyrons'' is when it lists Rafael as a [[AC:[[TheCasanova Playboy]]]], scratches it out, and replaces it with [[AC:[[HappyMarriageCharade Trapped husband]]]]. |
| 267 | ** Shortly after that, it focuses on his sister Luisa, who is [[AC:Married*]] |
| 268 | *** [[AC:*In some states]], establishing her as being interested in women. |
| 269 | ** "Chapter Two": |
| 270 | *** Luisa is described as an [[AC:Artificial inseminat]]({{beat}})[[AC:er (sp?)]] |
| 271 | *** Rafael is described as [[AC:The father of the baby]](''the word "baby" is deleted'')[[AC:milkshake]]. |
| 272 | ** In Chapter Four, the subtitles describe a "Pre-Cana" as [[AC:Catholic marriage counseling, led by a priest*]] |
| 273 | ---> [[AC:*Who has never been married]] |
| 274 | ** Chapter Five provides some actual fun with subtitles, by giving what is otherwise official police dialogue between Michael and Rafael subtitles indicating what their actual dialogue is about--Jane. |
| 275 | ** When Rogelio mentions Twitter for whatever reason, there's an 80% chance that chyrons will post relevant hashtags to whatever he's talking about. |
| 276 | ** Chapter Nineteen provides ''karaoke'' subtitles, in which Rogelio sings in Spanish and the subtitles highlight the relevant portions of the English translation as he sings. |
| 277 | ** Chapter Twenty-Four has Luisa exclaiming the name of a person--or what she thinks is his name--and the subtitles are thoughtful enough to supply the person's actual name. |
| 278 | * 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. |
| 279 | * {{Gaslighting}}: In Season 4 [[spoiler:Magda and Anezka hatch an elaborate plot to convince Luisa to return to the mental hospital by hiring an actor to pose as Carl, an agent of Sin Rostro. They then convince Luisa that Carl doesn't really exist and is entirely in her head.]] |
| 280 | * GiftGivingGaffe: After Rogelio reconnects with Xo, he sends her a premade gift basket with no personalization... except for accidentally sending a bracelet that belongs to his ex-wife. |
| 281 | * GoldDigger: Petra is introduced as Rafael's scheming wife in the first episode, attempting to [[TheBabyTrap Baby Trap]] him so she can get millions in the divorce. |
| 282 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Both played straight and later averted: |
| 283 | ** Xo got pregnant as a teenager with Jane, and contemplated getting an abortion (even telling Rogelio she got one), but kept the baby anyway. Surprisingly, the devout Catholic Alba was the one pushing Xo to get an abortion. |
| 284 | ** Played pretty straight with Jane, who despite getting pregnant as a virgin, keeps the baby. To the show's credit, abortion ''is'' discussed as a valid option, and Jane's initial motivation in keeping the baby is to give it to Petra and Rafael. |
| 285 | ** Completely averted with [[spoiler: Xo, whose abortion is treated very casually, happening in between episodes without much fanfare. Rogelio, Jane, and Michael all believe she made the right decision, with the drama kept to a minimum. The only conflict is with Alba's reaction.]] |
| 286 | * 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. |
| 287 | * HappyDance: Jane, Rafael and Petra have been known to break out into happy dances when things go their way. The LatinLover Narrator is particularly amused by Petra's, who [[SucksAtDancing Sucks At Happy Dancing]]. |
| 288 | * HappyEnding: By the end of the series, the main characters' dreams and romantic plots are neatly resolved. Jane [[spoiler:sells her book for big money]], Rafael has disentangled himself from the Marbella, has a better relationship with his family, and [[spoiler:marries Jane]], Petra plants the seeds of expanding the Marbella and [[spoiler:gets back together with JR]], Michael [[spoiler:has found a new life in Montana, and his fiancee is pregnant]], Rogelio's passion project premieres to acclaim, Xiomara [[spoiler:pursues her new dream of nursing school and manages to balance staying with her family and Rogelio's show]], and Alba [[spoiler:is happily married to Jorge]]. Furthermore, since [[spoiler:the narrator is a grown-up Mateo, it is implied that Jane's family's story, detailed in her book, is retold somehow... perhaps as a telenovela?]] |
| 289 | * HappyMarriageCharade: At the start of the series, Rafael and Petra put on a facade of being a happy, wealthy, in-love couple. In private, though, Rafael has fallen out of love with her and Petra, while still having feelings for him, attempts to manipulate him to get the money specified in her prenup. |
| 290 | * HashtagForLaughs: The show parodies this with Jane's vain celebrity father Rogelio, who frequently uses hashtags on Twitter. Sometimes they're relevant to the plot of the episode, others are just for laughs. ([[AC:[=#RogelioMyBrogelio=]]]) The LemonyNarrator often chimes in with the chyrons. |
| 291 | * HatesRichPeople: Jane struggles to form relationships with Rafael and Rogelio early in the series because she believes their lavish lifestyles will make them out of touch. Granted, they often prove that assumption right and have to go through some CharacterDevelopment. |
| 292 | * TheHecateSisters: Played with. Although the series revolves around Jane ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the virgin]]), her mother Xiomara, and her grandmother Alba, and Alba is definitely the firmest and most world-wise, Xiomara is flightier, more irresponsible, and more of a "seductress" than her sensible daughter Jane. |
| 293 | * HellHotel: Invoked; the Marbella is slandered as a drug and murder hotspot in season two, while Petra and Rafael struggle to fix its reputation. |
| 294 | * HereditaryTwinhood: Petra gives birth to identical twin daughters, which sets up the reveal later in the season that she herself is an identical twin. [[spoiler:And the finale pulls one last twist by revealing she is actually a ''triplet''.]] |
| 295 | * 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. |
| 296 | * HollywoodGenetics: Rafael is black haired and Petra has blonde hair. Their twin daughters are blonde, which is a case of ImplausibleHairColour, as even if their mother was naturally blonde, black hair is dominant. |
| 297 | * HollywoodLaw: |
| 298 | ** Some of the ManipulativeBitch legal maneuvering that Petra pulls off to harass Raf would never hold up for a second in court. |
| 299 | ** Almost all the circumstances surrounding controlling shares of The Marbella being transferred are utterly preposterous, such as [[spoiler:Luisa's transfer to Rafael being undone because she later institutionalized herself as the result of {{Gaslighting}}, or Miloš acquiring a third of the hotel through an erroneous charity he set up to scam Luisa]]. This is even {{Lampshaded}} by the LatinLover Narrator at one point. |
| 300 | --> '''Petra''': You got blood all over it. This will never hold up in court. |
| 301 | --> '''Narrator''': I don't think any of this would hold up in court. |
| 302 | * HonestyIsTheBestPolicy: Much like the theme of the importance of family, lying is consistently shown to negatively impact relationships. See the WhatTheHellHero examples below. |
| 303 | * HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Candyce, the prostitute Petra hired to stage Rafael cheating on Jane, later confesses to Jane when she learns who she is. |
| 304 | * HorribleHollywood: A LighterAndSofter take than most of the show's contemporaries, considering ''Jane the Virgin'' aired during the height of the Me Too Movement, but Hollywood is shown in a relatively unglamorous light. Actors are universally vain, every production is plagued by in-universe ExecutiveMeddling, and even Rogelio treats crew members and [[WritersSuck writers]] as second-class citizens and is a PrimaDonnaDirector whenever he's put in charge. |
| 305 | * HostilityOnTheSet: In-universe. Over the course of filming their reality show ''The De La Vega-Factor Factor'', Darci and Rogelio slowly grow to loathe each other to the point that nearly every offscreen conversation they have is a fight. |
| 306 | * HotForPreacher: Alba develops a crush on a priest throughout Season 1 after meeting him in physical therapy. |
| 307 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Played straight with Jane and Rafael, somewhat averted with Jane and Michael: Creator/JustinBaldoni, the actor playing Rafael, is over six foot, compared to Gina Rodriguez's 5"3. This is shown realistically fairly often. On screen, Jane and Michael don't appear to be too different in height, despite Brett Dier's height being listed as similar to Baldoni's. |
| 308 | * IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:After coming BackFromTheDead with LaserGuidedAmnesia, Michael initially plans to leave without telling Jane he regained his memories, since she had finally moved on and he didn't want to upend her life.]] |
| 309 | * ImStandingRightHere: Nearly OncePerEpisode someone will go on a rant about another character only to realize that person was in earshot. |
| 310 | * INeedAFreakingDrink: Rafael hits the bar when he learns Jane intends to remain a virgin until marriage. |
| 311 | * INeverSaidItWasPoison: How Petra accidentally informs Rafael of her affair with Zaz, when she knows the name of Zaz's brother (and Rafael doesn't). |
| 312 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: Rafael stops actively fighting for Jane when she makes it clear she doesn't love him anymore and is in love with Michael, but right before Jane and Michael's wedding it's revealed to the audience that Rafael is still deeply in love with Jane. He considers confessing his love to her moments before the ceremony, but decides not to when he sees how happy she is, effectively letting her go for good.]] |
| 313 | * IdeaBulb: Parodied when Michael realizes who Sin Rostro is; the narrator notes this should happen, and on cue, Nadine turns the lights on in the interrogation room. |
| 314 | * IdenticalGrandson: Jane's great-aunt Cecilia looks exactly like Jane (and is played by Gina Rodriguez). Alba doesn't see the resemblance. |
| 315 | * IdenticalTwinIDTag: |
| 316 | ** Parodied when Petra asks Rafael how she can tell their twin daughters apart. Rafael had the nurses put an "X" on one of them. |
| 317 | ** [[spoiler: Petra is a (presumably dyed) blonde, while Anezka is a brunette. This is used to trick the audience and other characters, like when Anezka switches their hair colours to take Petra's place.]] |
| 318 | ** [[spoiler: Petra]] [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this quite literally after [[spoiler: being temporarily paralyzed and impersonated by Anezka. She forces Anezka to get a tattoo reading "NOT PETRA" on her forehead; in later appearances, we see that Anezka has grown out bangs.]] |
| 319 | * ImagineSpot: Jane is quite prone to them. Also nicely subverted when her favorite author starts talking about Jane herself at supposed book reading, and the narrator has to tell Jane she's ''not'' imagining it. |
| 320 | * 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 Chapter Ninety-Eight.]] |
| 321 | * ImprovisedLockpick: Luisa steals Rose's brooch and uses it as a lockpick in her GreatEscape from the psychiatric hospital. |
| 322 | * InformedAbility: Jane's writing ability. It's not bad, but "not bad" isn't good enough to get into the Iowa Writers' Workshop. |
| 323 | * InstantBirthJustAddLabor: Played straight with Xo, who says she went from having contractions 8 minutes apart to giving birth within an hour. And just when it appears to be happening with Jane, going from no contractions to contractions every 4 minutes in the length of a bus ride, she averts it. After getting to the hospital, her contraction stay at every 2 minutes all night and even when she finally starts pushing, it still takes a while. |
| 324 | * 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. |
| 325 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: |
| 326 | ** Rogelio considers Michael to be his best friend. He's not as fond of Rafael, but they get there. |
| 327 | ** Alba ends up actually becoming one of Rafael's closest friends. |
| 328 | * InterruptedIntimacy: |
| 329 | ** Alba walks in on Xo and Rogelio in Chapter Two. |
| 330 | ** A security guard catches [[spoiler:Jane and Rafael SkinnyDipping in Chapter Nineteen, moments before they finally have sex.]] |
| 331 | * IntimateTelecommunications: Jane is saving herself for marriage, but puts her writing skills to good use many times while sexting her partners. |
| 332 | * InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Pretty much every parent's worst nightmare. Hours after Jane gives birth, a nurse comes into her room and says she has to take the baby to get a hearing test. [[spoiler: After leaving the room, the nurse cuts off the baby's ID bracelet and smuggles him out of the hospital. The season finale ends with the audience finding out that it is Sin Rostro, a notorious drug lord, that has kidnapped the baby.]] |
| 333 | * IronicEchoCut: Done [[RunningGag nearly every time there's a cutaway]]. |
| 334 | * ItsAllAboutMe: PlayedForLaughs with Rogelio. Whenever characters make big life announcements to the Villanueva family, he is usually the first to respond, and usually makes the news about himself. |
| 335 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Zaz. He was screwing Petra (his college roommate Rafael's wife) and was also using his position at the hotel as part of his dealings with [[spoiler:Sin Rostro]]. |
| 336 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Katherine deliberately hits Rafael with her car in retaliation for him seducing her for his own financial gain. She is never seen again and seemingly faces no consequences for this act.]] |
| 337 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Roman Zazo threw his brother Aaron from the Marbella to be ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on an ice sculpture. In Chapter Nineteen, Petra accidentally kills him by impaling him on a harpoon. The chryons even {{Lampshade}} this.]] |
| 338 | * KilledOffForReal: Almost any time a major character dies, it is later revealed that they were FakingTheDead. However, some characters fake their deaths only to die for ''real'' later on; notably, [[spoiler:Roman, Anezka and Rose.]] |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder: L to P]] |
| 342 | * LampshadeHanging: At the end of Season 3, the audience is introduced to Adam, Jane's first love. A few episodes later, Rogelio's ShowWithinAShow also introduces a new love interest and he takes serious issue with it. |
| 343 | --> '''Rogelio''': You can't just introduce a new love interest three-fifths of the way through the series and expect the audience to root for him! |
| 344 | * LargeHam: Rogelio and Xiomara. Lampshaded by the Narrator during an encounter in Chapter Seven. |
| 345 | --> '''Narrator''': What you are about to witness is [[HamToHamCombat two creatures, who are inherently dramatic]], attempt to behave like they are not dramatic. |
| 346 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The season 5 premiere reveals that Michael can't remember anything about his past and, as a consequence, goes by Jason now.]] |
| 347 | * LastMinuteBabyNaming: |
| 348 | ** Almost subverted, as Jane and Rafael had narrowed it down to three girls names and then pick during labour. But when the baby is born a boy, they're forced to think of one last minute. They pick Mateo, [[DeadGuyJunior after Jane's grandfather]]. |
| 349 | ** Exaggerated with Rogelio and Darci's baby, who doesn't have a name weeks after being born because they're too hung up thinking of one. [[spoiler:They eventually settle on 'Baby Michaelina'.]] |
| 350 | * LateComingOut: Rogelio's father Manuel is closeted, and kept up the appearance of a happy marriage with his mother Liliana for Rogelio's sake. In season two, Liliana and Manuel get a divorce after being married for about forty years so that Manuel can live as a gay man. |
| 351 | * LatexPerfection: [[spoiler: In the season 2 finale, "Susanna" is revealed to actually be Rose wearing a latex mask and voice changer. It was such a good disguise that even Luisa didn't recognize her. Also for Rose is Eileen.]] |
| 352 | * LawOfInverseFertility: |
| 353 | ** Xo having an unwanted TeenPregnancy. |
| 354 | ** Petra wants a child to save her marriage, but had a miscarriage before Rafael's cancer and now has only has one chance to do it (using her husband's freeze-dried sperm sample). Too bad it goes to Jane. |
| 355 | ** A kid is the ''last'' thing Jane wanted, but she winds up getting saddled with one due to Luisa's mistake. |
| 356 | ** [[spoiler: Xo, who ''very'' firmly never wants another child, finds herself pregnant by a one night stand in the season 2 finale.]] |
| 357 | ** In season 5, Lina wants to conceive very badly, but hasn't been successful so far and may be infertile. She announces her pregnancy in the series finale. |
| 358 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: |
| 359 | ** Scenes will often transition by cutting to another character saying something that sounds like a reaction to or is otherwise related to the previous scene. |
| 360 | ** The characters frequently make comments about how ''telenovela'' characters would act in similar situations, whether it's Michael attempting to apologize to Jane with a romantic song playing in the background, or Jane explicitly trying to invoke a ''telenovela'' atmosphere when preparing for a romantic evening. Off that last one: |
| 361 | --->'''Narrator:''' Then again, "perfect" doesn't exist, ''especially'' in ''telenovelas.'' |
| 362 | ** In Chapter Forty-Seven, Rogelio talks about making an Americanized version of ''The Passions of Santos'' on The CW. [[BitingTheHandHumor None of the characters have ever heard of the network.]] |
| 363 | * LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Jane and Xo have a conversation in Chapter Twenty over the show's standard background music. Xo suddenly asks where the music is coming from, and Jane reveals the background music is coming from her phone in an effort to flip the baby. |
| 364 | * LemonyNarrator: The Latin Lover Narrator, who snarks at the characters and the audience both vocally and with the chyrons and is fond of lampshading tropes seen on the show. |
| 365 | * LiquidCourage: Rogelio likes a glass of wine to calm down when he's nervous, as we learn when he has his first meeting with Jane after revealing he's her father. |
| 366 | * 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. |
| 367 | * LiteralMetaphor In Chapter 14, Luisa recounts how she and Rose got together. "And then she kissed me. And then there were fireworks." It was the 4th of July, and the fireworks show started right as Rose kissed her. And then they [[TwoPersonPoolParty had sex in a pool]], while the fireworks continued. |
| 368 | * LostInTransmission: In Chapter Nine, Ivan realizes that the current storyline in ''The Passions of Santos'' [[CoincidentalBroadcast matches nearly perfectly with his own situation (captivity)]]. After he manages to acquire the items Santos needs for escape, he's about to listen to Santos' plan to break free when the television gets turned off. When it gets turned back on, Santos is already free. |
| 369 | * LoveDodecahedron: As one would expect of a ''[[SoapOpera telenovela]]'': |
| 370 | ** The primary triangle is Jane, who has been dating Michael for two years and is now engaged to him, and Rafael, her baby daddy whom she kissed five years ago and also happens to be her boss. In addition to this, Rafael is married to Petra, who is sleeping with his best friend Zaz[[note]][[spoiler:until he dies, anyway]][[/note]] and is also pursued by ex-suitor Lachlan, however near the end of the first season she realizes that she's not so over Rafael. Plus, each person also has their own {{Temporary Love Interest}}s over the course of the series. |
| 371 | ** Also, Luisa, even if her wife is unfaithful, is still married, but she's also [[SexWithTheEx sleeping with her ex-girlfriend.]] [[spoiler:[[ParentalIncest Said ex, Rose, is also Luisa and Rafael's stepmother.]]]] |
| 372 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Rogelio to Jane in Chapter Four. |
| 373 | * MadonnaWhoreComplex: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in Chapter Forty-Seven. Jane is writing about her great-aunt Cecilia, and she can't figure out whether Cecilia was promiscuous like Alba said, or if she was very devout and virginal. [[spoiler: All of this is Jane projecting her own feelings, as she just lost her virginity and is having trouble reconciling sex as a non-sinful thing.]] |
| 374 | * MagicPlasticSurgery: A major source of paranoia for the characters is that Sin Rostro's illegal plastic surgery ring can make criminals look like ''anyone''. Sin Rostro employs SurgicalImpersonation a couple of times as well. |
| 375 | * MamaBear: Jane in the beginning of Season 2, when she [[spoiler:went to rescue Mateo from Sin Rostro]]. |
| 376 | ** Petra as well, when she [[spoiler:killed Anezka, because Anezka threatened to kill her daughters]]. |
| 377 | * MeaningfulName: Sin Rostro (also known as "The Man Without a Face") references both [[spoiler: her real name, Rose (which is lampshaded by the narrator) and her criminal plastic surgery operation.]] |
| 378 | * MeetCute: Very much how Michael and Jane's first meeting was presented, and to a lesser extent, (more emphasis on romantic than cute) how Jane and Rafael had met. |
| 379 | * MemoryTrigger: [[spoiler:Jane attempts to bring back Michael's memories after he comes BackFromTheDead with LaserGuidedAmnesia by taking him to places where significant moments in their relationship occurred. Nothing works, but he eventually stumbles on his ArcSymbol of falling snow / drywall and it triggers a RegainedMemoriesSequence.]] |
| 380 | * MidSeasonTwist: |
| 381 | ** Season One: [[spoiler:Rose]] is Sin Rostro, and [[spoiler:she kills the Sin Rostro RedHerring, Emilio.]] |
| 382 | ** Season Three: [[spoiler:Michael suddenly dies, and the show does a three year TimeSkip.]] |
| 383 | ** Season Four: [[spoiler:Anezka frames Petra for {{Gaslighting}} Luisa, then falls to her death from The Marbella (apparently being murdered by Petra). Jane and Rafael get together again.]] |
| 384 | * MillionairePlayboy: Rafael, although he's trying to leave the "playboy" part behind after his marriage to Petra and battle with cancer. |
| 385 | * AMinorKidroduction: Jane is first introduced as a young girl receiving a talking-to about virginity from Alba. Some episodes will also start with a flashback to her youth to set the theme of the episode. |
| 386 | * MiseryPoker: The night Jane gives birth, Michael is [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] at a bar. He and another patron share their woes. |
| 387 | --> '''Bar Patron''': I got passed over for a promotion again. |
| 388 | --> '''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... |
| 389 | --> '''Bar Patron''': Wow. You win. |
| 390 | * MissingMom: |
| 391 | ** It's alluded to that Luisa's mother was mentally ill. In Chapter Twelve, Luisa outright states that her mother committed suicide. While this was later revealed to not be the case, she was still out of Luisa's life until she died. |
| 392 | ** Rafael says his mother left on her fourth birthday, and eventually hires a PI to investigate what happened to her. [[spoiler:When they meet, he discovers she was paid off by his father to stay away from them.]] |
| 393 | * MistakenForInsane: Luisa is institutionalized after she confesses to having an affair with her stepmother, and her fears that her father is Sin Rostro only make matters worse. |
| 394 | --> '''Luisa''': (''on the phone'') I think my father might be a criminal mastermind and I'm worried that my stepmother is in imminent danger. ({{beat}}) Yes, I am calling from the Haven View Psychiatric Hospital. |
| 395 | * TheMole: |
| 396 | ** [[spoiler:Nadine]] is revealed as a mole for Sin Rostro in Chapter Nineteen. |
| 397 | ** In the season 2 finale, Michael figures out that [[spoiler: Susanna]] is such a thing. [[spoiler: What he doesn't find out, due to her shooting him, is that... well, see NotQuiteDead below.]] |
| 398 | * MomentKiller: When Jane and Michael decide to have sex, a DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything advertisement for the Marbella featuring Rafael spoils the mood, followed moments later by Luisa's FireAlarmDistraction. |
| 399 | * MonochromePast: Parodied. A flashback to Petra's days in Prague starts out in monochrome, then changes back to color as the narrator points out that it was only five or so years ago. |
| 400 | * MoralityPet: In later seasons, Jane is this to Petra. By Petra's own admission, she judges how bad her actions are by how disapproving Jane's reactions are. |
| 401 | * MostWritersAreWriters: Jane is an aspiring romance novel writer. Several writer characters appear in supporting and cameo roles. |
| 402 | * MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Rafael the MillionairePlayboy chases Jane the Virgin. |
| 403 | * MrFanservice: TallDarkAndHandsome Rafael gets many a ShirtlessScene. |
| 404 | * MsFanservice: |
| 405 | ** Xiomara who can usually be found in booty shorts or dresses with high hemlines and low necklines. |
| 406 | ** Petra also qualifies, frequently wearing outfits that accentuate her beauty--and, occasionally, not wearing them. |
| 407 | ** Rose is a TrophyWife played by Creator/BridgetRegan. It comes with the territory. |
| 408 | ** Being a virgin doesn't stop Jane from dressing in some pretty steamy outfits during [[FantasySequence Fantasy Sequences]]. |
| 409 | * MultigenerationalHousehold: Mateo (son), Jane (mom), Xiomara (grandmother), and Alba (great-grandmother) all live under the same roof, and their living situation often inform their relationships in both [[PlayedForLaughs comedic]] and [[PlayedForDrama dramatic]] ways. |
| 410 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Sin Rostro (which means 'The Man Without a Face'). |
| 411 | * NewOldFlame: |
| 412 | ** Rogelio and Xo get back together twenty-three years later. |
| 413 | ** Subverted with Lachlan and Petra, who get back together with their own ulterior motives. |
| 414 | ** Andie to Michael, after his fallout with Jane. |
| 415 | ** Alba and Pablo, her FirstLove who visits in season two. |
| 416 | ** Xo and Bruce, who apparently had an intense on-off-again relationship while Bruce was still married. |
| 417 | ** Adam to Jane. They dated (and nearly married) when Jane was 19, and rekindle their romance almost ten years later. |
| 418 | * NiceGirl: Abbey, Rafael's girlfriend, which even the narrator can't help but like due to her niceness, even Petra's enjoys her and is on her side. [[spoiler: However Rafael, beware a WomanScorned.]] |
| 419 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Rose turns down a $25,000 book deal on Jane's behalf while holding Jane hostage. Jane later sells her novel for a whopping half million dollars at auction since she didn't lock in to the prior offer.]] |
| 420 | * NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted, but not until well into the third season. Which is pretty incredible given the premise. |
| 421 | * NominalImportance: Most people introduced will have their full name typed on the screen via chyron. If they don't, they're not important (like Tammy the insurance lady that the Narrator can't remember the last name of in Chapter Forty.) |
| 422 | * NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler: Rose insists that she didn't kill Scott, when even Luisa thinks she did. She didn't - it was Eileen.. the ''real'' Eileen (who Rose is disguised as, with the real Eileen warned to leave the country and never come back), she killed him when he saw her in the beach, as she guessed that he'd realise there were two of them.]] |
| 423 | * NotQuiteDead: |
| 424 | ** Roman Zazo, thought murdered in the second episode, [[spoiler:reveals to have killed his twin brother instead]]. |
| 425 | ** On the ShowWithinAShow, Santos's reason for surviving his son's betrayal is through a combination of several telenovela cliches. |
| 426 | ** [[spoiler: Rose, who was actually shown onscreen to have been strangled to death. In Chapter Forty-Four it is revealed that it was only a decoy that was killed and that Rose was actually disguised as "Susanna", Michael's partner and Luisa's new girlfriend, the entire time.]] |
| 427 | ** In the season four finale [[spoiler:Michael returns, having survived his apparent death. It is later revealed that Rose gave him LaserGuidedAmnesia instead of killing him to honor her ThouShaltNotKill promise to Luisa.]] |
| 428 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Rogelio's mother despises Xo; it's revealed that this is mostly Rogelio's fault, since he lied about Xo making him a DisappearedDad because he's a WellDoneSonGuy who couldn't bear his mother's disapproval. |
| 429 | * OddFriendship: Jane and Petra hated each other in the first season. After realizing that Petra will soon be a part of her family, [[spoiler: due to Petra carrying Mateo's twin half-sisters]] Jane begins to show concern and support for Petra. Petra in turn ends up sticking up for Jane, [[spoiler: and secretly subletting the house that she and Michael are interested in, so they could afford the rent]]. |
| 430 | * OhCrap: Said word-for-word by the narrator in "Chapter Twenty-Three" to show Petra's state when she realises [[spoiler: that her assistant Scott put Rafael's sperm sample in among the gifts in Mateo's nursery]]. |
| 431 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: Jane is inseminated by Luisa, who's the sister of baby daddy Rafael, who was also Jane's crush at some point and current boss. Rafael and Luisa's family is related to Sin Rostro's dealings, whom Jane's boyfriend Michael is trying to track down. |
| 432 | * OnceASeason: Someone gets married every season finale. |
| 433 | * OneSteveLimit: |
| 434 | ** Averted with Jane Villanueva and Jane Ramos, the latter of whom appears in season 4. Petra calls the latter "JR" to differentiate them. |
| 435 | ** Averted with Petra herself and [[spoiler:her triplet brother Pyotr]], with both names being variants of "Peter". This has the caveat of Petra's birth name being Natalia. |
| 436 | * OrangeBlueContrast: Present in the set designs, most of which feature some combination of warm or pastel orange and light or dark blue. Jane's house is a warm orange with pops of blue, while the Marbella is a bright blue with pops of orange and yellow. |
| 437 | * OverlyLongName: Mateo Gloriano Rogelio Solano Villanueva[[note]]"Mateo" after his dead great-grandfather, "Gloriano" to match his female family members' common name of "Gloriana", "Rogelio" for his grandfather, and "Solano Villanueva" from his father and mother, respectively[[/note]], but he is mostly just referred to as "Mateo". Jane and Rafael lampshade that his name is kind of long after the LastMinuteBabyNaming. |
| 438 | * ParanoiaGambit: After Rogelio romantically rejects his co-star, River Fields, she pulls one of these to retaliate, convincing Rogelio that she is going to kill him on set and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. |
| 439 | * ParentPreferredSuitor: Xo and later Rogelio are both firmly Team Michael when it comes to the core LoveTriangle of the show. |
| 440 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: Xo and Alba both (independently) vetoed Jane's engagement to Adam prior to the events of the series. |
| 441 | * 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. |
| 442 | * ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Rogelio's passwords are all "Rogelio", except for ones that require a number, in which case he uses "[=Rogelio1=]". |
| 443 | * PastExperienceNightmare: |
| 444 | ** Jane has several of these after [[spoiler: Michael is shot. She wakes up [[CatapultNightmare bolt upright in bed]] after reliving the night when she found her husband bleeding out on the floor.]] |
| 445 | ** She also has nightmares of Mateo being kidnapped after his kidnapping in the series 1 finale. |
| 446 | * PocketDial: Jane's advice to Petra who misses her ex J.R. (who forbid her to contact her) is to "accidentally" butt-dial her. It works as it leads to them texting and then getting back together. |
| 447 | -->'''Jane:''' You can accidentally butt-dial her. You just like let the phone ring a few times and hang up. She texts you back, you're in. If she doesn't, leave her alone. |
| 448 | * PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Neither Petra nor Rafael know that the protagonists of ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'' are named Elsa and Anna, and don't see anything wrong with naming their twins that, to Jane's utter disbelief. |
| 449 | * PopUpTexting: Text messages appear as pop-up bubbles on the screen. |
| 450 | * PlotIncitingInfidelity: She isn't the protagonist, but the show's convoluted plot is kickstarted when Luisa walks in on her wife cheating on her. The fragile state of mind this puts her in leads to Luisa making the crucial mistake of accidentally artificially inseminating Jane instead of Petra. |
| 451 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: The title character is in her late twenties with a child of her own when her father Rogelio fathers his second daughter Baby. |
| 452 | * PrimaDonnaDirector: Rogelio turns into one whenever he is put in charge of a creative project. |
| 453 | * PrisonChangesPeople: [[spoiler:Rafael goes to prison during the TimeSkip in Season 3, and comes out a more relaxed, "zen" individual.]] |
| 454 | * ProductPlacement: |
| 455 | ** The Villanueva women are truly enchanted by Target, with the Black Friday sale in Chapter Twenty-Nine being particularly shameless and bordering on ParodyProductPlacement. |
| 456 | ** 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''. |
| 457 | * ProtagonistTitle: The show is named after its heroine '''Jane''' The Virgin. |
| 458 | * PreviouslyOn: The narrator records a unique recap of the relevant information before the episode starts. |
| 459 | * 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. |
| 460 | * PutOnAPrisonBus: [[spoiler:Miloš is arrested offscreen]] in Season 2 and immediately dropped from the story. [[spoiler:However, TheBusCameBack in Season 4.]] |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder: R to W]] |
| 464 | * ReallyGetsAround: |
| 465 | ** Xo apparently has her fair share of casual boyfriends. |
| 466 | ** Rogelio, the star of the ShowWithinAShow, apparently has a new girl every week, if the tabloids are to be believed. |
| 467 | * RecoveredAddict: Luisa starts the series as one, but falls OffTheWagon early on. |
| 468 | * RecycledInSpace: In-Universe. Rogelio's American adaptation of ''The Passions of Santos'' evolves into a SplitTimelinesPlot where his portion of the story involves humanity colonizing Mars. |
| 469 | * RedHerring: Mutter's identity. The police and the audience are initially led to believe it's [[spoiler: Luisa's mother Mia. They were right that she faked her death, but Mia did it to escape Emilio and live a quiet life by a lake. Turns out it's actually Emilio's second wife Elena, Rafael's mother]]. |
| 470 | * RelationshipRevolvingDoor: The LoveDodecahedron between Jane, Rafael, Michael, and Petra involves a lot of this. At the beginning, Jane is engaged to Michael while Rafael is married to Petra, before [[spoiler:Jane and Rafael leave Michael and Petra, respectively, and get together. Then Jane and Rafael break up, and Jane gets back together with Michael and marries him. Then Michael dies, and after a lengthy mourning period, Jane gets back together with Rafael. ''Then'' it turns out Michael's [[NotQuiteDead death was faked]] by [[BigBad Sin Rostro]], and he returns with LaserGuidedAmnesia under the name Jason. Michael eventually regains his memories of Jane, and [[InsecureLoveInterest Rafael]], fearing Jane will leave him for Michael again, breaks up with her. Jane then travels to Montana with Michael to sort out her feelings for him and realizes she still loves Rafael, before returning to Miami, getting back together with Rafael, and ultimately marrying him in the GrandFinale. Meanwhile, in the midst of these break-ups and reconciliations, Rafael and Petra engage in SexWithTheEx on a few occasions]]. It's complicated, to say the least. |
| 471 | * RememberTheNewGuy: Michael's partner Dennis isn't introduced until Season 3, by which point [[spoiler:Michael is already off the force due to medical issues following his shooting]], but the characters act like he and Michael had a close relationship. |
| 472 | * ReplacementScrappy: In-universe; Chapter 56 replaces Scott, a manager nobody liked or missed who apparently died at the hotel next door, with Elvis, a fairly similar guy that nobody is fond of either. |
| 473 | * {{Retool}}: 3x10 onwards. After [[spoiler: Michael’s death]] the show jumps three years in the future. |
| 474 | * 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]].]] |
| 475 | * RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Rafael and Michael. Rafael is a MillionairePlayboy, while Michael needed a year-long saving plan to afford a $1,080 engagement ring. However, since the Villanueva family HatesRichPeople at the start of the series, this works out in Michael's favor. |
| 476 | * RooftopConfrontation: [[spoiler:Rose has her final showdown with Jane, Rafael and Luisa on top of a rooftop, where she is pushed to her death by Luisa and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.]] |
| 477 | * RomancingTheWidow: [[spoiler:Rafeal four years after Michael's apparent death, after [[RomanticFalseLead Romantic False Leads]] Dennis, Fabian and Adam also did the same.]] |
| 478 | * RomanticFakeRealTurn: [[spoiler:Petra and Jane Ramos use a FakeRelationship to throw J.R.'s blackmailer off the fact they are working together to smoke them out, but J.R. was already Petra's ClosetKey and the two quickly fall for each other.]] |
| 479 | * RunningGag: |
| 480 | ** 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 and friendship with Gloria Estefan. |
| 481 | ** 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]]. |
| 482 | ** Rafael randomly picked the names Elsa and Anna for Petra's twins, which naturally means she has to constantly correct people that they're not named after the ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'' characters. (Elsa is later referred to as Ellie to stop the connection to you-know-what.) |
| 483 | ** Rogelio repeatedly accidentally causing AmusingInjuries to his co-star, River Fields. |
| 484 | ** Xo (and occasionally Rogelio on her behalf) [[spoiler:playing the "cancer card" to get out of things.]] |
| 485 | * SamusIsAGirl: Sin Rostro, "The Man Without A Face". |
| 486 | * ScreamingBirth: All of the delivery scenes over the course of the series. |
| 487 | * SecretTestOfCharacter: Xo explains to Rogelio that she might be pregnant to gauge his reaction, then tells him it was AllJustAPrank so she can gauge his ''real'' reaction. |
| 488 | * 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. |
| 489 | * SexAsRiteOfPassage: DeconReconSwitch. When Jane finally stops being The Virgin (because she's found someone to marry), TheirFirstTime is... bumpy. The way it would be for someone with a MadonnaWhoreComplex; the way it would be when someone who's been told that her virginity is her IncorruptiblePurePureness has finally reached the moment of abandoning it; the way it would be in a more realistic setting. Ultimately it ''is'' a rite of passage, but not the one where Jane grows up; rather, it's the one that where Jane grows up ''[[CharacterDevelopment more]]''. |
| 490 | * SexWithTheEx: |
| 491 | ** Rose and Luisa broke it off sometime before the start of the series, but begin doing it again after Luisa calls her for counsel. |
| 492 | ** Xo and Rogelio don't take long to reconnect, both emotionally and physically. |
| 493 | ** Petra and Lachlan (whom she had previously left for Rafael) do it too, although they're each doing it to manipulate the other. |
| 494 | ** Petra and Rafael as well, on more than one occasion [[spoiler: although one of those times Rafael only thought he was sleeping with Petra, while in fact it was Anezka pretending to be Petra]]. |
| 495 | * ShipperOnDeck: At the beginning, Xo and Rogelio are [=#TeamMichael=] while Alba is [=#TeamRafael=]. [[spoiler:After the 3-year TimeSkip, all three are thrilled at the idea of them reuniting and being a real family with Mateo and fully supportive when this actually happens.]] |
| 496 | * ShippingTorpedo: At first, both of Jane's parents independently state their disapproval of Rafael and his relationship with Jane. Both of them also prefer Michael, although they both put her happiness first. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} when the two get back together after the 3-year TimeSkip as both Xo and Rogelio have changed their mind and are now fully supportive of their relationship, seeing how much Rafael’s grown as a person and loves both Mateo and Jane and because they both consider him completely part of the family at this point.]] |
| 497 | * ShirtlessScene: Rafael, being MrFanservice, gets many, whether it's at the beach, at the gym, or just in a FantasySequence. |
| 498 | * ShowWithinAShow: Rogelio stars in multiple in-universe telenovelas over the course of the show: ''The Passions of Santos,'' ''Pasion Intergalactica,'' ''Tiago al travers del tiempo'', ''The De La Vega-Factor Factor'', ''Los Viajes de Guillermo'', and ''The Passions of Steve and Brenda''. |
| 499 | * ShoutOut |
| 500 | ** [[spoiler:Emilio]] partially buried in cement, with head and hands visible [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack may look familiar to some.]] |
| 501 | ** [[spoiler: In season 2 Rogelio is held captive and abused for weeks by a LoonyFan who is angry about one of the shows he worked on ending. The name of the show was "[[Literature/{{Misery}} La Miseria]]".]] |
| 502 | ** When Petra visits [[spoiler:Magda]] in prison, the latter claims that [[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack "the red-haired lady in the kitchen is trying to poison her"]]. |
| 503 | ** Petra decides to call her twin daughters [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa and Anna]]. She insists that she wasn't inspired by the Disney movie. |
| 504 | ** The LatinLover Narrator struggles to remember Rafael's new girlfriend's name (and even her presence in the room) after the TimeSkip. The character's last name is Whitman, a nod to George Michael's equally forgettable girlfriend in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' portrayed by Creator/MaeWhitman. |
| 505 | ** Anezka catches up on ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and takes a liking to the character Sansa, and the LatinLover Narrator also mentions the show multiple times [[spoiler:including when Anezka is KilledOffForReal, noting that she is not FakingTheDead again and is "Ned Stark dead".]] |
| 506 | ** Rogelio's ShowWithinAShow in Season 5 recreates the iconic shot of the Xenomorph breathing down Ripley's neck in ''{{Film/Alien}}''. |
| 507 | * 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. |
| 508 | * SingleSexOffspring: According to Jane, her family only has daughters, so Jane doesn't even bother thinking of a masculine name for the child she accidentally conceived with Rafael. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a son, prompting some LastMinuteBabyNaming.]] |
| 509 | * SinisterWhistling: Crime lord [[BigBad Sin Rostro]] is often heralded by a signature nine-note {{Leitmotif}}, which they sometimes whistle themselves. |
| 510 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Esteban to Rogelio. In addition to competing for roles and awards with Rogleio, Esteban also has a habit of pursuing Rogelio's ex's. He's a SmugSnake, but isn't without his PetTheDog moments and certainly isn't as villainous as the show's ''actual'' villains (or Petra pre-DefrostingIceQueen for that matter). |
| 511 | * SkinnyDipping: Jane and Rafael do this in a pool at the Marbella as part of couple's therapy. [[spoiler:They nearly have sex for the first time in the heat of the moment, but a security guard catches them and spoils the mood.]] |
| 512 | * SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: |
| 513 | ** Subverted with [[spoiler: Jane marrying Michael. Moments before the wedding, Rafael confronts Jane, telling her he loves her and begging her not to marry Michael... But then it's revealed that was only in Rafael's head. In reality, Rafael sees how happy Jane is and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy decides to let her go.]] ]] |
| 514 | ** Played straight with Alba's wedding. A flashback reveals that a relative objected to the marriage in the middle of the ceremony [[spoiler: due to Alba not being a virgin]], causing a fight to break out. |
| 515 | * 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. |
| 516 | * TheStakeout: Rogelio and Michael bond during one in Chapter Sixteen, when Michael brings Rogelio on an investigation as a TagAlongActor. |
| 517 | * StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Jane pretty shamelessly stalks some of the men she's interested in throughout the series, PlayedForLaughs and almost always resulting in her getting caught. Becomes a DeconstructedTrope in Season 5 when Jane examines how creepy some of her past actions would have come across if she were a man. |
| 518 | * StarstruckSpeechless: Alba plans to give Rogelio a piece of her mind when the two first meet, but is too starstruck to follow through when they finally come face-to-face. |
| 519 | * StripperCopConfusion: Jane and Michael first met when he tried to break up her rowdy 21st birthday party while on duty. She mistook him for a stripper until she fired his gun at the ceiling. |
| 520 | * SlippingAMickey: Petra hires a prostitute to drug Rafael in Chapter 8, in an effort to break up Jane and Rafael. |
| 521 | * SlutShaming: Alba to Xo, which explores and deconstructs Xo's EthicalSlut[=/=]GoodBadGirl[=/=]SpicyLatina[=/=]ReallyGetsAround. |
| 522 | -->'''Alba:''' Especially because you didn't need the encouragement.\ |
| 523 | '''Xo:''' Oh my God, are you serious? You're ''such'' a hypocrite!\ |
| 524 | '''Alba:''' No. What I did was different. It wasn't the same. I got carried away one time. You were sleeping around.\ |
| 525 | '''Xo:''' I did ''not'' sleep around, Ma! Do ''not'' make me feel like a slut!\ |
| 526 | '''Alba:''' I'm not.\ |
| 527 | '''Xo:''' You ''are''! Like you always have! And I am ''not''! I am just a normal woman who ''enjoys'' having sex. And you have made me feel like ''crap'' about it my ''entire'' life. [crying] And ''that's'' why I'm so pissed. [leaves] |
| 528 | ** Later, it's learned that Alba was slut-shamed herself as a young woman, and so she thought it'd be better if Xo was shamed at home by her family so she'd stop, rather than having the whole town shame her. |
| 529 | * SnowMeansLove: The ArcSymbol for Jane and Michael's romance. |
| 530 | * SnarkKnight: The LemonyNarrator. |
| 531 | * StylisticSuck: In general, the in-universe telenovelas have cliche plots and over-the-top acting. The audience gets to see a lot of Rogelio and Esteban's new show, ''Pasion Intergalactica'', but it looks purposefully terrible. |
| 532 | * TagAlongActor: Rogelio shadows Michael to hone his craft and better portray a Space Lieutenant in his new series, which marks the beginning of their OddFriendship. |
| 533 | * TakeThat: The show is not shy at all about insulting Donald Trump, by name, after the election. |
| 534 | * TangledFamilyTree: The Solanos, hoo boy. Emilio's second wife (Rafael's mother) was the stepmother of his third wife (Rose), who had an affair with his daughter (Luisa) by his first wife. |
| 535 | * TeacherStudentRomance: Jane has a brief fling with her HotTeacher and Academic Advisor, Professor Chavez. |
| 536 | * TheirFirstTime: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in Chapter Forty-Seven. [[spoiler: Jane and Michael finally have sex, it's far from IdealizedSex, with Jane [[{{Anorgasmia}} having trouble reaching orgasm]] and with their further attempts just getting more awkward. Jane realizes her feelings about losing her virginity are complicated, feeling like she has lost a part of her identity and struggling to separate sex from being sinful. After communicating her feelings to Michael, they are able to have better sex.]] |
| 537 | * ThemedParty: Lina's bachelorette party is a Creator/AgathaChristie or ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}''-esque MurderMystery-themed party, because her fiance is a fan of the genre. |
| 538 | * ThemeTwinNaming: Done accidentally by [[spoiler: Rafael and Petra with their twins [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa and Anna]]. Come the TimeSkip in Season 3 it's learned that Elsa is now ''Ellie''.]] |
| 539 | * 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. |
| 540 | * ThereIsAnother: Rafael's last remaining sperm sample turns out to not quite be the last of its kind. |
| 541 | * TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: [[spoiler:Michael's mother initially blames Jane for his death, stating that if Jane had just taken him to the doctor when he first reported feeling unwell he would have lived.]] |
| 542 | * ThickerThanWater: A major theme. Family is given heavy importance. |
| 543 | ** All over the place in Chapter Twelve. Jane is inspired to write [[spoiler: Rogelio's onscreen death at his son's hands]] by remembering Alba telling her that she will always forgive Jane because they are family. She asks Rafael to forgive Luisa too, for the same reason, although he's reluctant. [[spoiler: Petra's relationship with her mother hits a wall because she learns that her mother had lied to her for five years about her disability]]. |
| 544 | ** By season four the main characters have managed to organize themselves into a more or less cohesive extended family, and look out for each other in their own ways. |
| 545 | * TimeSkip: |
| 546 | ** Done deliberately ''within'' chapter 20 when the doctor says Jane's baby could automatically corrects its breech position after two weeks. It doesn't. |
| 547 | ** Every act in Chapter Twenty-Eight takes place one month after the previous act. |
| 548 | ** The end of Chapter Fifty-four jumps ahead three years. |
| 549 | * TitleDrop: The mocking name of the website Jane's ex-step-sisters start is Jane the Virgin, and how the nuns running her school portray her. |
| 550 | * TonightSomeoneDies: Both In-Universe on a ShowWithinAShow and in ''Jane the Virgin'' itself leading up to the Season 4 midseason finale. The person who dies is [[spoiler:Anezka, although she is revealed to be FakingTheDead the next episode before finally being KilledOffForReal.]] |
| 551 | * TheTopicOfCancer: |
| 552 | ** Rafael is a cancer survivor; it's the reason he can no longer have children. He is cancer-free at the start, but [[spoiler: pretends that his cancer has relapsed knowing that this would make Luisa want to come home, bringing Rose along by extension.]] |
| 553 | ** Season four sees [[spoiler:Xiomara diagnosed with breast cancer]]. The high mortality rate of cancer greatly affects the characters, who react to it in different ways. |
| 554 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: |
| 555 | ** Jane's love of grilled cheese sandwiches has been well-documented. |
| 556 | ** Sin Rostro is fond of powdered donuts, and donut powder residue at a crime scene tips off the cops that she is FakingTheDead. |
| 557 | * TriviallyObvious: At [[spoiler:Petra's baby shower]] Petra says she doesn't like insincere speeches so Jane rips hers up and just says Petra is.... [[spoiler:having two babies.]] |
| 558 | * {{Troperiffic}}: The series includes and often [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] or [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] a large number of classic telenovela tropes. |
| 559 | * TwoPersonPoolParty: In Chapter 19, Jane and Rafael make out in the hotel's pool. She proposes sex and he accepts, but they are interrupted by a security guard before anything can happen. |
| 560 | * UncannyFamilyResemblance: Creator/GinaRodriguez plays both Jane and her great aunt, Alba's sister Cecilia. |
| 561 | * UnreliableNarrator: By WordOfGod, the narrator is someone within the Villanueva family, and therefore cannot be unbiased. He never even tries anyway. |
| 562 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Jane and Petra do not like each other and are constantly at odds in the first season, but the two do begin to bond [[spoiler:over their shared connection with Rafael and motherhood]]. |
| 563 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: Rogelio and Xo, two drama queens, in contrast to their straight-arrow daughter Jane. |
| 564 | * WeddingFinale: Given that this is a show steeped in the drama and romance of telenovelas, every season finale involves one of the Villanueva women getting married. |
| 565 | ** The season two finale is about Jane and Michael's. [[spoiler: They pull in all the tropes--Jane and Michael fighting at the rehearsal, Jane worrying that they hadn't discussed basic wedding things, Jane almost not making it to the wedding, Rafael almost asking Jane to not do it,]] and the wedding still happens, and it's beautiful. |
| 566 | ** Xiomara and Rogelio's [[spoiler:second wedding occurs in the season three finale]]. |
| 567 | ** The end of season 4 is [[spoiler:Alba's CitizenshipMarriage to Jorge.]] |
| 568 | ** And the GrandFinale is [[spoiler:Jane's wedding to Rafael]], her HappilyEverAfter. {{Discussed}} as well, since many of her childhood telenovelas ended with a wedding. |
| 569 | * WhamEpisode: |
| 570 | ** Chapter Twelve. Petra fakes her death in front of her mother, who inadvertently reveals she'd been lying about being handicapped the whole time. Rogelio is fired from ''The Passions of Santos.'' Oh, and [[spoiler:Rose is Sin Rostro and she just killed her husband by drowning him in cement.]] |
| 571 | ** [[spoiler:Both Jane and Xo get dumped]] in Chapter 18. On top of that, [[spoiler:Roman is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, Nadine is revealed as TheMole, and Alba recovers the memory of what happed between her and Magda in Chapter Ten.]] |
| 572 | ** And fitting for a season finale, Chapter Twenty-Two. [[spoiler: Xiomara and Rogelio found out they got drunkenly married in Vegas, Michael and the police are hot on Nadine's trail, Petra just stole Rafael's secondary sperm sample and the most shocking twist of all: Jane's son gets kidnapped by Sin Rostro.]] |
| 573 | ** Michael and his new partner Susanna set up a sting operation to get Rose to think Luisa is in the ICU. [[spoiler: Rose takes the bait. Susanna ends up with a bullet to the shoulder but Rose is killed via strangulation by blue silk cord - Mutter's calling card.]] |
| 574 | ** And again with the dramatic finales, Chapter Fourty-Four. [[spoiler: Jane and Michael are finally married, but Michael is shot in the chest that night by Susanna, who is revealed to [[NotQuiteDead actually be Rose in disguise]]. Anezka has given Petra a drug that leaves her [[AndIMustScream entire body paralyzed and unable to speak]] and has taken her identity, [[BedTrick tricking Rafael into sleeping with her]]. And on top of all that, Xo realizes she is pregnant after a one night stand with Rogelio's nemesis.]] |
| 575 | ** Chapter Fifty-Four changes the entire course of the show. Jane gets a new job with Chloe Leland, a publisher for a major firm. Xo and Bruce plan to move in with each other. Rogelio joins his girlfriend's new reality show. Petra finally finds the maternal instinct within her, quelling all fears of raising Anna and Elsa without Rafael -- [[spoiler:as his plea bargain fell through and he's going to jail for the next nine months. Luisa's new girlfriend Eileen is Rose in disguise. Michael dies from unforeseen complications with his heart due to his gunshot wound while waiting to finish his LSAT.]] Then the [[TimeSkip show skips ahead three years]] as the Jane is rushing Mateo to get ready, as the two don't want to be late for "the wedding". |
| 576 | ** Chapter Eighty-One, which the narrator straight up warns will be full of surprises. Alba [[spoiler:becomes an American citizen, and marries her love interest Jorge in a CitizenshipMarriage. Petra and Jane R. decide to move in together, but then the latter finds out that Petra really was guilty ''and'' shoots ''someone'' to protect Petra. Rafael plans to propose to Jane, but this is derailed by, of all things, '''Michael's seeming survival'''.]] At least River's agreed to cooperate with Rogelio on their show! |
| 577 | * WhamLine: Occurs in the series finale. |
| 578 | -->'''Mateo''': "I practiced with Great Glam-ma.[[spoiler:[[NarratorAllAlong She said I'd be great at voice-over work."]]]] |
| 579 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 580 | ** Jane calls Michael out for not telling her about Petra's affair, [[spoiler: and breaks off their engagement]]. Petra's lover was tied to Sin Rostro, who may have had two people killed at the hotel, so not telling Jane about Petra's affair was in part Michael's trying to protect her from actual harm. However, Michael was also pressuring Petra to break it off so she'd get the baby despite knowing how important it was to Jane that the baby grew up in a stable household. It didn't help that he'd previously handwaved Jane's suspicions with "hormones." |
| 581 | ** In turn Michael calls out Jane after learning that almost a mere day after calling off their engagement she began seeing Rafael. |
| 582 | ** Jane is upset at Xo for lying to her about her father her entire life. |
| 583 | ** Luisa deploys an understated one at Rafael: how could he force her into a [[spoiler: mental institution]] when he knows how terrified she would be of being in one? Rafael is shocked, since he was expecting a typical series of apologies and promises to improve herself, ''not'' a calling out, but manages to brush most of it off. |
| 584 | ** Jane later gets upset with Rafael, after he refuses to fire Petra, ''which technically he can't since she owns a third of the Marbella'', after learning that [[spoiler: Magda had pushed Alba down the stairs]]. She gets even more upset when he refuses to believe her and her grandmother and implies that Alba had been delusional [[spoiler: when naming Magda as her attacker]]. |
| 585 | ** When Jane learns that Rafael [[spoiler: paid off a friend of Nadine's to testify against Michael]], she completely ''flips''. |
| 586 | ** Petra gives Rafael one after his self pity and selfishness is preventing Jane and Michael from moving into their dream house 45 minutes outside of Miami. |
| 587 | * WhoMurderedTheAsshole: [[spoiler:Scott]] turns up dead on the beach in Season 3. [[spoiler:Since he had a "Burn Book" of blackmail on everyone working at The Marbella as well as other major players in the hotel industry, pretty much everyone is a suspect. It turns out his killer was an associate of Sin Rostro who killed him to protect her fake identity.]] |
| 588 | * WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Jane reveals to Rafael the end of her second book, which is about to be published, is that they make it into a telenovela, basically stating it will become ''Jane The Virgin'' itself. Rafael cites this trope word-for-word, the final line of the series. |
| 589 | * WholePlotReference: In-Universe. ''Los Viajes de Guillermo'' does an "[[InsistentTerminology homage]]" to ''Film/{{Castaway}}'' where Rogelio's character forms an emotional bond with a kidney stone while trapped in an isolated location and is forced to say a heartbroken goodbye to it while escaping his predicament. |
| 590 | * WimpFight: |
| 591 | ** Rogelio and Fabian engage in one when Rogelio stands up for Jane's honor on-set. |
| 592 | ** Rafael in an IndulgentFantasySegue with [[spoiler:Jason (a.k.a. Michael with amnesia) after Jason calls him out for RomancingTheWidow.]] |
| 593 | * WorkingWithTheEx: Rogelio's manager is also his ex-wife. The divorced Rafael and Petra are forced to work together after Petra [[spoiler:becomes the Marbella's majority shareholder.]] |
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