Line #27 Series/PartOfMe


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3	''Part of Me'' (''En otra piel'' in Spanish) also know as ''In Another Skin'', is a Spanish-language [[SupernaturalSoapOpera supernatural]] {{Telenovela}} produced by Creator/{{Telemundo}} in 2014.
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5	It is a loose [[TheRemake remake]] on the 2005 Creator/{{Telemundo}} {{telenovela}} ''El cuerpo del deseo'', which in turn is based on the 1992 RTI Colombia {{telenovela}} ''En cuerpo ajeno''. The story chronicles the lives of two seemingly ordinary women who get wrapped up in a mysterious paranormal phenomenon when death comes knocking on their door.
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7	Mónica Serrano (Laura Flores), a world-renowned pianist with an impressive fortune that lives in Los Angeles with her family, dies after the betrayal of her ambitious niece Elena Serrano (Creator/VanessaVillela) and Gerardo Fonsi (Creator/JorgeLuisPila). But by way of a mysterious talisman, Mónica's soul, which does not accept departing from this world, occupies the body of Adriana Aguilar (Creator/MariaElisaCamargo), a young and modest waitress in Mexico City that had befriended Mónica and who died at the hands of a dangerous gangster around the same time.
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9	Now inhabiting Adriana's body, Mónica's soul will do the impossible to defend her children and seek justice. But Adriana's fiance Diego Ochoa (Creator/DavidChocarro), who is confused by Adriana's sudden revival and personality change tries to uncover clues as to what is going on with his beloved. Motivated by his love, Adriana's soul decides to recover her body, but Mónica will resist this until her mission has been completed.
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13	!!This work provides examples of:
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15	* ActionSurvivor: Mónica's an average civilian, but gets into a lot of tough spots where she needs to use her wits to survive, such as fighting off Carlos' when he tries to rape, or outsmarting and avoiding his trained hitmen.
16	* AmnesiacLover: Mónica in Adriana's body is mistaken as this at first by Diego. She ''does'' have amnesia, but she's also another soul in the body of his fiancée.
17	* TheAtoner:
18	** Mónica sees her second chance in life as a chance to make up for the mistakes she made with her daughters.
19	** Gerardo becomes regretful of what he did to the Serrano family and starts to manipulate Elena to keep Mónica's daughters safe. [[spoiler: [[RedemptionEqualsDeath And ends up being killed by Elena]] due to it]].
20	* BackFromTheDead: Mónica's soul possesses Adriana's body when she's killed and she used her second chance to take down Elena and Gerardo's plot and protect her daughters. Her soul leaves her body after her mission is complete.
21	* BecomingTheMask: Gerardo was initially seducing Mónica for her money eventually grew to like her, but his LoveEpiphany only comes after Elena kills her.
22	* BetaCouple: Ricardo / Camila and Gabriel / Jennifer are the secondary couples of the story, with plenty of screentime but not getting as much focus as the main characters.
23	* BigBad: The main antagonist of the story is Elena Serrano, Mónica's EvilNiece that plotted her death and wants to steal her life. Mónica's main objective is to protect her daughters from Elena's evil plots.
24	* BigFancyHouse: The Serranos mansion, where most of the main characters live and a considerable part of the plot takes place.
25	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Elena pretended to be Mónica's kind niece while plotting behind her back her whole life. She only shows her true colors to Mónica when she's on her [[JustBetweenYouAndMe deathbed to taunt her]]. Unfortunately for Elena, Mónica comes BackFromTheDead in Adriana's body.
26	* TheCartel: Carlos Ricalde's bar is just a front for his criminal cartel, which involves gambling, drug trafficking, and (the most relevant to the story) running a prostitution ring via [[HumanTraffickers human trafficking]].
27	* TheCasanova: Gerardo used to work as a gigolo and has a talent for seduction, which is why Elena picks him in her plot to marry her aunt and steal her fortune.
28	* CasanovaWannabe: Gerardo's brother Ernesto tries, but it's nowhere near as good as seducing woman as his brother is, and utterly fails when tasked with seducing Camila, despite getting plenty of help and info from Elena.
29	* CrashIntoHello: Adriana and Mónica first meet when Adriana is running from one of Carlos thugs and is almost run over by Mónica's car. Mónica offers her a rider and they quickly become friends.
30	* ChickMagnet: Diego ends up attracting quite a few women, including Adriana, Maite, and Valeria.
31	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Camila and Ricardo up together in the Serrano's estate where they were friends, despite him being the son of a servant. They became a couple as adults.
32	* DefiledForever: Valeria becomes very traumatized after having been violated while in Carlos brothel, and feels that she was forever ruined for love. She eventually gets over it with the help of Mónica, Diego, and Maite.
33	* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Mónica gets many {{Lingerie Scene}}s with her standing in front of a mirror admiring her (Adriana's) new youthful body.
34	* ElegantClassicalMusician: Mónica's is a ProperLady and a world-renowned pianist.
35	* EvilDetectingDog: Mónica's pet dog Pacho can feel Elena's KillingIntent towards Emiliana and tries attacking her.
36	* FalseFriend: Elena to both Mónica and Camila, who both considered her a bastion of stability in the Serrano household, unaware she is actually the ''source'' of most of their troubles.
37	* FalseRapeAccusation: In order to try to expel the Cantú from the estate, Elena seduces Gabriel and lures her into her room. When they're both alone, she starts screaming he's assaulting her, making everyone in the house turn against him.
38	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Gabriel is the foolish sibling to Ricardo's responsible sibling. Ricardo being studious and hard-working while Gabriel prefers spending his time chasing skirts and getting into trouble.
39	* FrameUp: Carlos ends up framing Diego for Jacinto's murder and Diego is sent to prison for a while.
40	* FriendOnTheForce: Eddie is a Miami cop that befriends Diego, Valeria, and Maite in Miami, helping them in their legal troubles and with Carlos.
41	* GenderFlip: In both ''El cuerpo del deseo'' and ''En cuerpo ajeno'', it was an older man who inhabited the body of a younger man; here, it's an older woman inhabiting the body of a younger woman.
42	* GirlFriday: Elena worked as Mónica's NumberTwo, helping her handler both her business and her personal life, which made it very easy for Elena to manipulate and sabotage her.
43	* GoldDigger: Elena plotted with Gerardo to have him marry Mónica and take her money although Gerardo doesn't intend to kill her and it's content to just hide his affair with Elena. Elena has other plans though.
44	* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Elena is portrayed as a SerialHomewrecker for seducing and sleeping with both of Mónica's husbands behind her back. Meanwhile, the new Mónica's affair with Gerard portrays her as sympathetic since from Mónica's point of view she's simply having a romance with her husband who doesn't know she's inhabiting a new body. Gerardo is portrayed as a scumbag in both affairs, since he only had an affair with Elena [[GoldDigger for the money]] and only lusts after the new Mónica because he's attracted to Adriana's body.
45	* GrandTheftMe: A accidental example, Mónica ends up taking over Adriana's body.
46	* GratuitousEnglish: Several characters speak in English on occasion, with Carlos doing it the most, usually to try and seem more cultured than he actually is.
47	* GreenEyedMonster: Elena's motive for her plots against Mónica is that she was deeply envious of Mónica's life and felt like she lived on her shadow.
48	* HateSink: Unlike Elena and Gerardo who have a few PetTheDog and SympathyForTheDevil moments, Carlos has no sympathetic traits.
49	* HatesTheirParent:
50	** Elena hates both her real mother Lorena and her adoptive mother Mónica. Lorena due to her being an awful irresponsible parent that abandoned her and Mónica due to being envious of her.
51	** Ricardo deeply resents his father Rodrigo for his failure to support his family and [[DrowningMySorrows descent into alcoholism]], and doesn't believe the story about [[StealingTheCredit having his film script being stolen]], and just thinks he's a failure. It's not until his career is sabotaged by Elena that he starts sympathizing with his father.
52	* HumanTraffickers: The main business venue of TheCartel that Carlos runs is to trick/kidnap young women and [[SexSlave force them into prostitution]], which is what happens to Adriana/Mónica, Maite, and Valeria at the start of the story. They manage to escape his clutches in Mexico and end up in Miami, but he follows them there with the intention of getting them back.
53	* TheIllegal:
54	** Diego ended up in America after escaping from prison, so he has trouble being both a fugitive and an illegal immigrant.
55	** Both Maite and Valeria are illegals in America after running away from Carlos' HumanTraffickers ring, which is why she is reluctant to go to the police after they escape Carlos brothel.
56	* InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl: Jennifer is the ''ex'' girlfriend of a local gang leader, but he still acts like he's EntitledToHaveYou and gives Gabriel a lot of trouble when he starts dating her.
57	* InsecureLoveInterest: Ricardo cares a lot about the gap of social status between him and Camila and feels very insecure in their relationship, despite her not caring about it.
58	* InterclassFriendship: Despite their vast difference between their social class, Mónica and Adriana quickly become friends shortly after meeting.
59	* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Elena confesses to the dying Mónica about how much she hates her and what she will to with her daughters after she's gone just to make her death more agonizing. At the end of the story Mónica throws her words back at her, in order to for to [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay realize she's really Mónica]].
60	* LadykillerInLove: Gerardo liked Mónica's personality, but wasn't that attracted to her. After she dies and starts inhabiting [[MsFanservice Adriana's]] body, he falls for her ''hard''.
61	* LickedByTheDog: Mónica's dog Pancho seems to know it's her soul inside of Adriana's body when she comes back to her house.
62	* LovingAShadow: Gerardo ''is not'' the man Mónica thinks he is, and she is disgusted by him once she finds out his true character.
63	* LustObject: SpicyLatina Adriana is a HeadTurningBeauty who is [[DudeMagnet constantly fawned over by men]], which gets her in trouble when she becomes the obsession of local [[TheCartel cartel]] boss Carlos. And when Mónica ends up [[GrandTheftMe inhabiting Adriana's body]], Gerardo ''also'' becomes obsessed with her due to how attracted he is to her, though poor Mónica thinks it's because deep down he "knows" it's her.
64	* MagicalAccessory: Adriana's amulet that she was given by a shaman to bind her soul to her body to cure her {{sleepwalking}} problem. When Adriana accidentally leaves it with Mónica in the first episode it causes them to BodySwap when Mónica dies.
65	* MamaBear: Mónica's strong desire to protect her daughter is what brought her BackFromTheDead and drives the whole plot.
66	* ManipulativeBitch: Elena manipulated Mónica throughout her entire life, and after she dies, Elena easily convinces Camila and Emiliana that her mother never cared for them at all.
67	* MissKitty: Subverted with Chantal, the madam for Carlo's brothel, who takes delight in humiliating the girls that work for her.
68	* ModestyBedsheet: Used frequently whenever a couple is shown in bed post-coital, most frequently Gerardo with either Mónic or Elena. The sheets usually stay up to their shoulders, and notably whenever Gerardo gets up it's shown he's [[RightThroughHisPants still wearing boxers shorts]].
69	* MrFanservice: Diego is a very handsome man that gets quite a few {{Shirtless Scene}}s.
70	* MsFanservice: Adriana and Elena wear many revealing outfits and get the most {{Fanservice}} scenes out of the female characters.
71	* NakedOnRevival: Mónica first awakens in Adriana's body in a [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue morgue like room]] completely naked, {{Justified}} since Adriana had been dead and had [[UndressingTheUnconscious all of her clothes removed]] in order for her to get an autopsy.
72	* NiceToTheWaiter: Mónica and her daughters are very kind to her house staff, and treat them almost like family. In Mónica's will, she leaves a considerable part of her fortune for the pensions for her staff and even money to pay for Ricardo's university. By contrast, Gerardo is indifferent to them while Elena despises them and enjoys humiliating and mistreating them.
73	* OccultDetective: Selma is a paranormal ''reporter'' and hosts a show about paranormal activity.
74	* OfficialCouple: Diego/Adriana, both of them having the healthiest and happiest relationship in the story.
75	* ParentalAbandonment: Lorena abandoned Elena was she was young, leaving her sister Mónica to raise her.
76	* ParentalNeglect: Mónica would often focus on her career more than her family, a major source of conflict between her and her oldest daughter Camila.
77	* ParentalSubstitute: Mónica treated Elena like her own daughter after her sister Lorena left her when she was six.
78	* ParentWithNewParamour: Camila is enraged with the concept of Mónica marrying Gerardo so soon after Julián's death.
79	* PragmaticVillainy: Gerardo constantly butts head with Elena about her EvilIsPetty ways, as she's actually out to hurt and humiliate those she dislikes while Gerardo is just a GoldDigger that wants a quiet and comfortable life.
80	* PrivateTutor: As Adriana, Mónica poses as a private teacher to stay close to her daughters and come back to her house.
81	* RapeAsDrama: Carlos is a [[HumanTraffickers Sex Traffickers]] and many of the girls he gets his eye on end up being raped by him.
82	** Shortly after Monica wakes up in Adriana's body, she is kidnapped by Carlos's goons (Assuming she's Adriana) out of the hospital and is brought to his hotel. They have her [[BatheHerAndBringHerToMe bathed]] and [[GoGoEnslavement dressed up]]. and is then left [[ChainedToABed chained to bed]] where Carlos visits her and rapes her. We only see him tear off her clothes before we get a RapeDiscretionShot as she [[ScreamDiscretionShot screams]].
83	** The virgin Valeria was auctioned for one of Carlos' most depraved clients who brutally rapes her, leaving her particularly traumatized even after she escapes the brothel.
84	* RetargetedLust: Gerardo frequently retargets his lust for Adriana onto Elena.
85	* {{Retirony}}: Mónica announces she's retiring as a professional pianist to focus more on her family the very same day Elena decides to kill her.
86	* RevealingCoverup: Elena methods of trying to get rid of people that are suspicious of her just end up making her look even more suspicious.
87	* RomancingTheWidow: Elena purposedly hired Gerardo to seduce and marry Mónica after she spent 4 years of widowhood.
88	* AScarToRemember: During Carlos AttemptedRape on Adriana, she fends him off and ends up leaving a nasty scar on his cheek. It infuriates him so much he switches from rape to murder, and almost kills her and is partially the reason he follows her to America.
89	* SecretKeeper: Selma, Mónica's paranormal specialist friend is the only one who knows she's inhabiting Adriana's body for most of the story. Later Diego also finds out and keeps the secret after Mónica promises to return Adriana's body after her daughters are safe.
90	* SexGod: Elena and Mónica both fawn over Gerardo's bedroom prowess. Notably, he used to be a gigolo.
91	* SexSlave: Carlos kidnaps women and forces them into prostitution by Carlos's men, doing this with Mónica, Valeria and Maite. They eventually escape him, but he pursues them into America.
92	* SexualKarma:
93	** Elena may be [[HeadTurningBeauty gorgeous]], [[TheVamp seductive]] and clearly thinks she's an irresistible SexGoddess, but Gerardo [[LousyLoversAreLosers doesn't seem to think she's any good in bed]], and show not to enjoy their sex, especially as the story goes on and she becomes more and more unhinged. Meanwhile, Gerardo's affair with the new Mónica is portrayed as extremely passionate and mutually satisfying (although only ''after'' she died and ended up on Adriana's body).
94	** Carlos and the clients of his brothel are all despicable perverts and rapists, in contrast to Adriana and Diego, who are deeply in love and have a romantic and satisfying sex life. Of note is also Valeria, who becomes traumatized after being brutally raped, yet eventually gets over it, and ends up having a romantic first time with her LoveInterest Eddie.
95	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} with Gerardo who ''is'' a SexGod due to his past as a gigolo, though of the main villains he's the least evil.
96	* SexualExtortion: Carlos lusts after Adriana and gets her brother dept into debt to force him to sleep with him.
97	* SexyDiscretionShot:
98	** Scenes where Gerardo has sex with Mónica usually begin with them making out, and starting to take their clothes off before it cuts to them in bed under a ModestyBedsheet.
99	** When Gabriel and Jennifer have TheirFirstTime, the scene cuts away as they start kissing. When we next see them, they're cuddling in bed under a ModestyBedsheet.
100	* SexySilhouette: Elena purposedly undresses in front of her window to cause this effect, as part of her ploy to seduce Gabriel while she knows he's watching.
101	* SexySurfacingShot: Gerardo happens to catch Adriana SkinnyDipping right as she's climbing out of the pool. CensorShadow, ShouldersUpNudity, and ToplessnessFromTheBack cover her naughty bits, but both Gerardo and the [[MaleGaze camera]] leer at her body as she dries herself. The story would often {{flashback}} to this scene, for [[{{Fanservice}} obvious reasons]].
102	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Mónica develops this attitude later regarding Adriana's body, starting doing things like SkinnyDipping,[[SleepsInTheNude sleeping in the nude]] and start using her body to seduce Gerardo.
103	* ShipSinking: Once Monia discovers Gerardo's part in the crimes against her family, she wants nothing to do with him.
104	* SiblingTriangle: In her youth, Mónica was LoveTriangle with Jorge and Julián Larrea. She ended up marrying Julián and Jorge left the country in despair for many years.
105	* SiblingYinYang: Ricardo is introverted, proud and temperamental while Gabriel is
106	* SkepticNoLonger: Despite hosting a paranormal show, Selma didn't actually believe it was real until Mónica's soul switch. It actually takes some effort from Mónica to get Selma to believe her, but she eventually does
107	* SkinnyDipping:
108	** After getting all hot and bothered after having an EroticDream about Gerardo, Mónica (in Adriana's body) decides to [[GettingHotInHere cool off]] by going SkinnyDipping at the pool at night... only to bump into him EatingTheEyeCandy just as she's [[SexySurfacingShot surfacing out of the pool]] in her birthday suit causing her to have a NakedFreakOut, with the incident only ending up fuelling ''both'' of their sexual frustrations.
109	** Later in the story she purposedly swims nude in the pool in front of him to get a rise out of him and seduce him.
110	* {{Sleepwalking}}: Adriana's prone to sleepwalking which also means her soul likes to "wander". A shaman gave her a [[MagicalAccessory amulet]] to keep her soul from wandering out of her body and it ends up letting Mónica possess her when she takes it.
111	* SpicyLatina: Adriana is [[HeadturningBeauty a beautiful Latina girl]] with an energetic working class sass.
112	* SupernaturalSoapOpera: A Supernatural {{Telenovela}} about souls lingering after death and possessing another's body via shamanic magic.
113	* SurpriseIncest: Before the story started, Elena seduced and slept with her uncle, Julián without either of them knowing about it.
114	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Elena favorite trick is to slowly poison people by putting in their food or drink. She has been doing this to Mónica for a long time and later does the same to Emiliana.
115	* ThoseTwoGirls: Valeria and Maite are almost inseparable after they escape Carlos' brothel and their stories are very interconnected.
116	* TerribleTicking: In Adriana's body, Mónica plays the piano at her house to torment Elena, Gerardo and Lorena, as the sound of her music makes them feel guilty for her actions and has Elena feel paranoid that Mónica is tormenting her from the afterlife. It eventually drives Elena mad enough that she starts hearing it on her own head.
117	* TortureIsIneffective: Carlos kidnaps and tortures Selma's lover, Esteban but all he manages to get out of him are famous author's names and a SarcasticConfession that he was helping Monica Serrano. Carlos being BookDumb, doesn't even realize it and thinks his torture work, which makes him look like a fool when he tells it to Elena and Gerardo.
118	* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Adriana's younger brother Jacinto uses the money his sister makes for him to go to medical school on gambling, so he can make easy money and have her stop working, but he gets deep into debt instead and gets them into a lot of trouble over it.
119	* TraumaInducedAmnesia: After dying and ending up in Adriana's body, Mónica is unable to remember the last few moments of her life, except for the fact that her daughters are in danger, so she remains unaware it was Elena and Gerardo who killed her for a long time. When her memories do come back, she starts plotting her {{revenge}}.
120	* TwoPersonPoolParty: Elena and Gerardo make love in the Serrano's mansion pool not long after Mónica's death.
121	* UnfinishedBusiness: After dying, Mónica doesn't recall it was Elena who killed her, but does recall someone threatening her daughters. When she comes BackFromTheDead in Adriana's body, she makes it her mission to keep them safe, and her soul leaves Adriana's body once they are.
122	* UngratefulBitch: Elena ''hates'' Mónica despite having been raised by her like her own daughter, feeling she was pitied by her and living in her shadow.
123	* UnknownRelative: Jorge and Lorrena are this for Camila and Emiliana since they disappeared from Mónica's life before they were born, and come back after learning of her "death".
124	* TheVamp: Elena uses her good looks to seduce and manipulate others.
125	* VictorySex: Elena often gets all hot and bothered after one of her evil schemes succeeds, and pounces on Gerardo for some celebratory sex.
126	* VideoWills: Before dying, Gerardo leaves a video will where he confesses all of his and Elena's crimes, while also giving Mónica a posthumous AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.
127	* VillainousBreakdown: Elena's paranoia causes her to become more and more unstable as the story progresses. She breaks down completely by the end when confronted by Mónica and ends up in jail being haunted by visions of Mónica.
128	* WorkingClassHero: [[BirdsOfAFeather Both Diego and Adriana]] are honest and hard-working couple with hearts of gold, which contrasts with most other characters who are richer, but lead much more troubled lives or are of questionable character.
129	* {{Yandere}}: Elena decides to kill Mónica when Gerardo seems to start falling for her for real. And in the past, she killed Mónica's first husband Jorge when she seduced him, but still refused to leave Mónica for her.

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