From left to right: Ana Francisca (Mariana Ximenes), Danilo (Murilio Benicio) and Olga (Priscila Fantin).
Chocolate com Pimenta (Eng. title: "Chocolate with Pepper") is a Brazilian telenovela set in the 1920s.
The novela contains examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: Names common in Brazil: Ana Francisca, Danilo, Márcia, and Outdated Names that fit the 1920s and 1930s setting: Jezebel, Elvira, Vivaldo, Marieta, etc.
- Artefact Title: The recipes of chocolate with pepper in the secret box that Ludovico left for Aninha.
- Babies Ever After: Aninha and Danilo's daughter Carmen, Timóteo and Márcia's son, and Celina and Guilherme adopt the child that Graça had.
- Cain and Abel: Graça and Celina respectively. Ironically Graça ends up dying in the finale as a result of her actions against her sister.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Graça dies by consequence of her pregnancy of Guilherme.
- Raised as the Opposite Gender: Bernardo, raised as Bernardette.
- The Scrooge: Count Klaus, whose cheapskate moments (which seemed to double following the arranged marriage to Celina...) were accompanied by a Leitmotif with cash register sounds.
- Sexless Marriage: What Anna Francisca and Ludovico Canto e Melo have, by mutual agreement. He marries her only to protect her from the devastating social and economical consequences she would have faced as a single, unwed mother in those times.
- The marriage of Celina and Count Klaus also ends up being that thanks to the frames that Aninha invents to help Celina to escape from having to sleep with the count. Because Celina managed to avoid having to sleep with the Count, after her escape, Guilherme was able to start a process of dissolving the marriage since in the eyes of the law the marriage was not consummated and therefore can be annulled.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Graça definitely, her evilness is never played by laughs like the other villains and her end is the hardest.
