Jane the Virgin

Jane the Virgin is a 2014 American comedy series, based on the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen, which aired on the CW.

A series of surprising and unforeseen events causes a hard-working, religious young Latina to be accidentally artificially inseminated. Adapted from a Venezuelan telenovela.

The show is a love letter to Latin American culture, as well as an homage to the telenovela genre. It's defined by its Genre Deconstruction and Genre Savvy, as well as the exploration of telenovela themes. The show also explores religion as related to South American culture and heritage, specifically its effect on women and feminism.

It was especially lauded for its positive portrayal of female sexuality across generations.

Tropes used in Jane the Virgin include:

• Accidental Marriage: Xiomara and Rogelio, drunkenly, and discovering it the next day, in the Season 1 finale
• Adaptation: loosely, of the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen
• Amnesia: Michael
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Michael and Nadine
• Black Dude Dies First: Roman Zazo
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Lina (brunette), Luca (redhead) and Frankie (blonde) in season 1. Also in the Solano family: Luisa (brunette), Petra (blonde), and Rose (redhead)
• Bookcase Passage
• Buried Alive
• But I Can't Be Pregnant
• Childhood Friends: Jane and Lina
• Citizenship Marriage: Alba and Jorge, in the Season 4 finale
• Confessional
• Dress Hits Floor
• Double Date
• Evil Twin: Petra's sister, Aňezka, and Roman Zazo to Aaron Zazo, whom he murders
• First Love: Adam for Jane. Xiomara and Rogelio for each other.
• Flashback: Used a lot throughout the series
• Flowers of Romance
• Foreshadowing: Lots.
• Genre Deconstruction
• Girl Next Door: Jane
• Hair Contrast Duo: Jane and Petra featuring Blondes Are Evil which is later subverted
• Her Heart Will Go On: Jane, when Michael dies
• Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
• High School Sweethearts: Xiomara and Rogelio
• Hollywood Nerd: Jane
• Hollywood Postpartum: Petra suffers from this and it's done well up until the point that she gets medication for it and suddenly it's never mentioned again and she seems 'fine/cured'
• Homage: to telenovelas. Includes elements of the genre and spoofs them simultaneously
• Imagine Spot: Jane imagines seeing Santos as she comes to grips with having been inseminated
• Intergenerational Friendship: Alba and Rafael, although they are also family.
• Large Ham: Rogelio, on occasion.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Jane and Petra; Alba and Xiomara
• The Lost Lenore: Though she does move on, the event and their marriage informs Jane's life too
• Love Triangle: Jane, Rafael and Michael
• Madonna-Whore Complex: Discussed by Jane.
• Maternally Challenged: Petra
• Magic Realism: Integral part of the show
• Meet Cute
• Narrator
• Odd Friendship: Jane and Petra
• Opposites Attract: Jane and Rafael
• Parental Marriage Veto: Alba and Xo with 18-year-old Jane and Adam
• Parents Walk in At the Worst Time: Alba, on Xo and Rogelio
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Quite a few Rafael and Michael instances
• Psycho Ex-Boyfriend: Miloš
• Race Lift: Minority to Majority: Rafael Solano
• Rags to Riches: Petra
• Raised Catholic: Xiomara
• Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Rafael and Michael to Jane
• Secret Underground Passage
• Sibling Rivalry: Cause by Emilio
• Slap Slap Kiss: Michael and Nadine
• Sleep Cute: Jane and Rafael's first date
• Shower of Love: Jane and Rafael's first time together
• Stripper Cop Confusion: “You're too hot to be a cop!” — Lina
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Michael and Petra when trying to keep their respective partners from falling for each other
• Tell Me About My Father
• Unreliable Narrator: The Narrator refers to himself as this, and also disputes it
• Who Would Want to Watch Us?: the series finale and last words of the series, spoken by Rafael