00:00Some of these soap opera protagonists became scapegoats.
00:04Others were foolish enough to want to rot behind bars to spare loved ones who weren't
00:09worth the sacrifice.
00:12But the reason barely matters.
00:14What matters is that these unfortunate women were unjustly imprisoned.
00:18And they're the ones we're going to talk about in the third video of the Soap Opera
00:22Clichés series.
00:23How could we not mention Maria, who sacrificed herself so her son wouldn't go to jail
00:30but Maria wasn't just any lady who'd never seen misery.
00:35She revived her street smart side to survive that difficult moment in her life.
00:40Besides having deep conversations with disease-carrying creatures, she also managed to intimidate her
00:47enemies, proving that you can leave the neighborhood.
00:50But the neighborhood?
00:51It never leaves you.
00:54Maria's luck was dying in a fake fire in prison.
00:58Even though afterwards she went through terrible traumas on the street, like having her little
01:03coin stolen by a shady kid.
01:05At least in prison there was food.
01:07Even if it was so bad you'd rather leave it for the rat.
01:11Another one who made friends with filthy animals in prison was Marimar.
01:16The most humiliated of them all, she managed to get arrested precisely for being so naive
01:21that she put her mouth in the mud to pick up a bracelet.
01:25Her cellmate was an old lady affectionately nicknamed Cockroach, but who drank like a skunk.
01:31This one suffered the most, poor thing.
01:33Besides putting her mouth in the filth, getting arrested, receiving a fake kick in the butt by
01:38letter, she also had her grandparents cruelly set on fire.
01:42Another poor soul who managed to make a few friends in prison was Paulina, but she was
01:48far too naive.
01:49Condemning herself to save her slutty twin, she even took abuse from old ladies who ran
01:55phone scams.
01:56Her luck was having a top-tier lawyer who fell in love with her and fought against his own
02:01client's stupidity to get her acquitted.
02:03Now let's talk about the second Maria on this list.
02:06But this one wasn't a fool.
02:08For example, she was an unjustly treated diva.
02:11After being falsely accused by a court that looked more like that episode of El Chavo where
02:16everyone calls him a thief, Maria spent years and years rotting in another country, abandoned
02:22by everyone.
02:23Her husband was a complete piece of trash who didn't believe in the innocence of her beloved.
02:29Maria's luck was that she begged so much for forgiveness that one day the judge got tired
02:35and ordered her back to her homeland.
02:36That, plus the help of yet another lovestruck lawyer.
02:40I noticed we have a cliché inside another cliché, since lawyers who fall in love with
02:45their clients seem to be a recurring figure in telenovelas.
02:49And if I'm going to talk about lovestruck lawyers, I can't leave out Monrique from Cassandra, right?
02:54Cassandra was another novella heroine sabotaged by her leading man, who believed she was the
03:00one who sent his evil twin to shake hands with the devil.
03:03But the poor thing hadn't done anything, and only Randu, her former gypsy fiancé, was
03:09able to reveal the real culprit, even losing his life to defend Cassandra.
03:14Cassandra didn't stay behind bars for long, and our next victim even less.
03:20Valeria went and fell in love with a guy who had a psychopathic stalker ex. Priscilla cooked
03:26up a whole land to accuse our poor Valeria of having beaten her.
03:32The police came to arrest the poor girl at home, but luckily she had two rich brothers
03:37willing to do anything for her, and they managed to stop her from spending enough time in prison
03:42to make friends with rats.
03:45The one who had even less luck than her was Mar, her younger sister, who even went to the
03:51women's penitentiary while pregnant.
03:53But then again, she was so dumb it was almost impressive.
03:56She accidentally poisoned her husband because the enemy gave her a few drops and said it was
04:02something good.
04:03Some people just asked to get screwed.
04:05This one's luck was that there was another scapegoat to take the blame in her place.
04:10This next one was nowhere near the line to be a heroine, but she was the protagonist and
04:15she was unjustly imprisoned, so it counts.
04:18Ruby was accused of being responsible for the death of Sonia, the wife of her great love
04:24Alejandro.
04:25What fault did the diva have if that glass bridge couldn't even handle a fight between
04:29rivals?
04:30Why didn't they go after the architect who delivered that piece of junk?
04:34In the end, Ruby managed to be cleared because the fugitive witness showed up and told the
04:39truth.
04:41It was completely senseless that they arrested Ruby for the accident.
04:46Didn't the forensics conclude that the glass on the bridge cracked and broke?
04:50The fact that one person was arguing with another—which, by the way, cut corners on her mansion's
04:56budget—doesn't make her guilty of anything, frankly.
05:03And so I don't spend the rest of my life locked up writing this episode, let's wrap up this
05:08episode by talking about the most recent case.
05:11Adriana, from Those Who Love Care, was the physical therapist of an old man who preferred
05:17to leave his fortune to anyone else than his rotten family, and for that reason, he married
05:22the poor girl.
05:24Little did she know she would be accused of killing the old man on their wedding night
05:28and sentenced to several years in prison.
05:31At least this one promises to get revenge, so they say.
05:35Everything I know about this novella was told to me by third parties, but I know you'll
05:40remember other innocent heroines who ended up behind bars.
05:43Leave one in the comments.
