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On Stranger Tides

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On Stranger Tides	comment	On Stranger Tides is a historical fantasy novel by Tim Powers.After the death of his father, John Chandagnac travels to America to track down a relative who stole his inheritance, but his quest is derailed when the ship he's travelling on is attacked by pirates, and he becomes embroiled in a search for the Fountain of Youth.The ur-work of pirates-in-the-Caribbean-with-voodoo fiction, On Stranger Tides was an acknowledged inspiration for the Monkey Island series, and the film rights were taken up by the makers of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series so they could plunder it for plot elements for the fourth film, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
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On Stranger Tides / int_1183175e	type	This Was His True Form
On Stranger Tides / int_1183175e	comment	This Was His True Form: After Blackbeard dies for real, his corpse shows the marks of every lethal injury magic had saved him from over the course of his career. There are a lot of them.
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On Stranger Tides / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
On Stranger Tides / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: The showdown between Benjamin Hurwood and Leo Friend.
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On Stranger Tides / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
On Stranger Tides / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: Hurwood assists the pirate attack by firing one pistol after another, pulling the guns from bandoliers and dropping them after use. Justified because they are one-shot flintlock pistols. People who expected to have to fight with them would usually pack a half-dozen or so for use in Real Life. Hurwood also has only one arm and would be slowed down immensely if he paused and re-holstered each weapon.
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On Stranger Tides / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
On Stranger Tides / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Quite a few. Pretty much anything that isn't "normal" has some direct relevance to the plot, and some elements aren't even directly explained.
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On Stranger Tides / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
On Stranger Tides / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: A famous historical incident in which Blackbeard shot and wounded his second-in-command without provocation is explained as Blackbeard impulsively acting to get him safely out of the way before an upcoming confrontation that Blackbeard knows is likely to result in many deaths.
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On Stranger Tides / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
On Stranger Tides / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Many magics are powered or enhanced by the shedding of blood, which has something to do with the connection between magic and iron. Many magicians end up with persistent anemia from spending their blood iron on magic.
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On Stranger Tides / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
On Stranger Tides / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: The entirely bald and utterly ruthless Edmund Morcilla, actually the resurrected Blackbeard after choosing a new hairstyle that will reduce the chances of anyone recognising him.
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On Stranger Tides / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
On Stranger Tides / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: Just about every character is sympathetic in some way. Except for Leo Friend, who turns out to be a near-sociopath with severe mommy issues. Freudian ones. Sebastian Chandagnac is pretty much a complete scumbag as well. His main concern about evicting Beth Hurwood's soul is that the process might mess up his dinner party. Jack Shandy starts the story off as an average, if reluctant, good guy, but his willingness to straight-up shoot and explode British sailors, some of whom were probably forcefully pressed into service, in order to escape custody is pretty shocking and cold.
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On Stranger Tides / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
On Stranger Tides / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: Played for drama; after Hurwood dies inconveniently, Shandy has to apply his puppetry skills to the corpse to stall his accomplice.
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On Stranger Tides / int_49f21688	type	NotUsingTheZedWord
On Stranger Tides / int_49f21688	comment	Not Using the Zed Word: We do have undead, but they're not the shambling, rotting, moaning sort. They're closer to dead people bound as servants, and never actively referred to as "zombies", since that word has a very specific connotation in voodoo.
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On Stranger Tides / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
On Stranger Tides / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: Certain magical powers are restricted by gender; maintaining access to powers he can't control directly is one of the motivations for Blackbeard's many marriages.
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On Stranger Tides / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
On Stranger Tides / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: The man who taught Leo Friend how to do magic used it mainly for stealing food and looking up women's dresses without getting caught. Leo himself uses it, though more elaborately, for much the same sort of thing.
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On Stranger Tides / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
On Stranger Tides / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Leo Friend is described as extremely, grotesquely fat. There's a bit of cause-and-effect here, though; his mother spoiled him, including sweets when he should have been on a diet, leading to his superiority complex and weight gain.
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On Stranger Tides / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
On Stranger Tides / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: On his first day on the pirates' island, near the beginning of the book, Jack sees a group of children playing with a puppet using Mind over Matter, one of his first clear signs that magic works in the New World. On his last day, near the end of the book, he sees the children playing with the puppet again, but this time using mundane strings to move it, a sign that even in the New World the magic is going away. The sword-fighting move Jack uses to defeat the resurrected Blackbeard in the final confrontation at the end of the book is the same one he uses in his first-ever sword fight at the beginning.
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On Stranger Tides / int_54844c6e	type	From Dress to Dressing
On Stranger Tides / int_54844c6e	comment	From Dress to Dressing: After the final showdown, Jack tears strips off his shirt to bandage the wounds of the survivors.
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On Stranger Tides / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
On Stranger Tides / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Benjamin Hurwood explains the shortcomings of Newtonian physics on the microscopic scale and the basics of quantum mechanical indeterminacy. In 1718. Newton hadn't even died by that date, let alone seen his work become "classical" mechanics.
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On Stranger Tides / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
On Stranger Tides / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: After Elizabeth is abducted by the newly-empowered Leo Friend, Shandy and Hurwood collaborate to rescue her, since each for his own reasons wants her alive and unharmed. Hurwood turns on Shandy and his crew the moment Friend is dealt with.
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On Stranger Tides / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
On Stranger Tides / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: While attempting to rape Beth Hurwood (albeit falingly so), Leo Friend, with newfound powers and an apparent lack of mastery over them, accidentally and briefly turns Beth into his mother, at which point he starts saying "mommy, oh mommy" repeatedly and in an increasingly pathetic tone. This, in turn, causes Beth to vomit, which is exactly the reaction his mother had when he made sexual advances on her.
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On Stranger Tides / int_658a406d	type	Not Too Dead to Save the Day
On Stranger Tides / int_658a406d	comment	Not Too Dead to Save the Day: During Jack's final confrontation with the resurrected Blackbeard, the ghost of Captain Davies shows up to provide moral support and a few useful words of advice.
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On Stranger Tides / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
On Stranger Tides / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy
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On Stranger Tides / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
On Stranger Tides / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Captain Davies, who introduces Jack to the ways of piracy and magic, gets killed in the climactic battle of the book's second act, leaving Jack alone to come up with the willpower and plan to face the villains in the third act.
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On Stranger Tides / int_6bb40be3	type	Inner Monologue Conversation
On Stranger Tides / int_6bb40be3	comment	Inner Monologue Conversation: The vodun magician called Woefully Fat is deaf, and never responds to anything spoken to him — but several times he gives an answer to what the protagonist had just thought.
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On Stranger Tides / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
On Stranger Tides / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Attempted by Phil Davies when he's captured by the navy; he deliberately provokes the captain into a murderous rage because he'd rather be killed on the spot than be tried and hanged. Also attempted by Stede Bonnet later in the novel under similar circumstances. His desire to be killed in battle rather than hanged leads him to escape from jail when captured, then provoke the pursuing soldiers into firing on his own party of fugitives.
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On Stranger Tides / int_7a3aa8ea	type	You Must Be Cold
On Stranger Tides / int_7a3aa8ea	comment	You Must Be Cold: Jack lends Elizabeth his jacket a couple of times.
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On Stranger Tides / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
On Stranger Tides / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "Is it true what Panda Beecher once told me about you?"
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On Stranger Tides / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
On Stranger Tides / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: At one point, put on the spot for an explanation of who he is, Jack claims that his name is Thomas Hobbes and that his traveling companion is his manservant, Leviathan.
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On Stranger Tides / int_7dffcc84	type	Insanity Immunity
On Stranger Tides / int_7dffcc84	comment	Insanity Immunity: Jack Shandy suffers a concussion from a hard fall just before confronting an evil sorcerer, who attempts to trap him in illusions. The illusions keep breaking down as a result of Jack's disorientation, causing the villain to exclaim: "What's wrong with your mind? It's like a stripped screw!"
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On Stranger Tides / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
On Stranger Tides / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: The protagonist, Shandy, used to work in a puppet theatre whose owner insisted on authentic choreography for fight scenes; this saves his life when he unexpectedly finds himself in a real sword-fight. (However, it's played realistically, pointed out that he got lucky, and he's smart enough not to get into any more sword-fights until he's had real fight training.
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On Stranger Tides / int_864009e9	type	Pirate Booty
On Stranger Tides / int_864009e9	comment	Pirate Booty: Blackbeard buries treasure in remote places, intending to come back and dig it up after he's died and been reincarnated, so he can start a new life with all the treasure and no criminal record.
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On Stranger Tides / int_92eb3e7c	type	From a Single Cell
On Stranger Tides / int_92eb3e7c	comment	From a Single Cell: Anyone who has drunk from and shed blood at the Fountain of Youth can return from death if even a single drop of their blood falls into the sea when they die.
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On Stranger Tides / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
On Stranger Tides / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Erebus, where the Fountain of Youth is is heavily implied to be one of these, which is fitting considering it's often considered part of the Greek afterlife.
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On Stranger Tides / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
On Stranger Tides / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Leo Friend was one as a child; his hobbies included torturing small animals and randomly distributing poisoned sweets.
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On Stranger Tides / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
On Stranger Tides / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: John's puppetry comes in handy when he's forced to turn Hurwood's corpse into a giant marionette that can signal his onshore accomplice.
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On Stranger Tides / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
On Stranger Tides / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Mr. Bird's "I am not a dog". Anne Bonny has "For luck, man."
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On Stranger Tides / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
On Stranger Tides / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: Played with. The book's epigraph consists of two poetry fragments, one of which is apparently the source of the novel's title but was actually written specially for the epigraph; the poet it's attributed to, William Ashbless, is a Creator In-Joke who appears or is mentioned in most of Powers's novels. (The other fragment is an authentic bit of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.)
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On Stranger Tides / int_b575a2b1	type	Cold Iron
On Stranger Tides / int_b575a2b1	comment	Cold Iron: There's a distinction between hot iron and cold iron. The former, naturally occurring in contexts such as blood and falling stars, helps magic along, but the latter — basically any worked iron, such as in a knife or a nail — is magically dead, and impedes magic.
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On Stranger Tides / int_b5fb096b	type	People Puppets
On Stranger Tides / int_b5fb096b	comment	People Puppets: Much of the voodoo magic present in the novel involves controlling others to say or do as you command. Contributes to themes involving Jack Shandy's history as a puppeteer.
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On Stranger Tides / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
On Stranger Tides / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Several of the main characters are nearly changed into swamp plants on their way back from the fountain of youth by the cursed jungle around them. They're saved at the last minute by special mud from the fountain of youth, which retains some of its magical properties. This becomes a Chekhov's Gun later in the story.
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On Stranger Tides / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
On Stranger Tides / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Hurwood has only one arm.
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On Stranger Tides / int_c5a0b4d3	type	Brain Fever
On Stranger Tides / int_c5a0b4d3	comment	Brain Fever: Mentioned a couple of times; Hurwood claims his daughter is at risk of brain fever as an excuse to control what she eats, and after she learns his true plans starts telling people she actually has brain fever as an excuse for keeping her confined and to lay the groudwork for discrediting anything she might manage to tell people.
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On Stranger Tides / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
On Stranger Tides / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: Hurwood plans to resurrect his dead wife by utilizing newfound powers retrieved from the fountain of youth to transform Beth, his daughter, into a vessel and blank body for his wife to move in to.
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On Stranger Tides / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
On Stranger Tides / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: In the prologue, a sorceror sacrifices two humans so their blood can power a spell to communicate with the afterlife, derived from the one Circe teaches Odysseus in The Odyssey. It's noted that Odysseus could get away with two sheep, but due to the weakening of magic over time it won't work in the present with anything less than humans.
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On Stranger Tides / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
On Stranger Tides / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Leo Friend
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On Stranger Tides / int_c81e6bf8	type	Necromantic
On Stranger Tides / int_c81e6bf8	comment	Necromantic: Hurwood's descent into villainy is a result of his plan to use voodoo magic to resurrect his dead wife, despite the terrible cost.
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On Stranger Tides / int_d6087f0d	type	Seeks Another's Resurrection
On Stranger Tides / int_d6087f0d	comment	Seeks Another's Resurrection: Hurwood's goal is to resurrect his dead wife.
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On Stranger Tides / int_d8085f48	type	Hollywood Voodoo
On Stranger Tides / int_d8085f48	comment	Hollywood Voodoo: Actually, averted for the most part. Tim Powers is one of those authors who embodies Shown Their Work.
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On Stranger Tides / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
On Stranger Tides / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Noted, and explained in detail. Magic becomes more difficult if the caster has contact with too much ferrous metal, and magic use has been dying out as iron technology spreads. Magic has become extremely difficult and dangerous in Europe for this reason; it's easier in the New World, but by the end of the novel it's being weakened even there.
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On Stranger Tides / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
On Stranger Tides / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Leo Friend is heading in this direction.
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