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Sandokan

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Sandokan	comment	Sandokan is the eponymous protagonist of a series of adventure novels by Italian writer Emilio Salgari, published between 1895 and 1913. Set in and around the Indian Ocean, the novels tell Sandokan's story, starting from his pirate career to avenge his father, a Bornean rajah killed by a white man in the employ of the East India Company. Alongside him we find Yanez de Gomera (the only white man of Sandokan's pirate gang and his second in command), Tremal Naik (a former professional tiger hunter fighting the Thuggee cult), Kammamuri (Tremal Naik's servant), and Sambigliong (the most important of the pirates after Sandokan and Yanez).The novels still enjoy great popularity in Italy, and there are various animated and live action movies and series inspired to it (plus a great number of novels written by other authors).Novels: The Tigers of Mompracem ("Le Tigri di Mompracem"; it's sometimes listed as third in the series, as it was published in volume after The Mystery of the Black Jungle and The Pirates of Malaysia) The Mystery of the Black Jungle ("I Misteri della Giungla Nera"; originally a stand-alone novel with Tremal Naik as protagonist, was retroactively incorporated in the series after The Pirates of Malaysia) The Pirates of Malaysia ("I Pirati della Malesia") The Two Tigers ("Le Due Tigri") The King of the Sea ("Il Re del Mare") Quest for a Throne ("Alla Conquista di un Impero") Sandokan Fights Back ("Sandokan alla Riscossa") Return to Mompracem ("La Riconquista di Mompracem") The Brahman ("Il Bramino dell'Assam") An Empire Crumbles ("La Caduta di un Impero") Yanez's Revenge ("La Rivincita di Yanez")Animated adaptations: Sandokan – The Tiger of Malaysia
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Sandokan / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Sandokan / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The Tigers of Mompracem: the core group is composed by Malays and Dayaks (Sandokan being a Dayak himself), but we also have people from other ethnic groups, the mentioned ones being Chinese, Javanese, Bugis, Indian (including, at one point, a Thuggee), and even white men (besides Yanez, the crew of the King of the Sea included a group of Americans)
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Sandokan / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Sandokan / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Played with. When Sandokan boasted he felt like could kill a tiger he was promptly invited by lord Guillonk to take part to a tiger hunt, but Sandokan not only survived but made good on his boast.
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Sandokan / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Sandokan / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: At first baronet William Rosenthal seems to be just an obnoxious young noble who planned to make a career in the Royal Navy thanks to his status as a noble and acted rude towards Guillonk's guest (Sandokan, found near dead and healed by Guillonk and family after a bad run-in with a British cruiser) due to his noble upbringing. He's in fact the captain of the cruiser that had nearly killed Sandokan, and that didn't actually hate him until he realized where he had already seen him. There's even a good chance he had been the one who actually wounded Sandokan in that battle... Sindhia, the Rajah of Assam and Surama's cousin who sold her to the Thuggee. He's initially presented as an idiot and a borderline madman, depending on his adviser Teotokris for actual rule. Yet he easily disposed of his predecessor by duping him into not killing him immediately and giving him a gun, and upon breaking out of the asylum he had been sent after being deposed he practically dethroned Yanez by stealing him most of his popular support and building an army under his nose, only losing due Sandokan showing up with a Plague Master. Also, comparing the approximate date of his accession to the Assam throne with Real Life events, he actually extended his dominion, somehow taking back the whole Assam from the East India Company (who had come to annex the whole Assam and restored the previous dynasty in Upper Assam only).
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Sandokan / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Sandokan / int_1777688d	comment	Apparently at least some officers in the Royal Navy felt this way about Sandokan even in his pirate days: the lieutenant that managed to capture Sandokan near the end of The Tigers of Mompracem openly complained that he was scheduled to be hanged at Three Islands, and said that if he had been in charge Sandokan would have been offered a command in the Indian Army (meaning that a ludicrously dangerous pirate was neutralized and they earned a very brave and competent officer for their ground troops and well away from Mompracem). The same lieutenant (who never approached Sandokan without escort and a hand on his gun, even when he didn't yet know that Sandokan had broke his chains) allowed Sandokan to 'kill himself' to spare him the humiliation, and when Marianna asked for the 'corpse' he not only allowed her to claim him (after having a doctor checking if he was really dead, of course) but also suggested her to throw them in the sea before her uncle got the chance to hang him anyway.
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Sandokan / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Sandokan / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Sandokan treats his men very well, and they love him to the point he can (and does) order one of them to shield him from bullets with his body and he'll obey without question, even apologizing if another pirate dies in their place shielding Sandokan.
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Sandokan / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
Sandokan / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: This is a world where the two guys who used to hunt tigers for a living aren't the most dangerous guys around and the guy most notable for being Marianna's Hopeless Suitor is an accomplished Royal Navy officer, what would you expect?
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Sandokan / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Sandokan / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Baronet William Rosenthal is this for Sandokan in The Pirates of Mompracem, kicking his ass in battle even before being introduced (it helped that his cruiser outgunned Sandokan's two prahos by a fair margin, but he had to fight it smart to avoid a boarding until it would be useless) and trying to woo Marianna.
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Sandokan / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Sandokan / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Tremal Naik. The obliteration of any organized Thuggee cult was the direct consequence of the Thuggee kidnapping his daughter, resulting in Tremal Naik calling Sandokan as reinforcement before murdering a third of the cult (and having the Tigers of Mompracem murder another third) and destroy their headquarter while he searched for his daughter in spite of a war raging on, until he and the Tigers cornered Suyodhana in the besieged Delhi and Tremal Naik murdered the local Thuggees as Sandokan dueled their boss. The Thuggee could have recovered from both Suyodhana's death and the losses from joining the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (a very justified choice, given that the British were already slowly dismantling the cult), but not from that.
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Sandokan / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Sandokan / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Maxim machine guns and turreted ironclad battleships are major plot drivers, but the action of the novels is set in the 1849-1857 period. First ocean-going ironclad warships Gloire and HMS Warrior sailed in 1858 and 1860, revolving gun turrets had been invented in 1861, Gatling guns also in 1861, Maxim guns in 1884. Emilio Salgari was writing of military technology popular in his time, but imagined it put to use 30 years before.
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Sandokan / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
Sandokan / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: Marianna first embarked on a warship when she was 10, and stayed there until she was 13. It's implied that Lord Guillonk settled down with her because he had suddenly realized what he had done.
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Sandokan / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Sandokan / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Yanez. While Sandokan is no idiot, it's Yanez who does most of the thinking and deals with outsmarting enemies.
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Sandokan / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Sandokan / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Sandokan, and for good reasons.
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Sandokan / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Sandokan / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Marianna can be kidnapped, as her physical strength is that of a young and very short woman, but she knows how to use guns (normally a muzzle-loader hunting carbine, but she even manned a cannon, in the tv movies), and has no qualms at using them. Heck, her first reaction at Sandokan announcing his intention to kill a tiger with a knife to gift her the skin was to grab a gun to try and hunt down the tiger to prevent Sandokan from risking his life. Part of why she fell for Sandokan was that he was the first man other than her uncle (who taught her how to shoot) who accepted that side of her. In The King of the Sea Darma, Tremal Naik's daughter, proves she has grown into this when her reaction to attacking Dayaks is to use them to prove herself a crack shot. She still got kidnapped by overwhelming numbers, but she made them pay for that in blood.
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Sandokan / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Sandokan / int_2b706ca	comment	An example from Yanez's Revenge: when facing about a thousand badly trained enemies armed with antique muzzle-loaders Sandokan opened fire with two hundreds repeating rifles and twelve Maxim machine guns while charging at them on top of elephants. Very few enemies survived long enough to realized how badly outgunned, outmanouvered and outclassed they were and run the hell away from there.
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Sandokan / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Sandokan / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Lord Guillonk was willing to kill Marianna, his niece, before letting her marry Sandokan, and would have done so if Yanez didn't headbutt him into submission when he tried.
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Sandokan / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Sandokan / int_3517000d	comment	Paddy O'Brien, a Mad Scientist appearing in The King of the Sea, presented himself as the Demon of War. He proved he deserved this name.
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Sandokan / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Sandokan / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The King of the Sea reveals that most of Sandokan's immense fortune is kept safe in one or more banking accounts in neutral countries (what he has at Mompracem is just petty cash), and that he gave Yanez the cheque book in case the 'petty cash' he had with him (a small fortune) wasn't enough to buy whatever Yanez considered necessary, like food, gunpowder, or an ironclad warship. The same novel reveals that Suyodhana did the same with the Thuggee's own fortune, with only him and the Pilgrim knowing about it until the Pilgrim, after Suyodhana's death, revealed it to his secret son and successor James Moreland - allowing the Thuggee Cult to provide one last challenge even after being dismantled.
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Sandokan / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Sandokan / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The Tigers are Crazy-Prepared because they have seen or read what modern (for the time) technology could do and expect the Royal Navy to attack them in any moment (even when they have no more reason to do it), and tend to collect anything that could be useful, like the King of the Sea (bought by Yanez when he encountered her by chance) or a mad scientist claiming his electrical device can blow up enemy ships' magazines (guess what blew up that ship...), even if they don't really believe in it (the mad scientist. Yanez was skeptical, but suggested to keep him just in case). They also tend to not be surprised when Sandokan shows off (the most surprise he ever got from him was mild astonishment the first time he broke some chains and a question about overkill when he resorted to biological warfare to help Yanez). The Royal Navy too. One of their officers, after having captured Sandokan and put him in chains, approached him with two rifle-armed sailors and fully armed, even without knowing that Sandokan had broken the chains just to prove he could to one of his pirates captured with him. When Sandokan faked his death, the lieutenant was willing to throw the body in the sea to prevent it being desecrated, but he first had the ship's surgeon check if he was really dead (he wasn't, but the poison was very good at making appear he was). Even the lowly soldiers of the British Empire are this. That time Sandokan and Yanez hid in a stove, a group of soldiers looked at the stove, concluded it was too small for two grow men to hide in it, and then checked anyway for good measure. If it wasn't for the horrible lighting, Sandokan and Yanez would have died then and there, not by the hand of some formidable warrior but shot by some lowly soldiers who used their brains.
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Sandokan / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
Sandokan / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: While Salgari must be given credit for putting more effort into research than most adventure writers of his time, he still couldn't afford to travel outside Italy to confirm the information he gathered from local libraries and bookstores, so it was inevitable that he would sometimes get the facts wrong, such as the location of a lake or the range of a species of wild pig.
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Sandokan / int_421f8eb8	type	Exotic Weapon Supremacy
Sandokan / int_421f8eb8	comment	Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Subverted: Sandokan and his men are all armed with the kris, but they all live in the region where this weapon comes from and is common.
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Sandokan / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Sandokan / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Happens to unlucky prisoners who don't want to spill the beans. The one who got it worse is the Meccan Pilgrim, who, captured by Yanez and the original (American) crew of the King of the Sea, was subjected to the water cure by the Americans and broke just as Yanez begged them to stop.
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Sandokan / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Sandokan / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: James Brooke is the only one of Sandokan's enemies to conquer this honour, having actually won his initial battle with the Tiger of Malaysia and protected his subjects from colonialism. On a more general term Sandokan is quite generous with the crews of ships that didn't surrender immediately but fought back with valor, even paying the damage to their ship (not the cargo). It's even openly shown that some of the Tigers of Mompracem come from the crews of defeated ships, having fought back with incredible valor and survived long enough for either Sandokan or Yanez stopping the Tigers and making the offer. This is how Kammamuri first met Yanez: the ship he was traveling with shipwrecked on Mompracem, and when the pirates attacked he outlived the crew and fought back with incredible valor, prompting Yanez to recall the pirates and asking him to join. Apparently at least some officers in the Royal Navy felt this way about Sandokan even in his pirate days: the lieutenant that managed to capture Sandokan near the end of The Tigers of Mompracem openly complained that he was scheduled to be hanged at Three Islands, and said that if he had been in charge Sandokan would have been offered a command in the Indian Army (meaning that a ludicrously dangerous pirate was neutralized and they earned a very brave and competent officer for their ground troops and well away from Mompracem). The same lieutenant (who never approached Sandokan without escort and a hand on his gun, even when he didn't yet know that Sandokan had broke his chains) allowed Sandokan to 'kill himself' to spare him the humiliation, and when Marianna asked for the 'corpse' he not only allowed her to claim him (after having a doctor checking if he was really dead, of course) but also suggested her to throw them in the sea before her uncle got the chance to hang him anyway. The son of Suyodhana was the only man to completely and utterly defeat Sandokan, but spared his life due to this trope and having fallen in love for Tremal Naik's daughter.
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Sandokan / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Sandokan / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: The British frequently come across as this during the novels, failing repeatedly to capture Sandokan and having their plans disrupted in the most unexpected of ways by Sandokan. The Dutch appear like this as well to the protagonists, although they aren't as vigorous in pursuing Sandokan compared to the British.
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Sandokan / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Sandokan / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Sandokan may be a badass, but he and his men will bring along overwhelming firepower every time they can. It's not clear who is more pragmatic between Sandokan and Yanez: in The King of the Sea the latter bought the eponymous ship, an ironclad warship that outgunned anything the Royal Navy had in the Indian Ocean, and managed to equip it with a Mad Scientist who claimed having invented a Ray Gun that could blow up the magazines of opposing ships (when tested, his device worked); the former showed up in Yanez's Revenge with a small army of Dayaks (also known as head hunters) armed with repeating rifles, a dozen machine guns and a scientist specialized in biological warfare. Sandokan is at the wrong end of the very first example of the series: in The Pirates of Mompracem he has a run-in with a British steam-powered warship, who would use her superior firepower to engage the pirates from distance and the steam propulsion to keep the distance and avoid a boarding that would have given victory to Sandokan. It's mentioned that Sandokan and his pirates started cursing and telling very unkind things at the ship the first time she pulled this.
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Sandokan / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
Sandokan / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: The "youma drink", also called "the lemonade that loosens the tongue": a drink made of lemon juice, opium and sap from a youma plant (an unspecified member of the sansevieria genus), it gets the drinker too high to care he shouldn't answer the questions he's being asked, even insulting the questioner if the revelations are about a plan to harm them. First shows up in The Mystery of the Black Jungle, when Bharata prepares it and Macpherson tricks Tremal Naik in drinking it, with many others (including the Thuggee and James Brooke) knowing how to prepare it.
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Sandokan / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Sandokan / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: All the time: Italian dime novels of the time were heavy on this, and while Salgari favoured brain over brawn he also gave his characters the physical feats to go with their brains. Case in point, Sandokan can kill a tiger with a knife, and Tremal Naik used to do it for a living.
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Sandokan / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Sandokan / int_50f66629	comment	The Tigers are Crazy-Prepared because they have seen or read what modern (for the time) technology could do and expect the Royal Navy to attack them in any moment (even when they have no more reason to do it), and tend to collect anything that could be useful, like the King of the Sea (bought by Yanez when he encountered her by chance) or a mad scientist claiming his electrical device can blow up enemy ships' magazines (guess what blew up that ship...), even if they don't really believe in it (the mad scientist. Yanez was skeptical, but suggested to keep him just in case). They also tend to not be surprised when Sandokan shows off (the most surprise he ever got from him was mild astonishment the first time he broke some chains and a question about overkill when he resorted to biological warfare to help Yanez).
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Sandokan / int_53034c21	type	Great White Hunter
Sandokan / int_53034c21	comment	Great White Hunter: A few tiger hunts are shown. Sandokan, Tremal Naik and Kammamuri fail to qualify due not being white (even if Tremal Naik used to hunt tigers for a living), but we still have lord Guillonk, Yanez (who will mock the tiger before shooting it if he deems it safe), Marianna, and others. British officers are mentioned as hunting man-eating tigers in their free time.
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Sandokan / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Sandokan / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Suyodhana is stated to be very short-and when he fought the much larger and incredibly strong Tremal Naik one-on-one he not only gave him such a beating that the next time they meet Tremal Naik sends Sandokan forward, but he did it while holding back against an enemy trying to kill him (Suyodhana had decided Tremal Naik did not deserve a quick death).
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Sandokan / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Sandokan / int_53f5119f	comment	The same novel reveals that Suyodhana did the same with the Thuggee's own fortune, with only him and the Pilgrim knowing about it until the Pilgrim, after Suyodhana's death, revealed it to his secret son and successor James Moreland - allowing the Thuggee Cult to provide one last challenge even after being dismantled.
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Sandokan / int_551c5b1a	type	Dime Novel
Sandokan / int_551c5b1a	comment	Dime Novel: The series was one of their Italian equivalents. Differently from your typical Dime Novel, the characterization is rather good, female characters aren't always The Load (and in fact Marianna, the single most important female character in the series, is a crack shot), and the characters tended to win more thanks to brains and firepower than through sheer courage.
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Sandokan / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Sandokan / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Subverted by lord Guillonk: when he learns that the guest he had healed was actually Sandokan he kicked him out of his house and prepared an ambush against him. Sandokan seems to play it straight: while never tested on it he knows well the code, and took offense on the ambush (only the ambush: as a pirate he was Guillonk's enemy, and having fully recovered he admitted he was fair game for being kicked out).
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Sandokan / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Sandokan / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: We have the Tiger of Malaysia (Sandokan), the Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle (Tremal Naik), the Tiger of India (Suyodhana), and the Head Hunters (a nickname of the Dayak people, who, before being stopped by retaliations from James Brooke and European colonial powers, had the habit to raid places with the only purpose of cutting heads). Paddy O'Brien, a Mad Scientist appearing in The King of the Sea, presented himself as the Demon of War. He proved he deserved this name.
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Sandokan / int_65331274	type	Flynning
Sandokan / int_65331274	comment	Flynning: Averted in the books (not so much in the adaptations): sword and knife fights are short and tend to end with someone stabbed in the guts or the chest, and when Sandokan fights a tiger with a knife he doesn't wrestle the beast (as happens in other series where someone knife-fights a dangerous animal) but rushes it while it's distracted before stabbing it the heart.
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Sandokan / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Sandokan / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Salgari was a fierce opponent of colonialism. Whenever a colonial power appeared in his novels (both in the Sandokan series and the others series and stand-alone novels) they were shown either as Well Intentioned Extremists who genuinely believed they were doing the right thing or greedy cowards. Italian media of the time tended to praise brawn over brain. Salgari had the habit of thrusting Sandokan into situations where Yanez's smarts were more useful than his considerable strength and skill, and in The Tigers of Mompracem used Marianna and Yanez to call him an idiot when he decided to kill a tiger with a knife (Marianna tried and shot the tiger to prevent Sandokan from facing a tiger in melee combat, and told him to his face) and wait the dawn to cripple a British gunship because he wanted to show off his wife (Yanez pestered him to hurry up and shoot the damn cruiser, as he was good enough a shot to do it with the moonlight, and continued 'till dawn). Thankfully with time Sandokan smarted up, to the point that by Yanez's Revenge he kept an expert of biological weapons in case of an outbreak of war with a foreign power or some idiot tried to dethrone Yanez (said idiot saw his army literally shit itself to death when the expert caused a Cholera epidemics. Sandokan and Yanez's troops were vaccinated).
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Sandokan / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
Sandokan / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: The Tigers of Mompracem was originally a stand-alone story, and The Mystery of the Black Jungle meant to start a novel series. Then the publisher asked Salgari to write another novel with Sandokan, and Salgari welded the two novels in the same canon.
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Sandokan / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Sandokan / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sandokan's named ships have meaningful names. His ship in The Pirates of Malaysia, the Pearl of Labuan, is named after his now late wife Marianna Guillonk, also known as the Pearl of Labuan for her beauty. The ship that replaced Pearl of Labuan in The Two Tigers is named Marianna, as Yanez's ship in The King of the Sea (that novel made clear there were two identical ships named Marianna in Sandokan's fleet). The novel The King of the Sea has a magnificent example: Yanez and Sandokan get the chance to buy the Nebraska, an American-built ironclad warship superior to anything else in the Indian Ocean that had been built for a sultan (who had already paid it) and refused by his successor, and renamed it King of the Sea to express their intention to rule on the routes of the Indian Ocean until the British and Suyodhana's son begged for mercy or they got sunk. Tremal Naik's daughter is named after his tiger. She's actually more dangerous than the tiger, as she's a crack shot and the tiger isn't.
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Sandokan / int_6f66bef7	type	But Not Too Foreign
Sandokan / int_6f66bef7	comment	But Not Too Foreign: Marianna's mother was half-Italian, and Marianna herself was born in Naples. Ada Corishant too: being the daughter of Marianna's maternal uncle and an Indian woman she's one quarter Italian, one quarter English and two quarters Indian.
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Sandokan / int_72f98935	type	Heroic Build
Sandokan / int_72f98935	comment	Heroic Build: Novels, films and animated adaptations outline as much as possible Sandokan's great physical strength, but give him the appearance of an Indian / European strongman. Even better in the 1970s Italian mini-series, where he's played by the Indian actor Kabir Bedi◊. Among native Malaysian people 6-ft-plus strongmen are rare even today.
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Sandokan / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Sandokan / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Yanez had a role as big if not bigger than Sandokan from The King of the Sea to An Empire Crumbles, with The Brahman and An Empire Crumbles actually having him as the declared protagonist. Ironically, Yanez's Revenge is the novel in which Sandokan takes back the spotlight.
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Sandokan / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Sandokan / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Sambigliong, a Tiger of Mompracem that debuted in The Pirates of Malaysia and Sandokan's third in command since that novel, is mentioned as one of the then-unnamed pirates that ambushed Lord Guillonk in The Tigers of Mompracem. This is particularly notable because there already was a named character, Juioko, known to have taken part to that ambush and survive the fall of Mompracem, but him and the other named pirates would not be mentioned anymore.
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Sandokan / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
Sandokan / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: Baronet William Rosenthal, a character in The Tigers of Mompracem, exists only to be Sandokan's rival for Marianna's love, and his only chance to marry her was to have lord Guillonk force his niece.
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Sandokan / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Sandokan / int_8409a385	comment	We have the Tiger of Malaysia (Sandokan), the Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle (Tremal Naik), the Tiger of India (Suyodhana), and the Head Hunters (a nickname of the Dayak people, who, before being stopped by retaliations from James Brooke and European colonial powers, had the habit to raid places with the only purpose of cutting heads).
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Sandokan / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Sandokan / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Salgari chose Sandokan's base on an old map, but the island isn't shown on maps since before Salgari started writing, and the main candidate of Keraman is mentioned in the novels as a separate island.
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Sandokan / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Sandokan / int_86b21114	comment	The Mystery of the Black Jungle ends with Tremal Naik and the British troops freeing Ada from the Thuggee and escaping their temple while Suyodhana says "Go! We'll meet again in the jungle!", and it isn't until The Pirates of Malaysia that we find out what happened: Suyodhana and the Thuggee ambushed the British troops in the jungle and exterminated them, recapturing Ada and framing Tremal Naik for being a Thuggee. Kammamuri later succeeded in freeing Ada, but the Thuggee drove her to madness, and The Pirates of Malaysia opens with their vessel shipwrecked on Mompracem, recently recaptured by the pirates, after a storm;
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Sandokan / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Sandokan / int_875615dd	comment	The Tigers of Mompracem are this on a larger scale, being pirates from many ethnic groups (mostly Malays and Dayaks) that would normally kill each other on sight (Truth in Television: Malays and Dayaks went out of their way to attack each other, with James Brooke actually using Malay forces to take down the main Dayak pirate band and Dayak forces to destroy the main Malay pirate group).
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Sandokan / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Sandokan / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill like Overkill: Salgari loves this trope, and anyone with half a brain tend to bring as much firepower as they can. One example from The Pirates of Malaysia: to fight Sandokan's single ship Pearl of Labuan (an oversized praho modified for superior speed and carrying more guns than normal prahos) James Brooke deployed four normal prahos (each with about three quarters of Sandokan's firepower) and his personal ship Royalist, that was a match for Pearl. It's hinted that James Brooke was improvising, and that he would have used more ships had he been faster at recognizing Marianna as a pirate ship or Sandokan slower at realizing what Brooke was doing. An example from Yanez's Revenge: when facing about a thousand badly trained enemies armed with antique muzzle-loaders Sandokan opened fire with two hundreds repeating rifles and twelve Maxim machine guns while charging at them on top of elephants. Very few enemies survived long enough to realized how badly outgunned, outmanouvered and outclassed they were and run the hell away from there.
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Sandokan / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Sandokan / int_90c018ac	comment	Many (after all, the series is mostly set at sea), but the ships of the Tigers of Mompracem in general and Sandokan and Yanez' personal ships in the third, fourth and fifth novel (the Marianna in "The Pirates of Malaysia" and the two Pearl of Labuan in "The Two Tigers" and "The King of the Sea") take the cake, being the fusion of the traditional Malaysian proas (spelled praho in the series) with European shipbuilding techniques to obtain ships far faster, better armed and tougher than any sailing vessel of similar size.
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Sandokan / int_91df3195	type	Military Brat
Sandokan / int_91df3195	comment	Military Brat: Marianna. After the death of her parents she was raised by her uncle, lord James Guillonk, who was about to cruise the Indian Ocean to scour it from pirates. He brought her along, resulting in her being a very good shot (and probably having manned the cannon once or twice back then) and a very impolite and ferocious little monster when her uncle settled down in Labuan, giving him an hard time teaching her the manners of a lady.
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Sandokan / int_94e17e7e	type	Fluffy Tamer
Sandokan / int_94e17e7e	comment	Fluffy Tamer: Tremal Naik's pet is a tiger, and treats her like a cuddly cat who can also guard his home. Kammamuri qualifies too, as he's the one who cares for the tiger when Tremal Naik isn't around.
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Sandokan / int_967809be	type	Small Girl, Big Gun
Sandokan / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: Marianna is stated to be of very short stature, and in the Italian tv movies she has manned a CANNON.
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Sandokan / int_a371a459	type	Fighting for a Homeland
Sandokan / int_a371a459	comment	Fighting for a Homeland: Sandokan and the survivors of the Tigers of Mompracem in Quest for a Throne, Sandokan Fights Back and Return to Mompracem: after being chased out of Mompracem in The King of the Sea, the Tigers search for a place to call home. Subverted in the end: while they conquered Assam in Quest for a Throne (it happened that Yanez's wife had a claim to that throne) and took back Sandokan's ancestral homeland in Sandokan Fights Back, they can't find a place to call home, and as soon as the East India Company gives away Mompracem they reconquer it from the Sultan of Brunei.
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Sandokan / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Sandokan / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: James Brooke, the historical first White Rajah of Sarawak, was a minor character in the novels, being only mentioned in The Tigers of Mompracem as a fierce enemy of the pirates and in Guillonk's backstory, the villain in the second half of The Pirates of Malaysia (and would have been dealt swiftly if lord Guillonk didn't happen to visit right as Yanez was making a fool of him), and a mention in The King of the Sea as the uncle of the new White Rajah. The various animated series and live action series and movies make him Sandokan's main adversary.
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Sandokan / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Sandokan / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Two in The 90s, the one with its own entry and an Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation which takes place in a World of Funny Animals - Sandokan and his men are anthropomorphized tigers, while Big Bad The Rajah of Sarawak is a cat.
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Sandokan / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Sandokan / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Sandokan, Suyodhana, Tremal Naik and James Brooke are known as the Tiger of Malaysia, the Tiger of India, the Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle and the White Rajah of Sarawak.
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Sandokan / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Sandokan / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The usual reaction at someone discovering that Sandokan is around. Also the Thuggee's reaction when they discovered that Tremal Naik had a pet tiger.
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Sandokan / int_ad451179	type	Cruel Elephant
Sandokan / int_ad451179	comment	Cruel Elephant: Referenced and downplayed: there are two cautionary tales warning to not provoke elephants, for they are intelligent and calm but, being intelligent, also capable of cruel retaliations if provoked long enough: One elephant had the habit of reaching with its trunk into the windows of various houses, knowing the locals would give him gifts... All except for a seamstress, who'd instead sting him repeatedly as a game until the day the elephant showed up with a trunk full of water and sprayed her at full power. An elephant conductor had the habit of breaking coconuts on his elephant's head, knowing he could take it and ignoring his annoyed grumbles. One day, however, the elephant grabbed the coconut and broke it on his head, killing him.
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Sandokan / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Sandokan / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: A few. It's mainly with the dates, that in the first novels are changed to fit the historical events Salgari is mentioning (novels following The Two Tigers, whose finale is set in late september-early october 1857, respect real world history), but Sambigliong was switched from Dayak (The Pirates of Malaysia and The Two Tigers) to Malayan (from The King of the Sea onward), and in The Tigers of Mompracem Sandokan was not the dispossessed son of the murdered rajah Kaidagan (first mentioned in Sandokan Fights Back, when Sandokan finally kills his murderer) but the dispossessed rajah of Lake Kini Balù himself.
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Sandokan / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
Sandokan / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: In The King of the Sea the alleged Mecca's Pilgrim was ordering the escaping Tigers of Mompracem to surrender when Yanez, happy to see him, shot him in the chest.
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Sandokan / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Sandokan / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Yanez normally has little problems torturing informations out of an enemy, but he was appalled when the original American crew of the King of the Sea subjected the fake Meccan Pilgrim to the water cure.
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Sandokan / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Sandokan / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Salgari's unnamed counterpart of Purandar Singha is a literal example. During his attempt at massacring his extended family for no apparent reason, his cousin Sindhia begged him to let him try and shoot a rupee coin, and let him go if he succeeded. The rajah accepted, and died when Sindhia shot him.
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Sandokan / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Sandokan / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Tremal Naik was the protagonist in his first appearance in The Mystery of the Black Jungle, but became a secondary character since The Pirates of Malaysia.
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Sandokan / int_b99bed67	type	No-Nonsense Nemesis
Sandokan / int_b99bed67	comment	No-Nonsense Nemesis: Suyodhana will do everything to get his enemies killed, and will make sure they stay dead. Case in point, his initial treatment of Tremail Naik, that at the time he considered nothing more than a slight annoyance rather than the worst enemy the Thuggee cult could ever make: while he could have beaten him in a fair fight (as he actually ended up doing off-page), when they first met he had him immobilized by two dozen men using bola-like garrotes before putting a knife in his heart and leaving him to the wild tigers, and when the body disappeared and two of his men ended up dead he correctly deduced Tremal Naik had somehow survived (the knife was deviated by a rib and didn't get the heart), sent one of his best men to check his house, and upon receiving confirmation he was indeed alive he ordered him to finish him off before he could recover.
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Sandokan / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Sandokan / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Many (after all, the series is mostly set at sea), but the ships of the Tigers of Mompracem in general and Sandokan and Yanez' personal ships in the third, fourth and fifth novel (the Marianna in "The Pirates of Malaysia" and the two Pearl of Labuan in "The Two Tigers" and "The King of the Sea") take the cake, being the fusion of the traditional Malaysian proas (spelled praho in the series) with European shipbuilding techniques to obtain ships far faster, better armed and tougher than any sailing vessel of similar size. The King of the Sea from the novel of the same name: an ironclad warship originally named Nebraska and built in Oregon for the Sultan of Shemmeridan, it's literally the mightiest ship of the whole world, with thicker armor, larger main guns (four of them in two turrets) and greater speed than anything anyone else had built to that point. As soon as he learns that the new Sultan of Shemmeridan refused to buy it (and left the builders the money paid in advance), Yanez bought it for twice the requested price-and found out the ship was so invincible he had still bought it cheap.
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Sandokan / int_bb040b01	type	Cool Guns
Sandokan / int_bb040b01	comment	Cool Guns: In the final novel Sandokan shows up with twelve Maxim machine guns.
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Sandokan / int_bb0c6499	type	Plaguemaster
Sandokan / int_bb0c6499	comment	Plague Master: In Yanez's Revenge Sandokan shows up with Wan Horn, a biologist specialized in biological warfare. The enemy army literally craps itself to death after said biologist caused an epidemics of cholera among them.
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Sandokan / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Sandokan / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Various, depending on the novel. Bonus point for the Thuggee cultists in The Mystery of the Black Jungle and The Two Tigers for being the origin of the word 'thug' and actually be called thugs by the author.
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Sandokan / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Sandokan / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Three novels end into one: The Mystery of the Black Jungle ends with Tremal Naik and the British troops freeing Ada from the Thuggee and escaping their temple while Suyodhana says "Go! We'll meet again in the jungle!", and it isn't until The Pirates of Malaysia that we find out what happened: Suyodhana and the Thuggee ambushed the British troops in the jungle and exterminated them, recapturing Ada and framing Tremal Naik for being a Thuggee. Kammamuri later succeeded in freeing Ada, but the Thuggee drove her to madness, and The Pirates of Malaysia opens with their vessel shipwrecked on Mompracem, recently recaptured by the pirates, after a storm; The Brahman and An Empire Crumbles had originally been written as a single novel but were published separated by decision of the publisher, resulting in this; The final scene of An Empire Crumbles is the first scene of Yanez's Revenge, but with the point of view switched from Yanez to Sandokan.
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Sandokan / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Sandokan / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: Yanez and the other Tigers of Mompracem are apparently bored by the sight of Sandokan crippling an ironclad cruiser with a single grenade or breaking shackles with zero effort.
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Sandokan / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Sandokan / int_ceec4df5	comment	It is implied that, after Sandokan's epic Roaring Rampage of Revenge in The King of the Sea, he and the British imperial government have an informal agreement that allows Sandokan and Yanez to do as they wish (even buying weapons from them) as long as they won't damage the British interests (Yanez even carved out a nice empire for himself right in the real-life Raj, with the Brits not interfering because he had deposed a corrupted prince and opened his country to trade).
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Sandokan / int_d7e68c39	type	Bulletproof Human Shield
Sandokan / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: The Tigers of Mompracem offers a strange example: Sandokan expects the commander of the ship he's using to shield him from incoming bullets (it's all but stated that it's part of their rules), and even reprimands him when he fails to do so and another pirate dies in his place.
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Sandokan / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Sandokan / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Sometimes a character is faced with something he couldn't have possibly anticipated, like the Dayaks being attacked by a passing ironclad warship (The King of the Sea) or Sandokan using cholera against Yanez's enemies (Yanez's Revenge).
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Sandokan / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Sandokan / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Sandokan will try and avoid a battle he can't win, and retreat when he gets his ass kicked, if only to return in force and take revenge.
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Sandokan / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Sandokan / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Apart the tiger motif, explicitly used with Sandokan (the Tiger of Malaysia), Yanez (sometimes called the White Tiger, as he's a white man and Sandokan's brother in everything but blood), their pirates (the Tigers of Mompracem) and Suyodhana (the Tiger of India. Bonus point for him and Sandokan having been represented with the bodies of actual tigers in the cover of the first edition of The Two Tigers) and implicitly for Marianna (implied by Sandokan's flag, that changed from a single head of tiger in red field in The Tigers of Mompracem to three heads of tiger in the other novels, representing Sandokan, Yanez and the now late Marianna), The British Empire has both a lion and leopard motif, to the point that Sandokan and Yanez often use 'lion' and 'leopard' in place of 'Englishman'. Some of the Tigers of Mompracem have their own personal motifs: a character that dies shielding Sandokan from a bullet was known only as Sea Spider, while the pirate Sangan (never seen but mentioned to have died in the fall of Mompracem) was nicknamed 'The Lion of the Romades Islands'.
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Sandokan / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Sandokan / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Marianna. To keep her safe, Sandokan quit piracy and went to Java with his surviving pirates at the end of The Tigers of Mompracem, but after her death in a cholera outbreak Sandokan raised a new pirate band and returned to Mompracem.
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Sandokan / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Sandokan / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Sandokan and Yanez. Completely different in personality, but they'd die before leaving the other in trouble. Bonus points for actually calling each other brothers. The Tigers of Mompracem are this on a larger scale, being pirates from many ethnic groups (mostly Malays and Dayaks) that would normally kill each other on sight (Truth in Television: Malays and Dayaks went out of their way to attack each other, with James Brooke actually using Malay forces to take down the main Dayak pirate band and Dayak forces to destroy the main Malay pirate group).
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Sandokan / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Sandokan / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Lord Guillonk's character is often fused into James Brooke's in retellings.
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Sandokan / int_e78119cb	type	Girls with Guns
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Sandokan / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Sandokan / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The Pirates of Malaysia is this, providing the first meeting between the Tigers of Mompracem (from the novel with the same name) and Tremal Naik, Kammamuri, Darma (the tiger) and Ada Corishant (from The Mystery of the Black Jungle).
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Sandokan / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Sandokan / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In more than one occasion the heroes or an ally is in serious trouble when someone arrives and rescue them. The most impressive example is from The King of the Sea: Yanez and seven Tigers of Mompracem were on a ship about to be boarded by an horde of Dayaks when a passing ironclad warship witnessed an European in trouble and sank the Dayaks.
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Sandokan / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Sandokan / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Tremal Naik named his daughter Darma after his tiger, and they both appeared in The Two Tigers and The King of the Sea before the tiger got shot.
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Sandokan / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Sandokan / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Tigers of Mompracem stopped raiding commerce sometime between The Pirates of Malaysia and The Two Tigers, resuming in The King of the Sea only because the Royal Navy decided to kick them out of Mompracem. After The King of the Sea they don't do the pirate job anymore save for a single boarding in Return to Mompracem. Sandokan is implied to be a Dayak, but never cut a single head.
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Sandokan / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Sandokan / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Sandokan's dead relatives and Marianna (from The Pirates of Malaysia) are this for Sandokan, who tend to mention both at least once for novel (Marianna even had three ships named after her). Ada Corishant becomes this for Tremal Naik but in a lesser way, as he still has a daughter from her.
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Sandokan / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Sandokan / int_f9876f7e	comment	The Royal Navy too. One of their officers, after having captured Sandokan and put him in chains, approached him with two rifle-armed sailors and fully armed, even without knowing that Sandokan had broken the chains just to prove he could to one of his pirates captured with him. When Sandokan faked his death, the lieutenant was willing to throw the body in the sea to prevent it being desecrated, but he first had the ship's surgeon check if he was really dead (he wasn't, but the poison was very good at making appear he was).
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Sandokan / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
Sandokan / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Sambigliong, the third in command of the Tigers of Mompracem, is this to both Sandokan and Yanez.
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Sandokan / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Sandokan / int_fd4f8299	comment	Salgari was a fierce opponent of colonialism. Whenever a colonial power appeared in his novels (both in the Sandokan series and the others series and stand-alone novels) they were shown either as Well Intentioned Extremists who genuinely believed they were doing the right thing or greedy cowards.
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Sandokan / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
Sandokan / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Various examples, including the historical character of James Brooke. Yanez is the most prominent, both for being the co-protagonist and the only white man who was captured by the Tigers of Mompracem and lived without paying a ransom. Yanez's improbable survival of his initial encounter with the pirates is lampshaded when he himself explains Kammamuri that the Tigers of Mompracem never spare white men and Kammamuri notes that Yanez, while white, has just led the pirates that attacked the ship he was on. Yanez replied he was a special case.
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Sandokan / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Sandokan / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Salgari traveled very little, but was very well documented, and his descriptions of ships, locations and societies showed it (he did a couple errors, but one of them, the lake near Mount Kinabalu, was commonly thought to exist at the time, and the area would be fully explored only after his death). Made more impressive by the fact internet didn't exist at the time and Salgari wasn't a professor, just a poor and overworked professional novel writer. The choice of Assam as Surama's homeland is another example: exactly in the period where the rajah would have massacred his entire family save for Sindhia (who duped him into giving him a gun and did the obvious thing) and Surama herself (who Sindhia sold to the Thuggee), Upper Assam was ruled by Purandar Singha, a notably corrupt, incompetent, stupid and possibly crazy king who had been installed by the British only to be deposed for failing to pay his dues, exactly the kind of character who could have pulled the massacre enacted by the unnamed rajah of Assam.
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