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Black Sails

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Black Sails	comment	Black Sails is a historical drama about the The Golden Age of Piracy created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine that aired for four seasons, from 2014 to 2017, on Starz.Intended as a prequel to Treasure Island, the series focuses on Captain Flint, his allies (most prominently a certain lovable scoundrel by the name of John Silver) and his rivals during the Golden Age of Piracy, their relentless pursuit of the gold that will one day become Flint's treasure, and their ongoing war with 'civilized society'. It's a good deal Darker and Edgier than Pirates of the Caribbean and its like, and it took up the mantle of Starz's signature show after Spartacus reached its end.
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Black Sails / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Black Sails / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: For all their bickering, Vane and Rackham's somewhat heartfelt farewell in "XXII." shows some genuine, if still vitriolic affection between them. Anne Bonny and Jack Rackham's Odd Couple relationship has its ups and downs, but it always comes back to them declaring their devotion to each other.
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Black Sails / int_120a6a29	type	ArtisticLicenceHistory
Black Sails / int_120a6a29	comment	Artistic Licence â€“ History: The show is based on stories of real pirates in and around the real pirate republic in Nassau, but only loosely. The Historical Domain Characters have their backgrounds and stories modified to suit the plot of the show. Some liberties are taken with chronology. Benjamin Hornigold is portrayed as a grizzled old veteran sailor, when in reality, at the time of his death he was only 39 years old. Hornigold apparently knows about the collapse of the Jacobite rebellion and James's flight to France approximately nine months before James even got to Scotland in the first place. Anne Bonny is a key member of Charles Vane's crew, and the lover of his quartermaster Jack Rackham, in 1715. Historically Rackham and Bonny didn't meet until 1718, by which time he was a captain in his own right. She may never have met Vane. The pirate republic seems well established and even beginning to decay in 1715, when in fact it was just getting started. Season 2 features Captain Ned Low as an antagonist; Low's pirating career didn't begin until 1721, and he didn't become a captain until 1722. He also wasn't killed by Charles Vane. Season 3 reveals that in the show's backstory, Edward Teach was ousted from Nassau by conspiracy between Eleanor Guthrie, Benjamin Hornigold, and Charles Vane. In reality, it was Teach who conspired to oust Hornigold from their joint venture. Also, this apparently took place eight years before the start of the show, circa 1707/08, with Teach being a well established, feared pirate long before that. In reality, Teach doesn't appear in historical records at all before 1714, and sailed with Hornigold until 1717. Blackbeard was not killed by Woodes Rodgers, nor was he killed as a prisoner. He died in battle against Robert Maynard, by a stab to the back after suffering numerous other wounds from both sword and gunshot. Jack Rackham's Rule of Cool sunglasses are in fact Edwardian proto-safety goggles for railway users. The Walrus having a doctor on the crew is a downplayed example, as pirate crews generally didn't bother with a medical professional, and patched themselves up. Alarmingly, if a surgery was needed, the cook would be called for as they would have the most experience with delicate knife work. However, there were the occasional medical professionals, who were very valuable in the crews that were lucky to get ahold of one, so the Walrus having a surgeon is still within the realm of possibility. The crewmen of the Spanish man of war wear outdated uniforms, resembling Habsburg-era fatigues rather than the colourful French-style justacorps they should be wearing by the 18th century. Although this might be somewhat chalked up to the series's setting being still an early era into the country's Francophile reforms, it also happens that the uniforms featured are black, a color presumably chosen for thematic reasons that was never used in the Spanish Navy at all. At least one Spanish marine can also be spotted wearing a morriÃ³n-type helmet, which by this time would be almost a museum piece.
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Black Sails / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Black Sails / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: The cook on the merchant ship in the beginning episode obviously thinks of John Silver like this, although Silver sees himself as an opportunist. The cook is a hypocrite because he himself is hiding and abstaining from the fighting on the pretext that he is a cook and thus it is not his job to fight.
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Black Sails / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Black Sails / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: At least one major character dies every season, in addition to numerous supporting ones. The show also plays fast and loose with history, meaning that even legendary pirates such as Ned Low can meet an early end.
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Black Sails / int_12a22bd8	type	Katanas Are Just Better
Black Sails / int_12a22bd8	comment	Katanas Are Just Better: The Japanese member of the Walrus crew is introduced observing his katana being sharpened. It's implied that his standards of sword sharpness are far beyond normal.
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Black Sails / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Black Sails / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Max is repeatedly raped by Charles Vane's crew.
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Black Sails / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Black Sails / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Than more recent pirate fare, and much darker and edgier than Treasure Island.
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Black Sails / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Black Sails / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Woodes Rogers, the British Navy, and other pirate hunters are technically on the side of law and order, though they occasionally blur the lines and are sometimes dicks to make them less sympathetic, in favor of our Anti-Hero pirate cast.
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Black Sails / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
Black Sails / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: Pirate culture is much more liberal and democratic than the authoritarian societies of the civilized world. Pirate crews operate as a democracy, with their leaders elected and any major decisions voted on by all crew members openly due to the autocracy of the monarchies. A running theme shows the complications that arise from this. Pirate captains are constantly worried about how to sell their grand plans to their short-sighted and selfish crews. Many schemes are hamstrung or outright ruined because the captains must campaign for the crew's votes. However, the system also prevents captains from becoming tyrannical and forces them to operate within the crew's best interest.
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Black Sails / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Black Sails / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Charles Vane is mercilessly beaten, buried alive, and left for dead. He climbs out of his hole in the dead of night and, naked and covered in mud, stabs Albinus to death and assumes command of his crew.
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Black Sails / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Black Sails / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: Flint is this to Vane. Vane is this to Ned Low, who exists primarily to show that yes, there are pirates considerably worse than Charles Vane, which helps to swing Vane's growing status as an anti-villain. Max becomes this to Eleanor. Depending on what part of their character you consider, Silver is (eventually) this to Flint, or vice versa.
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Black Sails / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Black Sails / int_1ba17583	comment	In the book, Silver has a wife of African descent who is never portrayed but manages Silver's financial interests while he is away. In Season 3, Silver gets paired with Madi, a woman of African descent who is implied to become his wife.
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Black Sails / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Black Sails / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Jack saved Anne from her abusive husband, and since then she's felt that she owes her life to him.
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Black Sails / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Black Sails / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Billy Bones and Gates support Flint but think his plan is somewhat crazy. Mr. Scott fills a similar role for Eleanor, trying to discourage her from loaning money to Gates because pirates are a poor investment. In Season 3, Silver pretty much fills this role for Flint.
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Black Sails / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Black Sails / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: The conclusion is best described as a Bittersweet Ending, but given the sheer amount of violence and mayhem of the past four seasons, things turn out surprisingly well for most of the cast. Flint is reunited with Thomas, his Lost Lenore whom he believed to be dead. Silver and Madi are seemingly on the verge of reconciliation. Max is thriving on Nasseau, with Idelle and Featherstone in administrative positions. And Rackham and Anne Bonny sail off for more pirating adventures, their historical fates forestalled... for now.
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Black Sails / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
Black Sails / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: Flint and Eleanor. Both proud, driven and (most likely) unhinged given their obsession with achieving their goals. They're also The Not-Love Interest to each other, as their reliance on each other makes up the crux of the storyline for the first two seasons.
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Black Sails / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Black Sails / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Jack Rackham is foppish, not very good in a fight, and more cultured than normal for a pirate, but he's only ever shown to be interested in women (and mainly just Anne).
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Black Sails / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Black Sails / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: John Silver's method of operation.
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Black Sails / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Black Sails / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Charles Vane, captain of the Ranger. Dropping his name and that of his ship provokes an Oh, Crap! reaction from another pirate captain. Edward Teach's Establishing Character Moment has him reveal his true name to the honor guard of his previous wife, which provokes a sudden reaction.
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Black Sails / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Black Sails / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Portrayed faithfully as the pirates' modus operandi. Pirate ships close in with their target by posing as harmless merchant ships at first, pretending to drift innocuously into the target's path before finally revealing their weapons and crew and flying the black flag. Flint sees it as an "art": reveal yourself too soon and the target will run away; too late, and the enemy crew will panic and try to fight back instead of surrendering. He exploits Dufresne's inexperience in the field to reclaim his captaincy. Silver uses the massive crosses on the Spanish Man o' War's sails, that would make her look like an enemy ship, to justify to Flint's plan not to sail into Nassau's harbour in view of the fort to a skeptical crew member. Blackbeard also uses this method when sailing to Maroon Island after Vane's death; the pirates initially think it's backup for the English until Jack recognizes him for an ally because of the characteristic formation of his fleet. Reversed later, when he plans on using it to surprise Rogers' fleet but Jack convinces him to raise the black instead, because "to be underestimated is a terrible gift".
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Black Sails / int_2e96aee	type	Seadog Peg Leg
Black Sails / int_2e96aee	comment	Seadog Peg Leg: John Silver loses the lower part of his leg at the end of Season 2. In Season 3, he is using a metal peg leg to move about. He is warned that he should be using a crutch instead since the amputation is still too recent for him to use a peg leg. He risks reopening the wound and losing the rest of his leg.
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Black Sails / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Black Sails / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: Flint kills Gates, whispering his apologies and looking genuinely distraught while he does it.
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Black Sails / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Black Sails / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Jack Rackham's hipster sunglasses in the pilot, making him look even more like a pirate Nick Cave. The presence of a samurai on the Walrus crew, although this one is at least possible, as the British Empire had commerce all over the world at the time. Captain Flint's signature, very modern-looking black leather coat.
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Black Sails / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Black Sails / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: At the end of the pilot, Flint devises such a plan to stop Singleton's attempt to seize captaincy. He notices that someone was in his quarters and must have fiddled with Vazquez's log, so he presents Singleton as the culprit before his crew. He knows that Singleton will choose a duel rather than a trial by the crew. After he kills Singleton, he pretends to find the missing log page on the corpse and hands a blank page to Billy Bones as 'proof'. At this moment, he has no guarantee that Bones will support him since Bones, over the course of a night, has pulled a gun on him, called him out on his crap and openly wondered if Singleton shouldn't be captain. Flint hopes that with Singleton dead, Bones will see no other choice but to lie for him. Flint is correct.
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Black Sails / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Black Sails / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: John Silver goes from a cowardly opportunist trying to con his way through pirate life to a legendary pirate leader.
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Black Sails / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Black Sails / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The plot of the first season revolves around the crew of the Walrus trying to track down and capture an extremely rich Spanish treasure vessel. This is the same treasure that Treasure Island revolves around, so we know where it's going to end up.
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Black Sails / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
Black Sails / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: A discussed trope in the Season 3 finale: John Silver notes that those closest to Flint have all died, and implies that it's Flint's very actions that bring about their doom; however, when Flint asks whether Silver fears he'll be next now that he is in the same position, Silver surprisingly replies that he instead fears he (Silver) will be the end of Flint. He is eventually proven right.
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Black Sails / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Black Sails / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: In the first season finale. Flint manipulates the Spanish Man o' War into a perfect position to take several volleys of raking cannon-fire from both the fore and aft by the Walrus and the Ranger. The Man o' War takes everything they have, and then simply turns around and blasts both of them to pieces in seconds. Flint knew this would happen, and was trying to disable its rudder to prevent it. The battle in the Season 4 premiere ends up being a massive defeat for Flint. He loses two ships and most of his men are killed or captured.
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Black Sails / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Black Sails / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: While the pirates are Anti-Heroes at best, they're made a lot more sympathetic by portraying them as idealistic, freedom-loving rebels from a corrupt and authoritarian British regime.
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Black Sails / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Black Sails / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Billy Bones and Long John Silver show a lot more morality than their counterparts in Treasure Island, where they are motivated almost purely by simple greed.
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Black Sails / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Black Sails / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Silver sabotages the war effort and brings about peace, bringing an end to the carnage of Flint's rebellion. In doing so he betrays his only true friend and the woman he loves, and while she stays with him, it's implied he's irreparably damaged that relationship. Flint is reunited with Thomas and the two embrace and kiss, but are condemned to live the rest of their life as prisoners in a labor camp (with the possibility that Silver actually just killed Flint to end the war, telling the former to Madi as one last lie). Billy survives but spends the rest of his life a broken man afraid that his former crewmates will find him and exact retribution for his betrayal. Rackham and Bonny are together and still pirating but their historical fate is waiting for them over the horizon.
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Black Sails / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
Black Sails / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Defied. John Silver states, â€œTorture won't work. I have an extremely low tolerance for pain. I'll say anything to make it stop.â€�
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Black Sails / int_455341fe	type	Cradling Your Kill
Black Sails / int_455341fe	comment	Cradling Your Kill: Flint snaps Gates's neck when he goes to reveal Flint's deception to the crew, possibly costing him the Urca. Flint clearly didn't want to kill Gates, but felt he had to. Afterwards, he holds Gates's body and cries because of how much the treasure is costing him.
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Black Sails / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Black Sails / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Dufresne crops his tousled hair short to coincide with his generally toughening up. In Season 3, Flint's hair is shaven, which may or may not have something to do with Miranda's death.
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Black Sails / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Black Sails / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Brawls between pirates are all very dirty affairs.
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Black Sails / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Black Sails / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "XXXV", Flint and Silver are meeting with the gathered pirate captains and maroon chiefs to discuss their next move, and Flint offhandedly reveals just how far he is willing to take his war against England...
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Black Sails / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Black Sails / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Mosiah's black crew mates all seem to have extensive ritual scarring, and support Flint (at least after being bribed by Gates). Singleton challenges Flint's authority and wants to be voted in as captain, and also has many terrible scars across his face. Of course, since they're all pirates (and supporting or opposing Flint doesn't necessarily make one good or evil) this is all rather ambiguous.
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Black Sails / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
Black Sails / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: The Guthrie family run the black market in Nassau. Pirates rely on them to fence their stolen bounties.
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Black Sails / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Black Sails / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: In the second episode, the syphilitic pirate whose face is rotting away...
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Black Sails / int_5067fd81	type	Everyone Is Bi
Black Sails / int_5067fd81	comment	Everyone Is Bi: Eleanor Guthrie, Max, Anne Bonny, Captain Flint, and Lord Thomas Hamilton all have relationships with both men and women, though some more passionately with one sex than the other. Arguably Subverted due to historical sexual behavior looking different from contemporary sexuality. The exact contemporary labels applied to various characters is hotly debated by fans. Max is only shown to sleep with men for money, whereas she sleeps with women for love, indicating that while sleeping with men is her job, she may or may not be interested in it. After Anne Bonny falls in love with Max, she tells Jack Rackham that she "can't be [his] wife" despite him remaining the most important person in her life. Interpretations of this line differ. Some see it as Anne saying she does not love him romantically, while others point to scenes like Jack's rescue in XXVI (S 3 E 8) as a contradiction of this particular interpretation. The exact nature of the relationship between Captain Flint, Thomas Hamilton and Miranda Hamilton is vague. It is clear all three of them care for each other deeply, but the exact manner of this is open to interpretation, particularly where Miranda is concerned. E.g. we don't actually know Thomas and Miranda's relationship was ever sexual. It's assumed to be, since they're married, but Miranda does have a history of infidelity, and Thomas doesn't seem to care in the least; while they are always affectionate with each other, Thomas seems much more interested in Flint.
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Black Sails / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Black Sails / int_50d71a78	comment	Anne Bonny reportedly held her own in ship combat, but was not accounted as being otherwise special. In the show, however, she's upgraded to a badass, Dual Wielding killing machine.
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Black Sails / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Black Sails / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: In the first episode, John Silver hides from a battle with a cook, who asserts that he doesn't have to fight. In the final episode, Silver is participating in a battle and encounters a man hiding from battle who pleads that he's "just a cook". Silver's disgust with the man shows his Character Development.
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Black Sails / int_5937a87c	type	No Honor Among Thieves
Black Sails / int_5937a87c	comment	No Honor Among Thieves: This is a major problem for Flint and his allies in enacting their plan for Nassau. The pirate crews will cooperate only as long as it is in their best interests and will turn on Flint and each other as soon as the situation changes. In Season 3, Flint's grand pirate alliance crumbles in a matter of minutes when the other pirates find out that Woodes Rogers is offering a full pardon to any pirate who abandons Flint's cause. Flint not being present and presumed dead didn't help matters.
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Black Sails / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Black Sails / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: When the Spanish invade Nassau in "XXXIV" and begin to lay waste to everything in their path, Julius and his rebel slaves make common cause with Silver and his pirates to fight them off. Likewise Eleanor, who had Flint as a captive, is forced to unchain him so he can fight beside her and her own men.
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Black Sails / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Black Sails / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Subverted by the Goliath. Jack points out that it's named after the greatest disappointment in the history of warfare. The captain agrees with him, but explains that his crew like it, so he can't change it.
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Black Sails / int_64a5e4f	type	Black Vikings
Black Sails / int_64a5e4f	comment	The presence of a samurai on the Walrus crew, although this one is at least possible, as the British Empire had commerce all over the world at the time.
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Black Sails / int_6566a884	type	My God, You Are Serious!
Black Sails / int_6566a884	comment	My God, You Are Serious!: When Flint proposes a suicidal plan to attack a Spanish Man O' War grounded on the beach, John Silver immediately volunteers. When Flint starts to talk his plan, Silver is stunned to realize that he's actually going to do this as he assumed this was a cover for the two to escape. Also Silver is incredulous when he realizes Madi actually means to go through with Flint's plan to swap the cache for the end of British rule in Nassau.
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Black Sails / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Black Sails / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: In Season 2, after he and Flint are captured by the Spanish soldiers of the ship they were trying to steal, Silver accepts an offer of freedom and gold in exchange for information, appears to leave with the gold and abandon Flint to his fate, and then takes advantage of everyone focusing on Flint to come back and bash the Spaniard's head in with a bottle.
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Black Sails / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Black Sails / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Silver's two speeches, to Flint and to Madi, in the finale.
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Black Sails / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Black Sails / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: When Eleanor discovers just how dangerous Ned Low is, she goes to Vane for help even though she knows that his help would come with a large personal and political cost. After being captured and tortured by the captain of the British warship, Billy becomes Flint's biggest supporter. He still despises Flint for his duplicity and causing so many deaths, but he sees Flint's plan as the only way to keep the British from forcefully retaking Nassau and hunting down the pirates. Vane also decides to support Flint when after Peter Ashe's betrayal the English prove to not be able to tell one pirate from another.
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Black Sails / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Black Sails / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "As always, to traitors." Though it's not said as often as some examples of this trope, the concept repeatedly arises in regards to the philosophical struggle for Nassau. Whenever someone betrays the pirate brethren of Nassau, such as Richard Guthrie in Season 2, or all the pirate captains save Vane, Rackham, and Flint in Season 3, they are killed and publicly displayed accompanied by the words, "as always, to traitors." "This is Not What I Wanted". Or some variation thereof.
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Black Sails / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
Black Sails / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: As the series is a prequel to Treasure Island, any character from the novel is safe. So anyone familiar with Treasure Island won't be surprised to find that Billy Bones survived falling overboard in Season 1, and also in Season 4.
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Black Sails / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Black Sails / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Skeleton Island, the uncharted, supposedly cursed island which becomes the hiding place of Flint's treasure.
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Black Sails / int_77a495f1	type	Historical Badass Upgrade
Black Sails / int_77a495f1	comment	Historical Badass Upgrade: Anne Bonny reportedly held her own in ship combat, but was not accounted as being otherwise special. In the show, however, she's upgraded to a badass, Dual Wielding killing machine. Jack Rackham. In reality he was an infamous drunk who was captured easily by the British because he happened to be passed out in the hold of his ship when the British came upon his ship. His portrayal as a refined man of cunning is a far cry from the actual man.
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Black Sails / int_796a7bfc	type	Twice-Told Tale
Black Sails / int_796a7bfc	comment	Twice-Told Tale: The show is a prequel to Treasure Island, following the posthumous character Captain Flint and featuring John Silver and Billy Bones as young men.
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Black Sails / int_7a667c8d	type	A Threesome Is Hot
Black Sails / int_7a667c8d	comment	A Threesome Is Hot: Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Max. Given their love triangle, it's apparently a bad idea for all involved. After the first time, Max notes that Jack completely ignored her, since he's only interested in Anne. The second time, Jack and Max start to enjoy each other, which makes Anne jealous, though she quickly admits she shouldn't be.
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Black Sails / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
Black Sails / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: Depending on who you're talking to, Edward Teach was either routed from Providence Island by an alliance of Eleanor and Vane, or left willingly so that he wouldn't be forced to kill his misguided protÃ©gÃ©.
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Black Sails / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Black Sails / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivered by John Silver in XXV (s. 3, ep. 7) to the pirates in Nassau who took the King's pardon after pledging to defend it against England. Miranda's glorious one to Peter Ashe, even though it doesn't end well for her. In "XXVII", Eleanor gives Vane an absolutely vicious one for her final rebuke of him. Flint to Silver, after the final betrayal.
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Black Sails / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Black Sails / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Anne is introduced carving someone up with her sword and dagger, establishing her as a Dark Action Girl. Charles Vane is established in his first scene as a badass pirate captain, but we don't learn how badass he is until a later scene when simply dropping his name makes another captain run away. John Silver is established hiding from a pirate attack and admitting freely that he'd do just about anything to save his own skin. Edward Teach gives a monologue about his history to the angry family of his previous wife, then slaughters all three of them.
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Black Sails / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
Black Sails / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: Rackham and Anne, in line with their historical backgrounds.
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Black Sails / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Black Sails / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Dufresne wears spectacles, establishing him as the nerdy accountant in the beginning of the show. Subverted when he Took a Level in Badass; he still wears the glasses because he, you know, needs them to see.
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Black Sails / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Black Sails / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: "XXXI" opens with Capt. Berringer looking at a locket containing pictures of his wife and child. The episode ends with his throat being cut, the locket falling from his hand into the dirt.
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Black Sails / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Black Sails / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Having put the fear into those who have accepted the British's regime of Nassau, helped by the violent crushing of Dufresne's skull with his metal leg after the latter defiantly mocks him, Silver leaves with a impressive example. Later, when Billy is propagandizing a leader for the pirate rebellion (having been grown increasingly discontent with Flint) he uses the incident to coin Silver's infamous nickname.
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Black Sails / int_878ddac8	type	Lineage Ladder
Black Sails / int_878ddac8	comment	Lineage Ladder: Calico Jack Rackham starts his Motive Rant by listing off his male ancestors as a line of fathers like so:
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Black Sails / int_87bc48e5	type	Eye-Obscuring Hat
Black Sails / int_87bc48e5	comment	Eye-Obscuring Hat: Anne wears a hat that generally covers half of her face. Because she hardly ever takes it off, it's several episodes before her whole face is shown on screen.
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Black Sails / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Black Sails / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The foppish, intellectual Rackham and the gruff brawler Anne.
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Black Sails / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Black Sails / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Some may be more bloodthirsty or others more moral, but ultimately just about everybody is a pirate, or close enough. And they're all willing to kill, rape, and steal to get what they want â€“ no matter who the unfortunate target of their anger is.
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Black Sails / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Black Sails / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Hammund is established as a particularly horrible bastard by the fact that he makes a point to rape Max, despite having just been told she'll make it more enjoyable if it's consensual. When Vane takes Abigail hostage he warns her guard in veiled but clear terms that she's not to be raped.
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Black Sails / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Black Sails / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Joji, the Japanese pirate on Flint's crew, never says a word in the entire series. He does seem to understand English, as he reacts to orders and comments by others, but still doesn't speak.
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Black Sails / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Black Sails / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: John Silver refuses to tell Flint the Urca's entire course, convinced Flint will kill him if he does. When Flint points out he could do that once they do capture the Urca, Silver comments he's hoping "they'll be friends by that point". Ultimately, Silver proves useful to Eleanor, so she tells Flint she expects Silver to survive. As of the end of Episode 7, the crew, headed by Dufresne, the new quartermaster, decide to kill Flint after the Urca's prize is captured. This is shared with Mr. Gates, who, in light of his recent misgivings with the captain, consents to the plan. This results in Gates' death at Flint's hand. In Season 2, Dufresne decides to betray Flint again and hand him over to the English in exchange for a pardon. In Season 4, Billy suggest to Silver that they kill Flint and Eleanor instead of going through with the bargain they made, because he thinks Flint is more trouble than he'd worth and they don't need him anymore, but also probably because he just hates the two of them. In Season 4, after Billy turns on Madi and Flint, Silver decides he's more valuable as a bargaining chip than an ally and hands him over to the Underhill slaves to win their favour.
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Black Sails / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Black Sails / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Jack Rackham and Woodes Rogers have a few of these conversations, in which Rackham asserts that Rogers isn't as morally superior as he seems to think.
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Black Sails / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Black Sails / int_985e118a	comment	Anne Bonny and Jack Rackham's Odd Couple relationship has its ups and downs, but it always comes back to them declaring their devotion to each other.
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Black Sails / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Black Sails / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The scheme to capture the treasure galleon is dependent on dozens of different things going right and a single failure can derail everything. Flint lampshades this to Billy when they are chasing the Andromache and he tells him that there is a one-in-three chance at best that they find their prey on the open sea and if they do find it, they have to catch it and then defeat its crew. If they cannot do so, the rest of the plan becomes moot since they need the Andromache's guns.
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Black Sails / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Black Sails / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Miranda's corpse is displayed during Flint's trial; the crowd pelts her with rotten fruit. The corpse of Charles Vane remains hanging from the gallows in an iron cage for three days, as per the customs of the time. Ned Low's head is mounted on a pike on the beach for all to see after Vane kills him, officially to take his ship and his prize, actually because he was threatening to kill Eleanor.
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Black Sails / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Black Sails / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During Flint's sex scene with Miranda in Season 1, he looks bored and disinterested. Come the finale, we know why. And also why he was so pissed when Miranda showed that book to Eleanor's father: it has a loving inscription from Thomas to James that would have outed Flint, at least if Mr. Guthrie is aware of his first name.
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Black Sails / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Black Sails / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Zig-zagged. The show plays loose with the lives of its real-world characters, but some do share the fate of their historic counterparts: Charles Vane and Blackbeard. Others may be doomed to meet their historic fate after the show's conclusion.
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Black Sails / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Black Sails / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: The beach assault on the pirate position, examined in detail here and here. The British warships for some reason fire only one (quite effective) broadside before ceasing fire and landing the infantry, rather than simply continuing to bombard the pirates' breastworks from sea where they receive no return fire, like the Landing at Kip's Bay early in the American Revolution, where the British navy bombarded the Continental Army positions in New York until they fled, allowing the British Army to land unopposed. The pirates' defensive works consist almost entirely of a thin wooden palisade, which is far less effective against artillery than a simple trench and parapet. The landing party lands and attacks directly in front of the pirates' line, exposing itself to the defenders' full force, even though both of the pirates' flanks end randomly in the open and could be outflanked with little opposition if the Brits just landed a few hundred yards up the beach in either direction. Once ashore, the landing party stops to exchange fire with the defenders while they deploy mortars to do exactly what the ships did more safely and effectively earlier. Why they don't simply charge across the killing zone to carry the breastworks with bayonets and swords, as was standard in battles throughout the 18th century, is unknown.
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Black Sails / int_a885552d	type	Winds of Change
Black Sails / int_a885552d	comment	Winds Of Change: In season 3, the Walrus is becalmed in the Sargasso Sea after the crew sails through a storm to escape pirate hunters. With rations running low, Flint and Silver go off in a lifeboat to retrieve food. During this undertaking, Silver reveals how he stole the Urca gold through deception, earning him Flint's respect. The wind starts blowing again soon after they return to the ship with shark meat, indicating the significance of Flint and Silver's newly-solidified partnership. They end up sailing to the uncharted island inhabited by their eventual allies, the Maroons.
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Black Sails / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Black Sails / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In Season 3, Billy brings back the Black Spot, a mostly forgotten pirate superstition, and uses it to terrorize those who have abandoned the pirate cause. The plot of Treasure Island starts with a much older Billy receiving a Black Spot and dying from terror.
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Black Sails / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Black Sails / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Non-named pirates die as needed during action scenes.
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Black Sails / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Black Sails / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Flint and the crew of the Walrus as the giant Spanish Man o' War prepares to unleash a fifty-gun broadside on their ship. Rackham and Anne, twice. First when they hear someone has taken over the fort with them very much suspecting who was responsible, and then when Vane shows up in the brothel. A minor pirate who runs afoul of Charles Vane has this reaction upon learning who Vane is. In the Season 3 premiere, three brothers confront the man who divorced their sister. They discover that their sister lied about the identity of the husband and that they have just drawn their weapons on Blackbeard.
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Black Sails / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Black Sails / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jack Rackham, particularly during the negotiation between Flint and Vane during episode 3. Gates also has shown a tendency towards this, again in the aforementioned negotiation. Before he was reduced to screaming incoherently at Flint, that is. John Silver is a master, and most of his interactions involve some sort of snark.
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Black Sails / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Black Sails / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Hornigold and Dufresne switch sides at the end of Season 2 and are working for England as pirate hunters in Season 3. This is historical fact in the case of Hornigold.
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Black Sails / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Black Sails / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: A rare reverse example, in that it pushes the setting of Treasure Island BACK in time. Word of God is that the show begins about twenty years before the timeframe of the novel — which would place the events of Treasure Island about 1735; the book is in fact set in 1760 (it's understandable that they'd want to bring in all the famous pirates who were around in the 1710s, though.)
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Black Sails / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Black Sails / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Claimed by Vane to explain why he doesn't kill Anne or Jack for killing the last remaining members of Vane's crew. After all, since everyone knows Jack betrayed his sworn brothers because of a woman (Anne's involvement being downplayed, Jack's greatly exaggerated), he will never sail beneath the black again, which Vane reckons will "sting worse than death". (It certainly would for him.) Possibly just an excuse, as Jack's the closest thing Vane has to a friend.
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Black Sails / int_b3b162c8	type	Honesty Is the Best Policy
Black Sails / int_b3b162c8	comment	Honesty Is the Best Policy: In the Season 2 premiere, when Silver and Flint are caught in their attempt to capture the Spanish warship, the officer of the watch offers freedom a reward of gold to whichever one of them will tell him who they are, what they hoped to accomplish, and how many more of them there are. Silver immediately answers all of the above truthfully, collects his gold... and brains the officer with a large bottle as soon as his back is turned.
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Black Sails / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Definitely Anne Bonny, and Eleanor to a degree.
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Black Sails / int_b6e75430	comment	Bald of Authority: Mosiah, who seems to speak for a sizable number of the black members of Flint's crew until Captain Vane murders him.
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Black Sails / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The Walrus and the Ranger are two major boats in the show. The oddly unnamed Spanish Man o' War is another one, with nearly 100 guns.
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Black Sails / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Flint is this: as Thomas Hamilton points out, he's the son of a carpenter and yet is more literate than many of Hamilton's Eton contemporaries. It's remarked on that he often takes books as prizes for his piracy, and his cabin is full of them. It's also implied he taught himself Spanish, just so he could read a book gifted to him by the Hamiltons. The most feared pirate of Nassau, as it happens, is also a bit of a nerd.
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Black Sails / int_bc103f8b	comment	Arguably Subverted due to historical sexual behavior looking different from contemporary sexuality. The exact contemporary labels applied to various characters is hotly debated by fans. Max is only shown to sleep with men for money, whereas she sleeps with women for love, indicating that while sleeping with men is her job, she may or may not be interested in it. After Anne Bonny falls in love with Max, she tells Jack Rackham that she "can't be [his] wife" despite him remaining the most important person in her life. Interpretations of this line differ. Some see it as Anne saying she does not love him romantically, while others point to scenes like Jack's rescue in XXVI (S 3 E 8) as a contradiction of this particular interpretation. The exact nature of the relationship between Captain Flint, Thomas Hamilton and Miranda Hamilton is vague. It is clear all three of them care for each other deeply, but the exact manner of this is open to interpretation, particularly where Miranda is concerned. E.g. we don't actually know Thomas and Miranda's relationship was ever sexual. It's assumed to be, since they're married, but Miranda does have a history of infidelity, and Thomas doesn't seem to care in the least; while they are always affectionate with each other, Thomas seems much more interested in Flint.
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Black Sails / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: In episode five, the Walrus' marksman is able to hit with two out of three shots using a black powder rifle, at a range of several hundred yards, from one moving ship to another.
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Black Sails / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: It's a show about pirates, so there's no traditional hero. Our protagonists are all morally questionable at best.
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Black Sails / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Dufresne is the Walrus's nerdy accountant who never participates in combat until he's forced to by Billy. During the fight, he chews through a sailor's neck. Afterwards, he cuts his hair and starts taking a more proactive role in piracy.
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Black Sails / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: A pretty surprising one takes out Miranda.
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Black Sails / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: In Season 3, the pirates have finally secured the treasure but their dreams of a new Nassau are hitting massive roadblocks that no amount of gold can solve. Further, their actions have caused people with real power in Britain to take notice of the pirate problem which means that a big anti-piracy crackdown is coming their way. And building off of that, no matter how plucky and clever they are, a small island of ragtag pirates will not be able to fight off something on the scale of a world power forever.
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Black Sails / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Flint demands that Richard Guthrie turn over the name of â€œyour man in Havanaâ€� .
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Black Sails / int_c9367f60	comment	Threesome Subtext: Captain Flint, Miranda and her husband. Each has been intimate with the other two, though not necessarily at the same time. Though it's also possible Miranda and Thomas were not intimate, despite being married.
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Black Sails / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: This is a recurring problem for the protagonists. They will form an alliance to accomplish a goal but the participants have different ideas on what should be done and who should be in charge. The alliance then disintegrates in in-fighting.
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Black Sails / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: For a pirate, Jack Rackham is a real wimp. His strength is cunning, while Anne Bonney does his fighting for him. He starts to toughen up a bit after he gets his own ship, though he's visibly pained during his first command on realising that the only way out of a difficult situation is for him to fight a rival, veteran captain in single combat. He cheats, wins, then lies and schemes his way out of retribution by the other captain's crew. Dufresne starts out like this, but once forced into action, takes to it with a degree of relish. John Silver spends pretty much the entire series doing his best to avoid fights, preferring to talk or backstab his way out of combat situations. Ironically, after his injury he becomes much more willing to face up to danger, marking something of a turning-point for the character.
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Black Sails / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Even after escaping Charlestown, Flint continues to shell it in retribution for Ashe's betrayal of him and Miranda. Arguably all his actions since before episode 1 have been an effort to avenge Thomas making the whole show one for him. As revealed by his argument with Miranda at the end of the first season, he has no intention of stopping until England is on it's knees begging for his forgiveness.
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Black Sails / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: While the likes of Woodes and Beringer might have a point in decrying the pirates as violent savages by the time of Season 4, it still undermined by them resorting to brutality in equal measure, not to mention being the representees of an empire fueled by brutal imperialism and widespread slave labor.
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Black Sails / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Anne is introduced carving someone up with her sword and dagger, establishing her as a Dark Action Girl.
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Black Sails / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Ned Low is introduced early in Season 2 with much ominous promise, and on arrival in Nassau establishes himself as the first really overt challenge to Eleanor's authority even within her own tavern. All signs point to his being the season's major antagonist, or at least one of the major ones. He's then fairly abruptly killed by Charles Vane to prove a point.
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Black Sails / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming/Out-Gambitted: Eleanor Guthrie manages to masterfully create her own empire, with a consortium of captains as her allies. Then in the first season finale, Vane storms the fort with a consortium of psychos no one even knew about, and manages to ensure he is her top partner. The entirety of Season 2 is revealed as this for just about everybody concerned with the Urca gold plot, with John Silver manipulating events to make sure he wins out overall. However, losing his leg forced him to re-evaluate having the gold versus being the Quartermaster to a loyal crew. He even says as much to Flint when he owns up to his schemes in Season 3.
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Black Sails / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Claimed in-universe. In the first season finale, Vane decides not to kill Rackham and Anne Bonny for killing their own crew-mates, and instead tell everyone what they did, ensuring no one will ever sail with them again, which he claims is worse than death; they'll have to run a brothel and never be pirates again. Since a safe, comfortable and lucrative career isn't quite so awful, there's a good chance he's just using it as an excuse to not kill what might be the closest thing he has to friends. However, him being Charles Vane, the "pirate by choice" par excellence, it's clear he's still not going easy on them; Rackham and Anne also prove not to be happy with that life, as they soon try to find a way to sail again. This is likely Vane sparing their lives while still punishing them terribly. Rackham ends up dealing one out to Rogers. Instead of killing him, he captures him with Flint's help and forces him to sign a treaty to end the war, and then gets Eleanor's grandmother to buy Rogers' debts and force a default, so that he's tried and imprisoned, with all of his failures becoming a matter of public record.
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Black Sails / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: As a prequel to Treasure Island, it has several to the book. John Silver's job on the ship is as ship's cook, much like his position in the novel. He eventually becomes quartermaster under Captain Flint, as he claims in the book. In the book, Silver has lost his leg up to his hip, using a crutch to move around. In the show, he loses his leg below the knee in Season 2 and is warned in Season 3 that if he doesn't start using a crutch, he'll lose more of his leg. Silver's nickname "Long John" makes its first appearance in Season 3. It's explained as a threat to those who cross him that his memory is long, and he won't forget their insult. In the book, Silver has a wife of African descent who is never portrayed but manages Silver's financial interests while he is away. In Season 3, Silver gets paired with Madi, a woman of African descent who is implied to become his wife. Billy Bones reintroduces the old pirates' legend of the "black spot". An older Billy receives a black spot in the book.
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Black Sails / int_e90f5682	comment	But Not Too Gay: The entire series runs on this; with lesbian and straight sex scenes being common, and women constantly nude, but male nudity being rare and gay male sex scenes completely non-existent. Flint had relationships with Miranda and Thomas, but despite his love for Thomas being claimed as the driving force behind the series — his relationships with Miranda gets much more on-screen focus as she haunts his consciousness (whereas Thomas is hardly mentioned). Flint has on-screen sex with Miranda (even if he doesn't seem to enjoy it) and kisses her in full-view to the camera. He is never shown engaging in sex with Thomas and their kiss is shadowed by the darkness.
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Black Sails / int_e9a97564	comment	Evil Wears Black: Flint predominantly wears black and is utterly ruthless, no matter the relative morals of his end goals. Blackbeard also wears black. After Vane kills her father, triggering her violent reprisal against Jack's crew and Max, Eleanor also wears black (in mourning, but still). And, after siding with the British, Benjamin Hornigold swaps his royal blue frock coat and white shirt for a black coat and dark blue-grey waistcoat.
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Black Sails / int_f09b6509	comment	Last Episode, New Character: The show makes us wait until the last few minutes of the Grand Finale to finally introduce Mary Read, whose absence among all the other famous Real Life pirates featured in the show caused considerable speculation across the four seasons.
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Black Sails / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: After Eleanor punches him, Vane floors her with a right cross. The conversation that follows makes it clear that this was necessary to maintain his authority with his crew, but he shows absolutely no hesitation or regret.
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Black Sails / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Happens a LOT. Billy Bones, John Silver, Madi, Thomas Hamilton, the entire Walrus crew. On this show, someone isn't dead until they're dead on screen. Sometimes they aren't dead even when they are killed onscreen and buried. See Season 1 Vane.
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Black Sails / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: Despite its grittier aspirations, it probably wouldn't have been greenlit without the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, which was the first production in a long time to escape the famous curse on pirate-themed films.
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Black Sails / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Mary Read makes an appearance in the series finale.
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Black Sails / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Silver's grief at Muldoon's death, Vane being "kind" to Abigail, Flint being kind to Abigail, Flint's whole backstory arc, and also Vane killing Ned Low for Eleanor, though it's debatable whether that actually casts him in a more favourable light.
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