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Our Flag Means Death

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Our Flag Means Death	comment	Our Flag Means Death is a 2022 period romantic comedy series created by David Jenkins (People of Earth) and executive produced by Taika Waititi. It premiered on HBO Max on 3rd March 2022.Based loosely on true events, the series follows one Stede Bonnet (played by Rhys Darby), a pampered aristocrat who, following a mid-life crisis, abandons his fortune and sets out to become a â€œgentleman pirate." Stede's newest venture has some...less than stellar results, as he struggles to adjust to the gritty, dangerous life of a pirate captain. Along with his colorful crew, Stede travels the sea in search of pirate fame, which eventually leads to a fateful encounter with the infamous pirate Blackbeard (Waititi).Joining Darby and Waititi are Kristian Nairn, Rory Kinnear, Joel Fry, Vico Ortiz, Con O'Neill, Nathan Foad, Matthew Maher, Ewen Bremner, Samba Schutte, Samson Kayo, Nat Faxon, and guest appearances by Will Arnett, Fred Armisen, and Leslie Jones.On June 1, 2022, the show was renewed for a second season which premiered on October 5, 2023.On January 9, 2024, it was announced by David Jenkins on Instagram that the show had been canceled after two seasons, despite its success and critical acclaim.Tropes:
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Our Flag Means Death / int_11627e1d	type	Real Men Get Shot
Our Flag Means Death / int_11627e1d	comment	Real Men Get Shot: In-universe, kindly aristocrat Stede's ability to take a sword to the gut (twice!) is proof to his crew that maybe he's not as soft as he seems.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Our Flag Means Death / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Series creator and showrunner David Jenkins appears as one of the members of the Royal Navy in the first episode.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Our Flag Means Death / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: Played with when Lucius sketches Fang — his sketchbook covers up the actual nudity, then the camera angle changes and we see a lovingly detailed sketch of Fang's penis. Played straight with Buttons' moon-bathing.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_148b7cea	type	Maurice Chevalier Accent
Our Flag Means Death / int_148b7cea	comment	Maurice Chevalier Accent: Invoked in Episode 2, when Black Pete tells an extravagant story of how he used to work with Blackbeard. The sailors he makes up are stereotypically French, right down to the striped shirts and baguettes. Zig-Zagged in Episode 5 when they actually raid a French vessel and the accents are more realistic. However, the French aristocrats whose party they attend later in the same episode have even more cartoonish accents than Black Pete's imaginary Frenchmen.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Our Flag Means Death / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Stede and Blackbeard first meet when Blackbeard's crew rescues Stede and the rest of the Revenge from the Spanish Navy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Our Flag Means Death / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Zig-Zagged. Blackbeard teaches Stede how to get stabbed safely, and the dialogue about Stede "running him through with his sword" and the noises they both make as they try to free the blade sound quite suggestive. While the two of them don't notice what they sound like, an eavesdropping Izzy does, and his disgust coupled with the fact that Stede and Blackbeard are in the process of falling in love with each other suggests that the two were subconsciously making the interaction sexual.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Our Flag Means Death / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Lucius is the only character who seems to realize that the overarching plot is a Rom Com, frequently acting as the matchmaker or heartbreak counselor to Ed and Stede. Death By Genre Savvy: Unfortunately, this means Blackbeard has to get rid of him when he adopts the Kraken persona, as Lucius was the one person who could have potentially talked him out of it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Our Flag Means Death / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: In the trailer for season 2, Blackbeard states his plans for the new day as "No more booze, no more drugs, and most importantly, no more Stede." The actual line is "No more Izzy", as Blackbeard had just shot him and ordered him killed.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Our Flag Means Death / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: After losing a duel with Stede, Izzy Hands is put out in a lifeboat and sent on his way. Nobody is terribly sad to see him go, not even Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Our Flag Means Death / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Perhaps unintentional, but the actor who plays Frenchie has the last name Fry. Making him a "Frenchy Fry".
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Our Flag Means Death / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Our Flag Means Death / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: After his splinter gets terribly infected, a mad-from-fever Lucius cuts his finger off to keep anyone else from getting it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Our Flag Means Death / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Israel "Izzy" Hands, Blackbeard's ruthless right-hand man, is essentially a straightforward bloodthirsty pirate from a more serious and gritty universe (Ã la Black Sails) stuck in a dramedy, and thus is permanently bewildered and enraged at the goofy shenanigans of the world around him. Played with in that the strain seems to actually be driving him insane and ends up causing him to act in ways that can be viewed as just as comedic.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Our Flag Means Death / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: At the end of Episode 1, Stede repeats to himself that his family is on the Revenge now, having left his wife and children behind. Episode 10 ends with Stede finding his marooned crew, just before they were about to turn on each other.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Our Flag Means Death / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Stede, despite being A Father to His Men and all-around Benevolent Boss, has a ruthless streak to him. He effortlessly humiliates the aristocracy in Episode 5, kicks Calico Jack off his ship when his frat-bro behavior gets too much, and in Episode 10 slams Doug into a table at knifepoint when he startles him.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Our Flag Means Death / int_24321e44	comment	Oluwande, the ship's level-headed Only Sane Man, is deeply interested in Jim, a dagger-wielding, knife-throwing, revenge-driven assassin raised by nuns.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Our Flag Means Death / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: As Stede faces down the firing squad in Episode 9, Ed desperately puts himself between Stede and the soldiers.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Our Flag Means Death / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Deliberately and flagrantly, according to Rule of Funny.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Our Flag Means Death / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Stede is this to his own children, Alma and Louis, having run away in the middle of the night for a life of piracy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Our Flag Means Death / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The French is legit, even to the point of evading subtitles. When Blackbeard demands to know where the loot is on the French ship, the subtitles for the Frenchman only say "speaking French", when he's saying in French that it's down below. The Spanish spoken by Jim, Jim's Nana, and occasionally Oluwande, also has good grammar and pronunciation. ZigZagged with Siegfried, the German aristocrat. The phrases in German he uses ("Was ist los?" and "falsch") are pronounced correctly, but are subtitled "speaking French".
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Our Flag Means Death / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Our Flag Means Death / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Stede does this to an entire room of aristocrats in Episode 5 using nothing but a few pointed questions.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Our Flag Means Death / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: At Stede and Mary's wedding, the priest says that they should be lighthouses, guiding each other through stormy seas. When he hears it, Blackbeard immediately lampshades that lighthouses are literally there to be avoided, so one's ship doesn't break up on the rocks. This turns out to be the correct interpretation of the metaphor, as Stede and Mary both realize that they're happier and more fulfilled apart than together.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_2bc77899	type	I Am Not Pretty
Our Flag Means Death / int_2bc77899	comment	I Am Not Pretty: Played with; Lucius cheerfully (and smugly) admits that he thinks his own looks are "so-so", but he's decided to act like he's cute anyway to boost his confidence. It seems to be working, as he's literally charmed the pants off multiple crewmates.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_2c9c05ee	type	DeathByGenreSavvy
Our Flag Means Death / int_2c9c05ee	comment	Death By Genre Savvy: Unfortunately, this means Blackbeard has to get rid of him when he adopts the Kraken persona, as Lucius was the one person who could have potentially talked him out of it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Our Flag Means Death / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Stede's crew, although reluctant to go along with his ideas, end up showing a surprising amount of theatrical and artistic talent — from designing their own pirate flags to acting out the fuckery in Episode 6, to the talent show in Episode 10. Blackbeard is a severely emotionally damaged man who hasn't personally killed anyone since his abusive father. Either he orders a flunky to do it or he finds a way to distance himself from the act psychologically. For example, he had a ship burned down with the crew still aboard but technically the fire killed them, not Blackbeard... Stede, despite being the perfect upper-class gentleman, has a hidden ruthless passive-aggressive streak that comes out when he needs to humiliate some aristocrats for embarrassing Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_2fa14a9b	type	Freudian Couch
Our Flag Means Death / int_2fa14a9b	comment	Freudian Couch: Minus the couch. Stede lays on the ground with a tribal elder sitting beside him in Episode 2, talking about his guilty conscience. Almost Blackbeard venting to Stede in Episode 4. Almost, only because it's Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Our Flag Means Death / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Stede used to be called "Baby Bonnet" by his bullies, a name that he is not fond of.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Our Flag Means Death / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Lucius, in an unusually stern way, for Stede and Blackbeard — less squee, more "so buck up and DO something about it".
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Our Flag Means Death / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
Our Flag Means Death / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: Calico Jack manages to manipulate Stede into steering the Revenge into Blind Man's Cove, a death trap with no escape, for the Royal Navy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Our Flag Means Death / int_351205d2	comment	Blackbeard's old friend Calico Jack shows up in "We Gull Way Back", and Stede spends most of the episode jealous and extremely disgruntled.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_354f7d1c	type	TheresNoKillLikeOverkill
Our Flag Means Death / int_354f7d1c	comment	There's No Kill like Overkill: Stede's fake death involves getting mauled by a leopard, then being hit by a carriage, and then having a piano dropped on him. And Mary tells the crowd afterwards that Stede was secretly terminally ill.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Our Flag Means Death / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Seeing how damaged Ed has become, Izzy grudgingly admits that their relationship is and has been toxic for decades, but that he "has love" for Edward. Ed responds with mild disgust.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Our Flag Means Death / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: In Episode 9, when Stede is sentenced by Badminton to death by firing squad, he tells a frantic Blackbeard that he is willing to face the consequences. Subverted a few seconds later; when he's actually in front of the firing squad, he's completely terrified and cries for help.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_3b4a8714	type	Prongs of Poseidon
Our Flag Means Death / int_3b4a8714	comment	Prongs of Poseidon: Ed's vision of Stede as a merman carries a trident.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_3c2659de	type	Belated Love Epiphany
Our Flag Means Death / int_3c2659de	comment	Belated Love Epiphany: In Episode 10, Mary describing her love for her new beau makes Stede realize that he has all the same feelings for Ed, who he just left in order to try to make things work with his family. Zig-Zagged in that Stede had already kissed Ed by that point, so he knew their relationship was romantic, but wasn't sure if it was really love until talking to Mary.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
Our Flag Means Death / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: After a full season of falling in love with Stede and deciding to give up being Blackbeard for good, Ed decides to fully embrace being "The Kraken" after he believes that Stede has abandoned him.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Our Flag Means Death / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: The real Stede Bonnet actually did have rowdy crewmen flogged as punishment, and seemed to be far less averse to violence than his fictional counterpart. Plus, he owned a plantation with slaves.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Our Flag Means Death / int_40bb59d0	comment	Invoked in Episode 2, when Black Pete tells an extravagant story of how he used to work with Blackbeard. The sailors he makes up are stereotypically French, right down to the striped shirts and baguettes.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_42f01532	type	Love Theme
Our Flag Means Death / int_42f01532	comment	Love Theme: Erik Satie's "Gnossienne No. 5" serves as one for Stede and Ed, specifically in scenes where Ed allows himself to be vulnerable in front of Stede, such as when he shows Stede the red silk given to him by his mother or when he confesses that he killed his father.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Our Flag Means Death / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: During pre-production, Taika Waititi wasn't confident he'd be able to sustain a passable Bristol accent to match the historical Blackbeard's origins note For curious history buffs, Frenchie's mild Southwest English accent, identifiable by the "i" in "pirate" being rounded and pushed back closer to the "oy" in "boy", gives some idea of what Blackbeard probably would have sounded like. The showrunners decided instead to invoke Rule of Funny, having almost all of the actors speak with their natural accents regardless of whether it would make sense for their characters. Standout examples include the natives on the island in Episode 2 speaking with American accents, Englishmen Stede and Ed sounding like New Zealanders, and various members of the English landed gentry speaking with American or Australian accents. The show is set sixty years before any English-speaking colonizers arrived in Australia or New Zealand. Subverted with Spanish Jackie, who speaks with an American accent rather than a Spanish one. It's revealed towards the end of the first season that she's not actually Spanish and doesn't know why people call her that. And inverted with the English Rory Kinnear exaggerating his own RP accent as the Badminton twins (especially Nigel, who at times sounds almost like Homer Simpson doing a fancy-lad voice).
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Our Flag Means Death / int_45554ca2	type	"I Can't Look!" Gesture
Our Flag Means Death / int_45554ca2	comment	"I Can't Look!" Gesture: In Episode 6, as Izzy is about to deal the finishing blow, Ed turns away from the fight, unable to look. When Stede is facing down the Royal Navy firing squad in Episode 9, most of his crew off to the side cover their eyes and ears.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_49162400	type	Soup Is Medicine
Our Flag Means Death / int_49162400	comment	Soup Is Medicine: When a wounded Ed washes up on his former captain Hornigold's island, he is fed soup to help him recuperate. Subverted in that Neither the island nor Hornigold are real; they're constructs of Ed's mind brought on by severe head trauma.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
Our Flag Means Death / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: In Episode 1, Roach mentions he has sewn his arm back together.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
Our Flag Means Death / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: In Episode 6, Ed is triggered by the crew pretending to be the Kraken because it reminds him of murdering his abusive father and has a panic attack. He ends up holing up in Stede's bathtub under one of Stede's bathrobes.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_55f2c035	type	Formal Full Array of Cutlery
Our Flag Means Death / int_55f2c035	comment	Formal Full Array of Cutlery: When the crew raids a French ship in Episode 5, Stede teaches Ed the intricacies of fine dining. They find an invitation to a fancy dinner party, and Ed gets humiliated by the aristocrats when he uses the wrong spoon for shrimp.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Our Flag Means Death / int_56515a39	comment	In Episode 9, Blackbeard has to sign a legal document, and while Stede puts down an elegant signature, Blackbeard can only write an X. This is a case of Artistic License â€“ History, as the real Blackbeard almost certainly could read and write. Debunked in Season Two when Ed finds Stede's message in a bottle and easily reads it on his own, so it's possible that he simply chose to sign an X in protest.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_59166261	type	Second-Act Breakup
Our Flag Means Death / int_59166261	comment	Second-Act Breakup: During Episode 8, Blackbeard leaves with Calico Jack when he believes that Stede won't like him for who he really is. They both mope around for a bit, Lucius dumps Blackbeard's stuff in a box and drops it off with him, and eventually, Blackbeard comes back just in time to save the Revenge from being blasted apart by the Royal Navy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Our Flag Means Death / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Lucius and Pete have a Friends with Benefits scenario that develops into a full relationship, in contrast to Stede and Blackbeard's slow-burn romance. Jim and Oluwande's relationship also contrasts with the Official Couple.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Our Flag Means Death / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Although they are mortal enemies, Jim and Spanish Jackie stop trying to kill each other and have a drink together. It is Jackie who convinces Jim to stop pursuing revenge and return to the ship...and Oluwande.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
Our Flag Means Death / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: Stede and Blackbeard, to each other.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
Our Flag Means Death / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: Done by Spanish Jackie to her husband Geraldo when Jim tries to hold him hostage for information on the Siete Gallos.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_60985aa7	type	In with the In Crowd
Our Flag Means Death / int_60985aa7	comment	In with the In Crowd: In Episode 5, Ed manages to charm and amuse most of the aristocrats at the party with a rowdy sense of humour and Brutal Honesty. It doesn't last, however, and Stede warns him that they're fickle people — which he finds out the hard way when he uses the wrong utensils at dinner and they begin to mock him for it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Our Flag Means Death / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Israel Hands, in contrast to Blackbeard's Bunny-Ears Lawyer schtick, is ruthless and pragmatic to a fault but grows more and more exasperated at his boss's antics. However, it can be argued that he takes it to the point of merely being a different kind of insanity, in contrast to...
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Our Flag Means Death / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Our Flag Means Death / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Frenchie and Oluwande give receipts to the aristocrats they scam in Episode 5. Pausing at the right time reveals that the "receipts" are just drawings of cats, since both Frenchie and Oluwande are illiterate. In Season Two, the lengthy list of crimes on Blackbeard's Wanted poster includes "Unlicensed Midwifery," "Plagiarism," "Tax Evasion," and "Communism," among others.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Our Flag Means Death / int_6383a034	comment	After Ed and Stede leave the Revenge for the privateer academy in Episode 9, Izzy makes himself captain and rules with an iron fist. Doesn't really last long, as The Mutiny happens in the same episode.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Our Flag Means Death / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: Blackbeard at the start is usually represented musically by a particularly sinister horn-like sound. It notably makes a reappearance in the score when Ed reverts back into his Blackbeard/Kraken persona after Izzy angrily calls him out on his moping.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_6679436	type	Leatherman
Our Flag Means Death / int_6679436	comment	Leatherman: Several of Blackbeard's nameless background crew members are dressed like this. Blackbeard himself also fits, as he dresses entirely in black leather and falls in love with Stede.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
Our Flag Means Death / int_66805a18	comment	Season Two opens with a bearded and ruggedly attired Stede killing a snarling, unrepentant Izzy in a sunset duel by the ocean, then running to a magically appearing Ed, who instantly forgives him and parrots endearments. Cut to a lone Stede's wistful (and clean-shaven) face.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Our Flag Means Death / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: At the beginning of Episode 5, Stede's crew is about to witness and observe how Blackbeard operates during a raid on a merchant ship. Stede says that he hopes it doesn't too violent, right before we cut to a scene of absolute havoc on board.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_6957ce78	type	Makes Us Even
Our Flag Means Death / int_6957ce78	comment	Makes Us Even: Spanish Jackie to Jim in Episode 8. Jackie put a bounty on Jim's head after they killed one of her husbands, she then sold Jim out to the Spanish and left them and their crew for dead, so she figures all debts are more or less settled. Instead of fighting to the death, they drink.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_6a36abe2	type	Hollywood Natives
Our Flag Means Death / int_6a36abe2	comment	Hollywood Natives: Averted with a vengeance in Episode 2, where the native tribe who capture Stede, Pete and their naval hostages turn out to be reasonable people acting on an entirely justified suspicion of white people landing on their island, after how many times they've been backstabbed and nearly wiped out by said colonizers. (They're also quite annoyed at the automatic assumption that they killed and ate one of their captives.) Stede and Pete concede that they've got a point almost immediately, despite the fact that they still would very much prefer to not die, and when the tribe realize that "you only pose a danger to yourselves because you're mediocre pirates", they let Stede and Pete go free and are willing to help the crew dislodge the ship to get them off the island as soon as possible. The tribe in question is also a reasonably accurate depiction of an Arawak community, not the imaginary, stereotypical "island natives" usually associated with the trope.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Our Flag Means Death / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: Notably Averted despite featuring a Cast Full of Gay and several characters whose understanding of their identities evolves over the course of the story: Stede starts the show with a wife and two children note albeit in a loveless Arranged Marriage and ultimately falls in love for the first time with Ed, who is implied to be his Closet Key. However, Stede's exact understanding of and relationship to his sexual orientation is never communicated to the audience, and his character arc is about becoming more confident, brave, and accountable in ways that have little to do with his sexuality. Jim's coming-out as nonbinary is handled in an offhand way, where they simply express discomfort at being perceived as a woman and tell the crew to keep calling them Jim. Their actual storyline is about seeking revenge for their family's murder, which has nothing to do with their gender identity. In general, the characters have a very nonchalant attitude towards sexuality and gender, and so there's never a need for characters to formally come out to one another.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Our Flag Means Death / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: This forms the main conflict between Bonnet and his crew. Bonnet is a pampered, well-off aristocrat who values kindness and non-violence. His crew on the other hand, being pirates, see his values as weaknesses and actively desire to do criminal activity and cause violence. Eventually, the crew learns to be open with their emotions as Stede requests, and Stede learns to be a bit less squeamish about violence.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Our Flag Means Death / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Lucius mentions that he's managed to hide the fact that he doesn't like girls from his mother his entire life, and his demeanor is generally on the feminine side. By Episode 9, it's apparent that Stede is this trope as well.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_72528764	type	Unbroken Vigil
Our Flag Means Death / int_72528764	comment	Unbroken Vigil: Edward does this for Stede in Episode 4. Notable because they haven't even properly met yet.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_734c5ed2	type	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple
Our Flag Means Death / int_734c5ed2	comment	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple: Zig-Zagged with Stede and Ed. While on the surface it seems like Stede is the Camp Gay to Ed's Manly Gay, Ed's tough image is mostly fake, and in reality, he shares several of Stede's "effeminate" interests. Meanwhile, Stede's apparent campiness is partly due to his aristocratic upbringing; for example, dressing fashionably was considered an important part of masculinity for upper-class men in the 18th century. As the show goes on and Stede becomes a more competent pirate, he sheds some of his fancy trappings. Moreover, the show makes it clear that there's no "right" way of being a man and Stede isn't less masculine just because he doesn't conform to one particular definition of masculinity.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Our Flag Means Death / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: As Mary describes what being in love feels like, Stede flashes back to various scenes of him bonding with Ed, now understanding that he was falling in love in those moments.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_74e4a889	type	Cosmic Motifs
Our Flag Means Death / int_74e4a889	comment	Cosmic Motifs: All three of the canon couples have some sort of Sun/Moon motif: Stede is the sun: sociable, optimistic and dressing in bright colours. At the end of the series, he's confidently rowing into the sun. Edward is the moon: more isolated, moodier/more changeable than his partner and dressing in black. At the end of the series, he's crying alone in a darkened room. Lucius (whose name links him to the daylight) is a popular and charismatic member of The Revenge; Black Pete (whose nickname links him to the night) is far less well regarded and sometimes left out of discussions. Jim is the harsher side of the sun: hot-tempered, relentless and fierce. Oluwande is the gentler side of the moon: thoughtful, emotionally intelligent and basically kind.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_75987da9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Our Flag Means Death / int_75987da9	comment	Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: The crew of the Revenge are this from the start. Blackbeard's scary crew of elite and fearsome pirates basically shrug and allow themselves to be folded into this category after Blackbeard and Stede join forces (all except Izzy, who's bound so tightly with tension and anger that he approaches the state of rigor mortis — which might make him count anyway, depending on how you look at it).
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Our Flag Means Death / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Our Flag Means Death / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: The main aristocratic couple's dirty secret at the dinner party Stede and Ed crash. The husband, Gabriel, attempts to defend it, but the wife, Antoinette, breaks down and admits that even she finds their attraction to each other "fucking disgusting".
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Our Flag Means Death / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Our Flag Means Death / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: Stede initially thinks Ed, the nice guy he meets after getting stabbed, is one of Blackbeard's crew. Blackbeard introduces himself as "Ed", and when Stede asks if he works for Blackbeard, he says he does, though he'd never thought of it that way before.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_79729e6d	type	Uptight Loves Wild
Our Flag Means Death / int_79729e6d	comment	Uptight Loves Wild: Stede is an aristocrat who ran away from his Arranged Marriage, is a stickler for politeness and social rules, and falls for the adventurous and hot-headed legendary Blackbeard. Oluwande, the ship's level-headed Only Sane Man, is deeply interested in Jim, a dagger-wielding, knife-throwing, revenge-driven assassin raised by nuns.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Our Flag Means Death / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Ed and Stede share a moment on the deck of the Revenge in Episode 5. Jim and Olu lean in for a kiss on the grounds of Jim's old home in Episode 7, right before Stede barges in on them.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
Our Flag Means Death / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids are referenced several times in the first season: Jim angrily insists that they are not a fucking mermaid, and a drunken Ed muses that being "massaged to death by mermaids" would be a cool way to go. Most prominently, in Season Two, a badly wounded Ed hovers on the brink of death and hallucinates Stede as a golden-tailed merman holding a trident and radiating love, saving him from drowning. This image of Stede is what brings him back to life.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Our Flag Means Death / int_80621707	comment	Stede is an aristocrat who ran away from his Arranged Marriage, is a stickler for politeness and social rules, and falls for the adventurous and hot-headed legendary Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Our Flag Means Death / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Zheng Yi Sao has a policy of killing any mutineers, even those that mutinied against someone else, because they're a Wild Card she doesn't want on the ship. She nearly kills the Revenge crew for their mutiny against Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_84d29a11	type	Drag Queen
Our Flag Means Death / int_84d29a11	comment	Drag Queen: To celebrate the (entirely fictional) "pirate holiday" of Calypso's birthday, the crew throws a party that includes decorations, refreshments, and Wee John in the starring role of the sea goddess Calypso. Non-binary pirate Jim joins in the fun with a drawn-on mustache. Unexpectedly, Izzy gets in on the act as well and entertains the crew with a moving performance of "La Vie en Rose."
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Our Flag Means Death / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Our Flag Means Death / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: In the first episode, Stede is horrified to learn that "raids almost always end in bloodshed". In reality, most merchants learned that pirates would largely just let them go if they hove to and surrendered their valuables and sundries. They only resorted to violence if the crew didn't heave to (though some pirates made exceptions for hated foes, like one who killed everyone from Barbados after they put a bounty on him). Also, pirate crews numbered in the dozens and merchants maybe 6-12, so resistance would have been useless in any case. Only military vessels could stand against them. In episode four, Blackbeard mocks the drawing of himself in Stede's book, complaining that they drew him with nine pistols. At the time, pistols were single-shot front loaders, and pirates, soldiers, anyone who had to fight routinely went into battle with multiple pistols if they could afford them, including Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_861ac58a	type	This Is No Time for Knitting
Our Flag Means Death / int_861ac58a	comment	This Is No Time for Knitting: In the first half of Episode 4, Blackbeard ponders the shapes of clouds and plays dress-up in Stede's clothes. The latter half of the episode reveals the clouds were important because they foretold extremely thick fog, and he dressed in Stede's clothes to prepare to steal his identity.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Our Flag Means Death / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Spanish Jackie, but she certainly has the presence and personality to pull it off.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Our Flag Means Death / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: Lucius injures his finger and develops a potentially deadly infection that requires it to be amputated. Meanwhile, other characters get stabbed in the abdomen (sometimes multiple times over the course of the first season) and suffer no long-term ill effects as long as they ensure that they aren't hit "in the important bits". Lampshaded slightly by Edward's comment about them not knowing what the liver does.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Our Flag Means Death / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The first season's last two episodes drastically change up the series's previous episodic-structured comedy. In Episode 9, "Act of Grace": The Revenge gets captured, and Ed and Stede sign away their lives of piracy to serve King George as privateers. While at the privateer academy, Ed and Stede finally kiss, and they make plans to elope, but Stede is confronted by Chauncey Badminton and instead goes home to his wife and children, leaving Ed to escape alone. In Episode 10, "Wherever You Go, There You Are: Stede reconciles with his wife and children, but realises his family no longer needs him around, and ends up giving away all of his wealth and faking his death. Meanwhile, a heartbroken Ed reverts back to his Blackbeard persona, throws Lucius overboard, dumps all of Stede's old belongings, kidnaps Jim and Frenchie, and maroons the rest of Stede's crew.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8e3980c7	type	Mistaken Nationality
Our Flag Means Death / int_8e3980c7	comment	Mistaken Nationality: In Season Two, Spanish Jackie calls her newest husband "sexy Dutchman." It's The Swede.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Our Flag Means Death / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Nigel Badminton and the sailors he takes to board the Revenge are haughty, rude, racist, and make fun of Stede the whole time. Nigel is accidentally killed with a sword through the skull, one gets tea poured onto his nether regions, one gets a knife through the hand, and another is forced to row back to his ship with his hands tied to the oars. The entire boat of European aristocrats in Episode 5. They're petty, rude to the waiters, racist, and make fun of Blackbeard for not knowing their intricate dining rituals. Frenchie and Oluwande spend the episode scamming most of them with a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme, and Stede utterly humiliates all the rest.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_8f228548	type	Booze Flamethrower
Our Flag Means Death / int_8f228548	comment	Booze Flamethrower: Used in Episode 4, when Ed and Stede try to imitate a lighthouse to ward off a Spanish ship.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Our Flag Means Death / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Jim and Oluwande have one. Stede and Ed also get a climactic kiss, but it's downplayed as gentle fumbling and tenderness rather than drama and passion because it's also the first truly romantic kiss either of them has ever had.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_944cd768	type	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up
Our Flag Means Death / int_944cd768	comment	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Downplayed with Nigel Badminton, who used to bully Bonnet when they were kids. When the two meet again in the pilot, while Badminton is generally more mature and affable than he was as a child, he shows no regret for his childhood bullying and still acts disdainfully towards Bonnet.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Our Flag Means Death / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Izzy Hands's general furious disgust at finding himself in a Rom Com instead of a serious pirate drama ends up making him do some extremely comedic things, though they tend to still be much darker than the rest of the cast's actions. Like practically having a fit of glee when Ed adopts an even more violent persona than Blackbeard, "The Kraken", and makes Izzy eat his own toe.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_981d0040	comment	Message in a Bottle: Separated from Ed in Season Two, a lovesick yet hopeful Stede writes him a letter assuring him of his love and promising to find him, and throws the bottle containing it into the ocean. Ed later mentions that it's extremely unlikely it would make it, and Stede admits that it was "more of a symbolic gesture" than anything. Then in the finale, Ed finds it washed up on the same shore Stede threw it from.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_98861790	type	Fireworks of Love
Our Flag Means Death / int_98861790	comment	Fireworks of Love: When Ed and Stede have sex for the first time in Season Two, the scene cuts from passionate kissing to fireworks over the Revenge, and even literal cannonfire.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Our Flag Means Death / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Episode 4 shows the officiant at Stede and Mary's wedding telling them they are to be each others' metaphorical lighthouses guiding one another through life, and Mary gives Stede a painting of a lighthouse as an anniversary gift. Later in the episode, Blackbeard remarks that people always forget that you're supposed to avoid lighthouses, as getting too close to one means you'll break apart on the rocks. The season ends with Blackbeard, utterly broken after getting close to Stede and being abandoned by him, sobbing as he stares at the lighthouse painting. Also in Episode 4, Stede mentions in reaction to his Arranged Marriage that he had always wanted to marry for love, to which his father replies that "peasants marry for love". In Episode 10, Stede has faked his death and left his entire estate and inherited wealth to Mary and Doug to return to Blackbeard.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Our Flag Means Death / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: How Chauncey Badminton dies. After kidnapping Stede from the privateer academy in the middle of the night, he rambles drunkenly, then stumbles towards Stede before tripping on a branch in the woods and shooting himself in the eye.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Our Flag Means Death / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Bonnet attempts to be this to his crew (keyword, attempts), paying them fair wages, setting up recreational activities, and even installing a library, amongst other things. The crew members are initially unappreciative, as they just don't understand why someone would do this on a pirate ship. Over the course of the series they come around to his management style and become increasingly loyal to him.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Our Flag Means Death / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Nigel Badminton and the sailors he takes to board the Revenge are haughty, rude, racist, and make fun of Stede the whole time. Nigel is accidentally killed with a sword through the skull, one gets tea poured onto his nether regions, one gets a knife through the hand, and another is forced to row back to his ship with his hands tied to the oars.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Our Flag Means Death / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: In Episode 5, Frenchie and Oluwande's plan to con the rich aristocrats comes together when they strike up an alliance with Abshir, one of the mistreated servants onboard the ship. He also spills their dirty secrets to Stede, helping him humiliate all of the aristocrats who humiliated Ed.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Our Flag Means Death / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: Episode 2 ends with Verdi's "Dies Irae" being used to underscore Blackbeard's terrifying reputation.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Our Flag Means Death / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Especially in "Wherever You Go, There You Are" when we watch the ridiculously absurd lengths Stede goes through to fake his death while Blackbeard coldly throws Lucius overboard, cuts off Izzy's toe and forces him to eat it, and holds Jim and Frenchie against their will. Things also turn sour real quick when Calico Jack accidentally kills Karl the Seagull.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Our Flag Means Death / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Izzy dies in Ed's arms after being shot in the final episode.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Our Flag Means Death / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Calico Jack's frat-bro antics with Blackbeard seems like general drunken assholery, until it's revealed that his behavior was calculated — he was sent by Izzy Hands to deliberately lure the Revenge into a death trap and get Ed off the ship before the Royal Navy attack.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Our Flag Means Death / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Played with. Jim seems to be a case of this, but as it turns out, they're nonbinary.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Our Flag Means Death / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Black Pete, with his implausible stories of previously sailing with Blackbeard, is a constant source of irritation to everyone around him.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Our Flag Means Death / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Heavily implied to be the case with Blackbeard, for Stede. The argument could also be made that, given Blackbeard's fascination with Stede before they even met, even going so far as to follow the Revenge out of Nassau and watch over his bedside, it was a case of Love Before First Sight on Ed's side as well.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Our Flag Means Death / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Stede and Blackbeard strike one up, to the disapproval of Izzy Hands. Then it ends up more than a friendship.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_aa593d8	type	Allegiance Affirmation
Our Flag Means Death / int_aa593d8	comment	Allegiance Affirmation: While the whole crew is clearly enjoying themselves when Calico Jack comes on board in Episode 8, Jack killing Karl the seagull immediately turns them against him. When Stede kicks him off the ship and Jack angrily asks if anyone's going to stay with "the fop" over him, the entire crew ends up doing so.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Our Flag Means Death / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Nigel's crew and the French aristocrats are shown with period-appropriate bigotry. By contrast, the pirates have a mixed race (and eventually mixed sexuality) crew.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Our Flag Means Death / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In Episode 6, Blackbeard teaches Stede how to get run through by a sword without any lasting damage. This is how Stede ends up defeating Izzy Hands in their duel at the end of the episode, by taking a hit in front of the mast, destroying Izzy's sword without sustaining permanent damage.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
Our Flag Means Death / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: Blackbeard's old friend Calico Jack shows up in "We Gull Way Back", and Stede spends most of the episode jealous and extremely disgruntled. Stede ends up in the opposite situation with Mary, when he goes home in Episode 10. With her husband presumed dead, Mary had fallen in love with her art teacher, Doug. Though he struggles with being replaced, especially in his children's lives, Stede admits in the end that Doug is a great guy and Mary deserves to be happy with him.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_aedf28fe	type	Falling-in-Love Montage
Our Flag Means Death / int_aedf28fe	comment	Falling-in-Love Montage: At the start of Episode 6, between Stede and Blackbeard. There's another in Episode 10, as Stede realizes that he's been in love with Blackbeard the whole time. Episode 3 of Season Two provides a third montage when Ed is comatose from a major head injury and flashes back to his time with Stede.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Our Flag Means Death / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Despite giving up his old posh life for a career in piracy, Stede cannot get out of his aristocratic mindset. Blackbeard at the fancy dinner. At first, he enjoys being more popular than Stede's alter ego, but he soon begins to loathe the French high society snobs, actually flat-out asking at one point if they know who he is, and informs them he could kill them all. Ironically, he's rescued by Stede's skill at playing the high society passive-aggression game.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Our Flag Means Death / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Discussed in the pilot. As he prepares for his first real raiding party, Stede is squeamish about killing anyone and wants to know how to "stun" someone instead. Oluwande says that using the hilt of a knife is traditional, but any heavy object at the base of the skull will do. At the climax of the episode, Stede thumps Nigel with a heavy brass whale paperweight, and it does the trick... but also causes the unconscious Nigel to pitch face-first onto his own sword and accidentally kill himself.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
Our Flag Means Death / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: As Stede is facing down the firing squad, Ed punches Izzy square in the face for selling them out to the Royal Navy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_b3230549	type	419 Scam
Our Flag Means Death / int_b3230549	comment	419 Scam: In Episode 5, Oluwande and Frenchie con many aristocrats with this kind of scheme, with Oluwande posing as an Egyptian prince who promises fabulous returns to investors in his project to recover riches locked away in a pyramid. Bonus points for managing this scam centuries before the internet. Oluwande and Frenchie, in turn, invest their earnings with the aristocrats' former servants, who discuss how to improve the scam - including claiming to be a Nigerian, not an Egyptian, prince.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
Our Flag Means Death / int_b5619979	comment	Ed/Blackbeard confesses to having a plan to kill Stede after befriending him. In most stories, this would lead to a friendship crisis of the Was It All a Lie? variety, but such is Stede's belief in Ed's inherent goodness (or, more cynically, his epic skills of denial), he suggests pretending it didn't happen.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_b62ea95	type	Doomed New Clothes
Our Flag Means Death / int_b62ea95	comment	Doomed New Clothes: Stede dresses himself and Lucius up in all-white suits for their first outing in the Republic of Pirates. Lucius almost immediately gets thrown up on and has to take his coat off; Stede keeps his on until he goes to parlay with the Spanish and gets stabbed in the stomach, at which point the white fabric gets visibly bloodstained. In Episode 5 of Season Two, Stede takes a fancy red suit off a Spanish ship, but the crew is convinced that the suit is cursed and attempt to destroy it. He finally relents and passes the suit on to the crew of the next ship they capture.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_b7209ae1	type	Beef Bandage
Our Flag Means Death / int_b7209ae1	comment	Beef Bandage: After a half-conscious Ed headbutts Stede in the face, we later see Stede holding a raw steak to his cheek. This doubles as a Prochronic Product, as the reason for the clichÃ© of holding a cut of meat to a bruise is that it's frozen, and refrigerators did not exist in the 18th century, much less on a pirate ship.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Our Flag Means Death / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: After Ed and Stede leave the Revenge for the privateer academy in Episode 9, Izzy makes himself captain and rules with an iron fist. Doesn't really last long, as The Mutiny happens in the same episode. Then, in Episode 10, after Edward comes back, has a breakdown, and fully reverts to the Kraken persona, he throws Lucius overboard, kidnaps Jim and Frenchie, and maroons the rest of the crew.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_bd620d3c	type	In Love with the Mark
Our Flag Means Death / int_bd620d3c	comment	In Love with the Mark: At the end of Episode 4, Blackbeard confides in Izzy his plan to kill Stede, mutilate his face, and steal his identity, so he could retire from his life at sea. By the start of Episode 6, however, his crew confronts him for still not having put that plan into action and accuses him of having grown too fond of Stede to actually commit to it. They're right — by the end of the episode, he tearfully confesses the plan to Stede and tells him he's unable to go through with it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Our Flag Means Death / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Oluwande and Frenchie in Episode 5, as they invent the Nigerian Prince con to use against the aristocrats. Frenchie introduces Oluwande as "an Egyptian prince descended from the Pharaohs", and Oluwande adopts an African accent for the rest of their time on the boat.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
Our Flag Means Death / int_c3db1619	comment	Zig-Zagged in Episode 5 when they actually raid a French vessel and the accents are more realistic. However, the French aristocrats whose party they attend later in the same episode have even more cartoonish accents than Black Pete's imaginary Frenchmen.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Our Flag Means Death / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Stede is a genuinely affable and likable guy who hates violence and killing and basically tries to run his ship like a well-funded community center. Unfortunately, he is surrounded by pirates who are convinced he's going to get them all killed with his naÃ¯vetÃ©. Fortunately, he manages to Take a Level in Badass and convince them that they can still survive as a kinder, gentler breed of pirates. Oluwande is one of the few pirates on the Revenge to be this from the start.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Our Flag Means Death / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Blackbeard's outfit, including a one-armed leather jacket with a pauldron on the right shoulder and a knee brace, is almost identical to the one worn by the titular character in Mad Max, including a Main Force Patrol badge in some scenes. The card introducing the first episode is almost identical to the opening card in the first episode of Black Sails — though of course, it's less a serious introduction and more a signpost pointing to shenanigans ahead. And in Episode 10, Ed's transformation into his new, worse-than-Blackbeard persona of "The Kraken" is underscored by Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche", a song that was also used (in a cover by Nick Cave) to punctuate an episode of Black Sails where Flint has a similar breakdown. Nigel Badminton is a dead ringer for Lucky Jack Aubrey, especially the Russell Crowe version. note This is another case of Anachronism Stew for the sake of comedy, though it's not immediately noticeable — the Aubrey-Maturin books take place a full century or so later than this show is set. His twin brother Chauncey has a wine stain-shaped birthmark on his head similar to Mikhail Gorbachev. The fourth episode of season 2 is titled "Fun and Games" which is also the name of the first act of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the scenes with Anne Bonney and Mary Read are very reminiscent of the casual yet awkwardly playful hatred that George and Martha share with one another, with the bewildered and uncomfortable Ed and Stede being the stand-ins for Nick and Honey. Additionally, the ending of this story involves Anne burning their house to the ground much in the same way that George symbolically does to Martha by "killing" their "son". The same episode has Ed quoting Music/Whitesnake Zheng's crews hauling ships through the jungle references Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Auntie's description on the Revenge of how Blackbeard was nearly beaten to death by his crew references Aragorn in the Two Towers describing the hobbits' escape to Fangorn
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Our Flag Means Death / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Blackbeard's dirt-poor childhood and abusive father are a sympathetic foundation for his ruthless deeds. Ed invented the Kraken to externalize the guilt of murdering his father, and Blackbeard to distance himself from the brutality of fighting to survive. Those alter-egos had grown to eclipse Ed as a person until Stede helped him reconnect with his humanity.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Our Flag Means Death / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: In Season 2, Stede and Ed have sex for the first time in the aftermath of Stede's first deliberate kill.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Buttons is implied at several points to have magical powers, including communicating with seagulls and placing hexes on people, but it's also entirely possible that he simply appears to be magic through a combination of luck, seafaring experience, and being absolutely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
Our Flag Means Death / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Izzy Hands is the driving force behind many of the show's conflicts after Blackbeard comes aboard, interfering in Stede and Blackbeard's growing friendship and romance. Izzy uses Calico Jack as poison-by-proxy in Episode 8.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_ce01338b	type	Exceptionally Tolerant
Our Flag Means Death / int_ce01338b	comment	Exceptionally Tolerant: While it's not Politically Correct History as racism and homophobia are clearly shown outside of pirate life, within it no one seems to hold any particular contempt towards queer relationships or other races. As Calico Jack puts it, "Anything goes at sea.".
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Our Flag Means Death / int_cf61bce5	comment	New Friend Envy: The basic plot of Episode 8, with Stede pitted against Calico Jack for Ed's (and the crew's) attention. While it's a case of old friend envy with Ed, as they have a history with each other, Stede is also clearly envious of Jack's popularity with the crew.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_cf63c09	comment	Friendly Pirate: Well, Stede and his crew want to be dangerous pirates, but this is hampered by Stede's upper-class breeding, self-professed positive management style, and distaste for any of the more unsavory piratical activities.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d1f4d528	comment	Treasure Map: Parodied in Episode 7, when Stede spends a lot of money on a treasure map sold by a random woman and insists on taking Blackbeard on an adventure in an attempt to keep his attention and keep him around. Blackbeard and Lucius come along, complain the whole time, and it ends predictably anticlimactically when the treasure map is accidentally burned. However, when Blackbeard starts to play along, they do end up finding a substitute for the treasure in a petrified orange buried under Jim's family's tree.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d2a8b268	comment	Death Montage: When Hornigold antagonizes him during their innkeeper roleplay, Ed is so enraged that he breaks the man's neck with his bare hands. He walks away...only to see Hornigold calmly sit up and adjust his neck. Thus begins a cartoonish sequence of an increasingly confused and furious Ed murdering Hornigold (stabbing, shooting, strangling, and finally smashing his head with a crate). The failed attempts make Ed realize that neither the island nor Hornigold are real.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
Our Flag Means Death / int_d31da2e3	comment	If It's You, It's Okay: Lucius, a gay man, has a moment like this after Jim (a nonbinary person whom Lucius still thinks is a woman at the moment) gives him a big kiss of gratitude for bringing back their family's knife.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Our Flag Means Death / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: All of the major romances on the show are queer, and Vico Ortiz (Jim) has said on their Instagram that pretty much the entire cast is "somewhere along the LGBTQ spectrum".note This would mean that even if there are any het characters, which at this point is unconfirmed, they are most likely trans or asexual. Karl the seagull is said to be in a loving relationship with his wife Olivia, but thatâ€™s according to Cloud Cuckoolander Buttons, so who knows. Being straight is, apparently, for the birds. (Plus, of course, being in an m/f relationship doesnâ€™t necessarily mean someoneâ€™s straight.)
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Our Flag Means Death / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In Episode 6, Stede is ready to cancel the fuckery when the rehearsals do not go well. As Izzy's plan for Blackbeard to kill Stede hinges on him dying "doing something he loves," Izzy comes to Stede's cabin and convinces him to go on because "[Ed] adores you" and they both want to see him happy. The pep talk leads to the fuckery continuing, which triggers Ed into a panic attack that causes him to confess the whole plot to Stede, which would not have happened if the fuckery had been canceled as Stede suggested. On a larger scale, the only reason Blackbeard even knew about Stede at all is because Izzy, of his own volition, tried (unsuccessfully) to steal the hostages from him. Had Izzy minded his own business, everything else in the series would not have happened.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Our Flag Means Death / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Lucius gives one to Blackbeard in Episode 7 when Blackbeard is less than amused by Stede's "treasure-hunting" trip.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d3f14c68	type	Jolly Roger
Our Flag Means Death / int_d3f14c68	comment	Jolly Roger: Parodied. Stede has his crew sew potential flags for the ship to use. Among the many silly and absurd designs is one with a cat on it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Our Flag Means Death / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Karl the seagull is said to be in a loving relationship with his wife Olivia, but thatâ€™s according to Cloud Cuckoolander Buttons, so who knows. Being straight is, apparently, for the birds. (Plus, of course, being in an m/f relationship doesnâ€™t necessarily mean someoneâ€™s straight.)
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Our Flag Means Death / int_d8dde631	type	You Are Worth Hell
Our Flag Means Death / int_d8dde631	comment	You Are Worth Hell: In order to save Stede's life, Ed gives up the name, reputation, and life he forged as Blackbeard to become a privateer and serve King George. When Stede asks him how he's adjusted so well to this new life, he confesses that as long as he's with Stede, he'll be happy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
Our Flag Means Death / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: Ed and Stede's sex scene in "Calypso's Birthday" is punctuated by fireworks going off (for the party, obviously).
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Our Flag Means Death / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Our Flag Means Death / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Both Stede and Ed's BeleagueredAssistants comment on how much they like each other. In Episode 6, Izzy addresses Stede: In Episode 7, Lucius addresses Edward:
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Our Flag Means Death / int_def127cc	type	Leave Behind a Pistol
Our Flag Means Death / int_def127cc	comment	Leave Behind a Pistol: After cutting off enough toes to give Izzy gangrene that forces him to amputate his leg and shooting him, a suicidal Ed tries to goad Izzy into killing him. When Izzy refuses, Ed leaves his pistol behind and walks out of the room.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Our Flag Means Death / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Izzy finds the Revenge beached and wonders "what kind of fuckin' moron runs a ship aground". Blackbeard infamously ran the Queen Anne's Revenge aground, and Israel Hands ran a second ship aground trying to get the first ship out.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
Our Flag Means Death / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: Narrowly avoided in the finale. After Blackbeard maroons half the crew on an island that can barely fit seven people and lacks food sources, the Swede starts to look like the easiest target as food to the marooned. They try to chase him down and only stop when they notice the arrival of Stede.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Our Flag Means Death / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Little is known about Israel Hands aside from the fact he was Blackbeard's right-hand man, but the show goes out of its way to make him an authoritarian, conceited, homophobic, and cruel man. Blackbeard himself is also portrayed as significantly more Ax-Crazy than he's recorded as being (despite an otherwise sympathetic portrayal).
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Our Flag Means Death / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The show is loosely inspired by the life of the real Stede Bonnet.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
Our Flag Means Death / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ships: Audible fog signals are supposed to be 4-6 seconds long, but as this is 1717 and before formalised Rules of the Road (or low visibility sound signals even), eh, it's excusable. Also, an unamplified human voice doesn't travel very far over the water, so it would be doubtful the Spanish even heard Wee John impersonating one.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
Our Flag Means Death / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: Almost a necessity when your protagonists are 18th-century career criminals. Stede isn't really violent at all until cornered (at least at first), but he did run out on his wife and children without so much as a goodbye — and without considering how being the family of a pirate might affect them emotionally and socially. The audience cheers him on because he's just so lovable...and, since divorce is nearly impossible, genuinely seems to have very few options between "live out his days in respectable misery" and "run for it". The one thing the audience are likely to be slower to forgive him for is having a breakdown after being kidnapped, and subsequently leaving Ed at the dock. Ed is the supreme example of this. To the audience, he's the absolutely charming and utterly smitten captain who saves Stede from his own incompetence, finds real joy in hanging out on The Revenge, and clearly has a list of woobie-worthy issues we want to see him overcome. But despite the revelation that his kill count is a lot lower than you'd expect, he's still violent, unpredictable, and sometimes callous towards his own subordinates, with hints that he was significantly worse pre-Stede. Yet by the end of the show, he's viewed through the filter of tragedy and heartbreak rather than villainy, despite four maroonings, two kidnappings, a shove overboard and a first mate missing a toe.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Our Flag Means Death / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: This being the 1700s, with education only available to the upper classes, most of the crew are illiterate, save for Stede, Jim, and Lucius. Jim was raised in a religious order, one of the few places where reading would routinely be taught, to facilitate Bible study. When Lucius goes missing after Jim kidnaps him for discovering their secret, Stede drafts Frenchie into being his scribe. This doesn't go well, because Frenchie doesn't know how to write and can only make crude scribbles interpreting Stede's words. In Episode 9, Blackbeard has to sign a legal document, and while Stede puts down an elegant signature, Blackbeard can only write an X. This is a case of Artistic License â€“ History, as the real Blackbeard almost certainly could read and write. Debunked in Season Two when Ed finds Stede's message in a bottle and easily reads it on his own, so it's possible that he simply chose to sign an X in protest. In Episode 2 of Season Two, Oluwande gets in hot water when he incorrectly files paperwork for Captain Zheng Yi Sao, and apologizes with the explanation that he can't read. Because she likes him and finds him attractive, she easily forgives his mistake. (And as the papers were written in Chinese, it's unclear why she expected he could do the task anyway.)
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Our Flag Means Death / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Dawson Casting of the historical characters aside, Jim is surprised to learn that Spanish Jackie, played by 54-year-old Leslie Jones, is only 25.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Our Flag Means Death / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: The ocean is a big place, but the characters always seem to be able to find each other anywhere in the entire Caribbean, even if they hadn't agreed on a meeting spot beforehand. Especially so in Episode 10, when Blackbeard finds his way back to the Revenge, and Stede sets out from Barbados in a dinghy and manages to find his marooned crew before they resort to extreme measures.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_eac601	type	Clothing Switch
Our Flag Means Death / int_eac601	comment	Clothing Switch: In Episode 4, when Blackbeard and Stede switch clothes so they can "switch lives", after both express their dissatisfaction with their current circumstances. Blackbeard actually keeps Stede's tie and wears it with his leather outfit for the rest of the show.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_ec95ec5f	type	Period Piece, Modern Language
Our Flag Means Death / int_ec95ec5f	comment	Period Piece, Modern Language: The show is a historical comedy set during The Golden Age of Piracy. While you have the occasional period-appropriate character and line of dialogue, most of the crew speak like 21st-century millennials with wildly anachronistic turns of phrase, and Spanish Jackie speaks like a Sassy Black Woman.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Our Flag Means Death / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Bonnet is determined to be a kinder, gentler breed of pirate, despite knowing nothing of piracy and being surrounded by more aggressive competition.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Our Flag Means Death / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: After Ed shoots Izzy for mentioning Stede's name, he immediately promotes a reluctant and terrified Frenchie to First Mate. Later, at the very end of Season 2, Stede peacefully transfers captaincy of the Revenge to Frenchie so that he and Ed can become innkeepers.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Our Flag Means Death / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. Stede's estranged wife Mary appears in the first season, and in the second season Ed and Stede run into retired ex-pirate Mary Read, now co-owner of an antiques shop with her partner, Anne Bonney. The first season ends with Stede using Mary's friend Evelyn's pet leopard, Ned, as part of an elaborate plot to fake his own death. In Season Two, the sadistic pirate Ned Low ambushes the Revenge and tortures the crew.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_ef81dc82	type	Fantasy Sequence
Our Flag Means Death / int_ef81dc82	comment	Fantasy Sequence: Several in Season Two. Season Two opens with a bearded and ruggedly attired Stede killing a snarling, unrepentant Izzy in a sunset duel by the ocean, then running to a magically appearing Ed, who instantly forgives him and parrots endearments. Cut to a lone Stede's wistful (and clean-shaven) face. In the third episode of Season Two, after suffering a severe head injury and imagining that he's drowning, Ed envisions Stede as a golden-tailed merman swimming up and saving him. This scene is interspersed with cuts of the real Stede frantically calling his name and imploring him to live.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Our Flag Means Death / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Izzy Hands, to Blackbeard — for better or for worse. To Blackbeard — not Ed.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
Our Flag Means Death / int_f332d990	comment	Too Much Information: Hornigold asks Ed to weigh the pros and cons of living versus dying, and to list three reasons to live. Ed's reasons are warmth, good food...and sex "with orgasms. Not just intercourse. Gotta finish with the good stuff."
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Our Flag Means Death / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: It becomes a bit of a Running Gag how quickly Stede brushes off people who attack or try to kill him. While it's Played for Laughs, it also says something rather tragic about Stede's self-esteem that he seems to think attempting to murder him is a perfectly reasonable thing to do... The crew is ready for mutiny after about five minutes of Stede's leadership. Rather than punish them, he tries harder to meet their expectations and becomes such a Father to His Men that they'll risk their own necks for him come Episode 9. Ed/Blackbeard confesses to having a plan to kill Stede after befriending him. In most stories, this would lead to a friendship crisis of the Was It All a Lie? variety, but such is Stede's belief in Ed's inherent goodness (or, more cynically, his epic skills of denial), he suggests pretending it didn't happen. Mary attempts to murder Stede in his sleep by skewering him through the ear. Stede is mildly indignant at worst, and in fact, the whole debacle leads to a touching heart-to-heart where the reluctant spouses actually communicate properly for once. Stede still accepts his role as "the bad guy" in their relationship when he conspires to fake his death, and no word on how Mary intended to explain their father's corpse to the kids.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Our Flag Means Death / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Mr. Buttons, though rather more subdued than the standard mad Scotsman, usually suggests more violent courses of action.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f609fcfe	type	Fictional Holiday
Our Flag Means Death / int_f609fcfe	comment	Fictional Holiday: In Season Two, the crew celebrates Calypso's birthday, a day supposedly sacred to all pirates. It's really just an excuse to throw an elaborate party, and they all know it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f70710ae	type	Blackmail Backfire
Our Flag Means Death / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: In Episode 5, Izzy attempts to force Lucius to do chores (swabbing the deck, scraping barnacles) by threatening to reveal that he's slept with both Black Pete and Fang. Not only was his "sketching" already public knowledge without provoking any jealousy from the crew, but his fling with Fang has given Lucius retaliatory blackmail material on Izzy.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
Our Flag Means Death / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: At the end of the season, Stede realises that he has no longer has any place in his own house with his wife and children — so he fakes his death and sets off in a dinghy to reunite with Ed.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f8702398	type	Economy Cast
Our Flag Means Death / int_f8702398	comment	Economy Cast: The real Stede Bonnet had a crew of seventy men on the Revenge, and Blackbeard had over three hundred on Queen Anne's Revenge. To keep the cast list manageable, the series' Revenge is crewed by only ten people and Blackbeard only has three lackeys and a handful of extras.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f8b893e5	type	Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Our Flag Means Death / int_f8b893e5	comment	The entire boat of European aristocrats in Episode 5. They're petty, rude to the waiters, racist, and make fun of Blackbeard for not knowing their intricate dining rituals. Frenchie and Oluwande spend the episode scamming most of them with a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme, and Stede utterly humiliates all the rest.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f8fe0279	type	Impossibly Delicious Food
Our Flag Means Death / int_f8fe0279	comment	Impossibly Delicious Food: The noodle soup that the crew eats while staying on the Chinese junk, the Red Flag. Roach in particular raves about the complex yet delicate balance of flavors.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Our Flag Means Death / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Someone finding the flag Frenchie made in Episode 1 and expressing bewilderment as to why there's a cat on it.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Our Flag Means Death / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Jim's motivation for killing one of Spanish Jackie's husbands prior to the start of the show.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Our Flag Means Death / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Roach, reluctantly impressed by his captain's twin feats of killing Badminton and holding off his warship, says this about Stede at the end of the first episode. One of the hostages describes Bonnet as having the eyes of a madman.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Our Flag Means Death / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Bonnet strikes Badminton from behind, only intending to stun him — but he topples forward on to his own sword. This ends up working in Bonnet's favor, as he wins some much-needed pirate cred with the crew by passing the murder off as intentional.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fd7c3342	type	Break-Up Bonfire
Our Flag Means Death / int_fd7c3342	comment	Break-Up Bonfire: Played With. When Ed adopts the Kraken persona to (avoid) deal(ing) with Stede abandoning him, he gets rid of almost everything from Stede's cabin. Since a giant bonfire on a wooden ship is too deranged even for the Kraken, the objects are thrown overboard instead.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fe3122a3	comment	The argument could also be made that, given Blackbeard's fascination with Stede before they even met, even going so far as to follow the Revenge out of Nassau and watch over his bedside, it was a case of Love Before First Sight on Ed's side as well.
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fe91380c	type	Nobility Marries Money
Our Flag Means Death / int_fe91380c	comment	Nobility Marries Money: Stede's arranged marriage is based on his father's statement that " peasants marry for love. Mary has acreage."
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Our Flag Means Death / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Ed murdered his abusive father, and Jim's father was murdered by a bandit for seemingly no reason.
Our Flag Means Death / int_fed93e1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Our Flag Means Death / int_fed93e1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Our Flag Means Death / int_fed93e1b
Our Flag Means Death / int_ff7e9adf	type	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
Our Flag Means Death / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Stede Bonnet is blond, and genuinely tries to be a good and kind captain to his crew.
Our Flag Means Death / int_ff7e9adf	featureApplicability	1.0
Our Flag Means Death / int_ff7e9adf	featureConfidence	1.0
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Our Flag Means Death / int_ff7e9adf
Our Flag Means Death / int_name	type	ItemName
Our Flag Means Death / int_name	comment
Our Flag Means Death / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Our Flag Means Death / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Our Flag Means Death / int_name
Our Flag Means Death / int_name	itemName	Our Flag Means Death

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Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Adaptational Sexuality / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Allegiance Affirmation / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Arranged Marriage / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Barefoot Suicide / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Beach Kiss / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Belated Love Epiphany / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Butch Lesbian / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Cast Full of Gay / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Closest Thing We Got / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Clothing Switch / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Compliment Backfire / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Face Death with Despair / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Falling-in-Love Montage / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Fictional Holiday / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Fireworks of Love / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	419 Scam / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Friendly Pirate / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	He's Just Hiding / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Ship Naming / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Impaled Palm / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	In Love with the Mark / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Jolly Roger / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Late Coming Out / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Lodged Blade Removal / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Longing Look / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Love Confessor / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Period Piece, Modern Language / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Pirate Stories / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Psycho Supporter / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Queer Romance / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Real Men Get Shot / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Series of the 2020s / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	"Shut Up" Kiss / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Sleeper Hit / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Speaks Fluent Animal / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Species-Specific Afterlife / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Squeamish About Slaughter / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Sure, Let's Go with That / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Surrounded by Idiots / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Sweet Polly Oliver / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	The Mutiny / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Treasure Map / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Unbroken Vigil / int_4a759a77
Our Flag Means Death	hasFeature	Unusual Pets for Unusual People / int_4a759a77

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