History Franchise / CaptainSabertooth

* BroadStrokes: The franchise's general attitude towards continuity. The TV series is nominally a prelude to the stage plays, but there are several continuity errors between them, and who knows where the 2014 movie fits in. The stage plays can usually be placed into a continuity, except for ''The Hunt for the Magic Diamond,'' which only kindasorta fits in after three revisions that were so thorough that it's almost three separate plays, and even then you have to squint to make it fit (mostly due to the fact that Tiny all of a sudden has a little brother who's not so much as mentiones in the other plays).

* DamselInDistress: Veronica, on a few occasions -- though not nearly as often as you might think. While hardly an ActionGirl, she is more likely to play a big part in saving the day, than she is to be in need of saving.

'''''Captain Sabertooth''''' ("Kaptein Sabeltann" in the original Norwegian) is Norway's most famous and beloved pirate. He was first introduced to the Norwegian public in 1990, as the villain of an outdoors musical play at Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park, called ''Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure in Luna Bay''. This play spawned several sequels and spin-off products, and since then Captain Sabertooth been the front and center of one of Norway's most successful multimedia franchises, having starred in movies, TV series, animated films, theater plays, books, comic books, video games and even theme park attractions.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Wally and Wimp are identical twins, and a RunningGag is that Captain Sabertooth can't tell them apart. Their personalities are similar but not identical; they're both stupid cowards, but as a rule of thumb Wally's more stupid and Wimp is more cowardly (though they do pass the IdiotBall between themselves fairly often). Wally also feels it's his right as the older twin to boss his brother around, and Wimp, as the younger twin, is the diggest MommasBoy.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Wally and Wimp are identical twins, and a RunningGag is that Captain Sabertooth can't tell them apart. Their personalities are similar but not identical; they're both stupid cowards, but as a rule of thumb Wally's more stupid and Wimp is more cowardly (though they do pass the IdiotBall between themselves fairly often). Wally also feels it's his right as the older twin to boss his brother around.

* LazyBum: Benjamin, who's always lazing around, sleeping (or doing Sudoku) when he's supposed to be working. If he ''can'' shift his duties onto someone else, he ''will'' try -- with little or no thought about whether they are actually capable of doing the job or not.

Other important characters are [[HypercompetentSidekick competent]] and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure polite]] first mate Longfinger, the [[FatIdiot fat and bumbling]] twins Wally and Wimp, the DeadpanSnarker and slacker Benjamin, and the [[LethalChef incompetent ship's cook]] Tully -- and of course Tiny's {{Love Interest|s}} Veronica of Luna Bay, her Aunt Bessie and the retired sailor Red Rudy. More recent stories have introduced Tiny's friend Raveena, nicknamed "Raven."

Other important characters are first mate Longfinger, a competent and polite ReasonableAuthorityFigure, the [[FatIdiot fat and bumbling]] twins Wally and Wimp, the DeadpanSnarker and slacker Benjamin, and the [[LethalChef incompetent ship's cook]] Tully -- and of course Tiny's {{Love Interest|s}} Veronica of Luna Bay, her Aunt Bessie and the retired sailor Red Rudy. More recent stories have introduced Tiny's friend Raveena, nicknamed "Raven."

Most often the real main character of the Captain Sabertooth stories isn't the Captain himself, but his youngest crew member, cabin boy Tiny ("Pinky" in Norwegian), an orphan brought up by the pirates, and who more than anything wants to prove himself as tough and ruthless as them -- though as early as the first play, ''The Treasure in Luna Bay,'' he ends up a DefectorFromDecadence and siding with the victims instead of the pirates.

-->Pinky: Tiny.

The self-declared "King of the Sea," Captain Sabertooth is the fearless and feared captain of the pirate ship ''The Dark Lady'', and is considered one of the most dangerous pirates on the sea; an impressive feat considering that his bark is considerably worse than his bite, and most of his crew are [[SurroundedByIdiots less than fearsome.]] He switches between being the villain of the story (usually in the earlier stories), a VillainProtagonist, or even an AntiHero (in the later stories).

Other important characters are first mate Longfinger, a competent and polite ReasonableAuthorityFigure, the [[FatIdiot fat and bumbling]] twins Wally and Wimp, the DeadpanSnarker and slacker Benjamin, and the [[LethalChef incompetent ship's cook]] Tully -- and of course Tiny's LoveInterest Veronica of Luna Bay, her Aunt Bessie and the retired sailor Red Rudy. More recent stories have introduced Tiny's friend Raveena, nicknamed "Raven."

The franchise is best known for its [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome well-written]] and [[EarWorm extremely catchy]] songs, as well as its character-based comedy and kid-friendly horror.

** Tiny's younger brother Marco was probably the franchise's original CheerfulChild, back in the early days when Tiny was portrayed as older and more wily. [[CompositeCharacter Post-animated movie, Tiny took on Marco's age and personality,]] which is probably why Marco only appears in one stage play (and the TV movie based on said play).
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tully the cook, especially when it comes to cooking.
* ThatPoorCat: At one point in the TV series, Longfinger is sitting at a table at the inn with Rosa, and rather nervously takes off his [[NiceHat hat]] and throws it off-screen. Apparently it knocks over a stack of dishes, because the next we hear is the sound of dishes breaking and a cat yowling.

* CousinOliver: An interesting case here is Tiny's younger brother Marco. He was introduced pretty much out of nowhere in the third stage play, ''The Hunt for the Magic Diamond,'' and in the play's original version he's very notably younger than Tiny (who at the time was still portrayed as being in his teens) and portrayed as a wide-eyed CheerfulChild who idolizes Captain Sabertooth. However, Marco only appears in that one stage play (as well as in the TV movie ''The Dream of Captain Sabertoooth's Kingdom,'' which is partially based on said play) and subsequent stories don't so much as mention him... but his personality and even age was transferred over to Tiny. The result being that when the play was [[ReTool ReTooled]] later on to fit better with the later characterizations and iron out the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness bits, it was a lot like having two Tinys in the same story.

* DistressedDamsel: Veronica, on a few occasions -- though not nearly as often as you might think. While hardly an ActionGirl, she is more likely to play a big part in saving the day, than she is to be in need of saving.

* {{Expy}}: Happy Jack, the replacement cook and ultimate antagonist from ''Captain Sabertooth and Gory Gabriel's Treasure'' is a slightly toned-down, less complex [[TreasureIsland Long John Silver]]. To really drive home the point, his Norwegian voice-actor in the animated movie is the same guy who played the cyborg Long John Silver in the Norwegian dub of ''Disney/TreasurePlanet.''

** And Malena Pirate is also a great cook (when she isn't [[FryingPan Of Doom using her frying pan to hit people with]]). She even briefly became the official ship's cook on the Dark Lady, but her forceful personality clashed too much with Captain Sabertooth's and she ended up getting sacked.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The TV series ''Captain Sabertooth, King of the Sea'' takes place before Tiny becomes a pirate, and as such Veronica doesn't appear. In her stead is the [[UsefulNotes/{{India}} Indian]] girl Raven (her real name is Ravina), the daughter of innkeepers Gusto and Bella. She fulfills a similar role as Tiny's best (and more sensible) friend -- though notably without the romantic overtones.

* TheOtherDarrin: Given that the main stories are told as theatrical plays, all the major characters have had their actor swapped out at least once. Captain Sabertooth himself is currently on his third actor.

* AlledgedLookalikes: Wally and Wimp, in some productions. They're treated as completely identical, but their actors more often than not don't look completely the same (and their actors are usually not even related). It's particularly noticable in the [[Series/CaptainSabertooth TV series]].

* BroadStrokes: The franchise's general attitude towards continuity. The TV series is nominally a prelude to the stage plays, but there are several continuity errors between them, and who knows where the 2014 movie fits in. The stage plays can usually be placed into a continuity, except for ''The Hunt for the Magic Diamond,'' which doesn't seem to fit in easily (mostly due to the fact that Tiny all of a sudden has a little brother who's not so much as mentiones in the other plays).

* TheLoad: Tully. While pirates like Wally, Wimp and Benjamin aren't very successful, at least they pull their weight and make occasional positive contributions -- Tully, by contrast, is completely useless; his main function is to torture the others with his awful cooking, and the very few times he contributes positively to the plot it's purely by accident.
** His Load status is especially blatant in the play ''Gory Gabriel's Treasure,'' where he gets fired from his job in favor of Happy Jack, sneaks along on the journey anyway to try and wow the pirates with his culinary arts, and ends up starting a fire on the Dark Lady with his cooking experiments.
** Also noticeable in ''The Enchanted Island,'' where Tully is the only one of the pirates ''not'' to get mind-controlled by the antagonist, and still fails to do anything remotely useful.
** Subverted, however, in the play ''The Secret of the Sea,'' where he does a fairly good job as an "undercover agent" -- and in the same play, one of the song numbers (performed by Benjamin, Wally and Wimp) describes how his awful cooking was instrumental in raiding the Emperor's palace; after being tricked into eating Tully's trademark rat soup, the Emperor and his people were too sick to put up any resistance.

* CassanovaWannabe: Benjamin has a definite eye for the ladies but not much luck with them.

* CannotSpitItOut: Longfinger and Rosa in the TV series. Tiny and Raven try to act as matchmakers, with mixed results.

Notable works in the franchises include:

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Happens occasionally in the stage plays, most usually during song numbers, like when characters approach the stage through the audience; they'll occasionally stop to greet an audience member or other. There are a couple of more blatant examples, though:
** In the very first play, ''Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Luna Bay,'' Red Rudy [[AudienceParticipation asks the audience for help in finding the buried treasure, even calling up one of them to help him get the treasure out of the ground.]]
** In the re-imagining, ''Captain Sabertooth and Gory Gabriel's Treasure,'' Tully after losing his job as the ship's cook, turns to the audience to inform them that he's planning on joining in on the journey anyway, even shushing them conspiratorially before sneaking off.

The first theatrical movie starring the Captain was the animated movie ''Captain Sabertooth'' from 2003, which was released in English in 2006. {{Disney}} is currently producing three live-action theatrical movies, the first of which is called ''Captain Sabertooth and the Lama-Rama Treasure'' and is scheduled for release in 2014.

* ''[[Television/CaptainSabertooth Captain Sabertooth --The King Of The Seven Seas]]'', the 26-episode TV series from 2011.

* AnachronismStew:
** The stories allegedly take place towards the end of the 17th century, but a lot of modern-day references and concepts are included.
** A lot of Benjamin's comments and wisecracks include distinctly modern-day concepts which none of the other characters seem to get, and which tend to anger Captain Sabertooth.
-->'''Captain Sabertooth:''' This brain-dead fool was asleep on guard duty again!\\
'''Benjamin:''' I wasn't asleep, I was doing Sudoku!\\
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'''Captain Sabertooth:''' We didn't come here to eat cake!\\
'''Benjamin:''' But the cake's been approved by the European Union!\\
(alt: "But it's gluten-free, Captain, you know you've had some problems with --")

* BaldOfEvil: You wouldn't know it most of the time, but Captain Sabertooth is actually bald. His long black hair is a wig.

* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted with Happy Jack, who ''appears'' to have fallen to his death after his duel with Caprtain Sabertooth, but later on proves to have survived and comes back for a second final confrontation.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first story, ''The Treasure in Luna Bay,'' the focus is more on the people of Luna Bay than on the pirates, and only Captain Sabertooth, Wally and Tiny appear. The second story introduces Longfinger and Wimp, though Longfinger is more of a FauxAffablyEvil SmugSnake than the genuinely AffablyEvil ReasonableAuthorityFigure he would eventually become, and his fatherly relationship with Tiny is nowhere to be seen. Even Tiny is a very different character in the early versions of the play; he's portrayed as being in his teens and is much more of an amoral JerkWithAHeartOfGold -- a stark contrast to the later Tiny who is a younger and more innocent ([[GoodIsDumb to the point of naiveté]]) CheerfulChild.

* FluffyTamer: Veronica has a pet shark named Ravenous.
* {{Flynning}}: Frequent in the stage plays.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Malena Pirate, Wally and Wimp's mother, is dangerous with her frying pan.
* GenderBlenderName: Minor antagonists Socrates and Darius from the TV series are both women, despite having masculine-sounding names.
* GhostPirate: The ghost of Gory Gabriel appears in two separate stories. [[spoiler: On both occations, the ghost is an imposter -- the first time it's Tiny masquerading as Gory Gabriel, the second time it's Tiny's father Morgan.]]
* GhostSong: In both his appearances, Gory Gabriel's ghost sings a song of warning to Captain Sabertooth.

* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Mayor of Luna Bay prefers not to believe the rumors of pirates arriving at Luna Bay, thank you very much. After all, they just voted on whether or not they'd believe that pirates were arriving, and since the majority voted "no," pirates clearly aren't arriving.

* IAmSong: Tiny, Tully and Longfinger each have one, Wally and Wimp share one (which is also a QuarrelingSong). Captain Sabertooth gets several; he seems to have at least one new IAmSong for every new production.

* IdiotBall: In the stage plays especially, any character might pick it up at any time, usually when [[RuleOfFunny it's funnier that way]]. Wally and Wimp pass the IdiotBall between themselves so many times during any given story that it's impossible to say which brother, if any of them, has the brain at the moment.
* IWantSong: Veronica gets one with "The Falling Stars," which is partly a wish for romance and partly a wish for change and excitement. In the animated movie, Tiny sings a verse of the same song before they even meet, underlining their future connection.

* MrViceGuy: Red Rudy is a genuinely NiceGuy, but he shares Captain Sabertooth's lust for gold and riches, and sometimes becomes unreasonable and greedy when he smells treasure.

* TheMusical: ''All'' the stage shows. The music and catchy songs are a ''huge'' part of why the franchise made it big in the first place.
* MusicalChores: The pirates have a work song, called ''The Work Shanty,'' about the hard work they do on board. Usually sung by Wally and Wimp -- and sometimes subverted because they're not actually working while singing. In the play ''The Hunt for the Magical Diamond'' they're actually singing it while on vacation, trying to convince their skeptical mother that life as a pirate isn't a luxury cruise.

* PlatonicLifePartners: The main difference between the relationships between Tiny and Raven (from the TV series and the movie) and the one between Tiny and Veronica (from the stage plays and animated movie) is that Tiny and Raven are very much this trope, without any of the pseudo-romance you see between Tiny and Veronica.
* QuarrelingSong: Wally and Wimp's shared IAmSong is also this -- with one twin hurling out insults when the other tries to sing about himself, with both of them spending the chorus singing about how they're always fighting.

* VillainSong: By far the most plentiful of the songs. Captain Sabertooth may hold some kind of record for most {{Villain Song}}s in a franchise; he's always singing about his thirst for gold, about how he expects obefience from his men, about how dangerous and formidable he is. Other villains who show up in the franchise (usually more vile than Sabertooth and presented as working against him), such as Happy Jack, the Count of Graal, Lord Maga-Kahn or Queen Sikrit, all get their own songs.
* VillainousBreakdown: Happens to most of the antagonists -- most of them, when they're no longer in charge, break down and show themselves as pathetic and cowardly. The exception is Happy Jack, who becomes ''murderous.''
-->'''Captain Sabertooth:''' No man in his right mind would ''dare'' challenge the magnificent Captain Sabertooth!\\
'''Happy Jack:''' Who said I was in my right mind?!

* WeSellEverything: Oliver's store in Port Abra, as depicted in the TV series. Tiny even claims it in the first episode that "Oliver has everything!"
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Ghosts?]]: The one thing Captain Sabertooth is stated to be afraid of is ghosts. Especially if it's the ghost of Gory Gabriel, the previous pirate king.

* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Played with and zig-zagged in the animated movie and its RecursiveAdaptation, the play ''Captain Sabertooth and Gory Gabriel's Treasure.'' Twice, the pirates think they have found the real treasure, only for it to turn out to be something else. [[spoiler: The first time, the treasure chest is an empty decoy. The second time it turns out that the treasure isn't gold but Aunt Bessie's secret recipes, which is the greatest treasure the people of Luna Bay know. And then, when the pirates have given up and sailed away, it's revealed that there ''is'' a hidden gold treasure, namely Gory Gabriel's rusty anchor. Which turned out to be solid gold disguised as rusty iron.]]
* YesMan: Wally to Captain Sabertooth. Especially notable in the first play, ''The Treasure in Luna Bay,'' where he tends to parrot Sabertooth's orders and statements.

* ''Television/CaptainSabertoothTheKingOfTheSevenSeas'', the 26-episode TV series from 2011.
* ''Film/CaptainSabertoothAndTheTreasureOfLamaRama'', the live-action theatrical movie from 2014.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/CaptainSabertooth]]'', the animated movie from 2003.
* ''[[Television/CaptainSabertoothTheKingOfTheSevenSeas]]'', the 26-episode TV series from 2011.
* [[Film/CaptainSabertoothAndThe TreasureOfLamaRama]]'', the live-action theatrical movie from 2014.

* BoardingParty: For practical reasons, usually not seen in the stage plays -- but the animated movie opens with the pirates boarding a wealthy ship.

!! Provides examples of the following tropes:

* TheArtifact: Tiny's IAmSong was written for the original version of the stage play, as his EstablishingCharacterMoment, before the character was really fully-formed. As a result the lyrics don't really fit the current version of the character or his situation -- but it's Tiny's signature song and one of the more well-known songs, so it has been included in other productions despite not quite fitting anymore -- most notable being the part of the song where Tiny sings "plundering ships is all I know how to do" when it's established that he's a galley boy, his main job is to peel potatoes, throw out the garbage and read recipes for the less-than-literate Tully, and hasn't actually been allowed to participate in any plunderings.