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* '''Exaggerated''': An entire armada has an AchillesHeel. Suddenly, the whole fleet leaks and a hundred ships must evacuate at the same time.

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* '''Exaggerated''': An entire armada has an AchillesHeel. Suddenly, the whole fleet leaks leaks, and a hundred ships must evacuate at the same time.



* '''Subverted''': Someone yells, "Abandon ship!", but the ''Sailin' Squid'' dodges the rock and survives intact, and the crew stay aboard.

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* '''Subverted''': Someone yells, "Abandon ship!", but the ''Sailin' Squid'' dodges the rock and survives intact, and the crew stay stays aboard.



** The ''Sailin' Squid'' is a toy-sized ship with a crew of anthropomorphic ants, and it sinks in an inch-deep puddle of rain water. The scene plays out with the usual pomp and drama, while humans walk right by without noticing.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with a rock, but not hard enough to damage it. The Captain doesn't yell anything, but everybody starts abandoning the ship by climbing into the lifeboats and drifting away. Later, after everybody returns, the ship collides hard with another rock, causing it to sink. The Captain yells "Abandon ship!", but everybody ignores him.

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** The ''Sailin' Squid'' is a toy-sized ship with a crew of anthropomorphic ants, and it sinks in an inch-deep puddle of rain water.rainwater. The scene plays out with the usual pomp and drama, while humans walk right by without noticing.
* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with a rock, but not hard enough to damage it. The Captain doesn't yell anything, but everybody starts abandoning the ship by climbing into the lifeboats and drifting away. Later, after everybody returns, the ship collides hard with another rock, causing it to sink. The Captain yells "Abandon ship!", but everybody ignores him.



* '''Exploited''': As the ship goes down, the prisoner steals a lifeboat and escapes to freedom.

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* '''Exploited''': As the ship goes down, a criminal in the prisoner cruise ship steals a lifeboat and escapes to freedom.



** The ship begins to sink, but the crew save the ship by [[DamageControl dumping out some water, patching a few holes, and sealing off a flooded room]].
* '''Discussed''': When the ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with something, the crew talk about whether to abandon the ship, or reassure the passengers.

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** The ship begins to sink, but the crew save saves the ship by [[DamageControl dumping out some water, patching a few holes, and sealing off a flooded room]].
* '''Discussed''': When the ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with something, the crew talk talks about whether to abandon the ship, ship or reassure the passengers.



* '''Reconstructed''': Some crew members survive. If they had not abandon the ship, everybody would die.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Some crew members survive. If they had not abandon abandoned the ship, everybody would die.



* '''Played For Drama''': The cruise ship ''Emerald'' takes hours to sink. Some of the passengers get trapped below deck and die. There are not enough lifeboats. A surviving sailor remarks that she is out of a job. The captain is GoingDownWithTheShip. The death toll reaches 500. The disaster becomes a major news story. The government investigates. An angry survivor murders an officer of the cruise company. Said company goes bankrupt.

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* '''Played For Drama''': The cruise ship ''Emerald'' ''Sailin' Squid'' takes hours to sink. Some of the passengers get trapped below deck and die. There are not enough lifeboats. A surviving sailor remarks that she is out of a job. The captain is GoingDownWithTheShip. The death toll reaches 500. The disaster becomes a major news story. The government investigates. An angry survivor murders an officer of the cruise company. Said company goes bankrupt.
* '''Played For Horror''': A sea monster caused the ''Sailin' Squid'' to sink. It breaks into the cruise ship and eats most of the passengers and crew. Some people get in the lifeboats but are crushed by the sea monster. All the surviving crew members and passengers slowly drown in the cold water. They are then eaten by the sea monster.

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* '''Parodied''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' bumps into a tiny ice cube. The crew panic and abandon ship, leaving behind a drifting but perfectly intact vessel.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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The ''Sailin' Squid'' bumps into a tiny ice cube. The crew panic and abandon ship, leaving behind a drifting but perfectly intact vessel.vessel.
** The ''Sailin' Squid'' is a toy-sized ship with a crew of anthropomorphic ants, and it sinks in an inch-deep puddle of rain water. The scene plays out with the usual pomp and drama, while humans walk right by without noticing.

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** The ship begins to sink, but the crew save the ship by dumping out some water, patching a few holes, and sealing off a flooded room.

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** The ship begins to sink, but the crew save the ship by [[DamageControl dumping out some water, patching a few holes, and sealing off a flooded room.room]].



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* '''Deconstructed''': The crew abandons the sinking ''Sailin' Squid'' and then everybody slowly dies in lifeboats.
* '''Reconstructed''': Some crew members survive. If they had not abandon the ship, everybody would die.

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* '''Downplayed''': The bottom of the sea turns out to be just three feet below the ''Sailin' Squid'''s keel, so the ship is salvageable but the crew and passengers need to find some other ship to get where they're going.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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The bottom of the sea turns out to be just three feet below the ''Sailin' Squid'''s keel, so the ship is salvageable but the crew and passengers need to find some other ship to get where they're going.going.
** The Starship ''Washington'' is capable of separating into two or more sections, so if part of the ship is critically damaged, the crew can gather in a functional section and jettison the rest.
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* '''Enforced''': The story is about an event where a ship really sank, like ''Film/{{Titanic}}''.

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* '''Enforced''': The story is about an event where a ship really sank, like ''Film/{{Titanic}}''.''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}''.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with a rock, but not hard enough to damage it. The Captain doesn't yell anything, but everybody starts abandoning the ship by climbing into the lifeboats and drifting away. Later, after everybody returns, the ship collides hard with a rock, causing it to sink. The Captain yells "Abandon ship!", but everybody ignores him.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with a rock, but not hard enough to damage it. The Captain doesn't yell anything, but everybody starts abandoning the ship by climbing into the lifeboats and drifting away. Later, after everybody returns, the ship collides hard with a another rock, causing it to sink. The Captain yells "Abandon ship!", but everybody ignores him.
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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The story is about an event where a ship really sank, like ''Film/{{Titanic}}''.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???The ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with a rock, but not hard enough to damage it. The Captain doesn't yell anything, but everybody starts abandoning the ship by climbing into the lifeboats and drifting away. Later, after everybody returns, the ship collides hard with a rock, causing it to sink. The Captain yells "Abandon ship!", but everybody ignores him.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???The bottom of the sea turns out to be just three feet below the ''Sailin' Squid'''s keel, so the ship is salvageable but the crew and passengers need to find some other ship to get where they're going.
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': The RagtagBunchOfMisfits lose a ship OncePerEpisode, but no one is ever hurt. The captain complains, "It costs money to abandon ship every week!"
* '''PlayedForDrama''': The cruise ship ''Emerald'' takes hours to sink. Some of the passengers get trapped below deck and die. There are not enough lifeboats. A surviving sailor remarks that she is out of a job. The captain is GoingDownWithTheShip. The death toll reaches 500. The disaster becomes a major news story. The government investigates. An angry survivor murders an officer of the cruise company. Said company goes bankrupt.

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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': '''Played For Laughs''': The RagtagBunchOfMisfits lose a ship OncePerEpisode, but no one is ever hurt. The captain complains, "It costs money to abandon ship every week!"
* '''PlayedForDrama''': '''Played For Drama''': The cruise ship ''Emerald'' takes hours to sink. Some of the passengers get trapped below deck and die. There are not enough lifeboats. A surviving sailor remarks that she is out of a job. The captain is GoingDownWithTheShip. The death toll reaches 500. The disaster becomes a major news story. The government investigates. An angry survivor murders an officer of the cruise company. Said company goes bankrupt.
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'''Basic Trope''': The ship is sinking, and the crew and passengers better get off now.
* '''Straight''':
** The ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with a rock. As water breaches the hull, the captain yells, "Abandon ship!" Everyone climbs into lifeboats. As they drift away from the wreck, they watch the ''Sailin' Squid'' slowly sink beneath the waves.
** After the plane takes enemy fire, the pilot loses control. Pilot and crew jump out of the flaming wreck and open their parachutes. While they safely descend to earth, the plane crashes and [[StuffBlowingUp explodes]] in a field.
** The starship ''Washington'' breaks apart after meeting a NegativeSpaceWedgie. All crew must evacuate to life pods and wait until help arrives.
* '''Exaggerated''': An entire armada has an AchillesHeel. Suddenly, the whole fleet leaks and a hundred ships must evacuate at the same time.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
** The ''Sailin' Squid'' hit the rock at night, and the crew never saw it coming.
** The ''Sailin' Squid'' is at war and can't survive this many direct hits from cannonballs.
* '''Inverted''': Men on lifeboats witness a mysterious ship rising from beneath the waves, and climb onto the new vessel.
* '''Subverted''': Someone yells, "Abandon ship!", but the ''Sailin' Squid'' dodges the rock and survives intact, and the crew stay aboard.
* '''Double Subverted''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' dodges the rock but hits an underwater reef. The crew, having saved ship, must now abandon ship.
* '''Parodied''': The ''Sailin' Squid'' bumps into a tiny ice cube. The crew panic and abandon ship, leaving behind a drifting but perfectly intact vessel.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': The ship never sinks, but safely reaches its destination.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why can't anyone sail around an [[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic iceberg]] and not slam into one?"
* '''Invoked''': The captain detonates some explosives and blows a hole in her own ship. She evacuates her crew, but the precious cargo goes down, so there is NoMacGuffinNoWinner.
* '''Exploited''': As the ship goes down, the prisoner steals a lifeboat and escapes to freedom.
* '''Defied''':
** Everyone aboard is GoingDownWithTheShip.
** The ship begins to sink, but the crew save the ship by dumping out some water, patching a few holes, and sealing off a flooded room.
* '''Discussed''': When the ''Sailin' Squid'' collides with something, the crew talk about whether to abandon the ship, or reassure the passengers.
* '''Conversed''': A sailor on the ''Cruisin' Crab'' tells a story about how the ''Sailin' Squid'' went down and everyone there abandoned ship.
* '''Implied''': The audience watches as the Trope University students leave on ''Sailin' Squid''. They come back on a Coast Guard vessel, implying that they abandoned the ''Sailin' Squid'', but leaving the disaster as a NoodleIncident.
* '''PlayedForLaughs''': The RagtagBunchOfMisfits lose a ship OncePerEpisode, but no one is ever hurt. The captain complains, "It costs money to abandon ship every week!"
* '''PlayedForDrama''': The cruise ship ''Emerald'' takes hours to sink. Some of the passengers get trapped below deck and die. There are not enough lifeboats. A surviving sailor remarks that she is out of a job. The captain is GoingDownWithTheShip. The death toll reaches 500. The disaster becomes a major news story. The government investigates. An angry survivor murders an officer of the cruise company. Said company goes bankrupt.

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