History VideoGame / Pirate101

However, the Marleybone Royal Navy is beginning to regroup and the Valencian navy's army of clockwork soldiers, the Armada, is growing. The Armada's leader, Commander Kane, has made it his sworn duty to bring all piracy to an end and unite the entire Spiral under his flag. In the meantime, rumors of pieces of a treasure map leading to an island made of gold have brought many young greenhorns out of the woodwork while also luring older pirates back from their [[RetiredBadAss retirement]], [[HesJustHiding seclusion]], [[BackFromTheDead and even their graves]].

* VoodooShark: While the trope itself is adverted, Carcarius Grimtooth is this.

* {{Mon}}: A heavily downplayed example compared to most {{Mon} games. While not exactly momsters, the variety of companions in the game certainly is enough to qualify.

* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: The Monquistans.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Monkey's Paw will twist the wish of any [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys Monquistan]] who is not [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Pure of Heart]].

** SideQuest companion Ridolfo Capoferro [[CaptainErsatz very closely resembles]] ''Wizard 101'''s Diego the Duelmaster, minus the BadassBeard.

* RealityEnsues: Despite what Catbeard seems to think, wars do not end quickly nor quietly. [[spoiler:When you arrive at Marleybone, it's obvious that they are not doing well against Valencia, an enemy who mass produces soldiers by the minute]].

* DummiedOut: El Tiburon, the Storm Shark companion, was suppose to became available in the crown shop after being defeated, but once the game went live, the badge that served as the flag that added him to the crown shop was removed.
** This has become a subverted trope for those who defeated him after the third main update. For them he is now available as planned in the beta. For those that had completed the mission, he is still inaccessible, but plans to make him accessible to all in in motion. (Yes, this means currently we have an actual case of a partially subverted trope.)

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A cross game example. Many of the puppet shows feature {{Cthulhumanoid}} for some reason, but as we learn in ''VideoGame/Wizard101'', that being is revealed to be [[spoiler:The Old One, one of the PowersThatBe behind the Spiral]].

** During Book 8, your plan for getting into Port Regal skyway involves capturing the Brass Monkey, Brastillo de Brass. He escapes from prison at the end of the book, then is never mentioned again...[[spoiler:until he comes back and attempts to take his revenge midway through Book 12. ''Attempts.'']]

* DiscOneNuke: The result when low-level swashbucklers use the ability [[SmokeOut Walk In Shadows]], then use a typical sneak attack. The ability is significantly less useful at higher levels as players and enemies learn abilities that allow them to counter this. If a player is not careful, it can backfire, resulting in [[OneHitKill the swashbuckler being knocked out]] instead of the other way around.

* YouGetWhatYouPayFor: After the player goes to a lot of trouble to do a favor for King Ferdinand of Monquista, the king repays them by trying to have them killed. The player replies in kind by freeing a number of political prisoners and whipping up a revolution [[spoiler:which eventually gets Ferdinand kicked off the throne]]. The pirate's new allies are more than happy to reward them for their aid, and as a result, receive a lot more help from the player farther down the line.

* BloodKnight: Hawkules ''loves'' to fight - so much so that he really doesn't care about how dangerous monsters are as long as he's involved in smashing.

-->'''Bonnie Anne:''' Pipe down, you lummox! Do you want to call the other two and their daddy down on us all at once?
-->'''Hawkules:''' Bring them on! I'd prefer an honest fiight to all this sneaking and creeping.

* MightyGlacier: The Buccaneer class

However, the Marleybone Royal Navy is beginning to regroup and the Valencian navy's army of clockwork solders, the Armada, is growing. The Armada's leader, Commander Kane, has made it his sworn duty to bring all piracy to an end and unite the entire Spiral under his flag. In the meantime, rumors of pieces of a treasure map leading to an island made of gold have brought many young greenhorns out of the woodwork while also luring older pirates back from their [[RetiredBadAss retirement]], [[HesJustHiding seclusion]], [[BackFromTheDead and even their graves]].

* {{Adorkable}}: [[TheEngineer Gracie]] [[ActionGirl Conrad]] has shades of this and is sort of YMMV.
** However, anyone who has Milo Graytail on their crew knows that he has this in SPADES.

* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Marcus Fox is a "credit to his class" who has earned a high position as Head Programmer in the engineering corps, [[FantasticRacism despite being a lowly Fox]]. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTropes Subverted]] when it turns out he's a radical who worked his way up to Head Programmer to sabotage the war effort]].

** A side quest in Marleybone has you investigating the ''Zephyr'', a train in Cool Ranch that spectacularly exploded on its first ride, practically crashing the Locomotive industry. The quest reveals [[spoiler:that the head architect of the project was ordered to construct the train using Albion steel, but instead decided to cut corners by using Valencian steel, which as it turns out, has a massive weakness]].

* RefugeInAudacity: Travelling to [[spoiler:Valencia]] by going through the main stormgate while you're the Armada's Most Wanted definitely qualifies. The best part is that when you meet [[spoiler:Kane]], he actually does recognize you, but he can't do anything about it--not only are the King and Queen taken in by your deception, you have [[spoiler:diplomatic immunity]], meaning his only option is to wait and hope you slip up somehow. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop him from attacking you on sight when you enter King Casmir's court, however. Listening to the King and Queen chew him out is truly a satisfying experience.]]

However, the Marleybone Royal Navy is beginning to regroup and the Valencian navy's army of clockwork solders called the Armada, is growing. The Armada's leader, Commander Kane, has made it his sworn duty to bring all piracy to an end and unite the entire Spiral under his flag. In the meantime, rumors of pieces of a treasure map leading to an island made of gold have brought many young greenhorns out of the woodwork while also luring older pirates back from their [[RetiredBadAss retirement]], [[HesJustHiding seclusion]], [[BackFromTheDead and even their graves]].

* AbortedArc / WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original draft of the story had the player spending a few books [[spoiler:helping Gaspacio build another clockwork, named Able, to match the power of Kane, and the final battle with Kane happening in El Dorado]]. However, after Book 15 spent 3 years in DevelopmentHell, they just wrapped up Kane's story arc there.

* FailedASpotCheck: Your crew calls out Captain Avery for having his men fail to find Catbeard's hideout (i.e. The cave carved out to look like a giant monster).

* ForTheEvulz: A lot of the Inoshishi do despicable acts because they can. One good example involves an Inoshishi necromancer who hired an entertainer to entertain his men. After that, the necromancer payed her with cursed money which lead to her death, and now she can't properly pass over until she spends the cursed money. She didn't even do anything wrong, the necromancer just did that cause he felt like it.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: While on your way to get Captain Blood's treasure in the Motherlode Mine, you come across some large rocks that block your way. El Toro suggests putting some dynamite in a mine cart and pushing it down the tracks into the rocks. Bonnie Anne asks why they don't just simply use the dynamite itself against the rocks directly. El Toro admits that they could, [[RuleOfCool but it would have far less dramatic flair]].

* TheChosenOne: In Mooshu, the Order of the White Lotus have prophesied that a stranger would one day pilot [[GiantMecha Stupendor-X]] and defeat TheDreaded Stormzilla. Three guesses to who the stranger is, and the first two don't count.