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3	''The Adventures of Sinbad'' is a Canadian action/fantasy series. It is roughly a retelling of the adventures of Literature/SinbadTheSailor. It first aired in 1996, and was [[FollowTheLeader greenlit due to the popularity]] of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', even having writers from them such as Creator/CraigVolk. It lasted for two seasons and a total of 44 episodes.
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5	The story followed the adventures of Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve.
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7	Not to be confused with the 2012 [=Sky1=]/Syfy series, ''Series/{{Sinbad}}''.
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9	!!This series provides examples of:
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11	* AbortedArc: Whatever Maeve's issue with Rumina was, and the subsequent mystery of Dermott. It's implied that Dermott is actually Maeve's brother (possibly twin, given they shared an occasional PsychicLink), who was [[ForcedTransformation transformed into a hawk by Rumina]] for rejecting her.
12	** To some extent with Sinbad's rainbow bracelet. The titular guest star of "The Ronin" bore one, as did Bryn. It was eventually revealed that the bracelets were given (by whom, it wasn't said) to those with the potential to change the world. The idea was that the series finale would involve Sinbad having a vision of all those throughout the centuries who had, or would, be awarded the bracelet, including Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jnr.
13	* ActorAllusion: In "The Ties That Bind", Maeve is doing well against a bunch of Vikings... until [[TheDragon the second-in-command]] grabs her and she can't struggle fast enough to avoid a blow on the head, leading her to be the DistressedDamsel. It makes sense, considering said second-in-command is played by a professional wrestler, Wrestling/BretHart, who's no stranger to grabs like that.
14	* ADayInTheLimelight: At least everyone on the team got one.
15	* AnyoneCanDie: Attempted. Mustapha, who featured prominently in the first episode only to die in the second. However, since he wasn't in the opening credits, it was obvious from the beginning he was only a SacrificialLamb.
16	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Firouz. He's not fazed by sorcerers, magic, the devil, demons, or Olympian-style ''gods'', but ghosts? They don't exist even when they're standing right in front of him.
17	* {{Archenemy}}: Ali Rashid is this to Rongar, with his mere presence being enough to drive Rongar into a berserker rage. This is because [[spoiler:he stole Rongar's throne, cut out his tongue, and banished him.]]
18	* ArcVillain: Turok in the opening two-parter. He also made a dismembered guest appearance in the Season 1 Finale.
19	* AvengingTheVillain: Rumina's reason for going after Sinbad is that he killed her father Turok.
20	* BaldOfAuthority: Rongar was a prince in his home realm. He remains bald.
21	* BigBad: Rumina
22	* BondOneLiner: During the second season, Sinbad throws a mook into a pit of spikes, then quips "I think he got the point".
23	* BoundAndGagged: Maeve in one episode when she was captured by vikings (one of whom was Wrestling/BretHart. No seriously) as a sacrifice to free their ship from a bad special effect.
24	* CharacterAsHimself: Dermott (the hawk).
25	* DarkActionGirl: Rumina, despite being a VainSorceress, has more in common with this than DarkMagicalGirl.
26	* DarkerAndEdgier: The entire selling point of the second (and last) season.
27	* DealWithTheDevil: Literally: Rumina kills Sinbad and gives the Devil the sailor's soul, and he resurrects Turok for her. As a 'down payment' he reanimates Turok's head. He also throws in a trinket to power her up as well.
28	* DirtyCoward: Once disarmed of his FlamingSword and isolated with Sinbad and Rongar, Ali Rashid's bravado disappears and he spends the rest of the episode frantically trying to escape by any means necessary and only fighting back when cornered with no escape.
29	* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:The spirits of Drax's victims surround him after he's beaten and proceed to drag him off to the other side, where they and more of his victims are waiting.]]
30	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Maeve fell off the ship at the beginning of Season 2 and was pulled away in the tide. We later found out that AWizardDidIt to protect her from Rumina.
31	* EldritchAbomination: One episode introduces the Old Ones, a group of ancient gods older than time. They once ruled the world, but turned on and killed one another in a war for dominion over the planet. Even dead, the Old Ones' power completely negates all magic but their own.Within the small bit of the world they still control, they're capable of borderline {{Reality Warp\|er}}ing and making people see extremely realistic illusions. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}, as they're simply illusions by the Trickster.]]
32	* EvilSorcerer: Turok and Rumina
33	* FiveManBand
34	** TheHero: Sinbad, as the leader of the group
35	** TheLancer: Doubar, as Sinbad's older and somewhat wiser and more level-headed brother.
36	** TheSmartGuy: Firouz, alchemist and tinkerer who couldn't fight worth a damn
37	** TheBigGuy: Rongar - though he wasn't as physically strong as Doubar he was the most skillful fighter in the group
38	** TheHeart: Maeve, later Bryn. Both were sorceresses, and Maeve was also a harmonizing aspect in the group.
39	* FlatCharacter: Bryn, despite her gratuitous cleavage. Mostly because she didn't have much characterization beyond aforementioned cleavage.
40	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Doubar, when he meets Sinbad in prison,is so excited that he rips a hole in the wall he was bound to. He and Sinbad have an entire conversation without noticing all of the other prisoners trying to escape out the hole, then a bunch of guards swarming to stop them.
41	* GadgeteerGenius: Firouz. When Sinbad visits him in the premiere, Firouz is already working on a flying machine and giving thought to a doorbell.
42	* GetOnTheBoat: The boat was pretty much the plot device to get the group from episode to episode.
43	* GreaterScopeVillain: While he appears as a recurring villain, Scratch is explicitly [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] and called the source of all evil, making him this for the entire series.
44	* HeroicFantasy
45	* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Scratch admits he has to rely on Rumina because forces 'up above' won't allow him to use his full power directly.
46	* HotterAndSexier: The show tried to advertise Season 2 as this, mostly by lots of fanservice shots of Bryn in the commercials.
47	** Sinbad himself also got a change in look to make him sexier. In season 1, he was a clean-shaven, short-haired PrettyBoy. In season 2, he looks more like a [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad boy]]: his hair is shoulder-length, he has a five o'clock shadow and his sleeves are a lot shorter, exposing his biceps, along with changing from loose pants to leather ones.
48	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: "The Beast Within".
49	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Rongar. Sinbad initially opposes him joining the crew because [[StrawManHasAPoint knife throwing would be dangerous in close combat]], but Rongar impresses him with his extremely precise aim.
50	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Price Cassim in the opening two-parter. He's a royal pain at first, but he is willing to risk his life for his fiancée and becomes genuinely apologetic about past misdeeds.
51	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Sinbad and Maeve are arguing, and Caipra tells them to "Stop acting like an old married couple."
52	* LogicalWeakness: Kris Kattah's Sword of Hades turns him into an NighInvulnerable air elemental. [[spoiler:The heroes realize as he's now made of air, he can be blown away like it. They use a machine to create a strong enough wind to do so. It's implied [[AndIMustScream he's not actually dead, but dispersed to the wind for all eternity]].]]
53	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: A few extras are occasionally seen aboard the ship, but even then, it's always the FiveManBand going ashore and getting into adventures.
54	* ManHug: In the pilot, Doubar greets Sinbad by walking across the room (despite being chained to the wall) and giving him a massive hug.
55	* MrFanservice: Rongar. The actor who portrayed him, Oris Erhuro, is pretty much a real life example of it. Sinbad becomes this in season 2.
56	* MsFanservice: Bryn and Maeve.
57	* NonActionGuy: Firouz.
58	* NotQuiteDead: Sinbad himself was thought dead by everyone when his ship went down. He doesn't remember much of what happened, but he woke up on an island with a strange bracelet on his wrist. By the time he was rescued, two years had passed.
59	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Dim-Dim managed to imprison Scratch at some point. Note, Scratch is the literal [[{{Satan}} Devil]] and the setting's ultimate evil.
60	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Rongar isn't literally mute. He can't talk [[spoiler:because he doesn't have a tongue]], but he can scream. If he does, the business at hand is most certainly serious - he screamed when Mustapha was killed, and when he ran into some of the men who'd run him out of his kingdom.
61	* PaperTiger: Ali Rashid is an intimidating, threatening, and confident mastermind...so long as he has his deadly FlamingSword and guards. The moment he's denied both, he shows his true colors as a DirtyCoward.
62	* ProchronicProduct: Features a scientist named Firouz, who over the course of the show created such things as a bicycle, an umbrella, explosives and laser weaponry.
63	* PutOnABus: Maeve, Rumina and Turok were nixed in Season 2, but could have been brought back easily, had the show not been cancelled. [[WordOfGod The showrunner]] said in a season 2 interview that he had a scenario planned out to bring Maeve back if the actress wanted to return.[[invoked]]
64	* RaceLift: Sinbad and his brother Doubar, and really most people residing in Baghdad, are very, very Caucasian people in this show when obviously they should be Middle Eastern. About the only character who's Caucasian and explicitly should be is Maeve, since she's a Celt.
65	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Of course, Maeve couldn't return at all because Jacqueline Collen, the actress behind Maeve, had to deal with being a full-time mommy.
66	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Caliph in the first episode has nothing but respect for Sinbad and is quite displeased to learn what his obnoxious son has been up to.
67	* RedShirt: It's pretty usual to see a poor unnamed crewman falling off the ship during a storm scene. The only notable rescue attempt was for Maeve.
68	* SacrificialLamb: Mustapha, see above.
69	* {{Satan}}: Old Scratch, who is outright stated to be the Devil.
70	* SealedEvilInACan: Dim-Dim managed to imprison [[{{Satan}} Scratch]] and remove a chunk of his power.
71	* SemiDivine: The Trickster, who's described as half-god/half-mortal and possesses RealityWarper and MasterOfIllusion abilities.
72	* ScaryBlackMan: Rongar is tall, strong and an expert knife thrower.
73	* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: Maeve and Dermott
74	* SexySilhouette: Rumina pulled this once, deliberately, in an attempt to seduce Sinbad.
75	* TheSpeechless: Rongar couldn't talk because [[spoiler:his tongue was cut out by Ali Rashid]], but on very rare occasions he would scream. Usually he communicated through [[TheSilentBob facial expressions and pantomime]].
76	* SmurfettePrinciple: Maeve is the only girl in the group first season. Bryn is the only girl in the group in the second season.
77	* StarterVillain: Eblus, a Djinn prince who manipulates kingdoms into outlawing magic and descending into decadence so he can rule. He also assisted Turok, who doesn't qualify due to returning in the season 1 finale, in his scheme to kidnap a princess and take over a kingdom. He's killed with a spear to the face soon after the reveal of his true nature.
78	* StoutStrength: Doubar.
79	* {{Stripperiffic}}:
80	** Maeve wore a pseudo-traditional dress with a not entirely unreasonable amount of cleavage.
81	** Rumina loves to show off, it's basically the resident MsFanservice.
82	** Bryn wears something that resembles a yellow swimsuit.
83	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bryn who replaced Maeve.
84	* TheTrickster: The eponymous Trickster disguised as an old man named Raynard to trick Sinbad's crew and Rumina while they were powerlessly stranded in an island. Maeve and Rumina imply he's all the tricksters from various mythologies and [[SemiDivine a demi-god]].
85	* TheStrengthOfTenMen: Doubar.
86	* TokenMinority: Rongar
87	* TheVamp: Rumina
88	* VillainousBreakdown: Ali Rashid is intimidating, smug, and in control so long as he has his FlamingSword...but the second he's disarmed and locked in the room with Sinbad, he becomes a DirtyCoward and spends the rest of the episode running for his life.
89	* VillainTeamUp: In the first season finale, Scratch returns and makes a DealWithTheDevil with Rumina to recruit her aid against Sinbad.
90	* UnscrupulousHero: Sinbad was very deliberately changed (arguably derailed) into one of these for the second season to fit in with the darker and edgier aesthetic the producers were aiming at.
91	* WalkingTheEarth: Sailing, of course. Sinbad is always eager to have an adventure or to explore.
92	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: The series begins with Sinbad returning home after being lost at sea for two years. His home and possessions have been confiscated, while a series of new rules and laws have made life frustrating for many.
93	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Rumina decides to pull this on the entire City of Mist once it's no longer useful to her.
94	* YouKilledMyFather: Rumina's definitely mad at Sinbad for killing her father Turok.

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