History Literature / SinbadTheSailor

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** ''Film/{{The 7th Voyage of Sinbad}}''
** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad''
** ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''

[[quoteright:250:[[http://GENZOMAN.deviantart.com/art/Sinbad-86237022 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sinbad_by_GENZOMAN1_2396.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:''[[WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor Who's the most phenomenal, extraordinary fellow?]]'']]

* TheGreatSerpent: In an OutOfTheFryingPan moment, Sinbad and a couple of his cpmpanions managed to escape the giants' isle to another nearby island, only to realize it's the home of a gargantuan serpent. Sinbad managed to escape up a tree, but his remaining comrades quickly becomes snake dinner.

Or at least, that would be the modern interpretation of Sinbad. This Middle Eastern fable is a collection of stories told in a manner similar to the ''[[Literature/ArabianNights Thousand And One Nights]]''; Sinbad (or Hinbad) the Porter stops to rest outside the mansion of Sinbad the merchant, and laments that for chance he missed out on the amazing riches of the latter, which he won very easily. However, [[ExactEavesdropping who should hear him]] but [[NamesTheSame Sinbad the Sailor?]] Rather than be angry at his jealousy, he invites the porter to dine with him and regales him for seven consecutive nights with the tales of his fortunes and misfortunes, adventures and perils, giving him a hundred gold coins at the end of each.

* TogetherInDeath: The bad kind. The kingdom has a custom that when one member of a married couple dies, the spouse will be entombed with them.

The tales of Sinbad the Sailor were originally independent of the ''Thousand and One Nights''. Antoine Galland [[CanonImmigrant added Sinbad]] to the ''Nights'' when compiling his 18th-century French translation, which was the first translation into any European language, and which introduced the ''Nights'' to European culture. The "Sinbad" stories have since become closely associated with the ''Thousand and One Nights'' and are usually included in ''Nights'' translations. The original Arabic name is most closely transliterated as "Sindbad"; this is how it's spelled in the famous Richard Burton translation and the 2008 Lyons translation. Note that there are two radically different versions of Sinbad's seventh voyage (one where he spends a long period in a city of intermittently winged men, the other where he's enslaved and encounters an ElephantGraveyard); some translations include both.

* BarbarousBarbaryBandits: Sinbad may count as a rare heroic example: he could just as easily be 'Arabian Jack Sparrow' as he could be just some ordinary merchant, it really depends on what story you're reading exactly what the man is. Sometimes he's a swashbuckling hero, other times he's a NonActionGuy who prefers to avoid combat and trick his foes, and when he is forced into conflict he'll use [[CombatPragmatist every dirty trick in the book to come out on top]]. Regardless, he has most of the trappings and aesthetics of the trope: a Middle-Eastern man sailing the seas with a quirky crew, going on grand adventures, and making a lot of money.

%%* Barbarous Barbary Buccaneers: Sinbad may count as a rare heroic example: he could just as easily be 'Arabian Jack Sparrow' as he could be just some ordinary merchant, it really depends on what story you're reading exactly what the man is. Sometimes he's a swashbuckling hero, other times he's a NonActionGuy who prefers to avoid combat and trick his foes, and when he is forced into conflict he'll use [[CombatPragmatist every dirty trick in the book to come out on top]]. Regardless, he has most of the trappings and aesthetics of the trope: a Middle-Eastern man sailing the seas with a quirky crew, going on grand adventures, and making a lot of money.

* StrictlyFormula: Sinbad gets wanderlust, goes off on a trading expedition, gets shipwrecked or stranded, runs afoul of some sort of monster, meets up with a king who showers him with wealth and favors, and finally finds his way back to Baghdad.

* BarbarousBarbaryBuccaneers: Sinbad may count as a rare heroic example: he could just as easily be 'Arabian Jack Sparrow' as he could be just some ordinary merchant, it really depends on what story you're reading exactly what the man is. Sometimes he's a swashbuckling hero, other times he's a NonActionGuy who prefers to avoid combat and trick his foes, and when he is forced into conflict he'll use [[CombatPragmatist every dirty trick in the book to come out on top]]. Regardless, he has most of the trappings and aesthetics of the trope: a Middle-Eastern man sailing the seas with a quirky crew, going on grand adventures, and making a lot of money.

[[caption-width-right:250:''[[WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} Who's the most phenomenal, extraordinary fellow?]]'']]