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* HeroesWantRedHeads: Elizabeth has auburn hair.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Blackbeard was a voodoo magician. [[spoiler:Ponce de Leon ''found'' the Fountain of Youth, but never made it home to tell anybody.]]
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Blackbeard was a voodoo magician. [[spoiler:Ponce [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/JuanPonceDeLeon Ponce de Leon Leon]] ''found'' the Fountain of Youth, but never made it home to tell anybody.]]
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* OedipusComplex: Leo Friend. [[spoiler: While attempting to rape Beth Hurwood (albeit falingly so) Leo Friend, with newfound powers and an apparent lack of mastery over them, accidentally and briefly turns Beth into his mother which while saying "mommy, oh mommy" repeatedly and in an increasingly pathetic tone. This, in turn, causes Beth to vomit, which is exactly the reaction his mother had when he made sexual advances on her.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler: While attempting to rape Beth Hurwood (albeit falingly so), Leo Friend, with newfound powers and an apparent lack of mastery over them, accidentally and briefly turns Beth into his mother, at which point he starts saying "mommy, oh mommy" repeatedly and in an increasingly pathetic tone. This, in turn, causes Beth to vomit, which is exactly the reaction his mother had when he made sexual advances on her.]]
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* PowerFloats: Both of the competitors in the WizardDuel.
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* PublicDomainArtifact: The Fountain of Youth.
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%% * PublicDomainArtifact: The Fountain of Youth.
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* SirenSong: The mermaids' hunting strategy involves using their beautiful singing voices to lower the guard of unaware sailors and attack them en masse once they're surrounded.
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Leo Friend]] is heading in this direction.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Several of the main characters are nearly changed into swamp plants on their way back from the fountain of youth by the cursed jungle around them. They're saved at the last minute by [[spoiler: special mud from the fountain of youth, which retains some of its magical properties]]. This becomes a ChekhovsGun later in the story.
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* ForcedTransformation: Several of the main characters are nearly changed into swamp plants on their way back from the fountain of youth by the cursed jungle around them. They're saved at the last minute by [[spoiler: special mud from the fountain of youth, which retains some of its magical properties]]. This becomes a ChekhovsGun later in the story.
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* {{Necromantic}}: Hurwood's descent into villainy is a result of his plan to use voodoo magic to resurrect his dead wife, despite the terrible cost.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: Played for drama; after [[spoiler:Hurwood]] dies inconveniently, Shandy has to apply his puppetry skills to the coprse to stall his accomplice.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: Played for drama; after [[spoiler:Hurwood]] dies inconveniently, Shandy has to apply his puppetry skills to the coprse corpse to stall his accomplice.
* PirateBooty: Blackbeard buries treasure in remote places, intending to come back and dig it up after [[spoiler:he's died and been reincarnated, so he can start a new life with all the treasure and no criminal record]].
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* SuicideByCop: Attempted by [[spoiler:Phil Davies]] when he's captured by the navy; he deliberately provokes the captain into a murderous rage because he'd rather be killed on the spot than be tried and hanged.
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* SuicideByCop: SuicideByCop:
** Attempted by [[spoiler:Phil Davies]] when he's captured by the navy; he deliberately provokes the captain into a murderous rage because he'd rather be killed on the spot than be tried andhanged.hanged.
** Also attempted by [[spoiler:Stede Bonnet]] later in the novel under similar circumstances. His desire to be killed in battle rather than hanged leads him to escape from jail when captured, then provoke the pursuing soldiers into firing on his own party of fugitives.
** Attempted by [[spoiler:Phil Davies]] when he's captured by the navy; he deliberately provokes the captain into a murderous rage because he'd rather be killed on the spot than be tried and
** Also attempted by [[spoiler:Stede Bonnet]] later in the novel under similar circumstances. His desire to be killed in battle rather than hanged leads him to escape from jail when captured, then provoke the pursuing soldiers into firing on his own party of fugitives.
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* CatchPhrase:
** Mr. Bird's [[spoiler: "I am not a dog"]].
** UsefulNotes/AnneBonny has [[spoiler:"For luck, man."]]
** Mr. Bird's [[spoiler: "I am not a dog"]].
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** UsefulNotes/AnneBonny has [[spoiler:"For luck, man."]]
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* OedipusComplex: Leo Friend. [[spoiler: While attempting to rape Beth Hurwood (albeit falingly so) Leo Friend, with newfound powers and an apparent lack of mastery over them, accidentally and briefly turns Beth into his mother which while saying "mommy, oh mommy" repeatedly and in an increasingly pathetic tone. This, in turn, causes Beth to vomit.]]
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* OedipusComplex: Leo Friend. [[spoiler: While attempting to rape Beth Hurwood (albeit falingly so) Leo Friend, with newfound powers and an apparent lack of mastery over them, accidentally and briefly turns Beth into his mother which while saying "mommy, oh mommy" repeatedly and in an increasingly pathetic tone. This, in turn, causes Beth to vomit.vomit, which is exactly the reaction his mother had when he made sexual advances on her.]]
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* MentorOccupationalHazard: Captain Davies, who introduces Jack to the ways of piracy and magic, gets killed in the climactic battle of the book's second act, leaving Jack alone to come up with the willpower and plan to face the villains in the third act.
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* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: During Jack's final confrontation with [[spoiler:the resurrected Blackbeard, the ghost of Captain Davies shows up to provide moral support and a few useful words of advice]].
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* HollywoodVoodoo: Actually, averted for the most part. Tim Powers is one of those authors who ''embodies'' ShownTheirWork, and the major difference between his rituals and actual Caribbean rituals is that his actually ''work''.
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* HollywoodVoodoo: Actually, averted for the most part. Tim Powers is one of those authors who ''embodies'' ShownTheirWork, and the major difference between his rituals and actual Caribbean rituals is that his actually ''work''.ShownTheirWork.
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* TheMagicGoesAway: Noted, and explained in detail. [[spoiler:Magic becomes more difficult if the caster has contact with too much [[ColdIron ferrous metal]], and magic-use has been dying out as iron technology spreads.]] Magic has become extremely difficult and dangerous in Europe for this reason; it's easier in the New World, but by the end of the novel it's being weakened even there.
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* TheMagicGoesAway: Noted, and explained in detail. [[spoiler:Magic becomes more difficult if the caster has contact with too much [[ColdIron ferrous metal]], and magic-use magic use has been dying out as iron technology spreads.]] Magic has become extremely difficult and dangerous in Europe for this reason; it's easier in the New World, but by the end of the novel it's being weakened even there.
