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* Quentyn Quinn, hero of ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', failed every apprenticeship he applied for, leading him to think he's not good at anything. Once he become Questor, however, it becomes clear that while he's not good at anything, he's a ''little'' bit good at ''everything'', allowing him to combine his skills in unexpected ways.
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* Quentyn Quinn, hero of ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', failed every apprenticeship he applied for, leading him to think he's not good at anything. Once he become Questor, however, it becomes clear that while he's not good at anything, he's a ''little'' bit good at ''everything'', allowing him to combine his skills in unexpected ways.
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* ''{{Traveller}}'' Classic. Classic ''{{Traveller}}''. The Jack of All Trades skill allowed a character to use any other skill at level 0, which meant that they would avoid penalties for lack of skill but not gain any bonuses either.either.
* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' supplement ''Secrets of the Surface World''. The Jack of All Trades skill gives a broad familiarity with a variety of different tasks, without any formal training. The character may use any skill that they have no training in at no penalty (General Skill) or reduced penalty (Specialized Skill).
* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' supplement ''Secrets of the Surface World''. The Jack of All Trades skill gives a broad familiarity with a variety of different tasks, without any formal training. The character may use any skill that they have no training in at no penalty (General Skill) or reduced penalty (Specialized Skill).
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* ''{{Dominion}}: Hinterlands'' gives us the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Jack of All Trades]] card. It grants four common effects -- gaining a card, inspecting your deck, drawing cards, and the option to trash a card -- but is nowhere near the best at any of those.
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** A five-color deck will have a less reliable mana base than a one- or two-color deck, but it'll have access to all the different tools that every color can offer.
** [[http://magiccards.info/cfx/en/140.html Obelisk of Alara]]. It gives you access to five different simple abilities with a wide range of uses, spanning all five colors.
* ''Murphy's World''. Sean Murphy (the man who discovered the title planet) spent a lot of time in crummy jobs, giving him a wide but shallow set of skills.
*''MagicTheGathering'':
** A five-color deck will have a less reliable mana base than a one- or two-color deck, but it'll have access to all the different tools that every color can offer.
** [[http://magiccards.info/cfx/en/140.html Obelisk of Alara]]. It gives you access to five different simple abilities with a wide range of uses, spanning all five colors.
* ''Murphy's World''. Sean Murphy (the man who discovered the title planet) spent a lot of time in crummy jobs, giving him a wide but shallow set of skills.
* ''{{Shadowrun}}'' supplement ''Aztlan''. Shamans of the Jaguar totem prefer to acquire a minimum level of talent in a wide array of skills rather than specializing in a limited package of talents like most characters.
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** A five-color deck will have a less reliable mana base than a one- or two-color deck, but it'll have access to all the different tools that every color can offer.
** [[http://magiccards.info/cfx/en/140.html Obelisk of Alara]]. It gives you access to five different simple abilities with a wide range of uses, spanning all five colors.
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** A five-color deck will have a less reliable mana base than a one- or two-color deck, but it'll have access to all the different tools that every color can offer.
** [[http://magiccards.info/cfx/en/140.html Obelisk of Alara]]. It gives you access to five different simple abilities with a wide range of uses, spanning all five colors.
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* The aptly named Jack of ''TheEnchantedForestChronicles'', a freelance businessman who does "a little bit of everything", though he will assure you that he is ''not'' one of those giant-slaying Jacks.
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-->-- '''RobertHeinlein'''
Specialization is a common trend in fiction. It allows the author to create an ensemble cast where every member of a team provides a specific function, and avoids role duplication.
Not always, however.
Perhaps a character is a loner, and needs to be able to do everything on his own. Perhaps everyone else is just so useless, he had to take over their jobs as well as his own. Perhaps he just has a wide variety of interests. May be a sign of a person with a checkered past, who has had to take on a lot of roles in his life, just to get by. Whatever the reason, this character has at least some skill in a wide variety of disciplines.
Sometimes the leader of a group may actually be a JackOfAllTrades, with a good, basic grasp of the specialized skills possessed by the members of his team, allowing him to understand how to use each team member to their fullest potential.
Supertrope of RenaissanceMan (where someone is exceptionally good at many things) and MasterOfNone (where someone is not very good at a lot of things). A related trope found in VideoGames and TabletopGames is the JackOfAllStats, who has well-balanced stats, not skills.
See also TheRedMage and TheBlueMage.
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* Ussop from ''OnePiece'' (before the time skip) seems to be this. He's not an especially good fighter, though he gets in on the action here and there and uses his cleverness when he can. He was doing his best to fix the ship, as the only one who had any skills in that area before they got a shipwright. He mostly did odd jobs on the ship for the
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* ''{{Highlander}}'' has Methos who after 5000 years has held just about every possible job and has picked up just about any practical skill imaginable. This makes him different from most other immortals who seem to pick a niche and stick with it.
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* RobertHeinlein's character, Lazarus Long, an immortal, and the source of the page quote, was a firm advocate of learning a wide variety of skills to be prepared for change (a matter of some concern for an immortal, of course).
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* ''RemingtonSteele'': he may be a fake detective, but Steele's previous life as a conman left him with a wide variety of useful skills.
* A nonfictional example: Mike Rowe from ''DirtyJobs'' tries to be this, though he often ends up closer to MasterOfNone.
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* Eando Kline of ''{{Pathfinder}}'', as part of being a well-built sorcerer/rogue/bard.
* ''{{Traveller}}'' Classic. The Jack of All Trades skill allowed a character to use any other skill at level 0, which meant that they would avoid penalties for lack of skill but not gain any bonuses either.
* ''Murphy's World''. Sean Murphy (the man who discovered the title planet) spent a lot of time in crummy jobs, giving him a wide but shallow set of skills.
* ''MagicTheGathering'':
** A five-color deck will have a less reliable mana base than a one- or two-color deck, but it'll have access to all the different tools that every color can offer.
** [[http://magiccards.info/cfx/en/140.html Obelisk of Alara]]. It gives you access to five different simple abilities with a wide range of uses, spanning all five colors.
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* In FinalFantasyXIII, all of your characters can eventually use any class, not just the three that they start with. However, classes developed outside of a character's main three are relatively underpowered and may not be suited to that character's strengths. (For example, Hope ''can'' become a [[StoneWall Sentinel]] but his very low HP makes him unsuited for the role.)
* The Shaman class in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' used to be this when the game was young, being able to tank, heal, hit and cast, but not being particularly good at any of them.
* In ''FireEmblem: [[FireEmblemJugdral Seisen no Keifu]]'', the Master Knight class is this. It can use any weapon of the game outside of Holy Weapons, A-Ranked Light Magic, and Dark Magic. It's a strong class able to perform well in anything it can do, even though it doesn't pack the immense power the Holy Weapon wielders have.
* In ''{{Drakensang}}'' you can possibly create such a character by learning different abilities from different teachers. You could end up with a human swordsmaster who can also practice stealth, pickpocket, recognize plants, identify magical items, disarm traps and know of to seduce a lady. And you can do this with basically any character (however, some characters have natural disadvantages regarding certain skills).
* In ''{{RuneScape}}'', the PlayerCharacter is encouraged to become one of these. There's no class system; all players get to train every skill, and are rewarded for doing so. The Shattered Heart activity gives rewards in 15 different skills and has a bonus reward if you do all of them. The "Jack of Trades" aura (invoking the trope by name) gives an xp bonus if you work on lots of skills in a short time. There's lots of other ways that skills are subtly intertwined so that it's better to train them in tandem than it is to work on them separately, and of course, all the different skills are required for various quests, so anyone who wants to do all the quests will be forced to branch out.
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* Jim Morales from ''CodeLyoko'' had a ludicrous amount of jobs before settling down as the gym teacher of Kadic Academy. His skills come in useful from time to time, particularly in one episode wherein he and Jeremie had to survive alone in the wilderness.
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[[caption-width:334:There ain't a French or pirate rogue who don't... [[PunnyStuff know Jack!]]]]
''Jack of All Trades'' was a [[TooGoodToLast short-running]] action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of steampunk series like ''TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' and ''TheWildWildWest'', starring BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop Napoleon and other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.
A fun little series with a truly great (and, to the crew's surprise, Emmy Nominated) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZyoFHc25Yo theme song]].
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AcceptableLifestyleTargets: The secret island resort of Marquis [=DeSade=] is everything you could ever dream of, and worse.
* TheAmericanRevolution: Set ''after'' the revolution, in 1801, but the revolution features prominently in the backstory of Jack and various other characters.
* AnachronismStew: The theme song clearly establishes that the show is set in 1801. And yet New France hasn't fallen yet and Blackbeard and Ben Franklin are still alive.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: The reason why Jack and Emilia often help Governor Croque keep his job.
* CatherineTheGreat: Arrives on the island to look for her stolen horse and immediately starts flirting with Jack. There is a pretty clear ShoutOut to the false rumor regarding the empress supposedly "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean knowing]]" a horse.
* TheCavalierYears: The show takes place long after this time period, but Jack's "Daring Dragoon" character invokes tropes from the era.
* ChekhovsGun: If an episode starts with Emilia demonstrating a new invention to Jack, you can bet that it will be just what's needed at some point in the episode.
* ClarkKenting: Jack wears a hat and mask to obscure his identity as the Daring Dragoon. He's the only American on the whole frelling island.
** In one gag (Featured in the opening) someone rips the Dragoon's mask off... only to find another, identical, mask under it.
* CurtainClothing: How Jack first got his Dragoon disguise.
* DancingTheme: Best intro sequence ever.
* DoubleEntendre: Pretty much the whole point.
* TheDragon: Capitaine Brogard
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Fufu" Also subverted in that [[spoiler: the way she got it was pretty BadAss.]]
* ExpositoryThemeTune: A classic (and Emmy-nominated) example.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Feather boas are part of the outfits in the Marquis de Sade's island.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Avoided in the Marquis de Sade episode. Bondage =/= evil.
* HilariousInHindsight: The governor calling Jack a monkey. Hmm...[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean a monkey named Jack]]. Now where have we seen that?
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: All over the place, from Napoleon to Ben Franklin to the Marquis de Sade to Catherine the Great. Pretty much anyone who could even ''vaguely'' be expected to show up in the early 1800s give or take a decade or three (Franklin and Catherine had already been dead for years by the time of the show, for example.)
* ImprovisedParachute: Used by Jack (and President Jefferson's niece!) to escape the French in Canada.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: How could anyone not like Governor Croque?
* InstantMessengerPigeon: ... as played by a talking parrot.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: "A scoundrel with a heart" according to the theme song.
* JustAStupidAccent: The show takes place on a French colony, but French characters inevitably just speak English with a silly accent. One could conceivably justify this as characters speaking English for Jack and Emelia's benefit, but the trope is in force even during scenes where every character is French.
* LoveableRogue: Jack, of course.
* MsFanservice: Emelia (Angela Dotchin) is [[UnderStatement fairly attractive]].
* TheNapoleon: The man himself. Played by Verne Troyer.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: King George, to throw off Napoleon.
* OfCorsetsSexy: The Marquis de Sade's island.
* {{Pirate}}: Blackbeard, even though he should be long dead by the time the show is set.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone
* RealityRetcon: Most people don't realize that "The Louisiana Purchase" was actually Napoleon losing Louisiana in a poker game.
* RidingTheBomb: Blackbeard, of all people.
* [=~Sammy's Glass Eye~=]: Spoofed: Having been admonished not to comment on Napoleon's height, Jack comes right out and calls him shorty (it is notable that Napoleon was played by Verne Troyer).
* SelectiveMagnetism: Applied to the Governor's armor to avert an execution.
* ShownTheirWork: You would think the US and France would have good relations in 1801, except for an undeclared, seldom remembered war between the US and France, called the Quasi-War. The US hated both Britain and France at the time, and many Americans even hated the French much more. The 1801 setting is also surprisingly appropriate for the ColdWar-esque nature of the Britain vs. France conflict in the show. It takes place during (technically, just prior to) the Peace of Amiens, a brief period when Britain and France were not actually at war with each other.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Blackbeard, of course!
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''Jack of All Trades'' was a [[TooGoodToLast short-running]] action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of steampunk series like ''TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' and ''TheWildWildWest'', starring BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop Napoleon and other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.
A fun little series with a truly great (and, to the crew's surprise, Emmy Nominated) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZyoFHc25Yo theme song]].
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AcceptableLifestyleTargets: The secret island resort of Marquis [=DeSade=] is everything you could ever dream of, and worse.
* TheAmericanRevolution: Set ''after'' the revolution, in 1801, but the revolution features prominently in the backstory of Jack and various other characters.
* AnachronismStew: The theme song clearly establishes that the show is set in 1801. And yet New France hasn't fallen yet and Blackbeard and Ben Franklin are still alive.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: The reason why Jack and Emilia often help Governor Croque keep his job.
* CatherineTheGreat: Arrives on the island to look for her stolen horse and immediately starts flirting with Jack. There is a pretty clear ShoutOut to the false rumor regarding the empress supposedly "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean knowing]]" a horse.
* TheCavalierYears: The show takes place long after this time period, but Jack's "Daring Dragoon" character invokes tropes from the era.
* ChekhovsGun: If an episode starts with Emilia demonstrating a new invention to Jack, you can bet that it will be just what's needed at some point in the episode.
* ClarkKenting: Jack wears a hat and mask to obscure his identity as the Daring Dragoon. He's the only American on the whole frelling island.
** In one gag (Featured in the opening) someone rips the Dragoon's mask off... only to find another, identical, mask under it.
* CurtainClothing: How Jack first got his Dragoon disguise.
* DancingTheme: Best intro sequence ever.
* DoubleEntendre: Pretty much the whole point.
* TheDragon: Capitaine Brogard
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Fufu" Also subverted in that [[spoiler: the way she got it was pretty BadAss.]]
* ExpositoryThemeTune: A classic (and Emmy-nominated) example.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Feather boas are part of the outfits in the Marquis de Sade's island.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Avoided in the Marquis de Sade episode. Bondage =/= evil.
* HilariousInHindsight: The governor calling Jack a monkey. Hmm...[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean a monkey named Jack]]. Now where have we seen that?
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: All over the place, from Napoleon to Ben Franklin to the Marquis de Sade to Catherine the Great. Pretty much anyone who could even ''vaguely'' be expected to show up in the early 1800s give or take a decade or three (Franklin and Catherine had already been dead for years by the time of the show, for example.)
* ImprovisedParachute: Used by Jack (and President Jefferson's niece!) to escape the French in Canada.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: How could anyone not like Governor Croque?
* InstantMessengerPigeon: ... as played by a talking parrot.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: "A scoundrel with a heart" according to the theme song.
* JustAStupidAccent: The show takes place on a French colony, but French characters inevitably just speak English with a silly accent. One could conceivably justify this as characters speaking English for Jack and Emelia's benefit, but the trope is in force even during scenes where every character is French.
* LoveableRogue: Jack, of course.
* MsFanservice: Emelia (Angela Dotchin) is [[UnderStatement fairly attractive]].
* TheNapoleon: The man himself. Played by Verne Troyer.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: King George, to throw off Napoleon.
* OfCorsetsSexy: The Marquis de Sade's island.
* {{Pirate}}: Blackbeard, even though he should be long dead by the time the show is set.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone
* RealityRetcon: Most people don't realize that "The Louisiana Purchase" was actually Napoleon losing Louisiana in a poker game.
* RidingTheBomb: Blackbeard, of all people.
* [=~Sammy's Glass Eye~=]: Spoofed: Having been admonished not to comment on Napoleon's height, Jack comes right out and calls him shorty (it is notable that Napoleon was played by Verne Troyer).
* SelectiveMagnetism: Applied to the Governor's armor to avert an execution.
* ShownTheirWork: You would think the US and France would have good relations in 1801, except for an undeclared, seldom remembered war between the US and France, called the Quasi-War. The US hated both Britain and France at the time, and many Americans even hated the French much more. The 1801 setting is also surprisingly appropriate for the ColdWar-esque nature of the Britain vs. France conflict in the show. It takes place during (technically, just prior to) the Peace of Amiens, a brief period when Britain and France were not actually at war with each other.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Blackbeard, of course!
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* TheAmericanRevolution: Set ''after'' the revolution, in 1801, but the revolution features prominently in the backstory of Jack and various other characters.
* TheCavalierYears: The show takes place long after this time period, but Jack's "Daring Dragoon" character invokes tropes from the era.
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* LoveableRogue: Jack, of course, the theme song's "scoundrel with a heart."
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''Jack of All Trades'' was a [[TooGoodToLast short-running]] action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of steampunk series like ''TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' and ''TheWildWildWest'', starring BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop Napoleon and other threats to the United States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.
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''Jack of All Trades'' was a [[TooGoodToLast short-running]] action/comedy show that ran for one-and-a-half seasons in 2000, paired with ''{{Cleopatra 2525}}''. Set in 1801, it is a spiritual relative of steampunk series like ''TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr.'' '' and ''TheWildWildWest'', starring BruceCampbell as Jack Stiles, an American secret agent sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Palau-Palau. Palau-Palau. Once there, he meets his British contact and SlapSlapKiss love interest, fellow spy Emelia Rothschild, and together the two work to stop Napoleon and other threats to the United States. States. To the public, Jack serves as Emelia's mild-mannered manservant, but when trouble strikes, he transforms into a masked hero, the Daring Dragoon.
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* AnachronismStew: The themesong clearly establishes that the show is set in 1801. And yet New France hasn't fallen yet and Blackbeard is still alive.
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* AnachronismStew: The themesong theme song clearly establishes that the show is set in 1801. 1801. And yet New France hasn't fallen yet and Blackbeard is still alive.
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* ClarkKenting: Jack wears a hat and mask to obscure his identity as the Daring Dragoon. He's the only American on the whole frelling island.
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* ClarkKenting: Jack wears a hat and mask to obscure his identity as the Daring Dragoon. He's the only American on the whole frelling island.
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* CurtainClothing: How Jack first got his Dragoon disguise.
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* CurtainClothing: CurtainClothing: How Jack first got his Dragoon disguise.
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* DoubleEntendre: Pretty much the whole point.
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* DoubleEntendre: DoubleEntendre: Pretty much the whole point.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Avoided in the Marquis de Sade episode. Bondage =/= evil.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: FluffyFashionFeathers: Feather boas are part of the outfits in the Marquis de Sade's island.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Avoided in the Marquis de Sadeepisode. episode. Bondage =/= evil.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Avoided in the Marquis de Sade
* ImprovisedParachute: Used by Jack (and President Jefferson's niece!) to escape the French in Canada.
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* PetticoatParachute: Used by Jack (and President Jefferson's niece!) to escape the French in Canada.
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* PetticoatParachute: Used by Jack (and President Jefferson's niece!) to escape the French in Canada.OfCorsetsSexy: The Marquis de Sade's island.
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* [=~Sammy's Glass Eye~=]: Spoofed: Having been admonished not to comment on Napoleon's height, Jack comes right out and calls him shorty (it is notable that Napoleon was played by Verne Troyer).
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* [=~Sammy's Glass Eye~=]: Eye~=]: Spoofed: Having been admonished not to comment on Napoleon's height, Jack comes right out and calls him shorty (it is notable that Napoleon was played by Verne Troyer).
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: [[strike:in 1801 France and the U.S. would have been allies as they both HATED the english. Though this may have just been for [[RuleOfFunny fun]]]]
**ShownTheirWork: The above would be true, except for an undeclared, seldom remembered war between the US and France, called the Quasi-War. The US hated both countries at the time, and many Americans even hated the French much more.
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**ShownTheirWork: The above would be true, except for an undeclared, seldom remembered war between the US and France, called the Quasi-War. The US hated both countries at the time, and many Americans even hated the French much more.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: [[strike:in 1801 ShownTheirWork: You would think the US and France and the U.S. would have been allies as they both HATED the english. Though this may have just been for [[RuleOfFunny fun]]]]
**ShownTheirWork: The above would be true,good relations in 1801, except for an undeclared, seldom remembered war between the US and France, called the Quasi-War. The US hated both countries Britain and France at the time, and many Americans even hated the French much more.
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**ShownTheirWork: The above would be true,
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* PetticoatParachute: Used by Jack (and President Jefferson's niece!) to escape the French in Canada.
