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His triumph in vain, his triumph invain!vain!\\
His triumph in vain, his triumph in
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Van Der Decken boasts that he'll sail until doomsday. [[spoiler:He gets his wish when he is impaled on a wooden beam, and is doomed to haunt the seas for all eternity.]]
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* TimeSkip: Inverted and then played straight. The prologue of the album is set somewhere in the mid-sixties 20th century at ''least'', the earliest, the middle takes place centuries prior, and the end shows the ages passing.
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* VillainSong: "Al betekent het mijn dood" is sung from Van Der Decken's perspective.
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* VillainSong: "Bloodstains on the Captain's Log" and "Al betekent het mijn dood" is are sung from Van Der Decken's perspective.perspective.
* TheVillainSucksSong: [[spoiler:"The Shining Was A Portent of Gloom" takes its time to show Van Der Decken as pathetic and his conquests for riches being AllForNothing.]]
-->His fortune to dust, his fortune to dust!
His triumph in vain, his triumph in vain!
Riches to ashes! His tears lost in rain!
* TheVillainSucksSong: [[spoiler:"The Shining Was A Portent of Gloom" takes its time to show Van Der Decken as pathetic and his conquests for riches being AllForNothing.]]
-->His fortune to dust, his fortune to dust!
His triumph in vain, his triumph in vain!
Riches to ashes! His tears lost in rain!
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The crew of Van Der Decken's ship are okay with raping and pillaging foreigners, but see setting sail on Easter Sunday as an act of blasphemy that warrants mutiny.
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-->I stand for greed, lust and the willpower to defeat. [[FauxAffablyEvil The mask I wear is kind, with a distorted face underneath. underneath]]. [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans I believe in bliss through violence and suppression. suppression]]. [[RapePillageAndBurn Take, rob and rape. rape]]. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Don't let these filthy foreigners escape.escape]]. On our pillage through the Indian seas, we sail heartless under the flag of piracy. Ravish and ruin their lives. [[WouldHurtAChild Execute their children right before their eyes.eyes]]. My treasure chambers, teeming with the riches I adore. I call it passion, not a sin, to kill for more and more.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The crew of Van Der Decken's ship are okay with raping and pillaging foreigners, but see setting sail on Easter Sunday as an act of blasphemy that warrants mutiny.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The crew of EvilIsHammy: It really comes with the territory for Seregor. Basically, Van Der Decken's ship are okay with raping and pillaging foreigners, but see setting sail on Easter Sunday as Decken is an act of blasphemy that warrants mutiny.R-rated Disney villain in practically every regard.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: By Van Der Decken's own admission. See the quote under CardCarryingVillain.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Van Der Decken ''tells'' Catharina that he loves her, but that he loves the sea, his ship, and his crew more. The latter one is also a lie, because he mistreats them, [[spoiler:kills one them for taking a stand against him, and allows them to starve to death before finishing off the survivors.]] If anything, he "loves" them as he would a treasured possession.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Van Der Decken ''tells'' Catharina that he loves her, but that he loves the sea, his ship, and his crew more. The latter one is also a lie, because he mistreats them, [[spoiler:kills one them for taking a stand against him, and allows them to starve to death before finishing off the survivors.]] If anything, he "loves" them as he would a treasured possession.
possession. Though apparently his crew have families that love them, [[spoiler:as they mourn their deaths.]]
*EvenEvilHasStandars: EvenEvilHasStandards: The crew of Van Der Decken's ship are okay with raping and pillaging foreigners, but see setting sail on Easter Sunday as an act of blasphemy that warrants mutiny.
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''Death Came Through a Phantom Ship'' is Music/CarachAngren's second feature-length studio album, exploring the origins of the legendary ghost ship known as the FlyingDutchman, manned by a psychopathic captain named Van Der Decken.
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!!What? Your tropes? May they suffocate! May they rot!
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Van Der Decken is now forced to roam the seas until doomsday, [[LaserGuidedKarma just as he vowed he would]].]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Inverted. The Dutch-East India Company's monopoly is — in order — spice trade, slavery, and violence.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Downplayed with the ship's crew. They apparently took no issue with anything Van Der Decken encouraged them to do, but their families mourned them.]]
* BadBoss: While he only shows shades of it at first, when he calls his crew "drunken snails", Van Der Decken slips into outright evil when he [[spoiler:willingly starves and kills them.]]
* BlasphemousBoast: Van Der Decken denies his men's protests to his choice to set sail on Easter Sunday quite bombastically. Immediately lampshaded.
-->"What?! Your God?! May he suffocate! May he rot!"\\
Kept the bible close to me.\\
His book of lies I shall now cast into the sea.
* CardCarryingVillain: Van Der Decken doesn't even try to pretend he's not a total bastard driven by a lust for greed and power.
-->I stand for greed, lust and the willpower to defeat. The mask I wear is kind, with a distorted face underneath. I believe in bliss through violence and suppression. Take, rob and rape. Don't let these filthy foreigners escape. On our pillage through the Indian seas, we sail heartless under the flag of piracy. Ravish and ruin their lives. Execute their children right before their eyes. My treasure chambers, teeming with the riches I adore. I call it passion, not a sin, to kill for more and more.
* DomesticAbuser: Catharina is treated more like a servant than a wife to Van Der Decken, who forces her to kiss his gold medal, and threatens to rape her.
* DownerBeginning: The album starts off with a man encountering the eponymous phantom ship, which is boarded by a ghostly figure and his HellHound, which tricks him into killing his daughter, then he kills his wife to spare her the shock of what he did, and finally takes his own life.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Van Der Decken is dead, but the family members of his crew are devastated, and he gets a chance to live on as a ghost, forever haunting the seas and taking his vengeance upon anyone he crosses. The only real good thing [[LaserGuidedKarma is that he got exactly what he wanted]].]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Van Der Decken ''tells'' Catharina that he loves her, but that he loves the sea, his ship, and his crew more. The latter one is also a lie, because he mistreats them, [[spoiler:kills one them for taking a stand against him, and allows them to starve to death before finishing off the survivors.]] If anything, he "loves" them as he would a treasured possession.
* FallenHero: Apparently, Van Der Decken was once a stern but decent man, but fell prey to dreams of riches and conquest.
* FauxAffablyEvil: By Van Der Decken's own admission. See the quote under CardCarryingVillain.
* FlyingDutchman: Implied, but never outright stated to be Van Der Decken's ship.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The song "Al betekent het mijn dood" is Dutch for, "Even if it means my death!" In the song itself, it's preceded by "Godverdomme! Wij zullen vaeren!", meaning "Goddammit! We will be sailing!"
* HollywoodAtheist: At least, Van Der Decken presented as one at first, though his RageAgainstTheHeavens might imply him to be more of a NayTheist.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:After refusing to yield to Christ, Van Der Decken brings on the wrath of God, who summons lightning that strikes his ship, breaking off the top mast and impaling him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Domestic abuse, genocide, piracy, and rape notwithstanding, Van Der Decken is just an all-around horrible and unpleasant man. He claims to love his crew, but then he [[spoiler:murders one of them in cold blood for trying to dissuade him from setting sail on Easter Sunday, lets their supplies dwindle as he searches for land, and personally kills those that didn't die of starvation.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: Befitting a man whose main motivation is greed, Van Der Decken is self-absorbed and vain. His whole aspiration is "to be the best, nothing less".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Van Der Decken sees the foreigners whose lands he invades as "filthy", encouraging his men to do whatever they want to them. Then there's also the matter of [[StayInTheKitchen how he sees Catharina as more of a subject to abuse and rape on a whim]].
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The United Dutch-East India Company, who Van Der Decken is under the employ of, "run a monopoly: spice trade, slavery, and violence."
* TheSociopath: Van Der Decken is referred to as "a successful psychopath", and he certainly shows the traits of one: a profound LackOfEmpathy, an inflated sense of entitlement, and an AxCrazy demeanor to top it all off.
* SopranoAndGravel: One Patrick Damiani voices one of Van Der Decken's would-be mutinists, contrasting with Seregor's throaty rasp. Jarringly enough, Seregor used his ''own'' voice for Catharina.
* StupidEvil: While typically averted for most of the album, [[spoiler:Van Der Decken wasn't doing ''himself'' any favors by starving his crew, since he needed those resources just as much.]]
* TemptingFate: It wasn't exactly smart of Van Der Decken to tell God to go fuck himself after he'd [[spoiler:just murdered the last of his crew and tied himself up on the wheel.]]
* TimeSkip: Inverted and then played straight. The prologue of the album is set in the mid-sixties at ''least'', the middle takes place centuries prior, and the end shows the ages passing.
''Death Came Through a Phantom Ship'' is Music/CarachAngren's second feature-length studio album, exploring the origins of the legendary ghost ship known as the FlyingDutchman, manned by a psychopathic captain named Van Der Decken.
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!!What? Your tropes? May they suffocate! May they rot!
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Van Der Decken is now forced to roam the seas until doomsday, [[LaserGuidedKarma just as he vowed he would]].]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Inverted. The Dutch-East India Company's monopoly is — in order — spice trade, slavery, and violence.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Downplayed with the ship's crew. They apparently took no issue with anything Van Der Decken encouraged them to do, but their families mourned them.]]
* BadBoss: While he only shows shades of it at first, when he calls his crew "drunken snails", Van Der Decken slips into outright evil when he [[spoiler:willingly starves and kills them.]]
* BlasphemousBoast: Van Der Decken denies his men's protests to his choice to set sail on Easter Sunday quite bombastically. Immediately lampshaded.
-->"What?! Your God?! May he suffocate! May he rot!"\\
Kept the bible close to me.\\
His book of lies I shall now cast into the sea.
* CardCarryingVillain: Van Der Decken doesn't even try to pretend he's not a total bastard driven by a lust for greed and power.
-->I stand for greed, lust and the willpower to defeat. The mask I wear is kind, with a distorted face underneath. I believe in bliss through violence and suppression. Take, rob and rape. Don't let these filthy foreigners escape. On our pillage through the Indian seas, we sail heartless under the flag of piracy. Ravish and ruin their lives. Execute their children right before their eyes. My treasure chambers, teeming with the riches I adore. I call it passion, not a sin, to kill for more and more.
* DomesticAbuser: Catharina is treated more like a servant than a wife to Van Der Decken, who forces her to kiss his gold medal, and threatens to rape her.
* DownerBeginning: The album starts off with a man encountering the eponymous phantom ship, which is boarded by a ghostly figure and his HellHound, which tricks him into killing his daughter, then he kills his wife to spare her the shock of what he did, and finally takes his own life.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Van Der Decken is dead, but the family members of his crew are devastated, and he gets a chance to live on as a ghost, forever haunting the seas and taking his vengeance upon anyone he crosses. The only real good thing [[LaserGuidedKarma is that he got exactly what he wanted]].]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Van Der Decken ''tells'' Catharina that he loves her, but that he loves the sea, his ship, and his crew more. The latter one is also a lie, because he mistreats them, [[spoiler:kills one them for taking a stand against him, and allows them to starve to death before finishing off the survivors.]] If anything, he "loves" them as he would a treasured possession.
* FallenHero: Apparently, Van Der Decken was once a stern but decent man, but fell prey to dreams of riches and conquest.
* FauxAffablyEvil: By Van Der Decken's own admission. See the quote under CardCarryingVillain.
* FlyingDutchman: Implied, but never outright stated to be Van Der Decken's ship.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The song "Al betekent het mijn dood" is Dutch for, "Even if it means my death!" In the song itself, it's preceded by "Godverdomme! Wij zullen vaeren!", meaning "Goddammit! We will be sailing!"
* HollywoodAtheist: At least, Van Der Decken presented as one at first, though his RageAgainstTheHeavens might imply him to be more of a NayTheist.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:After refusing to yield to Christ, Van Der Decken brings on the wrath of God, who summons lightning that strikes his ship, breaking off the top mast and impaling him.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Domestic abuse, genocide, piracy, and rape notwithstanding, Van Der Decken is just an all-around horrible and unpleasant man. He claims to love his crew, but then he [[spoiler:murders one of them in cold blood for trying to dissuade him from setting sail on Easter Sunday, lets their supplies dwindle as he searches for land, and personally kills those that didn't die of starvation.]]
* {{Narcissist}}: Befitting a man whose main motivation is greed, Van Der Decken is self-absorbed and vain. His whole aspiration is "to be the best, nothing less".
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Van Der Decken sees the foreigners whose lands he invades as "filthy", encouraging his men to do whatever they want to them. Then there's also the matter of [[StayInTheKitchen how he sees Catharina as more of a subject to abuse and rape on a whim]].
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The United Dutch-East India Company, who Van Der Decken is under the employ of, "run a monopoly: spice trade, slavery, and violence."
* TheSociopath: Van Der Decken is referred to as "a successful psychopath", and he certainly shows the traits of one: a profound LackOfEmpathy, an inflated sense of entitlement, and an AxCrazy demeanor to top it all off.
* SopranoAndGravel: One Patrick Damiani voices one of Van Der Decken's would-be mutinists, contrasting with Seregor's throaty rasp. Jarringly enough, Seregor used his ''own'' voice for Catharina.
* StupidEvil: While typically averted for most of the album, [[spoiler:Van Der Decken wasn't doing ''himself'' any favors by starving his crew, since he needed those resources just as much.]]
* TemptingFate: It wasn't exactly smart of Van Der Decken to tell God to go fuck himself after he'd [[spoiler:just murdered the last of his crew and tied himself up on the wheel.]]
* TimeSkip: Inverted and then played straight. The prologue of the album is set in the mid-sixties at ''least'', the middle takes place centuries prior, and the end shows the ages passing.
