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* BlackAndGreyMorality: The entire cast consists of characters who engage in murder, blackmail, theft, and betrayal, and the series has just started. James is capable of loyalty and basic kindness, but he's still a dangerous criminal himself.
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* BlackAndGreyMorality: The entire cast consists of characters who engage in murder, blackmail, theft, and betrayal, and the series has just started. James is capable of loyalty and basic kindness, but he's still a dangerous criminal himself. One of the few unambiguously good characters is George Chichester, since his only goal is getting justice for past crimes rather than any personal gain.
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* {{Confessional}}: Ibbotson confesses his complicity in James's gunpowder plot to the local priest. Subverted since the priest turns out to be on the payroll of the East India Company.
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* {{Confessional}}: Ibbotson confesses his complicity in James's gunpowder plot to the local priest. Subverted since the priest turns out to be on the payroll of the East India Company. [[spoiler:Ibbotsen's body is subsequently left behind for the corrupt priest to find.]]
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* NotBloodRelated: There's a degree of sexual tension between Lorna and her stepson James.
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* NotBloodRelated: There's a degree of sexual tension between Lorna and her stepson James. She had no part in raising him however, given that he only met her after his father's death, and are about the same age anyway.
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** And again in the fourth episode, in which Delaney is also injured.
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** And again in the fourth episode, in which Delaney is also injured. This time it's an assassin sent by the Americans, and given his huge size proves to be far more dangerous than the previous one.
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* ComfortingTheWidow: [[spoiler:James and Zilpha have sex together immediately after her husband's funeral, whom she killed herself.]]
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* TheDeterminator: James Delaney. Has survived at least one shipwreck and two assassination attempts, that we know of. He continues with his obscure quest, allowing only the bare minimum of recuperation. What are his goals? Dunno; but, he's acting like an especially blinkered arrow zooming towards the target -- any side-issue social niceties can go hang.
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* TheDeterminator: TheDeterminator:
** James Delaney. Has survived at least one shipwreck and two assassination attempts, that we know of. He continues with his obscure quest, allowing only the bare minimum of recuperation. What are his goals? Dunno; but, he's acting like an especially blinkered arrow zooming towards the target -- any side-issue social niceties can go hang.
** James Delaney. Has survived at least one shipwreck and two assassination attempts, that we know of. He continues with his obscure quest, allowing only the bare minimum of recuperation. What are his goals? Dunno; but, he's acting like an especially blinkered arrow zooming towards the target -- any side-issue social niceties can go hang.
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* DeadPersonConversation: James has one with [[spoiler: Winter]] in episode seven.
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* DeadPersonConversation: DeadPersonConversation:
** James has one with [[spoiler: Winter]] in episode seven.
** James has one with [[spoiler: Winter]] in episode seven.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Horace had a son that was left to be raised by a family near the docks. James thinks the kid is better off for it.
** If Robert is, indeed, Horace's son. It's possible he's the child of [[spoiler: James and Zilpha]]. Either way, still abandoned.
** If Robert is, indeed, Horace's son. It's possible he's the child of [[spoiler: James and Zilpha]]. Either way, still abandoned.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Horace had a son that was left to be raised by a family near the docks. James thinks the kid is better off for it. \n** If Robert is, indeed, Horace's son. It's possible he's the child of [[spoiler: James and Zilpha]]. Either way, still abandoned.
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* OpenSecret: James and Zilpha's lingering [[BrotherSisterIncest affection for each other]] is widely rumored around London and is apparent to all who see them together, including her enraged husband. The Americans even go so far as to offer her as part of their bargain with James for Nootka Sound.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Cholmondeley asks James if Laura Bow is free for him to pursue, luridly exhorting that she's so pretty that she's not just someone he wants to sleep with but masturbates about.
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* {{Confessional}}: Ibbotson confesses his complicity in James's gunpowder plot to the local priest. Subverted since the priest turns out to be on the payroll of the East India Company.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: James and Zilpha once had a sexual relationship, and they still seem to be in love with each other at present. At one point he even visits her in her dreams to have sex.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: James and Zilpha once had a sexual relationship, and they still seem to be in love with each other at present. At one point he He even visits starts visiting her in her dreams ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]]) to have sex.sex. [[spoiler:It's later consummated for real after she kills her abusive husband.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: If the pretty young Lorna is to be believed, this occurred between her and old Horace Delaney in his last years.
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* MayDecemberRomance: If the pretty young Lorna is to be believed, this occurred between her and old Horace Delaney in his last years. She then uses her short marriage to him to lay claim to half of James's inheritance.
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The age gap between James and Helga isn't nearly large enough to qualify as a May December Romance. That trope has very specific criteria.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: James and Zilpha once had a sexual relationship, and they still seem to be in love with each other at present.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: James and Zilpha once had a sexual relationship, and they still seem to be in love with each other at present. At one point he even visits her in her dreams to have sex.
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** How James lost his virginity to [[spoiler: Helga]].
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. All aversions now go in Death Of A Child.* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Winter is killed at the end of episode six by the East India Company, in order to set James up.]]
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Subverted. Winter is killed at the end of episode six by the East India Company, in order to set James up.]]
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* AssassinOutclassin: Delaney turns the tables on an assassin sent by the EITC at the end of the second episode, though it is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that he doesn't walk away unscathed.
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* AssassinOutclassin: AssassinOutclassin:
** Delaney turns the tables on an assassin sent by the EITC at the end of the second episode, though it is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that he doesn't walk away unscathed.
** Delaney turns the tables on an assassin sent by the EITC at the end of the second episode, though it is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that he doesn't walk away unscathed.
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* BedlamHouse: James' mother Salish/Anna ended her life in the original Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital. [[spoiler: Later used, after being abandoned as a mental hospital, to store James' gunpowder.]]
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* BedlamHouse: BedlamHouse:
** James' mother Salish/Anna ended her life in the original Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital. [[spoiler: Later used, after being abandoned as a mental hospital, to store James' gunpowder.]]
** James' mother Salish/Anna ended her life in the original Bedlam, Bethlem Royal Hospital. [[spoiler: Later used, after being abandoned as a mental hospital, to store James' gunpowder.]]
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* GraveRobbing: During the time period it was an unofficial practice among some medical professionals to perform experiments on recently buried, excavated corpses. After James hires a doctor to perform an autopsy on his father so he can confirm that the man was killed through poison, the latter makes a sly remark that it would be wise to bury him a bit deeper the second time around. James immediately threatens to kill him and any of his colleagues if the body is desecrated in any way.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: ''Nobody'' likes the EIC.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: ''Nobody'' likes the EIC.EIC.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: The chemist that James recruits' name sounds like "Chum-lee", but is apparently spelled "Cholmondelay".
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: It's unclear exactly what the turning point was. But, James went from a loyal Company man to a wrecking-ball targeted at their interests. We've got more than a few hints that the Company itself was the catalyst for the change, possibly by increments.
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* BastardUnderstudy: James makes himself very busy when he turns the very knowledge and skills the EIC took pains to teach him when he was being taught and employed by them back on the Company. They're not taking the irony all that well.
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* BastardUnderstudy: James makes himself very a busy when he turns bunny by turning the very knowledge and skills the EIC took pains to teach him when he was being taught trained (at one point, under Strange himself), apprenticed and then employed by them right back on the Company. They're not taking the fully acknowledged irony of the situation all that well.
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* HeroicBSOD: Brace enters this state twice. He lies on his bed in a near-catatonic state for hours prior to confessing that [[spoiler: he administered a MercyKill to Horace Delaney]], and in the finale, sits staring, teary-eyed, into space for some time after [[spoiler: Delaney leaves him behind.]]
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* ShootTheMessenger: Both [[spoiler: Wilton and Pettyfer]] die this way in the season finale when they're delivering information and/or people to [[spoiler: Delaney's]] men. An ironic version of the trope, as in both cases, they're bringing what the recipients want.
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* AnimalMotifs: Birds, including the tattoos on James and Winter, Lorna Bow's canary, the woman in James' visions, [[spoiler: the marks left by James' mother in the fireplace]], and the bird that [[spoiler: Zilpha]] sees before jumping off the bridge.
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* AnimalMotifs: Birds, including the tattoos on James and Winter, Lorna Bow's canary, the woman in James' visions, [[spoiler: the marks left by James' mother in the fireplace]], the raven feathers on [[spoiler: Salish and Zilpha's]] dresses, and the bird that [[spoiler: Zilpha]] sees before jumping off the bridge.
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* DefiledForever: Thorne has got some disgusting ideas about Zilpha, and claims she "smells of [James]". He's also irate that her CountryMatters will not "open" for him, and apologizes for "not being related to [Zilpha]".
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: During the big escape from the Crown's soldiers in episode 8, the men do have muskets, but they also spend a great deal of time using their fists. Helga and Lorna (and an unnamed member of the crew) use pistols.
* HeirClubForMen: It seems that Horace Delaney cut his daughter out of his will in the years preceding his death. Everything he had, he left to his son James, who had been presumed lost at sea or gone "savage" in Africa.
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Subverted. Winter is killed at the end of episode six, possibly by Delaney during a hallucination.]] [[spoiler: Or possibly not, if the small child Lorna talks to in episode seven is correct. Either way, Winter dies.]]
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Subverted. Winter is killed at the end of episode six, possibly six by Delaney during a hallucination.]] [[spoiler: Or possibly not, if the small child Lorna talks East India Company, in order to in episode seven is correct. Either way, Winter dies.set James up.]]
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** The Americans (through Dumbarton and Carlsbad) offer to kill Thorne so that James and Zilpha can be together. James seems fine with this plan. However, when [[spoiler: Zilpha murders her husband to free herself from his abuse]], James is ''not'' fine, and believes that the act was a sin.
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* AnimalMotifs: Birds, including the tattoos on James and Winter, Lorna Bow's canary, the woman in James' visions, and [[spoiler: the marks left by James' mother in the fireplace.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Birds, including the tattoos on James and Winter, Lorna Bow's canary, the woman in James' visions, and [[spoiler: the marks left by James' mother in the fireplace.]]fireplace]], and the bird that [[spoiler: Zilpha]] sees before jumping off the bridge.
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* AnyoneCanDie: In season one, that includes [[spoiler: Thorne Geary, Winter, Helga, Dumbarton, Pettyfer, Wilton, Sir Stuart Strange, and Zilpha Geary.]]
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Two of them, in episodes six and eight - [[spoiler: Winter, killed to frame James and make him doubt his own sanity; and Zilpha, who commits suicide and whose death is used solely to make James sad and again, question his sanity.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: If the pretty young Lorna is to be believed, this occurred between her and old Horace Delaney in his last years.
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** He also goes out of his way to insist the [[WholesomeCrossdresser Ladies]] leave their meeting place before [[spoiler: his arrest, warning them that their club was soon going to be occupied by British soldiers who were likely to inflict horrible violence upon them.]]
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