History YMMV / TreasureIsland

** Dr. Livesey from an animated 1988 Soviet adaptation became a meme in 2022 due to his resemblance to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington. At least one variant of the meme is a spoof of [[Memes/Incredibles2 Traumatized Mr. Incredible]].

** Dr. Livesy from an animated 1988 Soviet adaptation became a meme in 2022 due to his resemblance to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington. At least one variant of the meme is a spoof of [[Memes/Incredibles2 Traumatized Mr. Incredible]].

** A dash of ValuesDissonance doesn’t hurt either: Silver is married to a Black woman, which wouldn’t make him all that inclined towards conventional British norms and ideas of morality in an era (the 1700s) when the transatlantic slave trade was at its height. Pirates of the time were a good deal more racially egalitarian than conventional society, and included escaped slaves.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: A minor case; Long John Silver's PirateParrot is usually referred to as male in adaptations, but in the book, Silver claims that she's female. To be fair, it's usually hard to tell the sex of a parrot at a glance so it's possible that Silver is just guessing.

* ItWasHisSled: Long John Silver is the leader of the pirates.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Squire's three RedShirt servants, Joyce, Redruth and Hunter have little characterization and die quickly in the book. The fact that they are precisely the servants dying to protect their employers makes the situation more uncomfortable.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: A minor case; Long John Silver's PirateParrot is usually referred to as male in adaptations, but in the book, Silver claims that she's a girl. To be fair, it's usually hard to tell the sex of a parrot at a glance so it's possible that Silver is just guessing.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The whole subplot of the heroes trying to figure out who the faithful sailors are ends up being this: as soon as they arrive on the island, the pirates kill two of the remaining three faithful sailors.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Do you think there will be an epic final battle between the heroes and the pirates? Nope. At the climax, the heroes kill two pirates and the remaining three flee.

* ItWasHisSled: Long John Silver is a pirate.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The Squire's three RedShirt servants, Joyce, Redruth and Hunter can inspire some of this feeling, as they all feel like they could have done a little more if they'd lived (not to mention been used to make a statement of sorts about servants not being expendable canon fodder).

* AlasPoorScrappy: ''Averted'' with Mr. Arrow. Long John Silver kills him... and he's missed by no-one. Well, Long John ''claims'' he killed him; there's a reason everyone immediately assumes he wandered off the side in a drunken stupor. In the Sky 1 adaptation, he is keel-hauled after striking Squire Trelawney in a drunken rage. His death is mourned by Jim, which proves to be important; hiding inside a barrel of apples, Jim overhears Long John Silver conspiring with the crew.

* AlasPoorScrappy: ''Averted'' with Mr. Arrow. Long John Silver kills him... and he's missed by no-one. Well, Loman ng John ''claims'' he killed him; there's a reason everyone immediately assumes he wandered off the side in a drunken stupor. In the Sky 1 adaptation, he is keel-hauled after striking Squire Trelawney in a drunken rage. His death is mourned by Jim, which proves to be important; hiding inside a barrel of apples, Jim overhears Long John Silver conspiring with the crew.

* AlasPoorScrappy: ''Averted'' with Mr. Arrow. Long John Silver kills him... and he's missed by no-one. Well, Long John ''claims'' he killed him; there's a reason everyone immediately assumes he wandered off the side in a drunken stupor. In the Sky 1 adaptation, he is keel-hauled after striking Squire Trelawney in a drunken rage. His death is mourned by Jim, which proves to be important; hiding inside a barrel of apples, Jim overhears Long John Silver conspiring with the crew.

* FairForItsDay: A rare villainous example. When Long John Silver and Pew were written as a cripple and a blind respectively, it was to show that they were threatening, capable, badass pirates in spite of their disabilities. These days though, they're often used as the prime example of the EvilCripple stereotype.

* MagnificentBastard: Long John Silver. So much so he creeps over into other pirate literature as the standard to whom other pirates are measured.

* MemeticMutation: In a meta-level sense, the portrayal of pirates in Treasure Island has leaked into popular culture, such that even [[SpacePirates Space]] and [[SkyPirates Sky]] [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Pirates]] tend to emulate some of the piratical behaviours as portrayed in this story.

* AlasPoorScrappy: ''Averted'' with Mr. Arrow. Long John Silver kills him... and he's missed by no-one. Well, Long John ''claims'' he killed him; there's a reason everyone immediately assumes he wandered off the side in a drunken stupor.
** In the Sky 1 adaptation, he is keel-hauled after striking Squire Trelawney in a drunken rage. His death is mourned by Jim, which proves to be important; hiding inside a barrel of apples, Jim overhears Long John Silver conspiring with the crew.

* MagnificentBastard: Long John.

* MemeticMutation: In a meta-level sense, the portrayl of pirates in Treasure Island has leaked into popular culture, such that even [[SpacePirates Space]] and [[SkyPirates Sky]] [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything Pirates]] tend to emulate some of the piratical behaviours as portrayed in this story.

* MagnificentBastard: Long John.

* ItWasHisSled: Long John Silver is a pirate.

** In the Sky 1 adaptation, he is keel-hauled after striking Squire Trelawney in a drunken rage.

** In the Sky 1 adaptation, he is keel-hauled and killed.

* AlasPoorScrappy: ''Averted'' with Mr. Arrow. Long John Silver kills him... and he's missed by no-one.

* AlasPoorScrappy: ''Averted'' with Mr. Arrow. Long John Silver kills him...and he's missed by no-one.