Line #21 PlayingWith/GoingDownWithTheShip


1	'''Basic Trope''': The captain of a ship will not AbandonShip if it sinks.
2	* '''Straight''': The S.S. ''Failboat'' is sinking. [[FatherNeptune Captain Bob]] stays on board and drowns when it sinks.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Along with his wife and kids, his first mate, and his dog.
5	** All the senior officers remain on the ''Failboat'', having evacuated the passengers, enlistees, and junior officers.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Captain Bob stays on board long enough to make sure [[TheMenFirst everyone else evacuated]], and gets off just as the ''Failboat'' sinks.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Captain Bob feels [[HonorBeforeReason it would be dishonorable to abandon ship]].
9	** There are pirates on the ''Failboat'' going after the crew. [[HeroicSacrifice Captain Bob is fighting them]] [[YouShallNotPass to stall for time]] while everyone else escapes.
10	** Captain Bob has been mortally wounded. Abandoning ship with his crew won't save his life, so he may as well die on the ''Failboat''.
11	** Captain Bob is [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal]].
12	** The incident that doomed the ''Failboat'' was Bob's fault, so he goes down with her as [[TheAtoner atonement]].
13	** The captain is manning one of the auxiliary bilge pumps, buying precious few seconds (if not minutes) for the passengers to get to safety [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of his own life]].
14	** [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral Evulz]] will [[YouHaveFailedMe punish]] Captain Bob with a FateWorseThanDeath for losing the ship, so Bob decides to go down with the ship rather than face Evulz's wrath.
15	** The ''Failboat'' is surrounded by an enemy fleet who would torture Captain Bob for information if he survives.
16	* '''Inverted''': When the S.S. ''Failboat'' sinks, Captain Bob is the first to get in a lifeboat.
17	* '''Subverted''': Captain Bob stays onboard to coordinate the evacuation, and then gets on a lifeboat
18	* '''Double Subverted''': He is about to board the lifeboat, only to demand to be left behind.
19	* '''Parodied''':
20	** Captain Bob gives a RamblingOldManMonologue about his days at sea as the S.S. ''Failboat'' sinks with him on it.
21	** Captain Bob makes his NumberTwo Charlie the captain, and tells him to go down with the ship. Charlie then uses his new authority to re-appoint Bob the captain, and tells ''him'' to go down with the ship. Bob then re-appoints Charlie the captain...etc. And then they both go down when the ''Failboat'' sinks.
22	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Captain Bob determines that the ship is going to go down, so gives the order to prepare evacuations. Just before the Lifeboats are dropped, the problem is fixed and the ship doesn't need to be abandoned.
23	* '''Averted''':
24	** The S.S. ''Failboat'' does not sink.
25	** Captain Bob abandons ship, honor be damned!
26	** The S.S. ''Failboat'' sinks before anyone can evacuate, except for a few lucky people.
27	* '''Enforced''':
28	** "Captain Bob appears to be [[TheScrappy disliked by the audience]]... [[AlasPoorScrappy let's get rid of him!]]"
29	** TruthInTelevision
30	* '''Lampshaded''': "A captain must go down with his ship."
31	* '''Invoked''':
32	** The S.S. ''Failboat'' is attacked with Captain Bob aboard. The attacker even makes sure that Bob is on board when he attacks, saying, [[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness "No ship should go down without her captain."]]
33	** Charlie the [[NumberTwo XO]] hates Captain Bob. When the ''Failboat'' starts sinking. Charlie leaves Bob tied up on TheBridge and escapes, leaving him to drown.
34	* '''Exploited''': ???
35	* '''Defied''':
36	** Captain Bob decides it's more important to see that everyone on board gets to safety, and to help with the lifeboats, so he gets off the ship, too.
37	** Or he thinks it's silly to essentially commit suicide ''just'' because his boat sinks, and wants to sail another ship.
38	** Captain Bob's NumberTwo, Charlie, pulls him off the ''Failboat'' before it sinks.
39	* '''Discussed''': ???
40	* '''Conversed''': ???
41	* '''Implied''':
42	** The S.S. ''Failboat'' sinks. Captain Bob is never seen again.
43	** The only skeleton on the sea-wreck wears the tattered remains of [[EarnedStripes a three, maybe four, striped cuff]] on its left arm.
44	* '''Deconstructed''': Despite whatever caused the ''Failboat'' to sink, Bob is still a damn good captain. Losing him along with his ship is a major blow to his navy.
45	* '''Reconstructed''': But losing Bob along with the ''Failboat'' inspires the navy to make sure that what doomed them both never happens again.
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51	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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