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  • How exactly did Flint kill fourteen men with two (muzzle-loaded) flintlock pistols?
    • Probably took a few out with the pistol shots (they'd go through the initial target at that range) then cut the rest down with his cutlass. They were all exhausted from hauling the treasure and digging the holes so there wouldn't be much of a fight.
    • He obviously didn't kill all of them with those two shots; that was just the start of the massacre. The scene cuts away there because it makes for a dramatic ending to the song (BOOM!), and this way the audience immediately gets what's happened without having to drag the pacing down (and the rating up) by showing exactly how every single one of the fourteen pirates died. The important part is that he killed them all, not how he did it.
    • Also, Billy Bones is an Unreliable Narrator — and not just because he's probably drunk during the telling of the story.
    • Later, Long John Silver says that Flint "gullied" the men who buried the treasure, suggesting that he did kill most of them with his sword.

  • What happened to Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brien? She/he/whatever was never seen or mentioned after Role Call.
    • She probably died at sea, or may have even been thrown overboard. It's bad luck to have a woman on board, after all.
    • She was obviously intended as a one off gag, but the above ideas are possible as is the idea that she was still on board, just offscreen.

  • How come the movie ends with Long John losing the treasure and being stranded on Treasure Island? You can bring up nobody at Disney wanting Long John to get a Karma Houdini, but Mr. Arrow lives unlike in Stevenson's novel.
    • The lifeboat that he took was unsafe, and he couldn't have taken the heavy gold with him when he abandoned the lifeboat. And as for why the lifeboat just happened to be unsafe, I'd call it his karma for trying (even though unsuccessfully) to kill Mr. Arrow by stoking his fear of unsafe lifeboats.
      • Before reuniting with Mr. Arrow, Jim and co. found a lifeboat that had been sabotaged by the pig tribe, so there was at least one that was definitely "unsafe".
      • It's possible that the crew had retrieved the sabotaged lifeboat and were in the process of repairing it, but Silver took it unaware of its status and it sank out from under him as a result.
    • It's as you say, they just didn't want Long John to both get away with his crimes and still be on good terms with Jim after everything he did. Even if he didn't drown Mr. Arrow John was still a vicious pirate who would've surely had other crimes on his list or be party to them. As for being stranded, it's possible that with the success of the treasure hunt that word would spread on the island leading to other ships visiting. John could hitch a ride if so.

  • Blind Pew would have known Billy Bones was going to try to make a run for it when he got the Black Spot, so why didn't Pew come with the gang of pirates in the first place to try to stop Billy?
    • Possibly they just weren't ready yet, or Blind Pew was a Leeroy Jenkins who couldn't pass up the chance for some Evil Gloating. And there didn't seem to be much of a time lag between Pew's first visit and the mob arriving, given Billy's frantic response.
    • Might also have been a case of Honor Before Reason. The pirates' M.O. seems to be "serving" someone with the Black Spot in advance of actually coming to kill them. It's possible that this is to allow the condemned person to display cowardice by fleeing before the promised attempt on their life.

  • Why, if Captain Smollet served with Jim's father, does he ask which one is Hawkins? Shouldn't he know that the human father had a human child?
    • Well, in The Muppets (2011), the very Muppety Walter and the very human Gary are brothers and nobody questions that. And in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Fozzie play "identical twin brothers" and though the fact that they don't look anything alike is mentioned, nobody questions how a frog and a bear could be twins. In the Muppet world, it's apparently perfectly possible to have blood relatives that are not the same species. We don't even know if Jim's father was human! So, Smollet probably figured it was best to ask.
    • Also a big part of the joke is probably that Muppets don't really see race/species unless it's relevant to the current gag.
    • And either Smollet never encountered Jim himself when he served with Jim's father, or Jim was a baby at the time, so presumably Smollet has only the vaguest idea what Jim looks like and decided to be courteous by asking.
    • Putting aside how we don't know if Hawkins' father was "human" (or at least not a Muppet) to begin with (for all we know, he could've been a Muppet while the mother wasn't one), the Muppets have always been in a Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My! world where humans (or at least non-Muppet humans) and the titular characters casually coexist together with both sides showing romantic interest in the other (Benjamina even flirts with Long John and no one comments on it as strange for a pig woman to show interest in a human man). More importantly, an early plan for the film was for Jim Hawkins to be split into Jim (Gonzo) and Hawkins (Rizzo). With that in mind, it's possible that the scene with Smollet asking for Jim might've been an artifact of this point in development where Hawkins Sr. had no non-Muppet children (assuming Gonzo and Rizzo's characters would've been brothers here).

  • Is it my imagination or does Blind Pew look a lot like one of the Labyrinth Muppets?
    • Apart from the fact that he's a Muppet, so of course? (Sorry, sorry...) It's possible he's related somehow to some of them; probably why he acts the way he does, too.

  • In the song "Professional Pirate," Long John Silver mentions "When I was just a lad[...]my father said "Now son..."" Uh...didn't Long John tell Jim earlier in the movie that his father died WHEN HE WAS EIGHT? Was Papa Silver trying to get his son to turn to piracy at the tender age of EIGHT? Or was Long John lying about his dad dying when he was so young to try and "empathize" with Jim?
    • Yes. To both. He's clearly trying to build more empathy with Arrr Jim Lad, but also many fathers encourage their kids down a certain career path from the moment they can talk or even before. Silver's dad, like Silver, clearly has a romanticised view of Piracy. It is how you look at buccaneers that make them bad or good, after all...


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