"They speak in tropes, at sea."
— Stephen Maturin, H.M.S. Surprise
Tropes related to ships and sailing.
Because Space Is an Ocean, a lot of these tropes also show up in Space Opera, or have space-operatic equivalents.
Tropes
Categories:
- Abandon Ship
- Alien Sea
- The Ark
- Artistic License – Ships
- The Bermuda Triangle
- Boarding Party
- Born Under the Sail
- Burial at Sea
- Burning the Ships
- The Captain
- Colony Ship
- Commanding Coolness
- Cool Boat
- Deserted Island
- The Drunken Sailor
- Emergency Cargo Dump
- Epic Ship-on-Ship Action
- "Far Side" Island
- Father Neptune
- Flaunting Your Fleets
- Ghost Ship
- Going Down with the Ship
- Gunboat Diplomacy
- Hello, Sailor!
- Horny Sailors
- Houseboat Hero
- Improvised Sail
- Island Base
- Island of Mystery
- Isle of Giant Horrors
- Leaf Boat
- Lighthouse Point
- Lord of the Ocean
- Lost at Sea
- Married at Sea
- Mega Maelstrom
- Nautical Knockout
- Naval Blockade
- "Noah's Story" Arc
- Not-So-Safe Harbor
- Ocean Awe
- Ocean Madness
- Ocean Punk
- Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date
- Pirate
- Plucky Middie
- Port Town
- Running the Blockade
- Ruthless Modern Pirates
- Seadog Beard
- Seadog Peg Leg
- Sea Mine
- Sea Monster
- Shipshape Shipwreck
- Silent Running Mode
- Sink The Life Boats
- Sinking Ship Scenario
- Spy Ship
- Submarine Pirates
- Sub Story
- Super-Sargasso Sea
- Superstitious Sailors
- Swan Boats
- Turtle Island
- Wooden Ships and Iron Men
