Basic Trope: A pirate that is friendly.
- Straight: Captain Lightbeard is a pirate that is very friendly.
- Exaggerated:
- Captain Lightbeard is an All-Loving Hero who even advocates against stealing.
- All of the pirates in the work are nice.
- Downplayed:
- Captain Lightbeard can be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Calling him "friendly" would be an overstatement, but compared to the other pirates, he's pretty nice.
- Justified:
- Captain Lightbeard realized that children love pirates, and wanted to be a good role model to them.
- Captain Lightbeard is a privateer. Thus, he's technically doing the same sorts of things a pirate might do, except he's doing them for the good guys.
- Inverted: Captain Lightbeard is evil.
- Subverted: Although Captain Lightbeard acts friendly, he was really just being Faux Affably Evil in an attempt to rob someone.
- Double Subverted:
- Captain Lightbeard has a Heel–Face Turn after.
- Alternatively, Lightbeard was only joking about robbing someone.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged:
- There are some friendly pirates and some evil pirates in the work.
- Captain Lightbeard is in a Heel–Face Revolving Door.
- Whether Captain Lightbeard is a fearsome pirate or a friendly privateer depends on what side of the Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters debate you are.
- Averted: There are no pirates.
- Enforced: "We should make a character that's a pirate, but since this is a work for kids, we can't show any violence or give kids bad role models. How about we make him a good guy?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Captain Lightbeard is forced into piracy by corrupt authority. While he has to be branded a criminal, he refuses to stop being a good man.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Captain Lightbeard knows that being a pirate is a dangerous life. He has to harden his heart to survive against the world.
- Discussed: "Captain Lightbeard proves that maybe some pirates out there aren't so bad after all."
- Conversed: "I wonder why pirates are often so nice in kids' shows."
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