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** Apparently at least some officers in the Royal Navy felt this way about Sandokan even in his pirate days: the lieutenant that managed to capture Sandokan near the end of ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' openly complained that he was scheduled to be hanged at Three Islands, and said that if he had been in charge Sandokan would have been offered a command in the Indian Army ([[GenreSavvy meaning that a ludicrously dangerous pirate was neutralized and they earned a very brave and competent officer for their ground troops and well away from Mompracem]]). The same lieutenant (who never approached Sandokan without escort and a hand on his gun, even when he didn't yet know that Sandokan had broke his chains) allowed Sandokan to '[[FakingTheDead kill himself]]' to spare him the humiliation, and when Marianna asked for the 'corpse' he not only allowed her to claim him ([[ProperlyParanoid after having a doctor checking if he was really dead, of course]]) but also suggested her to throw them in the sea before her uncle got the chance to hang him anyway.
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** Italian media of the time tended to praise brawn over brain. Salgari had the habit of thrusting Sandokan into situations where Yanez's smarts were more useful than his considerable strength and skill, and in ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' used Marianna and Yanez to call him an idiot when he decided to kill a tiger with a knife (Marianna tried and shot the tiger to prevent Sandokan from facing a tiger in melee combat, and told him to his face) and wait the dawn to crippe a British cruiser because he wanted to show off his wife (Yanez pestered him to hurry up and shoot the damn cruiser, as he was good enough a shot to it with the moonlight, and continued 'till dawn). Thankfully with time Sandokan smarted up, to the point that by ''Yanez's Revenge'' he kept an [[ThePlagueMaster expert of biological weapons]] in case the British Empire decided to invade his new country or some idiot tried to dethrone Yanez (said idiot saw his army literally shit itself to death when the expert caused a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera Cholera]] epidemics. Sandokan and Yanez's troops were vaccinated).
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** BadassBoast: Sandokan has the habit of boasting he could do something apparently impossible... And then do it. Among these boasts, the most notable are his casual mention he felt capable of killing a tiger (that was when he found that 'present' for Marianna: he told it to lord Guillonk, then his host, who promptly invited him to a tiger hunt), notable because he was still recovering from being shot and nearly drowning, or his boast he alone was more than enough to thwart the pursue from a British ironclad (he crippled it with a single grenade on a paddlewheel, after waiting for dawn to show the enemy crew his wife as added insult), notable not only for the fact that a single man defeated a ''warship'' but because Yanez's reaction (he was quite annoyed at Sandokan for waiting so long, giving the enemy the chance to sink them with a lucky shot) implied it's almost normal occurrence.
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** ProperlyParanoid and SeenItAll: the Tigers are CrazyPrepared because they have seen or read what modern (for the time) technology could do and expect the Royal Navy to attack them in any moment (even when they have no more reason to do it), and tend to collect anything that could be useful, like the ''King of the Sea'' (bought by Yanez when he encountered her by chance) or a mad scientist claiming his electrical device can blow up enemy ships' magazines (guess what blew up that ship...), even if they don't really believe in it (the mad scientist. Yanez was skeptical, but suggested to keep him just in case).
** ProperlyParanoid and SeenItAll: the Tigers are CrazyPrepared because they have seen or read what modern (for the time) technology could do and expect the Royal Navy to attack them in any moment (even when they have no more reason to do it), and tend to collect anything that could be useful, like the ''King of the Sea'' (bought by Yanez when he encountered her by chance) or a mad scientist claiming his electrical device can blow up enemy ships' magazines (guess what blew up that ship...), even if they don't really believe in it (the mad scientist. Yanez was skeptical, but suggested to keep him just in case).
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* AnimalMotifs: [[CaptainObvious A lot]]. Apart the tiger motif, explicitly used with Sandokan (the Tiger of Malaysia), Yanez (sometimes called the White Tiger, as he's a white man and Sandokan's [[BashBrothers brother in everything but blood]]), their pirates (the Tigers of Mompracem) and Suyodhana (the Tiger of India. Bonus point for him and Sandokan having been represented with the bodies of actual tigers in the cover of the first edition of ''The Two Tigers'') and implicitly for Marianna (implied by Sandokan's flag, that changed from a single head of tiger in red field in ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' to three heads of tiger in the other novels, representing Sandokan, Yanez and the now late Marianna), TheBritishEmpire has both a lion and leopard motif, to the point that Sandokan and Yanez often use 'lion' and 'leopard' in place of 'Englishman'.
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* MoralityPet: Marianna. To keep her safe, Sandokan quit piracy and went to Java with his surviving pirates at the end of ''The Tigers of Mompracem'', but after her death in a cholera outbreak Sandokan raised a new pirate band and returned to Mompracem.
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* KickTheDog: Lord Guillonk was willing to kill Marianna, his ''niece'', before letting her marry Sandokan, and would have done so if Yanez didn't [[UseYourHead headbutt him into submission]] when he tried.
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* TheBritishEmpire: A frequent early opponent of Sandokan due him being a very successful pirate. It's implied that, after Sandokan's ''epic'' RoaringRampageOfRevenge in ''The King of the Sea'', he and the British Empire have an informal agreement that allows Sandokan and Yanez to do as they wish (even buying weapons from them) as long as they won't damage the British interests (Yanez even carved out a nice empire for himself right in the real-life Raj, with the Brits not interfering because he had deposed a corrupted prince and opened his country to trade).
** The novels ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' and ''The Two Tigers'' are explicitly set in the British-ruled India, the first in Bengal under the rule of the East India Company and the latter around India as the Uprising of 1857 raged. In these novels Salgari showed both the good and the bad of the British rule: on the good side there are the British opening the country to trade and industrialization and hunting down dangerous animals, improving of a discrete margin the life conditions of the people, and fighting barbaric customs as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29 Sati]] (also known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Widow Burning]]) and the suppression of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee Thuggee cult]] (we are even shown East India Company troops affiliated with the Thuggee Department storming the Thuggee headquarter); on the bad side there is the imperial arrogance that caused various abuses and the Uprising of 1857 with all of its devastation, culminating in the vivid description of the massacre of Delhi's population at the hands of British ''European'' troops.
** The novels ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' and ''The Two Tigers'' are explicitly set in the British-ruled India, the first in Bengal under the rule of the East India Company and the latter around India as the Uprising of 1857 raged. In these novels Salgari showed both the good and the bad of the British rule: on the good side there are the British opening the country to trade and industrialization and hunting down dangerous animals, improving of a discrete margin the life conditions of the people, and fighting barbaric customs as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29 Sati]] (also known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Widow Burning]]) and the suppression of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee Thuggee cult]] (we are even shown East India Company troops affiliated with the Thuggee Department storming the Thuggee headquarter); on the bad side there is the imperial arrogance that caused various abuses and the Uprising of 1857 with all of its devastation, culminating in the vivid description of the massacre of Delhi's population at the hands of British ''European'' troops.
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* KnowsWhenToFoldEm: Sandokan will try and avoid a battle he can't win, and retreat when he gets his ass kicked, if only to return in force and take revenge.
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* KnowsWhenToFoldEm: KnowWhenToFoldEm: Sandokan will try and avoid a battle he can't win, and retreat when he gets his ass kicked, if only to return in force and take revenge.
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* FightingForAHomeland: Sandokan and the survivors of the Tigers of Mompracem in ''Quest for a Throne'', ''Sandokan Fights Back'' and ''Return to Mompracem'': after being chased out of Mompracem in ''The King of the Sea'', the Tigers search for a place to call home. Subverted in the end: while they conquered [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam Assam]] in ''Quest for a Throne'' (it happened that Yanez's wife had a claim to that throne) and took back Sandokan's ancestral homeland in ''Sandokan Fights Back'', they can't find a place to call home, and as soon as the British gives away Mompracem they reconquer it from the Sultan of Brunei.
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* FightingForAHomeland: Sandokan and the survivors of the Tigers of Mompracem in ''Quest for a Throne'', ''Sandokan Fights Back'' and ''Return to Mompracem'': after being chased out of Mompracem in ''The King of the Sea'', the Tigers search for a place to call home. Subverted in the end: while they conquered [[en.[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam Assam]] in ''Quest for a Throne'' (it happened that Yanez's wife had a claim to that throne) and took back Sandokan's ancestral homeland in ''Sandokan Fights Back'', they can't find a place to call home, and as soon as the British gives away Mompracem they reconquer it from the Sultan of Brunei.
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* TheDreaded: Sandokan, and for good reasons.
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* BoringButPractical: A blink-and-you-miss-it line reveals that most of Sandokan's immense fortune is kept in one or more ''banking accounts in neutral countries'', and that what he has at Mompracem is just petty cash. That's how Yanez bought the ironclad ''King of the Sea'': Sandokan had given him the cheque book in case the 'petty cash' he had with him wasn't enough...
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* BoringButPractical: A blink-and-you-miss-it line ''The King of the Sea'' reveals that most of Sandokan's immense fortune is kept safe in one or more ''banking accounts in neutral countries'', and that what countries'' (what he has at Mompracem is just petty cash. That's how cash), and that he gave Yanez bought the ironclad ''King of the Sea'': Sandokan had given him the cheque book in case the 'petty cash' he had with him (a small fortune) wasn't enough...enough to buy whatever Yanez considered necessary, like food, gunpowder, or an ''ironclad warship''.
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* BoringButPractical: A blink-and-you-miss-it line reveals that most of Sandokan's immense fortune is kept in one or more ''banking accounts in neutral countries'', and that what he has at Mompracem is just petty cash. That's how Yanez bought the ironclad ''King of the Sea'': Sandokan had given him the cheque book in case the 'petty cash' he had with him wasn't enough...
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* SacredHospitality: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by lord Guillonk: when he learns that the guest he had healed was actually Sandokan he kicked him out of his house and prepared an ambush against him. Sandokan seems to play it straight: while never tested on it he knows well the code, and took offense on the ambush (only the ambush: as a pirate he ''was'' Guillonk's enemy, and having fully recovered he admitted he was fair game for being kicked out).
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* TemptingFate: Played with. When Sandokan boasted he felt like could kill a tiger he was promptly invited by lord Guillonk to take part to a tiger hunt, but Sandokan not only survived but made good on his boast.
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** In ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' Sandokan and Yanez hid in an enormous wood burning stove, with Yanez cackling because nobody would ever think to search the Tiger of Malaysia in it. His hilarity ceased when he heard the British soldiers wondering out loud if the stove was big enough to let a man hide inside, and he went in full OhCrap mode when they agreed that the stove was most probably too small but it was better check anyway (they only escaped due the horrible lighting inside it).
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** BadassDamsel: Marianna. She can be kidnapped, as her physical strength is that of a woman, but she knows how to use guns (normally a muzzle-loader hunting carbine, but she even manned a ''cannon'', in the tv movies), and has no qualms at using them. Heck, her first reaction at Sandokan announcing his intention to kill a tiger with a knife to gift her the skin was to grab a gun to try and ''hunt down the tiger to prevent Sandokan from risking his life''. Part of why she fell for Sandokan was that he was the first man other than her uncle (who actually taught her how to shoot) who accepted that side of her.
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** BadassDamsel: Marianna. She can be kidnapped, as her physical strength is that of a young and very short woman, but she knows how to use guns (normally a muzzle-loader hunting carbine, but she even manned a ''cannon'', in the tv movies), and has no qualms at using them. Heck, her first reaction at Sandokan announcing his intention to kill a tiger with a knife to gift her the skin was to grab a gun to try and ''hunt down the tiger to prevent Sandokan from risking his life''. Part of why she fell for Sandokan was that he was the first man other than her uncle (who actually taught her how to shoot) who accepted that side of her.
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** Sandokan is at the wrong end of the very first example of the series: in ''The Pirates of Mompracem'' he has a run-in with a British steam-powered warship, who would use her superior firepower to massacre the pirates from distance and the steam propulsion to keep the distance and avoid a boarding that would have given victory to Sandokan. It's mentioned that Sandokan and his pirates started cursing and telling very unkind things at the ship the first time she pulled this.
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* GenreSavvy: The British military and everyone affiliated to them. Everyone else will face Sandokan with superior numbers, melee weapons and a few guns and get slaughtered, but they ''always'' attack with as much firepower as they can and use the fact their ships are ''steamers'' to avoid boardings (at least the first time Sandokan tried to board a cruiser. He never bothered again as he knew what would happen).
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* [[{{Mook}} Mooks]]: Various, depending on the novel. Bonus point for the Thuggee cultists in ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' and ''The Two Tigers'' for being the origin of the word 'thug' and actually be called thugs by the author.
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* RedShirtArmy: Averted ''hard'' by the British military of all people. Their ground forces may have worn their famous red coats for most of the series (in real-life the Indian Army was switching to khaki in that very period, but most of them were still using red as late as ''The Two Tigers''), but they always show more competence than other Sandokan's enemies and the smarts to try and keep distance and use their superior firepower against Sandokan (who was firepower-heavy for a Indian Ocean pirate or warlord of his time, but never even close to the British military).
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* NotSoHarmless: At first baronet William Rosenthal seems to be just an obnoxious and racist young noble who planned to make a career in the Royal Navy thanks to his nobility and hated lord Guillonk's guest (actually Sandokan, found near dead and healed by Guillonk and family after a bad run-in with a British cruiser) because he wasn't English. It's later revealed he's the captain of the cruiser that had nearly killed Sandokan, and that didn't actually hate him until he realized ''where'' he had already seen him. There's even a good chance he had been the one who actually wounded Sandokan in that battle...
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* TheRival: Baronet William Rosenthal is this for Sandokan in ''The Pirates of Mompracem'', kicking his ass in battle even before being introduced (it helped that his cruiser outgunned Sandokan's two prahos by a fair margin, but he had to fight it smart to avoid a boarding until it would be useless) and trying to woe Marianna.
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* ShallowLoveInterest: Baronet William Rosenthal, a character in ''The Tigers of Mompracem'', exists only to be Sandokan's rival for Marianna's love, and his only chance to marry her was to have lord Guillonk force his niece.
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* ButNotTooForeign: Marianna's mother was half-Italian, and Marianna herself was born in Naples.
** Ada Corishant too: being the daughter of Marianna's maternal uncle and an Indian woman she's one quarter Italian, one quarter English and two quarters Indian.
** Ada Corishant too: being the daughter of Marianna's maternal uncle and an Indian woman she's one quarter Italian, one quarter English and two quarters Indian.
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* MilitaryBrat: Marianna. After the death of her parents she was raised by her uncle, lord James Guillonk, who was about to cruise the Indian Ocean to scour it from pirates. He ''brought her along'', resulting in her being a very good shot (and probably having manned the cannon once or twice back then) and a very impolite and ferocious little monster when her uncle settled down in Labuan, giving him an hard time teaching her the manners of a lady.
** ChildSoldier: Marianna first embarked on a warship when she was 10, and stayed there until she was 13. It's implied that lord Guillonk settled down with her because he had suddenly realized what he had done.
** ChildSoldier: Marianna first embarked on a warship when she was 10, and stayed there until she was 13. It's implied that lord Guillonk settled down with her because he had suddenly realized what he had done.
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* OhCrap: The usual reaction at someone discovering that Sandokan is around. Also the Thuggee's reaction when they discovered that [[FluffyTamer Tremal Naik had a pet tiger]].
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* FluffyTamer: Tremal Naik's pet is a ''tiger'', and treats her like a cuddly cat who can also guard his home. Kammamuri qualifies too, as he's the one who cares for the tiger when Tremal Naik isn't around.
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** Suyodhana and Tremal Naik come close to Sandokan. Tremal Naik first appeared as making a living from ''hunting tigers with knives and traps'', and Suyodhana bested Tremal Naik in single combat and gave Sandokan a run for his money.
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** Suyodhana and Tremal Naik come close to Sandokan. Tremal Naik first appeared as making a living from ''hunting tigers with knives and traps'', traps'' (Salgari often refers to him as [[TheRedBaron The Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle]] even after he changed jobs), and Suyodhana bested Tremal Naik in single combat and gave Sandokan a run for his money.money in a knife fight.
*** In ''The King of the Sea'' Darma, Tremal Naik's daughter, proves she has grown into this when her reaction to attacking Dayaks is to use them to prove herself a crack shot. She still got kidnapped by overwhelming numbers, but she made them pay for that in blood.
* GirlsWithGuns: Marianna is quite a good shot with a carbine. Darma (Tremal Naik's daughter) is a crack shot.
** SmallGirlBigGun: Marianna in the Italian tv movies has manned a CANNON.
** SmallGirlBigGun: Marianna in the Italian tv movies has manned a CANNON.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: We have the Tiger of Malaysia (Sandokan), the Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle (Tremal Naik), the Tiger of India (Suyodhana), and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Head Hunters]] (a nickname of the Dayak people, who, before being stopped by retaliations from the British and the Dutch, had the habit to raid places with the only purpose of cutting heads).
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Tremal Naik named his daughter Darma after his tiger, and they both appeared in ''The Two Tigers'' and ''The King of the Sea'' before the tiger got shot.
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*** This is how Kammamuri first met Yanez: the ship he was traveling with shipwrecked on Mompracem, and when the pirates attacked he outlived the crew and fought back with incredible valor, prompting Yanez to recall the pirates and asking him to join.join.
** The son of [[spoiler: Suyodhana]] was the only man to completely and utterly defeat Sandokan, but spared his life due to this trope and [[spoiler: having fallen in love for Tremal Naik's daughter]].
** The son of [[spoiler: Suyodhana]] was the only man to completely and utterly defeat Sandokan, but spared his life due to this trope and [[spoiler: having fallen in love for Tremal Naik's daughter]].
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Sometimes a character is faced with something he couldn't have possibly anticipated, like the Dayaks being attacked by an ironclad warship (''The King of the Sea'') or Sandokan using [[ThePlague cholera]] against Yanez's enemies (''Yanez's Revenge'').
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* BigDamnHeroes: In more than one occasion the heroes or an ally is in serious trouble when someone arrives and rescue them. The most impressive example is from ''The King of the Sea'': Yanez and seven Tigers of Mompracem were on a ship about to be boarded by an horde of Dayaks when [[DidntSeeThatComing an ironclad warship that was passing by witnessed an European in trouble and sank the Dayaks]].
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Happens to unlucky prisoners who don't want to spill the beans. The one who got it worse is the Meccan Pilgrim, who, captured by Yanez and the original (American) crew of the ''King of the Sea'', was subjected to the water cure by the Americans and broke [[EvenEvilHasStandards just as Yanez begged them to stop]].
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* MeaningfulName: Sandokan's named ships have meaningful names. His ship in ''The Pirates of Malaysia'', the ''Pearl of Labuan'', is named after his now late wife Marianna Guillonk, also known as the Pearl of Labuan for her beauty. The ship that replaced ''Pearl of Labuan'' in ''The Two Tigers'' is named ''Marianna'', as Yanez's ship in ''The King of the Sea'' (that novel made clear there were two identical ships named ''Marianna'' in Sandokan's fleet). The novel ''The King of the Sea'' has a magnificent example: Yanez and Sandokan get the chance to buy the ''Nebraska'', an American-built ironclad warship superior to anything else in the Indian Ocean that had been built for a sultan (who had already paid it) and [[WhatAnIdiot refused by his successor]], and renamed it ''King of the Sea'' to express their intention to rule on the routes of the Indian Ocean until the British and [[spoiler: Suyodhana's son]] begged for mercy or they got sunk.
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: Salgari ''loves'' this trope, and anyone with half a brain tend to bring as much firepower as they can. One example from ''The Pirates of Malaysia'': to fight Sandokan's single ship ''Marianna'' (an oversized praho modified for superior speed and carrying more guns than normal prahos) James Brooke deployed four normal prahos (each with about three quarters of Sandokan's firepower) and his personal ship ''Royalist'', that was a match for ''Marianna''. It's hinted that James Brooke was improvising, and that he would have used more ships had he been faster at recognizing ''Marianna'' as a pirate ship.
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: Salgari ''loves'' this trope, and anyone with half a brain tend to bring as much firepower as they can. One example from ''The Pirates of Malaysia'': to fight Sandokan's single ship ''Marianna'' ''Pearl of Labuan'' (an oversized praho modified for superior speed and carrying more guns than normal prahos) James Brooke deployed four normal prahos (each with about three quarters of Sandokan's firepower) and his personal ship ''Royalist'', that was a match for ''Marianna''.''Pearl''. It's hinted that James Brooke was improvising, and that he would have used more ships had he been faster at recognizing ''Marianna'' as a pirate ship.
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* ShownTheirWork: Salgari traveled very little, but was ''very'' well documented, and his descriptions of ships, locations and societies showed it (he did a couple errors, but one of them, the lake near Mount Kinabalu, was commonly thought to exist at the time, and the area would be fully explored only after his death). Made more impressive by the fact internet didn't exist at the time and Salgari wasn't a professor, just a poor and overworked professional novel writer.
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: Salgari ''loves'' this trope, and both sides anyone with half a brain tend to bring as much firepower as they can. One example from ''The Pirates of Malaysia'': to fight Sandokan's single ship ''Marianna'' (an oversized praho modified for superior speed and carrying more guns than normal prahos) James Brooke deployed four normal prahos (each with about three quarters of Sandokan's firepower) and his personal ship ''Royalist'', that was a match for ''Marianna''. It's hinted that James Brooke was improvising, and that he would have used more ships had he been faster at recognizing ''Marianna'' as a pirate ship.ship.
** An example from ''Yanez's Revenge'': when facing about a thousand badly trained enemies armed with antique muzzle-loaders Sandokan opened fire with two hundreds repeating rifles and ''twelve [[MoreDakka Maxim machine guns]]'' while charging at them on top of ''elephants''. Very few enemies survived long enough to [[OhCrap realized how badly outgunned, outmanouvered and outclassed they were]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run the hell away from there]].
** An example from ''Yanez's Revenge'': when facing about a thousand badly trained enemies armed with antique muzzle-loaders Sandokan opened fire with two hundreds repeating rifles and ''twelve [[MoreDakka Maxim machine guns]]'' while charging at them on top of ''elephants''. Very few enemies survived long enough to [[OhCrap realized how badly outgunned, outmanouvered and outclassed they were]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run the hell away from there]].
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* [[WhereTheHellIsSpingfield Where The Hell Is Mompracem?]]: Salgari chose Sandokan's base on an old map, but the island isn't shown on maps since before Salgari started writing, and the main candidate of Keraman is mentioned in the novels as a separate island.
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* FairForItsDay: To modern audiences, Salgari is a moderate racist and sexist. When the novels were written (between 1883 and 1911), Salgari was a radical proponent of equality between genders and races.
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* CashCowFranchise: Became one after Salgari's death, as the editor had other authors (including Salgari's son Omar) write other Sandokan novels.
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Sandokan is the [[CharacterTitle eponymous protagonist]] of a series of novels from Italian writer Emilio Salgari. Set in and around the Indian Ocean, the novels [[CaptainObvious tell Sandokan's story]], starting from his pirate career to avenge his father, a Bornean rajah [[YouKilledMyFather killed by a British-sponsored white man]]. Alongside him we find Yanez de Gomera ([[MightyWhitey the only white man of Sandokan's pirate gang and his second in command]]), Tremal Naik (a former [[{{Badass}} professional tiger hunter]] with the Thuggee cult), Kammamuri (Tremal Naik's servant) and Sambigliong (the most important of the pirates after Sandokan and Yanez).
The novels enjoy great popularity in Italy, and there are various animated and live action movies and series inspired to it (plus a great number of novels written by other authors).
Novels:
# ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' ("Le Tigri di Mompracem"; it's sometimes listed as third in the series, as it was published in volume after ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' and ''The Pirates of Malaysia'')
# ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' ("I Misteri della Giungla Nera"; originally a stand-alone novel with Tremal Naik as protagonist, was retroactively incorporated in the series after ''The Pirates of Malaysia'')
# ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' ("I Pirati della Malesia")
# ''The Two Tigers'' ("Le Due Tigri")
# ''The King of the Sea'' ("Il Re del Mare")
# ''Quest for a Throne'' ("Alla Conquista di un Impero")
# ''Sandokan Fights Back'' ("Sandokan alla Riscossa")
# ''Return to Mompracem'' ("La Riconquista di Mompracem")
# ''The Brahman'' ("Il Bramino dell'Assam")
# ''An Empire Crumbles'' ("La Caduta di un Impero")
# ''Yanez's Revenge'' ("La Rivincita di Yanez")
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!! The novels contain examples of the following tropes:
* AscendedExtra: James Brooke, the historical first White Rajah of Sarawak, was a minor character in the novels, being only mentioned in ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' (with a possible apparition, as his personal ship is among the fleet that attacks Mompracem) and the villain in ''The Pirates of Malaysia''. The various animated series and live action series and movies make him Sandokan's main adversary.
* AuthorAppeal: Salgari was a fierce opponent of colonialism. Whenever a colonial power appeared in his novels (both in the Sandokan series and the others series and stand-alone novels) they were shown either as {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s who genuinely believed they were doing the right thing or greedy cowards.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Salgari killed himself in 1911, after completing ''An Empire Crumbles'' (intented to be a single novel with ''The Brahman'' but published in two parts) and writing the first draft of ''Yanez's Revenge''. The two novels were published posthumously, and ''Yanez's Revenge'' contains a few plot holes.
* {{Badass}}: Many, but Sandokan is the biggest. His idea of a good present for a woman is the skin of a tiger he hunted personally. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGQ0epxHd8I This is how he got the skin]].
** Suyodhana and Tremal Naik come close to Sandokan. Tremal Naik first appeared as making a living from ''hunting tigers with knives and traps'', and Suyodhana bested Tremal Naik in single combat and gave Sandokan a run for his money.
* BashBrothers: Sandokan and Yanez. Completely different in personality, but they'd die before leaving the other in trouble. Bonus points for actually calling each other brothers.
** The Tigers of Mompracem are this on a larger scale, being pirates from many ethnic groups (mostly Malays and Dayaks) that would normally kill each other on sight (TruthInTelevision: Malays and Dayaks went out of their way to attack each other, with James Brooke actually using Malay forces to take down the main Dayak pirate band and Dayak forces to destroy the main Malay pirate group).
* BulletproofHumanShield: ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' offers a strange example: Sandokan expects the commander of the ship he's using to shield him from incoming bullets (it's all but stated that it's part of their rules), and even reprimands him when he fails to do so and another pirate dies in his place.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Three novels end into one. ''The Mystery of the Black Jungle'' ends with Tremal Naik and the British troops freeing Ada from the Thuggee and escaping their temple while Suyodhana says [[BadassBoast "Go! We'll meet again in the jungle!"]], and it isn't until ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' that we find out what happened (Suyodhana and the Thuggee ambushed the British troops in the jungle and exterminated them, recapturing Ada and [[{{Irony}} framing Tremal Naik for being a Thuggee]]. Kammamuri succeeds in freeing Ada, but the Thuggee drove her into madness and their ship was caught in a storm and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck shipwrecked on Mompracem]]. ''An Empire Crumbles'' resumes from the scene that ended ''The Brahman'', as the two novels had originally been written as one and published separated by decision of the publisher. Finally, the final scene of ''An Empire Crumbles'' is the first scene of ''Yanez's Revenge'', but with the point of view switched from Yanez to Sandokan.
* CombatPragmatist: Sandokan may be a {{Badass}}, but he and his men will bring along overwhelming firepower every time they can. It's not clear who is more pragmatic between Sandokan and Yanez: in ''The King of the Sea'' the latter bought the eponymous ship, an ironclad warship that outgunned anything the Royal Navy had in the Indian Ocean, and managed to equip it with a MadScientist who claimed having invented a RayGun that could blow up the magazines of opposing ships (when tested, his device worked); the former showed up in ''Yanez's Revenge'' with a small army of Dayaks (also known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast head hunters]]) armed with repeating rifles, [[MoreDakka a dozen machine guns]] and [[PlagueMaster a scientist specialized in biological warfare]].
* CompositeCharacter: Lord Guillonk's character is often fused into James Brooke's in retellings.
* DemotedToExtra: Tremal Naik was the protagonist in his first appearance in ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'', but became a secondary character since ''The Pirates of Malaysia''.
* FairForItsTime: To modern audiences, Salgari is a moderate racist and sexist. When the novels were written (between 1883 and 1911), Salgari was a radical proponent of equality between genders and races.
* AFatherToHisMen: Sandokan treats his men very well, and they love him to the point he can (and does) order one of them to shield him from bullets with his body and he'll obey without question, even apologizing if another pirate dies in their place shielding Sandokan.
* FightingForAHomeland: Sandokan and the survivors of the Tigers of Mompracem in ''Quest for a Throne'', ''Sandokan Fights Back'' and ''Return to Mompracem'': after being chased out of Mompracem in ''The King of the Sea'', the Tigers search for a place to call home. Subverted in the end: while they conquered [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam Assam]] in ''Quest for a Throne'' (it happened that Yanez's wife had a claim to that throne) and took back Sandokan's ancestral homeland in ''Sandokan Fights Back'', they can't find a place to call home, and as soon as the British gives away Mompracem they reconquer it from the Sultan of Brunei.
* GuileHero: Yanez. While Sandokan is no idiot, it's Yanez who does most of the thinking and deals with outsmarting enemies.
* MightyWhitey: Various examples, including the historical character of James Brooke. Yanez is the most prominent, both for being the co-protagonist and the only white man who was captured by the Tigers of Mompracem and lived without paying a ransom.
** Yanez's improbable survival of his initial encounter with the pirates is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when he explains Kammamuri that the Tigers of Mompracem never spares white men and he notes that Yanez, while white, has just led the pirates that attacked the ship he was on. [[HandWaved Yanez replied he was a special case]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: We have the Tiger of Malaysia (Sandokan), the Tiger of India (Suyodhana), and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Head Hunters]] (a nickname of the Dayak people, who, before being stopped by retaliations from the British and the Dutch, had the habit to raid places with the only purpose of cutting heads).
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Tigers of Mompracem stopped raiding commerce sometime between ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' and ''The Two Tigers'', resuming in ''The King of the Sea'' only because the Royal Navy decided to kick them out of Mompracem. After ''The King of the Sea'' they don't do the pirate job anymore save for a single boarding in ''Return to Mompracem''.
** Sandokan is implied to be a Dayak, but never cut a single head.
* TheRedBaron: Sandokan, Suyodhana, Tremal Naik and James Brooke are known as the Tiger of Malaysia, the Tiger of India, the Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle and the White Rajah of Sarawak.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Sandokan's reason for being a pirate is to take revenge on those who financed the murderer of his father. The second part of ''The King of the Sea'' is one such rampage against the British trade in revenge for the British unprovoked attack and conquest of Mompracem, and ''Sandokan Fights Back'' actually has Sandokan returning to his ancestral home to kill his father's murderer and take back his throne.
* [[SpotlightStealingSquad Spotlight Stealing Character]]: Yanez had a role as big if not bigger than Sandokan from ''The King of the Sea'' to ''An Empire Crumbles'', with ''The Brahman'' and ''An Empire Crumbles'' actually having him as the declared protagonist. Ironically, ''Yanez's Revenge'' is the novel in which Sandokan takes back the spotlight.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpingfield Where The Hell Is Mompracem?]]: Salgari chose Sandokan's base on an old map, but the island isn't shown on maps since before Salgari started writing, and the main candidate of Keraman is mentioned in the novels as a separate island.
* WorthyOpponent: James Brooke is the only one of Sandokan's enemies to conquer this honour, having actually won the initial battle with the Tiger of Malaysia and protected his subjects from colonialism.
** On a more general term Sandokan is quite generous with the crews of ships that didn't surrender immediately but fought back with valor, even paying the damage to their ship (not the cargo). It's even openly shown that some of the Tigers of Mompracem come from the crews of defeated ships, having fought back with incredible valor and survived long enough for either Sandokan or Yanez stopping the Tigers and making the offer.
*** This is how Kammamuri first met Yanez: the ship he was traveling with shipwrecked on Mompracem, and when the pirates attacked he outlived the crew and fought back with incredible valor, prompting Yanez to recall the pirates and asking him to join.
The novels enjoy great popularity in Italy, and there are various animated and live action movies and series inspired to it (plus a great number of novels written by other authors).
Novels:
# ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' ("Le Tigri di Mompracem"; it's sometimes listed as third in the series, as it was published in volume after ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' and ''The Pirates of Malaysia'')
# ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'' ("I Misteri della Giungla Nera"; originally a stand-alone novel with Tremal Naik as protagonist, was retroactively incorporated in the series after ''The Pirates of Malaysia'')
# ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' ("I Pirati della Malesia")
# ''The Two Tigers'' ("Le Due Tigri")
# ''The King of the Sea'' ("Il Re del Mare")
# ''Quest for a Throne'' ("Alla Conquista di un Impero")
# ''Sandokan Fights Back'' ("Sandokan alla Riscossa")
# ''Return to Mompracem'' ("La Riconquista di Mompracem")
# ''The Brahman'' ("Il Bramino dell'Assam")
# ''An Empire Crumbles'' ("La Caduta di un Impero")
# ''Yanez's Revenge'' ("La Rivincita di Yanez")
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!! The novels contain examples of the following tropes:
* AscendedExtra: James Brooke, the historical first White Rajah of Sarawak, was a minor character in the novels, being only mentioned in ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' (with a possible apparition, as his personal ship is among the fleet that attacks Mompracem) and the villain in ''The Pirates of Malaysia''. The various animated series and live action series and movies make him Sandokan's main adversary.
* AuthorAppeal: Salgari was a fierce opponent of colonialism. Whenever a colonial power appeared in his novels (both in the Sandokan series and the others series and stand-alone novels) they were shown either as {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s who genuinely believed they were doing the right thing or greedy cowards.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Salgari killed himself in 1911, after completing ''An Empire Crumbles'' (intented to be a single novel with ''The Brahman'' but published in two parts) and writing the first draft of ''Yanez's Revenge''. The two novels were published posthumously, and ''Yanez's Revenge'' contains a few plot holes.
* {{Badass}}: Many, but Sandokan is the biggest. His idea of a good present for a woman is the skin of a tiger he hunted personally. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGQ0epxHd8I This is how he got the skin]].
** Suyodhana and Tremal Naik come close to Sandokan. Tremal Naik first appeared as making a living from ''hunting tigers with knives and traps'', and Suyodhana bested Tremal Naik in single combat and gave Sandokan a run for his money.
* BashBrothers: Sandokan and Yanez. Completely different in personality, but they'd die before leaving the other in trouble. Bonus points for actually calling each other brothers.
** The Tigers of Mompracem are this on a larger scale, being pirates from many ethnic groups (mostly Malays and Dayaks) that would normally kill each other on sight (TruthInTelevision: Malays and Dayaks went out of their way to attack each other, with James Brooke actually using Malay forces to take down the main Dayak pirate band and Dayak forces to destroy the main Malay pirate group).
* BulletproofHumanShield: ''The Tigers of Mompracem'' offers a strange example: Sandokan expects the commander of the ship he's using to shield him from incoming bullets (it's all but stated that it's part of their rules), and even reprimands him when he fails to do so and another pirate dies in his place.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Three novels end into one. ''The Mystery of the Black Jungle'' ends with Tremal Naik and the British troops freeing Ada from the Thuggee and escaping their temple while Suyodhana says [[BadassBoast "Go! We'll meet again in the jungle!"]], and it isn't until ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' that we find out what happened (Suyodhana and the Thuggee ambushed the British troops in the jungle and exterminated them, recapturing Ada and [[{{Irony}} framing Tremal Naik for being a Thuggee]]. Kammamuri succeeds in freeing Ada, but the Thuggee drove her into madness and their ship was caught in a storm and [[ThisIsGonnaSuck shipwrecked on Mompracem]]. ''An Empire Crumbles'' resumes from the scene that ended ''The Brahman'', as the two novels had originally been written as one and published separated by decision of the publisher. Finally, the final scene of ''An Empire Crumbles'' is the first scene of ''Yanez's Revenge'', but with the point of view switched from Yanez to Sandokan.
* CombatPragmatist: Sandokan may be a {{Badass}}, but he and his men will bring along overwhelming firepower every time they can. It's not clear who is more pragmatic between Sandokan and Yanez: in ''The King of the Sea'' the latter bought the eponymous ship, an ironclad warship that outgunned anything the Royal Navy had in the Indian Ocean, and managed to equip it with a MadScientist who claimed having invented a RayGun that could blow up the magazines of opposing ships (when tested, his device worked); the former showed up in ''Yanez's Revenge'' with a small army of Dayaks (also known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast head hunters]]) armed with repeating rifles, [[MoreDakka a dozen machine guns]] and [[PlagueMaster a scientist specialized in biological warfare]].
* CompositeCharacter: Lord Guillonk's character is often fused into James Brooke's in retellings.
* DemotedToExtra: Tremal Naik was the protagonist in his first appearance in ''The Mistery of the Black Jungle'', but became a secondary character since ''The Pirates of Malaysia''.
* FairForItsTime: To modern audiences, Salgari is a moderate racist and sexist. When the novels were written (between 1883 and 1911), Salgari was a radical proponent of equality between genders and races.
* AFatherToHisMen: Sandokan treats his men very well, and they love him to the point he can (and does) order one of them to shield him from bullets with his body and he'll obey without question, even apologizing if another pirate dies in their place shielding Sandokan.
* FightingForAHomeland: Sandokan and the survivors of the Tigers of Mompracem in ''Quest for a Throne'', ''Sandokan Fights Back'' and ''Return to Mompracem'': after being chased out of Mompracem in ''The King of the Sea'', the Tigers search for a place to call home. Subverted in the end: while they conquered [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam Assam]] in ''Quest for a Throne'' (it happened that Yanez's wife had a claim to that throne) and took back Sandokan's ancestral homeland in ''Sandokan Fights Back'', they can't find a place to call home, and as soon as the British gives away Mompracem they reconquer it from the Sultan of Brunei.
* GuileHero: Yanez. While Sandokan is no idiot, it's Yanez who does most of the thinking and deals with outsmarting enemies.
* MightyWhitey: Various examples, including the historical character of James Brooke. Yanez is the most prominent, both for being the co-protagonist and the only white man who was captured by the Tigers of Mompracem and lived without paying a ransom.
** Yanez's improbable survival of his initial encounter with the pirates is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when he explains Kammamuri that the Tigers of Mompracem never spares white men and he notes that Yanez, while white, has just led the pirates that attacked the ship he was on. [[HandWaved Yanez replied he was a special case]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: We have the Tiger of Malaysia (Sandokan), the Tiger of India (Suyodhana), and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Head Hunters]] (a nickname of the Dayak people, who, before being stopped by retaliations from the British and the Dutch, had the habit to raid places with the only purpose of cutting heads).
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Tigers of Mompracem stopped raiding commerce sometime between ''The Pirates of Malaysia'' and ''The Two Tigers'', resuming in ''The King of the Sea'' only because the Royal Navy decided to kick them out of Mompracem. After ''The King of the Sea'' they don't do the pirate job anymore save for a single boarding in ''Return to Mompracem''.
** Sandokan is implied to be a Dayak, but never cut a single head.
* TheRedBaron: Sandokan, Suyodhana, Tremal Naik and James Brooke are known as the Tiger of Malaysia, the Tiger of India, the Hunter of Tigers and Snakes of the Black Jungle and the White Rajah of Sarawak.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Sandokan's reason for being a pirate is to take revenge on those who financed the murderer of his father. The second part of ''The King of the Sea'' is one such rampage against the British trade in revenge for the British unprovoked attack and conquest of Mompracem, and ''Sandokan Fights Back'' actually has Sandokan returning to his ancestral home to kill his father's murderer and take back his throne.
* [[SpotlightStealingSquad Spotlight Stealing Character]]: Yanez had a role as big if not bigger than Sandokan from ''The King of the Sea'' to ''An Empire Crumbles'', with ''The Brahman'' and ''An Empire Crumbles'' actually having him as the declared protagonist. Ironically, ''Yanez's Revenge'' is the novel in which Sandokan takes back the spotlight.
* [[WhereTheHellIsSpingfield Where The Hell Is Mompracem?]]: Salgari chose Sandokan's base on an old map, but the island isn't shown on maps since before Salgari started writing, and the main candidate of Keraman is mentioned in the novels as a separate island.
* WorthyOpponent: James Brooke is the only one of Sandokan's enemies to conquer this honour, having actually won the initial battle with the Tiger of Malaysia and protected his subjects from colonialism.
** On a more general term Sandokan is quite generous with the crews of ships that didn't surrender immediately but fought back with valor, even paying the damage to their ship (not the cargo). It's even openly shown that some of the Tigers of Mompracem come from the crews of defeated ships, having fought back with incredible valor and survived long enough for either Sandokan or Yanez stopping the Tigers and making the offer.
*** This is how Kammamuri first met Yanez: the ship he was traveling with shipwrecked on Mompracem, and when the pirates attacked he outlived the crew and fought back with incredible valor, prompting Yanez to recall the pirates and asking him to join.
