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[[caption-width-right:323:Bon voyage!]]
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--> "The rest of us drank as much as we'd a mind to, and the five girls with us....the grog made 'me as wild and hot-blooded as ourselves....We took no thought of wives or anything else."
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--> "The rest of us drank as much as we'd a mind to, and the five girls with us....the grog made 'me 'em as wild and hot-blooded as ourselves....We took no thought of wives or anything else."
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* CassandraTruth: By a 5-4 vote the mutineers elect to divide the island among themselves and enslave the Tahitians. Christian begs them to reconsider, telling them that this decision will lead to disaster and the destruction of their community. They don't listen.
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* CassandraTruth: By a 5-4 vote the mutineers on Pitcairn elect to divide the island among themselves and enslave the Tahitians. Christian begs them to reconsider, telling them that this decision will lead to disaster and the destruction of their community. They don't listen.
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* HappilyEverBefore: For Thomas Ledward, narrator of ''Men Against the Sea'', although nothing in the three books tells the reader that. In RealLife Ledward never made it back to England, being lost at sea a couple of months later when the boat taking him home sank.
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** ''Pitcairn's Island'' drops this conceit and goes with straight third-person narration.
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** ''Pitcairn's Island'' drops this conceit and goes with straight third-person narration.narration--until the last couple of chapters, that is, which are John Adams aka Alexander Smith recounting in first person the later history of the colony to Webber the visitor.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Nine mutineers sailed to Tahiti and seven of them died unnatural deaths. Five were killed by the Tahitian men, [=McCoy=] later fell to his death while drunk, and Quintal was killed by Adams and Young after he'd gone savage. Adams, the only survivor after Young died of natural causes, admits to Webber that they had it coming, that the white men of the ''Bounty'' brought it on themselves for treating the Tahitians like slaves instead of living in harmony with them.
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* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Using somewhat delicate language, Young/Smith tells Webber the visitor of [=McCoy=]'s still, and how the liquor he was brewing led to drunken orgies.
--> "The rest of us drank as much as we'd a mind to, and the five girls with us....the grog made 'me as wild and hot-blooded as ourselves....We took no thought of wives or anything else."
--> "The rest of us drank as much as we'd a mind to, and the five girls with us....the grog made 'me as wild and hot-blooded as ourselves....We took no thought of wives or anything else."
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* DayOfTheWeekName: Fletcher Christian's first child is born on a Thursday in October, so he and Maimiti name the baby Thursday October Christian.
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* CassandraTruth: By a 5-4 vote the mutineers elect to divide the island among themselves and enslave the Tahitians. Christian begs them to reconsider, telling them that this decision will lead to disaster and the destruction of their community. They don't listen.
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* DistantFinale: ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' with a 15-year TimeSkip before Roger Byam sails to Tahiti for one last melancholy visit.
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* DistantFinale: DistantFinale:
** ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' with a 15-year TimeSkip before Roger Byam sails to Tahiti for one last melancholyvisit.visit.
** ''Pitcairn's Island'' also skips 15 years, from the eruption of violence that killed five of nine mutineers and all four Tahitian men in 1793, to the arrival of the American ship ''Topaz'' in 1808. John Adams aka "Alexander Smith" then tells his American visitors how the rest of the settlement's history played out and how Young, [=McCoy=], and Quintal met their fates.
** ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' with a 15-year TimeSkip before Roger Byam sails to Tahiti for one last melancholy
** ''Pitcairn's Island'' also skips 15 years, from the eruption of violence that killed five of nine mutineers and all four Tahitian men in 1793, to the arrival of the American ship ''Topaz'' in 1808. John Adams aka "Alexander Smith" then tells his American visitors how the rest of the settlement's history played out and how Young, [=McCoy=], and Quintal met their fates.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Minarii is outraged when he hears that the mutineers have elected to enslave them. He angrily goes to Christian's house to find out if it's true, but does not wait to let Christian explain that he (Christian) opposed the vote and is working to change the mutineers' minds. Later, Christian decides to disregard the vote and that he will stand for the Tahitian men. He doesn't get the chance to tell Minarii this before Minarii kills him.
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* SexSlave: Some of the Tahitian women on Pitcairn's Island.
--> "Though dark and by no means pretty, Susannah had once been a pleasant, light-hearted girl. Three years of Martin had broken her spirit. She went about her household duties mechanically, and rarely smiled."
--> "Though dark and by no means pretty, Susannah had once been a pleasant, light-hearted girl. Three years of Martin had broken her spirit. She went about her household duties mechanically, and rarely smiled."
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* DrivenToSuicide: ''Pitcairn's Island''--Fasto the Tahitian woman flings herself off the cliffs after finding out that Williams the mutineer is cheating on her with younger, prettier Hutia.
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* ThePlace: Pitcairn's Island, where the mutineers come to a bad end.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Isaac Mills, mutineer, says of Christian on Pitcairn that Christian is "queer by nature." Mills is grousing about the decision to flee to Pitcairn where they are marooned forever.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Isaac Mills, Martin, mutineer, says of Christian on Pitcairn that Christian is "queer by nature." Mills Martin is grousing about the decision to flee to Pitcairn where they are marooned forever.
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* TheNavigator: William Bligh ''excels'' at this, and it saves the asses of the men in the launch.
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* BurningTheShips: As happened in real life, Fletcher Christian sets fire to the ''Bounty'' after they make landfall on Pitcairn's Island. Although part of the reason was the "there's no going back" nature of this trope, the story also points out that there was no true anchorage on Pitcairn and the ''Bounty'' would eventually be wrecked anyway when storms came.
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* HaveAGayOldTime: Isaac Mills, mutineer, says of Christian on Pitcairn that Christian is "queer by nature." Mills is grousing about the decision to flee to Pitcairn where they are marooned forever.
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* BigOlUnibrow: Parkin, the excessively cruel officer aboard the ''Pandora'' who persecuted Byam and his fellow sailors arrested on Tahiti. He has "eyebrows that met in an irregular line over his nose."
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* BigOlUnibrow: BigOlUnibrow:
** Parkin, the excessively cruel officer aboard the ''Pandora'' who persecuted Byam and his fellow sailors arrested on Tahiti. He has "eyebrows that met in an irregular line over his nose."
** Isaac Martin, one of the mutineers who sailed to Pitcairn's Island, is described as "brutish" with "black brows that met over his nose."
** Parkin, the excessively cruel officer aboard the ''Pandora'' who persecuted Byam and his fellow sailors arrested on Tahiti. He has "eyebrows that met in an irregular line over his nose."
** Isaac Martin, one of the mutineers who sailed to Pitcairn's Island, is described as "brutish" with "black brows that met over his nose."
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** ''Pitcairn's Island'' drops this conceit and goes with straight third-person narration.
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* ButNotTooBlack: The narration in ''Pitcairn's Island'' makes sure to point out "the lightness of her complexion" when describing Christian's lover, Maimiti.
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* TheChiefsDaughter: Maimiti is "of high lineage on Tahiti" (''Pitcairn's Island'') but casts that aside to sail into the unknown with Fletcher Christian.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Ledward marvels at the courage Bligh shows in the launch, and not just that but the character and leadership ability he displays. Bligh shows himself to be a far better man than the vicious martinet who egged the crew of the ''Bounty'' on to mutiny. He concludes that Bligh was born to lead men in peril. This is further backed up by Byam's encounter with Bligh at the end of ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', after Bligh was overthrown again in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion the Rum Rebellion]] (really!), and at a time when Bligh was not under stress and not forced to lead men in mortal danger. Byam observes Bligh as still being an abrasive {{Jerkass}}.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Ledward marvels at the courage Bligh shows in the launch, and not just that but the character character, compassion, and leadership ability he displays. Bligh shows himself to be a far better man than the vicious martinet who egged the crew of the ''Bounty'' on to mutiny. He Ledward concludes that Bligh was born to lead men in peril.peril and that the dire necessity of the open boat voyage brought out a far better side of him. This is further backed up by Byam's encounter with Bligh at the end of ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', after Bligh was overthrown again in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion the Rum Rebellion]] (really!), and at a time when Bligh was not under stress and not forced to lead men in mortal danger. Byam observes Bligh as still being an abrasive {{Jerkass}}.
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* ''Men Against the Sea'' (1933) -- the voyage of William Bligh and his loyalists over 3000 miles of ocean in an open boat, after the mutiny. Narrated by Thomas Ledward, the acting ship's surgeon.
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* ''Men Against the Sea'' (1933) -- the voyage of William Bligh and his loyalists over 3000 3600 miles of ocean in an open boat, after the mutiny. Narrated by Thomas Ledward, the acting ship's surgeon.
* FightToSurvive: ''Men Against the Sea'' is the story of the six-week voyage of Bligh and the men in his open boat.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: ''Men Against the Sea'' spares the ship's surgeon, Thomas Ledward, by allowing him to serve as narrator of the open boat voyage to Coupang and onwards to England. In reality, the man never made it back to England, having been lost in a shipwreck after departing Coupang.
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* ManlyTears: Ledward breaks down sobbing when the crew is piloting the launch into the harbor at Coupang, at the end of a 3600 mile journey, with Bligh at the helm.
* TheMedic: Thomas Ledward, assistant to ship's surgeon Huggan, who finds himself as the acting ship's surgeon when Huggan drinks himself to death.
* TheMedic: Thomas Ledward, assistant to ship's surgeon Huggan, who finds himself as the acting ship's surgeon when Huggan drinks himself to death.
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* ManlyTears: Ledward breaks down sobbing when the crew is piloting the launch into the harbor at Coupang, at the end of a 3600 mile journey, with Bligh at the helm.
* TheMedic: Thomas Ledward, assistant to ship's surgeon Huggan, who finds himself as the acting ship's surgeontiller.
--> "They were not tears of relief, or joy at our deliverance. No. I could have controlled those. But whenHuggan drinks himself I looked at Mr. Bligh, sitting at his old position with his hand on the tiller, there welled up within me a feeling toward him that destroyed the barriers we Englishman are so proud of erecting against one another. I saw him then as he deserved to death.be seen, in a light that transfigured him."
* TheMedic: Thomas Ledward, assistant to ship's surgeon Huggan, who finds himself as the acting ship's surgeon
--> "They were not tears of relief, or joy at our deliverance. No. I could have controlled those. But when
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* TheMedic: Thomas Ledward, assistant to ship's surgeon Huggan, who finds himself as the acting ship's surgeon when Huggan drinks himself to death.
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* TheNeidermeyer: Both played straight and averted in the person of William Bligh. In ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' he is a cruel and vicious martinet, flogging the men at the drop of a hat, embezzling from ship's stores, mentally and physically abusing his crew, virtually daring them to rebel. But in ''Men Against the Sea'' he shows himself to be a brave and inspiring leader in the face of mortal danger. Ledward concludes that said mortal danger was necessary to bring about the better side of Bligh; see TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople above.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Ledward marvels at the courage Bligh shows in the launch, and not just that but the character and leadership ability he displays. Bligh shows himself to be a far better man than the vicious martinet who egged the crew of the ''Bounty'' on to mutiny. He concludes that Bligh was born to lead men in peril. This is further backed up by Byam's encounter with Bligh at the end of ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', after Bligh was overthrown again in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion the Rum Rebellion]] (really!), and at a time when Bligh was not under streets. Byam observes Bligh as still being an abrasive {{Jerkass}}.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Ledward marvels at the courage Bligh shows in the launch, and not just that but the character and leadership ability he displays. Bligh shows himself to be a far better man than the vicious martinet who egged the crew of the ''Bounty'' on to mutiny. He concludes that Bligh was born to lead men in peril. This is further backed up by Byam's encounter with Bligh at the end of ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', after Bligh was overthrown again in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion the Rum Rebellion]] (really!), and at a time when Bligh was not under streets.stress and not forced to lead men in mortal danger. Byam observes Bligh as still being an abrasive {{Jerkass}}.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Ledward marvels at the courage Bligh shows in the launch, and not just that but the character and leadership ability he displays. Bligh shows himself to be a far better man than the vicious martinet who egged the crew of the ''Bounty'' on to mutiny. He concludes that Bligh was born to lead men in peril. This is further backed up by Byam's encounter with Bligh at the end of ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', after Bligh was overthrown again in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion the Rum Rebellion]] (really!), and at a time when Bligh was not under streets. Byam observes Bligh as still being an abrasive {{Jerkass}}.
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* TemptingFate: On May 12, after suffering through several storms, Bligh says "I think we've seen the worst of it." The launch is then hammered for days by the worst storms they've seen yet.
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* {{Determinator}}: Bligh, who will not fail in getting his men to Timor and safety.
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* ''Men Against the Sea'' (1933) -- the voyage of William Bligh and his loyalists over 3000 miles of ocean in an open boat, after themutinymutiny. Narrated by Thomas Ledward, the acting ship's surgeon.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Byam finally makes it back to Tahiti after an absence of 20 years to find his wife long dead, most everyone he knew there dead, and the island's population as a whole greatly reduced by war and smallpox. His daughter is still alive, but Byam can't bring himself to tell her who he is.
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* ChasedByAngryNatives: The first attempt at landfall by Bligh and his party, on the island of Tofoa, ends with them making a frantic retreat to their boat while the natives try hard to murder them, and do murder Nelson. After that Bligh and the loyalists resolve to stay at sea as much as possible while sailing to Timor.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Byam's defense in court is greatly impaired by the fact that Tinker, who was witness to the innocuous nature of Byam's last talk with Christian, was lost in a shipwreck. Byam is convicted by court-martial and is awaiting execution when Tinker turns up alive in London. Byam is pardoned.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Byam says of Coleman that "Of all the married members of the ''Bounty's'' company, he was, I suspect, the only man who had remained faithful to his wife during our sojourn to Tahiti."
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* CourtroomEpisode: The court-martial of the sailors captured on Tahiti is virtually always AdaptedOut of films either taken from these books or adapted straight from history, but it forms a huge chunk of the ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' novel, as Byam tries to avoid being hanged.
