History WebAnimation / TheGentlemanPirate

** Superego: Quartermaster — the voice of reason, always calm, cautious

* {{Corpsing}}: The quartermaster ends up corpsing in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before the Battle of Cape Fear River.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGf4nJWVOU The Gentleman Pirate]]'' is an animated docu-comedy produced by WebVideo/InternetHistorian and uploaded on his second channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Q7XEy86Q7T-3kNpNjYgwA Incognito Mode]]. It’s the eighth edition of Internet Historian’s ''Sundance Rejects'', and is currently the longest single video produced under his name.

** During Blackbeard's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Bonnet, he claims "not all of us had rich parents who could send us to school to learn to read or write". By all accounts Blackbeard was literate just like Bonnet.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGf4nJWVOU The Gentleman Pirate]]'' is an animated docu-comedy produced by WebVideo/InternetHistorian and uploaded on his second channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Q7XEy86Q7T-3kNpNjYgwA Incognito Mode]]. It’s the eighth addition of Internet Historian’s ''Sundance Rejects'', and is currently the longest single video produced under his name.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: Combined with RevisedEnding and SurprisinglyHappyEnding, [[spoiler: Internet Historian presents the historically accurate DownerEnding, then presents his own fictionalized HappyEnding.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: A few instances in ''The Gentleman Pirate'', not including fictionalized characterization.
** There’s no sources that state Allamby Bonnet was wheelchair-bound. He also didn’t die via [[Film/MacAndMe rolling off a cliff into a river.]] In fact, Allamby was [[AgeLift at most 2 at the time of his death and not the child]] shown in the ''Sundance Reject'', [[RuleOfFunny but reality is much less funny.]]
** According to Ignatius Pell’s testimony, the quartermaster, named Robert Tucker, wasn’t [[spoiler: killed in the Battle of Cape Fear]], but was captured with Bonnet's crew and hanged in November 1718. If Pell's word can be taken at face value, this would be a case of [[spoiler: DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation]].

--->'''Stede Bonnet''' (''after re-encountering the son of a bank teller he let get robbed at the beginning of the video''): Wait, wasn't that in Barbados? How did you get here?\\

The video tells the true story of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy early eighteenth-century]] Barbadian Stede Bonnet, a man who had an early mid-life crisis and decided to go [[{{Pirate}} a-pirating]]. When his [[AwfulWeddedLife wedded life leaves him miserable]], Bonnet decides to take to the seas with his own ship and crew despite his inexperience. On his journeys, he meets infamous pirate UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, who Bonnet appoints as a temporary shadow captain. But when Bonnet’s crew grows to favor Blackbeard’s leadership, the Gentleman Pirate soon realizes pirating isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

* CutawayGag:
-->'''Stede Bonnet''': My men love me, and I love them, like a father loves his childr...\\
''[cut to Allamby's funeral]''\\
'''Stede Bonnet''': [[ParentalAbandonment See ya later, kids!]] Badada-dada--\\
''[cut back]''\\
'''Stede Bonnet''': Hm, bad example.

* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: [[spoiler: PlayedForLaughs in the alternate good ending as AR-15s were definitely not around in 1718.]]

* SuddenDownerEnding: A large struggle takes place to get the governor's letter to Bonnet's execution [[spoiler: but it turns out that said letter didn't actually call for a stop to said execution, and Bonnet is promptly hanged.]]

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGf4nJWVOU The Gentleman Pirate]]'' is an animated docu-comedy produced by WebVideo/InternetHistorian and uploaded on his second channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Q7XEy86Q7T-3kNpNjYgwA Incognito Mode]]. It’s the eighth addition of Internet Historian’s ''Sundance Rejects'' collection, and is currently the longest single video produced under his name.

** When [[spoiler: the quartermaster says his final words and dies in his arms, Bonnet yells "NOOOO!" to the sky.]]

* MediumAwareness: A substantial amount of characters exhibit some fourth wall breaking:
** At one point, Stede Bonnet speaks directly to the audience, saying "I'll do the exposition for a bit!"
** Bonnet describing the Battle of Cape Fear River as "about ten minutes ago" despite being 2 months ago in-universe. Pell somehow understands this.
** When Mary Allamby tells Bonnet, "Actually, I just came here to gloat and deliver some exposition."
** In a case of DirectLineToTheAuthor, Mary says, "I will live to the ripe old age of something between 55 and 65. Eh, the records aren't really clear."
** In a case of LeaningOnTheFourthWall and another case of DirectLineToTheAuthor:
--->'''Stede Bonnet''': Wait, wasn't that in Barbados? How did you get here?\\
'''Bank Teller's son''': Whatever, Bonnet. It's a ''mostly'' true story! We just conflated a few of the details to keep the audience engaged... You would've done the same. Shut up!

** Bonnet describing the Battle of Cape Fear as "about ten minutes ago" despite being 2 months ago in-universe. Pell somehow understands this.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGf4nJWVOU The Gentleman Pirate]]'' is an animated docu-comedy produced by WebVideo/InternetHistorian and uploaded on his second channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Q7XEy86Q7T Incognito Mode]]. It’s the eighth addition of Internet Historian’s ''Sundance Rejects'' collection, and is currently the longest single video produced under his name.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGf4nJWVOU The Gentleman Pirate]]'' is an animated docu-comedy produced by WebVideo/InternetHistorian and uploaded on his second channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Q7XEy86Q7T-3kNpNjYgwA Internet Historian: Incognito Mode]]. It’s the eighth addition of Internet Historian’s ''Sundance Rejects'' collection, and is currently the longest single video produced under his name.

* CrashingDreams: Mary interrupts her husband's DreamSequence by screaming his name.

* SameClothesDifferentYear: Downplayed. Since he was young, Stede Bonnet has always dressed up as a pirate, a habit that carried into his adult years.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: PlayedForLaughs after Internet Historian sadly notes that in reality, Bonnet [[spoiler: was hung for piracy anyway after the HopeSpot of a supposed pardon from the governor.]] So to alleviate it, Internet Historian comes up with a new ending where [[spoiler: Bonnet escapes from his execution]], guns down his enemies and ex-wife, reunites with his estranged children who forgave him for abandoning them, and sails off on a speedboat filled with gold into the horizon with them and the quartermaster who is inexplicably alive again. And they lived HappilyEveryAfter.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: PlayedForLaughs after Internet Historian sadly notes that in reality, Bonnet [[spoiler: was hung for piracy anyway after the HopeSpot of a supposed pardon from the governor.]] So to alleviate it, Internet Historian comes up with a new ending where [[spoiler: Bonnet escapes from his execution]], guns down his enemies and ex-wife, reunites with his estranged children who forgave him for abandoning them, and sails off on a speedboat filled with gold into the horizon with them and the quartermaster who is inexplicably alive again.

It primarily stars the voices of WebVideo/OrdinaryThings, WebVideo/InternetHistorian, and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gv4MSAlvzjwZ8xXQYtfiQ SumitoMedia]]. The video is heavily stylized with Internet Historian’s CreatorThumbprint, utilizing LimitedAnimation, crudely edited stock photos, and [[ArtStyleClash outsourced media]]. ''The Gentleman Pirate'' includes backgrounds and models from, but not limited to, VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag, Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean, and Series/GameOfThrones.

** There’s no sources that state Allamby Bonnet was wheelchair-bound. He also didn’t die via [[Film/MacAndMe rolling off a cliff into a river.]] In fact, Allamby was [[AgeLift at most 2 at the time of his death and not the child]] as shown in the ''Sundance Reject'', [[RuleOfFunny but reality is much less funny.]]

** There’s no sources that state Allamby Bonnet was wheelchair-bound. He also didn’t die via [[Film/MacAndMe rolling off a cliff into a river.]] In fact, Allamby was at most 2 at the time of his death and not the child as shown in the ''Sundance Reject'', [[RuleOfFunny but reality is much less funny.]]