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* SuperPersistantPredator: The cheese snacks chase Sedgewick even when he swims many miles just to get away from them.
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* GentleGiant: The rock monster family, particularly the dad. The rock children just wanted to play, and when the rock dad learns of the Pirates' need to get through the Clapping Pass, he helps them get there.
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* ConcertClimax: After the movie decides [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle it doesn't want to end yet.]] [[spoiler:While Sir Frederick is in the middle of a performance, Robert tries to kill him, mistaking him for George. The protagonists have to stop him.]]
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* BadGuyBar: An incredibly friendly, G-rated one that serves root beer.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Strangely in a movie named for the TropeNamers, this trope is averted. The eponymous "pirates" aren't actually pirates in this case, they are waiters, and they are actually shown doing their job. The actual pirates in the movie are shown actually pirating. The bartenders are bartending. And the royal characters are all RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething.
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* AnimationBump: Sort of; computer animation and water technology in particular has come a long way since ''Jonah'', which already looked quite good. On the other hand, ''Pirates'' was animated by a different studio.
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* DarkestHour: [[spoiler:While the Pirates were able to free Alexander, Eloise and Willory, actually getting out of Robert's lair alive is pretty much impossible. The Clapping Pass is still closed, the group is in a little tiny rowboat and has no way to fight back, and Robert is in a much larger ship and has his men shooting cannons at them. They're all doomed! Cue Deus Ex Machina.]]
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: A trio of layabout waiters freshly fired from a Pirate-themed dinner theatre are thrown back in time to the past. This leads to some confusion; Sedgewick asks if they have [=TiVo=] and Eloise thinks he wants a cup of tea, and later on Alexander doesn't know what to make of Sedgewick's labor-saving device and thinks it's magic.
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* FishOutOfWater: A trio of layabout waiters freshly fired from a Pirate-themed dinner theatre are thrown back in time to the past.
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* AscendedExtra: Pa Grape plays George in this movie. In most [=VeggieTales=] Pa plays anything from a bit-part character to a somewhat-major side character...but in this movie he's the protagonist.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Thought Larry was the hero of the story from the movie's cover and posters? Nope. The character he plays, Elliot, is one of the protagonists, but the character who gets the most focus is actually the character played by Pa Grape.
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* MurderByMistake: Almost happens. [[spoiler: Robert, angry at the Pirates for ruining his plans, follows them to the future, and, mistaking Sir Frederick for George, tries to kill him. Thankfully George, Elliot and Sedgewick are able to stop him and send him back to where he came from.]]
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
** Prince Alexander spends most of the movie being held captive, but in the opening scene he is seen fighting alongside his crew, and even while he's held prisoner he tries his best to not betray his family even when threatened.
** Princess Eloise refuses to retreat to safety and hide from her uncle, instead insisting on trying to rescue her brother. Her determination is what inspires George to [[CharacterDevelopment grow a spine.]]
** The King. Robert's beef with the King is that he insists on "squandering his wealth" to help the poor and needy. While he goes away on business he makes sure to leave behind the help-seeker for his children to use should they run into danger, [[spoiler: and at the end of the film [[DeusExMachina he makes a timely reappearance to save the day.]]]]
** Robert is a villainous example. He goes to great lengths to try to take the crown. And apparently he tinkers in his spare time and bothered to create a contraption that gives him ''arms.''
** Prince Alexander spends most of the movie being held captive, but in the opening scene he is seen fighting alongside his crew, and even while he's held prisoner he tries his best to not betray his family even when threatened.
** Princess Eloise refuses to retreat to safety and hide from her uncle, instead insisting on trying to rescue her brother. Her determination is what inspires George to [[CharacterDevelopment grow a spine.]]
** The King. Robert's beef with the King is that he insists on "squandering his wealth" to help the poor and needy. While he goes away on business he makes sure to leave behind the help-seeker for his children to use should they run into danger, [[spoiler: and at the end of the film [[DeusExMachina he makes a timely reappearance to save the day.]]]]
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
** PrinceRoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The entire royal family. Robert and the King are both master tinkerers, Alexander spends most of will jump into the movie being held captive, but in the opening scene he is seen fighting fight alongside his crew, and even while he's held prisoner he tries his best to not betray his family even when threatened.
** PrincessEloise refuses is a {{Determinator}} extraordinaire when it comes to retreat to safety and hide from her uncle, instead insisting on trying to rescue her brother. Her determination is what inspires George to [[CharacterDevelopment grow a spine.]]
** The King. Robert's beef with the King is that he insists on "squandering his wealth" to help the poor and needy. While he goes away on business he makes sure to leave behind the help-seeker for his children to use should they run into danger, [[spoiler: and at the end of the film [[DeusExMachina he makes a timely reappearance tosave the day.]]]]
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* WomenAreWiser: Eloise has some FearlessFool tendencies but otherwise seems to be the sanest and most motivated person on ''The Steadfast''. George's wife is irritated that he has the spine of a jellyfish. Elliot's girlfriend Bernadette and Sedgewick's girlfriend Ellen commiserate over how Elliot is a scaredy-cat and Sedgewick is a LazyBum.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bob the Tomato is conspicuously absent from ''Pirates''. [[TheCameo He does at least have a cameo in the "Rock Monster" video.]]
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The second full-length ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' film, ''The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie'' follows George, Elliot and Sedgewick (Pa Grape, Larry the Cucumber, and Mr. Lunt, respectively), three layabout waiters who work at a pirate-themed dinner theater. After they accidentally destroy part of the restaurant and get fired, they come across a strange golden ball...which teleports the three back in time to the 17th century.
They meet a princess named Eloise and her butler, Willory, and find the ball was sent by Eloise. She'd sent it out in search of help after her older brother was kidnapped during an attack on their ship, and she's under the impression that George, Elliot, and Sedgewick are the heroes she sent for. Her butler doesn't really think so though, and more importantly, neither do George, Elliot, and Sedgewick.
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!!''The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything'' provides examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The movie opens with the ship ''The Steadfast'' being attacked by ''The Stub'', leading to a lot of sword fighting between their crews. The fight ends when Prince Alexander is taken hostage.
* AllThereInTheManual: The ages of Alexander and Eloise. The movie never says it, but a website for it states that Alexander is around fifteen and Eloise is around eight.
* AnimationBump: Sort of; computer animation and water technology in particular has come a long way since ''Jonah'', which already looked quite good. On the other hand, ''Pirates'' was animated by a different studio.
* AnthropomorphicFood: That's already a given in ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but in this movie there are cheese snacks. That come alive. And chase Sedgewick for long distances because they want to eat him.
* AscendedExtra: Pa Grape plays George in this movie. In most [=VeggieTales=] Pa plays anything from a bit-part character to a somewhat-major side character...but in this movie he's the protagonist.
* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: The children in the rock monster family are a boy, a girl, and a baby.
* CainAndAbel: Robert is the Cain to the King's Abel.
* TheCall: In the form of the Help-seeker device.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bob the Tomato is conspicuously absent from ''Pirates''. [[TheCameo He does at least have a cameo in the "Rock Monster" video.]]
* CoolSword: Everyone in Monterria recognizes Robert's sword as his trademark.
* CurtainCamouflage: Subverted. Searching for Eloise, one of the villains flings a curtain aside when he thinks she's hiding behind it. He finds it was just a vase behind there. He gives up in frustration, [[GaveUpTooSoon unaware that she's actually hiding under the floorboards.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: The villain plots to assassinate his brother and shows no qualms about harming his niece and nephew either. The protagonists are worse than useless for half the movie and outright try to avoid responsibility despite the fact that lives are on the line. [[CharacterDevelopment (They do get better, though.)]] And there's also the ominous line about cucumbers slicing easier than coconuts...
* DeusExMachina / TheCavalry: [[spoiler: The King is the one that rescues the heroes from the villain's lair.]] According to the [[WordOfGod commentary]], this is {{justified|Trope}} since the film is a Christian parable.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Eloise. She absolutely would have gone and tried to fight if Willory hadn't stopped her, and she still insists on going into dangerous territory to find Alexander. Eventually her attitude rubs off on George.
** Sedgewick was very decidedly ''not'' a Determinator...until realizing he wants to see his girlfriend again gives him the strength to swim 92 nautical miles without arms or legs in order to avoid being eaten.
* DisappearedDad: The backstory. The King is away on business. Unfortunately this leaves his children vulnerable to being attacked by his wicked brother.
* DistressedDude: The plot is kicked off by Prince Alexander being kidnapped by his uncle, prompting his little sister to try to summon heroes to help her save him.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When George, Elliot and Sedgewick are sent back in time by the Help-Seeker. After initial confusion Eloise takes to them rather quickly, but Willory is very skeptical that the "heroes" the Help-Seeker got seem so...wimpy.
* FaceYourFears: Elliot's issue over the course of the movie is that he's scared of just about everything. He manages to get over it by the end.
* FishOutOfWater: A trio of layabout waiters freshly fired from a Pirate-themed dinner theatre are thrown back in time to the past.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: Apparently bars filled with criminals and no-good-nicks serve root beer.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Sister]]: Robert tries to force Alexander to tell him when the King is returning. Alexander insists that he doesn't know, and that he'd rather die than tell him anyway. Then Robert reveals that he has Eloise, and says that he [[SadisticChoice might consider letting the two of them live if Alexander manages to remember.]]
* IWillFindYou: Princess Eloise is determined to save her brother Alexander after he is kidnapped. Later, George becomes determined to find ''her'' after she meets the same fate as her brother.
* ImplacableMan: The cheese snacks chase Sedgewick even when he swims ninety-two nautical miles (apparently he counted) just to get away from them.
* InsistentTerminology: Sedgewick about his remote-controlled...whatever that is:
-->'''Sedgewick:''' It is not a toy! It's a labor-saving device!
* InternalReveal: The audience knows from the opening scene that the attack on ''The Steadfast'' and Alexander's abduction were Robert's doing. Eloise and company don't learn this until later on; all they have to go on is the cutlass Robert left behind and they don't realize who it belongs to. At the bar, Jolly Joe recognizes the sword, and Eloise is rather disconcerted to learn of her uncle's involvement.
* InterrogatedForNothing: Robert tries to force Alexander to tell him when the King is returning so that his assassination plan can be carried out, and takes Eloise hostage in order to force the issue. Problem is, Alexander really doesn't know.
* LeaveYourQuestTest: At a really tough moment the Help-Seeker starts blinking--meaning that the path to the future is open. Elliot wants to leave and tries to convince George to as well, but George is dead set on finishing their quest. Eventually Elliot decides he's going to stick with it as well. [[spoiler: It was a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]
* TheMeanBrit: Willory, the Princess's aide, is subtly disapproving of the Pirates when she's around, and openly hostile to them when she's not. Part of the joke being that he's right on with his criticisms.
* MissingMom:
** Alexander and Eloise's dad is away but he does show up at the end. Their mom on the other hand is nowhere to be seen.
** The family of rock monsters. There's a rock dad and three rock children, but where is the rock mom?
* ModestRoyalty: Alexander and Eloise. According to DVD extras they went that way with Eloise in particular because they realized it would look a bit silly for her to be wearing clothing that wasn't practical for traveling.
* MoodWhiplash: One rather dark scene has Robert explaining his plans to Alexander, including forcing him to see a demonstration of how Robert intends to kill the King, and threatening Eloise to try to get Alexander to tell him when the King will return so said assassination plan can be carried out. This scene is followed up by Elliot singing a really goofy song and George getting annoyed by it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Robert the Terrible. He's so terrible that catching a glimpse of his CoolSword, even when he's not in the room himself, sends a whole roomful of hooligans running scared.
* NeverSayDie: Most [=VeggieTales=] tend to not be too wary about the word "die", but this movie seems a bit more hesitant to say it. While Robert makes his intentions clear through actions, he never out and out says "I'll kill you," instead using "Say goodbye" or variants thereof. And in one scene, when discussing Robert and his plans to kill the royal family, a bartender mentions that the king's children "must be ''gone''." Elliot doesn't get it and thinks she means "on vacation", but Eloise is upset, understanding precisely what "gone" means in this case.
* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: When Alexander is captured, the other men on the crew are warned to drop their swords, or else say goodbye to their prince.
* RockMonster: The protagonists encounter a family of rock monsters.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
** Prince Alexander spends most of the movie being held captive, but in the opening scene he is seen fighting alongside his crew, and even while he's held prisoner he tries his best to not betray his family even when threatened.
** Princess Eloise refuses to retreat to safety and hide from her uncle, instead insisting on trying to rescue her brother. Her determination is what inspires George to [[CharacterDevelopment grow a spine.]]
** The King. Robert's beef with the King is that he insists on "squandering his wealth" to help the poor and needy. While he goes away on business he makes sure to leave behind the help-seeker for his children to use should they run into danger, [[spoiler: and at the end of the film [[DeusExMachina he makes a timely reappearance to save the day.]]]]
** Robert is a villainous example. He goes to great lengths to try to take the crown. And apparently he tinkers in his spare time and bothered to create a contraption that gives him ''arms.''
* SadisticChoice: Robert gives one to Alexander; either Alexander tells Robert when the King's returning so Robert can assassinate him, or Alexander and his little sister die.
* SchizoTech: In an era of sailing ships and exploration, the King and the BigBad are apparently master tinkers that have built, respectively, a TimeMachine and a sort of PoweredArmour.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Robert's men after the King arrives.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The dinner theatre that the protagonists work at has a pirate-themed show.
* TakeThat: In an Easter Egg on the DVD, they actually show some of Elliot's "list" of things he's afraid of. One of the things he's apparently afraid of is [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes "Tim Burton's version of the Apes."]]
* UnexplainedAccent: According to audio commentary, the royal family were all supposed to be British. However, the actress they found for Eloise, while sounding perfect for the role vocally, [[OohMeAccentsSlipping apparently couldn't fake a British accent]], so they just decided to [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent not bother with the accents for Alexander and Eloise.]] The King and Robert still have British accents and Eloise's butler Willory is still played by Archibald Asparagus.
* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: While they're at a bar, Sedgewick holds up the cutlass found on ''The Steadfast'' and asks if anyone's seen it. Almost everyone in the bar flees in terror.
-->Sedgewick: ...is that a "yes", or a "no"?
* YoureInsane: One of Robert's own men when Robert [[spoiler: tries to tell his men to return and insists on fighting after the King shows up.]]
-->Henchman: [[spoiler: Against the King's men?!]] You ''are'' mad!
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The plot of the movie seemingly resolves, with Robert defeated, the rest of the royal family reunited, and the Pirates being sent back to their own time. [[spoiler: But Robert's a bit peeved that his plans got ruined and followed them to the future...]]
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They meet a princess named Eloise and her butler, Willory, and find the ball was sent by Eloise. She'd sent it out in search of help after her older brother was kidnapped during an attack on their ship, and she's under the impression that George, Elliot, and Sedgewick are the heroes she sent for. Her butler doesn't really think so though, and more importantly, neither do George, Elliot, and Sedgewick.
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!!''The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything'' provides examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The movie opens with the ship ''The Steadfast'' being attacked by ''The Stub'', leading to a lot of sword fighting between their crews. The fight ends when Prince Alexander is taken hostage.
* AllThereInTheManual: The ages of Alexander and Eloise. The movie never says it, but a website for it states that Alexander is around fifteen and Eloise is around eight.
* AnimationBump: Sort of; computer animation and water technology in particular has come a long way since ''Jonah'', which already looked quite good. On the other hand, ''Pirates'' was animated by a different studio.
* AnthropomorphicFood: That's already a given in ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', but in this movie there are cheese snacks. That come alive. And chase Sedgewick for long distances because they want to eat him.
* AscendedExtra: Pa Grape plays George in this movie. In most [=VeggieTales=] Pa plays anything from a bit-part character to a somewhat-major side character...but in this movie he's the protagonist.
* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: The children in the rock monster family are a boy, a girl, and a baby.
* CainAndAbel: Robert is the Cain to the King's Abel.
* TheCall: In the form of the Help-seeker device.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bob the Tomato is conspicuously absent from ''Pirates''. [[TheCameo He does at least have a cameo in the "Rock Monster" video.]]
* CoolSword: Everyone in Monterria recognizes Robert's sword as his trademark.
* CurtainCamouflage: Subverted. Searching for Eloise, one of the villains flings a curtain aside when he thinks she's hiding behind it. He finds it was just a vase behind there. He gives up in frustration, [[GaveUpTooSoon unaware that she's actually hiding under the floorboards.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: The villain plots to assassinate his brother and shows no qualms about harming his niece and nephew either. The protagonists are worse than useless for half the movie and outright try to avoid responsibility despite the fact that lives are on the line. [[CharacterDevelopment (They do get better, though.)]] And there's also the ominous line about cucumbers slicing easier than coconuts...
* DeusExMachina / TheCavalry: [[spoiler: The King is the one that rescues the heroes from the villain's lair.]] According to the [[WordOfGod commentary]], this is {{justified|Trope}} since the film is a Christian parable.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Eloise. She absolutely would have gone and tried to fight if Willory hadn't stopped her, and she still insists on going into dangerous territory to find Alexander. Eventually her attitude rubs off on George.
** Sedgewick was very decidedly ''not'' a Determinator...until realizing he wants to see his girlfriend again gives him the strength to swim 92 nautical miles without arms or legs in order to avoid being eaten.
* DisappearedDad: The backstory. The King is away on business. Unfortunately this leaves his children vulnerable to being attacked by his wicked brother.
* DistressedDude: The plot is kicked off by Prince Alexander being kidnapped by his uncle, prompting his little sister to try to summon heroes to help her save him.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When George, Elliot and Sedgewick are sent back in time by the Help-Seeker. After initial confusion Eloise takes to them rather quickly, but Willory is very skeptical that the "heroes" the Help-Seeker got seem so...wimpy.
* FaceYourFears: Elliot's issue over the course of the movie is that he's scared of just about everything. He manages to get over it by the end.
* FishOutOfWater: A trio of layabout waiters freshly fired from a Pirate-themed dinner theatre are thrown back in time to the past.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: Apparently bars filled with criminals and no-good-nicks serve root beer.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Sister]]: Robert tries to force Alexander to tell him when the King is returning. Alexander insists that he doesn't know, and that he'd rather die than tell him anyway. Then Robert reveals that he has Eloise, and says that he [[SadisticChoice might consider letting the two of them live if Alexander manages to remember.]]
* IWillFindYou: Princess Eloise is determined to save her brother Alexander after he is kidnapped. Later, George becomes determined to find ''her'' after she meets the same fate as her brother.
* ImplacableMan: The cheese snacks chase Sedgewick even when he swims ninety-two nautical miles (apparently he counted) just to get away from them.
* InsistentTerminology: Sedgewick about his remote-controlled...whatever that is:
-->'''Sedgewick:''' It is not a toy! It's a labor-saving device!
* InternalReveal: The audience knows from the opening scene that the attack on ''The Steadfast'' and Alexander's abduction were Robert's doing. Eloise and company don't learn this until later on; all they have to go on is the cutlass Robert left behind and they don't realize who it belongs to. At the bar, Jolly Joe recognizes the sword, and Eloise is rather disconcerted to learn of her uncle's involvement.
* InterrogatedForNothing: Robert tries to force Alexander to tell him when the King is returning so that his assassination plan can be carried out, and takes Eloise hostage in order to force the issue. Problem is, Alexander really doesn't know.
* LeaveYourQuestTest: At a really tough moment the Help-Seeker starts blinking--meaning that the path to the future is open. Elliot wants to leave and tries to convince George to as well, but George is dead set on finishing their quest. Eventually Elliot decides he's going to stick with it as well. [[spoiler: It was a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]
* TheMeanBrit: Willory, the Princess's aide, is subtly disapproving of the Pirates when she's around, and openly hostile to them when she's not. Part of the joke being that he's right on with his criticisms.
* MissingMom:
** Alexander and Eloise's dad is away but he does show up at the end. Their mom on the other hand is nowhere to be seen.
** The family of rock monsters. There's a rock dad and three rock children, but where is the rock mom?
* ModestRoyalty: Alexander and Eloise. According to DVD extras they went that way with Eloise in particular because they realized it would look a bit silly for her to be wearing clothing that wasn't practical for traveling.
* MoodWhiplash: One rather dark scene has Robert explaining his plans to Alexander, including forcing him to see a demonstration of how Robert intends to kill the King, and threatening Eloise to try to get Alexander to tell him when the King will return so said assassination plan can be carried out. This scene is followed up by Elliot singing a really goofy song and George getting annoyed by it.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Robert the Terrible. He's so terrible that catching a glimpse of his CoolSword, even when he's not in the room himself, sends a whole roomful of hooligans running scared.
* NeverSayDie: Most [=VeggieTales=] tend to not be too wary about the word "die", but this movie seems a bit more hesitant to say it. While Robert makes his intentions clear through actions, he never out and out says "I'll kill you," instead using "Say goodbye" or variants thereof. And in one scene, when discussing Robert and his plans to kill the royal family, a bartender mentions that the king's children "must be ''gone''." Elliot doesn't get it and thinks she means "on vacation", but Eloise is upset, understanding precisely what "gone" means in this case.
* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: When Alexander is captured, the other men on the crew are warned to drop their swords, or else say goodbye to their prince.
* RockMonster: The protagonists encounter a family of rock monsters.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething:
** Prince Alexander spends most of the movie being held captive, but in the opening scene he is seen fighting alongside his crew, and even while he's held prisoner he tries his best to not betray his family even when threatened.
** Princess Eloise refuses to retreat to safety and hide from her uncle, instead insisting on trying to rescue her brother. Her determination is what inspires George to [[CharacterDevelopment grow a spine.]]
** The King. Robert's beef with the King is that he insists on "squandering his wealth" to help the poor and needy. While he goes away on business he makes sure to leave behind the help-seeker for his children to use should they run into danger, [[spoiler: and at the end of the film [[DeusExMachina he makes a timely reappearance to save the day.]]]]
** Robert is a villainous example. He goes to great lengths to try to take the crown. And apparently he tinkers in his spare time and bothered to create a contraption that gives him ''arms.''
* SadisticChoice: Robert gives one to Alexander; either Alexander tells Robert when the King's returning so Robert can assassinate him, or Alexander and his little sister die.
* SchizoTech: In an era of sailing ships and exploration, the King and the BigBad are apparently master tinkers that have built, respectively, a TimeMachine and a sort of PoweredArmour.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Robert's men after the King arrives.]]
* ShowWithinAShow: The dinner theatre that the protagonists work at has a pirate-themed show.
* TakeThat: In an Easter Egg on the DVD, they actually show some of Elliot's "list" of things he's afraid of. One of the things he's apparently afraid of is [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes "Tim Burton's version of the Apes."]]
* UnexplainedAccent: According to audio commentary, the royal family were all supposed to be British. However, the actress they found for Eloise, while sounding perfect for the role vocally, [[OohMeAccentsSlipping apparently couldn't fake a British accent]], so they just decided to [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent not bother with the accents for Alexander and Eloise.]] The King and Robert still have British accents and Eloise's butler Willory is still played by Archibald Asparagus.
* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: While they're at a bar, Sedgewick holds up the cutlass found on ''The Steadfast'' and asks if anyone's seen it. Almost everyone in the bar flees in terror.
-->Sedgewick: ...is that a "yes", or a "no"?
* YoureInsane: One of Robert's own men when Robert [[spoiler: tries to tell his men to return and insists on fighting after the King shows up.]]
-->Henchman: [[spoiler: Against the King's men?!]] You ''are'' mad!
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: The plot of the movie seemingly resolves, with Robert defeated, the rest of the royal family reunited, and the Pirates being sent back to their own time. [[spoiler: But Robert's a bit peeved that his plans got ruined and followed them to the future...]]
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