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* GunpowderFantasy: The technology of the setting corresponds roughly to the early modern period, with artillery, flintlock weapons, and a focus on seafaring.
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* LowFantasy: The sea beasts are treated as regular (but very dangerous) wild animals, and there is little to no magic, while whether's Gwen's forbidden weapon is magical or not is [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane left ambigious]].
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* RuleOfSymbolism: When they're traveling on Red, Maisie and Jacob discuss the possibility of [[HappilyAdopted becoming a family themselves]] once the sea monster hunts end. Later, Maisie is injured and needs a transfusion, [[ParentalSubstitute Jacob]] is the one giving her blood.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Jacob is able to throw a spear into a cracked bit of shell on a Brickleback and later into the armpit of a crab monster. Subverted for laughs when he tries to fish with a spear and fails, as he's not used to small and fast targets like a school of fish.
* MegaMaelstrom: Downplayed in that it's not big enough to swallow the ship, but it doesn't need to be. The Red Bluster causes a whirlpool that nearly sinks the ''Inevitable'', forcing Maisie to cut the line to save the crew. Later, Red uses a smaller whirlpool to hunt fish.
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* MoralityChain: Without Jacob's influence, Captain Crow goes from a revenge-driven AntiHero to an unscrupulous AntiVillain.
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* MoralityChain: Without Jacob's influence, Captain Crow goes from a revenge-driven AntiHero to an unscrupulous AntiVillain.
* MotiveDecay: When Crow sees [[spoiler:Jacob swallowed by the Red Bluster]], he gives up any semblance of honor in pursuit of his revenge, even bargaining with Gwen Batterbie for a weapon to kill it. However, [[spoiler:when Jacob returns alive, he's so far gone he's not even interested in hearing Jacob's explanations that the Red Bluster isn't malicious and by the end he falls so far he's willing to attack Jacob himself just to get to Red.]]
* MotiveDecay: When Crow sees [[spoiler:Jacob swallowed by the Red Bluster]], he gives up any semblance of honor in pursuit of his revenge, even bargaining with Gwen Batterbie for a weapon to kill it. However, [[spoiler:when Jacob returns alive, he's so far gone he's not even interested in hearing Jacob's explanations that the Red Bluster isn't malicious and by the end he falls so far he's willing to attack Jacob himself just to get to Red.]]
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* BloodBrothers: Symbolic and parental version. When Maisie is injured, [[ParentalSubstitute Jacob]] is the one giving her blood for the transfusion. This is only a few scenes after they discussed [[HappilyAdopted becoming a family]], adding some subtext to what's already a big gesture.
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* BloodBrothers: Symbolic and parental version. When Maisie is injured, [[ParentalSubstitute Jacob]] is the one giving her blood for the transfusion. This is only a few scenes after they discussed [[HappilyAdopted becoming a family]], adding some subtext to what's already a big gesture.
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* EurekaMoment: When they're pulling into Castle Whiterock at the end, Maisie spots the royal crest and [[spoiler:realizes that it's the same one on her books. She then checks the books on the bookshelf, and realizes that ''all'' of them have the royal crest: the royal family have been running a disinformation campaign for centuries, exaggerating the threat of monsters to push the hunters into dangerous situations.]]
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* SpottingTheThread: When Jacob is going through Maisie's book and commenting on the inaccuracies, like hunters using the word "[[TalkLikeAPirate yarr]]" way too much, he notes that one specific monster is accused of destroying a town on the coast, but he's been up and down the coast and he's never seen a town on it. This dominoes into Maisie and Jacob realizing that [[spoiler:monsters have never actually attacked the mainland, and the accounts of them doing so were fabricated.]]
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* SymbolicWeaponDiscarding: Upon realizing that it's wrong to hunt sea monsters, Jacob tries to show his change of heart to Red, the sea monster that saved his life, by breaking his lance with his knee in front of her. However, he repeatedly fails because the shaft is made out of metal, and hurts himself trying. Later in the film, he manages to successfully break a wooden lance and declares to never hunt sea monsters again in front of a crowd to mark the end of monster hunting. Even his adoptive father, Captain Crow, drops his sword after Red backs down from eating him, marking the end of his vengeful obsession with killing her over losing his right eye thirty years ago.
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* SymbolicWeaponDiscarding: SymbolicWeaponDiscarding[=/=]SymbolicallyBrokenObject: Upon realizing that it's wrong to hunt sea monsters, Jacob tries to show his change of heart to Red, the sea monster that saved his life, by breaking his lance with his knee in front of her. However, he repeatedly fails because the shaft is made out of metal, and hurts himself trying. Later in the film, he manages to successfully break a wooden lance and declares to never hunt sea monsters again in front of a crowd to mark the end of monster hunting. Even his adoptive father, Captain Crow, drops his sword after Red backs down from eating him, marking the end of his vengeful obsession with killing her over losing his right eye thirty years ago.
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* AnAesop: There's no glory in war or revenge, only loss and pain. The only way to win a war is to end it.
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* ProtectionInMouth: Maisie and Crow initially think themselves swallowed as food by the Red Bluster, only for it to turn out to be this, as it only ever holds them on its tongue.
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* CurbStompBattle: When the ''Imperator'' tries to kill the Red Bluster, she just rams through the ship at full speed. Thankfully, Jacob's fears that many of unprepared soldiers would die doesn't come to pass, as many were unloading on shore, but the ship is destroyed beyond repair.
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* CurbStompBattle: When the ''Imperator'' tries to kill the Red Bluster, she just rams through the ship at full speed. Thankfully, Jacob's fears that many of unprepared soldiers would die doesn't come to pass, as many most were unloading on shore, but the ship is destroyed beyond repair.
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Not of a character, but of a ''ship'' : [[spoiler: the ''Inevitable'' is unceremoniously destroyed by Red near the climax of the movie. Thing is, Red didn't even ''mean'' to sink the ''Inevitable'', she just collapsed on top of it while still under the effects of Batterbie's poison. Still, the fact that the ''Inevitable'' saw no less than three generations of Captains and survived countless monster hunts only to be sunk in such an anti-climactic way deserves mention.]]
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Even after being ''directly ordered'' by the Monarchs to [[spoiler: open fire on Red]], the General [[spoiler: sheathes her sword and outright ''refuses'' to give her men the order to fire, having been convinced by Maise's speech that the war can be ended by breaking the cycle of violence. The fact that her own brother, who served on the ''Monarch'', was one of the countless casualties of an ultimately pointless war, most likely helped with her decision.]]
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* GenderIsNoObject: While the film's setting is mostly equivalent to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, it completely lacks the strict gender roles associated with the time; the King and Queen seem to rule as equals rather than as monarch and consort, and there are plenty of women fighting alongside the men both among the hunters and the soldiers with no sign of this being anything unusual.
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* GenderIsNoObject: While the film's setting is mostly equivalent to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, it completely lacks the strict gender roles associated with the time; the King and Queen seem to rule as equals rather than as monarch and consort, and there are plenty of women fighting alongside the men both among the hunters and the soldiers with no sign of this being anything unusual. Sarah Sharpe is a very prominent example, being Crow's first mate and a highly respected hunter in her own right.
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* AntiVillain: Captain Crow begins the story as a LargeAndInCharge ReasonableAuthorityFigure, both a brave and respected monster hunter. However, he grows more ruthless and revenge-driven against the Red Bluster, to the point he [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to shoot Maisie]] and strikes a deal with [[TheDreaded Gwen Batterbie the sea witch]].
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* AntiVillain: Captain Crow begins the story as a LargeAndInCharge ReasonableAuthorityFigure, both a brave and respected monster hunter. However, he grows more ruthless and revenge-driven against the Red Bluster, to the point he [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to shoot Maisie]] and strikes a deal with [[TheDreaded Gwen Batterbie the sea witch]]. [[spoiler: Unlike [[Literature/MobyDick the character he's based on]], though, Crow eventually lets go of his grudge against Red and [[RedemptionEarnsLife survives the events of the story]], giving up on his quest for revenge.]]
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** When the King and Queen proudly show the ''Imperator'' to Crow, the latter is quite unimpressed, noting that the ship is ill-equipped to deal with a sea monster despite its impressive firepower. [[spoiler: Sure enough, when Red attacks the ''Imperator'' later on, she effortlessly powers through its barrage of gunfire and ''breaks the ship in half'' in a single charge.]]
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* BalloonBelly: Blue's stomach got huge after eating a lot of fish that Jacob and Maisie caught.
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* ShipOfTheseus: Alluded to with Captain Crow when he tells Jacob he'll succeed him as Captain. Recognizing ''The Inevitable'' as an eternal thing that can have every part of it replaced while it's Captain is mortal and finite.
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*ShipOfTheseus: Alluded to with Captain Crow when he tells Jacob he'll succeed him as Captain. Recognizing ''The Inevitable'' as an eternal thing that can have every part of it replaced while it's Captain is mortal and finite.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even if he grows more ruthless over the course of the movie, Crow does genuinely love Jacob and openly considers him a [[LikeASonToMe son]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Early in the film, Maisie longs to be a Hunter like her parents and is excited to live and die in greatness like she perceives the ''Inevitable'' crew to do. Cue her first actual outing with them, where ''all'' of them risk dying when their attempt to slay the Red Bluster nearly ends with the ship getting brought down with it. She was definitely not keen to be amongst her heroes then.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Early in the film, Maisie longs to be a Hunter hunter like her parents and is excited to live and die in greatness like she perceives the ''Inevitable'' crew to do. Cue her first actual outing with them, where ''all'' of them risk dying when their attempt to slay the Red Bluster nearly ends with the ship getting brought down with it. She was definitely not keen to be amongst her heroes then.
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* MammalMonstersAreMoreHeroic: The most heroic sea beast, the Red Bluster, looks distinctly mammalian, resembling a cross between a whale and a sea lion. By comparison, the more neutral beasts have fish or cephalopod features and the most hostile beast resembles [[GiantEnemyCrab a crab]].
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Jacob tries to dramatically break his lance over his knee, but only ends up hurting himself. He gets a do-over later that's more successful (but still painful).
