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'''[[Blackadder]]:''' Either that, or "Here are my genitals, please kick them."|''Blackadder The Third -- "Sense and Senility"''}}
Do you want to appear casual and relaxed, but not bored or inactive? Do you often find yourself at the bow of a ship, gazing forthrightly toward adventure? Or do you just have a compulsive desire to not-so-subtly demonstrate your virility by puffing out your chest and thrusting your crotch forward while simultaneously bringing it nearer to eye level for a friend seated nearby? Do you need to lean in closer to examine something, demonstrate that you are paying close attention to a coworker, or physically express your interest in a lady friend, but don't want to give up your freedom of movement by sitting or kneeling? Then you need the
The Captain Morgan Pose is a dramatic pose that one strikes by planting one foot forward on an upraised object or surface, leaning forward and resting one hand or forearm on one's knee. It is often used in paintings to give an impression of boldness, heroism and leadership. It is also useful in photography, television and film to allow a standing actor to more easily share a shot with a sitting one, or a taller actor with a shorter one. Performing musicians can strike this pose by resting a foot on a speaker at the front of the stage.
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== Advertising ==
* [http://www.captainmorgan.com/ Captain Morgan rum], as seen above, is the [[Trope Namer]]. There is a series of television advertisements where everyday people in random places strike the pose, finishing with "There's a little Captain in all of us."
One ad starts with two guys at a bar, standing next to a pair of girls who are sitting down. The guys are panting with exertion for about half a minute...then the camera pans out to reveal that they're doing the Captain Morgan pose, with the girls using their legs as stools.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* [[George Washington]] is depicted in this pose in the famous 1851 oil painting, [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_by_Emanuel_Leutze%2C_MMA-NYC%2C_1851.jpg "Washington Crossing the Delaware"]. Notable in that, while dramatic, this would be a highly unsafe pose to strike aboard a rowboat (as opposed to, say, aboard a starship). The unsafe-in-a-rowboat aspect is lampshaded in one episode of ''[[Animorphs]]'' when the heroes travel back in time to the Delaware crossing, noting that George was hunkered down and shivering like the rest of his troops. Also lampshaded by Ernie of all people in the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' special "Don't Eat the Pictures." Hilariously lampshaded, too, by a Bob Newhart stand-up routine: "Who do you suppose gets up, and walks to the front of the boat, and ''stands'' in the front of the boat?! Nutty George, sure.... And how about the guy in the next boat, painting him!"
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== Comic Books ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': Commander William T. Riker, is known for striking this pose with little or no provocation, particularly in the early seasons. This may have been as much to keep the 6'4" Jonathan Frakes in frame when speaking to shorter actors as anything. Fun fact: The Captain Morgan Pose saved the day in the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] episode. If he hadn't been doing that, Data wouldn't have been able to look up at the pips on Riker's collar. Some fans, in homage to the term [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Picard_Maneuver Picard Maneuver], call this the Riker Maneuver. [[media:
* This is one of the things that the actors get The Prince Regent to do in ''[[Blackadder]] The Third'' when they are training him in public speaking.
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' had a game called "Sit, Stand, Bend", in which the player charged with bending or leaning often wound up doing a Captain Morgan Pose. One game of ''Weird Superheroes'' would have Brad get the name 'Captain Morgan' (which is ironically the most mundane name ever suggested in this game) in a bit of unintended [[Product Placement]], as Brad's portrayal was closer to the commercials than anything piratey.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'':
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011]]'' the pose has twice been used to introduce [[Obviously Evil]] [[Smug Snake
** In "Omens Part One" [[Catfolk]] General Grune makes his [[Big Entrance]] in this pose atop a [[Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction|gigantic]] geode hauled by a [[Working on the Chain Gang|chain gang]] of four-dozen [[Lizard Folk]] [[Made a Slave|slaves]] because he's [[Too Important to Walk]].
** In "The Duelist and the Drifter" The Duelist is introduced posed this way, as a [[Chiaroscuro|shadowed]] figure watching Lion-O [[I Have the High Ground|from a rooftop]] at a sword competition.
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* There is a training video used in a certain burger place in which a male worker used this pose as an excuse to basically grind his junk into the back of a female coworker's head as she knelt to get something from a low shelf. This was given as an example of sexual harassment and obviously strongly discouraged.
* Heavy metal musicians ''love'' this pose, especially singers. The most typical example is for a singer to rest one foot on the speaker cabinets at the front of the stage and lean forward to look directly into the crowd
The canon example band for that pose is [[Iron Maiden]]. Steve Harris and [[Bruce Dickinson]] used to actually bump each other from the front stage monitors, and Dickinson leaned forward so much that he actually rested his forearm on his thigh. (He does not do that so much now).
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