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* [[Ax Crazy]]: First Mate Cox. There's a reason that if a ship already has a first mate, they'll quickly ask to be second mate if First Mate Cox comes aboard.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The Nation survives and flourishes. Daphne's father is crowned king. However, Daphne {{spoiler|leaves the island and only sees Mau one more time}}. Although {{spoiler|the girl who's being told the story}} insists that {{spoiler|two dolphins were seen swimming together immediately after both Mau and Daphne died}}
* [[Cannibalism Superpower]]: Mau tells Daphne that the Raiders believe they can gain people's abilities by eating them. Daphne shudders at the thought of being eaten. Mau replies that the men '''wouldn't''' eat her ... they'd feed her to their wives, "[[I Uh You Too|so that they become beautiful]]."
** Later, though, a cannibal elder praises Daphne's intelligence and says in a bizarrely polite way, "I would like to eat your brains."
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The axe (A [[Double Subversion]])
** {{spoiler|The recipe for making beer}} is a [[Chekhov's Skill]].
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Daphne, and she knows it too:
{{quote|"There was something in the brain that said: Sinister-looking valley + half dead trees + ominous doorway {{=}} skulls in a bowl, or possible on a stick. But even by listening to it, she felt she was being unfair to Mau and Cahle and the rest of them."}}
* [[Gold Fever]]: Daphne's father points out that she can't yet '''prove''' her proposition that {{Spoiler|the island once held a scientifically advanced civilization; any evidence of such might have been brought by Europeans}}. Daphne points out the huge solid gold door in the cave. "It's ''still here''!" If Europeans had entered that cave before she did, they would've stolen the door.
* [[Good Cannot Comprehend Evil]]: Daphne has a hard time explaining Cox's behavior to the islanders. They can cope with cannibals, but not someone who shoots people because they're there.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Locaha. And he's not as nice as Pratchett's other [[Discworld|Grim Reaper]].
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