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''Terry and the Pirates'' was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. The daily strip began October 22, 1934, with the Sunday color pages beginning December 9, 1934. Initially, the storylines of the daily strips and Sunday pages were different, but on August 26, 1936 they merged into a single storyline.
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* [[Ace Pilo[[Category:TV Series]Pilot]]: Dude Hennick
* [[Affably Evil]]: Cap'n Blaze. He may be a warlord, but he is a jolly old soul who enjoys a game of checkers with his captives.
* [[All Amazons Want Hercule[[Category:TV Series]Hercules]]: Implied to be a major factor in the Dragon Lady's desire for Pat Ryan.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Baron de Plexus
* [[Artifact Titl[[Category:TV Series]Title]]: Although pirates continue to appear throughout the run of the strip, the title "Terry '''AND''' the Pirates" doesn't really apply after the first arc.
* [[Bad Habit[[Category:TV Series]Habits]]: Cap'n Blaze and his gang set up an opium farm in a monastery and disguise themselves as monks.
* [[Bald of Awesom[[Category:TV Series]Awesome]]: Dude Hennick
* [[Bedsheet Ladde[[Category:TV Series]Ladder]]: Nasty (with some help from Burma) uses to one to escape from Hunter Yurk's compound.
* [[Cat Figh[[Category:TV Series]Fight]]: The only arc to feature both Burma and Dragon Lady naturally featured a cat fight between the two of them.
* [[The Chanteus[[Category:TV Series]Chanteuse]]: This was Burma's original career.
* [[Cut the Fus[[Category:TV Series]Fuse]]: The Dragon Lady shoots through the fuse of an explosive that has been stuffed ''in Connie's mouth!''
* [[Desk Jocke[[Category:TV Series]Jockey]]: Terry gets a speech from his commanding officer just after he gets his flight status which includes him stressing him treating the US Army's bureaucracy with respect.
* [[Disguised Hostage Gambi[[Category:TV Series]Gambit]]: Having captured Pat Ryan, Klang dresses him a Japanese uniform, gags him and ties him to a post so he looks like a sentry in the fake camp the Dragon Lady is about to attack.
* [[Dragon Lad[[Category:TV Series]Lady]]: The [[Trope Name[[Category:TV Series]Namer]]
* [[Femme Fatal[[Category:TV Series]Fatale]]: Burma
* [[Gentle Gian[[Category:TV Series]Giant]]: Big Stoop
* [[Hypnotize the Princes[[Category:TV Series]Princess]]: Sanjak does this to April Kane.
* [[La Résistanc[[Category:TV Series]Résistance]]
* [[Les Collaborateur[[Category:TV Series]Collaborateurs]]: Several villains were only too willing to collaborate with the Japanese invaders; most notably Warlord Klang.
* [[Made Myself Sad]]:
{{quote|'''Hotshot Charlie''': "I yield to no one in my appreciation of Oriental art, but there is a small segment of my mind which I reserve for the well-being of Charles C. Charles - Hotshot Charlie to the multitudes - and at the moment I feel myself somewhat depressed about his future."}}
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fas[[Category:TV Series]Fast]]: Captain Judas
* [[The Nickname[[Category:TV Series]Nicknamer]]: The Dragon Lady refers to almost everyone by a title that is "'something' one". Pat Ryan is 'handsome one'; Terry Lee is 'youthful one', etc.
* [[Pirate Girl]]: The Dragon Lady
* [[Repetitive Nam[[Category:TV Series]Name]]: Charles C. Charles, a.k.a. Hotshot Charlie.
* [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserve[[Category:TV Series]Deserves]]: Klang does this to a defector from the Dragon Lady's forces. After the defector has allowed Klang's forces to slip past his guard post, he is rewarded with a bayonet through the chest.
* [[Runaway Brid[[Category:TV Series]Bride]]: This was part of Raven Sherman's back story. She ran around away from a society wedding; fleeing to China and setting up a medical mission
* [[Ruthless Modern Pirate[[Category:TV Series]Pirates]]
* [[Sdrawkcab Nam[[Category:TV Series]Name]]: The Dragon Lady sometimes used the alias Miss Nogard.
* [[Second Sino-Japanese Wa[[Category:TV Series]War]]: Many strips in the late 30s had the heroes fighting the Japanese (just refered to as 'the invaders' prior to Pearl Harbor because of the strip's isolationist editor). The Dragon Lady even gives up piracy to become a freedom fighter.
* [[Southern Bell[[Category:TV Series]Belle]]: April Kane
* [[The Speechles[[Category:TV Series]Speechless]]: Big Stoop. The Dragon Lady had his tongue torn out when they were children.
* [[Spoiled Bra[[Category:TV Series]Brat]]: Nastalathia Smythe-Heatherstone, a.k.a. Nasty.
* [[Third Person Perso[[Category:TV Series]Person]]: Dragon Lady, Sanjak, Rouge, Klang... The list goes on and on.
* [[This Is My Name on Foreig[[Category:TV Series]Foreign]]: The thug Weazel goes by the name Belette (French for 'weasel') while working for Baron de Plexus.
* [[Two-Fisted Tale[[Category:TV Series]Tales]]
* [[Villainesses Want Heroe[[Category:TV Series]Heroes]]: The Dragon Lady wants Pat Ryan.
* [[Villainous Crossdresse[[Category:TV Series]Crossdresser]]: Sanjak
* [[Villainous Glutto[[Category:TV Series]Glutton]]: Papa Pyzon
* [[Whip It Good]]: The whip was Papa Pyzon's weapon of choice.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Raven Sherman
* [[World War Tw[[Category:TV Series]Two]]
* [[Wronski Fein[[Category:TV Series]Feint]]: Dude Hennick pulls one a Japanese fighter when the heroes are escaping from Temple Rock prison, causing the fighter to crash into a lake.
 
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Newspaper Comic[[Category:TV Series]Comics]]
[[Category:Radi[[Category:TV Series]Radio]]
[[Category:Terry and the Pirate[[Category:TV Series]Pirates]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1930[[Category:TV Series]1930s]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1940[[Category:TV Series]1940s]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1950[[Category:TV Series]1950s]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1960[[Category:TV Series]1960s]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1970[[Category:TV Series]1970s]]
[[Category:Newspaper Comics of the 1990[[Category:TV Series]1990s]]
[[Category:Radio of the 1930[[Category:TV Series]1930s]]
[[Category:Radio of the 1940[[Category:TV Series]1940s]]
[[Category:Films of the 1940[[Category:TV Series]1940s]]
[[Category:Live-Action TV of the 1950[[Category:TV Series]1950s]]
[[Category:Western Animatio[[Category:TV Series]]]