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Outside the UK, the film is being marketed under the title of ''The Pirates! Band of Misfits.''
 
The film features a nameless crew of pirates (who are [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|only referred to by description]], as in "The Pirate With Gout," "The Albino Pirate," and "The Pirate Who Likes Kittens and Sunsets") who aren't very good at piracy but are incredibly enthusiastic about it. The Pirate Captain is obsessed with winning the Pirate of the Year Award so he can at last earn the respect of his peers, but his incompetence renders this almost impossible.
 
To earn the prize, the crew navigates a ridiculously exaggerated caricature of [[Victorian London]], running afoul of [[Historical Domain Character|Charles Darwin, Jane Austen, and the Elephant Man]], and braving the hellish wrath of Queen Victoria (whose official royal motto is "I hate pirates!")
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Darwin has a crush on Queen Victoria, who couldn't care less about him. Also, it's implied that the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate has feelings for The Pirate Captain, who has no idea she's even female. {{spoiler|Darwin gets over Victoria, while Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate's plotline is left unresolved.}}
** According to Peter Lord, The Pirate Captain has a bit of an unrequited crush on Cutlass Liz which is hinted at in his [[Dream Sequence]].
* [[All -Star Cast]]: Hmm, lessee here... Hugh Grant, [[David Tennant]], [[Martin Freeman]], Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Lenny Henry, Brendan Gleeson, and last but not least, [[Brian Blessed]]!
* [[All There in The Script]]: The Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens is named only in the credits.
* [[Americanitis]]: At least two characters got overdubbed by American actors for the US release, not to mention some risque jokes getting cut.
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** Some usage of modern linguistics in Victorian times, such as the 'crew in the street sense, yo' line in the trailer.
** It should be noted that all of these examples use the [[Rule of Funny]] excuse.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: The eponymous pirates are a Type I.
* [[Arc Words]]: Or rather, Arc Question. "What's the best thing about being a pirate?"
* [[Art Shift]]: The opening credits and each [[Travel Montage]] are done in stylized CG across a [[Here There Be Dragons]]-style sea map, with all the peril that entails.
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* [[Black Comedy]]: Just by the trailers there seems to be a lot of it.
{{quote| "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|This is a leper boat!]]" [[Body Horror|*arm falls off*]] "[[Crosses the Line Twice|See?]]"}}
** [[Never Trust a Trailer|However,]] [[Dude, Not Funny|backlash from actual lepers]]<ref>Who actually exist in 2012, to many people's surprise</ref> changed the inhabitants of the ship to... [[Bowdlerize|plague victims.]]
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: On one hand, we have the murdering, looting pirates that want nothing but fame in the pirate world, on the hand we have the [[Alpha Bitch|Queen of England]], who is definitely not shown in a sympathetic light.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Several:
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** The best thing about the airship being that it allows its users to look down women's tops.
** When depressed about being mocked at the Pirate of the Year Award signups, The Pirate Captain makes a crack about "getting into baby clothes" instead. {{spoiler|Guess what he's doing after being cast out of pirate society?}}
* [[Buffy -Speak]]: "Fire those long things that go bang!"
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Oh, Darwin...
** Don't forget just about every rower trying to get into harbour at the same time as the pirates.
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* [[Call Forward]]: At the scientific conference, Darwin gets caught in an explosion of vinegar and baking soda, which makes him look like he has his trademark beard.
** Similarly, the Pirate Captain tells Darwin to grow a beard.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: After changing into their [[Paper -Thin Disguise|Paper Thin Disguises]] (both of them), the pirates feel the need to remind Darwin that it's really them.
* [[Card -Carrying Villain]]: The pirates in the movie are so proud of being pirates they hold a "Pirate of the Year" awards and pirates who receive pardon for their crimes are disqualified for the prize and banned from Bloody Island. When Queen Victoria revoked Pirate Captain's pardon and set the reward for his capture to be higher than the reward for any other pirate on the world, Pirate Captain actually liked it.
** On the other side of things, Victoria's royal crest literally says "I Hate Pirates!"
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: One joke involves a mention of [[Brian Blessed]], who voices The Pirate King.
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* [[Cool Boat]]: The Pirate Ship and {{spoiler|1=the QV1.}}
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: A lot of it.
* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: Featuring a [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] and a montage of the background jokes from the film.
* [[Cruella to Animals]]: {{spoiler|Queen Victoria}}
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: "There's a sea monster in the way."
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** The Ham Nite scene serves as one for the pirate crew in general.
** Black Bellamy's flashy entrance.
** Darwin's first scene has him writing in his journal about discovering a new species of barnacle and generally being all [[Buffy -Speak|Darwin-ish]], then he says this; [[You Need to Get Laid|"I'll never get a girlfriend. I am]] ''[[You Need to Get Laid|so]]'' [[You Need to Get Laid|unhappy."]]
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Pirate Captain and his crew (which include The Pirate With A Scarf, The Albino Pirate, The Pirate With Gout, The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate, and The Pirate Who Likes Sunsets and Kittens).
** [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"]]: He signs his name as 'Pirate Captain' on the Pirate of the Year entry form.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys]]: [[Charles Darwin]]'s pet monkey, Bobo.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Averted. Apart from his skin condition, the Albino Pirate is a normal guy (for a pirate, anyway) and probably one of the more good-natured pirates on the crew.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Queen Victoria throws a ''lot'' of hissy fits.
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* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Polly biting Victoria.}}
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Queen Victoria.
* [[Five -Man Band]]
** [[The Hero]]: [[The Captain|The Pirate Captain]]
** [[The Lancer]]: [[Only Sane Man|The Pirate With A Scarf]]
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* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]: It wouldn't be an Aardman film without this trope.
* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Victoria wields one in the final battle.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: The Captain does this to Darwin.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Again, Aardman.
* [[Girls With Moustaches]]: The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate.
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* [[Harmless Lady Disguise]]: Pirate Captain and the crew (even Polly!) disguise themselves as Girl Guides when they first arrive in London, due to Victoria's hatred of pirates.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Darwin and Mr. Bobo.}}
* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|Darwin finding the pamphlet about Victoria's rare animal eating society. His face practically screams "[[My God, What Have I Done?]]"}}
* [[Heroic Albino]]: The Albino Pirate, whilst not a technical 'hero', is definitely a positive and upbeat character.
* [[Heros Muse]]: Victoria is this to Darwin. {{spoiler|Until he finds that pamphlet.}}
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Charles Darwin]].
** With assorted other cameo appearances by real-life people, such as Joseph Merrick and [[Jane Austen]].
* [[Historical in In-Joke]]: The Pirate Captain tries to refuse Darwin joining the crew due to his "nose being too big for his face." Darwin almost got refused his position on his historic expedition because the captain, a firm believer in physiognomy, thought Darwin's nose meant he was lazy.
** The captain also suggests that Darwin grow a beard to help even out his face. [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/1878_Darwin_photo_by_Leonard_from_Woodall_1884_-_cropped_grayed_partially_cleaned.jpg/170px-1878_Darwin_photo_by_Leonard_from_Woodall_1884_-_cropped_grayed_partially_cleaned.jpg Darwin took the advice to heart evidently.]
*** Before that of course, Charles gets a temporary beard of Vinegar-Baking Soda foam.
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* [[Idiot Hero]]: The Pirate Captain. Oh god, the Pirate Captain.
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: The island where all the pirates meet up for the contest is named Blood Island. Not because of a history of bloodshed, but because it's "exactly the same shape as a bit of blood".
* [[ItsIt's All My Fault]]: Darwin says this word-for-word when he encounters the Pirate Captain after {{spoiler|learning Victoria's true plan for Polly.}}
* [[Jabba Table Manners]]: Queen Victoria talks with her mouth full while discussing plans with Admiral Collingwood.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: {{spoiler|Victoria wields [[Dual -Wielding|two of them]] during a fight scene. Probably ''because'' she thinks they're better than ordinary, pirate-related swords.}}
* [[Keet]]: The Albino Pirate.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Victoria rejecting Darwin, especially the second time.
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* [[Love Makes You Dumb]]/{{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Evil]]}}: Darwin's pursuit of Victoria drives him to do some rather unheroic things. {{spoiler|He gets better.}}
* [[Loving a Shadow]]: Darwin loving Victoria.
* [[Market -Based Title]]: The UK title is ''The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists,'' while the title everywhere else is ''The Pirates! Band of Misfits.''
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: The leper boat {{spoiler|is a subversion. While the offending word is redubbed, the footage itself remains}}.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Cutlass Liz.
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* [[No Endor Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|1=Don't worry, all of the world's most powerful and ethically questionable leaders and everybody working on the QV1 got to a lifeboat before the ship sank.}}
** {{spoiler|Similarly, Victoria formerly unpardoned the Pirate Captain (as shown by those new wanted posters), so we can be pretty sure that she didn't get eaten by those animals.}}
* [[Non -Action Guy]]: Darwin.
* [[No Flow in CGI|No Flow In Claymation]]: Neatly averted in a similar fashion to [[Coraline (Film)|Coraline]].
* [[Non -Human Sidekick]]: Polly for the Pirate Captain and Mr. Bobo for Darwin.
* [[No Name Given]]: All of the known pirates so far, with the exception of Black Bellamy, Cutlass Liz, and Pegleg Hastings.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: While giving the Pirate Captain a pep talk, the Pirate With A Scarf mentions the crew's adventures with Aztecs, librarians and a pig.
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** He does say something about using babies as squid bait though...
* [[Only Sane Man]]: The Pirate With A Scarf and Mr. Bobo.
* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: Twice. When they arrive in London, the pirates disguise themselves first as Girl Guides, then as scientists.
** [[Up to Eleven]]: When disguised as Girl Guides, even the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate keeps her beard on.
** It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure out that the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate is a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]].
* [[Parental Bonus]]: [[Self -Demonstrating Article|It's an Aardman film.]]
* [[Pirate Girl]]: Cutlass Liz and The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate.
* [[Pirate Parrot]]: Actually, the last living dodo.
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: The meeting place of the Royal Society closely resembles Somerset House, where the group really was based at the time of the film. A subtle example, but quite impressive for a film that indulges in [[Anachronism Stew]].
* [[Silent Snarker]]: Bobo. Remember, this is the same studio that gave us [[Wallace and Gromit|Gromit]]. When Darwin is explaining his plan, Mr Bobo holds up a "'''BUT...'''" card. When Darwin hushes him, he rolls his eyes and changes it to a "But..."
* [[A Simple Plan]]: Take Polly to London, show her off to the Royal Society, get some money out of it and use that booty to snag the Pirate of the Year award! [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]
* [[Sir Not Appearing in This Trailer]]: Darwin gets this treatment in the American trailers; he only appears for three or four shots, is never named and gets almost no lines.
** Arguably, this is justified, since there are people who... rather strongly dislike Darwin and his theories. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|And that's all we'll say.]]
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* [[Travel Montage]]: Three of them; the pirates searching for treasure (which doubles as the opening credits), the pirates and Darwin sailing to London and {{spoiler|1=the Pirate Captain and Darwin chasing the QV1 across Europe}}. The latter two include the vessel's path being shown on the map as a trail of red dots -- intercut with a shot of the vessel in which someone is actually dropping a series of red circular objects off the stern.
* [[True Companions]]: The Pirate Captain and his crew members.
* [[The Un -Reveal]]: We don't see what the Suprisingly Curvaceous Pirate looks like without her beard. The one time she's seen without it, her face is blocked by bubbles
* [[Victorian London]]
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Well, obviously. This is, after all, a movie starring pirates.
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* [[Walk the Plank]]: Darwin almost ends up doing this before he notices [[Last of His Kind|what species of bird Polly is.]]
** {{spoiler|Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate gets carried away and ends up forcing Darwin off of the plank anyway.}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Zig-zagged when {{spoiler|the Pirate Captain catches Darwin stealing Polly. At first he's furious and demands an explanation, but when Darwin confesses that he's trying to win over a girl, the Pirate Captain instantly softens up and is willing to help him. Then he learns that the girl in question is [[Complete Monster|Victoria]] and reacts as one would expect him to. Ultimately, he forgives Darwin.}}
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
** {{spoiler|Darwin returns to the Galapagos Islands and successfully woos a local girl.}}
** {{spoiler|Mr. Bobo joins The Pirate Captain's crew.}}
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