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* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Having full hull integrity or more armor doesn't stop your ships from losing cannons.

* [[Arms Dealer]]: You, especially. You buy weapons and you sell them to other ports. And in the majority of the games, weapons and armaments are contraband.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: Zeus

* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: The backdrop of ''Legends.''

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: All of the player characters appear to be this in varying degrees.

** In ''Odyssey'' Asterion and Phil are of particular note.

* [[Doom Magnet]]: Sindbad in Tiger Bai's storyline. Despite very clearly knowing this, Bai is very good friends with him and [[True Companions|is always willing to have him on her ship, no matter what misfortune may follow.]]

** This is also referenced in a few other character storylines: at one point one of the kings even shows that threatening to make someone [[Red Shirt|be cabin boy on a Sindbad voyage]] is a very effective means of punishment.

* Hello. [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|My name is Ignacio Verdugo]]. [[You Killed My Father]]. [[Prepare to Die]]. If you play as {{spoiler|1=[[Big Bad|Sebastian LaRoche]]}} in Story Mode in ''Tradewinds 2'', be prepared to hear this several times throughout the course of your game.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] / [[Ho Yay]]: In ''Odyssey'' Petrakles and Ganymede are this.

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: In ''Odyssey'' in the storyline for Phil the Cynic, he acts as this for his cousin Herakles.

* [[Immortality Hurts]]: One of the two connected storylines in Daimones the Goddess' Story Mode

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: The merchant Baobab in ''Legends'' has a inexplicable French accent.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The Fire Pot special ammunition in ''Tradewinds 2''.

* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: The Tazere brothers in ''Tradewinds Legends'' ... twice. {{spoiler|Hasan Tazere's plunge into the high seas and skies started when his brother, Omar, went missing. The first time this trope occurs is when Hasan encounters a Djinn-possessed Omar at sea. Hasan must eventually kill the King of the Djinn, but at the same time put his brother to the sword. Hasan believes that Omar died from the two stabs, but when he visits a temple later on, he meets his brother again, alive and well. Omar promptly forms a [[Sibling Team]] with Hasan for the rest of Story Mode and beyond.}}

* [[Magikarp Power]]: The ''Tradewinds Odyssey'' characters' special attacks are based on total damage dealt, and the DPS rates get ''huge'' later in the game as you get [[More Dakka]].

* [[No One Should Survive That]]: Sindbad. His habit for surviving through sheer chance what should and does kill everyone he's with on a constant basis is so amazing that it's strongly suggested that the murderous djinn who pursues him, Ivory, is actually a force of nature who has come to ensure he finally dies the death he is due.

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: On one route in ''Caravans'', you play a {{spoiler|supposed}} widow. At the end of the game, she mentions the possibility of remarriage...to her husband's brother. ([[Truth in Television]]; this was virtually expected in the cultures of the age.)

* [[The Paralyzer]]: The Hive of Bees "Magic Curse" in ''Tradewinds Legends'' does this in battle, rendering a single target unable to return fire for ten seconds. Considering that most enemies have at least five cannons, and each one fires every four seconds, the Hive of Bees can actually come in handy in cutting down the damage taken by your fleet. It saved this troper's character twice during the course of the game.

** Muse's Revenge definitely is this, which can be boosted with one of the relics from the Reliquary.

* [[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The backdrop to ''Tradewinds 2''.

* [[Symbol Swearing]]: This can happen in two quests in ''Tradewinds Legends'', once when dealing with the crap wine manufacturing system in the Ten Kingdoms, which sends you to at least four different ports just to get ''one'' bottle of wine for the quest, and a second time when you have to deal with [[It Makes Sense in Context|a bunch of golden women, a retirement home, and massive damages.]]

* [[Theme Naming]]: The original ''Tradewinds'' and ''Tradewinds 2'' do this with virtually every ship for sale, excluding the Juggernaut in the former. Also probably classifies as [[Meaningful Name]] if you take into account the size and cannon mounts of their real-life counterparts.

* [[Truth in Television|Truth in Video Gaming]]: Once in a while, upon talking to the owner of an alehouse, temple or such, depending on the game, you may get a small piece of [[Real Life]] history.

* [[Unlockable Content]]: In pretty much all the games you have to complete one of the storylines to unlock the custom character mode.

** Additionally in ''Tradeswinds Odyssey'' completing a character storyline unlocks a [[Secret Character]].