The captain of the Author’s Block was a skeleton in a tweed jacket: “You can’t save them, Tropea. The author has used ‘reluctant hero,’ ‘mentor dies in act two,’ and ‘power of friendship’ fourteen times each. The story is collapsing into a black hole of cliché.”
Some specific TV Tropes pages related to pirates include:
Tropea handed them a quill. “Start with one honest moment. Not a trope. A person .”
“Only if you earn it,” Tropea said, boarding his ship with a cutlass shaped like a red herring. “Now—surrender your plot holes, or we’ll fix them for you.”
The TV Tropes pirate section is replete with numerous tropes and conventions that have become synonymous with pirate media. Some of the most notable include: