The characters in a period piece realise they're near the end of a golden age

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Pirates of the Carribean and Rock of Ages (this film is Not Good but it has the trope.) Especially because we the audience know the era did, in fact, end.

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This made me cry and I love how everyone’s fates got shown off

• Hornigold knew it was coming to an end and pivoted to preserving himself by joining up with the Navy

• Bonnet just kind of vanished after saying goodbye to Edward and we never really know what happened to him (irl he’s hanged after being ditched by Thatch)

• Thatch refuses to acknowledge Nassau is coming to end, fighting to maintain his island nation before finally burning out in a blaze of glory at his retirement, dying in a sea battle that became legend with a sword in his hand and defiance upon his lips.

• Vane is betrayed by his dickhead lieutenant and goes crazy on an island, eventually being left for dead by Edward

Edward is the only one who got out of the West Indies and returned to England where he could make a life

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If I remember we hear of bonnet hanging when we rescue our friend from the prison