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'''King Ferdinand:''' Come over here and listen.
'''Christopher Columbus:''' All right.
'''Crew:''' Rumble, rumble, rumble! Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny!
|'''[[Stan Freberg]]''', ''The United States of America: The Early Years''}}
Here's the situation: you're on a ship. [[The Captain]] is supposed to be the commanding officer on the ship, and his word is supposed to be law. But sometimes, members of the crew don't see it that way. Maybe someone gets it in his head to become captain himself, and the current captain needs to go. Maybe the captain is a bit too tyrannical or soft for the crew's liking, or they think the captain has lost his mind and is leading them on a suicidal course, and the crew would rather go back to Tahiti. Whatever the reason, someone gets the bright idea to take up arms against the captain and before you know it, we've got a mutiny on our hands.
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When the commanding officer does something illegal with the ship, [[I Take Offense to That Last One|that's not mutiny]], that's [[wikipedia:Barratry (admiralty law)|barratry]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' is a fictional recounting of the mutiny that went down aboard the HMS Bounty in 1789. Committed to film in 1934, 1962, and in 1984 as ''The Bounty''.
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** Lampshaded in ''Disaster'' by Picard when three children he has [[Field Promotion|made "officers"]] [[No One Gets Left Behind|disobey]] his order to [[I Will Only Slow You Down|leave him to die]].
{{quote|Picard: You know this is mutiny.}}
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* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', there was an interesting case in the episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E24 Turnabout Intruder|Turnabout Intruder]]", where Kirk had switched bodies with his jealous, insane ex-lover, who wanted to be captain. The rest of the crew became suspicious of their captain's irrational behaviour. However all medical tests showed that Kirk was perfectly fine and even when Scotty suggested that they mutiny, McCoy pointed out the medical report was all that Starfleet would accept and they would be the ones who irrationally mutiny against their captain.
** Apparently illegally ordered executions don't qualify under Starfleet regs.
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* [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]] song "Mutiny" on the album ''Port Royal''.
* [[Alestorm]]'s "Captain Morgan's Revenge" kicks off with a mutiny that ends with the pirates making the title captain [[Walk the Plank]], only for him to pronounce a dying curse upon them all...
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* One of the most curious mutinies was the Spithead mutiny. The Royal Navy in the Channel suspended operations because of internal grievances. In this case the mutineers were patriotic Englishmen and careful of public opinion. Because of this they limited their demands to such things as a raise in pay and removal of unpopular officers. They did not even demand abolition of flogging either because they did not wish to press their luck or because they had their own reasons for wishing harsh treatment on [[Army of Thieves and Whores|some of the crew.]] And they agreed to call off the mutiny if the French interrupted negotiations. Some have compared the episode to a labor strike rather than a mutiny as we normally think of.▼
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer unintentionally mutinied against the Naval Captain while part of a Naval Reserve Sub Crew (It makes sense in context). The captain had to clean out a bunch of items (specifically contraband junk food that was implied to have been belonging to Homer.) and promoted Homer to captain in his stead. However, shortly afterwards, the sub Homer was on was about to collide with another submarine (which Moe claimed was an enemy sub). Homer, when wondering what his captain said, decided on saying fire the torpedo. Unfortunately, he forgot that his captain was still in the torpedo tube, and... well... he was fired into the enemy sub, comically making an impression on the enemy sub. Similarly, the enemy sub also considered using their officer to do so (although only because of a poor choice of words on the officer's part), but stopped when he explains he meant fire a real torpedo.
** Homer then commits treason and nearly starts a world war. Par for the course.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* One of the most curious mutinies was the Spithead mutiny. The Royal Navy in the Channel suspended operations because of internal grievances. In this case the mutineers were patriotic Englishmen and careful of public opinion. Because of this they limited their demands to such things as a raise in pay and removal of unpopular officers. They did not even demand abolition of flogging either because they did not wish to press their luck or because they had their own reasons for wishing harsh treatment on [[Army of Thieves and Whores|some of the crew.]] And they agreed to call off the mutiny if the French interrupted negotiations. Some have compared the episode to a labor strike rather than a mutiny as we normally think of.
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