Pirates of the Caribbean

Plot
Girl meets man.

Girl meets boy.

Girl meets the passage of time.

Man proposes to girl, despite an age difference that would have even fairly liberal people flinging their hands up in horror. Girl takes death-defying plunge to escape said proposal.

Girl is rescued from both ocean and bodice by scurrilous pirate.

Girl is kidnapped by scurrilous undead pirates with a hankering for really tacky jewelery.

Boy and scurrilous pirate set off to rescue girl.

Girl meets undead monkey. Fangirls swoon.

Plot happens, yada yada, blah blah blah, implausible fight scenes, etc, etc.

Boy declares undying love for girl. (Boy's actions, however, suggest undying love for scurrilous pirate - or so say the slash fans.)

Scurrilous pirate sails into sunset, boy and girl snog, spurned man is woeful, cue funky theme tune and the creation of approximately seventeen million rabid fangirls.

Mission Reports from this Continuum

 * Mission Reports from the Department of Mary Sues, Pirates of the Caribbean Division