Our Flag Means Death Already Teased A Huge Season 2 Villain
HBO Max's Our Flag Means Death already teased a potential season 2 villain. The pirate comedy show followed a fictionalized version of the Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, who sailed with the notorious Blackbeard. The first season featured several different antagonists, including Blackbeard's first mate, Izzy Hands, and prominent British navy officers Captain Nigel Badminton and Admiral Chauncey Badminton, but Our Flag Means Death season 2 may venture much further away in search of its primary villain.
After they were captured and forced to join the British navy, Blackbeard and Stede debated their next move. At one point, Blackbeard suggested the two of them make a new life together in China where no one would recognize them. Although this plan was abandoned when Stede left for home and Blackbeard formed a new pirate crew at the end of season 1, Our Flag Means Death's characters may eventually reach China after all.
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If Blackbeard and his crew follow through with the plan to get away from the English once and for all, it opens up the possibility to bring in Zheng Yi Sao on Our Flag Means Death season 2. Zheng Yi Sao is often considered history's most successful female pirate, and one of the most successful pirates of all time. Her exploits put Blackbeard's to shame by comparison. In 1810, when she decided she was done with the pirate life, Zheng Yi Sao had such a large pirate fleet that she was able to negotiate a surrender to Qing China that allowed her to avoid prosecution and live out the rest of her life peacefully. At the time of her surrender, she reportedly commanded 24 ships and over 1400 pirates. Regardless of how Stede and
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