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The article makes mention of the 'first mate' wearing a red shirt and getting crushed. I find this wrong in two parts: a redshirt is a expendable character with little or no interaction with the greater plot nor main characters. That wasn't the case with the ship's first mate. Secondly, he didn't wear a red shirt. The fellow who wore the prominently red shirt in the film was the movie producer's right-hand man-- and he survived.
I know that was the name Mark Twain's party used for all their guides in Innocents Abroad, it was a generic name for any local guide, so it could have come up as a generic name for any redshirt.
