History Main / NotSoSafeHarbor

* Aside from the page quote, Music/RunningWild's "Port Royal" also dwells on the subject.

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'':
** A non-nautical example is the Inn run by Monsieur and Madame Thenardier. Definitely a Booty Bay according to [[http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/lesmiserables/masterofthehouse.htm Monsieur Thenardier's description of his patrons]]
-->"My band of soaks,my den of dissolutes/My dirty jokes/my always pissed as newts/My sons of whores spend their lives in my inn"
** Montreuil-sur-Mer has definite elements of this trope.
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* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has the aptly named "Rogueport".

%%* Bloodbath Bay in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves''.
* Lion's Arch, the hub city in the ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' setting was founded as a Booty Bay in prehistory, but (mostly) all the pirates in the city are Respectable Business Owners now. Prior to the city being sacked, most of the architecture was built (somewhat impractically sometimes) beached ships and high arched bridges between them. The city is still run by a Captains' Council, though, and and many of the settings, events, explorable areas in the surrounding regions involve things piratical as players fight against (or sometimes with) pirates in various ways.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'' has quite a few, most notably Zoolie's gaming house in Janda Town.

* When Shrayuki and Kazuki get kidnapped by the slave trading pirates known as the Claws of the Sea in ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'', Kazuki freezes in their escape attempt when he sees just where the ship they're on is docked since he used to be one of the Claws before they sold him and he recognizes the fortified "town" as a pirate based settlement and realizes that they are well and truly trapped without outside assistance.

* Sweethaven in ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' TheMovie.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Tortuga, Singapore and Shipwreck Cove. Jack tells his crew to be careful about the latter as it's apparently a MeaningfulName. The Tortuga of the film is still somewhat cleaned up and [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney-fied]], compared to how you'd expect it to be in real life; women can walk safely around without any fears of being raped, for example, though almost all of them appear to be professionals who are accustomed to this anyway. Considering that most of the pirates have no qualms about murder ([[PiratesWhoDontDoAnything at least in theory]]), that there are much more men than women everywhere in the film, and how most pirates spend a long time in boats without women, you'd expect that even pretty young men wouldn't be safe which is what Elizabeth Swann was disguised as.
%%* Samoa in ''Film/NateAndHayes''.
* ''Film/ANewHope'': Mos Eisley is this trope [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]! You will never find a more wretched hive...

* ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'': Innsmouth in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is a Stormalong Harbor TownWithADarkSecret.

* Damocles Docks in the third book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
* Gloucester in ''Literature/CaptainsCourageous'' is the New England fishing village variety.

* Braavos in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. "Cat" provides a clam-seller's view from inside.
** Lordsport is also one, given that its inhabitants are Ironborn.
* Umbar in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''

* Neceda in the ''Literature/EddieLaCrosse'' series. It's a small-ish river port rather than a sea port, but has a lot of the same characteristics (like having actual residents be outnumbered by disreputable passers-through looking to get drunk and/or laid).
* Dreadweather, one of the two eponymous islands in ''Dreadweather and Sunrise'', is a whole ''island'' populated by pirates. To say the place is a lawless cesspit would be praise. The male protagonist Egbert and his family are among the few non-pirate residents, who run the island's only inn.

* According to ''The Compleat Literature/{{Discworld}} Atlas'', Barrie Island in the Widdershins Ocean used to be a Booty Bay. These days it's a pirate themed SouvenirLand, the locals having discovered this is a much more efficient way of robbing people.
* The town of Raguza in ''Literature/{{Brotherband}}'' is a town full of and run by pirates, making it a useful spot to duck from the law, or team up with other pirates to launch a mass attack on targets too strongly defended for just one ship to manage. It's run by PragmaticVillainy-for example, if anyone starts a fight, for any reason, they're turfed out. The prices are also not too bad-trying to cheat people with lots of blades and short tempers is not the best idea. Docking fees are a percentage of whatever cargo the ship is carrying. The Herons end up there in Book 3, chasing Zavac, and pass by in Book 7.

* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' supplement ''Mysteries of the Hollow Earth''. The pirate city of Bloody Bay is ruled by a cruel and heartless tyrant who overthrew the previous Pirate King. This has led to an atmosphere of paranoia and chaos in the streets, with violence rising to ten times previous levels.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #16 adventure "Vesicant". The port of Scrape is the home of not only vile and bold pirates, but a dangerous green dragon that can breathe out a cloud of chlorine gas.

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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** There's Booty Bay, the former TropeNamer. Though, oddly enough, at least some pirates have actually been ''banned'' from docking there--the Bloodsail Buccaneers dock in a natural cove nearby. The mayor of the town even sics you on them as part of a quest. The town seems to be run jointly by the Steamwheedle Cartel and the Blackwater Raiders, the latter of which are (or at least were) pirates.
** In ''Battle for Azeroth'' there's Freehold, which is described as a "free people's port": it has no rules or regulations about what vessels are allowed to dock. Privateers, mercenaries, and even pirates are welcome. One can get anything they want in Freehold, provided that they pay for it, in gold or steel.

** Port Phasmatys was once an example of Stormalong Harbor, until it became a literal Ghost Town when all the residents were transformed into spirits. Surprising lack of [[GhostPirate Ghost Pirates]], although Bill Teach and Pirate Pete are pirates who are still very much alive.
* ''VideoGame/EverQuest 1'' has the entire ''Legacy of Ykesha'' expansion. All the zones in that expansion are located on an island called Brokenskull Rock, and Brokenskull Rock swarms with pirates. One of the zones is called Dulak's Harbor.
* Smuggler's Cove in the computer game ''I Spy: Treasure Hunt'', especially in the past, but even in the present day, most townspeople seem obsessed with pirates and the sea.
* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series loves to parody the Booty Bay version with every town in every game. The town on Melee Island in ''Secret'' would be if all the pirates weren't too afraid to leave because of [=LeChuck=], the town on Scabb Island in ''Revenge'' would be if all the pirates weren't too afraid to leave because of Largo [=LaGrande=] (and it's implied everyone is just lazy anyway), Puerto Pollo in ''Curse'' is a Booty Bay retirement community, and Melee again in ''Escape'' is until it's turned into a tourist trap. The only town to play it straight is (appropriately) Booty Island in ''Revenge''.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'': Yaaargh, the port o' Badon, what be filled with pirates and other unsavory nautical characters.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has the aptly named "Rogueport".
* Bloodstone in ''VideoGame/FableII''.
* Brynnlaw in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'', which also has the distinction of being the port servicing [[BedlamHouse Spellhold]].
* Bloodbath Bay in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves''.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': The Docks in Kirkwall. Except for the Qunari compound (which ''nobody'' in their right mind messes with), it's a smugglers' haven in the daytime, and at night it falls into the hands of gangs. While the rest of Kirkwall is also unsafe at night, the dockside gangs get a special mention for, in two of the three Acts, being controlled by ''[[BloodMagic blood mages]]''.
* Lion's Arch, the hub city in the ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' setting was founded as a Booty Bay in prehistory, but (mostly) all the pirates in the city are Respectable Business Owners now. Prior to the city being sacked, most of the architecture was built (somewhat impractically sometimes) beached ships and high arched bridges between them. The city is still run by a Captains' Council, though, and and many of the settings, events, explorable areas in the surrounding regions involve things piratical as players fight against (or sometimes with) pirates in various ways.
* Scurvy Docks in ''VideoGame/MediEvilResurrection'', where you must disguise yourself as a pirate to get a boat.
* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo Round 2'' uses a pirate-infested harbor as the HubLevel.
* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', this is how the website Website/{{Reddit}} is portrayed. It’s a perfectly safe place if you have enough karma… but those without it are forced to live in the dirty, cutthroat alleys of Downvote Lane. When you visit, the first thing you see is a public execution (the man reposted a Buzzfeed article), and you’re accosted by a trio of thugs shortly afterwards.
* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'': Moresby, a Booty Bay coastal city, has this trope turned [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]] with not only hostile human raiders roaming the streets, but hordes of zombies too. The loading screen hints suggest that the raider punks contributed significantly to the city's criminal elements prior to the [[TheVirus outbreak]]. [[FromBadToWorse Everything just plunged into anarchy after]].
* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' takes place on the Rook Islands, a series of islands taken over by RuthlessModernPirates. The protagonist and his friends end up captured and enslaved in the beginning of the game when they decide to go sky-diving to the islands.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': One of Eorzea's great city-states, Limsa Lominsa, was originally a textbook Booty Bay, but in recent years its government has outlawed piracy and made an effort to reform it as a legitimate port city. It still has a reputation as a den of cutthroats and many pirate crews live on as {{privateer}}s given legal leave to attack TheEmpire.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has Booty Bay, the former TropeNamer. Though, oddly enough, at least some pirates have actually been ''banned'' from docking there--the Bloodsail Buccaneers dock in a natural cove nearby. The mayor of the town even sics you on them as part of a quest. The town seems to be run jointly by the Steamwheedle Cartel and the Blackwater Raiders, the latter of which are (or at least were) pirates.

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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Tortuga, Singapore and Shipwreck Cove. Jack tells his crew to be careful about the latter as it's apparently a MeaningfulName. The Tortuga of the film is still somewhat cleaned up and [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney-fied]], compared to how you'd expect it to be in real life; women can walk safely around without any fears of being raped, for example, though almost all of them appear to be professionals who are accustomed to this anyway. Considering that most of the pirates have no qualms about murder ( [[PiratesWhoDontDoAnything at least in theory]]), that there are much more men than women everywhere in the film, and how most pirates spend a long time in boats without women, you'd expect that even pretty young men wouldn't be safe which is what Elizabeth Swann was disguised as.
* Samoa in ''Film/NateAndHayes''.

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* ''Theatre/LesMiserables''

* ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 3}}'' takes place on the Rook Islands, a series of islands taken over by RuthlessModernPirates. The protagonist and his friends end up captured and enslaved in the beginning of the game when they decide to go sky-diving to the islands.

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* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the Pirates' Cove in Yamato is the base of the Blue Dragon pirates and also a hive of scum and villainy.
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* Klugetown in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' is a landlocked airship harbor where sentient creatures and their body parts can be bought and sold. In the Mane Six's first encounter with a merchant in Klugetown, he asks Princess Twilight if she's interested in selling her horn, other residents offer bids for individual ponies, Rarity's mane, the whole lot of them, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Pinkie Pie's picture of her sister Maud]], and Capper tries to sell them to pay off a debt.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #16 adventure "Vesicant". The port of Scrape is the home of not only vile and bold pirates but a dangerous green dragon that can breathe out a cloud of chlorine gas.

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* When Shrayuki and Kazuki get kidnapped by the slave trading pirates known as the Claws of the Sea in ''Manga/AkagamiNoShirayukihime'' Kazuki freezes in their escape attempt when he sees just where the ship they're on is docked since he used to be one of the Claws before they sold him and he recognizes the fortified "town" as a pirate based settlement and realizes that they are well and truly trapped without outside assistance.

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* In the 2002 TV movie ''Shackleton'' the Antarctic explorers find a whaling station that fits this trope, and even they ponder what madmen or outlaws would work in such a WretchedHive.

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* Umbar in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings''

* In [[Fanfic/TheLifeAndTimesOfAWinningPony the Winningverse]], the city of Freeport, run by greedy merchant-princes and with guards so corrupt they are ''expected'' to supplement their income with bribes, is a notorious haven for BlackMarket deals in every sort of banned good, a hotbed of espionage and counterespionage, and a nest of organized piracy.

* Port Duck in ''TabletopGame/TheDiscworldRolePlayingGame'' is the Sto Plains/Agatean settlement on the Brown Islands, and is full of sailors who definitely aren't pirates. Confusing things, the parts the Agatean tourists see are also full of people who ''really'' aren't pirates but insist they ''are'', giving them all the excitement of drinking in a pirate tavern without actually being in any danger.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Tortuga, Singapore and Shipwreck Cove. Jack tells his crew to be careful about the latter as it's apparently a MeaningfulName. The Tortuga of the film is still somewhat cleaned up and [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney-fied]], compared to how you'd expect it to be in real life; women can walk safely around without any fears of being raped, for example. Considering that a lot of the pirates have no qualms about murder ( [[PiratesWhoDontDoAnything at least in theory]]), that there are much more men than women everywhere in the film, and how most pirates spend a long time in boats without women, you'd expect that even pretty young men wouldn't be safe, let alone Elizabeth Swann.

* Roanapur from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is a modern-day Booty Bay, being a hangout for pretty much every illegal or semi-legal shipping crews in the south Asian sea.

* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo Round 2'' uses a pirate-infested harbor as TheHub.

* According to ''The Compleat ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Atlas'', Barrie Island in the Widdershins Ocean used to be a Booty Bay. These days it's a pirate themed SouvenirLand, the locals having discovered this is a much more efficient way of robbing people.