History Main / NotSoSafeHarbor

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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.
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* ''Fanfic/ThisBites:'' After defeating Moria, Lola and her crew decide to rebuild Thriller Bark into a mobile BootyBay called "Skelter Bite".

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* ''Fanfic/TheFreeportVenture'': 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.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites:'' After defeating Moria, Lola and her crew decide to rebuild Thriller Bark into a mobile BootyBay called "Skelter Bite".
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* The port in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingScroll The Waterbending Scroll]]" is a rather scary-looking WretchedHive where "[[DoubleSpeak high-risk traders]]" (read: "pirates"), irresponsible Avatars and their inexperienced companions, and obsessive Fire Nation princes all end up at the same time.

* The island town of Brynnlaw in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'', which - in addition to being ruled by a cruel pirate king - also has the distinction of being the port servicing [[BedlamHouse Spellhold]].

* ''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.

%%* Bloodstone in ''VideoGame/FableII''.
* 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.
* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo Round 2'' uses a pirate-infested harbor as the HubLevel.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' and ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': Bilgewater has elements from both types—a lawless, tropical town of pirates, gamblers, and sea serpent hunters. Champions from Bilgewater include pirates, a card sharp and his shotgun-wielding partner in crime, a cajun-accented catfish demon who feeds on addiction, a very muscular priestess of the Mother Serpent, a sea Yordle trickster, and more. As a Legends of Runeterra region, it has an emphasis on plundering from your opponent and making gambles you know will pay off.
* Scurvy Docks in ''VideoGame/MediEvilResurrection'', where you must disguise yourself as a pirate to get a boat.
* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series loves to parody the Booty Bay version with every town in every game. The town on Mêlée 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 Mêlée 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''.

* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodbath Bay]] in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves''.

** 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.

* Libertalia in ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' was a haven built by pirates for pirates. [[spoiler:Except that it was all just a trap by the pirate captains who founded it, to lure in pirates and steal their wealth. And said pirate captains ended up turning on each other until all of them ended up dead.]]

* The port in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Waterbending Scroll." A rather scary-looking WretchedHive where "[[DoubleSpeak high-risk traders]]" [[note]]read: "pirates" [[/note]], irresponsible Avatars and their inexperienced companions, and obsessive Fire Nation princes all end up at the same time.

* In ''TabletopGame/TheDelversGuideToTheBeastworld'', the Al'Ar archepelago is based on the Carribean, but there are ''absolutely'' no pirates, and hence no pirate havens. Don't ask about the mysterious dock towns that regularly appear to spring up on the ''completely deserted'' islands of Torono; the locals will have no idea what you're talking about.

* 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/WorldOfWarcraft Booty Bay]]''', usually the hangout of your favorite {{pirates}}, whether [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything they're idle]] or not. Expect them to be on an unknown location where authorities try to be on the margin of things and raids every once in a while. Set either somewhere in the [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Caribbean]] or in Southeast Asia, though not exclusively, expect it to be set in the 18th or the early 19th century. And yes, it's full of [[PirateGirl both kinds]] of PirateBooty.

* ''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. [[spoiler: By the time of the Endwalker expansion, the Admiralty has taken to officially outlawing all forms of piracy, even against the Garlean Empire.]]

* ''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.

As far as humankind has dominated the sea, sailors have been considered as one of the lowest links of the social hierarchy, since these men spend many, many weeks at sea, usually don't have a steady place to live, and usually use the little wages they have on [[TheDrunkenSailor lowly pleasures]]. Hence, the typical image of the settlements made to give these men a place to spend their wages and satisfy their urges.

* Braavos in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. "Cat" provides a clam-seller's view from inside.

* ''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]].

-->-- '''Music/RunningWild''',"Tortuga Bay"

* The title loction of Green Ronin's ''Freeport: The City of Adventure'' is a harbour ruled by a council of the most ruthless pirate captains. Although rule by pirates may seem like the best option when the previous settlement was ruled by [[LizardMen Serpent Men]] who are still plotting to summon [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Unspeakable One]].

* 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.

* ''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.

* Port Duck in the ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRolePlayingGame'' is a joint 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 the tourists all the excitement of drinking in a pirate tavern without actually being in any danger. It’s a parody of the historical Port Royal, in the Caribbean, with an added dose of modern-day Hong Kong (and maybe a dash of Disneyland).

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'''s campaign setting has The Shackles, an island chain ruled by a loose union of affiliated pirate captains. The regional capital, Port Peril, is ruled over by the [[PirateKing Hurricane King]].

* In the 2002 TV movie ''Film/{{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.

* 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.

** 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.

* "Singapore" by Music/TomWaits.

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* Brynnlaw in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'', which also has the distinction of being the port servicing [[BedlamHouse Spellhold]].