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* The titular hero of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' spends one of his first major story arcs battling pirates. The origin of the Pirates vs. Ninjas conflict is explored. [[RuleOfCool Frozen shamrock shurikens are thrown]]. Like everything else in this comic, it has to be read to be believed.
* ''WebVideo/{{Dimension20}}'' features Captain Bill Seacaster, who plays every Brutish Pirate stereotype straight... which makes him comically stand out in Elmville, which is mostly modern suburbia the game takes place in.
* In ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'' we have a whole crew ready to cause trouble. Complete with airships and [[HighAltitudeBattle high altitude battles]].

* Eridan Ampora and Vriska Serket from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' role played as pirates at one point. Brutish all the way, the latter being more into the whole Pirate thing considering her love of loot, and the former in order to [[ItMakesSenseInContext keep his friend's surrogate mother/eldritch abomination from letting out a world-ending scream.]] Later it's revealed that [[spoiler:they're roleplaying as their ancestors, or at least the closest troll equivalent of]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when Elan needs to reach Azure City, he [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0389.html meets]] a SkyPirate and his ship. The whole party gets to ride on the same airship in later arc, at first graciously, but as the mission is stretching in length, the pirate crew remind them that time spent saving the world is less time spent looting, and the Order agree to pay them to make it worthwhile.
* A major arc in the popular ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' featured "The Pirates of the Oceans Unmoving"--pirates in flying ships, sailing through cross-dimensional waters where time doesn't exist. In a clever subversion, it turns out that most (though not ''all'') of the "pirates" are actually geeks who ended up "outside time" as a result of various technological mishaps, failed experiments, et cetera, found all these abandoned, flying ships, and decided to live out life-long dreams of adventures on the high (if unmoving) seas.

In fiction, pirates can be found primarily in the [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon Caribbean]], [[TheCavalierYears a few hundred years ago]], but they pop up anywhere and everywhere so any seafaring hero can expect to meet pirates at least once whether in [[JidaiGeki Feudal Japan]] or even UsefulNotes/AncientGreece. Elizabethan-era privateers (such as the aforementioned Sir Francis Drake) used to be quite popular but have fallen out of favour in recent decades.

* The arcade/Dreamcast [[ShootEmUp shooter]] ''VideoGame/{{Gunbird}} 2'' has a [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket-esque]] group of pirates, called the Queen Pirates, as the [[BigBad Big Bads]]. With a [[GagBoobs buxom]] female pirate as the leader. Plus, they also have an army of HumongousMecha. What a [[RuleOfCool winning]][[NinjaPirateZombieRobot combination]]!

* The Caribbean (1650 A.D.) in ''VideoGame/TimeLord''.

* In ''Literature/PeterPan'', Peter's promary foes are Captain Hook and the crew of the ''Jolly Roger''.

* The corsairs that Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas fight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. They're given more facetime in the film, but they're firmly established as Roguish.

* In ''ComicBook/StarmanDCComics'' #55, "Taxicab Confessions", three characters tell the story of Jack and Mikaal facing off against Jarko, a {{Space Pirate|s}}, told in a RashomonStyle. One version of the story (a homage to UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks) has Jarko as this trope [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]], complete with an eyepatch, hook hand and alien parrot.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Swordquest}}: Waterworld'', Captain Frost leads a crew of humanoid pirates on a planet entirely covered in water, on [[CoolBoat a boat carved entirely out of ice]].

* Captain Hawk, a.k.a. 'the Sea Snake', was a fairly treacherous sometimes-ally of Travis Morgan in ''ComicBook/TheWarlord''.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', since superheroes exist people don't bother reading about them in comics, so instead pirate comics are popular. The type depicted in "Tales of the Black Freighter" are ''definitely'' ChaoticEvil, and both the one issue we're shown, and the other issues described, are squarely of the dark and horrific type.

* ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' is a romantic comedy about Stede Bonnet, the "[[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Gentleman Pirate]]", and his real-life partnership with the notorious UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}. Also featured are fellow historical pirates Israel Hands ("Izzy" in the show) and Calico Jack Rackham.

* Ten years later, Paul Burchill, the protege of Wrestling/WilliamRegal discovered that he was a descendant of Edward Teach, aka "Blackbeard", and decided to adopt a pirate persona to honor his heritage (this is all {{Kayfabe}}). The writers were attempting to cash-in on the success of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', but [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] had apparently [[CriticalResearchFailure never even heard of POTC]] and [[ItWillNeverCatchOn didn't think that pirates were marketable anymore]], and the (very over) character was quietly dropped. Wrestling fans are still reeling from this.

** Sometimes they would fly red-colored flags called Joli Rouge ("Pretty Red" in French) with the intent to [[LeaveNoSurvivors show no quarter]].

* A ScoundrelCode often with HonorAmongThieves for the Rougish type, or NoHonorAmongThieves for the Brutish ones.

* The main cast of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' are an example of your average modern-day South-East Asian variety of pirate, and prefer [=AK=]s and pistols to swords and cutlasses- though in fact, Revy's signature weapon is a pair of local knock-offs of the Beretta 92FS called "''Cutlasses,''" marked with a version of the Jolly Roger used by "Calico" Jack Rackham.

* ''Les Clients du Bon Chien jaune'' (''Clients of the Good Yellow Dog tavern'') by Pierre Mac Orlan. The story starts very much like ''Treasure Island'' (which had a big influence on Mac Orlan's writer career). A poor young boy embarks on a ship, only to discovers said ship's horrible secret: [[spoiler: the crew is actually made of pirates, who don skeleton disguises and mock up the boat as a ghost ship in order to scare the crap out of the prey ships, which makes them easy to subdue. Then they mercilessly slaughter the crews.]]

** Salladhor Saan is a wealthy Lysene buccaneer who commands a large fleet of pirate ships, operating mostly in the Narrow Sea between Westeros and Essos. It's mentioned he's more of an opportunist than a dedicated pirate -- besides outright pirating (which he absolutely does), he's also a sellsail (a ship-based mercenary) for those with coin, and even does honest trading and banking if there's profit in it. He's a much more Rougish type -- he's well-mannered and polite, incredibly flamboyant (the only things more gaudy than his colorful ships are his expensive clothes) and not dishonorable, in his own way. He also comes for a long line of professional pirates.

* The able men of Champa resort to piracy in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' when the beginning of the return of Alchemy to the world drives the fish from their waters. As a result, they're goodhearted Roguish pirates, and their leader Briggs even befriends the heroes of ''The Lost Age'' after they defeat him and send him to jail. His son grows up and joins the heroes in ''[[VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn Dark Dawn]]'' [[spoiler: to [[YouKilledMyFather avenge Briggs's death]] by monsters the bad guys brought about]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroTheEternalNight'': Skabb and his crew serve as the main villains for a story arch early in the game. Ironically, Skabb himself is too [[DumbMuscle stupid to be captain]] so his [[PirateParrot two birds]] Scratch and Sniff are the real captains of the pirate fleet. Also ironic is Skabb ultimately meets his DisneyVillainDeath by [[spoiler: WalkThePlank after Spyro badly hurts him]].

* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' ''X'' has The Crag instead, a mainly Pirate town. However, they are closer to rogue type instead, and [[spoiler: in the finale they help you mount an attack on Karthal overtaken by Marcus Wolf and his Black Guard and against Erebos himself, making them quite literally LaResistance]].

* Naturally the focus of ''VideoGame/PixelPiracy''. Interestingly, they come in 3 varieties - The [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder mostly]] allied crew of your ship, the neutral hirable ones in taverns, and the hostile ones encountered randomly on the sea.

* Likewise Henry Every-- The most badass pirate you've never heard of. Nicknamed the King of Pirates, he was one of the few Great Captains to successfully retire with all of his loot and suffer almost no repercussions for his crimes. Made a spectacular fool out of the East-India trading company through out his entire career and was more or less the impetus for the creation of hired Pirate Hunters like Captain Kidd.

* Edward Teach, more commonly known as UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, is the dark genesis for a lot of the Brutish fictional pirates. The man had serious issues. He habitually went into battle with lit cannon-fuses in his beard (putting himself at serious risk of having his head catch fire). He once proposed that he and his crew 'test themselves' against their '[[{{Hell}} future destination]]' and swamped the below-decks area with sulphur fumes, refusing to emerge until his entire crew had fled. Another time, while peacefully playing cards with three of his crew belowdecks, he blew out the candle and started shooting at random. He once held the entire port of Charleston for ransom and dared the British crown to do anything about it. He was eventually cornered and brought down - see his entry in RasputinianDeath - and his head left dangling for public display so that the people would know the monster was finally dead.

* Benjamin Hornigold was one of the few real-life Roguish pirates, and later became a pirate hunter for the British crown. On one occasion, his vessel attacked a merchant ship, which promptly struck its colours. Upon boarding the ship, the terrified sailors were relieved of their hats - Hornigold explained that he and his men had got drunk the night before, and thrown theirs overboard. Having got the hats, they left the merchantman in peace.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has The Obligatory Pirate's Cove on the Mysterious Island of Mystery, which is full of stereotypical pirates. They TalkLikeAPirate, engage in [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Insult Beer Pong]], and drop bottles of rum. Though for some reason, they swear by [[Music/TheMonkees Mike Nesmith's]] locker instead of [[NamesTheSame Davy Jones]].

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The old man from Halbrand's group lost at sea warns against signaling the approaching ship because they could be ruthless corsairs who rather skin people alive than help them.

-->'''Ninja-Pirate Captain''': We are the shadow that comes in the night and says "'''Arrr!'''"

* In ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' #55, "Taxicab Confessions", three characters tell the story of Jack and Mikaal facing off against Jarko, a {{Space Pirate|s}}, told in a RashomonStyle. One version of the story (a homage to UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks) has Jarko as this trope [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]], complete with an eyepatch, hook hand and alien parrot.

* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Swordquest}} Swordquest: Waterworld]]'', Captain Frost leads a crew of humanoid pirates on a planet entirely covered in water, on [[CoolBoat a boat carved entirely out of ice.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' stories ''[[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn The Secret of The Unicorn]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure Red Rackham's Treasure]]'' feature flashbacks to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, when Captain Haddock's ancestor Admiral Francis Haddock battled a pirate [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed very similar to Calico Jack Rackham]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': ComicBook/WonderWoman, ComicBook/SteveTrevor and the Holliday Girls once battled some SkyPirates and their fight managed to attract the attention of a {{Clock Roach|es}} who found the whole thing so absurd it knocked the lot of them back to the Golden Age of Pirates with modified costumes, gear and memories to have a proper pirate fight, though the memory alteration did not work on Diana due to her ties to the truth and telepathic abilities.
* ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'': Because of the shortage of food and medicine caused by the plague the Australian navy has turned to piracy--one of their spies even has an eyepatch. [[spoiler:It later turns out that the Australians are actually trying to ''stop'' the pirates who are taking all the food in exchange for heroin.]]

* The skull-and-crossbones Jolly Roger. Or with their own grim designs to show [[TheDreaded just who is flying it]].

* Sporting [[BadassLonghair long hair]], often [[WildHair unkempt]] or in [[DreadlockWarrior dreadlocks]], and maybe a SeadogBeard or mustache, which may be the source of one's [[CaptainColorbeard pirate moniker]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' #55, "Taxicab Confessions", three characters tell the story of Jack and Mikaal facing off against Jarko, a SpacePirate, told in a RashomonStyle. One version of the story (a homage to UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks) has Jarko as this trope [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]], complete with an eyepatch, hook hand and alien parrot.

* When ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' did a [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie Ninja, Pirate]], [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs and Dinosaur]] issue, ComicBook/{{Nodwick}} and crew went up against a ship filled with [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2004-08-04 ninja-pirates]] (an unbeatable combination). Who mounted their ship on top of a dinosaur.

* ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' features The Phantom's arch-rivals, The Singh Brotherhood, a criminal organisation that used to be pirates. Nowadays they are landlubbers who work with more "modern" crimes like drug-dealing, blackmailing and kidnaping.

* ''Literature/TheThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear'' contains Minipirates; 4-foot tall pirates born with eye-patches, hook hands and peg legs, who would be the scourge of the seas, if they were big enough for anyone to notice them.

* Both types of pirate have appeared in ''Comicbook/RedSonja'', as enemies or allies as the situation dictates.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'' #55, "Taxicab Confessions", three characters tell the story of Jack and Mikaal facing off against Jarko, a SpacePirate, told in a RashomonStyle. One version of the story (a homage to UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks) has Jarko as this trope [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]], complete with an eyepatch, hook hand and alien parrot.

** Both songs could be seen as the {{VillainSong}}s of the two different types of pirates, with "Shiver My Timbers" for the Brutes, portraying them as greedy murauders who even the [[EvenEvilHasStandards Devil himself would have to call them scum]], and "A Professional Pirate" for the Rogues who see themselves as [[HonorAmongThieves honorable members of a criminal group]] and {{LoveableRogue}}s.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in Creator/PatriciaAMcKillip's ''Literature/TheBellAtSealeyHead'', Dalia wants Gwyneth to write about pirates. When Raven objects that pirates are uncouth and wouldn't know what to do with tea--probably use the teapot to drink rum--Dalia objects that she wants nice pirates who were driven to it and would be glad to give it up.

* Many, many of Emilio Salgari's books. The ''Black Corsair'' series, the ''[[{{Sandokan}} Pirates of Malaysia]]'' series, the ''Pirates of Bermuda'' series… and the list goes on.

* The [=iOS=] game ''VideoGame/CrimsonSteamPirates'' developed by Creator/{{Bungie}} (yes, [[Franchise/{{Halo}} that]] [[VideoGame/{{Marathon}} Bungie]]) takes place in an AlternateHistory where piracy lasted well into the steam age. The events take place in the late 19th century. The player takes on the role of Captain Thomas Blood, an up-and-coming pirate who quickly rises from commanding a slow, weak ship into having a small flotilla behind him, even adding a well-armed [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelin]] to his air fleet. It's not clear if the events take place during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, as both the USA and the CSA are present, or if the war ended with the Confederacy remaining separate. Britain, France, and Spain are also powers in the area. Besides steamers, the game also includes combat aircraft, including zeppelins and [[GatlingGood machinegun-armed]] aeroplanes, and submarines. Presumably, everything is steam-powered, including submarines. You also meet several {{Historical Domain Character}}s including Creator/MarkTwain (an expert navigator), Creator/JulesVerne (who lends you his hot air balloon for some [[SkyPirates Sky Piracy]]), and UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla (who gives you a power electric superweapon). The game tries to create an atmosphere of life on the high seas with the appropriate music (reminiscent of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') although with a definite {{Steam Punk}}ish feel.

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemArchanea'': The very first boss in the series, Gazzak is a brutish Pirate. Darros, a pirate from the same organization, ends up joining the protagonists to start a new leaf. Additionally one of the playable characters, Barst turns to piracy in his ending.

** A NiceHat.

** Sometimes they would fly red-colored flags called Joli Rouge ("Pretty Red" in French) with the intent to [[KillThemAll show no quarter]].

* ''[[http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Stationery_Voyagers Stationery Voyagers]]'' has the very Brutish Yehtzig Pirate League, who take VillainByDefault to [[UpToEleven extremes]]. They not only rape and pillage, they also take over the drug trades of worlds, establish candy factories as drug fronts, hijack educational curricula, [[FantasticRacism spread infertility viruses to wipe out Stationery types they don't like]], and try to collapse entire societies by forcing women to have more out-of-wedlock births than they can financially sustain. They don't always rape directly, but [[AliensMadeThemDoIt will shoot men and women]] with darts that contain weaponized Viagra. And for those religious idealists who continue to stand in the way… [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim a good bullet almost always seems to do the trick]]. Oh yeah… [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking they also consider themselves kinda-sort-of a devil-worshipping cult as well]].

* ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' is a romantic comedy about Stede Bonnet, the "[[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Gentleman Pirate]]", and his real-life partnership with the notorious [[UsefulNotes/Blackbeard]]. Also featured are fellow historical pirates Israel Hands ("Izzy" in the show) and Calico Jack Rackham.

* ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' is a romantic comedy about Stede Bonnet, the "[[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Gentleman Pirate]]", and his real-life partnership with the notorious Blackbeard. Also featured are fellow historical pirates Israel Hands ("Izzy" in the show) and Calico Jack Rackham.