History Main / PirateParrot

* The manga ''CrossboneGundam'' has the main characters from ''Gundam F91'' opposing the Jupiter Empire under the guise of space pirates, right down to their ship's design and the captain having a parrot.

* On ''CowboyBebop'', Vicious has an exotic bird perched on his right shoulder most of the time. This only heightens his mystique (and overall evil aura).
** It's a cormorant (a kind of sea bird that has acidic droppings and a nasty temper). This, combined with the fact that he [[KickTheDog blows it up]] in one of the final episodes, probably does say something about [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Vicious]].
*** {{Truth in Television}}: Cormorants are trainable to a certain extent, and some fishermen in Asia use them as pretty much an aquatic equivalent of hunting hawks. Having one would probably be ''more'' useful to a pirate than a parrot.
* In the ''[=~Pokémon~=] Ranger and the Temple of the Sea'' movie, the pirate villain "The Phantom" had a Chatot (parrot Pokémon) on his shoulder.
* Amazingly, ''OnePiece'' has, up to yet, averted this, despite being all about pirates.
** And considering the series' track record. If one ever showed up, it will be the single most awesome parrot ever seen.
*** The closest to this tope thus far is Doma's, one of Whitebeard's New World allies, trained [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome gun-using]] Monkey.

* In ''[[{{YtheLastMan}} Y: The Last Man]]'', buxom captain Kilina prefers a female capuchin monkey to a parrot, because birds are too cliché.

* Taken to a ridiculous degree in the direct-to-video movie ''{{Tom and Jerry}}: Shiver Me Whiskers'', where each of the three pirate captains have a parrot that matches their color scheme. The red and blue pirate captains talk only in growls, which their parrots then translate. It's the opposite with the purple pirate, who can speak perfect English, but can't translate his parrot's growling.
** In ''TomAndJerryTheMovie'' there's Captain Kiddie's parrot Squawk, though Kiddie isn't a pirate and Squawk is just a handpuppet (albeit a seemingly [[AnimateInanimateObject sentient]] one).

* In ''Revenge Of ThePinkPanther'', Inspector Clouseau appears disguised as a sailor, with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder.

* Invoked in one of TimothyZahn's stories, but not with an animal: Marines in PoweredArmor wore shoulder-mounted weapons, apparently slaved to aim wherever the wearer's eyes focused, known as "parrot guns."

--->'''Guybrush:''' Nothing says "I'm a mighty pirate" like animal abuse.

--->"*rawk* It's me, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate?!"

* ''[=~Sid Meier's Pirates~=]'': If the barkeep doesn't have anything useful to say, he'll usually ask the main character "Where's your parrot?"
** This can get stupidly hilarious when you've actually modded parrots into the game.
* Pirate enemies in ''{{World of Warcraft}}'' will occasionally have parrot pets with them. It's also possible for players to purchase a parrot pet in the pirates-filled town of Booty Bay.
** Also in ''World of Warcraft'', if you gain reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers faction, you can eventually get a captain's hat that summons a pet parrot.
* You're actually required to have a parrot (or at least the item "stuffed shoulder parrot") as part of a pirate disguise in ''KingdomOfLoathing''.

* In ''{{Skies of Arcadia}}'', [[ChivalrousPervert Gilder]] has a parrot that helps him get out of jail. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything His name is Willy.]]
* The smuggler in both ''[[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank Future]]'' games is accompanied by a parrot-like alien.
** Ironically, there are actual pirates in the games, none of who have parrots.

* ''{{The Onion}}'' has [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/parrot-care-is-actually-quite-timeconsuming,10948.htm this article]] on the proper care and feeding of Pirate Parrots, by a "Captain Crimson Bannister". Extra points for being written completely in [[TalkLikeAPirate pirate-speak]].

* ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'': The head pirate in "The Waterbending Scroll" has a pet "[[MixAndMatchCritters reptile-bird]]," which makes the GenreSavvy Sokka realize...

* ''TheSimpsons'' episode "The Mansion Family" has Homer borrowing a cruise ship from Mr. Burns, which is boarded by pirates. Their captain has an absurdly large number of parrots perched on him, and Homer's attempt to fight him merely knocks the parrots off his body one by one.
** And of course Pirate Captains use to write their treasure maps on crackers and give them to their parrots for safe keepin', that's why there is treasure everywhere. Well according to Bart anyway.

* ''{{The Pirates of Dark Water}}'' has Niddler, a parrot-monkey thing as one of the main characters. He's kind of TheScrappy, but whatever.

* On ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'', Patchy the Pirate has a parrot named Potty who he doesn't get along with at all.
* Young Blood in his pirate appearance in ''DannyPhantom'' has a skeletal one. Spent most of the time correcting pirate lingo and acting cynical.
** Later on, when he'd adopted a cowboy motif instead, it turned into a skeletal horse- apparently it's a shapeshifter that assumes the form of whatever animal it finds most appropriate for whatever identity its master has assumed- but it's a ServileSnarker in any form.

* ''Family Guy'', episode "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Peter Long John Peter]]". Peter steals a parrot and starts carrying it around with him. He starts dressing as a pirate, recruits three other pirates and starts terrorizing the town. His parrot is severely injured during the fighting and later dies at the veterinarian's office.
* The Captain in ''{{Raggedy Ann and Andy a Musical Adventure}}'' has a pet parrot.
* ''{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', "Odd-Pirates". Timmy, Poof, Wanda, and Cosmo encounter a pirate named Dirtybeard who is actually friendly but whose parrot is evil.

* ''{{The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack}}'': In "Ben-Boozled", the captain masquerading as a parrot (in paper-thin disquise) becomes the pet of another pirate who thinks he is the most beautiful bird he's ever seen.

* ''{{Star Wars The Clone Wars}}'' features Hondo Ohnaka, usually with a Kowakian Monkey Lizard on his shoulders. In the ''Star Wars'' universe, monkey lizards are bird-like mischief makers who are actually smarter than they look, hence one of them managing to swipe Count Dooku's lightsaber and another one able to fumble through the operation of a ''tank''.

** Later on, when he'd adopted a cowboy motif instead, it turned into a skeletal horse- apparently it's a shapeshifter that assumes the form of whatever animal it finds most appropriate for whatever identity its master has assumed- but it's a ServileSnarker in any form.

* Young Blood in his pirate appearance in ''DannyPhantom'' has a skeletal one. Spent most of the time correcting pirate lingo and acting cynical.

* On ''{{Jimmy two-Shoes}}'', an episode had a pirate with a [[RavenAndCrows raven]] on his shoulder.

* Chousokabe Motochika from ''SengokuBasara'' owns a large yellow parrot who wears a bandanna over it's head. It can apparently speak, though the only words it's been heard saying are "Motochika" and "treasure".

* This probably started (as most pirate-related tropes are) with Long John Silver, from ''TreasureIsland'', who had a parrot named Captain Flint. Which makes this OlderThanRadio.

** It's a cormorant (a kind of sea bird that has acidic droppings and a nasty temper). This, combined with the fact that he [[KickTheDog blows it up]] in one of the final episodes, probably does say something about Vicious.

* In one of the ''PinkPanther'' movies, Inspector Clouseau appears disguised as a sailor, with an inflatable parrot on his shoulder.

*** TruthInTelevision: Cormorants are trainable to a certain extent, and some fishermen in Asia use them as pretty much an aquatic equivalent of hunting hawks. Having one would probably be ''more'' useful to a pirate than a parrot.

* Parodied in a José Carioca cover, where José has gone to a costume party dressed as a pirate, but since he ''is'' a parrot, [[http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=BC+ ZC+ 2050 he has a small human pirate on his shoulder instead]].

* Say something about "Pieces of eight" (which is a coin).

* MontyPythonsFlyingCircus had multiple examples of pirates with parrots on their shoulders.

** During the "Confuse A Cat" sletch.

* The MontyPython did this twice; in both cases they had parrots on their shoulders:

Related tropes are ParrotPetPosition, HeatPet and FeatherBoaConstrictor.

For animals on other parts of the body, see HeadPet.

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* In the ''{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Vapors Don't Shoot Back'', the BigBad pirate-wannabee Black-U-Brd has a parrot robot on his shoulder that repeats old pirate movie dialogue.

--->"* rawk* It's me, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate?!"

* Pirate enemies in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' will occasionally have parrot pets with them. It's also possible for players to purchase a parrot pet in the pirates-filled town of Booty Bay.
** Also in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', if you gain reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers faction, you can eventually get a captain's hat that summons a pet parrot.

* ''{{The Onion}}'' has [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/parrot-care-is-actually-quite-timeconsuming,10948.htm this article]] on the proper care and feeding of Pirate Parrots, by a "Captain Crimson Bannister." Extra points for being written completely in [[TalkLikeAPirate pirate-speak]].

-->'''Sokka:''' You guys are pirates!
-->'''Pirate:''' We prefer to think of ourselves as "high-risk traders."

* Captain Walker D. Plank from ''JamesBondJr''.. He fits the traditional pirate stereotype to the extent that even his parrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.
* The ''DoctorWho'' AnimatedAdaption serial ''The Infinite Quest'' features Baltazhar, who supposedly is some kind of a intergalactic overlord, terror of the spaceways, but is dressed in a red and white stripey shirt, with a futuristic HookHand. He's got two Pirate Parrots, but both of them the size of a ''car''. Needless to say they don't actually sit on his shoulder.

* ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'': The head pirate in "The Waterbending Scroll" has a ''[[MixAndMatchCritters lizard]]''-parrot.

* ''{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', "Odd-Pirates". Timmy, Poof, Wanda, and Cosmo encounter a pirate named Dirtybeard whose actually friendly but whose parrot is evil.