History Main / PirateParrot

* In ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies II'', the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Pirate Captain Zombies]] have Zombie Parrots that [[BanditMook steal your plants]].

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* In ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', the major pirates are both parrots, in reference to this trope.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'':
** You're actually required to have a parrot (or at least the item "stuffed shoulder parrot") as part of a pirate disguise.
** There's also an Exotic Parrot familiar. If you try to name it "Polly", the game automatically renames your Parrot "Unoriginality".
* In ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'', Captain Kidd has a bird that perches on his shoulder in his animations. It seems to be a condor, and as such is basically a more badass version of a parrot.
* In ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'', [[ChivalrousPervert Gilder]] has a parrot that helps him get out of jail. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything His name is Willy.]]
* The smuggler in both ''[[Franchise/RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank Future]]'' games is accompanied by a parrot-like alien. Ironically, there are actual pirates in the games, none of whom have parrots.
* In ''Videogame/RuneScape'', a quest involving pirates allows you to get an [[DemBones "Ex-Ex-Parrot"]] as a pet.
* Raz, a minor character from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', can always be seen with a small parrot [[HeadPet over his head]].
* The earlygame dungeon Sastasha from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' is pirate-themed, so naturally the pirate captain Madison has a squawking companion whenever he shows up in it. Technically it's not a parrot, but a very talkative Colibri -- small toucan-like beasts that often live in Eorzea's tropical climates. In the hard mode version of the dungeon, [[spoiler:when the entire pirate crew has been turned into hideous beasts, this chatty bird is still loyal to the captain. If you're [[RandomDrop particularly lucky, though,]] you can win it as a shoulder-riding minion.]]
* Parrots naturally show up in ''VideoGame/PuzzlePirates'', although they are fairly rare.
* You can find a parrot in ''VideoGame/{{Dubloon}}'' in Atlan Island dungeon. Her function is to activate switches and collect keys found behind a wall or locked doors.
* Chosokabe Motochika from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' owns a large yellow parrot that wears a bandana on its head. It's more intelligent than most of his crew and can apparently speak, though the only words it's been heard saying are "Motochika" and "treasure".
* In ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Legend of the Crystal Skull]]'', Iggy's pirate costume consists of a strap-on cutlass, a tricorn hat with a skull-and-crossbones emblem, and a lace ruff with a blue-and-yellow plastic parrot mounted over one shoulder. Iggy, by the way, is an iguana.
* Your explorer can find a rather foul-mouthed one in ''VideoGame/TheWager''.
* In ''Videogame/TheSimsMedieval'' expansion "Pirates and Nobles," most NPC pirates have parrots, and Hero Sims can get them whether they're members of a pirate crew or not.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', the pirate Fargo has a Polly... except it's a giant MONSTER bird that acts as a boss fight for your party!
* In ''[[VideoGame/LegendOfLegaia Legaia II: Duel Saga]]'', Sharon has one, inherited from her late father and former captain of the pirates, Alphis. Completing a sidequest will lead to said parrot revealing the location of Alphis's treasure, including an extremely rare Heaven's Secret.
* In ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies II'', the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Pirate Captain Zombies]] have Zombie Parrots that [[BanditMook steal your plants]].
* ''VideoGame/CursedTreasure 2'' has the parrots carried by the pirate enemies. When the pirate is defeated, they release a parrot mook that moves quickly and will [[AirborneMook fly over water]] towards your gems.
* TheCaptain in ''VideoGame/PiratesVikingsAndKnights'' has a pet parrot that he can [[AttackAnimal sic on his opponents]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', parrots are a type of enemy that can show up in the Pirate Invasion in Hardmode. Once you get the Pirate NPC, you can talk to him to buy a Parrot Cracker (the second-most expensive item in the game), which summons a passive version as a pet.

* In ''Little Alchemy,'' the recipe for "parrot" is "pirate" + "bird".
* One of the [=NPC=]s you encounter in ''VideoGame/Macbat64JourneyOfANiceChap'' is a parrot wearing a pirate hat.
* ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective: A Fumble in the Dark'': One of the ancestral portraits in Castle Dooley is of an ancestor who went to sea after her thieving ways made life on land too hot. [=McQueen=] notes that the bird on her shoulder is actually a pigeon painted red and green.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** "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.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThoseScurvyRascals'': The pirates have a parrot with a very large beak.

* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', Laserbeak, a robot condor, perches on the shoulder of whomever happens to be the Decepticon leader at the time. Usually, this means he occupies Megatron's shoulder, but he moves to Shockwave or Galvatron... but never [[TheStarscream Starscream]]: proof that all his treachery means nothing toward becoming leader. Step 1: Get the bird. Everything else falls into place. That bird defeated Optimus Prime and is nigh-undetectable. That is a damn important bird. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Laserbeak_%28G1%29 Autobots pass the Matrix. Decepticons pass the Laserbeak.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' episode "Sea Fright" had the heroes battle a crew of {{Ghost Pirate}}s, the captain Jack Higgins having an ''zombie'' parrot that drove him crazy. Captain Jack Higgins said sarcastically he'd kill it "if it weren't already dead."

* Young Blood in his pirate appearance in ''WesternAnimation/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.
* Parodied in an episode in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', in which a captain had a different bird on his shoulder every time he was on camera (including a bucket of fried chicken at one point).
* In the 1948 Warner Bros. cartoon ''WesternAnimation/BuccaneerBunny'', "Sea-Goin' Sam" (a pirate version of Yosemite Sam) has a parrot that follows WesternAnimation/BugsBunny around pointing out his hiding places. Bugs asks the parrot "Polly want a cracker?", and when the parrot agrees, gives him a lit ''fire''cracker. Bye bye Polly!
** The gag was repeated in a Creator/HannaBarbera ''Lippy the Lion'' short.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', "Odd-Pirates". Timmy, Poof, Wanda, and Cosmo encounter a pirate named Dirtybeard who is [[spoiler:actually friendly]] but whose parrot is [[spoiler:evil]]. Additionally, the sports team that Timmy wanted to see in the same episode, known as "The Pirates", have a parrot as a mascot.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Lazlo and his friends create a doll from canned meat, which gains sentience and attacks the campers in revenge by transforming into various shapes -- one of them being a pirate with a meat parrot on his shoulder.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper's Scare School]]'': During Casper's trip to Scare School, he meets a blind pirate and his seeing eye parrot who sail a flying ship to pick up students.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': 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.
* Captain Walker D. Plank from ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr''. He fits the traditional pirate stereotype to the extent that even his parrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' AnimatedAdaptation serial "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverLandPirates'': The [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything good pirates]] have the talkative parrot Skully on their team.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode, Mr. Bighead starts sleepwalking, dreaming that he's a pirate. He sees Rocko's house as an enemy ship, and Spunky as a parrot, which he steals in order to extort a treasure map from Rocko.

* Captain Hook has one named [[TeamPet Short Tom]] in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates''; it doesn't talk, but it got itself (and Hook's crew) into trouble a lot.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RogerRamjet'', Red Dog the Pirate is a short, squat scourge of the seven seas with a wise acre parrot named Carl Bob for a sidekick.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' episode "Parrot Booty", Two-Eyed Alonso once had a pet parrot named Bonky [[spoiler: who left to rule a skeleton army, until Puss took the Skeleton Ring from him. He returns in the season 6 episode "Flock the Boat", now leading a gang of thieves dressed as parrots, and wants either Alsonso or Puss to be ''his'' parrot!]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the SkyPirates led by [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin Don Karnage]] have a pet parrot called No-Name the Nameless Parrot, whereas the GhostPirate Captain Peghook ''is'' an anthropomorphic parrot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futz}}'': The pirate captain in "High Seas Futz" has a [=HUGE=] muscular parrot dressed in pirate garb.

* Anime/CaptainHarlock, as a proud SpacePirate, owns not a parrot but a strange alien bird -- with black feathers, a long beak and a thread-thin neck -- that pretty much cover the same role, up to mimicking human speech and sometimes riding on his shoulder.

* In the ''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'' movie, the pirate villain "The Phantom" had a Chatot (parrot Pokémon) on his shoulder.

* The manga ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'' gives TheCaptain a robot parrot as part of their fully embracing the "pirate" part of SpacePirate. Said parrot spouts random lines that [[ShoutOut reference]] older ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' works, leading to the [[EpilepticTrees theory]] that it was made from [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray's]] TeamPet and ''Gundam'' SeriesMascot Haro.

* In ''Lullaby'', Jim Hawkins gained a parrot (with an absurdly large beak) sometime before his captain booted him from the ship. Its name is "Crew"; he's got a pegleg and an eyepatch, and carries Jim's flag on his back.
* In ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', buxom captain Kilina prefers a female capuchin monkey to a parrot, because birds are too cliché.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} foe Cap'n Fear had a robotic parrot that [[NotInFrontOfTheParrot randomly recorded and repeated phrases spoken near it]].
* Though not a pirate himself, Franchise/TheDCU's marauding desperado [[ComicBook/JonahHex El Papagayo ("The Parrot")]] was so named for his choice of pet.

* 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]].
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} forced Bob to wear a parrot costume and squawk like a parrot during their short stint as pirates.

* Matilda in ''Randomveus'' has a large pet parrot -- that somehow has a mustache.
* The Black Terror's heroic identity was, in-universe, inspired by a book on pirates, and he wears a costume modeled after a Jolly Roger flag. The ''ComicBook/ProjectSuperheroes'' version of the character has a sidekick called Parrot, who wears a colorful bird costume.
* In ''Five Ghosts'', there's a brief scene of a sailor discussing his pet parrot. It can't talk, or at least hasn't learned any phrases yet, and he's a little tired of people being so surprised by this. Later another sailor is told by his buddy that he should get a pet parrot, cuz they're good company.
* The second issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic book published by Creator/MarvelComics subsidiary Star Comics had the Madballs go back in time and encounter a pirate named Captain Weirdbeard. Weirdbeard had a parrot lackey named [=McCaw=].
* Subverted by Captain Boone of ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'', who has a shoulder chicken (that he insists never talks because it's lost its voice), leading to some awkwardness when he and his crew see some actual parrots and he doesn't know what they are. Later he gets a parrot-shaped mechanical bird that can repeat messages... which are known as chickens (a very old-fashioned term for a love letter, and later any letter, which the clockwork birds have replaced) by the locals.

* A strip in ''Comicbook/TheDandy'' back in the 30s starred a highly intelligent cockatoo who constantly had to drag her idiotic pirates out of trouble. The LongTitle was ''Cocky-Sue the Cockatoo: She's the Brains of the Pirate Crew''.

* Taken to a ridiculous degree in the direct-to-video movie ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry: 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.

* The villains of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'', though technically not pirates, actually both own a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Nigel.
* The Captain in ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'' has a pet parrot.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' features Polly, who is really [[spoiler:the last dodo]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'': Captain Celaeno and her crew are pirates who [[FunnyAnimal ARE parrots]]. Logically, they are specifically SkyPirates.

* The following exchange occurs in ''Film/DownPeriscope'', during the "walk the plank" sequence, which has a large percentage of the Stingray's crew playing pirate:
-->'''Buckman:''' Nitro, isn't that one of my chickens? (''indicating very dead plucked chicken tied to Nitro's shoulder'')\\
'''Nitro Mike:''' No, it's a, uh, parrot, uhh, from the Caribbean.\\
'''Buckman:''' Well don't let it fly away, that's supper.\\
'''Nitro Mike:''' [[TalkLikeAPirate Arr.]]
* Captain Hook and his crew of pirates finally get one in the 2003 film ''Film/PeterPan''. (This trope had been averted in previous adaptations.)
* Long John Silver in ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' has a talking ''lobster'' named Polly. When Gonzo asks if he should have a parrot instead, Long John just seems confused.
* Silent film ''Film/TheBlackPirate'' makes sure to show a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder as part of the scurvy crew. They also wind up capturing a monkey.

* OlderThanRadio: This probably started (as most pirate-related tropes did) with Long John Silver, from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', who had a parrot named Captain Flint. Also, Captain Flint's most common phrase is "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!".
* The ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novels have talking animals. In ''Day of the Dissonance'' there's a pirate who ''is'' a parrot. In ''Time of the Transference'', that character's brother is introduced. He's a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate parrot accountant]].

* The pirate Littlejohn in Creator/JamesThurber's ''The Wonderful O'' has a parrot that annoys the book's BigBad (by [[ItMakesSenseInContext using words containing the letter "O"]]); notable for repeatedly being on the receiving end of the memorable threat, "I'll squck its thrug till all it can whubble is geep!"

* Comic inversion: In the sequence that gave stand-up comedian Mike Hardin's book ''The Fourteen and a Half Pound Budgie'' its title, Hardin describes a parakeet that he's supposed to pet-sit as being "so nasty it had a ''pirate'' on its shoulder."
* Invoked in one of Creator/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".
* Though pirates are not featured anywhere in the stories, Harold of ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'' reads about pirates and wonders whether a "parrot" is an umbrella or a female pirate. Chester puts him straight.

* In ''Literature/FortunatelyTheMilk'', the Queen of the Pirates has a parrot.
* In ''Fergus Crane'', Captain Smollet keeps a parrot called Bolivia, who is a TokenGoodTeammate and gets adopted by Fergus after the pirates' defeat.

* The ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' episode "Potato" guest-stars [[LargeHam Tom Baker as Captain Rum]]. He's not a pirate, but he has a ''dead'' parrot lying on his shoulder.
* Navi the robotic parrot in ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''. Also the one responsible for leading the team towards the Greatest Treasure in the Universe through vague clues that only come about after she hits her head on the ceiling.
* ''Series/RTLSamstagNacht'' (German equivalent of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'') has the pretty wacky character Märchenman playing with this. He has a parrot as a hand prothese, a hook at the ParrotPetPosition (which he calls "Frank, whom I may call little speaking hook sitting on the shoulder"). And his eyepatch on the mouth, and travels in a man-sized paper ship.
* ''Series/LostInSpace'' episode "The Space Pirate". The title character, named Alonzo P. Tucker, has a robot parrot that sits on his shoulder. Tucker calls it an "esper" (E.S.P., "extra-sensory perception"?). Its eyes glow when it talks and it has psionic powers, such as apportation (teleporting an object from place to place).
* ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' shows that this isn't limited to pirates -- one clip features parrots employed by drug cartels to warn them when the police show up. As Wes Denning puts it, "Parrots need to stop hanging out with such shady characters."

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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** In the Creator/JohnCleese episode, he was on ''Pigs in Space'' as a space pirate and kept bickering with his parrot. He eventually threatened it with, "Quiet! Do you want to be [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus an ex-parrot]]?"
** In the Glenda Jackson episode, the same puppet is used for Eric the Pirate Parrot, who "Captain Black Jackson" smuggles into the theatre [[AssInALionSkin disguised as a penguin]].
* ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' spoofed this by having Long John Silver with a pet lobster (though he still went by "Polly" and asked for crackers). This is {{Lampshaded}}.
-->'''Gonzo:''' I thought pirates had talking parrots as pets.\\
'''Long John Silver:''' Talking... parrots?\\
'''Polly:''' What an imagination. First pirates, now talking parrots, what's next -- [[ItWillNeverCatchOn a singing, dancing mouse with his own amusement park?]]
[[/folder]]

* The game of the film ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' features a parrot called Stevenson (as in Robert Louis) as the ExpositionFairy.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]" (written by Creator/DouglasAdams), the space pirate captain has robot parrot with a blaster in its beak (the Polyphase Aviatron). It is destroyed off-screen by K9 (who then returns with the bird in its "mouth". Good dog!) According to Douglas Adams, he submitted that script to the ''Doctor Who'' production office, and it was rejected. He later wrote in the robot parrot and re-submitted it, and it was accepted.

* ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'': a major feature, if not ''the'' major feature, of the game is being able to subdue and tame nearly any of the dinosaurs and other creatures that you'll find in the in-game world. While many of these are very big creatures which you can equip saddles to and ride around on, some of them are small enough to be picked up and carried by the player character. In particular, there are a number of "shoulder pets" that you can tame that will [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ride around on your shoulders]] as you go around fighting dinosaurs and gathering resources. These animals themselves are pretty diverse, from typical monkeys and birds to more unusual otters and ''Compsognathus'' to outright fantastical ones that were introduced in the Aberration [=DLC=]. The closest fit to "pirate parrot" are, of course, the ones that can actually fly and which look like birds, namely ''Ichthyornis'', ''Microraptor'', vulture, the fictional Featherlight, and to a lesser extent the ''Dimorphodon''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', "Odd-Pirates". Timmy, Poof, Wanda, and Cosmo encounter a pirate named Dirtybeard who is [[spoiler:actually friendly]] but whose parrot is [[spoiler:evil]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Ogre Maneaters are ogres that have spent time in mercenary employ, keeping the costumes of their former jobs. One of the models is dressed as a pirate, but due to the size difference [[http://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Ogre-Kingdoms-Pirate-Maneater the position of parrot is occupied by a gnoblar.]]

Expect some amount of MisplacedWildlife. Cockatoos, for example, come from Australia and Indonesia, and would be far less likely on the shoulder[[note]]You may now think about the digestive tract of the parrot...[[/note]] of a Caribbean pirate than a macaw or Amazon of Central and South America. Then again, most animated parrots are some strange conglomeration of psittacine characteristics rather than realistic; macaw-shaped and colored, Amazon-sized, with a cockatoo crest. In a SpacePirate setting, expect the "parrot" to be an alien or a robot. For {{Sky Pirate}}s, it could be either a normal parrot or a steampunk-styled ClockworkCreature.

->''"He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him... no one's yet figured ''how''.''"

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} forced Bob to wear a parrot costume and squawk like a parrot during their short stint as pirates.

* ''TabletopGames/WarhammerFantasy'': Ogre Maneaters are ogres that have spent time in mercenary employ, keeping the costumes of their former jobs. One of the models is dressed as a pirate, but due to the size difference [[http://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Ogre-Kingdoms-Pirate-Maneater the position of parrot is occupied by a gnoblar.]]
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Ork Freebootaz often use squigs in a ParrotPetPosition to complete the SpacePirate image. This being 40K, squigs are vicious little bastards that are [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:Flash_Git_with_Targeting_Squig_5th_ed.jpg half mad and half teeth]].

Expect some amount of MisplacedWildlife. Cockatoos, for example, come from Australia and Indonesia, and would be far less likely on the shoulder[[note]]You may now think about the digestive tract of the parrot...[[/note]] of a Caribbean pirate than a macaw or Amazon of Central and South America. Then again, most animated parrots are some strange conglomeration of psittacine characteristics rather than realistic; macaw-shaped and colored, Amazon-sized, with a cockatoo crest.

* OlderThanRadio: This probably started (as most pirate-related tropes are) with Long John Silver, from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', who has a parrot named Captain Flint. Also, Captain Flint's most common phrase is "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!".

* Iago from Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' is worth mentioning, even though his master Jafar is an EvilSorcerer and not a pirate... [[spoiler:Then in ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves'' he goes off with Cassim, Aladdin's long-lost father and former leader of a band of thieves who would occasionally use ships.]]
* In ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', Long John Silver's pet is a small shapeshifting creature called Morph, who could mimic people in more ways than one.

* Parodied in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' with the Reacher Gilt's pirate costume ("That was a Look, wasn't it?") including a parrot (well, a cockatoo) that says "twelve and a half percent" (i.e. 1/8).