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| 12 | [[quoteright:332:[[ComicBook/PollyAndThePirates https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/polly1_2737.jpg]]]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:332:[[VideoGame/LooneyTunesWorldOfMayhem The cute lass with the cutlass.]]]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | ->''"Her white shirt and black leather, they complement her eyes,\ |
| 16 | A red sash brings it t'gether (and the boots half up her thighs)\ |
| 17 | [[Literature/PeterPan Cap'n Hook]]'s a fan and [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]] thinks it's great,\ |
| 18 | It's in the books, it's canon, so let's all celebrate!"'' |
| 19 | -->-- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3p_Kewu7jc Hey, It's Can(n)on]] ([[Franchise/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] the Pirate Queen)" by Music/TomSmith |
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| 21 | {{Pirates}}! Villains of the seven seas! Strong or handsome men, with ladies hankering for 'em! |
| 22 | |
| 23 | …and then there's the Pirate Girl, a young girl or woman who is part of a pirate crew. Except she is either [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory accepted by the roguish male crew]] without any apparent problem or explanation, or is part of a ship with [[AmazonBrigade an all-female crew]]. Depending on age, she may or may not be a LittleMissBadass; either way, usually an ActionGirl. There are two types: one type would be either [[CuteBruiser cute]] or statuesque. The much, much more common type is the [[TheLadette "bad girl"]]. |
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| 25 | TruthInTelevision--in rare instances. Pirates held many of the same prejudices and [[SuperstitiousSailors superstitions]] as other sailors, but, as they already existed on the fringes of society, were more likely to make exceptions. Historically, a number of female pirates did plough the seas along with the men, sometimes rising to positions of authority. Some did so by [[SweetPollyOliver disguising themselves as men]]; others found themselves among pirate groups who [[HonorAmongThieves didn't care about your gender]], as long as you [[EqualOpportunityEvil did your job in the crew]]. In the modern world, women might have a place on [[RuthlessModernPirates Ruthless Modern Pirate Ships]] (often referred to these days as maritime terrorists) depending on the local culture. |
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| 27 | Not to be confused with ''Pirate Wench'', a term that usually refers to a woman who sails ''with'' pirates, doing "women's work" for them, perhaps while providing [[MaleGaze eye candy]]. The Pirate Girl is a pirate in her own right. |
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| 29 | Any "little boy" found on a pirate ship will half the time [[SweetPollyOliver be this girl in disguise]]. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The Pirate Girl often has a DarkAndTroubledPast detailing how she ended up in this position; abusive fathers whom they are in a WellDoneSonGuy relationship with seems to be a common theme. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | A SubTrope of {{Pirate}}. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Avast! Anyone caught making cheap jokes about [[PirateBooty "booty"]] or [[BoobBasedGag "treasure chests"]] will be made to WalkThePlank. |
| 36 | ---- |
| 37 | !!Examples: |
| 38 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 41 | * Chacha from ''Manga/{{Basara}}''. |
| 42 | * Revy from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is a [[RuthlessModernPirates modern-day female pirate]]. |
| 43 | * Marika Kato from ''Literature/BodaciousSpacePirates''. Also Chiaki Kurihara, [[spoiler:daughter of the captain of Barbarossa]], though it doesn't show. At one point, Marika's entire high school yacht club gets in on the act (briefly). |
| 44 | * ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' |
| 45 | ** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureInTheSouthSeas'' has Betty, the niece of Captain Kidd, as one of the new heroes who's introduced beating up some pirates all by herself. Gian managed to save her by knocking out another pirate sneaking up on her, leading to a minor crush between the two for most of the story until Gian had to leave the Age of Piracy with Doraemon and the others (much to Betty's sadness). |
| 46 | ** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTreasureIsland'' have a villainous pirate henchwoman named Vivi as one of the two recurring CoDragons antagonizing the heroes. |
| 47 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 48 | ** Seychelles is sometimes drawn/written this way in fan work. In a show with several of the male characters given the pirate treatment, she is notable for being the only female character to be cast in this light. In the [[http://hetarchive.net/scanlations/hall2011/hall2011.php 2011 Halloween event]], she dresses as Captain Cook and informs the others that her place also has a lot of pirate legends, meaning that she interacted with them and may have joined them at some point or another. |
| 49 | ** Portugal's female concept art, at the top [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/26500000/Portugal-hetalia-26585080-500-1796.jpg here]], shows this very heavily as well, complete with scars and a sword. |
| 50 | * ''Love Flag Girls'' is a {{Yuri}} work focusing on a main character who enrolls on a pirate ship [[ImprobablyFemaleCast full of girls]]. Safe to say, the entire crew fits. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 52 | ** Almost ''every'' female character. From the Straw Hats alone, we have Nami and Nico Robin. Also, Boa Hancock, Vivi (temporarily, anyways), Alvida... It's easier to list the ones who are NOT pirates. Though that's still a lot of people. |
| 53 | ** The one who acts most like a traditional pirate girl is surprisingly Nami. Besides drinking any of the guys under the table, she isn't nice (unless she's trying to scam you), and as the navigator, she is completely in control of the ship, bar instructions from Luffy. |
| 54 | ** Rival captain Jewelry Bonney is pretty close to traditional, too, wearing a [[DressedToPlunder tricorne hat]] and being named after historical female pirate Anne Bonney. |
| 55 | ** Whitey Bay, one of the 43 Pirate Captains allied to Whitebeard, is also a more traditional-looking example, wearing a captain's hat. |
| 56 | ** Charlotte Linlin, AKA [[EvilMatriarch Big Mom]], is an overweight 68-year old woman. And just so happens to be one of the most powerful characters in the series. |
| 57 | ** Among the prisoners recruited by Blackbeard from Impel Down, there's Catarina Devon, who post-timeskip wears a traditional pirate captain outfit. |
| 58 | * Captain Liliana from ''[[Anime/QueensBlade Queen's Blade Rebellion]]'' is a female [[GhostPirate Undead Pirate Captain]]. |
| 59 | * Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's Manga/QueenEmeraldas, as well as Kei Yuki and Miime on Manga/CaptainHarlock's crew. |
| 60 | * Played with in a ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' filler arc, where a pirate girl named Shura finds herself forced to pull a SweetPollyOliver so she will have her men's respect. Kenshin, as the good WarriorTherapist he is, helps her out with it. |
| 61 | * The anime ''Anime/SolBianca'' features a pirate ship with an ''[[AmazonBrigade all female]]'' crew. |
| 62 | * The title character from ''Anime/SpacePirateMito'' is an alien who is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld over ten thousand years old]], but looks like a nine-year-old kid. She also has a [[PoweredArmor Mail Suit]] that makes her look more like a human adult. |
| 63 | * Episode 40b of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' has Makiko cast as one of the pirate captains. Mermaid-turned-land-dwelling-Tamagotchi Lovelin becomes a pirate by the end of the same episode. |
| 64 | * In the various ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' continuities, [[HaremGenre there are more named female space pirate characters than male ones]], including main cast member Ryoko. |
| 65 | ** The spinoff series ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' also has a space pirate girl in the main cast. Who's also named Ryoko. But not the same Ryoko; she was named after the original, who's roughly [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 5000 years older]] and a legend in the space pirate community. |
| 66 | * Technically, the entire female cast of ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 70 | * ''Animation/BalalaTheFairies'': Hayley's transformation in ''Over the Rainbow'' looks like a blue-colored pirate with a matching hat, highlighting her tomboyishness. |
| 71 | * From the Chinese manhua, ''Melody Drifting in the Rain'', we have pirate princess Jin Bi Hui, feisty and an excellent fighter. In fact, only men she's ever feared are her father and eldest brother and she does not take the discovery of her fiance being in love with another woman lying down. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 75 | * The ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]] [[{{Elseworlds}} Alternity]] Winter Special'' recast Harmony Krieg from ''Harmony'' as Anne Bonney. |
| 76 | * Sjörövar-Jenny from ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'' ''seems'' to be this, being a young woman in piratical garb who is a skilled cutlass fencer and sailor, but she is merely the daughter of a rather eccentric scholar obsessed with pirates and pirate treasure, and takes after him. (Her name, of course, [[ShoutOut references]] the "Music/PirateJenny" song from the ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'', as per below). |
| 77 | * Franchise/{{Batman}} foe Cap'n Fear had a buxom first mate named Annie. |
| 78 | * Capitana Felina, a piratic version of ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} in the {{Elseworlds}} story ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Leatherwing''. |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/ElCazador'''s main character [[RedBaron Lady Sin]] becomes a pirate after the pirate captain Blackjack Tom attacks the ship she's on, killing most of the passengers. |
| 80 | * The ''ComicBook/CursedPirateGirl'', heroine of a comic book of the same name, is an orphan searching for her father who is one of five pirate captains in a remote fantasy land. She learned sword fighting and other skills from her father in her dreams. |
| 81 | * One of Dracula's many adversaries in ''ComicBook/DraculaLives'' is the "She-Pirate" Hellyn [=DeVill=], who leads her crew to plunder his castle. |
| 82 | * ''ComicBook/DreadMacFarlane'', a French comic about a girl who goes to Neverland and grows up among the Lost Boys (let's not explore exactly how she, y'know, GROWS UP in Neverland), then leaves them to join Captain Hook and his crew in the exciting life of a pirate. |
| 83 | * [[http://www.comicvine.com/singapore-sal/29-27871/ Singapore Sal]], a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] villain later brought back in ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}''. |
| 84 | * In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #15, a crew of SubmarinePirates attempts to steal Indy's latest discovery out from under him. Indy is shocked to discover that their leader is a young woman named Esmeralda Vasquez. |
| 85 | * Sarawak Sally was the leader of a band of Southeast Asian river pirates in ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe Special Missions]]'' #4. |
| 86 | * In ''ComicBook/Heathen2017'', Makeda's crew are a rag-tag crew of [[AmazonBrigade all-female pirates]] that search the seas with the intent of [[SlaveLiberation raiding slave-ships and freeing the slaves aboard]], every member having been a slave before Makeda freed them. |
| 87 | * Ann Preston from the ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery''. |
| 88 | * Scarlet Fever, from the second ''ComicBook/LadyRawhide'' miniseries; a spin-off from Topps' ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' series. |
| 89 | * Cixi joins an all-female pirate crew in her spinoff of ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}'', ''Cixi de Troy''. |
| 90 | * The ''ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' comic ''1910'' features Captain Nemo's daughter Janni who becomes the "Music/PirateJenny" of the song. |
| 91 | * ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' gave us the Sklarian Raiders; an AmazonBrigade of Space Pirates. |
| 92 | * ''Marine, fille de pirate'' (translated "Marine, daughter of a pirate") is a FrancoBelgianComics about Marine, young daughter of a famed pirate captain. She goes on adventures in the Caribbean with her dog Pepito and her friends Tabasco and Tafi. Ironically, [[spoiler:her father's will mentioned that he wanted her to live an educated life, far away from the seas and piracy.]] |
| 93 | * ''Nan-hai'' by Robin Wood is an argentine comic set in China during The Opium Wars (in the mid-19th century) whose protagonist is Nan-hai, an orphaned white girl who is adopted by Chinese pirates, and when she grows up she herself She becomes a fierce and bloodthirsty pirate leader, all while wearing the skimpiest, least protective clothing possible. |
| 94 | ** ''Dago'', also by Robin Wood, is a comic set in the 16th century Ottoman Empire, and a very minor character is a pirate captain covered from head to toe and wearing a mask, due to an oath to "never show his face." Of course, it is later revealed that she is a woman. |
| 95 | * Maura Hawke, captain of the Serpent's Crown in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. When she was betrayed by her first mate Jebediah Fate, she laid a curse on him and all her mutinous crew resulting in Fate becoming a FlyingDutchman. |
| 96 | * Red Lucy Keough, an ancestor ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and the ComicBook/ScarletWitch in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/MisfitCity'': Black Mary, who hid a treasure somewhere in the town of Cannon Cove. |
| 98 | * Tess Bannister from the "Pirate Hearts" strip in ''Penthouse Men's Adventure Comix''. |
| 99 | * ''ComicBook/PollyAndThePirates'' is an indie miniseries entirely focused on this concept, and makes the trope image. Polly runs away from home to become a pirate. Her mother had also been a notorious pirate queen. |
| 100 | * Almost the entire main cast of ''[[ComicBook/PrincelessRavenThePiratePrincess Princeless - Raven: The Pirate Princess]]'' is one to some extent. |
| 101 | * La Sirena, heroine of the ''ComicBook/{{Rawbone}}'' series. |
| 102 | * ''ComicBook/RedSonja'' has served as a pirate in her time. |
| 103 | * The mercenaries stow away on a pirate ship with an all-female crew in ''Webcomic/{{Skullkickers}}'' #13. |
| 104 | * Long Jane Silver and her all-female crew in ''ComicBook/TheSpirit''. |
| 105 | * Tomorrow "Tommy" Hardtack of DC's ''ComicBook/StarRaiders'' graphic novel is implied to be a space pirate girl. She even sports an eyepatch. |
| 106 | * Patience Drew, a GhostPirate captain once encountered by the ComicBook/SubMariner (in ''Marvel Fanfare'' #43). |
| 107 | * Serra in ''ComicBook/{{Tellos}}''. A tough-as-nails sea captain who is in love with a thief. She sails around the world of Tellos. |
| 108 | * Sangre, the [[TheSmurfettePriciple only female member]] of Scar's Raiders in ''ComicBook/TheUltraverse''. |
| 109 | * Genoa, or "Gen" as her friends call her, is a pirate girl onboard the pirate ship "Jacklight" in ''ComicBook/TheUnsinkableWalkerBean'' graphic novels. |
| 110 | * ''ComicBook/{{Varmints}}'' has Captain Bellows, one of the racers in [[TheBigRace The Crooked Butte Dirtbag Derby]]. |
| 111 | * "The Crew of the Alexandria" in ''Victorian Secret: Girls of {{Steampunk}}'' features a crew of {{Privateer}}s in a [[SubmarinePirates submersible]]. These tales were later collected in ''Steampunk Corsairs''. |
| 112 | * ''The Voyages of She-Buccaneer''. If Indiana Jones were a pirate, and a well-endowed female, then that is exactly the type of tale you would find in the pages of She Buccaneer. |
| 113 | * ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord|DCComics}}'': Captain Bloodhawke; captain of a band of SkyPirates in the LostWorld of Skataris. |
| 114 | * ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'': Phondari, the Pirate Queen of Mars. |
| 115 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 116 | ** ''ComicBook/ComicCavalcade'': In a past life Judy [=MacGregor=] turned to piracy after realizing that her fiancé had betrayed her. She claimed a pirate crew by killing their captain while he was threatening her and then taking down those crew members who tried to fight her. |
| 117 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The vengeful lady "Nifta" runs a large group of SkyPirates all of whom besides her husband are women, and they like to [[DressedToPlunder dress the part]]. |
| 118 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Upon escaping from Sangtee Empire slavers Wonder Woman builds herself a crew of fellow escaped slaves (all women) as SpacePirate revolutionaries. After abolishing slavery Emperor Sangtee recruits her crew as legitimate privateers and pardons them for their acts of piracy. |
| 119 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': In the "Silver Serpent" saga featured an all-female cadre of SpacePirates who travel from planet to planet to steal that world's technology, recruit a small group of the females for membership and the remainder of the planet's people for food stock. |
| 120 | * Hepzibah from the ComicBook/{{Starjammers}}, a band of SpacePirates in ''ComicBook/XMen'' and other books in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. |
| 121 | ** The X-Men also had "Kitty's Fairy Tale," a breather issue in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' where Kitty spins a bedtime yarn to Colossus' little sister with her as Pirate Kitty and the other X-Men in supporting roles. |
| 122 | * The pirates in ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', as should be obvious from the comic's name. |
| 123 | * Denise Lafitte, daughter of French pirate Jean Lafitte, in Italian comic book ''ComicBook/{{Zagor}}''. |
| 124 | [[/folder]] |
| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 127 | * Sala, leader of the Sky Band, an [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] gang of SkyPirates, in ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom''. |
| 128 | * The Sea Hag from ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' occasionally does some piratical activities despite looking (and generally acting) more like a witch than a pirate. |
| 129 | * Lai Choi San, the TropeNamer for DragonLady, from ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 133 | * Elsa in ''Fanfic/StormSiren'' double subverts this trope, disguising herself as a man and even then displaying parts of this trope to the letter. |
| 134 | * ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'' has Crimson Coat (actual name Sudden Gale), captain of the Crimson Kraken. A renegade Equestrian pegasus, she is not a nice mare: besides being a violent criminal she can add casual racism and sexual molestation to her resumé. |
| 135 | * ''Fanfic/UponAFallingFeather'' has a cast populated entirely by ''MLP'''s main and secondary characters, most of whom are female, so several pirates are female -- primarily Rarity (a noblemare forced into the position), Pinkie Pie (who embraces the role completely) and Trixie (who has a minor role and mostly acts like herself). |
| 136 | * ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': The villains of one story are a zeppelin crew of pirates led by a lecherous female tiefling called The Jackal. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 140 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' features a crew of bird-folk air pirates. Their leader is the female Captain Celaeno. |
| 141 | * Zarina, the title character of ''[[Franchise/DisneyFairies The Pirate Fairy]]''. |
| 142 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': |
| 143 | ** One of the crew is known as Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate -- but [[SarcasmMode obviously isn't a girl]] because girls don't have big bushy beards that don't match their hair color. |
| 144 | ** There's also the Spanish Cutlass Liz, one of the Pirate Captain's rivals. |
| 145 | * ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'' has [[spoiler:prissy French doll Babette turn on her captor Captain Contagious, lock him in the brig, and take over his ship. She even gets [[IAmGreatSong a catchy song about it]]: "Hooray for me! Babette of Gay Paree! Hooray for me! I'm Captain now you see!"]] |
| 146 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast (2022)'': Maisie is a stereotypical Pirate Girl, as an orphan whose parents died at sea, who stowed away on the ''Inevitable'' because she wanted to have adventures like them. She is begrudgingly accepted into the crew (because of her age, not her gender) and eventually learns that it's a far less romantic job than she had thought. The ship's crew are monster hunters rather than pirates, but they [[DressedToPlunder dress]] and [[TalkLikeAPirate talk]] like pirates. |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 150 | * Creator/MaureenOHara played this character -- notably as "Spitfire" Stephens opposite Creator/ErrolFlynn in ''Film/AgainstAllFlags''. She also appeared in ''The Black Swan'' (with Tyrone Power) and ''The Spanish Main'' (with Paul Henreid); she appears as a high-born lady of quality in both but in the former changes into Pirate Girl garb in the final scene. |
| 151 | * Jean Peters played a pirate woman called "Anne Providence" (based on Anne Bonney) in ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'' (1951). |
| 152 | * The second ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' movie includes a female pirate which doesn't originate from the comic books, even making her the Captain's daughter. |
| 153 | * Sonia Sorell played Anne Bonney in ''Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl'' (1954). |
| 154 | * Captain Morgan Adams, played by Creator/GeenaDavis, in ''Film/CutthroatIsland''. Although technically she's a Pirate ''Hunter''. |
| 155 | * Hope Emerson played Anne Bonney in ''Double Crossbones'' (1951). |
| 156 | * In ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Ellis Ashley Flyte, the wife of Brian Henson (the film's producer and director) gives an uncredited appearance as Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brian (a female ship's crew mate seen only during the Roll Call scene). |
| 157 | ** Benjamina Gunn used to be one, given that she sailed with Captain Flint. |
| 158 | ** Subverted with Angel Marie, who has a name implying this, but is in fact [[{{Gonk}} an extremely ugly man]] who happens to have a very feminine name. |
| 159 | * In the 2003 ''Film/PeterPan'', Wendy considers an offer to be a pirate on Hook's ship, though she eventually turns it down. In her version of ''Cinderella'', the titular heroine becomes one; swashbuckling with pirates who tried to steal her glass slippers. |
| 160 | * Lorna Bennett plays Anne Bonney in ''Film/{{Pirates}}'' (1998). |
| 161 | * The 2005 big-budget pornographic film ''Pirates'' (also known as ''Pirates XXX'') starred Janine Lindemulder as Serena, the vicious first mate of the BigBad Captain Eric Victor Stagnetti, and Jesse Jane as Jules, her good guy counterpart among the pirate hunters. The sequel ''Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge'' adds Katsuni as Xifeng, a DragonLady pirate empress. |
| 162 | * ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': |
| 163 | ** Elizabeth has become a Pirate Girl over the movies. To the point that she becomes [[SheIsTheKing the Pirate King]]. |
| 164 | ** The first crew Jack hires out of Tortuga includes Anamaria, who is apparently a no-nonsense LadyOfWar type. |
| 165 | ** The original [[Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Disneyland ride]] itself has a painting in the skeleton caves implying this is what happened to the Redhead. [[LifeImitatesArt Life imitated art]] in 2017, when Disney started replacing each ride's Redhead Audio-Animatronic with a female pirate named Redd. |
| 166 | ** There's also Mistress Ching, though she's past Pirate Girlhood and is more of a Pirate Lady. |
| 167 | ** In the fourth movie we have Angelica, a DashingHispanic who is Jack Sparrow's NewOldFlame. |
| 168 | * Binnie Barnes played Anne Bonney in ''The Spanish Main'' (1945) |
| 169 | * Pirate Fritton from ''Film/StTrinians2TheLegendOfFrittonsGold'' is eventually revealed to having been a woman masquerading as a man. |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 173 | * Appears in all its various forms in Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' series: Spirit does the SweetPollyOliver cabin boy version for a while, Rue is the straight LittleMissBadass version, and there is also a cross-dressing adult female pirate captain. As per the series title, they are all SpacePirates. |
| 174 | * Mary "Jacky" Faber, from the young adult novel, ''Literature/BloodyJack'', and its sequels. |
| 175 | * The Literature/{{Boojumverse}} story ''Boojum'' features Captain Song, female leader of a crew of SpacePirates. The story protagonist, Black Alice Bradley, is a member of her crew. |
| 176 | * ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': Akella is a female pirate captain whom Tasia forcibly enlists to help her in the third book. |
| 177 | * [[TheLadette Aires]] from ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld''. |
| 178 | * Belit, the female pirate captain from the ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast." |
| 179 | ** Also Valeria from ''Literature/RedNails''. |
| 180 | * In ''Literature/FortunatelyTheMilk'', the protagonist is captured by a crew of pirates led by a Pirate Queen. In the UK edition, the illustration of her crew includes another female pirate, identified in a caption as "Mad Matilda, the Girl Buccaneer". |
| 181 | * Ezri Delmastro and Zamira Drakasha, both from ''Red Seas under Red Skies'', the second book in Scott Lynch's ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' series. |
| 182 | * Ruda of ''Literature/TheGodsAreBastards'' is the princess of a pirate nation and still comfortably able to fight alongside demigods and [[TheChosenOne paladins]]. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Drea Renthal is the leader of a small pirate fleet. She's a big, strong women whom all her crew members obey without question. Once she also accepts hiring to fight the Empire on behalf of the Hutts as well. |
| 184 | * Charlotte de Berry is a (probably fictional) female pirate captain who stars in Edward Lloyd's ''History of the Pirates'', a "penny dreadful" or "penny blood" -- cheap stories with a fairly gory or shocking theme written to entertain the masses. |
| 185 | * ''Hook's Revenge'' by Heidi Schulz features Jocelyn Hook, daughter of the famous Captain Hook, who takes on her own ship and crew [[spoiler:after the death of her father.]] |
| 186 | * ''Literature/IJedi'': Leonia Tavira, a former Imperial Moff, is now the leader of a small pirate fleet based around her Star Destroyer ''Invidious''. She has several different pirate gangs under her command, as ''Invidious'' provides them more firepower (and protection) than is usually possible for them, while Tavira has Force-sensitives under her as well who alert them when New Republic ambushes are set to catch their forces. As a ruthless, cunning woman, she's an effective pirate queen along with these assets. Among lower-ranking pirates there are also several other female ones, such as Captain Tyresi Gurtt, Caet Shrovl and Timmser. They don't stand out from their male comrades. |
| 187 | * ''Legends of Kalomaar'' is an epic fantasy series by chilean writer Alberto Rojas M. and two of those books (The Medallion of the Black Sun and The Queen's Revenge) star Tramey, captain of the “Tormenta de Fuego” and a daring pirate who sails the seas in search of treasure. |
| 188 | * In the ''Literature/MabelJones'' series, Mabel joins a pirate crew of FunnyAnimals called the Feroshus Maggot. |
| 189 | * Calixta Morris from S. E. Grove's ''The Mapmakers Trilogy'' is captain of the ''Swan'', alongside her twin brother and first mate Burton/"Burr", and treats [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery a shootout between carriages in a fancy dress and hat]] like a pleasant stroll. |
| 190 | * The eponymous Miya Black, of ''Literature/MiyaBlackPiratePrincess''. |
| 191 | * ''Literature/ThePillarsOfReality'': Teenaged mechanic Mari eventually becomes an honorary pirate due to an alliance she forms with some {{Lovable Rogue}}s who help her capture vessels of the Mechanics Guild. Something similar happened to her ancestor Jules. |
| 192 | * Lazue in the Creator/MichaelCrichton novel ''Literature/PirateLatitudes'', due in part to her having been raised as a boy. |
| 193 | * Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington are the protagonists of ''Pirates!'' by novelist Celia Rees. |
| 194 | * Art Blastside is a former gentlewoman named Artemesia Fitz-Willoghby Weatherhouse who lost her all memories of her life with her mother, Piratica, in a cannon accident that cost her mother her life. She regained it after 6 years of attending a finishing school and gathered her mother's former crew to set sail again in ''The Piratica Series'', by Creator/TanithLee. |
| 195 | * ''Literature/ThePyrates'', a novel that's an AffectionateParody of most pirate-movie tropes has a pirate queen (itself a common term for this type of character). |
| 196 | * ''Literature/{{Quarters}}'': At the beginning of the book, the ship Vree's on gets attacked by pirates with a female captain. Vree learns they'll soon fall apart if she's killed and so she gets onboard to assassinate her. It soon turns out that some others in the crew also are women. When they're captured, some of them turn out to be pregnant. Thus, they're spared from hanging until they've given birth. |
| 197 | * The eponymous character of ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'', and her rival Bloody Margo. |
| 198 | * Romsca, a ferret corsair from the book ''Pearls of Lutra'' in Brian Jacques's ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series. |
| 199 | * Elena Dugan (Lady Galbraith) from ''Literature/TheSeasOfFionnghuala''. |
| 200 | * Jenna Storm from ''Literature/SebastianDarke: Prince of Pirates'', a young woman who inherited her pirate father's crew. |
| 201 | * Asha Greyjoy of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' was bred and groomed for this by her father, the lord of the Iron Islands. She's well-loved by her crew, and is basically OneOfTheBoys except that she's damned hot. "Half of them think I'm their daughter, and the other half want to spread my legs." |
| 202 | * ''Splashdance Silver'' by Tansy Rayner Roberts has a pirate ActionGirl as its protagonist. |
| 203 | * Missee Lee, a Chinese woman pirate captain in ''Missee Lee'', part of the ''Literature/SwallowsAndAmazons'' series, by Arthur Ransome, although she is a slight subversion in that she never wanted to be a pirate. She is a frustrated Cambridge academic who was forced to become a pirate after her father's death. |
| 204 | ** The "Amazons", Nancy and Peggy Blackett, play the trope more straight, albeit they're technically just kids enacting a pirate fantasy. |
| 205 | * The ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' novel ''City of Secrets'' has a scene-stealing Aelf Corsair captain named Arika Zenthe as an old acquaintance and occasional ally of one of the two protagonists, the Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll. While still a somewhat cruel character whose assistance Toll dreads having to call upon (the Corsairs are, after all, descended from the '''Dark''' Elves of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''), and who relishes a chance to bloody her blades, she is still loyal to the forces of Order and is more a privateer than a pirate. |
| 206 | * A semi-fictionalized account of the real-life pirate Ching Shih is given in Creator/JorgeLuisBorges's short story "The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate". |
| 207 | * ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay''. Trinica Dracken is a deconstruction when it's spelled out exactly how ruthless and manipulative she had to be to rise from captured SexSlave to TheDreaded sky pirate captain she is now. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 211 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 212 | ** Captain Wrack from the serial "Enlightenment" ''wants'' to be one, but is more of a badass cosplayer. |
| 213 | ** And the Captain from the Creator/{{CBBC}} ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest The Infinite Quest]]'' cartoon. |
| 214 | ** Amy Pond becomes one briefly (certainly in appearance, and with a reasonable amount of swashbuckling flair) in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot "Curse of the Black Spot"]]. |
| 215 | ** In the Creator/BigFinish audio adventure ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho043DoctorWhoAndThePirates Doctor Who and the Pirates]]'', the Sixth Doctor attempts to pass off his companion Evelyn Smythe as "Evil Evelyn, the Pirate Queen". Evelyn does her best, but the masquerade does not last long. |
| 216 | * Nebula from ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. |
| 217 | * ''Series/HorribleHistories'': Cutlass Liz who co-hosts the Pirate Shopping Network (until her partner pulls out a bag of sugar. Then she draws a pistol and robs him. She is a pirate, after all). |
| 218 | * Being a pirate-based Sentai, ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' has just one, Luka Millfy/Gokai Yellow. Ahim de Famille/Gokai Pink is an active member of same crew, but too much of TheOjou to really fit the Pirate Girl mould. (She is quite happy to call herself a pirate, however.) |
| 219 | * ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' have a sketch featuring a (male) pirate crew singing a song that sounds like they're bragging of conquests, but the last line of each verse reveals them to be [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain unusually enlightened in their attitudes towards women]] (for example, a verse about a woman who gets so drunk she passes out ends "so we took her to bed, and rested her head, and we left 'cause that's what gentlemen do"). The last pirate to sing starts in on something that's clearly ''not'' going that direction, and he gets out about two lines before being shot dead by the (unseen before this point) female captain, of whom the other pirates are all visibly terrified. |
| 220 | * In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', Mick and Nate pass Amaya off as Dread Pirate Jiwe, who impresses even Blackbeard. In the future, a Captain Morgan-like spiced rum suddenly changes to Captain Jiwe spiced rum. |
| 221 | * In ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' episode "B.C.", Josef mentions that he first met his on-and-off girlfriend Lola in the 17th century when she was trying to put together a pirate army. Apparently, one could do that in those days. Being a vampire helps too. |
| 222 | * Mary Rose from ''Series/QueenOfSwords'' is an ex-pirate. |
| 223 | * In ''Series/StargateSG1'', there is Vala Maldoran who is a pirate/thief and acts like a child. |
| 224 | * In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', there is Larrin of the Travelers who, while maybe not technically a pirate all the time, sure acts like one in her first appearance. |
| 225 | * Connie Blackheart from short-lived series, ''Series/TalesFromThePoopDeck''. |
| 226 | * ''Series/WhodunnitUK'': Captain Dorothea 'Treasure Chest' Magee (played by the incomparable Creator/KateOMara) in "Which Eye Jack". She is the only woman present at a meeting of pirate captains when a murder occurs. She earned her nickname because of her impressive [[UnusualEuphemism fo'c'sles]]. |
| 227 | * The title character in ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' spent some time as a pirate Captain, during which time she kidnapped a young Julius Ceasar and held him for ransom while also having a romantic affair with him. That was until he came back with an entire Roman legion and had Xena and her crew crucified. |
| 228 | * ''Series/YancyDerringer'': In "The Fair Freebooter", Yancy must deal with a female pirate, Coco [=LaSalle=], who has stolen the shirt he ordered from Paris. Coco [=LaSalle=] returns in "The Wayward Warrior". |
| 229 | * In ''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye]]'', while {{Franchise/Ind|ianaJones}}y and his friend Remy are traveling on a cruise ship through Southeast Asia in 1919, the ship gets attacked and robbed by a Chinese [[RuthlessModernPirates pirate gang]]. The pirates' leader is a woman who was disguised as a singer, entertaining the passengers until her men boarded the ship. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 233 | * Music/AbneyPark: The HMS Ophelia's crew of drunken pirates includes Kristina Erickson and Jody Ellen. On a pirate ship retrofitted into a steampunk time-travelling dirigible. Yes. |
| 234 | * Music/{{Aqua}}'s video for "My Oh My" features Lene first as a DamselInDistress kidnapped by pirates played by her bandmates, before successfully revolting against them and taking over the captain position. |
| 235 | * Music/EmilieAutumn has always had one pirate captain since the first Asylum tour in 2007. The first was Captain Vecona who was also the Asylum seamstress and left the Bloody Crumpets after the first 2008 tour. The second was Captain Maggot who took over in the fall of 2008, she appears to be far more popular of a captain owing to her more pirate-y feel including being a drunkard who speaks like a pirate and having a costume that looks more like a pirate. She also is a circus performer in the real world, during the tours she stilt walks and hula-hoops. |
| 236 | * "Ladies in Scarlet" by Music/CaptainDanAndTheScurvyCrew has Anne Bonny and Mary Read rapping alongside Captain Dan. |
| 237 | * "The Worst Pirate Song," by Irish-American band Ceann, mocks this trope. |
| 238 | * There are several songs out there celebrating Grace O'Malley, a real-life Irish pirate. Music/TheDreadnoughts have a song about her, and there's a version of the Irish folk song "Óró sé do bheatha abhaile" about her as well. |
| 239 | * Being the theme song singer for ''Literature/BodaciousSpacePirates'', the members of Music/MomoiroCloverZ dressed as space pirate girls in their single "Mouretsu". |
| 240 | * The Music/SJTucker album ''Sirens'' includes three songs called "The Wendy Trilogy". The Wendy Trilogy is a retelling of the ''[[Literature/PeterPan Peter and Wendy]]'' story, diverting from the original at the point where Captain Hook offers Wendy Darling the chance to become a pirate. In this version, Wendy accepts the offer and starts an adventure of her own. |
| 241 | * Music/TomSmith's FilkSong "Hey, It's Can(n)on!" pointed out that [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]]'s birthday is also UsefulNotes/TalkLikeAPirateDay, which inspires Harry to buy her a ship "and now [[OneTrueThreesome they're her young stallions]], and she's a pirate queen!" |
| 242 | * The music video for Music/GwenStefani's "Rich Girl" features her & many other women as these. |
| 243 | * Members of metal band Zed Yago had a pirate image, so naturally the singer Jutta Weinhold was the pirate girl of the band. The band also has the song "Rebel Ladies", which is about the real-life pirate women Ann Bonney and Mary Reed. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 247 | * The eponymous character from ''Pinball/BlackRose'', self-professed "queen of the high seas". |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 251 | * Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn [=McTaggart=]. The story of Gunpowder Gertie was told as an April fools joke in the local Kootenay area newspaper, the ''Kootenay Review''. So many people believed that it was true that it was later retold as historical fact on the CBC program, ''This Day in History''. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 255 | * Pirate Princess Kairi Hojo of World Wonder Ring STARDOM. The gimmick comes from her background in world championship yachting. She's now Kairi Sane in WWE. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 259 | * ''TabletopGame/SeventhSea'' contains several. The most famous is probably "Bloody" Bonnie [=McGee=], first mate of the Sea Dogs. |
| 260 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has had several female SpacePirates such as Morgan Fletcher, Suzy "One-Eye" Morgaine-Ryan, and Paula "Lady Death" Trevaine, the latter are rare female MagnificentBastard. |
| 261 | ** Also two separate female "Red Corsairs" -- one a young Katrina Steiner on the run from her uncle's assassins (in backstory that's been alluded to but never actually detailed), one decades later a renegade Jade Falcon warrior [[spoiler:who was actually running a FalseFlagOperation for the Crusader Clans]] trying to use her own band of outcasts to break the Truce of Tukayyid and reignite the war between the Clans and the Inner Sphere. |
| 262 | * Several of fantasy RPG artist Clyde Caldwell's paintings have been of female pirates. |
| 263 | ** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Clyde_Caldwell_-_Female_Pirate_01.jpg Female pirate with a shoulder dragon.]] |
| 264 | ** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Clyde_Caldwell_-_Female_Pirate_03.jpg Female pirate and crew near volcanic eruption.]] |
| 265 | ** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Clyde_Caldwell_-_Female_Pirate_04.jpg One used for the cover of a Mystara sourcebook.]] |
| 266 | * Synthre, a [[RebelliousPrincess runaway alien princess]] and member of the Galatic Marauders, a band of SpacePirates in the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' sourcebook ''Alien Enemies''. |
| 267 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Hell on Earth'': The leader of the River Rats, a gang of RuthlessModernPirates who prey on survivor settlements on the Mississippi, is a woman named Elvira. |
| 268 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has the Solar pirate queen Ocean Pearl, plus pretty much any female Exalt to get started in the West. Of course, they need to dye their hair red, join the Tya, or be a bit careful because the West throngs with storm mothers who hate all women more beautiful than themselves (i.e. anyone other than a withered old crone who's just had an acid bath) and make their displeasure clear with terrible weather, but since Exalts > Gods/Elementals, this issue can probably be solved by kicking the storm mothers' collective butts until they knock it off, or using Sail Charms to make overcoming the storms far less difficult. |
| 269 | * Ed Greenwood has mentioned a number of female pirates in his ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting material, including Thilana, Azla, and Laershala of the Emerald Eyes. |
| 270 | ** Azla fits the "DarkAndTroubledPast" part. She was a noble and a Cormyrean army officer but came across a Zhent party bigger than her patrol could handle and ran. In self-exile, she became a pirate, then her high-end training kicked in and soon she was one of the most influential captains on the Pirate Isles, raiding Sembian targets (Cormyr's in a cold war with Sembia). She appeared in ''The Threat from the Sea''. |
| 271 | ** Liriel Baenre was a ship mage on a pirate ship once, but almost accidentally. At first the crew didn't think that a female(!!!) drow(!!) elf(!) on board was a good idea, but they didn't have much choice anyway. |
| 272 | * The Satyxis of the ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'' setting are a whole island-nation of [[CuteMonsterGirl Sexy Monster Pirate Girls]], of whom the best known is the Pirate Queen and Cryx warcaster Skarre Ravenmane. The mercenary privateer faction of ''Warmachine'' has several playable female character models, including the Thamarite pirate captain Fiona the Black. |
| 273 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has Besmara, the ''goddess'' of pirates, strife, and sea monsters. |
| 274 | ** Come ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'', Besmara has become a major deity! |
| 275 | * ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame''; several female pirates or pirate hunters appear across a number of sets, most of them captains of their own ship. The most recurring one is Calico Cat, an AmbiguouslyBrown woman who may be a RebelliousPrincess seeking revenge against a former lover who abandoned her at sea. |
| 276 | * La Capitan from ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' is a pirate captain... Whose gimmick is TimeTravel. Her [[ArmyOfTheAges crew]] include a {{Ronin}}, a [[HornyVikings Viking]], a French Musketeer, an acrobat, a UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne Flying Ace, a Spanish cavalryman, and a Mongolian archer, all of them wielding an EnhancedArchaicWeapon. |
| 277 | * ''TabletopGame/SPANCSpacePirateAmazonNinjaCatgirls'', a very FanService game which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 281 | * ''Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates'' by Bill Francoeur. |
| 282 | * ''Theatre/ThePirateQueen'' is a musical written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. It is based on the life and adventures of the 17th-century Irish chieftain and pirate Grace O'Malley. |
| 283 | * Ruth, the piratical maid of all work, from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance''. |
| 284 | * There's a play called ''Scavenger Hunt (Aargh! Avast Ye!)'' which concerned a retired Pirate Lady and her daughter, who {{Sweet Polly Oliver}}ed her way on to a ship to search for a MacGuffin her mother and some friends had encountered in the past. |
| 285 | * Loof Merrow of the ''Theatre/SeraMyu'' who was featured in the Kagyua Island musicals. She's a pirate, and a princess, who's been [[HumanPopsicle frozen in Ice]] for the last 5000 years, and is after the Silver Crystal to restore her Kingdom of Artuka which was destroyed by a tidal wave when they asked Princess Serenity to change the earth's orbit so the comet Coatl wouldn't hit it. And she's only out of the ice because the comet and its inhabitants have returned and are seeking revenge on Franchise/SailorMoon. |
| 286 | * In ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'', Polly (or, in some productions, Jenny) sings "Music/PirateJenny," a revenge fantasy about a chambermaid who dreams of being a pirate queen. |
| 287 | * John Fletcher and Phillip Massinger's ''The Double Marriage'' has Martia, the headstrong Amazon-like daughter of a Robin Hood-esque pirate duke who fights a tyrant. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 291 | * [[ComicBook/NewGods Big Barda]] is re-imagined as a [[SpacePirates Space Pirate]] in the ''Ame-Comi'' Girls line of PVC statues from DC Direct. |
| 292 | * The ''Toys/LEGOPirates'' line has had multiple female pirate minifigures. |
| 293 | * Although Playmobil usually manufactures male pirates, there have been at least two pirate girls -- one as part of a pirate ship set and one in their "Fi?ures" line of mystery-bag characters. |
| 294 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}:'' Scylla of the Seacon Pirates of ''Beast Wars II''... theoretically. She's more concerned with doing whatever she feels like (usually harassing guys she's got a crush on) rather than helping her teammates pillage. However, her ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' incarnation is this trope in spades, complete with eyepatch and requisite accent, yar. But for some irony, that incarnation actually isn't a pirate -- she's a leading member of LaResistance. |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 298 | %%* Elisabet Ramsey of ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'', suspected to be the narrator's great-grandmother. |
| 299 | * Anne Bonny and Mary Reed in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'', although [[spoiler:Mary is initially disguised as James Kidd]]. |
| 300 | * ''VideoGame/AzurLane'': Royal Fortune is the personification of the ship of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts Bartholomew Roberts (a.k.a. Black Bart)]], so it should be no surprise that she takes on the persona of a pirate herself. Some of the other girls also have aspects of this, Jean Bart being named after a pirate and Oklahoma getting a DressedToPlunder skin. |
| 301 | * ''VideoGame/BackStab'' has a pirate swordswoman named Lisette who saves you from being ShotAtDawn early in the game. There's also Sofia, daughter of Captain Blackbeard (yes, ''[[UsefulNotes/BlackBeard that Blackbeard]]'') who helps you gun down the main villain in the final showdown. |
| 302 | * The eponymous Captain Scarlett of ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'''s ''Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty'' DLC. |
| 303 | * Sidra, also known as "The Corsair Queen", from ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'', who also has a [[BigFuckingGun cannon as one of her weapons of choice]]. In fact, cannons became a regular weapon in the Grand Tournament because of her arrival in Valhalla. |
| 304 | %%* Penny from ''VideoGame/BrawlStars''. |
| 305 | * The titular character of ''VideoGame/CaptainMorganeAndTheGoldenTurtle''. As a kid, she's of the "cute" kind. Grown up, she's tougher, but still generally nicer than you'd expect from pirates. |
| 306 | * Isabela from the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series. She's an NPC that teaches the Duelist specialty for rogue classes in the first game but gets upgraded to party member and love interest in the second. Her status as ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything is justified in her ship having sunk before the start of the second game. |
| 307 | %%* Red from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''. |
| 308 | %%* Anne from ''VideoGame/{{Dubloon}}''. |
| 309 | %%* Sophia "Riptide" de Medici from ''VideoGame/EternalChampions: Challenge from the Dark Side''. |
| 310 | * The pirate ship Dolce from ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'' is named after its female captain, who you encounter in chapter 4. You fight her again later, and maybe a third time. And even a fourth time is possible if you're playing on Encore Mode, the game's version of NewGamePlus. |
| 311 | * Sally from ''VideoGame/ExitFate''. Might also be exaggerated, since she's "just" a young girl who owns her own ship. Her grandfather had been a famous {{pirate}}, but she herself isn't an actual one -- just acts like one, complete with an accent. |
| 312 | * Bonne Jenet from ''VideoGame/FatalFury''. |
| 313 | * ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' features a GenderFlipped Sir Francis Drake as a Rider-class Servant (which is admittedly par for the course for this series), with the explanation being that she acted so manly that her crew refused to acknowledge she was a woman because it made them insecure in their own masculinity. The game, oddly for the universe, acknowledges Drake was male in life. There are hints that this rider was actually Queen Elizabeth in disguise. She returns in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' alongside fellow real-life Pirate Girls Anne Bonny and Mary Read (who are summonable as Rider and Archer-class Servants [[TheDividual together]]). |
| 314 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 315 | ** Leila in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII''. |
| 316 | ** Faris/[[spoiler:[[ReallyRoyaltyReveal Princess Sarisa]]]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''. |
| 317 | ** Given that she works with known SkyPirate [[LovableRogue Balthier]], we can probably add Fran from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' to the list as well. |
| 318 | ** The Selkie unique armour from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesEchoesOfTime'' consists of a Pirate Hat and Pirate Outfit. There is even an eyepatch, for literally no reason beyond the RuleOfCool because all Selkie characters have fully functional eyeballs, and are the bow specialists. |
| 319 | * Biggid from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' is a deconstruction. Because she's a TokenGoodTeammate of the crowd of rogues and wouldn't let her men raid villages, she is quickly betrayed once it's found out she was adopted by the late Captain and wasn't his blood daughter. She is also not of the Pirate class which is AlwaysMale in the series. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'': Anise Azeat is introduced as one, since she tries to raid the Luxiole to steal the Brave Heart. Whenever someone calls her this, [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord she corrects them]] by saying she's a TreasureHunter. |
| 321 | * Beidou from ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', who is also the captain of the ship. |
| 322 | * Jane Starling from ''VideoGame/GhostPiratesOfVoojuIsland''. |
| 323 | * Spina, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/GoldenForce'' is an ass-kicking lady pirate who DualWield a pair of cutlasses on her enemies. |
| 324 | * Elisha in ''VideoGame/GloriaUnion''. Occupation-wise, however, all playable females are this due to the nature of the party. |
| 325 | * In ''VideoGame/Grandia1'', Justin's mother reveals she used to be one of these before meeting his father during an attack on the ship he was traveling on. |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/GryphonKnightEpic'' has Lorraine Learn, one of the bosses you face. |
| 327 | * Margrid the Sly from ''VideoGame/GuildWars''. |
| 328 | * May of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', with a [[AnchorsAway giant anchor as her weapon of choice]]. |
| 329 | * Shark, from ''VideoGame/{{Gunbird}} 2''. |
| 330 | * Tawni Balfour, one of the heroes in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic IV''. |
| 331 | ** Regna Island was ''crawling'' with female pirate crossbowmen, as well as female inhabitants evidently not restricted to wenchy stuff (note that Regna is a [[PlanetOfHats nation of pirates]], so if you are not in the support business you'd be in the pirate business). |
| 332 | * ''VideoGame/{{Indivisible}}'' has Baozhai of the Black Jade, a self-proclaimed "Queen of the Pirates" who lost her armada to sea monsters but is determined to rebuild her crew and sail the seas once more. |
| 333 | * ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'' has the Merciless Night Queen Celina Sioufas, one of the most infamous pirates in known space. |
| 334 | * A... slightly drunk lady pirate is included in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'' as a background character. |
| 335 | * Gina Benvesta from the HGame ''VideoGame/KuuteiSenki'': a bisexual veteran [[SkyPirate pirate airship captain]]. Also, mother with four kids. |
| 336 | * Miss Fortune from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is strictly speaking a pirate ''hunter'' but you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at her. Her abilities include "Strut" and "Make It Rain" (''[[MoreDakka bullets]]''). Changes to her lore have made her an actual Pirate Lord of Bilgewater (who is also a [[HunterOfHisOwnKind Hunter of Her Own Kind]] because of her [[YouKilledMyFather vendetta]] against the former Pirate King Gangplank) rather than just a bounty hunter, with her own ship (the ''Syren'') that has a crew apparently [[AmazonBrigade entirely made up of pirate girls]]. |
| 337 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 338 | ** Tetra/[[spoiler:Zelda]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' actually captains a pirate ship, and she inherited her crew and command from her mother. |
| 339 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' takes the all-female DesertBandits from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' and makes them pirates. |
| 340 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'' has Jolene, a pirate with a grudge against Linebeck. Every time you encounter her on the high seas, Link has to fight her off, while [[LovableCoward Linebeck]] hides. |
| 341 | * A lady pirate appears at the end of Captain Brickbeard's story in ''VideoGame/LEGOBattles''. |
| 342 | * ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'': Seth Balmore. |
| 343 | * ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' has a female Job Instructor for Pirates, Kyrin, captain of [[CoolShip the Nautilus]]. Also, Angelic Buster is an AlwaysFemale class who is considered the Pirate Class. |
| 344 | * ''VideoGame/LooneyTunesWorldOfMayhem'' has, as a Legendary character (only available via special events), Dread Pirate Penelope. 'Terror of the Tasman Sea, the cute lass with the cutlass.' The other pirates in the game are played by Yosemite Sam, Barnyard Dawg, Henery Hawk, and Nasty Canasta. |
| 345 | * Ruby Heart from ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2''. |
| 346 | * Piracy is on [[AxCrazy Jack]]'s list of crimes in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', but it isn't any more prominent than things like [[KillItWithFire arson]] and a [[ColonyDrop somewhat]] [[DetonationMoon excessive]] act deemed 'vandalism' by the Hanar. |
| 347 | ** If you talk to her, she'll suggest that after the Collector business is over, you should take the ''Normandy'' and go pirate yourself -- you can be the captain, and she'll be the [[StuffBlowingUp master of arms]], [[AxCrazy and do executions]]. |
| 348 | ** One of the most famous post-Rebellion krogan warlords (read: pirates) was a fertile female named Shiagur; thanks to the genophage, fertile females are exceptionally rare, and she used her status to raise a major fleet. Then she started setting up bases, attacking colonies, and in general doing things pirates ought to do. She's very seriously dead by the time the game rolls around, though, thanks to a highly-unamused turian fleet. |
| 349 | ** Large parts of that fleet are dead as well since Shiagur's [[ReallyGetsAround legion of lovers]] and children [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge swore and exacted revenge on anyone involved in her death...]] |
| 350 | ** Aria T'Loak is described as the "Pirate Queen of [[WretchedHive Omega]]." |
| 351 | * "Cap'n" Ginny of ''VideoGame/MySims'' is obsessed with pretending to be a pirate, and her best friend (boyfriend?) goes along with it. By ''[=MySims=] Kingdom'', she's moved on to a new profession, but her old obsession is still referenced by Vic Vector when you give him a figurine of her. |
| 352 | %%* ''VideoGame/NellyCootalot'' is a somewhat... [[PlayingWithATrope unconventional]] example. |
| 353 | %%* ''VideoGame/{{Pangya}}'': Kooh. |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/PirateHunter'' has a female pirate captain as one of the mid-game bosses, and she's one of the faster, deadlier boss battles in the game, moving all around the deck and landing hits on you and your crew with ease. |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/PiratesNIX'', a pirate-themed arcade game ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Who could've guessed?]]) have you playing as two pirates, one of each gender, in search of lost treasure while battling hordes and hordes of hostile pirates. In two-player mode, the second player gets the pirate girl by default. |
| 356 | %%* ''VideoGame/PiratePrincess'' |
| 357 | %%* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfBlackKat'': Katarina de Leon. |
| 358 | * ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfTheBlackBuccaneer'' have you meeting Vanilla, a pirate-girl seeking to avenge her father's death early on, and she'll help you throughout the early levels from fighting hostile island wildlife to battling rival pirates. |
| 359 | * In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Leano claims to be a former pirate, and her hook hand is proof of that. She used to go on dangerous seafaring adventures with her first mate Ottmar, but they're now living a peaceful life running their fishing shop, Primerose Sail. |
| 360 | %%* ''VideoGame/RaidenV'': Valbarossa Hawkeye, whose name is a mistranslated version of Barbarossa ("red beard"). |
| 361 | * In the ''VideoGame/ReaderRabbit'' games, there are two girls in Captain Ratbeard's [[YouDirtyRat Pi-rat]] crew, Vermina and Pearl, the latter of whom was removed from later games, making Vermina [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only Pi-rat girl]]. |
| 362 | %%* ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy'': Kisala. Lilika too, once she joins the crew. |
| 363 | %%* ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa'': Captain Silver. [[spoiler:She's also a dragon.]] |
| 364 | %%* ''VideoGame/SeaDogs'': |
| 365 | %%** Danielle Greene from ''Pirates of the Caribbean''. |
| 366 | %%** Beatrice Sharp, one of the two PlayerCharacters in ''Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales''. |
| 367 | * ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': Risky Boots, the BigBad of the series. She's the self-proclaimed Queen of the Seven Seas and has her own crew of strange creatures called Tinkerbats. Shantae herself has a period of being one when circumstances [[EnemyMine force her and Risky to work together]] in the third game, ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse''. |
| 368 | * ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': Aika and the other female Blue Rogues. Fina eventually becomes this, shown by the switch of costumes at the end of the game. |
| 369 | * ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'': Henriette "One Eye" Cooper, a female raccoon pirate ancestor of Sly. |
| 370 | * ''VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure'': This game introduces [[GenkiGirl Marine the Raccoon]], who is a captain of her own pirate ship and even proclaims ''herself'' to be the hero of the story. |
| 371 | * ''VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer'': Captain Wendy, Buccaneer Bebe, and Swashbuckler Red, Wendy, Bebe, and Red's Adventure set cards. |
| 372 | * ''VideoGame/SuikodenIV'': Captain Kika. |
| 373 | * ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'': Ann Sireina from ''Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier'' is the captain of the submarine Silent Vox, and wields a pair of HandCannon-tonfas. She's a buxom [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent half-shark]] babe. |
| 374 | %%* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'': |
| 375 | %%** Although Morgan LeFlay fits the description of this trope, she is '''not''' actually a pirate (this is even a plot point).%%How does she fit the description? |
| 376 | %%** Elaine and Carla (from the [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland previous games]]), however, are. |
| 377 | %%** Also Kate Capsize. |
| 378 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': [[UpdatedRerelease PS3 and Definitive Edition]] releases have a TokenMiniMoe pirate girl named Patty. |
| 379 | ** Predated by Chat from ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'', another TokenMiniMoe. |
| 380 | ** Velvet, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' is technically one, even though she doesn't look the part. |
| 381 | * Shanty, the first DLC character introduced for ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' is a goat pirate girl. |
| 382 | * In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'' the Vampire Coast figures the important thing is being a treacherous undead abomination capable of holding together an army of zombie pirates through force of will and dark magic, and gender is pretty irrelevant to that. The vampire fleet admirals can be male or female, though the female ones have a more classic pirate look (wielding a cutlass and pistol, while male ones have a halberd), and the vampire captains are all female. One of their factions is also led by Aranessa Saltspite, a living woman with ''two'' peg legs who was an infamous pirate even before she started employing vampires to bolster her forces. |
| 383 | * Catalina Erantzo, one of the six protagonists of ''VideoGame/UnchartedWatersNewHorizons'', is a pirate captain. A [[FieryRedhead red-headed]], [[LatinLover Spanish captain]], [[ActionGirl who is goddess with her rapier]]. |
| 384 | * The Piranas clan from ''VideoGame/UrbanRivals'' is full of half-dressed pirate babes. |
| 385 | * Captain Syrup from the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series, quite likely Wario's greatest rival and the only one in the ''Mario'' franchise who is greedier than he is. |
| 386 | * Terra from ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}''. |
| 387 | * Captain Rose from ''VideoGame/ZackAndWikiQuestForBarbarosTreasure'' is the captain of Rose Rock; rivals to Zack's crew the Sea Rabbits. Despite being a pirate, she wears expensive lipstick, but as TribalFacePaint funnily enough. |
| 388 | * Love Heart from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXIV''. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 392 | * In ''[[VisualNovel/SevenKingdomsThePrincessProblem Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem]]'', you can play as a female pirate captain if you choose that background during character generation. She follows in the footsteps of her mother, the infamous pirate Blackthorn. |
| 393 | * Sasha Buckler from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies''. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 397 | %%* ''Webcomic/AlexZePirate'' has TWO of these. |
| 398 | %%* ''Webcomic/BoobsAhoy!'' |
| 399 | * ''Webcomic/{{Curvy}}'' features a pirate ship with a female captain and multigender crew. |
| 400 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': At least [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2006-07-27 one]] convention attendee cosplays as this in the EGS:NP storyline "EGS-Con 2006". |
| 401 | * In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', ''every'' pirate encountered to date has been female. Some specific examples: |
| 402 | ** Bangladesh Dupree, Pirate Queen and all-around AxCrazy. And she's a ''SkyPirate''. With ''[[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins.]]'' |
| 403 | ** [[spoiler:Sanaa Tryggvassen]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100322 spent a period]] serving as queen of a band of sea pirates, both traveling in a mechanical narwhal and getting lost in time thanks to a "Ulysses Engine". |
| 404 | ** Then there's airship commander Captain [[MeaningfulName Hawkins]] who [[spoiler:gets hired to take Tarvek to England]]: she's not actively a pirate, but she is of proud "European Pirate descent" and so dresses and talks like one. |
| 405 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Vriska Serket may or may not count, being a roughly thirteen-year-old {{LARP}}er, but she's attempting to emulate her [[FamousAncestor ancestor]] Marquise Mindfang, who was ''definitely'' a Pirate Girl. |
| 406 | * ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': In the ''Pirates'' theme, has Wendy Wenchgood, who is a better pirate than most of the men on the ship. |
| 407 | * ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 408 | * ''Lady Sabre & the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether''. Lady Sabre fits this trope to a T. |
| 409 | * ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfAnneBunny''. |
| 410 | * Helena Queenie, the hench wench of Captain Greenbeard, in ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' (who are piratical [[{{Expy}} expies]] of Harley Quinn and ComicBook/TheJoker). |
| 411 | * The Elven pirate captain Tah'vraay from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup.'' May or may not be [[spoiler:Benny's mother.]] |
| 412 | * Martello is actually the captain of her ship in ''Webcomic/MushroomGo''. There's also Palma, who acts more like she's just along for the ride. |
| 413 | * ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': In one page, the title superheroine faces down [[http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/26/the-curse-of-plunderella/ Plunderella]], a female pirate captain. |
| 414 | * One ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' had Haley wondering if she'd rather be a pirate or a ninja. Her answer? "Pirate. Definitely pirate." |
| 415 | ** Bandana as well. |
| 416 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': |
| 417 | ** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] when elementary schoolgirl Jaya [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980707 wants to join Bun-Bun's makeshift pirate crew]]. |
| 418 | --->'''Bun-Bun:''' Little girls can't be pirates! What do you know about robbing and plundering?\ |
| 419 | '''Jaya:''' Well, my dad's an investment banker and my mom's a lawyer...\ |
| 420 | '''Bun-Bun:''' Welcome aboard, First Mate! |
| 421 | ** Later played straight in the Ocean's Unmoving arc with Kada Jansen. |
| 422 | * In ''Webcomic/SonicTheComicOnline'' 6-year-old Cream is the TokenGoodTeammate of the {{Sky Pirate}}s. |
| 423 | * Foglio's ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' in its ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' days [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20090308 depicted]] semi-retired characters, including [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159253 Benalish Hero]] turned into a Pirate Queen and converting the IslandBase into a resort. |
| 424 | * In chapter 7 of ''Webcomic/WhispersInTheWind'', a few members of the pirate crew are revealed. Among them is Charlie, the only woman in a crew of men. |
| 425 | * [[http://yafgc.net/comic/0209-a-reasonable-offer/ Giovanna]] from ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic''. |
| 426 | [[/folder]] |
| 427 | |
| 428 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 429 | * Demonstrated by Shannancy in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HnCwl5rjA this]] catchy ''Adam the Alien'' video. The cleavage always wins. |
| 430 | * Avantika from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' is an elven pirate, and the captain of the Squall-Eater. She's also a warlock of Uk'otoa and serves as the antagonist during the Mighty Nein's time in the Swavain Islands. |
| 431 | * Elizabeth in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'' was a former pirate. It was played a bit more straight in the Pirate RPG where she originated. |
| 432 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Seleenara, who wields a curved sword and wears boots and a bandana. She and Boru go around stealing anything they can get their hands on. |
| 433 | * Ridiath plays this role in ''[[Literature/GutsandSass Guts and Sass: An Anti-Epic]]'', where she has been mentored and trained by the pirate crew to not be useless. |
| 434 | * ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'': |
| 435 | ** Bandana from Inanimate Insanity Infinity is a female pirate, complete with [[TalkLikeAPirate pirate talk]] and a gold tooth. Arg! |
| 436 | ** In "Mine Your Own Business", Lightbulb, even if she's female gets a pirate outfit. Shiver me timbers! |
| 437 | * "[[http://andersson.elfwood.com/Patched-Up-Matey.2524390.html Patched Up Matey]]" -- the entire crew. This season eyepatches be fashionable, yarr! |
| 438 | * ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPiratesRevenge'': [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits The crew]] of the ''Zenpance'' includes several female pirates, including [[RebelliousPrincess Sennen]], [[CuteWitch Gabrielle]], [[LivingStatue Jane]], Mikaela, Parada, and [[LovableRogue Bright Eyes]]. Each one of them has their own special abilities that have proven time and time again to be valuable to the crew. |
| 439 | * ''[[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Hololive's]]'' Captain Houshou Marine invokes this trope with her design, however [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything she doesn't have her own pirate ship]] and streams to raise money for one. |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 443 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' has Captain Zelza, an octopede who dresses and talks like a pirate. |
| 444 | * Lydia Deetz dresses in a pirate girl get-up as she recruits a pirate band in helping to find WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'s head in the episode "Quit While You're a Head." |
| 445 | * ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': {{Parodied|Trope}} in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell "That Went Well"]] with two seawomen (one human, another a parrot) who behave, dress and talk like pirates. [[SeriousBusiness Their job is to replenish a restaurant]]. |
| 446 | * The pirate queen Maggie Lafayette appeared in the second series of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPugwash'' when she hijacked the captain's ship to escape from the authorities. |
| 447 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': When Ember [=McLain=] does a VillainTeamUp with Youngblood, who has a pirate gimmick, she wears pirate gear. |
| 448 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'', Captain Hammerhead's daughter Mad Madeline is probably the most AxeCrazy member of the crew of the [[SubmarinePirates pirate submarine]] the Dark Orca. |
| 449 | * Oona from ''{{WesternAnimation/Disenchantment}}'' joins a pirate crew in Season 2 after they rescue her when she was stranded at sea. When the pirates' original captain Leavo resigns from his position to live in Dreamland, Oona quickly becomes their new leader. |
| 450 | * Kim, the 18-year-old niece of Captain Barnibus Crab in ''WesternAnimation/FlipperAndLopaka''. Kim is quite an ethusiastic apprentice pirate and often seems far better at the actual business of piracy than her uncle. |
| 451 | * The entire crew of Flash Dashing in ''WesternAnimation/MadJackThePirate'' consists of (attractive) women. |
| 452 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In "Captain Hardrock", Hawk Moth akumatizes Juleka's mother into Captain Hardrock, a pirate whose indestructible ship blasts loud music to destroy a music festival. |
| 453 | * On ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'', the kids pretended to be treasure hunters and encountered a trio of female "pirettes". |
| 454 | * Kitty Boon from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mysticons}}'' is captain of the Pink Skulls SkyPirate crew. She and her brother Casey were originally kidnapped and enslaved by a pirate, but after marooning him on an island, they formed the Pink Skulls with the rest of the slaves. |
| 455 | %%* Tula from ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater''. |
| 456 | * Lillian dresses up as one in the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!". |
| 457 | * Princess Bula in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. The largest Bi-nome in the show, and has the other pirates too scared to tell her she's not really a princess. |
| 458 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', there was an ImagineSpot (stemming from a game of make-believe) where the babies were pirates. Naturally, [[DarkActionGirl Angelica]] plays the role of the evil pirate captain. |
| 459 | -->'''Angelica:''' Prepare to be [[{{Malaproper}} bored]]! |
| 460 | * ''WesternAnimation/SantiagoOfTheSeas'': Bonnie Bones, Santiago's arch-nemesis, is a villainous girl pirate. |
| 461 | * Female members of LaResistance (which tends to call itself "pirates") in ''WesternAnimation/{{Skyland}}''. |
| 462 | * Ruby the Red from ''WesternAnimation/Super4''. Reared on Pirate Island as a tavern wench, her dream was to join a pirate crew for a long time, but she had trouble imposing herself among the macho pirates. She's as rough and rowdy as any of them, however; don't try to have her play DamselInDistress or tell her to StayInTheKitchen if you're not ready for a swordfight. |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 466 | * The infamous UsefulNotes/AnneBonny (or Bonney), aka Anne of the Indies. She got her own movie, too, besides getting a guest shot in ''The Spanish Main''. |
| 467 | ** And her companion in crime, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Read Mary Read]]. |
| 468 | ** Anne and Mary's secret treasure (as well as their [[HeterosexualLifePartners close friendship]]) is a plot point in a ''Manga/CaseClosed'' NonSerialMovie. |
| 469 | * There have in fact been more than a few female pirates of note. All of the following women were at least captains, and all were openly women for at least part of their captaincy: |
| 470 | ** Grace O'Malley (an Anglicization of Gráinne Ní Mháille), Pirate Queen of Ireland |
| 471 | ** Zheng Yi Sao, or Ching Shih[[note]]literally "The Wife of Ching/Zheng"[[/note]] (who could be called a [[KingOfThieves Pirate Admiral or Pirate Queen]] or at least TheWomanBehindTheMan to Zheng Bao, her stepson turned husband, given that she is believed to have commanded up to ''400'' ships) was ''[[OutscareTheEnemy absolutely terrifying]]'' in that she managed to hold an alliance of pirates with a [[HonorAmongThieves code of honor]] where breaches (such as disobeying orders, raiding protected villages, not sharing the plunder, {{rap|eIsASpecialKindOfEvil}}ing [[TheWomenAreSafeWithUs female captives]]) would likely result in death, and she managed to defeat the Chinese Dynastic navy, and even had a decent track record against pirate hunters from Europe, with minimal breaches in discipline because her crew would rather die in battle than [[TheMobBossIsScarier face her wrath]]. For a while she and Zheng Bao seemed poised to make a play for a regional throne, and they were only brought down when the Qing [[SummonBiggerFish decided to contract the British and Dutch East India Company and Portuguese Navy to cull her navy down.]] And even in defeat she managed to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm cut a deal for her fleet by negotiating her surrender]] to [[RetiredOutlaw retire in peace]] with most of her loot. |
| 472 | ** Alvilda, Daughter of the king of Gotland. |
| 473 | ** Charlotte de Berry (although some modern historical opinion doubts whether Charlotte actually existed) |
| 474 | ** Rachel Wall |
| 475 | ** Jane de Belleville |
| 476 | ** Elizabeth Trewinnard |
| 477 | ** Queen Teuta, ruler of the Illyrians is the earliest version of this trope, and ironically the earliest pirate known by name. |
| 478 | * In a "culture" always apart from main society by definition, the notion of a woman being bad luck was probably more easily overcome so long as she was talented at bringing in literal boatloads of plunder. |
| 479 | ** Being able/willing to kill you for suggesting she's bad luck is likely also a factor. |
| 480 | * Check Website/TheOtherWiki for a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_piracy complete list of female pirates.]] |
| 481 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Clisson Jeanne de Clisson]], the Lioness of Brittany; when her husband was executed by the French government for treason, she swore revenge against the French King and sold her ancestral lands to buy three warships, which she painted black with red sails. She then spent the next thirteen years plying the English Channel, capturing and looting every French ship she could find and beheading any French noblemen she could find ''personally'' with a huge axe. |
| 482 | * ChildProdigy [[http://www.farksolia.org Barbara]] [[http://www.dreamshore.net/bluejay/barbara.html Newhall]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Newhall_Follett Follett]] became a TeenGenius who cherished swashbuckling pirate fantasies -- at thirteen she signed on as an [[PluckyMiddie apprentice sailor]] on a three-masted schooner so she could experience and [[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/150785601?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1 write about it]]. |
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