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->''"Whenever pirates turn up in a romance set more recently than 1843, you figure the filmmakers ran out of ideas."''
-->--'''RogerEbert''' 's review of ''SixDaysSevenNights''

Swashbuckling, rum-swilling, peg-legged [[{{Pirate}} pirates]] in modern times.

Compare and contrast SkyPirates. SpacePirates is when they are a few more centuries late. For modern, RealLife pirates of the type who are ''very good'' at shivering people's timbers (with an AK-47 not a cutlass), see RuthlessModernPirates. If the pirates are more concerned with ''looking'' the part than acting it, they're probably ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* {{Batman}} villains Captain Stingaree and Cap'n Fear.
** Somewhat subverted in the case of Cap'n Fear and his crew, as Detective Harvey Bullock doesn't find them funny or charming at all ("I hate them [[{{Malaproper}} swishbucklers]].") and ''one of Fear's own men'' mutters about how he's getting "sick of this Popeye rap" (though he promptly changes his mind once the DarkChick threatens to slit his throat).
** In one GoldenAge story, {{Batman}} fights a one-shot villain called Blackbeard, who styles himself after the historical Blackbeard.
* Scar and his crew from ''ComicBook/TheStrangers'' comic book in TheUltraverse. After gaining superpowers, they moved to the Caribbean and become pirates, basing their costumed identities on classic pirates.
* Commander Kraken, foe of the {{Sub-Mariner}} in the MarvelUniverse.
* Captain Storm of ''TheLosers'' (the original WorldWarTwo version) became one of these after losing his memory (and an eye) to an explosion.
* The Subway Pirates from GrantMorrison's ''SevenSoldiers''.

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[[folder:Film]]

* Steve the Pirate in ''{{Dodgeball}}''.
* ''Pirates of the Plain''. Pirate Jezebel Jack and his mutinous crew end up in modern day Nebraska via a time vortex.
* The Disney movie ''Blackbeard's Ghost''.
* The Crimson Permanent Assurance from ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife''.
* There's also ''PiratesOfTheGreatSaltLake'' about two wanna-be pirates in modern Utah.
* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Matthew Patell (the first evil ex) dresses like a pirate and gets mocked by the crowd for it. "Pirates are ''in'' this season!"

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[[folder:Literature]]

* Alec Checkerfield from KageBaker's TheCompanyNovels.
* ''The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage'' by Creator/MargaretMahy.
* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, this is the hat of the Tof race, who embrace the wooden-ships-and-iron-men aesthetic despite living in a SpaceOpera universe.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} by some (not all) space pirates in ''Literature/TheFlightEngineer''. Putting on the affectations of movie pirates makes them feel like holo heroes instead of the thieves and murderers they actually are.
* ''Literature/MrsPiggleWiggle'' 's deceased husband was a pirate when he was alive, and the story takes place in TheFifties.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* In Wrestling/{{WWE}} Paul Burchill briefly became a "wrestling pirate" after [[{{Kayfabe}} discovering]] that he was a descendant of Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard.
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' actually had an inversion - one member of John Bly's gang and his lackeys were a group of actual pirates who were bikers around 80-100 years early. Somehow or another they'd gotten driven off the high seas, so they took to pirating on the American plains, and they just so happen to have stolen some experimental new bicycles Professor Wickwire just knocked up...It's also a literal example of this trope, as they're very much classical pirates (maybe 17th century-ish), but the show is supposed to take place right around the turn of the 20th century.
* One Pigs [[RecycledINSPACE in Space]] sketch in ''TheMuppetShow'' had John Cleese attacking the Swinetrek as a pirate- of the swashbuckler variety. Link Hogthrob informs him that he's a few centuries out of place, which leads to an argument between John and his parrot.
* ''ArmstrongAndMiller'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAbzVx4eOdw parodied]] this in a sketch which involves random people getting press-ganged by the Royal Navy into joining the "South Harbour Club Patrol" after buying t-shirts reading exactly that. And if that concept isn't 18th century enough, then Somali pirates attack South Harbour... by firing audible cannon broadsides.

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[[folder:Music]]

* The trope name is paraphrased from the JimmyBuffett song "A Pirate Looks At 40"; the line is "two hundred years too late."
* {{Alestorm}}
* Captain Maggots, one of EmilieAutumn's backing band, the Bloody Crumpets.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_L9tXEwmc The Last Saskatchewan Pirate]] Tractor Jack became one of these (on the Saskatchewan River) due to a lack of jobs and an unwillingnes to accept government buyouts, unemployment insurance, or welfare.
** And all while covering TheArrogantWorms, too!
* CaptainDanAndTheScurvyCrew, the "only rap crew with Buccaneer technique".

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* Captain Kraken of ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' FreedomCity setting is a form of this. Essentially, he's an alien SpacePirate who started watching broadcasts of Earth pirate movies and decided that it would be fun to dress himself and his crew in the same style. How serious he is about following the tropes depends on the GM.
* The ''Back East: The North'' sourcebook for ''{{Deadlands}}'' has the Vikings of Duluth; a group of Scandanavian descendents who adopt Viking trappings to fight the British Navy on the Great Lakes. There are also pirates (drawn in full seventeenth-century garb) in the Great Maze in what used to be California.

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[[folder:Theater]]

* ''ThePiratesOfPenzance'', maybe? Well, 300 years too late, but still.
* These pirates appear in the ''SeraMyu'' stage shows. Some of the productions even refer to them as SpacePirates.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' games occasionally cross into this due to the PurelyAestheticEra.
* The third ''SlyCooper'' game features a trip to Blood Bath Bay, a series of small islands inhabited by "throwbacks" wo still live by old fashioned pirate culture.
* Bonne Jenet and her crew from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' (and before that ''[[FatalFury Mark of the Wolves]]'') are somewhere between this and RuthlessModernPirates. The crew dresses like stereotypical pirates, but their ship is a nuclear sub.
* ''{{Uncharted}}'', specifically the third one, has a group of these. They reside in a ship graveyard in the Indian Ocean, and, being the WackyWaysideTribe they are, the whole scene there could of easily been cut with no effect on story. It doesn't stop the graveyard from being one hell of a great setpiece, though.
* The entire Piranha clan from ''UrbanRivals''.

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[[folder:Webcomics]]

* The [[http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/26/the-curse-of-plunderella/ Chesapeake Bay Pirates]] from ''TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''.
* The pirates in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', although this occasionally overlaps with SteamPunk SkyPirates.
* T-Square from ''{{Altermeta}}''.
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' Kiki, Bun-bun, and a little girl play at being pirates in a small boat. Unfortunately Bun-bun, being Bun-bun, tries actually thieving and murdering.
* The pirates in ''IrregularWebcomic'' become this when they are [[AWizardDidIt arbitrarily]] transported to [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=2662&theme=10&dir=next5 1940.]]
* Captain [[PunnyName Rigur DeMortis]] in ''[[http://comic.nodwick.com/?p=420 Q-Force]]''. His status as TheUndead partially justifies it as he's literally been around for 400 years, though in the words of his 'loyal' undead crew, he hasn't aged well:
-->'''Crewman #1:''' Ye couldn't best '''Cap'n Crunch'''!\\
'''Crewman #2:''' '''Software Pirates''' be scarier than ye!

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* The entire main cast of ''LegoPirateMisadventures'', made more prevalent in #3, when they attend an office party in a cube farm and go into a crappy dive bar.
* The Weebl toon [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBoO4GzHaI Somalia]] portrays Somalian pirates like this.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* The pirates in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Ghosts Of The Sargasso".
* Mystery Inc confronts these, posing as ghosts no less, in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy''
** Mystery Inc does the same thing in various episodes of the original ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' series... and those pirates are also posing as ghosts.
* One episode of the ''DennisTheMenaceUK'' (from TheBeano) cartoon has a group of actors turn out to be real pirates.
* Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' has a trio of pirates who are the shipwrecked descendants of the pirates who shipwrecked the island's other inhabitants.
* PlayedForLaughs in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode when Peter goes from stealing a parrot as a pet from a veterinarian's office, to dressing as a stereotypical pirate, then hiring a pirate crew and finally going on the road and engaging a motorist in an epic swashbuckling fight, in the course of which Peter's car acquires a mast and sails.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' had the kids' teacher tell them that there are no such things as pirates in the modern day. Guess who the VillainOfTheWeek was?
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' features the candy-swiping Captain Stickybeard and crew. Fortunately for them he also hates vegetables.
* Red Dog the Pirate from ''WesternAnimation/RogerRamjet''.
* Captain Walker D. Plank is a villain in the animated TV series ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr''. He fits the traditional stereotype to the extent that even his PirateParrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.
* Youngblood and his pirate crew in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' hits the mark of the traditional, swashbuckling pirates we know and love, though this may be a justified case as Youngblood constantly dresses up in costumes for his own childish amusement.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' had a robot version as a very minor recurring villain, complete with robo-parrot and [[TalkLikeAPirate speech pattern]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Fat Beard", after hearing about the recent increase in piracy in Somalia, Cartman decides to go and live there (along with Butters, Kyle's little brother Ike, and one of the ginger kids). Kyle and Stan realize what an incredibly stupid idea this, but instead play up his fantasy, encouraging him to go, hoping that he will be killed along the way. Cartman is disgusted to learn that [[RuthlessModernPirates modern Somali pirates]] are "a disgrace to Blackbeard", and tries to get them to act more traditional.
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' had pirates dressed like what you would expect from the typical traditional pirate from a few centuries ago. Justified because they were posing as ghosts to keep people away from a shipwreck while they carry off the loot.
* A variation: ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' episode "You're Thor?" has Vikings a thousand years too late.
* The Pi-Rats from ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.
* Gatlocke from ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''. And he lives in the middle of a desert!
* A ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode featured a tv repairman who decided to follow the footsteps of his pirate ancestor and become a full pirate (In fact, the episode describes the tv repairman job as a way for pirate descendants to keep close to their roots). This modern day's pirate's criminal career was helped by the fact the authorities [[PoliceAreUseless refused to believe]] whenever his victims reported him. [[spoiler:Fortunately Garfield saved the day]].
* One ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode featured pirates.
* The unnamed pirate crew on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode where Dr. Drakken gets possessed by a pirate ghost:
-->'''Drakken:''' Aye. Set the mainsail, wench.\\
'''Shego:''' Okay, first of all we don't have any sails. Second of all, call me 'wench' again and we'll be planning a ''burial at sea''.\\
'''Drakken:''' ''(nervously)'' Yearr. Arrgh.
* WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters had to deal with the likes of Long-John Scarechrome, a cross between this and a SpacePirate. Heck, ''any'' ghostly pirates seen in the show embodied this trope.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* {{Invoked}} every year on [[http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Talk Like A Pirate Day.]]
* "Great Lakes Pirate" Dan Seavey (1864-1945) is called this in pretty much all of his biographies.

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