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[[caption-width-right:338:Howard Pyle: pirates with prisoners. (Type 1. Definitely Type 1)]]

->''Yar, har, fiddle-de-dee''\\
''Being a Pirate is all right to be''\\
''Do what you want 'cause a Pirate is free''\\
''You are a Pirate!''\\
-- ''{{LazyTown}}'', "You Are a Pirate"

->''Oh some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white,\\
And some are all for dancing by the pale moonlight:\\
But rum alone's the tipple, and the heart's delight\\
Of the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.''\\
-- '''JohnMasefield''' "Captain Stratton's Fancy"

Dashing villains who lived free on the open sea, with a parrot on each shoulder and a chest full of gold. Fond of drinking and prone to fights, out to live "a short life and a merry one." The pirates we know and love were greatly influenced by those of ''PeterPan'' and ''TreasureIsland''.

*'''Type 1:''' Some pirates are [[BigBad major threats]] whenever they appear. Seeing the Jolly Roger on the horizon is bad news for the dashing, clean-cut heroes, who will soon have to deal with a wave of unwashed brutes intent on looting as much as they can, killing the crew, and... ahem..."abducting" the women. Generally the easy go-to bad guys for anything in TheCavalierYears. \\
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These pirates are [[VillainByDefault pure evil]]. They have, in fact, thoroughly earned their RealLife designation ''hostis humani generis'' or "enemy of all mankind".

*'''Type 2:''' Pirates featured as dashing romantic heroes and rebels, ranging from the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain rather goofy]] to the [[RageAgainstTheHeavens total rebel]]; generally, they follow a [[EvenEvilHasStandards code of honor]]. Frequently featured as ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything to prevent their romantic aura being tainted by them harming innocents. The Romantics were fond of this trope, as in LordByron's ''The Corsair''. It appeared in GilbertAndSullivan's ''{{The Pirates of Penzance}}'' with pirates who can not oppress an orphan (and swallow any and all claims to be an orphan) and are easily overcome by appealing to their loyalty to Queen Victoria.\\
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In RealLife, a blurry line separated this type of pirate from privateers. The Spanish viewed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake Sir Francis Drake]] as a pirate, and the British, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones John Paul Jones]].

Both types are among the OldestOnesInTheBook, and can, indeed, be found in the same works.

Mostly, they can be found in the Caribbean, [[TheCavalierYears a few hundred years ago]], but any sea-faring hero can expect to meet pirates at least once, and they [[SpacePirates also occur]] in [[RecycledINSPACE the far future]], sailing the [[SpaceIsAnOcean ocean of space]].

Elizabethan-era privateers (such as the aforementioned Sir Francis Drake) used to be quite popular but have fallen out of favour in recent decades.

Pirate tropes include:
* [[TalkLikeAPirate Talking like a Pirate]].
** A 'piratey' accent.
** Lots of nautical slang.
** Swearing "[[ClusterFBomb like a sailor]]" to the degree that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar can be gotten away with]].
* Earrings and colourful clothes
* Making victims WalkThePlank
* Marooning -- and they LeaveBehindAPistol.
* [[RapePillageAndBurn Wreaking havoc]] on coastal towns
* Buried [[PirateBooty treasure]]
** {{Treasure map}}s, to find it with.
* Any combination of peg leg, {{hook hand}}, and eye patch.
* A PirateParrot
* The Jolly Roger (In real life, the Jolly Roger was a good thing, as it meant that the pirates would accept prisoners. However, a blood red flag meant "death to all".)
** It also wasn't always the now-familiar "skull and crossbones" design. There were many different variants, and some pirates just used a plain black flag.
* Captains elected by their crew (although real sailors that mutinied and became pirates actually did this)
* Swashbuckling
* Buxom female pirates
* Universally ChaoticEvil for the first, and ChaoticGood for the second.
* [[TattooedCrook Lots of tattoos]].
* [[SwordAndGun Fighting with a flintlock in one hand and a cutlass in the other]].
* AND a [[NiceHat nice hat]]

SpacePirates [[ThrownOutTheAirlock throw people out of the airlock]] rather than making them WalkThePlank, and may substitute [[CallARabbitASmeerp some alien flier]] for the parrot.

[[SkyPirate Sky Pirates]] have flying ships but otherwise resemble the standard Pirate.

If the pirates are mixed up with the occult, expect voodoo, [[TheLivingDead zombies and/or skeletons]], and cursed treasure.

[[TheThemeParkVersion Not to be confused with]] real pirates. Were you attacked by pirates around the 1700s, the 'nicest' you could hope for would probably lean towards Type 2 - they would steal your things but ''might'' not harm you. Modern day piracy is less covered in fiction, with the 1979 Soviet film ''Piraty XX veka'' (Pirates of the 20th Century, one of the first real Soviet "action" films) and the Japanese anime ''BlackLagoon'' being some of the few rare examples of the opposite. So far, the pirates currently active off the coast of Somalia have been interested in money, not lives (indeed, their "business model" is based on extorting ransom from the shipping companies), but the entire meme of pirates is in danger of becoming a huge FunnyAneurysmMoment these days.

Note that in fiction, many Pirate Captains are presented as absolute masters of their ship, with TheMutiny being regarded as fully as serious as on merchant or naval ships. In RealLife, the captain had command only in battle; out of battle, he could be freely deposed -- and often marooned -- for incompetence.

For [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_versus_Ninjas some reason]], there's a [[MemeticMutation running joke]] about them being the arch-enemies of {{Ninja}}s. It's largely believed to be influenced by the hatred between the {{Naruto}} and OnePiece Fandoms.

Honored every September 19th with [[http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ International Talk Like A Pirate Day]]. Reading/watching/playing any of the below works, at least in p[[IncrediblyLamePun arrr]]t, would be a good way to celebrate.
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[[folder: Anime ]]

* ''OnePiece'': Type 1 for some of the villains, but easily type 2 for the Straw Hats.
** In earlier depictions of One Piece (Romance Dawn and Wanted one-shots), pirates are described as being of two types: The "Morganeers", who are all about pillaging and looting, and the "Peace Mains", who are more about fun and games and beating the Morganeers for their loot.
*** Oda intentionally avoided using those terms in the regular series, feeling they were a bit too on the nose. Although most One Piece pirates fall into one category or another early on, as the series progresses things get a bit more gray and some pirates straddled the moral line(although the Strawhats remain staunchly in the second category.)
** The Strawhats are SO type two that they're never even shown (successfully) stealing loot. Lampshaded in the Skypeia arc, when they tried to steal a bag of gold...except that the owners of said gold had just decided to give it to them as a reward.
*** The exception to this rule is Nami, a rather shameless and highly skilled thief and con artist.
* Space pirate example: CaptainHarlock, a LoveableRogue space pirate who has appeared in any number of the works of LeijiMatsumoto.
*The manga ''[[MobileSuitGundam Crossbone Gundam]]'' has the main characters from ''Gundam F91'' opposing the Jupiter Empire under the guise of space pirates, right down to their ship's design and the captain having a parrot.
**It gets even crazier. The titular Gundam has X-shaped thrusters (though they're actually practical), a beam cutlass and daggers instead of the standard saber, a beam gun shaped like a flintlock pistol, a targeting lens shaped like an eye patch and an extra antenna on its head modeled after a feather. Apparently just sporting the Jolly Roger insignia on its forehead wasn't enough for Hajime Katoki.
*The main cast of ''BlackLagoon'' are an example of your average modern-day South-East Asian variety of pirate, and prefer [=AK=]s and pistols to swords and cutlasses.
* ''KyouranKazokuNikki'''s tenth episode is 21 minutes of pirate absurdity. This on top of the normal absurdity the show already has. Interestingly, the episode is about the differing ideals of shows like ''OnePiece'' where [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything the lead pirates don't do anything]] and the traditional view. [[spoiler:The traditional view wins.]]
* The main BigBad of the ninth ''{{Pokemon}}'' movie, ''Pokemon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea'', was a pirate, complete with a Chatot, a parrot Pokemon.
* First episode of ''{{Slayers}} REVOLUTION'' has Lina Inverse laying waste to a group of pirates.
* Chosokabe Motochika/Arslan in ''SengokuBasara/Devil Kings''.
* ''{{Castle in the Sky}}'' has, of course, [[SkyPirate Sky Pirates]]. They fall more under the second variety--they readily kidnap and steal, but actively assist two [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent children]].
* Mugen's backstory in ''SamuraiChamploo'' features a group of pirates.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* [[{{YtheLastMan}} Y: The Last Man]] - Because of the shortage of food and medicine caused by the plague the Australian navy has turned to piracy – one of their spies even has an eyepatch. [[spoiler:It later turns out that the Australians are actually trying to ''stop'' the pirates who are taking all the food in exchange for heroin.]]
* ''Comicbook/ElCazador'' was comic book from CrossGen. In the opening issue, the ship carrying Spanish noblewoman Donessa Cinzia Elena Marie Esperanza Diego-Luis Hidalgo and others of her family is attacked by pirate captain Blackjack Tom. The Donessa is one of the few survivors of the attack. She swears to hunt down Tom and rescue his prisoners. To accomplish this, she re-names her ship El Cazador ("The Hunter") and becomes a pirate herself, dubbed "Lady Sin" by her crew. The remaining issues of the series detail the beginnings of Lady Sin's quest as she forsakes her privileged past for life on the high seas.
* Captain Hawk, a.ka.a. 'the Sea Snake', was a fairly treacherous sometimes-ally of Travis Morgan in ''TheWarlord''.
* The comic book ''Starslayer'' was this trope to a T, being SpacePirates in a SpaceOpera setting.
* "The Phantom " feature The Phantom's arch-rivals, The Singh Brotherhood, a criminal organisation that used to be pirates. Nowadays they are landlubbers who work with more "modern" crimes like drug-dealing, blackmailing and kidnaping.
* In "Watchmen", Since superheroes exist people don't bother reading about them in comics, so instead pirate comics are popular.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''TreasureIsland'' -- The 1950 Walt Disney movie version of this featured British Actor Robert Newton as Long John Silver. His wildly over the top performance as the ragged, full-bearded, wild-eyed, sinister but charismatic pirate leader was purely his own creation and quite unlike the actor himself (He had been considered for the role of the role of the handsome, brooding Heathcliffe in the 1939 version of ''Wuthering Heights'', narrowly losing out to Lawrence Olivier.) His distinctive ''Argggh'' growl and English West Country accent have been imitated by, literally, hundreds of millions of people over the decades. It is unlikely that any line of recorded cinema can match its popularity.\\
(Given that Robert Louis Stevenson was in the West country for his health and used two pubs in Bristol as models for those in ''Treasure Island'' and given the distinctive 'arrr' local accent, Robert Newton wasn't that far from the truth)
** In 1990 the TNT cable network produced a 4 hour TV movie of ''Treasure Island'' which cleaved to the book with Charlton Heston's Long John Silver the clever but ruthless rogue of the book and Christian Bale's Jim Hawking a tough, worldly kid. It was made in Cornwall,England and Jamaica and its fantastic!
* ''MuppetTreasureIsland'' is...well, the above but with muppets. While the original plot's obviously been mucked around with quite a lot, they play a lot of the dramatic moments completely straight. "Shiver My Timbers" is an especially chilling song, given the film.
* And, based on TreasureIsland, is TreasurePlanet. InSpace!
* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' -- Captain Jack Sparrow was apparently originally written as a fairly strait-laced character. Until JohnnyDepp decided he was going to chuck Keith Richards into his portrayal.
** Barbossa even has the accent, lampshaded in the third movie.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062737/ Blackbeard's Ghost]],'' in which modern-day Dean Jones learns that the famous pirate Blackbeard was cursed to forever remain a ghost unless he could perform a single selfless act. Being a Disney movie, hilarity ensues until the predictable ending.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091757/ Pirates]],'' starring Walter Matthau, in which the trope is taken to the other end of the spectrum (i.e., the whole lot is dirty, vile, etc.) for comedic effect.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084504/ The Pirate Movie]],'' starring Kristy [=MacNichol=], which was [[InspiredBy a (very) loose adaptation]] of ''{{The Pirates of Penzance}}''.
** And the film adaption, ''Pirates of Penzance'' which played it straight. Well, as straight as anything based on GilbertAndSullivan could be.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086618/ Yellowbeard]]''. The title character is a Type 1 pirate if ever there was one.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044517/ The Crimson Pirate]]'' Burt Lancaster has fun playing a Type 2.
* The Dread Pirate Roberts in ''ThePrincessBride''. He's a Type 1: he never takes prisoners, always killing everyone aboard the ships he captures. Well, except for one.
* In Stardust, we meet a group of SkyPirates. Led by a CampGay RobertDeNiro.
** They seem to be pirates only in name, the only thing we see them do is carry passengers, harvest lightning, and sell it. They mostly just seem to entertain themselves by going "ARRRG!" a lot.
*** Note that in the book, they weren't pirates.
* "Bully" Hayes in ''Nate and Hayes'' gives what might well be the core creed of the Type 2 pirate:
-->'''Hayes''': Are you saying in that book that I'm a pirate?
-->'''Clerk'''(hesitantly): I suppose I am
-->'''Hayes''': Good. Because I am one, and a damn good one. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossbones, that's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit in every port known to man without regard to any man's law. That's not to say I lack morals and standards. I got morals and standards. I never killed a man who didn't deserve it, I never cheated an honest man, I never pillaged and I never raped.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* ''PeterPan''
* LordByron's ''The Corsair''
* ''Captain Blood'', both as a novel and as [[Film/CaptainBlood the movie]] in which ErrolFlynn first starred.
* EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Pirates of Venus'', ''Tanar of Pellucidar'', and ''Tarzan at the Earth's Core''; also the black pirates of ''[[JohnCarterOfMars The Gods of Mars]]''.
* ''ConanTheBarbarian'' has been a pirate more than once in his career. In addition to his membership in the Red Brotherhood, he has also captained several ships as well as being the lover and right hand of Belit, the Queen of the Black Coast, in the story of the same name.
* {{Andre Norton}}'s ''Scarface'' (historical) and the Jacks (space pirates) in many of her science fiction novels.
* ''The Pyrates'' -- comic novel archly [[LampshadeHanging highlighting]] all the pirate tropes.
* Douglas Morgan's ''Tiger Cruise'' takes the modern route, and depicts a Navy destroyer beset by a typhoon and a well-equipped band of Indonesian pirates. They don't fit any of the typical traits of type-1, but they're ''definitely'' not type 2.
* In PoulAnderson and GordonRDickson's {{Hoka}} stories, some of them decide to be Pirates! When Alex Jones foils their plot to loot a city, the mayor suggests that actually, they think it would be kind of fun. Of course, being Hokas, they agree to give back their plunder after they loot the city. (What do you take them for, ''thieves''?) And the looting of the city becomes an annual event.
* Many, many of Emilio Salgari's books. The ''Black Corsair'' series, the ''Pirates of Malaysia'' series, the ''Pirates of Bermuda'' series... and the list goes on.
* ''{{Vampirates}}''
* In ForgottenRealms novels, as usual, all variants are represented -- including Type 1, Type 2 and ChaoticNeutral pirates. One of latter captains, among other achievements, was given "elf-friend" status, got imprisoned for debauch in WretchedHive sort of port where tavern brawls are so common normally no one gives a damn and essentially adopted drow mage (and [[ReligionOfEvil Lolth priestess]]) as a daughter. There's also group named 'Wolves of the Waves'... and it's quite definitely ''[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent not]]'' a metaphor.
* In PatriciaAMcKillip's ''The Bell At Sealey Head'', Dalia wants Gwyneth to write about pirates. When Raven objects that pirates are uncouth and wouldn't know what to do with tea -- probably use the teapot to drink rum -- Dalia objects that she wants nice pirates who were driven to it and would be glad to give it up.
* ''The Takers'', a TwoFistedTale by Jerry Ahern, has the protagonists having to battle the modern-day version when the owner of the yacht they chartered plans to get rid of it in an insurance scam. Which would be made more authentic by their deaths.
* In Nick Kyme's {{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''Salamander'', the HangingSeparately between the Salamander and the Marines Malevolent culminates in the discovery that the Marines are out to resupply themselves from a Mechanicus delerict. Or loot it, as the Salamanders put it, accusing them of being pirates.
* In OverTheWineDarkSea these are a recurring peril . Most of the Mediterranean is in constant war and the Rhodian Navy can only handle so much.
* ''[[http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Stationery_Voyagers Stationery Voyagers]]'' has the very Type 1-ish Yehtzig Pirate League, who take AlwaysChaoticEvil to [[{{UpToEleven}} extremes]]. They not only rape and pillage, they also take over the drug trades of entire worlds, [[{{CompleteMonster}} establish candy factories as drug fronts]], hijack educational curricula, [[{{FantasticRacism}} spread infertility viruses to wipe out Stationery types they don't like]], and try to collapse entire societies by forcing women to have more out-of-wedlock births than they can financially sustain. They don't always rape directly, but [[{{AliensMadeThemDoIt}} will shoot men and women]] with darts that basically contain weaponized Viagra. And for those religious idealists who continue to stand in the way...[[{{WhyDontYouJustShootHim}} a good bullet almost always seems to do the trick]]. Oh yeah...[[{{ArsonMurderAndJaywalking}} they also consider themselves kinda-sort-of a devil-worshipping cult as well]].

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* In the {{LazyTown}} episode that the page quote comes from, the children have been playing type 2-ish pirates, and are shown a history book that tells them about Rottenbeard, a type 1 pirate who once victimised [=LazyTown=] and stole a corner of a stone containing a message from the town's founder, then was driven off by a hero who bears a suspicious resemblance to both Sportacus and a ninja. Despite him being type 1, the kids are impressed, so Robbie decides to take advantage of the kids' pirate fever by dressing as Rottenbeard and getting them to 'help' him look for the missing corner, which he has made a mock-up of that makes the message say "[=LazyTown=] should always be lazy".
* Fred Perry, author of the comic Gold Digger, actually made a short animation sketch of the first part of said episode's song, featuring his Voltron Pirate Ninja Leprechaun characters. Apparently, he actually bought the rights to do it legally, despite it being a test animation, and yes that's a ninja doing pelvic thrusts with a katana/shovel strapped to his crotch.
* ''DoctorWho'', episodes "The Smugglers", "Enlightenment," and, of course, "The Pirate Planet," as well as the novels "The Resurrection Casket" and "The Pirate Loop".
* A couple of non-traditional space pirates were the MonsterOfTheWeek in the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds."
* On [=SpikeTV=]'s Deadliest Warrior, they had a Caribbean pirate fight one-on-one against a French knight. [[spoiler:The pirate manages to defeat the knight with his superior firepower.]]
** Such a shame they didn't go for the [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja obvious route.]]
* There was a pretty faithful version of ''Treasure Island'' on British TV in either the late '70s or early '80s. The theme song was an extended version of ''Sixteen men on the Dead Man's Chest'', including the lines "No more of the crew were left alive, that put to sea with seventy-five".
* Also on British TV in the '80s was ''Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island'', which with modern sensibilities, contrasted "evil" Silver, who looted and pillaged with "good guy" Trelawney who owned a whole plantation full of slaves. Better yet, silver was played by the largest LargeHam of them all, {{BRIAN BLESSED}}. Shiver Me Timbers!

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[[folder: Music ]]

* Emilie Autumn has always had one pirate captain since the first Asylum tour in 2007. The first was Captain Vecona who was also the Asylum semstress and left the Bloody Crumpets after the first 2008 tour. The second was Captain Maggot who took over in fall 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 cirus performer in the real world, during the tours she stilt walks and hula-hoops...Mind you EA's shows take place in a victorian asylum...
* Australian children's music group TheWiggles have Captain Feathersword, sometimes known as the '[[SixthRanger fifth Wiggle]]'. He's ''definitely'' the PiratesWhoDontDoAnything type, though he can [[ImprobableWeaponUser tickle you to death]].
* RunningWild is one of the first metal bands to pick up the pirate image. Their songs are based on the subject (and takes cues from the Type 2).

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[[folder: Opera ]]

* GilbertAndSullivan's ''{{The Pirates of Penzance}}''
** While they spend most of the play as comical type 2 pirates their songs indicate some very nasty behavior beforehand.

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* {{Warhammer 40000}} features both Dark Eldar and orkish pirates. Renegade Space Marines also often resort to piracy.
** In Graham [=McNeill=]'s {{Ultramarines}} novel ''Nightbringer'', a Dark Eldar pirate is raiding the vessel carrying the Space Marines.
* ''[=40K=]'''s Dark Eldar are based on the Dark Elves from ''{{Warhammer}} Fantasy Battle'', who are also largely pirates. They engage in piracy partly for the sake of survival (their homeland of Naggaroth has very little arable land, so they steal resources from other races and take them as slaves) and partly out of sheer malice for everyone else in the world.
* {{Exalted}}; The Lintha. A family of terrifying, demon-descended, bloodline-obsessed, super-powerful buccaneers. Who make you eat your shipmates.
* [[http://www.sjgames.com/spanc/ Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls!]]

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''MonkeyIsland'' Though most of the pirates seem to be Type 2. This gets subverted [[spoiler: when Guybrush contracts a Pox that makes everyone type 1 for progressively longer periods of time]].
* ''SkiesOfArcadia'', an RPG for the Sega Dreamcast, later ported to the Nintendo Gamecube, features Air Pirates sailing the skies of a world with no oceans and floating continents. It also draws a distinct line between idealized pirates and real ones: ''Real'' pirates are called, appropriately, Black Pirates. Blue Rogues, on the other hand, are generally adventurers and explorers who only attack TheEmpire's ships and Black Pirates.
* For pirates of the space variety, see the ''{{Metroid}}'' series. Besides the whole [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Universe]] thing, this is played surprisingly close to the modern real life version.
* ''FinalFantasy'', an RPG for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), had the very brief encounter with Bikke the pirate, who [[BrokenBridge fixes the Broken Bridge]] of being stuck on the initial continent by awarding you a boat after his defeat. Ironically, enough, outside of the hat and the "Argh"-speak, he could easily just be a regular boat-owner.
** ''FinalFantasyV'' on the other hand, has pirate captain Faris, [[spoiler:a long lost sister of Princess Lenna, who was [[RaisedByWolves raised by pirates who found her]], and disguised herself as a man]]. The Playstation version is known for giving her the stereotypical pirate accent.
***This is in fact made even better since the game's job system lets you make her a ninja, thus [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot combining two]] of the most badass forces in the universe.
*In the Sony RPG ''{{Rogue Galaxy}}'' the heroes are space pirates.
* A couple of ''WarioLand'' platformers pits the greedy anti-hero against Captain Syrup and her pirate minions.
** And the Shake King from ''Wario Land: The Shake Dimension'' is a pirate with very much similar minions to Captain Syrup. He's also more like an EvilOverlord and a viking.
* ''[=~Sid Meier's Pirates~=]!'', naturally. {{NPC}} pirates are mostly of the first type, but the PlayerCharacter can be either.
* The arcade/Dreamcast [[ShootEmUps shooter]] ''{{Gunbird}} 2'' has a [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket-esque]] group of pirates, called the Queen Pirates, as the [[BigBad Big Bads]]. With a [[GagBoobs buxom]] female pirate as the leader. Plus, they also have an army of [[HumongousMecha humongous mecha]]. What a [[RuleOfCool winning]][[NinjaPirateZombieRobot combination]]!
* ''[=~ Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates~=]''
* ''TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''
** And this is pretty ironic, considering that Zelda's previous disguise was a [[CoolVersusAwesome Ninja]].
** There were also [[TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfSeasons the subrosian Skelleton-Pirates]] and the [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask all-female Gerudo Pirates.]] Possibly including [[TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Jolene]].
* A bonus character in the upcoming PS3 version of ''TalesOfVesperia'' will be a [[TokenLoli Loli-Pirate]] named Patty.
* The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead pirate captain,]] [[SoulSeries Cervantes]].
* A fair number of ''EveOnline'' players are deadly type-1 SpacePirates.
* In Chapter 4 of ''EternalSonata'', the ship you're on is attacked by the pirate ship Dolce. You confront her captain (and namesake), later fight her again, and may fight her yet again before the game is over. Additionally, there are pirates in the [[BonusDungeon Mysterious Unison]].
* In ''PaperMario: The Thousand-Year Door'', you take on the animated skull of the infamous pirate Cortez.
**And earlier in the series, there was the shark pirates led by Jonathan Jones in ''SuperMarioRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''. He seems to be Type 1 at first, but after being [[DefeatMeansFriendship defeated]], he {{Nakama befriends}} Mario and company, freely giving them the star piece and then helping them to corner Yaridovich. There's also the occasional pirate enemies in other Mario games such as the Shy Guy Pirates in ''YoshisStory''.
* "Cap'n" Ginny of ''MySims'' is obessed 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.

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* A major arc in the popular ''SluggyFreelance'' featured "The Pirates of the Oceans Unmoving"... pirates in flying ships, sailing through cross-dimensional waters where time doesn't exist. In a clever subversion, it turns out that most (though not ''all'') of the "pirates" are actually geeks who ended up "outside time" as a result of various technological mishaps, failed experiments, et cetera, found all these abandoned, flying ships, and decided to live out life-long dreams of adventures on the high (if unmoving) seas.
* ''StarslipCrisis'' has absurdly literal Space Pirates. Identical to our pirate stereotypes but...[[InSpace in space]]. Steel Eyepatches, laser-cutlasses, sails on their ships. Led by Infra-Red Beard, they even have pirate science officers. Who man the Rum Sensors.
* In ''{{Order of the Stick}}'', when Elan needs to reach Azure City, he [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0389.html meets]] a SkyPirate.
* In ''[[EightBitTheater 8-bit Theater]]'', Garland recruits pirates to help him against the Light Warriors.[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=021029]]
* ''IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace''. Yes, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot lesbian space pirates]].
* Bangladesh [=DuPree=] of ''GirlGenius'', AxCrazy Pirate Queen under the [[PsychoForHire employ of the Baron]]. This may be where [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090220 Gil got the idea for his cover story]].
* The titular hero of ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' spends one of his first major story arcs battling pirates. The origin of the Pirates vs. Ninjas conflict is explored. [[RuleOfCool Frozen shamrock shurikens are thrown]]. Like everything else in this comic, it has to be read to be believed.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* On ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the KND sometimes had to deal with candy-stealing pirate and recurring foe Stickybeard.
* ''PiratesOfDarkWater'' offers a fantasy take, complete with [[PardonMyKlingon fantasy swearing]].
*In the ''{{LazyTown}}'' episode that the page quote comes from, the children are playing pirates, and are shown a history book that tells them about Rottenbeard, a pirate who once victimised [=LazyTown=] (despite it being very clearly inland) and stole a corner of a stone containing a message from the town's founder, then was driven off by a hero who is dressed suspiciously like an old-fashioned version of Sportacus (presumably one of the former Sportacuses, given that the current is number 10), with ninja-like swords crossed across his back. The kids are impressed, so Robbie decides to take advantage of the kids' pirate fever by dressing as Rottenbeard and singing the quoted song, then getting them to 'help' him look for the missing corner, which he has made a mock-up of that makes the message say "[=LazyTown=] should always be lazy". When a real copy is found of Rottenbeard's map, he resorts to tying them up. Sportacus intervenes, and fights Robbie (who is still in costume, and for all he knows could be dangerous) armed with tennis rackets, rather than the bladed weapons seen in the drawing of his presumed ancestor. Robbie is unmasked, and the stone dug up, which turns out to read "[=LazyTown=] should always be happy".
** Fred Perry, author of the comic Series/GoldDigger, actually made a [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jbq_1Wy70rE short animation sketch]] of the first part of said episode's song, featuring his {{Voltron}} [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Pirate Ninja Leprechaun]] characters. Apparently, he actually bought the rights to do it legally, despite it being a test animation, and yes that's a ninja doing pelvic thrusts with a katana/shovel strapped to his crotch.
* ''KimPossible'' is on a field trip to a Colonial Williamsburg-type historical reenactment town, when Dr. Drakken gets possessed by a pirate ghost and comes gunning for the town in the episode "Captain Drakken". The heroes, complete with Wade who arrives on a white charger, fight him off the old fashioned way, to save their grades.
** By ''shocking'' coincidence, this episode aired on The Disney Channel about a week before ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End'' opened.
*LaResistance in ''{{Skyland}}'' are proud to call themselves pirates.
* ''TransformersAnimated'' has Lockdown, a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot transforming robot pirate]].
** Cannonball of ''Transformers: Cybertron'' is an actual space pirate, complete with skeleton paint apps and a black swath of paint over half of the top of his face in mimicry of an eyepatch.
* ''CaptainPugwash''.
* Captain Hook and his crew in Disney's ''PeterPan''.
* The ''VeggieTales'' videos once had a Silly Song with Larry titled [=~The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything~=]. Originally it was just, well, a silly song where Larry and some of the other cast dressed up as pirates and sang about how they just sat around and looked cool all day, but the popularity of the characters and song meant that eventually they became (sort of) real pirates for the two [[TheMovie feature films]].
* Parodied in a recent episode of ''SouthPark'', where Cartman and his assembled gang meet the Somalian pirates (see the real life section below) and turned them away from modern piracy and fashioned them into pirates as seen in popular culture.
*''DannyPhantom'': Youngblood and his crew of dead pirates. Complete with GhostShip.
* ''{{Avatar The Last Airbender}}'' had the kids run in to pirates in season one during which Karata "high-risk trades" a scroll that has waterbending moves on it from them. The pirates team up with Prince Zuko to capture the gAang and when the pirates refuse to hand Aang over to him the resulting brawl allows the kids to escape. Later on in the season final the same pirates are hired by Admiral Zhao to kill Zuko. Also in season three when Sokka and[[spoiler:Zuko]]search for Sokka's father in a Fire Nation prison. They don't find him at first but when they hear other guards talking that new prisoners are arriving and one of them is a pirate they go to check and one of them is Hakoda. No surprise that the Fire Nation would look at a Water Tribe warrior as a pirate!
* There be Pi-Rats (type 2) in two episodes of ChipAndDaleRescueRangers.
* Featured in two episodes and two songs from Nick Jr.'s ''TheBackyardigans''.

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* [[http://www.yarr.org.uk/ Talk Like A Pirate Day]]
** [[{{Pirate}} Everythings Better With Pirates]]: University of York (York University is in Canada) in England recently held an election for student president. There were two sensible candidates and Mad Cap'n Scott, who carried a [[MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate duck]] named Brian on his shoulder, said 'Aharrr' a lot and promised cutlass training for all student officers. [[http://www.yusu.org/democracy/backstory.html Guess who won]]. Cap'n Scott has legitimate pirate credentials: he runs the UK branch of Talk Like A Pirate Day.
** On "Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008", {{Facebook}} created an option to display everything in Pirate Speak.
* Henry Morgan, later governor of Jamacia. Since he fought only the Spanish and while they were at war with the English (at least to the best of his knowledge) a border-line case. Many fictional pirates (Type 2) have drawn on his history, which explains why so many became colonial governers.
* Likewise Henry Every-- The most BadAss pirate you've never heard of. Nicknamed the King of Pirates, he was one of the few Great Captains to successfully retire with pretty much all of his loot and suffer almost no repercussions for his crimes. Made a spectacular fool out of the East-India trading company through out his entire career and was more or less the impetus for the creation of hired Pirate Hunters like Captain Kidd.
* Blackbeard -- While having far from the largest haul, Blackbeard is particularly notorious for the stories about him, such as that once, while playing cards, he blew out the light and shot at random, seriously wounding one of his crew, and declared afterward if he didn't act like that, they would forget who their master was; or the time he proposed they test themselves against their future state, and filled up below the deck with sulfur pots to see how long they lasted, and when he lasted the longest he was proud of it. Heavily influenced the Type 1 pirate.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kidd Captain Kidd]], though the true extent of his guilt is uncertain.
* Bartholomew Roberts, one of the more successful Caribbean pirates, is probably the closest pirates ever got to Type 2 in reality. He did kill a bunch of people, but often treated captives with compassion (unless his crew ''really'' wanted to hurt them).
** It was actually pretty common for pirates to treat their prisoners reasonably well. They mainly replenished their ranks from among them after all, as they all tended to be former sailors from navy or commercial vessels fed up with lousy pay and tyrannical captains. The officers tended to be free game, however.
*** And if you treat your captives reasonably well and allow them to leave alive, then the crew of any future ship captured is less likely to fight and be more compliant. This, in turn, heightens the success rate of future endevours, meaning its in your best interest as a pirate to treat your captives well and let them live.
* Real-life pirates just re-entered the news cycle. On April 8, 2009, the Maersk Alabama, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, was taken by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama gave himself up as a hostage to ensure his crew's safety. According to the International Maritime Bureau, a watchdog group based out of [[InherentlyFunnyWords Kuala Lumpur]], the Maersk Alabama was the sixth vessel taken by Somali pirates in a week, and they have staged 66 attacks since January and are still holding 14 ships and 260 crew members as hostages. (This entry added [[strike: April 9, 2009, using a fresh newspaper article]] April 10, 2009, using the previous day's newspaper as reference.)
** And yes, like the intro to this article suggests, these pirates ''definitely'' seem more threatening and less comical than TheThemeParkVersion we're used to here. That could just be the modern weaponry and technology talking, though--these guys are armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, and anti-tank rocket launchers, and coordinate their attacks with GPS systems and satellite phones. In other words, the only similarities between these Somali pirates and the pirates of fiction is that both of them are plundering ships. The general rule of thumb with modern pirates is that if they're covering their face, they're not planning on killing you.
** As of shortly after noon Eastern time, Sunday April 12, the score stands at one pirate captured, the other three killed by U.S. Navy snipers and Capt. Philips liberated unharmed.
*** [[LocalAngle The fact it took this long demonstrates something]]. Piracy had been an issue in that area for about a year and never fully went away in South East Asia.
*** From the Somali point of view, many of the foreign fishermen that pretty much emptied their country's territorial waters and ruining their livelihoods in the process, could be seen as the pirates. Not to condone their actions, of course, just playing {{Devils Advocate}}.
*The US Coast Guard likes to think of themselves as all... piratey. It has to do with the whole "Arr, matey's, let's seize us some ships" deal. The Revenue Cutter Service, which was the original service, included hunting pirates among its duties. So does the modern one.

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* ''OpenBlue'', which features both types, depending on whether they're {{NPC}}'s or not. Player characters tend to be of the second type. Usually.

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