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alt title(s): Space Pirate 
Depending how you view the future, lawlessness will always be present in society. There's always going to be a shadier, nastier way of doing business, and that will almost certainly follow humanity to the stars. Thus, sci-fi authors will include Expies of modern and historic un/organized crime—be they space mafia, gangs, or—in our case— pirates.
It's not as anachronistic as it might seem. After all, pirates themselves have made a Real Life comeback in Somalia, and it's a lucrative enough "business" that it's taken a multinational military response to fight back. Surely an established society in outer space with significant trade and commerce would suffer similar problems!
... Well, maybe. The major problem with space pirates preying on space commerce is that space is vast. The challenge of catching commercial shipping in open space is orders of magnitudes more difficult than catching them on the open seas. Sometimes, this is cleverly worked around and justified. Most of the time, however, it isn't.
There are two kinds of Space Pirates in science fiction. The normal version are violent criminals with a spaceship, who attack other spaceships, just like present-day pirates. Once you have shipping between different solar systems/planets, pirates preying on said shipping are bound to show. Simple as that. Done this way, piracy actually makes sense, provided there's an enabling factor. That could be anything from the technology of the setting creating trade lanes (via a Portal Network, predictable Faster Than Light Travel routes thanks to Negative Space Wedgies, or timed space flights between planets to reduce time spent between planets, as in Real Life), to using a variant of the method employed by modern pirates (say, smaller ships striking at commercial shipping in the orbit of a planet).
The other version does a Recycled In SPACE on every eighteenth century pirate cliche ever. Reasons for including this version will typically be along the lines of "Because Space Is An Ocean, it has to have Pirates" rather than making any meaningful attempt at justifying their existence. They have Cornish accents, beards, say "Arr!" a lot, have parrots (probably robot) and false limbs (probably cybernetic) and wear tricorn hats and eyepatches (or have cybernetic eyes). They may even have ships shaped like boats, and instead of making their victims walk the plank, they set them adrift in escape pods or just throw them out the airlock.
Compare Sky Pirates. See also: Pirate and Pirate Girl.
Examples:
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Advertising
- The adverts for Nestle's "Honey Stars" often feature these.
Anime and Manga
- Outlaw Star is full of the first type. As a rather interesting variation, they are Chinese and use Tao-magic. They seem to be modelled after the Triads.
- Captain Harlock is the second version. His ship is a Military Mashup Machine with a submarine prow, a battleship body and a galleon rear.
- The Leijiverse also has Emeraldas, who sails the Sea of Stars in a frigate attached to a dirigible.
- Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo is the first type.
- Spinoff Tenchi Muyo GXP is filled with the second variety.
- Cleo and his crew in Glass Fleet are more or less space pirates.
- The Gundam SEED spinoff series Gundam SEED Astray reveals a surprising number of pirates operating at the fringes of the SEED universe.
- And then there's Crossbone Vanguard in Mobile Suit Gundam Crossbone who operate under the guise of pirates (employing all the standard pirate tropes, including spaceships that look like sailing ships and a robot parrot, apparently for no other reason than that they can) but actually preventing the Earth from being attacked by the Jupiter Empire.
- Oban Star-Racers has Lord Furter, a comical example most notable for his incompetence and non-threatening appearance, even though both he and his crew seem to think he's the most bad-ass thing ever. He's also self-aware. "I'm boarding your ship! That's what pirates do, we board ships!"
- Sol Bianca, also the name of the ship that serves as both the home and the interstellar headquarters for an all-female band of notorious space pirates.
- The main characters of the anime, Vandread are female examples of this trope.
- Space Pirate Mito.
- One Piece - a few appear during Enel's coverstory.
Comic Books
- The Starjammers of the X-Men comics; not particularly prone to pirate cliches, but their leader is nicknamed Corsair.
- Who wore a headband, thigh boots, and a handlebar mustache, and fought with a blaster pistol in one hand and a cutlass in the other. Nope, no pirate clichés there.
- Indeed the Starjammers were a huge mashup of pulp space opera and swashbuckling tropes...remember that Corsair used to bang a furry alien (Mam'selle Hepzibah, in a nod to Walt Kelly's Pogo)? Cyclops and Havok should have had a hard time getting used to all that Yiff!
- The Silver Surfer encountered a group of space pirates while tracking down one of the Elders. Him and Nova even get dressed up as pirates to blend in among the various species that make up the group in an attempt to infiltrate it.
- During his first abortive return to the main X-titles in 2000, Chris Claremont introduced a vast number of new characters. They were given the umbrella term "the Neo", and most of them were possessed of an extremely fragile glass jaw (since they tended just to turn up, say their names and give a description of their powers in typical Claremontian fashion, and then get punched into oblivion, never to be seen again). Amongst the Neo was a faction of slave traders called the Crimson Pirates, one member of which actually had a giant comedy cannon on his shoulder. No, really.
Film
- Disney's Treasure Planet, being Treasure Island Recycled In SPACE and all.
- The Ice Pirates was a So Bad Its Good '80s sci fi adventure film where the protagonists were...you guessed it...interstellar pirates looking for water.
- Space Mutiny had pirates (recycled footage of Cylon warships) with at least one inhabitable system as claimed territory. Keep in mind this is a setting where space travel is less than light speed, necessitating multi-generational ships. Except when they forget and it isn't (it's that kind of movie, watch the MST 3 K version and be amazed. The Agony Booth did a recap
 that tried and failed to make sense of the tech level).
- Star Wars had Han Solo (a smuggler by trade), and references to "Corellian Pirate Ships".
- In The American Astronaut the Blueberry Pirate steals and bootlegs fruit across the solar system.
Literature
- The impossibility of space piracy and the trick Julian Forward uses to make it work is central to the plot of Larry Niven's The Borderland of Sol.
- In Poul Anderson and Gordon R Dickson's Hoka stories, when the Hokas set out to emulate a Space Patrol, Alex has horrified visions of their being tried for piracy. He's not even sure that hanging isn't still in effect as the approved form of punishment.
- In Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant series, pirates of the second kind show up as a form of Refuge In Audacity, since the authorities won't believe (or don't want to admit to) ancient-looking pirates operating in space.
- Lucky Starr confronts space pirates in the juvenile novel Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov.
- Consider Phlebas (the first Culture novel by Ian M. Banks). The crew of the Clear Air Turbulence are ostensibly Private Military Contractors, but are actually just a Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits raiding whatever they think will be vulnerable. Seeing as they're carrying out their activities amidst the chaos of an intergalactic war, that tends not to be very much.
- Averted in Terry Bisson's Pirates of the Universe, despite the title, which actually refers to a theme park ride. Although the main character's coworkers might be considered Space Poachers.
- The setting of The Rock Rats by Ben Bova involves space pirates, space cowboys, space corporations, and space privateers/space pirates for a cause. They're all violent, though in different ways.
- In Lois Mc Master Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, Miles' Dendarii Mercenary Fleet gets hired to rescue hostages from highjackers. Also, in the later books, the Barrayaran Fleet is put to use as bodyguards for Komarran merchants. This is a win-win for both parts, since the Komarrans get protected by an army with a reputation for ruthlesness and the Barrayarans get to give good military training to their soldiers, without needing to declare war on anybody.
- In CJ Cherryh's Alliance Union works, the Mazianni started as the Earth Company's navy. When the Company decided that the war against Union wasn't cost-effective, Conrad Mazian and his captains felt that they'd shed too much blood to just be called back, and that they'd continue the fight on their own - and if a merchanter ship had resources they needed for that aim, they'd hand it over if they knew what was good for them.
- In the juvenile sci-fi novel Islands in the Sky by Arthur C Clarke, the apprentices on the space station think they've uncovered a gang of space pirates, but it turns out to be the first movie made in space (which is being filmed in secret).
- In the Honorverse, space piracy is the major Raison d'être for military power in times of peace, and plays heavily in the various works of fiction. It typically serves as a place for new characters to "start off small" in deadly, but relatively low-stakes, combat (prior to the war with Haven, anti-piracy operations in Silesia were the primary source of combat training for RMN personnel). They also tend to come up as disposable pawns in Mesa's latest Xanatos Gambit. Space pirates are never portrayed the least bit sympathetically.
- Some privateers (which, historically, were separated from pirates by rather thin margins), however, get better treatment. Like Admiral (Royal Naval Reserve) Thomas Bachfisch, one of Honor's mentors. After he was beached by first Janacek admiralty, he retired from active duty, and managed to obtain the Letter of Marque, starting, effectively, a privateer shipping line. Equipped with fast, armed, merchantmen (actually, surplus Navy transports) it operated in Silesia, where their improved speed and protection allowed him to charge a premium and engage in a little pirate hunt of his own. Not mentioning his side work as a Manticoran intelligence resident (Admiral Givens of the RMN intelligence service being the source of the pressure to give him a Letter of Marque) in Silesia.
- Piracy is also a career of choice for military units from non-existent governments. After the Saint-Just dictatorship is defeated State Security forces go into piracy and merch work. Some get hired by Mesa, while at least one set of battleships finds a small planet to set up a local lords.
- In fact the first armed ships in the Honorverse were pirates with space navies being created to counter them.
- In Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon the mega-corporations on Earth which funded the establishment of interstellar colonies are beginning to decline, so they now make a profit by 'asset realization' — turning up in orbit and implying they'll blast the colony if the colonists don't hand over various manufactured goods, leaving information on the latest Earth technologies as compensation, then returning several years later to do the same thing again once the colonists have upgraded their technology and gotten back on their feet.
- In his Nights Dawn trilogy, pirates prey on asteroid settlements, poorly-defended early-stage colonies and commercial shipping routes. The primary reason for the Navy to exist is to combat these pirates. It's a good example of this trope played relatively straight in a space-opera that balances its "hard" science fiction elements (much of the science behind the advanced technology is explained, the human societies are detailed to an absurd level) with soft (the fantastical horror of "the beyond"). Hamilton loves doing this.
- He also shows how pirates would work in practice — they're intersteller traders who covertly supplement their income with smuggling and piracy, rather than permanent raiders operating from a secret base.
- The Fat Men in Daniel Pinkwater's Fat Men from Space act as a variation on type 1, closer to a Horde Of Alien Locusts in that they invade a planet, steal the junk food, then force the inhabitants to prepare more of it until the raw materials thereof are at dangerously low levels before they leave. They return in Slaves of Spiegel, where they abduct the greatest junk food chefs of the galaxy to compete in a Cooking Duel.
- Pirates are major villains in the Warchild Series. One of them, Falcone, could even be considered the Big Bad...as much as anyone in such an ambiguous universe. Lowachee never goes into detail about how the pirates find their victims. Most of the ships they prey off of, however, are running through the notoriously hard-to-police DMZ.
- The pirates' modus operandi deserves special mention here, too. Falcone, their de facto leader, was an ex Space Marine. He left because he thought the government of EarthHub was a little too civil, and saw a lot of opportunities to make his own empire out in deep space. He also believed absolute loyalty could be achieved by raising his "protégés" from early childhood. Of course, no one told him that ritualistic child abuse would maybe, possibly undermine what he was trying to do. In the end, he dies at the hands of one of his ex protégés, and before this moment, spent much of his life on the run from a different protégé. The man made his own enemies.
- The Star Wars Expanded Universe has more than a few, most of them overlapping with information brokers and smugglers. Some Space Pirates are slavers. Since most interstellar travel in Star Wars has charted routes and it's considered dangerous to split away from them, and Space Pirates actually tend to strike planets and ships going to and from planets, it's basically justified. A merchant who had found a way to avoid the pirates lying in wait around a planet unfortunately bragged about this.
- The Wraiths, aware that the Big Bad was hiring pirates to harass his enemies, succeeded at The Infiltration by posing as a pirate band called the Hawk-Bats which focused on a system in Imperial territory, doing things like breaking into a hangar to steal TIE fighters, preying on merchants, and, once, robbing a bank.
- Averted in Eric Frank Russell's "And Then There Were None": interstellar travel is so prohibitively expensive that a would-be pirate has to become a millionaire first.
- H. Beam Piper took this trope one step further in his book Space Viking. That's right. Vikings, In Space!
- Though we never see any up close, Space Pirates are the background in the classic "Heinlein juvenile" Citizen of the Galaxy. The protagonist destroys a ship full of them, and later learns that he was originally sold into slavery by pirates who killed his fabulously wealthy parents. He decides to devote his life to fighting the pirate-slaver complex, then has to decide if he will do it in the military or by using his family's money and influence.
- The Pirates Of Zan by Murray Leinster. The protagonist is from a planet whose sole occupation is space piracy. He tries moving to another world and going legit, but when things go badly wrong he has to resort to the traditional methods of his kin. Serialised for Astounding in 1959 as "The Pirates of Ersatz" with its famous zeerust cover of a space pirate climbing aboard a rocket with a slide rule clasped between his teeth.
- In Andrey Livadny's The History of the Galaxy series, most Space Pirates come from the desert world of Ganio. Oh yeah, and they're all Arabs In Space.
Live Action TV
- The Whoniverse provides many examples:
- The Captain of "The Pirate Planet" in the Doctor Who serial of the same name. Cybernetic eye and robot parrot (the Polyphase Aviatron).
- The genetically-engineered badger pirates in the Doctor Who novel "The Pirate Loop", who wear gold earings and space-suits with a skull-and-crossbones.
- Captain Kaliko and her oil-rig raiders in the Doctor Who (yes, again) animation "The Infinity Quest". Baltazar in the same story fits the trope to some extent, if only because he has a robot parrot.
- Captain Wrack of the Eternals in the Doctor Who serial "Enlightement".
- The Doctor Who audio novel The Resurrection Casket features robotic space pirates, and some extremely reminiscent, not to say recycled, names and/or characters. (Let's just say it involves a young lad named "Jimm" and "Captain Glint's treasure" and leave it there...)
- The first kind of space pirates appear in the Doctor Who serial "The Space Pirates".
- Blurring the line between both types (and the line between Space Pirates and Sky Pirates is the Expanded Universe novel Sky Pirates!
- The animated serial "Infinite Quest" has a space marauder named Balthazar with a bionic parrot as his companion.
- The TV show Lost In Space had two episodes with space pirates: "The Sky Pirate" and "Treasures of the Lost Planet".
- There is actually a children's TV show on The BBC called Space Pirates, although the pirates in question are actually an unlicenced radio station. This doesn't stop them having a captain with a skull-and-crossbones hat and a robot parrot.
- The Reavers from Firefly, whose typical method of raiding involves raping victims to death, eating their flesh, and sewing their skins to their clothing. The luckier ones get it in that order. Really, they are Space Vikings if all of the awful rumors about Medieval vikings had been true.
- As well, the crew of Serenity herself are referred to as pirates on occasion.
- There are regular pirates as well, though they generally just let you come to them (with some prodding from/of an accomplice.
- The raiders of Babylon 5 are of the first kind.
- The Nausicaans from Star Trek.
- Don't forget the Next Generation episode Gambit, where Picard and Riker go undercover to infiltrate a pirate/mercenary crew. Supposedly this episode wouldn't have been made while Gene Roddenberry was still alive as he had always vetoed the "space pirates" idea.
- The Maquis in DS 9 commit piracy in the course of their terrorist activities; though they mostly keep to smuggling and gunrunning they have hijacked ships more than once.
- Popular preschool kids show "Space Pirates". They run a pirate radio station from a space-travelling galleon. The captain and crew also wear pirate costumes.
Tabletop Games
- Some of the Eldar of Warhammer40000 are forced to play pirate to even survive, raiding shipping for supplies and to eliminate threats to their Craftworlds.
- And then there's the Dark Eldar, who raid ships and settlements primarily so they can eat your souls in order to keep the soul-thirsty god that ate the majority of their species ten thousand years ago from feasting on them. They also enjoy a good round of rape and mind-shatteringly painful torture as well.
- Not to mention Ork freebooters, which are type 2 pirates, at least as best can be found in the grim dark universe of warhammer 40k (type 1 by any other standard), the most famous of which is Kaptian Badruk.
- Ork pirates even wear hats with traditional pirate logos, with bandannas for the lower ranks.
- The Pirates of Gith in the Spelljammer setting for Dungeons And Dragons are an entire race of Space Pirates, a third offshoot of the Githyanki/Githzerai. Additionally, the game also has plain ol' human Space Pirates who act pretty much identically to regular stereotypical pirates.
- Furthermore, the entire point of the setting is flying around in wooden sailing ships in space, and in the introduction to the setting the author mentions that they designed the setting's rules with the thought of a pirate standing on the deck of his ship—in space—as a guiding image.
- Rogue Trader (a warhammer 40.000 roleplay) has them as some of the most common enemies in space combat (with alien space pirates as the other space enemies available) and allows you to play one if you wish.
- Piracy is alive and well in the BattleTech universe due to the relative ease of capturing most recharging JumpShips, though actual independent pirate and bandit groups are seen more in the Periphery beyond the reach of either the Clans or the Great Houses. They don't so much attack civilian shipping as they raid poorly defended worlds directly, though.
- Mutants And Masterminds has Captain Kraken, a space pirate who crashes on Earth. Thanks to his translation matrix latching onto Earth pirate culture, he speaks and dresses like a stereotypical pirate.
Video Games
- In a variation on this trope, Metroid's Space Pirates are a large, organized army rather than small bands of individuals out for plunder. Their motives are always portrayed as sinister, but it's always implied that they have some larger goal at work, even if it's unclear what it is.
- In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Space Pirates are seen literally using boarding craft to crash into and raid a fleet of capital ships. Maybe Retro decided the Space Pirates should actually live up to their name for once.
- The entire series started with the Pirates raiding a Federation ship that had metroids on it. Before that, Samus's parents were killed in a raid to steal afloraltite. They've always been true to the name.
- It's kinda weird tho that Space Pirate seems to be the only way to call an entire race of space aliens. It's like the federation thinks "They're nothing but dirty pirates, their race doesn't deserve a proper name!"
- It may be what they call themselves. The Space Pirates' hat seems to be "never invent, only steal." As a culture they are aggressive looters and conquerors, but quite unimaginative. "Space Pirates" describes them quite well, so they may not see the need for a different moniker.
- The Japanese version of Metroid Prime 3 finally gave them the proper name of "Urtragians".
- They actually do a lot of reverse-engineering. Look at all the things they did with Phazon! Granted, they tend to not have too many truly original innovations.
- The PS2 game Rogue Galaxy.
- Space piracy is a viable if risky career choice for EvE Online players.
- Or that's what the creators want you to believe. In reality, most "pirates" describe piracy as rather unprofitable as the occasional loss of an expensively fitted ship is not made up by the equipment dropped by the low-level players that actually fall for pirates. These "pirates" go on to explain that they do it for the lulz and not for the money. The fun of blowing up any random passerbys. The closest thing to Moneymaking via violence in EVE may be the Psycho For Hire "mercenary corporations" who demand money up front. This sort of behaviour is the expected default in EvE Online.
- Hilariously enough, players seem to have no problem roleplaying themselves as either of the two varieties.
- The Space Pirates in Four X Real Time Strategy game Sins Of A Solar Empire will periodically send out attacks against the players. They'll attack whichever player has the currently highest bounty on their head.
- They can, however, be disabled.
- Freelancer has tonnes.
- In the 'Seasons' expansion pack for The Sims 2, space pirates are the highest position on the 'Adventurer' career track. And yes, they wear pirate hats.
- Spore. Alert: Hostile UFOs are attacking planet Nortaxesir! Alert: Pirates are stealing your spice on planet Nortaxesir!
- And on planet Oremastiz!
- Planet Quaralax too!
- And guess what? Your allies with a much vaster empire than you need your help killing a half-dozen animals that are carrying a deadly disease!
- Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood includes a sidequest involving Space Pirates complete with traditional piratey speech, which leads to an epic Lampshade Hanging:
Pirate: Harr! Give up yer booty, yer cargo is ours now!
Rouge: Why is he talking like that?
Sonic: Who knows? Just go with it.
Pirate: Hand it over, lubbers! Or ye'll be forced to walk the plank!
Rouge: Seriously. Why would a pirate from another dimension talk like that?
Pirate: Arr, this be just how I talk! Now-
Rouge: This is stupid.
Pirate: Aye. A speech impediment it be. We gonna fight, or not?
- Ratchet And Clank: Tools of Destruction has robot space pirates of the second type.
- And Quest For Booty has ghost robot space pirates!
- Zombie ninja pandas are briefly referred to in Tools of Destruction, presumably to complete the Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot requirement.
- Escape Velocity and its sequels has a lot of pirates. EV has straight up pirates, EVO has the Renegades and Strandless, Nova has pirates and Houseless.
- It's also notable that you can be a pirate in any of the EV games. EVN even made it one of the possible primary mission strings.
- You could also attack, disable, board, steal from, and even hijack (basically everything the pirates themselves do) the pirate's own ships without getting a bad rep for it. They had some serious cash, too...
- Showed up just once in the Freespace series. However, every user-made campaign now has hordes of utterly suicidal space pirates who will just keep coming despite the fact that you've already killed the dozens which came before, and the cargo you're protecting probably wouldn't tally up to the cost of replacing their really expensive destroyed fighters. Also, those space fighters they were flying? Better quality than a full-fledged rebellion could afford to procure.
- Obligatory Homeworld example: The Turanic Raiders. Nuff said.
- Also, while they are the only pirate race, both the Kushani and Taiidani sides use pirate-like ways, namely, hijacking. In the first series, the peaceful-sounding "Salvage Corvette" is often used for hijacking ships by making them incapable of resisting, towing them back to base, and let the landing party do the job. Thanks to the brokenness of this system, in Homeworld 2, the salvage corvettes are replaced by Marine Frigates (Hiigaran race), and the Infiltrator Frigate (Vaygr side). This time, they either latch onto said hapless ship (Hiigaran's preferred method), or launch boarding pods (Vaygr's way of saying Bad Ass), in the middle of battle. Both frigates are lightly armored and lightly armed, but very invaluable in the heat of battle. Their tendency to get targeted first could also be useful as bait, as a couple of these frigates will send any AI player to engage them even if that means turning their backs to the Wave Motion Cannon wielding enemies nearby.
- Pirates of the first type served as mooks in the Wing Commander games Privateer and Privateer 2: The Darkening. The former even has a mission series operating from a pirate base, as a drug smuggler.
- You'll be fighting some variation of this trope whenever you aren't following the plot in Mass Effect.
- The Palm OS game Space Trader has these in droves. The player can even become one, if they want, but it comes with some side effects (like losing 10% of your profits when you can no longer sell your goods in person).
- Turn up as a random event in the classic economic-simulation MULE; they swoop in and steal minerals from all four players.
Webcomics
- The 'Pirates of the Oceans Unmoving' arc of Sluggy Freelance.
- that wasn't space; it was an entire PARALLEL UNIVERSE!!! (one with very odd properties for the flow of time itself).
- The webcomic Starslip Crisis parodies the second form of this trope with Infra-Redbeard and his crew. They fly around in an open-decked ship with solar sails, fight with Atom Cutlasses, and otherwise fill every pirate cliche while just happening to be in space.
- Cutter Edgewise himself was a former Pirate Science officer
- The story arc started in November in Zap! involves pirates that appear to be a mix of this and Sky Pirate kidnapping two main characters.
- The Webcomic I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space features a girl who was... well, just that.
- Come to think of it, so does Vandread, although it was three guys in this case.
- The webcomic The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob has the Pirates of Ipecac, who resemble giant lobsters.
- The webcomic ''Zeera The Space Pirate'' is Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
- Except for the fact she never quite gets around to committing any acts of piracy.
- Space pirates appeared in one Schlock Mercenary storyline. The comic even hung a lampshade on the economic and physical problems inherent in this type of venture. Of course, they turned out not to be pirates, but guerillas fighting the current government.
- Vaegyr Ward hates being called a pirate. As he points out, he has letters of marque, so he's a privateer. Also, pirates tend to be meaner than him.
- In Absurd Notions, in a roleplaying game being played by the characters, space pirates turn up whose mannerisms correspond to exaggerated mannerisms of software "pirates". Namely, a ship preparing to attack opens communication with "j0, SUXX0RZ!! xDR3Dx3DDx 0WNZ U!!! 5UR3ND0R N0W!! 4LL j00R W4R3Z R B3L0N9 2 US L0L!!1!!!". Lampshaded by Asimov, Isaac's character, who responds with "I think I miss the days when pirates said 'Arrr'."
Western Animation
- Long John Silver the 23rd in the Duck Dodgers episode "Shiver Me Dodgers".
- An unnamed space pirate (with three peg legs out of four, parrots on three of his four shoulders, and eyepatches on two of his three eyes) menaced the Planet Express Ship on Futurama with galleon-style spaceships and cannons, vowing to send them to "Davy Jarg's locker" if they don't electronically transfer their space-doubloons, and realizing too late that his children are his only real treasures.
- Sonny Blackbones and the pirates in Galactik Football. They're really more heroic space outlaws but they do have at least one member who likes to say 'Arr!' No parrot, though they do have a football team.
- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors had an all-female crew of the second type in one episode, but they decided to go good at the end.
- The Pirate Clans of Exosquad
- Kanjar Ro and his crew from Batman The Brave And The Bold.
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