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Working Title: The Pirates Who Dont Do Anything: From YKTTW
- Not so! I believe the above troper may have forgotten the game opens with the gang jumping a Valuan ship and taking their stuff. You can also attack any random Valuan warship you see flying around. The difference between Blue Rogues and Black Pirates in that game lies in the Blue Rogues' refusal to attack civilian targets.
Tanto: Yes, yes, and how many real pirates restricted themselves in such a manner? Pirates who refuse to attack unarmed targets either a) get shot by said armed targets, or b) starve to death. And the Valuan ships on the overworld attack you, not the reverse. Vyse and Co. basically do not engage in piracy in any way, shape, or form after the opening sequence.
As for Skypeia... if it doesn't really count, then it doesn't really need to be in there, yes?
Nerdorama: just popping in to say what I did on the page: privateers. Privateers full of Fridge Logic about who's endorsing them, but privateers nonetheless.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. It is my understanding that the members of Team Rocket of Pokemon are usually trying to work at their stated profession when we see them. They're total failures, but they're doing something.
- Team Rocket have failed at stealing Pokemon so many times that Giovanni has forgotten who they are. How embarrassing. Then again, it's not like they refuse to do it; they just suck at it.
Daibhid C: I'm not sure the A-M nobles count. They're trained as Assassins (possibly, although Making Money suggests they can skip the Black Syllabus), but they don't clain to be Assassins in the hired-to-kill-people sense. Some of them probably don't even maintain Guild membership.
Big T: Glad someone fixed the entry. I thought the Veggie Tales song came first.
(later) Taking some natter out. I tried a less controversial version. Your Mileage May Vary.
- Right, because it's supposed to be a family friendly sitcom, and having Barney Fife bumblingly attempt to cover up the murder of some college kids who showed up to register black people to vote wouldn't be very funny. At least, not Crosses the Line Twice
- Minor nitpick: They were in the South, but not the Deep South. They were in Appalachia, in which, due to a much smaller black population, civil rights weren't nearly as contentious.
Tanto: As someone who's seen pretty much every episode of Andy Griffith (it's my dad's all-time favorite show), I don't think it counts. The show isn't about the police work, but there are still plenty of plots that have to do with Andy settling domestic disputes, transporting prisoners, and capturing con men. In fact, one of Barney's biggest character flaws is that he's too eager to start acting like a by-the-books cop, in any situation.
Big T: Y'know, you're right. I didn't even think about that. In fact, I can't think of that many episodes where there isn't any police work. But, just in case, I'll copy it here:
- Older Than They Think - The Andy Griffith Show was about police officers who are rarely ever seen doing any police work in the American South at the height of the Civil Rights Movement!
- But there aren't any black people in Mayberry!
Austin: I don't think the Straw Hats count. They don't engage in traditional piratry, but they kick a lot of ass, and do steal stuff on occasion.
There is a difference between never going to work or school and having a fantastic adventure interrupt the patterns of everyday life.
- The Super Mario Bros. are allegedly plumbers. However, the only thing they ever seem to do involving plumbing is their habit of traveling via pipe — which real plumbers are not noted to do either◊, but nevermind...
Actually, a large part of the plot of the first novels revolves around Buck's working for the one largest news sources in the world and then working closely for the Antichrist.
- Cameron "Buck" Williams, in the Left Behind novels, is constantly referred to as a great investigative reporter. He almost never files reports or writes anything, and when confronted with an international conspiracy that's already killed two people he knows, he... agrees to bury all the evidence if they'll spare his life. Granted, that was before he became one of the "good guys", but we still don't see him do much journalism afterward, and the bits of his articles we do see are rather underwhelming.
Natter:
- My friend and I had an argument over this exact subject - my view is that we only see choice missions of Samus which involve saving the galaxy, and are therefore pretty interesting (not that bounty hunting wouldn't be interesting). Who's to say she isn't a Bounty Hunter between games or something? I think it's clear that when the Federation needs bigger (and more skilled) guns, they give her a call, and that's what we see when we play the games.
- This troper recalls seeing somewhere that Samus became a bounty hunter for an excuse to fight the Space Pirates. It seems the definition has changed in the future - Rundas, Gohr and Gandrayda all seem to have the same kind of jobs as Samus. Although, admittedly, if Metroid 2: Return of Samus was given by the government and not a personal vendetta, it's probably about the closest to bounty hunting she's been.
- And really, she's too kind-hearted to be a very good bounty hunter. She keeps avenging the downtrodden of the galaxy for free. Prime 2 is a perfect example — her mission is just to find out what happened to the Federation marines, but she stays to save the Luminoth, risking her hide against the Space Pirates and a whole alien invasion force. (Sure, she wanted her items back, but what planet isn't full of Chozo statues?)
- "Pirate Logs" of the Metroid Prime series sugest that the Pirates think Samus exists only to antagonize them.
- To say nothing of the fact that the gold they stole was in the belly of a giant snake, so the Skypeian's probably didn't want it anyway.
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Cut this and put it here. The justification justifies.
- Tintin is allegedly a reporter, but only ever acts as one in the first Tintin books, Tintin In The Land Of The Soviets and Tintin in Congo.
- I think the Tintin graphic novels are supposed to represent Tintin's reports of his adventures.
Psyclone Moved:
- Robin from Shortpacked spends most of her working hours in a toy store. She's actually a U.S. Congresswoman (although she's not quite sure how she got elected).
