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20->'''Scott Pilgrim:''' Are you a pirate?\
21'''Matthew Patel:''' Pirates are ''in'' this year!
22-->-- ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''
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24Swashbuckling, rum-swilling, DressedToPlunder {{pirate}}s in modern times. This trope covers works the presence of pirates clearly based on UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, whether the real deal or the Hollywood versions, in works clearly set in the modern era or, at least, any point after the heyday of Caribbean piracy ended.
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26Exactly why these characters are dressed and acting like they are varies from case to case. Some will be consciously trying to reenact "classical" piracy for one reason or another, and deliberately take up the dress, gimmicks, and mannerisms of pop culture piracy. Other cases will simply have peg-legged, eyepatch-wearing, doubloon-seeking Blackbeard stand-ins roam the seas of the 20th century without comment or explanation.
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28Compare and contrast SkyPirates. SpacePirates is when they are a ''few'' more centuries late; many cases of this trope are just as inexplicably tied to the visual icons of Caribbean pirates as these ones are. 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, or maybe a FriendlyPirate.
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30Compare to BornInTheWrongCentury for when they feel like they belong in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy.
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37[[folder:Animation]]
38* One of the villains of ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' is a frog pirate named Wangury who is assisted by henchmen named Mungury and Taegury. The show's setting, Toobalooba, is clearly past its piracy days.
39* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'': Episode 42 has Weslie, Paddi, and Sparky meet a trio of pirates and join them on their ship. The show is supposed to take place in the year 3513, so it's more like ''2,000 years'' too late.
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42[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
43* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': In ''Shaitan Baidi,'' one of the people the ''Lagoon'' is transporting is a woman who is, or believes herself to be, a direct descendant of the infamous Captain Morgan...and dresses the part.
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46[[folder:Comic Books]]
47* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
48** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
49*** The 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 he's threatened with a slit throat).
50*** In one [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] story, Batman fights a one-shot villain called Blackbeard, who styles himself after the historical Blackbeard.
51** ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005'': The Subway Pirates fought by the Manhattan Guardian. In the subways of Manhattan, homeless citizens have banded together creating "pirate gangs", most notably the rival factions belonging to [[CaptainColorbeard No-Beard and All-Beard]]. They adopt the trappings of classic pirates and ride pirate trains through the subway system: sometimes attacking subway stations to capture slaves.
52** ''ComicBook/TheTrialOfSuperman'' has a character named Freelance, a bounty hunter who travels space in an 18th century-style pirate ship, complete with holographic figurehead changeable to whatever female he happens to be attracted to. He enjoys letting enemies onto his ship simply to throw them off, fighting with a sword, and sports an eyepatch.
53** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Wonder Woman once faces a husband-and-wife team who lead a group of (mostly women) [[SkyPirates air pirates]] who operate out of a small fleet of aircraft. While most of the group is well adapted to "modern" (1940s) times, the husband styles himself after an old-timey pirate and goes by [[CaptainColorbeard Captain Redbeard]]. Amusingly their fight attracts the attention of a {{Clock Roach|es}} that then puts the pirates, Diana, Steve, Etta, and the Holliday Girls back in the more appropriate time period for a swashbuckling confrontation on the high seas.
54* ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}'' foe Singapore Sal mixes this trope with RuthlessModernPirates in a deadly combination. She [[DressedToPlunder dresses]] and [[TalkLikeApirate talks]] like a refugee from the Golden Age of Piracy, but has no qualms about using modern ships and weaponry to conduct her piracy.
55* ''ComicBook/TheLosers'': Captain Storm in the original UsefulNotes/WorldWarII version becomes one of these after losing his memory (and an eye) to an explosion. He already had a wooden leg, it was a reasonable assumption.
56* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': Commander Kraken, a foe of Namor's. His arsenal includes an electrified HookHand, a rocket-powered SeaDogPegLeg, and an electrified cutlass. His vehicle of choice was a Brigantine called "The Albatross". This old-style pirate ship could transform into a sleek golden high-powered submarine.
57* ''ComicBook/TheUltraverse'': ''ComicBook/TheStrangers'' has Scar and his crew. After gaining superpowers, they moved to the Caribbean and become pirates, basing their costumed identities on classic pirates.
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60[[folder:Comic Strips]]
61* ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': In "The Vikings", Modesty battles a crew of RuthlessModernPirates who dress and act like HornyVikings, because the authorities find it hard to take reports of Viking attacks seriously.
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64[[folder:Fan Works]]
65* In ''Fanfic/ANewWorldOnHerShoulders'', there's White Fang member Captain Tick, whose personality and appearance is that of the swashbuckling scurvy dogs of the past, complete with a fake hook hand. This is much to the annoyance of his crew, who better fit as RuthlessModernPirates in appearance and armaments.
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68[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
69* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': A very important plot point, where the root of Queen Victoria's hatred of pirates is because they are an anachronism.
70%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie'': ''We are ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything...''
71* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' has pirates going to see the movie as a FramingDevice.
72* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'': [[CaptainColorbeard Burger-Beard]] clearly doesn't belong in the movie's modern United States coastal town setting. In fact, his pirate ship has wheels on it and doubles as a food truck.
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75[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
76* ''Film/BlackbeardsGhost'' is about a modern-day man having to deal with the eponymous ghost as he unwittingly read an incantation to see him.
77* ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'': Steve the Pirate, as played by Creator/AlanTudyk. It's never explained why he dresses and acts like a pirate, but the Average Joe's crew doesn't mind him. Late in the movie, after taking too much from people making fun of him, he disappears...and reappears after the climactic dodgeball game, now clean-shaven and wearing modern clothing. But when he sees the giant chest of riches Peter won betting on the Average Joe's to win, he reverts to his pirate voice.
78* ''Film/{{The Island|1980}}'' centers on a long-isolated band of Caribbean pirates who prey on 20th Century boaters.
79* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'': The Crimson Permanent Assurance. The elderly British employees of the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid London firm which has recently been taken over by the Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their much younger corporate masters when one of them is sacked. Having locked the surviving supervisors in the safe, and forced their boss to [[WalkThePlank walk a makeshift plank out a window]], they commandeer their Edwardian office building, which suddenly weighs anchor, uses its scaffolding and tarpaulins as sails, and is turned into a pirate ship. The stone office building starts to move as if it were a ship. Sailing through the City of London, they then proceed to attack The Very Big Corporation of America's (VBCA) skyscraper, using, among other things, wooden filing cabinets which have been transformed into cannonades and swords fashioned from the blades of a ceiling fan. On ropes, they swing into the board room and engage the executives of VBCA in hand-to-hand combat, vanquishing them.
80%%* ''Film/ThePhantom1996'': The Sengh Brotherhood.
81%%* ''Film/PiratesOfTheGreatSaltLake'' is about two wanna-be pirates in modern Utah.%%How do they fit this trope?
82* ''Film/PiratesOfThePlain'': Pirate Jezebel Jack and his mutinous crew end up in modern-day Nebraska via a time vortex.
83* 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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86[[folder:Literature]]
87%%* ''Literature/TheCompanyNovels'': Alec Checkerfield.
88* ''Literature/TheFlightEngineer'': {{Invoked|Trope}} by some (not all) space pirates. Putting on the affectations of movie pirates makes them feel like holo heroes instead of the thieves and murderers they actually are.
89* ''Literature/TheIsland'' centers on a long-isolated band of Caribbean pirates who prey on 20th Century boaters.
90* ''Literature/MrsPiggleWiggle'' 's deceased husband was a pirate when he was alive, and the story takes place in TheFifties.
91%%* ''The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage'' by Creator/MargaretMahy.
92* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': This is the hat of the Tof race, who embrace the wooden-ships-and-iron-men aesthetic despite living in a SpaceOpera universe.
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95[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
96* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'': Despite being set around the turn of the 20th century, Blackbeard [=LeCutte=] and his crew are classic 17th-century pirates who were driven off the high seas and took to roaming the Nevada plains in an armored carriage flying the JollyRoger and plundering loot from any wagon unlucky enough to cross their path.
97* ''Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAbzVx4eOdw parodied]] this in a sketch that 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.
98%%* ''Series/TheFlipWilsonShow'': The Pink Pirate, a recurring skit character played by Tim Conway.
99* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' is the 35th season of Super Sentai and focuses on pirates from other planets who formed a team and came to present day Japan to look for the greatest treasure in the universe.
100* ''Series/OddSquad'': Pirates are a common oddity in the world of the show, and most are amiable when it comes to interacting with agents.
101** In "The Curious Case of Pirate-itis", Olive contracts the titular disease when she helps a pirate cross a busy street and begins to slowly turn into a PirateGirl. By the climax of the episode, she's nearly full pirate, with the manner of speaking, the outfit, and the behavior to match.
102** In "Ocean and the Fly", while looking for a cure to turn Oona back into a human from her fly form, Ocean and Oona visit a pirate in a cave, who has a treasure chest full of gold and pearls, and also wants to start a butter company. He asks Ocean and Oona to help him pick a label for his new butter, and once they pick one, he allows them to take a pearl from his treasure chest. Later on in the episode, he is shown at the grocery store attempting to sell his new butter to customers but failing, and once he sets his eyes on Ocean and Oona, he becomes enraged and takes off after them.
103* ''Series/SorryIveGotNoHead'': "The Bluebeards" sketches are about a modern-day pirate family whose son Jim Bluebeard struggles with his life at a {{Privateer}} school.
104* ''Series/TheWrongDoor'' had the "The Train Pirates", disenfranchised modern people who swapped their suits and briefcases for 17th-century dress and cutlasses but took to the rails rather than the seas and rode aboard "The Whore of [[UsefulNotes/OneLondonThirtyThreeBoroughs Clapham]]" led by Captain Goitier played by Creator/BrianBlessed.
105* ''Series/YoureSkittingMe'': In one of the "Tatiana the Sailor" sketches, Tats's friend Em was supposed to be disguised as [[RuthlessModernPirates a Somali pirate]]. However, having no idea what a Somali pirate actually was, she instead appears as one of these.
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108[[folder:Music]]
109* Music/{{Alestorm}} embraces this trope. While their songs are about "rum, beer, quests, and mead", most of their music videos set the band in modern times as a FunPersonified, hard-drinking crew, with each of them as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
110* "Rhymin & Stealin" by Music/BeastieBoys is a BoastfulRap combining [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy classic piratical references]] with modern ones.
111-->Snatching gold chains, nicking pieces of eight
112-->I got your money and your honey and the fly nameplate
113* Music/CaptainDanAndTheScurvyCrew, the "only rap crew with Buccaneer technique".
114%%* Music/EmilieAutumn: Captain Maggots, one of the backing band the Bloody Crumpets.
115* Music/JimmyBuffett: The trope name is paraphrased from "A Pirate Looks at 40"; though the line in the song is "two hundred years too late". The song contains the bittersweet confession of a modern-day, washed-up drug smuggler as he looks back on the first forty years of his life, expresses lament that his preferred vocation of piracy on the high seas was long gone by the time he was born, and [[NowWhat wonders what he should do with himself now]].
116* [[https://youtu.be/IehQRVylI0U The Last Saskatchewan Pirate]] by Music/TheArrogantWorms tells the story of a farmer who, having lost his land as a result of the general decline of the economy, decides to become a pirate of the Saskatchewan River, targeting other farmers for their equipment and produce. He sinks barges of his victims and jumps farmers on bridges, and evades local law enforcement by virtue of the fact that the mounties don't have boats.
117-->''"A swingin' sword, a skull and bones and pleasant company\
118I never pay my income tax and screw the GST (Screw it!)\
119Sailin' down to Saskatoon, the terror of the seas\
120If you wanna reach the co-op, boy, you gotta get by me"''
121** The music video of [[https://youtu.be/8G_L9tXEwmc the cover by Captain Tractor]] defies the lyrics of this song, in that he isn't actually sailing on the Saskatchewan. Rather, he drives his pick-up truck on top of the river while it's frozen over, and raids the trucks of other farmers as though they were Spanish treasure ships.
122* Jesse Rice is a relatively unknown country singer, whose most major album is called "The Pirate Sessions." This trope comes into play the strongest on the song, "300 Years Ago," a ballad in which the artist compares the life he lives with that of pirates three hundred years ago.
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125[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
126* Absolute Intense Wrestling's second championship {{tag team}}, Morty Rackem and Ruthless Rufio Rapier: The Cut Throat Crew. They were sometimes [[PowerTrio accompanied]] by Syd Smythe as well and Morty also serves in Pirate Justice, primarily for Prime Wrestling, and sometimes the two groups [[FourIsDeath got together]].
127* The Pro Wrestling Syndicate has The Drunken Swashbuckler and Salty The Deckhand.
128* In Wrestling/{{WWE}} Paul Burchill briefly became a "wrestling pirate" after [[{{Kayfabe}} discovering]] that he was a descendant of Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard.
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131[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
132* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
133** One "Pigs [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in Space]]" sketch has Creator/JohnCleese 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.
134** The episode guest starring Creator/GlendaJackson has her revealing herself to be one of these, much to Kermit's confusion. She and her motley crew then take over the show, convert the theater into a ship, and set sail to the Spanish Main on a quest for buried treasure.
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137[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
138* The ''Back East: The North'' sourcebook for ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' has the Vikings of Duluth; a group of Scandanavian descendants 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.
139* Captain Kraken of ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' TabletopGame/FreedomCity setting is a form of this. Essentially, he's an alien {{Space Pirate|s}} 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.
140* ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame''; the eighth set introduced the Viking Faction, a group of Scandinavian pirates and Viking fanboys who sail around in modernized longships. The set explicitly takes place after the American Civil War, so these Vikings are 700 or so years late.
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143[[folder:Theatre]]
144* ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' Maybe? Well, 300 years too late, but still.
145* These pirates appear in the ''Theatre/SeraMyu'' stage shows. Some of the productions even refer to them as SpacePirates.
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148[[folder:Video Games]]
149* ''VideoGame/AroundTheWorldIn80Days'': Downplayed as approximately 150-200 years too late, but the captain in USA believes he's a pirate which is why he's against letting Aouda on his ship, which causes him to be labeled as an eccentric and Fogg to see it as ridiculous. The last leg of the journey involves getting pirate items to satisfy his beliefs.
150* ''VideoGame/HiddenExpedition 5: The Uncharted Islands'' features a mostly-{{Affably Evil}} group of pirates led by a man nicknamed Undertow. Justified because the islands in question are under a force field which grants its denizens rather long lives, at the price of never being able to leave.
151* In ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'', the pirate ship, and the pirates, that sink the cargo ship Lester is on are straight out of the Age of Sail. Lester has to battle them as the last level in the game.
152* ''VideoGame/GarouMarkOfTheWolves'': Bonne Jenet and her crew are somewhere between this and RuthlessModernPirates. The crew dresses like stereotypical pirates, but their ship is a nuclear sub.
153* ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' occasionally crosses into this due to the PurelyAestheticEra.
154* ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' features a trip to Blood Bath Bay, a series of small islands inhabited by "throwbacks" who still live by old-fashioned pirate culture.
155* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': The resident pirate Cervantes de Leon is an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion, as the games are set during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, but his design cues harken to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, which only begins in the mid-1600s, thus his pirate style is about a century early.
156%%* ''VideoGame/UrbanRivals'': The Piranha clan.
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159[[folder:Web Animation]]
160* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Russell, whose catchphrase is "[[TalkLikeAPirate Yar]]".
161* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': Blitzo has had a fascination/obsession with pirates since his childhood. It's safe to assume that it's why his weapon of choice is a flintlock pistol.
162-->'''Young Fizzarolli''': You keep talking about pirates, I ''will'' punch you.
163* ''WebAnimation/LegoPirateMisadventures'': The main cast, made more prevalent in #3, when they attend an office party in a cube farm and go into a crappy dive bar.
164* The Weebl toon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBoO4GzHaI Somalia]] portrays Somalian pirates like this.
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167[[folder:Webcomics]]
168%%* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': The pirates, although this occasionally overlaps with SteamPunk SkyPirates.
169%%* ''Webcomic/{{Altermeta}}'': T-Square.
170* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': The pirates, who for the most part are the classic Hollywood swashbuckler sort, become this when they are [[AWizardDidIt arbitrarily]] transported to [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=2662&theme=10&dir=next5 1940]].
171* ''Webcomic/LilGotham'': [[CaptainColorbeard Captain Greenbeard]] (a sea-going counterpart of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]]) and his crew.
172* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': The [[http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/26/the-curse-of-plunderella/ Chesapeake Bay Pirates]], who faithfully embrace every pirate trope in the book despite the increasing difficulty of maintaining the traditional lifestyle in the modern day -- it's hard to be a successful marine robber when the Coast Guard has machine guns and lasers and you're still sailing a wooden sailing ship.
173* ''Webcomic/QForce'': Captain [[PunnyName Rigur DeMortis]]. His status as TheUndead partially justifies it as he's been around for 400 years, though in the words of his "loyal" undead crew, he hasn't aged well:
174-->'''Crewman #1:''' Ye couldn't best '''Cap'n Crunch'''!\
175'''Crewman #2:''' '''Software Pirates''' be scarier than ye!
176* 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.
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180* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': In "Chef Pee Pee's Father", Chef Pee Pee's father is a present-day pirate.
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183[[folder:Western Animation]]
184* ''WesternAnimation/AlmostNakedAnimals'': The lobster pirates who attempt to take over the cabana in "Narwhal's Birthday".
185* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the one-shot villain Sewer King is a complete kook even by Batman villain standards, and he proves it by wearing an old-fashioned pirate outfit for no explained reason (except instead of an eyepatch, he wears a pair of sunglasses with a missing lens.) Since he [[TheFagin kidnaps and enslaves wayward children]] and keeps ravenous crocodiles as pets, the pirate getup serves to make him look like a warped parody of [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Captain Hook]].
186%%* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': The Pi-Rats.
187* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' features the candy-swiping Captain Stickybeard and crew. Fortunately for them he also hates vegetables.
188* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Youngblood and his pirate crew 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.
189* ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'': One episode of the cartoon has a group of actors turn out to be real pirates.
190* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has an episode where [[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab]] and his crew of merry swashbucklers, all dressed like classical pirates, kidnap Dee Dee. They serve mostly [[FishOutOfWater to contrast]] Dexter's [[ScienceHero robots and missiles]] with old-fashioned guns and plunder.
191* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': PlayedForLaughs in "Long John Peter", when Peter goes from stealing a parrot as a pet from a veterinarian's office to dressing as a stereotypical pirate and hiring a pirate crew to 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.
192* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' had to deal with the likes of Long-John Scarechrome, a cross between this and a {{Space Pirate|s}}. ''Any'' ghostly pirates seen in the show.
193* 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 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]].
194%%* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': Gatlocke. And he lives in the middle of a desert.
195%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Captain Tighty-Whitey and his crew.
196* ''WesternAnimation/IGotARocket'' has Captain O'Cheese (referred to as "Pirate" in the credits) drives a pirate ship on the streets.
197* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': On episode has Gadget on a Caribbean cruise ship that is attacked by stereotypical, pegleg-having eyepatch-wearing pirates who sail a galleon. Though, as Penny discovers, the pirates do have some modern equipment, like a VideoPhone.
198%%* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': One episode features pirates.
199%%* ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr'': Captain Walker D. Plank fits the traditional stereotype to the extent that even his PirateParrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.%%Modern how?
200%%* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has a crew of them appearing in a Season 2 episode.
201* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'': The first episode has pirates dressed like what you would expect from the typical traditional pirate from a few centuries ago. Justified because they're posing as ghosts to keep people away from a shipwreck while they carry off the loot.
202%%* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Played with in an episode where Dr. Drakken gets possessed by a pirate ghost:
203%%-->'''Drakken:''' Aye. Set the mainsail, wench.\
204%%'''Shego:''' Okay, first of all, we don't have any sails. Second of all, [[NeverSayThatAgain call me "wench" again]], and we'll be planning a ''burial at sea''.\
205%%'''Drakken:''' ''(nervously)'' Yearr. Arrgh.
206* ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' has a trio of pirates who are the shipwrecked descendants of the pirates who shipwrecked the island's other inhabitants.
207* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'''s Season Four finale introduces a pirate villain named Sid Swashbuckle, who displays multiple stereotypes associated with pirates.
208* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', "Sailing the Seven Zzzs": After accidentally digging up a childhood trauma involving a play about pirates, Mr. Bighead starts to sleepwalk and acts out dreams of being a pirate, trying to reclaim his "treasure map" from Rocko.
209%%* ''WesternAnimation/RogerRamjet'': Red Dog the Pirate.
210* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'':
211** Mystery Inc confronts these, posing as ghosts no less, in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy''
212** Mystery Inc does the same thing in various episodes of the original series... and those pirates are also posing as ghosts.
213* ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'': The Pushy Pirate Posse.
214* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E7Fatbeard Fatbeard]]", after hearing about the recent increase in piracy in Somalia and thinking this to mean that the age of Caribbean-style pirates is coming back, Cartman decides to go and live there (along with Butters, Clyde, Kyle's little brother Ike, and one of the ginger kids, that latter of whom Cartman quickly kicks out for being ginger, since Cartman believes they have no souls). Kyle and Stan realize what an incredibly stupid idea this is, 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. He actually makes some progress for a little bit...until the United States military gets involved due to thinking the Somalis kidnapped the kids and subsequently [[CurbStompBattle wipes them all out with modern weaponry.]]
215* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The series often throws in pirates for no reason other than to go with its nautical theme. Most notable are the FlyingDutchman (who is a ghost) and Patchy (more of a cosplayer than anything else). (Fish) pirates sell Squidward the pie bomb in "Dying for Pie", and Mr. Krabs plays pirate in "Arrgh!". A later episode reveals that his grandfather was a pirate... and still is.
216* ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'': "You're Thor?" has Vikings a thousand years too late.
217* ''WesternAnimation/TeamHotWheels'': The Road Pirates in ''Team Hot Wheels: Build the Epic Race'' combine this trope with GreaserDelinquents. Special mention should go towards their boss [[CaptainColorbeard Captain Grease Beard]], who outright drives a pirate ship-themed car, complete with ''cannons'' on its engine!
218* ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'': One episode has the kids' teacher tell them that there are no such things as pirates in the modern day. The identity of the VillainOfTheWeek proves her wrong.
219* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'' has a robot version as a very minor recurring villain, complete with [[PirateParrot robo-parrot]] and [[TalkLikeAPirate speech pattern]].
220* ''Creator/VanBeurenStudios'': Even though most of the Cubby Bear cartoons are clearly set in the 1930s, there are old-fashioned swashbuckling pirates in "Bubbles and Troubles".
221* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': The pirates in "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS1E6GhostsOfTheSargasso Ghosts of the Sargasso]]". Much like the ''Jonny Quest'' example above, they try to use trickery to pose as ghosts in order to scare merchant vessels away from their ship. Unfortunately, this plan immediately goes to pot when Brock kills one of them. The pirates also learned the hard way that nobody sails galleons full of gold doubloons across the sea anymore, and the only booty they've been able to steal so far has been a shipment for Toys R' Us, medical supplies from a Red Cross boat, and a cargo can full of L'eggs Eggs.
222* ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'': The 1970 cartoon "All Hams on Deck" has Woody Woodpecker being kidnapped by Captain Blah, a pirate operating in the current year complete with a pirate ship and parrot.
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226* {{Invoked}} every year on [[http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Talk Like a Pirate Day.]]
227* "Great Lakes Pirate" Dan Seavey (1864-1945) is called this in all of his biographies.
228* Tampa, Florida has a festival called Gasparilla celebrating Jose Gaspar, and the people of Tampa tend to follow this trope around that time.
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