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| 14 | [[quoteright:350:[[ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bizarro_10_07_07_piratewb.jpg]]]] |
| 15 | [-[[caption-width-right:350: Image by [[http://bizarro.com Dan Piraro]]. Used with permission.]]-] |
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| 17 | ->''"With all those peg legs, hook hands and eye patches, it's like these movies are trying to tell us that pirates, more so than any other group of people in history, were remarkably good at misplacing body parts."'' |
| 18 | -->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19482_6-absurd-pirate-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html "6 Absurd Pirate Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)"]] |
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| 20 | In fiction, most {{Pirate}}s are easily identifiable by their StockCostumeTraits. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Expect to see some combination of the following: |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * A tricorner hat, bicorner hat (as seen in the page image), cavalier hat, or [[BadassesWearBandanas a bandana wrapped around their head]]. Occasionally decorated with a JollyRoger. |
| 25 | * ArtificialLimbs, like a HookHand or a SeadogPegLeg. |
| 26 | * [[EyepatchOfPower Eyepatches]]. |
| 27 | * A PirateParrot, [[ParrotPetPosition perched on a shoulder]]. (And it's surprisingly common for the parrot to sport its own miniature hat and/or eyepatch.) |
| 28 | * Wide belts with large square buckles, [[BadassBandolier bandoliers]] and [[ScarfofAsskicking sashes]]. |
| 29 | * Vests or naval jackets. |
| 30 | * Either a rough SeadogBeard or a layer of {{Permastubble}}. One or two per crew may sport an exquisite mustache. |
| 31 | * Gold hoop earrings and/or a [[VillainousGoldTooth gold tooth]]. |
| 32 | * [[SwordAndGun Cutlasses and pistols]] as weapons. |
| 33 | * [[BootsOfToughness Tall cavalier boots]]. Worn folded down to the knee gives them "bucket" tops and is the classic buccaneer look. Worn unfolded to thigh height is often associated with [[PirateGirl female pirates]] in particular. |
| 34 | * Alternately, shoes with large buckles, or no footwear at all (said to give better foothold on deck and in the rigging than hard leather shoe soles). |
| 35 | |
| 36 | In most cases, no one individual will have every trait -- they'll be spread around the whole crew, for variety. Expect the captain to get a fancier suit (perhaps a BadassLongcoat of the ''justacorps'' style) and the [[HatOfAuthority most impressive hat]]; crew members are more likely to wear a bandana, breeches, and a simple shirt (often striped). The most overt examples will be emblazoned with a skull and crossbones. Bonus points if they also TalkLikeAPirate. ''Extra'' bonus points if they go by a name like CaptainColorbeard or LongJohnShoutOut. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | As can be seen in the FriendlyPirate trope, this look is sufficient to qualify someone as a pirate even if they don't engage in any other piratical activity. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | This image of pirates can pretty much be traced directly to Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, who single-handedly [[TropeCodifier codified]] the parrot and peg-leg image with [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]] (despite him [[BeamMeUpScotty not having a peg leg]]). (The hook was popularized later by ''Literature/PeterPan'''s Captain Hook.) |
| 41 | |
| 42 | That's not to say it has ''no'' [[TruthInTelevision basis in reality]], with some notorious RealLife pirates wearing parts of the ensemble. Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, for instance, got his [[CaptainColorbeard trope-naming]] [[RedBaron moniker]] from his BeardOfBarbarism, and due to the primitiveness of medicine at the time it was common to see sailors with missing appendages (amputation being a comparatively safer solution to severe limb injuries than trying to let it heal in one piece). The eyepatch was also common, partly because actual eye injuries were not unheard of.[[note]]Even for those with no eye injuries, an eyepatch was handy for having one eye always adjusted to see in pitch-darkness, as there was often little in the way of lighting below deck (supposedly; migraines and bad aim are almost unavoidable side effects).[[/note]] People who lived from plunder and had no fixed home were also expected to carry their ill-gotten wealth on themselves as gold coins and jewellery, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or gold coins beaten into jewellery]]. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Subtrope of {{Pirate}}, of course. Often seen in GangplankGalleon. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | ---- |
| 47 | !!Examples: |
| 48 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 51 | * In an ad for [=FreeCreditReport.com=], a man sings the jingle; in his story, his credit went to hell and now he has to work as a singing waiter in a pirate-themed restaurant. |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 55 | * ''Manga/CaptainHarlock'' wears an eyepatch, a black naval jacket marked with the skull and crossbones, along with an enormous cape and boots. He also carries a pistol and something that's a cross between a cutlass and a really long pistol but keeps a strange long-necked bird in lieu of a parrot. His crew mostly wears striped shirts and bandanas, while sorta-sister-in-law Emeraldas wears a red version of Harlock's outfit. |
| 56 | * Captain Ash and his crew in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' dress like this in a SpacePirates kind of way. Ash's Dark Hound Gundam even has a pirate hat with a skull-and-crossbones with a targeting mechanism that ''looks like an eyepatch''. |
| 57 | * ''Franchise/OnePiece'', being a manga about pirates can't miss out on that trope -- although mostly these traits are spread around the minor, generic pirates while major pirate characters tend to look more distinct. Still, there are a couple examples: |
| 58 | ** The Pirate King Gol D. Roger resembled a stereotypical pirate with his bicorner hat, naval coat, and mustache. He also [[SwordAndGun dual-wielded a sword and a gun at one point]]. |
| 59 | ** Blackbeard, who adopts an increasingly stereotypically pirate look as the series goes on (but manages to make it look imposing and terrifying). In particular he grows his beard out from a stubble to full size and adds a bunch of jewelry and a billowing black coat when joining the Seven Warlords. |
| 60 | ** Of the main characters, [[NumberTwo Zoro]] probably dresses closest to the (non-captain) stereotype, with the bandana he wears on his head while fighting. Though, series creator Creator/EiichiroOda uses the most famous elements ''very'' sparingly: thus far there's only been one HookHand (Crocodile), one SeadogPegLeg (Zeff -- unless one counts Shiki, who replaced ''both'' his legs with swords), and one eyepatch (one of the {{piranha|Problem}} from Buggy's cover story; [[https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/One_Para Oda later said]] this was the element he most consciously avoided using throughout the series, because he planned to put it on a character at the ''very'' end). |
| 61 | * [[SpacePirate Lalaco Godspeed]] of ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' dresses like Captain Morgan with an enormous bicorn hat bearing the skull-and-crossbones, an 18th-century-style naval jacket, and high-heeled bucket-topped boots ([[{{Stripperiffic}} and almost nothing else]]). |
| 62 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' had a crew of pirates led by a captain who even in-universe is described as the spitting image of a stereotypical pirate. He's armed with a cutlass, has a sinister-looking beard, wears a bicorn hat, an eyepatch, a fancy long-flowing coat, and has a SeadogPegLeg, though, in an added bit of realism, he also has to use a crutch to get around. Hilariously and despite all this, he insists that he is ''not'' a pirate but [[InsistentTerminology a legitimate merchant]] since he has given up on raiding and now makes a living selling goods legally (said goods being captured Kushan children as slaves). [[StopBeingStereotypical He also demands his crew refer to him as "Boss" and reacts violently when they call him "Captain."]] |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 66 | * ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' foe [[APirate400YearsTooLate Captain Stingaree]] sports an eyepatch, earring, neckerchief, long naval frock coat, buccaneer boots, and cutlass. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics:'' Captain Metal (or, as he'd pronounce it, Cap'n Metal), a rebuilt Metal Sonic who turned pirate overlord, is designed to look like a typical pirate, with requisite eyepatch, peg-leg, and tricorn. No parrot, though. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 69 | ** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: In the Golden Age/Earth-Two Diana and ComicBook/EttaCandy's Holliday Girls fought some sky pirates who dressed in bandanas and piraty hats and such. |
| 70 | ** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]]: Di adopts leather pants and corset with an oversized jacket paired with big golden hooped earrings and a bandana tied around her head as the head of a rebellion labeled as pirates, and partakes in piracy stealing slaves, ships and other goods from the Sangtee Empire on a large scale. She's freeing the slaves and using those goods to provide for them. |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 74 | * ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'': |
| 75 | ** In one series, a stereotypical pirate cries at the FBI's [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil anti-piracy warnings]]. The same pirate is also seen [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2009/08/24 running a dry-cleaning service.]] (He's not very good at it.) |
| 76 | ** In [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2015/01/05 January 2015,]] Rat decides to be a pirate. |
| 77 | --->'''Goat:''' What are you doing?\ |
| 78 | '''Rat:''' I'm Pirate Boy. From now on, I'm living my life as a pirate.\ |
| 79 | '''Goat:''' Yeah, well, pirates were more than eyepatches and hats.\ |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 83 | * The pirates in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' can pull off this look without actually wearing any clothes. For example, Captain Gutt is a giant ape whose fur looks like a tricorner hat and a cape. |
| 84 | * Being that it's ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' [[RecycledInSpace in SPACE!]], ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'''s John Silver has fantastic versions of the key trope components: a SwissArmyAppendage instead of a hook, a [[AllAnimalsAreDogs happy-go-lucky]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifter shape-shifting]] [[BlobMonster blob]] in place of a parrot, etc. |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 88 | * Silent film ''Film/TheBlackPirate'' could not play this any straighter. Peg legs. Pirate parrots. Bandana hats. {{Permastubble}}. The works. |
| 89 | * In ''Film/DownPeriscope'', the captain is told early on that the war game he's taking part in is designed to simulate asymmetrical warfare and he should, therefore, "think like a pirate". [[BrickJoke Sure enough]], when the crew decide to make TheNeidermeyer executive officer WalkThePlank, they dress the part using bits of their Navy uniforms -- fake pirate hats, eyepatches, black marker for beards. One of them even has a frozen chicken attached to his shoulder as a "parrot". |
| 90 | * ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'': Brad ends up working at a pirate-themed restaurant and realized how low his life has sunk when he catches a look at himself in his own rearview mirror making a delivery dressed as a pirate. |
| 91 | * ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', being based on the trope codifier, naturally follows this motif. [[spoiler:Long John]] is particularly resplendent once he [[TheMole shows his true colors]]. |
| 92 | * The ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series puts its own spin on the costumes, but still hits the major notes: parrot, beards, eyepatches, hats, bandanas, everything short of a hook (although Davy Jones's crab-claw creates a similar effect) and peg leg (again, Jones's crab leg invokes the image of one, and Barbossa gets a proper one in the fourth movie). |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 96 | * Alex from ''Literature/AlmostNight'' had his spirit bonded to an ancient pirate, and so he talks like a pirate and uses pirate weaponry such as a cutlass and a flintlock pistol. He wears an eye patch, but it's just for show since both of his eyes function just fine. |
| 97 | * An InvokedTrope by the SpacePirates in the ''Bio of a Space Tyrant'' series by Creator/PiersAnthony, since the authorities won't believe (or don't want to admit to) ancient-looking pirates operating in space. |
| 98 | * The ''Literature/PeterAndTheStarcatchers'' series plays off of ''Peter Pan'', so of course the characters are similarly depicted. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/PeterPan'''s pirates had a heavy influence on the trope. Most notably, Captain Hook popularized the HookHand look. |
| 100 | * Gideon Defoe's ''Literature/ThePirates'' books use these as the only identifiers for the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep otherwise nameless]] characters -- the Pirate Captain, the pirate with the wooden leg, the pirate with the hook, etc. In [[WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists the movie]], one of the pirates has a wooden nose. |
| 101 | * ''Literature/ThePyrates'' manages to hit every major pirate stereotype. This includes all variations of the standard pirate outfit. |
| 102 | * In ''Literature/RockoTheChristmasBat'', one of the children from the main family goes trick-or-treating as a pirate, with a jacket and eye-patch get-up. |
| 103 | * ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “Roys Bedoys’s Spectacular Halloween Zoom Party!”, Maker wears a pirate hat and a striped shirt for Halloween. |
| 104 | * ''Literature/SamuraiScarecrow'': One of Yukio's {{Ninja}} friends dressed as a pirate for Halloween. This involves pirate pants, a peg leg, and an eyepatch. |
| 105 | * ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is the TropeCodifier thanks to Captain Long John Silver. He's got a parrot and is missing a leg, though the original and some of the adaptations don't give him a peg leg, he just hobbles around on a crutch. The pegleg at the knee (when Silver's amputation is said to be much higher) is probably an example of PragmaticAdaptation, from multiple stage and screen adaptations -- it's much easier to mock up on an able-bodied actor than a whole missing leg. |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 109 | * {{Subverted}} [[PlayedForLaughs for Laughs]] on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' when Tobias wears one of his wife's blouses and gets on a boat filled with what he thinks are pirates. It's actually a Gay Rights protest. |
| 110 | * The staff of Piratz Tavern on ''Series/BarRescue''. |
| 111 | * [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] very slightly in ''Series/BlackSails'', which aims for a more historically accurate DarkerAndEdgier angle than most {{Pirate}} media (despite mixing fictional characters from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' with real-life pirates). This approach means less of the more stylized aspects of this trope, so there's little if anything in the way of skull-and-crossbone motifs, eyepatches, hooks, gold teeth, or parrots... but still plenty of cutlasses, flintlocks, nice hats, {{Badass Longcoat}}s, big shirts, and assorted beard and mustache styles to go around. Eventually [[ForegoneConclusion Long John Silver loses a leg]] and replaces it with a prosthetic (later swapping it for a crutch). |
| 112 | * In [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E6AllTheWay an episode]] of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Xander dresses up as a stereotypical pirate for Halloween. |
| 113 | * ''Series/DoctorWho''. In [[Recap/DoctorWho2022ESLegendOfTheSeaDevils "Legend of the Sea Devils"]] the Doctor and Yaz are, [[ChangedMyJumper for once]], dressed in period-accurate costume...except for Dan whom Yaz encouraged to dress like a pantomime pirate as a joke. Fortunately the pirates they encounter are Chinese, who no doubt assume he's just a strangely-dressed foreigner. |
| 114 | * ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' and ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'' blend this with {{Toku}} spandex -- the suits are styled like jackets, the helmets are designed to look like bicorns (or a bandana in Silver's case), and the usual SwordAndGun sidearms are a cutlass and flintlock. |
| 115 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Long John Silver appears as the introductory act for the pixilated-motion diversions in the "Confuse-a-Cat" sketch, though with a full missing leg and a crutch rather than the [[PragmaticAdaptation adaptational]] peg leg. |
| 116 | -->'''Silver:''' ''(thump thump thump)'' My lords, ladies and Gedderbong. ''(pops out of existence)'' |
| 117 | * Creator/JohnCleese appears as one of these in a season 2 episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' ([[http://www.toughpigs.com/24-reasons-to-watch-season-2/ observe]]). |
| 118 | * Done by, of all people, Music/GeorgeHarrison on ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision''; he keeps appearing dressed this way in anticipation of the pirate sketch later in the show. The fact there is no pirate sketch does not deter him. |
| 119 | * ''Series/WhodunnitUK'': In "Which Eye Jack", a murder occurs among a gathering of pirates. All of the suspects fit this trope to some degree, with Blackbeard being the most complete example, dressed in a tricorner hat, frock coat, EyepatchOfPower, HookHand, and SeadogPegLeg. Capatin Magee, the sole PirateGirl at the gathering, rocks a tight WaistcoatOfStyle, flouncy shirt, PaintedOnPants, and thigh-high boots. |
| 120 | [[/folder]] |
| 121 | |
| 122 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 123 | * Pirata Morgan, veteran of [[Wrestling/{{CMLL}} EMLL]], as well as Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/{{FMW}}, Lucha Libre Internacional and Wrestling/{{AAA}}. The eye patches and half masks aren't just for show though, he did lose an eye in a match. |
| 124 | * IWRG and CMLL wrestler Sable tended to dress himself like a pirate. |
| 125 | * Kairi Hojo had swashbuckler-inspired entrance attire in Wonder Ring STARDOM, which she wore prior to winning the World Of title belt, which had been vacant for a month in 2015.[[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 128 | * ''[[TabletopGame/SeventhSea 7th Sea]]'' naturally uses this trope, as it is by and large set in a world centered on WoodenShipsAndIronMen. |
| 129 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The ''Complete Adventurer'' sourcebook for 3.5 edition includes rules for a "Dread Pirate" prestige class, accompanied by an illustration of a swashbuckling pirate sporting the standard beard, bandana, loose breeches, and BadassLongcoat. |
| 130 | * ''TabletopGame/ForgottenWaters'' puts players in the shoes of a crew of pirates, so naturally the game art for all PC standees (and the NPC captains) depicts them all decked out with some combination of blunderbusses, admiral's jackets, ammo bandoliers, cutlasses, excessive buckles, bandanas, peg legs/ hook hands, eye patches, stripy pants, feathered tricornes, and cavalier boots. |
| 131 | * Creator/GamesWorkshop games: |
| 132 | ** One of the [[OurOgresAreHungrier Maneater]] models from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' is dressed in traditional pirate garb complete with tricorn hat, longcoat (worn as an open vest due to being too small to fit the size of the ogre/ogor), cutlass, brace of pistols and parrot costumed [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Gnobler/Grot]]. |
| 133 | ** The Ork Freebooterz of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' [[ImageLinks/SpacePirates wear pirate hats]]. |
| 134 | ** In ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'', most of the official art draws little if any difference between "Officer of an Imperial Vessel" and "SpacePirate", especially the titular Rogue Trader and the Arch-Militant careers. Then again, about the only thing that separates you from said space pirates is you have a Warrant of Trade. |
| 135 | * ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'': [[http://magiccards.info/lg/en/291.html Ramirez DePietro]] has the standard eyepatch. |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 139 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DFRLego_003.jpg Captain Redbeard]] from the Toys/LEGOPirates line could be the page picture if he had a HookHand. |
| 140 | [[/folder]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': [[PirateGirl Captain Scarlett]] dresses as you would expect, complete with a hook hand; about the only things that aren't fairly typical are a bionic eye standing in for an eyepatch, and slightly more modern piercings than most pirates. Of note, the hook hand is in a game where multiple characters (Gaige, Sir Hammerlock, and Wilhelm, to name just three) have fully functional bionic limbs; Scarlett is apparently so dedicated to the aesthetic that she's willing to overlook that. |
| 144 | * ''VideoGame/CaptainMorganeAndTheGoldenTurtle'': Morgane's childhood home actually has a rack of peg legs, left from prominent pirate ancestors. Also, one of the crew members Morgane recruits makes it a condition of the hire that she buy him a gold earring so that he can look the part of a pirate. |
| 145 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'': The whole Kremling Krew adopts this visual, meaning every crocodilian enemy ends up with a gratuitous amount of bandanas, bicorne hats, hoop earrings, and peg legs. Some even use {{Hook Hand}}s as boomerang projectiles. |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/DontStarve: Shipwrecked'': Woodlegs has, as the name suggests, ''two'' [[SeadogPegLeg wooden legs]], on top of a bicorne hat and a SeadogBeard. |
| 147 | * ''VideoGame/DungeonDefenders'': This is an alternate outfit for the Squire in the Halloween 2011 Costume Pack DLC. |
| 148 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Pirates often dress like this: |
| 149 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'': Bikke is the BadassLongcoat captain with bicorn and beard, while his crew have bandannas and eyepatches. |
| 150 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Leila wears a bandanna; her crew has that and eyepatches. |
| 151 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Faris has a BadassLongcoat and a SailorsPonytail in the concept art, although her sprite looks different, and her crew look the same as all the others. Also, the Cannoneer job uses this kind of clothing (although you can call it a navy outfit, too), and the Skeleton enemies in the Ship Graveyard have bandannas and -- somehow -- beards. |
| 152 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates Crystal Chronicles Ring Of Fates]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesEchoesOfTime Echoes Of Time]]'', Selkies can equip pirate hats and coats. |
| 153 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'': Drake's pirates have stripey shirts and bandannas; Drake himself has the bicorn and beard but is otherwise dressed the same. |
| 154 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': As one of the three major cities is nautically themed, it's not much of a surprise that many of its residents dress the part (including the faction leader). Player characters can piece together the Buccaneer gear for a similar look. |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'': The field and battle sprites for the Pirate class have bandannas. Most recruitable pirates have them too. Exceptions are Geese from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade Binding Blade]]'' (who has a BadassLongcoat) and Briggid from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'', who was a pirate captain by profession but a Sniper by class. |
| 156 | * ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'': Foxy is dressed like a traditional buccaneer, though not a captain (presumably, Freddy being the leader of the animatronics means he outranks Foxy). Foxy features a hook for a right hand, an eyepatch, several gold teeth, and muzzle markings resembling stubble. His lower legs and left hand are damaged and bare, revealing the endoskeleton beneath, which also evoke either more artificial limbs on a person or the skeletal GhostPirate motif. It's not totally clear if Mangle in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' also adheres to the pirate theme despite being in the "Kids' Cove", as by the time of the game they're simply a mess of metal parts. Nonetheless, they are missing the white of one eye in an echo of an eyepatch (and the glowing yellow light within suggests [[GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath an undead appearance]]). Likewise, they feature a smaller, extra head that {{fanon}} speculates might belong to a PirateParrot when Mangle is in working order. |
| 157 | * ''VideoGame/GingerBeyondTheCrystal'': One of the outfits [[PlayerCharacter Ginger]] can wear is a pirate's outfit. It includes a tri-corner hat, an eyepatch, and a coat. |
| 158 | * ''VideoGame/JoumeeTheHedgehog'': You can put a pirate hat on [[PlayerCharacter Joumee]] to wear in the game. |
| 159 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Gangplank is easily identifiable as a pirate by his hat, beard, red naval jacket, and piratical SwordAndGun combo. Several other characters have pirate-themed alternate costumes as well: the Bilgerat Rumble, Bilgewater Katarina, Pirate Ryze, Bilgewater Swain, and Fiddle Me Timbers skins all include stock pirate visual cues. |
| 160 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroTheEternalNight'': The Skavengers, a large crew of SkyPirates, all wear eyepatches, earrings and bandanas, and fight with cutlasses. Higher-ranking members also wear black bicorne hats adorned with skull designs. |
| 161 | * ''VideoGame/Metroid1'': The game manual artwork shows the SpacePirates as aliens sporting this outfit. This is EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as all later ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games portray them as humanoid arthropods with some basic armor at most. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': Despite protagonist Guybrush Threepwood being a self-proclaimed "Mighty Pirate™", he mostly [[AvertedTrope averts]] the trope himself, whereas all other pirate characters (and many who are not pirates at all!) play it perfectly straight. |
| 163 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', "Pirate Wannabe" Guybrush barely has any of the classic pirate attire, with the possible exception of multiple shiny buttons holding his pants up, and a pair of buckled shoes. |
| 164 | ** In ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2'', Guybrush moves closer to the trope, having acquired a tattered, navy-blue captain's jacket that is way too big for him and looks like it was stolen off a long-dead corpse. He also wears the folded-down cavalier boots, a large belt buckle, and a buckled baldric that [[TooManyBelts appears to serve no purpose whatsoever]]. |
| 165 | ** Despite becoming a bona-fide pirate captain during ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush's attire actually takes a step ''back'' from the trope. He now wears a puffy shirt but no jacket, a sash instead of a fancy belt, and pretty much the same socks and shoes he wore in the first game. The following games in the series zig-zag some more, but essentially remain within the confines set by the previous games. |
| 166 | ** Guybrush's archnemesis, the undead pirate [=LeChuck=], plays the trope almost perfectly straight, with the exception of artificial limbs (he's undead, after all). His SeadogBeard -- which tends to flutter regardless of wind conditions -- actually becomes a quest item when Guybrush keeps it after defeating [=LeChuck=] for the first time. In the second game, Guybrush and [=LeChuck=] are dressed almost the same (with different colors and [=LeChuck's=] signature skull-and-crossbones bicorn notwithstanding) -- possibly {{Foreshadowing}} the [[PlotTwist revelation]] that [[spoiler:they are brothers]]. |
| 167 | ** Decidedly non-pirate characters in partial or full pirate attire practically litter each of the games. They include salesmen and shopkeepers, bartenders, military personnel, a cartographer, and at least one child (Kenny). |
| 168 | ** The trope is exaggerated intentionally with Meathook, an ex-pirate with ''two'' hook hands, an eyepatch, and a huge skull tattoo on his chest that he can make talk like a ventriloquist. He also owns a parrot who is apparently too vicious to let out of its cage[=/=]strongbox (that's how Meathook lost his hands, after all). |
| 169 | * ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Most of the pirates dress like this. |
| 170 | ** Octopeg has a pirate hat and six peg legs (he's an octopus). |
| 171 | ** Captain Buck has a pirate hat. |
| 172 | ** Captain Codswallop wears a pirate hat, gloves, an earring, and a monocle. |
| 173 | ** Mr Mushy Peas wears a bandana and a peg leg (also 3D glasses for some reason). |
| 174 | ** Jaunty Jack wears a paper hat and an eyepatch. |
| 175 | ** Pirate Pong wears an eyepatch. |
| 176 | ** Handy Van Hookz has hooks for both hands and a pirate hat. |
| 177 | ** [=McScruff=] has a bandana. |
| 178 | * ''VideoGame/PizzaVsSkeletons'': You can buy a pirate hat and eyepatch with in-game money to make [[PlayerCharacter the pizza]] wear. Also, one of the bosses is a giant skull with a pirate bandanna and an earring. |
| 179 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonUnite'' has Holowear for the various Pokemon you can use in the game; Captain style Cinderace dresses like this with a bicorne hat and naval jacket, which provides [[PiratesVersusNinjas a nice contrast]] with Greninja. |
| 180 | %%* ''VideoGame/PuzzlePirates'' hits most of the notes. |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': All of the stock traits appear on various pirate [=NPCs=]: bandanas, tricorner hats, eyepatches, a hook-hand, a captain's hat with a skull-and-crossbones on it, etc. Most of them are also available as [[VirtualPaperDoll wearable equipment]], and there is a parrot...well, a zombie parrot ("ex-[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus ex-parrot]]") available as a pet as a reward for a pirate-related quest. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowGambitTheCursedCrew'': All of the pirates incorporate elements of the typical pirate costume. We see [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatches]], [[SeadogPegLeg peg legs]], [[SeadogBeard long beards]], and at least one HookHand among the crew. Suleidy's costume includes a JollyRoger flag crafted into a cloak. And several pirates have tricorn hats. |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' plays with this trope adding fantasy elements to it. Vyse has a glass eye-patch that can be used to zoom in, Drachma has a robotic arm (that has a hook-like add-on), Guilder has his pet parrot (called Willy), the ensemble cast is covered with large jackets, buckles, and stripes, and after finishing the game Fina changes her clothes to this with her LivingWeapon gaining a standard eye-patch. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'': Invoked when Sly has to obtain an eyepatch, [[SeadogPegLeg peg leg]], and hat to impersonate Contagious Tim when trying to get the location of [[spoiler:Remy Lousteau's diving gear]] from Black Spot Pete. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Demoman has an eyepatch by default, but the "Swashbuckler's Swag" outfit adds a peg-leg, a bottle of rum, and a captain's bicorne with piratey FlavorText. Also of note are the Rimmed Raincatcher hat and the Soldier's Brawling Buccaneer outfit. |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': |
| 187 | ** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIITidesOfDarkness'': The boxart features MirroredConfrontationShot with a human in a coat and tricorn hat while the orc opposite has a bandanna and earrings, to advertise the game's newly added naval combat. Despite this, other piratical elements like TalkLikeAPirate are absent. |
| 188 | ** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 189 | *** There are several factions of pirates, most of whom sport this type of garb and have a tendency to say "Yeaaarg!" when they attack. |
| 190 | *** There's a hat with a skull and crossbones on it that players can get and use, and if you really want, [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Pirate_outfit here's how to dress your character as a pirate]]. Or you can just use the [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=20397/ pirate wand]]. |
| 191 | *** At one point a person refers to a pirate port as having "a lot of guys with eye patches, peg legs, and exotic pets, if you know what I mean." |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': The pirates in the various games all share parts of these traits. |
| 193 | ** Captain Syrup, Wario's recurring pirate nemesis, wears baggy pantaloons, a skull belt buckle, a small top, and a bandanna over her long hair. |
| 194 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'': Jamano the GhostPirate wears a ragged green robe and a red bicorne hat marked with crossed cutlasses. |
| 195 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'': Captain Coin GhostPirate is a floating skull with a bicorne hat and a hook hand. |
| 196 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': Captain Skull has this look, except with a giant cannon in place of one hand and a grappling hook for the other. And while those three are the ones with the most traditional pirate garb, even the other pirates in the series have them to some degree. |
| 197 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt'': Badineros have the bandanas and cutlasses and the Shake King looks like a mix between a pirate, a biking, and a traditional EvilOverlord. |
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| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 201 | * Russell, the pirate sea otter from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', has a Jolly Roger hat, an eyepatch, a hook hand, and two peg legs. |
| 202 | * ''WebAnimation/MonkeyWrench'': Several members of Queen Tyneen's crew of SpacePirates dress like stereotypical buccaneers: her right-hand man Ricket wears a bandana, as do her mass-produced Fodder underlings, and they all wield EnergyWeapons that look like guns from the Age of Sail. Tyneen herself bears few of the stereotypical pirate traits, though she ''does'' have a SwissArmyAppendage of a cybernetic left hand. |
| 203 | * ''WebAnimation/Plan3'': The cursed pirate looks like your average pirate captain, since the Chinese Food Curse only affects a person's luck and not their appearance. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:WebOriginal]] |
| 207 | * ''Roleplay/TheLastTrumpet:'' Zigzagged by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who mix modern attempts at traditional pirate wear with Buccaneers logowear. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 211 | * ''Webcomic/TheBackOBeyond'' is a fantasy webcomic about pirates, so this trope is in place. |
| 212 | * ''Webcomic/BoyAndDog'': For [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]], Murphy is seen dressed in a pirate hat and eye patch. |
| 213 | * ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'': [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1427/ This strip]] [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope. ("Yarr, how can ye tell?") |
| 214 | * ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'' has a restaurant called Pirate Pizza Place, where the crew all dress as...all together now...Pirates! |
| 215 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Captain Hawkins, a British SkyPirate, wears a tricorn hat, a bandana over an eye, has a [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical right hand]], a massive belt buckle, large hoop earrings and an impressive collection of tattoos. Her crew also dresses in this manner with striped shirts, sashes, tricorn and bicorn hats and at least one of them has an eyepatch. |
| 216 | * ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' uses fancy hats to identify its pirates. |
| 217 | * ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'' features occasional appearances by [[http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/d/20040919.html Cap'n Hamster.]] |
| 218 | * When Sonya, one of the resident [[TheDitz ditzes]] of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', needs an eye patch to protect a black eye, she ends up buying a complete pirate costume -- albeit that it turns out to be a [[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy pirate outfit]]. She then insists on wearing it while [[http://www.ma3comic.com/strips-ma3/i_am_getting_a_text playing seductive mind-games]] with other cast members. |
| 219 | * ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'' has [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-6/ Plaidbeard,]] a rare hatless example. Notably, his crew is dressed in the standard breeches/bandana/stripy shirt. |
| 220 | * When ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'''s characters celebrate UsefulNotes/TalkLikeAPirateDay, [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09192007.shtml they wear standard pirate costumes.]] |
| 221 | * ''Webcomic/VampireGirl'': For a hospital costume ball, Laura dresses as a pirate, which she also says is a way for her to live out a childhood fantasy of wanting to be a pirate. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 225 | * ''WebVideo/ManicPixieDreamWife'': Chance is dressed like a stereotypical pirate in the episode "I Be Her Bear". He wears a black bandana, an earring and he has a sword. |
| 226 | * ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': In the Twitter character announcement posters, most of the cast are decked out in various degrees of stereotypical pirate gear, including hats or bandannas, eyepatches, ruffles on shirts, longcoats or vests, buckles and belts, jewelry, and either swords or pistols as weapons. A handful of the cast even have birds as companion animals in the series itself, including parrots in a couple of cases. |
| 227 | [[/folder]] |
| 228 | |
| 229 | [[folder:WesternAnimation]] |
| 230 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', there is Evil Cap'n Mel, in ''Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode3'' "HMS Yakko." He wears a bicorn hat, has a hook for a right hand and is extremely short since ''both'' legs are peg-legs below the knee. In his appearance, he pushes his entire crew overboards, after saying it's something he does "hardly ever." |
| 231 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPugwash'', Captain Pugwash sports a bicorn hat with a skull-and-crossbones on the front; a mustache; a naval jacket; a flouncy shirt; and cavakier boots. His ArchEnemy Cut-Throat Jake has a [[BadassesWearBandanas badass bandana]]; an EyepatchOfPower; a SeadogBeard; a waist sash; and buccaneer boots. |
| 232 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' features the candy-themed pirate villain Stickybeard, who wears an eyepatch, a black hat with a skull on it, a Blackbeard-style beard (with candy stuck in it), and a peg-leg and hook-hand both made from candy canes. |
| 233 | * Youngblood of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is seen in full hook-and-pegleg regalia, complete with skull-and-crossbones hat. |
| 234 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' gives us Villads, (the "D" is silent) who while [[RetiredOutlaw retired]], is still dressed like a typical pirate with a SeadogBeard, pirate hat, two eyepatches, and of course a PirateParrot. |
| 235 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In one of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Cosmo and Wanda dress up in the traditional garb while playing pirate. |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s SpacePirates dress this way, with accommodations for their BizarreAlienBiology -- one pirate has three peg-legs, [[ExtraEyes two eyepatches]], and parrots on three of his four shoulders. |
| 237 | * The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldsHalloweenAdventure'' has him and Odie going out Trick-or-Treating dressed as pirates, Garfield [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal wearing a pirate hat and sporting a peg leg]], while Odie has a bandana, single earring, and striped shirt, and [[TheFool being who he is]], starts off with a peg on every leg. Later they run into some ghostly pirates who show more of the usual fashion sense, just more dead and decayed. |
| 238 | * In one ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' ImagineSpot, the gang finds themselves talking to a crew of pirates, and when one of them demands to know whose crew they're on, they say they're Nanny's crew. Gonzo then goes a bit overboard in describing her as a great pirate, with a patch over both eyes, two hook hands, and two peg legs. |
| 239 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' featured a pirate who had wooden legs, wooden ''arms'' and wooden ''eyes''! |
| 240 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Nightmare Night" gives us the foal Pipsqueak, presently presenting as a pirate for trick-or-treating, with a jacket, head bandana, eyepatch, and toy cutlass. |
| 241 | * The season 2 premier of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has Luz, Eda, and an entire group of sailors all wearing pirate themed outfits, though technically Eda is the only one who does any actual piracy (the rest of them basically being government sanctioned whalers). [[spoiler:Eda's outfit in the epilogue also has heavy pirate inspirations, complete with a HookHand. In fact, it's highly likely that she chose the hook over a more articulate prosthesis [[RuleOfCool solely for the excuse of being able to dress up that way]].]] |
| 242 | * One of ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'''s villains, Sid Swashbuckle, wears a tricorner hat, bandana, jacket, and gold belt buckle. |
| 243 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Mizzen in Action", a crew of predictably-dressed pirates accidentally imbibe some Chemical X to become the [[VillainOfTheWeek Villains of the Week]]. |
| 244 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Shown on the cover of ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' that Bart tries to BS his way through a book report of. |
| 245 | -->''Well, as Mrs. Krabappel already mentioned, the name of the book that I read was ''Treasure Island''. It's about these pirates, ''(looks at the illustrated cover of the book)'' pirates with patches over their eyes, ''(looks at cover)'' and shiny gold teeth, ''(looks at cover)'' and green birds on their shoulders. Did I mention this book was written ''(looks at cover)'' by a guy named Robert Louis Stevenson? ''(looks at cover)'' And published by the good people at [=McGraw=]-Hill. So, in conclusion, on the Simpson scale of one to ten -- ten being the highest, one being the lowest and five being average -- I give this book a nine.'' |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': |
| 247 | ** Patchy the Pirate and the Flying Dutchman. |
| 248 | ** In "Aargh!", Mr. Krabs goes treasure hunting with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick dressed in fancy pirate captain duds and gives his two underlings some pirate wear to match. [=SpongeBob=] puts on two peg legs and calls himself Peggy the Pirate, while Patrick wears eyepatches on both eyes as Blindbeard the Pirate. |
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