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{{quote|''"Whenever pirates turn up in a romance set more recently than 1843, you figure the filmmakers ran out of ideas."''|''[[Roger Ebert]]'' 's review of ''Six Days, Seven Nights''}}
Swashbuckling, rum-swilling, peg-legged [[
Compare and contrast [[Sky Pirates]]. [[Space Pirates]] is when they are a few more centuries late. For modern, [[Real Life]] pirates of the type who are ''very good'' at shivering people's timbers (with an AK-47 not a cutlass), see [[Ruthless Modern Pirates]]. If the pirates are more concerned with ''looking'' the part than acting it, they're probably [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Batman]] villains Captain Stingaree and Cap'n Fear.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Paul Burchill briefly became a "wrestling pirate" after [[Kayfabe|discovering]] that he was a descendant of Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard.
* ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]'' actually had an inversion - one member of John Bly's gang and his lackeys were a group of actual pirates who were bikers around
* One Pigs [[Recycled in Space|in Space]] sketch in ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had John Cleese 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.
* An episode of ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' featured "1970s" pirates who, though using modern technology, would for instance acknowledge an order with "Yo ho!" rather than "Aye aye!" They also dressed the archaic part. Supposedly they felt inspired to do this because their captain was the direct descendant of a famous pirate from two or three centuries before.
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' has the [http://nonadventures.com/2007/05/26/the-curse-of-plunderella/ Chesapeake Bay Pirates].
* The pirates in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', although this occasionally overlaps with [[Steampunk]] [[Sky Pirates]].
* T-Square from ''[[Altermeta]]''.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' 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.
* The pirates in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' become this when they are [[A Wizard Did It|arbitrarily]] transported to [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=2662&theme=10&dir=next5 1940.]
* Captain [[Punny Name|Rigur DeMortis]] in ''[http://comic.nodwick.com/?
{{quote|'''Crewman #1:''' Ye couldn't best '''Cap'n Crunch'''!
'''Crewman #2:''' '''Software Pirates''' be scarier than ye! }}
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