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== Film ==
* ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]'': The Dread Pirate Roberts.
* ''[[A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!]]'' has Timmy fighting a bunch of pirates for his birthday in the opening scene.
 
 
== Literature ==
* The corsairs that Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas fight in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* There are pirates in ''My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding''. Cursed pirates, yet.
 
== Live -Action TV ==
 
* The 2011 ''[[Super Sentai]]'' season is the pirate themed ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''. (Kaizoku means pirate.)
== Live Action TV ==
* The 2011 ''[[Super Sentai]]'' season is the pirate themed ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''. (Kaizoku means pirate.)
** Also, there are plenty of series where pirates show up where you wouldn't expect them. In ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]],'' one sea animal-based [[Mecha Expansion Pack]] gives the main robot a pirate theme.
 
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
* [[Brewster Rockit]] has pirates. Space pirates. Space ''software'' pirates.
* [[Milton Caniff]] was hired by Joseph Patterson, Editor of the Chicago Tribune--NewTribune—New York Daily News Syndicate, to create a new comic strip. Caniff suggested several titles, and Patterson liked his suggestion "Terry", but then added the words "[[Terry and Thethe Pirates|and the Pirates]]" to the title. Which pretty much obligated Caniff to add some pirates, which were not in his original concept for the strip.
 
== Video Games ==
* To get your ship in ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]'', you have to fight a gang of pirates who've been terrorizing the town.
** And in [[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]] same thing!
** In ''[[Final Fantasy V (Video Game)|Final Fantasy V]]'', you're kidnapped by pirates... and Captain Faris becomes a party member because "he" is actually royalty.
* Pirates steal one of the stars in ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]''.
** Pirate ''[[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|sharks]]'', actually.
** Mario also joins a pirate crew in ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand -Year Door]]'' for one chapter.
* ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' has the pirate captain Fargo {{spoiler|from the alternate world}}.
* In ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' there are random chances in the Item World that pirates will attack you. Even though they are called pirates, lots of them don't have a ship, and rather are pirates only in name while following a [[Gang of Hats]] pattern, like Wealthy Pirates using only rare equipment and surfing into the stage in a rare treasure chest, or the mage pirates [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|being mages]], and similar.
** In ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' it's possible to become a pirate yourself.
** In ''[[Disgaea 4: a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 aA Promise Unforgotten]]'', you can make "your very own pirate ship, yarr!"
* The Pirate class in ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games that have job systems.
* First village in ''[[Croc]] 2'' has you fighting pirate dantinis.
* Roughly one-sixth of ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' (perhaps more, as it's a pretty long chapter) deals with a large group of pirates stranded in a jungle. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], as it's based on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride, a major attraction at [[Disneyland]].
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* In the webcomicweb comic ''[[Zap]]'', Reona is kidnapped by Space Pirates.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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* The "Pirate of the Airways" episode of ''[[Goldie Gold and Action Jack]]''.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' had the Planet Express ship once attacked by [[Space Pirates]].
** Too late did they realize that their children was their only real treasure...
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' there's a pirate named Sticky-Beard and he has a crew who's obsessed with candy. Their ship can sail through ''land'', leaving a massive furrow in its wake. He occasionally plays the [[Worthy Opponent]] to Numbah 5 in her candy-hunter adventures, and holds a begrudging respect for the girl as she can "eat him under the table" when it comes to sugar/FrothyMugsOfWater[[Frothy Mugs of Water]].
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' ran afoul of ghost pirates in the Sargasso Sea - though the 'ghost' bit was a ruse, and the pirating wasn't a lucrative business, their main plunder being from a Toys-R-Us shipment.
* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' had the Pirates of the ''Saucy Mare'' show up to plunder Mainframe. Initially intended to be one-off villains, they reappear halfway through season 3 and help the heroes through the rest of it.
 
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