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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Roanapur from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is a modern-day version type 1, being a hangout for pretty much every illegal or semi-legal shipping crews in the south asian sea.
* Avast! The city of [[Berserk|Vritanis]], containing at least one [[Pirate]] captain, complete with eyepatch, pegleg and cutlass.
* [[One Piece|The Grand Line]] in all its cliched piratey glory.
** Interestingly, you can find both kinds.
*** Mock Town is an insanely violent version of Type 1. It's so bad there, a man standing on top of a building challenging everyone to a fight and killing anyone who dares with his bare hands barely draws a crowd, much less a flaming man getting kicked out a window.
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* Tortuga, Singapore and Shipwreck Cove from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''. Jack tells his crew to be careful about the latter as it's apparently a [[Meaningful Name]].
** In reality, the actual wretched hive of the Caribbean during that time period was Port Royal. It shows up as the city Governor Swann runs, and is portrayed as being orderly and clean. Tortuga had been a notorious [[Wretched Hive]] in the late 17th century, but had cleaned up its act and lost that reputation by the time ''Pirates'' is apparently set.
*** The Tortuga of the film is still somewhat cleaned up and [[Disneyfication|Disney-fied]], compared to how you'd expect it to be in real life; women can walk safely around without any fears of being raped, for example. Considering that a lot of the pirates have no qualms about murder ( [[Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|at least in theory]]), that there are much more men than women everywhere in the film, and how most pirates spend a long time in boats without women, you'd expect that even pretty young men wouldn't be safe, let alone Elizabeth Swann.
* Samoa in ''[[Nate and Hayes]]''.
* Mos Eisley is this trope [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]! [[Star Wars|You will never find a more wretched hive...]]
== Folklore ==
* Libertatia (or Libertalia), the free communalist colony forged by pirates on Madagascar under the leadership of Captain James Misson in the late 1600s. There is little historical evidence to suggest that Libertatia ever actually existed.
** It was more an ideal to strive for than an actual place, and in that ideal it ''wasn't'' an example of this trope - it was basically a democratic utopia where people's worth was determined by their abilities, not by birthright.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* Although the [[Frame Story]] takes place in the belly of a whale, a Type 2 figures prominently in "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by [[The Decemberists]].
** Type 2s in general are pretty common in The Decemberists' songs, being that a lot of their songs are shanties or otherwise nautically-themed.
* Song example: Portobello Town in Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Pirates", "where we've been told That a purse of gold Buys any man a crown".
* "Singapore" by [[Tom Waits]].
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** In the member's world is Brimhaven on the north end of Karamja as a firm example of Type 1.
** The Cabin Fever quest gives access to Mos Le'Harmless ([[Punny Name|pun]] [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|intended]]), a whole ''island'' populated by pirates.
** Port Phasmatys was once an example of Type 2, until it became a literal Ghost Town when all the residents were transformed into spirits. Surprising lack of [[Ghost Pirate|Ghost Pirates]], although Bill Teach and Pirate Pete are pirates who are still very much alive.
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* Smuggler's Cove in the computer game ''I Spy: Treasure Hunt'', especially in the past, but even in the present day, most townspeople seem obsessed with pirates and the sea.
* Melee Island in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series.
* The pirate island Buccaneer's Den, appearing in the ''[[Ultima]]'' series since Ultima 4.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'': Yaaargh, the port o' Badon, what be filled with pirates and other unsavory nautical characters.
* ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' has the aptly named "Rogueport".
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* Omega is a Type 1 variation in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* Scurvy Docks in ''[[MediEvil (1998 video game)]]'', where you must disguise yourself as a pirate to get a boat.
* ''Kao the Kangaroo Round 2'' uses a pirate-infested harbor as [[The Hub]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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