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{{quote|'''[[Only Sane Man|Sissy Pirate:]]''' ''"Uh, captain? Captain? I know we usually bury the treasure, but what if, this time, we use it to buy things? You know... eh... things we like."''
'''Captain:''' [shoots him, then looks at his other men, who furiously begin digging a hole] ''"[[Talk Like a Pirate|Ahhr!]] We'll dig up the treasure in seven yarr. I've drawn a [[Treasure Map|map]] on this cracker, which [[Pirate Parrot|Polly]] will [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|hold for safe keepin']]."''
|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', on why there is treasure buried ''everywhere''. }}
In media the goal of every [[Pirate]] is to [[Plunder]] shipping for the [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests|large wooden chests]] overflowing with gold, jewels and other valuable trinkets invariably carried by every vessel on the high seas. Mundane cargoes carried in the ships' holds are completely ignored as cackling buccaneers make off with their ill-gotten riches, which they then buried or hid in a cave on a remote island, with only a [[Treasure Map]] to remind them of the location.
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* An episode of ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]'' revolved around the Autobots and Decepticons trying to get a massive stockpile of energy hidden on a [[Space Pirate]] [[Planet of Hats|Planet]].
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* ''[[Tintin]]'' in ''[[Tintin/Recap/The Secret of the Unicorn|The Secret of the Unicorn]]'' (a ship) and ''[[Tintin/Recap/Red Rackham's Treasure|Red Rackham's Treasure]]'' combines this with a [[Pirate]] [[Desert Island|treasure island]] and a [[Dismantled MacGuffin]] [[Treasure Map]].
== Film ==
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* In ''[[The Goonies]]'', Mikey finds a [[Treasure Map]] leading to the "rich stuff" of legendary pirate [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|One-Eyed Willy]].
* In ''[[Treasure of Swamp Castle]]'', the [[MacGuffin]] of the film is the treasure.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' depicts Captain Nemo as salvaging sunken treasure. He justified it by saying that the treasure's former owners had been dead for centuries.
▲== Live Action Television ==
* We probably ought to mention the reality game show ''Pirate Master''. There wasn't any plundering involved, but all they really did was look for treasure.
* Justified in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode ''The Curse of the Black Spot''—the pirate in question was [[wikipedia:Henry Every|Henry Every]], one of the very few pirates to actually get his hands on a cargo of gold and jewels (and the episode even specified that it was the Mughal's treasure).
** The [[Big Finish]] audio adventure ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who/Recap/043 Doctor Who and the Pirates|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]'' features just about every pirate trope, including buried treasure.
* The ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Man with the Bone" was based on the [[wikipedia:Oak Island|Oak Island Money Pit]], rumoured to be a burial place of some of Captain Kidd's treasure (or maybe Blackbeard's.)
== Music ==
* The song "Pirates" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, which squeezes just about every pirate movie
** NB The remix version on the ''Return of the Manticore'' box set has better sound quality than the original.
* Scottish pirate-metal band Alestorm.
== Video Games ==
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* Most of treasure in ''[[Dubloon]]'' can be found by digging, [[Guide Dang It|with varying levels of invisibility]].
* The missing man in ''[[Mystery Case Files]]: 13th Skull'' has been searching for pirate treasure. If you're playing the Collector's Edition, the Master Detective actually finds it still stashed in a locked cabin on one of Captain Crown's ships.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Servants of the Imperium]]'': The initial plot arc follows the party as they race to find the hoard of a crew of legendary [[Space Pirates]].
== Western Animation ==
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* One episode of the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (animation)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' cartoon brought Scurvy and his crew into the plot by having them trying to find some treasure they buried on Kongo Bongo's beaches. It turns out burying treasure is part of [[The Code]], article and section and everything.
* Shows up on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when Lucius accidently digs it up.
== Real Life ==
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* On the rare occasions where a pirate ''did'' manage to get their hands on massive piles of gold and silver, they generally wound up becoming quite famous. For example, Francis Drake earned a knighthood and status as one of the founding heroes of the British Empire, largely by stealing Spanish treasure. Tons of it.
** Of course, he didn't bury it; he took it back to England. Where, predictably, most of his crew spent their shares of the treasure on drinking and whoring, also known as "the fun way" of putting said treasure into your sponsor nation's economy.
* Just [[Ripped from the Headlines|fresh from the headlines]]{{when}}: [[Adventurer Archaeologist|certain US company]] lifted from the seafloor the load of [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men|early XIX-Century Spanish frigate sank by English privateers]], worth about half a billion USD. The Spanish government went to courts, arguing that it's their gold (for added fun, one of the other claimants—who were quick to jump in for the cash—was Peru, apparently as the source of Spanish colonial gold). It seems this is not the first time something like this happens; Spaniards, as it seems, won this time, so, before finding an old treasure, best make sure nobody can track their lineage to original owners.
** Salvage laws can be so incomprehensibly torturous that there are several very valuable wrecks whose locations are known today that have not been recovered because the value of the booty would be
* A Letter of Marque is basically a government license to plunder and act like a pirate. It's even explicitly authorized in the US Constitution! Though, spoil-sports in the 19th century agreed not to authorize them any more, and it is considered a war crime today.
**For which advancement they substituted by using submariners on naval pay which were to small to carry prisoners, to fragile to stay on the surface long enough to collect a prize, and satisfied to fight for destruction rather then plunder.
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