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{{trope}}
[[File:“Adventuress”, painting by Edward Mason Eggleston, 1929.jpg|thumb|350px|''Queen of the Dock'', by Edward Mason Eggleston, 1929]]
{{quote|<poem>''"So all you females just put your swords down''
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A subtrope of [[Pirate]], ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|Captain]] [[Captain Obvious|Obvious, anyone?]]).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Revy from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is a modern-day female pirate.
* The anime ''[[Sol Bianca]]'' features a pirate ship with an ''[[Amazon Brigade|all female]]'' crew.
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* Marika Kato from ''[[Bodacious Space Pirates]]''. Also Chiaki Kurihara, {{spoiler|daughter of the captain of Barbarossa}}, though it doesn't show.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* The pirates in ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'', as should be obvious from the comic's name.
* ''[[El Cazador (comics)|El Cazador]]'''s main character becomes a pirate after another the pirate captain Blackjack Tom attacks the ship she's on, killing most of the passengers.
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* Tess Bannister from the "Pirate Hearts" strip in ''Penthouse Men's Adventure Comix''.
* Sarawak Sally was the leader of a band of Southeast Asian river pirates in ''[[G.I. Joe]] Special Missions'' #4.
* Hepzibah from the Starjammers, a band of [[Space Pirates]] in ''[[X-Men(Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' and other books in the [[Marvel Universe]].
* ''[[Dread Mac Farlane]]'', a French comic about a girl who goes to Neverland and grows up among the Lost Boys (let's not explore exactly how she, y'know, GROWS UP in Neverland), then leaves them to join Captain Hook and his crew in the exciting life of a pirate.
* ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]'' gave us the Sklarian Raiders; an [[Amazon Brigade]] of Space Pirates.
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* The mercenaries stow away on a pirate ship with an all-female crew in ''[[Skullkickers]]'' #13.
* [[Superman]] briefly encountered Barracuda, a female pirate turned magically-empowered superhero, when she and her partner Swordfish were transposed into the 20th Century. He was fascinated to learn that her real name was Abigail Kent, and speculated on the possibility that she was a distant relation of his adopted family.
* In the ''[[Marauders]]'' series, the title characters are a splinter group of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' who have become a modern-day [[Lovable Rogue]] pirates in order to defend mutantkind via the trade routes; the crew does have male members, but as far as this Trope is concerned, Kitty, Emma Frost, Callisto, and [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Storm]] qualify.
== [[Film]] ==
* Elizabeth from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' seems to have become a Pirate Girl. To the point that she becomes [[She Is the King|the Pirate King]].
** ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'''s character list also includes [http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Anamaria Anamaria], who is apparently a no - nonsense [[Lady of War]] type.
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* In the 2003 ''[[Peter Pan (film)|Peter Pan]]'', Wendy considers an offer to be a pirate on Hook's ship, though she eventually turns it down.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[The Pyrates]]'', a novel that's an [[Affectionate Parody]] of most pirate-movie tropes has a
▲== Literature ==
▲* ''[[The Pyrates]]'', a novel that's an [[Affectionate Parody]] of most pirate-movie tropes has a pirate queen (itself a common term for this type of character).
* Belit, the female pirate captain from the ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]]'' story "[[Queen of the Black Coast]]."
** Also Valeria from ''[[Red Nails]]''.
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* Ezri Delmastro and Zamira Drakasha, both from ''Red Seas under Red Skies'', the second book in Scott Lynch's [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] series.
* Elena Dugan (Lady Galbraith) from ''[[The Seas of Fionnghuala]]''.
* ''[[The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster]]'' claims pirates in general are [[The Chosen One]]s and that genders among them are more or less equal. Naturally, this is a case of [[Politically-Correct History]], but then, [[Parody Religion| not much in the book really makes sense.]]
=== Magazines ===▼
* Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart. The story of Gunpowder Gertie was told as an April fools joke in the local Kootenay area newspaper, the ''Kootenay Review''. So many people believed that it was true that it was later retold as historical fact on the CBC program, ''This Day in History''.▼
== [[Live
* Mary Rose from ''[[Queen of Swords]]'' is an ex-pirate.
* Nebula from ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''.
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* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' there is Vala Maldoran who is a pirate/thief and acts like a child. Then in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' there is Larrin of the travellers who, while maybe not technically a pirate all the time, sure acts like one in her first appearance.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Magazines ==
▲* Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart. The story of Gunpowder Gertie was told as an April fools joke in the local Kootenay area newspaper, the ''Kootenay Review''. So many people believed that it was true that it was later retold as historical fact on the CBC program, ''This Day in History''.
▲== Music ==
* Emilie Autumn has always had one pirate captain since the first Asylum tour in 2007. The first was Captain Vecona who was also the Asylum seamstress and left the Bloody Crumpets after the first 2008 tour. The second was Captain Maggot who took over in fall 2008, she appears to be far more popular of a captain owing to her more pirate-y feel including being a drunkard who speaks like a pirate and having a costume that looks more like a pirate. She also is a circus performer in the real world, during the tours she stilt walks and hula-hoops...Mind you EA's shows take place in a Victorian asylum...
* The [[S.J. Tucker]] album ''Sirens'' includes three songs called "The Wendy Trilogy". The Wendy Trilogy is a retelling of the ''[[Peter Pan|Peter and Wendy]]'' story, diverting from the original at the point where Captain Hook offers Wendy Darling the chance to become a pirate. In this version, Wendy accepts the offer and starts an adventure of her own.
* "The Worst Pirate Song," by Irish-American band Ceann, mocks this trope.
* [http://tomsmithonline.com Tom Smith]'s [[Filk]] "Hey, It's Can(n)on!" pointed out that [[Harry Potter|Hermione Granger's]] birthday is also "International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day," which inspires Harry to buy her a ship "and now [[
* Members of metal band Zed Yago had a pirate image, so naturally the singer Jutta Weinhold was the pirate girl of the band.
* [[Lindsey Stirling]] is dressed as a pirate in her video for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrutzRWXkKs "Master of Tides"].
** Stirling also considers pirates to be a kind of spiritual totem symbolizing individuality and determination, and visualizes herself as a pirate as a way of motivating herself to overcome obstacles in her life. It's a big enough thing for her that she entitled her autobiography ''The Only Pirate at the Party''.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* Lai Choi San, the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Dragon Lady]], from ''[[Terry and the Pirates]]''.
* Sala, leader of the Sky Band, an [[Amazon Brigade|all-female]] gang of [[Sky Pirates]], in ''[[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]]''.
* The Sea Hag from ''[[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]]''.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[http://www.sjgames.com/spanc/ Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls!]'' which is actually titled starting with its naughty-sounding acronym: [[SPANC: Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls]], a very [[Fan Service]] game which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* The Satyxis of the ''[[Iron Kingdoms]]'' setting are a whole island-nation of [[Cute Monster Girl|Sexy Monster Pirate Girls]], of whom the best known is the Pirate Queen and Cryx warcaster Skarre Ravenmane. The mercenary privateer faction of ''[[
* Several of fantasy RPG artist Clyde Caldwell's paintings have been of female pirates.
** [[media:Clyde Caldwell - Female Pirate 01.jpg|Female Pirate 01]] (original version of the page image)
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* Synthre, a runaway alien princess and member of the Galatic Marauders, a band of [[Space Pirates]] in the ''[[Champions]]'' sourcebook ''Alien Enemies''.
* ''[[7th Sea]]'' contains several. The most famous is probably "Bloody" Bonnie McGee, first mate of the Sea Dogs.
* ''[[Pathfinder (tabletop game)|Pathfinder]]'' has Besmara, the ''goddess'' of pirates, strife, and sea monsters.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has the Solar pirate queen Ocean Pearl, plus...well...most likely any female Exalt to get started in the West. Of course, they need to dye their hair red, join the Tya, or be a bit careful because the West throngs with storm mothers who hate all women more beautiful than themselves (i.e. anyone other than a withered old crone who's just had an acid bath) and make their displeasure clear with terrible weather, but since Exalts > Gods/Elementals, this issue can probably be solved by kicking the storm mothers' collective butts until they knock it off, or using Sail Charms to make overcoming the storms far less difficult.
* Crossing over with [[Ghost Pirate]] is ''[[Ravenloft]]'s'' Pietra von Riese, Darklord of the Sea of Sorrows (5th Edition only). A cruel woman and captain of the pirate ship ''Relentless'', she was known for keel-hauling or hanging her victims and ''never'' removing their corpses, keeping them like ghastly trophies. Her ship was sunk by a rival crew, and she is now damned and cursed to forever haunt the Sea of Sorrow, hopelessly lost and, aside from the rotting sea zombies her crew and victims have become, alone.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* There's a play called ''Scavenger Hunt (Aargh! Avast Ye!)'' which concerned a retired Pirate Lady and her daughter, who [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]ed her way on to a ship to search for a [[MacGuffin]] her mother and some friends had encountered in the past.
* We can't forget Ruth, the piratical maid of all work, from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''.
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* ''[[The Pirate Queen]]'' is a musical written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. It is based on the life and adventures of the 17th century Irish chieftain and pirate Grace O'Malley.
* ''Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates'' by Bill Francoeur.
== [[Toys]] ==
* [[New Gods|Big Barda]] is re-imagined as a [[Space Pirate]] in the ''Ame-Comi'' Girls line of PVC statues from DC Direct.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* Aika and the other female Blue Rogues in ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]''.
* Faris/{{spoiler|[[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Sarisa]]}} from ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''.
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** One of the most famous post-Rebellion krogan warlords (read: pirates) was a fertile female named Shiagur; thanks to the genophage, fertile females are exceptionally rare, and she used her status to raise a major fleet. Then she started setting up bases, attacking colonies, and in general doing things pirates ought to do. She's very seriously dead by the time the game rolls around, though, thanks to the highly-unamused turian fleets.
* Tetra/{{spoiler|Zelda}} in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' actually captains a pirate ship, and she inherited her crew and command from her mother. The Gerudo pirates in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]'' certainly count, as does Jolene from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|Phantom Hourglass]]''.
* The [[Play Station 3]] release of ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' has a [[Token
** Predated by Chat from ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'', another [[Token
* The pirate ship Dolce from ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'' is named after its female captain, who you encounter in chapter 4. You fight her again later, and maybe a third time. And even a fourth time is possible if you're playing on Encore Mode, the game's version of [[New Game+]].
* "Cap'n" Ginny of ''[[My Sims]]'' is obessed with pretending to be a pirate, and her best friend (boyfriend?) goes along with it. By ''[[My Sims]] Kingdom'', she's moved on to a new profession, but her old obsession is still referenced by Vic Vector when you give him a figurine of her.
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* Terra from ''[[Ys]]''.
* Kisala from ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''. [[Hot Amazon|Lilika]] too, once she joins the crew.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161229033828/http://s111111919.onlinehome.us/shantae/ShantaePromo_RiskyGunPose.JPG Risky Boots], the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Shantae]]''.
* Tawni Balfour, one of the heroes in ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] IV''.
** Regna Island was ''crawling'' with female pirate crossbowmen, as well as female inhabitants evidently not restricted to wenchy stuff (note that Regna is a [[Planet of Hats|nation of pirates]], so if you are not in the support business you'd be in the pirate business).
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* Miss Fortune from ''[[League of Legends]]'' is strictly speaking a pirate ''hunter'' though you wouldn't be able to tell. Her abilities include "Strut" and "Make It Rain" (''[[More Dakka|bullets]]'').
* Isabela from the ''[[Dragon Age]]'' series. She's an NPC that teaches the Duelist specialty for rogue classes in the first game, but gets upgraded to party member and [[Bi the Way|love interest]] in the second.
* ''[[Fate Extra]]'' features a [[Gender
* Kooh from ''[[Pangya]]'' is this, along with being a ''[[Panty Shot|shimapan]]''-wearing Loli [[Little Miss Badass]] voiced by [[Rie Kugimiya]] for maximum moe points.
* Sally from ''[[Exit Fate]]''. Might also be exaggerated, since she's "just" a young girl who owns her own ship. Her grandfather had been a famous [[Pirate]], but she herself isn't an actual one- just acts like one, complete with an accent.
* Gina Benvesta from the [[H-game]] ''[[Kuutei Senki]]'': a bisexual veteran [[Sky Pirate|pirate airship captain]]. Also, [[Hot Mom]] with four kids.
* Elisha in ''[[Gloria Union]]''. Occupation-wise, however, all playable females are this due to the nature of the party.
* Kyrin from ''[[MapleStory]]'', captain of [[Cool Ship|the ''Nautilus'']]. She is a [[Submarine Pirates|Submarine Pirate]], occasional [[Sky Pirate]], and the Job Instructor for Explorer Pirates. Also, Angelic Buster and Jett are [[Always Female]] class who is considered the Pirate Class. And of course, and female Explorer PC who takes the Pirate class.
* Red Lotus, the female playable character in ''[[Deathtrap Dungeon]]'', although [[Informed Ability| we can onlt assume that.]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''[[I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space]]''.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has Bangladesh Dupree, Pirate Queen, [[Knife Nut]] and all-around [[Ax Crazy]].
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* Foglio's ''[[What's New with Phil and Dixie]]'' in its ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' days [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205658/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20090308 depicted] semi-retired characters, including [http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159253 Benalish Hero] turned into a Pirate Queen and converting the [[Island Base]] into a resort.
* ''[[Curvy]]'' features a pirate ship with a female captain and multigender crew.
* One ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' had Haley wondering if she'd rather be a pirate or a ninja. Her answer? "Pirate. Definitely pirate."
* ''[[The Legend of Anne Bunny]]''.
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'': In the ''Pirates'' theme, has Wendy Wenchgood, who is a better pirate than most of the men on the ship.
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* ''[[Boobs Ahoy]]!''
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20161009011053/http://www.elfwood.com/u/andersson2/image/52460240-23da-11e4-9fb0-6fd3a883da45/patched-up-matey Patched Up Matey]" -- the entire crew. This season eye patches be fashionable, yarr!
* Demonstrated by Shannancy in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HnCwl5rjA this] catchy ''[[Adam the Alien]]'' video. The cleavage always wins.
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* "[http://jkrolak.deviantart.com/art/Skipper-Kaja-Foglio-533727024 The Buccanner Beauty]" (commission by Kaja Foglio) - a ''[[Fairy Sexy|fairy]]'' pirate girl. That's much the same, except with wings and [[Pirate Parrot|parrots]] need not apply (except under good sauce).
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* Female members of [[La Résistance]] (which tends to call itself 'pirates') in ''[[Skyland]]''.
* On ''[[Muppet Babies]]'', the kids pretended to be treasure hunters and encountered a trio of female "pirettes".
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{{quote|"Prepare to be [[Malaproper|bored!]]"}}
* [[Dark Action Girl|Captain Hardrock]], a [[Villain of the Week]] from Season 2 of ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'', an akuma victim with both a pirate and [[Power of Rock]] theme.
* Oona, the protagonist's not-so-wicked stepmother in ''[[Disenchantment]]''. In season two, she is picked up by pirates [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything| who aren't doing anything]] because their captain never gives them any orders. After Oona shows them what they should be doing - pillaging, plundering, and drinking lots of rum after doing so - she becomes their first mate, and later captain after the one they have resigns.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The infamous [[Anne Bonny]] (or Bonney), aka Anne of the Indies. She got her own movie, too, besides getting a guest shot in ''[[The Spanish Main]]''.
** And her companion in crime, [[wikipedia:Mary Read|Mary Read]].
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