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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.
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* Technically, the entire female cast of ''[[Vandread]]''.
* Chacha from ''[[Basara]]''
* ''[[Love Flag Girls]]'' is a [[Yuri]] work focusing on a main character who enrolls on a pirate ship [[
* Seychelles from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' is sometimes drawn/written this way in fan work. In a show with several of the male characters given the pirate treatment, she is notable for being the only female to be cast in this light (that this troper is aware of, anyway, and excluding genderbends).
** Portugal's female concept art, at the top [http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/26500000/Portugal-hetalia-26585080-500-1796.jpg here], shows this very heavily as well, complete with scars and a sword.
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* 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.
** The original [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]] ride itself has a painting in the skeleton caves implying this is what happened to the Redhead.
** There's also Mistress Cheng, though she's past Pirate Girlhood and is more of a Pirate Lady.
** In the fourth movie we have Angelica, a [[Badass Spaniard]] who is Jack Sparrow's [[New Old Flame]].
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* Has anyone mentioned Captain Morgan Adams, played by Geena Davis in ''[[Cutthroat Island]]''? Although, technically, she's a Pirate ''Hunter''.
* In ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'', Ellis Ashley Flyte, the wife of Brian Henson (the film's producer and director) gives an uncredited appearance as Big Fat Ugly Bug-Faced Baby-Eating O'Brian (a female ship's crew mate seen only during the Roll Call scene).
* Jean Peters played a pirate woman called "Anne Providence" in ''Anne of the Indies'' (1951); Binnie Barnes played Anne Bonney in ''The Spanish Main'' (1945); Hope Emerson played her in ''Double Crossbones'' (1951); Sonia Sorell played her in ''Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl'' (1954); and Lorna Bennett played her in ''[[
* The second ''[[Asterix]]'' movie included a female pirate for absolutely no reason whatsoever, even making her the Captain's daughter.
* The 2005 big budget pornographic film ''Pirates'' (also known as ''[[Pirates XXX]]'') starred Janine Lindemulder as Serena, the <s>viscous</s>vicious first mate of the [[Big Bad]] Captain Eric Victor Stagnetti, and Jesse Jane as Jules, her good guy counterpart among the pirate hunters.
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== 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]]''.
* Mary "Jacky" Faber, from the young adult novel, ''[[Bloody Jack]]'', and its sequels.
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* ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy|I, Jedi]]'' gives us Captain Tyresi Gurtt, Caet Shrovl, Timmser, and [[Complete Monster]] [[Big Bad]] Leonia Tavira.
* Ezri Delmastro and Zamira Drakasha, both from ''Red Seas under Red Skies'', the second book in Scott Lynch's [[Gentleman Bastard]] series.
* Elena Dugan (Lady Galbraith) from ''[[The Seas
== Live Action Television ==
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* 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]]''.
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* ''[[Curvy]]'' features a pirate ship with a female captain and multigender crew.
* One ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' had Haley wondering if she'd rather be a pirate or a ninja. Her answer? "Pirate. Definitely pirate."
* ''[[The Legend
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'': In the ''Pirates'' theme, has Wendy Wenchgood, who is a better pirate than most of the men on the ship.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' when elementary schoolgirl Jaya [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980707 wants to join Bun-Bun's makeshift pirate crew].
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== Web Original ==
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* Demonstrated by Shannancy in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HnCwl5rjA this] catchy ''[[Adam
* Ridiath plays this role in ''[[Guts and Sass|Guts and Sass: An Anti-Epic]]'', where she has been mentored and trained by the pirate crew into not being useless.
* "[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).
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* 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".
* Kim, the 18 year old niece of Captain Barnibus Crab in ''[[Flipper
* Princess Bula in ''[[
* Tula from ''[[Pirates of Dark Water]]''.
* On ''[[Rugrats]]'', there was an [[Imagine Spot]] (stemming from a game of make-believe) where the babies were pirates. Naturally, [[Dark Action Girl|Angelica]] plays the role of the evil pirate captain.
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