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[[Diabolical Mastermind~~|Diabolical Masterminds~~]] have the [[Right-Hand-Cat]]. [[Pirate]] Captains have the [[Pirate Parrot]]. Expect these colorful feathered companions to [[Polly Wants a Microphone|be chatty and demand crackers]]. Pirate Parrots usually [[Parrot Pet Position|ride on the shoulder of their pirate owner]].

[[Diabolical Mastermind]]s have the [[Right-Hand-Cat]]. [[Pirate]] Captains have the '''Pirate Parrot'''. Expect these colorful feathered companions to [[Polly Wants a Microphone|be chatty and demand crackers]]. Pirate Parrots usually [[Parrot Pet Position|ride on the shoulder of their pirate owner]].

The parrot may or may not:

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* Amazingly, ''[[One Piece]]'' has, up to yet, averted this, despite being all about pirates. And considering the series' track record. If one ever showed up, it will be the single most awesome parrot ever seen. The closest to this tope thus far is Doma's, one of Whitebeard's New World allies, trained [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|gun-using]] Monkey.

* The manga ''[[Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam|Crossbone Gundam]]'' gives [[The Captain]] a robot parrot as part of their fully embracing the "pirate" part of [[Space Pirate]]. Said parrot spouts random lines that [[Shout-Out|reference]] older ''[[Gundam]]'' works, leading to the [[Epileptic Trees|theory]] that it was made from [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Amuro Ray's]] [[Team Pet]] and ''Gundam'' [[Series Mascot]] Haro.

* [[Captain Harlock]], as a proud [[Space Pirate]], owns not a parrot but a strange alien ~~bird -- with~~ black feathers, a long beak and a thread-thin ~~neck -- that~~ pretty much cover the same role, up to mimicking human speech and sometimes riding on his shoulder.

* [[Captain Harlock]], as a proud [[Space Pirate]], owns not a parrot but a strange alien bird—with black feathers, a long beak and a thread-thin neck—that pretty much cover the same role, up to mimicking human speech and sometimes riding on his shoulder.

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* [[Deadpool]] forced Bob to wear a parrot costume and squawk like a parrot during their short stint as pirates.

* [[Ruthless Modern Pirates|Ruthless modern pirate]] Mojo in the story "How Daphne lost her Mojo (and got it back!)" in the graphic novel ''Sex Ed 101'' by Enrique Villagran, has a parrot who comments on the action.

* Matilda in ''Randomveus'' has a large pet ~~parrot -- that~~ somehow has a mustache.

* Matilda in ''Randomveus'' has a large pet parrot—that somehow has a mustache.

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== Gamebooks ==

* In book 4 of the ''[[Grail Quest]]'' series, ''Voyage of Terror'', while lost in Mythological Ancient Greece, you can meet with [[Treasure Island|Long John Silver]] ~~-- or~~ at least a pirate pretending to be him. He naturally has a parrot on his shoulder. However, if you decide to fight him, you'll find out that the parrot is a rare breed that's indeed one of the [[Killer Rabbit|thoughest monsters of the book]].

* In book 4 of the ''[[Grail Quest]]'' series, ''Voyage of Terror'', while lost in Mythological Ancient Greece, you can meet with [[Treasure Island|Long John Silver]]—or at least a pirate pretending to be him. He naturally has a parrot on his shoulder. However, if you decide to fight him, you'll find out that the parrot is a rare breed that's indeed one of the [[Killer Rabbit|thoughest monsters of the book]].

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* Parodied in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'' with the Reacher Gilt's pirate costume ("That was a Look, wasn't it?") including a parrot (well, a cockatoo) that says "twelve and a half percent" (i.e. 1/8).

* The pirate Littlejohn in [[James Thurber]]'s ''The Wonderful O'' has a parrot that annoys the book's [[Big Bad]] (by [[It Makes Sense in Context|using words containing the letter "O"]]); notable for repeatedly being on the receiving end of the memorable threat, "I'll squck its thrug till all it can whubble is geep!"

* Although the Free Traders of [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Solar Queen'' series are not ~~pirates -- more~~ of unorthodox merchants, still their captain owns a small alien animal which looks like half-parrot-half-toad. That in addition to more conventional ship-cat.

* Although the Free Traders of [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Solar Queen'' series are not pirates—more of unorthodox merchants, still their captain owns a small alien animal which looks like half-parrot-half-toad. That in addition to more conventional ship-cat.

* Comic inversion: In the sequence that gave stand-up comedian Mike Hardin's book ''The Fourteen and a Half Pound Budgie'' its title, Hardin describes a parakeet that he's supposed to pet-sit as being "so nasty it had a ''pirate'' on its shoulder."

* Invoked in one of [[Timothy Zahn]]'s stories, but not with an animal: Marines in [[Powered Armor]] wore shoulder-mounted weapons, apparently slaved to aim wherever the wearer's eyes focused, known as "parrot guns".

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** An interviewer slowly turns into a Long John Silver impersonator, complete with quotes. On YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlN4Sh06po here].

** The "Confuse a Cat" sketch.

* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' episode "Flood" had a cutaway scene with a literal pirate DJ (Robbie Coltrane) whose parrot kept making sarcastic remarks. The problem was, he couldn't see where the remarks were coming from because he wore an ~~eyepatch -- and~~ he was a cyclops. When his bosun attempts to rightly blame the parrot for an insult, he denies owning one: "I hate the creatures! Horrible, small, furry things, hopping around, breeding and eating carrots!"

* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' episode "Flood" had a cutaway scene with a literal pirate DJ (Robbie Coltrane) whose parrot kept making sarcastic remarks. The problem was, he couldn't see where the remarks were coming from because he wore an eyepatch—and he was a cyclops. When his bosun attempts to rightly blame the parrot for an insult, he denies owning one: "I hate the creatures! Horrible, small, furry things, hopping around, breeding and eating carrots!"

* The ''[[Blackadder]]'' episode "Potato" guest-stars Tom Baker as Captain Rum. He's not a pirate, but he has a ''dead'' parrot lying on his shoulder.

* Navi the robotic parrot in ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''. Also the one responsible for leading the team towards the Greatest Treasure in the Universe through vague clues that only come about after she hits her head on the ceiling.

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** "The Mansion Family" has Homer borrowing a cruise ship from Mr. Burns, which is boarded by pirates. Their captain has an absurdly large number of parrots perched on him, and Homer's attempt to fight him merely knocks the parrots off his body one by one.

** And of course, Pirate Captains use to write their treasure maps on crackers and give them to their parrots for safe keepin'. That's why there is treasure everywhere... well, according to Bart anyway.

* An alien [[Space Pirate]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' has three ~~parrots -- on~~ three of his four shoulders.

* An alien [[Space Pirate]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' has three parrots—on three of his four shoulders.

* In ''[[Transformers]]'', Laserbeak, a robot condor, perches on the shoulder of whomever happens to be the Decepticon leader at the time. Usually, this means he occupies Megatron's shoulder, but he moves to Shockwave or Galvatron... but never [[The Starscream|Starscream]]: proof that all his treachery means nothing toward becoming leader. Step 1: Get the bird. Everything else falls into place.

** That bird defeated Optimus Prime and is nigh-undetectable. That is a damn important bird.

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** Also, one of the villains keeps a little parrot-like beast on his shoulder. In turn with the depiction of Merians using animals as devices, it is a living dictaphone, known as a "memorrot". What it knows becomes a plot point.

* On ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Patchy the Pirate has a parrot named Potty who he doesn't get along with at all.

* Young Blood in his pirate appearance in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has a skeletal one. Spent most of the time correcting pirate lingo and acting cynical. Later on, when he'd adopted a cowboy motif instead, it turned into a skeletal ~~horse -- apparently~~ it's a shapeshifter that assumes the form of whatever animal it finds most appropriate for whatever identity its master has assumed. But it's a [[Servile Snarker]] in any form.

* Young Blood in his pirate appearance in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has a skeletal one. Spent most of the time correcting pirate lingo and acting cynical. Later on, when he'd adopted a cowboy motif instead, it turned into a skeletal horse—apparently it's a shapeshifter that assumes the form of whatever animal it finds most appropriate for whatever identity its master has assumed. But it's a [[Servile Snarker]] in any form.

* Parodied in an episode in ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', in which a captain had a different bird on his shoulder everytime he was on camera (including a bucket of fried chicken at one point).

* In the 1947 Warner Bros. cartoon ''[[wikipedia:Buccaneer Bunny|Buccaneer Bunny]]'', "Sea-Goin' Sam" (a pirate version of Yosemite Sam) has a parrot that follows Bugs Bunny around pointing out his hiding places. Bugs asks the parrot "Polly want a cracker?", and when the parrot agrees, gives him a lit ''fire''cracker. Bye bye Polly!

* ''[[Family Guy]]'', episode "[[wikipedia:Long John Peter|Long John Peter]]". Peter steals a parrot and starts carrying it around with him. He starts dressing as a pirate, recruits three other pirates and starts terrorizing the town. His parrot is severely injured during the fighting and later dies at the veterinarian's office.

* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', "Odd-Pirates". Timmy, Poof, Wanda, and Cosmo encounter a pirate named Dirtybeard who is actually friendly but whose parrot is evil.

* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': Lazlo and his friends create a doll from canned meat, which gains sentience and attacks the campers in revenge by transforming into various ~~shapes -- one~~ of them being a pirate with a meat parrot on his shoulder.

* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': Lazlo and his friends create a doll from canned meat, which gains sentience and attacks the campers in revenge by transforming into various shapes—one of them being a pirate with a meat parrot on his shoulder.

* ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper's Scare School]]'': During Casper's trip to Scare School, he meets a blind pirate and his seeing eye parrot who sail a flying ship to pick up students.

* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'': In "Ben-Boozled", the captain masquerading as a parrot (in paper-thin disquise) becomes the pet of another pirate who thinks he is the most beautiful bird he's ever seen.