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* The Disney live-action movie version of ''[[Swiss Family Robinson]]'' features pirates who must be fought to free a [[Sweet Polly Oliver|female captive]], if only to provide a [[Love Interest]] for the two oldest sons to bicker over.

* Both iterations of ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix]]'' feature a fight between the crew of the downed aircraft and an appropriate group of hostile local scavengers.

* In the comedy ''[[Top Secret]]'', Nigel was shipwrecked on a desert island. One day while fishing he was picked up by a passing freighter and [[Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)|gang raped by the male crew, but it turned out that he liked it]].

* In the comedy ''[[Top Secret]]'', Nigel was shipwrecked on a desert island. One day while fishing he was picked up by a passing freighter and [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)|gang raped by the male crew, but it turned out that he liked it]].

* ''[[Air America]]'': When the pilots played by Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. crash-land on an abandoned air strip in the middle of the jungle, rescue is swift in coming. Except that said "rescue" simply claims their cargo (which turned out to contain smuggled heroin) and leaves them to their fate.

== Literature ==

* [[Older Than Radio]]: In the original ''[[~~Robinson Crusoe (Literature)|~~Robinson Crusoe]]'', the first European ship to arrive to the island (eventually rescuing Robinson) is one where the crew has mutinied, and they are described as "pirates" in the [[Long Title]] of the novel.

* [[Older Than Radio]]: In the original ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'', the first European ship to arrive to the island (eventually rescuing Robinson) is one where the crew has mutinied, and they are described as "pirates" in the [[Long Title]] of the novel.

* In two Robinson-esque novels by [[Jules Verne]], ''[[The Mysterious Island]]'' and ''~Two Years' Vacation~'', again the first ships to arrive to the islands are pirate ships.

* In the novel ''[[This Perfect Day]]'' by Ira Levin, Chip and Lilac find an "abandoned" boat and use it to try to escape for an island outside of the control of the supercomputer that rules the world. The first ship from the island they come across claims to be a service to rescue new "immigrants" from the mainland, but actually, the guy pulls a gun on them, steals their ship, and dumps them overboard into the sea to drown. They're rescued a few minutes later by the real immigrant rescue boat, however.

* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'', Hiro and the Mafia [[Mooks|goons]] get a boat sunk out from under them by an ex-Soviet missile submarine, and have to turn the tables on a shipload of pirates that comes to steal their liferaft and kidnap them and sell them into slavery.

* In the original novel ''[[Swiss Family Robinson]]'' by Johann Wyss, the same pirates who forced the ship onto the rocks in the first place (stranding the titular family on the island) come back, and have to be scared off by the ingenious use of a quarantine flag.

* The first installment of [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[~~Bio of a Space Tyrant (Literature)|~~Bio of a Space Tyrant]]'' revolves around this happening [[It Got Worse|again and again]] to the refugee ship carrying hero Hope Hubris and his ever-dwindling family.

* The first installment of [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Bio of a Space Tyrant]]'' revolves around this happening [[It Got Worse|again and again]] to the refugee ship carrying hero Hope Hubris and his ever-dwindling family.

* Used no less than three times in Michael Reaves' ''[[The Shattered World]]'', every time a main character goes adrift in the Void between fragments. When Beorn falls into the Void naked, he is menaced by a winged vampire; he lures it in, claiming to prefer a quick death, then gets it in a stranglehold and forces it to fly him to land. When Beorn and Amber are struggling to cross the sea on a tiring gryphon, their steed is netted by a shipload of dragon-hunters, who demand the gryphon and Beorn's manual labor if they're to carry the pair to safety, not dump them overboard. Finally, flashbacks reveal that when Amber and her husband Tahrynyar are cast up on Darkhaven in a storm, Pandrogas the sorcerer saves them both, but ends up stealing Tahrynyar's one remaining possession of value: Amber herself, with whom the sorcerer has an affair.

** Used again in the sequal, ''[[The Burning Realm]]''. When Mirrim the werewolf is left stranded alone on Stonebrow's vacated isle, the first others to arrive are pirates, whom she fools into thinking ''she's'' the resident sorceress. When an assassin is trapped in a cavern on the rim of a fragment, the being that "rescues" her is a cacodaemon, which carries her off to slavery. Reaves sure likes this trope.

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* The first episode of the TV series ''[[Crusoe]]'' features the titular castaway being threatened by pirates/escaped convicts, as well as the corrupt Spanish jailers who are after them.

* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' episode "[http://tinyurl.com/4gj59w Many Happy Returns]". Number 6 escapes the Village on a raft and encounters a fishing boat whose crew steals his belongings. He ends up fighting them and eventually captures them.

* ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]'' had an episode where the Xindi brutally attack and leave the ''Enterprise'' without warp travel, making their mission hopeless. Subverted here because fortunately for them a warp ship from an explorer minor race comes by. They try to negotiate a trade for engine parts, but when the other ship's refuse, they steal engine parts by force, so it's the minor race against what should be the good guys. Even though they try to lessen the blow by giving them supplies so they can get back home, [[What the Hell, Hero?|the aliens tell them they're still assholes]].

* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' had an episode where the Xindi brutally attack and leave the ''Enterprise'' without warp travel, making their mission hopeless. Subverted here because fortunately for them a warp ship from an explorer minor race comes by. They try to negotiate a trade for engine parts, but when the other ship's refuse, they steal engine parts by force, so it's the minor race against what should be the good guys. Even though they try to lessen the blow by giving them supplies so they can get back home, [[What the Hell, Hero?|the aliens tell them they're still assholes]].

** In another episode, Voyager becomes trapped in an area of space which has dozens of ships trapped inside it, which raid each other for supplies and parts to keep running.

* ''[[Andromeda]]'' (this is what the Eureka Maru is originally trying to do.)

* Georgi LaForge ran into a crew of Pakled pirates once in ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Next Generation]]''. ("We are far from home.")

* Georgi LaForge ran into a crew of Pakled pirates once in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. ("We are far from home.")

== Music ==