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* Played with in a ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' fillerarc, where a [[Pirate Girl]] named Shura finds self forced to pull a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] so she will have her men's respect. Kenshin, as the good [[Warrior Therapist]] he is, helps her out with it.
* Who could forget [[Leiji Matsumoto]]'s ''[[Queen Emeraldas]]''?
* Is it not worth mentioning that in the various ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' continuities, [[Harem Genre|there are more named female space pirate characters than male ones]]? Not to mention one in the main cast (Ryoko).
** The spinoff series ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' also has a space pirate girl in the main cast. Who's also named Ryoko. But not the same Ryoko; she was named after the original, who's roughly [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|5000 years older]] and a legend in the space pirate community.
* Technically, the entire female cast of ''[[Vandread]]''.
* Chacha from ''[[Basara]]''
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* 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.
* Marika Kato from ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* The pirates in ''[[Y:
* ''[[El Cazador (
* [[
* Cixi joins an all-female pirate crew in her spinoff of ''[[Lanfeust]]'', ''[[Cixi De Troy]]''.
* Ann Preston from the ''[[House of Mystery]]''.
* The most recent [[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]] comic ''1910'' features Captain Nemo's daughter Janni who becomes the "[[
* ''[[Polly and The Pirates]]'' is an indie miniseries entirely focused on this concept.
* Denise Lafitte, daughter of French pirate Jean Lafitte in Italian comic book ''[[Zagor]]''.
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* ''[[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.
* Sjörövar-Jenny from ''[[Bamse]]'' ''seems'' to be this, being a young woman in piratical garb who is a skilled cutlass fencer and sailor, but she is merely the daughter of a rather eccentric scholar obsessed with pirates and pirate treasure, and takes after him. (Her name, of course, [[Shout-Out|references]] the "[[
* In ''[[Wonder Woman]]'', the "Silver Serpent" saga featured an all female cadre of [[Space Pirates]] who travel from planet to planet to steal that world's technology, recruit a small group of the females for membership and the remainder of the planet's people for food stock.
* Scarlet Fever, from the second ''[[Lady Rawhide]]'' miniseries; a spin-off from Topps ''[[Zorro]]'' series.
* Captain Bloodhawke from ''[[The Warlord]]''.
* Sangre, a member of Scar's Raiders in [[The Ultraverse]].
* The ''[[
* Featured in ''[[Rawbone]]''.
* ''[[Red Sonja]]'' has served as a pirate in her time.
* Tomorrow "Tommy" Hardtack of DC's ''[[Star Raiders (
* Long Jane Silver and her all-female crew in ''[[The Spirit]]''.
* Phondari, the Pirate Queen of Mars, from Dynamite Comics ''[[John Carter of Mars|Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris]]''.
* The mercenaries stow away on a pirate ship with an all-female crew in ''[[
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* 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 ''[[Film/Pirates|Pirates]]'' (1998).
* 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 ''[[
* Pirate Fritton from ''[[St Trinian's]] 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold''.
* ''[[Raggedy Ann and Andy A Musical Adventure|Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure]]'' has {{spoiler|prissy French doll Babette turn on her pirate captor, lock him in the brig, and take over his ship. [[Ear Worm|"Hooray for me! Babette of Gay Paree! Hooray for me! I'm Captain now you see!"]]}}
* In the 2003 ''[[Peter Pan (
== 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]]'' story "[[
** Also Valeria from ''[[
* Mary "Jacky" Faber, from the young adult novel, ''[[Bloody Jack]]'', and its sequels.
* Missee Lee, a Chinese woman pirate captain in ''Missee Lee'', part of the [[Swallows and Amazons]] series, by Arthur Ransome, although she is a slight subversion in that she never wanted to be a pirate. She is a frustrated Cambridge academic who was forced to become a pirate after her father's death.
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* Romsca is a fictional anthropomorphic ferret corsair the book ''Pearls of Lutra'' in Brian Jacques's [[Redwall]] series.
* Lazue in the [[Michael Chrichton]] novel ''Pirate Latitudes'', due in part to her having been raised as a boy.
* Appears in all its various forms in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[
* A semi-fictionalized account of the real-life pirate Ching Shih is given in ''[[Jorge Luis Borges]]'''s short story ''The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate''.
* The eponymous Miya Black, of ''[[Miya Black|Miya Black, Pirate Princess]]''.
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== Live Action Television ==
* Mary Rose from ''[[
* Nebula from ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''.
* Captain Wrack from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "Enlightenment".
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*** And the Captain from the CBBC ''[[Doctor Who/2007 TDWAS the Infinite Quest/Recap|The Infinite Quest]]'' cartoon.
** Amy Pond becomes one briefly (certainly in appearance, and with a reasonable amount of swashbuckling flair) in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32 E3 The Curse of the Black Spot|Curse of the Black Spot]]".
** In the [[Big Finish]] audio adventure ''[[Big Finish Doctor Who
* Connie Blackheart from ''[[Tales From The Poop Deck]]''.
* Being a pirate-based Sentai, ''[[
* In ''[[Stargate SG
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Lai Choi San, the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Dragon Lady]], from ''[[Terry and
* Sala, leader of the Sky Band, an [[Amazon Brigade|all-female]] gang of [[Sky Pirates]], in ''[[The Phantom (
* The Sea Hag from ''[[Popeye]]''.
== 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
* 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 ''[[War Machine]]'' has several playable female character models, including the Thamarite pirate captain Fiona the Black.
* Several of fantasy RPG artist Clyde Caldwell's paintings have been of female pirates.
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** Azla fits "[[Dark and Troubled Past]]" part. She was a noble and a Cormyrean army officer, but came across a Zhent party bigger than her patrol could handle and ran. In self-exile, she became a pirate, then her high-end training kicked in and soon she was one of the most influential captains on the Pirate Isles, raiding Sembian targets (Cormyr's in a cold war with Sembia). She appeared in ''The Threat from the Sea''.
** Liriel Baenre was a ship mage on a pirate ship once, but almost accidentally. At first the crew didn't think that a female(!!!) drow(!!) elf(!) on board was a good idea, but they didn't have much choice anyway.
* ''[[
* Synthre, a runaway alien princess and member of the Galatic Marauders, a band of [[Space Pirates]] in the ''[[Champions]]'' sourcebook ''Alien Enemies''.
* ''[[Seventh Sea|7th Sea]]'' contains several. The most famous is probably "Bloody" Bonnie McGee, first mate of the Sea Dogs.
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* There's a play called ''Scavenger Hunt (Aargh! Avast Ye!)'' which concerned a retired Pirate Lady and her daughter, who [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Sweet Polly Olivered]] 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]]''.
* In ''[[
* Loof Merrow of the ''[[Sera Myu]]'' who was featured in the Kagyua Island musicals. She's a pirate, and a princess, who's been [[Human Popsicle|frozen in Ice]] for the last 5000 years, and is after the Silver Crystal to restore her Kingdom of Artuka which was destroyed by a tidal wave when they asked Princess Serenity to change the earth's orbit so the comet Coatl wouldn't hit it. And she's only out of the ice because the comet and its inhabitants have returned and are Seeking revenge on [[Sailor Moon]] .... confused yet?
* ''[[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.
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== Video Games ==
* Aika and the other female Blue Rogues in ''[[
* Faris/{{spoiler|[[Everything's Better
** And before Faris, there was Leila in ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]''.
** Given that she works with known [[Sky Pirate]] [[Lovable Rogue|Balthier]], we can probably add Fran from ''[[
* Captain Syrup from the ''[[
* Shark, from ''[[Gunbird]] 2''.
* Piracy is on [[Ax Crazy|Jack's]] list of crimes in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', but it isn't any more prominent than things like [[Kill It
** If you talk to her, she'll suggest that after the Collector business is over, you should take the ''Normandy'' and go pirate yourself - you can be the captain, and she'll be the [[Stuff Blowing Up|master of arms]], [[Ax Crazy|and do executions]].
** 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 [[
** Predated by Chat from ''[[
* 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.
* ''[http://www.moonpod.com/English/about_pirateprincess.php Pirate Princess]''
* ''[[Lost Odyssey]]'': Seth.
* Elisabet Ramsey of ''[[
* Though Morgan [[Incredibly Lame Pun|LeFlay]] from ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' fits the description of this trope, she is '''not''' actually a pirate (this is even a plot point).
** Elaine and Carla (from the [[Monkey Island|previous games]]), however, are.
* Ruby Heart from ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2
* Bonne Jenet from ''[[Fatal Fury]]''
* Terra from ''[[
* Kisala from ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]''. [[Hot Amazon|Lilika]] too, once she joins the crew.
* [http://s111111919.onlinehome.us/shantae/ShantaePromo_RiskyGunPose.JPG Risky Boots], the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Shantae]]''.
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* Captain Rose from ''[[Zack and Wiki]]''
* The Piranas clan from ''[[Urban Rivals]]'' is full of half-dressed pirate babes.
* Ann Sireina from ''[[Endless Frontier|Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier]]'' is the Captain of the submarine Silent Vox, and wields a pair of [[Hand Cannon|handcannon]]-[[Dual Tonfas|tonfas]]. She's a buxom [[Our Mermaids Are Different|half-]][[Everything's Even Worse
* A lady pirate appears at the end of Captain Brickbeard's story in ''[[Lego Battles]]''.
* A... slightly drunk... lady pirate... is included in ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier]]''. No, she only appears once and is just a background character.
* Catalina Erantzo, one of the six protagonists of ''[[
** Catalina is almost a complete inversion of the standard trope, though: she's already a captain in the Spanish Armada by the time she decides to become a pirate.
* Red from ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''.
* Jane Starling from ''[[Ghost
* [[Nelly Cootalot]] is a somewhat... [[Playing
* Margrid the Sly from ''[[Guild Wars]]''.
* Kika from ''[[Suikoden IV]]''.
* Anne from ''[[Dubloon]]''.
* Captain Silver from ''[[Romancing
* Sophia "Riptide" de Medici from ''[[Eternal Champions]]: Challenge from the Dark Side''.
* 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]]'').
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* ''[[Fate Extra]]'' features a [[Gender Flipped]] Sir Francis Drake as a Rider-class Servant. Let that sink in for a moment.
* 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 ''[[
* 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.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[I Was Kidnapped
* ''[[
** And she's a ''[[Sky Pirate]]''. With ''[[Zeppelins
** And {{spoiler|Sanaa Tryggvassen}} [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100322 once] "kind of got elected ''queen''" of sea pirates. On a ''mechanical narwhal''.
* Foglio's ''[[What's New
* ''[[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 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.
* [[Playing
{{quote| '''Bun-Bun:''' Little girls can't be pirates! What do you know about robbing and plundering?<br />
'''Jaya:''' Well, my dad's an investment banker and my mom's a lawyer ...<br />
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* "[http://andersson.elfwood.com/Patched-Up-Matey.2524390.html Patched Up Matey]" -- the entire crew. This season eyepatches be fashionable, yarr!
* Demonstrated by Shannancy in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HnCwl5rjA this] catchy ''[[Adam The Alien]]'' video. The cleavage always wins.
* Ridiath plays this role in ''[[
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