Captain Yellowbeard and the Polite Pirate

Captain Yellowbeard and the Polite Pirate

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He's a soldier from Academia, acts and looks like a pirate and even has a pirate-themed crew and a pirate-themed Lockdown deck. He is, ironically or not, defeated by a kraken-themed Monster Card. The Drunk Quest expansion The 90 Proof Seas is mostly pirate themed including ship cards the players can obtain and a Pirate class card.

Because of the shortage of food and medicine caused by the plague the Australian navy has turned to piracy—one of their spies even has an eyepatch. It later turns out that the Australians are actually trying to stop the pirates who are taking all the food in exchange for heroin. El Cazador was comic book from CrossGen. The Donessa is one of the few survivors of the attack. She swears to hunt down Tom and rescue his prisoners. To accomplish this, she re-names her ship El Cazador "The Hunter" and becomes a pirate herself, dubbed "Lady Sin" by her crew.

The remaining issues of the series detail the beginnings of Lady Sin's quest as she forsakes her privileged past for life on the high seas. In Watchmen , since superheroes exist people don't bother reading about them in comics, so instead pirate comics are popular. The type depicted in "Tales of the Black Freighter" are definitely Chaotic Evil , and both the one issue we're shown, and the other issues described, are squarely of the dark and horrific type.

Batman has been a pirate in at least two stories: Leatherwing and an upcoming story in the mini-series Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. The Spirit has Long Jane Silver and her all-female crew.

Empowered had the pirate-themed villainous group "Advanced Restraining Research". Both types of pirate have appeared in Red Sonja , as enemies or allies as the situation dictates. Asterix has a recurring crew of pirates that very much fall under Rogues. They try to be Brutes, but encounter the Gauls and get the crap beaten out of them every time they appear , if they're lucky in one occasion their ship is blown up by Corsican cheese. In Barbe-Rouge , the titular character is a ruthless and much feared pirate. The comic however soon focuses on his adopted son , who after some attempts at leading a honest life eventually becomes a Privateer , and more or less convinces his father to renounce his bloodthirsty ways.

By the way, the pirate crew in Asterix are a parody of them, but the parody is now much better-known than the original. De cape et de crocs features a crew of pirates. They are very quirky prone to panic attacks whenever rabbits or metaphysics are mentioned, for instance , but their leader at least is appropriately ruthless and cunning. Too bad for him he gets constantly outwitted or outmatched by the heroes. Issue 13 and 14 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic IDW is a genuine pirate arc, as even the protagonists get into the spirit.

Waterworld , Captain Frost leads a crew of humanoid pirates on a planet entirely covered in water, on a boat carved entirely out of ice. A regular cast member is Abraham Tuizentfloot, a dwarf who is a complete Cloudcuckoolander and thinks, dresses, talks and acts like he's a pirate.

He attacks everybody with his sword, though he doesn't own a ship and can't even swim. The Phantom features The Phantom's arch-rivals, The Singh Brotherhood, a criminal organisation that used to be pirates. Nowadays they are landlubbers who work with more "modern" crimes like drug-dealing, blackmailing and kidnaping. Little Nemo in Slumberland had a series of strips in which Nemo, Flip and the Princess are taken aboard a pirate ship, which in the end is sunk by the Slumberland navy.

In Fair Brow , the hero blames his loss of money on this. Continental Drift involves Sid, Manny, Diego, Scrat, and friends all being captured by evil pirates all portrayed as prehistoric predatory animals whose ship is made from an iceberg, and they all must find a way to escape them and head back home.

Aardman Animations ' film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! These guys are Roguish, but aspire to be Brutish.

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Treasure Planet has space pirates. They're mostly of the Brutish variety, except for Silver, who is far more Rogueish than his literary inspiration. The Movie has Captain Celaeno and her crew, a band of Lovable Rogues , help the heroes out at several points. They prefer to describe themselves as "swashbuckling treasure hunters". His wildly over the top performance as the ragged, full-bearded, wild-eyed, sinister but charismatic pirate leader was purely his own creation and quite unlike the actor himself.

He had been considered for the role of the role of the handsome, brooding Heathcliff in the version of Wuthering Heights , narrowly losing out to Laurence Olivier. His distinctive Argggh growl and English West Country accent have been imitated by hundreds of millions of people over the decades. It is unlikely that any line of recorded cinema can match its popularity. Given that Robert Louis Stevenson was in the West country for his health and used two pubs in Bristol as models for those in Treasure Island and given the distinctive "arrr" local accent, Robert Newton wasn't that far from the truth.

While the original plot's obviously been mucked around with quite a lot, they play a lot of the dramatic moments completely straight. And Long John Silver discusses the blurry line distinguishing pirates from privateers in his Villain Song: Now take Sir Francis Drake: The Spanish all despise him. But to the British, he's a hero, and they idolize him. Are you saying in that book that I'm a pirate? I suppose I am. Because I am one, and a damn good one. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossbones, that's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit in every port known to man without regard to any man's law.

That's not to say I lack morals and standards. I got morals and standards. I never killed a man who didn't deserve it, I never cheated an honest man, I never pillaged and I never raped. Conan the Barbarian has been a pirate more than once in his career.

In addition to his membership in the Red Brotherhood, he has also captained several ships as well as being the lover and right hand of Belit, the Queen of the Black Coast , in the story of the same name. Alex and the Ironic Gentleman has pirates as a main theme. Andre Norton 's Scarface historical and the Jacks Space Pirates in many of her science fiction novels. Comic novel archly highlighting all the pirate tropes.

The second of Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard books gets his heroes involved with pirates. Douglas Morgan's Tiger Cruise takes the modern route, and depicts a Navy destroyer beset by a typhoon and a well-equipped band of Indonesian pirates. They don't fit any of the typical traits of Brutish, but they're definitely not Roguish. In Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson 's Hoka stories, some of them decide to be Pirates!

When Alex Jones foils their plot to loot a city, the mayor suggests that actually, they think it would be kind of fun. Being Hokas, they agree to give back their plunder after they loot the city. What do you take them for, thieves? And the looting of the city becomes an annual event.

Many, many of Emilio Salgari's books. In Forgotten Realms novels, as usual, all variants are represented—including Brutish, Roguish, and Chaotic Neutral pirates. One of latter captains, among other achievements, was given "elf-friend" status, got imprisoned for debauch in Wretched Hive sort of port where tavern brawls are so common normally no one gives a damn and essentially adopted drow mage and Lolth priestess as a daughter.

Invoked in Patricia A. When Raven objects that pirates are uncouth and wouldn't know what to do with tea—probably use the teapot to drink rum—Dalia objects that she wants nice pirates who were driven to it and would be glad to give it up. The Takers , a Two Fisted Tale by Jerry Ahern, has the protagonists having to battle the modern-day version when the owner of the yacht they chartered plans to get rid of it in an insurance scam. Which would be made more authentic by their deaths. In Nick Kyme's Warhammer 40, Salamanders novel Salamander , the Divided We Fall between the Salamander and the Marines Malevolent culminates in the discovery that the Marines are out to resupply themselves from a Mechanicus delerict.

Or loot it, as the Salamanders put it, accusing them of being pirates. In Over the Wine-Dark Sea these are a recurring peril. Most of the Mediterranean is in constant war and the Rhodian Navy can only handle so much. They not only rape and pillage, they also take over the drug trades of worlds, establish candy factories as drug fronts, hijack educational curricula, spread infertility viruses to wipe out Stationery types they don't like , and try to collapse entire societies by forcing women to have more out-of-wedlock births than they can financially sustain.

They don't always rape directly, but will shoot men and women with darts that contain weaponized Viagra. Gideon Dafoe's The Pirates! They are portrayed as somewhat lecherous and violent, but generally good-hearted. Gustaf Drake in The Freebooter of the Baltic , apparently based on a historical figure. Maquesta Kar-Thon, captain of the Perechon, and her crew in the Dragonlance novels are Roguish pirates, rebelling against the oppressive Dragon Highlords conquering the continent.

After the War of the Lance ended, she and her crew gave up piracy, and instead became seafaring mercenaries. Bertolt Brecht wrote a "Ballad of the Pirates" in his early years. Loosely adapted into Pirates of the Caribbean: They're made up entirely of female monsters, and they steal things, including more people for the crew, like Sigrid. Most of their actual skullduggery is off-screen until Sigrid gains the captaincy, and then they get in trouble with a shapeshifter and get swallowed by a sea monster.

A Song of Ice and Fire: While the Greyjoys are somewhere between this and Norse Raiders, Euron "Crow's Eye" Greyjoy is explicitly stated to be a pirate, among other things, before his first appearance. He's very much a Brutish one, raiding, killing and raping as he pleases, and amply earning his reputation as The Dreaded.

In a smilar vein, the islands of the Stepstones are full nests of pirates and corsairs that are an endless source of danger for ships passing through or near them. Salladhor Saan is a wealthy Lysene buccaneer who commands a large fleet of pirate ships, operating mostly in the Narrow Sea between Westeros and Essos. It's mentioned he's more of an opportunist than a dedicated pirate — besides outright pirating which he absolutely does , he's also a sellsail a ship-based mercenary for those with coin, and even does honest trading and banking if there's profit in it.

He's a much more Rougish type — he's well-mannered and polite, incredibly flamboyant the only things more gaudy than his colorful ships are his expensive clothes and not dishonorable, in his own way. He also comes for a long line of professional pirates. He intercepts them on their quest. In Alethea Kontis 's Enchanted , "far-to-go" Thursday ran off and married a pirate. Pirates were one possible villain. The gamebook Sail with Pirates does, in fact, contain frequent run-ins with these—and these guys are the gritty realistic type.

At one point, the protagonist can even get enrolled into a pirate crew for a while. In Seanan McGuire 's Velveteen vs. The story starts very much like Treasure Island which had a big influence on Mac Orlan's writer career.

A poor young boy embarks on a ship, only to discovers said ship's horrible secret: Then they mercilessly slaughter the crews. They're given more facetime in the film, but they're firmly established as Roguish. The Dread Pirate Roberts. As mentioned in the Film section, he plays at Brutish while really being Roguish; he prefers using fear instead of actually slaughtering his victims.

Kennit is a Brute thanks to a severe Lack of Empathy. However, his methods cause people to think of him as Rogue —he spends a lot of time attacking slavers. In William Alexander 's Goblin Secrets , river pirates are, according to the story, the cause of Graba's lost legs. The Amazons in Swallows and Amazons play at being Roguish pirates, but they're just kids messing about in boats.

They also pretend "Captain Flint" is a Brute. A group of extremely brutish pirates show up as antagonists in the third Spellsinger novel, Day of the Dissonance. Naturally, they're led by a Pirate Parrot. The same pirates show up again in the sixth book, this time led by the original captain's brother, a pirate parrot accountant. Piggle-Wiggle was once married to a pirate, who built her an upside-down house, but he passed away some years before the first book. He left her a Treasure Chest full of magic potions, and cures for kids' bad habits. The Piggle-Wiggles never had any children themselves.

Growltiger, "the terror of the Thames", in T. The Witchlands has two groups of pirates, the Baedyeds and the Red Sails. The former are a nation of people from a desert called the Baedyed Sand Sea, who turned to piracy after their land was conquered, while the Red Sails are a more mixed group.

It's generally agreed that it's better to be attacked by the Baedyeds than the Red Sails, but that's because the Baedyeds will keep you alive and sell you into Gladiator Games , while the Red Sails are less concerned with leaving survivors. The people of the Iron Islands, the Ironborn, are a whole society of them. The naval skills of their population are unmatched and they enjoy great mobility due to their ships.

They have a unique culture centered on maritime raiding and pillaging other peoples. He says he's a pirate often enough and commands a pirate fleet. You think I'm insulted? I am a pirate. I'm an excellent pirate. Emilie Autumn has always had one pirate captain since the first Asylum tour in The first was Captain Vecona who was also the Asylum seamstress and left the Bloody Crumpets after the first tour. The second was Captain Maggot who took over in fall , 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.

Flogging Molly has some songs about pirates. Australian children's music group The Wiggles have Captain Feathersword, sometimes known as the " fifth Wiggle ". German metal band Running Wild is one of the first metal bands to pick up the pirate image, starting with their third album Under Jolly Roger. Their songs on the subject take cues from Roguish pirates. The Arrogant Worms have "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate", who, according to the song, plunders ships on the Saskatchewan river, "stealing wheats and barley and all the other grains".

Including, somehow, from the "mighty shores" of Regina which is nowhere near the river but does include Wascana Lake. Alestorm are a Pirate Metal band. Yes, they are as awesome as they sound. Svarta Malin in the Povel Ramel song of the same name. Cosmo Jarvis gives us Gay Pirates, who have the misfortune to be sailing with a bunch of the first type. Abney Park has a Steampunk image related to the dashing, romantic Roguish pirates. They are mostly awesome Airship Pirates.

But I am no pirate, my beauty, or a bandit, But one man standing at your gate, Standing there in this lonely night With no sword on his thigh. The "Blackbeard and Ironmen" table of Super Pinball: Behind The Mask is themed around a pirate crew. Of course, Pirates of the Caribbean is all about this. And Hook has Captain Hook's crew. The "Skulduggery" table of Full Tilt! Pinball has a whole bunch of 'em. He was quickly put into a feud with Bret Hart , and was originally booked to end Kevin "Diesel" Nash's one-year title reign.

However, Executive Meddling on the part of Shawn Michaels saw that not only did Lafitte lose the match in his hometown of Montreal , but was then buried for the remainder of his WWF tenure. Ten years later, Paul Burchill, the protege of William Regal discovered that he was a descendant of Edward Teach, aka "Blackbeard", and decided to adopt a pirate persona to honor his heritage this is all Kayfabe.

The writers were attempting to cash-in on the success of Pirates of the Caribbean , but Vince McMahon had apparently never even heard of POTC and didn't think that pirates were marketable anymore , and the very over character was quietly dropped. Wrestling fans are still reeling from this.

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Even after the belt, her music was only less obvious in its Pirates Of The Caribbean influence than Burchill's. Despite taking on a more subdued look she still exploded when Hudson Envy suggested Hojo was not a pirate. The player must choose which of the two kinds of pirates he wishes to be; honorable pirates gain bonuses to two-weapon fighting and inspiring allies, and dishonorable pirates gain sneak attack and intimidation bonuses. This is the hat of the Lhazaar Principalities.

Numerous sources have noted that legitimate Lhazaarite merchantmen will not hesitate to engage in piracy if the opportunity arises or if they are down on their luck. The airships of the setting also open the door to Sky Pirates , though getting the funds to purchase and man an airship, and controlling one is quite difficult without the Mark of Storm, makes this an expensive proposition.

Dark Elves are frequent pirates.

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They engage in piracy partly for the sake of survival their homeland of Naggaroth has very little arable land, so they steal resources from other races and take them as slaves , partly to keep themselves freshly supplied with slaves and partly out of sheer malice for everyone else in the world. Warhammer has an entire spin-off game packed with pirates and piratical tropes, in the form of Dreadfleet. Dreadfleet recreates the epic voyage of Pirate Prince Jago Roth and his Grand Alliance of pirate lords to stop the raids of Vampire Pirate Count Noctilus and his Dreadfleet from out of the Galleon's Graveyard — an aquatic pocket dimension of gloom and misery something like a dark fantasy version of the Bermuda Triangle.

Needless to say Roth's home port is the Pirate Principality of Sartosa — an island off the coast of Tilea occupied by little apart from the most piratey pirates that ever pirated their way to infamy. And plenty of rum. As the name implies, they are Orks who have taken a life of plunder and pillaging.

Their banner is the "Jolly-Ork", and many of them dress like stereotypical pirates. They straddle the line between the two types — on the one hand, their flamboyance and piratical stereotypes, together with the way the Orks serve as the setting's Crazy Awesome comic relief, peg them as Rogues.

On the other, being Orks, they're also violent, murderous thugs who'll raid, burn and pillage as they please and carelessly slaughter anyone in their way, putting them more in the Brute category. A family of terrifying, demon-descended, bloodline-obsessed, super-powerful buccaneers. Who make you eat your shipmates. They will normally leave a survivor — just one — to spread the tales of their viciousness and bloodlust. And the actual reason that they're pirates is because they view the idea of actually producing things for themselves as beneath them; you either steal it, have slaves captured in raids make it, or trade for it in stuff you stole or had slaves make.

Pirates in roleplaying games Pirates are a distinct culture in the Hollow Earth.

They sail everything from Roman triremes to 18th century galleons. And also of tourists. And, therefore, also of pirate-themed taverns, where some of the pirates occasionally get jobs as "local colour" when the piracy isn't doing so well. As this suggests, most of them are a skewed Discworld version of Roguish the Pirates' Code is complicated enough that they've been known to press-gang contract lawyers , although there are also Brutes available if the PCs need to be seriously menaced.

Beware that pointing this out to him is his Berserk Button. The Pathfinder world of Golarion has the Shackles, essentially a pirate paradise. It has been thoroughly explored in both an Adventure Path, a Pathfinder Adventure Card Game base set, and a whole line of accessories. The PCs become involved in a factional fight between Roguish and Brutish pirates.

The now out-of-print roleplaying game Furry Pirates was about Lastly there is the Talion Charter, an alliance between 3 of the nastiest pirate captains; Fiona the Black, one of the most influential members of decentralized cult dedicated to jerkass goddess of magic. Broadsides Bart, a Captain Hook-expy with shotgun instead of a hook who also happens to be secretly a privateer doing dirty work for the local navy power that publicly professes neutrality.

Lastly the founder of the group, Captain Phinneus Shae, a renegade merchant navy warcaster that has considerable bounty on his head from his former employers, and through his banker may in fact be doing literal wetwork for the landlocked Dwarven kingdom. In Rocket Age Mars' silt seas have a wide variety of pirates and corsairs, from tribesmen looking to make a little money on the side, to proud soldiers who have lost their kingdoms and are seeking to found their own. Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Pirates of Penzance. While they spend most of the play as comical Roguish pirates their songs indicate some very nasty behavior beforehand.

Growltiger, "the terror of the Thames", in Cats. The Threepenny Opera features the song " Pirate Jenny ", in which Jenny fantasizes about pirates descending on the town, making her their queen, and killing off all the people who have treated her badly. You gentlemen can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors And I'm scrubbing these floors while you're gawking The Kremlings in Donkey Kong Country games are always pirates, but they've never really looked the part. Except for the pirate-themed sequel , where the enemies undergo a superficial change that gives them a more gritty, aggressive look.

No explanation is ever provided for why they undergo this change or why it never carries over , but it looks cool. To see the difference, compare the original's standard mooks Kritter with the sequel's Klomp, or the former's King K. Because The Sky Is an Ocean. There are actually two factions of Pirates in the game: To be fair, while they call themselves air pirates, the title Blue Rogues doesn't actually imply that they do any piracey, while Black Pirates is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

Monkey Island , being a comedy series almost all the pirates are Roguish in personality. Even the supposedly evil pirates are too silly to be really threatening. Main character Guybrush Threepwood is barely a himself. The only real exception is Big Bad LeChuck who is less of a Brutish pirate and more of an unkillable insane zombie-demon.

This gets subverted in Tales of Monkey Island when Guybrush contracts a Pox that makes everyone Brutish for progressively longer periods of time. Fire Emblem Pirate is a very recurring character class in the series debuting in the first game, and is thus far exclusively male. The pirate class wears traditional pirate garb: They also possess the ability to Walk on Water giving them a terrain advantage. They advance to The Berserker class which keeps the terrain advantages, and usually the pirate thematics. Playable pirates are almost always the rogue kind, while enemy pirates are usually the brute kind.

There may also be characters in the pirate profession but not in the pirate class. All Talk Like a Pirate. The very first boss in the series, Gazzak is a brutish Pirate. Darros, a pirate from the same organization, ends up joining the protagonists to start a new leaf. Additionally one of the playable characters, Barst turns to piracy in his ending. In Fire Emblem Gaiden: One Pirate of the Mercenary class, Saber, is hired by the protagonists to protect them. Humorously Saber eventually , Grieth, and many of his mooks are Dread fighters, which is a Ninja based class.

A playable character in the Sniper class led a group of Rogue Pirates before her crew mutinied. In the next game in the saga, Lifis, a playable character in the thief class, is a Token Evil Teammate in the player's army. A prominent character is Fargus, the leader of a group of noble pirates that aids the protagonists.

Dart, one of Fargus crew members joins the player's army. In the sequel, the playable Geese is an ex merchant who became a pirate that fights injustice inflicted on the lower classes. Fisherman and Old Cloot. Two Tales of Frisland. A Gift in the Dark: The Travels of Cocoa Poem Lorry. The Sea Dragon King's Daughter. Beautiful Avani - Book 4. How Pirates Really Work. People In Verse Vol. Into The Raging Sea.

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