Within each category, the characters are organized alphabeticallyby surname (i.e. last name), or by single name if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.
She is the daughter of Blackbeard and a former love interest of Jack Sparrow's.[1][2] She first met Jack just before she was to take a vow of celibacy in a Spanish convent; she later blames Jack for her corruption, although Jack counters this argument citing that she was 'hardly innocent' to begin with.
Barbossa who appears in all of the films[3] and by the fourth film, On Stranger Tides, he has become a privateer in the Royal Navy and is ordered to be Jack's guide on an expedition for the Fountain of Youth.
Blackbeard appears in this film[4] He is based on the historical figure of the same name. Blackbeard is a notorious pirate and Jack's most recent nemesis. He is one element retained from the novel On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, from which Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides draws inspiration.[5][6][7] Blackbeard is the captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge and a master of black magic, who wants to find the Fountain of Youth to escape a prophecy that he will be killed by a one-legged man. With the exception of his daughter Angelica, Blackbeard has zombified his entire staff of officers to ensure their loyalty. Said by Jack to be "the one pirate all pirates fear", Blackbeard practices voodoo and has the power to command ships using his magic sword.
The evil pirate lord Bloth will stop at nothing to get the treasures for himself and provides many obstacles for Ren and his crew,[8] serving as the ox-sized, humanoid pirate captain of the feared pirate ship Maelstrom and one of the primary antagonists of the series. Ioz is also a rogue and pirate who joins up with Ren initially for the promise of treasure.
Conrad, the protagonist of this tale in verse by Lord Byron published in 1814, which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale,[10] was rejected by society in his youth and later becomes a corsair fighting against humanity (excepting women); in the opera Il corsaro by Giuseppe Verdi, loosely based on Byron's work, Conrad becomes the dashing and chivalrous Corrado. The story is also based on The Corsair are the overture Le Corsaire by Hector Berlioz and the ballet Le Corsaire by Marius Petipa. Many Americans believed that Lord Byron's poem "The Corsair" was based on the life of the privateer/pirate Jean Lafitte.[11]Henry Singleton and Richard Corbould produced paintings based on the work.[12]
Vandala Doubloons is the daughter of a pirate ghost and has a pet cuttlefish named Aye.[13][b] Her dress is sea-foam green with wave patterns and lace.[14] Her debut was in the TV special Haunted as a Haunted High student that is rescued from detention,[15] and later transfers to Monster High. Her doll was presented at San Diego Comic-Con in 2014.[16]
The Sea Hag is a major enemy of Popeye the Sailor. She is the last witch on earth, and a pirate who sails the Seven Seas in her ship "The Black Barnacle." She has a headquarters on Plunder Island, where she keeps a pride of lions that she uses to dispatch her enemies.[17] She also has a deep knowledge of magic artifacts and has used many of them to great effect over the years. The Sea Hag was created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1929 as part of the Thimble Theatr comic strip.[18]
Hassan is a man who was "hunting for an escort ship," claiming to be a captain, actually a pirate. This anime series is centered around all-female crew of a commercial Warship, the Pascal Magi, which is trying to fight pirates in the near future.[19]
In 1904, this play by J.M. Barrie was first performed. In the book, Peter's enemy in Neverland is the pirate crew led by Captain Hook. Details on Barrie's conception of Captain Hook are lacking, but it seems he was inspired by at least one historical privateer, and possibly by Robert Louis Stevenson's Long John Silver as well.[20] In film adaptations released in 1924, 1953, and 2003, Hook's dress, as well as the attire of his crew, corresponds to stereotypical notions of pirate appearance.
Jones is the immortal supernatural force and cursed captain of Flying Dutchman. In At World's End, Lord Cutler Beckett uses the heart to force Jones to serve him.[21] In Dead Men Tell No Tales, Jones makes a cameo in a post-credits scene. Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are asleep when their bedroom is entered by the shadow of an apparently resurrected Davy Jones. Will then awakens and, assuming that he was simply dreaming, goes back to sleep. The camera then pans to the floor, revealing a puddle of water and barnacles.[22]
Kenway is a Welsh privateer-turned-pirate, operating in the Caribbean during the final decades of the Golden Age of Piracy. During this time, he plays an important role in the establishment of a short-lived Pirate Republic, and inadvertently becomes caught in the conflict between the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar Order.
LaFitte, of Glenora, California, is a 20th-century descendant of Jean Lafitte who in Edgar Rice Burroughs's story "Pirate Blood," part of The Wizard of Venus novella, gets to the distant Vulture's Island, where his pirate heredity asserts itself in a modern piratical career full of cold-blooded murders and rapes.[23]
Captain Leatherwing / Batman (in this alternative universe), captain of the Flying Fox, he is employed by King James II of England to pillage rival countries' ships, though he keeps a share for himself and his men. He wears a costume to protect his family name, since England would be appalled at one of her children sailing about the seas like he does. He raids ship and collects gold in the hope that he will one day have enough to buy back the land of his parents, which were stolen from him when they were murdered.[24]
Monkey D. Luffy is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the One Piece manga series, created by Eiichiro Oda. Luffy made his debut in chapter one as a young boy who acquires the properties of rubber after accidentally eating one of the devil fruits, Gum Gum Fruit.
Lukkage is a pirate leader who launched an attack on the Gargantia after Ledo kills some of her men to protect Bellows and her crew, and has two female sex slaves who also serve as her co-pilots for her mecha, as shown in the episode "The Villainous Empress" and other episodes.[25] Later she develops a romantic interest in Pinion, especially with his hair down. Some time after being defeated by the Gargantia's forces with Ledo's help, she reappears as part of Kugel's fleet, yet she helps to rebel against it. She also reappears in the 2013 OVAs "Abandoned Fleet" and "Altar of the Visitor from Afar" as a scalvenger.
Rokuro "Rock" Okajima, who later eventually begins to enjoy his life as a pirate and becomes even more comfortable with corruption,[26] and demonstrates a duplicitous, ruthless side of his personality clearly influenced by Revy and Roanapur.[27] He is one of the pirates in this story follows a team of piratemercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[c] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[28] Other pirates in The Lagoon Company include Revy, Dutch, and Benny.
This group of hapless pirates in Albert Uderzo's Astérix are themselves parodies of the characters of Redbeard (see above), and often run into Asterix and Obelix and are subsequently beaten up and usually sunk.[30]
Pugwash is a fictional pirate in a series of British children's comic strips and books created by John Ryan. The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action (the first series was performed and broadcast live), also called Captain Pugwash, first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974–75, and a traditional animation series, The Adventures of Captain Pugwash, first aired in 1998.[31]
The show follows Santiago, an 8-year-old pirate, and his crew as they embark on rescues, uncover hidden treasures and keeps the Caribbean high seas safe. The show is infused with Spanish language and Latino-Caribbean culture and curriculum.[34]
This an adventure novel, by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrates a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.[35] Long John Silver, a cook on the voyage to Treasure Island, is the secret ringleader of the pirate band. His physical and emotional strength are impressive. Silver is deceitful and disloyal, greedy and visceral, and does not care about human relations. Yet he is always kind toward Jim and genuinely fond of the boy. Silver is a powerful mixture of charisma and self-destructiveness, individualism and recklessness.
Stevenson's portrayal of Silver has greatly influenced the modern iconography of the pirate.[36]
The Syndicate of Pirates use flying machines (not yet invented at the time of writing) and secret rays to terrorise the adventurers of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska – in George Griffith's book The Great Pirate Syndicate (1899)[42][43]
Starring Robert Shaw as Dan Tempest, the series, aimed at children, followed the adventures of Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they made their way across the seven seas in Sultana.[44]
In 1879, this comic opera was an instant hit in New York, and the original London production in 1880 ran for 363 performances.[46] The piece, depicting an incompetent band of "tenderhearted" British pirates, is still performed widely today, and obviously corresponds to historical knowledge about the emergence of piracy in the Caribbean.
Set in New Orleans in 1780, it tells how Captain Richard Warrington is commissioned to unmask and capture a notorious French pirate calling himself "Bras Pique" – and how he is helped and hindered by a high-spirited runaway, Contessa Marietta. The score includes many well-known songs, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life". Naughty Marietta had its first performance on October 24, 1910, in Syracuse, New York,[49] and opened on Broadway on November 7, 1910, playing for 136 performances at the New York Theatre. It enjoyed revivals in 1929 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre and in 1931 at Erlanger's Theatre. The operetta became Victor Herbert's greatest success.
This game, based on the backstory of the band, Abney Park, is set in the post-apocalyptic world after their album, The End Of Days, a future world with a severely disrupted timeline, with the game featuring steampunk themes and Victorian-era style. Airship Pirates places players as air pirates in command of their own steam-powered airships, who seek not only to pillage the skies, but to plunder history, possibly causing even greater disruption to the past. Meanwhile, the world below struggles in Victorian-style squalor under an oppressive government that maintains control through clockwork policemen.[50] In December 2011, the RPG game won Diehard GameFAN's "Best Core Rulebook of 2011" award.[51]
Barney Baxter was an "adventure strip" involving heroic exploits centering on aviation.[52][53] Baxter was often accompanied by his sidekick Gopher Gus, who (unlike the rest of the characters) was drawn with the exaggerated facial features of a "humour strip" character.[53] Other characters were Barney's mother, his rival love interests, Patricia and Maura, and his buddy Hap Walters.[52]
Younger brother of Kitty, who Emerald Goldenbraid, one of the story's protagonists, developed a crush on. He gave her a bracelet which was revealed to be a tracking device to follow the Mysticons. He later appears to have second thoughts about taking advantage of Em's feelings for him, and catches her, after which the two have a serious romance.[55] In the comics, he debuts in Volume 2.
Captain of the Pink Skulls, female pirate, and Zarya's childhood friend.[55] She takes advantage of this relationship to incapacitate the Mysticons and obtain the Dragon Disk, which she sells to Dreadbane. She later fights alongside the Mysticons, and on a third occasion gives Zarya inspiration to thwart Necrafa's plans. She is later revealed to be Zarya's romantic love interest as confirmed by the show's creator, Sean Jara, and supported by show director Matt Ferguson.[56][57][58] In the comic books, she debuts in Volume 2.
This 2009 novel by Cherie Priest features air pirates like captain Cly, who commands a ship called the "Naamah Darling" and he later appears in novels like Ganymede, where he loves a woman in the Seattle Underground.[59]
Dola, a "bold, plump old lady named Dola, leads a gang of air pirates in this 1986 Japanese anime film, as they try to steal the crystal necklace of Sheeta.[60]
Karnage leads gang of air pirates in this Disney animated series and later in Ducktales.[63] According to series creator Jymn Magon, he is a wolf,[64] but has orangish-brown fur reminiscent of a fox.
LeRoi is a sky pirate who is flamboyant and demands that he be proclaimed master of the city, or else he will burn it to the ground.[65] He leaps out the window before he can be arrested, and Tolliver insists that the fair proceed.
Miles Lydecker
Black Condor Vol 1 #2
1992
Comics
Lyndecker is another DC Comics air pirate who fought against Black Condor in the 1992 comic Black Condor Vol 1 #2.[66]
The German pulp magazineThe Air Pirate and His Steerable Airship from 1908 to 1911, followed the adventures of Captain Mors, the "Air pirate".[67][68][69]
Phoenix leads a gang of space pirates,[71] like Danger Sexy Pirate,[72] in massive ships who battle the protagonists[73][74][75][76] while having a flying airbase known as Phoenix.[77]
She is a French-speaking pirate captain and the main protagonist of the game. Being an original character specifically designed for this entry, she has yet to return to any other game.
The film's protagonist has a secret identity and is known to the world as Filibus and has an airship. Some called the film "an odd and funny forerunner of science-fiction movies,"[82] with Filibus described as a lesbian character,[83][84] and an "elegant and elusive woman pirate" who can pass between male and female identities, making her "a champion of transgenderism before that term had been coined."[85][86]
Unnamed
The Sky Police
1910
Short story
This short story by John A. Heffernan features an air pirate.[87]
Unnamed
Pirates of 1920
1911
Silent film
Air pirates appeared in the 1911 silent film Pirates of 1920.[88][89]
Unnamed
The Pirates of the Sky: A Tale of Modern Adventure
1915
Novel
Sky pirates appear in Stephen Gaillard's 1915 novel, The Pirates of the Sky: A Tale of Modern Adventure.[90][91]
The series is set within an alternate history of the 1930s invented by Weisman and McCoy. Within this divergent timeline, the United States has collapsed, and air travel has become the most popular mode of transportation in North America; as a result, air pirates thrive in the world of Crimson Skies. In describing the concept of Crimson Skies, Jordan Weisman stated he wanted to "take the idea of 16th century Caribbean piracy and translate into a 1930s American setting".[93]
Mandrake, along with the Phantom Magician in Mel Graff's The Adventures of Patsy, is regarded by comics historians as the first superhero of comics, such as comics historian Don Markstein, who writes, "Some people say Mandrake the Magician, who started in 1934, was comics' first superhero."[53][95][96][97]
The sky pirates of the Final Fantasy media franchise include Vaan and Balthier. For Balthier, he eventually decided to cut his ties with his father and his role as a judge, becoming a sky pirate under a new name, abandoning his old name.[99] For Vaan, he ends the game, Final Fantasy XII, as a sky pirate, traveling the world along with Penelo. He also reprises his role from Final Fantasy XII in the manga adaptation by Gin Amou.[100]
In this video game, Yse is a young and dashing sky pirate who is part of the Blue Rogue clan and soon become entangled in a race to find the Moon Stones that control these powerful Gigas.[101][102][103][104] Other sky pirates include Gilder and Enrique.[105]
The self-declared "Queen of the Space Pirates," who heads a crew of three other pirates (Ostea, Cyborg Dwayne, and Boop), and the doppelgänger of series protagonist, Cleopatra.[106] She previously had the telepathic space shark ninja as her ex-boyfriend, and the series villain, Octavian, might be her ex-boyfriend as well.
Although she named herself after Ryoko Hakubi,[108] Balta is hardly as bloodthirsty as that infamous space pirate was rumored to be, although she is notorious.[109] Even though she was a member of the dreaded Daluma pirate guild, Ryoko Balta is an educated and cultured pirate.[110][111] She is well-versed in many customs from other planets, including the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
A human who died on the Gem Homeworld and was resurrected by Steven, later becoming the captain of a group of fugitive gems on a stolen spaceship. He has been described as "complicated fellow" by his voice actor, Matthew Moy,[114] and was designed by series creator Rebecca Sugar when she was in college.[115] Some have said that the outfit Lars wears is reminiscent of Captain Harlock.[116]
This game contains a non-playable faction called the Black Sun Pirates, who are a large gang of mercenaries.[117] In addition, during the Clone Wars, the criminal elements which comprised the Black Sun syndicate flourished, and it was led by a "cabal of Falleen nobles" on Mustafar,[118][119] appearing in the series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.[120] and in a comic book series.[121]
This game includes a WWW member named Captain Blackbeard, an operator of Diveman.EXE who dressed as a sailor.[122] He is also known as Captain Kurohige in Japan.
This video game consists of Teisel,[123] Tron, Bon, and 40 Servbots.[124][125] and the youngest brother, Bon Bonne, who can only say one word—"Babu!" The Bonnes are accompanied by forty Servbots, robots under the care of Tron.[126] They are air pirates in their own series, only being space pirates in the crossovers Namco × Capcom[127] and Project X Zone.[128]
She is a doppelgänger of Mihos, Cleo's animal companion.[106] She is on the pirate ship along with Cyborg Dwayne, Amsaja, and Ostea. His attack cry is just saying her name over and over.
A supervillain who is portrayed as a catlike alien space pirate trying to conquer the galaxy. Cartoon Network described him as having "meager wits and the love of a peppy tune."[133]
Appearing in this manga, then later in a film, anime, original video animation, Cobra is a notorious rogue pirate who refuses to align with a federation of star systems or a guild of pirates, meaning that he has to keep his identity hidden.[134] In the process, he teams up with Jane, a bounty hunter who is trying to find her sisters, with their goal to liberate a treasure from the planet of Mars.
Pirate who in 2353 led a breakout from the Solar Alliance prison asteroid and proceeded to prey upon various spacecraft until Tom Corbett and his unit mates Roger Manning and Astro defeated him.[135][136]
Ex-convict, pirate and mercenary hired by the Time Lords to destroy Daleks in this comic, also appearing in the Deceit novel in 1993, traveling across the galaxy on his starship which is named the "Kill-Wagon."[138][139]
In this series, Divatox is an intergalactic space pirate and villain.[146] In the 1997 film, she is seeking his golden key to traverse an inter-dimensional gateway and enter into matrimony with Maligore, an imprisoned demon who promises her great riches and power.[147]
Spinoff character from Galaxy Express 999[d] and Capt. Harlock in Leiji Matsumoto universe. Sister of Maetel from GE999. In the manga, ahe comforts the series protagonist, Hiroshi Umino, who escapes Earth on a freighter,[148] and is fascinated by him, as she fled Earth in the past to a ship which she designed herself.[149]
Characters from a Super Sentai series who travel to Earth in search of the "Greatest Treasure in the Universe", only to be dragged into a battle with an invading alien force called the Space Empire Zangyack.[152]
The leader of the Berserkers who has a cybernetic arm that can punch and pound with great force.[137] After he and his original Berserkers were killed, Hammerhand was later mystically resurrected by Mumm-Ra who summoned up his spirit to animate a clone of Panthro which he had created. When the plan failed, Hammerhand's spirit broke Mumm-Ra's control and the clone body shifted into Hammerhand's original form before departing. Other Berserkers are Topspinner, Ram Bam, and Cruncher, all of whom are "gold-loving" pirates and all cyborgs.[153][154]
Captain of the Arcadia. The character was created by Leiji Matsumoto in 1977 and popularized in the 1978 television series Space Pirate Captain Harlock.[155] Since then, the character has appeared in numerous animated television series and films, like Arcadia of My Youth, the latest of which is 2013's Space Pirate Captain Harlock. Harlock has achieved notable popularity. Several anime and manga characters have been, in some way, inspired by Matsumoto's creation. Naoko Takeuchi drew inspiration from Harlock's stoic qualities ("strong, silent, unshakeable") when designing the character of Tuxedo Mask,[156] while Last Exile'sAlex Row was modeled after the Captain.[157] His basic character design is even thought to be a source of inspiration for Osamu Tezuka's manga character Black Jack.
Antihero resisting the tyrannical Empress Hernandez. He first appeared in the last three issues of Weird Worlds, a comics anthology series published by American company DC Comics from 1972 to 1974.[161] and was created by Howard Chaykin, who plotted and drew the stories.[162]
A bold space adventurer in this story, which is part of The Psychotechnic League series.[164] Whether Murdoch is to be actually defined as a pirate, or rather as a very daring but legitimate entrepreneur, is a major issue on which the whole story turns. In another one of his stories, the pirates are desperate to destroy the protagonist "before he can bring the information to the authorities."[165]
A pirate captain who is the villain in several books,[166][167][168] comes from the planet Austral, and other books mention the planet Australis in another part of the galaxy.[169] His story "The Mountain Movers" (part of Grimes' early career) includes the song of future Australian space adventurers, sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda." The Duchy of Waldegren is also a popular haunt of several notorious space-pirates (no individual names given) in the series.
Flamboyant 25th century crime boss, later dictator of earth and Saturn, with a fleet of spacecraft and raygun-toting henchmen who appeared in the Buck Rogers comic strip and its subsequent 1939 Buck Rogersserial film produced by Universal Studios,[170][171] the 1979 film and subsequent TV series. Some reviewers believe that when measured against other serial villains such as Ming the Merciless, Killer Kane pales somewhat in comparison.[172]
Karrde is a smuggler chief who becomes the leader of the criminal underworld after the death of Jabba Desilijic Tiure.[173] The author of the trilogy, Timothy Zahn, said that when he created the character he "always envisioned the face and voice of Avon" from Blake's Seven.[174]
Captain of the pirate ship Clear Air Turbulence, an avid gambler who leads his crew on two disastrous raids before being killed by the main character Horza.[175][176][177]
Duelo quickly takes over medical emergencies often at the objection of the female pirates, but ignores them, assuring the crew members that he is not a threat. Since he is the only licensed medical practitioner on board the Nirvana, as well as being that the medical facilities on board the female pirate ship were no longer operational, the female pirates were left with no choice but to have him as their official doctor.[179]
A scientist who is later revealed to be a pirate captain of the Regalia named Macanudo, who rebuilt his grievously injured body and went into piracy as revenge against Saggs for betraying him.[182][183]
A dashing space-traveler, got to Venus by mistake, discovered there a tyrannical regime which sorely needed opposing - and the best way to do that was to assume leadership of the Pirates of Venus (also the title of the first book in the Venus series).[184][185]
Leader of the Weequay space pirates,[e] known as the Ohnaka Gang, which kidnaps, and attempts to ransom, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku—and later Ahsoka Tano—to the highest bidder during the Clone Wars.[186] He follows a code of honor and respects the Jedi, but is not above using sneaky tactics and treachery if it is for "good business". Years after the Clone Wars, despite losing his crew to the Galactic Empire, Hondo continues his criminal activities while having dealings with the Rebellion crew of the Ghost.[187]
The first appearance of a male Orion was shown in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Pirates of Orion".[188] In the episode, these Orions are shown to be ruthless pirates,[189] As such, some recommended this episode for featuring the trio of characters Kirk, Spock, and Bones of The Original Series.[190] Later, the Orion Syndicate was mentioned in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but no actual Orions were seen, only members of other species.[191]
A doppelgänger of series protagonist Akila Theoris, she is a pirate in the same crew as Cyborg Dwayne and Amsaja.[106] She is a pirate who apparently edits, or a major contributor, to a newsletter for space pirates.
In this novel where some said that "the background is imaginative, but the romance is on the level of the shopgirl pulps, and the writing leaves much to be desired,"[192] with David Bowman's helmetless spacewalk in 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired by Frank Keene's escape from the pirate base the novel.[193] Peri is the novel's protagonist and space pirate who has a base on the Moon.[194]
In the first season of this series, a group of humans defend their homeworlds from attack when under attack from these rogue pirates and humanoids,[195] a theme which continues in season 2.[196]
Former rebel Browncoat soldier and captain of Serenity, who has been described as someone that is "everything that a hero is not."[197] He is a survivor who tries to stay alive and get by,[198] raised by his mother and "about 40 hands" on a ranch on the planet Shadow.[199] He occasionally surprises his friends by displaying familiarity with disparate literature varying from the works of Xiang Yu[200] to poems[201] by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, though he has no idea "who" Mona Lisa is.
She is a very crafty and amoral con artist who assumes convenient identities to commit grand thefts, is known to seduce—and frequently marry, and an occasional ship thief.[203]
A child victim of alien abduction who helps the Vault Dweller take over Mothership Zeta, destroy an enemy flying saucer, and plunder the aliens' advanced technology.[204] The rest of her crew include the samurai Toshiro Kago, the mercenary Somah, doctor Elliot Tecorian, and the cowboy Paulson.[205]
Transformer Pirates with a vendetta against Cybertron led by Thundertron, even appearing in the 2014 storyline for BotCon.[206] Thundertron also appeared as a figure in the Transformers: Prime toyline. Reportedly, Transformers Prime would have introduced pirates if it has continued.[207] Also, there was the Dread Pirate Crew which appeared in Transformers: Wings Universe, a universe based on the original cartoon, depicted in comics, and prose stories.[208]
Futuristic, seemingly mechanical beings, and antagonists.[212] They act as enemies of Pit and the Underworld Army where they roam the Galactic Sea and steal the constellations. Besides the generic Space Pirates,[213] among the members of the Space Pirates are the Space Pirate Captain, Space Pirate Commando, and Space Pirate Sniper. They are reportedly called "Star Thieves" in Japan.
A space pirate captain. John Silver, whose name was inspired by Long John Silver, a man with a mechanical leg, is his second-in-command, who appeared in these comics.[216] Before they turned to piracy, they were generals of the Federal Army of Earth. Also in the comic series is a former space pirate named Madoc, a friend of Rebecca "Legs" Weaver, a colleague of the protagonist.[217]
In this 1970s comic,[222] Starbuck is a "rollicking space pirate" and swashbuckler who was sometimes a hero, and other times a villain who has some redeeming qualities.[223][224][225] Some have also said that Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica was based on Starbuck in this comic series.[226]
A team of space pirates, led by Corsair, appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Starjammers first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #107 (October 1977) and were created by Dave Cockrum.[227] The name "Starjammers" was created on the basis of the type of sailing ship known as "Windjammer".
Terrik was a criminal who was imprisoned by protagonistCorran Horn'sfather, as well as an old friend of another protagonist Wedge Antilles.[228] Later in the series, Horn marries Terrik's daughter Mirax, despite Terrik's initial objections.
Inspired by Long John Silver, especially as portrayed by Robert Newton in this series, which was "aimed primarily at children."[229] He is introduced in the episode "The Sky Pirate" as a human rogue of sorts,[230][231][232] and is clearly defined as a space pirate by TV Guide.[233]
Formerly a little-known gang boss based out of Woosten, though thanks to time and planning he becomes leader of the biggest pirate organization in the history of the universe, as shown in the last three novels of the series, Engaging the Enemy (2006),[234]Command Decision (2007),[235] and Victory Conditions.
Called the "Robin Hood of the space lanes," looked very much like the DC Comics hero Starman, and appeared between issues #12 and #64. Among several artists, George Appel produced a dozen early issues, while the bulk of issues #33-51 were drawn by Murphy Anderson, whose additions transformed the Pirate into "an almost completely new strip."[236] Three late issues (#59-61) are credited to newspaper comic strip artist Leonard Starr.[237][236]
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Barbary Station
2017
Novel
A pair of engineers join a group of space pirates but the engineers work to "take down a sinister AI" so they can gain the trust of the crew.[238]
The commander of the pirates and everyone addresses her as Boss (Okashira in the Japanese version, which was translated as "captain").[239] She sees her crew as her children and she hold them in high esteem, also she hold a picture of any of the crew who have left/died displayed when Gascogne apparently dies and she places her picture inside the cabinet.
Watney, a botanist,[240] notes with some glee that his plan to commandeer a NASA lander without explicit permission, as part of his rescue from being stranded on Mars, under his interpretation of applicable laws means that he is history's first "space pirate": citing that due to the Outer Space Treaty Mars is considered international territory, and citing that under the Law of the Sea, he is essentially hijacking a vessel without permission in international waters, "which, by definition, makes me a pirate." Other analysts have argued that he technically wasn't committing an act of piracy, however, due to the facts that 1 - it has not yet been explicitly established if the same laws for international waters apply to international territory such as Mars or Antarctica, 2 - "Piracy" explicitly refers to robbery by force from a crew, not "theft" of an uncrewed vessel as Watney did, and 3 - under space law, the vessel Watney was stealing would be considered U.S. territory and NASA property, and Watney was already a U.S. NASA astronaut.[241]
Blue skinned space pirate and mercenary, mentor to Star-Lord in this comic book and later film. The Earth-616 version of Yondu has been identified by writer Sam Humphries as "the great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather of the Yondu in the original Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians 3000."[242] On this Earth, Yondu is the leader of The Ravagers, a group of Space Pirates. Yondu finds Peter Quill when his ship malfunctions and strands him on Earth.[243] The Ravagers rescue him as Peter tries to steal his ship, managing to outsmart every member of the crew and capturing Yondu. After Yondu frees himself from his restraints and attacks Peter, he gives him a choice between letting himself be released into space without more trouble or execution. Peter instead asks to join his crew. Yondu is initially skeptical of this idea, but after he learns Peter, like him, is a homeless orphan, Yondu allows him to stay on the ship with the Ravagers as their cleaning boy. Peter uses the opportunity to learn everything he can from space.[244] Later, Yondu makes him an official Ravager.[245]
^Vandala owns her own pirate ship called the Salty Spectre, which is complete with a "skeleton crew" consisting of actual skeletons. She loves to take the ship out to sea and explore. Her only problem is that she gets seasick very easily which is something she feels is not conducive to being a pirate captain.
^In the El Baile de la Muerte arc, the tombstone of Diego Jose San Fernando Lovelace showed that he died in the year 1991, although the North American translation/publication showed that he died in 1996. Also, in the same arc, American soldiers are seen using EO Tech holographic weapons sights, which were not developed until the mid-to-late 1990s.
^First a manga, then an anime, and OVA, along with several films.
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