List of fictional pirates
Listed alphabetically are fictional pirates by the character's last name or full nickname.
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- Bras Priqué is the nickname of a notorious French pirate hovering off New Orleans in 1780, in Victor Herbert's 1910's operetta "Naughty Marietta".
- The Bango Pirates are the pirates who sailed in a sailing steamship to attack passenger ships and ships for the treasures in Sherlock Hound, Episode 1!
- Seth Balmore - a sea pirate and immortal in the video game Lost Odyssey.
- Balthier - is a sky pirate in the video game Final Fantasy XII.
- Captain Barrett - or "The Hook", is a comic villain of the 1944 Bob Hope film "The Princess and the Pirate" Played by Victor McLaglen
- The Berserkers are Viking pirates in the ThunderCats TV show.
- Bêlit - is the name of a female pirate captain who is one of the main protagonists along with her partner Conan of Cimmeria in the story "Queen of the Black Coast" by Robert E. Howard.
- Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon, an aggressive and highly predatory pirate leader who made the mistake of stalking Doctor Dolittle - with the result that the pirate band was completely outwitted by the doctor's animal allies and were forced to reform and become a bird-seed farmers, while the good doctor sailed off with their ship.
- Biere Du Boucanier, the trademark rough pirate with an eye patch appearing on the labels of beer bottles produced at the Van Steenberge Brewery in Belgium ([1]).
- The Black Corsair - is an Italian nobleman turned pirate to avenge the death of his brothers. One of Emilio Salgari's most legendary creations. Portrayed in "El Corsario Negro" (1944) by actor Pedro Armendáriz. There was also an Italian film made in 1937, directed by Amleto Palermi.
- The Black Pirate - is the title character of the 1926 silent film, played with acrobatic panache by Douglas Fairbanks.
- The Black Pirate - DC Comics character, no connection to the 1926 Douglas Fairbanks film. This Black Pirate was a masked hero.
- Black Vulmea - is the nickname of Terrence Vulmea, a swashbuckling hero of the Spanish Main created by Robert E. Howard. Vulmea's adventures are collected in Black Vulmea's Vengeance.
- Davey Blast-Bastard - is the drummer and boatswain of the Leeds based Pirate Metal band Skull Branded Pirates. Davey is the son of the governor of the Prince Rupert Islands, but was captured by marauders and driven insane. Nothing remains within his soul other than the rhythmic pounding of the drums.
- Art Blastside - is a former gentlewoman named Artemesia Fitz-Willoghby Weatherhouse who lost her all memories of her life with her mother, Piratica, in a cannon accident that cost her mother her life. She regained it after 6 years of attending a finishing school and gathered her mother's former crew to set sail again. The Piratica Series, by Tanith Lee.
- Captain Blood - is the alias of Peter Blood, an Irish doctor turned slave, then pirate, and is the title character of a series of novels by Rafael Sabatini. The novel was also adapted into a film starring Errol Flynn and directed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz. Captain Blood also appears in Martin Mystery animated television series episode Pirates of Doom where he is depicted as supernatural pirate.
- Bloody Bill, a pirate with a dark past who unexpectedly befriends the boy protagonists in Robert Michael Ballantyne's "The Coral Island".
- Captain Bloth - is the captain of the fossil-like ship Maelstrom, and the main villain of The Pirates of Dark Water.
- Captain Blubber - and Captain Blackeye - are two (fairly pathetic) pirates from the Banjo-Kazooie series. Blackeye's drunken comments and the furnishings of his room strongly suggest that he may have been a key aspect of the game's scrapped "Stop 'n Swop" feature.
- Billy Bones - a pirate captain who kept the map of the island where Flint's treasure was hidden in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Antonio Bongo - is a pirate that starts a journey to find the six magical keys with his friends Cadman Thomas, Jerry King, Gunter Hilton and his father Amen Bongo. He was created by Conor James Cid-Fuentes Deely.
- Captain Broom - is a pirate in the novel Pirates! by Celia Rees
- Douglas "Dawg" Brown - the villainous pirate uncle of Morgan Adams and captain of the Reaper. He appears in Cutthroat Island. Like Morgan, he wants to recover the three portions of the treasure map before she does. Dawg is portrayed by Frank Langella.
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- Captain Contagious was the pirate who escaped from the snow and kidnapped a French lady doll away and sailed into the sea in Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, directed by Richard Williams.
- Cannonball (Transformers) - is a decepticon space pirate.
- Captain Gavin Capacitor - is a software pirate from the computer-animated series, ReBoot
- Captain Carryall - (aka Theodore Maltatlas the Second Son's Brother's Friend) commanded the much-feared Bread Pirates on the world of food, Pinfoot, in the novel Bubblegum Wishes by J.S. Longstreet.
- While Cap'n Crunch - is not a pirate, Jean LaFoote - his commercial nemesis of bygone days, was not only a pirate, but a barefoot one to boot.
- Captain Clegg - is the alias assumed by clergyman Doctor Syn when he turned to piracy in the novel Doctor Syn on the High Seas by Russell Thorndike. Other notable pirates in the book include Captain Satan, a black pirate leader whom Syn kills and whose ship and crew he then takes over; Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter and Syn/Clegg's loyal lieutenant; and Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who leads a mutiny and is killed by Syn.
- Captain Skunkbeard - a ghost pirate from Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, (2006 direct-to-video animated feature)
- Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard's most well-known character had several times taken up the career of a pirate (sometimes among white fellow-pirates, sometimes among black ones) before finally becoming a king (see also Bêlit). He took up piracy one extra time after that, when being dethroned and exiled - though soon returning from the sea and regaining his throne.
- John Connor - one-eyed Welsh pirate and smuggler from Cardiff, helmsman aboard Jean Lafitte's ship the Pride in Italian comic book Zagor.
- Captain Corroboc - is a giant parrot and a fierce, cunning and notoriously cruel captain of a pirate crew composed of assorted anthropomorphic animals, in the fantasy world of the Spellsinger series of Alan Dean Foster. After Corroboc's death, his place is taken by his brother, Captain Kamaulk - who had originally been the accountant of the family ("Pirating is a business, make no mistake of that, and somebody needs to take care of the ledgers" - "The Time of the Transference").
- The Corsairs of Umbar - of whom no personal name is given, who have a strategic role on the enemy's side in the later part of the war in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
- The Crimson Pirate - a.k.a. Captain Vallo - played by Burt Lancaster, is an acrobatic rogue who became a hero in the namesake 1952 movie. Lancaster's former circus partner Nick Cravat also appears as Vallo's mute sidekick, Ojo.
- Captain Crook - was the pirate who sailed the sea to find the dish of the Filet-O-Fish in McDonaldland, at McDonald's fast food restaurants
- Cuthbert Conyers - nicknamed Old Cut-throat - had a long and successful piratical career in the tropics and in 1732 settled with his loot for a "respectable" old age at an English country house - where two centuries later Lord Peter Wimsey discovered his hidden treasure ("The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head").
- Henriette "One Eye" Cooper - a female raccoon pirate ancestor of Sly Cooper from the Sly Cooper video game series.
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- Captain Ironhook - was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.
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- "The Master of Ballantrae" (James Durie), in Robert Louis Stevenson's well known novel of that name, has become a ruthless and bloodthirsty pirate after being forced into exile following his involvement in the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745.
- John Merrick, a former Royal Navy Lieutenant turned pirate captain in the 1850s Pacific, is the villain of O. V. Falck-Ytter's 1873 young adult action-adventure story "Haakon Haakonsen. En Norsk Robinson" ("Haakon Haakonsen. A Norwegian Robinson"), partly inspired by Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". It was adapted to the 1990 film "Shipwrecked", where Merrick is played by Gabriel Byrne.
- Jean Malot, better known as Captain Snake, is a 16th century French pirate in Italian comic book Zagor. All his male descendants share his name and nickname.
- Maxi - an Okinawan pirate from the Soul series of video games who wields nunchaku. Unlike Cervantes de Leon from the same series, Maxi does not resemble stereotypical depictions of pirates. His ship is a playable stage in Soulcalibur IV.
- Morgan "Moonscar" McWright - Captain of the Maelstrom who led his crew onto an island in the Louisiana bayou and killed the inhabitants of a peaceful pagan village. Moonscar and his crew were subsequently slain by a pair of vicious were-cats. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
- Murdoch Juan - is a bold space adventurer in Poul Anderson's story "The Pirate", part of the Psychotechnic League series. 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.
- Captain Mission - a pirate alleged by Daniel Defoe to have established a floating socialist pirate republic.
- Manjanungo - bloodthirsty space pirate in Race Across the Stars, part of the Spaceways series by John Cleve.
- Elaine Marley - is the governor of several pirate islands in the Monkey Island series of video games.
- Captain Horatio McCallister - or The Sea Captain, is a character from the animated TV series The Simpsons, admits in one episode that he is not actually a sea captain, but he is still known for his frequent, pirate-like "Yarrr!"
- Bosun Moon - is a petty officer on a pirate ship in the film Yellowbeard
- Captain Morgan - is the pirate character for the rum of the same name.
- Andrew Murray a.k.a. "Captain Rip-Rap" is the idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, working in partnership with the decidedly not idealistic Captain Flint, who in A. D. Howden Smith's Porto Bello Gold (1924) captures from a Spanish galleon - and secretly buries - the same treasure which would a generation later be recovered with considerable trouble by the protagonists of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island".
- Captain Mutiny - was one of the main villains on Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. In Japan, he was known as Captain Zahab (a play on Captain Ahab) and was the primary villain of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, the series that became Lost Galaxy in America.
- Harry Markel - was a former captain turned into a pirate, who been captured and transferred to England, but he escapes along with his right-hand man John Carpenter and the rest of his accomplices — known collectively as the "Pirates of the Halifax" — and seizes the Alert, a three-masted leaving, after having massacred the captain and crew. In Traveling Scholarships by Jules Verne.
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- One-Eared Pirate - was a pirate in Robert Arthur's book The Three Investigators The Mystery of the Talking Skull. The Legend says that he stole money and before they caught him, he put all of the money into the geyser. After many years there stayed only a few coins.
- One-Eyed Jane - is a fictional pirate from the Wicked Travels of One-Eyed Jane - a saga of epic proportions that begins in London's merchant district with the pretty, naive lass Jane Spiess, and ends twenty years later in Mandalay with a black-hearted, murderous, and extremely rich, One-Eyed Jane.
- One-eyed Willy - is the pirate whose "rich stuff" the kids set out to find in The Goonies
- Orm the Red - a 10th Century viking whose piratical exploits in Christian and Muslim Spain, England and southern Rus (present-day Ukraine) are narrated with considerable empathy and humor in "The Long Ships".
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- Painty the Pirate and Patchy the Pirate are pirates that appear on the animated comedy SpongeBob SquarePants. Painty is a pirate captain in a painting that sings the theme song along with an unseen group of children, while Patchy is a live-action character who hosts many of the show's "special episodes".
- Harvey 'Blind' Pew - is a pirate in the movie Yellowbeard.
- Pirate Pimm - is the central figure of the Pirate Pimm films and the self proclaimed "Greatest Pirate of Them All"
- The Pirates - are a band of nameless and hapless pirates that appear as a running joke in almost all of the Asterix adventures.
- Piet Piraat ("Pete the Pirate") - a good-natured adventurous pirate in a Flemish children's program [2].
- Captain Walker D. Plank - is a villain in the animated TV series James Bond Jr.. He fits the traditional stereotype to the extent that even his parrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg.
- Captain Pugwash - is a character from a series of children's comic strips, books, and animated films created by John Ryan.
- The Pepper Pirates is a pirates who robbed and pilling pepper from the smurfs at their sailing ship in The Smurfs.
- The Pirate King and his crew of pirates were known as the Pirates of Penzance in Gilbert and Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance.
- The pirate captain who racing with Bobby at his day dream in Bobby's World.
- The pirates and their ship is falling gentle from the sky in Dennis the Mence.
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- Ragnar Danneskjöld is a fictional pirate in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, whose activities are motivated by radical pro-capitalist ideology.
- Red Rodney Radcliffe [3], captain of "The Black Hand" [4], and his daughter Ethel Radcliffe [5], in Harry Turtledove's "Atlantis" alternate history series [6].
- Robert the Terrible was the hideous veggie pirate character who sailed for revenge of his brother the king for the thorn of his brother kingdom with technology in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie.
- Red Rackham - is a pirate in the Tintin adventure The Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé. He was killed by Sir Francis Haddock after Rackham attempted to take over Haddock's ship, the Unicorn.
- Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red - is a character from the Roman Polanski film Pirates. He is played by Walter Matthau.
- Redbeard - (Barbe Rouge) is a comic book series since 1961, created by Jean-Michel Charlier & Victor Hubinon.
- Redbeard - (voice by John Stephenson), Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - season 1, Go Away Ghost Ship. No connection to the comic book character.
- Red Sonja. A female pirate in the works of Robert E. Howard.
- Ridley - is a member of the Space Pirates in the Metroid series of video games.
- Jonathan Rockhal is a space pirate in Italian comic book Nathan Never. Before he turned to piracy, he was a general of the Federal Army of Earth.
- Captain Roger (aka Redbeard) - was one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates.
- Rhine River Pirates - infesting this and other European rivers in the post-nuclear war world of Poul Anderson's story "Marius".
- Russell, a friendly sea otter pirate and a character from Happy Tree Friends.
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- Captain Stingaree was the first supervillain pirate in the Batman comic books!
- Captain Samuel Salt - was the pirate captain of his magic pirate ship and his crew of pirates sailed through sea and air to Nonestic Ocean (which surrounds the continent Oz is on) in Pirates in Oz and Captain Salt in Oz at the Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.
- Captain John Sharkey - was the pirate who flying his green Jolly Roger flag, his green flag in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1897 short stories and his 1925 novel The Dealings of Captain Sharkey
- Captain Sabertooth - (Norwegian: Kaptein Sabeltann) is the pirate and the main character in some Norwegian theatre plays created by Norwegian singer and actor Terje Formoe. He is the skipper of his bands of pirates who sailed together in their ship, the Black Lady in search of mystical treasures arounds in his voyages.
- Sandokan - or "The Tiger of Malaya", is the scourge of the British in the South China Sea by Italian author Emilio Salgari. He was portrayed onscreen, in a 1976 Italian TV series, by Indian actor Kabir Bedi.
- Captain Scarblade - The vicious captain of the Revenge in the Neopets plot Curse of Maraqua, Scarblade and his crew of marauding pirates attempted to destroy the underwater city of Maraqua.
- Captain Scratch - is the evil captain of the Bloody Hand in Sid Fleischmann's The Ghost in the Noonday Sun. Scratch hires a young man he believes can see ghosts to help him find the treasure of a dead pirate.
- Sea Hawk - is a pirate and anti-hero from the TV series She-Ra: Princess of Power. He was originally a transporter for the Evil Horde, but later defects to The Great Rebellion when persuaded by Princess Adora/She-Ra.
- Searats - antropomorphic rats engaged in piracy, often appeaing as villains in the Redwall series of books by Brian Jacques. Noted ones are the highly intelligent Cluny the Scourge, the insane Gabool the Wild and the opportunistic Ripfang.
- Sed - Son of Seth Balmore in the video game Lost Odyssey. Owns the submarine Nautilus.
- Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington - are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist Celia Rees.
- Captain Skunkbeard - voice by Ron Perlman - Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
- Long John Silver - is one of several pirates who appear in the Robert Louis Stevenson, novel Treasure Island, which weaves together many pirate myths and motifs including maps of hidden treasure, villany among pirates, marooning, parrots, missing limbs, and eye patches.
- John Silver is a space pirate with mechanical leg in Italian comic book Nathan Never. He is second in command to captain Jonathan Rockhal. Before he turned to piracy, he was a general of the Federal Army of Earth.
- Skull Pirates - from the Legend of Zelda - series are a group of undead skeleton pirates, found most prominently in the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons games.
- Kaptain Skurvy - is a secondary villain of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series.
- Space pirates - various groups, distinct from each other, use this name (see separate article)
- Steve the Pirate - is a dodgeball player who believes himself to be a pirate, in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. He is played by Alan Tudyk.
- Syndicate of Pirates, using flying machines (not yet invented at the time of writing) and secret rays to terrorise the adventurers of the Klondike Gold Rush at Alaska - in George Griffith's The Great Pirate Syndicate (1899) [7] [8].
- Captain Syrup - is a female pirate captain and the main antagonist of video games Wario Land and Wario Land 2.
- Vikram Szpirglas - is an airship pirate and antagonist in Airborn.
- Captain Spade was the henchmen pirate captain of Ker Karraje in Jules Verne's "Facing the Flag".
- Starjammers, heroic space pirates in the Marvel Universe, who became pirates for eminently justified reasons.
- Captain Jack Sparrow - (played by Johnny Depp) is one of the main characters in "Pirates of the Caribbean". He is the son of Captain Teague and one of the nine Pirate Lords.
- Captain Ishmael Squint - (voiced by Charles Napier) - He's the cruel pirate who sailed the Jumanji Sea. In "Eye of the Sea", He lost his nose during the battle against the one-eyed sea monster with a hideous odor, called "The Draken", over 20 years ago. He wanted revenge on the Draken, but Squint was eaten alive by The Draken before Alan killed it. In "Return of Squint" He later came back with 2 new shipmates of his.
- Elizabeth Swann - is a female pirate in "Pirates of the Caribbean". She is played by Keira Knightley.
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- Unnamed one-eyed pirate appearing on the cover of the Pirate's Booty snacks, with Speech balloons voicing praise for the product accompanied by "Yo ho ho" and "Shiver me timbers" (expressions derived from Stevenson's "Treasure Island", though the pirate depicted does not precisely correspond to any of its characters).
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- Yanez de Gomera - is the Portuguese, more level-headed, philosophical elder sidekick of Sandokan - in the 12 novels of Emilio Salgari's Sandokan Cycle - the last of which, posthumously published, is titled Yanez' Revenge (La rivincita di Yanez, 1913.)
- Yellowbeard - is the protagonist of the 1983 comedy film Yellowbeard. He was played by Monty Python alumnus Graham Chapman.
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