List of space pirates
This is a list of space pirates, often found in the science fiction and fantasy genres.
Space pirate characters and groups
| Name | Work | Medium | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atomsk | FLCL | Novel, Manga, Original video animation | Pirate King. |
| Abslom Daak | Doctor Who | Comics | Ex-convict, pirate and mercenary hired by the Time Lords to destroy Daleks. |
| Adjutant Booba | Dengeki Sentai Changeman | Television series | A former space pirate who joined Gozma Star League, possibly for money and wealth. He became very close to Adjutant Shiima, whom he freed from Gozma's dark influence. Shortly after this, Booba dies in a climatic duel with Change Dragon. |
| Black Barney | Buck Rogers | Comic strip | |
| The Bonne Family | Mega Man Legends | Video Games | Consists of Teisel, Tron, Bon, and 40 Servbots. |
| Boskone | Lensman | ||
| Brak | Space Ghost | Television series | |
| Captain Harlock | Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Arcadia of My Youth | Manga, Film, Television series, Original video animation | Captain of the Arcadia. |
| Captain CJ "Hawk" Hawkens | Space Raiders (film) | Film, Space opera | Roguish protagonist of Roger Corman's dark spin on Star Wars. |
| Cobra | Cobra | Manga, film, anime, original video animation | |
| Dagg | Starchaser: The Legend of Orin | Animated film, space opera | Pirate, crystal smuggler and sidekick to the protagonist. |
| Dark Eldar | Warhammer 40,000 | Miniature wargaming | |
| Divatox | Power Rangers Turbo | Television series | |
| Elon Cody Starbuck | Star Reach | ||
| Hammerhand | Thundercats | Anime, television series, Manga | Leader of a crew of cyborg Vikings. |
| Jackals | Halo | Video games | A sci-fi race of reptilian-like creatures who are notorious for piracy in space. |
| John Crichton | Farscape | Television series | Astronaut from earth who finds himself sucked into a wormhole. He is rescued by the crew of Moya: a band of alien fugitives pursued by the evil Scorpius and the fascist-like Peacekeeper army. |
| Jonathan Rockhal | Nathan Never | Comics | A space pirate captain. John Silver, a man with a mechanical leg, is his second-in-command. Before they turned to piracy, they were generals of the Federal Army of Earth. |
| Kagato | Tenchi Muyo! | Television series, Manga, Original video animation | |
| Gokaigers | Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger | Television series | 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. |
| Space Pirate Fleet Descal | ChouSei Kantai Sazer-X | Television series | A band of space pirates in search of the wish granting Cosmo Capsules hidden on earth. In the original timeline, they succeeded, establishing a galactic empire. Therefore, the protagonists, who come from this dark future, travel back in time to prevent the pirates from succeeding their quest. |
| Talon Karrde | Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn | Book series | Karrde is a smuggler chief who becomes the leader of the criminal underworld after the death of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. |
| Krys and Jolly U | Alisa Selezneva books by Kir Bulychov | Book series | Krys is a shape-shifter, and Jolly U is a fat humanoid. They appear as Alisa's antagonists in several books and their adaptations, such as The Mystery of the Third Planet and Guest from the Future. |
| Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds | Firefly (TV series) | Television series | Former rebel Browncoat soldier and captain of the Serenity. |
| Mito | Space Pirate Mito | Television series | |
| Orions | Star Trek | Television series | |
| Phantom Knight | D.I.C.E. | Television series | |
| Pirate Clans | Exosquad | Television series | |
| Queen Emeraldas | Queen Emeraldas, Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock | Television Series, Film | Spinoff character from Galaxy Express 999 and Capt. Harlock in Leiji Matsumoto universe. Sister of Maetel from GE999 |
| Red Peri | The Red Peri | novel | |
| Richard B. Riddick | The Chronicles of Riddick | Film | Escaped convict and last of the alien Furian race. |
| Ridley | Metroid series | Video games | A dragon-like alien that is a top ranking member of the space pirates.[1] |
| Ryoko Balta | Tenchi Muyo!, Tenchi Muyo! GXP | Television series, Manga, Original video animation | |
| Saffron | Firefly | Television Series | A crafty con artist and occasional ship thief. |
| Sinbad and the Space Pirates | Superfriends (TV Series)|Challenge of the Super Friends | Television Series | Space pirates come to Earth to loot its treasure in the second part of episode 4. |
| Space Pirates Barban | Seijuu Sentai Gingaman | Television series | Characters from a Super Sentai series which was later used as the basis for Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. |
| Spike Spiegel | Cowboy Bebop | Television series, Manga | Protagonist in the Cowboy Bebop series. |
| The Star Pirate | Planet Comics | Comics | |
| Starjammers | X-Men | Comics | A group of space pirates led by Corsair. |
| Garris Shrike | Han Solo Trilogy by A.C. Crispin | Book series | Space pirate, con artist, and mercenary who captured Han Solo as a child, turning him into a thief |
| Star Seekers | Transformers | Novels/Toyline | Transformer Pirates with a vendetta against Cybertron led by Thundertron. Featured in the novels Transformers: Exiles, Transformers: Retribution, and in the 2014 storyline for Botcon. Thundertron also appeared as a figure in the Transformers: Prime toyline. |
| Booster Terrik | X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole | Books series | Terrik was a criminal who was imprisoned by protagonist Corran Horn's father, as well as an old friend of another protagonist Wedge Antilles. Later in the series, Horn marries Terrik's daughter Mirax, despite Terrik's initial objections. |
| Tex Hex | BraveStarr: The Movie | Animated Space Western | Evil purple skinned outlaw, minion to the demon Stampede. |
| Alonzo P. Tucker | Lost in Space | Television series | Inspired by Long John Silver, especially as portrayed by Robert Newton. |
| Vyse | Skies of Arcadia | Video Game | |
| Yondu | Guardians of the Galaxy | Film, comic book | Blue skinned space pirate and mercenary, mentor to Star Lord. |
Space pirate media
| Work | Year | Medium | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miniskirt Space Pirates/Bodacious Space Pirates | 2008–present | Light novel/ Television series | In the far future where space travel is the norm, Marika Kato, born and raised in the Tau Ceti planet Morningstar, is the newly recruited teenage captain of the space pirate(privateer) ship Bentenmaru, inheriting the title from her deceased father. |
| Galactic North | Short story | ||
| Independence War | 1998 | Video game | Pirates and terrorists are the target of the player in this space combat game.[2] Followed by Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos in 2001.[3] |
| Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids | 1953 | Novel | Juvenile science fiction penned by Isaac Asimov.[4] |
| Metroid series | 1986–present | Video game | Space pirates are the series' primary enemies.[5] |
| Outlaw Star | 1997–present | Manga, Television series | |
| Path of the Fury | 1992 | Novel | Written by David Weber, after a woman's family is slain by space pirates she is possessed by a Fury and seeks revenge.[4] |
| The Pirates of Orion | 1974 | Television episode | An episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series, the crew of the USS Enterprise are threatened by a band of space pirates.[4] |
| The Pirate Planet | 1978 | Television serial | A Doctor Who serial starring the Fourth Doctor, written by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams. A band of space pirates use their own planet to drain the life force of other planets by materilizing around them, the Captain has a giant robot parrot.[6] |
| Planet Pirates series | 1990–1991 | Novel | Trilogy of novels by Anne McCaffrey.[4] |
| Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | 2007 | Video game | The main character, Ratchet, fights through hordes of robotic Space Pirates led by Captain Romulus Slag. This game is followed by Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty, where Ratchet again fights the Space Pirates. |
| Rayman 2: The Great Escape | 1999 | Video game | Platform game where robo-pirates from deep space have invaded Rayman's world and broken its heart into a thousand pieces of energy.[7] |
| Rogue Galaxy | 2005 | Video game | |
| Sol Bianca | 1990, 1992 | Original video animation | |
| Sol Bianca: The Legacy | 1999–2000 | Television miniseries | |
| Space Pirates | 1992 | Video game | |
| The Space Pirates | 1969 | Television serial | A Doctor Who serial starring the Second Doctor. The TARDIS materializes in the midst of a pitched battle between space pirates and the Army Space Corps. The pirates dismantle space beacons for their scrap value of a rare material.[8] |
| Space Quest III | 2005 | Video game | |
| The Ice Pirates | 1984 | Film | Alien pirates raid cargo vessels carrying ice.[4] |
| Treasure Planet | 2002 | Film | Disney animated space opera version of the novel Treasure Island, the cast try to locate the treasure hoard of space pirate Captain Flint.[9] |
| Wing Commander: Privateer | 1993 | Video game | A space pirate computer game based in the Wing Commander universe. |
Unsorted list
- The animated films of Japanese director Leiji Matsumoto include several pirate characters, including and the privateer Queen Emeraldas, the best known of these pieces being Galaxy Express 999 (1977) and Space Battleship Yamato (1974).
- Manjanungo is bloodthirsty space pirate in Race Across the Stars, part of the Spaceways series by John Cleve.
- Nabel is a nasty cyborg space pirate on the 1996 film "Space Truckers"
- Drongo Kane, repeated adversary of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes, is a clever and ruthless space adventurer whose acts constitute piracy by any common sense standard, but who manages to stay within the law by the help of sharp lawyers. The Duchy of Waldegren is also a popular haunt of several notorious space-pirates (no individual names given) in the series.
- Murdoch Juan is a bold space adventurer in Paul 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.
- Carson Napier, Edgar Rice Burroughs' 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).
- Gammis Turek is the leader of a space pirate fleet in Vatta's War.
- Star Wars Empire At War contains a non-playable faction called the Black Sun Pirates, a large gang of mercenaries.
- Megaman Battle Network 6 includes a WWW member named Captain Blackbeard, an operator of Diveman.EXE who dressed as a sailor.
- Wolf O'Donnell is a space pirate in the Star Fox series, and gains a techno-eyepatch.
- Cannonball (Transformers) - is a decepticon space pirate.
- Female space pirates make up a number of characters in the anime Vandread
- Mark Watney from the Andy Weir book The Martian interprets existing international laws to classify some of his actions as space piracy.
References
- ↑ Schedeen, Jesse (2009-11-20). "Big Boss of the Day: Metroid's Ridley - Forget Mother Brain, this is the real villain of the Metroid franchise.". IGN. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
- ↑ Marriott, Scott. "Overview - Independence War". allgame. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ↑ Deci, T.J. "Overview - Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos". allgame. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Westfahl, Gary (2005-09-30). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works and Wonders, Volume 2. Greenwood Press. pp. 600, 601. ISBN 0-313-32950-8.
- ↑ "Space Pirates - The Sworn Enemy". Computer and Video Games. 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Overview - Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet, Episode 4". allmovie. Retrieved 2010-07-18.
- ↑ Thorpe, Damien. "Overview - Rayman 2: The Great Escape". allgame. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Overview - Doctor Who: The Space Pirates, Episode 1". allmovie. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ↑ Klein, Andy (2002-11-24). "Treasure Planet Review". Variety. Retrieved 2010-08-18.