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A stereotypical cartoon pirate

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• Captain Jesamiah Acorne is a charismatic rogue, captain of the Sea Witch a novel by Helen Hollick published by DA Diamonds U.K. "In the sexiest pirate contest Jesamiah Acorne gives Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow a run for his money." High sea adventure, fantasy and romance - a swashbuckling read. Sea Witch is the first in a series of pirate adventures.
• Morgan Adams is the captain of the Morning Star, played by Geena Davis in the film Cutthroat Island.
• Atomsk is the alien pirate king in the anime FLCL.
• B. Jenet is the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the King of Fighters universe.
• Captain Hector Barbossa is a villain from Walt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• Captain Anton is the leader of villanous space pirates in Asimov's "Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids".
• Captain Barrett, or "The Hook", is a comic villain of the 1944 Bob Hope film "The Princess and the Pirate" Played by Victor McGlaglen
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Antonio Bongo is a fictional 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.
• Cannonball (Transformers) is a decepticon space pirate.
• Captain Gavin Capacitor is a software pirate from the computer-animated series, Reboot
• 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.
• 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).
• The Corsairs of Umbar, of whom no personal name is given, have a strategic role (on the side of the Bad Guys) in the later parts of the titanic struggle unfolding in Tolkien's "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 Jack Dancer is the skipper of the Red Wench and the hero of "The Red Seas", an ongoing feature in the British comic book series 2000AD.
• Ragnar Danneskjöld is a Norwegian 20th Century ideological pirate, completely dedicated to promoting the ideology of Capitalism and unrestrained Free Market by force of arms on the high seas, in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
• Charlotte De Berry is the name of a female pirate captain who stars in an 1836 book by Edward Lloyd.
• Cervantes de Leon, the former captain of the Adrian, is a Spanish ghost pirate who possesses Soul Edge in Namco's Soul Calibur series of fighting games.
• Captain Michael K. DeMillzy is one of the pirates that appear in some episodes of the Internet comedy series The Lord Mike Saga.
• The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fearsome pirate dressed all in black (including a black mask and headrag) who is reputed to "leave no survivors," and captains the pirate ship Revenge in the novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
• Captain Feathersword is a character in the stage and television shows of the popular children's troupe, "The Wiggles". He is played by played by Paul Paddick.
• Captain Kevin Garrigan is the captain of the famous Slocum Creek Pirates, a ferocious pirate gang that pillaged the Atlantic Coast.
• Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) is a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart.
• Captain Harlock is the titular space pirate of his own anime series.
• Captain Hook is from the play Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. He leads a band of pirates in his ship, the Jolly Roger, which haunts Kidd's Creek in Neverland.
• Davy Jones is the captain of the legendary Flying Dutchman in 2006's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• Don Karnage is an air pirate in the Disney animated series TaleSpin.
• Jason and Roscoe, played repectively by Robert Urich and Michael D. Roberts, space pirates in the 1984 comedy/science-fiction film "The Ice Pirates".
• Ker Karraje (a.k.a. "Count d'Artigas") is a sophisticated and ruthless pirate of Malay origin, using state-of-the-art techonologies of the late 19th Century, notably a submarine, in Jules Verne's "Facing the Flag".
• Maquesta Kar-Thon is the pirate captain of the Perechon who attempted to provide passage to the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Winter Night.
• Captain Kennit is a pirate from Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders trilogy, who - while far from being a paragon of virtue - has many redeeming features.
• Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe are the protagonists of Pirates! by novelist? please ID Celia Rees.
• Captain Levasseur is a dashing French Bucaneer who briefly partners with Captain Blood , played by Basil Rathbone in the film. Levasseur and Blood fight a duel to the death over the fate of Arabella Bishop.
• Captain Red Ned Lynch and his crew of the Blarney Cock are pirates in the romantic adventure film Swashbuckler (1976).
• 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!"
• Monkey D. Luffy is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and the protagonist in the world of One Piece, an anime and manga series. His crew includes:
  • Roronoa Zoro, the first mate
  • Nami, the navigator
  • Usopp, the marksman
  • Sanji, the chef
  • Tony Tony Chopper, the doctor
  • Nico Robin, the archeologist
  • Franky, the shipwright
• Captain Morgan is the pirate character for the rhum of the same name.
• Andrew Murray is the idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, working in partnership with the decidedly not idealistic Captain Flint, who in A. D. Howden Smith's "The Porto Bello Gold" (1934) captures from a Spanish galleon - and secretaly buries - the same reasure which would a generation 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.
• 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
• Patchy the Pirate is the pirate captain that sings the theme song of Spongebob Squarepants.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ridley is a member of the Space Pirates in the Metroid series of video games.
• Captain Jolly Roger is an undead pirate in the game Pirates of the Caribbean Online.
• Sandokan, or the "Tiger of Malaysia", 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 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.
• ScurvyBeard is the Captain of the PirateVan from Lookit vol. 2 YARG! (A Graphic Novel by Ray Friesen) Along with his Crew, YoHoJoe (First Last and Always Mate) Peg Leg Pete (CabinBoy Guy) NoEyes Johnson (Public Relations) and Lester (Accent Coach) They sell pirate cookies.*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.
• Skull Pirates from the Legend of Zelda series are a group of undead skeleton pirates, found most promintently in the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons games.
• Kaptain Skurvy is a secondary villain of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series. Also in Donkey Kong Country 2 K. Rool is dressed as a pirate due to the pirate theme of the game.
• Captain Jack Sparrow is a protagonist from Walt Disney Pictures' Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
• 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.
• Captain Syrup is a female pirate captain and the main enemy of videogames Wario Land and Wario Land 2.
• Vikram Szpirglas is an airship pirate and antagonist in Airborn.
• Captain Tempest is from two classic novels by Emilio Salgari: Il capitano Tempesta (1905) and Il leone di Damasco ("The Lion of Damascus", 1910.)
• Tetra is a female captain of a band of pirates in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass video games.
• Guybrush Threepwood is the bumbling hero of Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts. His antagonist is the evil zombie ghost pirate LeChuck.
• Vyse is the main character of the video game Skies of Arcadia.
• Jamie Waring is the swashbuckling hero of "The Black Swan" 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's novel played by Tyrone Power
• 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 alumni Graham Chapman.
• Zack is the lead pirate in the game Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure.