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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: A character is said to have a specific career (like piracy), but is never shown or otherwise indicated to do anything that has to do with their profession.

* SeadogBeard: Many sailors (including pirates) tend to grow very ([[BeardOfEvil wickedly]]) [[BadassBeard impressive beards]].

Whether they're sailing the high seas, soaring the wild blue yonder, or charting the depths of outer space, whenever there are ships and commerce, there's [[{{Pirate}} Pirates]].

* GhostPirate: An {{undead}} pirate; includes both literal ghosts as well as reanimated corpses.

* PirateBooty: Pirates love to hoard caches of their stolen treasures.

* SeadogBeard: Many sailors (including pirates) tend to sport quite a ([[BeardOfEvil wickedly]]) [[BadassBeard impressive beard]].

* SeadogBeard: Many sailors (including pirates) tend to sport quite a ([[BeardOfEvil wickedly]]) [[BadassBeard impressive beard]].

* SeadogBeard: Many pirates (and sailors in general) tend to sport quite a ([[BeardOfEvil wickedly]]) [[BadassBeard impressive beard]].

* LongJohnShoutout: A pirate's name references Long John Silver from ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.

* MadeASlave: A possible fate for people who get kidnapped by pirates is to be treated as chattel, either forced to serve the pirates directly or be sold at coastal slave markets.

* RapePillageAndBurn: Pirates will attack coastal settlements and take whatever they want from civilians.

* CaptainColorbeard: A pirate has a name referring to the kind of beard they have (e.g. a pirate with a black beard named Blackbeard).
* FriendlyPirate: A pirate who is friendly and lacking dangerous behavior.
* GhostPirate: A pirate who is undead.
* HornyVikings: Vikings (essentially Scandinavian pirates) are depicted as wearing helmets with horns.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Historical pirates are somehow still around in the work's modern-day setting.
* PirateGirl: A female pirate.
* {{Privateer}}: A state-sanctioned pirate.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Modern-day pirates who are ruthless and not at all romanticized.
* SalvagePirates
* SkyPirate: Pirates who plunder aerial vehicles.
* SpacePirates: Pirates who plunder in outer space.
* SubmarinePirates: Pirates who plunder from a submersible vehicle.

* BlackSpot
* BoardingParty
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth
* DressedToPlunder
* EyepatchOfPower: Pirates tend to wear eyepatches.
* GangplankGalleon: A video game level themed after pirates.
* HackedByAPirate

* LeaveBehindAPistol

* NotSoSafeHarbor
* PirateBooty
* PirateParrot: Pirates have parrots on their shoulders.
* PirateSong

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: A character is said to have a specific career, but is never shown or otherwise indicated to do anything that has to do with their profession.
* RapePillageAndBurn
* SeadogBeard
* SeadogPegLeg
* SwordAndGun
* TalkLikeAPirate
* TreasureMap
* WalkThePlank: Pirates send people to their watery graves by making them leap off the plank.
* WoodenShipsAndIronMen

* PiratesVersusNinjas

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* '''{{Pirate}}''' (super-trope)

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* CaptainColorbeard: A pirate has a name referring to the kind of beard they have (e.g. a pirate with a black beard named Blackbeard).

* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy

* UsefulNotes/TalkLikeAPirateDay

* {{Pirate}} (super-trope)

* {{Privateer}}

* SubmarinePirates

Whether they're sailing the high seas, soaring the wild blue yonder, or charting the depths of outer space, whenever there's ships and commerce, there's [[{{Pirate}} Pirates]].

* '''{{Pirate}}''' (super-trope)

* PirateGirl

* HornyVikings
* APirate400YearsTooLate

* RuthlessModernPirates

* SkyPirate

* EyepatchOfPower
* GangplankGalleon

* HookHand

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything

* WalkThePlank

* GhostPirate: A pirate who is a ghost.