History Main / SeadogPegLeg

* Triple-Patte (Three-Legs), originally from the French comic ''ComicBook/BarbeRouge'' but [[WeirdAlEffect far better known for his appearances]] in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''. In both cases he functions as the SmartGuy, giving out appropriate Latin quotes and hitting people with his crutch.

* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'': Pirate Cookie has one along with a HookHand and an eyepatch. In 2020 it was revealed on the developers' official YouTube channel that he lost it when he walked off his ship and fell into the ocean and was then rescued by Sorbet Shark Cookie. His relationship chart even mentions this when looking at the one for Sorbet Shark Cookie.

* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'': Pirate Cookie has one along with a HookHand and an eyepatch. In 2020 it was revealed on the developers' official Youtube channel that he lost it when he walked off his ship and fell into the ocean and was then rescued by Sorbet Shark Cookie. His relationship chart even mentions this when looking at the one for Sorbet Shark Cookie.

* Creator/TheAsylum did a SettingUpgrade of ''Literature/MobyDick'', in which Captain Ahab has a modern artificial leg, after losing the previous one to the MonsterWhale.

* Captain Ahab from ''Literature/MobyDick'' is the other TropeCodifier (to the point that some examples on this page are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of either him or Long John Silver mentioned above). Captain Ahab lost a leg during a previous whaling voyage while hunting the white whale and now has a grudge against it. In fact, his missing leg is the main force that drives his revenge plot against the titular whale. He had his peg leg made from a sperm whale's jawbone while at sea; late in the story, he damages it and has the ship's carpenter make him a new one. It's mentioned that Ahab had a earlier serious accident, in which the leg apparently broke and the broken stump stabbed him in the groin. In the Creator/PatrickStewart film adaptation, one of the crew throws a scare into the others by coming down the ladder using one leg and a stick.

* Captain Pablo in ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' episode "Pirate Treasure". [[RealityEnsues It makes it hard for him to walk quickly.]]

* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho043DoctorWhoAndThePirates Doctor Who and the Pirates]]", Evelyn is trying to make sure Red Jasper is considered [[ObviouslyEvil the bad guy]] by making him DressedToPlunder and giving him every RedRightHand she can think a pirate should have - one eye, two peg legs, two {{hook hand}}s, etc. She later admits that she is embellishing, but over events indicate that Jasper has at least one wooden leg.

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* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' features a pirate captain who has this among almost every other stereotypical pirate trait. In a slight turn of realism, he needs to use a crutch to get around, but he still manages to be a HandicappedBadass though virtue of being handy with a blade, a CombatPragmatist, and keeping a few secret weapons stashed on his person. One of which includes a holdout blade hidden ''in'' his pegleg.

* Long John Silver of ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s, although he didn't have a peg leg in the original book, using a crutch to help him move around instead. The peg leg would originate in later adaptations. And, in keeping with the TruthInTelevision mentioned in the trope description, he ''was'' the ship's cook! (Though it's not specified whether that was also his job before he lost his leg.)
* Captain Ahab from ''Literature/MobyDick'' is the other TropeCodifier (to the point that some examples on this page are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of either him or Long John Silver mentioned above). Captain Ahab lost a leg during a previous whaling voyage while hunting the white whale and now has a grudge against it. In fact, his missing leg is the main force that drives his revenge plot against the titular whale. He had his peg leg made from a sperm whale's jawbone while at sea; late in the story, he damages it and has the ship's carpenter make him a new one. It's mentioned that Ahab had a earlier serious accident, in which the leg apparently broke and the broken stump stabbed him in the groin. In the Creator/PatrickStewart film adaptation, one of the crew throws a scare into the others by coming down the ladder using one leg and a stick.

* ''Literature/TheSeaWolf'': Implied in the first chapter. The "red-faced man" is clearly an experienced seaman and though he's wearing long trousers, walks in an odd way that Van Weyden surmises is caused by having two artificial legs.
* Jonathan Small from the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' novel ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'' is a former soldier who lost his leg to a crocodile while serving the British army in India and replaced it accordingly. He has also sailed throughout the world, although that happened after losing his leg.
* ''Literature/TheBountyTrilogy'': Huggan, the ship's surgeon, has a peg leg. He lost his leg when his ship engaged in combat with John Paul Jones during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution.

* In ''Aubrey-Maturin'', there is a minor character who loses a leg and reappears as the captain of an East Indiaman, having few prospects in the Royal Navy as a result. Another minor character is an elderly officer in a similar position, but still in the Navy; Aubrey appoints him captain of a prize vessel, effectively pensioning him off (because the Navy Board will, by convention, confirm the promotion but not employ the officer again, thereby placing him on half-pay indefinitely).

* On ''Series/BlackSails'', John Silver loses the lower part of his leg at the end of season 2. In season 3 he is using a metal peg leg to move about. He is warned that he should be using a crutch instead since the amputation is still too recent for him to use a peg leg. He risks reopening the wound and losing the rest of his leg. He abandons the leg for a book-accurate crutch at the beginning of season 4.

* Music/{{Alestorm}} takes this UpToEleven. "Wooden Leg" details how the narrator lost both his legs to cannon fire from a Spanish ship, then got into a bar fight with a samurai who cut off his arms, giving him two peg legs and two peg arms. In "Wooden Leg, Pt 2 (The Woodening)" he hunts down his enemies, cuts off their limbs, and uses voodoo magic for some AppendageAssimilation. [[spoiler: the stolen limbs turn out to be possessed and drive him to madness and suicide.]]

* "Peg Leg" is a selectable character [[SkillScoresAndPerks Trait]] in the pirate-themed ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' ''Skulls & Shackles'' campaign. A PC who takes it has had his leg chewed off by a shark as a child, but they suffer no normal penalties for using a prosthetic and instead gain a bonus on damage rolls against sharks and other aquatic predators.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. The Bootlegger, a primary item for the Demoman, includes a peg leg. It's a reskin of Ali Baba's Wee Booties, which bizarrely means having a pegleg ''[[ImprobableAccessoryEffect increases]]'' the Demoman's mobility while charging.

* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2'': Shorty Leg lost one of his legs to the recoil from two cannons he fired. Notable because his peg leg is the first hint the enemies you're fighting, who up to that moment look like mere 1920s gangsters (even if their skin colour just looks weird), are more than they seem.
%%* ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'': Captain [=LeFwee=], who is also a literal PirateParrot.
* In ''VideoGame/PuzzlePirates'', if your ship is sunk in battle, there's a certain probability that you'll end up with a peg leg.
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Woodlegs]], the playable pirate character from ''VideoGame/DontStarve''.
* In ''VideoGame/CaptainMorganeAndTheGoldenTurtle'', Morgane's childhood home has a rack of them, left from prominent pirate ancestors. She doesn't have one herself, although Simpkins, one of the villains, does.
* ''VideoGame/IttleDew'': Itan Carver is an [[ExaggeratedTrope extreme example]], with two peg legs, one peg ''hand'', and one {{hook|Hand}}.

* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'': Pirate Cookie has one along with a HookHand and an eyepatch. In 2020 it was revealed on the developers' official Youtube channel that he lost it when he walked off his ship and fell into the ocean and was then rescued by Sorbet Shark Cookie. His relationship chart even mentions this when looking at the one for Sorbet Shark Cookie.
-->'''Pirate Cookie:''' Thanks fer savin me, but... me leg!
* ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'': The GhostPirate Pokémon Skelerogue's right leg ends in a bony peg. This is lost when it evolves into Navighast and its legs turn into FogFeet.

* Played straight in ''Exiern'' as Peggy is [[http://archive.exiern.com/comic/a-brew-that-is-true/ The SeaCleaver's cook]], and very proud of his cooking, claiming to be famous for it.

* Parodied with the character of Seamus from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. He's a fisherman with a typical pirate getup who has pegs replacing ''all'' his limbs, including his arms. One episode even shows him with a wooden torso.
-->'''Peter:''' How are you alive?\\
'''Seamus:''' Me mother was a tree.
* Also parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' with a Captain Ahab {{Expy}} who had replaced his ''entire body'' with wood.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Patchy the Pirate has one.
** On the episode "Aargh!", Mr. Krabs gives [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick some pirate gear to put on when they go treasure hunting. [=SpongeBob=] puts on two peg legs and calls himself Peggy the Pirate.

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. Whenever Red Guy poses as a pirate -- such as Cap'n Butz Pirate -- he will often tape his feet to his butt and attach peg legs to his knees; however, in "Lawnmower Chicken," he actually had peg legs, despite just being a grumpy old neighbor.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''. In "Fish n Chumps", former pirate-turned-local mariner Crappy Jack not only had wooden legs, but also wooden arms, and ''[[EyeScream wooden eyes]]''!
* Captain K'nuckles from ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' has wooden legs, wooden hands, and a wooden [[InsistentTerminology 'sittin' muscle']].

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', where SkyPirate Captain Scallywag simply ''looks'' like he has one because he wears a telescope on his leg. Somehow.
* Captain Pablo in ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' episode "Pirate Treasure". [[RealityEnsues It makes it hard for him to walk quickly.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'': In the episode "The Whining Pirates of Tortuga," one of the titular pirates has two peg legs and a peg head.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheGooseLady'' short "A Fisherman, A Fisherman's Wife and a Fish" depicts the fisherman as having a peg leg.

* Captain Brineybeard from ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has two peg legs.
* The basic Kremling enemies had those in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'', fitting the general pirate motif of the game. Some even had two peg legs, meaning they could only move by leaping.

* Several characters from the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series have those. Most of them pirates.
* Shorty Leg from ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2'' lost one of his legs to the recoil from two cannons he fired. Notable because his peg leg is the first hint the enemies you're fighting, who up to that moment look like mere 1920s gangsters (even if their skin colour just looks weird), are more than they seem.
* Captain [=LeFwee=] from ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', who is also a literal PirateParrot.

* Itan Carver from ''VideoGame/IttleDew'' is an [[ExaggeratedTrope extreme example]], with two peg legs, one peg ''hand'', and one {{hook|Hand}}.

* Pirate Cookie from ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has one along with a HookHand and an eyepatch. In 2020 it was revealed on the developers' official Youtube channel that he lost it when he walked off his ship and fell into the ocean and was then rescued by Sorbet Shark Cookie. His relationship chart even mentions this when looking at the one for Sorbet Shark Cookie.

-->--''My Son Tim'', Irish traditional[[note]]As performed by Frank Harte and Donal Lunny[[/note]]

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* ''WebGame/FreeIcecream'': The killer, despite not being a pirate, or associating with the sea in any immediately-discernable way, has a peg leg.

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* ''WebGame/FreeIceCream'': The killer, despite not being a pirate, or associating with the sea in any immediately-discernable way, has a peg leg.

** Davy Jones has a crab leg that presents the same problems as an ordinary peg leg.
* A peg leg-wearing pirate is featured in ''Film/TheBlackPirate''.

* Captain Ahab from ''Literature/MobyDick'' is the other TropeCodifier (to the point that some examples on this page are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of either him or Long John Silver mentioned above). Captain Ahab lost a leg during a previous whaling voyage while hunting the white whale and now has a grudge against it. In fact, his missing leg is the main force that drives his revenge plot against the titular whale. He had his peg leg made from a sperm whale's jawbone while at sea; late in the story, he damages it and has the ship's carpenter make him a new one.
** it’s mentioned that Ahab had a earlier serious accident, in which the leg apparently broke and the broken stump, stabbed him in the groin.
** In the Creator/PatrickStewart film adaptation, one of the crew throws a scare into the others by coming down the ladder using one leg and a stick.

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. Whenever Red Guy poses as a pirate - such as Cap'n Butz Pirate - he will often tape his feet to his butt and attach peg legs to his knees; however, in "Lawnmower Chicken," he actually had peg legs, despite just being a grumpy old neighbor.

* Long John Silver from Disney's ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' has a pneumatic peg leg, one of many cybernetic fittings. Jim Hawkins punctures it, crippling Silver, which allows him to escape the galley with intel that the ''Legacy's'' crew is composed of pirates.

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* Wiley from Johnny Hart's ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'' has never sailed the seas, but he does have a peg leg. Wiley functions as poet / bartender / coach among his cave-dwelling peers.
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has numerous examples.
** An old sailor is pointing at his peg leg and saying "Well, that's not such a bad story... But wait 'til you hear how I lost this!" to a man with a peg ''head''.
** A pirate gets a beauty treatment from his crew, which includes working on his peg leg with a file.
** A snake-pirate has had his entire body replaced with a wooden peg.
** Another caveman has crude pegs replacing his various limbs.. because he's been training his enormous pet PteroSoarer to "perch" on them.

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That wore your two fine legs to the knees away?"''

That wore your legs to the knees away?"''
-->--''My Son Tim'', Irish traditional folk song[[note]]As sung by Goodwin and Grey[[/note]]