History Main / ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything

* Compared to its original counterpart ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (see below), ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'' does a good job averts this trope with Cleveland's Deli and Peter's job as a fisherman. With multiple episodes now being rewritten to show Cleveland working at his deli, and Peter being a fisherman. Though Peter's job at the Brewery is still not seen much.

* Colonel Hathi in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''. He calls his herd a "company" and their migrations "marches/drills". Although he agrees to help Bagheera find a missing Mowgli, it's unclear in what capacity he is, in fact, a military commander. He implies he was a war elephant in the colonial army in the past, so it may simply be that he's mimicking human customs. A line in the elephant marching song hints the herd know full well what they're doing is pointless but they're doing it anyway.

* The VTuber WebVideo/{{Dokibird}} is a thief, conman, and cat burglar by trade. However, she has made an agreement with various banks and museums that she can only do one robbery a year. As this severely limits her income, she makes an honest living on the side by moonlighting as an artist and a streamer. Indeed, on April 21, 2021, she robbed a bank in her second robbery of the year, breaking the agreement. As a result, the bank sicced the authorities on her, and she vanished for quite a long time.

This may be because writers and fans are in love with [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster the romanticism implied in a life of adventure and crime]], but [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing don't want to actually show the characters doing]] any of the myriad things that make thieves, assassins, mercenaries, {{bounty hunter}}s, and other unsavory types pariahs in RealLife. Perhaps the work is aimed at children... or just people who don't understand the difference between pirates and sailors. This can result in a strange dissonance where the friendly, [[MessianicArchetype messianic]] nature of the characters is at odds with the [[OffstageVillainy openly predatory nature of the professions]] they claim to engage in. May bring AMillionIsAStatistic into play. TropesAreTools first and foremost however and there are better reasons for this to apply. They may, for one, use a different, looser definition of the word pirate than the typical one, one that allows for as much [[FriendlyPirate cordiality]] as the characters feel like.

* The VTuber WebVideo/{{Dokibird}}'s lore is that she is a thief, conman, and cat burglar by trade. However, she has made an agreement with various banks and museums that she can only rob them once a year. As this severely limits her income, she makes an honest living on the side by moonlighting as an artist and a streamer.

* The VTuber WebVideo/{{Dokibird}}'s lore is that she is a thief, conman, and cat burglar by trade. However, she has made an agreement with various banks and museums that she can only rob them once a year. As this severely limits her income, she makes an honest living moonlighting as an artist and a streamer.

* A fairly literal example in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', where the resident gang of pirates seems to exist for the sole purpose of having their ship wrecked whenever the Gauls run onto them. It's not that they don't ''try'' to do actual pirating, they just never seem to get an opportunity to before they get sunk again and need to swim to shore and find a new ship.

* The title character of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has had his job as a physician slowly become like this (to the point where is has been lampshaded -- twice.)

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