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This is a list of fictional pirates, organized into either air pirates, sea pirates, or space pirates. They may be outlaws, but are not the same as space marines or space cowboys in space westerns. To learn more about pirates and their context in popular culture as a whole, see the Pirates ...

Chapter 7 describes the rhetorical, military, and legal campaign initiated by the ruling classes to "extirpate [pirates] out of the world," and the final essay explores the symbolic origins of the Jolly Roger and "the interrelated themes of death, apocalypse, hell, and self-destruction--fundamental matters of life and death and what they might have meant to these poor, motley, seafaring people in the early eighteenth century" (p.

By the way, the pirate crew in Asterix are a parody of them, but the parody is now much better-known than the original. Barracuda is set in The Golden Age of Piracy, and many of the characters are pirates. However, for the most part, these pirates are not romantic rogues, but ruthless seagoing plunderers and murderers. Batman: Batman has been a pirate in at least two stories: an Elseworlds story called Batman Leatherwing and an story in the mini-series Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. Also, there's one of his villains, Captain Stingaree, A Pirate 400 Years Too Late.

He’s obsessed with finding his share of Captain Flint’s treasure and claims to be the only man Flint ever feared. Other versions present him as a cyborg (Treasure Planet) or explore his earlier years (Black Sails – a John Silver and Flint origin story, amongst other things). John Silver is one of those pirates, like Hook, who we never seem to tire of.

Captain Jack Sparrow, originated by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–2017), is an eccentric, compass-wielding pirate captain of the Black Pearl, outmaneuvering British forces and supernatural foes in quests for ...

Pirates in the 18th century and before have now and then been quietly defended on the basis of individual circumstances and because people think they were romantic. Like all criminals each pirate had their individual reasons for deciding to follow the black flag, heroes and villains are just people and it’s pointless to drone on about the vicissitudes of the human condition here because the study of piracy is different to the popular perception of it.