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Truth in Television: Pirates still roam the waters today (mostly in regions of high political instability or weak military resolve to stop them, such as Somalia, West Africa, and Southeast Asia). This trope is about them. Unlike their conventional counterparts, there is nothing romantic about these modern-day pirates. They have no big, wooden ship with a skull-and-crossbones flag, peg-legs, parrots, eye-patches, booze, they don't order "Shiver me timbers!", nothing like that. They're usually just a few guys with guns in a skiff. Funny enough, this characterization of being honorless, psychopathic killers is exactly how pirates were viewed during the Golden Age of Piracy. Many of them lived up (or down) to this reputation. Caveat Many golden-age pirates were defectors from British naval press-gangs, making them essentially escaped slaves and thus occasionally sympathetic in colonial and even British literature. Black escaped slaves sometimes became pirates as well, often because they had no real place to go after getting free. A number of the pirate crews were heavily black as a result. Perhaps another four hundred years from now, Somalian and Southeast Asian pirates will be viewed as romantic rogues. Malaysian and Indonesian pirates live up to their reputation in creative ways that would make British pirates of yore proud. Instead of making them Walk the Plank, for instance, they like to leave crewmembers stranded in shallow water coral reefs 50 miles off the coast, where they have to stand on tip-toes waiting for a passing ship.note Again, this is more in keeping with historical practice as well — actual Caribbean pirates were more known for marooning surviving victims, and would maybe Leave Behind a Pistol. This is to ensure you don't call for help while the ship is still in the vicinity — and that is if they don't execute everyone on board. Somali pirates, on the other hand, make millions from ransom alone. In fact, ransom is the main point for them; collecting a ransom is quicker, easier, and usually safer than stealing property of similar value and holding onto it long enough to find a buyer. You won't find modern pirates sailing the seven seas in visually impressive warships. That's because the entire venture cannot work without at least some decent degree of stealth from worldwide law enforcement. The use of vessels analogous to Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge or Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts' Royal Fortune would be easily visible by satellite imagery, and even if a modern pirate could take control of a hyper-fast-and-powerful ship on the level of a US Navy destroyer, most every nation in the world would almost certainly launch immediate near-limitless-resource missions to hunt down and destroy it. What's more, operating a modern warship requires resources far beyond what it took to run an effective pirate ship in the 18th century. In other words, piracy, like any other form of criminal enterprise, was forced to adapt to the times, or die. Perhaps the closest thing they have to a Cool Ship are a few tankers and cargo ships which are larger than anything that their earlier counterparts could ever get their hands on, mostly used as mother ships. Ruthless Modern Pirates may also be Submarine Pirates. See also Sky Pirates and Space Pirates for specific types of modern-day/future pirates that may still retain their romanticism. For modern day pirates who still dress and act as in the Golden Age of Piracy, see A Pirate 400 Years Too Late. The naval counterpart of Ruthless Foreign Gangsters. Not related to Digital Piracy Is Evil. |
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Jesse Kane and his son David in Aquaman (2018) are described as modern-day Submarine Pirates. | |
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A major plot point in Six Days, Seven Nights. | |
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The Terry and the Pirates comic strip dealt with the pirates of the China Seas in the 1930s (modern day for the strip), the beginnings of modern day piracy. | |
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Explored in the Swallows and Amazons book Peter Duck—some of the child protagonists like to pretend to be classic eighteenth century style pirates, and get a rude awakening when their ship is attacked by real contemporary pirates. | |
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The pirates working for Count Artigas in Invention for Destruction sink merchantmen, kill the survivors, and loot the sunken ships. | |
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In X-23, Laura and Gambit run afoul of a band while on their way to Madripoor, with Gambit getting dumped into a shark pool for their trouble. | |
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The second area of operation in SOCOM III is in the Indian ocean, fighting against a group of pirates called the Fist and Fire. | |
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It is strongly implied in Frankenstein Island that Clay and Jocko were pirates before they were shipwrecked on the only. Certainly neither of them have any compunctions about working for a Mad Scientist conducting experiments on unwilling human subjects. | |
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Rick Brant: The villains of The Pirates of Shan are a massive gang of heavily-armed South Pacific pirates who kidnap and threaten people at will, although they also have enough Pragmatic Villainy not to commit needless murders that will attract the authorities. | |
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Lin Chung is abducted by South China Sea pirates and held for ransom in the Phryne Fisher novel Away With the Fairies. | |
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In Marie D. Suesse and the Mystery New Pirate Age!, the main character's father, upon seeing the pirates of the One Piece world for the first time, assumes they're this. | |
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In Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye, while Indy and his friend Remy are traveling on a cruise ship through Southeast Asia in 1919, the ship gets attacked and robbed by Chinese pirates. The pirates' leader is a woman who was disguised as a singer, entertaining the passengers until her men boarded the ship. | |
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The Simpsons: An episode has a lost-at-sea character being rescued by pirates, and thinking how awesome it is. We see their conversation subtitled as they cheerfully plan to sell him into slavery. The pirates that attack Homer's "Party Boat". Though they have some stereotypical pirate traits such as having parrots on their shoulders. |
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Uncharted: In Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, about half of the enemies are Indonesian pirates led by Eddy Raja. Nathan even comments on how far they are from the idealized notion of old-timey pirates. "They don't take prisoners... well, not male prisoners." That said, Eddy Raja is Affably Evil at best, and ultimately teams up with Nate to fight against the zombies spawned by El Dorado. In Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, there's also a gang of Yemeni pirates led by Rameses. They're based in a ship graveyard in the Indian Ocean, and, being the Wacky Wayside Tribe they are, the whole scene there could have easily been cut with no effect on the story. But it doesn't stop the shipwrecks from being a great setpiece, though. |
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Since The Phantom's origin involves pirates, he often fights the modern versions. In one DC Comics story, the brutal thugs attacking a yacht are contrasted with a swashbuckling movie playing on the yacht's TV. | |
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Modesty Blaise: Modesty and Willie fight a crew of ruthless modern pirates lead by an Englishman known as 'the Aristo' in "The Aristo" arc. | |
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Green Arrow's origin (at least in some versions) involves modern-day pirates hijacking Oliver Queen's yacht and throwing him overboard. | |
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G.I. Joe: Members of G.I.Joe along with their Soviet counterparts, the Oktober Guard, are captured by river pirates in G.I. Joe Special Missions #4. G.I. Joe (IDW) #6 tells Cover Girl's origin story, which involves her taking out a gang of ruthless modern pirates while a contestant on a celebrity reality show. |
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Hawaii Five-0: The first season episode "Powa Maka Moana" dealt with a Spring Break Cruise being attacked and the kids kidnapped. | |
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In Jo, Zette and Jocko, the main characters fight modern-day pirates constantly. | |
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Deathstroke and Travis Morgan in Flashpoint: Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager. While Deathstroke is given a bit of a pass because of his noble intentions (he's only turned to piracy as a means to rescue his kidnapped daughter) the rest of his crew are portrayed as remorseless bloodthirsty criminals who just happen to be on a boat. | |
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At the start of Who Took the Super out of Superman?, the Man of Steel runs into -and puts away- a band of pirates raiding tourist ships cruising the Metropolis Bay. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity: "Somali Pirates of the Caribbean" | |
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Made-for-TV Movie Desperate Voyage (1980). A modern-day vessel captained by Christopher Plummer hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. | |
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Captain Phillips, based on a Somali incident in 2009. It doesn't end well for the pirates. | |
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At the beginning of "Breaking the Chain", Supergirl and the Outsiders set out to take down a ring of meta-human pirates prowling along the Western African coast. | |
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Rambo IV has Burmese river pirates. | |
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James Bond Pirates attempt to rob the wealthy passengers of a cruiser in the opening chapter of SeaFire, but find out that Bond, thanks to his experience as an intelligence agent, is more ruthless. Zoltan the Magyar and his crew from the Young Bond novel Blood Fever are smugglers who also deal in piracy to gather valuables for Count Ugo Carnifex, who collects art. |
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The Eye Sees: The villains of Detective Eye #2 are a gang of river pirates raiding a small town. | |
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Doc Savage: The mysterious Lord London and his ruthless pirates (mostly made up of Chinese recruited from the pirates of the South China Sea who had been displaced by the Japanese navy) inflict a reign of terror through the South Seas in Pirate Isle. | |
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Dave the Diver has a group of them who cause trouble for the heroes early on. Their encounter has Dave trying to free a dolphin they're trying to poach, then they try to fight him in revenge the next day. They later chase after a drunk Dr. Bacon and wind up sinking their boat during the chase. | |
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In Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Graver kidnaps a Somali pirate to get information on how the Yemeni terrorists made it to Mexico. | |
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Zoltan the Magyar and his crew from the Young Bond novel Blood Fever are smugglers who also deal in piracy to gather valuables for Count Ugo Carnifex, who collects art. | |
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China Seas: Modern for 1935, anyway, and definitely ruthless, as McArdle and the Malay pirates he's smuggled onto the ship seize it in an attempt to steal the gold. | |
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Pirates were a common foe in the early days of the Jungle Jim strip. | |
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The Law & Order: Criminal Intent two-parter "Loyalty" deals with Somali pirates. | |
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In Adventure Comics #409: "Fight with Fire Drake", a pirate band called the "Fire Drakes" assault yachts belonging to the rich. Their name comes from their dragon-looking diving suits and their flame-throwing gear. | |
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In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, Dark's boat is attacked by "modern pirates with guns and rockets and taking over oil tanks lick those guys on tv" ...who inexplicably still talk like traditional fictional pirates. | |
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The mercenaries assaulting the cruise ship in Deep Rising. | |
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The main characters of Black Lagoon are shown hijacking a ship after Rock first joins them. Since the group's normal vessel is a torpedo boat, one assumes they engage in piracy when their "delivery" business is poor. The characters are first seen robbing and kidnapping Rock. They were hired specifically to steal a disk by Hotel Moscow. Later, they were hired by someone else to hijack the ship. Basically, they commit whatever crimes they are hired to do (smuggling drugs, et cetera.) Luak and his men were also pirates before getting wiped out by Revy. |
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The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: In #15-16, a crew of ruthless Submarine Pirates led by Esmeralda Vasquez attempt to steal Indy's latest discovery out from under him. | |
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Somalian pirates get ass-whupped at the beginning of The Expendables. | |
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Archer was captured for ransom by modern Malay pirates in "Heart of Archness"; he thought that pirates didn't exist anymore and many pirate stereotype jokes are made. Then Archer becomes the Pirate King by Klingon Promotion, but proves pretty bad at maritime hijacking (he lets his victim keep his ship out of sympathy for small-business owners). | |
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The A-Team takes on river pirates in The Amazon Rainforest in the two-part episode "The Bend in the River". | |
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You're Skitting Me: Tatiana once tried to pretend that her boat had been boarded by Somali pirates (although Tats kept calling them "Salami pirates"). However, her friend Em had no idea what a Somali pirate actually was, and instead dressed as A Pirate 400 Years Too Late. | |
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The Last Trumpet: Two pirate factions have emerged in the formerly United States. The first is the Pirate Republic of Nantucket, created by a renegade Coast Guard officer named William Walker. The second are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, having taken inspiration from their team's name (and the large number of civilian watercraft in Tampa) to become actual buccaneers. | |
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"Uh-oh, Chongo! It's Danger Island, next!" on The Banana Splits. Featured Captain Mu-Tan and his rag-tag band of modern day pirates. | |
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Far Cry 3 probably has the most realistic, dark and brutal depiction of modern piracy in video games. The operation the player must fight against controls a small archipelago, where it deals in kidnapping, human trafficking, and of course the drug trade. | |
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Batman and Aquaman clash with modern day pirates during The Teaser of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Clash of the Metal Men!". | |
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Fathom clashes with modern day pirates off the coast of Florida in Fathom vol. 4, #1. | |
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Danger Girl: Mayday begins with April Mayday and her gang of cutthroats taking over a freighter, which leads to them running into the remains of Hammer Island and discovering Natalia's body. | |
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Captain Ron features some real life Pirates of the Caribbean. This is lampshaded by Martin Short's incredulous, "Pirates? Of the Caribbean? Really?" | |
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The Onion's fake political cartoonist Kelly did a panel about these at the end of October 2013, not long after the release of Captain Phillips... but it presents them in a positive light, labeling them "Today's Swashbucklers" for carrying on the tradition set by Blackbeard, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Captain Morgan, suggesting that all he knows about piracy then and now comes from romanticized fiction and/or Pop-Cultural Osmosis (Sir Henry Morgan is mostly known in the 2000s as the namesake of a brand of rum). | |
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B. Jenet is the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the The King of Fighters universe. They use a nuclear-powered submarine rather than a galleon. | |
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On 30 Rock Cerie's wedding is delayed by several months because her fiancée is captured by Somali pirates. Due to Stockholm Syndrome, some of them end up as groomsmen at the wedding. | |
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Examples from Superman stories: At the start of Who Took the Super out of Superman?, the Man of Steel runs into -and puts away- a band of pirates raiding tourist ships cruising the Metropolis Bay. In Adventure Comics #409: "Fight with Fire Drake", a pirate band called the "Fire Drakes" assault yachts belonging to the rich. Their name comes from their dragon-looking diving suits and their flame-throwing gear. At the beginning of "Breaking the Chain", Supergirl and the Outsiders set out to take down a ring of meta-human pirates prowling along the Western African coast. The Super-Revenge of Lex Luthor: Superman is seen attacking the Sea-hawk, a pirate ship belonging to a smuggling fleet. The ship's crew are so well-armed than they own Kryptonite laser cannons. |
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The pirate cats in Cat City. Other than having a Jolly Roger flag on their submarine, there's nothing romantic about them. | |
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One of the Rupert cartoons featured river pirates, who show up in a later episode as members of a pirate retirement home, which had previously been inhabited solely by more traditional pirates. | |
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In Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, there's also a gang of Yemeni pirates led by Rameses. They're based in a ship graveyard in the Indian Ocean, and, being the Wacky Wayside Tribe they are, the whole scene there could have easily been cut with no effect on the story. But it doesn't stop the shipwrecks from being a great setpiece, though. | |
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The first season of SEAL Team has an episode where an American university professor doing research in the Pacific Ocean is captured by Filipino pirates, necessitating a rescue mission by Bravo Team. A similar episode occurs in season 3 when a freighter is hijacked by Malaysian pirates, including 3 American hostages. This time, Bravo also has to act before the freighter makes it to Chinese waters to dissuade an American military intervention. | |
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The Hong Kong campaign of Shadowrun Returns has Frederick, a troll who wants to become a pirate based on an erroneous belief that his father was a legend in a local pirate group. Getting the true story from his father, who was a simple sailor who encountered the grisly aftermath of a pirate attack, makes it very clear what a terrible idea it is for Frederick to try and have anything to do with such groups. | |
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In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the crew that are hired to transport Indy, his Doggone Partner and the Ark pretend to be these to try and prevent the two of them being captured by Nazis (claiming they killed Indy and planned to sell her into slavery). Interestingly it fails — most likely not because the Nazis were such good guys, but because the pirates have the wrong skin color. | |
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Deadliest Warrior had the Somali pirates do battle against the Medellin Drug Cartel. | |
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CSI: Miami: A boat is suspected to have been hit by pirates, but careful investigation turns out that it was a white supremacist militia group, and one of the crew was in on the attack. | |
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Lirh Sarkhan, of Kingdom Hearts New Epic The First - despite sailing around in the classic old pirate ship, even previously owned by Captain Hook himself, Lirh is a ruthless young man who leads his forces through a healthy dose of respect and fear. His plunders are most often accompanied by massive casualty numbers, and he's one of the Most Wanted Pirates in the Worlds. | |
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The Covert Affairs episode, "The Last Thing You Should Do", is all about Auggie getting captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, and trying to escape without blowing his CIA cover. | |
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In The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, the third season episode Dangerous Waters features modern day pirates who lure in victims by pretending to be a boat in trouble, then either killing or kidnapping the people who stop to help. The plot kicks off with the Hardys trying to find a woman grabbed by the pirates, as she inadvertently stumbles over clues to the pirates' identity. The pirates state they not only intend to sell the woman into sex-slavery in China, but will kill Joe, as well. | |
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In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Zissou's boat is attacked by pirates. | |
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Dystopian thriller Victoria witnesses the downfall of the United States, with America collapsing into dozens of warring proto-states and ethnic enclaves. Various of them launch privateers to prey on what little international trade still exists; the worst are the Aztecs, who not only plunder the ships, but sacrifice the crews to the dark gods. | |
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After War Gundam X takes place in a Scavenger World, so this is inevitable. Many of the "Vultures" who roam around in landships are just buy-and-sell scavengers (the protagonists are these sort), but there are plenty others who terrorize and plunder the ordinary people who are trying to rebuild some semblance of civilization. And at sea, there's a subset who are so brutal they've been dubbed "Orcs". | |
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The Magician: In "Nightmare in Steel", Tony thwarts a gang of modern pirates bent on hijacking a freighter carrying millions of dollars in fuel as cargo. | |
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In 2013, a Womens' Institute group in the UK were informed that at their next meeting, they would be entertained by a man talking about pirates. Given the nature of the event, they assumed he would be some sort of musician or storyteller, or someone who performed in character as a pirate of the traditional kind. So some of the elderly regulars decided to dress up in pirate fancy dress costumes. Then it turned out that the man giving the talk about pirates was a captain who had been hijacked by Somali pirates, and was doing public speaking about his experiences. Fortunately, he found the mistake Actually Pretty Funny. Read here. | |
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Members of G.I.Joe along with their Soviet counterparts, the Oktober Guard, are captured by river pirates in G.I. Joe Special Missions #4. | |
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The titular hero battles Somali pirates (with unexpected consequences) in Brightest Day #1. | |
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For a relative value of "modern," Shadowrun Fourth Edition has a signature character named Kane. He engages in every criminal activity one expects of pirates: smuggling, kidnapping, mercenary contracting, hijacking, and killing people who can't fight back. | |
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Flipper and Lopaka: The modern pirates Captain Barnibus Crab, Kim and Simon are the main villains in season three. | |
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One of 47's targets in episode 5 of Hitman (2016) is a former Tamil Tiger who turned to piracy after they were disbanded. She continued with that for a while until she lost her arm during a raid, for which her captain unceremoniously cut her loose and she eventually got her current gig as a trainer for the Shadow Client's private militia. | |
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Anno 2070 features modern pirates. | |
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One of the many kinds of criminals that The Punisher has fought. The River Rats from The Punisher MAX series is a recent example. | |
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Aquaman: The titular hero battles Somali pirates (with unexpected consequences) in Brightest Day #1. Aquaman villain Black Manta. Black Jack, Aquaman's first major recurring villain was an early example of this trope who first appeared in 1941. He made many appearances during The Golden Age of Comic Books but disappeared around 1950. |
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In "Masks of Madness" in Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon, the Domino Lady teams up with The Phantom to take down a gang of modern pirates. | |
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The Living Skeleton: They kill an entire ship's crew before absconding with the 300 billion yen's worth of gold that the ship was carrying. | |
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Kid Colt, Outlaw: Possibly stretching the definition of 'modern', but in #109 Kid Colt fought a pirate called the Barracuda and his crew who were preying on coastal settlements along the Gulf of Mexico. Set in the latter half of the 19th century, the Barracuda and his men sail a modern ship, dress in modern seafarers clothes, use modern weapons, and invoke none of the tropes of A Pirate 400 Years Too Late (apart from attempting to make the Kid Walk the Plank). | |
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In Clear and Present Danger, an act of piracy leads to an attempt by the U.S. government to systematically assassinate the leaders of drug cartels in revenge. | |
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And the head pirate is Liu Kang. | |
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The Super-Revenge of Lex Luthor: Superman is seen attacking the Sea-hawk, a pirate ship belonging to a smuggling fleet. The ship's crew are so well-armed than they own Kryptonite laser cannons. | |
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Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: Subverted. What's more dangerous than a band of slaver pirates on a post-apocalypse sea planet? A neo-Nazi piloting a flying mech that has been improved over the course of a forever war to utterly and ruthlessly murder everything around it. And then dumped on a backwater planet, all systems intact. The main character ends up becoming the most ruthless pirate of all, convinced that he's a dutiful soldier and a bug exterminator, when his war protocols projected on a peaceful planet turn into pillage and slaughter. | |
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Jonny Quest TOS episode "Skull and Double Crossbones". Modern day pirates force the Quests to help them obtain sunken treasure. | |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier makes Georges Batroc, known as Batroc the Leaper in the comics, into a French-Algerian pirate who takes control of a S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel, setting the plot in motion. | |
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In Deadlands: Hell on Earth, the River Rats are band of ruthless river pirates who prey on survivor settlements on the western banks of the Mississippi. | |
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A group of modern day pirates run afoul of Tina in her introduction in DOA: Dead or Alive — and then have the misfortune to encounter the heroines when they are stranded at sea at the movie's end. And the head pirate is Liu Kang. |
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In Atlas Shrugged, Ragnar Danneskjöld is a Norwegian 20th Century ideological pirate, completely dedicated to promoting the ideology of Capitalism and unrestrained Free Market by seizing government ships (he never attacks private vessels), selling the loot, and returning the money to those he believes the government has stolen it from. Of course, Ayn Rand portrays him as a hero. | |
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The Chaos Timeline has the modern Red Pirates of the Socialist Block, which rob ships of the capitalist nations. And also Nipponese terrorists doing this, who are even worse. | |
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The Dirk Pitt Adventures novel Pacific Vortex features pirates using a modern legend as a cover for ship captures. | |
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The MacGyver (1985) episode "Pirates" had Mac clash with modern day pirates. | |
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In Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, about half of the enemies are Indonesian pirates led by Eddy Raja. Nathan even comments on how far they are from the idealized notion of old-timey pirates. "They don't take prisoners... well, not male prisoners." That said, Eddy Raja is Affably Evil at best, and ultimately teams up with Nate to fight against the zombies spawned by El Dorado. | |
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Burn Notice episode "Rough Seas" never included the word "pirates", perhaps to avoid invoking this, but the bad guys were thieves operating on the water. | |
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Jormungand: Off of Somalia, a well equipped band of pirates with two boats and a helicopter tries to attack Koko Hekmatyar's ship. Unfortunately for them, she's an arms dealer, and her team of bodyguards puts her merchandise to good use. | |
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In City of Heroes one of the main baddies is Captain Mako, a mutant who looks like an anthropomorphic shark and was a former modern pirate, a first-mate. Was so ruthless in-fact that he killed his captain, hence the title, was recruited as a mercenary to put down a rebellion for the king-of-all-super-villains and upon doing so, in the most bloody way possible, was given position as one of said super-villain's right hands... and he is currently looking at his new boss with the same hungry eyes he was looking at his old one. | |
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