List of Space Pirates
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This is a list of space pirate
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Space pirate
Space pirates are a type of stock characters from science fiction. They operate as pirates in outer space and travel by spacecraft; as opposed to the more traditional pirates on the high seas of Earth, who travel by boat...
s, often found in the science fiction
Science fiction
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and fantasy
Fantasy
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Genre
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Space pirate characters and groups
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| Atomsk | FLCL FLCL is an original video animation series written by Yōji Enokido, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I.G, and Starchild Records.... |
Novel Novel A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.... , Manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th... , Original video animation Original video animation , abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation... |
Pirate King. |
| Boskone Boskone This article is about the fictional organization in E.E. Smith's Lensman series. For the yearly BOSKONE science fiction convention, see Boskone .... |
Lensman Lensman The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the Hugo award for best All-Time Series .... |
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| Brak | Space Ghost Space Ghost Space Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space... |
Television series | |
| Captain Harlock Captain Harlock is a fictional character created by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto.Harlock is the archetypical romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life. He is as noble as he is taciturn, rebellious, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes, whether they be earthborn or alien... |
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| Dark Eldar Dark Eldar In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, the Dark Eldar are a Kindred of the Eldar, an ancient and advanced race of elf-like humanoids. Their armies usually have the advantages of speed, though they are often lacking in resilience... |
Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science fantasy universe. Warhammer 40,000 was created by Rick Priestley in 1987 as the futuristic companion to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, sharing many game mechanics... |
Miniature wargaming Miniature wargaming Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming that incorporates miniature figures, miniature armor and modeled terrain as the main components of play... |
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| Divatox | Power Rangers Turbo | Television series | |
| Elon Cody Starbuck Elon Cody Starbuck Elon Cody Starbuck is a fictional space pirate created by Howard Chaykin, who first appeared in Star Reach magazine issue #1, and also appeared in various issues of the graphics magazine Heavy Metal.... |
Star Reach Star Reach Star Reach was an influential, American science fiction and fantasy comics anthology published from 1974 to 1979 by Mike Friedrich... |
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| Kagato Kagato is a fictional character in the anime Tenchi Muyō!, serving as the main villain of the original OVAs. A second, alternate incarnation of the character was the antagonist of the initial TM! television series, Tenchi Universe... |
Tenchi Muyo! Tenchi Muyo! , is a Japanese anime, light novel, and manga series created by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi.The generally accepted translation of the title is No Need for Tenchi or Useless Tenchi, though at the time of its appearance it was also translated variably as No Heaven and Earth and This Way Up... |
Television series, Manga, Original video animation | |
| Gokaigers Gokaigers The are the fictional protagonists featured in the 35th Super Sentai Series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. The Gokaigers battle against the antagonist group, the Space Empire Zangyack.The Gokaiger characters make their debut in the film Tensou Sentai Goseiger vs... |
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger is a 2011 Japanese tokusatsu drama in the Super Sentai Series. It is the 35th entry in Toei Company's Super Sentai Series, following Tensou Sentai Goseiger. It premiered on TV Asahi on February 13, 2011, joining Kamen Rider OOO and then Kamen Rider Fourze as a program featured in TV Asahi's Super... |
Television series | Characters from a Super Sentai Super Sentai The is the name given to the long-running Japanese superhero team genre of shows produced by Toei Co., Ltd., Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi... series who travel to Earth in search of the "Greatest Treasure in the Universe", only to be dragged into a battle with an invading alien force called the Space Empire Zangyack. |
| Mito | Space Pirate Mito | Television series | |
| Orions | Star Trek Star Trek Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise... |
Television series | |
| Phantom Knight | D.I.C.E. | Television series | |
| Pirate Clans Pirate Clans In the 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series Exosquad, Pirate Clans were the descendants of the human criminals who were exiled from the Homeworlds and forced to work as miners on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn . However, after the invention of Neosapiens, the Pirates' ancestors were... |
Exosquad Exosquad Exosquad is an American animated television series created by Universal Cartoon Studios as a response to Japanese anime. The show is set in the beginning of the 22nd century and covers the interplanetary war between humanity and Neosapiens, a fictional race artificially created as workers/slaves... |
Television series | |
| Ridley Ridley (Metroid) is a video game villain for the Metroid series. He is a dragon-like extraterrestrial that acts as Samus Aran's nemesis due to his attack on her homeworld; despite being killed multiple times by her, he is always revived by the Space Pirates using cloning or robotics... |
Metroid Metroid is an action-adventure video game, and the first entry in the Metroid series. It was co-developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division and Intelligent Systems, and was released in Japan in August 1986, in North America in August 1987, and in Europe in January 1988... series |
Video games | A dragon-like alien that is a top ranking member of the space pirates. |
| Ryoko Ryoko (Tenchi Muyo!) is a key character in the various Tenchi Muyo! anime series by AIC. While details of her character differ between the various series, Ryoko is typically shown as an attractive, semi-reformed powerful space pirate who is madly in love with the series main character, Tenchi Masaki... |
Tenchi Muyo! Tenchi Muyo! , is a Japanese anime, light novel, and manga series created by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi.The generally accepted translation of the title is No Need for Tenchi or Useless Tenchi, though at the time of its appearance it was also translated variably as No Heaven and Earth and This Way Up... |
Television series, Manga, Original video animation | |
| Ryoko Balta Ryoko Balta is a fictional character in the Tenchi Muyo! spinoff series: Tenchi Muyo! GXP: Galaxy Police Transporter.-Background:Although she named herself after Ryoko Hakubi, Ryoko Balta is hardly as bloodthirsty as that infamous space pirate was rumored to be. Even though she was a member of the dreaded... |
Tenchi Muyo! GXP Tenchi Muyo! GXP is a Japanese anime series created by AIC and broadcast on NTV from April 3, 2002 to September 25, 2002. It is the fourth installment of the Tenchi Muyo! line of series, succeeding Tenchi in Tokyo, localized in North America by Funimation.-Plot:... |
Television series | |
| Saffron | Firefly Firefly (TV series) Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as executive producer, along with Tim Minear.... |
Television Series | A crafty con artist and occasional ship thief. |
| Space Pirates Barban Space Pirates Barban The are a group of fictional pirates and the primary antagonists in the Super Sentai series, Seijuu Sentai Gingaman who have destroyed many planets along the Milky Way. Their base of operations are the , which is mounted on the back of Daitanix. They once tried to invade Earth but the first... |
Seijuu Sentai Gingaman Seijuu Sentai Gingaman is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It is Toei's 22nd entry of the Super Sentai television series. The series aired from February 22, 1998 to February 14, 1999 airing alongside Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack... |
Television series | Characters from a Super Sentai Super Sentai The is the name given to the long-running Japanese superhero team genre of shows produced by Toei Co., Ltd., Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi... series which was later used as the basis for Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. |
| The Star Pirate | Planet Comics Planet Comics Planet Comics was a science fiction comic book title produced by Fiction House and ran for 73 issues from January 1940 to Winter 1953. Like many of Fiction House's early comics titles, Planet Comics was a spinoff of a pulp magazine, in this case Planet Stories, which featured space operatic tales... |
Comics Comics Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in... |
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| Starjammers Starjammers The Starjammers are a fictional team of space pirates from the pages of the X-Men comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Starjammers first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #107 and were created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum... |
X-Men X-Men The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1... |
Comics | A group of space pirates led by Corsair Corsair (comics) Corsair is a fictional character, a star-faring hero in the Marvel Comics universe. He leads the space-faring team the Starjammers and was best known as the father of X-Men superheroes Cyclops, Havok, and Vulcan... . |
Space pirate media
| Work | Year | Medium | Description |
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| Benito's Revenge | 2005 | Television episode | An episode of animated science fiction spoof show Tripping the Rift Tripping the Rift Tripping the Rift is a CGI science fiction comedy television series. It is based on two short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. The series was produced by CineGroupe in association with the Sci Fi Channel... , a band of space pirates led by main character Chode's grandfather take over the ship. |
| The Ice Pirates The Ice Pirates The Ice Pirates is a 1984 comedy/science-fiction film. It was directed by Stewart Raffill , who co-wrote the screenplay with Krull author Stanford Sherman. The movie stars Robert Urich and Mary Crosby... |
1984 | Film Film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects... |
Alien pirates raid cargo vessels carrying ice. |
| Galactic North | Short story Short story A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because... |
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| I, Jedi I, Jedi I, Jedi is a novel, written by Michael A. Stackpole that is set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was the first Star Wars novel written in the first-person perspective of a character never seen in the movies.... |
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| Independence War I-War (Independence War) I-War is a space combat simulator developed by English development house Particle Systems Ltd. The game was first published in 1997 in Europe by Infogrames as I-War, and in late August of 1998 in North America as Independence War... |
1998 | Video game | Pirates and terrorists are the target of the player in this space combat Space warfare in fiction Space warfare in science fiction has served as a central theme within the genre, tracing its roots back to the "future war" novels of the 19th century. Space warfare in science fiction has served as a central theme within the genre, tracing its roots back to the "future war" novels of the 19th... game. Followed by Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos , or Edge of Chaos: Independence War 2 , is a sequel to the space combat simulator video game Independence War . Developed by Particle Systems Ltd - the developers of the first game - and published by Infogrames, the game was released in 2001... in 2001. |
| Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in November 1953.-Plot summary:A year has... |
1953 | Novel | Juvenile science fiction penned by Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000... . |
| Metroid Metroid is an action-adventure video game, and the first entry in the Metroid series. It was co-developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division and Intelligent Systems, and was released in Japan in August 1986, in North America in August 1987, and in Europe in January 1988... series |
1986–present | Video game | Space pirates are the series' primary enemies. |
| Outlaw Star Outlaw Star is a seinen manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Itō and his affiliated Morning Star Studio. The series is a space opera/Space Western that takes place in the "Toward Stars Era" universe in which spacecraft are capable of traveling faster than the speed of light... |
1997–present | Manga, Television series | |
| Path of the Fury Path of the Fury Path of the Fury, and the later re-issuance with new material and a full prequel novel as the omnibus In Fury Born are both stand-alone science fiction novels by David Weber covering the life and times of sympathetic female protagonist Alicia DeVries.The original Path of the Fury opens with her... |
1992 | Novel | Written by David Weber David Weber David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Weber and his wife Sharon live in Greenville, South Carolina with their three children and "a passel of dogs".... , after a woman's family is slain by space pirates she is possessed by a Fury Erinyes In Greek mythology the Erinyes from Greek ἐρίνειν " pursue, persecute"--sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" -- were female chthonic deities of vengeance. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath"... and seeks revenge. |
| The Pirates of Orion | 1974 | Television episode | An episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series Star Trek: The Animated Series Star Trek: The Animated Series is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s... , the crew of the USS Enterprise USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, is a fictional starship in the Star Trek media franchise. The original Star Trek series depicts her crew's mission "to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before" under the command of Captain James... are threatened by a band of space pirates. |
| The Pirate Planet The Pirate Planet The Pirate Planet is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 September to 21 October 1978. It forms the second serial of The Key to Time... |
1978 | Television serial | A Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... serial starring the Fourth Doctor Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who.... , written by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon... creator Douglas Adams Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television... . A band of space pirates use their own planet to drain the life force of other planets by materilizing around them, the Captain has a giant robot parrot. |
| Planet Pirates Planet Pirates Series Planet Pirates Series is a Science Fiction paperback book series created and written by author Anne McCaffrey beginning in 1978. An omnibus edition The Planet Pirates was published by, McCaffrey, Moon, & Nye in 1993.-Series:... series |
1990–1991 | Novel | Trilogy of novels by Anne McCaffrey Anne McCaffrey Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award... . |
| Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | 2007 | Video game | The main character, Ratchet Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank) Ratchet is the main character of the Ratchet & Clank series of video games. Ratchet is tall, 15 years old and weighs 151 lbs . In the English versions of the games, Ratchet is voiced by Mikey Kelley in the first Ratchet & Clank and by James Arnold Taylor in all the others... , fights through hordes of robotic Space Pirates led by Captain Romulus Slag. This game is followed by Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty, where Ratchet again fights the Space Pirates. |
| Rayman 2: The Great Escape Rayman 2: The Great Escape Rayman 2: The Great Escape is a platform game and the sequel to Rayman. It was developed by Ubisoft and first released on October 29, 1999. It is considered to have raised standards regarding 3D, level design and game play, being praised by numerous reviews... |
1999 | Video game | Platform game Platform game A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps... where robo-pirates from deep space have invaded Rayman Rayman Rayman is a platform video game published, produced and developed by Ubisoft and is the first game in the Rayman series of videogames. Originally released on the PlayStation in 1995, it was re-released for the Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn and MS-DOS in 1996. It has also been ported to various formats,... 's world and broken its heart into a thousand pieces of energy. |
| Rogue Galaxy Rogue Galaxy is a science fiction role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and SCE Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The game was first released in Japan on December 8, 2005, and later in North America on January 30, 2007... |
2005 | Video game | |
| Sol Bianca Sol Bianca is a two-volume original video animation anime series released in 1990 and 1992 by director Katsuhito Akiyama in association with AIC. Sol Bianca: The Legacy is a remake of this series.... |
1990, 1992 | Original video animation | |
| Sol Bianca: The Legacy Sol Bianca: The Legacy is a 1999 miniseries of six episodes loosely based on the original Sol Bianca and employing computer generated animation. This version is a re-imagining of the ship and crew of Sol Bianca, and does not follow the continuity of the original... |
1999–2000 | Television miniseries | |
| The Space Pirates The Space Pirates The Space Pirates is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1969.-Plot:... |
1969 | Television serial | A Dr Who serial starring the Second Doctor Second Doctor The Second Doctor is the second incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by character actor Patrick Troughton.... . The TARDIS TARDIS The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s... materializes in the midst of a pitched battle between space pirates and the Army Space Corps. The Pirates use beacons to lure ships to their destruction. |
| Space Quest III | 2005 | Video game | |
| Treasure Planet Treasure Planet Treasure Planet is a 2002 animated science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002... |
2002 | Film | Disney animated space opera Space opera Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in outer space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing advanced technologies and abilities. The term has no relation to music and it is analogous to "soap... version of the novel Treasure Island Treasure Island Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the... , the cast try to locate the treasure hoard of space pirate Captain Flint. |
| Wing Commander: Privateer Wing Commander: Privateer Wing Commander: Privateer is an adventure space flight simulation computer game released by Origin Systems in 1993. Privateer and its storyline is part of the Wing Commander series... |
1993 | Video game | A space pirate computer game based in the Wing Commander universe. |
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- The animated films of Japanese director Leiji MatsumotoLeiji Matsumotois a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife is also known as a manga artist.-Space opera:Matsumoto is famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato...
include several pirate characters, including and the privateer Queen EmeraldasQueen Emeraldasis a four-episode Japanese anime OVA that continues the Harlock franchise created by Leiji Matsumoto. The anime was adapted from Matsumoto's 1978 manga of the same name. Queen Emeraldas is the story of the pirate spaceship, Queen Emeraldas, which is captained by the mysterious and beautiful...
, the best known of these pieces being Galaxy Express 999Galaxy Express 999is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the...
(1977) and Space Battleship YamatoSpace Battleship Yamatois a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers...
(1974). - Manjanungo is bloodthirsty space pirate in Race Across the Stars, part of the SpacewaysSpacewaysSpaceways is a 76-minute, 1953, British-American, black and white, science fiction film co-produced by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. and Lippert Productions Inc.. It was filmed entirely in England by the Hammer company, with Michael Carreras as producer-of-record and American Robert L...
series by John Cleve. - Nabel is a nasty cyborg space pirate on the 1996 film "Space TruckersSpace TruckersSpace Truckers is a 1996 American comedy science-fiction film written and directed by Stuart Gordon. It was filmed at Ardmore Studios, County Wicklow, Ireland....
" - Drongo Kane, repeated adversary of A. Bertram ChandlerA. Bertram ChandlerArthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M....
's John Grimes, is a clever and ruthless space adventurer whose acts constitute piracy by any common sense standard, but who manages to stay within the law by the help of sharp lawyers. The Duchy of Waldegren is also a popular haunt of several notorious space-pirates (no individual names given) in the series. - Murdoch Juan is a bold space adventurer in Paul Anderson's story "The Pirate", part of the Psychotechnic League series. Whether Murdoch is to be actually defined as a pirate, or rather as a very daring but legitimate entrepreneur, is a major issue on which the whole story turns.
- Carson Napier, Edgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
' dashing space-traveler, got to Venus by mistake, discovered there a tyrannical regime which sorely needed opposing - and the best way to do that was to assume leadership of the Pirates of Venus (also the title of the first book in the Venus series). - Gammis Turek is the leader of a space pirate fleet in Vatta's WarVatta's WarVatta's War is a science fiction series by Texan writer Elizabeth Moon, comprising five books: Trading in Danger , Marque and Reprisal , Engaging the Enemy , Command Decision , and Victory Conditions...
. - Jonathan Rockhal is a space pirate captain in Italian comic book Nathan NeverNathan Neverthumb|200px|right|Cover for Nathan Never #1.Nathan Never is a black-and-white, science fiction Italian comic book, published monthly in Italy since 1991 by Sergio Bonelli Editore. It is written by Michele Medda, Antonio Serra and Bepi Vigna...
. John Silver, a man with a mechanical leg, is his second-in-command. Before they turned turned to piracy, they were generals of the Federal Army of Earth. - Star Wars Empire At War contains a non-playable faction called the Black Sun Pirates, a large gang of mercenaries.
- Megaman Battle Network 6 includes a WWW member named Captain Blackbeard, an operator of Diveman.EXE who dressed as a sailor.
- Wolf O'Donnell is a space pirate in the Star FoxStar Fox seriesis a video game series published by Nintendo. The original game was a forward-scrolling 3D Sci-Fi rail shooter. Later sequels added more directional freedom as the series progressed. The game concept was inspired by a shrine to a fox god who could fly, which Shigeru Miyamoto visited regularly...
series, and gains a techno-eyepatch. - Cannonball (Transformers) - is a decepticon space pirate.