The following One Piece pirate crews earned their notoriety through violent outbursts against both enemies and innocent ...

Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, the women pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, were all part of this one gang. It’s this gang that all of the pop culture images and iconography related to pirates comes from.

In 1674, "reformed" pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official ... who's been supplanted by notorious Blackbeard himself. Also on the ship is Edwina Mansfield, seemingly a damsel in distress ...

Some historians argue that there is little evidence that Blackbeard was a particularly violent pirate and, instead, relied on his ferocious appearance to intimidate people into surrender.

The result is that our enduring image of pirates is based on ... not as picky in the ships they targeted. Many pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard, were privateers before they decided ...