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• "The Master of Ballantrae" (James Durie), in Robert Louis Stevenson's well known novel of that name, has become a ruthless and bloodthirsty pirate after being forced into exile following his involvement in the failed Jacobite Rising of 1745.
• John Merrick, a former Royal Navy Lieutenant turned pirate captain in the 1850s Pacific, is the villain of O. V. Falck-Ytter's 1873 young adult action-adventure story "Haakon Haakonsen. En Norsk Robinson" ("Haakon Haakonsen. A Norwegian Robinson"), partly inspired by Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". It was adapted to the 1990 film "Shipwrecked", where Merrick is played by Gabriel Byrne.
• Malgo in L. Sprague de Camp's "The Unbeheaded King" and "The Honourable Barbarian" is a former mercenary soldier and prison guard driven to the far islands of the East - where he gathers a pirate crew on board his notorious ship, The Maneater, commits many nefarious deeds, tangles with the adventurous ex-king Jorian and Jorian's young brother Kerin, and eventually comes to a deserved bad end along with his crew.
• Jean Malot, better known as Captain Snake, is a 16th century French pirate in Italian comic book Zagor. All his male descendants share his name and nickname.
• Maxi - an Okinawan pirate from the Soul series of video games who wields nunchaku. Unlike Cervantes de Leon from the same series, Maxi does not resemble stereotypical depictions of pirates. His ship is a playable stage in Soulcalibur IV.
• Morgan "Moonscar" McWright - Captain of the Maelstrom who led his crew onto an island in the Louisiana bayou and killed the inhabitants of a peaceful pagan village. Moonscar and his crew were subsequently slain by a pair of vicious were-cats. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
• McGrath - was a 17th century pirate on The Fancy in the Dr. Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot. He was injured while fixing the rigging, giving him the black spot. He was then taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joined the rest of the crew when they took the ship for themselves.
• MooBeard - the Cow Pirate from the first episode of Random Cartoons
• Mulligan - was a pirate on the Fancy in the 17th century in the Dr. Who episode The Curse of the Black Spot. Mulligan started a mutiny with Boatswain against Captain Avery. However, he cut his hand, giving him the black spot. He was then taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joined the rest of the crew when they took the ship for themselves.
• Murdoch Juan - is a bold space adventurer in Poul 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.
• Marquise Spinneret Mindfang - female corsair and distant ancestor of Vriska Serket in the Homestuck universe, a distant offshoot of the webcomic MS Paint Adventures.
• Captain Mission - a pirate alleged by Daniel Defoe to have established a floating socialist pirate republic.
• Manjanungo - bloodthirsty space pirate in Race Across the Stars, part of the Spaceways series by John Cleve.
• Elaine Marley - is the governor of several pirate islands in the Monkey Island series of video games.
• Captain Horatio McCallister - or The Sea Captain, is a character from the animated TV series The Simpsons, admits in one episode that he is not actually a sea captain, but he is still known for his frequent, pirate-like "Yarrr!"
• Bosun Moon - is a petty officer on a pirate ship in the film Yellowbeard
• Captain Morgan - is the pirate character for the rum of the same name.
• Andrew Murray a.k.a. "Captain Rip-Rap" is the idealistic Jacobite turned pirate, working in partnership with the decidedly not idealistic Captain Flint, who in A. D. Howden Smith's Porto Bello Gold (1924) captures from a Spanish galleon - and secretly buries - the same treasure which would a generation later be recovered with considerable trouble by the protagonists of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island".
• Captain Mutiny - was one of the main villains on Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. In Japan, he was known as Captain Zahab (a play on Captain Ahab) and was the primary villain of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, the series that became Lost Galaxy in America.
• Harry Markel - was a former captain turned into a pirate, who been captured and transferred to England, but he escapes along with his right-hand man John Carpenter and the rest of his accomplices — known collectively as the "Pirates of the Halifax" — and seizes the Alert, a three-masted leaving, after having massacred the captain and crew. In Traveling Scholarships by Jules Verne.
• Captain Marika Kato takes over her deceased father's position of the space pirate ship Bentenmaru in the anime Bodacious Space Pirates (2012).