Popular Culture
- In the episode Identity Crisis of NCIS the terrorist known as Kamal is found to be using his name in a similar sense to the Dread Pirate Roberts. Special Agent DiNozzo finds out and explains it to the team.
- The 2004 remake of the computer game Sid Meier's Pirates! has the historical character of "Black" Bart Roberts. However, the character will call himself "the dread pirate Bart Roberts", and the default name of the player's first ship is the Revenge, the Dread Pirate Roberts' ship.
- The default crew charter of the MMO computer game Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates references the Dread Pirate Roberts as the greatest pirate ever.
- Dread Pirate has been both a character kit in Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition and a Prestige Class in Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition.
- In the programming guide "Hello World!" by Warren and Carter Sande, the name Dread Pirate Roberts is used for a number-guessing program.
- Dread Pirate Roberts is mentioned in the John Hiatt song "Only the Song Survives" on the album Crossing Muddy Waters. In the song the pirate wears an eyepatch.
- Author and video blogger John Green named his dog "Dread Pirate Fireball Wilson Roberts", although this was mainly a reference to the first line of "The Last Good Kiss" by James Crumley.
- The founder of the online marketplace Silk Road operates under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts.
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