No one is saying it isn’t, but the “outlaw” archetype in fantasy comprises many more themes, from back-alley hooligans to shirtless blue Welshmen to disgraced Norman Frenglish nobles with a trick archery hobby. The problem isn’t that pirates are outlaws, the problem is that all outlaws are pirates, or maybe wild west desperadoes if you stretch your imagination on the slow mainhand and totally ignore the names of the RtB buffs.