Question: What profession do both Captain Hook and Blackbeard have?
Context: Mike Sigel (born July 11, 1953) is an American professional pool player nicknamed "Captain Hook."  He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays.  He is now playing competitively again in the International Pool Tour. In English-speaking popular culture, the modern pirate stereotype owes its attributes mostly to the imagined tradition of the 18th century Caribbean pirate sailing off the Spanish Main and to such celebrated 20th century depictions as Captain Hook and his crew in the theatrical and film versions of "Peter Pan", Robert Newton's portrayal of Long John Silver in the 1950 film of "Treasure Island", and various adaptations of the Eastern pirate, "Sinbad the Sailor".  In these and countless other books, movies, and legends, pirates are portrayed as "swashbucklers" and "plunderers."  They are shown on ships, often wearing eyepatches or peg legs, having a parrot perched on their shoulder, and saying phrases like "Arr, matey" and "Avast, me hearty."  Pirates have retained their image through pirate-themed tourist attractions, traditional film and toy portrayals of pirates, and the continued performance and reading of books and plays featuring pirates. Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917January 5, 1982), was an American actor, voice actor and comedian, who was very active in voice-over roles and known for providing the voices of Walt Disney's Mr. George Darling, and Captain Hook in "Peter Pan" (1953), for playing the title role in "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T", Dr. Miller on "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", Professor Kropotkin on the radio and film versions of "My Friend Irma", his work as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas's sitcom "Make Room for Daddy", and multiple roles on "I Love Lucy". Captain Hook is the villain of J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" stories, his name taken from the British explorer Captain Cook. Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo.  It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Smee, Maggie Smith as Wendy, Caroline Goodall as Moira Banning, and Charlie Korsmo as Jack Banning.  It acts as a sequel to J. M. Barrie's 1911 novel "Peter and Wendy" focusing on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten all about his childhood.  In his new life, he is known as Peter Banning, a successful but unimaginative and workaholic corporate lawyer with a wife (Wendy's granddaughter) and two children.  However, when Captain Hook, the enemy of his past, kidnaps his children, he returns to Neverland in order to save them.  Along the journey he reclaims the memories of his past. Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (c. 1680 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies.  Although little is known about his early life, he was probably born in Bristol, England.  Recent genealogical research indicates his family moved to Jamaica where Edward Thatch, Jr. is listed as being a mariner in the Royal Navy aboard HMS "Windsor" in 1706.  He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.  Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy.  Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him. Mark Reynan Mikesell "Macmac" Cardona (born November 13, 1981) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the GlobalPort Batang Pier of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).  Nicknamed "Captain Hook" because of his patented teardrop shots, otherwise known as the running hook, Cardona owes his moniker to former UAAP commentator Jude Turcuato. The Neptune is a ship replica of a 17th-century Spanish galleon.  The ship was built in 1985 for Roman Polanski's film "Pirates", where she portrayed the Spanish ship of the same name.  An accurate replica above the waterline, but sporting a steel hull and a 400 HP auxiliary engine, the "Neptune" is currently a tourist attraction in the port of Genoa, where its interior can be visited for a 6 euro entry fee.  In 2011, she portrayed the "Jolly Roger", the ship of Captain Hook, in the TV miniseries Neverland. Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy.  The character is a pirate captain of the brig "Jolly Roger"; Barrie identifies him as Blackbeard's former bo'sun.  His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan.  An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which gave the pirate his name.  After getting a taste of Hook, the crocodile pursues him relentlessly, but the ticking clock it has swallowed warns Hook of its presence. Captain Cook (1728–1779) was a British explorer, navigator and mapmaker (not to be confused with fictional character Captain Hook).
Answer: pirate