In Super Smash Bros. Brawl the Pirate Ship was introduced as Toon Link's stage and it came together with the Bridge of Eldin, where it perfectly depicted the contrast in style between The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
It's a much more colorful stage with many fun events, elements and nods to the original game. The catapult was originally used to fire rocks at the Helmaroc King and Link into the Forsaken Fortress, where he it may fire players off the stage. The King of Red Lions might appear behind the ship as a platform, which is in a way similar to the giant turtle in the Great Bay stage. Lookout Platforms might target the stage with cannon fire. The ship might drift ashore on a rocky island or get blown into the air by a cyclone...
So, lots of different things can happen on the stage. Ideally, the Ghost Ship from Phantom Hourglass would also appear in a ghostly fog to have a reference to that game in the stage as well. But maybe this is something that they have been doing for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate...
In Ultimate the stage will return for the third time. It was also DLC in Smash 4, but because they couldn't get the stage to work on the Nintendo 3DS, it is the only piece of DLC that's exclusively available in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
At least they had a nice idea for Omega version of the stage, which takes place on one of the Lookout Platforms instead:
You can even spot the Pirate Ship sometimes in the distance and it's one of the most special Omega stages.
(Update: sadly, they've changed the Omega and Battlefield variants in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate into something more generic. It's loosely based on the platforms, but it doesn't have the roof, nor the wooden pillar any longer. It's floating above the ocean and looks really lame.)
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