This is a list of fictional pirates, alphabetized by the character's last name or full nickname.

A[edit]

• Portgas D. Ace – the deceased former captain of the Spade Pirates and the former 2nd division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates in the manga One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
• Morgan Adams – captain of the Morning Star, played by Geena Davis in the film Cutthroat Island
• Air pirates (also called 'sky pirates') – various groups, distinct from each other, use this label or belong in this category
• Johannes Alberic, captain of Perdita, a lightning catcher airship, member of the Fellowship of the Castle; from Neil Gaiman's 1999 novel Stardust
• Pirates of Algarth – major villains in The Clocks of Iraz, a novel by L. Sprague de Camp
• Angelica – Daughter of Black Beard in Pirates of the Caribbean love interest to Captain Jack Sparrow
• Captain Anton – leader of villainous space pirates in Asimov's novel Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
• Atomsk – alien pirate king in the animeFLCL
• Jean-Benoit Aubéry – a sympathetic and romantic 17th-century pirate in Daphne du Maurier's 1941 historical novel Frenchman's Creek
• Captain Henry Avery – in the Doctor Who episode 'The Curse of the Black Spot'; a naval officer in the 1690s who became a pirate; he left his wife and son, Toby, behind in England; his wife died in his absence
• Tom Ayrton – with his former crew of pirates and pirate captain Bob Harvey, sailed on their pirate brig the Speedy in The Mysterious Island, an 1874 novel by Jules Verne

B[edit]

• Seth Balmore – a sea pirate and immortal in the video game Lost Odyssey
• Balthier – a sky pirate in the video game Final Fantasy XII
• The Bango Pirates – used a sailing steamship to attack ships for the treasure in Sherlock Hound, Episode 1
• Hector Barbossa – character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; played by Geoffrey Rush; captain of the Black Pearl after mutiny against the ship's former captain, Jack Sparrow; dies but is resurrected
• Captain Barrett or 'The Hook' – comic villain of the 1944 Bob Hope film The Princess and the Pirate, played by Victor McLaglen
• Bêlit – female pirate captain, one of the main protagonists along with her partner Conan of Cimmeria in the story 'Queen of the Black Coast' by Robert E. Howard
• Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon – an aggressive and highly predatory pirate leader who makes the mistake of stalking Doctor Dolittle; the pirate band was completely outwitted by the doctor's animal allies and were forced to reform and become bird-seed farmers, while the good doctor sailed off with their ship
• The Berserkers – Viking pirates in the ThunderCats TV show
• Bosun Bill - Legendary pirate of The Sea of Thieves. Has a song that can be played on hurdy gurdy concertina or drum.
• Bikke – an NPC pirate captain from the 1990 video game Final Fantasy
• Black Barney, a space pirate who later became Buck Rogers' friend and ally
• Black Bellamy – the Pirate Captain's cunning and black-hearted nemesis from The Pirates! series of comedic books (2004–2010); in the 2012 film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, he was voiced by Jeremy Piven
• Captain Bizzarly – a pirate with aquaphobia who controlled all crime-related activities on the vast oceans of Water-O until the Waterians froze him and his crew many years ago; from TigerSharks, part of the Comic Strip show
• The Black Corsair – an Italian nobleman turned pirate to avenge the death of his brothers; one of Emilio Salgari's most legendary creations; portrayed in El Corsario Negro (1944) by actor Pedro Armendáriz; an Italian film was also made in 1937, directed by Amleto Palermi
• The Black Pirate – title character of the 1926 silent film The Black Pirate, played with acrobatic panache by Douglas Fairbanks
• The Black Pirate – DC Comics character; no connection to the 1926 Douglas Fairbanks film; a masked hero
• Black Vulmea – the nickname of Terrence Vulmea, a swashbuckling hero of the Spanish Main created by Robert E. Howard; his adventures are collected in Black Vulmea's Vengeance
• Art Blastside – a former gentlewoman named Artemesia Fitz-Willoghby Weatherhouse who lost her all memories of her life with her mother, Piratica, in a cannon accident that cost her mother her life; she regained her memory after six years of attending a finishing school and gathered her mother's former crew to set sail again; the Piratica series, by Tanith Lee
• Roger Blease – a young fictional lieutenant of the actual historical pirate Jack Ward whose English Free Rovers terrorized the Mediterranean in the early 17th century; the protagonist of Thomas Costain's highly successful 1942 novel For My Great Folly, which became a bestseller with over 132,000 copies sold, and of which the New York Times reviewer stated that 'there will be no romantic-adventure lover left unsatisfied.'
• Captain Blood – the alias of Peter Blood, an Irish doctor turned slave, then pirate; the title character of a series of novels by Rafael Sabatini; the novel was also adapted into a film starring Errol Flynn and directed by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz; Captain Blood also appears in Martin Mysteryanimatedtelevision series episode 'Pirates of Doom' where he is depicted as a supernatural pirate
• Bloody Bess – a member of the Crimson Pirates
• Bloody Bill – a pirate with a dark past who unexpectedly befriends the boy protagonists in Robert Michael Ballantyne's The Coral Island
• Captain Bloth – captain of the fossil-like ship Maelstrom; the main villain of the animated TV series The Pirates of Dark Water
• Captain Blubber and Captain Blackeye – (fairly pathetic) pirates from the Banjo-Kazooie series; Blackeye's drunken comments and the furnishings of his room strongly suggest that he may have been a key aspect of the game's scrapped 'Stop 'n Swop' feature
• Billy Bones – a pirate captain who kept the map of the island where Flint's treasure was hidden in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Bras Priqué – the nickname of a notorious French pirate hovering off New Orleans in 1780, in Victor Herbert's 1910's operettaNaughty Marietta
• Tom Bristol – a sailor press-ganged into the British Royal Navy; in 1680, disastrous circumstances push him to become a daring Caribbean pirate, as narrated in the 1935 story 'Under the Black Ensign' by L. Ron Hubbard
• Douglas 'Dawg' Brown – the villainous pirate uncle of Morgan Adams and captain of the Reaper; appears in Cutthroat Island, portrayed by Frank Langella; like Morgan, he wants to recover the three portions of the treasure map before she does

C[edit]

• Cannonball – a Decepticonspace pirate in Transformers
• Captain Gavin Capacitor – a software pirate from the computer-animated series ReBoot
• Captain Carlton – character in the book Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion
• Captain Celaeno - An anthropomorphic pirate parrot who helps the ponies in My Little Pony: The Movie. She is somewhat similar to Bob the Builder in some ways.
• Cap'n Crunch – not a pirate, but his commercial nemesis of bygone days, Jean LaFoote, was
• Captain Claw – an anthropomorphic cat pirate seeking the amulet of nine lives in the video game Claw
• Captain Clegg – the alias assumed by clergyman Doctor Syn when he turned to piracy in the novel Doctor Syn on the High Seas by Russell Thorndike; other notable pirates in the book include Captain Satan, a black pirate leader whom Syn kills and whose ship and crew he then takes over; Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter and Syn/Clegg's loyal lieutenant; and Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who leads a mutiny and is killed by Syn
• Captain Firebrand, a.k.a. Theseus – see below
• Captain Skunkbeard – a ghost pirate from Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, (2006 direct-to-video animated feature)
• Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard's most well-known character, several times takes up the career of a pirate (sometimes among white fellow pirates, sometimes among black ones) before finally becoming a king (see also Bêlit); he takes up piracy one extra time after that, when being dethroned and exiled, though he soon returns from the sea and regains his throne
• John Connor – one-eyed Welsh pirate and smuggler from Cardiff, helmsman aboard Jean Lafitte's ship the Pride in the Italiancomic bookZagor
• Captain Contagious – escaped from the snow and kidnapped a French lady doll away and sailed into the sea in Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, directed by Richard Williams
• Captain Corroboc – a giant parrot and a fierce, cunning and notoriously cruel captain of a pirate crew composed of assorted anthropomorphic animals, in the fantasy world of the Spellsinger series of Alan Dean Foster; after Corroboc's death, his place is taken by his brother, Captain Kamaulk – who had originally been the accountant of the family ('Pirating is a business, make no mistake of that, and somebody needs to take care of the ledgers' – The Time of the Transference)
• The Corsairs of Umbar – have a strategic role on the enemy's side in the later part of the war in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Cortez – an undead pirate from the 2004 video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• The Crimson Pirate, a.k.a. Captain Vallo – played by Burt Lancaster; an acrobatic rogue who becomes a hero in the namesake 1952 movie; Lancaster's former circus partner Nick Cravat also appears as Vallo's mute sidekick, Ojo
• The Crimson Pirates – a group of inter-dimensional slavers
• Captain Crook – in advertisements, the pirate who sailed the sea to find the dish of the Filet-O-Fish in McDonaldland, at McDonald's fast food restaurants
• Conrad – the protagonist of The Corsair, a tale in verse by Lord Byron published in 1814, which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale;^[1] Conrad was rejected by society in his youth and later becomes a corsair fighting against humanity (excepting women); in the opera Il corsaro by Giuseppe Verdi, loosely based on Byron's work, Conrad becomes the dashing and chivalrous Corrado; also based on The Corsair are the overture Le Corsaire by Hector Berlioz and the ballet Le Corsaire by Marius Petipa
• Cuthbert Conyers, nicknamed Old Cut-Throat – had a long and successful piratical career in the tropics and in 1732 settled with his loot for a 'respectable' old age at an English country house, where two centuries later Lord Peter Wimsey discovered his hidden treasure; in Dorothy L. Sayers' short story 'The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head'
• Henriette 'One Eye' Cooper – a female raccoon pirate, ancestor of Sly Cooper from the Sly Cooper video game series
• Captain Henry Crow – the pirate captain from the newspaper comic strip Overboard
• Jack Crow – in John Steakley's novel Armor, a notorious celebrity and one-time pirate; a morally questionable character; a tough man who does not hesitate to kill; constantly at odds with his own morality

D[edit]

• Captain Jack Dancer – the skipper of the Red Wench and the hero of The Red Seas, an ongoing feature in the British comic book series 2000AD
• Francis Davey - the main antagonist in the novel Jamaica Inn
• Arabella Drummond – character in the book Pirateology: A Pirate Hunter's Companion
• Ragnar Danneskjöld – a Norwegian 20th-century ideological pirate, completely dedicated to promoting the ideology of capitalism and unrestrained free market by force of arms on the high seas, in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
• Captain Angstrom Darkwater – a deceased robotic space pirate, brought back to life in Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty in an attempt to revive Captain Slag, his treacherous former first mate
• Charlotte de Berry – female pirate captain who stars in Edward Lloyd's 1836 book, History of the Pirates
• The Marquis d'Escrainville, in the Angelique series by Sergeanne Golon – a late 17th Century French aristocrat turned Mediterranean pirate, mainly active in the Aegean. Keeps some mannerisms of the Versailles court which barely mask his ruthless greed. Captures the series's protagonist and sells her to slavery at Crete.
• DeFlorres – a pirate on The Fancy in the 17th century in the Doctor Who episode 'The Curse of the Black Spot'; bitten by a leech, giving him a black spot; he is taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joins the rest of the crew when they take the ship for themselves
• Cervantes de Leon – the former captain of the Adrian; a Spanish ghost pirate who possesses Soul Edge in Namco's Soul series of fighting games; in later games, he loses Soul Edge and instead wields a longsword and pistol sword

E[edit]

• Edward Kenway – the main protagonist of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag; during the course of the game, he joins the assassins
• Elisabet Ramsey, a.k.a. 'Lizzie the Pirate' – a buccaneer from the Caribbean colonies in Age of Empires III; voiced by Jennifer Hale
• Elizabeth Swann – a governor's daughter turned pirate in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movies. She is portrayed by Keira Knightley.
• Emperor Grog – first appeared in the Futurama episode 'Godfellas' and attacked the Planet Express ship and its crew with his fellow space pirates; killed in the explosion of his own ship due to Bender crashing right through it; later appeared on a barrel of Space Grog in 'Möbius Dick', where his name was finally learnt

F[edit]

• Mary 'Jacky' Faber – the protagonist of the series by L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack
• Fanny Campbell, protagonist of 19th century novel, Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain
• Captain Feathersword – a character in the stage and television shows of the popular children's troupe, The Wiggles; played by Paul Paddick; in the early years, he was played by Anthony Field
• The Fishhawk – threaten the coasts of 17th-century England; confronted by Solomon Kane in Robert E. Howard's story 'Blades of the Brotherhood'
• Patty Fleur / Pati Furuuru – in the Tales of Vesperia, a 14-year-old pirate girl who travels around the world in search of romance and the legendary treasure of the notorious pirate Aifread; an expert marksman, skillful with both gun and knife, and despite her young appearance, has an elderly personality and manner of expression; she bears a resemblance to the pirate class of Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2
• Captain Flint – the captain who buried his hoard in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, Treasure Island
• The Flying Dutchman – a recurring character in the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants; a green pirate ghost who haunts Bikini Bottom
• Foxy the Pirate – an animatronic animal in the video game Five Nights at Freddy's

G[edit]

• José Gaspar (also known as 'Gasparilla') – mythical pirate supposedly based in southwest Florida during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Though a popular figure in Florida folklore, there is no evidence of his existence, and his story has been adapted for use in several pulp novels. Celebrated every year in Tampa during the Gasparilla Pirate Festival.
• Gilbert – a pirate played by Marty Feldman in the movie Yellowbeard
• Grogg Mayles - Legendary pirate of The Sea of Thieves. Has a song that can be played on hurdy gurdy concertina or drum. Associated with the lead director of the game, Gregg Mayles
• Gunpowder Gertie (Gertrude Stubbs) – a Canadian pirate created by storyteller Carolyn McTaggart
• Guinea Pirate / Michael Chertoff – the Secretary of Homeland Security under George Bush and the main antagonist of South Park's 'Pandemic' story arc
• Captain Gutt – voiced by Peter Dinklage; the villainous pirate gigantopithecus captain and a self-styled master of the high seas in Ice Age: Continental Drift
• Gokaigers – the primary protagonists of the tokusatsu series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
• Gol D. Roger – the former Pirate King from the anime/manga One Piece
• Gorgon Isles pirates – in The Tritonian Ring, a 1951 novel by L. Sprague de Camp
• Guybrush Threepwood – of the Monkey Island game franchise
• Gangplank – a pirate champion from the video game League of Legends

H[edit]

• Captain Harlock – the titular space pirate of an anime series
• Bob Harvey – pirate captain of the Speedy in the 1874 novel The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
• Captain James Hook – haunted Kidd's Creek at Neverland in Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
• Admiral Hrundikar, a huge, red-bearded pirate leader, commanding a well-equipped and organized pirate fleet from the Algarthian Islands in L. Sprague de Camp's The Clocks of Iraz.
• Captain Charles Hunter, in Michael Crichton's 2009 novel Pirate Latitudes; a heroic English pirate based in 17th-century Jamaica, whose burning aspiration to rob Spanish gold the book regards as completely justified

I[edit]

• Captain Ironhook – one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates
• Captain Isabela – female pirate from Dragon Age role-playing video games

J[edit]

• B. Jenet – the female leader of the Lilian Knights (a band of modern pirates) in the King of Fighters game universe
• Captain Jack Sparrow – the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. He is portrayed by Johnny Depp.
• Jason – and Roscoe – played respectively by Robert Urich and Michael D. Roberts, space pirates in the 1984 comedy/science-fiction filmThe Ice Pirates
• Jezebel Jack – played by Tim Curry in Pirates of the Plain; the main protagonist; ends up in Nebraska where he befriends a young boy, after his crew mutinies against him
• Killian 'Hook' Jones – protagonist on the popular television seriesOnce Upon a Time; former captain of the Jolly Roger; originally appears as an antagonist who wishes to avenge himself against Rumplestiltskin for having taken his hand and murdered his true love; later becomes a love interest for Emma Swan
• Jonathan 'Johnny' Jones – from the 1996 video game Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

K[edit]

• Don Karnage – the flamboyant leader of a band of air pirates using airplanes in Disney's animated series TaleSpin
• Captain Kidd (based on William Kidd) – playable character in World Heroes fighting game series since the second game. C. Kidd is a pirate that robbed all world treasures and from boredom he enters in the battle tournament.
• Kongre – leader of a band of murderous pirates, roaming the South Atlantic in the pirate ship Maule, in Jules Verne's 1905 novel The Lighthouse at the End of the World
• Korsars (corsairs) – the scourge of the seas in the interior world of Pellucidar and major villains in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1930 novel Tarzan at the Earth's Core
• King of the Atlantic – ship taken over by (unnamed) pirates in H. G. Wells's 1933 book The Shape of Things to Come
• Captain Arthur Kirkland – a former pirate and the national personification of England in the Japanese webseries, manga, and anime series Axis Powers Hetalia
• Drongo Kane – repeated adversary of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes; a clever and ruthless space adventurer whose acts constitute piracy by any common-sense standard, but who manages to stay within the law with the help of sharp lawyers
• Kaptain K Rool – the main boss character and villain of the Donkey Kong Country Video Game Series. He is an anthropomorphic bipedal crocodilian with multiple appearances throughout the series, often with a different persona. In Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong-Quest, he appears as a pirate captain of the fictional pirate ship 'The Gangplank Galleon' and the ruler of Kremling Island, where a host of pirate-themed enemies live.
• Ker Karraje, a.k.a. Count d'Artigas – a sophisticated and ruthless pirate of Malay origin, using state-of-the-art technologies of the late 19th century, notably a submarine, in Jules Verne's 1896 novel Facing the Flag
• Maquesta Kar-Thon – the pirate captain of the Perechon who attempted to provide passage to the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance novel Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (1985)
• Captain Kennit – a pirate from Robin Hobb's The Liveship Traders trilogy, who – while far from being a paragon of virtue – has many redeeming features
• Kernock in Eugène Sue's 1830 adventure novel 'Kernock le pirate [fr]'.
• Chung Khan, better known as 'The Yellow Dragon' – a 19th-century Chinese pirate in the Italian comic bookZagor; a former nobleman and governor of a province in China
• Nancy Kington – with Minerva Sharpe, the protagonists of Pirates!, a 2003 novel by Celia Rees

L[edit]

• Denise Lafitte – the daughter of French pirate Jean Lafitte in the Italiancomic bookZagor
• Johnny LaFitte – of Glenora, California; a 20th-century descendant of Jean Lafitte who in Edgar Rice Burroughs's story 'Pirate Blood' gets to the distant Vulture's Island, where his pirate heredity asserts itself in a modern piratical career full of cold-blooded murders and rapes ^[2]
• Locke Lamora – with Jean Tannen, the protagonists of Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies; they are in essence land-bound thieves and swindlers 'who don't know one end of a galley from another' but nevertheless get unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew
• Trafalgar Law – the captain and the doctor of the Heart Pirates in the anime/manga One Piece
• John Milton 'Black Jack' Lee – the captain of the Ivory Web in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest; he was once a Royal Navy officer, but was accused of treason and piracy; he and his frigate are sunk in 1796 by a Royal Navy ship commanded by commodoreHoratio Nelson; two hundred years later, seamen fear him and his ship as ghosts
• LeChuck – the evil zombieghost pirate antagonist of Guybrush Threepwood in Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts
• Missee Lee – a female Chinese pirate in Arthur Ransome's 1941 novel Missee Lee
• Captain LeFwee – an anthropomorphic scarlet macaw and one of the antagonists in the video game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves; the captain of The Death Hen
• Lego Pirates – with all the typical pirate characteristics such as eye patches and wooden legs; launched by Lego in 1989 with considerable success
• Captain Levasseur – a dashing French buccaneer who briefly partners with Captain Blood, played by Basil Rathbone in the film of the same name; Levasseur and Blood fight a duel to the death over the fate of Arabella Bishop
• Captain Red Ned Lynch – and his crew of the Blarney Cock are pirates in the romanticadventure filmSwashbuckler (1976)
• Monkey D. Luffy – captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and the protagonist in the world of One Piece, an anime and manga series. His crew includes:
  • Roronoa Zoro, the swordsman
  • Nami, the navigator
  • Usopp, the marksman
  • Sanji, the chef
  • Tony Tony Chopper, the doctor
  • Nico Robin, the archaeologist
  • Franky, the shipwright
  • Brook, the musician

M[edit]

• The Master of Ballantrae (James Durie) – in Robert Louis Stevenson's well-known novel of that name, becomes a ruthless and bloodthirsty pirate after being forced into exile following his involvement in the failed Jacobite rising of 1745
• Mad Jack the Pirate – a pirate who goes treasure hunting with his first mate rat Snuk
• Malgo – in L. Sprague de Camp's novels The Unbeheaded King (1983) and The Honourable Barbarian (1989) 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 – a 16th-century French pirate in the Italiancomic bookZagor; 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; he and his crew were subsequently slain by a pair of vicious were-cats, in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
• McGrath – a 17th-century pirate on The Fancy in the Doctor Who episode 'The Curse of the Black Spot'. He was injured while fixing the rigging, giving him a black spot; he is taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joins the rest of the crew when they take the ship for themselves
• Joss Merlyn - secondary antagonist in the film Jamaica Inn.
• John Merrick – a former Royal Navy lieutenant turned pirate captain in the 1850s Pacific; the villain of O. V. Falck-Ytter's 1873 young adultaction-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, in which Merrick is played by Gabriel Byrne
• MooBeard – the Cow Pirate from the first episode of Random Cartoons
• Mulligan – a pirate on The Fancy in the 17th century in the Doctor Who episode 'The Curse of the Black Spot'; started a mutiny with Boatswain against Captain Avery; he cut his hand, giving him a black spot; he is taken by the Siren to her ship, and later joins the rest of the crew when they take the ship for themselves
• Murdoch Juan – a bold space adventurer in Poul Anderson's story 'The Pirate', part of the Psychotechnic League series; whether he is actually defined as a pirate, or rather a daring but legitimate entrepreneur, is a major issue on which the whole story turns
• Captain Mission – a pirate alleged by Daniel Defoe to have established a floating socialist pirate republic
• Minipirates - tiny seafarers who rescue the titular character at the start of Walter Moers' novel The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear.
• Manjanungo – a bloodthirsty space pirate in Race Across the Stars, part of the Spaceways series by John Cleve
• Elaine Marley – the governor of several pirate islands in the Monkey Island series of video games
• Captain Horatio McCallister, or the Sea Captain – from the animated TV seriesThe Simpsons; admits in one episode that he is not actually a sea captain, but is still known for his frequent, pirate-like 'Yarrr!'
• Bosun Moon – a petty officer on a pirate ship in the film Yellowbeard
• Captain Morgan – the pirate character for the rum of the same name
• Andrew Murray, a.k.a. 'Captain Rip-Rap' – 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 novel Treasure Island
• Captain Mutiny – 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 – a former captain turned into a pirate, who is captured and transferred to England, but 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 the 1903 novel 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)

N[edit]

• Nabel – a nasty cyborg space pirate on the 1996 film Space Truckers
• Carson Napier – Edgar Rice Burroughs's dashing space-traveler in the Venus series; discovered on Venus a tyrannical regime which needed opposing, and the best way to do that was to assume leadership of the Pirates of Venus
• Captain Nemo – Indian raja in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; driven by his hatred of the British Empire to become an underwater pirate, destroy ships with his submarine the Nautilus and help Greek insurgents in Crete

O[edit]

• Wolf O'Donnell – a one-eyed space pirate and bounty hunter in the Star Fox video game series
• One-Eared Pirate – a pirate in Robert Arthur's book The Three Investigators: The Mystery of the Talking Skull; legend says that he stole money and, before he was caught, he put all of the money into the geyser
• One-Eyed Willy – the pirate whose 'rich stuff' the kids set out to find in The Goonies
• Orm the Red – a 10th-century Viking whose piratical exploits in Christian and Muslim Spain, England and southern Rus (present-day Ukraine) are narrated with considerable empathy and humor in The Long Ships, a novel by Frans G. Bengtsson

P[edit]

• Painty the Pirate and Patchy the Pirate are pirates that appear on the animated comedy SpongeBob SquarePants. Painty is a pirate captain in a painting that sings the theme song along with an unseen group of children, while Patchy is a live-action character who hosts many of the show's 'special episodes'.
• Sir Humphrey Pengallan - the main antagonist in the film Jamaica Inn
• Harvey 'Blind' Pew – a pirate in the movie Yellowbeard
• Sneaky Pete – the nemesis of Zan the Man
• Pirate Jenny (German: 'Seeräuber-Jenny') in the well-known song from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. The lowly maid Jenny imagines avenging herself for the contempt she endures from the townspeople. A pirate ship – with eight sails and 50 cannons – would sail in and destroy the town, and the pirates would chain up the townspeople. Thereupon, Jenny would command the Pirates to slaughter everybody, after which Jenny would be crowned Pirate Queen and sail away with them. In this case, the pirates are imaginary also within framework of the play itself.
• Pirate Beard – a Raposa pirate from Drawn to Life, originally set on plundering the village with his crew, but is convinced to stay after being given a pirate ship by the Mayor; seems to be a spoof on the character Jack Sparrow from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean
• The Pirate Captain – the main character in The Pirates!; self-deluded and mostly incompetent as a pirate and as a sea captain, but he's ultimately kind-hearted and very much respected by his crew. He doesn't appear to possess any of the stereotypical pirate accoutrements, though he dresses in the traditional manner, and much is made of his luxuriant beard. In The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists he was voiced by Hugh Grant. His crew includes:
  • Cutlass Liz, voiced in the film by Salma Hayek
  • Peg-Leg Hastings, voiced in the film by Lenny Henry
  • The Pirate with a Scarf, voiced in the film by Martin Freeman
  • The Pirate with Gout, voiced in the film by Brendan Gleeson
  • The Albino Pirate, voiced in the film by Anton Yelchin (US version) and Russell Tovey (UK version)
  • The Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate, a female pirate in disguise, voiced in the film by Ashley Jensen
  • The Pirate in Green
  • The Pirate with a Hook Where his Hand Should Be
  • The Pirate in Red
  • The Pirate who Likes Kittens and Sunsets, voiced in the film by Al Roker
  • The Burly Pirate
  • The Pirate with an Accordion
  • The Sassy Pirate
  • Jennifer, a sensible Victorian lady who becomes an invaluable member of the crew
• Captain Walker D. Plank – a villain in the animated TV series James Bond Jr.; fits the traditional stereotype to the extent that even his parrot has an eyepatch and a wooden leg
• The Pepper Pirates – robbed the Smurfs in The Smurfs
• Captain Kelso Pepper in Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty – terrorizing the spaceways in his green-colored, powerfully armed ship, 'The Ugly Truth', which bears a figurehead of a bare-chested Nubian woman. His piratical crew consists of a Chinese man, a black robot and a superhumanly powerful female extraterrestrial. They all come to a suitably bad end at the hands of treacherous partner in crime.
• The Pie-Rats – a band of rodent thieves who specialise in stealing pastries and dress as pirates, from Pocket Dragon Adventures
• The Pirate King – with his crew of pirates, the title characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
• Piet Piraat, a.k.a. 'Pete the Pirate' – a good-natured adventurous pirate in a Flemish children's program ^[3]
• The Pirates – a band of nameless and hapless pirates that appear as a running joke in almost all of the Asterix adventures
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything – three veggie pirates who tell a story of Jonah in Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
• The Pirats – pirate rats in Reader Rabbit Math Adventures Ages 6–9;'enemies' of Reader Rabbit and friends; they are Captain Ratbeard, Pearl, Vermina, Cheester and Riley
• Captain Pugwash – from a series of children's comic strips, books, and animated films created by John Ryan

Q[edit]

• Quartermaster – the pirate who served as the quartermaster aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, under the command of Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

R[edit]

• Ragnar Danneskjöld – pirate in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged whose activities are motivated by radical pro-capitalist ideology
• Sir Raleigh – an anthropomorphic Welsh frog of aristocratic lineage who turns to piracy; a member of the villainous Fiendish Five who were responsible for the Death of Sly Cooper's family; the first villain in the 2002 video game Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
• Red Rodney Radcliffe – captain of The Black Hand, and his daughter Ethel Radcliffe, in Harry Turtledove's Atlantisalternate history series
• Red Rackham – a pirate in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé; killed by Sir Francis Haddock after Rackham attempted to take over Haddock's ship, the Unicorn
• Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red – from the Roman Polanski film Pirates; played by Walter Matthau
• The Red Rover – the main antagonist of the various sailing characters in James Fenimore Cooper's 1827 novel of the same name
• Red Sonja – a female pirate in Marvel Comics
• Redbeard, a.k.a. Barbe Rouge – a comic book series since 1961, created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon
• Redbeard – voiced by John Stephenson, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! season 1 episode, 'Go Away Ghost Ship'; no connection to the comic book character
• Redbeard – a fearsome pirate leader whom The Phantom challenged, defeated and made into an ally;^[4] no connection to the previous two of this name
• Redbeard – a LEGO minifig sailing the Black Seas Barracuda and Renegade Runner; no connection to the previous three of this name
• The Rescator (Le Rescateur in French) – a mysterious pirate ranging the late 17th Century Mediterranean, his face always covered with a leather mask, and his true name and antecedents completely unknown. Unlike other pirates of his time, he strictly avoids the highly lucrative business of slaving. He appears in several volumes of the Angelique series by Sergeanne Golon. Only after his moving his operations to North America is the startling secret of the Rescator's life revealed.
• Rhine River Pirates – infest European rivers in the post-nuclear war world of Poul Anderson's story 'Marius'
• Risky Boots – a pirate captain, and the main antagonist of the Shantae video game series
• Ridley – a member of the Space Pirates in the Metroid series of video games
• Roan Tom – in Poul Anderson's story 'A Tragedy of Errors', a one-eyed space adventurer during the Long Night after the fall of the Terran Empire, roaming half-ruined planets and either trading or taking other people's property by force
• Robert the Terrible – the hideous veggie pirate character who sailed for revenge of his brother the king for the throne of his brother's kingdom in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
• The Dread Pirate Roberts – a fearsome pirate dressed all in black (including a black mask and headrag) who is reputed to leave no survivors, and captains Revenge in the novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Jonathan Rockhal – a space pirate in the Italiancomic bookNathan Never; before he turned to piracy, he was a general of the Federal Army of Earth
• Captain Roger, a.k.a. Redbeard – one of the leaders of the LEGO Pirates
• Kaptain K. Rool – the alter ego of King K. Rool in the video game Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
• Russell – a friendly sea otter pirate, from Happy Tree Friends
• Rusty Pete – the robotic drunkard first mate of Captain Slag from the video games Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty

S[edit]

• Sailor John – the evil pirate in Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
• Captain Stingaree – the first supervillain pirate in the Batman comic books
• Captain Samuel Salt – the pirate captain of a magic pirate ship and a crew of pirates who sail through sea and air to Nonestic Ocean in Pirates in Oz and Captain Salt in Oz in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and written by Ruth Plumly Thompson
• Captain Shakespeare – of the Caspartine, from the 2007 movie Stardust, a famous pirate with a reputation for being cruel, though in reality he is kind-hearted and rather effeminate; in the book he is named Johannes Alberic
• Captain John Sharkey – flew his green Jolly Roger flag in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1897 short stories and his 1925 novel The Dealings of Captain Sharkey
• Captain Sabertooth (Norwegian: Kaptein Sabeltann) – the main character in some Norwegian theatre plays created by Norwegian singer and actor Terje Formoe; the skipper of his band of pirates who sailed together in their ship the Black Lady in search of mystical treasures
• Sandokan, or 'The Tiger of Malaya' – the scourge of the British in the South China Sea in a series of books by Italian author Emilio Salgari; portrayed onscreen in a 1976 Italian TV series by Indian actor Kabir Bedi
• Captain Scarblade – the vicious captain of the Revenge in the Neopets plot Curse of Maraqua; he and his crew of marauding pirates attempt to destroy the underwater city of Maraqua
• Faris Scherwiz – a cross-dressing female pirate captain in the video game Final Fantasy V
• Sea Hawk – a pirate and anti-hero from the TV series She-Ra: Princess of Power; originally a transporter for the Evil Horde, but later defects to The Great Rebellion when persuaded by Princess Adora/She-Ra
• Searats – anthropomorphic rats engaged in piracy, often appearing as villains in Brian Jacques' Redwall series of books; include the highly intelligent Cluny the Scourge, the insane Gabool the Wild and the opportunistic Ripfang
• Sed – son of Seth Balmore in the video game Lost Odyssey; owns the submarineNautilus
• Minerva Sharpe – with Nancy Kington, the protagonists of Pirates!, a novel by Celia Rees
• Sir Arthur Richards of Kent, Diego Santana de la Vega – pirate captain; once a queen's spy in the Spanish Court; retired when chased back to England, where he and others began the crusade to promote the importance that reading plays in a child's development; recognized now as an active participant and sea dog, he is found at many western United States renaissance faires and pirate gatherings; his crew are the Pirates of Treasure Cove, and together they coined the often alluded-to truth 'readers argh leaders'
• Sissy Le Poop, Smelly Pete and Shark Bait – characters from children's animated series Those Scurvy Rascals; they are underwear-obsessed pirates (plus Polly the Parrot) whom the show follows the adventures of; they all live on the ship The Soiled Pair
• Captain Skunkbeard – voiced by Ron Perlman in Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
• Long Joan Silver – based on Long John Silver in Arthur M. Jolly's play Long Joan Silver, a female-centric retelling of Treasure Island.
• Long John Silver – one of several pirates who appear in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island, which weaves together many pirate myths and motifs including maps of hidden treasure, villainy among pirates, marooning, parrots, missing limbs, and eye patches
• John Silver – a space pirate with mechanical leg in the Italiancomic bookNathan Never; he is second in command to captain Jonathan Rockhal; before he turned to piracy, he was a general of the Federal Army of Earth
• Singh Brotherhood, arch-enemies of The Phantom; already had a long history as fearsome pirates before the first Phantom encountered them in 1536; they continue existing into the 20th century, though now as a crime syndicate rather than pirates
• Skull Pirates – from the Legend of Zelda video game series; a group of undead skeleton pirates, found most prominently in the Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons games
• Kaptain Skurvy – a secondary villain of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon series
• Captain Daniel Shaker, a smooth-talking, ruthless space pirate in Charles Sheffield's Godspeed, a loose Science Fiction adaptation of Stevenson's Treasure Island.
• Space pirates – various groups, distinct from each other, use this label or belong in this category
• Captain Romulus Slag – a robotic space pirate from the video games Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
• Space Pirate Monkey From Pluto! – recurring character on Robot Chicken
• Steve the Pirate – a dodgeball player who believes himself to be a pirate, in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story; played by Alan Tudyk
• Stickybeard (voiced by Mark Hamill) – a candy-hunting pirate from Codename: Kids Next Door who sails the suburbs in his ship, The Sweet Revenge, with his crew of pirates, robbing kids of their candy
• Strombanni, Captain of The Red Hand – a Barachan pirate who contended with his hated rival, the Zingaran Buccaneer Black Zarono, for the famed treasure hidden a hundred years earlier by Bloody Tranicos in the land of the savage Picts. Falling out with each other while being besieged by the Picts, Strombanni and Zarono ended up being massacred along with their crews, and the treasure fell into the hands of their rival, Conan The Barbarian.
• Syndicate of Pirates – use flying machines (not yet invented at the time of writing) and secret rays to terrorise the adventurers of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska – in George Griffith's book The Great Pirate Syndicate (1899)^[5][6]
• Captain Syrup – a female pirate captain and the main antagonist of video gamesWario Land and Wario Land 2
• Vikram Szpirglas – an airship pirate and antagonist in the novel Airborn
• Captain Spade – the henchman pirate captain of Ker Karraje in Jules Verne's 1896 novel Facing the Flag
• Starjammers – heroic space pirates in the Marvel Universe, who become pirates for eminently justified reasons
• Henry Steel – the legend of Henry Steel formed the backbone of CBS's cancelled reality TV show Pirate Master
• Captain Jack Sparrow – one of the main characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series; played by Johnny Depp; the son of Captain Teague and one of the nine Pirate Lords; captain of the Black Pearl
• Captain Ishmael Squint – voiced by Charles Napier in the Jumanji TV series; cruel pirate who sailed the Jumanji Sea
• Elizabeth Swann – a female pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean, played by Keira Knightley

T[edit]

• Taicoon Chang and Taicoon Wu – leaders of the Three Island Pirates who want to chop off heads in Arthur Ransome's 1941 novel Missee Lee
• Jean Tannen – with Locke Lamora, the protagonists of Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies; they are in essence land-bound thieves and swindlers 'who don't know one end of a galley from another' but nevertheless get unwillingly sidetracked into joining and then leading a pirate crew
• Helen Tavrel – female pirate in Robert E. Howard's 1928 story 'The Isle of Pirate's Doom' ([2], [3]
• 'Three Sheets' Neate - Legendary pirate of The Sea of Thieves. Associated with the lead producer of the game, Joe Neate
• Captain Teague – a Pirate Lord of Madagascar and keeper of the Pirata Codex, captain of the Misty Lady, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series
• Captain Tempest – from two classic novels by Emilio Salgari: Il capitano Tempesta (1905) and Il leone di Damasco (The Lion of Damascus, 1910)
• Tetra – a female captain of a band of pirates in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass video games
• Theseus, a.k.a. Captain Firebrand – in Jack Williamson's 1940 Reign of Wizardry, a loose adaptation of Greek mythology, Theseus becomes the piratical Captain Firebrand since pirates greedy for loot are the only allies he can find in his struggle to destroy the evil magical rule of Minoan Crete; Theseus is a pirate leader also in Poul Anderson's The Dancer from Atlantis, but in that rendition the Cretans are the heroes and the greedy Theseus is a villain
• Thoas – in Poul Anderson's 1952 story 'Son of the Sword'; a Cretan adventurer who visits Ancient Egypt in the turbulent times after Akhnaton's death; he makes off with an Egyptian princess whose life is in imminent danger; flees pursuit down the Nile and escapes by inventing the Ram, which would be a major part of naval warfare for many centuries to come
• Bloody Tranicos, in his time the greatest of the Barachan pirates, admiral of an entire pirate fleet which stormed the island castle of the exiled Stygian prince Tothmekri, killed the prince and his people and carried off an enormous treasure of gems. Fearing betrayal, Tranicos along with eleven of his trusted captains made a secret hideout in the land of the savage Picts – but they made the mistake of massacring a Pict village, and a surviving Shaman raised a demon to kill Tranicos and his captains, their bodies magically preserved around the table where they were sitting. A hundred years later, two rival pirates – Strombanni of The Red Hand and Black Zarono – sought Tranicos's treasure. Falling out with each other while being besieged by the Picts, they ended up being massacred along with their crews, and the treasure fell into the hands of their rival, Conan The Barbarian, who sold the gems to finance the army which turned him from pirate into King of Aquilonia.
• Abraham Tuizentfloot – one of the main characters in the Belgian comic strip The Adventures of Nero; this insane little man talks, dresses, acts and claims to be a pirate, despite the fact that he is hardly seen at sea and can't even swim
• Gammis Turek – leader of a space pirate fleet in Vatta's War
• James Turner, nicknamed Captain Flint, in Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series
• William Turner – one of the protagonists of Pirates of the Caribbean; played by Orlando Bloom
• Guybrush Threepwood – the bumbling hero of Ron Gilbert's Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts; his antagonist is the evil zombieghost pirate LeChuck

U[edit]

V[edit]

• Pieter van Cleef, a wily 16th Century Dutch pirate in Cecelia Holland's The Sea Baggars. Captain of The Wayward Girl – based first at Nieuwpoort and later at Plymouth – van Cleef is quite old but still very fit and has an unmatched skill, both in seamanship and in the tricks of sea fighting. Playing the game of piracy for loot, pure and simple, van Cleef is reluctantly forced to join with the Watergeuzen seaborne rebels, whose claim to fight for Dutch freedom van Cleef dismisses as completely hypocritical. Conversely, Jan van Cleef – Pieter's nephew and second-in-command – is more of a Dutch patriot than pure pirate.
• Captain Vasquez – a pirate mentioned in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? episode 'Hassle in the Castle'
• Terence Vulmea, a.k.a. Black Vulmea – born a 17th-century Irish peasant, he carried his vendetta with the English oppressors of his country to the waters of the Caribbean. He is one of Robert E. Howard's lesser known characters, more of his exploits added by David C. Smith
• Very Long – a giant pirate in the Puff the Magic Dragon cartoon film
• Vyse – main character of the video game Skies of Arcadia

W[edit]

• Jamie Waring – the swashbuckling hero of The Black Swan, 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's novel; played by Tyrone Power
• Duchy of Waldegren – haunt of notorious space pirates in A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes series
• Captain Whisker – a robot look-alike of Doctor Eggman as seen in the video game Sonic Rush Adventure
• Whitebeard Pirates – in One Piece, led by Edward Newgate, a.k.a. Whitebeard

X[edit]

Y[edit]

• Yanez de Gomera – the Portuguese, more level-headed, philosophical elder sidekick of Sandokan; in the 12 novels of Emilio Salgari's Sandokan cycle, the last of which, posthumously published, is titled Yanez' Revenge (La rivincita di Yanez, 1913)
• Yellowbeard – the protagonist of the 1983 comedy film Yellowbeard; played by Monty Python alumnus Graham Chapman

Z[edit]

• Zack – the lead pirate in the 2007 video game Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
• Zanzibar – a Dreadnok pirate in the G.I. Joe toy line and comics; his real name, Morgan Teach, is a reference to Captain Morgan and Edward Teach
• Black Zarono – a Zingaran buccaneer who contended with his hated rival, the Barachan pirate Strombanni, for the famed treasure hidden a hundred years earlier by Bloody Tranicos in the land of the savage Picts. Falling out with each other while being besieged by the Picts, Zarono and Strombanni ended up being massacred along with their crews, and the treasure fell into the hands of their rival, Conan the Barbarian.

Miscellaneous[edit]

• several pirates in the book series Redwall by Brian Jacques
• the majority of the characters in the computer game Pirate101
• unnamed one-eyed pirate appearing on the cover of Pirate's Booty snack food packaging, with speech balloons voicing praise for the product accompanied by 'Yo ho ho' and 'Shiver me timbers' (expressions derived from Stevenson's Treasure Island, though the pirate depicted does not precisely correspond to any of its characters)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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2. ^'ERBList – Pirate Blood, Summarized'. erblist.com.
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This is a list of characters appearing in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.

• 1Primary characters
• 2Secondary characters
• 3Minor characters

Primary characters[edit]

Jack Sparrow[edit]

Captain Jack Sparrow is the protagonist of the series, portrayed by Johnny Depp.^[1] First introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), he later appears in the sequels Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).^[2] Depp based his characterization on The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and cartoon character Pepé Le Pew.^[3] He insists on being introduced as 'Captain' Jack Sparrow.

In the first film, Sparrow is the former captain of the Black Pearl. After a mutiny by his first mate Hector Barbossa, he is left to die on an island. Though Barbossa and his crew are immortal as a result of a curse, Sparrow craves revenge. With the help of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, he lifts the curse and kills Barbossa.

In Dead Man's Chest, it is revealed that Sparrow once made a deal with Davy Jones.^[4] Jones raised the Black Pearl from the sea in exchange for a guarantee of service as a crewman on the Flying Dutchman. When Jones attempts to collect on the bargain, Sparrow flees. He attempts to find the Dead Man's Chest, which contains Jones's heart; this would give Sparrow leverage over Jones. At the end of the film, Sparrow is betrayed by Elizabeth Swann and dragged to Davy Jones's Locker by the Kraken.

In the third film, it is revealed that Sparrow is one of the members of the Brethren Court, acting as Pirate Lord of the Caribbean. Calypso, a sea goddess, needs all nine Pirate Lords to free her from a curse laid upon her by the original Brethren Court. She resurrects Barbossa, who is also one of the Pirate Lords, and organizes an expedition to rescue Jack from Davy Jones's Locker.^[5] Through a complex series of negotiations and betrayals, Jack schemes to kill Davy Jones and take his place as the immortal captain of the Flying Dutchman. After Will Turner is mortally wounded, Sparrow allows him to kill Jones, thus sacrificing his chance at immortality in order to save his friend. At the end of the film, Barbossa once again commandeers the Black Pearl, but it is revealed that Sparrow has stolen the ship's charts which point the way towards the Fountain of Youth.

In the fourth film, Jack seeks out the Fountain of Youth and becomes reacquainted with his love interest Angelica.^[6] She takes him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by Blackbeard. Barbossa, who has lost one of his legs and the Pearl to Blackbeard, works with Jack to reach the Fountain. Though the Fountain is destroyed before he can achieve immortality, Jack kills Blackbeard by tricking him into sacrificing his life as part of the Fountain's magical ritual.

In the fifth film, Jack is suffering a series of bad luck with the Pearl still trapped in a bottle due to Blackbeard's actions, to the point that he trades his compass for a drink of rum. This results in the release of Armando Salazar, an undead Spanish pirate hunter whose death in a confrontation with Jack established Jack's own reputation. When faced with execution, Jack is rescued by Henry Turner- the son of Will and Elizabeth- who seeks Jack's help in finding the Trident of Poseidon, which gives its wielder control of the seas.^[7] At the film's conclusion, the destruction of the Trident breaks all curses on the sea, restoring Salazar to life in time for him to drown while fighting Jack while Jack reclaims the restored Pearl and Will is able to return to Elizabeth now that the Flying Dutchman no longer needs a captain.

Jack Sparrow is also the subject of two series of books, Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow and Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court, and one standalone novel, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom. The character has also appeared in numerous video games, such as The Legend of Jack Sparrow.^[8]

Hector Barbossa[edit]

Hector Barbossa, portrayed by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, appears in all of the films.^[9] In the fourth film, On Stranger Tides, he has become a privateer in the British Royal Navy and is ordered to be Jack's guide on an expedition for the Fountain of Youth.

In the first film, Barbossa is captain of the pirate ship Black Pearl. He was the former first mate of the Black Pearl and led a mutiny against former captain, Jack Sparrow. Barbossa persuaded Jack to reveal the bearings to Isla de Muerta where the Chest of Cortez was hidden. After Sparrow divulged the location, Barbossa and the crew left Sparrow to starve on a tiny island. After stealing the gold, Barbossa and his crew became undead and unable to feel physical pleasure.

To lift the curse, the crew needed to return all 882 medallions to the chest and offer their blood. Their shipmate Bootstrap Bill Turner believed that they deserved the curse as punishment for their mutiny, and sent one coin to his son, Will. In retaliation, Barbossa tied Bootstrap to a cannon and threw him overboard. For years, Barbossa searched for the last coin and the child of Bootstrap Bill, both of which were needed to break the curse. Elizabeth Swann takes the medallion from Will Turner. Barbossa, believing her to be Bootstrap Bill's daughter, kidnaps her. He later learns that Will is Bootstrap Bill's child; he captures Will and plans to execute him to break the curse. As Jack and Barbossa duel, Will breaks the curse by returning the last coin and offering his blood. Barbossa bleeds out from his wounds.

In the final scene of the second film, Barbossa is revealed to have been resurrected by Tia Dalma.

Returning in the third installment, he joins forces with Will, Elizabeth and the Black Pearl crew in their attempt to rescue Jack from the Locker.^[5] In order to break the curse confining her to human form, the sea goddess Calypso needs the Pieces of Eight from all nine Pirate Lords. It is for this reason that she resurrected Barbossa, who is the Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea. At the meeting of the Fourth Brethren Court, Barbossa steals the Pieces of Eight from the other pirate lords and uses them to release her. During the battle against Davy Jones, he officiates a makeshift wedding for Will and Elizabeth.

After defeating Jones and Beckett, Barbossa once again steals the Pearl from Jack and sails in search of the Fountain of Youth. By the events of the fourth film, Blackbeard has taken the Pearl from Barbossa, who lost a leg during his escape. Barbossa has become a privateer in the service of King George II in order to gain resources to take revenge upon Blackbeard. After Blackbeard's death during the film's climax, he becomes the new captain of Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.

In the fifth film, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Barbossa controls a wealthy fleet. After this fleet is threatened by Armando Salazar, Barbossa promises to lead him to Jack Sparrow.

Barbossa and Salazar encounter Sparrow, who escapes to an island. Barbossa promises to go to land and retrieve Sparrow, but he and his crew double cross Salazar to team up with Sparrow, Henry Turner, and Carina Smyth, whom Barbossa seems to recognize. Barbossa uses Blackbeard's sword to release the Black Pearl from its imprisonment in a bottle, and they attempt to use it to outrun Salazar. Barbossa reveals in a conversation with Jack that he is Carina's father. He left Carina at an orphanage after her mother's death to give her a chance at a normal life, along with a journal with a red ruby on its cover. This journal contains a map which leads to the Trident of Poseidon.

Carina uses the ruby to reveal the path to the Trident of Poseidon. The Trident is destroyed, resulting in Salazar becoming mortal. Jack, Henry and Carina try to climb to safety, while Salazar pursues them. Barbossa sacrifices himself to kill Salazar. This gives Sparrow, Carina, and Henry a chance to escape. Before dying, he reveals to Carina that he is her father and that he loves her.

According to the actor, he won't appear in any future Pirates of the Caribbean movies.^[10]

Elizabeth Swann[edit]

Elizabeth Swann (later Elizabeth Turner) appears in the first three films in the series (The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, and At World's End)^[11] and is the leading lady, portrayed by Keira Knightley.^[12] She is the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann. In the third film, she marries Will Turner.

In the first film, a young Elizabeth (played by Lucinda Dryzek)^[13] helps rescue Will Turner from a shipwreck; she steals a pirate's medallion from Will in order to protect him. As an adult, she is engaged to James Norrington. Captain Barbossa captures Elizabeth. Because she possesses the medallion, he presumes she is the daughter of Bootstrap Bill Turner, whose blood is needed to lift the pirates' curse. She assists Will and Jack in defeating Barbossa.

In Dead Man's Chest, Elizabeth has ended her engagement with Norrington in favor of marrying Will Turner; their wedding is interrupted when they are arrested by Colonel Beckett for piracy.^[4] Elizabeth later kills Jack Sparrow by seducing him and chaining him to the mast of the Black Pearl, where he is dragged to Davy Jones's Locker by the Kraken.

In the third film, Elizabeth helps rescue Jack from the Locker.^[5] She becomes the pirate lord of the South China Sea after Sao Feng's death; she is later elected Pirate King by the Fourth Brethren Court. As King, she declares war on Beckett and leads the battle against him. Elizabeth marries Will Turner, who becomes the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. The curse of being the captain only allows Will to return to shore for one day every ten years. In a post-credits scene after the film, Elizabeth is raising their son; she takes the boy, now nine years old, to meet his father for the first time.

Elizabeth does not appear in On Stranger Tides,^[6] but she appears briefly in Dead Men Tell No Tales in a cameo scene.^[14][15] According to her, 'she doesn’t expect to do any more because they take too long to shoot and she has not spoken to Johnny Depp since completing the third Pirates in 2006'.^[16]

Will Turner[edit]

William 'Will' Turner Jr. is portrayed by Orlando Bloom.^[17] He appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, At World's End, and Dead Men Tell No Tales. He is the only child of pirate 'Bootstrap' Bill Turner and the husband of Elizabeth Swann Turner. As of the fifth film, Will is the captain of the Flying Dutchman.^[18]

In the first film, a young Will Turner (played by Dylan Smith)^[19] is rescued from a shipwreck by James Norrington and Elizabeth Swann. As an adult, Will is a blacksmith's apprentice working in Port Royal. He loves Elizabeth, although he is of a lower social class. Will helps Jack escape from Port Royal. He uses his blood to break the curse upon the crew of the Black Pearl.

In the second film, Will's wedding to Elizabeth Swann is interrupted when they are arrested for piracy. In exchange for Elizabeth's freedom, he attempts to retrieve Jack Sparrow's magical compass, which will allow Beckett to obtain the heart of Davy Jones.^[4] Along the way, he reunites with his father, who is serving as an undead crewman aboard the Flying Dutchman. Will attempts to steal the heart, but is unsuccessful.

In the third film, Will helps rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones's Locker.^[5] He marries Elizabeth Swann before killing Davy Jones and becoming the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. As captain, he may only return to shore once every ten years. In a post credits scene, he returns to shore to meet his son.

He does not appear in On Stranger Tides.^[6]

In Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), he remains the captain of the Flying Dutchman. His son Henry locates the Dutchman as a child, but Will tells him that the curse cannot be broken. As an adult, Henry joins Jack Sparrow to search for the Trident of Poseidon, which has the power to break Will's curse. After the Trident is destroyed, Will is released from his curse and is reunited with Elizabeth.

Secondary characters[edit]

Angelica[edit]

Angelica, played by Penélope Cruz in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is the daughter of Blackbeard and a former love interest of Jack Sparrow's.^[6][20] She first met Jack just before she was to take a vow of celibacy in a Spanish convent; she later blames Jack for her corruption, although Jack counters this argument citing that she was 'hardly innocent' to begin with.

Angelica is first mate of the Queen Anne's Revenge. She claims to be Blackbeard's long-lost daughter, though she tells Jack it is just a ruse in order to manipulate him. It is later revealed that she is Blackbeard's daughter after all. After the battle at the Fountain of Youth, she unintentionally poisons herself while trying to remove Barbossa's poison-laced sword from Blackbeard's chest, Jack tricks Blackbeard into sacrificing his life to save Angelica's. Although Blackbeard had intended to kill Angelica so he could survive, Angelica holds Jack responsible for her father's death. Jack then maroons her on a deserted island and gives her a pistol loaded with one shot. Seeing that he still loves her, Angelica tries to convince Jack not to leave her on the island by claiming she has knowledge of several artifacts that can give him control of the ocean and that she is pregnant with his child, but he doesn't fall for either of her ruses. It is then Angelica finally admits her love for Jack, who is somewhat touched by this; however, he still leaves. Angered, Angelica then uses the sole round from her pistol in an attempt to kill Jack as he rows away, but misses. In a post-credits scene, Angelica finds Blackbeard's voodoo doll made in Jack's image and smiles, hoping that she will finally get her revenge on Jack. Her further fate is unknown, but she could return in future films of the saga.

Carina Smyth[edit]

Carina Smyth (later Carina Barbossa), is portrayed by Kaya Scodelario in Dead Men Tell No Tales.^[21] Left at an orphanage as a child, she uses the diary her father left her to search for the Trident of Poseidon.^[22] She is interested in the sciences, particularly astronomy.

In St. Martin, she is arrested for witchcraft and sentenced to be executed. With the help of Henry Turner, she and Jack Sparrow escape. Pursued by Captain Salazar, she teams up with the crew in order to find the Trident. Using her diary and a ruby attached to its cover, she is able to locate the Trident's hiding place. After the Trident is broken and Salazar becomes mortal, he pursues Jack, Carina, and Henry. Barbossa sacrifices himself to kill Salazar, revealing that he is Carina's father and that he loves her. At the end of the film, she begins a romance with Henry and decides to change her last name to Barbossa.

Carina is also the subject of a Dead Men Tell No Talesprequel novel The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth.

Cutler Beckett[edit]

Lord Cutler Beckett, portrayed by Tom Hollander, appears in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.^[23] A ruthless mastermind, Beckett is the chairman of the East India Trading Company and a representative of King George II of Great Britain.

Beckett first appears in the second film, where he arrests Will and Elizabeth. Beckett offers Will a deal; he will free them if Will brings him Jack Sparrow's magical compass. Beckett plans to use the compass to find the Dead Man's Chest. With this leverage over Davy Jones, Beckett will be able to purge the sea of pirates. Throughout the film, Beckett blackmails Governor Swann and orders his henchman, Ian Mercer, to carry out crimes on his behalf. At the end of the film, Beckett pardons Norrington in exchange for the heart of Davy Jones.

In At World's End, Beckett's mission to eliminate piracy sets him at odds with the Brethren Court. He orders the suspension of civil liberties and holds a mass execution of pirates and those who associated with them. He also has Governor Swann assassinated. Beckett makes a deal with Jack Sparrow; he will pardon Jack if he can convince the Brethren Court to fight Beckett's armada rather than prepare for a siege. Unbeknownst to Beckett, Davy Jones is killed during a battle between the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl. The two ships turn on Beckett, destroying his ship and killing him in the process.

Blackbeard[edit]

Blackbeard, portrayed by Ian McShane, appears in On Stranger Tides.^[24] He is based on the historical figure of the same name. Blackbeard is a notorious pirate and Jack's most recent nemesis. He is one element retained from the novel On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, from which Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides draws inspiration.^[25][26][27] Blackbeard is the captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge and a master of black magic, who wants to find the Fountain of Youth to escape a prophecy that he will be killed by a one-legged man. With the exception of his daughter Angelica, Blackbeard has zombified his entire staff of officers to ensure their loyalty. Said by Jack to be 'the one pirate all pirates fear', Blackbeard practices voodoo and has the power to command ships using his magic sword.

Blackbeard's history prior to On Stranger Tides is slightly different than in real-world history. He is still alive in 1750, though the story about his death at the battle of Ocracoke Inlet in 1718 is still well known in the Caribbean. As stated by Jack Sparrow, people believe that Blackbeard was beheaded, and that his headless body swam three times around his ship before climbing back on board.

Before the events of the film, Blackbeard captures the Black Pearl. During the attack, Hector Barbossa loses his leg but escapes with his life. Blackbeard uses his magic to shrink the Pearl and her crew, imprisoning them in a glass bottle.

In the film's climax, Blackbeard and Barbossa duel at the Fountain of Youth. Barbossa stabs Blackbeard with a poison-laced sword, and Angelica accidentally cuts herself when trying to remove it from her father. As both Blackbeard and Angelica lay dying, Blackbeard asks his daughter to sacrifice herself to save him using a ritual at the Fountain, and Angelica willingly agrees. Jack Sparrow secretly switches the magical cups used in the ritual, thus sparing her life and killing Blackbeard. Meanwhile, Barbossa claims Blackbeard's magical sword, and, assuming command, leaves with Blackbeard's crew. Joshamee Gibbs then delivers all of Blackbeard's bottled ships to Jack.

Tia Dalma[edit]

Tia Dalma, portrayed by Naomie Harris, appears in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.

Before the events of the films, Davy Jones, a human, fell in love with the sea goddess Calypso. She gave him the task of guiding the spirits of the dead lost at sea to the next world. Jones was granted immortality on the condition that he could return to shore once every ten years. However, when Jones returned to shore after ten years of service, Calypso failed to appear. Feeling betrayed, Davy Jones made a secret agreement with the Pirate Lords, which resulted in Calypso being bound into a human body. She took the name Tia Dalma and began to practice Voodoo and Obeah magic.

It is implied that Tia Dalma and Sparrow became lovers at some point during the latter's adult life.

In Dead Man's Chest, Jack trades Barbossa's undead monkey for a jar of dirt from Tia Dalma, who tells him that it will protect him from Jones. Jack's crew returns to Tia Dalma's shack after Jack is dragged to Davy Jones's Locker by the Kraken. She reveals that she has resurrected Barbossa, who will help lead a mission to rescue Jack from the Locker.

In At World's End, Tia Dalma joins Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and the rest of the Black Pearl's crew as they travel to Singapore. There, they infiltrate Sao Feng's headquarters to acquire the navigational chart needed to sail to World's End and Davy Jones' Locker. When the group rescues Jack, she flirts with him and reminisces about their romantic relationship. As the group searches for an escape route back to the mortal world, they encounter numerous souls adrift in the water. Tia Dalma tells the group the story of Davy Jones and Calypso, but does not reveal her identity.

Later, it is revealed that Tia Dalma is actually Calypso. Her true motives for resurrecting Barbossa and Jack are unveiled when it is learned that both are Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court. Each has their respective 'Pieces of Eight', the talismans necessary to free Calypso. She resurrected Barbossa to obtain his Piece, and rescued Jack because his Piece went with him to Davy Jones' Locker. Upon arrival at Shipwreck Cove, she reminds Barbossa of her power by gripping his hand and temporarily rendering it skeletal. She warns him that it was only by her power that he is alive again and that he must fulfill their agreement to release her. If he fails, she will kill him.

Calypso and Davy Jones briefly reunite while she is locked in the brig of the ship. Calypso says she still feels deeply for Jones. She responds to his anger by saying that Jones never would have loved her if not for her uncontrollable and unpredictable nature. She chastises him for abandoning his duty to ferry souls to the other world. Calypso is also furious that the Pirate Lords trapped her in her human form. Thus, her true motives are revealed: she plans to use her powers against the current court in revenge for the original act of turning her into a human. She will also fully give her love to Jones, and they reconcile. When she touches Jones, he momentarily transforms back into the man he once was.

Barbossa and Ragetti release Calypso from her human form. Before Calypso is fully freed, Will tells her that it was Davy Jones who betrayed her by revealing to the first Brethren Court how to bind her into her human form. Bound by ropes, she grows to nearly sixty feet high, towering over the crew. Barbossa asks that she fulfill their agreement and use her powers to aid the pirates. Calypso breaks free, transforming herself dying into thousands of small crabs that engulf the ship and flee into the sea. Angry at both the Pirate Lords and Jones, she refuses to help either side. Her fury creates a violent maelstrom that becomes the battlefield between the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman.

Calypso does not appear in On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Joshamee Gibbs[edit]

Joshamee Gibbs is a superstitious crew member on the Black Pearl and the closest friend of Jack Sparrow. He has appeared in every film.

In the first film, Gibbs appears as a petty officer in the Royal Navy, it is implied that he is the ship's boatswain as he is respected, very cynical, and drinks heavily which are stereotypes of a boatswain. While Governor Swann and a young Elizabeth Swann travel to Port Royal, he assists in rescuing a young Will Turner from a shipwreck. Eight years later, Jack Sparrow encounters Gibbs sleeping among pigs in Tortuga. Gibbs, no longer affiliated with the Royal Navy, agrees to help Jack sail HMS Interceptor as his First Mate. After Jack is captured by Barbossa, Gibbs attempts to captain Interceptor. They are swiftly overtaken by Black Pearl and captured. Elizabeth frees Gibbs and the crew, who decide to take Black Pearl instead of rescuing Jack from Barbossa. However, Gibbs and the crew later return to Port Royal to save Jack from hanging. After Jack is rescued, Gibbs stays on as his First Mate.

In Dead Man's Chest, Gibbs, Jack, and other crew members are captured by cannibals. Gibbs visits Tia Dalma with Jack. At Isla Cruces, Jack leaves Gibbs on Black Pearl while searching for the Dead Man's Chest. Gibbs survives the Kraken's attack on Black Pearl in which Jack is dragged to Davy Jones's Locker. When Tia Dalma asks if the crew would do anything to save Jack, Gibbs is the first to say yes.

In At World's End, Gibbs travels to the Locker to rescue Jack. He claims to be one of the few crew members to do so 'just because he missed him.' He attends the Fourth meeting of the Brethren Court. At the end of the film, Gibbs falls asleep, allowing Barbossa to steal Black Pearl once again.

In On Stranger Tides, Gibbs has been captured by British soldiers and falsely accused of being Jack Sparrow; the real Jack impersonates a judge and gives him a life sentence instead of the death penalty. Gibbs steals Jack's maps, which show the way to the Fountain of Youth, and memorizes them. Hector Barbossa, working as a privateer for the British, threatens to execute Gibbs if he does not betray Jack. Gibbs burns the maps, and Barbossa is forced to bring him along on the journey to the Fountain. Gibbs is captured by Blackbeard, but Jack negotiates his release. Using Jack's compass, Gibbs finds Queen Anne's Revenge and steals Blackbeard's collection of ships which are magically imprisoned in bottles, including Black Pearl. Gibbs and Jack reunite after Blackbeard's death and discuss ways to free Black Pearl from its enchantment.

Henry Turner[edit]

Henry Turner, portrayed by Brenton Thwaites,^[28] is the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. He appears in At World's End and Dead Men Tell No Tales. He tries to reconnect with his father but struggles to break a curse that is preventing him from doing so. He later joins the British Royal Navy to gain more information in search of the Trident of Poseidon to break the curse on his father on Flying Dutchman. He ends up the last survivor of the ship after Captain Salazar's crew kills everyone on board and relays the message to Jack Sparrow from Captain Salazar. He later joins Jack Sparrow and Carina Smyth to find the Trident of Poseidon.^[29] Lewis McGowan portrays a young Henry in Dead Men Tell No Tales^[30] while Dominic Scott Kay, credited as 'Young Will Turner', played a younger Henry in the post-credits of At World's End.

Davy Jones[edit]

Davy Jones, portrayed by Bill Nighy, appears in Dead Man's Chest, At World's End, and Dead Men Tell No Tales. Davy Jones is the immortal captain of Flying Dutchman. His original purpose was to carry souls of those who died at sea from this world to the next on his vessel. He was charged with this duty by his one true love, a sea goddess named Calypso. For every ten years at sea he could spend one day ashore to be with her. Ten years after first being charged with the duty, Jones prepared to be reunited with his true love on land, but was heartbroken and enraged when she never appeared. Unable to deal with Calypso's betrayal, he ripped out his heart and placed it in a chest, burying it on land. This chest became known as the Dead Man's Chest, the primary object being sought after in the second film. Jones additionally shows the Brethren Court how to trap Calypso in human form. He abandoned his duties, and instead ruled the seas as a tyrant. Because he forsook the duties of his office, both he and his crew slowly transformed into hideous sea monsters.

In Dead Man's Chest, Jones seeks Jack Sparrow's life. 13 years prior, he had raised Black Pearl from the depths of the ocean in return for a future guarantee of Jack's service aboard Flying Dutchman. Jones offers to let Sparrow out of the deal if he can find one hundred souls to replace him within three days. Will steals the key to the Dead Man's Chest, and the heart of Davy Jones eventually lands in the possession of Colonel Beckett. Jones orders the Kraken to kill Jack Sparrow, and he is dragged to Davy Jones's Locker.

In At World's End, Beckett uses the heart to force Jones to serve him.^[5] Jones kills his Kraken, and obliterates the ships of several pirates. He confronts Tia Dalma while she is locked in the brig of Black Pearl. She briefly removes his curse, and promises to love him forever when she is freed from her human form. Jones also professes his love for her. After Calypso is freed and she learns of Jones's role in her capture, she refuses to help either the pirates or Jones. Her fury creates a giant maelstrom, in which the crews of Flying Dutchman and Black Pearl battle. Jones wounds Will Turner, who, while fatally wounded, stabs the heart, with the aid of Jack Sparrow, to become the new captain. As Jones tumbles from the side of the ship to his death, he calls out for Calypso.

In Dead Men Tell No Tales, Jones makes a cameo in a post-credits scene. Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are asleep when their bedroom is entered by the shadow of an apparently resurrected Davy Jones. Will then awakens and, assuming that he was simply dreaming, goes back to sleep. The camera then pans to the floor, revealing a puddle of water and barnacles, indicating that Jones has indeed returned.^[31]

James Norrington[edit]

James Norrington, portrayed by Jack Davenport, appears in Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, and At World's End.

Norrington served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant. He was stationed aboard HMS Dauntless as it made the crossing from England to Port Royal, carrying Governor Weatherby Swann and his young daughter, Elizabeth. Upon sighting a wrecked merchant vessel, Norrington ordered his men to search for survivors, leading to the rescue of a young Will Turner.

Eight years later, Captain Norrington is about to be promoted to the rank of commodore. Among those gathered for the ceremony is Elizabeth Swann, now a young woman. While the newly promoted Commodore Norrington proposes to Elizabeth Swann atop the fortress, she faints and topples over the wall into the harbor below. She is rescued by Captain Jack Sparrow, who is then arrested by Norrington.

When pirates attack Port Royal and kidnap Elizabeth, Norrington pursues the pirates' ship, Black Pearl. Will Turner and Jack Sparrow commandeer HMS Interceptor, stranding Norrington aboard the disabled Dauntless. Watching as Sparrow and Turner make off with Interceptor, Norrington grudgingly acknowledges Sparrow's unexpected cleverness and competency.

Norrington pursues Sparrow and Turner with three objectives: reclaim Interceptor, capture Jack Sparrow, and rescue Elizabeth. Barbossa sinks Interceptor and maroons Sparrow and Elizabeth. Norrington spots Elizabeth's distress signal and rescues them. Norrington arrests Jack and ignores Elizabeth's plea to rescue Will from Barbossa, believing he has turned pirate. He only relents after Elizabeth accepts his previous marriage proposal. He asks for Jack's assistance to locate Isla de Muerta.

At Isla de Muerta, Norrington and his men battle the immortal pirates. When Will Turner breaks the curse, making the pirates mortal again, Norrington's men defeat them. The commodore imprisons the surrendered pirates and returns to Port Royal with Jack Sparrow. Despite thanking him for the victory against Barbossa, Norrington reluctantly agrees to obey the law and hang Jack for piracy. Will and Elizabeth free Sparrow from the gallows, but they are quickly caught. Governor Swann pardons Will, while Sparrow escapes. Norrington graciously accepts Elizabeth's wish to marry Will, and postpones pursuing Sparrow for one day.

In Dead Man's Chest, Norrington's ship, HMS Dauntless has been lost in a hurricane. Disgraced, Norrington resigned his post and disappeared. Norrington's whereabouts are still unknown when Lord Cutler Beckett arrives in Port Royal with an arrest warrant for Norrington's part in Jack Sparrow's escape. Norrington, drinking heavily and clad in his filthy, tattered uniform, turns up in Tortuga. He applies for a position aboard Jack Sparrow's ship, Black Pearl. He soon becomes obsessed with reclaiming his honour, and seeks revenge against those he believes responsible for his downfall, notably Sparrow.

At Isla Cruces, Norrington, Sparrow, and Turner duel to claim Davy Jones' heart. Norrington escapes with the chest, heart, and Letters of Marque. He is found by East India Trading Company (EITC) ships and taken to Port Royal. He offers Beckett the heart of Davy Jones in exchange for Beckett's signature on the Letters of Marque. Beckett signs the Letters, which grant Norrington a full pardon and promote him to admiral in the EITC.

In At World's End, Norrington has now regained his career. Beckett places Norrington in command of Flying Dutchman.

After Empress attacks HMS Endeavour, Beckett orders Flying Dutchman to pursue it. Norrington leads the boarding party and is reunited with Elizabeth Swann, who is now captain of Empress. Though Norrington is ecstatic to find her alive, Elizabeth is hostile, accusing Norrington of serving her father's murderers. Norrington denies any knowledge of or involvement in Governor Swann's death. When the prisoners are taken to the brig, Norrington offers Elizabeth his quarters, which she refuses.

Norrington releases Elizabeth and her crew from the brig, declaring that he is 'choosing a side.' Elizabeth forgives him and urges him to join her, but he refuses. Elizabeth escapes as Norrington is mortally wounded by Bootstrap. Arriving on the scene, Davy Jones offers Norrington a reprieve from death if he will join the crew of Flying Dutchman. Norrington defiantly thrusts his sword into Jones' shoulder before dying.

Armando Salazar[edit]

CaptainArmando Salazar is an undead pirate hunter who commands the ghost ship Silent Mary. He appears in the fifth film, Dead Men Tell No Tales and is portrayed by Javier Bardem.

Originally an officer in the Spanish Navy, Salazar sailed the seas for many years, hunting and killing pirates, and earning himself the nickname el Matador del Mar, (which means 'the Butcher of the Sea'). He was killed during a battle with the crew of Wicked Wench, commanded by a young Jack Sparrow. Sparrow tricked Salazar into sailing into the Devil's Triangle, where his ship sank and Salazar was killed. However, through the dark powers of the Triangle, Salazar and his crew were resurrected as the undead.

Decades later, when Jack Sparrow gives away his magical compass, the betrayed compass retaliates by releasing Salazar and his crew from the Devil's Triangle. He begins hunting pirate ships and destroys several ships under the command of Hector Barbossa. Barbossa, now in possession of the compass, agrees to lead Salazar to Jack in return for amnesty for his ships. Salazar corners Jack on an island, but he is unable to set foot on land due to his curse. Barbossa goes ashore, but double-crosses Salazar and flees with Jack to search for the Trident of Poseidon.

As Sparrow and Barbossa flee to the Trident's island, Salazar gives chase. He captures Henry Turner while the others reach land. Salazar possesses Henry, which allows him to walk on the dry land where the Trident is located. Once he takes hold of the Trident, he frees himself from Henry and fights Jack. Before Salazar can deliver the final blow to Jack, Henry destroys the Trident, which breaks all curses at sea, and makes Salazar and his crew mortal once again.

Barbossa drops the anchor from Black Pearl to save Jack, Henry, and Carina Smyth. As Sparrow, Carina, and Henry climb to safety, a still-vengeful Salazar pursues them. Hector Barbossa sacrifices himself to save his daughter Carina and knocks Salazar off the anchor chain by stabbing him in the back. Salazar plummets to the bottom of Poseidon's Tomb to drown with the rest of Silent Mary's crew.

Bootstrap Bill Turner[edit]

William 'Bootstrap Bill' Turner Sr., portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård, is a crewmember on Davy Jones' Flying Dutchman and Will Turner's father. He is mentioned in the first film, and he appears in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.

He was once a crewman on Black Pearl under Captain Jack Sparrow. When Sparrow's first mate, Hector Barbossa, led a mutiny against Sparrow, Bootstrap was the only one who did not participate. When the crew was later cursed by stealing Aztec gold, Bootstrap atoned for his failure to defend Sparrow by sending his coin to his young son William, so that he and the crew would not be able to find it and thus remain cursed forever. This act enraged Barbossa, and he punished Bootstrap by tying his bootstraps to a cannon and throwing him overboard. Due to the curse, Bootstrap could not die, and was forced to suffer constantly due to the lack of oxygen and crushing pressure on the seabed.

Ten years later, sometime before the events of the first film, Bootstrap is found by Davy Jones, captain of Flying Dutchman, and offered rescue from his fate in exchange for one hundred years working on his ship. Bootstrap agrees, and becomes subject to the curse of Flying Dutchman. Because Jones has reneged on his promise to care for the souls of those who died at sea, he and his crew slowly transform into sea creatures. He first appears onscreen in Dead Man's Chest, where he is sent to remind Sparrow of his debt to Jones.

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Bootstrap is eventually reunited with his son on Flying Dutchman, where Bootstrap is given the task of whipping Will. Despite the flogging, Bootstrap and Will bond, albeit rather uneasily, and Bootstrap eventually aids Will in stealing the key to the Dead Man's Chest from a sleeping Jones. This comes at the cost of surrendering his soul to Jones for eternity during a game of Liar's Dice. Despite Bootstrap admitting that he had abandoned him at an early age and does not deserve salvation, Will promises to free his father from Jones. However, Jones discovers this and punishes Bootstrap by forcing him to watch the Kraken destroy Edinburgh Trader, the ship which is harbouring Will. Following the devastation, Jones orders Bootstrap to be locked in the brig. Bootstrap believes that Will perished on the ship.

While in the brig, due to grief and the effects of the Flying Dutchman's curse, Bootstrap begins to lose his humanity and to be absorbed into the ship's hull. He becomes delusional. In At World's End, Elizabeth Swann is locked in the same brig as Bootstrap. She tells him that Will survived and that he will come to save him. He says Will cannot save both Elizabeth and himself—he will only choose her. Bootstrap forgets their conversation completely immediately. Later, when Admiral James Norrington helps Elizabeth and the other prisoners escape, Bootstrap alerts the other crewmen. In his delusion, Bootstrap kills Norrington. This apparently wins him Jones's trust, as Jones does not order him to be imprisoned again.

In the final battle against Jones and Cutler Beckett, Bootstrap, still delusional, fights Will without recognizing him. He is subdued by Will, and only recognises his son after seeing Jones stab him. In a fit of rage, Bootstrap attacks Jones, allowing Will to kill him. With their captain gone, Bootstrap and the other crewmen cut out Will's heart and place it in the Dead Man's Chest, making him the new captain of Flying Dutchman.

Following the battle's end, Will offers his father the chance to leave the ship and live a normal life, but Bootstrap, desiring to make up for having abandoned Will when he was a boy, chooses to stay with his son aboard Flying Dutchman.

Sao Feng[edit]

Sao Feng (simplified Chinese: 啸风; traditional Chinese: 嘯風; pinyin: Xiàofēng; literally: 'Howling Wind') is portrayed by Chow Yun-fat. Sao Feng is the pirate lord of the South China Sea and his character is based on the legendary Chinese pirate Cheung Po Tsai. He appears in At World's End. Feng is depicted as an unscrupulous pirate who will do anything to join with the winning side, which he considers to be 'just good business'.

In At World's End, Barbossa and Elizabeth intend to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. They visit Feng at his bathhouse in Singapore, requesting a ship and a crew. Feng is suspicious and informs them that earlier that day, Will Turner attempted to steal the navigational charts to World's End. Barbossa and Elizabeth deny knowing Will, but when Feng threatens to kill him, Elizabeth reacts, confirming they are allies. Barbossa explains that the Brethren Court has been summoned to convene on Shipwreck Cove and Feng, being one of the nine Pirate Lords, is honor-bound to attend. Feng demands to know why they want to sail to the Locker. When Will admits they want to rescue Jack, Feng becomes enraged and declares that he would only resurrect Sparrow to kill him in person.

Feng, Elizabeth, and Barbossa are interrupted by the East India Trading Company, led by Mr. Mercer.^[5] During the battle, Feng and Will confront each other while Mercer secretly listens in. Will tells Feng that if he wishes to make a deal with the EITC then he needs what Will offers—the two strike a deal. Will wants Black Pearl to free his father from Davy Jones. In exchange, Feng can have Jack Sparrow to barter to the East India Trading Company for his own freedom. Feng agrees and provides Will with a ship and crew, then covers Will and the others' escape from Singapore. Unbeknownst to Will, however, Feng makes his own deal with the East India Trading Company to turn over all the pirates, including Will, in exchange for Black Pearl and his own freedom.

After Jack and Black Pearl are rescued, Will leads them to an island where he and Feng arranged to meet. Jack, Barbossa and the crew are taken captive when Feng arrives in Empress. After a brief confrontation between the parties, Feng directs Sparrow's attention to Lord Cutler Beckett's approaching ship, Endeavour. Feng hands over Sparrow and the crew to the East India Trading Company, but learns Beckett is keeping Black Pearl. Barbossa then sways Feng to their side by revealing that he intends to release Calypso from her human form. Feng, mistaking Elizabeth for Calypso, aids their escape in exchange for her.

In his quarters, Feng reveals that he believes Elizabeth is Calypso. He tells Elizabeth it was the first Brethren Court who imprisoned the sea goddess, Calypso, in human form. Elizabeth pretends to be Calypso, and discusses with Feng what she might do for him if freed. When she asks what would happen if she refused to grant her favors, he suggests he would take them by force. He then forcefully kisses her, but she pushes him away. While angrily approaching her once more, he is caught by cannon fire as Flying Dutchman suddenly attacks. When the smoke clears Elizabeth finds Feng under a small pile of rubble, impaled with a huge piece of drift wood. Dying, Feng pronounces Elizabeth the captain of Empress, and gives her his 'piece of eight', a jade stone on a necklace, telling her that she must take his place at the Brethren Court. Elizabeth becomes the Pirate Lord of the South China Sea. His last words are, 'Forgive me, Calypso.'

Minor characters[edit]

Anamaria[edit]

Anamaria, played by Zoe Saldana, is a pirate whose ship was stolen, some years in the past, by Jack Sparrow. She appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl. She joins Mr. Gibbs and Will Turner in order to get a chance to confront Sparrow. After Anamaria slaps Sparrow and accuses him of stealing her ship, Will intervenes and promises her Interceptor (the ship Jack had stolen to chase Black Pearl) in exchange for her cooperation on the journey. Reluctantly, Anamaria agrees. In the end, she allows Jack to captain Black Pearl.

She does not appear in any further films, and her final fate is unknown. As to why she never appeared in any further films in the franchise, Saldana revealed that she almost quit acting following 'disrespectful treatment' on set of the film.^[32]Terry Rossio confirmed that the name was chosen simply because 'AnaMaria' is the middle name of his daughter.^[33][34] In the first screenplay draft, Anamaria was a barmaid in the Faithful Bride, whom Jack encountered before meeting Joshamee Gibbs.^[35]

Mr. Cotton[edit]

Mr. Cotton, played by David Bailie, is a mute pirate, having lost his tongue before the film series began.^[36] He appears in the first three films.

Unable to speak, he trained his blue-and-yellow macaw, voiced by Christopher S. Capp, to use a large number of phrases to essentially speak for him (such as 'Wind in the sails' apparently meaning 'Yes'), although nobody has been able to figure out how he did this. He is hired by Jack and Gibbs in The Curse of the Black Pearl to retrieve Black Pearl from Barbossa. He returns in the two sequels, loyally serving Jack. At the climax of the third film, he leaves Tortuga on Black Pearl, now commandeered by Barbossa. Cotton's parrot, along with Jack the Monkey, often serve as comic relief.

Mr. Cotton does not appear in On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales, although his parrot is seen trapped on Black Pearl, which was magically shrunk and imprisoned in a bottle by Blackbeard.

King Ferdinand[edit]

King Ferdinand VI of Spain is portrayed by Sebastian Armesto and based on Ferdinand VI of Spain. He appears in On Stranger Tides, where he rules Spain from his palace in Cádiz. After learning about the discovery of the Fountain of Youth, King Ferdinand sends his most trusted agent, known only as the Spaniard, to find and destroy the Fountain. Because of his Catholic faith, he sees it as the abomination in the eyes of God; he believes only God should grant immortality.

King George[edit]

King George II of Great Britain is portrayed by Richard Griffiths.^[37] He appears in On Stranger Tides.^[38] He rules Great Britain and Ireland.

Just before the events of the second film, he orders Cutler Beckett to take control of Port Royal and report events back to him. He does this to combat piracy.

He appears onscreen in the fourth film, where he employs Hector Barbossa as a privateer. When Jack Sparrow refuses to lead an expedition to the Fountain of Youth, the King sends Barbossa to find the Fountain in order to take control of it before it is discovered by Spain.

Lieutenant Gillette[edit]

Lieutenant Gillette, played by Irish actor Damian O'Hare, is Commodore Norrington's flag lieutenant and second-in-command in Port Royal. He is left in HMS Dauntless during Norrington's absence and loses the ship to Jack Sparrow. He accompanies Commodore Norrington on Dauntless in pursuit of both Black Pearl and Interceptor. When they rescue Elizabeth, she warns Lieutenant Gillette about the curse of the pirate crew aboard Black Pearl but he refuses to believe her. When the cursed pirates ambush Dauntless, Gillette, who was left in charge of Dauntless at the time, fights off the cursed pirates with the remainder of his crew before Norrington and his Royal Marines arrive to reinforce the dwindling resistance against the pirates. He survives the final battle of Curse of the Black Pearl. It was at first believed that he perished during Norrington's ill-fated pursuit of Jack Sparrow between the events of Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest, but he returns unharmed in On Stranger Tides as Captain Barbossa's third-in-command aboard HMS Providence. He assists Barbossa in claiming the Fountain of Youth before Blackbeard and the Spaniards do. He was killed in a duel with Blackbeard by Blackbeard's sword.

Giselle and Scarlett[edit]

Giselle, played by Vanessa Branch, is a blonde wench in Tortuga who appears in the first three films. She is a friend of Scarlett. Both women seem to have relationships going with Jack Sparrow, though they frequently slap him for having cheated on them with each other. They are last seen at the end of the third film, strolling down a pier with Gibbs after once again slapping Jack following his declaration that he lied to them several times and on several levels.

Scarlett, played by Lauren Maher, is the woman who slaps Jack for cheating on her with her friend Giselle in Curse of the Black Pearl. In Dead Man's Chest Scarlett and Giselle ask Will Turner to give Jack a message from them, as they both believe he has abandoned them for some other woman, and then they slap Will. In At World's End the two women have reconciled their differences somewhat. At the end of the film, they are looking forward to a ride Jack promised them on Black Pearl, only to find that Barbossa has stolen it, upsetting Jack and making it impossible for him to keep his promise.

Theodore Groves[edit]

Lieutenant Commander Theodore Groves, played by Greg Ellis, is a British Royal Navy officer under Commodore Norrington's command in The Curse of the Black Pearl. He is present when Jack Sparrow steals Interceptor and notes Sparrow's cleverness, saying 'That's got to be the best pirate I have ever seen', the opposite of Norrington's oft-stated opinion that Sparrow is 'without a doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of'.

He is absent in Dead Man's Chest but reappears in the third movie. Between the events of Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, Lieutenant Groves is appointed as Lord Cutler Beckett's second-in-command aboard HMS Endeavour. He stars in At World's End aboard Endeavour and is present when Captain Jack Sparrow makes a daring escape from Cutler Beckett's grasp. He admiringly wonders if Jack plans everything out or just makes it up as he goes along, but is scared off by a glare from Beckett. During the final battle, he asks Cutler Beckett for orders as Endeavour was being pounded by Black Pearl's and Flying Dutchmann's cannon. Beckett remains in a state of shock during the entire battle, forcing Lieutenant Groves to order the crew to abandon ship.

Offscreen Groves is saved. Groves later resurfaces in the events of On Stranger Tides, and is promoted to lieutenant commander while working under Captain Barbossa to find the Fountain of Youth aboard HMS Providence. He accompanies Barbossa on the shores of Whitecap Bay, only to be stranded there with the beach party as flesh-eating mermaids tear Providence apart along with its crew. He scolds Barbossa for not helping the crew as Providence is attacked but Barbossa warns him to remain silent.

While Captain Jack Sparrow and Barbossa were held captive by the Spaniards, Lieutenant Commander Groves snuck through the Spanish picket lines (aided by a distraction Jack Sparrow made in a daring escape) and freed Barbossa from his bonds, although he lost his wig during the venture. He reached the Fountain of Youth with Barbossa and fought off Blackbeard's crew seeing his fellow officers and sailors being rapidly killed. The fight is stopped by the sudden arrival of the Spanish. Groves stood defiantly on top of the fountain claiming the Fountain to be property of the British Empire while holding a British flag. But at the same moment, the Spaniard shot Groves, although Groves's bravery was noted. When the Spanish began destroying the Fountain of Youth, Groves' body was being carried away by two British officers. Presumably, Groves's corpse was laid to rest at sea or at Tortuga by Barbossa's crew.

Jack the Monkey[edit]

Jack is Barbossa's pet capuchin monkey, named after Jack Sparrow to mock him. During The Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack is cursed with immortality, along with the rest of the crew. Jack temporarily becomes mortal again when Will lifts the curse, though he later steals another coin and becomes cursed again.

In Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack is played by Tara, a ten-year-old female capuchin, and Levi, an eight-year-old male. The skeletal monkey was added in post-production by Industrial Light and Magic.

In Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, Jack is played by Boo Boo, a twelve-year-old male and Mercedes, a ten-year-old female.During Dead Man's Chest, he resides on the Black Pearl. He is bartered to Tia Dalma, and he later rejoins the resurrected Captain Barbossa.

In At World's End, Jack serves mainly as comic relief. It is shown throughout the second and third films that the crew members of Black Pearl, particularly Jack Sparrow, like to shoot at Jack the monkey. Jack steals several objects, such as Will's medallion and Ragetti's wooden eye, though their owners are able to retrieve them. Most of the crew is not partial to Jack, with the exception of Barbossa, to whom Jack is loyal. In a scene at the end of At World's End, Barbossa cheerfully declares that Jack is a 'daddy's boy'.

In On Stranger Tides, Jack is trapped on Black Pearl, which has been magically shrunk and confined to a bottle by Blackbeard. Jack Sparrow comments that the monkey is even more annoying that way.

In Dead Men Tell No Tales, Jack is freed from the bottle along with Black Pearl, reuniting with Barbossa shortly afterwards. After Barbossa's death, Jack the monkey becomes loyal to Jack Sparrow.

Marty[edit]

Marty, played by Martin Klebba,^[39] is a dwarfpirate hired by Jack and Gibbs to search for the Black Pearl in The Curse of the Black Pearl. He has only one line of dialogue in the first film, but he becomes more prominent in the second and third films as one of the main crew members. At the end of At World's End, he leaves with Barbossa on the stolen Black Pearl. Marty often provides comic relief, such as being blown off his feet after firing a blunderbuss in At World's End. He also appear in Dead Men Tell No Tales once again as Jack Sparrow's crewmember.

Ian Mercer[edit]

Ian Mercer,^[40] played by David Schofield, is Lord Beckett's facially scarred, loyal personal assistant in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. Despite serving faithfully in his official capacity as a clerk, Mercer often executes Beckett's more sinister agendas as an assassin and spy. He is eventually put aboard Flying Dutchman to serve as Davy Jones's keeper after the death of Admiral James Norrington. He also can be seen dueling Barbossa when Black Pearl is being taken over from the EITC Mercer sees his marines are mostly beaten, jumps ship, and is presumably picked up by Endeavour. During the maelstrom battle, Mercer is shielded by Davy Jones from a cannon blast. However, the same blast also kills all the EITC marines around the helm, leaving Mercer defenceless. Jones takes advantage of the situation, and uses his tentacles to strangle Mercer and constrict his throat from the inside. Mercer falls to the deck, dead, as Jones takes the key to the Dead Man's Chest from around his neck.^[41]

Mercer is named after actor Ian Mercer^{[citation needed]}, who would later portray Blackbeard's quartermaster in On Stranger Tides.

Murtogg and Mullroy[edit]

Murtogg and Mullroy, played by Giles New and Angus Barnett, are two Royal Marines in Port Royal. They serve as comic relief characters, easily becoming distracted from their duties by getting into arguments, and are the 'civilized' equivalent of Pintel and Ragetti. Like their pirate counterparts, one is overweight, blustering, and dominant; the other is thin, semi-perceptive, and reticent.

In the first film, they are the guards of HMS Interceptor. Jack Sparrow distracts them into arguing about Black Pearl, which allows him to steal the ship. Afterwards, they serve on HMS Dauntless and survive the final battle.

They reappear in At World's End in service to the East India Trading Company. They are posted as the main guards of the Dead Man's Chest on Flying Dutchman, but it is stolen by Jack during another argument. They later stow away on Black Pearl, casting their lot with the pirates, and join Barbossa after the battle is over.

In On Stranger Tides, it was thought that they were on Black Pearl when Blackbeard captured it and magically imprisoned it in a bottle. However, Murtogg and Mullroy return in Dead Men Tell No Tales, as part of Barbossa's crew, they inform Barbossa that his fleet of pirate ships are being destroyed by Silent Mary, Salazar's ship and crew. After Barbossa's death, they sail on the restored Black Pearl under the command of Jack Sparrow.

Pintel and Ragetti[edit]

Prison dog[edit]

The prison dog guards the Port Royal jail keys by carrying them in its mouth during The Curse of the Black Pearl. Prisoners vainly attempt to retrieve the keys from it (in a reference to the original Disneylandride). The dog appears again in Dead Man's Chest with Pintel and Ragetti after they have escaped prison and are headed for Pelegosto to search for Black Pearl. He was named 'Poochie' by Pintel until he was left on Pelegosto. The dog is eventually left on Pelegosto, where the cannibal tribe chases after it, leaving Jack Sparrow to climb aboard Black Pearl. In an extra scene after the credits of Dead Man's Chest it is revealed that the dog becomes the chief of the Pelegosto tribe. The dog reappears during the third film as the keeper of the Pirata Codex keys on Shipwreck Cove. Captain Teague explains the dog's presence by saying, 'Sea turtles, mate,' a reference to Jack Sparrow's tall tale of his own escape from being marooned. The DVD case for At World's End confirmed that the dog literally rode on the backs of sea turtles.

Twister is the prison dog in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003),^[42] and was replaced by Chopper in the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).^[43][44]

Lieutenant John Scarfield[edit]

John Scarfield appears in Dead Men Tell No Tales and was played by David Wenham.^[45] Scarfield was a lieutenant of the British Royal Navy and was killed by Captain Salazar's ship, Silent Mary.^[46]

Scrum[edit]

Scrum, played by Stephen Graham, is a pirate who appears in On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales.^[47]

In the fourth film, Scrum assists Angelica in recruiting a crew while she is impersonating Jack Sparrow. He later sails on Queen Anne's Revenge under Blackbeard. At Whitecap Bay, he is almost killed by a mermaid. After Barbossa fatally wounds Blackbeard and commandeers Queen Anne's Revenge, Scrum joins his crew. In the fifth film, Scrum serves under Jack Sparrow but deserts him with the rest of the crew after an unsuccessful bank robbery in Saint Martin. Scrum and his shipmates later save Sparrow, embarking on a quest to find the legendary Trident of Poseidon. When the pirates find out that Sparrow was chased by vengeful ghosts they raise a mutiny, electing Joshamee Gibbs as their new captain, who later tricks Scrum into becoming a captain himself shortly before they are captured by the Royal Navy. The pirates manage to escape, boarding Black Pearl and later saving Sparrow, Carina Smyth, and Henry Turner from Captain Salazar and his crew of ghosts.

Shansa[edit]

Shansa is a sea-witch who appears in Dead Men Tell No Tales and was played by Golshifteh Farahani.^[48]

Spaniard[edit]

The Spaniard, portrayed by Óscar Jaenada, is King Ferdinand's most trusted agent. Introduced in On Stranger Tides, the Spaniard leads a force to the Fountain of Youth to destroy it on the orders of King Ferdinand. Ferdinand believes the Fountain to be an abomination and a threat to the Catholic Church. His men find the silver Chalices of Juan Ponce de León on the wreck of his ship, though they are later stolen by Jack Sparrow. In the final battle at the Fountain, the Spaniard kills Theodore Groves, who tried to stop them by proclaiming the Fountain as the property of the British Empire. The Spaniard claims that only God can grant immortality, not the Fountain. The Spaniard and his men leave after destroying the Fountain of Youth.

Weatherby Swann[edit]

Governor Weatherby Swann, portrayed by Jonathan Pryce, is the royal governor of Port Royal and the father of Elizabeth Swann. In contrast to his strong-willed daughter, he is something of a milquetoast.

Both Elizabeth and the Governor sailed from England to the Caribbean eight years prior to Curse of the Black Pearl, along with James Norrington. Swann is a doting father, and he wishes for his daughter to accept Commodore Norrington's marriage proposal. However, he eventually comes to accept that she truly loves Will Turner.

In Dead Man's Chest, he opposed Will and Elizabeth's arrest by Lord Beckett. After Beckett frees Will so he can search for Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth escapes jail with help from her father. He is captured by Ian Mercer. Beckett informs Governor Swann that Elizabeth, if caught, will be saved and Weatherby will be freed as long as he gives good reports to England about Beckett's presence.

In At World's End, Weatherby Swann is forced to use his authority to allow Beckett to execute several pirates. In a deleted scene, Swann boards Flying Dutchman. Believing that his daughter died when the Kraken took Black Pearl, Weatherby attempts to stab the heart of Davy Jones. Admiral Norrington stops him, and Jones informs him that whoever stabs the heart must serve as the new captain of Flying Dutchman. Beckett and Ian Mercer inform Swann that his daughter is still alive. Swann leaves, stating that he will no longer work for Beckett. Believing that Swann's knowledge of the heart is dangerous, Beckett orders him to be killed.^[49] He informs Norrington that Swann has returned to England.

Weatherby later appears as a ghost in Davy Jones' Locker, along with the souls of many others who have died at sea. He informs the crew of Black Pearl that whoever kills Jones must take his place. He ignores Elizabeth's request to come aboard Black Pearl, saying he is proud of her and that he will give her love to her mother.

Philip Swift[edit]

Philip Swift, portrayed by Sam Claflin, is a missionary who appears in On Stranger Tides. After he was captured by Blackbeard, Philip's life was spared thanks to Angelica's belief that her father's soul can be saved. Along the journey to find the Fountain of Youth, Philip meets a beautiful mermaid and names her Syrena. They develop a close bond. Acting as Syrena's protector, he risks his own life for the mermaid, eventually falling in love with her.

Blackbeard needs to retrieve Syrena's tears for a ritual at the Fountain of Youth, but she refuses to cry. Blackbeard uses Philip's love for Syrena to trick her into crying. After retrieving the tear, Blackbeard and his men leave Syrena tied up to die, while trying to bind Philip and bring him to the Fountain of Youth.

After being mortally wounded during the film's climactic battle, Philip returns to Syrena and frees her. He begs Syrena for her forgiveness. She tells him that she can save his life, and kisses him; it is believed that a mermaid's kiss can save a man from drowning. Syrena pulls Philip under the water and swims away with him; his final fate is unknown.

Syrena[edit]

Syrena, portrayed by Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, is a mermaid who appears in On Stranger Tides.^[50] She is captured by Blackbeard's crew, who need a mermaid's tear in order to activate the Fountain of Youth. When the glass tank Syrena is being carried in shatters, she changes to a human form, causing missionary Philip Swift to remove his shirt and cover her. Philip then carries her due to her inability to walk and names her in an attempt to make Blackbeard realize she is a person and not a creature. Philip and Syrena develop a strong bond.

Syrena refuses to cry, even under the threat of torture. Blackbeard exploits her affection for Philip to obtain Syrena's tears of joy. Syrena is left to die, but a mortally wounded Philip returns to cut her loose. She gives the magical chalices necessary for the Fountain's ritual to Jack Sparrow, telling him not to waste her tear. Syrena kisses Philip and pulls him underwater.

Their final fate is ambiguous. It is stated in the film that a mermaid's kiss can save a sailor from drowning; however, mythological sirens are known for seducing sailors and leading them to their deaths.

Captain Teague[edit]

Captain Edward Teague,^[51] played by Keith Richards,^[52] is Jack's father.^[53] He is the former pirate lord of Madagascar and is now the keeper of the Pirate Code. He appears in At World's End, On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Teague serves as the Keeper of the Pirate Code, which he keeps with him at Shipwreck Cove. During the Fourth meeting of the Brethren Court in At World's End, Teague guns down a pirate who attempts to convince the court to ignore the code. He subsequently informs the Court of the conditions required for a declaration of war and the necessary election of a Pirate King. Teague seems to be fond of his son, Jack; when Jack observes that he has survived a great deal, Teague observes that the trick isn't living forever, but being able to live with oneself forever. When Jack asks about his mother, Teague shows him a shrunken head. Jack then comments, 'She looks great!'.

Captain Teague is also the master of the jailhouse dog, which was last seen in Dead Man's Chest being worshipped by the cannibals on Pelegesto. (it was later explained in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom that Teague was the original owner of the dog). Teague explains the dog's apparent escape to Pintel and Ragetti by merely shrugging his shoulders and commenting, 'Sea turtles, mate'.

In the fourth film, after Jack escapes from St James's Palace, he is chased through the streets of London by the Royal Guard. Just as one of the soldiers aims his musket at Jack, he is shot in the back by Teague. Later, inside the Captain's Daughter pub, Teague gave Jack a significant amount of information about the Fountain of Youth. When Jack asked him, 'Have you ever been there?', Teague sarcastically replied, 'Does this face look like it's been to the Fountain of Youth?', Jack diplomatically commenting that it depends on the light. Teague then vanishes when Jack looks away.

In the fifth film, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Teague briefly appears during a flashback explaining Jack's relationship to Captain Armando Salazar.^[54] In this scene, he is portrayed by Alexander Scheer.^[55]

Uncle Jack[edit]

Uncle Jack, played by Paul McCartney,^[56] is Jack Sparrow's uncle, and Captain Teague's brother.^[57] He appears in Dead Men Tell No Tales, locked away in a cell,^[58] singing 'Maggie May' while playing poker.^[59]

Mayor Dix[edit]

Mayor Dix is the British mayor of the British colony of Saint Martin. He appears in the beginning of Dead Men Tell No Tales where he is unveiling the colony's new bank, which is stolen accidentally by Jack Sparrow and his crew. When Jack Sparrow is revealed inside the bank's vault, the Mayor sees his wife lying next to Jack, causing him to mistakenly think she's cheating on him. He is played by Bruce Spence.^[60]

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External links[edit]

• The Pirates of the Caribbean wiki