This is a list of characters appearing in thePirates of the Caribbean film series.

Captain Jack Sparrow is portrayed byJohnny Depp.^[1] First introduced in the filmPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), he later appears in the sequelsDead Man's Chest (2006),At World's End (2007),On Stranger Tides (2011), andDead Men Tell No Tales (2017).^[2] With the character originally written by screenwritersTed Elliott,Terry Rossio,Stuart Beattie, andJay Wolpert, Depp based his characterization onThe Rolling Stones guitaristKeith Richards as well as theLooney Tunes cartoon charactersBugs Bunny andPepé Le Pew.^[3] He insists on being introduced as "Captain" Jack Sparrow.

In the first film, Sparrow is the former captain of theBlack Pearl. After a mutiny by his first mateHector 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 ofWill Turner andElizabeth Swann, he lifts the curse and kills Barbossa.

InDead Man's Chest, it is revealed that Sparrow once made a deal with Davy Jones.^[4] Jones raised theBlack Pearl from the sea in exchange for a guarantee of service as a crewman on theFlying 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 theFlying Dutchman. After Will Turner is mortally wounded, Sparrow allows him to kill Jones, thus sacrificing his chance at immortality to save his friend. At the end of the film, Barbossa once again commandeers theBlack Pearl, but it is revealed that Sparrow has stolen the ship's charts which point the way towards theFountain of Youth.

In the fourth film, Jack journeys on a quest for the fabled Fountain of Youth. Prior to the film, he gained some renown as the pirate who knew and memorized its location. Jack arrives in London to rescue his first mate Joshamee Gibbs as a disguised judge before finding himself in the forced audience with King George II. Hector Barbossa, now aprivateer who lost his leg and theBlack Pearl, which he believed to be sunk.^[a] After escaping King George's Royal Guards, Sparrow becomes reacquainted with his love interest Angelica,^[7] a woman from his past and the daughter of Blackbeard, who forces him aboard theQueen Anne's Revenge. Throughout the quest, Sparrow must contend withzombies,mermaids, and a rendezvous with Barbossa. Jack learns from Angelica that the Profane Ritual for the Fountain of Youth requires a mermaid's tear and two silver chalices located on Ponce de León's ship, theSantiago, and the person who drinks the water with the tear gets all the years of life from the other. Angelica also shows Jack Blackbeard's collection of captured, miniaturizedships in glass bottles, including theBlack Pearl. After Jack figures out Hector's agenda and accuses him of it, Barbossa admits a desire for revenge against Blackbeard, detailing Blackbeard's attack on theBlack Pearl. After locating the Fountain of Youth, a battle between Barbossa and Blackbeard ensues, in which Angelica cuts her hand trying to remove Barbossa's poisoned blade from Blackbeard's chest. Filling the chalices with the remaining drops of water from the Fountain, adding Syrena's tear, Jack tricks Blackbeard into drinking the chalice lacking the tear. Jack maroons Angelica on a small island, unsure if he can trust her. Later, Jack reunites with Gibbs, who used Sparrow's compass to locate and retrieved the shrunkenBlack Pearl in the hope of restoring it to normal size, yet determined to continue living the pirate's life.

In the fifth film, Jack is suffering a series of bad luck to the point that he trades his compass for a bottle ofrum. 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.^[8] Jack Sparrow reunites with Hector Barbossa, who restores theBlack Pearl to her former glory. 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 restoredPearl and Will is able to return to Elizabeth now that theFlying Dutchman no longer needs a captain.

Captain Jack Sparrow is also the subject of two series of books,Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow andPirates 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 asPirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.^[9]

Captain Hector Barbossa, portrayed byGeoffrey Rush, appears in all five films of the franchise.^[10] With the character originally written by screenwritersTed Elliott,Terry Rossio,Stuart Beattie, andJay Wolpert, he was originally Captain Jack Sparrow's first mate turned archenemy, a pirate captain later revealed to be one of the nine Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court. In the fourth film,On Stranger Tides, Barbossa briefly becomes a privateer in theRoyal Navy and is ordered to be Jack's guide on an expedition for theFountain of Youth.

In the first film, Barbossa is captain of the pirate shipBlack Pearl. He was the former first mate of theBlack Pearl and led a mutiny against former captain, Jack Sparrow. Barbossa persuaded Jack to reveal the bearings toIsla 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 must 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 Bootstrap Bill's child, needing both to break the curse. Elizabeth Swann takes the medallion from Will Turner when he was rescued as a young boy. Barbossa, believing she is 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, mortal again, bleeds out from his wounds.

InDead Man's Chest, Captain Barbossa's undead monkey "Jack" appeared aboard theBlack Pearl before Jack Sparrow gave the monkey to the voodoo mysticTia Dalma as payment. Sparrow's crew see Barbossa's corpse lying there, with only his boots visible. The final scene of the film, Barbossa is revealed to have been resurrected by Tia Dalma before biting an apple.

Returning inAt World's End, Barbossa was first named "Hector" onscreen by Jack Sparrow. In the film, Barbossa joins forces with Will, Elizabeth, and theBlack Pearl crew in their attempt to rescue Jack from the Locker and rally the Brethren Court against Lord Cutler Beckett.^[5] 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, the Pirate Lord of theCaspian Sea. At the meeting of the Fourth Brethren Court, Barbossa gathers 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 theBlack Pearl from Jack and sails in search of theFountain of Youth, only to find out Sparrow stole the charts from Barbossa.

By the events of the fourth film, theBlack Pearl is attacked by Blackbeard, who uses the power embedded in the Sword of Triton to turn the ship's own rigging against Hector Barbossa's crew, forcing Barbossa to cut off his own leg to escape with his life, turning Barbossa into a mortal enemy vowed on revenge. Unbeknownst to Barbossa, who believes thePearl was sunk,^[a] Blackbeard magicked theship into a glass bottle. Nevertheless, Barbossa lost his ship, his leg, and had vengeance as a goal since the very night it happened. He approached the British and offered his services as aprivateer in service toKing George II. By the quest for the Fountain of Youth, Barbossa gained much information and learned at least the basics on Blackbeard. Barbossa knows the name of Blackbeard's ship, his obsession to find the Fountain of Youth, and even the importance of Blackbeard's sword in that the sword had the power to rule the winds of the ocean, as well as everything associated with the wind, including the ships at sea, their rigging, sails, etc. and that its powers were diminished away from the ship. After Jack Sparrow's capture and escape from King George, Barbossa sails the HMSProvidence with Joshamee Gibbs, Groves, Gillette, and an entire British crew to find the Fountain before the Spanish. Barbossa's crew continue on foot after the Providence is attacked by mermaids, while Barbossa himself rendezvouses with Jack on theSantiago, who finds the chalices have been taken by the Spanish. Before retrieving the chalices, Jack figures out Hector's agenda and accuses him of it, and Barbossa admits a desire for revenge against Blackbeard, detailing Blackbeard's attack on theBlack Pearl. Barbossa and Blackbeard meet the Fountain of Youth, which leads to a battle between the British and pirate crews, in which Barbossa stabs Blackbeard with apoisoned sword. After that, Barbossa claims Blackbeard's ship, crew, and sword for his own, and returns to a life of piracy.

In the fifth film,Dead Men Tell No Tales, Hector Barbossa settled into a growing and prosperous pirate empire, taking possession of theQueen Anne's Revenge as a result of defeating Captain Blackbeard. While the down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbossa controls a wealthy fleet of ten ships. After his fleet is threatened by the ghostly Armando Salazar, Barbossa promises to lead him to Jack Sparrow. When Sparrow 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 to find the Trident of Poseidon. Knowing theBlack Pearl was in a bottle in Sparrow's possession, Barbossa releases thePearl from its imprisonment, restoring the ship to its former glory, and they attempt to outrun Salazar. Hector reveals in a conversation with Jack that he is Carina's father, having left Carina at an orphanage after her mother Margaret's death to give her a chance at a normal life. Barbossa also left Carina a journal with a red ruby on its cover. The journal contains a map that leads to the Trident, and Carina uses the ruby to reveal the path to the Trident. After the Trident is destroyed, resulting in Salazar becoming mortal, Salazar pursues Jack, Henry, and Carina as they try to climb to safety. As they escape, Carina learns that Hector is her father, who calls her "treasure" before sacrificing himself to kill Salazar, giving Sparrow, Carina, and Henry a chance to escape.

According to actor Geoffrey Rush, he may not appear in any futurePirates of the Caribbean movies.^[11] However, other interviews imply otherwise, as producerJerry Bruckheimer said they can bring characters back, and Rush himself didn't seem completely opposed to returning to the series because he said,"[Barbossa] could come back likeHamlet's father, as a ghost. Just to annoy Jack."^[12]

Joshamee Gibbs, portrayed byKevin McNally, appears in all five films of the franchise.^[13] With the character originally written by screenwritersTed Elliott andTerry Rossio, he was a superstitious sailor, a crew member on theBlack Pearl, and the closest friend ofJack Sparrow.

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 youngElizabeth Swann travel to Port Royal, he assists in rescuing a youngWill Turner from a shipwreck. Eight years laterJack Sparrow encounters Gibbs sleeping among pigs in Tortuga. Gibbs, no longer affiliated with the Royal Navy, agrees to help Jack sail HMSInterceptor as hisFirst Mate. After Jack is captured by Barbossa, Gibbs attempts to captainInterceptor. They are swiftly overtaken by theBlack Pearl and captured. Elizabeth frees Gibbs and the crew, who decide to takeBlack 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.

InDead 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 onBlack Pearl while searching for the Dead Man's Chest. Gibbs survives the Kraken's attack onBlack 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.

InAt 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 stealBlack Pearl once again.

InOn Stranger Tides, Gibbs has been arrested 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 theFountain of Youth, and memorizes them.Hector Barbossa, working as a privateer, 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. Using Jack's compass, Gibbs findsQueen Anne's Revenge and steals Blackbeard's collection of ships which are magically imprisoned in bottles, includingBlack Pearl. Gibbs and Jack reunite after Blackbeard's death and discuss ways to freeBlack Pearl from its enchantment.

InDead Men Tell No Tales, Gibbs serves aboard Jack's derelict ship, theDying Gull, until he and the other crew members abandon him. He and the others are convinced by Henry Turner, Will Turner's son, to rejoin Jack on a quest for the Trident of Poseidon, but, during the journey, he learns that they are being chased by ghostly Captain Salazar, and the crew abandon Jack, Henry, and Carina Smyth on an island. Gibbs is made captain of theDying Gull, but relinquishes this title when he spots the Royal Navy after them, appointing Scrum to be the new captain. The crew of theGull are captured and taken aboard theEssex, which they later escape and find a restoredBlack Pearl under attack by Salazar and his men. Gibbs makes the executive decision to assist Jack and thePearl, and they join the fight. Then, when Jack, Barbossa, and Carina venture onto Black Rock Island, Gibbs remains in charge of thePearl, captaining her when Jack and co. need rescuing from one final assault by Salazar. Gibbs is present for Barbossa's death. After Henry's reunion with his father, Gibbs sets sail with Jack to waters unknown.

William "Will" Turner Jr. appears in the first three films in the series (The Curse of the Black Pearl,Dead Man's Chest, andAt World's End) and is one of theleading men, portrayed byOrlando Bloom. With the character originally written by screenwritersTed Elliott,Terry Rossio,Stuart Beattie, andJay Wolpert, is the only child of pirateWilliam "Bootstrap Bill" Turner. In the third film, Will Turner marriesElizabeth Swann and becomes captain of theFlying Dutchman after the death ofDavy Jones. Nine months after Will first leaves aboard theDutchman, Elizabeth gives birth to their son,Henry Turner. He appears in the fifth film,Dead Men Tell No Tales.^[14]

In the first film, a young Will Turner (portrayed by Dylan Smith)^[15] is rescued from a shipwreck byJames Norrington andElizabeth Swann. As an adult, Will is a blacksmith's apprentice working inPort 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 theBlack 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 theFlying 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 being fatally stabbed by Davy Jones. To save his friend, Jack Sparrow makes Will stab Jones's heart, killing him and making Will the new captain. As captain, he may only return to shore once every ten years. Before he leaves, he and Elizabeth consummate their marriage and she falls pregnant. He departs, having left her his heart to protect. In a post credits scene ten years later, Will returns to shore to meet his son, Henry Turner.^[b]

Will does not appear inOn Stranger Tides.^[7] In the fifth film, he remains the captain of theFlying Dutchman. His son, Henry, locates theDutchman when he is a child, but Will tells him that the curse cannot be broken. As an adult, Henry joins Jack Sparrow to search for theTrident of Poseidon, which has the power to break Will's curse. After the Trident is destroyed, Will is released from his curse and reunited with Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Swann (laterElizabeth Turner) appears in the first three films in the series (The Curse of the Black Pearl,Dead Man's Chest, andAt World's End)^[20][21] and is theleading lady, portrayed byKeira Knightley.^[22] With the character originally written by screenwritersTed Elliott,Terry Rossio,Stuart Beattie, andJay Wolpert, she is the daughter of GovernorWeatherby Swann. In the third film, Elizabeth Swann becomes the Pirate King of the Brethren Court and marriesWill Turner. Nine months after Will first leaves aboard theDutchman, Elizabeth gives birth to their son,Henry Turner. She appears in the fifth film,Dead Men Tell No Tales.

In the first film, a young Elizabeth (portrayed byLucinda Dryzek)^[23] helps rescueWill Turner from a shipwreck; she steals a pirate's medallion from Will 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.

InDead 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 Cutler 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 toDavy Jones's Locker by the Kraken.

In the third film, Elizabeth helps rescue Jack from the Locker.^[5] She becomes the pirate lord of theSouth 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. Mid battle, Elizabeth marries Will Turner, who becomes the new captain of the Flying Dutchman after almost dying at the hands of Davy Jones. The curse of being the captain only allows Will to return to shore for one day every ten years. After Jones's defeat and justice for her father's murder, Elizabeth gives up piracy and returns to Port Royal. She and Will consummate their marriage and she falls pregnant. Will leaves her his heart in a chest and Elizabeth promises to protect it. In a post-credits scene after the film, Elizabeth has given birth to a son and the boy, now 9–10 years old, eagerly awaits the arrival of his father as theDutchman sails towards them.^[b]

Elizabeth does not appear inOn Stranger Tides,^[7] but she appears briefly in a non-speaking role inDead Men Tell No Tales as she and Will reunite after over 20 years apart.^[24][25] According to Knightley, she doesn't expect to do any more because they "take too long to shoot".^[26]

James Norrington,CB, portrayed byJack Davenport, appears inThe Curse of the Black Pearl,Dead Man's Chest, andAt World's End.

Norrington served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant. He was stationed aboard HMSDauntless as it made the crossing from England to Port Royal, carrying GovernorWeatherby 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 ofcommodore. 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, theBlack Pearl. Will Turner and Jack Sparrow commandeer HMSInterceptor, stranding Norrington aboard the disabledDauntless. Watching as Sparrow and Turner make off withInterceptor, Norrington grudgingly acknowledges Sparrow's unexpected cleverness and competency.

Norrington pursues Sparrow and Turner with three objectives: reclaim theInterceptor, capture Jack Sparrow, and rescue Elizabeth. Barbossa sinks theInterceptor 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.

InDead Man's Chest, Norrington's ship, HMSDauntless has been lost in a hurricane. Disgraced, Norrington resigned his post and disappeared. Norrington's whereabouts are still unknown when LordCutler 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 toadmiral in the EITC.

InAt World's End, Norrington has now regained his career. Beckett places Norrington in command of theFlying Dutchman.

After theEmpress attacks HMSEndeavour, Beckett orders theFlying Dutchman to pursue it. Norrington leads the boarding party and is reunited with Elizabeth Swann, who is now captain of theEmpress. 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 theFlying Dutchman. Norrington defiantly thrusts his sword into Jones' shoulder before dying.

William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner Sr., portrayed byStellan Skarsgård,^[27][28] isWill Turner's father and a crew member on Davy Jones'Flying Dutchman. He is mentioned in the first film, and he appears inDead Man's Chest andAt World's End. "Bootstrap Bill" Turner was the only member of Davy Jones' crew that was not created digitally.^[29] His appearance was achieved with prosthetics and makeup.

He was once a crewman onBlack 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 theFlying 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 theFlying 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 inDead Man's Chest, where he is sent to remind Sparrow of his debt to Jones.

Bootstrap is eventually reunited with his son on board theFlying 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 ofLiar'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 destroyEdinburgh 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 theFlying Dutchman's curse, Bootstrap begins to lose his humanity and to be absorbed into the ship's hull, and becomes delusional. InAt 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. 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 ofFlying 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 aboardFlying Dutchman.

Following the birth of Henry Turner, Bootstrap Bill becomes a grandfather; therefore, also becoming the father-in-law of Elizabeth. However, he no longer appears to be aboard the ship inDead Men Tell No Tales.

Davy Jones, portrayed byBill Nighy, appears in bothDead Man's Chest andAt World's End, with a cameo inDead Men Tell No Tales. Davy Jones is the immortal captain ofFlying Dutchman. His original purpose was to carry the 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 namedCalypso. For every ten years he spent at sea he could spend one day ashore to be with her.^[b] Ten years after first being charged with the duty, Jones prepared to be reunited with his true love on land, but was enraged and heartbroken 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.

InDead Man's Chest, Jones seeks Jack Sparrow's life. Thirteen years previously he had raisedBlack Pearl from the depths of the ocean in return for a future guarantee of Jack's service aboardFlying 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 Lord Beckett. Jones orders the Kraken to kill Jack Sparrow, and he is dragged toDavy Jones's Locker.

InAt 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 ofBlack 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 ofFlying Dutchman andBlack Pearl battle. Jones wounds Will Turner, who, despite being fatally injured, manages to stab the heart with the aid ofJack Sparrow, thus becoming the new captain. As Jones tumbles from the side of the ship to his death, he calls out for Calypso.

Despite the death of Davy Jones inAt World's End, actor Bill Nighy expressed interest in returning for the fourth installment. "I am technically dead but then again, who cares? Everybody dies in the pirates movies. They killed Johnny [Depp] and Geoffrey [Rush]. Death is not permanent in the pirate world. I have a serious desire to come back."^[30] While he does not appear inOn Stranger Tides, Jones makes a cameo in apost-credits scene forDead Men Tell No Tales. 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.^[31] Although the post-credits scene ofDead Men Tell No Tales featured Will Turner having a dream of Davy Jones seemingly resurrected from the dead, directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg confirmed the scene was meant to "pay respect to a legendary villain in the franchise" as well as be a tease or hint that it could be the "beginning of the end" or "just a dream or nightmare".^[32]

Lord Cutler Beckett, portrayed byTom Hollander, appears inDead Man's Chest andAt World's End.^[33] A ruthless mastermind, Beckett is the chairman of the East India Trading Company and is dedicated to eliminating piracy around the world.

Beckett first appears inDead Man's Chest, when he arrives in Port Royal with warrants of arrest for Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann (for aiding in the escape of Jack Sparrow), and also for James Norrington (for giving Jack a head start when he escaped), although Norrington had already resigned his commission and disappeared months before. Beckett offers Will a deal, informing him that he and Elizabeth will be pardoned if Will locates Jack Sparrow and brings back his compass for Beckett to use. Beckett wants to use the compass to find the Dead Man's Chest and the heart of Davy Jones within it, to take control of Jones and theFlying Dutchman to purge the seas of pirates (and any other business competition).

Shortly after Will departs, Governor Swann tries to help Elizabeth escape from captivity by arranging for a ship to take her back to England. But before they can go through with it, Beckett catches wind of the plan, and orders his assistant, Ian Mercer, to kill the captain of the ship and arrest Governor Swann and Elizabeth. However, Elizabeth manages to escape before she can be recaptured. She confronts Beckett in his office and holds a pistol to his head, forcing him to sign and validate hisLetters of Marque, so she can use them to free Will. Before she leaves, Beckett warns her that, even with her actions, the full pardon isnot free – he'll still want the compass.

Beckett later learns from Mercer that Elizabeth had made her way to Tortuga and left on board theBlack Pearl with Jack Sparrow. Beckett uses this information to blackmail Governor Swann, telling him that EITC ships are in pursuit of thePearl, and that Elizabeth will be spared from being slaughtered with the other pirates only if Governor Swann agrees to follow Beckett's orders. Governor Swann reluctantly agrees.

At the end of the film, Norrington arrives in Beckett's office with the Letters of Marque, and offers him the heart of Davy Jones in exchange for his old life. Beckett subsequently promotes Norrington to the position of Admiral in the EITC. With Jones' heart now in his possession, Beckett now has full control over Jones and theFlying Dutchman.

InAt World's End, Beckett has been appointed representative of George II. Beckett's ambitions now turn to discovering the Brethren Court and eliminating it, thus rendering pirates worldwide leaderless, allowing Beckett to destroy them in one swoop. At a mass hanging of people convicted of piracy or association with pirates, the prisoners start singingHoist the Colours, a signal for the Brethren to assemble, as planned by Beckett.

Meanwhile, theFlying Dutchman (now under EITC control), is destroying pirate ships mercilessly and leaving none alive. This annoys Beckett, who needs prisoners to interrogate. He places Admiral Norrington on board theDutchman with the Dead Man's Chest, with marines pointing bayonets at the heart at all times, forcing Jones to obey Beckett's commands more precisely. At one point, Beckett ordered Jones to kill the Kraken. Beckett later orders Governor Swann assassinated, as he has found out too much about the heart.

Later, Beckett acquires theBlack Pearl with the help of Sao Feng, whom he falsely promised he would give the ship to. Jack Sparrow is brought on board the EITC flagship, theEndeavour, where he and Beckett make a deal: if Jack leads Beckett to Shipwreck Cove and convinces the pirates to come outside, Beckett will guarantee Jack's freedom and not hand him over to Davy Jones. However, Jack manages to escape back over to theBlack Pearl, but not before destroying one of theEndeavour's masts, preventing Beckett from immediately following Jack.

After finding Will Turner adrift at sea, Beckett, Will, and Jones sail to Shipwreck Cove using Jack's compass. They arrive with an armada consisting of hundreds of EITC ships, and find that the Pirate Lords have agreed to go to war at Jack's urging. During a parley with Elizabeth, Barbossa, and Jack, Beckett calls Jack out as the one who betrayed the pirates to him. Elizabeth gives Jack to Beckett and Jones in exchange for Will's release; however, Jack had planned for this to happen.

Following the battle of Calypso's maelstrom, only theBlack Pearl emerges from the abyss. Worried that his advantage is lost with theFlying Dutchman apparently gone, Beckett orders theEndeavour to move forward and attack thePearl. However, theDutchman resurfaces from the sea, no longer under Beckett's control, as Will had stabbed Jones' heart and become the ship's new captain. Both thePearl and theDutchman flank theEndeavour and open fire, tearing the ship apart. Paralysed with shock and fear, Beckett is unable to give any orders, resulting in the crew abandoning ship while he remains on board. After Beckett descends the deck stairs, the powder magazine of theEndeavour explodes, killing him and completely destroying the ship. Following his death, the EITC armada retreats in demoralised defeat.

Beckett has been referred to byW. Wesley Pue as an allegory for restrictions on personal liberty as a result of thewar on terror.^[34]

Sao Feng is portrayed byChow Yun-fat. Sao Feng is the pirate lord of theSouth China Sea and his character is based on the legendary Chinese pirateCheung Po Tsai. He appears inAt 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".

InAt World's End, Barbossa and Elizabeth intend to rescue Jack Sparrow fromDavy 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 theBrethren Court has been summoned to convene onShipwreck 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 wantsBlack 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 forBlack Pearl and his own freedom.

After Jack andBlack 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 inEmpress. 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 keepingBlack Pearl. Barbossa then sways Feng to their side by revealing that he intends to releaseCalypso 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 (unaware that Tia Dalma is really Calypso, not Elizabeth). 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 asFlying 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 ofEmpress, 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."

Angelica, portrayed byPenélope Cruz inPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is a former love interest of Jack Sparrow and the daughter ofEdward Teach / Blackbeard.^[35][7][36] The character's full name was never revealed inOn Stranger Tides onscreen or in any related promotional material. According to screenwriterTerry Rossio, Angelica for many years went by her mother's maiden name, which is "Rivera".^[37] By 2017, the name "Angelica Teach" was used inCaptain Jack's – Restaurant des Pirates inDisneyland Paris.^[38][39]

Sometime in the past, Jack Sparrow first met Angelica just before she was to take a vow of celibacy in a Spanishconvent; she later blames Jack for her corruption, although Jack counters this argument citing that she was 'hardly innocent' to begin with. Angelica later reunites with Blackbeard and becomes thefirst mate aboard theQueen Anne's Revenge. At some point prior to the events ofDead Man's Chest, Angelica trades a ring given to her by Jack to the mystic Tia Dalma for information about the Profane Ritual used for theFountain of Youth; Jack steals the ring from Tia Dalma's shack inDead Man's Chest. Prior to the events ofOn Stranger Tides, when Philip Swift was captured from aboard his ship in a raid, Angelica saves the young missionary from being killed by Blackbeard, believing the missionary would help save the fearsome pirate's soul. In addition, both Angelica and Blackbeard also heard that Jack Sparrow knew the Fountain of Youth's location, and so she recruited a crew in London disguised as Sparrow, in a plot that would lead Sparrow to find her.

During the quest for the Fountain of Youth, Angelica reunited with Jack Sparrow in London before shanghaiing him aboard theQueen Anne's Revenge, in an attempt to discover the location of Fountain to avoid Blackbeard's prophesied death by a one-legged man. Angelica tells Jack she is Blackbeard's long-lost daughter to get Jack to believe she is conning Blackbeard; it is later revealed that Angelica was telling the truth and that she is Blackbeard's daughter after all. Although Jack devised a mutiny aboard theRevenge, Angelica fought against his mutineers before Blackbeard used his sword to single-handedly quell Sparrow's attempted mutiny, and witnessed Blackbeard's usage of avoodoo doll to bend Sparrow to his will. Despite this, Angelica danced with Jack aboard theRevenge and offered theBlack Pearl as a in return for helping them find the Fountain. Angelica also helped Blackbeard in a mermaid hunt and later orchestrated the gathering of a mermaid's tear. However, Blackbeard also threatens Angelica's life, holding his daughter at gunpoint, to get Jack Sparrow to retrieve the Chalices of Ponce de Leon.

After the battle at the Fountain of Youth, a battle ensues between Blackbeard andBarbossa while Angelica, Scrum, and Jack fight over the mermaid's tear and the chalices. After Barbossa stabs Blackbeard with apoisoned sword, Angelica unintentionally poisoned 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. Knowing that she will try to avenge her father, Jack then maroons her on a small desert island named Sola Fide Beach 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 apost-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.

Blackbeard, portrayed byIan McShane, appears inPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,^[35] and in the 2011 revamp of theoriginal attraction.^[40][41]

Based on the historical figure and notorious pirateof the same name, Blackbeard originally appeared in "The Buccaneer's Heart" comic, where Will Turner and Jack Sparrow release the ghostly spirits of the Caribbean's most notorious swashbucklers, fromDisney Adventures magazine in 2004.^[42] A still-living Blackbeard ended up being developed as a key story element retained from the novelOn Stranger Tides byTim Powers, from which the fourth film drew inspiration.^{[43][44][45][46][47]} Among the references to the book, Blackbeard is abrujo.^[48] The history prior toOn Stranger Tides is also slightly different from real-world history, with Blackbeard's history being considered legend. Blackbeard is still alive by 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.

Said by Jack to be "the one pirate all pirates fear", Blackbeard practicesvoodoo and uses the power embedded in the Sword of Triton to rule his ship, theQueen Anne's Revenge. With the exception of his daughterAngelica, Blackbeard zombified his entire staff of officers to ensure their loyalty, resurrected those he has killed into his service. Because of a prophecy that Blackbeard will be killed by a one-legged man, foretold by his zombie quartermaster, Blackbeard wants to find theFountain of Youth. Before the events ofOn Stranger Tides, Blackbeard captures the missionary Philip Swift, who Angelica believes could save Blackbeard's soul. Blackbeard also attacks theBlack Pearl, using his sword to turn its own rigging against Hector Barbossa's crew, forcing Barbossa to cut off his own leg to escape with his life, turning Barbossa into a mortal enemy vowed on revenge. Unbeknownst to Barbossa, Blackbeard captured theBlack Pearl, magicking it into aship in a glass bottle for good measure, along with an armada of other conquered ships.^[48]

During the quest for the Fountain of Youth, Angelica shanghaied Jack Sparrow aboard theQueen Anne's Revenge, in an attempt to discover the location of Fountain to avoid Blackbeard's prophesied death. Although Jack devised a mutiny, Blackbeard used his sword to bring the rigging of his ship alive to single-handedly quell Sparrow's attempted mutiny, then burned a scapegoat crew member alive withGreek fire to prove to Philip that faith and prayer are useless and helpless in the face of true evil, and so fashions avoodoo doll to bend Jack Sparrow to his will. Blackbeard also led a mermaid hunt, forcing a boatload of sailors out as 'bait' and captured the mermaid Syrena, orchestrating the gathering of a mermaid's tear. He also threatens Angelica's life, holding his daughter at gunpoint, to get Jack Sparrow to retrieve the Chalices of Ponce de Leon.^[48]

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 lie 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. Barbossa claims Blackbeard's magical sword and, assuming command of theQueen Anne's Revenge, leaves with Blackbeard's crew. Meanwhile, Joshamee Gibbs snuck aboard, stole all of Blackbeard's ships in bottles and delivered them to Jack, who learned of the current state of theBlack Pearl.

CaptainArmando Salazar is an undead ghostly Spanish captain who commands the ghost shipSilent Mary. He appears in the fifth film,Dead Men Tell No Tales, and is portrayed byJavier Bardem.

Originally an officer in theSpanish Navy, Captain Salazar became apirate hunter and sailed the seas killing pirates for many years, earning himself the nicknameEl Matador del Mar, meaning "The Butcher of the Sea" in Spanish. Young "Jack the Sparrow" tricked the pirate hunter to sail theSilent Mary in pursuit of the pirate shipWicked Wench into theDevil's Triangle, where Salazar and his crew were killed. However, through the dark powers of the Triangle, Salazar's crew were resurrected as undead ghosts.

Decades later, when 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 of Hector Barbossa's fleet. 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 fromBlack 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 and he hits his head on the anchor, which kills him for good. The rest ofSilent Mary's crew and Barbossa drown as the walls of water close in.

Henry Turner, portrayed byBrenton Thwaites,^[49] is the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann and the grandson of Weatherby Swann and Bootstrap Bill Turner.Dominic Scott Kay, credited as "Young Will Turner", played a younger Henry in the post-credits ofAt World's End, while Lewis McGowan portrays 12-year-old Henry^[19] inDead Men Tell No Tales.^[50] Henry tries to reconnect with his father but struggles to break a curse that is preventing him from doing so. He later enlists in the Royal Navy to gain more information in search of the Trident of Poseidon to break the curse on his father onFlying 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. At the end of the film he begins a romance with Carina and is reunited with his father, who was freed because of Henry breaking his curse.^[51]

Carina Smyth (laterCarina Barbossa) is portrayed byKaya Scodelario ("Smyth" was, most probably, her late mother's maiden name).^[52] Left at an orphanage as a child, she uses the diary her father left her to search for theTrident of Poseidon.^[53] She is interested in science, particularlyhorology andastronomy.

She is arrested for witchcraft in St. Martin and sentenced to be executed; but, with the help of Henry Turner, she and Jack Sparrow escape. Pursued by Captain Salazar she teams up with the crew and Captain Barbossa to find the Trident, using her diary and a ruby attached to its cover to locate its hiding place. After Salazar becomes mortal and still 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 aDead Men Tell No Tales prequel novel,The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth.

Tia Dalma, portrayed byNaomie Harris, appears inDead Man's Chest andAt World's End.

Before the events of the films, Davy Jones, a human, fell in love with the sea goddessCalypso. 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.^[b] 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 andObeah magic.

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

InDead 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.

InAt World's End, Tia Dalma joins Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and the rest of theBlack 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", thetotems 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 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 theBlack Pearl and theFlying Dutchman.

While Calypso does not appear, Tia Dalma is referenced inOn Stranger Tides. In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay ofOn Stranger Tides, Jack Sparrow has a ring pilfered from Tia Dalma's shack inDead Man's Chest, which he gives to Angelica, who said she had to trade it to learn the "rules of the Fountain" known as the profane ritual. Later, as Jack and Angelica discuss the ritual, the latter grabs asnake and wields it at Jack before saying, (a la Tia Dalma) "All da years dat dey have lived, and they could have lived, if fate'd been kinder."^[54] Although Tia Dalma was not directly referenced in the final cut of the film, her backstory with Angelica would still be mentioned in other media, notablyPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide.^[55] Around the release ofOn Stranger Tides in 2011, Naomie Harris stated that she was asked to record some Tia Dalma lines that would be said in the film by Penélope Cruz, who portrayed Angelica.^[56]

Pintel andRagetti, respectively portrayed byLee Arenberg andMackenzie Crook, are two bumbling pirates and partners-in-crime who originally serve on Barbossa's cursed crew inThe Curse of the Black Pearl, later joining Jack's crew inDead Man's Chest, then serving under both captains inAt World's End before serving under Barbossa again. As part of a backstory worked out by both Arenberg and Crook, their characters' full names are Abner Pintel and Terry Ragetti; they were uncle and nephew, and shared half a brain.^[57] Arenberg also said that Ragetti may have came to sea with Pintel after his father's death.^[58]

In the first film, Pintel and Ragetti serve aboard theBlack Pearl as cursed pirates doomed to turn into skeletons under the moonlight. They were part of the crew who mutinied against Jack Sparrow before the events of the film. When the crew of thePearl attack Port Royal, Pintel and Ragetti capture Elizabeth Swann, discovering she has the golden medallion they are searching for, and take her to Barbossa. Later, on Isla de Muerta, when the pirates learn that Elizabeth is not the original owner of the medallion, Pintel and Ragetti are the first two to be blamed for bringing the wrong person, until blame is quickly shifted to Barbossa. They play a part in the battle between thePearl and theInterceptor, which results in the capture of all those on board, including Elizabeth, Jack Sparrow, and Will Turner, the owner of the medallion. This results in Jack and Elizabeth being stranded on a deserted island. On their way to Isla de Muerta, Pintel and Ragetti relay the story of Will's father, Bootstrap Bill Turner, to him. When they reach Isla de Muerta, the pirates soon learn that Jack has somehow escaped the island and gotten to Isla de Muerta, and makes a deal with Barbossa to attack theDauntless rather than lift the curse immediately. Pintel and Ragetti are forced to distract the soldiers waiting outside the cave by dressing as women to lure their attention. When the pirates attack theDauntless, Pintel and Ragetti join them, only for the curse to be lifted and for them to be captured by the Navy. A running gag in the movie is, whenever Pintel tries to murder a cast member (most notably Elizabeth), the person invokes parley so that Pintel is unable to kill him/her under pirate law. At first, despite Ragetti's objections, Pintel accepts the parley with Elizabeth, albeit reluctantly, but as time goes on, Pintel gets angrier when a parley is called upon by Jack Sparrow and after a later battle with theInterceptor, "If anyone so much as mentions the word 'parley', I'll have their guts for garters." Ironically, at the very end, when the now-mortal pirates lose the battle to the British troops, Pintel invokes "Parley" to confirm his surrender.

In the second film, Pintel and Ragetti have escaped from imprisonment, and are searching for theBlack Pearl, now under the command of Jack Sparrow, so they can take it for themselves. They end up accidentally joining Jack's crew on the hunt for Davy Jones' Chest, and are whisked away to Tia Dalma's shack, where the crew learns that Davy Jones' heart is trapped inside the chest. Pintel and Ragetti then make their way to Isla Cruces with the rest of the crew to find the chest, where the others dig it up. When Jack and the others are distracted by infighting and the crew of Davy Jones' ship, theFlying Dutchman, Pintel and Ragetti steal the chest for themselves to make a profit. They are caught, however, by Elizabeth Swann, and all three of them work together to fend off the crew of theDutchman. Unknown to them, the heart is no longer inside the chest, having been stolen earlier by Jack. Pintel, Ragetti, and the rest of the crew of thePearl fight off the Kraken when Davy Jones summons it to thePearl, and the two of them are among the few survivors of the Kraken's attack. As thePearl sinks along with Jack, Pintel and Ragetti, along with Will Turner, Elizabeth, Mr. Gibbs, Cotton, and Marty, go back to Tia Dalma's shack where they are enlisted in a search and rescue mission to Davy Jones' Locker by Barbossa, their former captain.

In the third film, Pintel and Ragetti are with Gibbs, Cotton, and Marty in Singapore to smuggle weapons to Barbossa and Elizabeth in Sao Feng's bathhouse should they need them. They participate in the battle in Singapore against the East India Trading Company, and later join Barbossa's crew aboard theHai Peng. The crew of theHai Peng head to Davy Jones' Locker, where they rescue Jack and thePearl. Jack, however, does not respond in kind, and refuses to allow Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, Pintel, and Ragetti aboard thePearl until Barbossa convinces him otherwise with the Navigational Charts, the only map that tells one how to leave the Locker. After arriving in the land of the living, Pintel and Ragetti are part of the search party to find water on Black Sand Beach, where the two of them muse about selling Kraken meat after finding the corpse of the Kraken on the sand. They are captured along with the rest of the crew by Sao Feng until Barbossa and Elizabeth make a deal with him to let them go, and they join Jack and Barbossa in Shipwreck Cove. Ragetti's wooden eye is revealed to be Barbossa's Piece of Eight, and he dons an eyepatch for the rest of the film after Barbossa takes it from him while gathering the Pieces of Eight from all nine Pirate Lords. It is Ragetti who completes the ritual necessary to release the goddess Calypso from her human form as Tia Dalma. He and Pintel participate in the Maelstrom battle against theFlying Dutchman and take part in the mutiny against Jack Sparrow at the end of the film, serving under Captain Barbossa once again.

Neither Pintel and Ragetti were seen again, though they were considered to appear in the fourth and fifth films. ForOn Stranger Tides, they were to be separated from each other, each thinking the other was dead until being reunited at the Fountain of Youth.^[59] They were also going to appear inDead Men Tell No Tales, as they appeared in Terry Rossio's script.^[6] There is also concept art which depicts Pintel and Ragetti in decadent gear similar to that worn by Captain Barbossa in the fifth film. However, Crook ultimately decided to not reprise his role as Ragetti to focus in his TV seriesDetectorists^[60] and Arenberg confirmed he was not joining the filming ofDead Men Tell No Tales in Australia.^[61] Their roles in the fifth film were largely filled by Murtogg and Mullroy.

InDisney Infinity, their names are Dock and Cover in the Pirates of the Caribbean Playset.

Cotton, portrayed byDavid Bailie, is a mute pirate, having lost his tongue before the film series began.^[62] He appears in the first three films.

He was unable to speak, but he trained hisblue-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 inThe Curse of the Black Pearl to retrieveBlack Pearl from Barbossa. He returns in the two sequels, loyally serving Jack. At the climax of the third film, he leavesTortuga onBlack Pearl, now commandeered by Barbossa. Cotton's parrot often serves as comic relief, along with Jack the Monkey.

Although Cotton does not appear inOn Stranger Tides andDead Men Tell No Tales, his parrot is seen trapped onBlack Pearl, which was magically shrunk and imprisoned in a bottle by Blackbeard.

Marty, portrayed byMartin Klebba,^[63] is adwarfpirate hired by Jack and Gibbs to search for theBlack Pearl inThe 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 ofAt World's End, he leaves with Barbossa on the stolenBlack Pearl. Marty often provides comic relief, such as being blown off his feet after firing a blunderbuss inAt World's End. He also appears inDead Men Tell No Tales once again as Jack Sparrow's crew member.

Anamaria, portrayed byZoe Saldaña, is a pirate whose ship was stolen, some years in the past, by Jack Sparrow. She appears inThe Curse of the Black Pearl. She joins Mr. Gibbs and Will Turner to get a chance to confront Sparrow. After Anamaria slaps Sparrow and accuses him of stealing her ship, Will intervenes and promises herInterceptor (the ship Jack had stolen to chaseBlack Pearl) in exchange for her cooperation on the journey. Reluctantly, Anamaria agrees. In the end, she allows Jack to captainBlack 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, Saldaña commented in a later interview that she almost quit acting due to an "elitist" business environment and disrespect from film crew.^[64]Terry Rossio confirmed that the name was chosen simply because "AnaMaria" is the middle name of his daughter.^[65][66] In the first screenplay draft, AnaMaria was a barmaid in theFaithful Bride, whom Jack encountered before meetingJoshamee Gibbs.^[67]

Governor Weatherby Swann, portrayed byJonathan Pryce, is the royal governor ofPort Royal and the widowed father ofElizabeth Swann. In contrast to his strong-willed daughter, he is something of amilquetoast.

Both Elizabeth and the Governor sailed from England to the Caribbean eight years prior toCurse of the Black Pearl, along withJames 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 lovesWill Turner.

InDead 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 he himself will be freed as long as he gives good reports to England about Beckett's presence.

InAt World's End, Weatherby Swann is forced to use his authority to allow Beckett to execute several pirates. In a deleted scene, Swann boardsFlying Dutchman. Believing that his daughter died when the Kraken tookBlack 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 ofFlying Dutchman. Beckett and Ian Mercer inform Swann that his daughter is still alive, but Swann doesn't believe them. Swann then 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.^[68] He informs Norrington that Swann has returned to England.

Swann 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 theBlack Pearl that whoever kills Jones must take his place. He ignores Elizabeth's invitation to come aboard theBlack Pearl (as he is beyond rescue now), saying he is proud of her and that he will give her love to her mother.

Posthumously, Swann becomes a grandfather after his daughter gives birth to Henry Turner as well as becoming the father-in-law of Will.

Murtogg andMullroy, portrayed by Giles New andAngus Barnett, are twoRoyal Marines stationed in Port Royal. They serve as dull-minded 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 HMSInterceptor. Jack Sparrow distracts them into arguing about theBlack Pearl, which allows him to steal the ship. Afterward, they serve on HMSDauntless and survive the final battle.

They reappear inAt 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 theFlying Dutchman, but it is stolen by Jack during another argument. They later stow away on theBlack Pearl, casting their lot with the pirates, and join Barbossa after the battle is over.

InOn Stranger Tides, it was thought that they were on theBlack Pearl when Blackbeard captured it and magically imprisoned it in a bottle. However, Murtogg and Mullroy return inDead Men Tell No Tales, as part of Barbossa's crew; they inform Barbossa that his fleet of pirate ships is being destroyed bySilent Mary, Salazar's ship and crew. After Barbossa's death, they sail on the restoredBlack Pearl under the command of Jack Sparrow.

Jack is Barbossa's petcapuchin monkey, named after Jack Sparrow to mock him. DuringThe 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.

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

InDead Man's Chest andAt World's End, Jack is portrayed by Boo Boo, a twelve-year-old male and Mercedes, a ten-year-old female. DuringDead Man's Chest, he resides on theBlack Pearl. He is bartered to Tia Dalma, and later rejoins the resurrected Barbossa.

InAt World's End, it is shown throughout the second and third films that the crew members of theBlack Pearl, particularly Jack Sparrow, like to shoot at Jack. 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. At one point, Pintel and Ragetti use Jack as a makeshift cannonball and he inadvertently saves Will Turner's life. Jack manages to escape theFlying Dutchman with Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swan as the ship sinks in Calypso's maelstrom.

InOn Stranger Tides, Jack is trapped on theBlack 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.

InDead Men Tell No Tales, Jack is freed from the bottle along withBlack Pearl, reuniting with Barbossa shortly afterward. After Barbossa's death, Jack becomes loyal to Jack Sparrow, returning his compass as a gesture of peace. It is unclear if he remains undead or if Jack's curse was broken when the Trident of Poseidon was destroyed.

Philip Swift, portrayed bySam Claflin, is a missionary who appears inOn Stranger Tides. After he was captured by Blackbeard, Philip's life was spared thanks toAngelica's belief that her father's soul can be saved. Along the journey to find theFountain of Youth, Philip meets a beautiful mermaid and names herSyrena. 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 the Jungle Pools to free Syrena. Syrena returns to Philip, who 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; his final fate is unknown.^[c]

Syrena, portrayed byÀstrid Bergès-Frisbey, is a mermaid who appears inOn Stranger Tides.^[69] She does not appear to be as hostile as the other mermaids. Following the battle at Whitecap Bay, she is captured by Blackbeard's crew, who need a mermaid's tear to activate theFountain 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 returns to Philip, who 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; her final fate is unknown.^[c]

Scrum, portrayed byStephen Graham, is a pirate who appears inOn Stranger Tides andDead Men Tell No Tales.^[70]

In the fourth film, Scrum assists Angelica in recruiting a crew while she is impersonating Jack Sparrow. He later sails onQueen Anne's Revenge under Blackbeard. At Whitecap Bay, he is almost killed by a mermaid. After Barbossa fatally wounds Blackbeard and commandeersQueen 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 inSaint Martin. Scrum and his shipmates later save Sparrow, embarking on a quest to find the legendaryTrident of Poseidon. When the pirates find out that Sparrow was chased by vengeful ghosts they raise a mutiny, electingJoshamee Gibbs as their new captain, who later tricks Scrum into becoming a captain himself shortly before they are captured. The pirates manage to escape, boarding theBlack Pearl and later saving Sparrow, Carina Smyth, and Henry Turner from Captain Salazar and his crew of ghosts.

ThePrison Dog appears as a dog carrying the keys, serving as a reference to the dog that appears in the originalDisneylandride. InThe Curse of the Black Pearl, the prison dog guards the Port Royal jail keys by carrying them in its mouth. In a clear reference to the original Disney ride, the prisoners vainly attempt to retrieve the keys from it with a bone. The dog appears again inDead Man's Chest with Pintel and Ragetti after they have escaped prison and are headed for Pelegosto to search forBlack Pearl. He was named "Poochie" by Pintel until he was left on Pelegosto. The dog is eventually left on Pelegosto, where thecannibal tribe chases after it, leaving Jack Sparrow to climb aboard theBlack Pearl. In the post-credit scene ofDead Man's Chest it is revealed that the dog becomes the chief of the Pelegosto tribe. InAt World's End, the dog reappears as the keeper of thePirata Codex keys on Shipwreck Cove. Although Pintel and Ragetti were confused, 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 forAt World's End confirmed that the dog literally rode on the backs of sea turtles.

Twister is the prison dog inPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003),^[71] and was replaced by Chopper in the sequelsPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) andPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).^[72][73]

King George Augustus/George II is portrayed byRichard Griffiths in the fourth film,On Stranger Tides.^[74][75] Before the events of the fourth film, the King of England was only mentioned in the originalPirates of the Caribbean trilogy. InDead Man's Chest, despite being under the jurisdiction of the King's governor of Port Royal, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann were arrested byLordCutler Beckett, who uses his position as duly to take control of Port Royal. Governor Swann was also caught sending a letter to the King by Beckett's aide, Mercer. Beckett carriedLetters of Marque signed by King George, in which presents a full pardon, eventually taken by James Norrington. InAt World's End, using his position as duly appointed representative of King, Lord Cutler Beckett declared a state of emergency, which he uses to combatpiracy. King George II appears onscreen in the fourth film, named George Augustus onscreen, where he tries to recruit the infamous pirateJack Sparrow guide an expedition to theFountain of Youth. After Sparrow's escape, King George sendsHector Barbossa, now serving as aprivateer in his court, to find the Fountain before the Spanish monarch King Ferdinand gains eternal life.

Lieutenant Gillette, portrayed byDamian O'Hare, is second-in-command to Commodore Norrington stationed inPort Royal and the pride of the British Royal Navy, the HMSDauntless. He is left aboard theDauntless during Commodore Norrington's absence and loses the ship to Jack Sparrow, and later accompanies Norrington onDauntless in pursuit of both the commandeeredInterceptor and the pirate shipBlack Pearl. After they rescue Elizabeth, theDauntless sailed to Isla de Muerta, where she warns Lieutenant Gillette about the curse of the pirate crew aboardBlack Pearl, but he refuses to believe her, saying "a little mermaid" flopped on deck and told the whole story. When the cursed pirates ambush theDauntless, Gillette fights off the cursed pirates with the remainder of the crew before Commodore Norrington and his men arrive to reinforce the dwindling resistance against the pirates. Gillette is present after Jack Sparrow's escape from Fort Charles and when Norrington gives Sparrow "one day's head start" aboard theBlack Pearl. It was at first believed that Gillette perished during Norrington's ill-fated pursuit of Jack Sparrow between the events ofThe Curse of the Black Pearl andDead Man's Chest, but Lieutenant Gillette returns unharmed inOn Stranger Tides, with Lieutenant Commander Groves, serving under Captain Barbossa aboard HMSProvidence during the quest for the Fountain of Youth. By the order of King George II, Lieutenant Gillette assists Barbossa in finding the Fountain before the Spanish do, witnessing a mermaid attack on theProvidence as well as battling Blackbeard's crew at the Fountain. Gillette was killed during Barbossa's duel with Blackbeard by the infamous pirate's sword, with Barbossa discarding Gillette's body.

Lieutenant Commander Theodore Groves, portrayed byGreg Ellis, is anofficer of theBritish Royal Navy. Groves first appears as an unnamed officer under Commodore Norrington's command inThe Curse of the Black Pearl. He is present when Jack Sparrow stealsInterceptor and notes Sparrow's cleverness, saying "That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen", the opposite of Norrington's oft-stated opinion that Sparrow is "without a doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of".

Lieutenant Groves reappears in the third movieAt World's End, first being present when pirates at the gallows sing "Hoist the Colours". He is appointed as Lord Cutler Beckett's second-in-command aboard HMSEndeavour. After Captain Jack Sparrow makes a daring escape from Cutler Beckett's grasp, Groves 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 asEndeavour was being pounded byBlack Pearl's andFlying Dutchmann's cannon. Beckett remains in a state of shock during the entire battle, forcing Lieutenant Groves to order the crew to abandon ship.

Having been saved off-screen, Theodore Groves later resurfaces in the events ofOn Stranger Tides, and is promoted tolieutenant commander while working under Captain Barbossa aboard HMSProvidence to find theFountain of Youth before the Spanish do. He accompanies Barbossa on the shores of Whitecap Bay, only to be stranded there with the beach party as flesh-eating mermaids tearProvidence apart along with its crew. He scolds Barbossa for not helping the crew asProvidence 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 for his king. The Spaniard, noting this, immediately shoots Groves, although noting his bravery. When the Spanish began destroying the Fountain of Youth, Groves' body was being carried away by two of his fellow officers.

Scarlett, portrayed by Lauren Maher, is the woman who slaps Jack for cheating on her with her friend Giselle inCurse of the Black Pearl. InDead 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. InAt 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 onBlack Pearl, only to find that Barbossa has stolen it, upsetting Jack and making it impossible for him to keep his promise.

Giselle, portrayed byVanessa 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.

Ian Mercer,^[76] portrayed byDavid Schofield, is Lord Beckett's facially scarred, loyal personal assistant inDead Man's Chest andAt 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.

When theBlack Pearl is being taken over by the EITC, Mercer leads the boarding party. However, before they can even properly solidify control of the ship, the crew of theBlack Pearl launch a counterattack, and Mercer ends up duelling Barbossa during the fighting. Once he sees that his marines are mostly beaten, Mercer jumps ship, and is presumably picked up by theEndeavour.

Sometime later, Mercer is placed aboard theFlying Dutchman. After Admiral James Norrington is killed, Mercer proclaims to Davy Jones that he is now in command of the ship, as he holds the key to the Dead Man's Chest in his possession.

During the maelstrom battle, Mercer is shielded by Jones from a cannon blast. However, the same blast also kills all the EITC marines around the helm, leaving Mercer defenseless. 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.^[77]

Captain Bellamy is a Scottish merchant sailor and the captain of theEdinburgh Trader, who appears inDead Man's Chest. He is portrayed byAlex Norton.

While Bellamy is docked in Port Royal, Elizabeth Swann takes the opportunity to sneak aboard theEdinburgh Trader disguised as a male member of Bellamy's crew, as she is trying to escape from Cutler Beckett. After her dress is discovered by another crew member, Bellamy suspects that there is a female stowaway on board, and orders his crew to search the ship.

Soon after, Bellamy is informed by his crew that Tortuga is the only free port left in the Caribbean (as the others have all been taken over by the East India Trading Company). Bellamy is initially reluctant to sail to a pirate port, but Elizabeth dangles her dress from the mast of the ship like a puppet, making it seem as though it is a spirit telling him to go to Tortuga, which he does.

Shortly after leaving Tortuga (where Elizabeth departs from the ship), Bellamy rescues Will Turner from the sea after the latter escapes from theFlying Dutchman with the key to the Dead Man's Chest. However, this incurs the wrath of Davy Jones, who sets the Kraken on theEdinburgh Trader. During the attack, Bellamy is hauled overboard by one of the Kraken's tentacles, dragged underwater and presumably eaten. After his death, his ship is completely destroyed and sunk by the beast. His surviving crew members are subsequently taken prisoner aboard theDutchman, where they are executed on Jones' orders.

TheEdinburgh Trader was portrayed by theBounty.

CaptainEdward Teague,^[78][79] portrayed byKeith Richards,^[80] the Pirate Lord ofMadagascar and Keeper of the Pirate Code. The character's full name was never revealed in the films onscreen or in any related promotional material. The name "Edward Teague" is likely based on real world pirate Edward Teach akaBlackbeard. According to screenwriterTerry Rossio, who didn't believe Teague's name had ever been officially designated, he thought Teague's first name was "Robert", based on a historical pirate.^[37] Although Richards' role was rumored in 2004,^[81] and later reported in 2006,^[82] Teague was later confirmed to be Jack Sparrow's father.^[83] Teague appears inAt World's End,On Stranger Tides, andDead Men Tell No Tales.

In his first appearance inAt World's End, Captain Teague serves as the Keeper of the Pirate Code, which is kept at Shipwreck Cove. He is also the master of the jailhouse dog, which was last seen inDead Man's Chest being worshiped by the cannibals on Pelegesto. (It was later explained inPirates 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". During the fourth meeting of the Brethren Court, Teague guns down a pirate who dismisses 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 ashrunken head. Jack then comments, "She looks great!"

In the fourth film, after Jack escapes from King George II atSt James's Palace, he is chased through the streets of London by the King's Royal Guard. Just as one of the soldiers aims his musket at Jack, he is shot in the back by Teague. Later, inside theCaptain'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.^{[citation needed]} In this scene, he is portrayed byAlexander Scheer.^[84]

The Spaniard, portrayed byÓscar Jaenada, is King Ferdinand's most trusted agent. Introduced inOn Stranger Tides, the Spaniard leads a force of 3 Spanish galleons 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 ofJuan 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 his King. The Spaniard claims that only God can grant immortality, not the Fountain. The Spaniard and his men leave after destroying the Fountain of Youth.

John Scarfield appears inDead Men Tell No Tales and was portrayed byDavid Wenham.^[85] Scarfield was a lieutenant of the Royal Navy.^[86]

After Carina Smyth and Jack Sparrow are captured inSaint Martin, Scarfield orders for both of them to be executed. Later, when Henry Turner washes up in the town, Scarfield declares him a deserter and orders for him to be hanged as well. However, Henry, Carina and Jack manage to escape, with Jack knocking Scarfield out in the process. The three of them flee aboard theDying Gull.

Determined to recover the three fugitives, Scarfield seeks out the sea-witch Shansa, who shows him the route to the Trident of Poseidon, where Jack, Carina and Henry are headed. Scarfield decides to acquire the Trident to ensure he will have control over the ocean.

On board his ship, theEssex, Scarfield eventually catches up with theDying Gull, only to find that Jack, Carina and Henry are no longer on board. Nonetheless, he orders his men to viciously beat Scrum (who was the ship's captain at the time) for information on where the fugitives are headed. He then orders the rest of the pirates locked in the brig of theEssex, though they later manage to escape.

Later that night, Scarfield and theEssex intercept theBlack Pearl, which Jack, Carina and Henry are now aboard, still looking for the Trident. Declaring that only he will wield the power of the sea, Scarfield orders his crew to prepare to fire on thePearl. However, before they can even get a chance, theSilent Mary emerges from behind theEssex and slices through it, destroying the ship and killing Scarfield.

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