History Characters / PiratesofTheCaribbean

* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not very happy with the betrayals she ([[ItsAllAboutMe allegedly]]) suffered.

[[folder: [[spoiler: Captain]] William "Will" Turner Junior]]

[[folder: [[spoiler:Pirate King]] Elizabeth Swann [[spoiler:Turner]] ]]

[[folder: William "Will" Turner Junior [[(spoiler: Captain)]]]]

[[folder: [[spoiler: Captain]] William "Will" Turner Junior ]]

[[folder: [[spoiler: Captain]] William "Will" Turner Junior]]

[[folder: [[spoiler:Captain]] William "Will" Turner Junior]]

!!William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner

!!Hadras

!!Jimmy Legs

!!Maccus

!!Morey

[[folder:Queen Anne's Revenge]]
!!Blackbeard – Edward Teach

!!Angelica

!!Philip Swift

!!Zombies

* CreepyMonotone: Both speak in motones.

!!Scrum
->Played By: Stephen Graham.

!!Other Crewmembers

[[folder:Other]]
!!Tia Dalma/[[spoiler:Calypso]]

!!Captain Edward Teague

!!Sao Feng

!!Anamaria

* SamusIsAGirl: Disguses herself as a man briefly.

!!Lieutenant Groves

!!Syrena

!!Prison Dog

!!The Spaniard

!!King George II

* AdiposeRex (TruthInTelevision- he ''was'' a Hanoverian after all)

!!Scarlett and Giselle

!!Characters From Other Media

[[folder: Legends Of The Brethren Court]]

!!The Shadow Lord/[[spoiler: Sir Henry Morgan]]

!!Benedict And Barbara Huntington

[[folder: Pirates Of The Caribbean Online]]

!!Jolly Roger
->Played by: SteveBlum.

[[folder:Pirates Of The Caribbean: Jack Sparrow]]
!! Arabella Smith

!! Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III

!! Jean Magliore

%%* RoyalRapier: His favorite weapon.

!! Constance Magliore

* CatsAreMean: Jack does not particularly like her...nor does anyone else except Jean.

!! Tumen

!! Tim Hawk

!! Left-Foot Louis

!! Madame Minuit

!! Silverback

[[folder:Main Characters]]
!!Captain Jack Sparrow

!![[spoiler:Captain]] William "Will" Turner Junior

!![[spoiler:Pirate King]] Elizabeth Swann [[spoiler:Turner]]

!!Captain Hector Barbossa

[[folder:The Black Pearl]]
!!Joshamee Gibbs

!!Pintel and Ragetti

!!Cotton

!!Marty

!!Jack The Monkey

[[folder:Royal Navy / East India Trading Co.]]
!!Commodore/Admiral James Norrington

!!Governor Weatherby Swann

!!Lord Cutler Beckett

!!Ian Mercer

!!Murtogg and Mullroy

[[folder:The Flying Dutchman]]
!!Davy Jones

!!The Kraken

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: He's an extortionist, a child murderer, a genocidal tyrant, and a drug dealer, according to what we see of him and what we know about the real-life British East India Company that he runs in the initial trilogy.

** In the first film, he seems to love the word "eunuch".

Giselle played by: Vanessa Branch (2003-07)

->Giselle (to Scarlett): You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* [[ThoseTwoGuys ThoseTwoGals]]: They're always seen together, and they provide humor.

* GeniusDitz: Ragetti seems to be a lot smarter than he looks, and to know a lot more about science, literature, and the supernatural than any illiterate eighteenth-century pirate by all rights should.
** Not only does he know how to pronounce ''Kraken'', its animal classification ("Actually, it's a cephalapod!") despite the term ''not even existing'' back then but knows it's linguistic roots in old Scandinavian! How does he ''know'' these things?!

* TheUnfavourite: Pintel. Barbossa is shown in the third movie to trust Ragetti with safeguarding his Piece of Eight. Pintel, on the other hand, he once shot to check if they were still immortal.

* TongueTrauma: It was cut off for some reason.
** A short film reveals it's so he wouldn't tell Captain Teague that another pirate accidentally shot the Pirate's Codex.

* [[SmallGirlBigGun Small Guy Big Gun]]: He seems to have a thing for big guns like cannons and ''blunderbusses'', making him liable to fly backwards because of the recoil.

* [[PirateParrot Pirate Monkey]]: He was Barbossa's pet, and stuck around following his master's resurrection.

* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim: Killed off-screen in ''At World's End'' with only a murky throwaway explanation.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: In ''At World's End''.]]

* [[spoiler:SacrificialLion: As if Elizabeth needed enough reason to hate Beckett.]]

* CatchPhrase: "It's just good business"
** Also counts as his [[spoiler: FamousLastWords]].

* NoodleIncident: His first run-in with Captain Jack Sparrow, wherein he branded Jack a pirate and was given an unmentioned mark in return. The films never elaborate on what went down between Jack and Beckett. It has, however, been explained [[AllInTheManual elsewhere]]. [[spoiler:When Jack was working for the East India Trading Company, Beckett ordered him to deliver a cargo of slaves. Jack set them free instead. "People ain't cargo, mate." This unauthorized disposal of Company 'property' gave Beckett grounds to brand Jack as a pirate, forcing him into an outlaw lifestyle. What mark Jack left on Beckett is a blank for the audience to fill in- Beckett's expression when asked about it indicates it's a touchy subject.]]
** Perhaps [[BiTheWay Jack]] gave him his [[WordOfSaintPaul syphilis]]
** Evidently, he also has a history with Governor Swann that's not explored beyond a throwaway line in ''Dead Man's Chest''.

* InformedAttribute: Several characters will comment on how he's a "spitting image" of his father. When "Bootstrap Bill" does show up, the two don't remotely resemble each other.

* TheDevil: A malicious supernatural figure who makes deals with dying and desperate men in exchange for their souls.

!![[spoiler:Pirate King]] Elizabeth Swann [[spoiler:Turner]]
[[quoteright:187:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lizzy_1641.jpg]]
->Played by: Creator/KeiraKnightley (2003-2007)

-->I've had it! I've had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked PIRATES!

Governor Swann's daughter, essentially [[BornInTheWrongCentury a modern girl trapped in an eighteenth-century world]], and keeper of the MacGuffin in the first film. Somewhere between TheHeroine, the ActionGirl and TheHeart, she's the access character who -- [[AudienceSurrogate like the audience]] -- grew up with heavily romanticized pirate stories. She's kind of a fan girl when if comes to pirates, but is a brilliant strategist when given the chance, and [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] between the first and second movies. Elizabeth is the center of a LoveTriangle (or rather a Love Trapezoid) that contains Will, Jack and Norrington all trying to get with her.

* ActionGirl: Elizabeth increasingly occupies this role. By the start of the third film, she undoubtedly qualifies.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Starts off as a very "proper lady" gal, but slowly sheds that skin to become a bona-fide ActionGirl.
* AntiHero: The lesser one of the main cast. While she does get a bit manipulative by the second and third films, she's nothing compared to [[TheChessmaster Jack]] or [[WildCard Barbossa]].
* AudienceSurrogate: Like the audience, she's grown up reading many romanticized pirate stories, and has an idea beforehand of what she thinks pirates are like.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Gets a bit smudgy or messy-haired at a few points, but rarely suffers any disfiguring injury, most notably when the inhumanly strong Davy Jones backhands (or back-claws) her across the face without inflicting the slightest bruise.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Stated so by Keira Knightley, and it's far from wrong.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Will. It's easy to tell she's more interested in her blacksmith friend than Norrington.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In the first movie where she arranges for her own rescue and otherwise gets herself out of trouble.
* GoodBadGirl: Elizabeth is "so ready to be married" to Will Turner.
* GuileHeroine: Outsmarts ''Jack''. [[spoiler:Four of Barbossa's crew have tried to kill him in the past; she's the one that succeeded.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler: Quite possibly. In the second and third films, she kisses four different men (Jack, Sao Feng, Norrington, Will) - and all of them get killed immediately afterwards.]]
* OfCorsetHurts: [[GenreSavvy she uses it to her advantage.]]
* OfCorsetsSexy: At least this is her ''father's'' opinion.
* OfficialCouple: With Will at the end of the first movie, where they are engaged. Officially tying the knot takes another two movies.
* PirateGirl: As of the third movie, she is officially a pirate and not a ProperLady visiting their world.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: "They've come to kidnap you!"
* {{Protagonist}}: Despite Jack's popularity and [[PopCultureOsmosis renown]], Elizabeth is the main character of the trilogy she participates in. The movies start from her [=POV=] two out of three times, and her actions drive the plot more than anyone else's, apart from [[VillainDrivenPlot Beckett]]. She also receives the most CharacterDevelopment of the three original protags, coming into her own as a pragmatic, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], MagnificentBastard and [[spoiler:PirateKing]].
* RousingSpeech: Her "Hoist the Colors" speech in ''At World's End'' inspires the pirates to fight against the East India Company.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Pulls off a "ghost on a ship" charade, to convince the crew of the ''Edinburgh Trader'' to change course for Tortuga.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Norrington noticed this in the first film.
* SheIsTheKing: [[spoiler: Once she becomes the Pirate King.]]
* SweetPollyOliver: After escaping Beckett in DMC, she disguised herself as a young male sailor to get aboard the ''Edinburgh Trader''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Will taught her how to [[FreudWasRight use a sword]]. Unfortunately for her, this was ''all'' she and Will did during their engagement. And then in the third movie she goes and becomes [[spoiler:''the Pirate King''. And not just King-in-Name-Only, she leads the pirates against the East India Company and does a damned good job of it.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: At least in the first movie. Elizabeth grew up reading pirate stories, so she has a pretty good idea of how pirates are "supposed" to behave. She's constantly being surprised at how rarely they live up to her expectations in real life.
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* SupportingProtagonist: PopCultureOsmosis has ensured Jack is the most popular, and he's certainly the most memorable part of all of the movies, but he's not actually the protagonist of the first three. That would be Elizabeth, according to narrative convention and WordOfGod. By ''On Stranger Tides'' however, Elizabeth and Will have bowed out, their story concluded, and it, presumably along with any later PotC movies, is primarily about him.

* SupportingProtagonist: He is one of the protagonists, but Elizabeth's the real hero.

!!''[[InsistentTerminology Captain]]'' Jack Sparrow

* OverprotectiveParent: To Elizabeth.

* SupportingProtagonist: He is one of the protagonists, but Jack's the real, ahem, hero.

!![[spoiler:Pirate King]] Elizabeth Swann [[spoiler:Turner]]
[[quoteright:187:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lizzy_1641.jpg]]
->Played by: Creator/KeiraKnightley (2003-2007)

-->I've had it! I've had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked PIRATES!

Governor Swann's daughter, essentially [[BornInTheWrongCentury a modern girl trapped in an eighteenth-century world]], and keeper of the MacGuffin in the first film. Somewhere between TheHeroine, the ActionGirl and TheHeart, she's the access character who -- [[AudienceSurrogate like the audience]] -- grew up with heavily romanticized pirate stories. She's kind of a fan girl when if comes to pirates, but is a brilliant strategist when given the chance, and [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] between the first and second movies. Elizabeth is the center of a LoveTriangle (or rather a Love Trapezoid) that contains Will, Jack and Norrington all trying to get with her.

* ActionGirl: Elizabeth increasingly occupies this role. By the start of the third film, she undoubtedly qualifies.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Starts off as a very "proper lady" gal, but slowly sheds that skin to become a bona-fide ActionGirl.
* AntiHero: The lesser one of the main cast. While she does get a bit manipulative by the second and third films, she's nothing compared to [[TheChessmaster Jack]] or [[WildCard Barbossa]].
* AudienceSurrogate: Like the audience, she's grown up reading many romanticized pirate stories, and has an idea beforehand of what she thinks pirates are like.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Gets a bit smudgy or messy-haired at a few points, but rarely suffers any disfiguring injury, most notably when the inhumanly strong Davy Jones backhands (or back-claws) her across the face without inflicting the slightest bruise.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Stated so by Keira Knightley, and it's far from wrong.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Will. It's easy to tell she's more interested in her blacksmith friend than Norrington.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In the first movie where she arranges for her own rescue and otherwise gets herself out of trouble.
* GoodBadGirl: Elizabeth is "so ready to be married" to Will Turner.
* GuileHeroine: Outsmarts ''Jack''. [[spoiler:Four of Barbossa's crew have tried to kill him in the past; she's the one that succeeded.]]
* KissOfDeath: [[spoiler: Quite possibly. In the second and third films, she kisses four different men (Jack, Sao Feng, Norrington, Will) - and all of them get killed immediately afterwards.]]
* OfCorsetHurts: [[GenreSavvy she uses it to her advantage.]]
* OfCorsetsSexy: At least this is her ''father's'' opinion.
* OfficialCouple: With Will at the end of the first movie, where they are engaged. Officially tying the knot takes another two movies.
* PirateGirl: As of the third movie, she is officially a pirate and not a ProperLady visiting their world.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: "They've come to kidnap you!"
* RousingSpeech: Her "Hoist the Colors" speech in ''At World's End'' inspires the pirates to fight against the East India Company.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Pulls off a "ghost on a ship" charade, to convince the crew of the ''Edinburgh Trader'' to change course for Tortuga.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Norrington noticed this in the first film.
* SheIsTheKing: [[spoiler: Once she becomes the Pirate King.]]
* SupportingProtagonist: Even more so than Will, as the first 3 films are actually told from her point-of-view (Notice how she is the first character we see in the first 2 films, and her actions ((especially in the first film)) are usually what kick-starts the plot).
* SweetPollyOliver: After escaping Beckett in DMC, she disguised herself as a young male sailor to get aboard the ''Edinburgh Trader''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Will taught her how to [[FreudWasRight use a sword]]. Unfortunately for her, this was ''all'' she and Will did during their engagement. And then in the third movie she goes and becomes [[spoiler:''the Pirate King''. And not just King-in-Name-Only, she leads the pirates against the East India Company and does a damned good job of it.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: At least in the first movie. Elizabeth grew up reading pirate stories, so she has a pretty good idea of how pirates are "supposed" to behave. She's constantly being surprised at how rarely they live up to her expectations in real life.
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* HotWitch: Downplayed. While her actress is very attractive and has a nice figure, the character has horribly messy hair, terrible clothes, and rotten teeth.

* SpiritedYoungLady: She may have needed to learn swordplay, but she was adventurous from the start. She took charge immediately, sending a messenger to warn the fort, when her home was attacked by pirates; she went for weapons when two of them were after her; she smacked one in the face with a bedwarmer and burned the other; she invoked their own code in hopes of saving the town; she bluffed an entire shipful of undead by threatening to drop their medallion in the harbor; and she buried a dinner knife five inches deep in Barbossa's chest, with intent to kill, when he got too creepy. All this occurs well before her Badass level-taking.

->Played by: KeithRichards (2007-present)

%%* MartyrWithoutACause: In the first movie.

%%* PrettyBoy

%%* SupportingProtagonist

%%* BadassInANiceSuit

%%* DidYouActuallyBelieve

%%* GracefulLoser

%%* EnigmaticMinion

%%* PinkertonDetective

%%* FlyingDutchman: Literally.

%%* KilledOffForReal

%%* SassyBlackWoman

%%* OnlySaneMan: Compared to the rest of his crew.

* LadykillerInLove: Despite the numerous companions he has undoubtedly had over the years, he has only ever loved one: Angelica. Unsurprisingly, it didn't stop him from leaving her behind.