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The Black Pearl

In General

The crew of the Black Pearl serving under Jack, then Barbossa, and later Jack once more. Due to many crew members constantly getting killed, the crew members have changed quite a few times, with a few notable mainstays listed under "Reoccurring Crew Members".

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• Badass Normal: Now that the curse has been lifted, the pirates are all once again very mortal. Yet they still regularly go up against supernatural threats.
• Brought Down to Normal: Following the events of the first film, the cursed crew have now been returned to ordinary mortals and can very much be killed, as many of them do.
• Dwindling Party: Many crew members are killed throughout the course of the films. Their deaths are rarely mourned given that they are pirates and they tend to get replaced with new faces. The specifics vary from movie to movie:
  • Double Subverted in the first film; only a handful of the crew are killed once the curse is lifted, but they're all captured and (presumably) hanged with the exceptions of Pintel and Ragetti.
  • In the second film there's only five surviving crew members after the Kraken attack: Gibbs, Cotton, Marty, Pintel, and Ragetti.
  • Downplayed in the third film; a number of the pirates from Singapore die throughout the film, but the majority survive along with the previously mentioned five up to the end.
• Friendly Pirate: Not so much in the first film, where they along with Barbossa are straight-up villainous and antagonistic. However subsequent films have the crew transitioning to Lovable Rogue as they follow Jack and the reformed Barbossa in fighting against more evil threats and do seem to demonstrate Even Evil Has Standards. May be justified as Jack's crew are constantly getting killed or scattered about, so the crew in subsequent films may not all be the same as the original ones.
• Heel–Face Turn: By the time of the second film, they are much less savage as pirates and assist Jack in fighting against greater threats.
• Lovable Rogue: All subsequent iterations of the crew from the ones that served under Barbossa tend to fall into this. While they are still law-breaking pirates, they tend to be much chummier and Affably Evil, with them being fairly good company most of the time.

Captain

Jack Sparrow

See his page.

Barbossa

See Main Characters.

First Mate

Gibbs

See Main Characters.

Reoccurring Crew Members

Pintel & Ragetti

Pintel & Ragetti

Played By: Lee Arenberg (Pintel) & Mackenzie Crook (Ragetti)

Appear In: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Dead Man's Chest | At World's End

"'Ello, Poppet."

An inseparable pair of pirates who crew on the Black Pearl under both Barbossa and Jack. Their personal incompetence and bizarre personal quirks result in their mostly providing comic relief (they're genuinely menacing precisely once in the series — in their first appearance facing off against the Governor's unarmed staff and an untrained Elizabeth. Against anyone else, they're way out of their league).

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• Anti-Hero: They're marauding pirates concerned only with their vices, but at the same time, they won't go out of their way to be assholes, and have some standards.
• Bald of Evil: Pintel's top of the head lacks hair, and he's at the very least a bit meaner than Ragetti.
• Beware the Silly Ones: The two of them may be ditzy and comical, but neither is to be messed with in a fight, especially against supernatural fish-mutant pirates and trained soldiers. And they can handle a cannon like nobody's buisiness.
• Bumbling Henchmen Duo: A pair of villains always seen in each other's company, sometimes providing exposition or unexpected wisdom, usually from Ragetti, they start off the first movie as more of a competent threat, but quickly spiral into this, with them often getting into Butt-Monkey-style scenarios.
• Butt-Monkey: Ragetti, whenever his wooden eye is lost or injured.
• Catchphrase:
  Pintel: 'Ello, poppet.
• Chekhov's Gun: Ragetti's wooden eye is more important than one would guess.
• Chekhov's Skill: Ragetti knowing how to speak "As to a lover" to free Calypso from her human form.
• Churchgoing Villain: Played for Laughs. They both become religious starting in the second movie because they've been Brought Down to Normal. According to Ragetti, "We've got to take care of our immortal souls!" Pintel promptly points out that pretending to read the Bible (they’re both illiterate) is cheating, which is a sin, while Ragetti huffily defends himself by claiming that "y' get points for trying" if it's the Good Book.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Ragetti's a mild example with his talk of spiritual holiness, random poetical musings, and happiness when wearing a pretty dress.
• Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: As they look for Elizabeth in her home.
  Pintel: We know you're heeeere, poppet.
  Ragetti: Poppet.
  Pintel: Come out... and we promise we won't hurt you. We will find you poppet. You've got something of ours, and it calls to us. [notices the closet Elizabeth's hiding in] The gold calls to us. [peeks inside the closet] 'Ello, poppet.
• Companion Cube: Ragetti's wooden eye, which is also Barbossa's Piece of Eight.
• Demoted to Comic Relief: While the two were definitely comedic characters from the beginning, Curse of the Black Pearl still showed them to be rather dangerous and even creepy at times. Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, however, pretty much portray them entirely for comedy. This is somewhat downplayed in regards to Ragetti, who does still get chances to show off his Hidden Depths and status as a Genius Ditz, but played straight for Pintel
• The Ditz: Both of them, though Ragetti will occasionally have moments of surprising intelligence.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even if Pintel does lash out at Ragetti sometimes, the two quite clearly care about each other. Supplementary material says that Ragetti is Pintel's nephew.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Though Pintel is the more evil of the two, he sticks to the code, and rebuffs Ragetti when he says they should just kill Elizabeth after she's already invoked the right of "Parlay." He begrudgingly does it again when Jack invokes it, but his patience eventually runs out and he threatens to kill any member of Sparrow's crew who tries to invoke the right again.
• Evil Counterpart: To Murtogg and Mullroy, their counterparts in the Royal Navy.
• Eyepatch of Power: Ragetti gets one in the third movie after giving Barbossa his wooden eye.
• Fat and Skinny: Pintel's portly, while Ragetti's skin and bone.
• Genius Ditz: 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 cephalopod!") despite the term not even existing back then but knows its linguistic roots in old Scandinavian! How does he know these things?!
• Hat Damage: Pintel shoots Lieutenant Gillette's hat off during the first film.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Sort of. They're still pirates, but compared to how they were portrayed in the first movie, they've both mellowed out considerably. At the beginning of the second movie, they even talk about reading the Bible (despite being illiterate) and becoming "good men" because they barely avoided an appointment with the gallows. Though, despite their claims to have changed, they're not above going back to treachery and murder for a quick profit.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: You'll never see one without the other- it's been suggested they're great friends. The manual says Pintel is Ragetti's uncle.
• Hidden Depths: Ragetti is implied to have some sort of formal education (which would mean he lied about being illiterate), since he not only knows far more about science than an uneducated pirate could possible be expected to know, but he analyzes a three-way fight like someone who's studied Shakespeare, and apparently knows a bit about philosophy. Scions of noble families joining pirate crews weren't unheard of back then. He's also the only one on the ship to recognize that Barbossa failed to release Calypso because he "didn't say it right" (didn't speak the words "as if to a lover"), and proceeds to do it flawlessly on his first try.
• Hyper-Awareness: Ragetti states everyone's reasons for wanting the Dead Man's Chest, despite not being present for half the events, nor having any way he could possibly have known about them.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: They'll gladly follow their Captain's orders, or the orders of whoever happens to be Captain at that particular given moment. It's lampshaded in the third film, where after stealing the Black Pearl for Barbossa they comment they'd feel better about betraying Jack if Barbossa showed them the map to the Fountain of Youth, only to find out that Jack removed the relevant part of the map. Since they don't show up in the next film, it's safe to say they bailed.
  • Or they're trapped in the bottle that contains the Black Pearl. Barbossa did say he was the only one who managed to escape.
• MacGuffin: Ragetti's wooden eye is actually one of the nine pieces of eight needed to free Calypso from her bonds. This is why he does every thing he can to make sure he never loses it.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Subverted for the most part. Though Ragetti's not all that evil without someone else to egg him on. Pintel is pretty evil, but isn't too bright.
• The Peeping Tom: In Sao Feng's bath house, Ragetti peeks under Elizabeth's skirt through a hole while he's under the floor she's standing on. He tries to let Pintel have a look, but Pintel only gets to see a huge-bellied man. In a deleted scene of the first movie, the duo spy on Elizabeth while she's getting on the dress Barbossa gave her. Noticing this, she pokes Ragetti's wooden eye out through the hole in the cabin's wall.
• Pet the Dog: After Elizabeth lies that Jack sacrificed his life so the surviving crew can escape, both Pintel and Ragetti are touched by the idea Jack would do that and mourn his death. They even volunteer to help resurrect him despite being warned of the dangers the journey entails and with no, initial, reward expected. They also both raise their hands when Jack asks if anyone came to save him just because they missed him.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Most of their scenes are about comedy, such as the parlay gag or the church going villains thing.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Pintel's first line is a "Hello, chum" before shooting Governor Swann's butler dead.
• Son of a Whore: Ragetti, whose mother is a prostitute and Pintel's sister.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Jack privately regards the two as the most expendable crewman, and Pintel and Ragetti show more loyalty to Barbossa rather than Jack. They also have this relationship with Elizabeth and Will as they try to escape Isla Cruces with the titular Dead Man's Chest, and later share swords to fight against the Kraken.
• Those Two Guys: Tend to provide amusing commentary of what's going on around them, such as the time they describe why Jack, Norrington and Will are trying to kill each other on the beach, and how Elizabeth is failing to stop them.
• The Un-Favourite: 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.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Pintel never wears a shirt but it's not fan service.
• Wild Card: Like Jack, they'll ally with whoever's convenient. Unlike Jack, they generally don't have the smarts to swing things in their favor aside from generally surviving.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They're last seen At World's End, having rejoined Barbossa's crew but there's no mention of them even when Barbossa appears in future movies.

Cotton

Cotton

Played By: David Bailie

Appears In: Tales of the Code Wedlocked | The Curse Of The Black Pearl | Dead Man's Chest | At World's End

Gibbs "He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how."

A pirate with no tongue. The parrot over his shoulder speaks for him; he supposedly trained it to do so, although this is likely untrue.

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• The Cameo: He makes a cameo in Tales Of The Code: Wedlocked.
• Cool Old Guy: He’s well in his sixties but still a capable fighter and sailor.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first movie, Cotton's parrot is an unreliable translator at best, and it's implied he only knows a few sentences. In later movies, he's shown to be capable of speaking for Cotton and is able to make conversation with others.
• Mauve Shirt: Enough is known about him to give him his own character sheet, but little else, to the point that the parrot is more of a character.
• Noodle Incident: No one's sure how he taught his parrot to talk, since he can't speak.
• Pirate Parrot: He is the only one to have a parrot on his shoulder. It speaks for him.
• Polly Wants a Microphone: The parrot talks for him, but no one but Gibbs knows what it’s talking about.
• The Speechless: On account of lacking a tongue. His parrot acts a a Voice for the Voiceless.
• Tongue Trauma: It was cut off for some reason. Tales Of The Code: Wedlocked reveals it's so he wouldn't tell Captain Teague that another pirate accidentally shot the Pirates' Codex.
• Undying Loyalty: He and Marty noticeably are the first to raise their hands when asked who saved him just because they liked him. Subverted in that they decide to maroon him at the end of the film.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Unlike Marty, he’s not seen after the third film, so it’s assumed he was killed by Blackbeard.

Marty

Marty

Played By: Martin Klebba

Appears In: The Curse Of The Black Pearl | Dead Man's Chest | At World's End | Dead Men Tell No Tales

A dwarf pirate hired in Tortuga. He has the best sight among the pirates and often serves as the lookout.

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• Ascended Extra: Marty was an extra with only one line in the first film, but his popularity with fans (and the fact that he's good friends with both Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom) elavated him to bigger roles by the third film.
• Mauve Shirt: Same as Cotton, he's just a memorable crewmember.
• No Indoor Voice: When he speaks, he usually yells his lines. Justified, since most of his lines are during battle sequences.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The guy can put up quite the fight and if he can't take someone on physically, then they can expect to have a large gun pointed at them next.
• The Quiet One: At first, he only has one line in the first movie, and doesn't speak much in the second and third, but in the fifth movie, he's much more talkative.
• Undying Loyalty: He immediately raises his hand when Jack asked him who saved him just because he liked him. When the crew maroons Jack, Marty felt so bad he left Barbossa’s crew to rejoin Jack’s crew.

Jack the Monkey

Appears in: The Curse Of The Black Pearl | Dead Man's Chest | At World's End | On Stranger Tides | Dead Men Tell No Tales

Barbossa: "Why thank ye, Jack."
Jack Sparrow: "You're welcome."
Barbossa: "Oh, not you. We named the monkey Jack."

The Black Pearl's mascot/pet monkey.

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• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He takes a piece of the cursed Aztec gold at the end of the first film, possibly because he was entranced by its shininess.
• Ghost Pirate: The only crewmember of the Pearl to remain in this state permanently. The Stinger of the first movie shows him swimming back to the Aztec Gold and taking a piece for himself. But as of Dead Men Tell No Tales the curse may have been broken and restored him to mortality.
• Hidden Depths: Despite endlessly trolling and screwing around with Jack, he DOES raise his hand when the (human) Jack Sparrow asks whether anybody legitimately missed him.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: One possible explanation as to why he decided to re-curse himself. That is, if he’s intelligent enough to know the gold is cursed.
• Maniac Monkeys: Highly intelligent and mischievous to the point of being malicious.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's an undead pirate monkey, who has been trained to sneak and steal the cursed medallions making it sort of ninja-like.
• Oh, Crap!: When he tries to scare Elizabeth a second time in his undead form, he sports a look of apprehensive dismay just before she throws him overboard.
• Our Zombies Are Different: He's an undead monkey.
• Phrase Catcher: "Thank you, Jack."
• Pirate Parrot: He was Barbossa's pet, and stuck around following his master's resurrection. He becomes one for Sparrow at the end of the fifth film after Barbossa's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Raising the Steaks: An undead monkey.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He hates Jack Sparrow and goes out of his way to annoy him at least once a film. Sparrow shoots him for fun. This continues even after Barbossa dies again in the fifth film.
• Team Pet: To the Black Pearl.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Like Barbossa, Jack seems to have grown out of his hate for human Jack, being one of the individuals that raised his hand when Sparrow asks if anyone saved him just because they missed him.
• We Named the Monkey "Jack": Trope Namer. Barbossa named him 'Jack' to spite Sparrow after he and his crew betrayed him. Ironically, he becomes Sparrow's pet monkey in Dead Men Tell No Tales, though they still annoy each other.

The Cursed Crew

Cursed Crew of the Black Pearl

The Cursed Crew

Appear In: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Jack Sparrow's original crew of The Black Pearl who mutinied against him, and shortly after found a chest of cursed Aztec gold.

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• Big, Thin, Short Trio: The three pirates who fight Will during the Final Battle: Weatherby (big and bald), Monk (lean) and Jacoby (short).
• Cursed with Awesome: The Aztec gold cursed them into being undead. It gives them a great advantage in battle, but they can't feel or taste anything.
• Dirty Coward: The moment they lose their immortality, they immediately surrender to the Royal Navy crew whom they were earlier killing gleefully. And earlier while they're all still immortal, they are about to mutiny against Barbossa, but when he unsheathes his sword and calls forth any man who wishes to challenge him, everyone is demoralized.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: There are both white and dark-skinned people onboard.
• Eviler than Thou: Implied to be the main reason they mutinied against Jack. They apparently thought him weak and soft for being less bloodthirsty. It might also have something to do with Jack's eccentricity, with which his new crew from Dead Man's Chest has become begruntled along with their lately lack of loot under Jack's leadership.
  Jack: What say we run up a flag of truce, I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What say you to that?
  Barbossa: Now you see, Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easy to search when they're dead.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: None of the crew members seem to actually like Pintel and Ragetti beside, well, each other. Most notably, Bo'sun is visibly exasperated by their antics, quick to blame them when things don't go as planned with Elizabeth, and sends them out as bait during the assault on the Dauntless, while Koehler and Twigg are openly hostile towards them.
• Ghost Pirate: Thanks to the cursed Aztec gold they stole, they're trapped in a state between life and death, rendering them unable to die. The moonlight reveals their true forms as skeletal zombies.
• Greed: They went after the treasure of Cortés, dismissing the tales of the curse as superstition. They then started wasting the gold on food, beverages and "pleasurable company", only to realize that the curse rendered them unable to slake their desires.
  Barbossa: Compelled by greed, we were, but now... we are consumed by it.
• Implacable Man: While cursed, they can survive whatever's thrown at them, unless they're blown up. They do however still seem to feel pain of mortal blows, especially when out of the moonlight.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Their immortality allows them to suffer a lot of potentially lethal injuries (like taking a cannonball to the chest) without dying, leading to some dark slapstick.
• Jerkass: They're among the most vulgar and unscrupulous people in a setting of pirates and corrupt officials. They disliked their former Captain Jack's eccentricities and less violent ways so much that only Bootstrap Bill Turner had qualms about overthrowing him. They don't even have a shred of what little honor and manners Barbossa has.
• Keystone Army: They're unstoppable thanks to the curse, but as soon as they lose their immortality while fighting Norrington's soldiers, they lose their morale and surrender.
• Leave No Survivors: They have a reputation of never leaving survivors, but Jack lampshades the contradiction of this by asking where the stories about the Black Pearl and her fearsome crew come from. There are plenty of survivors left in Port Royal thanks to Elizabeth bargaining with Barbossa to cease the assault.
• Never My Fault: When Elizabeth's blood doesn't lift their curse, they start placing the blame for their misfortunes on Barbossa's leadership, ignoring that they chose to join in his mutiny against Jack, follow him to Isla de Muerta and carry out his order to sink Bootstrap Bill, hindering their efforts to lift the curse.
• No-Sell: Will cuts down Jacoby and another pirate during the attack on Port Royal, but both shrug their injuries off thanks to the curse.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: They've got a reputation of preying on ships and settlements mercilessly in their efforts to locate all the 882 Aztec gold pieces they wasted foolishly. They indeed viciously assault Port Royal in the first part of the movie because the gold piece Elizabeth had calls to them. Eight years before that, they've sank a merchant vessel carrying young Will onboard.
• Revenge: A series of comics published by Disney Adventures depicted them trying to get revenge on Jack and his crew for what happened in the first film.
• Sense Loss Sadness: The reason they want to get rid of the curse is because they're unable to enjoy food, beverages and "pleasurable company" anymore.
• Shrouded in Myth: By the time of the first movie, the crew is told to be damned and never to leave survivors. Some people don't believe in their existence before facing them.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: All of them are cruel, ruthless, angry men with a complete lack of mercy for anyone and anything. However, it's heavily implied that at least some of their disposition during the first movie was a result of their decade of torment being cursed, as Barbossa, Pintel and Ragetti act much happier and friendlier in the sequels.
• The Starscream: All of them betrayed (minus Bootstrap Bill) Jack without any provocation.
• Storming the Beaches: The first crewmembers introduced are beaching to ransack Port Royal.
• Those Two Guys: Some of the pirates fight in pairs. Pintel and Ragetti (see above) are the most notable example, but others are Koehler and Twigg (lead the attack on the Dauntless), Grapple and Mallot (left to guard the Black Pearl), and Weatherby and Monk (who get turned into a Terrible Trio when partnered with Jacoby when they fight Will).
• Treasure Room: They have one in the caverns of Isla the Muerta, filled with loot from a decade of plundering. The reason their treasure is as big as it is stems from their inability to enjoy anything they can buy with it. They have every intention to spend it after the curse is lifted though. The sequel reveals that the treasure was lost when the island was swallowed into the sea.
• Villain Has a Point: They blame Barbossa's decisions — sailing after Cortés' treasure and sinking Bootstrap Bill before they could have his blood — for their misfortunes after Elizabeth's blood fails to break the curse. There is blameshifting in the play, but a crew's effectiveness and actions are dependent on that of its decisive captain. In the end, Barbossa's decision to listen to Jack's manipulations ends with the cursed crew being left at the mercy of the Royal Navy when the curse is lifted.
  Koehler: [to Barbossa] Every decision you've made has led us from bad to worse!
• Walk, Don't Swim: By Barbossa's order, they walk along the ocean floor to reach the HMS Dauntless undetected.
  Barbossa: Gents! Take a walk!
  Jack: Not to the boats?
• What Happened to the Mouse?: With the exception of Barbossa, Pintel, Ragetti, and Jack the Monkey, they do not appear after the first film. It's safe to assume they were hanged for piracy by Norrington. They did turn up as antagonists in a series of comics set in between the first two films published in Disney Adventures.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Only someone who can fully enjoy being unable to be killed by anything as well as unable to take pleasure in the simple sensations of life.
  Koehler: [to Jack] You know nothing of Hell.

Bo'sun

Bo'sun

Played By: Isaac C. Singleton Jr.

• Bald of Evil: Has not a single hair on his head and not a single scruple in his mind.
• Bitch Slap: Bo'sun does this to Elizabeth when she's brought on board the Black Pearl.
  Elizabeth: I am here to negot — [gets slapped and is shaken]
  Bo'sun: You will speak when spoken to.
• The Dragon: Bo'sun serves as this to Barbossa as his bo'sun.
• Dragon Ascendant: In the comics set between the first two movies, Bo'sun has escaped from jail and become the new leader of the cursed crew.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": A bo'sun is a position in a crew; it's short for "boat–swain", meaning the master of the boat, ie, the person whose job is the physical ordering of the crew (as opposed to the decision–making role of the captain and first and second mates). This man's name is completely unrecorded and he is referred to only by his title.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has the deepest voice of the crew, making him all the more intimidating.
• Nonchalant Dodge: Does this when Gillette swings a pulley at him.
• Psychotic Smirk: When he saddles Pintel and Ragetti with dressing up as women as a distraction.
• Savage Piercings: Bo'sun has some around his eyes.
• Scary Black Man: The largest member of the crew with African ancestry, and given his position in the crew, he means business.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Bo'sun is shown to have a low opinion about Pintel and Ragetti. He eye-rolls when he sees them with umbrellas, and when Elizabeth's blood proves to be inadequate for lifting the curse, he quickly blames the duo for bringing the wrong person. He also makes them wear dresses in order to distract Norrington's men.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Wears nothing but a baldric over his torso.
• Would Hit a Girl: He slaps Elizabeth in his first appearance when she attempts to speak on her behalf.

Koehler

Koehler

Played By: Treva Etienne

• Beard of Evil: He has a goatee.
• Boom, Headshot!: Subverted; Norrington shoots Koehler in the face at point-blank range but it does nothing thanks to the curse.
• Dreadlock Warrior: Koehler is a dreadlocked pirate with a Jamaican accent, and he duels Commodore Norrington himself.
• Elite Mooks: He and Twigg are among the more competent members of the Cursed Crew, and they tend to carry out tasks like blowing up the Interceptor and apparently leading the assault on the Dauntless.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Twigg and Koehler are hardly seen apart from each other. Koehler's death upon the lifting of the curse dismays Twigg so much that he surrenders first.
• Mortality Ensues: Koehler is stabbed by Norrington right after the curse is lifted, killing him.
• Neck Lift: Koehler grabs Jack's neck through the prison bars, showing him the curse as his arm (Koehler's) turns to bone and rags in the moonlight.
  Jack: "So there is a curse."
  Koehler: "You know nothing of Hell."
• Rugged Scar: He has stripes of scars all over his face, and is a fearsome fighter.
• Scary Black Man: Though not as tall and muscular as Bo'sun, Koehler is a black-skinned and ruthless pirate.
• Spiteful Spit: Does this when he meets his former captain Jack for the first time in ten years.
• Villainous Friendship: Koehler is never seen far from from Twigg. His death dismays Twigg so much that he surrenders and drops his weapon instantly.
• Weapons of Their Trade: He uses a boarding axe during his duel against Norrington, and actually shows scary proficiency with it.

Twigg

Twigg

Played By: Michael Berry Jr.

• Alas, Poor Villain: There's something pitiable in Twigg's posture after his companion Koehler dies and Twigg drops his weapon.
• Cutlass Between the Teeth: He holds a knife between his teeth while beaching Port Royal and sneaking aboard HMS Dauntless.
• Dual Wield: Wields a knife alongside a cutlass.
• Elite Mooks: He and Koehler are among the more competent members of the Cursed Crew, and they tend to carry out tasks like blowing up the Interceptor and apparently leading the assault on the Dauntless.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Twigg's left cheek is adorned by a scar.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Twigg and Koehler are hardly seen apart from each other. Koehler's death upon the lifting of the curse dismays Twigg so much that he surrenders first.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: He has a bushy beard styled like this, and he's certainly homicidal and quick-tempered.
• Villainous Friendship: Twigg is never seen far from from Koehler. Koehler's death dismays Twigg so much that he surrenders and drops his weapon instantly.

Jacoby

Jacoby

Played By: Vince Lozano & John DiMaggio (Voice)

• Accordion to Most Sailors: In the scene in which the crew is first shown in their skeletal forms, Jacoby is playing an accordion to entertain the crew.
• Bald of Evil: While not readily apparent due to his headwear, it can be seen that he is bald when his skeletal form leaves his hat in tatters.
• Beard of Evil: He has a long braided black beard with lighted fuses as an obvious homage to the infamous Blackbeard (who does appear in a later movie).
• Giggling Villain: Jacoby really enjoys tossing those mini-bombs.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Jacoby is blown up with one of his own bombs.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Along with Weatherby and Monk before Will lights one of Jacoby's bombs and he and Elizabeth push the three pirates out of the light so they can't get to the bomb before it goes off.
• In the Back: Will takes Jacoby down (though he gets back up) during the attack on Port Royal by throwing an ax into his back.
• Mad Bomber: Jacoby primarily uses grenades.
• Oh, Crap!: Lets out a whimpery "No fair!" when he finds himself about to be blown up from the inside with one of his own bombs.
• Screaming Warrior: Yells a lot while fighting.
• Terrible Trio: Forms one with Weatherby and Monk in a duel against Will at Isla de Muerta.
• Troll: When Will throws a hatchet into his back, Jacoby pretends to die, but he later reveals himself to Will to confuse the blacksmith who doesn't yet know about Jacoby's immortality.
• Uncertain Doom: The last we saw of him was getting blown up from the inside. It's very unlikely that he rebuilt himself before the curse was lifted, and therefore died of his wounds.

Grapple

Grapple

Played By: Trevor Goddard

• Ax-Crazy: During his fight with Will, he gets up close before telling him "Say goodbye!" with a Slasher Smile on his face.
• Blown Across the Room: During the attack on Port Royal, Grapple gets hit with a hanging sign, sending him through a shop window.
• Hooks and Crooks: Grapple wields a grappling hook.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Neither he nor Mallot are seen again after they are knocked over the Pearl. It's unknown if they rebuilt themselves before the curse was lifted (which would otherwise kill them), but even if they did, they probably drowned afterwards, as they were completely underwater.

Mallot

Mallot

Played By: Brye Cooper

• Beard of Evil: A thin one kept together with a bead.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Neither he nor Grapple are seen again after they are knocked over the Pearl. It's unknown if they rebuilt themselves before the curse was lifted (which would otherwise kill them), but even if they did, they probably drowned afterwards, as they were completely underwater.
• Wicked Cultured: Downplayed. In the scene in which the crew is first shown in their skeletal forms, Mallot is playing a violin to entertain the crew.

Weatherby and Monk

Weatherby and Monk

Weatherby

Monk

Played By: D.P Fitzgerald and Michael Earl Lane

• Attempted Rape: Both are among the pirates pawing at Elizabeth after the Interceptor explodes; Will's arrival prevents them from going further.
• Bald of Evil: Weatherby is bald.
• Beard of Evil: Monk has a beard.
• Butt-Monkey: Monk serves as this during the final duel in the cave; he gets one of his swords stolen by Jack, shoved into a pool of water by Jack, briefly duels Will before getting his head shoved into a bucket and then knocked into the water (again), spends most of the fight trying to get his head out of the bucket, and once he manages to get his head out of said bucket, takes a staff to the face by Elizabeth. It doesn't end there: Elizabeth and Will promptly shish-kebab him with Weatherby and Jacoby before blowing them up with a bomb.
• Dual Wielding: Monk normally fights with two swords. One of them is snatched by Jack and tossed to Will.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Weatherby has an earring only on his right ear.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Will and Elizabeth run a gaff through both of them as well as Jacoby when they're all skeletal. They then place a bomb inside Jacoby and push the three pirates out of the moonlight before they can throw the bomb away and avoid being blown up.
• Screaming Warrior: Weatherby yells a lot in battle, notably during the duel at Isla de Muerta.
• Tattooed Crook: Weatherby has facial tattoos.
• The Brute: Weatherby, along with Bo'Sun and Dog-Ear, is one of the tallest members of the crew, and is pretty tough.
• The Quiet One: Weatherby does speak when the pirates first land in Port Royal, though he's hard to hear, and Monk never speaks at all.
• Uncertain Doom: The last we saw of them was getting blown to pieces. It's very unlikely that they rebuilt themselves before the curse was lifted, and therefore died of their wounds.
• Would Hit a Girl: Weatherby is shown restraining Elizabeth by her hair while Will is negotiating with Barbossa.

Bootstrap Bill

See The Flying Dutchman.

Other Crew Members

Bollard, Cremble and Pike

Bollard, Cremble and Pike

Played By: Danny Kirrane (Bollard), Adam Brown (Cremble) and Delroy Atkinson (Pike)

Appear In: Dead Men Tell No Tales

• Color-Coded Characters: Pike wears yellow, Cremble blue and Bollard red.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Most of their scenes are Played for Laughs, but they battle the Royal Navy and an undead Spanish crew and survive.
• Dumb Muscle: All three of them serve as this, but Bollard, is the largest and dumbest of the three. He himself even admits that all pirates aren't very bright.
• Fat Bastard: Bollard, who's the most evil of the pirates and the chubbiest.
• Fat and Skinny: Bollard is fat, while Cremble is skinny.
• Hidden Depths: Cremble is shown to have some navigation skills and is the only one who understands what Carina is talking about while she's explaining 'The Map No Man Can Read'. That said, he's still not very bright.
• Hot-Blooded: Bollard immediately suggest killing Jack, Henry and Carina when they learn Salazar is after them.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: They abandon Jack since they don't earn enough and rescue him only because Henry pays them to. They do join the heroes in the final battle, but mostly because out of necessity since they don't have anywhere else to go.
• Only in It for the Money: The only reason they rescue Jack is because they're being paid to.
• Remember the New Guy?: They only appear in the fifth movie and are introduced as if we already know them. This is most likely since they serve as replacements for Jack's original crew.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: While not smart, Cremble is the smartest of the crew and the only pirate to wear glasses.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Bollard and Cremble are almost exact copies of Pintel and Ragetti, both appearance and personality wise.
• Terrible Trio: Whilst on the side of the heroes, they are not good people and are always seen together.
• Those Two Guys: Bollard and Cremble, Bollard even saves Cremble when he's being overpowered by a Royal Marine.
• Token Minority: Pike is the only black pirate aboard the Dying Gull.
• Undying Loyalty: Subverted, they leave the crew after another failed back robbery.

Leech

Leech

Played By: San Shella

Appear In: Dead Man's Chest

• All There in the Script: His name isn’t spoken on screen but it’s listed in the credits.
• Asshole Victim: He was organizing a mutiny against Jack and tries to leave the crew behind on Isla De Pelegostos.
• Disney Villain Death: He and half of the remaining crew fall into a chasm when their bone cage breaks.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Jack wasn't a good captain, often giving out unclear orders and getting most of the crew killed when he ordered them to stay at the cannibal island. In Leech's first appearance, even Gibbs is agreeing with Leech and the rest of the crew about how things haven't been working out for them under Jack's leadership.
• Karmic Death: After trying to abandon half of the crew, he causes his group to fall to their deaths.
• Loose Lips: What gives away to the pirates in the other bone cage that he's planning to commandeer the Black Pearl.
  Will: Come on men! It'll take all of us to crew the Black Pearl!
  Leech: Actually, you wouldn't need everyone! About six would do. [realizes there's six men in both cages as the occupants of the other cage pause to look at him] Oh dear.
• Mauve Shirt: He gets a name, a few lines and a little bit personality before dying.
• Oh, Crap!!: After realizing there’s six people in each bone cage, meaning whoever escapes first gets to steal the Pearl.
• Red Shirt: He gets a few scenes which show him to be unsatisfied with Jack’s leadership before perishing.
• Remember the New Guy?: He first appears in the second movie.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He’s shown to not be satisfied with Jack’s leadership and grins when abandoning the others.
• Token Minority: He’s the only Indian pirate on Jack’s crew.
• Too Dumb to Live: He spills the fact that only half the crew is needed to crew the Black Pearl, then he grabs a (non lethal) snake and panics, causing his cage to fall.
• Villain Ball: After he spurts out that only half of them are needed to crew the ship, the pirates immediately decide to leave the other group behind.

Lejon

Lejon

Played By: LeJon Stewart

Appear In: Dead Man's Chest

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• Big Damn Heroes: Attempts one when he grabs the rifle in the battle against the Kraken, but gets killed before he can pull the trigger.
• Red Shirt: Despite being the only extra to escape from the Pelegostos Tribe, he only gets one line and no noticeable moments besides his death.