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King Ferdinand VI
Ferdinand VI, King of Spain
Played By: Sebastián Armesto
Appears In: On Stranger Tides
The King of Spain during the time of the movies. He only appears in the fourth movie, in which he's looking for the Fountain of Youth.
- The Bad Guy Wins: He is more of a Hero Antagonist than a villain, but an antagonist nonetheless, and his orders ultimately get carried successfully.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He and George II are their sides' respective Greater-Scope Villain, although, again, he's not as simple as a villain.
- Dashing Hispanic: He's young, handsome and stylish, in stark contrast to the other monarch presented in the film.
- Greater-Scope Villain: As the head of the massive Spanish Empire, he might be considered the single most poweful antagonist at the time the series is set; only King George II of Great Britain rivals him, and the film undermines this by comparing the resources of their respective expeditions for the Fountain of Youth, in which the Royal Navy only has the disloyal Barbossa in a light vessel in contrast to The Spaniard' entire flotilla. However, his participation in the franchise is very limited, only sending the Spaniard in the aforementioned mission and being likely satisfied with the outcome.
- Hero Antagonist: He wants to destroy the Fountain to remove a blasphemy against God from the world, not to use it.
- Historical Domain Character: He's a historical character.
- Minor Major Character: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the very first film. As the King of Spain, he's the legal owner of Cortés' disappeared treasure, the Spaniard's superior, and the man Salazar should answer to. However, he only has one scene in the saga, and it's short.
- Non-Action Big Bad: He looks like he could do the job, physically speaking, but he stays in Spain and never fights in battle.
- Real Men Love Jesus: This leads to him disapproving of the Fountain of Youth, seeing it as an affront to God and ordering it to be destroyed. One of the reasons the Bible condemns paganism was because paganism, in the time and place when those verses were written, involved Human Sacrifice. This depiction of the Fountain of Youth gets the "extra years" from doing just that. Furthermore, it does not grant eternal life; it just extends life for as long as the sacrifices keep coming and doesn't make you immortal just like people claim.
- The Rival: To King George II.
Royal Navy
The Spaniard
The Spaniard
Played By: Óscar Jaenada
Appears In: On Stranger Tides
An agent in the employ of King Ferdinand VI of Spain; he's the first party to set out after the Fountain of Youth, which prompts King George II to send Barbarossa to claim it for himself. This in turn, prompts Blackbeard (and Jack) to set sail as well, kicking off the plot for the entire fourth movie. For the most part he serves as a distant enemy to all the other seekers of the Fountain of Youth, actually ending up being the last to get there. His actions once getting there, however, have the most drastic consequences.
- Ambiguous Situation: The only time he gets ready to fight personally, against Blackbeard nothing less, his opponent is mortally wounded by Barbossa before the duel can begin. This leaves open the question whether the Spaniard would be then revealed to be understandably out of his league or he would have really proved somehow capable to take on the sorcerous pirate.
- Anti-Villain: He's ruthless and willing to kill anyone who stands between him and his goal, but doesn't seem all that malevolent otherwise. He gently passes by Barbossa's ship even though he had it outgunned, outnumbered and outpaced, and shortly after he busts Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa's attempts at stealing the chalices, he and his men could have easily killed them right then and there, yet decided instead to simply tie them to a palm tree.
- The Bad Guy Wins: While technically not a bad guy, he succeeds in his goal of destroying the Fountain of Youth.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Along with Blackbeard and Barbossa who are pursuing their own agendas during On Stranger Tides, the Spaniard is competing with them to find the Fountain of Youth. Though, he has the least screen time and really can't even be considered a villain.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The reason the Spainard ordered his troops to hold their fire during Jack and Barbossa's escape; they can help their quest for the Fountain.
- Dashing Hispanic: A polite and effective Spanish officer ruthlessly pursuing the Fountain of Youth.
- The Dragon: He technically counts as one for the Spanish King, being the naval officer carrying out the plan of his boss (and a higher ranking threat to pirates).
- Enigmatic Minion: To the King Ferdinand of Spain. Considering he's following orders and has only a couple lines, we never hear his own thoughts or motives on the whole matter.
- Enlightened Antagonist: This is what sets him apart from the rest of players in the quest. Despite being repeatedly in position to wipe out his enemies, he declines the chance every time, and his true goal is ultimately revealed to be a trascendent one.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Señorita, the chalices, por favor!
- Hero Antagonist: He's just an officer, a patriot and a Catholic doing what he believes to be best for his country, his king and his God.
- Invincible Villain: Or rather, Invincible Hero Antagonist. Nevertheless, he starts up with the strongest party in the quest for the Fountain of Youth, is constantly one step ahead of the rest of the cast, moves around without any of the delays they are forced to endure, and achieves all of the objectives he's set out to do with nobody else being able to stop him. Maybe it's the fact that he's on a Mission from God.
- Knight Templar: The Fountain of Youth is essentially an evil artifact, so it's a good idea to destroy it even if his objections were dogmatic rather than moral.
- No Name Given: He notably doesn't introduce himself, and is only ever referred to as "the Spaniard" onscreen.
- Not Worth Killing: The Spaniard and his three galleons come across Barbossa's single, lighter ship while hunting for the Fountain of Youth. Though hopelessly outmatched, the British prepare for an attack, only it never comes. The Spaniard doesn't even look in their direction, impliedly because he doesn't think they're worth the time it'd take to crush them.
- Pet the Dog: He shows respect for the first enemy killed, and is pretty polite to Angélica, kindly calling her Señorita.
- Real Men Love Jesus: Judging by his words, he is offended by the Fountain's existence.
- Spaniard: Only God can grant eternal life; not this pagan water.
- Religious Bruiser: He's a devoted Catholic and badass willing to go up against zombie pirates and Blackbeard himself.
- The Unfought: He never duels any character, nor gets his hands dirty. He does squares up with Blackbeard, but the latter is mortally wounded In the Back before they can go at it.
- Villain Respect: Not so much a villain as he is just a man on an opposing side, but after shooting Lieutenant Groves dead while the latter is proclaiming the Fountain of Youth as the property of King George II, the Spaniard calmly tells his men to make a note of the man's bravery.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His duty to King and God is to destroy the Fountain of Youth. Anything that gets in his way is dead meat.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He'll kill enemy soldiers trying to claim land, but he'd rather have his officers handling women rather than outright kill them. That said, it's very likely he would have been harsher on Angélica had she tried to resist.
- You Fool!: Uses it almost word by word in his treatment of Blackbeard, chiding him for his pagan ways.
Spanish Officer
Spanish Officer
Played By: Gerard Monaco
Appears In: On Stranger Tides
An officer in the Spaniard's expedition, where he seems to play a second-in-command role.
- Dashing Hispanic: Like his commander, he's a Spanish soldier with some flair.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Jack and Barbossa manage to steal the Chalices of Cartagena from him because he's examining them in an open tent without any guards nearby. Then it's subverted when it turns out there was an entire patrol of arcabuceros watching around after all.
- Manly Facial Hair: He stands out for his quite impressive mostacho, as was custom of Spanish veterans at the time.
- Mook Lieutenant: Aside from a soldier he is sometimes seen tagging along, the officer the only other Spaniard with a bit of characterization and screentime.
- No Name Given: Again like his commander, he's not given a name.
- Undying Loyalty: According to the film's visual guide, only the Spaniard knew the mission's true purpose; the rest of the soldiers and sailors follow him out of absolute trust.
Former members
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st. Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca
Played By: Nobody
Appears In: The Curse of the Black Pearl (mentioned)
The Spanish conquistador, who led an expedition to mainland Mexico and formed part of the generation of Spaniards that achieved the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs delivered him a stone chest filled with 882 pieces of gold in an attempt to stop his bloodshed, but was not enough, causing the heathen gods to curse it.
His character is further explored in the Pirates of the Caribbean Expanded Universe, where a young Jack Sparrow seeks the Sword of Cortés.
- Ax-Crazy: The Aztecs offered him a veritable treasure to stop the slaughter, but this only made Cortés increase the massacre in order to get even more riches.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: While the historical Cortés was already a skilled strategist, tactician and diplomat, this version beats him to the punch. As seen in the franchise's novels, he had a borderline omnipotent magical sword that made him unstoppable, and apparently also conquered México without any help from the Tlaxcaltecs or any other allied natives (quite naturally, given the previous point). On the other hand, it seems this Cortés is far dumber too, possibly because any smarts he might have had eventually atrophied due to the usage of his sword.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: His portrayal here fits his pop culture image to a T, being a bloodthirsty, racist colonialist who at some points of his backstory dips into Stupid Evil, all of which are traits inaccurate to at least some degree. A particularly recurrent characteristic that is kept here is his methodical genocide of the Aztec Empire, which in real life was actually done by his native allies, ancestral enemies to the Aztecs who capitalized on the chance to take revenge on them (Cortés even attempted to stop the massacre, but was mostly unable to do so because the allies outnumbered his own Spaniards by a ridiculous margin).
- Karma Houdini: After all his misdeeds with the Aztecs, the heathen gods cursed the gold, but Cortés himself got scot free in his lifetime, somehow not being affected by the curse himself (possibly because the sword impeded it). If the story follows real life, he would only meet a bit of a political and economical downgrade for completely unrelated reasons. Subverted in the novels, where his spirit meets a Fate Worse than Death.
- Old Soldier: Has a long military career on him.
- Posthumous Character: Cortés is only mentioned in the first film during Barbossa's narration, as he is long gone by then.
- Reality Warper: The power of his sword, which can transform and conjure things out of thin air, among many other abilities.
Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro González, 1st. Marquis of the Conquista
Played By: Nobody
Appears In: At World's End (mentioned)
The leader of the Pizarro brothers and second uncle to Hernán Cortés, as well as the old Spanish conquistador who accomplished the Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire. While speaking with Scarlett and Giselle, Captain Jack Sparrow admitted to never have met him, but loved his pies.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear what exactly did Jack tell the wenches about Pizarro, although it's clearly some kind of fancy story where he somehow met a man who died almost 200 years earlier (and was presumably not affected by any curse, as it is all too usual in the franchise).
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: Jack seems to think Pizarro was famous for his pies. Maybe he's right and this version of Pizarro was a Chef of Iron.
Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa
Played By: Nobody
Appears In: On Stranger Tides
A famed Spanish explorer and conquistador. Among other feats, he led the first European expedition to Florida, and later went on a quest for the fabled Fountain of Youth, which he found on an unchartered island before dying in some mysterious way. His skeletal corpse is still in his ship, the Santiago, shipwrecked in the island.
- Ambiguous Situation:
- It's never even suggested how he and his crew died. There's no other people in the island, and they seem to have died on land, away from the mermaids' clutches. For that matter, it's also unknown how did the Santiago end up perched in a damn cliff's edge.
- The mystery continues after Ponce's death, as his skeleton also seems to act as a supernatural guardian of the map, which is not explained either. Considering the franchise's usual shenanigans, it is probably some kind of curse, but which and why is anyone's best guess.
- Dem Bones: When Jack tries to take the island's map from Ponce de León's fingers, the skeleton turns his head to him in a sort of silent admonition. He returns to his initial position when Jack lets the map go.
- Old Soldier: According to his background, he fought in places as varied as Granada, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Florida.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time the Spaniard finds him. Downplayed, however, if we interpret that the curse animating his bones is still part of his conscience.
- Rags to Riches: Like many other conquistadores, he was born to an Impoverished Patrician family and sought fame and fortune as a soldier.
The Castaway
The Spanish Castaway
Played By: Norberto Morán
Appears In: On Stranger Tides
The last remnant of Ponce de León's crew, an ancient sailor who has been kept alive thanks to the Fountain of Youth. 200 years after the death of his captain, he finds somehow his way to Spain, where he's discovered by fishermen who bring him to the King. He carries with him the expedition's log, which sets the Spaniards on the search for the Fountain.
- Ambiguously Evil: It's implied he sacrificed the lives of several of his colleagues in order to keep living, which likely makes him a traitorous bastard, but his desire to return to Spain casts ambiguity about his mindset. Whether he wanted to atone for his sins by bringing the log and info to the King, or just die in his homeland, is ultimately unknown.
- Ambiguous Situation: Leaving his motivations aside, it's unknown why it took so much time for him to reach Spain. The film's junior novelization even claims that he actually set off "only" 40 years before the film's events, having been lost in the sea since.
- Bald of Evil: He's bald, and indulged in some Human Sacrifice in the past.
- Beard of Barbarism: Has a shaggy beard, having been lost to the world.
- Died Happily Ever After: He dies of old age when his stolen lifetime runs off in the palace. According to the novelizations, he eases off into death, implying he found some peace on it.
- No Name Given: His true name is unknown, being credited as both "Spanish Castaway" and "Ancient Sailor" in official materials.
- Really 700 Years Old: He looks just elderly, but is actually well over 200 years old by the point he dies.
The Silent Mary
The Crew
"It's time to hunt a pirate!"
The ghosts of The Silent Mary's crew, trapped within the Devil's Triangle by a curse after their death since a young Jack Sparrow outmaneuvered them. Once Jack Sparrow gets rid of his magical compass, they become free to roam the seas.
- Alas, Poor Villain: The destruction of the Trident lifts their curse, turning them back to mortal men. They are all overjoyed by this... until they realize that they're at the bottom of the sea which is about to be refilled with water. They then try to reach the anchor of the Black Pearl in vain, with their captain leaving them to drown (though he isn't able to escape death thanks to Barbossa).
- Body Horror: Every one of them save Salazar were killed in an explosion, resulting in their ghostly forms missing large portions of their bodies. One of them is merely a floating hat and a forearm holding a saber.
- Cool Boat: Before Jack Sparrow led it to its doom, the Silent Mary was packed with cannons to engage several pirate ships at the same time and obliterate them. Under the undead curse, it looks more like the skeleton of a ship, and can lift its own bow to crash it on the hapless ships of the living.
- Cursed with Awesome: The Devil's Triangle curse has some important shortcomings (they cannot set foot on land and are probably in some kind of unpleasant state), but in turn it also grants them and their ship several awesome powers. If they were powerful pirate hunters back when they were alive, they are now basically unstoppable; the only way to beat them is precisely wiping out their curse.
- Custom Uniform: Their black and white navy uniforms are notably different from the dark green ones used by the Spanish Royal Navy in On Stranger Tides, hinting they might be a more specialized or elite branch of their fleet, or that the uniform changed at some point in the intervening decades.
- Dark Is Evil: Even before they died, the most prominent colors of the crew and their ship were black and grey.
- Dashing Hispanic: Subverted. Although their captain is quite badass and stylish, those Spaniards don't generally share the capa y espada poise of their countrymen from the previous film. After dying and becoming undead, furthermore, they can only be described as haunting.
- Everyone Has Standards: A flashback shows some of Salazar's men looking uncomfortable as they are ordered to kill surrendering pirates. The lost this trait with their first death, though.
- Fate Worse than Death: After dying, they were trapped in a cavern within the Devil's Triangle and forced to remain within, waiting for unfortunate ships to enter their domain. They manage to escape it once Jack Sparrow "betrays" his compass. They escape further when they are free from the curse thanks to the destruction of Poseidon's Trident.
- Floating Limbs: The explosion of the ship left some of the crew in this state in undeath.
- Flying Dutchman: Ghost Piratesnote who are Barred from the Afterlife? Check. Can't set foot on dry land? Check.
- Ghost Pirate: Subverted in that none of them are pirates, but pirate hunters. Although they do seem to attack other ships than pirates once they are freed from the Devil's Triangle, presumably on the basis that they are Spaniards and therefore English ships are their enemies.
- Gratuitous English: They are part of the Spanish Royal Navy, yet their ship has an English name. While Silent Mary might be an intentional reference to the real life Bermuda Triangle Ghost Ship Mary Celeste, apparently the ship's name was going to be La Silenciosa MarÃa (its proper Spanish translation) early in production.
- Jacob Marley Apparel: The Silent Mary's crew not only still wear the tattered remains of their Spanish uniforms, but the curse preserves their bodies at the exact moment of death. Since the crew was annihilated by a powder explosion, nearly all of them are missing body parts, though this doesn't seem to impair them at all (evidenced by one poor fellow who is little more than a floating hat and arm).
- Mooks: Only Salazar and to a much lesser extent Lesaro have any characterization. The others are just nameless goons.
- Non-Human Undead: The crew keeps undead sharks onboard to unleash them if need be, such as when chasing Jack Sparrow, Henry Turner and Carina Smyth. The ship also has undead seagulls in its wake.
- Revenant Zombie: Probably a middle step between that and Vengeful Ghost (they are physically corporeal and retain the amount of body mass they had while dying, but the rest is supported by ghostly floating, and they are capable to walk weightlessly on the water), but in any case they fit the archetype of a dead who returns with his personality intact out of revenge.
- Rogue Agent: Implied. They have ostensibly not renovated their ties to the Spanish Empire after having been technically KIA for many decades, and they don't claim any particular political antagonism towards Great Britain (although they do seem to act on it, unnecesarily butchering entire non-pirate British ships except by single messengers, possibly out of custom or sheer Ax-Crazy).
- A Rotten Time to Revert: They probably would've been more thrilled about having their curse broken if it hadn't happened while they're all at the bottom of the ocean, with the waters that were previously parted by the Trident's magic now about to crash down on them.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Salazar and his ship and crew were sealed inside the Devil's Triangle for several decades, thanks to Jack Sparrow. Should Jack be separated from his compass, his worst fear would be unleashed into the world — and his worst fear appears to be Salazar and his crew. Sure enough, they are freed from the Devil's Triangle when a drunken Jack uses the compass to pay himself some rum.
- Shadow Archetype: Salazar and his crew have similarities with Barbossa and his crew aboard the Black Pearl from the first movie. Both groups were cursed into a state of undeadliness in which the pros don't exactly outweigh the cons, and they are notorious in the world of pirates as merciless pirate hunters and especially vicious pirates, respectively. Both crews have at least one undead animal onboard their ghostly ship, and their journey to their cursed state was linked to Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl (or the former Wicked Wench).note The state of Salazar's crew is arguably worse, for unlike Barbossa's cursed crew, they can be destroyed if they touch the land, and they don't know any way to undo their curse. Barbossa's crew composed of homicidal and greedy plunderers, but they weren't genocidal in any way. In a sense, Barbossa is facing the crew of the Silent Mary as worse versions of himself and his former crew. Both crews are freed from their curses at an inconvenient time when they'd have otherwise loved it (with Jack having a crucial role in both cases again), leading them to die or getting arrested. In a sense of irony, Barbossa was killed by Jack when his curse was lifted, and he personally sees to the unhexed Salazar's death with a weapon provided by Jack and at the cost of his own life.
- Vengeful Ghost: Technically, being ghostly entities whose leader is fueled by revenge.
- Walk on Water: All of them can run on water.
- Weaksauce Weakness: None of them are able to step on dry land. If any try, by purpose or accident, they immediately disintegrate.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: They are basically living simulations of their cause of death. Given that most of them died in an explosion, it means their bodies remain ripped apart and lack entire pieces.
Captain
Salazar
Capitán Armando Salazar
"Find Sparrow for me, and relay a message from Capitán Salazar! Tell him... Death will come straight for him!"
Click here to see him before his death
Played By: Javier Bardem Other Languages
Appears In: Dead Men Tell No Tales
"Pirates had infected the seas for generations, so I vowed to eliminate them all!"
A Spanish captain who once went on a crusade to rid the Caribbean of its pirates with his ship, the Silent Mary. At some point, he chased a young Jack Sparrow up until a place called the Devil's Triangle. Sparrow outmaneuvered the Silent Mary and caused it to crash on reef, leading to its destruction and taking the lives of Salazar and his crew. The place was cursed, it turned Salazar and his crew into ghosts and trapped them there. When Sparrow separated himself from his compass, the Silent Mary's crew was free to terrorize the seas, seeking to exact revenge on Sparrow and find the Trident of Poseidon to come back among the living.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In the film, he claims both his father and grandfather were killed by pirates. In the novelization, it's stated that Salazar himself killed his father because he was corrupt and accepted pirate bribes. Those backstories are not entirely incompatible, given that someone as zealous as Salazar might argue pirates were the cause of his father's death after all, but is still an oddity. Jerry Bruckheimer has stated that the novelization's explanation is actually the canonical one.
- Arch-Enemy: Salazar competes with Cutler Beckett as Jack Sparrow's most important enemy. Jack first initiated his career as the captain of the Black Pearl (or Wicked Wench as it was named back then) by killing Salazar who was undefeated until that point. After Jack has become a shell of his former glorious self, he betrays his compass by trading it for rum, releasing from the Devil's Triangle the now ghostly Salazar whose primary goal is to find and kill Jack for his humiliating death. Salazar's desire to kill Jack is so passionate that after regaining his humanity, the Spaniard abandons his loyal crew to drown at the bottom of the ocean because he doesn't want Jack to escape alive. After Jack has confronted Salazar and played a role in the Spaniard's final death, he has regained the command of the Black Pearl and gotten back on his feet.
- Ax-Crazy: He was already a nasty Knight Templar in life, but it's clear from his unhinged, gleefully murderous ways that the curse of the Devil's Triangle hasn't done any wonders for his sanity.
- Bad Black Barf: He spews black gas-like goo when talking sometimes, implied to be a ghostly simulation of old blood.
- Big Bad: Of Dead Men Tell No Tales. Some international versions even call it Salazar's Revenge.
- Body Horror: Whatever it was that brought him and his crew back, it did not see fit to bring them back exactly as they were (or rather brought them back exactly as they were while dying). He looks twisted and almost part of the sea, a la Davy Jones.
- Brought Down to Normal: When the Trident is destroyed, he and his men become alive and mortal again. This also means they can drown or be hurt by normal weapons.
- Came Back Wrong: To be fair, he wasn't exactly the nicest guy before his death, but his post-resurrection persona is positively demonic compared to his former days as a Spanish fleet captain.
- Cold Ham: The sheer intensity of Salazar's lines, particularly when it comes to his hatred of pirates, overcomes Javier Bardem's slight understated performance.
- Composite Character: Incorporates aspects of four past antagonists. Like Curse of the Black Pearl's Barbossa, he's undead (although in a different way) and has a personal enmity with Jack Sparrow. Like Cutler Beckett, he has a genocidal hatred of pirates. Like the Spaniard, he's Spanish and an incredibly powerful player, and has a goal that cannot be entirely considered evil. And like Davy Jones, he possesses supernatural traits. Most notably, a physical aversion to dry land.
- Dirty Coward: With the sea bearing down on the now normal Salazar and his crew, he attempts to save himself by clinging on to the Pearl's anchor Jack Sparrow is using to escape, leaving his crew to drown and paying no heed to his loyal lieutenant Lesaro calling after him.
- Disproportionate Retribution: His treatment of Barbossa's crew. Yes, they are pirates, and incredibly successful ones, meaning they probably did deserve punishment of a definitively final kind, but Salazar goes out of his way to make it as needlessly horrific as possible, hanging the ones he already didn't kill up and murdering them one by one.
- The Dreaded: By pirates. Given that he's killed thousands of them in his lifetime, it makes sense.
- Dual Wielding: Limps about with the aid of a pair of swords.
- Even Evil Has Standards: His father was a Navy official who let pirates do whatever they wanted in exchange for bribes, even though it was pirates that killed Armando's grandfather. This corruption so thoroughly disgusted Armando (whose innocent mother died in prison as a consequence of it) that it prompted him to murder his father as his Start of Darkness.
- Evil Counterpart:
- To James Norrington. Both are officers in the Royal Navy of their respective countries who disdain pirates and aspire to wipe them out. They both suffer a fall from grace of which they blame Jack Sparrow. However, the more honorable Norrington cares for justice more than revenge, and he doesn't like to ruin lives to advance himself, expressing remorse for losing his crew because he tried to chase Jack Sparrow through a hurricane and coming to regret giving Beckett the heart of Davy Jones. He also adopts a greyer viewpoint in regards to pirates and a sense of respect for Jack Sparrow. The more vindictive and petty Salazar never changes his bigoted opinions about pirates and has less qualms about ending lives in his fanatical crusade, even abandoning his loyal crew to drown just to get to Jack.
- As already expressed in the Shadow Archetype section above, Salazar is sort of a dark mirror of Barbossa. Notably, both men were killed by their shared nemesis Jack Sparrow, but unlike Salazar, Barbossa doesn't hold a grudge against Jack for that and becomes more of a Friendly Enemy with him.
- Evil Is Petty:
- He is seen casually eating an apple before ordering his men to gun down drowning survivors of a pirate ship, and said pirates were waving a White Flag on top of that.
- His implied motivation for his resurrection. He simply could not get over the fact that, of all things note , he was killed by a pirate. He's going through all of this and doing everything because he got bested by one guy.
- Evil Plan: "Eradicate all pirates" doesn't sound evil until you realize that he's gone Knight Templar about it. There's also the revenge angle.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of being played by Javier Bardem. His naturally deep voice is deepened even further by the means he's been rendered undead.
- Fatal Flaw: His obsession with destroying pirates has led to his death twice. His first death was after being tricked into sailing his ship, the Silent Marry, into the Devil's Triangle, resulting in his first death. After Salazar attempted to kill his daughter and the others, Barbossa brought about his second death.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's rather polite when he's talking with Henry, particularly when he asks Turner to deliver his message... but in the process, guts the terrified man in the next cell. When he's talking with Barbossa, he instructs his men to kill one of the Revenge's crew every time he taps his sword... which he is using as a cane. And after they strike a deal, he taps it a few more times just to be petty. He tries to kill Hector at first light rather than after the sun has risen, and Barbossa has to provoke a Motive Rant to buy enough time for them to see the Dying Gull.
- Freudian Excuse: His grandfather was murdered by pirates, who then corrupted his father, which led to Armando's innocent mother being sent to prison (where she died) due to the law stipulating that wives be held accountable for the crimes of their husbands, regardless of whether or not they even had anything to do with them. Armando killed his father in disgust for his corruption, and then swore to eradicate the pirates that had corrupted him, thereby prompting the downfall of the Salazar family.
- Ghost Pirate: Technically not a pirate as he made his life's goal to kill them, but fits the trope otherwise.
- Handicapped Badass: He uses two swords as crutches, although he is not always shown actually needing them.
- Insistent Terminology: Salazar does not kill men. He kills pirates.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Played with, in that he doesn't do this directly. However, he refuses to see pirates as human beings.
- Kick the Dog: Having a man in a brig gutted for whimpering with understandable terror at seeing a group of undead walk into the room.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: His first on-screen murders include a group of arrogant, classist officers who'd just arrested Henry Turner to trying to warn them about going into the Devil's Triangle, one of whom'd even said he wanted to execute Henry for it. It's hard to feel too sorry for them when he does that (the rest of the crew, sure, but not the captain).
- Knight Templar: He was ruthless against pirates when he was alive, seeing them as a "disease" and not as humans. He still seems to consider them fair game as an undead:Barbossa: I have heard stories of the mighty Spanish captain, who's hunted and killed thousands of men-
Salazar: No, no, no, no, not "men"! Pirates! - The Man Behind the Monsters: Due to the curse, the Silent Mary crewmen look like they looked at the moment they died. Most of them kicked the bucket in an explosion, meaning that their undead bodies are mangled sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable as people (one of them only has left an arm). Salazar, however, is implied to have died by drowning instead when he fell to the sea, so he enjoys a watery but relatively intact body.
- Moral Myopia:
- He was a well-known pirate hunter responsible for the deaths of thousands. He and his crew chased Jack Sparrow, but ended up crashing into a reef and died, but this made him be consumed by a desire of vengeance. While his victims were pirates, him being angry at one of the very people he was hunting down and trying to kill is a clear case of this.
- His Freudian Excuse also brings this up. Salazar hates pirates because a crew of them were responsible for the deaths of his father and grandfather, but his rage-fuelled crusade against them turned him into a mass-murdering maniac, something much worse than the ones who murdered his family.
- Especially if you take the novelisation, which says Salazar killed his father himself, as canon.
- Neck Lift: Does this to Captain Toms while answering his What the Hell Are You? question with "Death", twisting his neck immediately afterwards.
- Never My Fault: Salazar blames Jack and pirates in general for his death and fall from grace, but on examining the sequence of events, the fault in his death lies in Salazar's own pride and wrath, for chasing Jack into the Devil's Triangle because he was "mocking [his] pride", a decision entirely his own. On his resurrection, this pattern continues; Salazar begins gutting Barbossa's crew for Jack's escape onto land, and later dies again due to "playing with his food" and swinging Jack around with the Trident before attempting to kill him, giving Carina and Henry time to smash the Trident, thus removing his invulnerability, as well as wasting precious time usable to kill Jack and/or Henry & Carina or escape Poseidon's tomb.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Being a Spanish pirate hunter active in the mid-18th century, with some ugly scars and a family involved in the business, he seems loosely inspired by real life captain Antonio Barceló, only operating in the Atlantic rather than the Mediterranean. Bardem even bears a passing resemblance to him.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: His skin is as livid as you would expect from an undead. He can harm the living, walks on water and seems to be intangible. He can also possess the living as he does to Henry Turner, but it's mentioned as irreversible without the Trident.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Of a sort.
- He so bitterly hates pirates that he views them all as sub-human. See his exchange with Barbossa under Knight Templar.
- He also has no issue killing British Royal Navy crews, though that could be from being formerly Spanish Navy and seeing them as enemies of Spain instead of any particular hatred towards them.
- Red Baron: "El Matador del Mar" (translated officially as "The Butcher of the Sea", but more literally "The Killer of the Sea", if not spelling literally "matador" as in bullfighting jargon).
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Salazar, even when living, wanted to rid the world of pirates. After his death, there is no pirate he wants to destroy more than Jack Sparrow, the young man who outsmarted and killed him.Salazar: He took everything from me, and filled me with ... rage.
- Say My Name: A creepier, more subdued variant than most - he often gleefully croons out "Jack Sparrooow~" constantly when he has Jack within his reach, emphasizing just how demented his hunger for revenge is.
- Self-Made Orphan: In the novelization, his father was a corrupt Admiral that took bribes from pirates until he was arrested by the authorities while Armando's mother was taken and sent to the workhouse where she died. When his father paid his sentence and returned home, Armando greeted him with a knife and killed him. As such, he blames pirates for ruining his family's life rather than his own father's deeds.
- Sincerity Mode: When he says "Will you say that to him, please?" to Henry after ordering him to deliver his warning to Jack Sparrow.
- Slasher Smile: As he asks Henry to relay his message to Jack Sparrow, he sports one of these.
- Sore Loser: The reason he's after Jack in the first place, he couldn't find peace in death knowing he was outsmarted by a pirate and pretty much came back as a zombie just to even the score with him.
- Spare a Messenger: Standard operating procedure. Salazar spares one man's life while his crew massacre everyone else on a ship. He does so with Henry Turner in order to have a death threat message delivered to Jack Sparrow.
- Spexico: Salazar became an eminently Mexican surname after the Conquest of America, and was already very rare to hear in continental Spain by the time the film is set. In spite of that, this character hails from mainland Spain, and his background doesn't mention any possible ascendance from the Indies.
- Sword Cane: Inverted by him using a pair of swords as crutches.
- Title Drop: When asking Henry to deliver his message.Salazar: "I'd tell him myself, but... dead men tell no tales."
- Toros y Flamenco: He's Spanish and sports a nickname that is a rather farfetched bullfighting metaphor, El Matador de Mar (matador translates literally as "killer", but it is never used in Spanish language outside of bullfighting lingo, where it is actually just another word for torero or bullfighter). He also does a little flamenco zapateo to order his cronies to kill Barbossa's men.
- Voice of the Legion: Salazar's voice as a ghost sounds to be distorted.
- Walk on Water: He charges on the water with his ghost crew, not bothering to use rowboats to land.
- Was Once a Man: Salazar and his crew used to be ordinary human pirate hunters — until a younger Jack Sparrow and his crew sent them and their ship to the depths of the ocean, only to awaken as the undead.
- Weaksauce Weakness: A rather large problem with Salazar's condition is that if he sets foot on land he promptly goes up in a puff of smoke.
- White Shirt of Death: Before his death, his uniform was predominantly white.
- Wild Hair: Salazar's hair has been messy and flowing ever since he became a ghost, and he's more of a vindictive vigilante than the naval officer of the King of Spain he was while he was alive, during which time his hair was neat.
- You Killed My Father: The reason why he wants to kill all pirates. His father and grandfather were killed by them.
Lieutenant
Lesaro
Lieutenant Lesaro
"Capitán, there must be another way. You know the dangers."
Click here to see him before his death
Played By: Juan Carlos Vellido
Appears In: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Salazar's most loyal officer onboard the Silent Mary. He served Salazar during his crusade against piracy and was onboard when they chased Jack Sparrow to the Devil's Triangle. He distinguishable from the rest of the crew through the eye patch he wears over his left eye before and after becoming a ghost.
- Aerith and Bob: "Lesaro" is not a known Spanish surname.
- Alas, Poor Villain: The way he's last seen — calling after his capitán who's leaving Lesaro and the rest of the crew to drown — reaches out to you.
- The Consigliere: Shows signs of this trope when he advises in clear concern his capitán not to go through with his plan to possess Henry's body with the risk of remaining trapped there or dying along with Henry on the land.
- Eye Patch Of Power: Wears an eye patch.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Lesaro follows his capitán's orders, but he's not unaware of how deeply revenge is influencing Salazar's judgement. During the flashback scene, Lesaro follows the order to shoot surrendering pirates struggling for their lives in the sea, but he doesn't exactly share Salazar's nonchalantness.
- Number Two: Lesaro is Capitán Salazar's second-in-command and most loyal crewmember.
Other Characters
Unaligned
Tia Dalma
Tia Dalma/Calypso
"A touch...of destiny!"
Played By: Naomie Harris
Appears In: Dead Man's Chest | At World's End
"It has been torture, trapped in this single form, cut off from the sea. From all that I love."
A mysterious voodoo woman with unknown connections to Jack.
- All Take and No Give: Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.
- Ascended Extra: In Dead Man's Chest she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in At World's End. Considering she's actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love, this was probably very deliberate.
- Barefoot Sage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if Pirati dei Caraibi comics are
◊ to believe◊, she doesn't wear shoes. The Kingdom Keepers series also describe her as perpetually barefoot. - Big Good: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after her subsequent betrayal.
- Bilingual Bonus: After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.
- The Beast Master: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs.
- Cluster F-Bomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
- Cool Old Lady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
- Cryptic Conversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
- Delighting in Riddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
- Distaff Counterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an expy of Yoda due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a God in Human Form and a manifestation of the sea...
- Everyone Has Standards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering Death Glare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
- Facial Markings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
- Giant Woman: After she is set free she is huge.
- God in Human Form: Calypso bound in human form.
- Hollywood Voodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
- Hot Witch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
- Lord of the Ocean: When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.
- Mad Oracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her speaking patterns, and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
- Magical Barefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
- Necromancer: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.
- Noodle Incident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
- Perky Goth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.Jack Sparrow: Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
- Physical God: She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.
- Power Makes Your Voice Deep: After she turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a Voice of the Legion tone.
- Really 700 Years Old: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
- Rule of Symbolism: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a Tsundere is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.
- Sadly Mythtaken: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of I Have Many Names.
- Sage Love Interest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
- Solitary Sorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in Dead Man's Chest.
- The Tease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.
- Time Abyss: She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.
- Tsundere: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. Then the temper comes out. She even points this out to Davy Jones, commenting it was what he liked about her. Keep in mind, she is the Anthropomorphic Personification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.
- Unstoppable Rage: After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she snaps and ensnares both the Black Pearl and the Dutchman into a raging storm.
- Walking Spoiler: Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.
- Water Is Womanly: As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over — tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.
- Wild Card: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has some sympathy for Jack Sparrow. Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win".
- Woman Scorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the Flying Dutchman and The Black Pearl.
- The Worm That Walks: After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.
- You No Take Candle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris—the actress who plays Tia Dalma—has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
Syrena
Syrena
Played By: Àstrid Bèrges-Frisbey
Appears In: On Stranger Tides
A benign mermaid that Blackbeard captures while hunting for the Fountain of Youth, and whom Philip falls in love with.
- Anti-Nihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a good man amidst the human species.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
- Fantastic Romance: With Philip, a human.
- Godiva Hair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
- Heel–Face Turn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Turns into one when forced to walk on land. In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
- Lightning Bruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
- Meaningful Name: In multiple ways:
- Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
- "Sirena" translates to mermaid in a number of languages.
- Mermaid Problem: Averted; mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.
- Nice Girl: A heroic mermaid.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species. This makes them spot on for the original concept of mermaids.
- Pet the Dog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.
- Token Good Teammate: The only mermaid who isn't a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
Prison Dog
Prison Dog
Played By: Twister (Black Pearl), Chopper (Dead Man's Chest and At World's End)
Appears In: The Curse Of The Black Pearl | Dead Man's Chest | At World's End
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
- A Dog Named "Dog": He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
- God Guise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's not?
- Mythology Gag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is never going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
- Noodle Incident: How does he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
- Really 700 Years Old: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in The Price of Freedom novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
Scarlett and Giselle
Scarlett and Giselle
Played By: Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Vanessa Branch (Giselle)
Appear in: Tales of the Code Wedlocked | The Curse Of The Black Pearl | Dead Man's Chest | At World's End
A pair of painted strumpets first encountered in Tortuga in the films. They function as slapstick (or slap Jack, mostly) comic relief.
- Mythology Gag: Scarlett is based off the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: Wedlocked aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold to the highest bidder.
- The Oldest Profession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.Giselle: (to Scarlett) You? Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of At World's End.
- Those Two Guys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
Other media
Legends Of The Brethren Court
The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
- The Ageless: Henry Morgan would be at least a century old, but the Shadow King isn't.
- Alchemy Is Magic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things gain life through said "alchemy".
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
- Big Bad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
- The Chessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
- Consummate Liar: Lies well enough to deceive Sparrow.
- Dark Is Evil: Shadow King, leader of the Shadow Army.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.
- Magic Knight: Magic pirate.
- Manipulative Bastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
- The Reveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"
Benedict And Barbara Huntington
EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Upper class of English nobility.
- Battle Couple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
- Co-Dragons: To the Shadow Lord.
- Kick the Dog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
- Unholy Matrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
Jolly Roger
Played by: Steve Blum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Can fight an entire city alone, besides leading a zombie army.
- Ax-Crazy: He's one trigger-happy pirate.
- Badass Boast: His entire dialogue consists of these. One of his best comes from his trailer: "I am no Legend. I am Jolly Roger, Your. Worst. NIGHTMARE!"
- Bad Boss: Zombifies any of his pawns who are no longer important.
- Berserk Button: Jack Sparrow. Or anything even vaguely connected to him.
- Big Bad: Everything evil within the MMO trace back to him.
- Bifurcated Weapon: He has a steampunk-ish right-hand which can act as both a small hand-cannon and a knife.
- Blood Knight: Pretty livid about slaughtering Port Royal.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: All his deals end up with betrayal.
- Cursed with Awesome: As a voodoo priest laid dying, he cursed Roger with his current looks. Unfortunately, this also turned him in a Physical God.
- Dem Bones: His current form is bony.
- The Dreaded: Everyone is terrified of him. With good reason.
- Evil Overlord: He controls a large chunk of the Caribbean through his zombie army in the game's events.
- Forgotten Friend, New Foe: He was friends with Jack, a long time ago.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: While he was famous, he was merely a common pirate until a curse befell him.
- Ghost Pirate: Thanks to a voodoo curse, he's a living skeleton now.
- Hero Killer: No one faces him in a straight fight out of sheer dread.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: While trying to outwit Jack in poker, he was outwitted.
- Hollywood Voodoo: The master of it like Blackbeard with his dolls and such.
- Implacable Man: Oh yes. Nothing has been able to defeat him yet, only temporarily repel.
- Interim Villain: The MMO uses him for a period after Barbossa's defeat but before Beckett's [and Jones'] rise on the franchise.
- The Juggernaut: He slices through Port Royal's defenses like a butter knife.
- Large and in Charge: Roger is noticeably taller than any other character in the game.
- Large Ham: Roger talks shouting with a stereotypical hammy pirate accent.
- Mighty Glacier: As slow as he is dangerous.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Nothing can kill him except maybe a ridiculous amount of gunfire.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A ghost-cyborg-pirate.
- Necromancer: Taken to ridiculous levels: Judging by the way the game goes, Jolly Roger is essentially reviving every single corpse avaliable.
- No Indoor Voice: Jolly Roger always shouts.
- One-Man Army: It takes an entire horde of players fighting side-by-side to beat him.
- Person of Mass Destruction: It takes the entire city of Port Royal, fighting at the same time, all together to repel him temporarily.
- Shrouded in Myth: Mysterious past, mysterious powers.
- The Sociopath: Cares for nothing but seeing Jack suffer and conquering the Caribbean.
- Sorcerous Overlord: And one that can make Blackbeard look like a novice.
- Take Over the World: Or rather, the Caribbean. He almost manages in the MMO.
- Touch of Death: He can kill anyone with a single touch.
- Villain Teleportation: He's able to materialize out of the thin air.
- Villains Act, Heroes React: The game plot is basically: Help Sparrow defeat Jolly Roger.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Due the MMO being largely abandoned, nobody knows what happened to Jolly Roger.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Jack Sparrow
Arabella Smith
A girl who joined a teenaged Jack Sparrow on his adventures. She later falls in love with a young Bootstrap Bill Turner but it is unclear if she is related to Will Turner.
- Ambiguous Situation: Her possible status as Will Turner's mother. The prequel series ended with Arabella in a relationship with Bill Turner and Legends of the Brethren Court, which was written by the same authors, had Bill married to an unnamed wife who's described as someone Jack knew well and who went on several adventures with the two of them a descriptor that fits Arabella. However an in-universe reference book, The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company confused the situation by claiming that Arabella was still alive during the events of the films, where Will's mother died roughly a decade before.
- Missing Mom: Arabella is the daughter of pirate Laura Smith, who was killed in a duel with another pirate named Left-Foot Louis. Her mother actually escaped and continued pirating to provide for Arabella.
- You Killed My Father: Left-Foot Louis killed her mother.
Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III
A boy from a noble family who joins the crew of the Barnacle in order to escape an Arranged Marriage. He is also the cousin of James Norrington.
- Blue Blood: Has noble blood.
- The Mole: For the British Royal Navy, hoping that Jack could lead him to Captain Teague.
Jean Magliore
A French boy who is a member of Jack's crew. He, his sister Constance, and his friend Tumen are on the run from Left-Foot Louis, who holds a grudge against them for accidentally revealing his identity while he was in hiding.
Constance Magliore
Jean's sister, who was turned into a cat by Tia Dalma.
- Cats Are Mean: Jack does not particularly like her... nor does anyone else except Jean.
- Forced Transformation: Shapeshifted into a cat by Dalma.
Tumen
A Mayan boy who was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery.
- The Exile: Shortly after he returns to his village with Jack and his crew, a mysterious plague spreads. Jack's crew is forced to leave but it's later revealed that the plague was caused by Minuit.
- Slave Liberation: When he ran away with Jean and Constance after they revealed Left-Foot Louis' identity.
Tim Hawk
Left-Foot Louis
A notorious pirate who literally has two left feet. He carries the Sword of Hernan Cortes.
- Demoted to Dragon: He later shows up as a member of Laura Smith's crew, where he tries to start a mutiny. He later starts working with Madame Minuit.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Louis has a set of scratches on the right side of his face; sources differ as to how he got them, either from sirens or from Constance.
- Human Resources: When he lost his right foot, he cut off the foot from one of his crew members and had it sewn to his leg. In his haste, he didn't realize that it was a left foot.
Madame Minuit
A Creole witch from New Orleans. She is after the Sun-and-Stars Amulet, which can turn anything into bronze, silver, or gold depending on which Plot Coupon is attached to it.
- Big Bad: In Age of Bronze, Silver, and City of Gold.
- Everyone Looks Sexier if French: She's a Creole Hot Witch and her name is French for "midnight."
- Feather Boa Constrictor: Appears as this on the cover art. She has snakes on her arms that seem to come out of nowhere.
- Hollywood Voodoo: Including Voodoo Dolls.
- Hot Witch: The covers show her to have a nice figure.
- Lady of Black Magic: A dark witch through and through.
Silverback
A pirate who possesses a piece the the Sun-and-Stars Amulet. Helps Left-Foot Louis in his mutiny against Laura Smith.
- Evil Cripple: His crystal peg-leg has various magical powers. He is also a skilled fighter.
The Attractions
Jolly Roger
A talking skull and crossbones who appears at the start of the attractions, warning guests of the pirates ahead.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A talking skull and crossbones.
- Call to Adventure: Asks guests if they "come seeking adventure and salty old pirates".
- Catchphrase: "Dead men tell no tales."
- The Cameo: A vocal one: a few lines of Jolly Roger (reused directly from the ride) show up in At World's End when the main character's ship fall off the edge of the world and into Davy Jones locker, most notably a booming and resonant "Dead men tell no tales!".
- Creator Cameo: Voiced by Xavier Atencio.
- Dem Bones: Somehow alive despite being a skull with no body.
- Jacob Marley Warning: An unusual example. Rather than warning people to change their ways, he instead warns them to not be like the pirates or they will likely end up dead."There be squalls ahead, and Davy Jones waiting for them what don't obey."
"And mark well me words, mateys... dead men tell no tales. [chuckle]" - Mascot: Jolly Roger is the mascot of the franchise, appearing in all of the rides, and his likeness appears on the marketing for the films.
- Point of No Return: "It be too late to alter coarse now, maties."
- Snarky Inanimate Object: Has a bit of a snarky, dark sense of humour.
Mayor Carlos and His Wife
The mayor of Puerto Dorado, tortured in a well by pirates to reveal the hidden treasure staff. And it doesn't help that his wife keeps sticking her head out of the window to "support" her husband.
- Badass Spaniard: A lesser example. Carlos is bound, repeatedly drowned, and threatened by pirates, but he remains determined to keep his mouth shut. The same applies to his wife, who shouts to Carlos to be brave and remain silent. She can also avoid gunfire pretty well.
- Defiant Captive: Carlos refuses to co-operate with the pirates, and he has been doing pretty well for fifty years.
- Grande Dame: His wife seems quite flighty, domineering, and bossy to Carlos.
- Henpecked Husband: Implied, since his wife keeps sticking her head out the window, and shouting "don't be chicken!"
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: A heroic example. Carlos refuses to give in to the pirates' torture and reveal the location of the treasure.
- Thrown Down a Well: More precisely tied up and dunked repeatedly in a well.
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk: The pirates are trying to get Carlos to talk by drowning him over and over.
The Auctioneer
A bearded, well-dressed pirate who is running an auction to sell off women to a bunch of pirates. Voiced by Paul Frees pre-refurbishment.
- Auction of Evil: The Auctioneer was, for fifty years, selling off captured women to lustful pirates. Following the 2018 refurbishment, he is selling off loot.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Considers one woman, Tiny, to be this.
- Demoted to Extra: Was one of the most vocal characters in the ride. Following the refurbishment, the Auctioneer has less to say, with Redd now assisting him in the auction. Considering most of his dialogue was pitching the kidnapped women to pirates, and the new scene changed the story, the alterations are necessary.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The Auctioneer mostly treats his women with respect, praising Tiny's appearance, and advises the Redhead not to show off her legs for her own sake.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: For a pirate. He demands authority and cooperation in the auction, his subordinate shooting the air when the pirates get rowdy.
- The Women Are Safe with Us: Treats the women with respect (mostly), and silences the pirates when they start demanding the redhead.
- Villains Out Shopping: Even during an assault on a Caribbean fort, the pirates still have time for some democratic auctions.
The Redhead / Redd
- Ascended Extra: While she was one of the more prominent characters in the ride, she became a major figure in the latest refurbishment, having a major speaking role. The character has even become a meet-and-greet in Disneyland.
- Evil Redhead: In her new Pirate Girl incarnation.
- Fiery Redhead: Seems pretty much at home with the pirates, knowing how to make them squirm and get jumpy. Becomes this even more so with her transformation.
- Lady in Red: Sports an entirely red outfit and hat.
- Not as You Know Them: Though she didn't have much of a personality pre-refurbishment, the Redhead seemed quite calm, suave, and sexy, using her looks to her advantage. Her personality has since become more vocal, and piratical.
- Pirate Girl: Though she has since become this trope, it was always implied the Redhead would become this. In the Disneyland ride, there is a painting of a certain redheaded, scantily clad pirate girl, hinting she is the same character from the auction.
- Really Gets Around: Very popular with the pirates.
- Show Some Leg: Tries doing this, but the Auctioneer advises her not to.
- Xenafication: Okay, even the original version of the ride implied that she Took a Level in Badass in the end, but in the refurbished version she's a Pirate Girl from the start.
The Pooped Pirate
A fat, bearded pirate resting in the middle of town. His situation has changed a lot over the years due to political correctness, currently possessing a key and treasure map to the Spanish fort's treasure. Voiced by Paul Frees until 1997; and by Corey Burton afterwards.
- Dirty Old Man: His original character had him looking for a young lady to deflower, having already acquired her pantyhose.
- Evil Redhead: Has red hair and a moustache.
- Fat Bastard: Surly, perverted, gluttonous, and dumb.
- Stalker with a Crush: His original character had a thing for the young lady he was stalking.
- Tempting Fate: Brags that Jack Sparrow will never look at his treasure map, or the key that leads to the loot. Jack is spying on him in the barrel behind him.
- Treasure Map: Wields a map to the island's treasure.
- Villainous Glutton: His second characterization was looking for some meat to eat, unaware an alley cat had got to it first.
Old Bill
An elderly, happily drunk pirate who tries to share a drink with some cats.
- The Cameo: Appeared in a deleted scene during On Stranger Tides.
- Friend to All Living Things: Seems particularly friendly for a pirate.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Tries to offer a drink to a bunch of alley cats. They aren't buying it.
- Sentimental Drunk: A very happy drunk.
