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was a legendary pirate of the Caribbean and a nemesis to Captain Jack Sparrow. A captain of treacherous morality, a vile pirate returned from the dead, and a master of his own fate, Barbossa was the ultimate survivor. Ruthless and cunning, combining experience with reckless daring, only a monkey, an apple, and a personal agenda were guaranteed as Captain Barbossa looked for any opportunity to prove his superiority to his rivals and achieve his own goals.

Originally an honest sailor who left to make an easier living as a pirate, Hector Barbossa was captain of the Cobra, the first mate aboard the Black Pearl when Jack Sparrow was captain, and eventually the Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea in mysterious circumstances after obtaining the one of the Nine Pieces of Eight from the previous Lord. After a while of sailing under Captain Sparrow, Barbossa led a mutiny against Jack and marooned him before leading the mutinous crew to find the treasure of Cortés in Isla de Muerta. In spite of the mutiny, Barbossa acquired a pet monkey, later mockingly named "Jack" after their old captain. Upon falling under the Aztec curse, Barbossa led his crew in search of all the scattered pieces of gold they frittered away, and blood to lift their terrible curse. Ten years into their search, following the kidnapping of Elizabeth Swann, the pirates' curse was lifted by Will Turner, the child of former crewman Bootstrap Bill, at which time Barbossa was killed by his old captain and now archenemy, Jack Sparrow.

Even death was not the end as Captain Barbossa was resurrected by the voodoo priestess Tia Dalma, secretly the sea goddess Calypso in human form. In return, Barbossa agreed to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker and summon a meeting of the Brethren Court in a war against Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who had control over Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman. Barbossa later lost his leg and the Black Pearl, then claimed to owe his allegiance to King George II as a privateer in command of the British Navy aboard the HMS Providence during the quest for the Fountain of Youth, where he would rendezvous with Jack Sparrow, Blackbeard and revenge. As a result of claiming Blackbeard's Sword of Triton and the Queen Anne's Revenge, Barbossa settled into a growing and prosperous pirate empire. After Barbossa's command of the sea was threatened by the Spanish pirate hunter Capitán Armando Salazar and his crew of deadly ghosts, Hector allied himself once again with Jack as well as the brilliant astronomer and his long-lost daughter Carina Smyth, all determined in a search for the Trident of Poseidon.

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• … that Ian McShane has portrayed another pirate besides Blackbeard? He voiced Captain Hook in the Shrek series.

• … that the name for Sao Feng's navigational charts is the Mao Kun Map?

• … that the Sunset, the real world ship that portrayed the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, portrayed the Queen Anne's Revenge in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?

• … that USA Network has the cable broadcasting rights for the first three Pirates films?

• … that Ian McShane's Blackbeard had temporarily replaced Bill Nighy's Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland and Disney World?

• … that Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio wrote the first draft for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film in the 1990s?