The rest is pirate history. In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , Barbossa makes it very clear that the curse on himself and his crew may keep them alive, but it also prevents them from feeling a soft touch, the warmth of the sun, or the pleasure of eating and drinking.
For the entirety of the first film, Barbossa keeps an apple upon his person, hoping it will be the first food he gets to taste when the curse is finally lifted. Along with apples, Barbossa is also known for having quite the taste for caviar as well. Who would need so much treasure if they didn't have refined tastes? At the end of Curse of the Black Pearl, the curse of the Aztec gold is finally broken and Barbossa and his crew are made mortal once more.
For fans who have seen the rest of the Pirates series, they know that Barbossa is resurrected at the end of Dead Man's Chest. While it is shocking that he is alive, he looks very much as he did at the end of Curse of the Black Pearl , except for the fact that, post-resurrection, the captain's fingernails are painted black.
Today it is all but impossible to imagine anyone but Geoffrey Rush taking on the role of Captain Hector Barbossa. Who else could spar so well with Jack Sparrow, smile so devilishly at Kiera Knightley, or look quite so intimidating with Jack the monkey on his shoulder? Apparently producers once thought that Robert De Niro could. The two are sleeping blissfully in their home after being reunited at movie's end following the removal of Will's wretched curse of the Flying Dutchman.
But Turner is awakened by the shadow of someone approaching and the sight of a strange clawed hand. Turner awakens from what appears to be a bad dream, and all seems normal — except for barnacles under the bed. But the end scene suggests that Knightley who was brought onto the movie late in the process by popular demand and Bloom's characters might have further adventures with their seemingly resurrected arch-nemesis with whom they tangled in the second and third Pirates.
A few days later, Barbossa visited Borya in a prison , where Borya apologized for the destruction of Barbossa's ship. Borya even gave Barbossa his most precious token, a small block of wood, his Piece of eight , the sign of pirate lordship, thus making Barbossa the next Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea. Borya also agreed to give the Koldunya to Barbossa as a payment for the loss of the Cobra , so he wouldn't be a captain without the vessel. He told them about his conversation with Borya, and showed them the block of wood which Borya gave him.
Both Jack and Esmeralda recognized Borya's piece of eight, and they told Barbossa to show it to Captain Teague as soon as possible. After that, Barbossa intended to join Captain Teague's fleet in rogue-hunting.
He gave Borya's piece of wood to one of his subordinates, Ragetti , who missed an eye and ordered him to keep it safe, without learning its meaning. In unknown circumstances, Barbossa lost contact with Ragetti and his Piece of Eight.
Five years after the escape of the rogues from Shipwreck Cove, while he was in Tortuga , Barbossa joined the crew of the Black Pearl , captained by Jack Sparrow. Barbossa was made Sparrow's first mate , and the crew set out from Tortuga to the Far East, sent by Tia Dalma to collect seven pieces of powerful magical potion called the Shadow Gold , and prevent an evil alchemist, the Shadow Lord from destroying the Pirate Brethren.
Although Barbossa didn't believe Jack Sparrow about the curse that was placed on the treasure, believing it as a "ridiculous superstition," he went on the search anyway. Isla de Muerta was an island in the Caribbean that could not be found except by those who already knew where it was, but Captain Sparrow had a map as to the approximate location of the island.
Three days into the voyage, Barbossa was able to coax the bearings from Jack. The then over-trusting Jack gave his bearings willingly to his "loyal" first mate, thinking that he could help in finding the island. That same night Barbossa rallied the rest of the crew in a mutiny against Jack.
They marooned him on an island , jokingly appointing him its " governor ", and gave him a pistol with one shot—to kill himself when the heat and thirst got too much.
With the Pearl now under Barbossa's control, they then sailed towards Isla de Muerta. Prior to this however, Barbossa attained his precious pet monkey, mockingly named " Jack ", after their old captain.
Then, with Jack's bearings, the crew found the island and the treasure inside it's caves. According to legend, the heathen gods of the Aztec placed a curse on the treasure to avenge the fallen people. Supposedly, anyone who took a single piece from the chest would be cursed for eternity. The crew ignored the legends which Jack Sparrow has mentioned to them earlier, and seized the treasure for themselves.
They returned to Tortuga and after a time, they traded the whole gold away on frivolous things. Very soon they realized that the legends were true, and they lost the ability to taste, digest, or feel in general. Perhaps worst of all, at night, beneath the moon , they were revealed for what they were: undead skeletons ; neither living nor dead, and unable to die or succumb to bodily harm.
Nevertheless, the crew set about immediately to find the lost treasure. There was only one crewman who had been bitter and guilt-ridden ever since the marooning of Jack Sparrow: Bootstrap Bill Turner who sent a piece of the treasure to his child, telling the others that they deserved to be cursed.
This angered Barbossa greatly, so he ordered his men to strap "Bootstrap's bootstraps" to a cannon. He then ordered them to push the cannon overboard, taking "Bootstrap" down to the crushing depths, unable to die, yet unable to move. Barbossa was able to figure out a way to reverse the curse: by returning the coins to the chest and offering a tribute in blood, the curse of the heathen gods would be satisfied, and the crew would be free.
With this plan in mind, Barbossa and his crew set out to try and recover the treasure by using an ability to sense when a coin was near. Pintel and Barbossa after finding a mysterious castaway. At some point during the quest to lift the Aztec curse, Barbossa recalled the story of Icarus before his crew came across a mysterious castaway, a young boy floating unconsious in the middle of the ocean.
Somehow still alive and wearing shackles, the boy was brought on board the Black Pearl. After ordering Ragetti to fix the boy a stew , Barbossa felt that something was wrong. When Barbossa asked Pintel about his opinion on the bodies of the ship's crew, Pintel said they were eaten by the sharks , but Barbossa cleverly noted that there was no blood on the surface of the water.
Later, as the boy had dinner in the captain's cabin, Barbossa expressed his curiosity on the situation about the wreck of the Delfin , the shackles on the boy's hands, and the boy himself being alive. Claiming the Fountain, among other things, "cured all my ills in an instant", the boy offered to take Barbossa to the Fountain.
Believing that the Fountain of Youth might hold the key to lifting the terrible curse that his crew was under, Barbossa ordered his men to chart a course to the Fountain's location. As the sun began to set, Bo'sun informed Barbossa that they were arriving at the cove, causing the captain to close a book about Greek mythology. Upon reaching the dubious destination that had a statue of a boy riding a dolphin, Barbossa told "Mr.
He collectively accused the young passenger of being Melikertes , who revealed himself now to be Palaimon , a demonic Greek sea god who fed on the human souls. As Palaimon summoned an army of souls to fight against Barbossa's undead pirates, he himself engaged in a fierce duel with Barbossa. Against the odds, Barbossa defeated Palaimon by forcing him to fall into the sea, deducing that he couldn't swim due to having found him clinging to a piece of floating wood and that his altar showing him riding a dolphin.
After making sail for safer waters, Pintel asked Barbossa if the Fountain was real, despite what had occurred. Barbossa responded in saying that they're un-living proof that such tales were nothing more than tales of hope and redemption, then finished by saying he didn't believe in fairy tales. Two years after falling under the curse, the Pearl attacked a ship with a coin on board.
They were not able to find the coin and left the burning wreckage behind them, narrowly avoiding a confrontation with the HMS Dauntless. Over the course of the next eight years, the crew raided and pillaged settlements throughout the New World , searching for the lost pieces of Aztec gold.
At last, they returned all but one of the coins to the chest. One day, Barbossa and his crew sensed the last piece. They followed the "call" of the gold, and finally ended at the British colony of Port Royal. They attacked at night, blending in perfectly with the dark and cloudy night. The Pearl was followed by an eerie fog , a side-effect of the cursed crew's long-term occupation of the ship. Due to the cover, the Pearl was able to attack Port Royal unhindered.
Barbossa ordered his cannonneers to fire on Fort Charles. While the ship occupied the fort's attention, Barbossa sent a raiding party to collect the coin. Some time later, the boats returned laden with swag.
Two of Barbossa's crewmen, Pintel and Ragetti , came aboard with a young female hostage. When his boatswain , Bo'sun , asked them why they had brought a captive, the young woman tried to explain she had invoked the right of parley so she could negotiate a truce with the Captain, but was slapped in return.
Barbossa took offence to this and reprimanded the boatswain and apologized to the woman. She audaciously demanded that Barbossa cease his attack on Port Royal, or else she would throw the Aztec coin overboard. Barbossa tried to hide the crew's need for the medallion she wore around her neck, but the young woman said that she had seen the Pearl on her crossing of the Atlantic from England eight years before.
Barbossa asked for the girl's name. She responded by saying her name was Elizabeth "Turner" , and that she was a maid in the governor's household. Barbossa was thrilled by the fact that they had very likely found "Bootstrap's" child, after all these years, and would finally be able to lift the curse.
Barbossa agreed to leave Port Royal and ordered his crew to set sail. After giving over the medallion, "Miss Turner" demanded she be taken ashore. Barbossa refused, citing that her return to shore was not part of their agreement. With that, the Pearl set off towards Isla de Muerta , to lift the curse. While the Pearl sailed towards Isla de Muerta, Barbossa entertained Elizabeth, and held her as his guest in his cabin. Food that was always kept near, in case the curse was lifted, was now able to be cooked and brought out.
Barbossa watched, utterly envious, as Elizabeth ate her food. She, however, was suspicious as to why Barbossa was not eating, but was encouraging her to eat instead. Elizabeth asked if the food was poisoned; Barbossa was amused. He told her that there was no sense in killing her. Elizabeth asked why he was still keeping her. Barbossa saw that Elizabeth did not know about the curse, and so he told her the story of the crew and its curse. He then told her that she was the last blood sacrifice needed to lift the curse.
At that, Elizabeth leapt up and attempted to run out of the cabin. Barbossa ran after her, but Elizabeth turned around and stabbed him with a knife from the table; she was shocked to see that Barbossa was unharmed. Elizabeth then ran out into the moonlit sky, and ran face to face with the half-dead skeleton crew. While drinking wine from a bottle Barbossa explained the curse's effect on the crew, and, startled, Elizabeth ran back into the cabin, where she remained for the duration of the voyage.
Barbossa locked the doors behind her and laughed. Upon reaching Isla de Muerta, the crew of the Pearl unloaded all of their booty into the caverns, while Barbossa prepared the ritual. After a short speech, Barbossa cut Elizabeth's palm with the ritual knife, covered the coin with her blood, and dropped it into the chest. Not feeling any different, Barbossa shot Pintel to see if the curse was lifted.
Surprisingly, Pintel did not die. Barbossa confronted Elizabeth, asking her if William Turner was her father. Elizabeth admitted that she was not, but refused to tell Barbossa who William's child was. Frustrated, Barbossa slapped Elizabeth, dropping the coin as well.
While the crew at first became angry at Pintel and Ragetti for bringing the wrong person, they soon turned their attention to Barbossa, claiming every decision he had made has led them from bad to worse, the curse itself being the most prominent example.
But, when Barbossa brandished his sword, challenging the crew to fight him, no one dared fight against such a skilled swordsmen and stopped blaming Barbossa. The confrontation was interrupted by Jack the monkey, who pointed towards the exit of the caverns, screaming. Barbossa turned towards where Elizabeth had fell, and saw that she was no longer there.
He ordered the crew to find her. Soon the crew called for him, and he went to find, much to his amazement, Jack Sparrow. Barbossa asked him how he got off his island, and Jack said that he had forgotten a very important thing, that he was Captain Jack Sparrow.
Barbossa, annoyed with Jack's self-aggrandizing attitude, ordered his crew to kill Sparrow. Sparrow, however, coolly asked if Elizabeth's blood hadn't worked. Barbossa, perceiving Jack's motives, ordered his crew to hold fire. Jack then told him that he knew who's blood they really needed. Since a compromise couldn't be made on the spot, and the medallion, on the HMS Interceptor Barbossa learned the name courtesy of Jack was getting farther and farther out of Barbossa's reach.
So the crew and Jack boarded the Pearl and headed out in hot pursuit of the Interceptor. Barbossa and Sparrow, meanwhile, attempted to cut a deal in Barbossa's cabin. Jack was attempting to make Barbossa give him "his" ship, where then he would strand Barbossa on a beach and shout the name of the person whose blood he needed to him, as he sailed away.
Barbossa, however, did not feel comfortable with giving away his ship, while he trusted that the name Sparrow gave him was the one he needed and was briefly annoyed after Jack taunted him since his mutiny prevented Sparrow from suffering under the curse as well. When Jack finished his tale Barbossa said he was spinning a lovely yarn , but he didn't believe a word of it. Barbossa and Jack Sparrow , before Jack was sent to the brig. As Barbossa looked at the Interceptor with his spyglass Jack proposed to negotiate the return of the Aztec medallion without fighting.
Barbossa cruelly replied that that sort of attitude lost him the Pearl in the first place because people were easier to search when they were dead. Barbossa then ordered Jack to be put in the brig and headed closely behind the Interceptor. The resourceful crew of the Interceptor , however, attempted to lose the Pearl over an unnamed shoal. The Interceptor , small and light, was easily able to transverse over the shoal.
It then began to dump supplies and cargo overboard, to make it go even faster. Barbossa ordered the crew to bring out the oars, as well as the guns, confident that the Pearl would catch up with the Interceptor before she reached the shoals.
As the Pearl slowly caught up, the Interceptor attempted one last trick. It lowered its starboard anchor into the shoal, catching one a rock and turning sharply around towards the Pearl.
Barbossa quickly ordered the crew to turn the ship around, and ordered a full broadside. Barbossa gave his crew orders during the ensuing battle, overseeing the boarding of the Interceptor , and giving commands to his cannonneers. During the battle, the foremast of the Interceptor crashed onto the Pearl's deck, and Jack the monkey crept onto the mast and scurried onboard the Interceptor. The monkey soon returned, medallion in hand, with Sparrow out of his cell suspiciously in hot pursuit of the monkey.
Barbossa's crew then captured the survivors of the crew aboard the Interceptor , and tied them up, while Barbossa, tipped off by his crew that they had set up an explosion, eagerly waited for the Interceptor's destruction, the medallion in his hand. After the Interceptor exploded, Barbossa was confronted by a man claiming to be Will Turner , son of "Bootstrap Bill".
He intended to shoot himself, and fall into the sea, thus making his blood unattainable for Barbossa's plan to lift the curse. Barbossa asked Turner what his terms were; Turner said he wanted Elizabeth to be set free, a term Turner eagerly made clear previously, and he also wished for the crew of the Interceptor not to be harmed.
Barbossa agreed, ordering the crew of the Interceptor to be locked in the brig. But, instead of just leaving Elizabeth at a port, he decided to cleverly twist his bargain with Turner and "release" Elizabeth by marooning her on an island, the same island that Jack had been marooned on all those years prior. But, she would have company; Sparrow was also to be marooned on the island, in response to his previous escape, and for trying to manipulate Barbossa.
With those two dealt with, Barbossa turned the Pearl back toward Isla de Muerta, now finally able to lift the curse. At the request of his crew, Barbossa intended to kill Will and spill all of his blood to lift the curse in order to avoid any mistakes. Hector Barbossa dueling Jack Sparrow. Barbossa's crew made for Isla de Muerta, though the Pearl sailed slower than usual due to damage sustained during the fight. By the time Barbossa began the ritual once more, this time with Will as the sacrifice, Jack Sparrow miraculously appeared yet again, leaving Barbossa in utter disbelief.
Jack informed Barbossa and his crew that the HMS Dauntless was sailing just off shore, waiting for them. With the ritual successfully stalled, Jack offered Barbossa a deal: Barbossa would seize the Dauntless for himself, leaving Jack as captain of the Pearl , and would have the makings of his very own fleet, and could take the title of commodore.
Enticed, Barbossa agreed to Jack's proposal in return for twenty-five percent of Jack's plunder, and Jack's promise that he would purchase Barbossa a big hat. Barbossa sent his men on a walk on the ocean floor, while he, Will and Jack waited in the caves for the battle to end.
Hector Barbossa dueling the cursed Jack Sparrow. Barbossa was starting to trust Jack again and noted that Jack was a hard man to predict. Ultimately, Barbossa, knowing that Jack could not kill him, threw his weapon aside.
Sparrow, taking the opportunity, stabbed Barbossa in the chest. Barbossa sighed to himself, ripped out the sword, and in turn stabbed Jack with it in the gut. The duel continued around the cave, quite pointlessly, until finally, Barbossa pulled a gun on Elizabeth Swann, who had come to help Will and Jack. Before Barbossa could pull the trigger, however, Jack finally used his one bullet and shot him in the heart. Barbossa sneered, claiming that Jack had wasted his shot after having it for so long.
But upon defeating Barbossa's crewmen, Will called out to him and showed that he had gathered the last two coins, with blood from himself and Jack, and dropped it all into the chest, lifting the curse. Unbuttoning his coat, Barbossa found that the wound from Jack's shot began to spurt blood. Now able to feel again, Barbossa then stated that he felt cold before falling to the cave floor, dead.
Jack the Monkey with Barbossa's boots in Tia Dalma 's shack. For an unknown amount of time, Hector Barbossa's dead body remained in the treasure caves of Isla de Muerta. During the War of Jolly Roger , Barbossa was reputedly found haunting the island known as Devil's Anvil , providing information that only a dead man could know.
The crew spotted Barbossa's boots after Tia Dalma released Jack the Monkey , who ran straight towards his boots, while Jack Sparrow himself briefly held Barbossa's old black hat.
It wasn't until the remainder of Jack's crew came for refuge at Tia Dalma's shack did Barbossa reveal himself, much to the crew's surprise, after Tia Dalma proposed the crew set out on a voyage to World's End , waters that Barbossa had prior knowledge of. Barbossa led Jack's former crew to Singapore, but not before having sent forth Hoist the Colours , a song meant to summon a meeting of the Brethren Court.
Before Barbossa and his associates could venture to World's End to save Jack Sparrow , they needed to obtain a ship, crew, and the navigational charts that led to World's End from Sao Feng , the notorious Pirate Lord of Singapore.
A meeting with Sao Feng was arranged so that Barbossa could request the ship and the crew, and Will Turner was sent to steal the charts. Elizabeth Swann and Barbossa in the streets of Singapore. Barbossa sent the rest of the crew into the passages below the bath house; they hid there, alert, ready to provide support if things went wrong. Feng ultimately told Barbossa that it was an odd coincidence he would ask for a ship and a crew on the same day his navigational charts were almost stolen.
Feng then revealed the captured thief to his guests— it was Will Turner. He was being kept in a vat of water. Barbossa pretended that Will was not known to him, but when Feng moved to kill Will, Elizabeth shrieked. Certain then that Barbossa and Elizabeth had lied to him, Feng asked why they were going to such lengths to acquire his charts. Barbossa attempted to change the subject by telling that the song was sung and summoning him, as one of the Pirate Lords to the Brethren Court , in order to decide what was to be done against the forces of East India Trading Company——which was systematically exterminating pirates around the world.
Feng was hesitant to enter into open war with the East India Trading Company and remarked that pirates were betraying each other instead of holding together. After this, Elizabeth declared him a coward. Feng was impressed by Elizabeth's assertiveness but instead of answering her, he pointed out that Barbossa had still not said why he wanted his charts.
Barbossa and Elizabeth both refused to answer, but Will revealed that they needed the charts to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. Feng became angry because Sparrow had insulted him once, and declared that the only reason why he would not want Jack Sparrow to remain dead is that he wanted to kill Jack himself. Barbossa then stated that Sparrow was one of the nine Pirate Lords and could not pass on his Piece of Eight before being dragged into the Locker, and therefore they could not open the Brethren Court without him.
The meeting became much more tense, when Feng suddenly noticed an unfamiliar man with a fake tattoo among his soldiers—undoubtedly another spy. Barbossa tried to calm his opponent, but without success. Feng immediately seized the spy and declared that he would kill him if Barbossa did not drop his weapons. Barbossa, however, encouraged Feng to kill the man, claiming that the spy was not his, but at that moment the beginning confrontation between Feng on one side and Barbossa, Will and Elizabeth on the other side was suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a large group East India Trading Company soldiers led by Mercer.
Barbossa and Feng briefly united their forces against a common enemy and fought their way through the harbour. During the battle Will Turner made his own deal with Feng without Barbossa's knowledge; he acquired the charts himself, and provided Barbossa with a crew of Chinese pirates led by Tai Huang and a junk ship , the Hai Peng.
They took the ship and left for World's End [20]. Captain Barbossa consulting Sao Feng's charts. After escaping safely from Singapore, the crew sailed through uncharted, frozen wastes to reach the Farthest Gate , although Barbossa was unable to decipher the charts' cryptic instructions for returning from Davy Jones' Locker.
Undaunted, Barbossa showed no fear neither when he led the Hai Peng into a giant ice cave, where they got lost, what he claimed to be necessary to find a place that can't be found else ways, nor when he sailed the ship over the world's edge, plunging the junk and its crew into the underworld.
Being a member of the court himself, Barbossa was forced to help Calypso in her quest to free herself from this spell, lest she snuff the life out of him once again. Resurrecting Barbossa is easily one of the best creative choices the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has made.
The character was a great antagonist in The Curse of the Black Pearl and an equally perfect foil to the trouble-making Sparrow, both in terms of personality and style. He only continued to evolve in his later appearances, beginning with his transformation into the heroes' unlikely ally in At World's End having been humbled by, well, dying.
Barbossa even found himself working on the side of the law in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides , where he served as a privateer to King George II.
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