Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

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Pirates of the Caribbean has a lot of great characters, but all of them have done some selfish and heinous things to save their own skin.

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Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Pirates Of The Caribbean is a wonderful film franchise filled with great adventures, wonderful secrets and surprises, and, most importantly, swashbuckling pirates. Although these pirates are lovable, it’s undeniable that they do some rather questionable things.

Each of the 5 films sees a whirlwind of bad decisions from both Jack, Will, Elizabeth and pretty much all the rest of the pirates. However, sometimes a feeling lingers. Sometimes it feels like they are doing certain things on purpose and with particularly malicious intent. Be it murder, mutiny, betrayal, or kidnapping it is somewhat expected that pirates have no quarrels breaking and bending the law. However, when characters who are typically good do bad, it becomes all that bit more shocking and heartbreaking.

Every main character has done bad things to get what they want. So let’s delve into the worst thing each of them has done.

10 Lord Cutler Beckett: Manipulative/Murder

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

This man is definitely evil. Although he goes around hunting pirates, who are technically bad, it is undeniable that these are beloved characters he is hunting down, which automatically makes him an antagonist.

Beckett manipulates more than he murders when he manages to get Will Turner to hunt down Jack Sparrow for his famous compass as well as tricking Sao Feng into giving him the Black Pearl. Although these things are horrid, it’s his instruction to kill Elizabeth’s father that is the final blow for this character. Killing Governor Swann has a heartbreaking effect on Elizabeth, making it all the more painful to watch.

9 Davy Jones: Soul Collecting

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

After falling in love with the sea goddess Calypso, he takes on the task to collect souls from those lost at sea. A harrowing task but one he was happy to do for love. However, he eventually abuses this power ultimately killing hundreds of innocent people and condemning them to an afterlife of slavery.

Not only is he a mass murderer who keeps their souls for eternity, but he also forces others to take part in his horrific quests, pushing Jack to collect 100 souls in exchange for his own.

8 Hector Barbossa: Mutiny

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Often referenced as the worst thing a pirate can do, Barbossa’s mutiny is essentially what drove the first few movies. He threw his friend Jack out of his position as captain and left him on a deserted island with a single bullet in his gun. Although brushed over many times, this was a horrific thing to do and a huge betrayal.

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To make it worse, Barbossa then attempts to kill the only crew member who didn’t mutiny, Bootstrap Bill Turner. Unbeknownst to him, he loses his chance to lift the curse placed on him and his crew after they steal the Aztec gold.

7 Bootstrap Bill: Condemned His Son To Slavery

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

It was Bootstrap Bill who essentially began the story of the Pirates Of The Caribbean. Although it can be seen that he did a good thing letting his son escape a life of piracy, his actions lead to two people nearly being killed, when the curse could have just been lifted quickly and without unnecessary bloodshed.

It should be noted that Bill Turner is in whole a good guy but his actions most definitely have consequences, and him leaving his son to be found in the middle of the ocean had its consequences.

6 James Norrington: ‘Tried’ To Rescue Elizabeth

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Although he does actually save Elizabeth, Norrington is absolutely useless in the first film. He claims he loves her but does nothing to save her when her life is in peril. The first thing you see of James Norrington is him watching her drown, he stands at the top of the cliff, staring, until Jack Sparrow saves her. He then proceeds to try to kill her savior on more than one occasion!

Although he didn’t wrong anyone, in particular, his uselessness and inability to help the woman he supposedly loves is wrong in itself.

5 Blackbeard: Murder

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Although he is the most feared pirate in both the real world and film world, it doesn’t make his actions any more excusable. Blackbeard is horrible towards his crew, perhaps even crueler to them than the poor people he captures.

Aboard his ship, The Queen Anne’s Revenge, he regularly kills people, just so they fear his name and remember who he is. Not only does he kill people, but he takes the people he has murdered and forces them to be his undead crew, condemning them to serve him for eternity. A truly cruel man.

4 Joshamee Gibbs: Left Jack To Die

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Joshamee Gibbs is one of the most loyal and true to himself first mates in this film franchise. He is kind, forgiving, and always sticks to the pirate code, although he sometimes sticks to the pirate code a little too much.

In the first film, Curse Of The Black Pearl, Will Turner leaves Jack Sparrow behind after he is discovered by Barbossa’s crew, although Gibbs is loyal to Jack, he relies on the pirate code and leaves Jack on the island. Admittedly it isn’t a bad thing as he ultimately puts his crew’s lives first, it is definitely the worst thing Gibbs has done.

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3 Elizabeth Swann: Sentenced Jack To Death

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

When you think about it, Elizabeth hasn’t argued back whenever Jack has been sentenced to death. In the first movie, she stands and watches as Jack is about to get hung whilst Will essentially saves his life. However, that is far from the worst thing she has ever done. That achievement goes to what she does in Dead Man’s Chest.

Firstly, she brands Jack a cowards after he leaves his crew behind, then all but 5 minutes later she realizes that the Kraken is after him. So she kisses him to distract him and handcuffs him to the mast, leaving him to die. She complains about leaving him, then does exactly the same back. To make it even worse, she even insists that she has no regrets. After playing the beloved Elizabeth Swann for so long, it is absolutely jarring to see her complete and act of such betrayal towards someone who has saved her on more than one occasion.

2 Will Turner: Betrayal

Pirates Of The Caribbean The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done

Will Turner seems to betray Jack on every occasion he can. In Dead Man’s Chest, he ends up hunting Jack to save Elizabeth from being sentenced to death, all to give the compass to Lord Beckett. This isn’t the only time he does this though, in At Worlds End, he betrays Jack to give Sao Feng the Black Pearl and ultimately free his father from Davy Jones.

Although all the bad things he does is for love or to save another, Will’s personality quickly sours as he is so willing to betray his friends at any given moment.

1 Jack Sparrow: Murder

In Curse Of The Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow conveniently restores the missing Aztec gold just in time to see his old crew perish at the hands of the Royal Navy and for Barbossa’s wound to kill him. Although the crew mutinied and tried to kill him, an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. This is not the only time Jack is okay with murdering, as he admits to helping Balckbeard kill hundreds of mermaids by luring them to their deaths, as well as finding 100 souls for Davy Jones just to save his own life. Not even mentioning the fact that he tried to trade Will for his life instead.

Despite saying countless times that mutiny is the worst thing a pirate can do, he attempts one on Blackbeard’s ship, which ultimately fails and ends in multiple unnecessary deaths of Blackbeard’s crew members. Overall, Jack seems to have no quarrels in killing whoever he needs to, just to save his own skin.

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