Hector Barbossa

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Image:Barbross.jpg Captain Hector Barbossa is a fictional character in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, played by Geoffrey Rush. He is the captain of the cursed undead pirates, and as such transforms into a rotting skeleton under moonlight. It is said that he was so evil that hell literally spat him out. He has a pet monkey, named Jack after Captain Jack Sparrow. His first name was revealed in a director's commentary on the DVD.

Similarities have been drawn between Barbossa and LeChuck, a character from the Monkey Island video game series, also inspired from the Pirates of the Caribbean theme ride.

Barbossa was the first mate on the Black Pearl, a pirate ship commanded by Captain Jack Sparrow. Barbossa asked Captain Sparrow to tell him the bearings of Isla de Muerte, believed to be a stronghold of Aztec gold; trusting Barbossa, Sparrow told him the location. That night, Barbossa led a mutiny against Sparrow and took over the Black Pearl, leaving Sparrow marooned on an island with a single-shot pistol (presumably with which to commit suicide). The remaining crew found the Aztec treasure to which Captain Sparrow had been leading them, and shared it among themselves - calling down an ancient Aztec curse in the process. To lift the curse, the crew realized that they must return all the Aztec gold to Isla de Muerta; at the time the film begins, they have recovered 881 of the 882 gold coins. Barbossa and the crew then spend the course of the film searching for the last coin, in the possession of Elizabeth Swann and then Will Turner.

Once the coins are finally returned to the chest and the necessary blood repaid, Barbossa loses his immortality and is shot dead by Jack Sparrow (with the same pistol Barbossa had left him when he marooned Sparrow on the island). However, when Jack the monkey was left alone in the treasure cave with Barbossa's body, he took a coin from the chest.

It is confirmed that Geoffrey Rush has been signed up for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It is rumored that in the film, Barbossa has been trapped in Purgatory since his death, and Captain Jack Sparrow will arrive there upon his own death. Exactly how the traitor wound up in this prison is said to be explained in the third movie, where he'll become a major villain again.

Barbossa appears as a villain in the Pirates of the Caribbean world of Kingdom Hearts II. In that game, he recreates his role in the first movie with the exception of his crew's alliance with Pete. In the final confrontation with Jack Sparrow and Sora's group, Barbossa makes use of a Heartless named Illuminator which Pete summons for him, one which can hide him in darkness. During the battle, Jack drops his sword and shoots Barbossa with the pistol the renegade captain left him upon his exile. Barbossa laughs it off at first, but Will calls his attention and drops the last two Aztec coins back into the chest, both smeared with his blood. Barbossa, his curse broken, feels the pain of his gunshot wound, which struck him directly in the heart, and falls down, dead. Due to the filming of the two sequels which resulted in the cast being unavailable, Barbossa was voiced by Brian George in the English version.

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• Where's the Rum? - Informative site