Thread:Uskok/@comment-4133106-20161020092419/@comment-996391-20161020095059

The reason is that we write all our in-universe articles from the point of view that all those characters lived a long time ago. Therefore, Jack Sparrow and his crew were pirates in the 18th century, but we can't write "Jack Sparrow is a pirate" because that would imply that he is still a pirate in the 21st century, which obviously can't be true, because he would be dead by now.