Armando Salazar's father

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Unknown
Gender	Male
Ethnic group	Spanish
Died	Around the late 17th century,killed by Armando Salazar
Family	Armando Salazar's grandfather (father) Armando Salazar's mother (wife) Armando Salazar (son)
Title(s)	Admiral
Affiliation	Spanish Royal Navy Salazar family
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales (Mentioned only)
Last appearance	Dead Men Tell No Tales (Mentioned only)
Cause	Deceased
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"You know my father was an admiral—and a traitor. He patrolled these very waters, took bribes from pirates—gold and silver—allowed them to sail with impunity!"

―Armando Salazar

This man was an admiral of the Spanish Royal Navy and the father of Captain Armando Salazar.

Biography

"He was arrested when I was a boy, and soon after, they came to our house and took my mother away, dragged her to a workhouse. The wife of a traitor must pay for his sins."

―Armando Salazar

A man of Spanish origin, son of an unnamed man and his wife, at some point in his life he had a son named Armando Salazar. At some unspecified moment, he joined the Spanish Royal Navy, rising through the ranks until he became an admiral. His high station wasn't enough for him, though, because while he was patrolling through the waters of the Caribbean Sea, he allowed himself to be bribed by the same outlaws he was supposed to bring to justice. Pirates gave him gold and silver and in exchange he allowed them to sail with impunity. The admiral's criminal activities were eventually discovered by the Spanish authorities and he was arrested for treason. His wife was dragged to a workhouse where she died some time later. The admiral was released from prison a year after his wife's death, but when he returned home his son greeted him with a knife, killing him.

Behind the scenes

• This character's name is never mentioned, but it's obvious that his last name was Salazar, as being a member of the Salazar family.
• Although Armando Salazar claims that his father's life was taken by pirates in Dead Men Tell No Tales, the film's novelization explains that Salazar himself killed him for dealing with pirates. It was also confirmed by Jerry Bruckheimer that pirates corrupted Salazar's father.
• In Jeff Nathanson's 2013 early draft of the Dead Men Tell No Tales script, the main villain was Captain John Brand, a ghostly British Royal Navy officer who accidentally killed his own brother Eric after he became a pirate. Sixteen years later, during the final battle, Eric rose up as a ghost in the sunken Poseidon's Tomb, leading an army of Brand's victims, and dragged his brother and his crew to Hell.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (First mentioned)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization