Crippled man

"We are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things." The title of this article is conjectural. Although this article is based on canonical information, the actual name of this subject is pure conjecture.

Unknown
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Eye color	Brown
Died	Black Pearl, off Isla Cruces
Statistics
Weapon(s) owned	Cutlass
Ship(s) captained or crewed	Black Pearl
Affiliation	Jack Sparrow
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Dead Man's Chest
Last appearance	Dead Man's Chest
Cause	Killed by the Kraken
Portrayer	Israel Aduramo

"Me have one arm and a bum leg."
"It's the crow's nest for you."

―Crippled man and Joshamee Gibbs

This man was hired by Joshamee Gibbs to serve under Captain Jack Sparrow aboard the Black Pearl. Although the man was not informed, Jack intended to give his new recruits over to Davy Jones in order to appease his debt.

Biography

This man lived in Tortuga, and at one point lost his right arm, as well as having been injured in one of his legs. In the Twelve Daggers bar, he met Joshamee Gibbs, who was signing up crew mates for the Motley crew of the Black Pearl under the famed Captain Jack Sparrow. The crippled man signed up along with several others, and Gibbs jokingly assigned him the job of manning the crow's nest. When a drunken former Commodore James Norrington tried to shoot Sparrow with a flintlock, the new crew mates demonstrated their loyalty by restraining the crazed Navy officer turned pirate, causing him to shoot up towards the ceiling, inadvertently starting a bar fight. In the ensuing chaos, the crew escaped, and left aboard the Pearl. When the ship sailed to Isla Cruces where the fabled Dead Man's Chest belonging to Jack's enemy Davy Jones, Sparrow and several trusted crewmates rowed ashore, while the old man stayed under the command of Gibbs. The Crippled man stood with many other recruits on the main deck as the Flying Dutchman surfaced from the depths of the ocean, and watched as his captain made a fool of himself trying to bargain with Jones.

The crippled man in Tortuga.

The Dutchman opened fire on the Black Pearl, damaging her greatly. The ship managed to outrun the ghostly Dutchman, but would soon suffer a worse fate. The whole ship shook, and fellow crewman Lejon yelled that they must have hit a reef. This was not the case; crewman William Turner Jr. knew of what was happening, and the crew was ordered to get to their stations as the Kraken was about to attack. This man served as a cannoneer, stationed at a cannon along with another pirate. They were terrified as they saw the Kraken's tentacles climbing up the side of the ship, and immediately opened fire on command along with all of the other cannons. However, the longboats were destroyed by the Kraken, so they had to fight again. The Crippled man prepared for the coming fight, readying the gunpowder. When they ran out of gunpowder, Will Turner suggested they use rum instead, and the whole crew went silent waiting for Gibbs' approval. Gibbs reluctantly agreed to this, and the man cried in despair as he and the crew relayed the order. The second Kraken attack would come suddenly and swiftly as the entire ship shook again, and its tentacles came crashing through into the ship. A tentacle grabbed the man and pulled him into the ocean, where he would be drowned and devoured.

Behind the scenes

• The crippled man was portrayed by Israel Aduramo in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization) (First appearance)