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Dog Ear was a crew member serving aboard the Black Pearl under Captain Hector Barbossa, and was one of the pirates cursed by the treasure of Hernán Cortés on Isla de Muerta.
Biography[]
Dog Ear joined the crew of Captain Jack Sparrow prior to the search for Isla de Muerta, and served under Sparrow until the night of Barbossa's mutiny. Dog Ear and the rest of the crew stood by Barbossa against Jack, who was then marooned while the crew, now serving Barbossa, continued on to Isla de Muerta. There, they took the treasure of Hernán Cortés and spent it all on life's pleasures. It was only later that the crew realized the treasure was cursed. Dog Ear found himself unable to die, and unable to feel neither pleasure nor pain. Under moonlight, he and the crew became walking skeletons, and the undead men began their quest to return all eight hundred and eighty two gold coins to Isla de Muerta.
After ten years of searching, all hope of finding the last piece of Aztec gold seemed lost—until it sent out a call that lured the pirates to Port Royal. Dog Ear participated in the attack on the town. After sacking Port Royal, Dog Ear and the other cursed pirates returned to the Black Pearl with the captive Elizabeth Swann, who wore the final piece of gold as a medallion around her neck. Under the false belief that Elizabeth's blood would be the key to ending their curse following her negotiations with Captain Barbossa, the crew made preparations to leave Port Royal and sail for Isla de Muerta.
After arriving at Isla de Muerta with their captive in tow, Captain Barbossa began the blood ritual to end the curse that tormented the crew. Dog Ear pointed his cutlass threateningly at Elizabeth as the pirates called for her blood to be spilled, though Barbossa merely cut her hand to stain the medallion with her blood, before dropping it into the chest. Dog Ear then waited for the curse to be lifted, but the only feeling that came was disappointment when it was found that the ritual failed. Tensions rose until the pirates nearly mutinied against Barbossa, but for the discovery that Elizabeth had escaped with the medallion. The pirates returned to their boats to give chase, only to find the oars were gone, and that their former captain Jack Sparrow was there, having escaped the island they had marooned him on.
The crew managed to return to the Black Pearl, and Dog Ear took part in the battle against the HMS Interceptor. Though the Interceptor's motley crew fought valiantly against their attackers, they were no match for the immortal pirates and were soon captured along with the medallion. When Elizabeth was forced to walk the plank, Dog Ear turned toward his crewmates to laugh at her plight. After marooning Jack Sparrow on the same island as before, the crew then returned to Isla de Muerta with Will Turner as their new captive—whose blood was certain to lift the curse this time.
The blood ritual was interrupted by the arrival of Jack Sparrow, who had again survived his marooning, and revealed to his former crew that the HMS Dauntless was lying in ambush for them, moored in the shallows just off the coast. Dog Ear and most of the other pirates were sent to attack the British Navy—using the curse to their advantage, the pirates walked along the ocean floor and boarded the unsuspecting Dauntless from underwater. In the battle that ensued, Dog Ear fought the British until the curse was lifted, and upon seeing Koehler dead, dropped his cutlass and surrendered. He and the rest of the pirates were taken back to Port Royal to be hanged.
Personality and traits[]
Dog Ear, much like the other members of the cursed crew, was a bloodthirsty and vicious pirate, who was doomed by his own greed to suffer under the curse of the Aztec gold. He was a scrawny man with a yellow coat, and wore a long stocking cap, underneath which he had long, dirty hair.
Behind the Scenes[]
- Dog Ear was played by Tobias McKinney in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- Dog Ear's name appears in the Black Pearl crew roster book at Walt Disney World's Tortuga Tavern restaurant.[1]
Appearances[]
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