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"They've hidden it. While you were examining the ship, I saw a flash from a spyglass. Someone aboard the sloop saw us watching them."
"Didn't see the bow chaser clear enough to be sure. But that sloop is a dead ringer for the one what sunk me ship Cobra—and killed me little Polly. What son of Hades owns that hell-begotten ship?"
―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa[src]

Hades was a mythical god in Greek mythology, presiding over the dead and the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa would mention Hades; Sparrow would mention Hades the underworld,[1][2][3] while Barbossa referred to Boris "Borya" Palachnik, the Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea and a rogue pirate, a "son of Hades" upon learning that Palachnik's ship, the Koldunya, was the one that attacked Barbossa's ship Cobra.[4]

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The name "Hades" became synonymous to the god and the underworld; the underworld being first mentioned in Jack Sparrow: Poseidon's Peak,[1] Jack Sparrow: Bold New Horizons,[2] and The Price of Freedom,[4] which also had the first mention of the god.[3]

While unconfirmed in the Pirates universe, Hades of Greek mythology is the god of the dead and riches and the King of the underworld. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated, overthrew, and replaced their father's generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed joint sovereignty over the cosmos. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth.[5]

The backstory behind the Devil's Triangle was explained in Jeff Nathanson's early 2013 screenplay draft of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The Triangle was formed by Poseidon's brother Hades who was charged with protecting Tomb of Poseidon, which was located on the islands around the Triangle. Hades enlisted the dead to patrol the Triangle, locking them in forever.[6] Whether or not this backstory remains canonical is unknown, as it was not mentioned nor contradicted in the finished version of the film.[7]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jack Sparrow: Poseidon's Peak, p. 76
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jack Sparrow: Bold New Horizons, p. 139
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Price of Freedom, Chapter Eight: The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Price of Freedom, Chapter Eighteen: Exodus
  5. ↑ WP favicon Hades on Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Dead Men Tell No Tales script by Jeff Nathanson, second draft, 5/6/2013
  7. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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