Revenge

For other uses, see Revenge (disambiguation)

Jack Sparrow once wanted revenge against Hector Barbossa, and Barbossa later desired revenge against Blackbeard.

"Revenge won't bring your father back, Miss Swann, and it's not something I'm intending to die for."

―Hector Barbossa to Elizabeth Swann

The concept of revenge or vengeance is committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Vengeful behavior has been found across a majority of human societies, in which some encourage such behavior called a feud. These societies usually regard the honor of individuals and groups as of central importance. Thus, while protecting of their reputation an avenger feels as if they restore the previous state of dignity and justice.

History

"By rule of the king we have provided a fair and just punishment. This ship dared to cross our bow—and so she will rest at the bottom of the sea. I assure you, your loyalty will be rewarded with blood. We will not rest until we have our revenge!"

―Armando Salazar

The legendary pirate Captain Henry Morgan felt he was treated badly by his fellow Pirate Lords, so he swore to have revenge against the whole Brethren Court one day, studying the dark arts on a hidden island until he became the master of all the shadows as the alchemist known as the Shadow Lord, achieving immortality and creating a mystical liquid called the Shadow Gold. Even though decades passed, he still held a grudge against his former associates, and decided to kill their descendants, but the Shadow Lord's campaign ended in disastrous defeat.

The infamous pirate Captain Torrents led many unsuccessful raids, and he and his crew allegedly ended up being captured by the British Royal Navy more times than they set sail. They had so much bad luck that their biggest haul was a boatload of bananas from Jamaica. Torrents eventually discovered the Navy was regularly tipped about his plans by another pirate, Captain Laura Smith. Torrents followed Smith to Tortuga to kill her, but his sack with the scabbard of the Sword of Cortés was stolen by the young Jack Sparrow, which forced Torrents to to postpone his revenge.

After the young adventurer and pirate Captain James Sterling was sunk and all but drowned on his maiden voyage to the Caribbean by the Spanish admiral Maldonado, he miraculously survived through the intervention of supernatural forces, the Armada of the Damned. Having been given a second chance to fulfill his fate through a quest for revenge, Captain Sterling vowed to strike back and wreak revenge, making choices that decided the fate of his soul, ultimately ending his journey as a legendary or a dreaded pirate captain.

Ten years after Hector Barbossa's mutiny, Jack Sparrow wanted the Black Pearl and revenge on his mutinous first mate.

When the first mate on the Black Pearl, Hector Barbossa, led a mutiny against Captain Jack Sparrow, the overthrown captain was marooned on a desert island and given a flintlock pistol with just one shot—to kill himself when heat and thirst got too much. Upon learning about Barbossa's mutiny, Sparrow's marooning and legendary escape as well as the circumstances that followed, Will Turner understood Jack's eagerness to help him save Elizabeth Swann had been his wanting to reclaim the Pearl and revenge against his mutinous first mate. Another legend of Jack Sparrow was a more exaggerated tale having Pequeno taking his vengeance directly towards Jack and Will at Tortuga, told by Sparrow himself at Fort Alvo Grande. During the battle at Isla de Muerta, Jack shrewdly used the Aztec curse to get his revenge; he secretly palmed a Aztec Gold coin to become immortal, then shot Barbossa in the heart just as Will drops the last coins and blood, into the Aztec stone chest.

Lord Cutler Beckett loved the idea of having Jack Sparrow forced to work for the East India Trading Company—the very company he hated that aimed to destroy everything that pirates stood for, believing it was quite the brilliant revenge. As the newly-elected Pirate King of the Brethren Court, Elizabeth Swann declared war against Beckett, partly for the death of her father, Governor Weatherby Swann. With the odds were against the pirates, Barbossa told Elizabeth that revenge wouldn't bring her father back and it wasn't something he intended to die for. However, though initially believing revenge was her true motive, Elizabeth knew there was more to the battle-to-come than revenge.

Prior the quest for the Fountain of Youth, Blackbeard led an attack on the Black Pearl, during which Hector Barbossa lost his right leg and believed the Pearl to be sunk. Barbossa had vengeance as a goal since the very night it happened, and pursued Blackbeard with an obsessive passion ever since. By the time he became a privateer in service to King George II, now wearing a wooden leg, Barbossa knew of Blackbeard's own obsession to find the Fountain of Youth as well as the importance of Blackbeard's Sword of Triton. When he reunited with Captain Jack Sparrow, Barbossa claimed he was searching for the Fountain for King George, but after getting caught in San Miguel during an alliance with Sparrow, the pirate accused the "privateer" of having an agenda for all his actions, having figured out Barbossa was lying in wait for Blackbeard. After Barbossa admits his desire for revenge against Blackbeard, Jack brought the privateer's crew to the Fountain, where Barbossa poisoned blade through Blackbeard's heart. Returning to piracy, Barbossa claimed Blackbeard's sword, crew, and ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Capitán Salazar and his crew of the dead seek revenge against Jack Sparrow.

In 1751, a crew of cursed ghosts caught between life and death, led by the notorious pirate hunter Capitán Armando Salazar, escaped from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea and "to seek revenge as the dead man's tale is told." Captain Hector Barbossa settled into a prosperous pirate empire until three of his ships were attacked by the army of the dead, now out for revenge against Jack Sparrow. Barbossa was drawn into a dangerous alliance with Salazar, learning about how "Jack the Sparrow" defeated the Silent Mary decades prior, and then decided to find the legendary Trident of Poseidon to regain his command of the seas. As the Silent Mary gained on the Dying Gull, Jack Sparrow's crew rumbled their discontent, for the dead would kill them all if they caught up, but would still kill them all as revenge for killing the man they were hunting. During the battle of Poseidon's Tomb, Salazar brandished the Trident, holding the power of a god, ready to claim his revenge against Sparrow, only to be defeated by Henry Turner and Carina Smyth.

Behind the scenes

"You will bring me the Trident. And with it you will have your freedom. And the revenge you seek."
"And what of your revenge?"
"To all those who burned witches. There is a storm coming."

―Melia and John Brand

• Revenge first appears in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, though Jack Sparrow's motive for revenge on Hector Barbossa would later be identified with the term "revenge" in the 2006 junior novelization, as well as the reference book Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide later reprinted in 2007 through The Complete Visual Guide.
• In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's early screenplay draft for The Curse of the Black Pearl, Will Turner tells Jack Sparrow he is the worst pirate following Barbossa's death in the battle at Isla de Muerta, only for Sparrow to insist he is a great pirate for being a man who can't "pass up a chance for revenge against the black-hearted bastard who stole my ship and left me to die in the middle of the ocean -- twice! -- and who knows how to get what he wants." Although the word "revenge" would not be uttered onscreen, Jack's revenge motive would be identified in the 2006 junior novelization.
• In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's original screenplay draft for At World's End, the leader of the Chinese pirates of Singapore was Dragon Lady, a beautiful and mysterious young woman who wanted revenge for the death of her brother at the hands of the treacherous Lang Si some time before Cutler Beckett's war against piracy.
• In Terry Rossio's 2012 screenplay draft for Dead Men Tell No Tales, the main villain was the Sea Widow, a mysterious witch who swore revenge against Jack Sparrow. In Jeff Nathanson's 2013 screenplay draft, the main villain was the ghost of Captain John Brand, an insane British pirate hunter who swore revenge against Jack Sparrow for turning his brother Eric into a pirate. The final version of the film's story centered around the Spanish pirate hunter Capitán Armando Salazar's revenge against Jack Sparrow.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales was released in some countries with the subtitle Salazar's Revenge, a decision that directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg were not informed about.
• Revenge was meant to appear in Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, a video game which was scheduled to be released in 2011. But since that game was cancelled, it is unknown if its appearance in the game is canon or not.

Appearances

• Jack Sparrow: City of Gold (Mentioned only)
• Jack Sparrow: Bold New Horizons (Mentioned only)
• Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
• The Price of Freedom
• Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean
• Legends of the Brethren Court: Rising in the East
• Legends of the Brethren Court: Wild Waters
• Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (First appearance)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2006 junior novelization)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
• Kingdom Hearts II (Non-canonical appearance)
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide (First identified as revenge)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide

External links

• Revenge on Wikipedia