Twigg

Twigg
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Brown
Born	c. 1680s
Statistics
Weapon(s) owned	Sword
Ship(s) captained or crewed	Black Pearl
Battles	Attack on Port Royal Destruction of the Interceptor Battle of the Isla de Muerta
Affiliation	Cursed crew
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Curse of the Black Pearl
Last appearance	The Curse of the Black Pearl
Cause	Arrested by Commodore Norrington's men.
Portrayer	Michael Berry Jr.

"You brought us here for nothing!"
"I won't take questionin' nor second guesses, not from the likes of you, Mister Twigg!"

―Twigg and Hector Barbossa

Twigg was a crew member serving aboard the Black Pearl under Captain Hector Barbossa. He had a scar on the left side of his face, and a bushy brown beard.

Biography

Twigg was recruited along with many other crew members by Captain Jack Sparrow prior to the quest to find Isla de Muerta. Twigg participated in the mutiny led by Sparrow's First Mate, Barbossa, that led to Jack being marooned on a desert island. Now captain, Barbossa led the crew to the island, where they discovered and stole the treasure of Hernán Cortés, thereby bringing down a curse upon themselves. Twigg became undead, and joined the rest of the skeletal crew in tracking down all 882 pieces of treasure in order to lift the curse.

Twigg and Koehler confronting Jack Sparrow.

Twigg participated in the attack on Port Royal, laying siege to the Port Royal prison with his companion, Koehler, while searching for the armory, they encountered Jack Sparrow, and inadvertently revealed to him the nature of their curse. Twigg and Koehler returned to the Black Pearl as it set sail for Isla de Muerta with Elizabeth Swann as the crew's captive. When Swann's blood proved unable to lift the curse, Twigg was the first to voice doubts about Barbossa's leadership, though joined the crew in searching for Swann and the missing medallion when Will Turner launched his rescue attempt.

Twigg under the Aztec curse.

Barbossa's crew pursued Swann and Turner, aboard the Interceptor, whereupon Barbossa ordered Twigg and Koehler to run a powder magazine over to the enemy ship. They rigged the vessel to explode after its crew were brought aboard the Pearl, and subsequently returned to Isla de Muerta for the sacrifice of Will Turner. However, the HMS Dauntless arrived in time to distract the pirates, who launched an assault on the British Royal Navy troops. Twigg and Koehler engaged the marines in single combat, killing many due to their state of undeath. They were relived when they felt the curse finally lift from them. But their joy was short-lived, as they found themselves surrounded and vulnerable again. Koehler was killed by James Norrington, so Twigg dropped his sword to surrender. His further fate is unknown.

Twigg with the curse lifted.

Personality and traits

Twigg was a tall, skinny, light-skinned man, with a scar on the left side of his face, and a bushy brown beard. Twigg wore a tight hat and, like Koehler, wore the grungy garb of a man long at sea.

Behind the scenes

Twigg was portrayed by Michael Berry Jr. in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for The Curse of the Black Pearl, as the Black Pearl arrived to Isla de Muerta, Twigg cups his hands to his face and calls down "Isla de Muerta, off the port bow!" from the crow's nest high on the main mast. As Captain Barbossa's crew enters Isla de Muerta's treasure caverns, Twigg gazes upward in wonder before Barbossa grabs him as he nears a chasm and warns him, "Fall down there, you'd die and miss Judgement Day -- for not even the Lord himself'll come look for you here." While Twigg acts as a guard to Jack Sparrow, the latter tells his crew to either not hit his ship or "kill the lying scoundrel" during the battle between the Black Pearl and the HMS Interceptor, with Twigg just staring at Sparrow while he gives his conflicting orders. As Pintel squints at Will Turner, who revealed his identity as the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner, Twigg says Will is the "It's true -- he's the spittin' image of Old Bootstrap. Even talks the same!" Ragetti said a variation of Twigg's line about Bootstrap Bill in the final version of the film and Irene Trimble's junior novelization, which Twigg does not appear in. While Barbossa was the one who said to spill all of Will Turner's blood to lift the curse in the screenplay, Twigg said the line in the film.

In Elizabeth Rudnick's junior novelization for The Curse of the Black Pearl, Twigg was the pirate Jack Sparrow took a sword from and threw to Will Turner, rather than Monk.

In the non-canonical Disney Adventures comic book The Buccaneer's Heart!, the cursed crew, now led by Bo'sun, steals the Buccaneer's Heart from Port Royal. During the battle, Jack Sparrow duped Pintel and Ragetti into believing he was a cousin of Twigg's, named Roderick. The comic has since been rendered non-canonical due to Blackbeard's appearance in the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Twigg appears as one of the Cursed Pirate enemies in the Port Royal world of the 2005 non-canonical video game Kingdom Hearts II.

Twigg's name, misspelled as "Twig", appears in the Black Pearl crew roster book at Walt Disney World's Tortuga Tavern restaurant.

Appearances

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Isles of War
• 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)
  • Fluch der Karibik
• The Buccaneer's Heart! (Mentioned only)
• Kingdom Hearts II (Non-canonical appearance)
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)