Pirate Profiles: Blackbeard

Welcome back to Pirate Profiles!  So what scurvy scallywag shall we be profiling today?  Well how about one of the most infamous pirates ever?  Blackbeard!  So get your rum ready and your shiny cutlass in it's scabbard because it's time to get our Blackbeard on! let's get started!

The Personality

Blackbeard is one of the evilest most vile pirates in the seven seas.  His cruelty and general evil seem to go almost all the way to his bones.  He cares for little other than himself and what he wants.  In his own words, "You know when I feel closest to our Maker? When I see suffering, pain, and anguish!"  His only soft spot is for his daughter Angelica.

Skills?

Blackbeard's main talent is just being a maniacal jerk, but that's not all.  He also has a talent for create compliant psychic zombies to do his bidding and creating voodoo dolls.  One of his most useful abilities comes through his sword, The Sword of Triton, which he can use to control the rigging and sails of any ship using only it's hilt and his mind.

Faillings? 

If Blackbeard has any failings it's that he is to perfectly evil.  He is also more on the mortal side then say Davy Jones or a pirate cursed by Aztec Gold.  All it takes is a little frog poison or a little magic water minus the mermaid tear and he's deader than a dead thing at a dead convention.

I also hear tell that he's destined to be killed by a one-legged man, so Long-John Silver has a good chance of taking him out.

The Film Roles

 

In POTC1?

 

Unfortunately Blackbeard did not make it into this particular Pirate film.

In POTC2?

 

Unfortunately Blackbeard did not make it into this particular Pirate film.

In POTC3?

 

Unfortunately Blackbeard did not make it into this particular Pirate film.

 

In POTC4?

 

Blackbeard finally makes his appearance in On Stranger Tides as the main protagonist.  He forces Jack Sparrow to help him find the fountain of youth so that he can survive his proheceid death, and can spend more time with his long lost daughter.

His plan, unfortunately for him, does not really go as planned and in the end he is killed by the combined efforts of his nemesis(es.)  His lovely ship, The Queen Ann's Revenge, is stolen by his killer, the one legged man a long with his magical sword.

Best Scene?

   

Pirates of the Caribbean 5? (Conjecture)

Well Blackbeard bit the preverbial dust in that last pirate flick, so it seems unlikely that he will return in the next film.  We might however see him in flashback form or something of the like;  several characters have serious past connections to Blackbeard (especially Barbossa and Angelica,) so it would make sense that their arcs connect to his past.

Also there have been more then a few characters who have been brought back from the dead in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, so who knows?  Blackbeard might make a return to save Jack Sparrow from the villainous clutches of Anne Bonnie or something.  Anything goes!  It definitely would be great to see our vile friend with the smoking beard make a return to the series!