Lord Cutler Beckett

"It's just good business."

- Lord Beckett.

Lord Cutler Beckett is the head of the East India Trading company in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. He serves as the secondary antagonist in Dead Man's Chest and is the primary antagonist in At World's End. The company wants to kill all pirates, and control the seas by finding the heart of Davy Jones, and using it to manipulate Davy into doing as they command. He and Jack Sparrow have had encounters in the past, that leave both of them with permanent engravings on their skin. Beckett seeks to obtain order in the new world, as well as make Britain grow more powerful.

He was played by Tom Hollander

Death
Shortly after the death of Davy Jones, Beckett faced the Black Pearl himself. He relayed on the Flying Dutchman to win. The Pearl was no match for Beckett's warship, but this changed with the Flying Dutchman, now under Will Turner's leadership, arrived. The two ships pulverized Beckett's ship with repeated cannon volleys -- Beckett merely walked across the deck as it was blown apart, accepting his fate.

Personality
Beckett is extremely devious, greedy and persuasive and will use any means necessary to get what he wants. Even if it means the murder of millions of people he will use it. He is also very manipulative and manages to manipulate many people one of them being Davy Jones. He bears an intense hatred for piracy, going as far as to kill small children for being only slightly associated with it, and suspending legal rights in various areas that his company controls in favor of a more dictatorial regime. He also has no problem with slavery, as revealed when he referred to a group of escaped slaves as "cargo", to which Jack Sparrow (who had freed the slaves) replied "people aren't cargo, mate."