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| “ | Find Sparrow for me, and relay a message from Capitan Salazar. Salazar! Tell him I will behold the daylight again, and on that day... death...! Death will come straight for him. Will you say that to him? Please? I wish I could do it myself, but dead men tell no tales. | „ |
| ~ Armando Salazar to Henry Turner. |
Capitán Armando Salazar is the main antagonist in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. He is the aggressive, sadistic, cruel, misanthropic, ruthless, merciless and extremely dangerous Capitán of the Spanish Royal Navy and the cursed Silent Mary. He is also one of the archenemies of Captain Jack Sparrow.
Having a strong hatred of pirates, he gained a notorious reputation of hunting and slaughtering any pirates he came across until he was tricked by Jack Sparrow into going into the Devil's Triangle, leaving Salazar and his crew as undead wraiths/ghosts. Eventually, he is freed from the Triangle and sets out to find the Trident of Poseidon to destroy all pirates, get revenge on Jack and commit the maximum of victims into the world.
He was portrayed by Javier Bardem, who also played Felix Reyes-Torrena in Collateral, Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men, Raoul Silva in Skyfall, Felix Marti in The Gunman and Him/God in mother!.
Personality[]
Prior to his death and resurrection, Armando Salazar sailed the high seas for many years. Already a savage, ruthless, barbaric, brutally sadistic, cold-blooded, and inhumanly cruel man even before his first death, Salazar firmly earned himself a fierce reputation: even being widely regarded as a legend in his own right, albeit a terrifying one. Ruthless and overzealous, he had devoted his military career in the Spanish Navy to eliminating all pirates from the Caribbean. His hatred for pirates was so great that he didn't even consider them men and instead described them as an "infection".
Salazar was also hauntingly merciless to his enemies even if they surrendered to him. On one occasion, while casually eating an apple, he ordered the shooting of some surviving pirates with muskets. When Lesaro pointed out their surrender, Salazar emotionlessly stated “There is no mercy!” before ordering him and the rest to kill the pirates anyway, highlighting his cruelty. He is also aggressive, egotistical, antisocial and misanthropic, and kill without any distinction everyone he meets.
Salazar's obsession with killing pirates eventually led him to fall for Jack Sparrow's trickery and lead him to his untimely demise. Following his first death, Salazar was consumed with an uncontrollable rage due to having been resurrected by the supernatural powers of the Devil's Triangle, as well as a burning desire to get revenge on the man he held responsible for his fate; Jack Sparrow. And his obsession is so high that he doesn't hesitate to abandon his entire crew to the death, which also proved that he never cared about his crew.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
| “ | I have heard stories of a mighty Spanish captain; El Matador Del Mar. A man who scourged the sea and hunted and killed thousands of men. | „ |
| ~ Hector Barbossa describes Salazar as a murderous and legendary person. |
Armando Salazar was once a captain of the Spanish Royal Navy who dedicated his life to ridding the seas of pirates after his grandfather was murdered by them at some point in his life. Salazar later murdered his father after discovering he was accepting bribes from pirates.
He also killed pirates without mercy and saw them as little better than animals or infections instead of seeing them as people. One day, Salazar and his crew; the Crew of the Silent Mary, were ambushed by a fleet of ten pirate ships. Though outnumbered, they slaughtered the fleet of pirates before killing the survivors. Even after the pirates had raised a flag of surrender and begged for mercy, Salazar disregarded and ordered Lesaro and the crew to kill them.
Salazar as a human before his original death.
In the chaos that followed, Salazar's noticed a young pirate named Jack Sparrow aboard a ship called the Wicked Wench trying to escape the carnage while taunting him. Not wanting to miss a single (let alone so insolent) pirate, Salazar chased Jack into the Devil's Triangle, where the Silent Mary was mangled by rocks within the Devil's Triangle.
This caused the powder stored within the ship to ignite and veil the ship with an unrelenting fire, which soon engulfed and killed all of Salazar’s crew but him. Salazar himself was killed initially by a timbered mast just as he escaped over the edge. However, as Salazar and his crew's bodies begun to sink to the bottom of the sea, they were suddenly struck by eerie red streaks of mysterious supernatural powers of the Triangle, resurrecting them as undead ghosts of the Triangle, where they were currently trapped.
For years, Salazar and his now ghostly crew were forced to remain in the Devil's Triangle, trapped by its supernatural powers. Salazar learned during his imprisonment the name of Jack Sparrow who defeated and cursed him. He vowed he would one day escape the Devil's Triangle and get revenge on Jack for defeating and humiliating him.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales[]
Encountering Henry Turner and Message to Jack Sparrow[]
Salazar confronts Henry Turner.
Over 30 years after this battle, Jack has grown up to become a legendary pirate and spent a long time running from the law while Salazar and his men have been waiting to get their revenge on him. They've spent years killing anyone who dares to enter the triangle, with Salazar always letting one man live to tell the tale.
All Salazar wanted to do was be freed from the triangle so he could find a legendary magical object called the Trident of Poseidon, use it to make himself human again and then get his revenge against Jack for making him undead. One day, he spotted a British Royal Navy ship called the Monarch sail into the triangle. Afterwards Salazar and his men attacked the crew, easily slaughtering them all. Suddenly, Salazar heard a noise below deck, so he walked down to the brig where he discovered a young boy named Henry Turner locked in a cell.
Henry is the son of Jack's old friends Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, and Henry had spent most of his life trying to find Jack so he could help him break Will's curse with the Trident. When Salazar noticed Henry had many wanted posters of Jack, Salazar spared Henry and told him to find Jack and tell him that Salazar was coming for him to seek his revenge.
Return for Revenge[]
Sometime after this, Henry has escaped on a piece of driftwood and the Devil's Triangle began sinking into the sea because Jack gave away his compass for a bottle of rum. At last, Salazar and his crew were freed from their purgatory. Even though his ship was nothing but a wreck, the Silent Mary was magically kept afloat as a ghost ship. After the crew celebrated their liberation, Armando told them it was time for them to continue their mission and kill all the other pirates in the world, including Jack.
Freed from the Devil's Triangle, Salazar and his men continued their attacks on pirates. They encountered a pirate fleet commanded by Jack's semi-arch enemy Hector Barbossa. Without hesitation, they quickly attacked and destroyed three of Barbossa's ships, always leaving at least one man alive to tell of him. Though the rest of the fleet managed to escape, the message the undead Spaniards sent was clear - the dead have taken command of the sea. Salazar and his men soon encountered Barbossa aboard his command ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge (which originally belonged to the pirate Blackbeard). Salazar was ready to destroy it with everyone on it, but at that moment, Barbossa mentioned that he knew Salazar was looking for Jack. Salazar and his crew then boarded the Queen Anne's Revenge where Barbossa agreed to help Salazar find Jack in exchange for him sparing his own life. Salazar took Barbossa and his crew aboard the Silent Mary, and from her proceeded in his hunt for Jack Sparrow.
Closing In[]
Later on, Salazar finally spots Jack on another ship called the Dying Gull, so he and his crew attempt to attack. However, Jack, along with Henry and a girl named Carina Smyth (who is later revealed to be be Barbossa's long-lost daughter), escape on a lifeboat to a small island. Salazar and his crew chase the three to the island, but they soon realize that they can't walk on dry land, as evidenced when one of the crew members instantly turned into dust and dies for good after setting foot on dry sand. Salazar then orders Barbossa to go ashore and catch Jack, but Barbossa subsequently decided to help Jack, Henry and Carina find the Trident so he can use it to destroy Salazar and his men for good. Using his sword, Barbossa released Jack's ship, the Black Pearl, from the bottle it was imprisoned in and sailed away on it with the others.
The Black Pearl vs The Silent Mary[]
Salazar and his crew soon caught up with the Black Pearl, resulting in a lengthy, harsh and violent battle between Jack's crew and Salazar's crew. During the battle, Salazar chased and fought Sparrow and tried to kill him, but was forced to flee back on the Mary along with his men when Black Rock Island, the island where the Trident was located, appeared. Before returning on his ship, however, Salazar captured Henry. He then possessed Henry so he could walk on land. knowing that later he could be released from Henry’s body with the trident.
Final Death[]
Salazar is stabbed in the back by Barbossa, making him lose his grip of the anchor
After Barbossa, Jack, and Carina arrived at Black Rock Island, Jack and Carina found the trident in an tomb underwater. Salazar then arrived possessing Henry and attacked them. He engaged Jack in another fight while the crew of the Silent Mary saw them from within the parted sea, the result of the Trident's powers being unleashed. After grabbing a hold of the Trident, its energy released Salazar from Henry's body, and he sadistically began to throw Jack through the water, where Salazar's crew attempted to grab Jack and try to drown him. After toying with Jack for a while, Salazar was about to kill Jack with the trident.
At that moment, however, the now free Henry then quickly sliced the trident in half with his sword and broke all the curses of the sea, including Salazar's and Will's, turning Salazar and his crew back into their human forms again, which they celebrate. However, their joy was short lived, as the walls of the tombs were starting to close in on everybody. As Barbossa flies in to save Jack, Henry and Carina by using the anchor of the Black Pearl, Jack, Henry and Carina quickly hop on meanwhile Salazar and only 2 of his men make it to the chain. Still determined to kill Jack, Salazar leaves all of his crew, including his most loyal crewman; Lieutenant Lesaro, to die. Salazar quickly realizes he’d once again lost (most of) his crew as he, Barbossa, Jack, Henry and Carina climbed up the chain. Now brimming with fury and followed by his last two crewmen, Salazar vengefully pursued them and attempted to reach Carina and murder her first.
However, Barbossa, in a valiant and gallant attempt to save his daughter, let go of the anchor and grabbed hold of a blade Jack gave him to use against Salazar. As he fell down the anchor, he plunged his sword into Salazar's back, causing him to let go of the anchor's chain in pain. As Salazar fell down, he unintentionally knocked both of his two crew members off the anchor chain, dragging them with him. He vocalized in utter horror before getting brutally concussed to death by the anchor, which kills him for good. As the walls of water closed in, Salazar's life-less body, his two remaining crewmen and Barbossa were washed away by the closing seas.
Quotes[]
| “ | Captain Toms: What are you?! Salazar: Death. |
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| ~ Salazar's first words in the movie to the last remaining British sailor at the Monarch |
| “ | Lesaro: Capitan, what's happening? Salazar: Jack Sparrow. Jack Sparrow has given away the compass. |
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| ~ Salazar and his right-hand Lesaro as they are finally being freed from the Triangle. |
| “ | Barbossa: Capitan Salazar! I hear ye be lookin for Jack Sparrow! Barbossa: My name’s Captain Barbossa, and I stand before ye with cordial intent. Salazar: *Mockinkly chuckles* “Cordial intent?” Do you hear that? This pirate wishes to be cordial. So let me show you my “cordiality”, hombre. Every time I tap my sword, one of your men die. So, I suggest you speak quickly. Might wanna go a bit faster, Capitan. *taps sword 3 times, signaling his soldiers to kill 3 of Barbossa’s* Where’s Jack Sparrow? Barbossa: Jack be sailing for the trident. Salazar: No, no. The sea belongs to the dead. Barbossa: The trident controls the sea. Salazar: No, NO! There’s no trident. There’s no trident that can save him. *further enraged* He’ll die as will you. Barbossa: I be the only one that can lead ye to it. I declare ye shall have Jack’s life on the morrow, where ye can take me own then. Do we have an accord? Salazar: Take me to him, and you’ll live to tell the tale. ”Barbossa”: I thank ye. And on behalf of me crew. ”Salazar”: *taps his sword 5 times, meaning 5 more of Barbossa’s soldiers are slaughtered* You can take what’s left of them. The living come aboard. |
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| ~ Salazar and Barbossa, having an agreement of alliance between them. |
| “ | Pirates had infected the seas for generations, taking the life of my father and his father before him. So I vowed to end this plague once and for all. And that is what I did. I destroyed dozens of ships. The last ones joined together to try and defeat me, but they soon realized that it was hopeless. Nothing could stop the Silent Mary. The sea was finally... pure. Their wretched flags would no longer stain the sea. The last of their ships were burning before my eyes. But in that moment of... victory, its when i heard it. One ship was trying to escape through the smoke. And there, in the crow's nest, there was this... young pirate boy! He stood there looking like...like a little bird! And from that day he earned himself a name that would haunt me for the rest of my days. Jack the Sparrow! He took everything from me, and filled with rage... and pain | „ |
| ~ Salazar explains his motives and his plans to Barbossa. |
| “ | Salazar: Hey, Jack Sparrow! Jack Sparrow. Jack: You're Spanish? Salazar: You will soon pay for what you did to me. Jack: I don't think so. I don't have time to chat. I need to find them. Salazar: So, I will be waiting for you! |
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| ~ Salazar and Jack. |
| “ | Lesaro: Capitan, You know the danger. Don’t do it. Salazar's crewman #1: He has no choice. Salazar's crewman #2: Jack is on land going for the trident. Lesaro: Then there must a another way. Once you possess the living, there is no coming back; you will be trapped in his body forever. Salazar: The Trident will set me free. (Salazar starts to possess Henry) Salazar: It's time to kill a Sparrow. Henry: NO! |
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| ~ Salazar discussing with his men about as he starts possessing Henry. |
| “ | You cut me, you cut the boy, Jack. | „ |
| ~ Salazar possessing Henry Turner while speaking to Jack. |
| “ | There's nowhere to hide. | „ |
| ~ Salazar to Jack Sparrow, during the final battle. |
| “ | This is where the tale ends! | „ |
| ~ Armando Salazar to Jack Sparrow. |
| “ | Hola, Sparrow. | „ |
| ~ Salazar to Jack Sparrow while holding the Trident. |
| “ | I hate the Sparrow. Die, Sparrow. | „ |
| ~ Salazar while wielding the Trident. |
| “ | We’re flesh and blood. | „ |
| ~ Salazar and his crew happily celebrating after turning human again. |
| “ | Jack! | „ |
| ~ Armando Salazar's last word. |
Trivia[]
- He is the second main Pirates of the Caribbean villain who is not a pirate, the first being Lord Cutler Beckett. who was the main antagonist of the third film. Interestingly, both hate pirates and desire to exterminate all of them, though it can be argued that Beckett went much farther than Salazar ever did. However, Salazar is much more dangerous than Beckett because his acts concern everybody.
- Christoph Waltz was originally cast in the role of Captain John Brand, but dropped out due to other work commitments. Javier Bardem was then given the role, but the name was changed from Brand to Salazar to sound more Mediterranean to accompany Bardem's Spanish descent. Bardem and Waltz both previously portrayed villains in Daniel Craig James Bond films. Bardem as Raoul Silva in Skyfall (2012), and Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre (2015).
- Mother! and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, both of which Bardem starred in, came out in 2017. He also played the main antagonist in both films.
- Javier Bardem's wife Penélope Cruz played Angelica Teach in the previous film On Stranger Tides.
- Salazar and Blackbeard, the main antagonist of the previous film On Stranger Tides are the only two main Pirates of the Caribbean villains who have only been in one movie. They are also the only main antagonists in the film series to never meet or interact with Will and Elizabeth.
- It's never explained how Salazar learned about Jack Sparrow's name during his imprisonment on the Devil's Triangle, as Salazar had no contact with the outside world during all this time. However, it's possible that his curse allowed him to give him the name of his defeater.
- This is the second time in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise that a small artifact signals the main villain. The first time was back in the first movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl, when the Aztec Medallion touches the seawater.
- Salazar's face was full makeup that took Javier 3 hours to put on, but the hair was all CGI. To achieve this effect, Javier's hair had to be pulled to the back and makeup artist added marking dots on his face and had to track the motion of his head in post production.
- The character Captain Salazar is named after the late Portuguese Republican President and dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.
- Along the movie, when Captain Salazar is killing or prompted to kill his enemies, he poses with his sword as if grabbing a "estoque" (rapier) in the Matador manner.
- Salazar and Cutler Beckett are currently the only villains in the series that have not been adapted into the Pirates of the Caribbean amusement attraction as of now.
- In the film, Salazar stated both his father and grandfather were killed by pirates. In the novelization of the film, however, Salazar stated he killed his father himself because his father was getting himself involved with piracy and was corrupted by the pirates, as a result. Jerry Bruckheimer later confirmed that the novelized backstory was the canon explanation.
- Due to his hatred against violence and villainy, Javier Bardem has even hated his own character, Salazar, despite his roles of antagonists.
- Salazar takes major traits from the main villains of the previous movies:
- Hector Barbossa: both them and their crews are cursed in undead forms.
- Davy Jones: both them and their crews are cursed to the point where they are unable to walk on land and are both after Jack Sparrow for personal reasons: in Jones' case, to settle a deal Jack made with him, and in Salazar's, to kill Jack as revenge for cursing him.
- Cutler Beckett: both are absolutely ruthless and delusional Navy leaders who want to exterminate every pirate in the world.
- Blackbeard: both are in search of an item to improve their existences: In Blackbeard's case, the Fountain of Youth via a chalice and a mermaid's tear to give him eternal life, and in Salazar's case, the Trident of Poseidon to give him his life back. Another shared trait is their enhanced sadism.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales was internationally titled Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge.
- Bardem's wife, Penélope Cruz , played Angelica Teach in On Stranger Tides.
External Links[]
- Armando Salazar on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Armando Salazar on the Pirates of the Caribbean Wiki
- Armando Salazar on the Disney Wiki
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