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Blackbeard: Gentlemen. I be placed in a bewilderment. There I were... resting. Upon a sudden... I hear an ungodly row on deck. Sailors abandoning their post without orders, without leave. Men before the mast... taking the ship for themselves. What be that, first mate? Angelica: Mutiny, Captain. Blackbeard: Again? Angelica: Mutiny! Blackbeard: Aye... mutiny. And what fate befall mutineers? Now, we know the answer to that, do we not? Mutineers... HANG!
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~ Blackbeard's introduction.
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If I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am.
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~ Blackbeard to Angelica.
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If I don't make it to the fountain in time, neither will you.
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~ Blackbeard to Jack Sparrow.
Captain Edward Teach, or better known as Blackbeard, is the main antagonist of the 2011 live-action Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and a posthumous antagonist in its 2017 sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
He is an infamous pirate, based on the real-life pirate of the same name, who wishes to claim the Fountain of Youth for himself. He is also a pirate that every pirate in the world is afraid of (presumably and arguably apart from Hector Barbossa and Davy Jones), due to his supernatural powers and ruthlessness.
Captain Blackbeard was the pirate that all pirates knew and feared, as he was utterly ruthless, malicious, egotistical and sadistic, valuing his own success above everyone else's. The dark captain sailed the seas and, as the years passed, his age began to catch up with him. Therefore, he sought the legendary Fountain of Youth and became far more serious with his goals when he had to deal with Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow. The pirate was known to be argumentative and cruel to his prisoners, often torturing them mostly for his own selfish amusement, even admitting that seeing anguish, pain and suffering make him closer to God.
On rare occasions, he has shown to have a form of affection for his daughter, Angelica Teach, having her entrusted under the care of nuns to ensure her well being. After his vicious pirate years, he devoted himself into teaching her the ways of a worthy pirate, teaching her his ways of sword-fighting and various other skills. Blackbeard even told Jack Sparrow that his daughter was the only good thing he's ever done in his life. In the end though, it was clear that Blackbeard saw her as a pawn like everyone else, as he was perfectly willing to threaten and sacrifice her in order to get what he wanted, especially when he chose to save himself rather than his own child, which ultimately resulted in his death.
Blackbeard has also shown to have very little regard for the life of mermaids, viewing them as insentient beings. As such, when he captured one of them, Syrena, he went out of his way to be as cruel and vile as possible, resorting to tactics that involved toying and manipulating with Syrena's feelings for Phillip, as well as subjecting her to emotional torture by falsely murdering Phillip in front of her, so that he may get her tears that would lead him to the Fountain of Youth.
History
Between At World's End and On Stranger Tides
Blackbeard attacked the Black Pearl without being provoked, capturing the crew in the ship's own riggings. However, Hector Barbossa escaped by chopping off his foot. Blackbeard shrunk the ship down with his voodoo magic and placed it in a bottle.
On Stranger Tides
Having received a prophecy that a one-legged man would end his life from the quartermaster, Blackbeard began seeking Jack Sparrow, who was said to have been to the Fountain of Youth, which could save his life. He sent his daughter, Angelica to pose as Jack and recruit more crew-members with the possibility of capturing Jack. His plan was successful; he forced Jack to lead them to the Fountain with the threat of a voodoo doll. He captured a mermaid for her tear as part of the ritual to gain the years of life from another, and badly wounded the missionary she was in love with to get it. Succeeding in getting to the Fountain of Youth, he once more met Barbossa, the one-legged man in the prophecy and fell victim to a poison sword stab. Jack then tricked him into drinking from a chalice without the mermaid's tear in it to save the life of his daughter, who had also been poisoned by the sword. Blackbeard was subsequently stripped of his flesh and reduced to nothing more than a skeleton, which then crumbled to dust.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Blackbeard does not appear in Dead Men Tell No Tales (due to him being long dead) but he is briefly mentioned by Barbossa when he restores the Black Pearl to its normal size which undoes Blackbeard's actions.
Theme Parks
On the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, after the boat goes through many skeletons, the passengers will see Blackbeard in the mist, replacing Davy Jones.
Quotes
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No need Mr. Sparrow. They are sheep, you their Shepherd.
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~ Blackbeard to Jack Sparrow.
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I'm a bad man.
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~ Blackbeard
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A fitting last sight for a doomed soul.
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~ Blackbeard
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Why is it twice in one day, I find myself in a bewilderment?
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~ Blackbeard
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My daughter fears for my soul or what's left of it.
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~ Blackbeard on Angelica.
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Which of you poor souls stood watch?
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~ Blackbeard to his crew, in order to execute that specific person.
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You know when I feel closest to our maker? When I see suffering, pain and anguish. That's when the true design of his world was revealed.
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~ Blackbeard to Philip.
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It would be foolish to battle fate, but I would be willing to cheat it. I will reach the fountain, you will lead me.
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~ Blackbeard to Jack Sparrow.
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I need those chalices! You will go, you will return, or I will kill her.
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~ Blackbeard threatening to kill Angelica.
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Behold, gentlemen! A man formerly of faith.
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~ Blackbeard on Philip.
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That be the cold breath of fate I feel down my nape, but I'll have one last fight! By God, kill them all!
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~ Blackbeard
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I expected fate to put up more of a fight, eh?
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~ Blackbeard to Barbossa.
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In fate there is light enough to see, yes, but darkness enough to blind!
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~ Blackbeard
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Trickster! Devil!
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~ Blackbeard's last words.
Gallery
Blackbeard on board his ship.
Blackbeard tormenting Jack Sparrow with a voodoo doll.
Blackbeard leads the hunt for the Fountain of Youth.
Blackbeard forcing Jack to jump off a cliff into a river.
Blackbeard obtaining a mermaid's tear from Syrena.
Blackbeard conversing with Jack on their way to the legendary fountain.
Blackbeard at the Fountain of Youth and about to fight Barbossa.
Blackbeard drinks from a magic chalice in order to save himself from death.
Blackbeard is reduced to a skeleton after drinking from the wrong chalice, killing him.
Blackbeard is the first historical pirate who appears in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
In real life, Blackbeard was killed during the Battle of Ocracoke Inlet in 1718. However, taking into account that Jack Sparrow mentions that it was never verified if Blackbeard was really beheaded or not, it's assumed that Blackbeard somehow survived the battle in the Pirates of the Caribbean universe.
Before playing Blackbeard in On Stranger Tides, Ian McShane auditioned to play Davy Jones in Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, but lost out to Bill Nighy.
Coincidentally, Benicio del Toro and Javier Bardem were considered to play Blackbeard, but lost the role to McShane. Bardem would later end up playing Armando Salazar in Dead Men Tell No Tales.
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