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One year after his death at Isla de Muerta, Captain Hector Barbossa was resurrected by Calypso under the form of Tia Dalma.

One year after his death at Isla de Muerta, Captain Hector Barbossa was resurrected by Calypso under the form of Tia Dalma.

"I am the resurrection and the life ... whosoever believeth in me ... even though he shall die ... yet shall he have life everlasting ..."
―Robby Greene and Jack Sparrow quoting the Bible[src]

Resurrection was the concept of a living being coming back to life after death, or otherwise the revitalization or revival of something. It is a religious concept, where it is used in a belief in the resurrection of individual souls that is current and ongoing. In a number of ancient religions, a life-death-rebirth deity is a deity which dies and resurrects. The soul is believed by some to be the divine and immortal part of the human being, and some believe it is the actual vehicle by which people are resurrected.

History

"Still thinking of running, Jack? Think you can outrun the world? You know, the problem with being the last of anything...by and by, there be none left at all."
"Sometimes things come back, mate. We're living proof, you and me."
"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of coming back. But passing on, that's dead certain."
―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow[src]

The death and resurrection of Jesus were a central focus of Christianity. The eleventh chapter of the Gospel of John in the Bible, which records the miracle of raising of Lazarus from the dead and declared that Jesus is the resurrection and believers shall have "life everlasting. This dialogue would be used as a prayer in religious communities, such as the Church of England.[1] By the Age of Piracy, when it came to the supernatural, one never knew what might be resurrected or reincarnated.[2]

After being defeated by Jack Sparrow, Armando Salazar was brought back from the dead as a cursed ghost.

After being defeated by Jack Sparrow, Armando Salazar was brought back from the dead as a cursed ghost.

During the adventures of young Captain Jack Sparrow and the crew of the Barnacle, Tumen was resurrected by the spirit of Montecuhzoma after he died from the mysterious illness caused by the presence of the spirit of Hernán Cortés.[3] In the aftermath of the battle between the pirate ship Wicked Wench under "Jack the Sparrow" and the Spanish Navy vessel Silent Mary under the pirate hunter Armando Salazar, Sparrow sent Salazar to his death the Devil's Triangle, where Salazar's crew came back to life as cursed ghosts, while the sunken Spanish ship rose again as a ghost ship.[4] Several years later, when Jack Sparrow served as a merchant seaman for the East India Trading Company, he recited the promise of resurrection in a prayer with Robert "Robby" Greene following the death of Captain Nathaniel Bainbridge aboard the Fair Wind.[1] Sparrow himself was later captain of the EITC merchant vessel Wicked Wench, which went down in flames before being resurrected, charred and black, by Davy Jones, the cursed captain of the Flying Dutchman,[5][6] before being rechristened as the Black Pearl.[7][8]

Around the same time, the young adventurer James Sterling was killed by the insane Spanish admiral Maldonado, his body sank to the bottom of the ocean, where it was found the by the undead pirates of the Armada of the Damned, who used their supernatural powers to resurrect him.[9]

The death of Davy Jones resulted in the resurrection of the Flying Dutchman under the command of Will Turner.

The death of Davy Jones resulted in the resurrection of the Flying Dutchman under the command of Will Turner.

Tia Dalma, a voodoo priestess and the human incarnation of the sea goddess Calypso, possessed the ability to resurrect the dead and return them to life. One year after the death of Hector Barbossa on Isla de Muerta, Calypso resurrected Barbossa to help navigate the weird and haunted shores at World's End,[5][6] retrieve Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker, as well as summon the Pirate Lords to assemble a meeting of the Brethren Court.[6][7][10][11] Following his escape from the Locker,[6] Sparrow was classified as resurrected by Sir Thomas Faye of the East India Trading Company.[12] Upon finding the desiccating carcass of the Kraken, killed under the command of Lord Cutler Beckett, Sparrow and Barbossa discuss their return from the dead in an uneasy alliance to summon the Brethren Court against Beckett and the EITC. During the battle between the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones' still-beating heart was stabbed by the hands of Will Turner,[6] who had a "touch of destiny" according to Tia Dalma,[5][6] which resulted in the resurrection of the Dutchman under the command of Turner,[11] who himself was resurrected once the Dutchman crew cut out his heart and put it in the Dead Man's Chest.[6][10]

At some point after the destruction of Lord Beckett's flagship, the HMS Endeavour,[6] the sea witch Shansa was employed by one pirate captain to resurrect the sunken Endeavour. With the power of the Jewel of Atlantis, Shansa successfully completed the task, but the ritual also brought back to the surface all the ships that sank in battle in the area around Shipwreck Island.[13] Blackbeard's zombie officers aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge were once mere men, brought back to life after being killed by Greek fire,[14] which was part of a voodoo ritual,[15] though they were more permanently killed following the death of Blackbeard.[14]

Behind the scenes

Resurrection first appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean media by 2006, most notably through the resurrected Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[5] While the term "resurrect" was used in most media, notably the 2007 book The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company and the "Pirates Secrets Revealed" leaflet for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,[12][10] the term "resurrection" would first be used in the 2010 update of the official Pirates of the Caribbean website.[11] The term "resurrection" would first be published in A. C. Crispin's novel The Price of Freedom, published in 2011.[1]

In Tim Powers' 1987 novel On Stranger Tides, which was used as the basis for the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the 1692 earthquake which destroyed most of Port Royal was a consequence of a failed resurrection magic which was performed incorrectly by the young magician Ed Thatch.[16] A few decades later, black magic wizard Leo Friend resurrects the dead sailors from the English privateer vessel Charlotte Bailey and turns them into zombie-like undead servants.[17]

In 2009, despite the death of Davy Jones in At World's End, actor Bill Nighy expressed interest in returning for the fourth installment. "I am technically dead but then again, who cares? Everybody dies in the pirates movies. They killed Johnny [Depp] and Geoffrey [Rush]. Death is not permanent in the pirate world. I have a serious desire to come back."[18] However, the fourth film, later titled On Stranger Tides, was released in 2011, without the character or Nighy in the cast.[14] Although the post-credits scene of Dead Men Tell No Tales featured Will Turner having a dream of Davy Jones seemingly resurrected from the dead,[4] directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg confirmed the scene was meant to "pay respect to a legendary villain in the franchise" as well as be a tease or hint that it could be the "beginning of the end" or "just a dream or nightmare".[19]

Some rumors about Dead Man's Chest stated that Jack Sparrow would succeed in defeating Davy Jones, only to be killed by Hector Barbossa who was resurrected by Chinese black magic.[citation needed]

In media relating to On Stranger Tides, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach wielded the Sword of Triton, and it was believed that he used the sword to turn his crew into zombie officers, notably through a cutscene in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game,[20] as well as the film's visual guide stating that the sword "channels mythical power that brings dead matter to life."[21] However, the rituals required and practiced by Blackbeard to create zombies are separate from the sword. The Cook was brought back as a zombie, with the film's junior novelization saying that the Greek fire was part of a voodoo ritual.[15] In addition, the zombies decomposed during Blackbeard's death in the film's screenplay,[22] though this detail was not in the final cut of the film.[14] In Terry Rossio's original 2012 screenplay draft of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Blackbeard's sword was said to control the wind, as well as a ship's rigging.[23] However, in the final version of the film, the sword's only usage was through the release of the Black Pearl from her "ship in a bottle" imprisonment and Hector Barbossa fighting the crew of the Silent Mary.[4]

The Dead Men Tell No Tales novelization omits the scene of Capitán Armando Salazar's resurrection in the Devil's Triangle.[24] However, the scene was shown in the French novelization.[25] According to actor Javier Bardem, who played Salazar, "He must come back to life through revenge. I think it’s an interesting story about personal revenge in the sense that it's not something insubstantial, but a story about a person who wants to really take revenge, and that makes him more human."[26]

Appearances

Non-canon appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Price of Freedom, Chapter Three: Doña Pirata
  2. ↑ The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook, p. 146
  3. ↑ Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés, p. 117
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Pirates' Guidelines
  8. ↑ The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook, p. 161
  9. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: "Pirates Secrets Revealed"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 DisneyPirates.com
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company
  13. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (junior novelization), p. 81
  16. ↑ On Stranger Tides, Chapter Ten
  17. ↑ On Stranger Tides, Chapter Seventeen
  18. ↑ Bill Nighy Eager To Sail Again For 'Pirates Of The Caribbean 4' - MTV Movies Blog - Archived
  19. ↑ 'Pirates of the Caribbean': About that death and post-credits scene - USA Today (May 27, 2017) (backup link)
  20. ↑ LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
  21. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The Visual Guide, pp. 28-29: "Blackbeard"
  22. ↑ Wordplayer.com: WORDPLAY/Archives/Screenplay - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  23. ↑ Wordplayer.com: WORDPLAY/Archives/Screenplay - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES by Terry Rossio
  24. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
  25. ↑ Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar - Le roman du film, p. 116
  26. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - Official Movie Magazine