- “Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me! I raise a toast to honor my many shipmates lost at sea. Salute, mes amis. Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Rascals and scoundrels, villains and knaves. Drink up me hearties, yo ho! We're devils and black sheep, really bad eggs. Drink up me hearties, yo ho! Drink up lads! There's treasure enough for all! I shall take this paltry sum as a stipend to cover my expenses, and a chest of jewels. Drink up me hearties, yo ho!”
- ―Captain Jack Sparrow[src]
Captain Jack Sparrow is a character who makes appearances in many of the Disney theme parks. In the Magic Kingdom he hosts the Captain Jack Sparrow's Pirate Tutorial. He also appears on Pirates of the Carribean.
History[]
Background[]
The intersection between the continuity of the Pirates of the Caribbean films and Pirates of the Caribbean attractions are unknown. This article is dedicated to Jack's history in the attractions and as referenced in the attractions. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) is not to be considered as cannon or fully cannon due to its lack of continuity with the lore, world-building and characterization of prior Pirates of the Caribbean stories.
Origins[]
Jack Sparrow was illegitimate child of a woman and Captain Edward Teague, the Brethren Court's Pirate Lord of Madagascar and Keeper of the Code. He grew up in the secret pirate's base of Shipwreck Cove, in servitude to his father. Jack and his mother would also spend time at a pub run by South American man, "Trader Sam". As a young boy, Jack would run away and go on adventures with the likes of Arabella Smith and William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner. At some point, he bartered a magic compass from the Voodoo priestess Tia Dalma (actually the sea goddess Calypso, bound in human form), with said compass pointing in the direction of whatever its user wants most.
Due to his success as a sailor, Jack was recruited by the East India Trading Company to serve as a merchant captain under aristocrat Cutler Beckett. When Beckett gave Jack the contract of delivering 100 enslaved people, Jack freed them all and prevented Beckett from receiving promotion as a result. Because of this, Beckett had Jack branded as a pirate and forced to watch as his beloved ship was burned and sunken to the ocean's depths. Following this, Jack was approached by the being Davy Jones and made Jack a deal in which he would magically return Jack's ship for Jack to serve as its captain for thirteen years, before having to serve as a slave on Jones' ghost ship The Flying Dutchman.
Jack agreed to Jones' bargain, and when his ship was returned it had a blackened hull and black sails along with supernatural, nigh uncatchable speed. Jack renamed the ship to The Black Pearl as a result. As Captain of the Black Pearl, he would come to be a Pirate Lord like his father, becoming Pirate Lord of the Caribbean. At one point, Jack and Trader Sam travelled to the cannibal island of Isla de Pelegestos, where Jack convinced the locals that he was a god and for them to make him their chief. Due to the tribe wishing to ritualistically kill and eat Jack as a result, he escaped from the island. At some point, Jack also became on-again/off-again lovers with a Spanish woman named Angelica.
Mutiny aboard the Black Pearl[]
Around the first year into his deal with Jones, Jack picked up a crew in Tortuga to find the treasure filled island of Isla de Muerta. This crew included Jack's old shipmate, Bootstrap Bill Turner. Isla de Muerta was an island which could only be found by those who already knew where it was, which Jack knew due to his compass. However, Jack's first-mate Hector Barbossa tricked Jack into giving up the island's coordinates before leading a mutiny against him. In accordance to the Code of the Brethren, Barbossa marooned Jack on a small desert island with nothing but his compass, cutlass, and a flintlock with a single shot to commit suicide with.
As luck would have it, the island was used by rum-runners for smuggling and Jack spent a grand total of three days on the island, drinking rum until the smugglers brought him back to civilization. However, Jack kept his flintlock and its one-shot with the intent of using it to kill Barbossa in vengeance for stealing his beloved Pearl. Jack also constructed a fake story for how he escaped the island, claiming he sat out in the ocean for days to attract sea-life before strapping sea-turtles together with rope made of human hair from his back, and using them as a raft. In the following ten years, he always carried the flintlock with its one shot to kill Barbossa with and became famous for stories of dubious origin such as his island escape, sacking Nassau port without firing a single shot, and escaping under the eyes of six agents of the East India Trading Company.
Curse of the Black Pearl[]
Around 1721, Captain Jack Sparrow arrived in Port Royal on a small sinking ship which he had stolen from a woman in Tortuga named Anamaria. Going by the name of "Smith", he scouted out a fast but small ship called "The HMS Interceptor", before observing the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann fall into the waters due to asphyxiation. Jack saved her, only to discover that she bore a gold medallion from the treasure of Isla de Muerta.
Jack was subsequently arrested by Elizabeth's suitor, Commodore James Norrington, who recognized Jack as a pirate and ordered he be hanged. To escape, Jack held Elizabeth at gunpoint and ran. While hiding out in a blacksmith's, Jack encountered William Turner, the blacksmith's apprentice who was the son of Bootstrap Bill Turner. Jack initially thwarted Will using his cunning, only to be knocked unconscious by Will's master and sent to Port Royal's prison to await execution.
At night, Barbossa and the Black Pearl arrived due to having detected Elizabeth's medallion hit the water. As it turned out, the treasure which they had stolen had caused them to become cursed undead and Elizabeth's medallion was the last remaining to be returned, along with the blood of lost crew-mate Bootstrap Bill Turner, to break their curse. Believing Elizabeth to be Bootstrap Bill's child (as Elizabeth had taken the medallion from William), Barbossa kidnapped Elizabeth. William then broke Jack out of prison out of the condition that he help him find Barbossa to save Elizabeth, which Jack agreed to after discovering William was Bootstrap's son and thus could be used as a bargaining chip with Barbossa to get the Pearl back.
As part of Jack's plan, William and Jack commandeered the HMS Dauntless, a large ship in Port Royal's harbour which two men could not crew alone. While aboard the Dauntless, Jack disabled the ship's steering mechanisms. When Norrington sent a boarding party to the Dauntless aboard the Interceptor, Jack and Will snuck onto the smaller Interceptor and made off with it while leaving Norrington aboard the disabled HMS Dauntless. Aboard the Interceptor, Jack explained his history with Will's father to Will, along with his general world-view, before revealing that they were headed for Tortuga to obtain a crew.
Battle for the Sunken Treasure[]
The Dead Man's Chest[]
War for Piracy[]
Treasures of the Seven Seas[]
After Calypso was freed, Jack on adventures to obtain her "Treasures of the Seven Seas".[2]
Sacking of Puerto Dorado[]
At some point, Jack went on an expedition to steal the treasure of the Spanish town Puerto Dorado on the island of Isla Tesoro, accompanied by Cotton's parrot. Jack was followed by Barbossa, now commanding the crew of The Wicked Wench to compete with Jack for the treasure. Jack had some connection to the town's magistrate Carlos, prompting Carlos to be captured by one of Barbossa's men and interrogated on the location of the treasure and of Sparrow, while Sparrow watched from the nearby dress-maker's shop.
As Barbossa's men ransacked the town, Jack found a member of the Wench's crew with some disdain for Jack had both a treasure-map for the island, and a key unlocking its treasury. Jack hid in a barrel behind the pirate, and popped his head out to study the map while plotting to likewise steal the key. Jack's plan was complicated by a dog noticing him and barking at him, causing Jack to hide back in the barrel; though ultimately he was able to steal both the key and the map. Following this, Jack and Cotton's parrot broke into the treasury and made their claim of the treasure, though somehow Barbossa and the Wench's crew took it from him.
Later history[]
Isla Tesoro was turned into a pirate haven following its sacking, and Jack had some activity on the island. He engaged in a duel with his ex-lover, Angelica, for ownership of a restaurant along the Blue Lagoon and won, renaming it to, "Captain Jack's". Jack and Cotton's Parrot would eventually find the crew of the Wicked Wench's underground lair on Isla Tesoro and reclaim the treasure when the crew was killed by its curse.
Development history[]
Captain Jack Sparrow is a character created for Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, a film adaptation of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland. In 2006, he was added the the actual attraction: having a mural in the queue for the Disneyland version, watching the pirates dunk Carlos in the well while hiding being a dress mannequin, looking over the Pooped Pirate's shoulder to study a map (replacing an odd non-joke about the pooped pirate eating food as a cat popped up behind him, itself replacing a, "Joke" about the pirate attempting to sexually-assault a woman hiding in the barrel behind him), and singing, "Yo Ho) in the treasure room with Cotton's parrot.
Appearances[]
Disneyland[]
Frontierland[]
Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island[]
New Orleans Square[]
Captain Jack Sparrow is a meet & greet character here.
Pieces of Eight[]
The voodoo doll which Blackbeard made of Jack appears in the shop's window.
Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar[]
Captain Jack Sparrow is identified as a friend of Trader Sam's. There is an image of them together framed on the wall.
Disneyland Paris[]
Adventure Isle (Disneyland Paris)[]
One of the posters for missing items is for Jack's compass left nearby Skull Rock, claiming the compass holds "HIGH (sentimental) value".
Captain Jack's[]
This restaurant is themed to being owned by Captain Jack.
Walt Disney World[]
Adventureland[]
A Pirate's Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas[]
Captain Jack Sparrow's Pirate Tutorial[]
Tortuga Tavern[]
This restaurant has Jack's Jolly Roger hanging outside of its entrance, and a book with his crew-logs, seemingly from the time in-between Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest.[3]
Disney Pirates Summer[]
Jack was protagonist at this Mediterranean Harbor event.
Pirates of the Caribbean[]
Jack is the central character of this attraction, appearing throughout the ride in an effort to steal Puerto Dorado's gold before Barbossa can. In the Disneyland version of the ride, there is a mural of him in the queue.
Treasure Cove[]
Barbossa's Bounty[]
There is a portrait of Jack on Isla de Muerta, and amongst the members of the Brethren Court. A tally-mark on the wall identify him as being tied in a game of darts with Blackbeard.[4]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure[]
Siren's Revenge[]
There is a magical, talking portrait of Jack aboard this ship.
Trivia[]
Unused concept-art by Marc Davis which Jack recreates in Battle for the Sunken Treasure.
- In Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure, Captain Jack Sparrow escaping in a small-boat with a cannon aimed at the ship is a gag created by Marc Davis for Pirates of the Caribbean which was never used in the final attraction.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Davy Jones and Jack are both living, meaning it would have to take place before the events of Dead Man's Chest
- ↑ Calypso is free, meaning the attraction takes place after At World's End.
- ↑ https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2014/06/16/review-beef-nachos-and-vegetarian-burrito-at-the-magic-kingdoms-tortuga-tavern/
- ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2016/06/15/answers-10-essential-questions-shanghai-disneyland/