Davy Jones, Barbossa, Blackbeard, and Salazar ensured Pirates of the Caribbean movies had no shortage of villains, but the series wasted its best one.
While the Pirates of the Caribbean movies had way too many villains for its own good, this did not stop the franchise from managing to waste its best antagonist. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise had been unique in blockbuster history for its ratio of heroes to villains. While there have been plenty of heroic characters in the swashbuckling adventure movies, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise showcased significantly more villains.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT As if that weren’t enough, subsequent Pirates of the Caribbean sequels went on to introduce Calypso, Davy Jones, the East India Trading Company, Cutler Beckett, the crew of the Flying Dutchman, Captain Salazar, Blackbeard, and Blackbeard’s secret daughter.
The East India Company Should've Been Pirates Of The Caribbean's Best Villain The East India Company could have made for a much more compelling and realistic adversary than most of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise’s villains. A brutal corporation that murdered thousands, engineered famines, funded endemic political corruption, and tortured and branded suspected pirates without trial, the real-life East India Company was unambiguously monstrous.
Whether it is Barbossa, Davy Jones, Blackbeard, or Salazar, the pirate zombie crew was well and truly overdone by the end of the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Having the fictionalized East India Company as a major antagonist could have also allowed the series' conflicts to spread beyond the Caribbean, exploring other places where the company held sway across the globe.
The East India Company Could've Saved Pirates Of The Caribbean Jack’s claim that “people aren’t cargo” was a more compelling insight into his character than anything featured in the later, sillier Pirates of the Caribbean sequels. Making the East India Trading Company the villains of the franchise would have encouraged more thoughtful historical commentary along these lines. As is, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise largely ignored real-life history in favor of supernatural shenanigans.
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