| “ | 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? | „ |
| ~ Armando Salazar to Henry Turner. |
| “ | I wish I could do it myself, but dead men tell no tales. | „ |
| ~ Armando Salazar's most famous quote as he orders Henry Turner to hunt down Jack Sparrow. |
Capitán Armando Salazar is the main antagonist of the 2017 swashbuckling fantasy film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
He is an agressive, vile, corrupt and extremely dangereous Navy Capitán of the Silent Mary wants to kill every pirate on Earth and commit the maximum of victims by taking a hold of the Trident of Poseidon. After becoming a vengeful ghost, he is on the hunt for Captain Jack Sparrow.
He was portrayed by Javier Bardem, who also played Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men and Him in Mother!.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- In his younger years, he murdered his own father for accepting bribes from pirates. Although he did this out of revenge against him for causing the misfortune’s of their family and the imprisonment of his mother leading to her death, he is still far past it as it barely had anything to do with his motives in the film as it was more out disgust towards his father’s association with pirates and the irrational hatred derived from it.
- In addition to that, he already hated pirates and wanted to kill all of them before this events.
- Mercilessly killed any pirates he could hunt down, regardless of their actual crimes. He would even coldly have the survivors killed by gunfire whereas they were defenseless, begging for mercy, and had lost the will to fight and they had raised a white flag in surrender.
- Even his crew had protested against that.
- None other pirate hunter is gone as far as Salazar.
- He is a complete misanthrope and see none inconvenient to kill numerous innocents (even children) due to his aggressive and antisocial behavior.
- Although he was brought up under jingoistic heritage, he fully knows right from wrong, simply being outrageously delusional in his unorthodox and extraordinarily cruel ways.
- He ordered his men to aim for the gunpowder of all ships he met, wanting the highest possible number of deaths.
- His transformation into a ghost cannot at all be considered tragic because not only he was already cruel and horrible since his youngest age but also he got his ship destroyed trying to pursue a young Jack Sparrow due to one, not being willing to let any pirates escape from him, and two, being goaded by Jack's taunting as a result of not being able to tolerate any insult to his ego.
- He blames Jack for what happened to him although what Jack did was essentially self-defense since even if he hadn't taunted Salazar, he would have tried to kill him anyway due to his aforementioned drive to kill all pirates he came across, including the rest of the armada that teamed up to try and defeat him just prior to that.
- After becoming ghosts, he and his crew killed without an distinction anyone who entered the Devil's Triangle. This is shown when they mercilessly and brutally massacre the entire crew of a ship called the Monarch, which consisted of members of the British Royal Navy, with him even personally snapping the captain's neck with his bare hand. This is even in spite of the fact that they went in there because they were chasing down pirates, which if anything, is exactly the type of thing you'd expect Salazar to approve of.
- He has an established reputation of letting one person survive just so they can "tell the tale" rather than out of genuine mercy, implying that he actually likes being feared and having a reputation for ruthlessly murdering anyone who's unfortunate enough to encounter him. It proves that he is entirely proud of his villainy.
- When leaving Henry as the sole survivor of the Monarch to deliver a message to Jack Sparrow that he was coming for him, he had one of his men kill the man in the cell next to him just because his terrified whimpering was getting on his nerves.
- As soon as he and his men are freed from the Devil's Triangle as a result of Jack trading his compass for rum, which was given to him at the time that he defeated Salazar, he and his crew resume what they started as humans and start using their ship's newfound ability to open up and consume other ships to massacre everyone they come across, pirates or not, quickly sinking at least 3 ships in Barbossa's fleet and killing at least most, if not all their respective crews. Based on a shot we see as it's happening, they at least sunk 4, or alternatively, as many as 7 before they tracked down Barbossa's ship, The Queen Anne's Revenge.
- He attacked Hector Barbossa and had his men kill the latter's every time he tapped his sword while he was waiting to hear Hector's proposition despite his attempts to be cordial. He then had a few more of Hector's men killed after they made a deal that Hector would lead him to Jack Sparrow in exchange for sparing him and his crew just because he could.
- He sent zombie sharks to kill Jack, Henry, and Carina when they chase them down.
- When he temporarily loses Jack on land where he can't follow him, he takes his anger out on Barbossa and his remaining crew members by having them all hung upside down and starts brutally skewering them one by one.
- He kills at least four of them this way before Barbossa just barely manages to convince him to spare him and his few remaining crew members in exchange for granting them one more chance by letting them go ashore to capture Jack for him. He had envisaged to kill Barbossa and all his men once he will have what he wants because Salazar reluctantly releases them.
- Unlike most Pirates of the Caribbean villains, he has no redeeming qualities and he is totally taken seriously, even more than Lord Cutler Beckett and Blackbeard.
- The fact he is pirates' worst fear indicates he is without any doubt the darkest and also the most dangerous antagonist of Pirates of the Carribean universe.
- He wanted to use the Trident not only for destroying piracy but also commit the maximum of victims into the world. From this facts, he is also the most heinous villain of the franchise because other Pirates of the Caribbean villains didn't plan to commit new slaugthers and even less as many victims as Salazar.
- Later when pursuing the Black Pearl, he has his ship consume and destroy another ship with the British Royal Navy called the Essex, killing Scarfield and everyone else on board just because they were between him and his target.
- He possessed Henry's body, despite Lesaro's protests, so he could walk on land, and when fighting Jack, he took advantage of this by by pointing out to Jack that if he landed a fatal blow, Henry would be the one to die, both to mock him and dissuade him from fighting to his full potential. He clearly wanted Henry to be killed because he knew that Henry is the only who efficiently protects Jack.
- Once he got his life back and obtained the Trident of Poseidon, he tortured Jack by tossing him around and forcing him in and out of the water with it for fun.
- When the walls of the sea were starting to close and after refind his human form after the destruction of the Trident, he doesn't renounce to kill Jack and his friends while voluntarily abandonning his entire crew, including Lesaro, his loyal lieutenant, to drowning. Moreover, he refuses to help them and completely ignores their distress, proving that Salazar never cared about his crew.
- While he does briefly look down and take note of what happened, instead of feeling for them his realization that he once again lost everything to Jack, it instead translates to more hatred and desire to kill him whereas it is again his fault.
- His last attempt to kill Jack forced Barbossa to sacrifice himself to save the protagonists. It's a unique feat, because none of the other Pirates of the Caribbean villains have succeeded in killing a main protagonist permanently (Davy Jones doesn't count because Jack was recoverable and Will Turner was saved at time).
- Even if his definitive death is brutal, Salazar totally deserved to die for all acts and because he also wanted to commit countless other victims, even more than he has already done, into the world.
Trivia[]
- Armando Salazar is surely the worst Pure Evil of Pirates of the Caribbean due to his abilities, his personality and his intentions.
- To make understand his Pure Evil status, Salazar has even been hated by his own actor, Javier Bardem: this latter doesn't stand violence and villainy despite his numerous roles of antagonists.
- If it is not sufficient, the producer Jerry Bruckheimer has also despised Salazar by confirming that this latter had killed his father for complicity with pirates and that it had no effect on his villainy.
External Links[]
- Armando Salazar on the Villains Wiki
- Armando Salazar on the Pirates of the Caribbean Wiki
- Armando Salazar on the Disney Wiki
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