Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) was resurrected at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chestbut his return was foreshadowed much earlier in the film than most people realized. Barbossa, who is one of the Pirates of the Caribbean characters who were inspired by a real person, died at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl after Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) lifted the curse, he turned the pirate ship’s crew back into mortals and shot Barbossa in the chest.
He wouldn’t stay dead for long, as Tia Dalma (Naomi Harris) brought him back to life in the sequel, ironically, to save Jack from Davey Jones’ closet. Barbossa’s resurrection came as a great surprise to Dead Man’s Chestbut the film actually set up Barbossa’s return, albeit very subtly, long before he was revealed. One detail not only proves that the pirate captain would soon make his grand re-entry, but also completely changes another character’s motivation and his plan for the second and third. Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Barbossa’s hats and boots are seen at Tia Dalma’s house when Jack and Will visit her
Tia Dalma was working to resurrect Barbossa very early in the dead man’s chest
When Jack, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and the rest of the ship’s crew Black Pearl I arrived first at Tia Dalma’s house, there was a clue as to what she was planning. After exchanging Barbossa’s undead monkey as payment, he ran over to a pair of boots lying horizontally on Tia Dalma’s floor that belonged to none other than Barbossa himself.. There are only three reasons why Tia Dalma would have Barbossa’s boots: she collected them to prepare to resurrect him, Barbossa’s corpse was still wearing them, waiting to be resurrected, or Tia Dalma had already resurrected Barbossa, and he was simply sleeping. .
Tia Dalma was already planning to manipulate the pirate lords, specifically Barbossa, into freeing her
Tia Dalma is secretly the goddess Calypso and needed all nine pirate lords to free her
In Dead Man’s Chestit seemed like Tia Dalma resurrected Barbossa specifically to save Jack from Davey Jones’ closet. However, the fact that she already had at least the boots of Barbossa, and potentially even the pirate captain himself, during her first encounter with Jack proves that Tia Dalma had been planning to use him for some time.. The next Pirates film, At the end of the worldrevealed why she wanted Barbossa alive even before Jack fell into the hands of the kraken: Tia Dalma needed Pirates of the CaribbeanThe nine pirate lords banded together to free her from her prison.
Barbossa was still considered one of the pirate lords even after his death, so Tia Dalma would have to revive him no matter what happened to Jack in Dead Man’s Chest.
As she revealed in At the end of the worldTia Dalma was not a normal person, she was actually the imprisoned form of Calypso, the goddess of the sea. The first pirate council, with the help of Davey Jones, imprisoned Calypso in a human body. The only way for Calypso to be freed and return to her full power over the ocean would be if all nine pirate lords used their pieces of eight and agreed to free her.. Barbossa was still considered one of the pirate lords even after his death, so she would have to revive him no matter what happened to Jack. Dead Man’s Chest.
Why couldn’t Tia Dalma just demand to be released into the dead man’s chest
Tia Dalma needed the British to threaten pirates in order for the Brotherhood Court to convene
Even if Calypso, or Tia Dalma, could have resurrected Barbossa at the beginning Dead Man’s Chestshe couldn’t have freed herself so soon. The reason why Tia Dalma didn’t free herself Dead Man’s Chest It’s because she couldn’t, not without the other eight pirate lords besides Barbossa. The pirate lords imprisoned Calypso for a reason, and although Barbossa owed her his life, none of the others did. Calypso needed an opportunity for the Court of Brothers to come together and for a threat to them to become so great that they were willing to release her.
Calypso had some luck in At the end of the worldas she found the only opportunity to escape the captivity of the pirate lords thanks to Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) after he began attacking pirates. The initial plan was for Barbossa to convince the other pirate lords to willingly release Calypso and have her fight the British, but Jack and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) convinced them to fight. Then Barbossa changed his plan, stole all the other pieces of eight and released Calypso. That moment made it worth a plan that Tia Dalma had been working on since the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.