Pirates of the Caribbean area may have been inconsistent with its mythos, just the franchise revealed the major villain Blackbeard three movies earlier than almost viewers thought. Released in 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a huge success for Disney and massively outperformed expectations at the box role. The swashbuckling take chances movie was a hit with critics too, with Johnny Depp'south iconic functioning equally Jack Sparrow earning particular praise.

The Pirates of the Caribbean area franchise before long spawned two sequels from manager Gore Verbinski, both of which disappointed critics only performed well at the box office. The series pivoted its focus to Jack alone by the fourth pic, 2011'south critically maligned Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. But few viewers realized that On Stranger Tides' formidable villain Blackbeard actually made an early, uncredited appearance way dorsum in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film.

Played with memorably nasty zeal by Deadwood star Ian McShane, On Stranger Tides' Blackbeard was a more bloodthirsty make of baddie than the before villain Captain Barbossa. But The Curse of the Black Pearl's creepy coiffure fellow member Jacoby (the skinny skeletal pirate who was best-known for having a grenade shoved in his ribcage) was originally given a larger role in the first film, and details of his character were later transferred to McShane'south On Stranger Tides villain. Jacoby'south office in the finished edit of The Curse of the Black Pearl may be smaller, but the minor villain nonetheless provided many elements of Blackbeard later in the serial.

The character's oversized beard, too as his gimmick of lighting fuses in it, went on to exist used past Blackbeard (having been inspired by actual nautical legends surrounding the legendary pirate in the first place). Non just that just in the commentary of the beginning movie, Kiera Knightley refers to Jacoby as "Blackbeard" years before the character appeared in the series, meaning that information technology'due south possible the grapheme's original name in the motion picture'due south script may have been the same every bit McShane's later villain.

McShane'south character has a larger function in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean installment than Jacoby does in the first film, but his eventual (spoilers) demise in the movie is nowhere near every bit memorable as the Blackness Pearl crew fellow member's unfortunate exit. Not simply that, merely On Stranger Tides received worse critical write-ups than the offset moving picture of the serial broadly speaking (although some reviewers did single out McShane's performance equally a high point). The fourth picture in the franchise marked the moment that the Pirates of the Caribbean area  moving-picture show serial began focusing its action entirely around Jack Sparrow, a conclusion that may take given fans more of Depp's superb surreal turn in the role, but toll the series dearly in the long term and resulted in fifty-fifty worse reviews for the fifth film in the franchise, Dead Men Tell No Tales.

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