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Blackbeard in popular culture
Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718) was a notorious tack his foes, described by Jack Sparrow as "the pirate
English pirate who operated around the West Indies and that all pirates fear". Aided by his daughter Angelica,
the eastern coast of the American colonies during the he is seeking the Fountain of Youth so that he can re-
early 18th century. deem his soul, on the religious Angelica’s recommenda-
tion, and escape his prophesised death at the hands of
Novels a one-legged man (Hector Barbossa, who ironically on-
ly seeks Blackbeard’s death after Blackbeard attacked,
Tim Powers’ historical fiction novel On Stranger Tides has shrunk and stole the Black Pearl). However, when he finds
Blackbeard searching for the Fountain of Youth in 1718. the Fountain— which can only give a person life by tak-
In Rick Riordan’s novel Percy Jackson and the Olympians: ing it from another— shortly after being wounded by
The Sea of Monsters, Blackbeard is shown to be stranded on Barbossa’s poisoned sword, Jack tricks Blackbeard into
the evil sorceress Circe’s island. He, along with his crew, sacrificing himself to save the equally-wounded Angelica.
has been turned into a guinea pig. Annabeth and Percy
turn them back to human and also escape with his ship,
The "Queen Anne’s Revenge". Here Blackbeard is shown
Comics and manga
to be a son of Ares, the Greek God of war. In the popular Japanese manga and anime One Piece two
Blackbeard makes an appearance in Neal Stephen- characters are named after the famous pirate — the se-
son’s System of the World. ries’ main villain Marshall D. Teach, who goes by the
A younger Blackbeard appears in Wayne Thomas Bat- nickname Blackbeard, and his former captain Edward
son’s Isle of Fire as the new quartermaster of notorious pi- Newgate, who goes by the nickname Whitebeard. Teach
rate captain Bartholomew Thorne. fled the crew after killing Thatch (an alias for the real-
life Blackbeard), and then would go on to kill Captain
Television Whitebeard after insinuating a war between the White-
beard pirates and the Marines by arresting on behalf of
In the 1968 Doctor Who serial, The Mind Robber, the Master the Marines one of Whitebeard’s division captains, Port-
of the Land of Fiction summons Blackbeard in his mental gas D. Ace.
battle with the Second Doctor. Blackbeard was also an antagonist in the Belgian
comics series Vieux Nick et Barbe-Noire by Marcel Remacle.
Film In a Shazam comic Blackbeard was one of six Amer-
ican villains brought back to life by evil scientist Doctor
The 1968 film Blackbeard’s Ghost, starring Peter Ustinov in Sivana to cause chaos in Pittsburgh. He is defeated and
the title role, based on a novel by Ben Stahl. like the other villains sent back.
The 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,
adapted from Powers’ novel, features Ian McShane as
Blackbeard, the film’s antagonist, who somehow survived Video games
the battle at Ocracoke Island. This Blackbeard is a master Blackbeard appears in the 2004 video game Sid Meier’s
of black arts, and wields a sword with supernatural pow- Pirates!.
ers which allows him to make his ship come alive to at-
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