From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blackbeard in popular culture
Blackbeard in popular culture
Blackbeard (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718) was a notorious tion, and escape his prophesised death at the hands of
English pirate who operated around the West Indies and a one-legged man (Hector Barbossa, who ironically on-
the eastern coast of the American colonies during the ly seeks Blackbeard’s death after Blackbeard attacked,
early 18th century. shrunk and stole the Black Pearl). However, when he finds
the Fountain— which can only give a person life by tak-
Novels ing it from another— shortly after being wounded by
Barbossa’s poisoned sword, Jack tricks Blackbeard into
Tim Powers’ historical fiction novel On Stranger Tides has sacrificing himself to save the equally-wounded Angelica.
Blackbeard searching for the Fountain of Youth in 1718.
In Rick Riordan’s novel Percy Jackson and the Olympians:
The Sea of Monsters, Blackbeard is shown to be stranded on
Comics and manga
the evil sorceress Circe’s island. He, along with his crew, In the popular Japanese manga and anime One Piece two
has been turned into a guinea pig. Annabeth and Percy characters are named after the famous pirate — the se-
turn them back to human and also escape with his ship, ries’ main villain Marshall D. Teach, who goes by the
The "Queen Anne’s Revenge". Here Blackbeard is shown nickname Blackbeard, and his former captain Edward
to be a son of Ares, the Greek God of war. Newgate, who goes by the nickname Whitebeard. Teach
Blackbeard makes an appearance in Neal Stephen- fled the crew after killing Thatch (an alias for the real-
son’s System of the World. life Blackbeard), and then would go on to kill Captain
A younger Blackbeard appears in Wayne Thomas Bat- Whitebeard after insinuating a war between the White-
son’s Isle of Fire as the new quartermaster of notorious pi- beard pirates and the Marines by arresting on behalf of
rate captain Bartholomew Thorne. the Marines one of Whitebeard’s division captains, Port-
gas D. Ace.
Television Blackbeard was also an antagonist in the Belgian
comics series Vieux Nick et Barbe-Noire by Marcel Remacle.
In the 1968 Doctor Who serial, The Mind Robber, the Master In a Shazam comic Blackbeard was one of six Amer-
of the Land of Fiction summons Blackbeard in his mental ican villains brought back to life by evil scientist Doctor
battle with the Second Doctor. In 1993 Simpsons episode Sivana to cause chaos in Pittsburgh. He is defeated and
Treehouse of Horror IV, Blackbeard is one of the jurors in like the other villains sent back.
"Jury of the Damned".
Video games
Film Blackbeard appears in the 2004 video game Sid Meier’s
The 1968 film Blackbeard’s Ghost, starring Peter Ustinov in Pirates!.
the title role, based on a novel by Ben Stahl.
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
the battle at Ocracoke Island. This Blackbeard is a master
of black arts, and wields a sword with supernatural pow-
ers which allows him to make his ship come alive to at-
tack his foes, described by Jack Sparrow as "the pirate
that all pirates fear". Aided by his daughter Angelica,
he is seeking the Fountain of Youth so that he can re-
deem his soul, on the religious Angelica’s recommenda-
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