Barbossa was the first mate on the Black Pearl, a pirate ship commanded by Captain Jack Sparrow. Barbossa asked Captain Sparrow to tell him the bearings of Isla de Muerte, believed to be a stronghold of Aztec gold; trusting Barbossa, Sparrow told him the location. That night, Barbossa led a mutiny against Sparrow and took over the Black Pearl, leaving Sparrow marooned on an island with a single-shot pistol (presumably with which to commit suicide rather than to die from starvation/loneliness/dehydration). The remaining crew found the Aztec treasure to which Captain Sparrow had been leading them, and shared it among themselves - calling down an ancient Aztec curse in the process. To lift the curse, the crew realized that they must return all the Aztec gold to Isla de Muerta; they have recovered 881 of the 882 gold coins. Barbossa and the crew then searching for the last coin, in the possession of Will Turner and then Elizabeth Swann.Once the coins are finally returned to the chest and the necessary blood repaid, Barbossa loses his immortality and is shot dead by Jack Sparrow (with the same pistol Barbossa had left him when he marooned Sparrow on the island and Barbossa was shot before he became mortal again). Barbossa looks at the blood pouring of from the wound, and says that he feels cold, his first feeling since the curse was put upon him. However, when Jack the monkey was left alone in the treasure cave with Barbossa's body, he took a coin from the chest.Barbossa has a strange passion for apples; he asks Elizabeth whether she wants one and also tells her that after the curse is lifted he'd eat a whole bushel of apples; also there is apples on his cabin table and at the end of the film when he dies an apple falls from his hand. This representation of the apple could be linked to a number of things; the deadly apple that Eve partook from the Devil disguised as a snake; a reference in the film "a man so evil that hell himself spat him back out" or perhaps from Disney itself; being the apple that is so infamous from Snow White's tale. Being one of the first of Disney cartoon classics in which the Evil Queen attempted to kill Snow White with a poisoned apple. Indeed Elizabeth comments when she is offered an apple, "It's poisoned". Of course this later proves to be wrong as Barbossa tells her and also as Jack eats one himself later on in the film. Most obviously it is a Vanitas style reference, particularly apt for a character incapable of dying.Barbossa appears in the final scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and has a single line. It is explained he was resurrected by Tia Dalma. His final lines are "What has become of my ship?" He also eats an apple...Barbossa had been trapped in Purgatory since his death, and Captain Jack Sparrow will arrive there upon his own death. Exactly how the traitor wound up in this prison is said to be explained in the third movie, where he'll become a major character again, joining forces with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann in an attempt to bring Captain Jack Sparrow out of Purgatory. Most likely the same way he was able to. He will also have to confront "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, who will probably be mad for the Captain sending him to the bottom of the ocean.
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