The answer arrived in a cloud of spectral seawater and burning vengeance. His name is Captain Armando Salazar, and he is arguably the most terrifying—and tragically underrated—antagonist to ever stalk the Caribbean’s CGI waves.
And that is the real curse of the sea.
When you hear Pirates of the Caribbean , which faces flash in your mind? Probably Jack Sparrow’s kohl-rimmed eyes and drunken swagger, or Hector Barbossa’s apple-munching menace, or Davy Jones’s squirming tentacle beard. By the time Dead Men Tell No Tales (2016) arrived, the franchise faced a familiar villain problem: how do you top a Kraken-wielding squid-god? salazar pirates of the caribbean