Barbossa later named the monkey 'Jack' after his old captain Jack Sparrow.

At that point, as Barbossa's crew found the treasure of Cortés and each took a piece of the Aztec gold, the monkey had no name. Not much is known of the monkey's early life other than he became Captain Hector Barbossa's pet at some point in between the mutiny against Jack Sparrow aboard the Black Pearl and before Barbossa's crew found Isla de Muerta. ' Monkey!' ― Jack Sparrow after seeing Jack taking the Aztec medallion away Jack was reunited with Barbossa in the process after a long time, but following Barbossa's ultimate death in order to kill Captain Armando Salazar, Jack decided to become Sparrow's pet as the crew of the Black Pearl set sailed beyond Sparrow's beloved horizon. One year later, Barbossa restored the Pearl, along with Jack, to her original size. While his master managed to escape, Jack, along with Cotton's Parrot, was shrunk with the Pearl and locked inside a bottle before 1750.Īfter Blackbeard's death at the island where the Fountain of Youth was located, Sparrow's First Mate, Joshamee Gibbs, managed to recover the bottle which remained in the hands of Sparrow. However, he didn't accompany Sparrow and his crew during the rest of the quest for the Dead Man's Chest, because Jack traded him to the Voodoo witch doctor, Tia Dalma, and stayed in Tia Dalma's shack along his now resurrected master, who decided to help the crew of the Black Pearl rescue Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker, which they did. During the War Against Piracy, Jack was involved in many of its battles, including the battle of Calypso's maelstrom, in which he inadvertently helped to distract the pirate Maccus after being shot from a cannon of the Black Pearl by Pintel and Ragetti.įollowing the pirates' victory after the war, Hector Barbossa led a new mutiny aboard the Black Pearl and left Sparrow at Tortuga, while he decided to begin his quest for the Fountain of Youth, but the Pearl was attacked by the Queen Anne's Revenge under the command of Blackbeard who shrunk the ship. Jack the Monkey first joined his owner in a search to find of the cursed treasure of Cortés, which Jack lived under throughout his life as an undead monkey.įollowing the battle of Isla de Muerta, Jack somehow returned to the civilization and joined the Black Pearl's new crew, commanded by Sparrow. Mockingly named after Captain Jack Sparrow, this capuchin monkey was considered the meanest, most rotten-tempered simian in all of the Caribbean. Jack the Monkey, or simply Jack, was the second pet monkey owned by the black-hearted Captain Hector Barbossa. We named the monkey 'Jack'.' ― Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

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