Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow is a crafty and potentially dangerous pirate who inhabits Port Royal. After being freed from jail by Will Turner, he sets off to reclaim his stolen ship, the Black Pearl, which was taken over by Captain Barbossa. Because Jack Sparrow and Jack Skellington have the same first name, Jack Sparrow is called "Captain" by the party instead, to avoid confusion; he also prefers to be refered to as a captain. In the Japanese version, he is called "Sparrow".

Upon meeting Sora, Jack becomes available as a party member, and fights alongside him during both Port Royal visits. He eventually falls under the curse of the medallions, and has to break free from its spell. The first time was by choice to even the playing feild between him and Barbossa, but the second was because of the Grim Reaper Heartless created from the curse.

Before Kingdom Hearts II
Jack was originaly captain of the Black Pearl, but once he was tricked by his first mate, Barbossa, into revealing the location of Isla De Meurta, a mutiny was held. According to the Pirate Code, Jack was left marooned on a island with a pistal with a single shot. However, he escaped with the assistance of rum merchants. He then spent the next ten years looking for his stolen ship, hoping to use the single shot he has to kill his former first mate.

Arriving in Port Royal, he rescued Elisabeth Swann from dropping (and choking from having a lack of air caused by her corsett), but was soon hunted by the aurhtoites. Trying to hide out in the blacksmith shop, Jack dueled and lost to Will Turner (Jr) before being put in jail. Will later frees him when Barbossa arrives to take the 882nd peice of the cursed gold.

First Visit
Following Barbossa's capture of Elizabeth and the medallian, Jack prepared to commandeer the Intercepteer to go after them. When he was caught in the act by Will, Sora, Donald and Goofy, they convinced him to go after the pirates as he needed them to help sail the ship. After obtaining "effects" he needed, Jack sailed the ship after the Black Pearl, exlaining his past and his desite to regain his stolen ship to Sora's group.

Arrivng at Ilsa De Meurta, Jack tasked Sora, Donald and Goofy to stand gaurd over the ship wile he and Will infiltrated the ilsand to rescue Elizabeth. However, he isn't used to fighting the Heartless, which is someting that worries Sora. Jack and Will infiltrate the cave on Isla de Muerta, where a ritual is underway with Elizabeth, whose blood Barbossa believes will break the curse. Though Will wished to barge in and save her, Jack tried convincing him to wait for the right moment, asking if there was anything he had done to make Will not trust him. However, Will knocks him unconcious and rescues Elizabeth; the two escape to the Interceptor.

However, Jack was found by the Undead Pirates and tied to the mast on the Black Pearl. Interogated by Barbossa as to how he escaped the island he was marooned on, Jack only says that Barbossa forgot one important thing: he's captain Jack Sparrow. After a fierce battle between Sora's gang and the Undead Pirates, the Interceptor crew is captured.

After learning Will can break the curse, Barbossa left some Heartless and kegs of lit gunpowder to leave Sora and gang to their fate, double-crossing them after promising to release his captives. However, Jack frees them and encourages Sora to adopt a "no trusting pirates" policy because of their situation. Disposing of the Heartless and gunpowder, Jack sails the ship back to Isla De Meurta.

Jack more than matches the ruthless captain blow for blow while Sora, Donald and Goofy dispose of the crew. While Jack is momentarily distracted by Sora's cheering, Barbossa impales him with his sword, believing he is mortally wounded. However, when he stumbles backwards into the moonlight, Jack is revealed to be under the curse, having sneaked a coin from the chest to curse himself while Sora and gang dealt with Barbossa's cursed crewmen. He then faces off with his old first mate with Sora help; they needed to destroy a Heartless absorbing the moonlight.

Jack and Will lift the curse just after Jack fatally shoots Barbossa with the shot he has carried for ten years. No longer immortal, Barbossa falls onto the ground, dead. Though Will offered his hand to Jack, he took a step back in fear Will might hit him again. Jack's compass was then used to open up new routes with Sora's Keyblade.

Second Visit
On Sora's return trip to Port Royal they discover that there are still cursed pirates in Port Royal. Jack and his crew journey to Isla de Muerta aboard the Interceptor, saving Will from a certain death, and on the way come across a member of Organization XIII, Luxord, who has stolen the chest with the cursed medallions and summons a giant Heartless to fight them. Upon defeat, Luxord calls for parley by throwing out four pieces of treasure to Gambler Nobodies and destroying the Interceptor with the Black Pearl ' s armament.

After landing in the Ship Graveyard, the crew discovers that the curse has come back to Jack. Jack is curious as to why Sora, Donald and Goofy haven't be cursed, but overhears them figuring out why; because they don't come from this world, the laws are different. The group hunts down the four stolen medallions, and eventually find them.

Back at Port Royal, Luxord is there waiting for them to return the treasure. After it is returned, he summons the Heartless from before who is now under the curse. When they return the medallions, the curse on the Heartless lifts, but Jack's skeleton form remains. Goofy immediately realizes that Jack has been put under the Heartless' spell rather than the gold's curse.

After the Heartless is killed, the curse is lifted for good. The chest is then dumped into the sea to ensure that the curse does not ever resurface. As a reward for his trouble, Jack asks for Sora's Keyblade. Knowing the Keyblade would return to him, Sora agrees to it. When it vanishes back to Sora's hand though, Jack is not surprised. Jack vows to one day get a bloodthirsty crew together and steal the Keyblade; Will and Elizabeth agree to join him when he does.

The story ends with Sora, Will and Elizabeth commenting on Jack being the best pirate in the Spanish Main, as well as the whole ocean.

Ending
The end credits show Will and Elizabeth on the Black Pearl. As Jack sails, the moon comes out and he checks his hand, still remaining human.

Personality
Sparrow's trademark physical characteristic is a slightly drunken swagger, accompanied by slurred speech and awkwardly flailing hand gestures that make him appear unfocused. But he's actually a decent, if self-serving, man who adheres to the "Pirates' Code." He believes pirates can still be "good men," seeing the Heartless causing trouble give real pirates a bad name. Though both deny it, Jack and Sora have similar personalities. His drunkard-like persona doesn't mean anything when the fight comes.

He also prefers to be called "Captain Jack Sparrow" or "Captain Sparrow".

Appearance
Jack Sparrow is a tan, mustachioed man who wears his dark brown hair in dreadlocks decorated with numerous beads. His beard is similarly styled into two smaller dreads, each with two very small beads near the tips. Jack wears a faded red bandana on his head, on which is another small beaded ornament ending in a silver coin. He wears brown boots and has brown eyes, and carries a the scabbard of his cutlass on his left hip, kept in place by a black strap that goes over his right shoulder. He wears another, tan belt around his waist, overtop a tattered, white piece of cloth tied around his waist. Jack's compass hangs from this second belt, tied on by a piece of twine, and his pistol is tucked into the cloth. He wears a faded, loose white shirt underneath a black jacket that exposes his chest, both tucked beneath the cloth and belt. The legs of his black pants are tucked into his boots. Finally, Jack sports a fingerless glove on his right hand.

Strangely, in Kingdom Hearts II Jack doesn't wear his hat, even though it was repeatedly shown to be precious to him in the films.

Under the effects of the curse, when under moonlight, Jack's body becomes that of a rotted skeleton. Though more or less the same, Jack's clothes become far more tattered, to the point that he altogether loses most of the legs of his pants. His skin becomes grey and rotten, and the decay of his lips exposes three gold teeth in the front of his mouth.



Abilities
Jack is primarily an offensive party member, using his sword to attack and also throwing bombs and knives at enemies. As such, his fighting style is somewhat similar to Aladdin's, although he is slower and has the aforementioned projectile attacks. He also has several support abilities, especially Draw. Jack has one armor slot, one accessory slot, and four item slots. Jack's abilities are as follows.


 * No Mercy: An inescapable sword attack.
 * Rain Storm: Jack throws knives at enemies.
 * Bone Smash: Jack throws bombs in groups of three several times.
 * Limit ability: Treasure Isle. Activates the Limit, Bluff. Sora and Jack draw enemies in for combination attacks.

Origin
Captain Jack Sparrow originally appeared in the 2003 film , played by Johnny Depp. In that film, Jack's role is similar to his role in the first visit to Port Royal in Kingdom Hearts II. He also appears in ', ', and , battling new foes such as Davy Jones, Cutler Beckett and Blackbeard.