Captain Jack Sparrow is the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, making his debut in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Drunken, charismatic, and morally gray, Jack is a legendary pirate of the Seven Seas and the irreverent trickster of the Caribbean. His first love was the sea, and his second, his beloved ship, the Black Pearl. Throughout a series of grand and thrilling adventures, Jack has battled his cursed first-mate Captain Hector Barbossa, his tyrannical ex-employer Lord Cutler Beckett, the legendary sailor Davy Jones, the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, and the ghostly Spaniard Captain Salazar, among others. He has often achieved his goals by forming alliances with more noble and heroic figures, such as Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, or ruthless con artists like Angelica. Jack's crew is somewhat interchangeable, with many of his men abandoning ship due to the captain's treacherous and unorthodox nature, or simply because of his bad luck. The one constant is Joshamee Gibbs, Jack's longtime friend and loyal first mate.