Captain Nathaniel Flint is a posthumous villain in Disney's 2002 animated feature film Treasure Planet. He was a space pirate renowned by those who knew him as one of the most notorious and feared criminals in galactic history. Captain Nathaniel Flint belonged to an unnamed alien species with fangs, multiple eyes and a reptilian-like face. At some point in his life, he became a pirate, and his infamy was so staggering that he was known as the most feared of all pirates. At some point, he apparently stole Treasure Planet from a highly-developed species of unknown identity. After many years of looting merchant ships, Flint buried a vast treasure in the center chamber of treasure planet (which is in fact a giant alien mechanism). Even before and after his death, Flint’s greed made him desire to keep the treasure to himself and nobody else. He entrusted the map to Treasure Planet to his first mate Billy Bones and stole the memory chip of his robot navigator, B.E.N.. Flint also rigged the planet to explode if someone should find his treasure. Shortly after setting up this deadly booby trap, Flint stayed inside the center of Treasure Planet with his treasure and soon died guarding it. When the R.L.S. Legacy crew discover the treasure in the present day, Jim and B.E.N. encounter Flint's long dead skeleton, and Jim tears off one skeletal hand to find and insert B.E.N's memory chip, and they proceed to set off the booby trap. The trap succeeds in destroying the planet, taking the treasure and what was left of Flint’s remains with it, thus fulfilling Flint’s greedy desires to keep his treasure to himself.