Gibbs is a pirate of Jack's new crew who searches after the Black Pearl. He is one of Jack's most reliable chums. He is the first person Jack seeks out in Tortuga to help him gather a crew.
Gibbs can be superstitious at times, though no one else usually takes these superstitions seriously. Gibbs is also familiar with Elizabeth, and is partly responsible for Elizabeth's fascination with pirates as he told her stories about pirates when she was little. It is uncertain what happened in between the time when he knew Elizabeth and the time he knew Jack.
Gibbs Highlights
Norrington: Mr. Gibbs that will do!
Gibbs: She was singing about pirates. Bad luck to be singing about pirates with us mired in this unnatural fog. Mark my words.
Norrington: Consider them marked. On your way.
Gibbs: Aye, Lieutenant. It’s bad luck to have a woman on board, too, even a miniature one.
Gibbs: (Jack throws a bucket of water at him) Curse you for breathing, you slack jawed idiot! Mother’s love! Jack ! You should know better then to wake a man when he’s sleeping. ‘S bad luck.
Jack: Ah, fortunately I know how to counter it. The man who did the waking buys, the man who was sleeping, a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking.
Gibbs: Aye, that'll about do it. (Will throws another bucket of water at him) Blast! I’m already awake!
Will: That was for the smell.
Jack: I’m going after the Black Pearl. I know where it’s going to be and I’m going to take it.
Gibbs: Jack , it’s a fool’s errand. Well, you know better than me the tales of the Black Pearl.
Jack: That’s why I know what Barbossa is up to... all I need is a crew.
Gibbs: From what I hear tell of Captain Barbossa, he’s not a man to suffer fools nor strike a bargain with one.
Jack: Well, then I say it’s a very good thing I’m not a fool then, aye?
Gibbs: Prove me wrong. What makes ye think Barbossa will give up his ship to you?
Jack: Let’s just say it’s a matter of leverage, aye?
Gibbs: The kid?
Jack: That is the child of Bootstrap Bill Turner. His only child, savvy?
Gibbs: Is he now? Leverage says you, I think I feel a change in the wind says I. I’ll find us a crew, there’s bound to be some sailors on this rock crazy as you.
Jack: One can only hope. Take what you can...
Gibbs: ...Give nothing back.
Gibbs: Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them, faithful hands before the mast. Every man worth his salt. And crazy to boot.
Jack: You, sailor!
Gibbs: Cotton, sir.
Jack: Mr. Cotton. Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death? Mr. Cotton! Answer man!
Gibbs: He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one’s yet figured how...
Jack: Mr. Cotton’s... parrot. Same question.
Parrot: Wind in the sails! Wind in the sails!
Gibbs: Mostly, we figure, that means 'yes.'
Will: How can we sail to an island that nobody can find with a compass that doesn’t work?
Gibbs: Aye, the compass doesn’t point north but we’re not trying to find north, are we?
Gibbs: What’s in your head that’s put you in such a fine mood, Captain?
Jack: We’re catching up.
Gibbs: Puts a chill in the bones how many honest sailors have been claimed by this passage.
Will: How is it that Jack came by that compass?
Gibbs : Not a lot known about Jack Sparrow before he showed up in Tortuga with a mind to go after the treasure of the Isla de Muerta . That was before I met him. Back when he was Captain of the Black Pearl.
Will: What? He failed to mention that.
Gibbs: Well, he plays things close to the vest now. And a hard learned lesson it was. See three days out on the venture the first mate comes to him and says everything’s an equal share as should be the location of the treasure, too. So, Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die but not before he’d gone mad with the heat.
Will: Ah. So that's the reason for the... (swaggers).
Gibbs: Reason's got nothing to do with it. Now Will , when a man is marooned he is a given a pistol with a single shot. Well it won't do much good hunting or to be rescued. But after three weeks of starvin’ belly and thirst that pistol starts to look real friendly. But Jack made it off the island and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use it though, save for one man. His mutinous first mate.
Will: Barbossa.
Gibbs: Aye.
Will: How did Jack get off the island?
Gibbs: Well, I’ll tell you. He waded out into the shallows and there he waited three days and three nights till all manner of sea creature came and acclimated to his presence. And on the fourth morning he roped himself a couple of sea turtles, harnessed them together and made a raft.
Will: He roped a couple of sea turtles?
Gibbs: Aye, sea turtles.
Will: What did he use for rope?
Jack: Human hair, from my back.
Gibbs: Jack!
Jack: (gives him the flask) Bloody empty!
Parrot: Awwk, shiver me timbers.
Gibbs: Cotton ‘ere says you missed a bit.
Jack: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code.
Gibbs: We figured they were more actual... guidelines.
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