Pirated

I'm, like, totally psyched for the new Pirates of the Caribbean film coming out next year, as I've mentioned and have been mentioning. Javier Bardem is going to be in it? Man, the only thing that could be better than that would be Idris Elba. Which he actually might, I mean I can totally see him in one of these...

Just finished reading the scripts of all four films so far, in fact. It can definitely help to get your head around all the gambits and double-crosses that are flying around, especially in the third one...

Alright, so, anyway. If Barbossa mutinied against Witty Jack, thus becoming captain of the Black Pearl before cursing himself and his crew with the Aztec gold from Isla de Muerta, all that, then why (if he's a captain only through mutiny) is he one of the 9 Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court? It is a title that can be passed from captain to captain, or captain to, whoever, whereupon they'd become a captain, as established by Sao Feng making Elizabeth captain and a Pirate Lord upon his death, (thinking she's Calypso,) but... Barbossa's piece of 8 is the eyeball which he gave to Ragetti, which meant that he already had it before the mutiny (Ragetti wouldn't have done any eyeball-losing during the time of the curse, of course, and there was a period of, what, a month tops between the mutiny and the curse...)

A puzzlement.

That story, I would like to see...

Also, I'm pretty sure there are Young Jack Sparrow books which could answer this question, but, when exactly did Jack become a pirate? From certain material unfortunately cut from the theatrical release of At World's End, we can piece together that Jack, working for the East India Trading Company, got branded P only after he released the "cargo" of 100 slaves against Beckett's orders... The Wicked Wench is burnt, the Flying Dutchman salvages her (in exchange for some soul (Jack's, or 100 others,)) the rescued blackened ship is renamed the Black Pearl... so... was Jack already a pirate, just unbranded because that was most convenient for the company? Or did he only become a pirate after that incident? His father is definitely Captain Teague, of course, one of the saltiest sea dogs imaginable, but, Will, son of Bootstrap, didn't start out a pirate, started out hating pirates in fact, so... I'm sure it's explained somewhere, probably, just, well I don't know.