Character Overview
Gibbs is a generally knowledgeable person, and right-hand man to Jack Sparrow, often providing the movie's cast as well as the audience with background information. He is deeply superstitious and makes frequent references to various causes of "bad luck" (e.g. having women on the ship or waking a sleeping man). He is also very fond of his rum, which he drinks from a leather flask. The flask is a running gag, used as cannon ammunition in the first film and bait for a Pelogosto booby trap in the second. In the third movie, Gibbs is seen pouring rum into the plate with the Pieces of Eight so they can ignite it.
He takes a moment of silence to anyone who gets left behind (especially Jack), but gets over it quickly enough. Gibbs is probably the only character who knows Jack Sparrow's history, and has a great friendship with him, being the first one to agree to rescue him from the Locker. He and Jack also share a handshake, and would say, in the first and third film "Take what you can - Give nothing back!" Writer Terry Rossio has said he actually considers Gibbs to be the most virtuous character in the series.
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