James Norrington

James Norrington, also known as Admiral, Captain, Commodore of the Fleet and Lieutenant, is one of the main characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
== Charactah Account ==
James is a young, dedicated naval officer and pirate hunter, he first appears as a teenage lieutenant escorting the Swann family on their crossing from England, and many years later, after his promotion to commodore, he proposes to Elizabeth after seeing she is all grownup. Elizabeth's heart, however, belongs to Will Turner, and even Norrington comes to know it- when Elizabeth asks him to save Will for her sake, it sows the first seeds of doubt in her sincerity, and he ultimately settles for being a romantic runner-up and wishes Will and Elizabeth the best in their relationship.
By the end of the first movie, James considers Jack his worthy opponent, and gives him a day's mercy lead. His act of generosity couldn't have impressed the higher authority- letting an enemy go free was, at the time, a death sentence for a naval officer. This probably explains why he becomes so desperate to catch Sparrow that he pursues him into a hurricane, and his ship goes down with almost all hands. He resigns from the Navy in disgrace and flees before he can be court-martialed, dropping from noble officer to borderline anti-hero who is desperately looking for an opportunity to get his old job back and turning up again in the pirate stronghold of Tortuga as a filthy, drunken, unshaven mess.
After Elizabeth prevents him from drunkenly attempting to kill Jack and fight off an entire tavern's worth of pirates, James ends up a deckhand on Jack's crew. When the party finds the key item of the sequels, the heart of Davy Jones, whose owner controls the seas, James — seeing it as a free ticket back to his old, honorable life — steals it and brings it to Lord Cutler Beckett as a token. He is given the new, higher rank of Admiral in the EITC's private armada and seems to have gotten his former status back, but it quickly becomes apparent that James, Jones and Elizabeth's father Weatherby Swann have become pawns in Beckett's game. He tries to use his position to subtly protect Governor Swann and look out for Elizabeth, and after learning Beckett had Swann murdered (and seeing the utter hatred Elizabeth feels for him after believing he was a part of it), he saves Elizabeth and her crew from Beckett's clutches, losing his life in the process.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
=== Literature ===
* Pirates of the Caribbean: A Storm as Sea
* Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow
* Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
* Pirates of the Caribbean: The Missing Pirate
=== Movies ===
* Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
* Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
* Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
=== Video Games ===
* LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
* Minecraft
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* Pirates of the Caribbean: Gods and Ghosts M
== Trivia ==
* The Jack Sparrow book series indicates that his father, Admiral Lawrence Norrington, was one, and probably responsible for James' obsession with duty and honor. When James was swept overboard during a storm as a small boy, he was saved by a pirate - to which Admiral Norrington the elder responded that it would have been better for James to have drowned.
* James was a major character in Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man's Chest but his role is greatly reduced in the third film.
* James is inspired by Duncan from The Last of the Mohicans, except at sea instead of on land.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* James Norrington at Pirates of the Caribbean Wiki
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