William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner Sr.

William Turner, also known as Bill or Billy Turner, though more commonly referred to as Bootstrap or Bootstrap Bill, was a pirate who operated in the Seven Seas. Though with the requisite betrayals of the pirate's life, Turner was a loyal cohort of Captain Jack Sparrow. Renowned as a pirate and a good man, Bootstrap Bill Turner was the father of Will Turner, who followed in his buccaneering footsteps.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Bootstrap Bill had once been a member of Jack Sparrow's crew aboard the Black Pearl, where he would regretfully play a part in Hector Barbossa's mutiny against Jack. While Jack was thrown overboard, Bootstrap Bill stayed on board with Barbossa's crew and joined them in finding and taking every bit of the treasure of Cortés. After falling under the Aztec curse, Barbossa's crew had to return the treasure they took. However, Turner tried to renege his position on Sparrow by sending a gold piece to his son Will, believing that the mutinous crew deserved to remain cursed for betraying Jack and the Pirate's Code. In response, Bootstrap was tied to a cannon and thrown overboard by Barbossa, eternally drowning but unable to die because of the curse. He was left to suffer at the bottom of the ocean.

Prior to the curse's lifting, Bootstrap made a deal with Davy Jones to alleviate his eternal suffering, selling his soul for one hundred years of servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman. Bootstrap Bill soon appeared like the rest of the Dutchman crew, covered in barnacles and crustaceans, a slave to Davy Jones. Thirteen years after Jack Sparrow's deal with Davy Jones, Bootstrap Bill was sent as an emissary to warn Jack of his debt. Bootstrap later reunited with Will Turner when the latter was Davy Jones's prisoner for a short while. Sworn to rescue his father, Will had made Bill a solemn promise: he would return to the Dutchman and free him from Jones' hold. As time went by, he was gradually losing himself and literally becoming a part of the ship. Near the end of the War Against Piracy, Bootstrap Bill lapsed into total dementia. After the final titanic battle of the war, Will Turner became the new captain of the Flying Dutchman, where Bootstrap remained willfully, but only for a short time, as he eventually left the crew through undisclosed reasons.

Trivia

 * Bootstrap was mention in Kingdom Hearts 2.