The Sea Captain is a fictional unnamed character and protagonist of the Tales of the Black Freighter comic "Marooned".
Biography[]
In "Marooned", the Sea Captain journeys to warn his hometown of the coming of the Black Freighter, after he survives the destruction of his ship. He uses the bodies of his dead shipmates as a makeshift raft and sails home, gradually descending into insanity. When he finally returns to his hometown, believing it to be already under the occupation of the Black Freighter's crew, he makes his way to his house and slays everyone he finds there, only to discover that the person he mistook for a pirate is his wife. He returns to the seashore, where he realizes that the Black Freighter has not come to claim the town, but rather to claim him; he swims out to sea and climbs aboard the ship.
Trivia[]
- According to Richard Reynolds, the mariner is "forced by the urgency of his mission to shed one inhibition after another." Just like Adrian Veidt, he "hopes to stave off disaster by using the dead bodies of his former comrades as a means of reaching his goal".