 Cotton, played by David Bailie, is a mute pirate, having lost his tongue before the film series began.He appears in the first three films.He was unable to speak, while he trained his blue-and-yellow macaw, voiced by Christopher S. Capp, to use a large number of phrases to essentially speak for him (such as 'Wind in the sails' apparently meaning 'Yes'), although nobody has been able to figure out how he did this.