Shiver Me Timbers!

Ok, so I finally really understand why the Dread Pirate Roberts relied mostly on the word-of-mouth of his reputation to do most of the advance work of plundering and pillaging. In all the many iterations of that identity, there had to have been at least a few guys who didn't quite have the, um, facial qualifications, to do the job appropriately - so they needed to have the pre-instilled fear to compensate. After all, without worrying about the whole "leaves no prisoners alive" thing, exactly how scared would you be if looked in your spyglass to see that what was coming after you was this:



Seriously.