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John silver is the main antagonist, turned anti-hero, of Disney's forty-third full-length animated feature film Treasure Planet.

What makes him sympathetic?[]

  • He genuinely cares about his pet, Morph.
  • When John meets the young Jim Hawkins, he genuinely starts to like. He spends time with him, defends him from one of his men and calms him down when on one occasion Jim is sad and starts crying.
  • When Scroop kills Mr. Arrow, John is angry and starts beating and threatening Scroop which shows that he has some standards.
  • When Jim's life is in danger, John decides to give up on the treasure in order to save the young man from dead.
  • When John Silver departs and Jim lets him go out of gratitude, John gives him all the money he had managed to acquire from the treasure because he knows that Jim's mother would need it to restore the inn.
  • In Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon, John Silver saves Jim's life again by ramming his ship into a Procyon ship and aids in the war against the Procyons. Because of this, he is posthumously absolved of all of his crimes since no trace of him was found even though Jim doesn't believe that he has died.
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