George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
How did he become a pirate?
Well, if George existed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he could have been like Spiderman, who was bitten by a radioactive spider.
George could have been bitten by a radioactive pirate.
(Radioactive pirates exist, right? From one of those atomic bomb tests?)
Except that would have made him PirateMan. Which sounds weird.
And unlike Peter Parker, who was a teenaged photographer, slinging webs and stopping crimes, George was a pirate, which is a criminal profession.
Even if he wasn’t very good at it.