Why does Calypso turn into crabs?

In the days of myth and legend, the beautiful Calypso ruled the seas, and all sailors both loved and feared her, even though she too had mortal blood. As a heathen goddess, Calypso was able to take many forms, but since the crab was attributed as her symbol, she chose the form of a crab.
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Does Tia Dalma know she is Calypso?

Tia Dalma tells the group the story of Davy Jones and Calypso, but does not reveal her identity. While caressing her locket, she reminisces that Jones was once human. Later, it is revealed that Tia Dalma is Calypso, bound into human form.
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Why did Davy Jones betray Calypso?

However, when Jones returned to shore after ten years, Calypso failed to appear. Believing Calypso had betrayed him, a heartbroken and enraged Davy Jones turned the Pirate Brethren against her, saying that if she were removed from the world, they would be able to claim the seas for themselves.
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Why is Calypso bound to human form?

Tia Dalma Is Secretly Calypso Trapped In Human Form

The third film in the series reveals that Tia Dalma is actually the sea goddess Calypso, bound to human form when her affair with Davy Jones ended with his betrayal of her to the Pirate Lords.
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What did Calypso say when she was freed?

In Pirates of the Caribbean Online Tia Dalma can be found on Cuba. "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", the phrase Calypso yells out when she is freed from her bonds, roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"
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Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End 2007



Why is Tia Dalma mouth black?

The teeth were prosthetic teeth that you just clip in and out. Oh, and I also had to fill my mouth with vegetable dye before each take.
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Why is Davy Jones a squid?

But the pain of Calypso's betrayal caused him was too much to live with, so Davy Jones carved out his own heart and locked it away in the Dead Man's Chest. Abandoning his duty, Davy Jones turned into a hideous humanoid sea monster, with an octopus face, a tentacles beard, a claw of crab as a hand and a giant crab leg.
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Why did Calypso give Jack a jar of dirt?

"No." The jar of dirt was a glass jar filled with dirt, given to Captain Jack Sparrow by Tia Dalma as a form of protection against Davy Jones during Sparrow's search for the Dead Man's Chest in an attempt to settle his debt with Jones.
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Is Tia Dalma a villain?

While Tia Dalma enters as an ally to Captain Jack and company, she exits as one of the worst villains. Calypso, as she turns out to be, is a merciless sea goddess scorned by her old flame Davy Jones.
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Why did Beckett not fire?

Becket didn't give orders to fire because he instantly realized what happened - that Davy Johns was gone and that it was done by the reason of William Turner being killed and revived as a new captain of a Dutchman (he knew well what was the only way it could happen), and that William's and Elisabeth's love have won ...
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Who did Calypso marry?

According to Homer's epic, the Odyssey, when Odysseus landed on Ogygia, Calypso fell in love with him and decided to keep him as her immortal husband.
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What is Calypso the goddess of?

Only Odysseus was held elsewhere, pining for home and wife; the Nymphe Kalypso (Calypso), a goddess of strange power and beauty, had kept him captive within her arching caverns, yearning for him to be her husband.
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How does Davy Jones summon the Kraken?

Davy Jones' pet

The terrible beast could be summoned from aboard the Flying Dutchman, with the use of a giant capstan hammer that sent a shock wave through the ocean that served as a call to the creature. Jones would at times recite a chant while his crew summoned the beast.
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Why Will Turner cursed?

Pintel revealed that Bootstrap was tied to a cannon and thrown overboard after it was learned he sent a gold medallion to Will so the crew would remain under an ancient Aztec curse as punishment for betraying Sparrow. To break the curse, the last medallion and Turner's blood must be returned to the Aztec chest.
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How Did Davy Jones get cursed?

After that the lore gets a bit messy, but it's generally assumed that Jones came back from the dead once the Trident was broken, sneaking into the Turner's bedroom probably intending to kill/harm Will at the end of Dead Men Tell No Tales. Short answer: He had an ordinary beard, became cursed, boom tentacle beard.
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Why did Calypso create a maelstrom?

After being released from her human form, the goddess Calypso, enraged over Davy Jones's betrayal and the Brethren Court, used her powers to summon a maelstrom. Calypso's maelstrom consisted of an enormous whirlpool topped with a thunderstorm with strong wind, lightning and rain.
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What accent does Calypso have?

Naomie Harris played the sea goddess Calypso (Tia Dalma) in the films Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. In May 2007 she told Orlando Sentinel how she learned the Jamaican accent for her role as the tattooed voodoo priestess.
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Is Davy Jones a good villain?

Davy Jones is the main antagonist of Dead Man's Chest and the secondary antagonist of At World's End. Jones was also a cameo antagonist in Dead Men Tell No Tales. He has been identified as a tragic villain.
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Who is the most powerful villain in Pirates of the Caribbean?

1 Davy Jones

Throughout the course ruse of Pirates Of The Caribbean, Jones was a constant and vicious threat to Jack, Will, and Elizabeth, remorselessly bringing death and destruction wherever he went.
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How did Tia Dalma get the compass?

It is unknown what Jack gave to Tia Dalma in exchange for the compass. However, the compass somehow found its way into the hands of Morgan, the pirate captain of the Wicked Wench, under whom Jack was serving at the time.
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Why does Davy Jones crew look like that?

A curse was placed upon Jones, and his body gradually changed to look more like that of an octopus; his beard was replaced by tentacles along with his right hand, while his left hand became a crab claw. His crew also became cursed, taking on the appearance of various sea creatures.
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Was the jar of dirt scene unscripted?

(at around 2h) The scene when Jack Sparrow calls Davy Jones "fish face", and sings to them "I got a jar of dirt", was unscripted and improvised by Johnny Depp, most of the reactions of the rest of the characters are real.
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Why did Will Turner have barnacles?

Will's barnacles

So Davy Jones became ol' squidface specifically because he chose to take a few centuries of vacation time. TL;DR: Will has barnacles because of extended time in the ocean. Not because he didn't ferry around the dead people.
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Why can't Elizabeth go on the Flying Dutchman?

Why couldn't Elizabeth just join Will's crew on the Dutchman? Because she's not dead.
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Does Will Turner turn into a fish?

His ship and crew were slowly transformed into monstrous fish-like creatures bent on terrorizing the seven seas. Turner technically became the new Davy Jones, and The Flying Dutchman was freed from its curse.
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