Who is Davy Jones?

Davy Jones is a character appearing in Popeye comics authored by Tom Sims and Bela Zaboly. He is depicted as a sea spirit who inhabits the bottom of the ocean as well as his Locker, which is located in a sunken ship.
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What is the story of Davy Jones?

Davy Jones preyed on wayward sailors lost at sea with the Flying Dutchman, now a cursed ghost ship. Those who wished to avoid death and final judgment would agree to serve Jones aboard his haunted vessel, eventually becoming a part of the ship itself, forever enslaved to its terrifying captain.
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Was Davy Jones a real person?

Davy Jones, the fictional character- an octopus-faced man who has his heart kept in a chest as a forever-memory of his love's betrayal- is a cruel sailor, with everlasting greed for violence.
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Is Davy Jones the Flying Dutchman?

According to legends and lore, the Flying Dutchman was given to Davy Jones by his love, the sea goddess Calypso, who gave Jones the duty of ferrying the souls who died at sea into the next world. After ten years, Jones would be free to come ashore to be with Calypso.
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Why is Davy Jones an octopus?

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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Davy Jones' Locker: A Spooky History



Why did Jack Sparrow owe Davy Jones?

Jack Sparrow really wanted his ship back after Cutler Beckett sunk it. He wanted it back so much that he traded 100 years of servitude to Davy Jones so that he would raise the ship and allow Sparrow to captain it for 13 years.
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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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Who cursed Davy Jones?

The two former lovers discuss Calypso's betrayal and Jones's curse. Calypso temporarily lifts his curse, allowing him to be seen briefly in his original human form. Jones tells her that his heart will always belong to her.
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Why did Davy Jones cut out his heart?

This heart was removed by Davy Jones from his own chest after he betrayed the sea goddess Calypso, who had forsaken him prior to his betrayal. Jones carved out his heart in order to no longer feel the grief and guilt at what he had done or any emotion of love again.
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What happens if Davy Jones steps on land?

It is shown in Dead Men Tell No Tales. In DMTNT we see what happens to undead when they set foot on dry land. They essentially turn to ash, and vanish.
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Was Jack Sparrow a real pirate?

Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow may be the worst pirate you've ever heard of, but he is based on the real legendary pirate John Ward. Pirates of the Caribbean's Jack Sparrow may be the worst pirate you've ever heard of, but he is based on the real Barbary pirate John Ward.
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Was the Flying Dutchman real?

The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship which was said to never be able to make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Dutch maritime power.
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Did pirates really exist?

Though pirates have existed since ancient times, the Golden Age of piracy was in the 17th and early 18th centuries. During this time more than 5000 pirates were said to be at sea. Throughout history there have been people willing to rob others transporting goods on the water.
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Why does Will Turner have barnacles?

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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What is Davy Jones heart?

The Dead Man's Chest, also known as the chest of Davy Jones was a chest of unknown origin which contained the still-beating heart of Davy Jones. After carving out his own heart, Jones locked it in the chest and buried it on Isla Cruces, hiding it from the world.
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Why does Davy Jones look so good?

He felt nobody had done CG eyes that had the kind of life you get from an actual film performance by an actor.” Knoll and crew made elaborate preparations to blend Nighy's actual eyes into an otherwise CG figure, just as they'd done for certain moments in the first Pirates movie.
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Why can't Elizabeth stay 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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Who are the 9 pirate lords?

Pirate Lords
  • Ammand - Pirate Lord of the Black Sea.
  • Hector Barbossa - Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea.
  • Chevalle - Pirate Lord of the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Ching - Pirate Lord of the Pacific Ocean.
  • Jocard - Pirate Lord of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Jack Sparrow - Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea.
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Is Blackbeard Jack Sparrow's father?

Soon he crosses paths with his impersonator, an old flame named Angelica. She shanghais him to serve aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship captained by her father Blackbeard, who forces Sparrow to search for the Fountain of Youth.
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How Did Davy Jones Teleport?

Davy Jones teleported onboard the Black Pearl. There is a great possibility that Left-Foot Louis is still alive." "How do you know?" Teleportation was a mystical supernatural ability which allowed people to move from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
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Why is Davy Jones alive?

Calypso, goddess of the sea, assigned the Dutchman to Captain Davy Jones, a sailor who fell in love with her. The deal granted him immortality in exchange for his service, but he could only spend one day on land for every 10 years of service.
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Why did Lord 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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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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