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* KickTheSonOfABitch: His first on-screen murders include a group of arrogant, classist officers who'd just arrested Henry Turner to trying to warn them about going into the Devil's Triangle, one of whom'd even said he wanted to execute Henry for it. It's hard to feel too sorry for them when he does that (the rest of the crew, sure, but not the captain).
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: His first on-screen murders include a group of arrogant, classist officers who'd just arrested Henry Turner to trying to warn them about going into the Devil's Triangle, one of whom'd even said he wanted to execute Henry for it. It's hard to feel too sorry for them when he does that (the rest of the crew, sure, but not the captain).
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The destruction of the dead Trident lifts their curse, turning them back to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day mortal men. They are all overjoyed by this... until they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him realize that being fickle and unpredictable they're at the bottom of the sea which is simply her nature.about to be refilled with water. They then try to reach the anchor of the ''Black Pearl'' in vain, with their captain leaving them to drown (though he isn't able to escape death thanks to Barbossa).]]
*AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of BodyHorror: Every one of them save Salazar were killed in an explosion, resulting in their ghostly forms missing large portions of their bodies. One of them is merely a floating hat and a forearm holding a saber.
* CoolBoat: Before Jack Sparrow led it to its doom, thesea, being Silent Mary was ''packed'' with cannons to engage several pirate ships at the sea goddess Calypso.same time and obliterate them. Under the undead curse, it looks more like the skeleton of a ship, and can lift its own bow to crash it on the hapless ships of the living.
* CursedWithAwesome: The Devil's Triangle curse has some important shortcomings (they cannot set foot on land and are probably in some kind of unpleasant state), but in turn it also grants them and their ship several awesome powers. If they were powerful pirate hunters back when they were alive, they are now basically unstoppable; the only way to beat them is precisely wiping out their curse.
* CustomUniform: Their black and white navy uniforms are notably different from the dark green ones used by the Spanish Royal Navy in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'', hinting they might be a more specialized or elite branch of their fleet, or that the uniform changed at some point in the intervening decades.
* DarkIsEvil: Even before they died, the most prominent colors of the crew and their ship were black and grey.
* DashingHispanic: Subverted. Although their captain is quite badass and stylish, those Spaniards don't generally share the ''capa y espada'' poise of their countrymen from the previous film. After dying and becoming undead, furthermore, they can only be described as haunting.
* EveryoneHasStandards: A flashback shows some of Salazar's men looking uncomfortable as they are ordered to kill surrendering pirates. The lost this trait with their first death, though.
* FateWorseThanDeath: After dying, they were trapped in a cavern within the Devil's Triangle and forced to remain within, waiting for unfortunate ships to enter their domain. They manage to escape it once Jack Sparrow "betrays" his compass. They escape further when they are free from the curse thanks to the destruction of Poseidon's Trident.
* FloatingLimbs: The explosion of the ship left some of the crew in this state in undeath.
* FlyingDutchman: {{Ghost Pirate}}s[[note]](well, ''pirate hunters'' anyway)[[/note]] who are BarredFromTheAfterlife? Check. Can't set foot on dry land? Check.
* GhostPirate: Subverted in that none of them are pirates, but pirate ''hunters''. Although they do seem to attack other ships than pirates once they are freed from the Devil's Triangle, presumably on the basis that they are Spaniards and therefore English ships are their enemies.
* GratuitousEnglish: They are part of the Spanish Royal Navy, yet their ship has an English name. While ''Silent Mary'' might be an intentional reference to the real life BermudaTriangle GhostShip ''Mary Celeste'', apparently the ship's name was going to be ''La Silenciosa María'' (its proper Spanish translation) early in production.
* JacobMarleyApparel: The ''Silent Mary'''s crew not only still wear the tattered remains of their Spanish uniforms, but the curse preserves their bodies at the exact moment of death. Since the crew was annihilated by a powder explosion, nearly all of them are [[BodyHorror missing body parts]], though this doesn't seem to impair them at all (evidenced by one poor fellow who is little more than a floating hat and arm).
* {{Mooks}}: Only Salazar and to a much lesser extent Lesaro have any characterization. The others are just nameless goons.
* NonHumanUndead: The crew keeps [[ThreateningShark undead sharks]] onboard to unleash them if need be, such as when chasing Jack Sparrow, Henry Turner and Carina Smyth. The ship also has undead seagulls in its wake.
* RevenantZombie: Probably a middle step between that and VengefulGhost (they are physically corporeal and retain the amount of body mass they had while dying, but the rest is supported by ghostly floating, and they are capable to walk weightlessly on the water), but in any case they fit the archetype of a dead who returns with his personality intact out of revenge.
* RogueAgent: Implied. They have ostensibly not renovated their ties to the Spanish Empire after having been technically KIA for many decades, and they don't claim any particular political antagonism towards Great Britain (although they do seem to act on it, unnecesarily butchering entire non-pirate British ships except by single messengers, possibly out of custom or sheer AxCrazy).
* ARottenTimeToRevert: [[spoiler:They probably would've been more thrilled about having their curse broken if it hadn't happened while they're all ''at the bottom of the ocean'', with the waters that were previously parted by the Trident's magic now about to crash down on them.]]
*AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess SealedEvilInACan: Salazar and Davy Jones's lost love]], this his ship and crew were sealed inside the Devil's Triangle for several decades, thanks to Jack Sparrow. Should Jack be separated from his compass, his worst fear would be unleashed into the world -- and his worst fear appears to be Salazar and his crew. Sure enough, they are freed from the Devil's Triangle when a drunken Jack uses the compass to pay himself some rum.
* ShadowArchetype: Salazar and his crew have similarities with Barbossa and his crew aboard the ''Black Pearl'' from the first movie. Both groups were cursed into a state of undeadliness [[BlessedWithSuck in which the pros don't exactly outweigh the cons]], and they are [[TheDreaded notorious]] in the world of pirates as merciless pirate hunters and ''especially'' vicious pirates, respectively. Both crews have at least one undead animal onboard their ghostly ship, and their journey to their cursed state wasprobably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspectslinked to Jack Sparrow and the ''Black Pearl'' (or the former ''Wicked Wench'').[[note]]Jack told Barbossa the location of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), Treasure of Cortés and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg was then overthrown as the captain of the ''Black Pearl''. Salazar in turn was tricked to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood:sail into the Devil's Triangle by Jack who had just assumed the command of the ''Wicked Wench''.[[/note]] The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl state of Salazar's crew in is arguably worse, for unlike Barbossa's cursed crew, they can be destroyed if they touch the second land, and third film as she they don't know any way to undo their curse. Barbossa's crew composed of homicidal and greedy plunderers, but they weren't genocidal in any way. In a sense, Barbossa is facing the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, crew of the Black Spot, ''Silent Mary'' as worse versions of himself and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is his former crew. [[spoiler:Both crews are freed from their curses at an inconvenient time when they'd have otherwise loved it (with Jack having a crucial for role in both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.cases again), leading them to die or getting arrested. In a sense of irony, Barbossa was killed by Jack when his curse was lifted, and he personally sees to the unhexed Salazar's death with a weapon provided by Jack and at the cost of his own life.]]
*BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After VengefulGhost: Technically, being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
ghostly entities whose leader is fueled by revenge.
*BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess WalkOnWater: All of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
them can run on water.
*TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few WeaksauceWeakness: None of her magic rituals them are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
able to step on dry land. If any try, by purpose or accident, they immediately disintegrate.
*ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was WoundThatWillNotHeal: They are basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being aliving embodiment simulations of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones attheir agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonificationcause of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is death. Given that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, boundmost of them died in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted asan explosion, it means their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild bodies remain ripped apart and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.lack entire pieces.
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* CoolBoat: Before Jack Sparrow led it to its doom, the
* CursedWithAwesome: The Devil's Triangle curse has some important shortcomings (they cannot set foot on land and are probably in some kind of unpleasant state), but in turn it also grants them and their ship several awesome powers. If they were powerful pirate hunters back when they were alive, they are now basically unstoppable; the only way to beat them is precisely wiping out their curse.
* CustomUniform: Their black and white navy uniforms are notably different from the dark green ones used by the Spanish Royal Navy in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'', hinting they might be a more specialized or elite branch of their fleet, or that the uniform changed at some point in the intervening decades.
* DarkIsEvil: Even before they died, the most prominent colors of the crew and their ship were black and grey.
* DashingHispanic: Subverted. Although their captain is quite badass and stylish, those Spaniards don't generally share the ''capa y espada'' poise of their countrymen from the previous film. After dying and becoming undead, furthermore, they can only be described as haunting.
* EveryoneHasStandards: A flashback shows some of Salazar's men looking uncomfortable as they are ordered to kill surrendering pirates. The lost this trait with their first death, though.
* FateWorseThanDeath: After dying, they were trapped in a cavern within the Devil's Triangle and forced to remain within, waiting for unfortunate ships to enter their domain. They manage to escape it once Jack Sparrow "betrays" his compass. They escape further when they are free from the curse thanks to the destruction of Poseidon's Trident.
* FloatingLimbs: The explosion of the ship left some of the crew in this state in undeath.
* FlyingDutchman: {{Ghost Pirate}}s[[note]](well, ''pirate hunters'' anyway)[[/note]] who are BarredFromTheAfterlife? Check. Can't set foot on dry land? Check.
* GhostPirate: Subverted in that none of them are pirates, but pirate ''hunters''. Although they do seem to attack other ships than pirates once they are freed from the Devil's Triangle, presumably on the basis that they are Spaniards and therefore English ships are their enemies.
* GratuitousEnglish: They are part of the Spanish Royal Navy, yet their ship has an English name. While ''Silent Mary'' might be an intentional reference to the real life BermudaTriangle GhostShip ''Mary Celeste'', apparently the ship's name was going to be ''La Silenciosa María'' (its proper Spanish translation) early in production.
* JacobMarleyApparel: The ''Silent Mary'''s crew not only still wear the tattered remains of their Spanish uniforms, but the curse preserves their bodies at the exact moment of death. Since the crew was annihilated by a powder explosion, nearly all of them are [[BodyHorror missing body parts]], though this doesn't seem to impair them at all (evidenced by one poor fellow who is little more than a floating hat and arm).
* {{Mooks}}: Only Salazar and to a much lesser extent Lesaro have any characterization. The others are just nameless goons.
* NonHumanUndead: The crew keeps [[ThreateningShark undead sharks]] onboard to unleash them if need be, such as when chasing Jack Sparrow, Henry Turner and Carina Smyth. The ship also has undead seagulls in its wake.
* RevenantZombie: Probably a middle step between that and VengefulGhost (they are physically corporeal and retain the amount of body mass they had while dying, but the rest is supported by ghostly floating, and they are capable to walk weightlessly on the water), but in any case they fit the archetype of a dead who returns with his personality intact out of revenge.
* RogueAgent: Implied. They have ostensibly not renovated their ties to the Spanish Empire after having been technically KIA for many decades, and they don't claim any particular political antagonism towards Great Britain (although they do seem to act on it, unnecesarily butchering entire non-pirate British ships except by single messengers, possibly out of custom or sheer AxCrazy).
* ARottenTimeToRevert: [[spoiler:They probably would've been more thrilled about having their curse broken if it hadn't happened while they're all ''at the bottom of the ocean'', with the waters that were previously parted by the Trident's magic now about to crash down on them.]]
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* ShadowArchetype: Salazar and his crew have similarities with Barbossa and his crew aboard the ''Black Pearl'' from the first movie. Both groups were cursed into a state of undeadliness [[BlessedWithSuck in which the pros don't exactly outweigh the cons]], and they are [[TheDreaded notorious]] in the world of pirates as merciless pirate hunters and ''especially'' vicious pirates, respectively. Both crews have at least one undead animal onboard their ghostly ship, and their journey to their cursed state was
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects
* BigGood:
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* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
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!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
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* AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a good man amidst the human species.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.]]
* NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.]]
* NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
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* AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the film, he claims both his father and chooses to save Philip due to sensing grandfather were killed by pirates. In the novelization, it's stated that Salazar himself killed his father because he was a good man amidst corrupt and accepted pirate bribes. Those backstories are not entirely incompatible, given that someone as zealous as Salazar might argue [[MetaphoricallyTrue pirates were the human species.cause of his father's death after all]], but is still an oddity. Jerry Bruckheimer has stated that the novelization's explanation is actually the canonical one.
* ArchEnemy: Salazar competes with Cutler Beckett as Jack Sparrow's most important enemy. Jack first initiated his career as the captain of the ''Black Pearl'' (or ''Wicked Wench'' as it was named back then) by killing Salazar who was undefeated until that point. After Jack has become [[JadedWashout a shell of his former glorious self]], he betrays his compass by trading it for rum, releasing from the Devil's Triangle the now ghostly Salazar whose primary goal is to find and kill Jack for his humiliating death. Salazar's desire to kill Jack is so passionate that [[spoiler:after regaining his humanity, the Spaniard abandons his loyal crew to drown at the bottom of the ocean because he doesn't want Jack to escape alive]]. After Jack has confronted Salazar and played a role in the Spaniard's final death, he has regained the command of the ''Black Pearl'' and gotten back on his feet.
* AxCrazy: He was already a nasty KnightTemplar in life, but it's clear from his unhinged, gleefully murderous ways that the curse of the Devil's Triangle hasn't done any wonders for his sanity.
* BadBlackBarf: He spews black gas-like goo when talking sometimes, implied to be a ghostly simulation of old blood.
* BigBad: Of ''Dead Men Tell No Tales''. Some international versions even call it ''[[AntagonistTitle Salazar's]] [[RevengeOfTheSequel Revenge]]''.
* BodyHorror: Whatever it was that brought him and his crew back, it did not see fit to bring them back exactly as they were (or rather brought them back exactly as they were ''while dying''). He looks twisted and almost part of the sea, a la Davy Jones.
*BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:When the Trident is proof that she is one of God's creatures destroyed, he and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Shehis men become alive and Philip go through a lot in order to mortal again. This also means they can drown or be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.hurt by normal weapons.]]
*InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one CameBackWrong: To be fair, he wasn't exactly the nicest guy before his death, but his post-resurrection persona is positively demonic compared to his former days as a Spanish fleet captain.
* ColdHam: The sheer intensity of Salazar's lines, particularly whenforced it comes to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no his hatred of pirates, overcomes Javier Bardem's slight understated performance.
* CompositeCharacter: Incorporates aspects of four past antagonists. Like ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Curse of the Black Pearl]]'''s Barbossa, he's undead (although in a differentfrom a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durableway) and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena soundshas a lot [[ItsPersonal personal]] enmity with Jack Sparrow. Like Cutler Beckett, he has a genocidal hatred of pirates. Like the Spaniard, he's Spanish and an incredibly powerful player, and has a goal that cannot be entirely considered evil. And like "siren".
** "Sirena" translatesDavy Jones, he possesses supernatural traits. Most notably, a physical aversion to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
dry land.
*MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:With the sea bearing down on the now normal Salazar and his crew, he attempts to save himself by clinging on to the ''Pearl'''s anchor Jack Sparrow is using to escape, leaving his crew to drown and paying no heed to his loyal lieutenant Lesaro calling after him.]]
*NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
DisproportionateRetribution: His treatment of Barbossa's crew. Yes, they are pirates, and incredibly successful ones, meaning they probably did deserve punishment of a definitively final kind, but Salazar goes out of his way to make it as needlessly horrific as possible, hanging the ones he already didn't kill up and murdering them one by one.
*OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, TheDreaded: By pirates. Given that he's killed thousands of them in his lifetime, it makes sense.
* DualWielding: Limps about with the aid of a pair of swords.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: His father was a Navy official who let pirates do whatever they wanted in exchange for bribes, even though it was pirates that killed Armando's grandfather. This corruption so thoroughly disgusted Armando (whose innocent mother died in prison as a consequence of it) that it prompted him to murder his father as his StartOfDarkness.
* EvilCounterpart:
** To James Norrington. Both are officers in the Royal Navy of their respective countries who disdain pirates and aspire to wipe them out. They both suffer a fall from grace of which they blame Jack Sparrow. However, the more honorable Norrington cares for justice more than revenge, and he doesn't like to ruin lives to advance himself, expressing remorse for losing his crew because he tried to chase Jack Sparrow through a hurricane and coming to regret giving Beckett the heart of Davy Jones. He also adopts a greyer viewpoint in regards to pirates and [[WorthyOpponent a sense of respect]] for Jack Sparrow. The more vindictive and petty Salazar never changes his bigoted opinions about pirates and has less qualms about ending lives in his fanatical crusade, [[spoiler:even abandoning his loyal crew to drownthem and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or just to get to Jack]].
** As already expressed in the ShadowArchetype section above, Salazar is sort of a dark mirror of Barbossa. Notably, both men were killed by theirown hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink shared nemesis Jack Sparrow, but unlike Salazar, Barbossa doesn't hold a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is grudge against Jack for that from what little and becomes more of a FriendlyEnemy with him.
* EvilIsPetty:
** He is seen casually eating an apple before ordering his men to gun down drowning survivors ofher character, she's less violent than a pirate ship, and said pirates were waving a WhiteFlag on top of that.
** His implied motivation for his resurrection. He simply ''could not get over'' theother members fact that, of her species.]] This makes them spot on for all things [[note]] Not "men," after all. He doesn't consider pirates worthy of that title. [[/note]], he was killed by a ''pirate.'' He's going through all of this and doing everything because he got bested by ''one guy.''
* EvilPlan: "Eradicate all pirates" doesn't ''sound'' evil until you realize that he's gone KnightTemplar about it. There's also the''original'' concept {{revenge}} angle.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy ofmermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still providesbeing played by Javier Bardem. His naturally deep voice is deepened even further by the means he's been rendered undead.
* FatalFlaw: His obsession with destroying pirates has led tosave her from his death twice. His first death was after being fatally poisoned in tricked into sailing his ship, the climax.''Silent Marry'', into the Devil's Triangle, resulting in his first death. [[spoiler:After Salazar attempted to kill his daughter and the others, Barbossa brought about his second death.]]
*TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While FauxAffablyEvil: He's rather polite when he's talking with Henry, particularly when he asks Turner to deliver his message... but in the other mermaids lured process, guts the terrified man in the next cell. When he's talking with Barbossa, he instructs his men to kill one of the ''Revenge''[='=]s crew every time he taps his sword... which he is using as a cane. And after they strike a deal, he taps it a few more times just to be petty. He tries to kill Hector at first light rather than after the sun has risen, and Barbossa has to provoke a MotiveRant to buy enough time for them to see the ''Dying Gull''.
* FreudianExcuse: His grandfather was murdered by pirates, who then corrupted his father, which led to Armando's innocent mother being sent to prison (where she died) due to the law stipulating that wives be held accountable for the crimes of theirdeaths, she rescued Philip husbands, regardless of whether or not they even had anything to do with them. Armando killed his father in disgust for his corruption, and then swore to eradicate the pirates that had corrupted him, thereby prompting the downfall of the Salazar family.
* GhostPirate: Technically ''not'' a pirate as he made his life's goal to kill them, but fits the trope otherwise.
* HandicappedBadass: He uses two swords as crutches, although he is not always shown actually needing them.
* InsistentTerminology: Salazar does not kill ''men''. He kills ''pirates''.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Played with, in that he doesn't do this directly. However, he refuses to see pirates as human beings.
* KickTheDog: Having a man in a brig gutted for whimpering with understandable terror at seeing a group of undead walk into the room.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His first on-screen murders include a group of arrogant, classist officers who'd just arrested Henry Turner to trying to warn them about going into the Devil's Triangle, one of whom'd even said he wanted to execute Henry for it. It's hard to feel too sorry for them when he does that (the rest of the crew, sure, but not the captain).
* KnightTemplar: He was ruthless against pirates when he was alive, seeing them as a "disease" and not as humans. He still seems to consider them fair game as an undead:
-->'''Barbossa:''' I have heard stories of the mighty Spanish captain, who's hunted and killed ''thousands'' of men-\\
'''Salazar:''' No, no, no, no, not "men"! ''[[InsistentTerminology Pirates]]!''
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: Due to the curse, the ''Silent Mary'' crewmen look like they looked at the moment they died. Most of them kicked the bucket in an explosion, meaning that their undead bodies are mangled sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable as people (one of them only has left an arm). Salazar, however, is implied to have died by drowning instead when he fell to the sea, so he enjoys a watery but relatively intact body.
* MoralMyopia:
** He was a well-known pirate hunter responsible for the deaths of thousands. He and his crew chased Jack Sparrow, but ended up crashing into a reef and died, but this made him be consumed by a desire of vengeance. While his victims were pirates, him being angry at one of the very people he was hunting down and trying to kill is a clear case of this.
** His FreudianExcuse also brings this up. Salazar hates pirates because a crew of them were responsible for the deaths of his father and grandfather, but his rage-fuelled crusade against them turned him into a mass-murdering maniac, something ''much'' worse than the ones who murdered his family.
** Especially if you take the novelisation, which says Salazar [[{{Patricide}} killed his father himself]], as canon.
* NeckLift: Does this to Captain Toms while answering his WhatTheHellAreYou question with "Death", [[NeckSnap twisting his neck]] immediately afterwards.
* NeverMyFault: Salazar blames Jack and pirates in general for his death and fall fromdeath.grace, but on examining the sequence of events, the fault in his death lies in Salazar's own [[SevenDeadlySins pride and wrath,]] for chasing Jack into the Devil's Triangle because he was "mocking [his] pride", a decision entirely his own. On his resurrection, this pattern continues; Salazar begins gutting Barbossa's crew for Jack's escape onto land, and later [[spoiler: dies again due to "playing with his food" and swinging Jack around with the Trident before attempting to kill him, giving Carina and Henry time to smash the Trident, thus removing his invulnerability, as well as wasting precious time usable to kill Jack and/or Henry & Carina or escape Poseidon's tomb.]]
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Being a Spanish pirate hunter active in the mid-18th century, with some ugly scars and a family involved in the business, he seems loosely inspired by real life captain UsefulNotes/AntonioBarcelo, only operating in the Atlantic rather than the Mediterranean. Bardem even bears a passing resemblance to him.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: His skin is as livid as you would expect from an undead. He can harm the living, walks on water and seems to be [[IntangibleMan intangible]]. [[spoiler:He can also possess the living as he does to Henry Turner, but it's mentioned as irreversible without the Trident.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Of a sort.
** He so bitterly hates pirates that he views them all as sub-human. See his exchange with Barbossa under KnightTemplar.
** He also has no issue killing British Royal Navy crews, though [[JustifiedTrope that could be from being formerly Spanish Navy and seeing them as enemies of Spain instead of any particular hatred towards them]].
* RedBaron: "El Matador del Mar" (translated officially as "The Butcher of the Sea", but more literally "The Killer of the Sea", if not spelling literally "matador" as in bullfighting jargon).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Salazar, even when living, wanted to rid the world of pirates. After his death, there is no pirate he wants to destroy more than Jack Sparrow, the young man who outsmarted and killed him.
-->'''Salazar:''' He took everything from me, and filled me with ... ''rage.''
* SayMyName: A creepier, more subdued variant than most - he often gleefully croons out "''Jack Sparrooow~''" [[MadnessMantra constantly]] when he has Jack within his reach, emphasizing just how demented his hunger for revenge is.
* SelfMadeOrphan: In the novelization, his father was a corrupt Admiral that took bribes from pirates until he was arrested by the authorities while Armando's mother was taken and sent to the workhouse where she died. When his father paid his sentence and returned home, Armando greeted him with a knife and killed him. As such, he blames pirates for ruining his family's life rather than his own father's deeds.
* SincerityMode: When he says "Will you say that to him, ''please''?" to Henry after ordering him to deliver his warning to Jack Sparrow.
* SlasherSmile: As he asks Henry to relay his message to Jack Sparrow, he sports one of these.
* SoreLoser: The reason he's after Jack in the first place, he couldn't find peace in death knowing he was outsmarted by a pirate and pretty much came back as a zombie just to even the score with him.
* SpareAMessenger: Standard operating procedure. Salazar spares one man's life while his crew massacre everyone else on a ship. He does so with Henry Turner in order to have a death threat message delivered to Jack Sparrow.
* {{Spexico}}: ''Salazar'' became an eminently Mexican surname after the Conquest of America, and was already very rare to hear in continental Spain by the time the film is set. In spite of that, this character hails from mainland Spain, and his background doesn't mention any possible ascendance from the Indies.
* SwordCane: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by him using [[DualWielding a pair of swords]] as crutches.
* TitleDrop: When asking Henry to deliver his message.
-->'''Salazar''': "I'd tell him myself, but... dead men tell no tales."
* TorosYFlamenco: He's Spanish and sports a nickname that is a rather farfetched bullfighting metaphor, ''El Matador de Mar'' (''matador'' translates literally as "killer", but it is never used in Spanish language outside of bullfighting lingo, where it is actually just another word for ''torero'' or bullfighter). He also does a little flamenco ''zapateo'' to order his cronies to kill Barbossa's men.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Salazar's voice as a ghost sounds to be distorted.
* WalkOnWater: He charges on the water with his ghost crew, not bothering to use rowboats to land.
* WasOnceAMan: Salazar and his crew used to be ordinary human pirate hunters -- until a younger Jack Sparrow and his crew sent them and their ship to the depths of the ocean, only to awaken as the undead.
* WeaksauceWeakness: A rather large problem with Salazar's condition is that if he sets foot on land he promptly goes up in a puff of smoke.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Before his death, his uniform was predominantly white.
* WildHair: Salazar's hair has been messy and flowing ever since he became a ghost, and he's more of a vindictive vigilante than the naval officer of the King of Spain he was while he was alive, during which time his hair was neat.
* YouKilledMyFather: The reason why he wants to kill all pirates. His father and grandfather were killed by them.
* ArchEnemy: Salazar competes with Cutler Beckett as Jack Sparrow's most important enemy. Jack first initiated his career as the captain of the ''Black Pearl'' (or ''Wicked Wench'' as it was named back then) by killing Salazar who was undefeated until that point. After Jack has become [[JadedWashout a shell of his former glorious self]], he betrays his compass by trading it for rum, releasing from the Devil's Triangle the now ghostly Salazar whose primary goal is to find and kill Jack for his humiliating death. Salazar's desire to kill Jack is so passionate that [[spoiler:after regaining his humanity, the Spaniard abandons his loyal crew to drown at the bottom of the ocean because he doesn't want Jack to escape alive]]. After Jack has confronted Salazar and played a role in the Spaniard's final death, he has regained the command of the ''Black Pearl'' and gotten back on his feet.
* AxCrazy: He was already a nasty KnightTemplar in life, but it's clear from his unhinged, gleefully murderous ways that the curse of the Devil's Triangle hasn't done any wonders for his sanity.
* BadBlackBarf: He spews black gas-like goo when talking sometimes, implied to be a ghostly simulation of old blood.
* BigBad: Of ''Dead Men Tell No Tales''. Some international versions even call it ''[[AntagonistTitle Salazar's]] [[RevengeOfTheSequel Revenge]]''.
* BodyHorror: Whatever it was that brought him and his crew back, it did not see fit to bring them back exactly as they were (or rather brought them back exactly as they were ''while dying''). He looks twisted and almost part of the sea, a la Davy Jones.
*
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.
*
* ColdHam: The sheer intensity of Salazar's lines, particularly when
* CompositeCharacter: Incorporates aspects of four past antagonists. Like ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Curse of the Black Pearl]]'''s Barbossa, he's undead (although in a different
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds
** "Sirena" translates
*
*
*
* DualWielding: Limps about with the aid of a pair of swords.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: His father was a Navy official who let pirates do whatever they wanted in exchange for bribes, even though it was pirates that killed Armando's grandfather. This corruption so thoroughly disgusted Armando (whose innocent mother died in prison as a consequence of it) that it prompted him to murder his father as his StartOfDarkness.
* EvilCounterpart:
** To James Norrington. Both are officers in the Royal Navy of their respective countries who disdain pirates and aspire to wipe them out. They both suffer a fall from grace of which they blame Jack Sparrow. However, the more honorable Norrington cares for justice more than revenge, and he doesn't like to ruin lives to advance himself, expressing remorse for losing his crew because he tried to chase Jack Sparrow through a hurricane and coming to regret giving Beckett the heart of Davy Jones. He also adopts a greyer viewpoint in regards to pirates and [[WorthyOpponent a sense of respect]] for Jack Sparrow. The more vindictive and petty Salazar never changes his bigoted opinions about pirates and has less qualms about ending lives in his fanatical crusade, [[spoiler:even abandoning his loyal crew to drown
** As already expressed in the ShadowArchetype section above, Salazar is sort of a dark mirror of Barbossa. Notably, both men were killed by their
* EvilIsPetty:
** He is seen casually eating an apple before ordering his men to gun down drowning survivors of
** His implied motivation for his resurrection. He simply ''could not get over'' the
* EvilPlan: "Eradicate all pirates" doesn't ''sound'' evil until you realize that he's gone KnightTemplar about it. There's also the
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides
* FatalFlaw: His obsession with destroying pirates has led to
*
* FreudianExcuse: His grandfather was murdered by pirates, who then corrupted his father, which led to Armando's innocent mother being sent to prison (where she died) due to the law stipulating that wives be held accountable for the crimes of their
* GhostPirate: Technically ''not'' a pirate as he made his life's goal to kill them, but fits the trope otherwise.
* HandicappedBadass: He uses two swords as crutches, although he is not always shown actually needing them.
* InsistentTerminology: Salazar does not kill ''men''. He kills ''pirates''.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Played with, in that he doesn't do this directly. However, he refuses to see pirates as human beings.
* KickTheDog: Having a man in a brig gutted for whimpering with understandable terror at seeing a group of undead walk into the room.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: His first on-screen murders include a group of arrogant, classist officers who'd just arrested Henry Turner to trying to warn them about going into the Devil's Triangle, one of whom'd even said he wanted to execute Henry for it. It's hard to feel too sorry for them when he does that (the rest of the crew, sure, but not the captain).
* KnightTemplar: He was ruthless against pirates when he was alive, seeing them as a "disease" and not as humans. He still seems to consider them fair game as an undead:
-->'''Barbossa:''' I have heard stories of the mighty Spanish captain, who's hunted and killed ''thousands'' of men-\\
'''Salazar:''' No, no, no, no, not "men"! ''[[InsistentTerminology Pirates]]!''
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: Due to the curse, the ''Silent Mary'' crewmen look like they looked at the moment they died. Most of them kicked the bucket in an explosion, meaning that their undead bodies are mangled sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable as people (one of them only has left an arm). Salazar, however, is implied to have died by drowning instead when he fell to the sea, so he enjoys a watery but relatively intact body.
* MoralMyopia:
** He was a well-known pirate hunter responsible for the deaths of thousands. He and his crew chased Jack Sparrow, but ended up crashing into a reef and died, but this made him be consumed by a desire of vengeance. While his victims were pirates, him being angry at one of the very people he was hunting down and trying to kill is a clear case of this.
** His FreudianExcuse also brings this up. Salazar hates pirates because a crew of them were responsible for the deaths of his father and grandfather, but his rage-fuelled crusade against them turned him into a mass-murdering maniac, something ''much'' worse than the ones who murdered his family.
** Especially if you take the novelisation, which says Salazar [[{{Patricide}} killed his father himself]], as canon.
* NeckLift: Does this to Captain Toms while answering his WhatTheHellAreYou question with "Death", [[NeckSnap twisting his neck]] immediately afterwards.
* NeverMyFault: Salazar blames Jack and pirates in general for his death and fall from
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Being a Spanish pirate hunter active in the mid-18th century, with some ugly scars and a family involved in the business, he seems loosely inspired by real life captain UsefulNotes/AntonioBarcelo, only operating in the Atlantic rather than the Mediterranean. Bardem even bears a passing resemblance to him.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: His skin is as livid as you would expect from an undead. He can harm the living, walks on water and seems to be [[IntangibleMan intangible]]. [[spoiler:He can also possess the living as he does to Henry Turner, but it's mentioned as irreversible without the Trident.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Of a sort.
** He so bitterly hates pirates that he views them all as sub-human. See his exchange with Barbossa under KnightTemplar.
** He also has no issue killing British Royal Navy crews, though [[JustifiedTrope that could be from being formerly Spanish Navy and seeing them as enemies of Spain instead of any particular hatred towards them]].
* RedBaron: "El Matador del Mar" (translated officially as "The Butcher of the Sea", but more literally "The Killer of the Sea", if not spelling literally "matador" as in bullfighting jargon).
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Salazar, even when living, wanted to rid the world of pirates. After his death, there is no pirate he wants to destroy more than Jack Sparrow, the young man who outsmarted and killed him.
-->'''Salazar:''' He took everything from me, and filled me with ... ''rage.''
* SayMyName: A creepier, more subdued variant than most - he often gleefully croons out "''Jack Sparrooow~''" [[MadnessMantra constantly]] when he has Jack within his reach, emphasizing just how demented his hunger for revenge is.
* SelfMadeOrphan: In the novelization, his father was a corrupt Admiral that took bribes from pirates until he was arrested by the authorities while Armando's mother was taken and sent to the workhouse where she died. When his father paid his sentence and returned home, Armando greeted him with a knife and killed him. As such, he blames pirates for ruining his family's life rather than his own father's deeds.
* SincerityMode: When he says "Will you say that to him, ''please''?" to Henry after ordering him to deliver his warning to Jack Sparrow.
* SlasherSmile: As he asks Henry to relay his message to Jack Sparrow, he sports one of these.
* SoreLoser: The reason he's after Jack in the first place, he couldn't find peace in death knowing he was outsmarted by a pirate and pretty much came back as a zombie just to even the score with him.
* SpareAMessenger: Standard operating procedure. Salazar spares one man's life while his crew massacre everyone else on a ship. He does so with Henry Turner in order to have a death threat message delivered to Jack Sparrow.
* {{Spexico}}: ''Salazar'' became an eminently Mexican surname after the Conquest of America, and was already very rare to hear in continental Spain by the time the film is set. In spite of that, this character hails from mainland Spain, and his background doesn't mention any possible ascendance from the Indies.
* SwordCane: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by him using [[DualWielding a pair of swords]] as crutches.
* TitleDrop: When asking Henry to deliver his message.
-->'''Salazar''': "I'd tell him myself, but... dead men tell no tales."
* TorosYFlamenco: He's Spanish and sports a nickname that is a rather farfetched bullfighting metaphor, ''El Matador de Mar'' (''matador'' translates literally as "killer", but it is never used in Spanish language outside of bullfighting lingo, where it is actually just another word for ''torero'' or bullfighter). He also does a little flamenco ''zapateo'' to order his cronies to kill Barbossa's men.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Salazar's voice as a ghost sounds to be distorted.
* WalkOnWater: He charges on the water with his ghost crew, not bothering to use rowboats to land.
* WasOnceAMan: Salazar and his crew used to be ordinary human pirate hunters -- until a younger Jack Sparrow and his crew sent them and their ship to the depths of the ocean, only to awaken as the undead.
* WeaksauceWeakness: A rather large problem with Salazar's condition is that if he sets foot on land he promptly goes up in a puff of smoke.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Before his death, his uniform was predominantly white.
* WildHair: Salazar's hair has been messy and flowing ever since he became a ghost, and he's more of a vindictive vigilante than the naval officer of the King of Spain he was while he was alive, during which time his hair was neat.
* YouKilledMyFather: The reason why he wants to kill all pirates. His father and grandfather were killed by them.
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!!Prison Dog
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!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
!!Prison Dog
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!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
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!!Lieutenant Lesaro
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!!!'''Played By:'''
!!!'''Appears In:'''
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* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
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* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so AerithAndBob: "Lesaro" is not a known Spanish surname.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The way he'susually just called last seen -- calling after his capitán who's leaving Lesaro and the Prison Dog.rest of the crew to drown -- reaches out to you.]]
* TheConsigliere: Shows signs of this trope when he advises in clear concern his capitán not to go through with his plan to [[spoiler:possess Henry's body with the risk of remaining trapped there or dying along with Henry on the land]].
*GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say EyePatchOfPower: Wears an eye patch.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Lesaro follows his capitán's orders, but he's''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior tonot unaware of how deeply revenge is influencing Salazar's judgement. During the film, flashback scene, Lesaro follows the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned order to shoot surrendering pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up struggling for their lives in the keys" sea, but he doesn't exactly share Salazar's nonchalantness.
* NumberTwo: Lesaro isfrom one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story thereCapitán Salazar's second-in-command and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.most loyal crewmember.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The way he's
* TheConsigliere: Shows signs of this trope when he advises in clear concern his capitán not to go through with his plan to [[spoiler:possess Henry's body with the risk of remaining trapped there or dying along with Henry on the land]].
*
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Lesaro follows his capitán's orders, but he's
* MythologyGag: Prior to
* NumberTwo: Lesaro is
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
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!!Scarlett and Giselle
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Creator/VanessaBranch (Giselle)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A pair of painted strumpets first encountered in Tortuga in the films. They function as slapstick (or slap Jack, mostly) comic relief.
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!!Tia Dalma[[spoiler:[=/=]Calypso]]
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!!!'''Played By:'''
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' |
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A mysterious voodoo woman with unknown connections to Jack.
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* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold to the highest bidder.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
to:
* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part souls of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold dead to the highest bidder.
afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.]]
*TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, butobvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end ofhas a much larger part in ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together,End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and they're source Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects ofslapstick humor.
the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
*VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control overpetty crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm andput a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each otherdown, previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, butthey seem she was bound to always make up a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in theend.past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
*
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together,
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of
*
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
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!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
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!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of
!!Syrena
[[quoteright:245:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Syrena_2834.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Àstrid Bèrges-Frisbey
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
A benign mermaid that Blackbeard captures while hunting for the
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* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: Henry Morgan would be at least a century old, but the Shadow King isn't.]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
* TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.]]
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
* TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.]]
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"]]
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* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: Henry Morgan would be at least AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a century old, but good man amidst the Shadow King isn't.human species.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
*AlchemyIsMagic: He InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She issupposed strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates tobe an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader''mermaid'' in a number of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.languages.
*TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leaderMermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.turning their fins into legs.]]
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
*ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the cast like shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henryship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Thetruth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the second Brethren Court!"]] other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
*
* LightningBruiser: She is
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
*
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.
*
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The
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EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
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EITC Agents
!!Prison Dog
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/187533_100002433442936_1735434_n_1194.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Upper class of English nobility.
* BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
* CoDragons: To the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
* BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
* CoDragons: To the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Upper class of English nobility.ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
*BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there andwife.
it probably involves sea turtles.
*CoDragons: To Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
*
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and
*
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
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!!Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
[[folder: Jolly Roger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jolly_roger_1.png]]
->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
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->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
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!!Scarlett and Giselle
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->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist
!!!'''Played By:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Creator/VanessaBranch (Giselle)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the
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* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold to the highest bidder.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
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!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
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* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: Henry Morgan would be at least a century old, but the Shadow King isn't.]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
* TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.]]
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* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"]]
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[[folder: Benedict And Barbara Huntington]]
EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Upper class of English nobility.
* BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
* CoDragons: To the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
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!!Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
[[folder: Jolly Roger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jolly_roger_1.png]]
->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
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* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
[[/folder]]
[[header:Other media]]
!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
----
* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: Henry Morgan would be at least a century old, but the Shadow King isn't.]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
* TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.]]
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Benedict And Barbara Huntington]]
EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
----
* AristocratsAreEvil: Upper class of English nobility.
* BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
* CoDragons: To the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
[[/folder]]
!!Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
[[folder: Jolly Roger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jolly_roger_1.png]]
->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
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!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NaomieHarris
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
->''"It has been torture, trapped in this single form, cut off from the sea. From all that I love."''
A mysterious voodoo woman with unknown connections to Jack.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"A touch...of destiny!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NaomieHarris
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
->''"It has been torture, trapped in this single form, cut off from the sea. From all that I love."''
A mysterious voodoo woman with unknown connections to Jack.
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!!UsefulNotes/FerdinandVI, King of Spain
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls TheBadGuyWins: He is more of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.a HeroAntagonist than a villain, but an antagonist nonetheless, [[spoiler:and his orders ultimately get carried successfully.]]
*AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of BigBadEnsemble: He and George II are their sides' respective GreaterScopeVillain, although, again, he's not as simple as a villain.
* DashingHispanic: He's young, handsome and stylish, in stark contrast to thesea, other monarch presented in the film.
* GreaterScopeVillain: As the head of the massive Spanish Empire, he might be considered the single most poweful antagonist at the time the series is set; only King George II of Great Britain rivals him, and the film undermines this by comparing the resources of their respective expeditions for the Fountain of Youth, in which the Royal Navy only has the disloyal Barbossa in a light vessel in contrast to The Spaniard' entire flotilla. However, his participation in the franchise is very limited, only sending the Spaniard in the aforementioned mission and being likely satisfied with thesea goddess Calypso.outcome.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:He wants to destroy the Fountain to remove a blasphemy against God from the world, not to use it.]]
*AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's a historical character.
* MinorMajorCharacter: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the verysmall part, first film. As the King of Spain, he's the legal owner of Cortés' disappeared treasure, the Spaniard's superior, and the man Salazar should answer to. However, he only has one scene in the saga, and it's short.
* NonActionBigBad: He looks like he could do the job, physically speaking, buthas a much larger part he stays in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess Spain and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
never fights in battle.
*BarefootSage: She has many aspects RealMenLoveJesus: This leads to him [[spoiler:disapproving of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice Fountain of Youth, seeing it as an affront to her visitors), God and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg ordering it to believe]], she be destroyed. One of the reasons the Bible condemns paganism was because paganism, in the time and place when those verses were written, involved HumanSacrifice. This depiction of the Fountain of Youth gets the "extra years" from doing just that. Furthermore, it does not grant eternal life; it just extends life for as long as the sacrifices keep coming and doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.make you immortal just like people claim.]]
*BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.TheRival: To King George II.
*
* DashingHispanic: He's young, handsome and stylish, in stark contrast to the
* GreaterScopeVillain: As the head of the massive Spanish Empire, he might be considered the single most poweful antagonist at the time the series is set; only King George II of Great Britain rivals him, and the film undermines this by comparing the resources of their respective expeditions for the Fountain of Youth, in which the Royal Navy only has the disloyal Barbossa in a light vessel in contrast to The Spaniard' entire flotilla. However, his participation in the franchise is very limited, only sending the Spaniard in the aforementioned mission and being likely satisfied with the
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:He wants to destroy the Fountain to remove a blasphemy against God from the world, not to use it.]]
*
* MinorMajorCharacter: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the very
* NonActionBigBad: He looks like he could do the job, physically speaking, but
*
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.
*
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
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* AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a good man amidst the human species.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.]]
* NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.]]
* NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
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* AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a good man amidst the human species.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's theAmbiguousSituation: The only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in ordertime he gets ready to fight personally, against Blackbeard nothing less, his opponent is [[spoiler:mortally wounded by Barbossa]] before the duel can begin. This leaves open the question whether the Spaniard would be then revealed to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form becauseunderstandably out of his league or he would have really proved somehow capable to take on the lack of clothes.
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*HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps AntiVillain: He's ruthless and willing to kill anyone who stands between him and his goal, but doesn't seem all that malevolent otherwise. He gently passes by Barbossa's ship even though he had it outgunned, outnumbered ''and'' outpaced, and shortly after he busts Jack Sparrow and Philip in Hector Barbossa's attempts at stealing the climax.chalices, he and his men could have easily killed them right then and there, yet decided instead to simply tie them to a palm tree.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:While technically not a bad guy, he succeeds in his goal of destroying the Fountain of Youth.]]
*InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durableBigBadEnsemble: Along with Blackbeard and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaidsBarbossa who are capable of turning pursuing their fins into legs.own agendas during ''On Stranger Tides'', the Spaniard is competing with them to find the Fountain of Youth. Though, he has the least screen time [[spoiler:and really can't even be considered a villain.]]
*NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp orCantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:The reason the Spainard ordered his troops to hold their fire during Jack and Barbossa's escape; they can help their quest for the Fountain]].
* DashingHispanic: A polite and effective Spanish officer ruthlessly pursuing the Fountain of Youth.
* TheDragon: He technically counts as one for the Spanish King, being the naval officer carrying out the plan of his boss (and a higher ranking threat to pirates).
* EnigmaticMinion: To the King Ferdinand of Spain. Considering he's following orders and has only a couple lines, we never hear his ownhair to snare men thoughts or motives on the whole matter.
* EnlightenedAntagonist: This is what sets him apart from theshore. They can gather rest of players in hordes the quest. Despite being repeatedly in position to wipe out his enemies, he declines the chance every time, and sink a ship. Whether Syrena his true goal is any better is unclear, although ultimately revealed to be a trascendent one.
* GratuitousSpanish: ''Señorita'', the chalices, ''por favor''!
* HeroAntagonist: He's just an officer, a patriot and a Catholic doing whatis clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than he believes to be best for his country, his king and his God.
* InvincibleVillain: Or rather, [[InvincibleHero Invincible]] HeroAntagonist. Nevertheless, he starts up with theother members of her species.]] This makes them spot on strongest party in the quest for the ''original'' concept Fountain of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reasonYouth, is constantly one step ahead of the rest of the cast, moves around [[NoDelaysForTheWicked without any of the delays they are forced to endure]], and achieves all of the objectives he's set out to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from with nobody else being fatally poisoned in able to stop him. Maybe it's the climax.fact that [[spoiler:he's on a MissionFromGod.]]
*TokenGoodTeammate: KnightTemplar: The Fountain of Youth is essentially an evil artifact, [[spoiler: so it's a good idea to destroy it even if his objections were dogmatic rather than moral.]]
* NoNameGiven: He notably doesn't introduce himself, and is onlymermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While ever referred to as "the Spaniard" onscreen.
* NotWorthKilling: The Spaniard and his three galleons come across Barbossa's single, lighter ship while hunting for theother mermaids lured Fountain of Youth. Though hopelessly outmatched, the British prepare for an attack, only it never comes. The Spaniard doesn't even look in their direction, impliedly because he doesn't think they're worth the time it'd take to crush them.
* PetTheDog: He shows respect for the first enemy killed, and is pretty polite to Angélica, kindly calling her ''Señorita''.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Judging by his words, he is [[spoiler:''offended'']] by the Fountain's existence.
--->'''Spaniard''': [[spoiler:''Only God can grant eternal life; not this pagan water.'']]
* ReligiousBruiser: He's a devoted Catholic and badass willing to go up against zombie pirates and Blackbeard himself.
* TheUnfought: He never duels any character, nor gets his hands dirty. He does squares up with Blackbeard, but [[spoiler:the latter is mortally wounded InTheBack]] before they can go at it.
* VillainRespect: Not so much a villain as he is just a man on an opposing side, but [[spoiler:after shooting Lieutenant Groves dead while the latter is proclaiming the Fountain of Youth as the property of King George II]], the Spaniard calmly tells his men totheir deaths, make a note of the man's bravery.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His duty to King [[spoiler: and God is to destroy the Fountain of Youth.]] Anything that gets in his way is dead meat.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He'll kill enemy soldiers trying to claim land, but he'd rather have his officers handling women rather than outright kill them. That said, it's very likely he would have been harsher on Angélica had sherescued Philip from death.tried to resist.
* YouFool: Uses it almost word by word in his treatment of Blackbeard, chiding him for his pagan ways.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because
*
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:While technically not a bad guy, he succeeds in his goal of destroying the Fountain of Youth.]]
*
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids
*
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or
* DashingHispanic: A polite and effective Spanish officer ruthlessly pursuing the Fountain of Youth.
* TheDragon: He technically counts as one for the Spanish King, being the naval officer carrying out the plan of his boss (and a higher ranking threat to pirates).
* EnigmaticMinion: To the King Ferdinand of Spain. Considering he's following orders and has only a couple lines, we never hear his own
* EnlightenedAntagonist: This is what sets him apart from the
* GratuitousSpanish: ''Señorita'', the chalices, ''por favor''!
* HeroAntagonist: He's just an officer, a patriot and a Catholic doing what
* InvincibleVillain: Or rather, [[InvincibleHero Invincible]] HeroAntagonist. Nevertheless, he starts up with the
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason
*
* NoNameGiven: He notably doesn't introduce himself, and is only
* NotWorthKilling: The Spaniard and his three galleons come across Barbossa's single, lighter ship while hunting for the
* PetTheDog: He shows respect for the first enemy killed, and is pretty polite to Angélica, kindly calling her ''Señorita''.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Judging by his words, he is [[spoiler:''offended'']] by the Fountain's existence.
--->'''Spaniard''': [[spoiler:''Only God can grant eternal life; not this pagan water.'']]
* ReligiousBruiser: He's a devoted Catholic and badass willing to go up against zombie pirates and Blackbeard himself.
* TheUnfought: He never duels any character, nor gets his hands dirty. He does squares up with Blackbeard, but [[spoiler:the latter is mortally wounded InTheBack]] before they can go at it.
* VillainRespect: Not so much a villain as he is just a man on an opposing side, but [[spoiler:after shooting Lieutenant Groves dead while the latter is proclaiming the Fountain of Youth as the property of King George II]], the Spaniard calmly tells his men to
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His duty to King [[spoiler: and God is to destroy the Fountain of Youth.]] Anything that gets in his way is dead meat.
* WouldntHitAGirl: He'll kill enemy soldiers trying to claim land, but he'd rather have his officers handling women rather than outright kill them. That said, it's very likely he would have been harsher on Angélica had she
* YouFool: Uses it almost word by word in his treatment of Blackbeard, chiding him for his pagan ways.
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[[folder:Prison Dog]]
!!Prison Dog
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!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
!!Prison Dog
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!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
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!!Prison Dog
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!!Spanish Officer
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!!!'''Played By:'''
!!!'''Appears In:'''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up
An officer in the
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* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
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* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so DashingHispanic: Like his commander, he's usually just called a Spanish soldier with some flair.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jack and Barbossa manage to steal thePrison Dog.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to sayChalices of Cartagena from him because he's ''not''?
examining them in an open tent without any guards nearby. Then it's subverted when it turns out there was an entire patrol of ''arcabuceros'' watching around after all.
*MythologyGag: Prior to ManlyFacialHair: He stands out for his quite impressive ''mostacho'', as was custom of Spanish veterans at the film, time.
* MookLieutenant: Aside from a soldier he is sometimes seen tagging along, thedog was officer the most memorable part only other Spaniard with a bit of the Disney ride. As in the first film, characterization and screentime.
* NoNameGiven: Again like his commander, he'sholding not given a name.
* UndyingLoyalty: According to thekeys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up film's visual guide, only the keys" is from one Spaniard knew the mission's true purpose; the rest of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story theresoldiers and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Pricesailors follow him out of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.absolute trust.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jack and Barbossa manage to steal the
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say
*
* MookLieutenant: Aside from a soldier he is sometimes seen tagging along, the
* NoNameGiven: Again like his commander, he's
* UndyingLoyalty: According to the
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price
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[[folder:Scarlett and Giselle]]
!!Scarlett and Giselle
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Creator/VanessaBranch (Giselle)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A pair of painted strumpets first encountered in Tortuga in the films. They function as slapstick (or slap Jack, mostly) comic relief.
!!Scarlett and Giselle
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Creator/VanessaBranch (Giselle)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A pair of painted strumpets first encountered in Tortuga in the films. They function as slapstick (or slap Jack, mostly) comic relief.
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!!Scarlett and Giselle
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[[folder:Hernán Cortés]]
!![[UsefulNotes/HernanCortez Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st. Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca]]
!!!'''Played By:'''
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' |
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse
A pair
''The'' Spanish conquistador, who led an expedition to mainland Mexico and formed part of
His character is further explored in the
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* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold to the highest bidder.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
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* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off AxCrazy: The Aztecs offered him a veritable treasure to stop the animatronic redhead slaughter, but this only made Cortés increase the massacre in order to get even more riches.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: While the historical Cortés was already a skilled strategist, tactician and diplomat, this version beats him to the punch. As seen in the franchise's novels, he had a borderline omnipotent magical sword that made him unstoppable, and apparently also conquered México without any help from the"bride" auction part Tlaxcaltecs or any other allied natives (quite naturally, given the previous point). On the other hand, it seems this Cortés is far dumber too, possibly because any smarts he might have had eventually atrophied due to the usage of his sword.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: His portrayal here fits his pop culture image to a T, being a bloodthirsty, racist colonialist who at some points of his backstory dips into StupidEvil, all of which are traits inaccurate to at least some degree. A particularly recurrent characteristic that is kept here is his methodical genocide of theride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in Aztec Empire, which both her and Giselle find themselves sold in real life was actually done by his native allies, ancestral enemies to the highest bidder.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both ofAztecs who capitalized on the chance to take revenge on them at (Cortés even attempted to ''stop'' the end massacre, but was mostly unable to do so because the allies outnumbered his own Spaniards by a ridiculous margin).
* KarmaHoudini: After all his misdeeds with the Aztecs, the heathen gods cursed the gold, but Cortés himself got scot free in his lifetime, somehow not being affected by the curse himself (possibly because the sword impeded it). If the story follows real life, he would only meet a bit of''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together,a political and they're source economical downgrade for completely unrelated reasons. Subverted in the novels, where his spirit meets a FateWorseThanDeath.
* OldSoldier: Has a long military career on him.
* PosthumousCharacter: Cortés is only mentioned in the first film during Barbossa's narration, as he is long gone by then.
* RealityWarper: The power ofslapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over pettyhis sword, which can transform and conjure things and put each out of thin air, among many other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.abilities.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: While the historical Cortés was already a skilled strategist, tactician and diplomat, this version beats him to the punch. As seen in the franchise's novels, he had a borderline omnipotent magical sword that made him unstoppable, and apparently also conquered México without any help from the
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: His portrayal here fits his pop culture image to a T, being a bloodthirsty, racist colonialist who at some points of his backstory dips into StupidEvil, all of which are traits inaccurate to at least some degree. A particularly recurrent characteristic that is kept here is his methodical genocide of the
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of
* KarmaHoudini: After all his misdeeds with the Aztecs, the heathen gods cursed the gold, but Cortés himself got scot free in his lifetime, somehow not being affected by the curse himself (possibly because the sword impeded it). If the story follows real life, he would only meet a bit of
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together,
* OldSoldier: Has a long military career on him.
* PosthumousCharacter: Cortés is only mentioned in the first film during Barbossa's narration, as he is long gone by then.
* RealityWarper: The power of
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty
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[[folder:Pizarro]]
!![[UsefulNotes/FranciscoPizarro Francisco Pizarro González, 1st. Marquis of the Conquista]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Nobody
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' (mentioned)
The leader of the Pizarro brothers and second uncle to Hernán Cortés, as well as the old Spanish conquistador who accomplished the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheIncaEmpire. While speaking with Scarlett and Giselle, Captain Jack Sparrow admitted to never have met him, but loved his pies.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly did Jack tell the wenches about Pizarro, although it's clearly some kind of fancy story where he somehow met a man who died almost 200 years earlier (and was presumably not affected by any curse, as it is all too usual in the franchise).
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Jack seems to think Pizarro was famous for his pies. Maybe he's right and this version of Pizarro was a ChefOfIron.
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[[folder:Ponce de León]]
!![[UsefulNotes/JuanPonceDeLeon Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa]]
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!!!'''Played By:''' Nobody
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
A famed Spanish explorer and conquistador. Among other feats, he led the first European expedition to Florida, and later went on a quest for the fabled Fountain of Youth, which he found on an unchartered island before dying in some mysterious way. His skeletal corpse is still in his ship, the ''Santiago'', shipwrecked in the island.
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* AmbiguousSituation:
** It's never even suggested how he and his crew died. There's no other people in the island, and they seem to have died on land, away from the mermaids' clutches. For that matter, it's also unknown how did the ''Santiago'' end up perched in a damn cliff's edge.
** The mystery continues after Ponce's death, as his skeleton also seems to act as a supernatural guardian of the map, which is not explained either. Considering the franchise's usual shenanigans, it is probably some kind of curse, but which and why is anyone's best guess.
* DemBones: When Jack tries to take the island's map from Ponce de León's fingers, the skeleton turns his head to him in a sort of silent admonition. He returns to his initial position when Jack lets the map go.
* OldSoldier: According to his background, he fought in places as varied as Granada, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Florida.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead by the time the Spaniard finds him. Downplayed, however, if we interpret that the curse animating his bones is still part of his conscience.
* RagsToRiches: Like many other conquistadores, he was born to an ImpoverishedPatrician family and sought fame and fortune as a soldier.
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[[folder:The Castaway]]
!!The Spanish Castaway
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!!!'''Played By:''' Norberto Morán
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
The last remnant of Ponce de León's crew, an ancient sailor who has been kept alive thanks to the Fountain of Youth. 200 years after the death of his captain, he finds somehow his way to Spain, where he's discovered by fishermen who bring him to the King. He carries with him the expedition's log, which sets the Spaniards on the search for the Fountain.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's implied he sacrificed the lives of several of his colleagues in order to keep living, which likely makes him a traitorous bastard, but his desire to return to Spain casts ambiguity about his mindset. Whether he wanted to atone for his sins by bringing the log and info to the King, or just die in his homeland, is ultimately unknown.
* AmbiguousSituation: Leaving his motivations aside, it's unknown why it took so much time for him to reach Spain. The film's junior novelization even claims that he actually set off "only" 40 years before the film's events, having been lost in the sea since.
* BaldOfEvil: He's bald, and indulged in some HumanSacrifice in the past.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Has a shaggy beard, having been lost to the world.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: He dies of old age when his stolen lifetime runs off in the palace. According to the novelizations, he eases off into death, implying he found some peace on it.
* NoNameGiven: His true name is unknown, being credited as both "Spanish Castaway" and "Ancient Sailor" in official materials.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He looks just elderly, but is actually well over 200 years old by the point he dies.
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[[header:Other Characters]]
!Unaligned
[[folder:Tia Dalma]]
!!Tia Dalma[[spoiler:[=/=]Calypso]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"A touch...of destiny!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NaomieHarris
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
->''"It has been torture, trapped in this single form, cut off from the sea. From all that I love."''
A mysterious voodoo woman with unknown connections to Jack.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Syrena]]
!!Syrena
[[quoteright:245:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Syrena_2834.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Àstrid Bèrges-Frisbey
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
A benign mermaid that Blackbeard captures while hunting for the Fountain of Youth, and whom Philip falls in love with.
----
* AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a good man amidst the human species.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.]]
* NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Prison Dog]]
!!Prison Dog
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/187533_100002433442936_1735434_n_1194.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
----
* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scarlett and Giselle]]
!!Scarlett and Giselle
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Creator/VanessaBranch (Giselle)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A pair of painted strumpets first encountered in Tortuga in the films. They function as slapstick (or slap Jack, mostly) comic relief.
----
* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold to the highest bidder.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
[[/folder]]
[[header:Other media]]
!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
----
* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: Henry Morgan would be at least a century old, but the Shadow King isn't.]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
* TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.]]
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Benedict And Barbara Huntington]]
EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
----
* AristocratsAreEvil: Upper class of English nobility.
* BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
* CoDragons: To the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
[[/folder]]
!!Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
[[folder: Jolly Roger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jolly_roger_1.png]]
->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
----
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Can fight an entire city alone, besides leading a zombie army.
* AxCrazy: He's one trigger-happy pirate.
* BadassBoast: His ''entire dialogue'' consists of these. One of his best comes from his trailer: "I am no Legend. I am Jolly Roger, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Your. Worst. NIGHTMARE!]]"
* BadBoss: Zombifies any of his pawns who are no longer important.
* BerserkButton: Jack Sparrow. Or anything even vaguely connected to him.
* BigBad: Everything evil within the MMO trace back to him.
* BifurcatedWeapon: He has a steampunk-ish right-hand which can act as both a small hand-cannon and a knife.
* BloodKnight: Pretty livid about slaughtering Port Royal.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: All his deals end up with betrayal.
* CursedWithAwesome: As a voodoo priest laid dying, he cursed Roger with his [[GhostPirate current]] looks. Unfortunately, this also turned him in a PhysicalGod.
* DemBones: His current form is bony.
* TheDreaded: Everyone is terrified of him. With good reason.
%%* EvilLaugh: Steve Blum provides his.
* EvilOverlord: He controls a large chunk of the Caribbean through his zombie army in the game's events.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: He was friends with Jack, a long time ago.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: While he was famous, he was merely a common pirate until a curse befell him.
* GhostPirate: Thanks to a voodoo curse, he's a living skeleton now.
* HeroKiller: No one faces him in a straight fight out of sheer dread.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: While trying to outwit Jack in poker, he was outwitted.
* HollywoodVoodoo: The master of it like Blackbeard with his dolls and such.
* ImplacableMan: Oh ''yes''. Nothing has been able to defeat him yet, only temporarily repel.
* InterimVillain: The MMO uses him for a period after Barbossa's defeat but before Beckett's [and Jones'] rise on the franchise.
* TheJuggernaut: He slices through Port Royal's defenses like a butter knife.
* LargeAndInCharge: Roger is noticeably taller than any other character in the game.
* LargeHam: Roger talks shouting with a stereotypical hammy pirate accent.
* MightyGlacier: As slow as he is dangerous.
* NighInvulnerable: Nothing can kill him except ''maybe'' a ridiculous amount of gunfire.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A ghost-cyborg-pirate.
* {{Necromancer}}: Taken to ridiculous levels: Judging by the way the game goes, Jolly Roger is essentially reviving ''[[ZombieApocalypse every single corpse avaliable]]''.
* NoIndoorVoice: Jolly Roger ''always'' shouts.
%%* ObviouslyEvil: It's a seven feet tall skeleton with a shotgun for an arm.
* OneManArmy: It takes an entire horde of players fighting side-by-side to beat him.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: It takes ''the entire city of Port Royal, fighting at the same time, all together'' to repel him ''temporarily''.
%%* RevengeBeforeReason: Against Jack.
* ShroudedInMyth: Mysterious past, mysterious powers.
* TheSociopath: Cares for nothing but seeing Jack suffer and conquering the Caribbean.
* SorcerousOverlord: And one that can make Blackbeard look like a novice.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Or rather, the Caribbean. He almost manages in the MMO.
* TouchOfDeath: He can kill anyone with a single touch.
* VillainTeleportation: He's able to materialize out of the thin air.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: The game plot is basically: Help Sparrow defeat Jolly Roger.
%%* WalkingWasteland: When he wants to.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due the MMO being largely abandoned, nobody knows what happened to Jolly Roger.
%%* YourSoulIsMine: His main technique.
[[/folder]]
!Pirates Of The Caribbean: Jack Sparrow
[[folder: Arabella Smith]]
A girl who joined a teenaged Jack Sparrow on his adventures. She later falls in love with a young Bootstrap Bill Turner but it is unclear if she is related to Will Turner.
----
* AmbiguousSituation: Her possible status as Will Turner's mother. The prequel series ended with Arabella in a relationship with Bill Turner and ''Legends of the Brethren Court'', which was written by the same authors, had Bill married to an unnamed wife who's described as someone Jack knew well and who went on several adventures with the two of them a descriptor that fits Arabella. However an in-universe reference book, ''The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company'' confused the situation by claiming that Arabella was still alive during the events of the films, where Will's mother died roughly a decade before.
* MissingMom: Arabella is the daughter of pirate Laura Smith, who was killed in a duel with another pirate named Left-Foot Louis. [[spoiler:Her mother actually escaped and continued pirating to provide for Arabella]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Left-Foot Louis killed her mother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III]]
A boy from a noble family who joins the crew of the ''Barnacle'' in order to escape an ArrangedMarriage. He is also the cousin of James Norrington.
----
* BlueBlood: Has noble blood.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:For the British Royal Navy, hoping that Jack could lead him to Captain Teague.]]
%%* RoyalRapier: His favorite weapon.
%%* TheRival: To Jack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jean Magliore]]
A French boy who is a member of Jack's crew. He, his sister Constance, and his friend Tumen are on the run from Left-Foot Louis, who holds a grudge against them for accidentally revealing his identity while he was in hiding.
----
%%* FindTheCure: For his sister.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Constance Magliore]]
Jean's sister, who was turned into a cat by Tia Dalma.
----
* CatsAreMean: Jack does not particularly like her... [[TheFriendNobodyLikes nor does anyone else]] except Jean.
* ForcedTransformation: Shapeshifted into a cat by Dalma.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tumen]]
A Mayan boy who was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery.
----
* TheExile: Shortly after he returns to his village with Jack and his crew, a mysterious plague spreads. Jack's crew is forced to leave but it's later revealed that the plague was caused by Minuit.
* SlaveLiberation: When he ran away with Jean and Constance after they revealed Left-Foot Louis' identity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tim Hawk]]
One of Minuit's slaves.
----
* SlaveLiberation: Gets out of slavery to become a pirate.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Left-Foot Louis]]
A notorious pirate who literally has two left feet. He carries the Sword of Hernan Cortes.
----
%%* BigBad: For the earlier novels.
* DemotedToDragon: He later shows up as a member of [[spoiler:Laura Smith's]] crew, where he [[DragonWithAnAgenda tries to start a mutiny]]. He later starts working with Madame Minuit.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Louis has a set of scratches on the right side of his face; sources differ as to how he got them, either from sirens or from Constance.
* HumanResources: When he lost his right foot, he cut off the foot from one of his crew members and had it sewn to his leg. In his haste, he didn't realize that it was a left foot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Madame Minuit]]
A Creole witch from New Orleans. She is after the [[DismantledMacGuffin Sun-and-Stars Amulet]], which can turn anything into [[TakenForGranite bronze, silver, or gold]] depending on which PlotCoupon is attached to it.
----
* BigBad: In ''Age of Bronze'', ''Silver'', and ''City of Gold''.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: She's a Creole HotWitch and her name is French for "midnight."
* FeatherBoaConstrictor: Appears as this on the cover art. She has snakes on her arms that seem to come out of nowhere.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Including {{Voodoo Doll}}s.
* HotWitch: The covers show her to have a nice figure.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A dark witch through and through.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Silverback]]
A pirate who possesses a [[PlotCoupon piece]] the the Sun-and-Stars Amulet. Helps Left-Foot Louis in his mutiny against Laura Smith.
----
* EvilCripple: His crystal peg-leg has various magical powers. He is also a skilled fighter.
[[/folder]]
----
!!The Attractions
[[folder:Jolly Roger]]
A talking skull and crossbones who appears at the start of the attractions, warning guests of the pirates ahead.
* AnimateInanimateObject: A talking skull and crossbones.
* CallToAdventure: Asks guests if they "come seeking adventure and salty old pirates".
* CatchPhrase: "Dead men tell no tales."
* TheCameo: A vocal one: a few lines of Jolly Roger (reused directly from the ride) show up in ''At World's End'' when the main character's ship fall off the edge of the world and into Davy Jones locker, most notably a booming and resonant "Dead men tell no tales!".
* CreatorCameo: Voiced by Xavier Atencio.
* DemBones: Somehow alive despite being a skull with no body.
* JacobMarleyWarning: An unusual example. Rather than warning people to change their ways, he instead warns them to not be like the pirates or they will likely end up dead.
-->"There be squalls ahead, and Davy Jones waiting for them what don't obey."\\
"And mark well me words, mateys... dead men tell no tales. [chuckle]"
* {{Mascot}}: Jolly Roger is the mascot of the franchise, appearing in all of the rides, and his likeness appears on the marketing for the films.
* PointOfNoReturn: "It be too late to alter coarse now, maties."
* SnarkyInanimateObject: Has a bit of a snarky, dark sense of humour.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mayor Carlos and His Wife]]
The mayor of Puerto Dorado, tortured in a well by pirates to reveal the hidden treasure staff. And it doesn't help that his wife keeps sticking her head out of the window to "support" her husband.
* BadassSpaniard: A lesser example. Carlos is bound, repeatedly drowned, and threatened by pirates, but he remains determined to keep his mouth shut. The same applies to his wife, who shouts to Carlos to be brave and remain silent. She can also avoid gunfire pretty well.
* DefiantCaptive: Carlos refuses to co-operate with the pirates, and he has been doing pretty well for fifty years.
* GrandeDame: His wife seems quite flighty, domineering, and bossy to Carlos.
* HenpeckedHusband: Implied, since his wife keeps sticking her head out the window, and shouting "don't be chicken!"
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: A heroic example. Carlos refuses to give in to the pirates' torture and reveal the location of the treasure.
* ThrownDownAWell: More precisely tied up and dunked repeatedly in a well.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: The pirates are trying to get Carlos to talk by drowning him over and over.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Auctioneer]]
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/potc2.jpg]]
A bearded, well-dressed pirate who is running an auction to sell off women to a bunch of pirates. Voiced by Creator/PaulFrees pre-refurbishment.
* AuctionOfEvil: The Auctioneer was, for fifty years, selling off captured women to lustful pirates. Following the 2018 refurbishment, he is selling off loot.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Considers one woman, Tiny, to be this.
* DemotedToExtra: Was one of the most vocal characters in the ride. Following the refurbishment, the Auctioneer has less to say, with Redd now assisting him in the auction. Considering most of his dialogue was pitching the kidnapped women to pirates, and the new scene changed the story, the alterations are necessary.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Auctioneer mostly treats his women with respect, praising Tiny's appearance, and advises the Redhead not to show off her legs for her own sake.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For a pirate. He demands authority and cooperation in the auction, his subordinate shooting the air when the pirates get rowdy.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs: Treats the women with respect (mostly), and silences the pirates when they start demanding the redhead.
* VillainsOutShopping: Even during an assault on a Caribbean fort, the pirates still have time for some democratic auctions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Redhead / Redd]]
[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flat750x075f_pad750x1000f8f8f8_12.jpg]]
The most popular character in the ride, the Redhead is a beautiful woman seen being put up for auction, much to the delight of the lustful pirates. Following the 2018 refurbishment, she has been reimagined as a PirateGirl, now aiding in the auction rather than being on the market. Voiced by Creator/GreyDeLisle post-refurbishment.
* AscendedExtra: While she was one of the more prominent characters in the ride, she became a major figure in the latest refurbishment, having a major speaking role. The character has even become a meet-and-greet in Disneyland.
* EvilRedhead: In her new PirateGirl incarnation.
* FieryRedhead: Seems pretty much at home with the pirates, knowing how to make them squirm and get jumpy. Becomes this even more so with her transformation.
* LadyInRed: Sports an entirely red outfit and hat.
* NotAsYouKnowThem: Though she didn't have much of a personality pre-refurbishment, the Redhead seemed quite calm, suave, and sexy, using her looks to her advantage. Her personality has since become more vocal, and piratical.
* PirateGirl: Though she has since become this trope, it was always implied the Redhead would become this. In the Disneyland ride, there is a painting of a certain redheaded, scantily clad pirate girl, hinting she is the same character from the auction.
* ReallyGetsAround: Very popular with the pirates.
* ShowSomeLeg: Tries doing this, but the Auctioneer advises her not to.
* {{Xenafication}}: Okay, even the original version of the ride implied that she TookALevelInBadass in the end, but in the refurbished version she's a PirateGirl from the start.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Pooped Pirate]]
A fat, bearded pirate resting in the middle of town. His situation has changed a lot over the years due to political correctness, currently possessing a key and treasure map to the Spanish fort's treasure. Voiced by Creator/PaulFrees until 1997; and by Creator/CoreyBurton afterwards.
* DirtyOldMan: His original character had him looking for a young lady to deflower, having already acquired her pantyhose.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair and a moustache.
* FatBastard: Surly, perverted, gluttonous, and dumb.
* StalkerWithACrush: His original character had a thing for the young lady he was stalking.
* TemptingFate: Brags that Jack Sparrow will never look at his treasure map, or the key that leads to the loot. Jack is spying on him in the barrel behind him.
* TreasureMap: Wields a map to the island's treasure.
* VillainousGlutton: His second characterization was looking for some meat to eat, unaware an alley cat had got to it first.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Old Bill]]
An elderly, happily drunk pirate who tries to share a drink with some cats.
* TheCameo: Appeared in a deleted scene during ''On Stranger Tides''.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Seems particularly friendly for a pirate.
* KindheartedCatLover: Tries to offer a drink to a bunch of alley cats. They aren't buying it.
* SentimentalDrunk: A very happy drunk.
[[/folder]]
!![[UsefulNotes/FranciscoPizarro Francisco Pizarro González, 1st. Marquis of the Conquista]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Nobody
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' (mentioned)
The leader of the Pizarro brothers and second uncle to Hernán Cortés, as well as the old Spanish conquistador who accomplished the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheIncaEmpire. While speaking with Scarlett and Giselle, Captain Jack Sparrow admitted to never have met him, but loved his pies.
----
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly did Jack tell the wenches about Pizarro, although it's clearly some kind of fancy story where he somehow met a man who died almost 200 years earlier (and was presumably not affected by any curse, as it is all too usual in the franchise).
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Jack seems to think Pizarro was famous for his pies. Maybe he's right and this version of Pizarro was a ChefOfIron.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ponce de León]]
!![[UsefulNotes/JuanPonceDeLeon Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poncedeleonpotc.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Nobody
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
A famed Spanish explorer and conquistador. Among other feats, he led the first European expedition to Florida, and later went on a quest for the fabled Fountain of Youth, which he found on an unchartered island before dying in some mysterious way. His skeletal corpse is still in his ship, the ''Santiago'', shipwrecked in the island.
----
* AmbiguousSituation:
** It's never even suggested how he and his crew died. There's no other people in the island, and they seem to have died on land, away from the mermaids' clutches. For that matter, it's also unknown how did the ''Santiago'' end up perched in a damn cliff's edge.
** The mystery continues after Ponce's death, as his skeleton also seems to act as a supernatural guardian of the map, which is not explained either. Considering the franchise's usual shenanigans, it is probably some kind of curse, but which and why is anyone's best guess.
* DemBones: When Jack tries to take the island's map from Ponce de León's fingers, the skeleton turns his head to him in a sort of silent admonition. He returns to his initial position when Jack lets the map go.
* OldSoldier: According to his background, he fought in places as varied as Granada, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Florida.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead by the time the Spaniard finds him. Downplayed, however, if we interpret that the curse animating his bones is still part of his conscience.
* RagsToRiches: Like many other conquistadores, he was born to an ImpoverishedPatrician family and sought fame and fortune as a soldier.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Castaway]]
!!The Spanish Castaway
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spanishcastaway.jpg]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Norberto Morán
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
The last remnant of Ponce de León's crew, an ancient sailor who has been kept alive thanks to the Fountain of Youth. 200 years after the death of his captain, he finds somehow his way to Spain, where he's discovered by fishermen who bring him to the King. He carries with him the expedition's log, which sets the Spaniards on the search for the Fountain.
----
* AmbiguouslyEvil: It's implied he sacrificed the lives of several of his colleagues in order to keep living, which likely makes him a traitorous bastard, but his desire to return to Spain casts ambiguity about his mindset. Whether he wanted to atone for his sins by bringing the log and info to the King, or just die in his homeland, is ultimately unknown.
* AmbiguousSituation: Leaving his motivations aside, it's unknown why it took so much time for him to reach Spain. The film's junior novelization even claims that he actually set off "only" 40 years before the film's events, having been lost in the sea since.
* BaldOfEvil: He's bald, and indulged in some HumanSacrifice in the past.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Has a shaggy beard, having been lost to the world.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: He dies of old age when his stolen lifetime runs off in the palace. According to the novelizations, he eases off into death, implying he found some peace on it.
* NoNameGiven: His true name is unknown, being credited as both "Spanish Castaway" and "Ancient Sailor" in official materials.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He looks just elderly, but is actually well over 200 years old by the point he dies.
[[/folder]]
[[header:Other Characters]]
!Unaligned
[[folder:Tia Dalma]]
!!Tia Dalma[[spoiler:[=/=]Calypso]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"A touch...of destiny!"'']]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/NaomieHarris
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
->''"It has been torture, trapped in this single form, cut off from the sea. From all that I love."''
A mysterious voodoo woman with unknown connections to Jack.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Of the sea, being the sea goddess Calypso.]]
* AscendedExtra: In ''Dead Man's Chest'' she has a very small part, but has a much larger part in ''At World's End''. Considering she's [[spoiler:actually a goddess and Davy Jones's lost love]], this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* BarefootSage: She has many aspects of the sage/wise woman archetype (including giving cryptic advice to her visitors), and if ''Pirati dei Caraibi'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_1.jpg comics are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tia_dalma_2.jpg to believe]], she doesn't wear shoes. ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' series also describe her as perpetually barefoot.
* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:After being unbound, she says in a distorted voice, "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!", which roughly translates to "Across all the seas, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me!"]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:She's the goddess of the seas and is known to be as fickle and furious as the sea itself if provoked. She certainly doesn't seem to hold to human morality. In the end, her fury drives her to turn against the pirates, the navy, the company and Jones himself for their acts against her.]]
* TheBeastMaster: She's shown to have some control over crabs. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are also made from crabs. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the Goddess of the Sea it's not too surprising. When she's released from human form, she breaks up into millions of crabs]].
* ClusterFBomb: When asked about what she is shouting when she's ascended, the creators said she was basically screaming profanties akin to "F- you!"
* CoolOldLady: She comes across as one, not that you'd ever guess her age just from looking at her.
* CrypticConversation: Much of what she says is confusing to those she talks to. It must be part of her "mysterious voodoo" thing.
* DelightingInRiddles: It is often assumed that her cryptic speech patterns are the result of this, and that she takes delight in allowing people to figure things out by themselves.
* DistaffCounterpart: A number of critics believe her to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] due to the fact that both characters are swamp-dwelling eccentric sages with peculiar speech patterns. [[spoiler: Though, considering Tia Dalma is in fact a GodInHumanForm and a manifestation of the sea...]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She's sickened at seeing the souls of those who died at sea just floating through the ocean to the afterlife instead of being ferried across to their rightful resting place as naturally intended. She shoots Pintel and Ragetti a withering DeathGlare when they nearly disrespect the dead by trying to drop cannonballs on them.
* FacialMarkings: Voodoo tattoos in her cheeks.
* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler: Calypso bound in human form]].
* HollywoodVoodoo: Called a Voodoo queen in official sources.
* HotWitch: Played with. Her actress is very attractive, and Tia Dalma is very seductive and sensual, but she also has blackened teeth and dirty clothes. (Then again, who in these movies does not have dirty clothes?)
* LordOfTheOcean: [[spoiler:When she was the goddess of the seas, she had untold power over it, the Pirate lords trapping her in her human form specifically so that they could take command themselves.]]
* MadOracle: Subverted; Tia Dalma comes across like this, what with her hut full of weirdness, her [[YouNoTakeCandle speaking patterns]], and seeming inability to directly answer questions, but she's quite sane.
* MagicalBarefooter: A practitioner of voodoo magic who is also barefoot.
* {{Necromancer}}: Resurrected Barbossa. It's implied she needs the corpse to resurrect someone and if they are "at peace" then it won't work even if she does have the corpse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If she'd never stood up Davy Jones, he wouldn't have gone bad and set about the conflict for the second and third movies.]]
* NoodleIncident: We never know why she tried to kill Jack in the past, all we got is her saying "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time."
* PerkyGoth: Though goths obviously don't exist yet, she gives off this vibe with her friendly personality yet dark fashion and collection of macabre objects.
-->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Tia Dalma, out and about, eh? You add an agreeable sense of the macabre to any delirium.
* PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:She's really the goddess of the sea known as Calypso.]]
* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: After she [[spoiler: turns back into Calypso, she speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion tone]].
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She looks young but she's been alive for centuries.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: Being a living embodiment of the sea, being a {{Tsundere}} is appropriate. The open sea can be a sailor's best friend one moment, and an absolute bitch the next.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: [[spoiler: Calypso was a Mediterranean goddess, not a Caribbean one, and there were plenty of Caribbean figures to choose from. Although it is mentioned that as the goddess of the sea, she is a case of IHaveManyNames]].
* SageLoveInterest: She was one to Jack, (they "knew" each other previously) and possibly to some others she seduced while aiding them in mystic matters.
* SolitarySorceress: Initially she lives in a hut in a swamp on an isolated island, as seen in ''Dead Man's Chest''.
* TheTease: She acts flirtatiously to Jack and Will at different points. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her fickle nature meant she didn't meet with Davy Jones at their agreed upon rendezvous, which contributed to his descent into villainy.]]
* TimeAbyss: [[spoiler:She's a goddess, so there's no telling how long she's been around for, but she was bound to a mortal form by the first Brethren Court.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type AB. She has attempted to kill Jack in the past. They are still on good terms, with Jack even saying they were once "thick as thieves." She can be helpful, kind, even sweet when she wants to be. [[MoodSwinger Then the temper comes out.]] [[spoiler:She even [[LampshadeHanging points this out to Davy Jones]], commenting [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was what he liked about her.]]]] [[spoiler:Keep in mind, she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea, and of course she tried to kill Jack in the past. She's every sailor's best friend and worst enemy at the same time. The difference between Jack and Davy is that the former understands this. Davy doesn't.]]
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:After Will reveals to her that the one who taught the Brethren Court how to bind her was Davy Jones, her former lover, she ''snaps'' and ensnares both the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' into a raging storm]].
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Not only is she Davy Jones's ex-lover, whom he cut his heart out over when he believed she betrayed him, she's also the sea goddess, Calypso, bound in human form by the Brethren Court, and wants revenge for her centuries of powerlessness.]]
* WaterIsWomanly: [[spoiler:As Calypso, sailors were in awe of her unsurpassed grace and beauty, and she acted as their protectress. They also feared her for her whimsical nature that made her as wild and untameable as the seas she ruled over -- tying to the negative associations of water and women as being temperamental.]]
* WildCard: Cares not who wins as long as she is freed, though she has ''some'' sympathy for Jack Sparrow. [[spoiler: Even when she's finally released, her response is something akin to "May the best man win"]].
* WomanScorned: Lampshaded by Jack. She's not happy with the betrayals she suffered. She confirms to Jones that as soon as the Brethren Court frees her, the last thing they'll learn is how cruel she can be. [[spoiler:When Will tells her Davy Jones was the one who told the first Brethren Court how to bind her, rather than return to him as she'd originally implied she'd do, she summons a maelstrom to destroy both the ''Flying Dutchman'' and ''The Black Pearl''.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:After being freed from her single form, she grows to immense size and then disperses into millions upon millions of crabs. This was hinted at earlier in the third movie when the crabs watching Jack in Davy Jones' Locker crawled under the hem of her dress.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Averted (or perhaps subverted) on the "non-intelligent" part, otherwise played straight. Although it's from a heavy accent, and isn't that far away from how people in the Carribean speak. Naomie Harris--the actress who plays Tia Dalma--has a Jamaican mother who served as Naomie's dialect coach.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Syrena]]
!!Syrena
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!!!'''Played By:''' Àstrid Bèrges-Frisbey
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
A benign mermaid that Blackbeard captures while hunting for the Fountain of Youth, and whom Philip falls in love with.
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* AntiNihilist: She's not as blood thirsty as her mermaid sisters and chooses to save Philip due to sensing he was a good man amidst the human species.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Philip says that her beauty is proof that she is one of God's creatures and not one of the accursed things that missed Noah's ark.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Why she genuinely falls for Philip; he's the only one demanding her humane treatment.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go through a lot in order to be happy together.
* FantasticRomance: With Philip, a human.
* GodivaHair: In mermaid form because of the lack of clothes.
* HeelFaceTurn: Mermaids in general are pretty vicious creatures in this verse. [[spoiler:She helps Jack and Philip in the climax.]]
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Turns into one when forced to walk on land.]] In this situation, she looks no different from a non-clothed human girl.
* LightningBruiser: She is strong, durable and fast.
* MeaningfulName: In multiple ways:
** Syrena sounds a lot like "siren".
** "Sirena" translates to ''mermaid'' in a number of languages.
* MermaidProblem: Averted; [[spoiler:mermaids are capable of turning their fins into legs.]]
* NiceGirl: A heroic mermaid.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Syrena's kin charm men, drown them and eat them, even fashioning lassos from kelp or their own hair to snare men from the shore. They can gather in hordes and sink a ship. Whether Syrena is any better is unclear, although what is clear is that from what little is seen of her character, she's less violent than the other members of her species.]] This makes them spot on for the ''original'' concept of mermaids.
* PetTheDog: Even though she has no reason to do it given all Angelica has put her through, [[spoiler: Syrena still provides the means to save her from being fatally poisoned in the climax.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only mermaid who isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing. While the other mermaids lured men to their deaths, she rescued Philip from death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Prison Dog]]
!!Prison Dog
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!!!'''Played By:''' Twister (''Black Pearl''), Chopper (''Dead Man's Chest'' and ''At World's End'')
!!!'''Appears In:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A dog who has a habit of always turning up in the strangest places, carrying a ring of keys in his mouth.
----
* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
* GodGuise: After the credits in the second film; given how he inexplicably keeps showing up at crucial points, who's to say he's ''not''?
* MythologyGag: Prior to the film, the dog was the most memorable part of the Disney ride. As in the first film, he's holding the keys with two imprisoned pirates trying to beckon him over. Jack's line, "That dog is ''never'' going to give up the keys" is from one of the animatronic pirates.
* NoodleIncident: How ''does'' he keep showing up? There's a story there and it probably involves sea turtles.
* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Scarlett and Giselle]]
!!Scarlett and Giselle
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!!!'''Played By:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Creator/VanessaBranch (Giselle)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked Tales of the Code Wedlocked]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse Of The Black Pearl]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' | ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''
A pair of painted strumpets first encountered in Tortuga in the films. They function as slapstick (or slap Jack, mostly) comic relief.
----
* MythologyGag: Scarlett is based off the animatronic redhead from the "bride" auction part of the ride (whom Disney replaced with Redd the pirate in 2018). The short ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTalesOfTheCodeWedlocked'' aptly features an auction in which both her and Giselle find themselves sold to the highest bidder.
* TheOldestProfession: Never stated outright but obvious from their outfits, makeup, and behavior.
-->'''Giselle:''' ''(to Scarlett)'' You? [[{{Streetwalker}} Corner of Dock Street and Third Avenue?]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Jack lays into both of them at the end of ''At World's End''.
* ThoseTwoGuys: They're always seen together, and they're source of slapstick humor.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They may fight over petty things and put each other down, but they seem to always make up in the end.
[[/folder]]
[[header:Other media]]
!!Legends Of The Brethren Court
[[folder: The Shadow Lord / Sir Henry Morgan]]
Main antagonist of the Legends Of The Brethren Court five-part series of books, The Shadow King is a mysterious dark force who seeks to control the entire world through his Shadow Army.
----
* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: Henry Morgan would be at least a century old, but the Shadow King isn't.]]
* AlchemyIsMagic: He is supposed to be an alchemist, even though he can make innamite things ''gain life'' through said "alchemy".
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: As leader of the Shadow Army, he's quite foreboding in combat.
* BigBad: For the "Legends Of The Brethren Court" books.
* TheChessmaster: Not to Beckett levels, but he is pretty sharp.
* ConsummateLiar: Lies well enough to deceive ''Sparrow''.
* DarkIsEvil: ''Shadow'' King, leader of the ''Shadow'' Army.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: [[spoiler: Turns out he is none other Sir Henry Morgan, famous privateer and in the POTC verse, one of the creators of the Pirate Code.]]
%%* KilledOffForReal
* MagicKnight: Magic ''pirate''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Plays most of the cast like a fiddle.
* TheReveal: "I am not just the Shadow Lord.... [[spoiler:Nor am I the useless pirate Henry that you found so very amusing. In fact, I am much older than you know, because I devised a way to live forever. I have been around for over a hundred years. I was a Pirate Lord myself. The truth is... I am Captain Henry Morgan of the second Brethren Court!"]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Benedict And Barbara Huntington]]
EITC Agents who chief the cooperation between The Shadow Lord and The Company in Hong Kong.
----
* AristocratsAreEvil: Upper class of English nobility.
* BattleCouple: They battle side-by-side as husband and wife.
* CoDragons: To the Shadow Lord.
* KickTheDog: Basically everything they do is pointless nastiness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Quite an evil marriage.
[[/folder]]
!!Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
[[folder: Jolly Roger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jolly_roger_1.png]]
->Played by: Creator/SteveBlum
The main antagonist of the Pirates Of The Caribbean MMO. A pirate who sought to become a Pirate Lord by tricking Jack, but instead was tricked himself. Through a misunderstanding with a voodoo sorcerer, he was cursed with voodoo powers. Now he wages war on the Caribbean, with his ever-growing hatred for Sparrow.
----
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Can fight an entire city alone, besides leading a zombie army.
* AxCrazy: He's one trigger-happy pirate.
* BadassBoast: His ''entire dialogue'' consists of these. One of his best comes from his trailer: "I am no Legend. I am Jolly Roger, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Your. Worst. NIGHTMARE!]]"
* BadBoss: Zombifies any of his pawns who are no longer important.
* BerserkButton: Jack Sparrow. Or anything even vaguely connected to him.
* BigBad: Everything evil within the MMO trace back to him.
* BifurcatedWeapon: He has a steampunk-ish right-hand which can act as both a small hand-cannon and a knife.
* BloodKnight: Pretty livid about slaughtering Port Royal.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: All his deals end up with betrayal.
* CursedWithAwesome: As a voodoo priest laid dying, he cursed Roger with his [[GhostPirate current]] looks. Unfortunately, this also turned him in a PhysicalGod.
* DemBones: His current form is bony.
* TheDreaded: Everyone is terrified of him. With good reason.
%%* EvilLaugh: Steve Blum provides his.
* EvilOverlord: He controls a large chunk of the Caribbean through his zombie army in the game's events.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: He was friends with Jack, a long time ago.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: While he was famous, he was merely a common pirate until a curse befell him.
* GhostPirate: Thanks to a voodoo curse, he's a living skeleton now.
* HeroKiller: No one faces him in a straight fight out of sheer dread.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: While trying to outwit Jack in poker, he was outwitted.
* HollywoodVoodoo: The master of it like Blackbeard with his dolls and such.
* ImplacableMan: Oh ''yes''. Nothing has been able to defeat him yet, only temporarily repel.
* InterimVillain: The MMO uses him for a period after Barbossa's defeat but before Beckett's [and Jones'] rise on the franchise.
* TheJuggernaut: He slices through Port Royal's defenses like a butter knife.
* LargeAndInCharge: Roger is noticeably taller than any other character in the game.
* LargeHam: Roger talks shouting with a stereotypical hammy pirate accent.
* MightyGlacier: As slow as he is dangerous.
* NighInvulnerable: Nothing can kill him except ''maybe'' a ridiculous amount of gunfire.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A ghost-cyborg-pirate.
* {{Necromancer}}: Taken to ridiculous levels: Judging by the way the game goes, Jolly Roger is essentially reviving ''[[ZombieApocalypse every single corpse avaliable]]''.
* NoIndoorVoice: Jolly Roger ''always'' shouts.
%%* ObviouslyEvil: It's a seven feet tall skeleton with a shotgun for an arm.
* OneManArmy: It takes an entire horde of players fighting side-by-side to beat him.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: It takes ''the entire city of Port Royal, fighting at the same time, all together'' to repel him ''temporarily''.
%%* RevengeBeforeReason: Against Jack.
* ShroudedInMyth: Mysterious past, mysterious powers.
* TheSociopath: Cares for nothing but seeing Jack suffer and conquering the Caribbean.
* SorcerousOverlord: And one that can make Blackbeard look like a novice.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Or rather, the Caribbean. He almost manages in the MMO.
* TouchOfDeath: He can kill anyone with a single touch.
* VillainTeleportation: He's able to materialize out of the thin air.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: The game plot is basically: Help Sparrow defeat Jolly Roger.
%%* WalkingWasteland: When he wants to.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due the MMO being largely abandoned, nobody knows what happened to Jolly Roger.
%%* YourSoulIsMine: His main technique.
[[/folder]]
!Pirates Of The Caribbean: Jack Sparrow
[[folder: Arabella Smith]]
A girl who joined a teenaged Jack Sparrow on his adventures. She later falls in love with a young Bootstrap Bill Turner but it is unclear if she is related to Will Turner.
----
* AmbiguousSituation: Her possible status as Will Turner's mother. The prequel series ended with Arabella in a relationship with Bill Turner and ''Legends of the Brethren Court'', which was written by the same authors, had Bill married to an unnamed wife who's described as someone Jack knew well and who went on several adventures with the two of them a descriptor that fits Arabella. However an in-universe reference book, ''The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company'' confused the situation by claiming that Arabella was still alive during the events of the films, where Will's mother died roughly a decade before.
* MissingMom: Arabella is the daughter of pirate Laura Smith, who was killed in a duel with another pirate named Left-Foot Louis. [[spoiler:Her mother actually escaped and continued pirating to provide for Arabella]].
* YouKilledMyFather: Left-Foot Louis killed her mother.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III]]
A boy from a noble family who joins the crew of the ''Barnacle'' in order to escape an ArrangedMarriage. He is also the cousin of James Norrington.
----
* BlueBlood: Has noble blood.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:For the British Royal Navy, hoping that Jack could lead him to Captain Teague.]]
%%* RoyalRapier: His favorite weapon.
%%* TheRival: To Jack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Jean Magliore]]
A French boy who is a member of Jack's crew. He, his sister Constance, and his friend Tumen are on the run from Left-Foot Louis, who holds a grudge against them for accidentally revealing his identity while he was in hiding.
----
%%* FindTheCure: For his sister.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Constance Magliore]]
Jean's sister, who was turned into a cat by Tia Dalma.
----
* CatsAreMean: Jack does not particularly like her... [[TheFriendNobodyLikes nor does anyone else]] except Jean.
* ForcedTransformation: Shapeshifted into a cat by Dalma.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tumen]]
A Mayan boy who was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery.
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* TheExile: Shortly after he returns to his village with Jack and his crew, a mysterious plague spreads. Jack's crew is forced to leave but it's later revealed that the plague was caused by Minuit.
* SlaveLiberation: When he ran away with Jean and Constance after they revealed Left-Foot Louis' identity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Tim Hawk]]
One of Minuit's slaves.
----
* SlaveLiberation: Gets out of slavery to become a pirate.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Left-Foot Louis]]
A notorious pirate who literally has two left feet. He carries the Sword of Hernan Cortes.
----
%%* BigBad: For the earlier novels.
* DemotedToDragon: He later shows up as a member of [[spoiler:Laura Smith's]] crew, where he [[DragonWithAnAgenda tries to start a mutiny]]. He later starts working with Madame Minuit.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Louis has a set of scratches on the right side of his face; sources differ as to how he got them, either from sirens or from Constance.
* HumanResources: When he lost his right foot, he cut off the foot from one of his crew members and had it sewn to his leg. In his haste, he didn't realize that it was a left foot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Madame Minuit]]
A Creole witch from New Orleans. She is after the [[DismantledMacGuffin Sun-and-Stars Amulet]], which can turn anything into [[TakenForGranite bronze, silver, or gold]] depending on which PlotCoupon is attached to it.
----
* BigBad: In ''Age of Bronze'', ''Silver'', and ''City of Gold''.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: She's a Creole HotWitch and her name is French for "midnight."
* FeatherBoaConstrictor: Appears as this on the cover art. She has snakes on her arms that seem to come out of nowhere.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Including {{Voodoo Doll}}s.
* HotWitch: The covers show her to have a nice figure.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A dark witch through and through.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Silverback]]
A pirate who possesses a [[PlotCoupon piece]] the the Sun-and-Stars Amulet. Helps Left-Foot Louis in his mutiny against Laura Smith.
----
* EvilCripple: His crystal peg-leg has various magical powers. He is also a skilled fighter.
[[/folder]]
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!!The Attractions
[[folder:Jolly Roger]]
A talking skull and crossbones who appears at the start of the attractions, warning guests of the pirates ahead.
* AnimateInanimateObject: A talking skull and crossbones.
* CallToAdventure: Asks guests if they "come seeking adventure and salty old pirates".
* CatchPhrase: "Dead men tell no tales."
* TheCameo: A vocal one: a few lines of Jolly Roger (reused directly from the ride) show up in ''At World's End'' when the main character's ship fall off the edge of the world and into Davy Jones locker, most notably a booming and resonant "Dead men tell no tales!".
* CreatorCameo: Voiced by Xavier Atencio.
* DemBones: Somehow alive despite being a skull with no body.
* JacobMarleyWarning: An unusual example. Rather than warning people to change their ways, he instead warns them to not be like the pirates or they will likely end up dead.
-->"There be squalls ahead, and Davy Jones waiting for them what don't obey."\\
"And mark well me words, mateys... dead men tell no tales. [chuckle]"
* {{Mascot}}: Jolly Roger is the mascot of the franchise, appearing in all of the rides, and his likeness appears on the marketing for the films.
* PointOfNoReturn: "It be too late to alter coarse now, maties."
* SnarkyInanimateObject: Has a bit of a snarky, dark sense of humour.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mayor Carlos and His Wife]]
The mayor of Puerto Dorado, tortured in a well by pirates to reveal the hidden treasure staff. And it doesn't help that his wife keeps sticking her head out of the window to "support" her husband.
* BadassSpaniard: A lesser example. Carlos is bound, repeatedly drowned, and threatened by pirates, but he remains determined to keep his mouth shut. The same applies to his wife, who shouts to Carlos to be brave and remain silent. She can also avoid gunfire pretty well.
* DefiantCaptive: Carlos refuses to co-operate with the pirates, and he has been doing pretty well for fifty years.
* GrandeDame: His wife seems quite flighty, domineering, and bossy to Carlos.
* HenpeckedHusband: Implied, since his wife keeps sticking her head out the window, and shouting "don't be chicken!"
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: A heroic example. Carlos refuses to give in to the pirates' torture and reveal the location of the treasure.
* ThrownDownAWell: More precisely tied up and dunked repeatedly in a well.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: The pirates are trying to get Carlos to talk by drowning him over and over.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Auctioneer]]
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A bearded, well-dressed pirate who is running an auction to sell off women to a bunch of pirates. Voiced by Creator/PaulFrees pre-refurbishment.
* AuctionOfEvil: The Auctioneer was, for fifty years, selling off captured women to lustful pirates. Following the 2018 refurbishment, he is selling off loot.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Considers one woman, Tiny, to be this.
* DemotedToExtra: Was one of the most vocal characters in the ride. Following the refurbishment, the Auctioneer has less to say, with Redd now assisting him in the auction. Considering most of his dialogue was pitching the kidnapped women to pirates, and the new scene changed the story, the alterations are necessary.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Auctioneer mostly treats his women with respect, praising Tiny's appearance, and advises the Redhead not to show off her legs for her own sake.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: For a pirate. He demands authority and cooperation in the auction, his subordinate shooting the air when the pirates get rowdy.
* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs: Treats the women with respect (mostly), and silences the pirates when they start demanding the redhead.
* VillainsOutShopping: Even during an assault on a Caribbean fort, the pirates still have time for some democratic auctions.
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[[folder: The Redhead / Redd]]
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The most popular character in the ride, the Redhead is a beautiful woman seen being put up for auction, much to the delight of the lustful pirates. Following the 2018 refurbishment, she has been reimagined as a PirateGirl, now aiding in the auction rather than being on the market. Voiced by Creator/GreyDeLisle post-refurbishment.
* AscendedExtra: While she was one of the more prominent characters in the ride, she became a major figure in the latest refurbishment, having a major speaking role. The character has even become a meet-and-greet in Disneyland.
* EvilRedhead: In her new PirateGirl incarnation.
* FieryRedhead: Seems pretty much at home with the pirates, knowing how to make them squirm and get jumpy. Becomes this even more so with her transformation.
* LadyInRed: Sports an entirely red outfit and hat.
* NotAsYouKnowThem: Though she didn't have much of a personality pre-refurbishment, the Redhead seemed quite calm, suave, and sexy, using her looks to her advantage. Her personality has since become more vocal, and piratical.
* PirateGirl: Though she has since become this trope, it was always implied the Redhead would become this. In the Disneyland ride, there is a painting of a certain redheaded, scantily clad pirate girl, hinting she is the same character from the auction.
* ReallyGetsAround: Very popular with the pirates.
* ShowSomeLeg: Tries doing this, but the Auctioneer advises her not to.
* {{Xenafication}}: Okay, even the original version of the ride implied that she TookALevelInBadass in the end, but in the refurbished version she's a PirateGirl from the start.
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[[folder:The Pooped Pirate]]
A fat, bearded pirate resting in the middle of town. His situation has changed a lot over the years due to political correctness, currently possessing a key and treasure map to the Spanish fort's treasure. Voiced by Creator/PaulFrees until 1997; and by Creator/CoreyBurton afterwards.
* DirtyOldMan: His original character had him looking for a young lady to deflower, having already acquired her pantyhose.
* EvilRedhead: Has red hair and a moustache.
* FatBastard: Surly, perverted, gluttonous, and dumb.
* StalkerWithACrush: His original character had a thing for the young lady he was stalking.
* TemptingFate: Brags that Jack Sparrow will never look at his treasure map, or the key that leads to the loot. Jack is spying on him in the barrel behind him.
* TreasureMap: Wields a map to the island's treasure.
* VillainousGlutton: His second characterization was looking for some meat to eat, unaware an alley cat had got to it first.
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[[folder:Old Bill]]
An elderly, happily drunk pirate who tries to share a drink with some cats.
* TheCameo: Appeared in a deleted scene during ''On Stranger Tides''.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Seems particularly friendly for a pirate.
* KindheartedCatLover: Tries to offer a drink to a bunch of alley cats. They aren't buying it.
* SentimentalDrunk: A very happy drunk.
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* EatTheDog: The cannibal natives of a Caribbean island try to do this in ''Dead Man's Chest''. At the end of the film, he's shown to now be the Pelegosto's chief. [[spoiler:He's revealed to have escaped in the third movie.]]
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* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in the ''Price of Freedom'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
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* Really700YearsOld: In dog years, at any rate. It is implied in the ''Price ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom'' Freedom]]'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge]]
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tia Dalma is barefoot in the film-based comics. The second movie doesn't show her feet at all; the third one has her wearing shoes in some scenes, and barefoot in [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/CJSRules/Other/Screenshot2010-08-29at134400.png others]].
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* GiantWoman: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge.]]
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: If they show up in a scene, someone's getting one for offending them.
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* OneTrueLove: With Philip.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler:Even after Davy Jones loyally ferried the souls of the dead to the afterlife for her for ten years, Calypso did not meet him on the one day they could be together. When he calls her out on this, Tia is unapologetic and simply tells him that being fickle and unpredictable is simply her nature.]]
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* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Here support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
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* BigGood: The closest the series gets to one, actively assisting the Black Pearl crew in the second and third film as she is the only one with knowledge on Davy Jones, the Black Spot, and Davy Jones' locker. Here Her support is crucial for both films, even after [[spoiler:her subsequent betrayal.]]
