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[[folder: Tia Dalma]]

!Kingdom of Spain

[[folder:King Ferdinand VI]]
!!Ferdinand VI, King of Spain and Prince of Asturias
->'''Played by:''' Sebastián Armesto
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
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The King of Spain during the time of the movies. He only appears in the fourth movie, in which he's looking for the Fountain of Youth.

* TheBadGuyWins: He is more of a HeroAntagonist than a villain, but an antagonist nonetheless, [[spoiler:and his orders ultimately get carried successfully.]]
* 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 the 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 the outcome.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:He wants to destroy the Fountain to remove a blasphemy against God from the world, not to use it.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He's a historical character.
* MinorMajorCharacter: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the very first film. As the King of Spain, he's the technical 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, but he stays in Spain and never fights in battle.
* RealMenLoveJesus: This leads to him [[spoiler:disapproving of the Fountain of Youth, seeing it as an affront to God and ordering it to 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 make you immortal just like he says.]]
* TheRival: To King George II.

[[folder:The Spaniard]]
!!The Spaniard
->'''Played by:''' Creator/OscarJaenada
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
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An agent in the employ of King Ferdinand VI of Spain; he's the first party to set out after the Fountain of Youth, which prompts King George II to send Barbarossa to claim it for himself. This in turn, prompts Blackbeard (and Jack) to set sail as well, kicking off the plot for the entire fourth movie. For the most part he serves as a distant enemy to all the other seekers of the Fountain of Youth, actually ending up being the last to get there. His actions once getting there, however, have the most drastic consequences.

* AmbiguousSituation: The only time 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 understandably out of his league or he would have really proved somehow capable to take on the sorcerous pirate.
* 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 Hector Barbossa's attempts at stealing the 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.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Blackbeard and Barbossa who are pursuing their 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.]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[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 own thoughts or motives on the whole matter.
* EnlightenedAntagonist: This is what sets him apart from the rest of players in the quest. Despite being repeatedly in position to wipe out his enemies, he declines the chance every time, and his true goal is 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 what he believes to be best for his country, his king and his God.
* InvincibleVillain: Or rather, [[InvincibleHero Invincible]] HeroAntagonist. Nevertheless, he starts up with the strongest party in the quest for the Fountain of Youth, 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 with nobody else being able to stop him. Maybe it's the fact that [[spoiler:he's on a MissionFromGod.]]
* 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 only ever referred to as "the Spaniard" onscreen.
* NotWorthKilling: The Spaniard and his three galleons come across Barbossa's single, lighter ship while hunting for the 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 Lieutenant Groves is shot dead while proclaiming the Fountain of Youth as the property of King George II]], the Spaniard calmly tells his men to 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 her tried to resist.
* YouFool: Uses it almost word by word in his treatment of Blackbeard, chiding him for his pagan ways.

[[folder:Spanish Officer]]
!!Spanish Officer
->'''Played by:''' Gerard Monaco
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
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An officer in the Spaniard's expedition, where he seems to play a second-in-command role.

* DashingHispanic: Like his commander, he's a Spanish soldier with some flair.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Jack and Barbossa manage to steal the Chalices of Cartagena from him because he's examining them in a tent without any guards nearby. Then it's subverted when it turns out there was an entire patrol of ''arcabuceros'' watching around after all.
* ManlyFacialHair: He stands out for his quite impressive ''bigote'', as was custom of Spanish veterans at the time.
* MookLieutenant: Aside from a soldier he is sometimes seen tagging along, the officer the only other Spaniard with a bit of characterization and screentime.
* NoNameGiven: Again like his commander, he's not given a name.
* UndyingLoyalty: According to the film's visual guide, only the Spaniard knew the mission's true purpose; the rest of the soldiers and sailors follow him out of absolute trust.

[[folder:The Castaway]]
!!The Spanish Castaway
->'''Played by:''' Norberto Morán
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
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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 the King's men. 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 while being useful to it 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 i.
* 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:Ponce de León]]
!!Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa
->'''Played by:''' Nobody
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
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A famed Spanish explorer an 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 his him. Downplayed, however, if we interpret that the curse animating his bones is still part of his conscience.
* RagsToRiches: Like many other conquistadors, he was born to a ImpoverishedPatrician family and sought fame and fortune as a soldier.
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!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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* 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.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge]]
* 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.
* 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...]]
* 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]].
* 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.
* 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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[[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.
* ModelCouple: With Philip.
* 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.
* OneTrueLove: With Philip.
* 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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[[folder:Prison Dog]]
!!Prison Dog
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->'''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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* ADogNamedDog: He never gets an official name in-series, so he's usually just called the Prison Dog.
* 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.]]
* 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 the ''Price of Freedom'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.
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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.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: If they show up in a scene, someone's getting one for offending them.
* 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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An officer in the employ of King Ferdinand VI of Spain; he's the first party to set out after the Fountain of Youth, which prompts King George II to send Barbarossa to claim it for himself. This in turn, prompts Blackbeard (and Jack) to set sail as well, kicking off the plot for the entire fourth movie. For the most part he serves as a distant enemy to all the other seekers of the Fountain of Youth, actually ending up being the last to get there. His actions once getting there, however, have the most drastic consequences.

* AmbiguousSituation: The only time 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 understandably out of his league or he could have really taken somehow on the sorcerous pirate.

[[folder:The Castaway]]
!!The Spanish Castaway
->'''Played by:''' Norberto Morán

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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 the King's men. 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 while being useful to it 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 i.
* 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:Ponce de León]]
!!Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa
->'''Played by:''' Nobody

A famed Spanish explorer an 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.
* 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 his him. Downplayed, however, if we interpret that the curse animating his bones is still part of his conscience.
* RagsToRiches: Like many other conquistadors, he was born to a ImpoverishedPatrician family and sought fame and fortune as a soldier.

!Unaligned
[[folder: Tia Dalma]]
!!Tia Dalma[[spoiler:[=/=]Calypso]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/calypso_6.jpg]]
[[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.

* MinorMajorCharacter: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the very first film. As the King of Spain, he's the technical owner of Cortés' disappeared treasure, the Spaniard's superior, and Salazar's former employer. However, he only has one scene in the saga, and it's short.

* AmbiguousSituation: The only time he gets ready to fight personally, against Blackbeard nothing less, his opponent is [[spoiler:killed by Barbossa]] before the duel can begin. This leaves open the question whether the Spaniard would be then revealed to be understandably out of his league or he could have really taken somehow on the sorcerous pirate.

* EnigmaticMinion: To the King of Spain. Considering he's following orders and has only a couple lines, we never hear his own thoughts or motives on the whole matter.

* PetTheDog: He shows respect for the first enemy killed, and is pretty polite to Angélica, kindly calling her ''Senorita''.

* TheUnfought: He never duels any character, nor gets his hands dirty. He does squares up with Blackbeard, but [[spoiler:the latter is killed InTheBack]] before they can go at it.

* MinorMajorCharacter: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the very first film. As the King of Spain, he's the technical owner of Cortés' disappeared treasure, the Spaniard's superior, and Salazar's former employer. However, he only has one scene in the saga, and it's a short one.

An officer in the employ of the King of Spain; he's the first party to set out after the Fountain of Youth, which prompts King George II to send Barbarossa to claim it for himself. This in turn, prompts Blackbeard (and Jack) to set sail as well, kicking off the plot for the entire fourth movie. For the most part he serves as a distant enemy to all the other seekers of the Fountain of Youth, actually ending up being the last to get there. His actions once getting there, however, have the most drastic consequences.

* AmbiguousSituation: The only time he gets ready to fight personally, against Blackbeard nothing less, his opponent is [[spoiler:killed by Barbossa]] before the duel can begin. This leaves open the question whether the Spaniard would be then revealed to be understandably out of his league or he could really haven taken on the sorcerous pirate.
* 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'' outrun. Another instance is when, shortly after he busts Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa's attempts at stealing the 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.

* EnigmaticMinion: To the King of Spain. Considering he's following orders, we never hear his own thoughts or motives on the whole matter.

* InvincibleVillain: Or rather, [[InvincibleHero Invincible Hero]] [[HeroAntagonist Antagonist]]. Nevertheless, he 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 with nobody else being able to stop him. Maybe it's the fact that [[spoiler:he's on a MissionFromGod.]]

!Spanish Empire

* BigBadEnsemble: He and George II are their sides' respective GreaterScopeVillain, although he resembles more a HeroAntagonist than a villain in reality.

* GreaterScopeVillain: As the head of the Spanish Empire, he might be considered the single most poweful antagonist at the time the series is set; only King George II could rival him, and the film's portrayal 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 outcome.

* MinorMajorCharacter: His presence is indirectly felt through the franchise since the very first film. As the King of Spain, he's the technical owner of Cortés' cursed treasure, the Spaniard's superior, and Salazar's former employer. However, he only has one scene in the saga, and it's a short one.

* RealMenLoveJesus: This leads to him [[spoiler:disapproving of the Fountain of Youth, seeing it as an affront to God and ordering it to 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 HumanSacrifice. Furthermore, it does not grant eternal life; it just extends life for as long as the sacrifices keep coming and doesn't make you immortal just like he says.]]

* 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 passes by Barbossa's ship even though he had them outgunned and outnumbered. Another instance is when, shortly after he busts Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa's attempts at stealing the 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.

* EnigmaticMinion: To the King of Spain. Until the end, we never hear his own thoughts or motives on the whole matter.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He'll kill enemy soldiers but he'd rather not kill women if he doesn't have to.

* InvincibleVillain: Or rather, [[InvincibleHero Invincible Hero]] [[HeroAntagonist Antagonist]]. Nevertheless, he 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 with nobody else being able to stop him. [[spoiler:Maybe it's the fact that he's on a MissionFromGod.]]

* NoNameGiven: He doesn't introduce himself and is only ever referred to as "the Spaniard."
* NotWorthKilling: The Spaniard and his ships come across Barbossa's ship while hunting for the Fountain of Youth. Though outnumbered, the British prepare for an attack, only it never comes. The Spaniard doesn't even look in their direction because he doesn't think they're worth the time it'd take to crush them.

[[folder: Tia Dalma]]
!!Tia Dalma[[spoiler:[=/=]Calypso]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/calypso_6.jpg]]
[[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.

* 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.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: [[spoiler:After she is set free she is huge]]
* 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.
* 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...]]
* 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]].
* 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.
* 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.
* {{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: 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.

* 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.
* ModelCouple: With Philip.
* 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.
* OneTrueLove: With Philip.
* 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: Prison Dog]]
!!Prison Dog
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->'''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.
* 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.]]
* 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 the ''Price of Freedom'' novel that the dog has been around since Jack was just a child.

[[folder: The Spaniard]]
!!The Spaniard
->'''Played by:''' Creator/OscarJaenada
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]''
[[quoteright:296:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spaniardinfobox2.jpg]]

An officer in the employ of the King of Spain; he's the first party to set out after the Fountain of Youth, which prompts King George II to send Barbarossa to claim it for himself. This in turn, prompts Blackbeard (and Jack) to set sail as well, kicking off the plot for the entire fourth movie. For the most part he serves as a distant enemy to all the other seekers of the Fountain of Youth, actually ending up being the last to get there. His actions once getting there, however, have the most drastic consequences.

* 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 passes by Barbossa's ship even though he had them outgunned and outnumbered. Another instance is when, shortly after he busts Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa's attempts at stealing the 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.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Blackbeard and Barbossa who are pursuing their 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.]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[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 of Spain. Until the end, we never hear his own thoughts or motives on the whole matter.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He'll kill enemy soldiers but he'd rather not kill women if he doesn't have to.
* GratuitousSpanish: ''Señorita'', the chalices, ''por favor''!
* HeroAntagonist: He's just an officer, a patriot and a Catholic doing what he believes to be best for his country, his king and his God.
* InvincibleVillain: Or rather, [[InvincibleHero Invincible Hero]] [[HeroAntagonist Antagonist]]. Nevertheless, he 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 with nobody else being able to stop him. [[spoiler:Maybe it's the fact that he's on a MissionFromGod.]]
* 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 doesn't introduce himself and is only ever referred to as "the Spaniard."
* NotWorthKilling: The Spaniard and his ships come across Barbossa's ship while hunting for the Fountain of Youth. Though outnumbered, the British prepare for an attack, only it never comes. The Spaniard doesn't even look in their direction because he doesn't think they're worth the time it'd take to crush them.
* PetTheDog: Although he kills anyone who steps on his way, [[WouldntHitAGirl he refuses to kill a woman]] and kindly call her ''Senorita''.
* 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.'']]
** This leads to him [[spoiler:disapproving of the Fountain of Youth, seeing it as an affront to God. 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 HumanSacrifice. Furthermore, it does not grant eternal life; it just extends life for as long as the sacrifices keep coming and doesn't make you immortal just like he says]].
* ReligiousBruiser: He's a devoted Catholic and badass willing to go up against zombie pirates and Blackbeard himself.
* VillainRespect: Not so much a villain as he is just a man on an opposing side but [[spoiler:after Lieutenant Groves is shot dead while proclaiming the Fountain of Youth as the property of King George II]], the Spaniard calmly tells his men to 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.

[[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.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: If they show up in a scene, someone's getting one for offending them.
* 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.

* 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.
** A few quick shots in the actual films show her with shoes on.

** This leads to a case of FridgeBrilliance. He [[spoiler:disapproves of the Fountain of Youth, seeing it as an affront to God. 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 HumanSacrifice. Furthermore, it does not grant eternal life; it just extends life for as long as the sacrifices keep coming and doesn't make you immortal just like he says]].

* 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.

->'''Played by:''' Lauren Maher (Scarlett), Vanessa Branch (Giselle)

* 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 arc.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:while technically not a bad guy, he succeeds in his goal of destroying the Fountain of Youth.]]

!!Tia Dalma[=/=][[spoiler:Calypso]]

!!Tia Dalma[=/=]Calypso

->'''Played by:''' Óscar Jaenada

* TheBeastMaster: Of crabs, which she's shown to have some control over. Notably the pieces she uses in a few of her magic rituals are 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]].

%%* AntiNihilist: She is this alongside Phillip.

* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Blackbeard and technically King George II who are pursuing their 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.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: Along with Blackbeard and Barbossa who are pursuing their own agendas during ''On Stranger Tides'', the Spaniard is competing with them to find the Fountain of Youth. Though, of the three, he has the least screen time [[spoiler:and really can't even be considered a villain.]]

%%* TheBeastMaster: To crabs.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: She and Philip go threw a lot in order to be happy together.

* LightningBruser: She is strong, durable and fast.