History Main / DavyJones

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': For the most part, references to Davy Jones's locker are about the guy from Music/TheMonkees (who even makes a cameo appearance on "[=SpongeBob=] vs. The Big One"). Two appearances, however, seem to be the entity.

* ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame'': Davy Jones is the leader of the Cursed, a faction of supernatural and ghostly pirates introduced in Set 6 ("Curse of Davy Jones"), which conists of ghosts, zombies, cannibals, FishPeople, and other dark magic-loving folk. Jones is depicted as a full-on GodOfEvil and the closest the game had to a BigBad.

* ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame'': Davy Jones is the leader of the Cursed, a faction of supernatural and ghostly pirates introduced in Set 6 ("Curse of DavyJones"), which conists of ghosts, zombies, cannibals, FishPeople, and other dark magic-loving folk. Jones is depicted as a full-on GodOfEvil and the closest the game had to a BigBad.

* ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame'': You can't attach crew members to sea monsters. But since every rule in that game has a piece with the power to negate it, you ''can'' equip Davy Jones to them, as he's portrayed as a sort of pirate zombie. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJbFoCTVOs As CR puts it...]]
-->''Sea Monsters can't carry any cargo or living crewmember. Ah, but I have a special crewmember, one who isn't among the living. Davy Jones himself! Captain of all cursed pirate vessels, which means only he and he alone can be linked to the Kraken herself. You ever see an undead pirate king ride atop a giant cephalopod? You'd drop anchor right there if you did!''

If he's not the most prestigious face of Western Myth/NauticalFolklore, Davy Jones[[note]]Alternatively Davie Jones, Davey Jones, and Old Davy[[/note]] is giving the other entrants a run for their money. His character is fluid, but always a powerful ocean entity best to be avoided, notwithstanding the occasional AdaptationalHeroism that's inevitable with over 300 years worth of material. He's primarily known from the idiom "Davy Jones' locker", which refers to {{Hell}} or the ocean floor as a final resting place for ships and sailors. A ship that passes the line is likely to catch his attention and be visited.

Because Jones is a folkloric invention by people who spend most of their lives away on a boat, it's uncertain when and how he came to be. The earliest known mention of him and his locker, at that time an established term, is in ''Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts'' from 1726. As for Davy's origins, the leading theory regarding "Jones" is that it's based on the [[Literature/BookOfJonah Biblical Jonah]]. "Davy" is of less certain origin, with the three primary suggestions being "duffy" ("duppy"; "evil spirit"), "devil", and Saint David of Wales. Another theory is that Davy Jones is named after someone. Traditionally, he resides on the bottom of the ocean, specifically at the Equator. Regardless "Davy Jones" would be a rather [[TomTheDarkLord unremarkable name]] otherwise, making it all the more jarring.

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Davy Jones is the BigBad of ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' and ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''. In the past, he was a mortal pirate until he fell in love with the sea goddess Calypso. For her, he became the captain of the ''FlyingDutchman'' and the [[{{Psychopomp}} ferryman for the souls lost at sea]]. In return, she'd be waiting for him every ten years to spend a day on land together. She didn't show up, so Davy arranged for her to be trapped in mortal form. However, because he still loved her and couldn't bear the emotional turmoil, he carved out his own heart and locked it away in the Dead Man's Chest, whose key he kept in his beard. Becoming corrupted, Davy and his crew transformed into sea creature-human hybrids, and went on to gather more heads for the crew by offering lost souls the choice of enlisting or truly dying. Eventually, his heart came into the possession of Cutler Beckett, who could order the demon pirate around with it. Then Calypso was set free and, learning of Davy Jones's betrayal, unleashed her powers on the sea until his heart was pierced and he died.\\\

* ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'' has Davy Jones as the Primordial God of the Sea, making him TopGod among the other sea deities. [[spoiler:He chooses Ron Weasley as his divine champion, [[TheEngineer due to Ron having the goal of keeping shipgirls from returning to Davy's Locker for as long as possible.]]

* ''HarryAndTheShipgirls'' has Davy Jones as the Primordial God of the Sea, making him TopGod among the other sea deities. [[spoiler:He chooses Ron Weasley as his divine champion, [[TheEngineer due to Ron having the goal of keeping shipgirls from returning to Davy's Locker for as long as possible.]]

* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPeregrinePickle'' describes Davy Jones thusly: "I'll be damned if it was not Davy Jones himself: I know him by his saucer-eyes, his three rows of teeth, his horns and tail, and the blue smoak that came out of his nostrils. What does the black-guard, hell's baby want with me? I'm sure I never committed murder, except in the way of my profession, nor wronged any man whatsomever since I first went to sea." This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes:, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.

* ''VideoGame/BloodMoney'' have several underwater stages where, in the midst of battling enemies, your submarine can come across a shop called "Davy Jones' Equipment Locker". WHich you can purchase health, torpedoes, and various power-ups from.

If he's not the most prestigious face of Western Myth/NauticalFolklore, Davy Jones[[note]]Alternatively Davie Jones, Davey Jones, and Old Davy[[/note]] is giving the other entrants a run for their money. His character is fluid, but always a powerful ocean entity best to be avoided, notwithstanding the occasional AdaptationalHeroism that's inevitable with over 300 years worth of material. He's primarily known from the idiom "Davy Jones' locker", which refers to {{Hell}} or the ocean floor as a final resting place for ships and sailors.

Because Jones is a folkloric invention by people who spend most of their lives away on a boat, it's uncertain when and how he came to be. The earliest known mention of him and his locker, at that time an established term, is in ''Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts'' from 1726. As for Davy's origins, the leading theory regarding "Jones" is that it's based on the [[Literature/BookOfJonah Biblical Jonah]]. "Davy" is of less certain origin, with the three primary suggestions being "duffy" ("duppy"; "evil spirit"), "devil", and Saint David of Wales. Another theory is that Davy Jones is named after someone. Traditionally, he resides on the bottom of the ocean, specifically at the Equator. A ship that passes the line is likely to catch his attention and be visited.

A SubTrope of Myth/NauticalFolklore, SatanicArchetype, LordOfTheOcean, and GhostPirate. See also FlyingDutchman. Not to be confused with the [[Music/TheMonkees musician Davy Jones]] or Music/DavidBowie, officially David Jones, who took a stage name to avoid confusion with the other musician.

** LordOfTheOcean: Sometimes, Davy Jones is the big man of the ocean himself, up to being nothing more than another name for Neptune. In this context, Davy is more of a loose cannon than the usual ocean god, who already is temperamental, but he's not "evil". This version may be accompanied by other sea spirits, [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]] in particular.

Because Jones is a folkloric invention and by people who spend most of their lives away on a boat, it's uncertain when and how he came to be. The earliest known mention of him and his locker, at that time an established term, is in ''Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts'' from 1726. As for Davy's origins, the leading theory regarding "Jones" is that it's based on the [[Literature/BookOfJonah Biblical Jonah]]. "Davy" is of less certain origin, with the three primary suggestions being "duffy" ("duppy"; "evil spirit"), "devil", and Saint David of Wales. Another theory is that Davy Jones is named after someone. Traditionally, he resides on the bottom of the ocean, specifically at the Equator. A ship that passes the line is likely to catch his attention and be visited.

** "[[Recap/TheCurseOfBikiniBottomSquidwardInClarinetland The Curse of Bikini Bottom]]": Davy Jones's locker is where the FlyingDutchman stores his clothes. A skeleton, addressed as "Davy", also is inside. The Flying Dutchman speaks to him as if alive, but he doesn't appear to be so.

* Davy Jones is the BigBad of "Davy Jones' Locker" in #10 of the supernatural comic book version of ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea''. He's depicted as an old sailor who goes around [[MagicalBarefooter barefoot]], is armed with a [[ProngsOfPoseidon trident]], and rides a [[SeahorseSteed seahorse]]. Because he is a myth, he has no physical substance and can hurt but not be hurt, prompting Admiral Nelson to declare him a WillOTheWisp. His two main henchmen are the pirate UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} and the [[OurSirensAreDifferent siren]] Elaine. Davy is a CollectorOfTheStrange; that being whichever ship catches his fancy and the ''Seaview'' is set to be added to his locker. The crew can't actually beat the trio (and the rest of Davy's crew), just hold them off, but then Nelson [[AllJustADream awakes]] from what he's told was a crew-wide black-out due to a faulty oxygen unit. [[OrWasItADream Nelson wonders if Davy Jones used his dark powers to make them think that so he can strike again another time.]]
* ComicBook/MaryMarvel befriends Davy Jones in "Mary Marvel Dives to Davy Jones' Locker!". This Jones is a 3000-year old survivor of {{Atlantis}}. At the time, the Atlanteans invented artificial gills to breathe underwater and they even could return life to a recently drowned person. However, the gills are permanent and prevent the wearer from breathing air. In the past millennia Davy Jones has been running an organization, his famed locker, to save and house drowned people. He uses sunken ships and their cargo to create more living space. Recently, two saved souls have been sinking ships to get a starting fortune with which to return to the surface, unaware that they can't breathe air anymore. It makes it a simple case for Mary.

* Davy Jones became part of the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' universe in the 1941 storyline ''Davy Jones and the Sea Goon''. Initially presented as an evil entity even King Neptune feared, he turned out to be pretty friendly. He is a sea spirit who looks like an old pirate wearing a Phrygian cap and who inhabits the ocean floor, living in his locker located in a wreck.

* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', [[spoiler:this is where [[TheWoobie poor Merry]] ends up for her [[TimeSkip two years' training]]. Mind you, Merry is the [[HouseFey klabau]][[AnthropomorphicPersonification termann]] of the crew's first ship [[HumanityEnsues turned human]], so it stands to reason that for her it's practically a FateWorseThanDeath.]]

* Davy Jones is the BigBad of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean: [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' and ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]''. In the past, he was a mortal pirate until he fell in love with the sea goddess Calypso. For her, he became the captain of the ''FlyingDutchman'' and the [[{{Psychopomp}} ferryman for the souls lost at sea]]. In return, she'd be waiting for him every ten years to spend a day on land together. She didn't show up, so Davy arranged for her to be trapped in mortal form. However, because he still loved her and couldn't bear the emotional turmoil, he carved out his own heart and locked it away in the Dead Man's Chest, whose key he kept in his beard. Becoming corrupted, Davy and his crew transformed into sea creature-human hybrids, and went on to gather more heads for the crew by offering lost souls the choice of enlisting or truly dying. Eventually, his heart came into the possession of Cutler Beckett, who could order the demon pirate around with it. Then Calypso was set free and, learning of Davy Jones's betrayal, unleashed her powers on the sea until his heart was pierced and he died.\\\

* ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'' describes Davy Jones thusly: "I'll be damned if it was not Davy Jones himself: I know him by his saucer-eyes, his three rows of teeth, his horns and tail, and the blue smoak that came out of his nostrils. What does the black-guard, hell's baby want with me? I'm sure I never committed murder, except in the way of my profession, nor wronged any man whatsomever since I first went to sea." This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes:, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
* In Vol. 103 of ''{{Magazine/Punch}}'', the entry Davy Jones' Locker is written by Davy Jones himself in response to the HMS ''Howe'' running aground on a shoal due to reliance on outdated charts. He merrily if scathingly mocks the skill of modern-day sailors that ensures he won't be out of a job for a long time to come despite so-called "scientific progress". He compares himself to other nautical threats who do face their final days, give or take his buddy Death, calls himself the Demon-Sexton of the Deep, and remarks that Neptune hates him for having equal say in his kingdom.
* Possibly inspired by the ''Punch'' story is "On the Dry Seas" by Keith Preston. It mourns the disappearance of all terrors of the sea and wonders if perhaps Davy Jones closed his locker when [[AnthropomorphicVice John Barleycorn]], a personification of beer, went under.
* In ''Literature/TheFigurehead'', Davy Jones is a sea god and has a mermaid daughter. They reside at the Equator. When the titular figurehead refuses to acknowledge her and her love for him, the mermaid has Davy sink the ship with a summoned hurricane so she can take the figurehead home with her.
* Unsurprisingly, Davy Jones appears in several works by Creator/JohnMasefield, though surprisingly never as a protagonist.
** Masefield opens ''A Sailor's Garland'' with "Old Sailors", presumably an adaptation of a sea shanty. In the last stanza, the speaker wishes that "in Davy Jones's Taverns may [old sailors] sit at ease".

** In "Davy Jones's Gift", the Devil and Davy Jones sometimes meet to play cards and throw dice over each other's right to claim a soul, because they find it boring to always deal with landsmen and sailorfolk respectively. Davy cajoles the Devil into betting the soul of a bishop and wins, angering the Devil. To keep the peace, Davy gives him a reefer in return. The devil is delighted until he learns that Davy tricked him, for no reefer has a soul to begin with.
* The implication raised in "The Figurehead" by Cicely Fox Smith is that you'd want a female figurehead specifically because Davy Jones is kind of a DirtyOldMan. As the finishing touches are to be added to a new ship, the owner insists that his property won't have "one of those outrageous heathen goddesses with hardly any clothes" for a figurehead and that the ship will be better off flaunting the likeness of his pious self. The ship's finished as per his instructions and sets sails. However, when the ship reaches Southern waters, Davy Jones comes out of his skeletal home to check out the figurehead. He's enraged to find not a sexy broad, but an ugly bloke. So he rips off the figurehead and throws it far away from him.
* In ''Literature/DavyAndTheGoblin'', Davy is mistaken by the Sea-Dog for the addressee of a letter he's been safe-keeping. The letter is meant for Davy Jones and contains an unfinished poem.
* In ''Literature/ThePearlAndThePumpkin'', Davy Jones' Locker is a boarding house for drowned seamen of all stripes, including pirates. Davy Jones is the proprietor and the [[{{Pun}} maids are mermaids]]. As much as he finds his infamous boarders -- the [[Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner Ancient Mariner]], UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy Captain Kidd]], [[Literature/TreasureIsland Long John Silver]], and [[Literature/MrMidshipmanEasy Midshipman Easy]] -- tiresome, he does lead them in a quest to learn the secret of growing exceptional pumpkins (for pie) or otherwise [[ToServeMan butcher the secret-holder into pies]]. Mother Carey and Neptune save the secret-holder and get the pirates to help rescue the Corn Dodger, so that, as they wanted, they'll get their hands on the pumpkin-growing secret.

* Saviour Pirotta's ''The Buccaneering Book of Pirates'' contains the ShortStory "Davey Jones' Locker". In it, Captain Marriott orders an attack on a schooner [[SchmuckBait which decks hold many treasure chests out in the open]]. The pirate is told that this has to be the ''FlyingDutchman'', but he doesn't believe in superstition and [[TooDumbToLive ascribes the fact that no one can be seen manning vessal and its red glow]] to a very capable captain. Just as his crew is about to attack, a vicious storm kicks up. The last thing Marriott sees before drowning is the other ship's captain: a shrouded figure in tattered rags. Thereafter, he finds himself on the ocean floor, where Davy Jones -- a pirate skeleton [[TheDeadHaveEyes with glaring eyes]] sitting on a chest -- greets him.
* In "Literature/ThePhantomShip1927", Davy Jones and a ghostly woman sail a phantom ship to hunt down a captain who for unknown reasons has caught their attention. They kill him and his daughter.

* Davy Jones appears as a spectre to the poorest sailor aboard a ship in "Down Below" by Stormfrun. He [[DealWithTheDevil promises to make him the richest man of the entire crew]] if he signs over his soul in blood. That's all good with the sailor and he signs, [[ExactWords realizing his error]] when one by one his colleagues perish through freak circumstances.

* Davey Jones' Locker in ''Pinball/BlackRose'' has a skeletal pirate at the entrance, ostensibly Old Davey himself.

* The protagonist of ''[[Film/DavyJonesLocker Davy Jones' Locker]]'' is a boy named Joey, who [[AllJustADream hallucinates]] that he's joined a pirate crew and has to get a treasure from the ocean floor for them. He dives and ends up in a bar of sorts called Davy's Place, where ghosts and one mermaid wander. Davy himself drops by just in time grant to Joey the ability to breathe under water. Referred to as the Ghost King, the Pirate King, and the King of the Undersea, Davy looks like an old sailor with a net cape and is fairly jolly. He also has a shell chariot pulled by hippocamps. At first he tries to get the pirates to accept books as the [[WorthlessTreasureTwist true treasure]], but when they won't take that he gives them his gold so they'll leave Joey alone. Then they want the books after all, which Davy lets them pay for with the gold.

* In ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame'', you can't attach crew members to sea monsters. But since every rule in that game has a piece with the power to negate it, you ''can'' equip Davy Jones to them, as he's portrayed as a sort of pirate zombie. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJbFoCTVOs As CR puts it...]]

* In ''Davy Jones, or, Harlequin and Mother Carey's Chickens'' by W. Barrymore, Davy Jones is Mother Carey's NumberTwo. They have three guests over for dinner at the sea floor just off the coast of North Foreland, those guests being a mermaid named Finny Fanny, the fishmonger [[Theatre/TheMayorOfGarret Major Sturgeon]], and the pirate [[Literature/JohnDory John Dory]]. Fanny nearly gets abducted by [[Theatre/BlackEyedSusan Captain Crosstree]], enraging Mother Carey and Davy Jones, but their ire hits the wrong person: William. He, however, is under protection of the Polar Star, forcing the duo to call upon their guests for aid. They lose and the quintet has to return to the sea.
* In the classroom play ''The Runaway Pirate'' by Rowena Bennett, a WoodenShipsAndIronMen pirate escapes from Davy Jones' locker while the spirit is asleep. He [[FishOutOfTemporalWater emerges in modern times]] to find the world too confusing for his liking and so returns to Davy Jones.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonFable'': The "Water Orb" Saga does a twist on the myth. Captain Davey himself is a GhostPirate and the location he and his crew haunt is called The Locker, a settlement of sunken ships that have been repurposed into a town after the water was made breathable. Davey himself is not quite the lord of the ocean, with that honor going to [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu expy]] Kathool Atchoo, whom Davey serves.
* In ''Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones'', Davy Jones lived a happy but poor fisherman's life with his daughter until he [[MakeAWish demanded better]] for them and was [[BornLucky gifted with luck]]. He worked himself up to merchant, but one who was dishonest and compensated his long absences from home with gifts that his daughter grew to resent. Then a gang of pirates attacked the Jones' home when they got the short end in a deal and killed her. Davy Jones wished to live long enough to resurrect his daughter, which was fulfilled by [[BlessedWithSuck him getting immense demonic powers, including immortality, but nothing useful for reviving.]] More or less as he operated as a merchant, as a pirate he arm-twisted his prisoners into enlisting their souls until his daughter lived again. At first he was optimistic, but after the first and best shot at reviving the girl failed, he stopped hoping. After some centuries, the curator Sara Black found the missing ingredient, brought the daughter back to life, and put Davy and his crew to rest.
* ''VideoGame/RealmOfTheMadGod'' has him as the mid-game dungeon boss of Davy Jones' Locker. He'll chase you around the room periodically with highly damaging shots which can make you bleed, and the only way to make him vulnerable is to attack all of the lanterns in his room in a short amount of time. He has plenty of minions to slow you down and there are quite a few ways for the fight to go sour- if he catches up to you, you'd better have a trigger finger on the Nexus button, or you're toast. He's dangerous to solo, but in a group (which will often happen) his attention is divided enough and there's usually enough people to weather him down and activate the lanterns quickly. Upon death, he can drop some niche items for the Trickster class.
* In ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'', the route to the UnderwaterBossBattle in Jolly Roger's Lagoon involves opening an undersea locker with the name "D. Jones" on it.

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* Played with starting Chapter 5 of ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}''. A "local business owner" named Dave Jones makes an appearance. He has a hook hand. Despite his name and aesthetic, [[spoiler:he's a vampire who may or may not be the ''actual'' Davey Jones. He's also the chief of police with the entire force [[TheRenfield in his thrall]], and using crooked means to buy land all across the city for some nefarious purpose]].

* "The First Flying Fish" short of the {{Creator/Terrytoons}} collection depicts a hammerhead shark and a sawfish working for the Davy Jones Building Corp., ostensibly owned by Davy Jones. The corporation's business model appears to be renovating sunken ships to rent out as apartments.
* "The Haunted Ship" short of the [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Aesop's Fables collection]] features Davy Jones as the captain of the ''Davy Jones'', a haunted and infested sunken ship. Waffles and Don board it and find a piano, which they play to appease the other creatures. Unfortunately, their music also awakens Davy Jones, a skeleton wearing a bicorne. He comes out of his cabin -- his locker -- and gives chase. Although Waffles and Don are swimming back to the surface, it isn't shown how the chase ends.
* He's not named, but it follows that the pirate living on the ocean floor in "Davy Jones' Locker" from the ''WesternAnimation/WillieWhopper'' series is Davy Jones. Willie and Mary are on a boat, which get sunk by King Neptune when they accidentally harass him. The wreck gets collected by a lobster, whom the duo follows to the wreck that serves as the home of Davy Jones: a drunk, rotund, peg-legged pirate. They try to appease him with music and dance, but when he gets handsy with Mary, Willie is forced to fight him.
* Based on the poem, "WesternAnimation/TheFigurehead" emphasizes the sea god version by making Davy huge. Like, the mermaid is human-sized and she's smaller than his ear.
* For the most part, references to Davy Jones's locker in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' are about the guy from Music/TheMonkees (who even makes a cameo appearance on "[=SpongeBob=] vs. The Big One"). Two appearances, however, seem to be the entity. In "The Curse of Bikini Bottom", Davy Jones's locker is where the FlyingDutchman stores his clothes. A skeleton, addressed as "Davy", also is inside. The Flying Dutchman speaks to him as if alive, but he doesn't appear to be so. In "Krusty Kleaners", [=SpongeBob=] pogo-sticks through an office and lands in Davy Jones's cubicle, occupied by a skeleton. It's just as unlife as the previous time, but this episode he wears pirate clothes (and a mustache). One line in "Bossy Boots" uses his name as an exclamation when Spongebob asks "What in the name of Davey Jones is a sah-lad??"
* Prior to ''Spongebob'', writers Stephen Hillenberg and Mark O'Hare [[JustForPun tested the waters]] with the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Fish-N-Chumps," which features an OverlyLongGag of boat rental clerk Captain Crappy Jack telling an absurdly long, largely [[{{Improv}} ad-libbed]] (by Creator/TomKenny) fishing story. One such ad-lib was about "...a scream that could be heard from Davey Jones lockers! Mickey Dolan's locker, too. And Peter Torque's locker. All Music/TheMonkees had lockers." It's safe to say Hillenberg, O'Hare and Kenny really liked this joke.

If he's not the most prestigious face of Western Myth/NauticalFolklore, Davy Jones[[note]]Alternatively Davie Jones, Davey Jones, and Old Davy[[/note]] is giving the other entrants a run for their money. His character is fluid, but always a powerful ocean entity best to be avoided, notwithstanding the occasional AdaptationalHeroism that's inevitable with over 300 years worth of material. He's primarily known from the idiom Davy Jones' locker, which refers to {{Hell}} or the ocean floor as a final resting place for ships and sailors.

** SatanicArchetype: The primary identification for Davy Jones is that of the [[{{Satan}} Devil]] or specifically the devil of the ocean. His appearance may be human, [[UncannyValley semi-human]], or outright monstrous. This version has a minor tradition of being either the [[UnholyMatrimony husband]] or the [[PlatonicLifePartners partner-in-crime]] of Mother Carey, an entity that's somewhere in the middle of a [[WitchClassic witch]], a {{psychopomp}}, and a [[EnthrallingSiren siren]]. She has her own idiom in "Mother Carey's chickens", referring to storm petrels.

* Davy Jones is the BigBad of "Davy Jones' Locker" in #10 of the supernatural comic book version of ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea''. He's depicted as an old sailor who goes around [[MagicalBarefooter barefoot]], is armed with a [[ProngsOfPoseidon trident]], and rides a [[SeahorseSteed seahorse]]. Because he is a myth, he has no physical substance and can hurt but not be hurt, prompting Admiral Nelson to declare him a WillOTheWisp. His two main henchmen are the pirate UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} and the [[EnthrallingSiren siren]] Elaine. Davy is a CollectorOfTheStrange; that being whichever ship catches his fancy and the ''Seaview'' is set to be added to his locker. The crew can't actually beat the trio (and the rest of Davy's crew), just hold them off, but then Nelson [[AllJustADream awakes]] from what he's told was a crew-wide black-out due to a faulty oxygen unit. [[OrWasItADream Nelson wonders if Davy Jones used his dark powers to make them think that so he can strike again another time.]]

* In ''Literature/ThePhantomShip'', Davy Jones and a ghostly woman sail a phantom ship to hunt down a captain who for unknown reasons has caught their attention. They kill him and his daughter.

* Possibly inspired by the ''Punch'' story is "On the Dry Seas" by Keith Preston. It mourns the disappearance of all terrors of the sea and wonders if perhaps Davy Jones closed his locker when [[JohnBarleycornAndFriends John Barleycorn]] went under.