He also speaks with a clearly distinguishable, albeit very thick, Scottish accent. Davy Jones also has a crustacean-style crab-like claw for his left arm which is shown to be incredibly powerful as he can snap a sword in two without difficulty, he has a long tentacle in place of the index finger on his right hand and his right leg is that of a crab (resembling a pegleg). Jones' face lacks a nose, and instead has one short, hollow tentacle called a siphon (on the left side of his face) that acts as part of his respiratory system, capable of inhaling and exhaling, which we see in the second film as he smokes his pipe. Throughout the films, Jones uses the 46 tentacles of his 'beard' like fingers to manipulate objects, such as the Dead Man's Chest key (he shows this during a game of Liar's Dice), his hat (when his ship submerges), and the keys of his vast pipe organ while dueling Captain Jack Sparrow in the climactic maelstrom battle sequence of the third film, he waves, wags, wiggles all of his 'beard-tentacles' at once while screaming in frightening fashion in an effort to scare Sparrow, which, in context, appears humorous.Ī prominent sac bulges from under the back of his barnacle-encrusted tricorne. Jones' most striking feature is his cephalopod-like head, with octupus-like tentacles giving the illusion of a thick beard, which is similar to the head of Cthulhu.

He was played by Bill Nighy in the second and third films.ĭavy Jones was designed by the films' producers to be a mixture of various aquatic flora and fauna features. He is only given mention in the first and fourth movies, Curse of the Black Pearl and On Stranger Tides. He serves as the primary antagonist of the second film of the franchise, Dead Man's Chest but is reduced to the secondary antagonist in the third film, At World's End. Captain Davy Jones is a fictional character from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, loosely based on the old seaman's legend of Davy Jones' Locker.

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