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Maccus was a sailor who served as First Mate  aboard the Flying Dutchman under Captain Davy Jones . He was part of the crew during the time of Jack Sparrow 's search for the Dead Man's Chest containing the heart of Davy Jones. Maccus was the crewman who was placed in charge of the other crewmen when they travelled to Isla Cruces to retrieve the Chest in Jones' stead, as the captain could only step on land once every ten years. Maccus was the one who ordered the crew to summon the Kraken , doing so with an evil, cold smile. After Jack was killed by the Kraken, Maccus remarked that not even Sparrow could best the devil. By the time the East India Trading Company under Lord Cutler Beckett assumed command of the Flying Dutchman, Maccus was still the ship's First Mate. When Admiral James Norrington was found dead at the hands of Bootstrap Bill Turner , Maccus and the crew were shocked. When Davy Jones arrived, Maccus was the one who ordered the crew to return t...

Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. The character was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio , and is portrayed by Johnny Depp . The characterization of Sparrow is based on a combination of The Rolling Stones ' guitarist Keith Richards and Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew . He first appears in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . He later appears in the sequels Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). In the films, Sparrow is one of the nine pirate lords in the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous and survives mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than by force, opting to flee most dangerous situations and to fight only when necessary. Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the Black Pearl , from his mutinous first mate, Hector B...

Davy Jones is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, portrayed by Bill Nighy . He appears in the second film Dead Man's Chest and returns in the third film At World's End . He is the captain of the Flying Dutchman (based on the ghost ship of the same name ). The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was named by Entertainment Weekly as the tenth favorite computer generated film character in film history, behind King Kong in 2007. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for Visual Effects for Dead Man's Chest. The character is based on the superstition of Davy Jones' Locker . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean) ------------------------------ Pirates of the Caribbean  is a  Disney   media franchise  encompassing numerous theme park attractions, a  series of films , and  spin-off novels , as well as a number of...

The Flying Dutchman , or simply referred to as the Dutchman, is a fictional ship in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean . The ship made its first appearance in Dead Man's Chest under the command of the fictional captain, Davy Jones . The story and attributes of the ship were inspired by the actual Flying Dutchman of nautical lore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean) ------------------------------ The Flying Dutchman ( Dutch : De Vliegende Hollander ) is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The oldest extant version has been dated to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. If hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman will try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. In oc...