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Tia Dalma

Tia Dalma (famously known as Calypso), is a character from Pirates of the Caribbean, who is a sexy, beautiful, and mysterious voodoo priestess and sea goddess who has black teeth and blue lips, her hair in dreadlocks, and speaks in Jamaican Patois. She wears a low cut dress that shows her cleavage and bare shoulders. Tia Dalma's personality is flirty, playful, and seductive. She is an ally to Jack Sparrow, trading with him, aiding in his rescue, and occasionally flirting. It is implied they shared a romantic history.

When the events of Dead Man's Chest begin, Jack Sparrow returns to see Tia Dalma after many years, in need of her assistance. Tia Dalma was happy to see Jack Sparrow again, but when she meets Will Turner she already knows his name and tells him that he has "a touch of destiny". She also starts flirting with him. When Will sits near Tia Dalma, she smiles and touches his face with her hand while flirting with him. Jack plans to find the Dead Man's Chest. This chest contains Jones's heart, and offers the only means to kill him. A series of trades takes place, leaving Jack with the location of the Flying Dutchman and a jar of dirt to protect him from Jones, while Tia Dalma gains possession of the undead monkey belonging to the late Captain Barbossa.

Jack's crew returns to Tia Dalma's shack after Jack is dragged to Davy Jones's Locker by the Kraken. Tia has apparently foreseen this eventuality, and informs the mourning crew that there is a chance to save Jack. She reveals that she has resurrected Barbossa, who will help lead the rescue mission.

Tia Dalma joins Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and the rest of the Black Pearl's crew as they travel to Singapore. There, they infiltrate Sao Feng's headquarters to acquire the navigational chart needed to sail to World's End and Davy Jones' Locker, barely escaping the clutches of the East India Trading Company. On the journey, she explains to Pintel and Ragetti that Jack Sparrow cannot be resurrected the same way Barbossa was because Sparrow was "taken" by the Kraken while Barbossa died from normal, earthly causes. When rescuing Jack from the Locker, Tia Dalma flirts with him and references a presumed past romantic relationship, so he lets her continue on with his crew. As the group searches for an escape route back to the mortal world, they encounter numerous souls adrift in the water. Tia Dalma tells the group the story of Davy Jones and Calypso, but does not reveal her identity. While caressing her locket, she reminisces that Jones was once human.

Later on, when the Black Pearl arrives at Shipwreck Cove. Tia Dalma conversing with Barbossa. She then accused him on intending to betray her and therefore reminds him on that he was brought back from the dead by her power, and also, demonstrating her abilities by briefly decomposing Barbossa's right hand, cautioning him of his fate should he fail to keep his end of the bargain. Barbossa in turn reminded her, revealing that Tia Dalma is the sea goddess, Calypso, bound into human form, was the one who needed him; she resurrected Barbossa so he could help retrieve Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker and summon a meeting of the Brethren Court, since only the nine Pirate Lords had the power to free Calypso. Barbossa then ordered Pintel and Ragetti to lock Tia Dalma/Calypso in the brig. Tia Dalma and her estranged lover, Davy Jones, briefly reunite while she is locked in the brig of the ship. Calypso says she still feels deeply for Jones. She responds to his anger by saying that Jones never would have loved her if not for her uncontrollable and unpredictable nature. Calypso also chastises him for abandoning his duty to ferry souls to the other world. It was because he neglected his charges that Jones became a monster. Calypso is also furious that the Pirate Lords trapped her in her human form. Thus, her true motives are revealed: she plans to use her powers against the current court in revenge for the original act of turning her into a human. She will also fully give her love to Jones, and it appears they reconcile. When she touches Jones, he momentarily transforms back into the man he once was. Jones's parting words betray that his heart will always belong to her.

As the battle between the East India Trading Company and the pirates looms, Tia Dalma/Calypso restrained by ropes is brought on the main deck to be released. As part of an incantation, Barbossa burned the Pieces of Eight and, with the assistance of Ragetti. While Calypso was being released, Will calls out her name Tia Dalma, but she doesn't answer. When he calls her by her true name "Calypso", she turns her attention to him. Will tells her that he knows the person who truly betrayed her by telling the first Brethren Court how to bind her into her human form. She says "name him" and he says" Davy Jones". When Calypso heard this, she became enraged, still in her Tia Dalma form, she begin to grow massive in size. As she grew, some of the ropes snapped. She grew nearly sixty feet high, towering over the crew. Calypso's low cut dress did not grow with her, so she is left in a skimpy outfit that shows her cleavage, bare shoulders, bare abodmen, and bare legs. Once she stopped growing, Calypso looked down at the pirates. Barbossa asks that she fulfill their agreement and use her powers to aid the pirates. There was a moment of silence as Calypso smiles about the supplication. She then cries out in her native tongue an incantation. Calypso then appeared to crumble. She breaks free of the ropes, transforming herself into thousands of small crabs that engulf the ship and flee into the sea and were gone. Calypso was now free at last. Her fury creates a violent maelstrom that becomes the battlefield between the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman. Instead of aiding a particular side, her wrath is directed both at the pirate lords for imprisoning her and at Davy Jones for his betrayal.

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