Background
Nothing is revealed in the films about the Kraken's origins. What is known is that after Davy Jones cut out his heart, and became the feared and mutated sea ruler, he presumably found the Kraken and came to command it. Since that time, the Kraken was used by Jones to destroy ships that blocked his path or those that carried potential crew members for his supernatural ship, the Flying Dutchman. In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, it is summoned by the men of the Flying Dutchman turning a capstan that drops a large, wooden mechanism into the water creating something similar to a depth charge, reverberating across the water supposedly for miles. It is also known that this Kraken was the last of its kind.
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