Hadras

"Your bravery is wasted. I shall pry the chest away from your cold...dead...hands."

- Hadras to James Norrington

Hadras served as a crew member aboard the Flying Dutchman under the command of Davy Jones. As with other members of the crew, Hadras had, over time, taken on aspects of the sea flora and fauna the crew resided amongst. He spoke Cantonese, possibly indicating his place of birth.

Biography
"Aunido! Aunido! Follow my voice! Follow my voice! To the left&mdash;no, turn around! Go to the right, go to&mdash;no...that's a tree."

- Hadras to his headless body

Hadras's body was covered with coral and barnacles, though most notably was the fact that his head was ensconsed within a conch shell. More, his head had in fact transformed and merged into a hermit crab that could move independently of his body, propelled by a number of small, crab-like legs.



During the fight for the Dead Man's Chest on Isla Cruces, Hadras's head became detatched from its body thanks to a well-aimed coconut thrown by Jack Sparrow. The head was forced to shout directions as Hadras's body blundered about blindly trying to relocate it. He managed to pick up his head, and carried it under one arm.

Hadras later confronted James Norrington, in possession of the chest, who, in an act of apparent cowardice, threw the chest into Hadras's arms and fled. However, this meant the pirate was forced to drop his head to catch the chest, and his body forgot to retrieve it when the rest of the crew arrived. Hadras's body raced with its fellow crewmen back to the Flying Dutchman, with his disembodied head scuttling after, desperately trying to catch up.

During the battle around Calypso's maelstrom, the Dead Man's Chest landed on Hadras' head, pushing it into his torso and sending him toppling overboard to his death. His fate is unknown, but it is possible that he survived.

Behind the scenes

 * Hadras was portrayed by two actors. Reggie Lee, who would later play the Chinese pirate Tai Huang, portrayed Hadras in Dead Man's Chest. Ho-Kwan Tse portrayed Hadras in At World's End.
 * In the original script, Hadras was depicted as speaking a mixture of Japanese and English rather than Cantonese and English. He also seems to be a source of comic relief.
 * Writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and the ending credits for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, confirmed that Reggie Lee played "Headless". But it was later revealed, in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, that the character's name is "Hadras".

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 
 * LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game