| Calico Jack | |
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| Name: | Calico Jack |
| Occupation(s): | Pirate |
| Aliases: | Granddad (by Kwazii) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Eye color: | Black |
| Species: | Cat |
| Grandchildren: | Kwazii (grandson) |
| Friends: | Claude Claudette Clive, Clam, and Clarence Pete the Parrot Captain Barnacles Peso Dashi Shellington Tweak Tunip and the Vegimals |
| Nationality: | British |
| Favorite Gup: | Gup-R |
| First episode appearance: | The Amazon Adventure |
| Final episode appearance: | The Spider Crab Surprise |
| Character played by: | Rob Rackstraw |
Calico Jack is Kwazii's long-lost grandfather and is considered the greatest cat pirate ever. Kwazii originally thought that he died a long time ago, but he ends up finding him alive and in the Amazon River in The Amazon Adventure. He is a supporting character in The Octonauts, and a major character in Octonauts: Above and Beyond.
In earlier episodes, Kwazii found lots of items and a sunken ship that once belonged to Calico Jack. His sunken ship and golden spyglass were found in The Slime Eels, a music box with a song about him in The Pirate Parrotfish, and Calico Jack's coconut (really a hollow cannonball) in The Coconut Crabs. After cracking the coconut, Kwazii reads a two-page note from him.
Like Kwazii, Calico Jack is voiced by Rob Rackstraw, who portrays him with a sea-farer's accent much like his grandson, only deeper and gruffer in tone.
He also appears in the Season 5 episodes The Flying Squid and The Wood Eating Catfish, along with multiple episodes in Above & Beyond Season 1, such as The Beetle Invasion and The Wild Windstorms.
A quote describing him from the official Octonauts accounts: Kwazii's grandfather & proud cat pirate. Despite being a pirate, Calico Jack is slightly less quick to blame mythical creatures for strange things that he and the Octonauts encounter.
Relatives[]
- Kwazii (grandson)
Episode appearances[]
- The Slime Eels (Flashback)
- The Pirate Parrotfish (Mentioned in a song)
- The Coconut Crabs (Flashback)
- The Amazon Adventure (first physical appearance)
- The Humpback Whales (Seen in a Flashback about Whitebeard the Pirate)
- The Coelacanth (Seen in a story about the Jumping Jangle Bones)
- The Flying Squid (Season 5)
- The Wood Eating Catfish (Season 5)
- The Skeleton Coast Adventure (minor)
- The Beetle Invasion
- The Wild Windstorms
- The Harlequin Duck
- The Pygmy Sloths
- The Mystery Island
- The Sand Cat
- The Portuguese Man o' War
- The Tsunami
- The Gila Monster (mentioned, but shows up in Octo-Report)
- The Great Pacific Clean-Up
- The Spider Crab Surprise
Creature friends[]
- Capybaras (The Amazon Adventure)
- The Wood-Eating Catfish
- The Flying Squid
- Bailey and the Bombardier Beetles (The Beetle Invasion)
- Nico and the Pygmy Sloths
- Sandy the Sand Cat
Relationships[]
Trivia[]
- Calico Jack is the oldest Octo-Agent.
- In Above & Beyond Season 1, he often calls Kwazii “lad” or "matey".
- Unlike his grandson, Calico Jack isn't afraid of spiders.
- In The Harlequin Duck, it is shown that he tends to panic when he realizes he made a mistake.
- His name Calico Jack is actually an homage to another famous pirate in history named John Rackham, who also had a nickname called Calico Jack. Calico is also a type of cat.
- Calico Jack is based on the English Pirate of the same name, who sailed the oceans hundreds of years ago in 1720. However, while the real Calico Jack human is not alive, the Octonauts Calico Jack is still alive.