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| “ | I am Calypso, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal! | „ |
| ~ Calypso's most famous line. |
William Sparks, better known as Calypso, is the main antagonist of the Twisted Metal series. He is the creator of the annual Twisted Metal tournament and can grant any wish the winner desires, no matter how physically impossible the wish can be. Calypso often punishes the winner with their own wish in some form of dark irony. Calypso is a playable character in Twisted Metal 4, where he enters the contest to reclaim his control of Twisted Metal after Needles Kane took the ring from him and became the host of Twisted Metal.
In Twisted Metal and its FMV cutscenes, he was portrayed by Charles L. Simco. In Twisted Metal 2, Twisted Metal III and Twisted Metal 4, he was voiced by Mel McMurrin. In Twisted Metal: Head-On, he was voiced by David Boat. In the 2012 Twisted Metal game, he was portrayed by G. Russell Reynolds. In the first season of the TV series, he was portrayed (twice, once in shadow and once from behind) by Jared Bankens. His likeness was mainly based on the traditional Calypso appearance, with long hair and a tuxedo, standing in an office and planning the tournament. For season 2, the role will be taken over by Anthony Carrigan, who bears much more of a resemblance to the Calypso from Twisted Metal: Black, with unique eyes and a bald head.
Biography[]
The man who would be known as Calypso was born William Sparks in 1956-1957. He had a younger sister whom, when he was 12 years old after stealing his parent's car to run over a Copperhead (He had a fascination with roadkill at the time), accidentally ran over his sister's head whom was playing with her doll right up to the rear tire. When his parents discovered this, they made him clean up the driveway of his sister's blood, even if it took all night.
However, William stared at his sister's doll, and after quite some time, he began to associate his sister with the doll. Two years after they buried her, they were still grieved and argued every time they went to put flowers on her grave. William, ridden with guilt, decided to try and join his sister, by blinding his father while he was driving, causing an accident killing his mother and father among others. William was disappointed that he was not among the body count, vowing to his sister that next time he would do it right.
He then decided to hitchhike until one truck stopped and offered William a ride. The trucker named Al, gave William a job fixing cars in a demolition derby. One day, Al was drunk and shot William in the arm ranting about William listening to calypso music. The next day Al apologized and gave William his own car and gave him his old helmet, he was then christened Calypso.
For 20 years, Calypso participated in the Demolition Derby, hoping he would die. However, he kept killing both the drivers and the audience, but not himself. Eventually, Calypso went to Vegas and got married to a woman named Joanie. They had a daughter named Krista. Eventually, Calypso got tired of his wife and often cheated on her. One day, however, his wife was in the audience and a tire flew off and killed her. Calypso and Krista then lived their lives out of suitcases and motel rooms.
One night, Calypso went to a bar to get some smokes and left Krista in the back seat to sleep. When he left the bar, he saw his wife and she told him that she was in Hell and that he should be too. Calypso agreed, and she told him all he had to do was close his eyes and let go of the wheel. Just before they crashed, Krista woke up as Calypso had forgotten all about her.
Calypso went to Hell and was chased by a demon named Minion. Eventually, Calypso lost him. Satan, who saw the whole thing and was impressed. He gave Calypso a drink. It turned Calypso into the man we know him as today. He told Calypso to be the host of a demolition derby that would have more souls to come to hell. The winner however, would get one wish. No matter the price, size or even reality.
Calypso ran the tournament for 10 years, during which much suspicion was raised about Calypso and his tournament, mainly because the wishes always seemed to backfire at the winners, usually killing them. Because of this, many agencies such as Interpol and the CIA started to investigate the tournament and attempting to arrest Calypso, but to no avail. The only way anyone could ever get near Calypso was by winning the Twisted Metal tournament.
Calypso would grant any wish the winner desired, no matter what it is, even distorting reality to grant it. However, he would usually make so that the wish would backfire at the winner, causing harm not only to him but as many people as possible, usually killing them. This was his method of gathering souls. However Calypso must grant the winner's request, even when he doesn't want to (a fact that has been used against him on a few occasions).
The 2012 reboot has Calypso being portrayed as a demon from Hell.
Personality[]
Calypso is very calm, sadistic and manipulative, having a big sense of humor which he expresses by laughing after granting a wish that backfires. However, he seems to keep some of his good side, such as when he invites the spirit of his daughter to compete, so that she can wish to be resurrected. Before his death, he was also a suicidal individual, as he was riddled with grief after he had accidentally killed his sister when he was 12.
Trivia[]
- Calypso is one of three characters to have appeared in every Twisted Metal game, along with Needles Kane and Mr. Grimm.
- Calypso's name literally means "to conceal", which hints at his penchant for turning the contestants' wishes against them or, even worse, keep knowledge hidden from the contestants, as he has done with Sweet Tooth (regarding the whereabouts of Sophie Kane), John Doe (knowledge of John's former life in the FBI), and Dollface (presumably being the one responsible for giving Dollface the mask under the alias of Ospylac).
- The only games that Calypso is not taken down in are Twisted Metal III and Twisted Metal (2012). In both games, he is seen in great health after the outcome of everyone's wishes.
- Twisted Metal: Black reveals that Calypso will only grant a wish without any trickery if the wish is sadistic and violent (most notable for Junkyard Dog, Shadow, Mr. Grimm, Crazy 8 and Warthog). Darkside had a wish of personal desire, but Calypso found a way to add some sadism to the end result (by attaching the keys to a series of machines that will set off a chain reaction and kill the captured Mr. Kreel). Spectre's wish was also for personal gain, but Calypso gave her a man that, even upon brain surgery, could not be attracted to her.
- In Twisted Metal (2012) Calypso keeps a trophy case filled with items from earlier Twisted Metal games.
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