Depp partly based the character on Pepé Le Pew, a womanizing skunk from "Looney Tunes". Sparrow claims to have a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature," although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him. Former flames, Scarlett and Giselle, usually slap him or anyone looking for him. His witty charm easily attracts women, and even has Elizabeth questioning her feelings. Verbinski noted phallic connotations in Sparrow's relationship with his vessel, as he grips the ship's wheel. The "Black Pearl" is described as "the only ship which can outrun the "Flying Dutchman"". The Freudian overtones continue in the third film when Sparrow and Barbossa battle for captaincy of the "Black Pearl", showing off the length of their telescopes, and in a deleted scene, they fight over the steering wheel. Sparrow claims his "first and only love is the sea," and describes his ship as representing freedom. Davy Jones's Locker is represented as a desert, symbolizing his personal hell.