Questions tagged [pirates-of-the-caribbean]
Use this tag for all questions about "Pirates of the Carribean", be it about the individual films, or the franchise as a whole. Use with appropriate title tags in the former case, such as [curse-of-the-black-pearl], [dead-mans-chest], [at-worlds-end], [on-stranger-tides], and [dead-men-tell-no-tales] (or [salazars-revenge]).
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How many crew members did Barbossa have?
I know that Barbossa led a mutiny against Jack to take the Black Pearl. Bootstrap Bill was the only one who stood against this mutiny and was thrown overboard (after the gold was claimed). So how many ...
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How did Ragetti escape if he was captured at the end of the 1st movie?
In the 1st movie Ragetti (the man with the wooden eye) is
After the ship got back to Port Royale, they should have been all hanged next to or after Jack Sparrow for piracy.
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How is Barbossa one of the Eight Lords of the Brethren Court?
From what I have understood, this is how the timeline was at the 3rd movie (Lot's of spoilers from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd movies):
Before the first movie, Hector Barbossa was recruited by Jack Sparrow ...
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Why did Jack lick the Rock?
In Davey Jones' Locker, we see Jack battling with himself, perhaps trying to stay sane, or just simply having fallen victim to the madness already.
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Why did Jack Sparrow's crew mutiny?
We know how, but do we know why? There are clues, but I feel like something big is missing. Given the things Jack did in command (Salazar, Nassau, the bearings for Cortes' treasure), it's unclear why ...
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Why didn't Lord Beckett order his ship to return fire in the end?
In the end of At World's End, when Flying Dutchman came out of the sea to attack HMS Endeavour, Beckett started staring into blank. He not just delayed ordering his ship to fire, he completely ignored ...
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Why does Jack Sparrow look for the actual key to Davy Jones' chest instead of trying to recreate it?
Dead Man's Chest has Jack Sparrow carrying out the following plan, in precisely that order:
Steal the drawing of the key to Davy Jones' chest
Locate and steal said key
Retrieve and open the chest
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Could Jack Sparrow escape from Davy Jones’ Locker on his own?
Was it possible for Jack Sparrow to escape from Davy Jones’ Locker if the others had not come for his rescue. This came to my mind as he was able to come to the sea on his own.
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Why did Lord Beckett expect them to sing?
In the Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End intro scene with the hanging, a soldier comes and says to Beckett that the people started to sing "Hoist the Colours". Beckett does not seem surprised ...
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Do ships in Pirates of Caribbean get a speed boost from magic?
In the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the ships have magical properties. Do these properties affect their speeds? That is, do they travel faster than equivalent real-world sailing ships?
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Is Elizabeth and Will's marriage legitimate?
During the climax of Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End, Will and Elizabeth are married onboard The Black Pearl. The fact is Barbossa's first mutiny should have prevented him to be the "real" ...
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How did Shipwreck Cove come to be?
I was recently rewatching Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, where the fourth Brethren Court convenes at location [aptly] called, Shipwreck Cove.
Is there any backstory as to how this location, ...
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Is Sao Feng's map magical?
The map that Sao Feng's hands to Barbossa and co to go rescue Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker contains many information hidden to strange places, some of them out of this world.
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How can the Black Pearl capsize in Davy Jones' locker? [closed]
In the famous Up Is Down scene in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, they manage to make the Black Pearl capsize and turn 180 degrees by merely running back and forth between port and starboard....
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Why Did Jack Sparrow rename the Wicked Wench, the Black Pearl?
From both Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the adventures of young Jack Sparrow novels aimed at young readers, viewers learn that Jack Sparrow made a deal with Davy Jones to resurrect ...
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Is there a map showing the routes taken in the various Pirates of the Caribbean movies?
I would like be able to visualize the 'world' that these movies take place in, and understand the distances involved in each movie. Has an official or unofficial map ever been made depicting all the ...
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Why did Jack never restore the Black Pearl himself?
At the end of On Stranger Tides, Jack takes the Pearl from a shelf of ships in a bottle; Each of which is almost certainly, given the on-screen evidence, a real full-size ship that has been shrunken ...
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How did the cursed crew break the curse if they don't have blood?
In Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl, the titular curse can only be broken by the return of every stolen coin and a blood offering by each cursed individual (or one of their ...
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How does Captain Jack Sparrow know about "Spaghetti Wolves"?
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge Captain Jack Sparrow wakes up from what looks like a dream and says: "spaghetti wolves!".
My question is: How did Jack know what spaghetti was?
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Does Elizabeth maintain her status at the end of "At World's End"?
Warning: Spoilers for At World's End.
In At World's End, the newly minted badass Elizabeth Swann is
and becomes what seems to be a pretty awesome pirate.
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What happens to Will Turner's heart?
Warning: Spoilers for At World's End and Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Davy Jones put a curse on his heart, making sure that anyone who destroys the heart must remove their own heart, and preferably keep in ...
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Why did Carina Smyth feel lucky to be a woman?
In Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Carina Smyth, disguised as nurse met Henry
who caught by British soldiers by seeing his clothes as marked for treason.
Carina Smyth: Because I need to get off this ...
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Why are British soldiers not trying to catch Jack Sparrow?
At the start of the Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Jack Sparrow stole a bank vault in front of British soldiers. Later, he is shown walking among British soldiers without fear and also British ...
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What was the effect of freeing Calypso?
The King and his men stole the Queen from her bed
And bound her in her bones
The seas be ours and by the powers
Where we will we'll roam
The first Brethren Court with the help of Davy Jones, ...
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Who gave Jack the compass? [duplicate]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales seems to contradict the entire movie series, because the compass Jack possesses was allegedly given to him by Tia Dalma. But in Dead Men Tell No Tales ...
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Does Jack's compass still work?
The whole theme of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" is breaking curses. And, basically; they succeed in doing so - they break all curses of the sea.
However, Jack's compass is most ...
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Is there an explanation for the Barbossa & Trident situation?
To get to the Trident, the "puzzle" had to be completed, meaning, the four clusters of rubies had to be complete. Carina and Barbossa place the ruby in the cluster. This prompted the ground to give ...
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Pirates of the Caribbean, Jacks early life
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Right from research I have found that Captain Jack Sparrow once worked for the East India Trading Company and in doing so he got sent on a ship called The Wicked Wench to deliver cargo (...
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What's the explanation behind the 'Map Skeleton' in Pirates 4?
In Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides, there's a scene where Captain Barbossa and Jack Sparrow are in a ship looking for two silver chalices.
Upon finding that the Spanish have taken the ...
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Why did Will's heart need to go into the dead man's chest?
"It was not worth feeling what small, fleeting joy life brings. And so, him carve out him heart, lock it down in a chest, and hide the chest from the world."
Davy Jones locked his heart away in a ...
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What's the East India Trading Company doing out West?
One of Captain Jack Sparrow's nemeses is the East India Trading Company.
Captain Jack Sparrow is one of the many pirates of the Caribbean. The Caribbean is also called the West Indies.
So what is ...
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Did Jack resort to cannibalism?
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Jack Sparrow — Captain Jack Sparrow — flees to land and ends up with the Pelegostos, who make him his chief, which was nice.
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Can the cursed crew of the Black Pearl feel pain?
Can the pirates cursed by the Aztec gold feel pain?
In this video, the creator claims that they cannot feel pain, :
POC Genius
The video mostly references combat scenes where the "bad guys" scream ...
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For how long was Bill Turner undead at the bottom of the ocean?
It is said in the films that "Bootstrap" Bill Turner was tossed in the water tied to a cannon, after the crew of the Black Pearl took the Aztec gold. It seems he was already undead, therefore the ...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Is it a curse to ferry the souls of the dead?
I watched recently Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge and one thing I do not understand is why one of the plot devices in this film is the idea that William Turner is cursed. Sure, it looks ...
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What is considered canon for Pirates of the Caribbean?
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is comprised of five feature films and one short film, two book series for young readers and one novel written for adults, a number of video games, and of course ...
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How did Gibbs become a pirate?
When we first meet Mr. Gibbs, he seems to be enlisted in the Royal Navy and terrified of pirates.
About a decade later, Captain Jack Sparrow and William Turner find him in Tortuga. He now seems to ...
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Where did Jack get his compass from?
In the earlier films it is said that Jack bartered for the compass from Tia Dalma. However, in the newest film during Salazar's flashback it shows that the captain of his ship is wounded and hands the ...
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Is there any significance to the exact number of gold pieces?
"This is Aztec gold. One of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortés himself."
Is there any significance to that number, 882? Either in universe, or out of it.
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Why was Jack (Monkey) still Cursed in Pirates of the Caribbean?
After watching Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl yesterday, I decided to watch the sequel today. With the first still fresh in my mind, I noticed that Jack, the monkey, was still ...
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When did Jack Sparrow get the cheek/jaw scar?
Look carefully on Jack's jaw in these pictures, especially the left side of the picture. Under the 4th eye, to the left from his moustache there is a red ellipse. The picture is from the Dead Man's ...
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Why does Dead Men Tell No Tales have a different title in the UK?
Promotional posters and websites for cinemas in the UK are referring to the new Pirates of the Caribbean film by the subtitle "Salazar's Revenge".
What is the reason for this change? Is it related to ...
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What is necessary to know before seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales?
The fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean saga has just been released.
I have only few memories of the story of the first three episodes, and I didn't see the fourth one.
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Is the post credits scene of At World's End canon?
Inspired by my other question:
Did Will neglect his duty of ferrying the dead?
As the other question says, Will is
But the post-credits scene says Will did return 10 years later to Elizabeth and ...
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Did Will neglect his duty of ferrying the dead?
In Dead Men Tell No Tales / (also titled Salazar's Revenge in some countries), Will is shown to be covered in sea shells and was said to be
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Why was the Black Pearl so special?
In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the Black Pearl was able to easily beat the speed and firepower of the HMS Interceptor, which was the fastest warship in the ...
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How does Gibbs know so much about the Pelegostos?
In Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest, after Will is put in the bone cages with the others, Gibbs tells him how the Pelegostos regard Jack as a god, and that when the drumming stops, the feast ...
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Why didn't they need Jack's blood also?
Addition to this question, since Jack is also stole one of the pieces of the treasure, why didn't they need the blood of Jack to lift to curse ?
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What story was Jack telling when Elizabeth fell?
What story was Jack telling when Elizabeth fell? Can someone provide the whole story?
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Why was Jack Sparrow's Locker experience so different from everyone else's?
Warning, unmarked spoilers for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise below!
In At Worlds Ends, Captain Jack has died and is sent to Davy Jones' Locker.
While there, he gets his own island and his ...
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