![]() There’s barely enough time in Jack’s timeline for all these events to occur, assuming he’s in his thirties or so during Curse of the Black Pearl. During the first two years of that deal, he leads the expedition with Barbossa as first mate to find the treasure of Cortez, and Barbossa betrays him, so Jack spends 10 years seeking revenge. Prior to the first movie, the Black Pearl is sunk, Davy Jones brings it back from the depths as part of a deal with Jack, and gives him 13 years to captain the ship. Was Salazar’s massacre not worth their time? Or did all these ancient, venerable pirates somehow come into being after the massacre? On a related note, how old is Jack? He appears to be somewhere in his late teens when he takes command of the Wicked Wench, later renamed the Black Pearl. How does any of this fit together in the same world? I can’t come up with a good answer, and I don’t think anyone else working on these films can either.īut World’s End claims the Court is meeting for the first time in Jack’s lifetime. And several different forms of voodoo magic function in this universe, which implies the existence of a whole set of Loa. The Fountain of Youth also exists, though it comes with some strangely specific rules. (So gods die in this universe? And if Poseidon was around at some point, what about the other Greek gods?) There’s the magical Sword of Triton, which Blackbeard uses to control his boat in On Stranger Tides. Poseidon once existed in some form, and his trident, which literally commands the seas, is found in his tomb. There are the Aztec gods who curse the treasure of Cortez in the first movie. This raises some serious questions about the theology of the Pirates of the Caribbean universe. By returning the Dutchman to its traditional duties, he saves the crew and they resume their normal appearance, even in the “10 years later” post-credits sting from At World’s End.īy the end of Dead Men Tell No Tales, it’s revealed that Poseidon's Trident contains all the curses of the sea within it, and breaking it breaks all curses. After Will is fatally stabbed in At World’s End, Jack saves his life by killing Jones so Will can take over his role. Jones and his crew only turn into horrific sea-monster people after Jones finds out Calypso has moved on from his love, and abandons his task. The deal granted him immortality in exchange for his service, but he could only spend one day on land for every 10 years of service. Calypso, goddess of the sea, assigned the Dutchman to Captain Davy Jones, a sailor who fell in love with her. As revealed in At World’s End, the Dutchman’s role is to ferry the souls of sailors lost at sea to the afterlife. It’s a good motivation, except it doesn’t fit the series’s story. Blackbeard gives it to his daughter, Angelica, Jack gets it back, and then he gives it to his companion Joshamee Gibbs, who returns it at the end of the film.Īnother major driving portion of the the latest entry is Henry Turner’s quest to save his father from his cursed service on the Flying Dutchman. ![]() Jack lets Blackbeard take it from him during the search for Ponce de Leon’s ship in On Stranger Tides. Beckett gets it from Will and gives it back to Jack later in that same film. He gets it back, then gives it to Will before stranding him in the ocean. He loses the compass to Lord Cutler Beckett in At World’s End when he’s captured by the East India Trading company. In Dead Man’s Chest, he gives it to Elizabeth so she can find Davy Jones’ heart and save Will. But by my count, Jack has given away or lost his compass over the course of the series at least five times without activating any curses. ![]() ![]() And the entire plot of Dead Men Tell No Tales emerges from Jack “betraying” the compass by trading it for booze. Problem is, in Dead Man’s Chest, we’re told that Jack received the compass from Tia Dalma, the human form of the sea goddess Calypso. ![]()
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