History Film / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales

** Mullroy and Murtogg are back again, now serving under Barbosa. They basically serve the same role that Pintel and Ragetti used to provide.

** For the third time there ends up a drunk in a pigpen like in the original park attractions (first Gibbs, then Norrington, now Jack).

* MomentKiller: Carina's FamousLastWords instantly lose their intended gravitas when Jack decides to add his two cents, much to her chagrin.

** There's also the question of exactly when [[spoiler:Barbossa fathered Carina]]. It is implied to have been when he and Jack were serving on a ship in their youth, but the span of time in the backstory of Jack becoming captain of the Black Pearl with Barbossa underneath him (several years), Barbossa then seizing control of it as a cursed pirate (ten years), being dead for a while (several more years), and then the very long gap between the third and fifth films (about twenty years), then [[spoiler: Carina should be nearly forty, yet she's portrayed as though being around Henry's age of about twenty]].

* BigBadWannabe: Scarfield the British Royal Navy officer clearly thinks he is a big deal and presents himself as a contender for the Trident, but is effortlessly dispatched by Salazar's ship. Though, he still is a threat to some extent so there is some BigBadEnsemble in there.

** Scarfield is revealed as this after constantly referring to Carina as a "witch" and eager to have her executed, only to employ an actual dark-sorcery-using witch with her own witch lair who's implied to have served him and the British Navy for a long time.
** Salazar insists he never killed men, only pirates. The audience first sees him massacring a British naval vessel for no reason other than ForTheEvulz. He does so later again in the field [[spoiler:destroying Scarfield's ship]] despite both times the Royal Navy were chasing down pirates. The British privateers, paid to hunt ''Spanish'' vessels, were basically legally sanctioned pirates but the film never states that this motivates Salazar's attacks on their navy vessels.

** All Jack has to do to avoid the British officers with guns pointed at them is to drop to his stomach. The soldiers simply fire straight over him.

* ProperlyParanoid: When [[spoiler:Henry realizes that the British ship he's on is heading into the Devil's Triangle, he tries to warn the captain, but he's ignored, receives an InsigniaRipOffRitual, and is thrown in the brig for attempted treason. The captain doesn't realize until it's too late that he should've listened to him]].

** The last we see of Shansa the sea witch is when she helps the British out.

*** Salazar's insistent terminology (see below) is in reference to all the people he killed while he was still alive. Now, he's just on revenge rampage and taking out anyone that stands in the way of him and his goal of killing Jack.

*** This seems to be up for interpretation. It could be that Will is still bound to the Dutchman as the Dutchman is still needed to ferry souls to the afterlife, but he is now free to step on land whenever he wants to visit his family.

* CallBack:

--->'''Jack (at Henry):''' ''[[ImAManICantHelpIt You men are all alike.]]''\\

** Uncle Jack makes a joke about how the "skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer.... and a mop" which references Barbossa[[note]]who was an undead skeleton at the time[[/note]] when he [[https://hugelolcdn.com/comments/1844585.gif drank wine]] on the ''Black Pearl'' during ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' and the gag in the ride said scene was inspired by.
* TheCameo:
** [[spoiler:Davy Jones's shadow and claw make an appearance in TheStinger]].
** Due to their little involvement in the story, [[spoiler:Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann also count, since they both only appeared at the very end of the film and in TheStinger (with Will also present in the opening scene)]].
** In a more traditional sense, Music/PaulMcCartney as Jack Sparrow's uncle.
* ContinuitySnarl: A few.
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' established that Jack got his compass from Tia Dalma. Here he got from the old captain of the ''Wicked Wench'', back when he first started out as pirate. (Although he may have bartered it from Tia Dalma for the captain or he took it from him afterwards.)
** Will's time on the ''Flying Dutchman'' has meant he's slowly began to mutate like Davy Jones. However Jones only became the [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} monster]] he did because he forsook his duty to ferry souls to the other side, which Will is not stated to have done. It's a key plot point that Will took over as captain of the ship at the end of the 3rd movie, yet his appearance at the start of the film indicates he's just yet another crew member who happened to find his son before the others could.
** Scrum is seen as part of Jack's crew when he went with Barbossa at the end of ''On Stranger Tides''. Though it's possible [[WildCard he switches sides again]] during the intervening years between ''On Stranger Tides'' and this installment.
** The flashback showing how Jack first became a pirate captain conflicts with his backstory presented in the prequel books. Though this could be a case of CanonMarchesOn since it's books vs. movie.
** Within the film's own continuity, [[spoiler:destroying the Trident broke all curses at sea, including that of the ''Flying Dutchman'', but Davy Jones is still a monster]].
** There's also the question of exactly when [[spoiler: Barbossa fathered Carina]]. It is implied to have been when he and Jack were serving on a ship in their youth, but the span of time in the backstory of Jack becoming captain of the Black Pearl with Barbossa underneath him (several years), Barbossa then seizing control of it as a cursed pirate (ten years), being dead for a while (several more years), and then the very long gap between the third and fifth films (about twenty years), then [[spoiler: Carina should be nearly forty, yet she's portrayed as though being around Henry's age of about twenty]].

* CoveredInMud: Jack Sparrow falls off a fence into mud. Then he goes into an inn and drinks from his bottle of rum - which is also covered in mud - and doesn't seem to be bothered the slightest. And, with the pigs that were nearby, it probably wasn't just ''mud''.

** The actual ''Flying Dutchman'' returns, [[spoiler:Both as how it looked in the second and third movies, and as a ship free of its curse (albeit seen from a distance) at the end.]]

* GrandFinale: The final chapter for both Jack Sparrow and Barbossa. One a meta level, this is the final film produced before a reboot of the franchise was announced, thus marking this movie as the conclusion for the current iteration of the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' world as a whole.

** In ''At World's End'' Elizabeth takes Will's name--"Mrs. Turner." In this film, Henry refers to himself as "the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth ''Swann''," implying that Elizabeth ''has'' given up on Will in the intervening years. [[spoiler:Despite this implication, the two are nothing but overjoyed to be reunited in the final scenes.]]

* IShallTauntYou: In the flashback where he became captain, Jack deliberately raises a pirate flag and demands Salazar's surrender just to piss him off, knowing Salazar will pursue him into the cave. Jack manages to save his ship by snagging a nearby rock with heavy rope so it will drag the ship into a hard turn, leaving Salazar to sail to his death.

* IronicName: The name of the ship Jack and his crew sail away from St. Martins on: the ''Dying Gull''. It nearly perfectly emulates, in name alone, the downward spiral of Jack’s career that’s already been reflected upon throughout the film: the downgrade of his capture reward, his near-constant drunken state, the loss of his crew and their faith (the ever-faithful Gibbs included!) in his abilities to be their captain, the poor decisions that led to the events of the film, and the bad luck in general that has been following Jack around. It just seems a rather fitting name, however sad it is.

* ManipulativeBastard: Jack pulls this off with Carina to get information from her. [[spoiler:He claims he’ll throw Henry overboard if she doesn’t give him the information he desired, and after trussing Henry up and throwing him overboard while explaining what keelhauling was, she blurts out everything she knows and rushes to Henry’s aid... only to find him safe and sound, lying in the dingy little rowboat tied off to the side of the ''Dying Gull''. Jack and his crew laugh it off in the aftermath when she sees what they did was all for show.]]

** The name of the ship which Jack captains in Salazar's flashback is called ''Wicked Wench'', the name of the ship in the original Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean attraction. This was previously revealed in commentary regarding the ''At World's End'' and in the ''The Price of Freedom'' novel.

* PlayingGertrude: [[spoiler:Despite playing Henry's parents, Orlando Bloom is actually twelve years older than Brenton Thwaites, who plays his son, and Keira Knightley, who plays his mom, is only FOUR years older! It doesn't help that both of them don't look like they're in their 40's! Although, to be fair, Orlando Bloom himself is [[OlderThanTheyLook older than he looks,]] being 40 as of the film's release, which is not too far off the age Will's character would have been chronologically (Henry's about 19 or 20, and his parents were about 20-22 when Henry was born). Also, the curse of the ''Dutchman'' in all likelihood would have slowed Will's aging, if not stopped it altogether.]]

* TheRedBaron: Salazar is also known as "El Matador del Mar" (TheButcher Of the Sea), gained from his ruthless campaign of slaughter against pirates[[note]]Although any Spanish speaker will notice this is an incorrect translation. In Spanish, "The Butcher of the Sea" would be "El ''Carnicero'' del Mar". "El Matador del Mar" translates in English to "The ''Killer'' of the Sea"[[/note]].

* ShotgunWedding: Jack is roped into one--well, Flintlock and Gallows Wedding, to be more specific.

** Bollard and Cremble are so similar to Pintel and Ragetti(both personality wise and appearance wise) that most stories just confuse them for the famous duo.

* TongueTrauma: Barbossa threatens to cut off Jack's tongue if he tells Carina that [[spoiler:he is her father.]]

* WasOnceAMan: Salazar and his crew used to be ordinary human pirate hunters--until a younger Jack Sparrow and his crew sent them and their ship to the depths of the ocean, only to awaken as undead.

-->''[[Music/JohnnyCash When I hear that trumpet sound\\

Can hold my body down...]]''

* BluntYes: Jack tries to give an ArmorPiercingQuestion to Henry that he is comfortable abandoning Jack for "a [[CountryMatters Horologist in her knickers?]] Henry bluntly says "yes."

* AbortedArc: TheStinger from ''On Stranger Tides'' receives no follow-up in this movie. Also, with a reboot announced one year later, the movie [[spoiler:and its Sequel Hook]] are on the receiving end of this trope.

* LivingStatue: Just as Jack thinks that he has eluded danger by outrunning Salazar during their swordfight in between of their ships, the figurehead of Salazar's ship comes alive and starts attacking him too.

** The actual ''Flying Dutchman'' returns.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Barbossa starts as captain of the ''Queen Anne's Revenge'' and wielding the ''Sword of Triton'', but never even tries to use them against Salazar.

** On Saint Martin, when Carina lays a hand on the town astronomer's telescope, he exclaims [[DoubleEntendre "No woman has ever touched my Herschel!"]] If the telescope was made by the notable 18th century astronomer Sir William Herschel, it was probably indeed handled by his sister [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel Caroline]], who was his lifelong partner in his scientific endeavours.

** Played slightly more dramatic later however, as Jack has no clear memory of Salazar despite cursing him to his undead state, since he's outwitted countless pirate hunters and naval officers in his time. The only thing he ''does'' remember is that he's a Spaniard. [[spoiler:When the chips were down, Jack later brought up his original conversation with Salazar, boasting how if Salazar surrendered, he would spare him]].

* GratuitousEnglish: Strangely enough, the ''Silent Mary'' sports an English name despite being a Spanish Royal Navy ship (and according to the manual, a ship completely built in Spain, not a captured foreign one as one might think). Apparently, her name was going to be a much more credible ''Silenciosa María'', but it was later changed to English. Given that it is a ghost ship related to a "Devil's Triangle", it was probably done to make it a reference to the similar-sounding ''Mary Celeste'', a real life GhostShip that was thought to be a victim of the BermudaTriangle.

* WantedPoster: Jack has one as ususal, but due to his bad luck and constant failures the price on his head has gradually been reduced to almost nothing. Henry carries one of these wanted posters with him in his search for Jack Sparrow. When Salazar sinks the ship Henry is on but sees the poster, he allows Henry to be the one crewmember to survive so he can deliver a message to Jack shoud he ever find him.

* CurseEscapeClause: The Trident of Poseidon is the ultimate curse escape clause, being able to break any curse. [[spoiler:Herny and Carina realize this is because it contains every curse; breaking it cancels all curses everywhere.]]

---> '''[[spoiler:Weatherby Swann]]:''' [[spoiler:[[SomeoneHasToDoIt The "Dutchman" must have a captain.]]]]

** The flashback showing how Jack first became a pirate captain conflicts with his backstory presented in the prequel books.

---> '''Toms:''' What are you? ''[is [[NeckLift lifted from the neck]] by Salazar]''\\