History Franchise / PiratesOfTheCaribbean

''Pirates of the Caribbean'' is a Disney film franchise [[FilmAdaptationLiveAction based on]] a [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks theme park ride]] of the [[Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean same name]], centering around the adventures of pirate Captain Jack Sparrow on his quest for immortality and rum. The series is famous for originally [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail being thought a terrible idea]], only to surprise everyone with its huge success, in no small part due to Creator/JohnnyDepp and his wild-eyed acting.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Played straight with Angelica, who is only ever defined as Blackbeard's daughter and Jack's love interest. Played with by Elizabeth, who in-universe is initially defined as "the governor's daughter," but is also the only one of the three leads to not have piracy [[InTheBlood In The Blood]]. Gender inverted by Davy Jones, whose powers and position come from his lover [[SeaGod Calypso]], and by Jack's father Teague (whose mother was a Pirate Lord) in the tie-in books.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Played straight with Angelica, who is only ever defined as Blackbeard's daughter and Jack's love interest. Played with by Elizabeth, who in-universe is initially defined as "the governor's daughter," but is also the only one of the three leads to not have piracy [[InTheBlood In the Blood]]. Gender inverted by Davy Jones, whose powers and position come from his lover [[SeaGoddess Calypso]], and by Jack's father Teague (whose mother was a Pirate Lord) in the tie-in books.

* {{Red Shirt}}s: {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s aside, you can write off nearly every English sailor and soldier that appears, even officers and characters with speaking parts. In fact, starting from Dead Man's Chest near any seafaring character who isn't one of the main eight or nine major characters is liable to be dead by the end of whatever movie they're in.

* DropTheHammer

* DeconReconSwitch: Of the romanticized view of the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy. The first film has Elizabeth initially thinking it'd be exciting to meet a pirate, and she gets her wish: most of the pirates she meets are slobbish, treasonous crooks who turn tail and run at first sign of trouble and live by the creed of RapePillageAndBurn. However, even among scoundrels there is still a code of honor and some of them do hold to a moral standard, and several characters comment that its possible to be a pirate ''and'' a good person. In the second and third films we see that those who enforce the laws of the seas can be just as bad as pirates if not worse, and "pirate" is a very broad term used for a diverse lot of people that have been declared outlaws by those in power, when sometimes they're just people trying to make an honest living and couldn't or didn't want to do it under the oppressive laws of the crown and merchant companies.

** When Jack and Elizabeth are marooned on a desert island during the rising action of ''Curse of the Black Pearl'', Elizabeth burns all the rum that smugglers have stored there to attract the Navy's attention, prompting Jack to ask "[[CatchPhrase Why is the the rum gone?]]" for the first time. In ''Dead Man's Chest'', Elizabeth (dressed as a man) and Norrington arrive at the dock where the ''Pearl'' is moored, and Jack and Gibbs begin to talk to Elizabeth without realizing who she is. When she reveals herself, the following happens: