History Awesome / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales

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* Kudos to Creator/GeoffreyRush for so powerfully conveying, with a minimum of words, the sheer ''emotion'' of Barbossa realizing Carina is his long-lost daughter.
* After many requests and complaints from fans, the EnsembleDarkhorse Barbossa finally gets his own {{leitmotif}}, which he shares with his daughter Carina.

* Along with being a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, Carina's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment escape from prison]] counts as this. [[spoiler: While she was confessing to the bishop, she picked the lock in the span of her confession. And she doesn't hesitate to make a run for it.]]

* Carina is a role model, not ''just'' for being smart and brave, but because [[spoiler: she's living proof that children don't have to turn out exactly like their parents. Her father was Barbossa, a pirate who only gave her the ruby and journal to earn herself a small fortune. But she didn't know that. Under the assumption he was a scientist who left her the journal as a dying wish, Carina followed her own path and went on to be highly educated (despite others accusing her as a "witch" for it).]]

* When advised by the witch to stay on land, safe from Salazar and his ghostly crew, [[spoiler: Barbossa decides he'd rather risk it all than spend his days safely retired on dry land.]]
* The return of [[spoiler: the ''Black Pearl'']]. Nuff said.
* Upon boarding [[spoiler: the ''Black Pearl'' in the midst of a battle with Salazar's men, Mr. Gibbs and the remainder of Jack's crew bravely decide that after losing the Pearl once, they'll gladly fight for it again!]]
** Additionally, Gibbs is shown to have TookALevelInJerkass in this movie in abandoning Jack and his treatment of the crew, yet when [[spoiler: the ''Black Pearl'' returns, he's back to his more noble ways, willing to lay down his life for the ''Pearl'' and his friends.]]
* In the climax, [[spoiler: Henry and Carina combine forces to destroy the Trident.]]
** [[spoiler: Before then, Jack taunting Salazar the same way he did all those years ago, claiming that he'll "let" him live if he surrenders. And this is just after Salazar demonstrated the multiple ways he can use Poseidon's Trident to throw Jack around like a helpless ragdoll. It's so refreshing to see Jack's roguish courage resurface again.]]
** And once again, [[spoiler: Jack tricks Salazar! As Salazar seemingly stabs Jack with the trident, it turns out the latter had Carina's journal placed [[BatmanGambit right over his heart]].]]
*** [[spoiler: This may be what ultimately gets Jack out of his crisis where he tries to relive the past by having his crew pay tribute as they once did. By reliving what ''earned'' him tribute in the first place.]]
* [[BigDamnHeroes Captain Barbossa rescuing Jack, Carina and Henry]] [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes by lowering himself down on the Black Pearl's anchor in the middle of the parted ocean water.]]]]
** One-upped by what he does next: [[spoiler: Committing himself to do a HeroicSacrifice, especially once you consider how far he's come from being the cruel-hearted BigBad in the first movie. CharacterDevelopment indeed.]]
** [[spoiler: Plus how Barbossa finishes off Salazar: By stabbing him with a sword as he falls from the anchor.]]
* The post-credits scene, which features [[spoiler: the return of Davy Jones]].

* Kudos to Creator/GeoffreyRush for so powerfully conveying, with a minimum of words, the sheer ''emotion'' of Barbossa [[spoiler: realizing Carina is his long-lost daughter]].
* After many requests and complaints from fans, the EnsembleDarkhorse Barbossa finally gets his own {{leitmotif}}, which he shares with [[spoiler: his daughter Carina]].

* Along with being a CrowningMomentOfFunny, Carina's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment escape from prison]] counts as this. [[spoiler: While she was confessing to the bishop, she picked the lock in the span of her confession. And she doesn't hesitate to make a run for it.]]

** I don't think we can understate this enough. Jack the Sparrow, at the start of his career as a pirate captain, on the ''very afternoon he became captain'', managed to outwit and indirectly end the most ruthless, feared and probably greatest pirate hunter ''in the whole of the West Indies, if not the world''. Everyone else who claim greater deeds as their first act as captain can sod off.

** I don't think we can understate this enough. Jack the Sparrow, at the start of his career as a pirate captain, on the ''very afternoon he became captain'', managed to outwit and indirectly end the most ruthless, feared and probably greatest pirate hunter ''in the whole of the West Indies, if not the world]]. Everyone else who claim greater deeds as their first act as captain can sod off.

* The flashback showing a very young Jack defeating Salazar with a brilliantly clever maneuver. He's just been given command of ''The Wicked Wench'' by the dying captain. What does he do? He sees the Devil's Triangle and his mind begins to work, ''taunts'' the pirate butcher to follow him. He orders his crew to throw the rigging around a rocky outcrop which allows the ''Wench'' to safely bypass the Triangle, while the ''Silent Mary'' is too far in its course to do maneuver around it and is headed for a straight on collision clash. The look on Salazar's face is ''priceless'' when he realizes he's been out smarted by this upstart.

** And Jack's crew? They pay tribute to him giving him amongst other things his icon hat and hair beads. He ''earned'' his role as captain. The best part he's completely flabbergasted by all of this. A far cry from the drunken washout we see at the beginning.

* The flashback showing a very young Jack defeating Salazar. He's just been given command of ''The Wicked Wench'' by the dying captain. What does he do? He sees the Devil's Triangle and his mind begins to work, ''taunts'' the pirate butcher to follow him. He orders his crew to throw the rigging around a rocky outcrop which allows the ''Wench'' to safely bypass the Triangle, while the ''Silent Mary'' is too far in its course to do maneuver around it and is headed for a straight on collision clash. The look on Salazar's face is ''priceless'' when he realizes he's been out smarted by this upstart.

* It says something that, even at rock bottom, Captain Jack Sparrow can get what we wants (namely, Carina's promise to point them in the right direction) with a little misdirection and a few well-placed words, and bring no serious injury to his allies. He and his crew gag Henry, explain exactly what keelhauling entails and what sort of things can happen to a man put to it, and throw the poor Turner off the deck. Carina becomes terrified of what might be happening to him and agrees to do as they say... whereupon they reveal that they've tied a rowboat to drag behind the ''Dying Gull'', and that's where Henry landed. Turns out a little sleight of hand can be just as potent as [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanCurseOfTheBlackPearl a pistol with a single shot meant for someone else]].