History NightmareFuel / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales

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* Salazar becoming Captain Ahab with Jack as his white whale. His crew screams for help after they are decursed and the ocean is closing in on them, but he doesn't even look back at them. His first mate can only stare, broken, as he and most of the crew, who are finally human again, are abandoned to die all over again.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tell him [{{beat}}] '''Death''' will come straight for him!"'']]

* TheStinger - as the reunited Will and Elizabeth lie in bed sleeping, the sound of heavy footsteps can be heard outside the door. It opens, and a ''very'' familiar shadow is cast over the sleeping pair. Will awakens just in time to see a crab-arm raised in the air - [[AllJustADream and wakes up for real]]. He goes back to sleep... [[OrWasItADream and the camera pans down to the floor]], showing a puddle of water and bits of barnacle, [[{{Leitmotif}} while a music box]] plays in the background. "[[ArcWords The Dutchman must have a captain]]" indeed.

* TheStinger - Davy Jones is back.
** [[ArcWords The Dutchman must have a captain]].

** Leans more towards TearJerker when you learn it's not a StartOfDarkness, but [[spoiler: the curse of the ''Flying Dutchman'' growing stronger than the love in Will's heart that purified the ship. And like his father Bill before him, Will is tragically forced to tell Henry there's no place for him on the ''Flying Dutchman''. He even [[CruelToBeKind threatens his own son to leave]]. And the sound of the other crew stirring tells us that even with Will as captain, they won't [[WouldHurtAChild hesitate to harm his boy]]. Heck his parting words "You must let me go, Henry", sounds convincingly like Henry might not be able to save him.]]

* TheStinger - [[spoiler: Davy Jones is back.]]
** [[spoiler: [[ArcWords The Dutchman must have a captain]].]]
* The way Salazar's ship, the ''Silent Mary'', smashes through ships, especially [[spoiler: Scarfield's.]] At times, it looks almost as if the ship is taking a giant bite out of others.
* The ''Silent Mary'''s [[spoiler: figurehead coming to life and gunning for Jack.]]
* Near the climax, [[spoiler: Salazar [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry, in order to be able to walk on land. His crew members warn that if the Trident can't separate them, then they'll be stuck together forever. Salazar decides to take that chance...]]
* Despite all that's happened, it's hard not to feel something for [[spoiler: Salzar's men when their curse is lifted. They're finally free of this living death, flesh and blood once more...and then realize they're at the bottom of the ocean with the waters about to crash right in on them.]]
* Salazar becoming Captain Ahab with Jack as his white whale. His crew screams for help [[spoiler: after they are decursed and the ocean is closing in on them, but he doesn't even look back at them. His first mate can only stare, broken, as he and most of the crew, who are finally human again, are abandoned to die all over again]]

* The Dutchman and its crew "cleaned up" in the end of "World's End". Why are they reverted in this one? Was Will also slacking on the soul-ferrying job?

* Will Turner's reappearance in this film is not a happy one. He's clearly mutated and at least beginning to become as grotesque-looking and monstrous as Davy Jones himself (not to mention that he bares more than a slight resemblance to his father, Bootstrap Bill). And if one remembers the curse that the Captain can visit land for one day every 10 years and if his beloved waits for him, the curse will be broken... then it looks like he and Elizabeth had quite the falling out. Either that, or Will intentionally chose to remain on the high seas and has spent so long away from land and Elizabeth that the curse is now twisting his form. Either way, the reasoning and the results, probably won't be pretty and our dashing hero is probably on his StartOfDarkness by now.

** [[spoiler: [[ArcWords The ''Dutchman'' must have a captain]].]]

** [[spoiler: ArcWords The ''Dutchman'' must have a captain.]]

** [[ArcWords The ''Dutchman'' must have a captain.]]

* TheStinger - [[spoiler: Davy Jones is back. ArcWords The ''Dutchman'' must have a captain.]]

* TheStinger - [[spoiler: Davy Jones is back.]]

* [[BigBad Captain Salazar]], for starters. The [[GhostPirate ghost of a ruthless pirate hunter]] who seems [[{{Intangibility}} invulnerable to physical harm]], [[BadBlackBarf barfs black goo]] and is set to be [[ImplacableMan implacable]] in his hunt for Jack Sparrow. He looks like a semi-decomposed corpse that retained a drowned look and seems to be constantly floating, even when walking outside of water.

* If Will Turner's brief shot in the Super Bowl trailer is anything to go by, his reappearance in this film will not be a happy one. Just from that one shot, one can see that he's clearly mutated and at least beginning to become as grotesque-looking and monstrous as the former devil himself, Davy Jones, the man/monster that had held the title of the ''Flying Dutchman'' Captain before Will (not to mention that he bares more than a slight resemblance to his father, Bootstrap Bill). And if one remembers the curse that the Captain can visit land for one day every 10 years and if his beloved waits for him, the curse will be broken... then it looks like he and Elizabeth had quite the falling out. Either that, or Will intentionally chose to remain on the high seas and has spent so long away from land and Elizabeth that the curse is now twisting his form. Either way, the reasoning and the results, probably won't be pretty and our dashing hero is probably on his StartOfDarkness by now.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tell him [{{beat}}] Death will come straight for him!"'']]

* The curse afflicting Salazar and his crew kept them in the exact same state their bodies were in when they died. Nothing was left to the imagination as to what happens to a human body after a massive explosion.