History YMMV / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales

* MagnificentBitch: Shansa is an imprisoned sea witch who cursed Barbossa's enemies so he could achieve higher success with no opposition when he saved her from the gallows. Learning everything she can through unpleasant rituals, such as eventually draining a man of his blood as he kept coming back for help, Shansa advises Barbossa about [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Salazar]] threatening him and only being stopped through the Trident of Poseidon--providing him with Jack's compass that she mysteriously possesses and advising Barbossa to retire peacefully if he wants to extend his life, but then allowing him the choice as to whether or not he'll reject the tedium of that in exchange for eventually dying sooner as a pirate. When Shansa is then threatened by British Lt. John Scarfield, she tells him he's put him on the path that will get him in the race for the Trident--knowing he'll eventually be destroyed by Salazar as she had expected him to be.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Gibbs. He's meant to be a man whose UndyingLoyalty for Jack has finally come to a limit because of how much of a drunk Jack has become by now, but the fact that he refuses to save him once he's about to be executed and only does it after being bribed by Henry drives viewers the wrong way, [[UngratefulBastard given Jack risked his life twice to save him in the previous movie]]. To make matters worse he only returns to Jack's side once he recovers the Black Pearl which makes him look like a OpportunisticBastard who saw a chance to return to be part of the most powerful ship in the Caribbean rather that someone who recovered his faith in his old captain.

* CompleteMonster: [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.

* OlderThanTheyThink: [[spoiler: Barbossa having a daughter as originally envisioned for the second film, but the plot of Dead Man's Chest was chosen instead. The original, however, was much older and a love interest of Jack's rather than of Will and Elizabeth's kid.]]

** Johnny Depp must locate a godly trident in this film. The next year, his wife Amber Heard would help Jason Momoa to find a godly trident too. Overlaps with HarsherinHindsight given that they are now exes.

** [[spoiler: [[EarnYourHappyEnding Will and Elizabeth getting together at last]]. Many fans who were depressed with the conclusion of ''At World's End'' and Will/Elizabeth fans in general found it to be pure CatharsisFactor, with some going as far to say it makes the movie WorthIt, other fans saw it as another poor atempt of PanderingToTheBase given the fact that [[FridgeHorror Will has no heart and that the Dutchman doesn't have a captain are never adressed]] and found the way it even happened to be only possible if you ignore most of the lore and driving forces of the previous movies. And that's not even getting into the fans who ''did'' like the BittersweetEnding of ''At World's End'' and found this conclusion to be a generic happy ending by comparison.]]