History Film / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd

** "Part of the ship, part of the crew."

* HandsLookingWrong: As Tia Dalma reminds Barbossa that she's the one who brought him back from the dead and could send him back if she chooses too, she grabs his wrist. Barbossa's hand shrivels and turns skeletal, as when he was cursed by the Aztec gold, before returning to normal, leaving the pirate quite unnerved.

** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the ''Endeavour'' is destroyed at will by the ''Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' because Becket freezes on sheer VillainousBSOD and his second-in-command will not break the chain of command to order to fire back.]] In real life, while proper command was certainly a big deal in the uptight Royal Navy (and we could expect [[spoiler:Becket]] to be fussy about it), there were basic circumstances where lieutenants would not only be allowed, but expected to take initiative on the best interests of his ship, as they are today. Being under direct attack and watching his immediate superior issue no orders at all (and looking visibly unable to do so) would have been considered a textbook example of a situation mandating the guy to take command and order to fire himself. In fact, the same official later breaks the chain of command anyway to order the crew to abandon the ship, begging the question of what impeded him to do the same minutes earlier to avoid its destruction. [[TropesAreNotBad On the other hand]], one could argue that, taking previous scenes into consideration, it falls in line with Beckett wanting to control ''everything'' with an iron grip, to the point that that even such standard liberties among those under his command would be considered unacceptable for him; they wouldn't dare act without ''his'' command. And this scene shows ''why'' his ways ultimately wouldn't work, and why such liberties ''do'' exist.

* CueTheFallingObject: After a short scuffle between the EIC and the pirates and Jack Sparrow's daring escape from the ship, Beckett order the ''Endeavour'' to pursue the ''Black Pearl''... only for the main mast, damaged by a canonball fired by Jack earlier, to crack and fall in the background, delaying the pursuit.

** [[spoiler:Will Turner]] becomes the Captain of the ''Flying Dutchman''. [[spoiler:Jack]] gives up his own chance at immortality to save [[spoiler:Will by helping him stab Jones' heart. The crew then cuts Will's heart out to replace it]].
** Subverted earlier in the film, when Davy Jones makes an implied offer to save [[spoiler:Norrington]]'s life in exchange for his joining the crew of the ''Flying Dutchman''. [[spoiler:Norrington]] replies by spearing Jones with his sword.

* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: [[MarriedAtSea Elizabeth and Will Turner are getting married]] by Captain Barbossa while ''in the middle of a furious melee'' against the cursed fishmen of the ''Flying Dutchman''.

* HandsLookingWrong: As Tia Dalma reminds Barbossa that she's the one who brought him back from the dead and could send him back if she chooses two, she grabs his wrist. Barbossa's hand shrivels and turn skeletal, as when he was cursed by the Aztec gold, before returning to normal, leaving the pirate quite unnerved.

* InTheDoldrums: Davy Jones' Locker is a barren wasteland (for a while, anyways). Nothing but perfectly flat, white desert in every direction. It's called "The Doldrums" twice, and it is true to the original definition -- it is a sailor's hell, after all: no wind to sail on nor even ''water'' to sail ''in''; just [[spoiler:Jack]], his ship, and a bunch of crabs.

* LazyBackup: The final battle. The ''Black Pearl'' faces down the ''FlyingDutchman'', and then Beckett's ''Endeavour'', without any help from the pirate armada assembled behind them. {{Justified|Trope}} because the maelstrom prevents other ships from intervening. And once again, when the [[spoiler:''Dutchman'' does its HeelFaceTurn, Beckett's much-larger armada may be scarpering because the situation has just gotten too weird to cope with, or perhaps they just don't care for the man enough to continue fighting after his death.]]

* TheUnintelligible: Calypso, when in 50 foot giant form, rants unintelligible things at the pirates after they set her free. WordOfGod says that she's cursing them, and basically telling them to go fuck themselves. This ties into what Jack said; no matter that they've freed her, she was still imprisoned before that, and is ''not'' happy about the time she spent confined in a human body. And she's not ''entirely'' unintelligible -- French speakers get a BilingualBonus in the form of two very familiar and vulgar syllables: "Va chier!" (a scatological version of "Go fuck yourself").

** At the end of the film, [[spoiler:the ''Endeavour'' is destroyed at will by the ''Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' because Becket freezes on sheer VillainousBSOD and his second-in-command will not break the chain of command to order to fire back.]] In real life, while proper command was certainly a big deal in the uptight Royal Navy (and we could expect [[spoiler:Becket]] to be fussy about it), there were basic circumstances where lieutenants would not only be allowed, but expected to take initiative on the best interests of his ship, as they are today. Being under direct attack and watching his immediate superior issue no orders at all (and looking visibly unable to do so) would have been considered a textbook example of a situation mandating the guy to take command and order to fire himself. In fact, the same official later breaks the chain of command anyway to order the crew to abandon the ship, begging the question of what impeded him to do the same minutes earlier to avoid its destruction.

* WouldHurtAChild: The opening scene shows that Beckett is willing to execute ''children'' for being pirates, in order to draw out his real foes, the Court of the Brethren.

** You know Pirate Lord Mistress Ching? She's based on pirate Ching Shih, who was an absurdly successful Chinese pirate queen, who commanded the largest pirate fleet in history. She was so good, in fact, that the government allowed her to retire because they couldn't actually beat her. She's in the wrong century, but RuleOfCool.

* TheDreaded: Captain Teague, Keeper of the Pirate Code. Even the Pirate Lords, all hardened men and women, are visibly nervouds in his presence, while Jack looks absolutely scared shitless. [[spoiler:If Teague was your father, you'd be scared shitless too.]]

* NoodleIncident: Implied, albeit downplayed, with Barbossa and Jack the Monkey. But ''something'' must have happened during the decade Barbossa had the ''Black Pearl'' to convince him to train his undead pet and accomplice how to use firearms (let alone make him think that it was actually a good idea).

* InternalReveal: The ''Pearl'' survivors finally learn what really happened at the end of the previous film once they reach the Locker. Jack takes gleeful delight in outing Elizabeth's betrayal once he realizes none of the others knew.

** Perhaps Beckett's single biggest mistake is relocating the Dead Man's Chest to the ''Flying Dutchman''. It's done out of frustration with Jones chafing at Beckett's orders and to keep him in line. [[spoiler:Instead, putting the Heart on the ''Dutchman'' backfires spectacularly and ultimately gets both Beckett and Jones killed. Beckett didn't account for actual combat conditions, which of course disrupts the guarding of the Chest. In the chaos of the Maelstrom battle, Jack's able to steal the Heart and help Will stab it -- thereby killing Jones, installing Will as the new Captain, and removing the EITC's control of the ''Dutchman''. Had the Chest remained aboard ''Endeavour'', the heroes would never have been able to get access to it and stop Beckett.]]