History Fridge / PiratesOfTheCaribbean

* Angelica also provides FridgeBrilliance for Will Turner, and Jack's insistence that "pirate is in your blood." In [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl Curse of the Black Pearl]] why is Jack so certain that Will will turn out to be a "pirate" (metaphorically or literally) like his father? He probably witnessed Angelica go through a similar identity crisis. Angelica clearly tried to fight the pirate in her by becoming a nun, but after being seduced by Jack, accepted that she had too much of her father in her for that life. Granted, Jack had no idea her father was Blackbeard until [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]], but he still may have known her father was a pirate.

* Take a good look at the ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' skull logo. Red scarf, plaits, the coins, the beads - yep, that's Captain Jack Sparrow. Or what remains of him. Just to drive the point home, attached to the plaits is a Captain Jack Sparrow voodoo doll.

* After you've seen "Dead Man's Chest", now you know the basical tactic of Kraken (grab the hull, kill with tentacles the crew, drag the ship underwater). You realize (just as Will probably did, and later Jack too) that when Will stepped on what he believed was the Dutchman, the Kraken was just feet under him, still holding the hull and... playing with the corpses, momentarily calm and waiting. Just. Some. Feet.

* In the opening of ''At World's End'', the hanging scene, where they're hanging everyone remotely associated with piracy, the fact that all Beckett has to do is say someone is a pirate and to hang them, no matter if they were. The real big bit of fridge horror was the kid who began the song; Hanging is potentially immediately fatal, as the sudden stop can(and usually does) snap necks. The kid, however, was on the small side, and probably didn't gain enough momentum in the drop to snap his neck. He strangled until he died.
** Actually, they all did. The "long drop" method of hanging(the one which breaks your neck) wasn't invented until the late 1800's... [[FridgeHorror which means that about 90 percent of all historical hangings were strangulations.]]
* Take a good look at the ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' skull logo. Red scarf, plaits, the coins, the beads - yep, that's Captain Jack Sparrow. Or what remains of him.

* In ''On Stranger Tides'', Jack leaves Angelica in the exact same situation he was in before ''The Curse Of The Black Pearl''. On an island, her ship stolen by Barbarossa and with a pistol that has one shot.

* After you've seen "Dead Man's Chest", now you know the basical tactic of Kraken (grab the hull, kill with tentacles the crew, drag the ship underwater). You realize (just as Will probably did, and later Jack too) that when Will stepped on what he believed was the Dutchman, the Kraken was just feet under him, still holding the hull and... playing with the corpses, momentarily calm and waiting. Just. Some. Feet.

*** "You took advantage of our hospitality last time, it holds fair now you return the favour!" (''cue shoving her towards his crew who start pawing at her and pulling her clothes'')He most certainly would let them.

*** "You took advantage of our hospitality last time, it holds fair now you return the favour!" He most certainly would let them.

** Alternately, they each knew her well enough personally now that they simply didn't buy it. Will's engaged to her, Jack's been hanging out with her on a pirate ship (as well as an equally hot and brutal island the movie before), and Norrington's seen her faint once for real (in the first movie due to a suffocating corset) and he's seen that trick before (when Jack was about to be hanged).

** Alternately, they each knew her well enough personally now that they simply didn't buy it. Will's engaged to her, Jack's been hanging out with her on a pirate ship (as well as an equally hot and brutal island the movie before), and Norrington's ''already seen that trick once.''

** While that's a romantic notion, the other end of the idea is that "How do merpeople reproduce?" See Futurama's Atlanta episode for a "logical" answer. BUT: What if a mermaid's kiss makes a human man immune to drowning and either they do it on land as humans or if they do it as fish, he can survive underwater to do the dirty deed? The film never answers the question directly because of squick and sometimes imagination is better. Notice how there were NO mer men. If they do hatch from eggs like fish, maybe the majority are born female (like aligators and crocs needing a certain temperature range to make males) and logically, they capture human males to provide what they need. Mermaids be pirates of a kind, slavers too.

* Angelica might remind one of Elizabeth Swan or Anamaria, both physically and in her personality. She is dark, with an accent and a temper similar to Anamaria's, and she looks a little bit like Elizabeth. With Angelica being the one woman Jack ever loved, this may be why he found Elizabeth and Anamaria a bit attractive later in his adventures; they both reminded him of Angelica.

* Philip states that Syrena's beauty indicates she is "...one of God's creature and not one of those dark things that found no refuge on the Ark." Did he forget that the Bible states more than once that beauty does NOT equal goodness (something he would likely know, being a preacher and carrying a Bible with him at the time)? Or that Syrena's fellow mermaids were also beautiful, but bloodthirsty and vicious? Or that the Flood which made the Ark's construction necessary wouldn't have harmed mermaids since they're aquatic beings?

*** Moreover, if the bottled ships ''weren't'' time-looped, they'd likely be rendered useless after only a few days of battering by the constant storms inside the bottles. Blackbeard wants trophies he can be proud of, not gale-demolished piles of flotsam.

* Why is the ride in [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks New Orleans Square?]] Because notorious pirate Jean Lafitte fought in The Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. It was a [[Main/HistoricalInJoke Historical In Joke]].

* In At World's End when the pirates first see the massive armada, Cotton's parrot says "abandon ship!" And flies away. He returns when the battle is won and says "Wind in the sails!" as the pirates celebrating. Way back in Curse of the Black Pearl, Gibbs said that phrase is assumed to mean "Yes". The parrot was cheering!

* When Jack meets Will for the first time, he immediately asks why Will looks familiar. It turns out this is because he's the son of Bootstrap Bill.