History Fridge / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl

* When the cursed crew meets Elizabeth for the first time, they are genuinely afraid when she threatens to drop it in the ocean. Theatrically, it was to maintain the secret that they were cursed with immortality and unable to feel any form of sensation. It does appear confusing in hindsight as they could just jump overboard and get it back. However, it was a tense situation so they weren't really thinking straight, and considering the size of the medallion, it would have been like searching for a needle in a haystack at the bottom of the sea and would likely be taken by the current has she actually dropped it.

!!Fridge Brilliance

!!Fridge Horror

* Sure, the scene where Ragetti gets a fork shot in his wooden (glass?) eye (ItMakesSenseInContext) is PlayedForLaughs, but fridge horror sets in if you realize that had that fork landed but a few inches to the other side of his face... he would have lost his last remaining eye and become a blind man.

* During Jack and Will's sword fight in the blacksmith shop, at one point Will improvised a weapon by grabbing a glowing rod from the forge. Sparrow, like anyone from a culture where smithery was common, would be aware that steel in that condition is too malleable to stand up against a cold blade; one hard stroke would cut right through it. Nonetheless, Jack appeared genuinely spooked. But there's an entirely feasible explanation for his response: the (very painful) experience of being branded has left Jack with a phobia about red-hot metal. Not that he panics at the very sight of it; he had no trouble handling a similar glowing rod to get the donkey moving. But when somebody is coming at him with such a thing, all Jack wants to do is get away.
* Why did Jack want the cursed treasure so much when it's implied he knew it was cursed, or at least knew the rumours? Cursed or not, he was probably looking for a way out of his deal with Jones, either by trading him the treasure or by hoping the curse would somehow make Jones unable to bind him to service.

* Barbossa cuts Elizabeth's hand slightly to get a "blood offering" from her. It is generally regarded as a humorous moment or as a proof that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he has standards]], but if they did succeed to lift the curse then, the pirates would've once again be able to enjoy carnal pleasures of life, with Elizabeth ''as the only woman around''.

* During Jack and Will's sword fight in the blacksmith shop, Will at one point improvised a weapon by grabbing a glowing rod from the forge. Sparrow, like anyone from a culture where metalsmithery was common, would be aware that steel in that condition is too malleable to stand up against a cold blade; one hard stroke would cut right through it. Nonetheless, Jack appeared genuinely spooked. But there's an entirely feasible explanation for his response: the (very painful) experience of being branded has left Jack with a phobia about red-hot metal. Not that he panics at the very sight of it; he had no trouble handling a similar glowing rod to get the donkey moving. But when somebody is coming at him with such a thing, all Jack wants to do is get away.
* Why did Jack want the cursed treasure so much when it's implied he knew it was cursed, or at least knew the rumors? Cursed or not, he was probably looking for a way out of his deal with Jones, either by trading him the treasure or by hoping the curse would somehow make Jones unable to bind him to service.

* Barbossa cuts Elizabeth's hand slightly to get a "blood offering" from her. It is generally regarded as a humorous moment or as a proof that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he has standards]], but once the curse is lifted they can once again enjoy carnal pleasures of life, and Elizabeth ''is the only woman around''.

** On that line, I've always been bothered by the crew of the Black Pearl throwing Bootstrap Bill overboard and acting like they're done with it and will never see him again. He's under the same curse as all the rest of them, so he couldn't have been killed. Which leads to the question of why he is with Davy Jones' crew later on, if he didn't have death to fear at first.
** Both counts are explained. They bound him to a cannon so he'd sink to the bottom, where the pressure was so great he couldn't move. They might not have been able to kill him, but they certainly put him in an AndIMustScream situation. He sold his soul to Jones not out of fear of death like most of his crew, but to ''get out of there''. In his own words: "If there was any chance of escaping this fate, I'd take it. I'd trade ''anything'' for it..."
** Didn't Barbossa make it pretty clear that they didn't know that the treasure was cursed or simply didn't believe in the curse until they had spent almost all of the treasure, while at least implying that they had thrown Bootstrap Bill overboard before they had figured it out? Why else would they do it at all? They do spend the next eight years desperately searching for his child while presumably kicking themselves for 'killing' Bootstrap Bill.
** The one with the wooden eye mentions that they "didn't find out they needed his blood to lift the curse until after" they had thrown him overboard, and they threw him overboard because he thought they deserved the curse. So obviously, after they realized they were cursed, and started trying to find a way to break it. Before they found one, Bootstrap is thrown overboard for some slight involving it. Then they somehow ( the Voodoo Queen who turned out to be Calypso, perhaps?) find out how to break the curse, and then go looking for the only source of Turner blood left: Will.
* Elizabeth surviving the fall from the fort makes despite the height of the fall, the rocks at the bottom and the water she managed to ingest while she was under for so long makes a lot more sense when you consider that ''she'' is wearing the medallion at that point. Considering how those who wear it can survive things that might otherwise kill them...
** That might also explain why Will was the only survivor of the raid on the merchant ship as a child.

** ... and? Barbossa's crew were, from what we see of them, unabashed criminal scum. Even Pintel and Ragetti (though they're [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain endearingly inept scum]] and spared on account of being the comic relief). I'm not a big fan of the death penalty in real life, but I confess I'm failing to see the horror in a crew of fictional villains being hanged.
** They didn't get clemency, they escaped. They explicitly mention they escaped using the key-dog.
* In "Curse" Barbossa cuts Elizabeth's hand slightly to get a "blood offering" from her. It is generally regarded as a humorous moment or as a proof that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he has standards]], but let's say they succeeded in removing the curse. Now they can once again enjoy carnal pleasures of life, and Elizabeth ''is the only woman around''.
** Would Barbossa let them? He may be many things, but a rapist? I'm not that sure.
*** Might just keep her for himself, {{bathe her and bring her to me}} and all
*** "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 despite her cries'') He most certainly would let them.
*** He was also more than willing to force her to "dine with the crew" naked if she refused his invitation.
*** "Waste not... *smile*.* Barbossa's 'joke' just got creepy.

* In ''Curse Of The Black Pearl'', during Jack and Will's sword fight in the blacksmith shop, Will at one point improvised a weapon by grabbing a glowing rod from the forge. Sparrow, like anyone from a culture where metalsmithery was common, would be aware that steel in that condition is too malleable to stand up against a cold blade; one hard stroke would cut right through it. Nonetheless, Jack appeared genuinely spooked. But there's an entirely feasible explanation for his response: the (very painful) experience of being branded has left Jack with a phobia about red-hot metal. Not that he panics at the very sight of it; he had no trouble handling a similar glowing rod to get the donkey moving. But when somebody is coming at him with such a thing, all Jack wants to do is get away.

* All those pirates captured at the end of ''Curse of the Black Pearl''? They were hanged. Pintel and Ragetti only got prison because they were hanging around dressed as women during most of the final battle.

* In ''Curse of the Black Pearl'' How does Jack know the other prisoners won't have any luck getting the key from the dog? [[spoiler: It's his father's dog. Aside from that, the key isn't for the jail cell anyways.]]
** Actually Jack and Governor Swan acknowledge that the dog has the keys for the cell, and it's implied that [[spoiler: Pintel and Ragetti escaped by getting the dog to bring the keys to them]]. Otherwise why would Jack try to get it once he was alone?
** It's a joke, the same pirates have been trying to get the dog to give them the keys in the ride the movie is based on for fifty years.

!!Fridge Logic
* How could anyone forget the bit that Jack himself lampshaded in ''Curse of the Black Pearl''? When one of his fellow prison inmates said that there were never any survivors from attacks by the Black Pearl, he questioned where the stories about it came from.
** They were just that: stories. Pirates often spread rumours around. Plus, people exaggerate. We see how the Pearl, under Barbossa, raided Port Royal in the first film, so if this is a bench mark on how they conducted raids, it's possible there were survivors who exaggerated the effects.
*** I always took it to mean the ones spreading the stories were the cursed crew of the Pearl. Fridge Horror for any anyone who'd heard the stories.

** The one with the wooden eye mentions that they "didn't find out they needed his blood to lift the curse until after" they had thrown him overboard, and they threw him overboard because he thought they deserved the curse. So obviously, after they realized they were cursed, and started trying to find a way to break it. Before they found one, Bootstrab is thrown overboard for some slight involving it. Then they somehow ( the Voodoo Queen who turned out to be Calypso, perhaps?) find out how to break the curse, and then go looking for the only source of Turner blood left: Will.

** It's a joke, the same pirates have been trying to get the dog to give them the keys in the ride the movie is based on for fifty years

** They were just that: stories. Pirates often spread rumours around. Plus, people exaggerate. We see how the Pearl, under Barbossa, raided Port Royal in the first film, so if this is a bench mark on how they conducted raids, it's possible there were survivor who exaggerated the effects.

* In "Curse" Barbossa cuts Elizabeth's hand slightly to get a "blood offering" from her. It is generally regarded as a humorous moment or as a proof that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he has standards]], but let's say they suceeded in removing the curse. Now they can once again enjoy carnal pleasures of life, and Elizabeth ''is the only woman around''.