History Film / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest

** "Even Jack Sparrow can't best the devil!" cries one of Davy Jones' crew. Jones immediately [[OhCrap pauses in doubt]], and demands the chest be opened, discovering his heart is gone. Cue SkywardScream.

--->'''Gibbs:''' Ah. [[WretchedHive Tortuga]], then?

-->'''Jack:''' No,l a resolute and unyielding need.

-->'''Gibbs:''' By "need", do ya mean a trifling need, as in, say, a passing fancy?
-->'''Jack:''' No, as in a resolute and unyielding need.

-->'''Will:''' We can't leave without him! ''[sees Jack being chased by natives]'' Time to go!

* ShoutOut: A crewman on the merchant ship [[spoiler:before the Kraken's attack]] exclaims, "Mother Carey's chickens!" This was the title of a TV show mentioned in Disney's 1971 comedy ''The Barefoot Executive''.[[note]]And was also, in fact, the title of a 1938 film, adapted from a 1911 book of that title.[[/note]]

* [[RedshirtArmy Redshirt Crew]]: The ''Pearl'' is staffed by a whole bunch of them at the beginning. All are eaten or killed by the cannibals. Later on, after a visit to Tortuga, they're replaced by a new crew. The Kraken gets them all.

* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Having escaped from the Peligostos, the crew is ready to leave, but Will exhorts them to go back for Jack--until he sees the Captain himself running down the beach with the whole tribe at his heels.

** While talking to the Pelogostos, Jack looks at Will's groin and declares him "eunuch-y", followed by scissoring motions.

* BringTheAnchorAlong: Jack's flight from the Pelogostos' roasting fire, with the long pole they'd trussed him to as a cooking-spit bound to his back.

* CameraAbuse: A subtle example. As Jack is sailing away from the Island of the Peligostos and is giving his [[CatchPhrase standard farewell speech]], the wave that smacks Jack in the face and [[CatchphraseInterruptus cuts his sentence]] also manages to hit the camera as well.

* ChasedByAngryNatives: Jack's famous scene where he runs from hundreds of angry Peligostos cannibals.

* ChessWithDeath: Will's game of Liar's Dice against Davy Jones, pitting his soul against the key to the Dead Man's Chest. In the spirit of the game itself, the trope is subverted--all Will really wants is the key's location, so he can steal it later. Interestingly enough, he technically loses, but just as Jones is starting to gloat--"Welcome to the crew, boy..."--Will's father ups the bet so as to save Will.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Played with. Jack spends the entire movie trying to escape serving Davy Jones and getting killed by the Kraken for it, and even at the end, he only stayed behind because Elisabeth handcuffed him to the mast. However when he finally comes face-to-face with the beast, with nowhere left to run, he draws his sword and jumps down its throat willingly.

* ForbiddenZone: The island of the Peligostos. They make the most delicious [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/long_pork long pork]]. Their ride dumps Will overboard to get there.

** When Tia Dalma tells the tale of how Davy Jones fell in love with a woman, Gibbs says that he heard a different version of the tale in which Jones fell in love with the sea. Tia Dalma says that they are two versions of the same story and both are true. Also while Jack is shown shop-lifting from her hut, there's a music box amongst her trinckets, that's matching the one Davy Jones has. [[spoiler:Turns out that she's the sea goddess Jones fell in love with.]]
** The Peligostos are convinced Jack is a god bound in human form, and want to release him. As it turns out, their idea isn't ''that'' far-fetched...

* HeelFaithTurn: Discussed and PlayedForLaughs. In their first scene in the movie, Ragetti talks about repenting, "Since we're not immortal no more, we gotta take care of our immortal souls" and become "good men" while hold Literature/TheBible (upside down). Pintel reminds him he is illiterate ("It's the Bible! You get credit for trying!") They revert to their piratical ways pretty soon.

** The Peligostos. According to Gibbs, they believe Jack is a god and that eating his body will allow him to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

-->'''Gibbs:''' By "need", do ya mean a trifling need, as in, say, a passing fantasy?

* TooDumbToLive: The pirate who accidently picks up a snake while climbing the mountain to escape from the bone cage. Could have just dropped the snake or put it somewhere else rather than panicking and causing the other pirates to panic as well which causes them to plummet to their deaths and alert The Peligostos.

* WackyWaysideTribe: The Peligostos.

* WeirderThanUsual: "The captain's acting a bit strange ''[{{beat}}]'' ''er''."

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Played with. Jack spends the entire movie trying to escape serving Davy Jones and getting killed by the Kraken for it, and even at the end, he only stayed behind because Elisabeth handcuffed him to the mast. However when he finally comes face-to-face with the beast, with nowhere left to run, he draws his sword and jumps down it's throat willingly.

* MexicanStandoff: After arriving on Isla de Cruces, Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Norrington have a three-way sword duel over who will open the dead man's chest where Davy Jones's heart is kept: Jack wants to stab it to call off the Kraken, Will wants to free his father Bootstrap Bill from servitude to Davy Jones, and Norrington wants to be reinstated as a naval officer; [[spoiler: Norrington eventually takes the heart and brings it to Beckett

* PirateSong: The titular song is sung by one of Jack's crew near the start of the film.

** When Tia Dalma tells the tale of how Davy Jones fell in love with a woman, Gibbs says that he heard a different version of the tale in which Jones fell in love with the sea. Tia Dalma says that they are two versions of the same story and both are true. [[spoiler:Turns out that he fell in love with a sea goddess.]]

The movie begins with the arrival of Lord Cutler Beckett, the head of the East India Trading Company, who blackmails Will Turner into hunting Captain Jack Sparrow and his magic compass to spare Elizabeth Swann's life for treason (since they helped Jack escape). Beckett's ultimate target is the chest containing the heart of Davy Jones, captain of the ''Flying Dutchman'' and immortal lord of the oceans, who controls the dreaded monstrous {{Kraken}}. Holding the heart will allow Beckett to control Davy Jones, and hence all the seas of the world.

* FoldSpindleMutilation: During the attack by the {{Kraken}}, one unlucky sailor is dragged through a gun port that is about half his size. We only see his legs, but the sound of his body slowly snapping is very clear.

* BlackSpot: Takes the form of a ugly patch of blackened skin on Jack's palm, marking him for death via Kraken. Bootstrap Bill delivers it at the beginning of the film, warning him that the hunt begins immediately. [[spoiler:It is removed later by Davy Jones when Jack agrees to fetch him 100 souls in exchange for Jack's]]. [[spoiler: And the Kraken finds the Black Pearl afterwards anyway despite Jack not regaining the spot]].

'''Pintel''': Pretending to read the Bible's a lie. That's a mark against... [''The dog barks and swims for shore after spotting land and the Black Pearl on shore''] Look, there it is!

'''Pintel''': Pretending to read the Bible's a lie. That's a mark against... [''The dog barks and swims for shore after spotting land''] Look, there it is!

* BlackSpot: Takes the form of a ugly patch of blackened skin on Jack's palm, marking him for death via Kraken. Bootstrap Bill delivers it at the beginning of the film, warning him that the hunt begins immediately.