History Film / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In the climax after [[spoiler:the Kraken drags the ''Pearl'' to the Locker, Maacus remarks to Davy Jones that not even Jack Sparrow can best the devil. Far from being relieved by his First Mate's words, Jones ''instantly'' starts worrying. He knows Jack is ''exactly'' the kind of person who'd try to find a way to get the last laugh in before going down. Jones frantically opens the Chest, confirming his worst fears that the Heart's gone. The irony, of course, is that it's actually ''Norrington'' who got the last on Jones ''and'' Jack.]]

* GenreShift: After the LowFantasy of the first film, the introduction of Davy Jones and the ''Flying Dutchman'' begins shifting the films towards HighFantasy (though it won't fully embrace the genre until the next film).

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jack's story to Elizabeth in Tortuga about Will being taken by Davy Jones. As Norrington points out to Elizabeth later, she didn't stop to think about ''how'' exactly Will ended up on the ''Flying Dutchman''. Elizabeth realizes he's right, but doesn't want to believe Jack would do that to Will until he confirms it upon being reunited.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Jack's story to Elizabeth in Tortuga about Will being taken by Davy Jones. As Norrington points out to Elizabeth later, she didn't stop to think about ''how'' exactly Will ended up on the ''Flying Dutchman''. Elizabeth realizes he's right, but doesn't want to believe Jack would do that to Will until he confirms it in the Third Act.

*** Thoughout the scene, Jones probes Turner about the source of his desperation, before arriving at it being a woman. Will fires back that it's not desperation if it's the right woman, which sours Jones quite a bit, [[spoiler:because he remains furious at Calypso]].

* NoodleIncident: The ''Black Pearl'' had a run-in with a hurricane off Tripoli, which destroyed the former Commodore Norrington's ship. When Norrington mentions it, a horrified Gibbs asks whether he'd actually tried going ''through'' it.

* SkywardScream: Davy Jones let's out a good one upon [[spoiler:opening the chest to find it empty.]] See SayMyName, above.

%%* SkywardScream: Davy Jones. See SayMyName, above.

* AntagonistInMourning: After witnessing Jack's demise, Davy Jones seems notably somber, as if the whole situation's outcome ultimately brought him little real happiness. Then it gets subverted, and in a quite bad way, when Jones thinks in the chest and realizes Jack outsmarted him before dying.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It is when Jack Sparrow tells his crew not to go after his hat when it blows overboard do people think he is acting strange. Well, stranger than ''usual'' anyway.

* CrazyPrepared: The crew of the ''Edinburgh Trader'' (the ship Elizabeth stowed away on) apparently have been drilling for a kraken attack and have a specific procedure for such an occurrence; granted its effectiveness is somewhat lacking but the fact that they have a plan for such an occurrence screams this trope.

* AllMenArePerverts: The captain of the Edinburg Trader motivates his crew to find Elizabeth, who had to abandon her wedding dress amongst the ship rigging to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise herself as a crew mate]], by pointing out that she would be naked. {{Justified}} by the sailors likely having not seen a woman in months.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: PlayedForLaughs when Gibbs, Ragetti, and Pintel freak out at the sight of the Black Spot on Jack's hand. Jack responds with, "My eyesight's as good as ever," alluding to the belief that masturbation makes one blind.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: PlayedForLaughs when Gibbs, Ragetti, and Pintel freak out at the sight of the Black Spot on Jack's hand. Jack responds with, "My eyesight's as good as ever", alluding to the belief that masturbation makes one blind.

--> '''Gibbs:''' Mind the boat.\\

''(Cotton is left by himself to mind the boat)''

--->'''Gibbs:''' And how do you intend to harvest these ninety-nine souls in three days?
--->'''Jack Sparrow:''' Fortunately, he was mum as to the condition in which these souls need be.
--->'''Gibbs:''' Ah. [[WretchedHive Tortuga]]?
--->'''Jack:''' ''[wipes slime on Gibbs]'' Tortuga.

* SkywardScream: Davy Jones. See SayMyName, above.

* VaginaDentata: The Kraken's mouth (symbolically, rather than literally, obviously).

* ATruceWhileWeGawk: Happens twice. First Pintel and Ragetti stop their threatening advance towards Elizabeth momentarily to watch the strange sight of the mill wheel with three fighting men go by, then during the battle against the fishmen on the beach, everybody pauses to watch the wheel go by again.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: While his reasons are selfish, Jack is right about one thing. The Kraken is still a threat and if Jones dies then the beast will hunt and slaughter anything that gets in its way.]]

* MauveShirt: The crew of the ''Edinburgh Trader''. They have enough characterization to not be [[RedShirt redshirts]], but not enough to be main characters, providing some humor and a couple of significant scenes. This does give [[spoiler: the sinking of the Trader and the horrific deaths of the crew at the tentacles of the Kraken some emotional depth to it, as well as Jones [[KickTheDog callously executing]] the handful of survivors.]]

* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Jack Sparrow finds himself being hunted down by the Kraken to repay his debt to [[GhostPirate Davey Jones]]: a hundred years of servitude on ''The Flying Dutchman'' - though as the ''Dutchman'' already has a captain, the sentence will be commuted to eternity in [[{{Hell}} Davy Jones' Locker]]. After managing to arrange a meeting with his creditor, Jack is able to talk Jones into accepting a repayment of a hundred souls in his stead - to be gathered within the next three days. For good measure, Will Turner is offered and accepted as a down payment, allowing Jack to go free while Will is left to toil aboard the ''Dutchman'' for the next hundred years.

* WhamShot: The final one as [[spoiler: a very much alive Barbossa suddenly arrives to help the gang.]]