Every Curse Explained | Pirates of the Caribbean Lore

[@jetlag_4459]

"Yer best start believing in ghost stories miss Turner, you're in one!"

[@LordOptimus707]

One of my personal favorite quotes, that and "life is cruel! why should the afterlife be any different?"

[@kaytlinjustis5643]

LOVE that quote! ^^

[@davidbird6739]

Miss Swan

[@mreggs3731]

one movie later: do YOOOO FEAR DEATH?

[@DeadLiftGaming-wr7ln]

Good name.♡

[@GonkFiendYT]

"you carry that pistol for 10 years now you waste your shot" "He didn't waste it" Gave me chills

[@Cynderfan35]

"I feel... cold...."

[@Hunter_H112]

One of the few moments jack acted serious

[@nuggetsschumaker4371]

best part about the curse is how the characters find loopholes on them. Like when David Jones had to go on land, so they left a bucket with sea water for him to stand on.

[@pajalixd4016]

What if he fell over ? Would he start shaking and jumping around like a fish on land ?

[@ZetsuboNoShima]

@@pajalixd4016maybe fade away into dust like salazars man did when he walked on land

[@szithaanu9934]

How did he get from the boat to the bucket though?

[@eastonenroth2366]

@@szithaanu9934 if you look behind him there’s a series of buckets leading up to the one he’s standing in

[@YourGirlAstro]

My favorite curse has to be the Aztec curse on Cortes, it just has so much history but is also so simple and interesting like the first movie.

[@a.c.sargent]

the dutchman's curse has gotta be my favourite

[@jetlag_4459]

devil's triangle goated

[@thanell1373]

The Aztec curse is perfect because the Aztecs cursed the greed so anyone who steals will have gold and immortality which seems perfect but can’t feel and find joy in anything just perfect

[@ailuosi7241]

thats because its the only one that makes sense to the overall concept of the story. everything else other than that is farfetched and ridiculous

[@a.c.sargent]

@@ailuosi7241 how is the dutchman's curse any more farfetched than the curse laid upon Barbossa and his crew?

[@biobob1020]

Ok fine, I’ll watch Pirates of the Caribbean again..

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Lol, I had to rewatch them in January.

[@agent_exodus]

Agreed

[@Isayuh2003]

Might be the best franchise of all time

[@lachlantheobald8271]

this is why the plot of the most recent Pirates of the caribbean is so confusing and annoys fans of the original trilogy. Apparently every curse is contained within a greek gods trident and breaking it releases every curse setting them free. But clearly they forgot about the first movie where another realm of gods exists (with different levels of power) and it supposedly fixed those ones to? was truly annoying when they forgot about that. Like Barbossa even says "the heathen gods placed a terrible curse". meaning there is more than one pantheon of gods. Calypso is even based in Haitian mythology. always get mad when they dont do research properly.

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Yeah, there are some contradictions because of Dead Men Tell No Tales (such as what you mentioned and the fact that Davy Jones was supposed to have died, but yet has seemingly returned as there must always be a captain of the Flying Dutchman, if you've seen the post-credits scene).

[@lachlantheobald8271]

@RealSomeRandomNerd exactly! The dutchman is a vessel of of the damned, if there is no captain. there is no flying dutchman. if theres no flying dutchman, theres no path to piece for those lost at sea. Thats how i understand it at least from tia dalmas description

[@CoffeeKat14]

It might just be me, but I still wonder: What if Angelica is still alive? Okay, stupid idea, but hear me out. If she got all those years from her father, shouldn't she still be around?

[@pyerack]

The last two POTC films sucked. I just pretend they don't exist.

[@christianpetit9022]

To be honest, I liked the two last movies, I just didn’t appreciate that they forgot about the lore of the curses in the pirate sea. If there’s a Pirates of the Caribbean 6, I hope they fix those small issues.

[@FakeMineconCape]

*inhales* *exhales* Yaptain' 'barrow...

[@temporaryspy2816]

lmao

[@MarianneMalyj]

Jack Esparrow

[@HiddenNotReal]

Jack Sparrah, our debt is settleduh - Davy Jones

[@MrOverlordSir]

Yaptin Back Barrow

[@hiddendesire3076]

3:06 Jolly Roger is also obviously cursed himself, by himself no less. He had been a voodoo-wielding pirate who had planned on cursing Jack in a game of cards, believing he couldn’t lose. A suspected slight of hand later and Jack took the pot. With this loss, Roger found himself withering and aging as his body became the visage of a rotten shambling corpse.

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Yeah, this is true. I actually have a video that was uploaded a couple days after this on Jolly Roger.

[@rogermoses3785]

Awwww, this brought me back to the good ol' days of POTCO.

[@CaptainJackieBoi]

Technically the black spot is also a curse but I can see why you didn't include it because it kinda goes hand and hand with the dutchman curse and Davy Jones

[@emiliita]

Quite literally goes hand in hand, as Jack got the black spot spreaded onto his hand by Jones LOL

[@C.A.M584]

It was given by Bootstrap Bill on Jones permission and the curse is pretty much Jones own brand of magic and because he's stopped doing the job he turned into a monster as they have to always have a captain on the Dutchman but Jones returns to haunt William for being released from his burden.

[@under-chonker]

the cgi of these curses are very cool and advanced

[@Stoic-poker]

Agree 😊

[@Parasmunt]

The CGI of these movies (esp the fish crew) is on another level.

[@brentvannoten2509]

Bro, the skeleton's (moonlight curse) got me sooooooo hyped as a kid 😂😂😂

[@jordanelza8806]

Thank you for this explanation. A couple things I still wonder are these: 1, if all curses were broken upon the destruction of the Trident, why did Davy Jones appear to haunt Will in the post credits scene, despite Will being seemingly free? 2, even with all curses broken, how would the souls of those who died at sea truly pass on if the Flying Dutchman was now just a normal ship? And 3, how can Will Turner survive without his heart in his body if he’s been freed from the Dutchman, and therefore (most likely) mortal once again?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Thank you for watching the video. As for your questions, firstly, with the Trident of Poseidon broken, Will is of course free, however, the Dutchman still needs a captain; this isn't a curse, but something that is just necessary and a duty that was initially given to Davy Jones by Calypso, hence why Jones seems to return, there must be a captain and Will is now free. That said though, Davy Jones corrupted his purpose and was then cursed for abandoning his duties after his heartbreak of Calypso not showing up at their scheduled "date" if you want to call it that, essentially; I have a video on Davy Jones from nearly two years ago if you're interested. I think what I just explained also answers your second inquiry, but to further reinforce what I said, Davy Jones' ship, the Flying Dutchman, wasn't initially cursed and the fact that he was ferrying souls of the damned wasn't because he was cursed either. Jones was cursed after not continuing this duty, as I mentioned. Finally, this one is a bit odd, we're not sure what entirely happened and the writers of the fifth film probably didn't think this part through, but I assume Will felt something after the trident was destroyed and perhaps his crew reinserted his heart into his chest, but I'm not entirely certain. Anyhow, I hope that answered your questions. Again, thank you for watching the video, I appreciate it.

[@jordanelza8806]

@@SomeRandomNerdSRN Thank you. I believe that answers the questions as well as they can be. And you’re welcome, the video was very informative. Thank you for sharing.

[@Nyghtking]

I think the answer to the souls thing was already answered, in the sea of souls if they aren't guided they simply drift if not guided by Jones, Elizabeth sees her father there and thats how she learned he was killed.

[@michaelkeele8077]

Also is a mermaids kiss considered a curse, cause if so; so long Philip.

[@DoratTheKiller]

Tbh, lost earthly pleasures aside, the Aztec gold curse seems more of an advantage than a disadvantage to me

[@cjvipinosa3328]

Barbossa can't enjoy food and drinks In exchange for the curse immortality are you still gonna want that curse?

[@christianpetit9022]

The curse is basically a eternal punishment of starvation without you starving to death 💀.

[@suilles]

many people believe being immortal is the best thing ever. but you have to know that after years of doing the same thing over and over again it be boring. also yes your body can be immortal but your brain is not. you will forget alot after years the brain can only save so much info so you will either go crazy or forget stuff all the time and mix up things. then the fact that you will see anyone you do care for die so after long time you will try to not get any connections to people so you dont see loved ones die. so yes being immortal be fun for a while but after long time it would be a hard life.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@suilles That's due to the effects of aging and the body deteriorating, effects that would not occur in an immortal body. Your body would be just as healthy as you were in your prime, as mortality is what causes aging. What you are describing is undying or undeath. In that you feel all the effects of mortality but simply cannot die.

[@a.c.sargent]

I wonder if we got that sixth film would we have seen davy jones return?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

My guess would be yes because of the post credit scene in Dead Men Tell No Tales.

[@a.c.sargent]

@@SomeRandomNerdSRN yah

[@epsilon_467]

i think so

[@spinozilla2421]

Post-credit scene with the babarnacle and water after Will’s “Nightmare” heavily implied Davy Jones is back and alive and we somewhat did sequel if you Played Sea of Thieves. in the Crossover Story Jack stole from Davy Jone an item that allows him travel to other Sea from differnt worlds and Davy Jones follows him into the Sea of theives. the Game story also mentions Jack’s previous adventure with Foutain of Youth and Poseidon Trident indicating this crossover takes place after the 5th film but also shows Davy Jones did come back to Life and became the ferryman/ Captain of the Dutchman again

[@einhander876]

At 1:11 nobody gonna say anything about the pirate on the far left casually drinking out of what appears to be a paper cup?

[@zero1zerolast393]

They care about as much as the power cords in pirates 4

[@Phoenixfede1989]

Davy Jones never realized that with Calipso basicly the sea itself, his love was always near him.

[@Thehandler27]

You should do POTC artifacts like Blackbeards sword, jacks compass obviously, the chart map, etc

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Thanks for the comment, this is an interesting idea. Perhaps some time in the future I can cover these artifacts in a video.

[@Savirezz]

So anyone who destroyed Davy Jones' heart must become the captain of the Dutchman? What if for some unknown reason, the heart was eaten by a fish?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Fish becomes captain and all must abide by his rule of the Dutchman. In all seriousness, these types of things are something I don't think they thought through entirely or maybe it's a specific condition where it has to be stabbed by a person. The whole "the Dutchman must have a captain" rule convolutes things because if it's destroyed via another method that isn't someone directly taking the place of Davy Jones, then how can Davy Jones die if someone isn't replacing him and the Dutchman must be captained? As much as I enjoy these films, and have done since they were still coming out, they're filled with a lot of inconsistencies and odd questions being raised and left unanswered; if you take a look at this comment section alone, you'll see some other examples of this. I appreciate you watching, thank you. :D

[@jackiesparrowjr]

I'm glad you mentioned Jolly Roger. He's literally my favorite villain in the POTC universe. I even drew my version of how he might look as a human. You should totally do a video about Jolly Roger's backstory.

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Thank you for watching. I actually did a video on Jolly Roger a couple of days after I uploaded this video.

[@jackiesparrowjr]

@@SomeRandomNerdSRN That's awesome. I'll make sure I check it out.

[@thegametroll6264]

* lights a smoking pipe * " do you fear death? Do you fear that DARK abyss? All your deeds laid bare? All your sins PUNISHED?! i can offer you... an escape."

[@riicky83]

That raises an interesting question. If the Trident contained all the curses, would Will die when the Trident breaks? Considering how his curse works, the crew had to cut his heart out as a part of the curse. Knowing the human body, it can't live without the heart inside the body and if his heart is still inside the chest when the curse is lifted, then technically he dies on the spot.

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Yeah, I intitially thought perhaps he sensed something and immediately reinserted his heart with the help of his crew, but if I'm not mistaken, Elizabeth had his heart in her possession, and I don't think he could have gotten to the island she was on fast enough. I think this is something that the film writers didn't fully plan out, along with a lot of other things. Although I enjoy all of the films, I agree with the fans that criticize the last two because there are some things that aren't fully thought out. Thanks for commenting and watching the video, maybe there is an explanation I just haven't thought of.

[@jansonshrock2859]

So for the flying dutchman's curse, from my understanding the curse only happens if you don't perform the job correctly/at all, but that the part where you need to ferry those who die at sea and that the ship must always have a captain are not part of the curse but part of the title of of ship, and the ship's purpose. What this should mean after the events of 5 is that 1) now william is free to leave the service of the dutchman without being cursed 2) that Davy jones minus the curse might be resurrected? human davy jones fr

[@KristieNorth17]

I appreciate how the franchise went out of its way to acknowledge the fact Cortez was a greedy monster

[@codename1176]

So much of history could have been avoided if they dealt with the natives amicably

[@chrismoore769]

I feel like you are whispering can’t really hear you unless phone volume is blasting other than making your voice more apparent I love this video keep it up big dawg

[@buchan448]

cool vid and channel subbed and pressed the bell hello from Scotland

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Thank you, I appreciate it

[@Ghost3210]

Next movie: Vampire Coast

[@eastonenroth2366]

The movie after that: werewolf island

[@Tatsu4242]

I wanna know what happens if you stab the heart but like refuse to become captain or are so far inland from carrying the heart there to kill it. And then if that person does does the curse pass to someone new or does something happen at sea where the dead don’t pass to the other side but become like sea ghosts or something.

[@gizmothag5015]

Seeing jack as skeleton pirate was WILD and truly cool as fuck and I’ve always wondered why that happened and how it happened to jack, but the coolest part is the fact it only shows in the moonlight (I THINK) it’s been a WHILE since I’ve seen the movies

[@canadianbird1185]

Calypso deserved that actually. I really don't feel bad for her. Alot of people see Davy Jones as a villain, yet if any guy was in his shoes, they'll feel same.

[@jager477]

I'm confidant that Jack himself is cursed due to how many of his enemy's were/are cursed.

[@RileyCoyote846]

I still remember playing the opening mission to Pirates of the Caribbean Online, what a memory to have

[@hungerandslake]

this is a question i jad since i was a kid why didnt jackie stab the heart when he found it? aside from the movie being cut short what would the in-lore reason be? I mean the drawback of being on land wouldnt really affect jack since he loves the sea more then anything

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

I think he was internally conflicted about becoming the captain of the Flying Dutchman, which would require far too much commitment for Jack (he's a man who enjoys freedom, more so than most I think). There's also a quote along the lines of "if Jones is dead, whose to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, eh?". He would taunt Davy Jones with his heart and use it to force Jones to call off the Kraken.

[@khananissa21]

the bests curse is the Salazar's one and Davy Jones's

[@LordOptimus707]

They really need to make another pirates movie 😂😂

[@epsilon_467]

yesss 😭

[@lucasbelmonte2832]

Seeing as Johnny depp has refused to work with Hollywood again I hope not.

[@CripTikGames]

agreed

[@LordOptimus707]

@@lucasbelmonte2832 Well yeah if Depp isn't in it then it just wouldn't be the same

[@KyleKatarn1980]

This “curse” lore is almost as comparable to the “Malfestation” in the Soul Calibur games!

[@crystalking784]

Something just occurred to me.... Bootstrap has not only the curse of the Aztec, but also Davy Jones The flying Dutchman. Does that mean that in the events of the Black Pearl Bootstrap he had both courses placed upon him. Or did Davy Jones override the Aztec curse with his own curse? I would like to believe the idea that when Davy Jones came upon Bootstrap and offered him a deal, which was he would break the Curse upon him but in exchange Bootstrap served the Dutchman.

[@codename1176]

Will’s blood was used to break the Aztec curse. It needed to be bootstrap or of bootstrap’s blood. So after the events of the first film he would have had the Aztec curse lifted

[@CarpeNoctem135]

When Jack when to the great desert with the stone crabs, did that land have any tie to sailor mythology or was it just an artistic thing the film makers did?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

That desert is Davy Jones' Locker. I think the film makers chose to have a completely barren wasteland as a way to represent how Davy Jones' Locker is intended to leave the victim or debt-ower to Davy Jones eternally stranded as a punishment at sea.

[@cubejedi]

Where do you find this lore. I don't remember some of these from the movies. Are there books or something?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Video games and books, specifically Pirates of the Caribbean Online for the Curse of the Muertos Moon.

[@C.A.M584]

With the Trident destroyed, is the treasure of Cortez still cursed, or is it free for the taking? I don't think it was established?

[@RvnWolf]

The Flying Dutchman wasn't a curse, the curse was the one Davy Jones placed on the chest and his heart. The enchantment or blessings of the Dutchman is what brings Davy Jones back to life, as that ship and Duty was given to him. After the trident breaking freed Will from Davy Jone's curse

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Davy Jones, and his crew, were cursed by Calypso after Jones abandons his duties aboard the Dutchman ferrying souls. Yes, the ship itself wasn't a curse, the crew was cursed.

[@xxlCortez]

It's weird that Salazar's men didn't die immediately after the curse was lifted, given the state they were in.

[@ResultsDontLieMathew]

yar this be a fine video yee better keep up the good work

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.

[@Rckstrroma5]

Jack sparrows curse went well n Jack was safe

[@stevetan2331]

Why was the cgi better than marvels lol

[@sammycakes8778]

So with the trident broken that Aztec gold is easy picking then.

[@captainanthonyjankins9479]

My favorite curse is ghost and skeleton in the pirate of the Caribbean

[@DingoNovember]

If i gotta choose, I’m gonna join Davy Jones, really want to know what kind of sea creature(s) i’ll become😂

[@andresmora5192]

THE AZTEC GODS 🇲🇽 The Aztec Gods who cursed the 882 gold pieces delivered to Cortes (the cursed treasure that transformed Barbossa and his pirates into skeletons, in the moonlight) were: Chantico: Goddess of fire and protector of treasures. Xiuhtecutli: God of fire, husband of Chantico. Huitzilopochtli: God of war. Tezcatlipoca: The god of the night.

[@J.P.Robles]

I honestly don’t think that Orlando Bloom looks anything like Stellan Skarsgård Yes I know that they mean that the characters look alike but that would imply to some degree that the actors look alike too They kept saying how Will looks like Bootstrap Bill but I just don’t see it

[@Kabuki_everyfandomiam]

I feel like salazar should be having 3 movies to kill him

[@ProfWollhoven]

I somehow like all the magic from the Jack Sparrow books way more than most of the movie magics

[@krisztianpap1664]

Anyway am I the only one who thinks they could have use this chest for their safty? Hear me out, they are going to contain the chest on their ship, before every battle all of them are gonna take one gold out and drop it back they are cursed they're gonna survive all the battle, after that the one who could lift the curse drips some blood on it and bumm curse gone, they could do anything with that

[@augustopla9605]

So... if you nead to sacrefise blod from everyone to end the curse what hapend when jack steals a coin in the end of the movie? And if bill turner was an imortall skeleton how did he die to join daivy jones crew?

[@earlleeruhf3130]

I missed the curse of the Moon Stone. Was that a seperate tale from the films?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

That's my bad for not clarifying; it's from Pirates of the Caribbean online, a game released in 2007 on Halloween.

[@_.-nope_cat.-_]

if curses exist i wonder if sea witches do..

[@jomapeters5759]

One question if boot strap bill took a coin how did he die

[@suilles]

he did not die. he has been taken on as crew for the flying dutch man. those are not dead people. a deal was made and he failed to live up to his part of the deal so he had to work as part of the crew.

[@mclink99]

Jaggus Barrow

[@lol0ajo]

i would take curse of Aztec gold. don't feel pain, hunger and thirst

[@serotoninu958]

but then you'd feel eternally starved which means no sense of feeling

[@JP-kp6xv]

In first movie they say they feel starving, thirsting and are showed feeling pain multiple times

[@amzingblinx2570]

POTCO LORE MENTIONED

[@jidanmirza]

Why Will or Elizabeth wasn’t cursed though they had aztec gold???

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

They didn't take directly from the chest.

[@joseprodes6858]

And whats with black beards Zombies?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Blackbeard morphed/corrupted them using dark magic, they're not technically "cursed" per se. I like to think of it in a similar light to Melkor, in Tolkien's world, who tortures and corrupts some of the very early Elves of Arda and morphs them into his own creation, Orcs, an insult to the other Ainur. In Blackbeard's case, he uses them as servants and enforcers aboard Queen Anne's Revenge, but I think you get the comparison.

[@JayStephens8]

Blackbeards sword?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

The Sword of Triton is more of a cursed item itself (it's one of the three gems in the sword that gives it its power) as opposed to an actual curse that can affect anyone. It wouldn't be considered a curse of the sea nor land, just a powerful item/weapon.

[@dylanargall6039]

5:53 William never stabbed the heart

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

Yes, he did; with the assistance of Jack Sparrow. This is why he becomes the new captain of the Flying Dutchman.

[@dylanargall6039]

@@SomeRandomNerdSRN i see what your saying, but Jack sparrow made that happen not Turner

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

You're right, 100% would not have happened without Jack, but it was still Will's hand around the knife and he was the one who took the place of Davy Jones, that is more or less what I mean in the video. Thank you for actually watching the video as well, I appreciate it.

[@rsp3312]

@@dylanargall6039go watch the movie

[@joesmith3075]

what about the black spot from dead man's chest?

[@SomeRandomNerdSRN]

I believe someone made a comment regarding this when I first uploaded this and they even stated that it goes in conjunction with the Dutchman's curse. To continue this, I would even argue that it's not technically a curse and just a way for Jones' to help the Kraken track any foe who owes him. Perhaps I could have mentioned it as a subnote at least when discussing the curse concerning the Flying Dutchman.