Who cursed the Flying Dutchman?

Whoever stabs Jones' heart, theirs must take its place and captain the Flying Dutchman, as the ship must have a captain. The heartbroken and bitter Davy Jones abandoned his duty and returned to the seven seas. As a result, the Flying Dutchman itself became cursed, just as Jones was.
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What curse does the Flying Dutchman have?

The Flying Dutchman was a sea captain who once found himself struggling to round the Cape of Good Hope during a ferocious storm. He swore that he would succeed even if he had to sail until Judgment Day. The Devil heard his oath, and took him up on it; the Dutchman was condemned to stay at sea forever.
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Who was the real captain of the Flying Dutchman?

In real life the Flying Dutchman was a 17th century Dutch merchantman, captained by Captain Hendrick Van Der Decken, a skilled seaman but one of few scruples, and in 1680 was proceeding from Amsterdam to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.
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Can the Flying Dutchman be destroyed?

And when Beckett is faced with two ships, one is Black Pearl and other is Flying Dutchman, it is pretty obvious that Beckett couldn't order to attack any of the ships, because one has Jack Sparrow on board, and other is the Flying Dutchman which can not be sunk..
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Which king saw the Flying Dutchman?

It appeared there would be a collision, but the ship suddenly vanished. 1881: Three HMS Bacchante crewmembers, including King George V, saw the ship. The next day, one of the men who saw it fell from the rigging and died.
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How did the Flying Dutchman get cursed?

Whoever stabs Jones' heart, theirs must take its place and captain the Flying Dutchman, as the ship must have a captain. The heartbroken and bitter Davy Jones abandoned his duty and returned to the seven seas. As a result, the Flying Dutchman itself became cursed, just as Jones was.
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How Did Davy Jones get cursed?

After that the lore gets a bit messy, but it's generally assumed that Jones came back from the dead once the Trident was broken, sneaking into the Turner's bedroom probably intending to kill/harm Will at the end of Dead Men Tell No Tales. Short answer: He had an ordinary beard, became cursed, boom tentacle beard.
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Why can't Elizabeth go on the Flying Dutchman?

Why couldn't Elizabeth just join Will's crew on the Dutchman? Because she's not dead.
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Why is Davy Jones an octopus?

But the pain of Calypso's betrayal caused him was too much to live with, so Davy Jones carved out his own heart and locked it away in the Dead Man's Chest. Abandoning his duty, Davy Jones turned into a hideous humanoid sea monster, with an octopus face, a tentacles beard, a claw of crab as a hand and a giant crab leg.
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What did Calypso say before turning into crabs?

Prior to dissolving into a swarm of crabs, Calypso shouts an incantation which in the script reads: "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!". This roughly means "Across all the waters, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me" in French, evidently referring to Davy Jones.
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Was Davy Jones a real pirate?

David Jones, a real pirate, although not a very well-known one, living on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard. A British pub owner who supposedly threw drunken sailors into his ale locker and then gave them to be drafted on any ship.
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How Did Davy Jones control the Kraken?

Davy Jones was further able to order the Kraken to attack specific ships he wanted attacked. If one possessed the heart of Davy Jones, that person could control not only Jones himself, but the Kraken as well, which in effect gave the person control of the oceans.
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Why did Will Turner get barnacles?

TL;DR: Will has barnacles because of extended time in the ocean. Not because he didn't ferry around the dead people.
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Why did Davy Jones betray Calypso?

However, when Jones returned to shore after ten years, Calypso failed to appear. Believing Calypso had betrayed him, a heartbroken and enraged Davy Jones turned the Pirate Brethren against her, saying that if she were removed from the world, they would be able to claim the seas for themselves.
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Why did Will Turner get cursed?

Pintel revealed that Bootstrap was tied to a cannon and thrown overboard after it was learned he sent a gold medallion to Will so the crew would remain under an ancient Aztec curse as punishment for betraying Sparrow. To break the curse, the last medallion and Turner's blood must be returned to the Aztec chest.
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Why does Davy Jones look so good?

He felt nobody had done CG eyes that had the kind of life you get from an actual film performance by an actor.” Knoll and crew made elaborate preparations to blend Nighy's actual eyes into an otherwise CG figure, just as they'd done for certain moments in the first Pirates movie.
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How did Bootstrap Bill get on the Flying Dutchman?

To save his son, Bootstrap Bill entered the game and purposely lost to save Will from the danger of losing. As a result, Bootstrap was sentenced to spend an eternity on the Flying Dutchman.
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Does Tia Dalma know she is Calypso?

Tia Dalma tells the group the story of Davy Jones and Calypso, but does not reveal her identity. While caressing her locket, she reminisces that Jones was once human. Later, it is revealed that Tia Dalma is Calypso, bound into human form.
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Who are the 9 pirate lords?

Pirate Lords
  • Ammand - Pirate Lord of the Black Sea.
  • Hector Barbossa - Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea.
  • Chevalle - Pirate Lord of the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Ching - Pirate Lord of the Pacific Ocean.
  • Jocard - Pirate Lord of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Jack Sparrow - Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea.
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Why did Elizabeth leave Jack to the Kraken?

By the end, Elizabeth took part in a battle which led to her delivering Jack Sparrow to the Kraken in order to save Will and other members of Jack's crew. But guilt led to Elizabeth joining a resurrected Barbossa in saving Jack, now trapped in Davy Jones' Locker.
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Is Blackbeard Jack Sparrow's father?

Soon he crosses paths with his impersonator, an old flame named Angelica. She shanghais him to serve aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship captained by her father Blackbeard, who forces Sparrow to search for the Fountain of Youth.
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Why is Davy Jones heart in a chest?

Jones carved out his heart in order to no longer feel the grief and guilt at what he had done or any emotion of love again. Because of the pain, Davy Jones would lock the heart away in the Dead Man's Chest and buried it on Isla Cruces, hiding it from the world.
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Why did Jack Sparrow owe Davy Jones?

Jack Sparrow really wanted his ship back after Cutler Beckett sunk it. He wanted it back so much that he traded 100 years of servitude to Davy Jones so that he would raise the ship and allow Sparrow to captain it for 13 years.
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