Pirates of the Caribbean/Heartwarming

Curse of the Black Pearl

• In Curse Of The Black Pearl, after Barbossa is shot and Elizabeth and Will had reunited.

Jack: (to Will) If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.

• • Didn't that take place after Will told Elizabeth he'd "better get her back to her fiance" and she stormed off?
• Near the end:

Commodore Norrington: You forget your place, Turner.
Will Turner: It's right here, between you and Jack.

• • Hell, yes. I hated Will Turner's character for the entire film, but that one moment turned me around completely.
• Jack's drunken monologue.

"Wherever we want to go, "go", that's what a ship is don't ya know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs. But what a ship is, what the Black Pearl really is...is freedom."

• Watch Norrington during Jack's hanging -- he's completely stone-faced, and when Elizabeth says it's wrong and her father responds, Norrington doesn't say a word but just looks at his boots. He agrees with her, but as Swann says, "Commodore Norrington is bound by the law".
  • And during the same scene, the simple sight of Cotton's parrot, foreshadowing that they've come back for Jack after all.

At World's End

• After Barbossa has failed to release Calypso from her human bonds, Ragetti says, "You didn't say it right! You have to say it right!" And then he leans in, brushes hair away from Tia Dalma's ear and whispers, "Calypso?...I release you from your human bonds."
  • Keep in mind, the rite stipulates that the line must be said like a lover.
• The brief but noticeable grin of relief on Jack's face when he sees Will emerging as the Captain of the Dutchman, alive and well.
  • That's partly due to the fact that they still didn't stand a chance against the EITC armada without the Dutchman.
• This bit:

Tia Dalma/Calypso: And what of your fate... Davy Jones?
Davy Jones: My heart will always belong to you.

• • Undercut by Calypso reminding him that he has no heart.
  • But he only has no heart because he carved it out and gave it to her, making his line not only very heartwarming, but very literal in an almost disturbing way.
• When Big Bad Cutler Beckett is finally beaten, and everybody is celebrating, made This Troper feel all fuzzy inside.
  • Double that with Captain Teague (aka Jack's father) throwing his own hat up with a smile as if to say "You did great, son."
• At the very end of the credits, we see that Elizabeth kept her word and waited for Will for ten years. And as a bonus, they have a son now.

On Stranger Tides

• Mr. Gibbs actually making Captain Jack Sparrow admit to having feelings about Angelica and she wasn't just like any other girls in his past.
• Philip and Syrena's kiss towards the end, depending on how you interpret the following scene.
• In a strange way (no pun intended), in a scene that mirrors the end of the first film, there's something about the moment when Jack finally gets hold of his ship that really closes out the movie.
• When Barbossa finally tracks down Blackbeard and stabs him he gets this line...

Barbossa: For the Pearl.