How Pirates of the Caribbean Retconned Jack Sparrow’s Compass Origins

How Pirates of the Caribbean Retconned Jack Sparrow’s Compass Origins

Pirates of the Caribbean has given two different origins for Jack Sparrow’s magic compass: the mystic Tia Dalma and the formidable Captain Morgan.

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How Pirates of the Caribbean Retconned Jack Sparrow’s Compass Origins

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales shows Jack Sparrow receiving his compass from Captain Morgan, despite the fact that it had already been mentioned that Tia Dalma gave it to him. Based on the Disneyland ride of the same name, Pirates of the Caribbean is a historical fantasy series that follows a loose collection of adventurers living in the Golden Age of Piracy. While characters unfamiliar with piracy (usually the romantic leads) serve as a proxy for the audience’s understanding, Jack Sparrow is known to be a notorious pirate by the time the first film begins and brings with him a long history of swashbuckling.

Jack Sparrow has grown to be an iconic image of a pirate in modern pop culture. Much of this is due to the eccentricities added to the character by Johnny Depp, including eyeliner, gold teeth, and a drunken swagger, which made it to the screen in spite of early protests by Disney executives. Among Sparrow’s more subtle signature possessions is a compass that purportedly points in the direction of what the user most desires.

The first explanation that is given for the strange compass is that Jack was given it as a gift by Tia Dalma. Dalma is later revealed to be the goddess Calypso bound in a human form, so it makes sense that she would have such a supernatural object. However, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 shows Sparrow getting the compass from Morgan, who, in addition to seemingly not having any relation to the historical captain of the same name, also did not have an immediately apparent reason for possessing a magical compass.

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Such conflicting information initially seems to be a retcon, but different conclusions can be drawn. It’s possible that Jack did first receive the compass from Tia Dalma, but that it somehow found its way into the hands of Morgan, who only returned it to Sparrow as his death approached. Jack’s nonplussed reaction to the gift may indicate that he had already seen the compass by this time. However, as Sparrow is meant to be 18 years old in the flashback sequence of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, he would have to have been very young when he first met the goddess-turned-mystic.

Owing partly to its casual relationship with history and partly to the extreme unreliability of its central character, the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series can sometimes play fast and loose with canon. This is especially true of something like the compass, the importance of which is known to have grown from what had first been intended by the screenwriters. And while this may make keeping an accurate record of the film’s backstory difficult, it also seems oddly fitting for tales of characters who are so unapologetically freewheeling and self-mythologizing.

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