Thread:Uskok/@comment-27295021-20180325125431/@comment-996391-20180326201441

Or maybe "supposed to be" deliberately lacks "but he's not" because they forgot that Hawkins' death in Dead Man's Chest actually contradicts the Treasure Island canon where Jim's father dies in his own home. Ergo, they can't be the same character. The name Hawkins was mentioned in the DMC junior novelization. That makes it official. But the character's supposed backstory is unfortunately just that - a supposed backstory, not an official part of his biography. It was never mentioned in any official POTC tie-in material. What was supposed to happen is one thing, but what did happen is another.

Jack was twenty in the flashbacks in The Price of Freedom, which means the flashbacks are set two years after the flashback in Dead Men Tell No Tales, where he was eighteen. As for Jack not recognizing the Wicked Wench in The Price of Freedom, the simplest answer is that Ann C. Crispin did not know that someone would one day expand Jack's youth even further, and that the expansion would include something that could contradict some elements of her novel. But there's still plenty of in-universe explanations for Jack's seeming amnesia. Do we know how Jack ended up on the Wicked Wench in Dead Men Tell No Tales? No! Do we know how Captain Teague ended up on the Wicked Wench in Dead Men Tell No Tales? No! For all we know Jack maybe didn't even know the name of the ship he was serving on. Maybe he and Teague were picked up by the crew of the Wicked Wench after the Misty Lady (Teague's ship in Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow) was destroyed by Salazar. How did the Wicked Wench become Beckett's property? How did Jack become a member of Teague's crew on the Troubadour? Why seemingly no one knows that Jack was the one who caused Salazar's downfall and first death? All those questions can be answered in another story that would fill the gap between the two flashbacks. Jack's life is full of legends and mysteries. We have only scratched the surface. Who knows what else lies beneath.