savvysparrow
Senior Member
On the DMC website, the game says that Jack's hat might be responsible for his super natural luck. That's a little too like Indiana Jones for my taste, but whose to say the game isn't revealing an important clue?
After all, the monkey throws Jack's hat into the water. The Kracken ingests it, Jack winds up on the cannibal island and is captured. He runs into Will again, which though at the moment seems like a lucky thing, but is it?
After all, it's because of his encounter with Will that he winds up eventually crossing paths with Elizabeth again, which leads to his untimely demise.
Come to think of it, after he looses the hat, his pretenatural method of making decisions that are of no harm to anyone seems to be lost. Though his choice to trade Will to Davy Jones prolonged his life, it worked to his deteriment when Will reappears and exposes his ill-fated dealings to Elizabeth, unlucky in that his dealings seem to motivate her to chose Will instead of him at the end of DMC and in that this is what motivates her to chain him to the mast.
His hat returns to him at the end of DMC, and as luck would have it, Tia Dalma has revived Barbossa to help the crew rescue him from the sands of Puragtory.
As you can't dismiss things like the compass, the cannibal island scene, or even the dog, there was a reason why the writers had the monkey throw Jack's hat into the ocean.