10 Most Shocking Post-Credit Movie Reveals

7. Will Turner Returns After 10 Years - Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End

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By the time the credits began to roll on Pirates of the Caribbean's third outing, At World's End, Orlando Bloom's Will Turner was left cursed and destined to spend a decade trapped at sea with the Flying Dutchman.

If that wasn't bad enough for Will, this all came at the same time that his beau Elizabeth (Ciara Knightley) was pregnant with the couple's first child. Still, at least Liz got the romantic/morbid keepsake of a chest containing Will's heart, right?

While Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow ended At World's End by sailing off to hunt down the Fountain of Youth, it was a total downer of an ending for the Turners and for fans of that couple. That is, unless you stuck around to watch the picture's end credits.

In a surprising move, At World's End's credits dropped in a scene set ten years in the future, with Elizabeth and her son shown waiting cliff-side as Will surfaces on the horizon and makes his way home for a heart-warming family reunion.

While the franchise's next outing would ignore the Turner clan, a tentacle-faced Will and his son Henry would be front-and-centre for the fifth entry in the series, Dead Men Tell No Tales.

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