Can post-credits scenes please stop retconning mildly happy endings? Will and Elizabeth easily have the most beloved romance in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, but it’s also the most tragic. The duo seems to get their happy ending in the third movie with a chaotic mid-battle wedding aboard The Black Pearl. However, Will receives a fatal wound, and Jack allows his friend to grasp the immortality that Jack dreamt of by becoming the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. Of course, that means he’s cut off from Elizabeth, and later their son, for 10 years.

Yet in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” Will breaks free from his curse, giving him, Elizabeth, and their son a happy ending — or so we think. During the post-credits scene, Will has what seems to be a nightmare that Davy Jones is still alive. That’s all well and good until we glimpse a trail of barnacles and water next to Will and Elizabeth’s bed after Will wakes up.

So, either Davy Jones is, in fact, back from the dead, or he’s able to influence the living world. Neither bodes well for the pirate. Even worse, it looks like we’ll never get closure on the status of Will and Elizabeth’s interrupted happy ending, given that the franchise’s sequels are scrapped. It’s a pretty bummer of a scene to end a franchise with.