Little Daddy's Boy, Billy Turner, should be pronounced dead after the trident’s destruction in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and here is why: Davy Jones had cut out his heart after already becoming an immortal ferryman, in effect cursing it to therein serve as a tool of mandatory succession. He was not a mortal man cutting out his own heart. He was, indeed, a cursed, life-troubled, tentacled-thing when the deed in question was carried out.
Which brings me to William Turner. In its conception, it was plausible enough. He was a dying mortal. He stabbed the heart, henceforth so forth, he was the new immortal ferryman. That was the curse bestowed. However, destroying the trident only destroyed all sea-wide curses. It sure as shit did not place a beating heart back within his body. Not only was it locked away in a chest, many miles away, but—yeah, no. That’s about it, really. Lifting the curse would lift his duty to the Flying Dutchman, one, singular curse, but it would not cease the curse within a curse made by Davy Jones his self, let alone allow the man to grow an entirely new heart, and therefore, becoming mortal again should have killed him instantaneously. You know, being hollow-chested on account of the cutting, and whatnot.
Otherwise, you are trying to tell me that his beating heart, the one not within his body, trapped within a chest, just straight up evaporated and rematerialized inside of him. Fuck all the way off. Breaking the trident breaks all curses, yes, but it does not give back lost organs. You may be thinking, "Well, it repaired Salazar and his men." You are being rather difficult, but yes—although, it only repaired what was already there. It didn't just carry them their organs from lands afar.
William Turner has no heart. No. Heart. Therefore, William Turner should be dead. Deceased. Discarded at the bottom of the ocean—and you cannot convince me otherwise.
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