^I will say, the novelization for
Dead Man's Chest that came out before the film ended with Jack being taken down by the Kracken.
The entire epilogue with Norrington and Becket--and at Tia Dalma's hut, where they reflect on Jack wasn't in that book. As a result, when you-know-who stepped down in the very last shot--I, and the rest of the theater, were stunned.