Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade vs. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Did you know that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the same story as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Let me tell you why.

A renowned treasure hunter (Indiana Jones; Captain Jack Sparrow) meets with a wealthy antagonist (Walter Donovan; King George II), who asks him (Donovan informs Indy that his father, Henry Jones Sr., vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide; George wants Jack to guide an expedition to the Fountain of Youth, but Jack refuses and escapes) to find a drinking vessel capable of granting its drinker immortality (Holy Grail; Fountain of Youth) before an enemy military (Wehrmacht; Spanish Navy) can locate it. The main character is introduced to a mysterious woman (Elsa Schneider; Angelica) whom he previously knew (Elsa is Henry's former colleague; Angelica, Jack's former lover, impersonates him to recruit a crew to find the Fountain). In the villains' territory (Castle Brunwald; Queen Anne's Revenge), the woman betrays the main character (while searching for Henry, Elsa is held hostage by a Nazi officer, causing Indy to lower his guard and get captured along with his father; Jack is shanghaied aboard Blackbeard's ship) to another man who seeks the vessel (Donovan; Edward "Blackbeard" Teach). Eventually, the heroes (Indy and Henry; Joshamee Gibbs) escape from their captors and resume the quest (Indy and Henry escape from Castle Brunwald pursued by Nazi soldiers; Gibbs escapes execution by memorizing and destroying Jack's map showing the fountain's location, forcing Jack's old nemesis, Captain Barbossa, to take him along). The main character learns that to get to the vessel, one must overcome a deadly test (Henry tells Indy that to reach the grail, one must face three booby traps, and the former's diary contains clues to guide them through the challenges safely; the Fountain's water must be drunk by two people simultaneously from two silver chalices aboard Juan Ponce de Léon's missing flagship, the Santiago). The main character and an older man (Henry; Hector Barbossa) infiltrate an enemy base (Berlin; Spanish camp) to steal an artifact connected to the vessel (Grail Diary; Chalices of Ponce de Léon). After a three-way battle (Indy, his friend, Sallah, and Henry battle a Nazi convoy to rescue Indy's colleague, Dr. Marcus Brody; Barbossa battles Blackbeard to get revenge for losing his leg and the Black Pearl, which was shrunk into a bottle by the latter) between the heroes, villains, and an opposing group (Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword; Spanish Navy) with religious motivations (the Brotherhood protects the Grail from evildoers; the Spanish believe the Fountain's power to be an abomination against God), someone close to the hero (Henry, Angelica) is mortally wounded, forcing the hero to recover the vessel himself (unable to pass through the traps, Donovan shoots Henry to force Indy to find the Grail to save him; after Barbossa stabs Blackbeard with a poisoned sword, Angelica pulls it out, but is cut and poisoned, forcing Jack to search for the chalices to save her and Blackbeard's lives). The main character finds the vessel (after overcoming the traps, Indy finds that the Grail is hidden among dozens of false Grails; a mermaid named Syrena helps Jack retrieve the chalices, which the Spanish destroyed and threw in the water, and tells him not to waste her tear), and he learns that one cup gives life while the other ends it (only the true Grail grants life, while a false one claims it; one chalice, which contains a mermaid's tear, extends life, while the other chalice kills its drinker and transfers their remaining years to the other person). The villain is tricked into drinking from the wrong cup, causing him to rapidly age into dust (Elsa purposefully selects a golden chalice studded with emeralds, and Donovan ages to death after drinking from it, revealing it to be false; Jack reveals that he made a mistake about which chalice contained the tear, and Blackbeard drinks from the wrong cup, causing the Fountain to fatally consume him), while the female lead is left stranded in the site (Elsa tries to leave with the Grail, but falls to her death trying to recover it when the temple collapses; Jack and Angelica admit their love for each other, but Jack distrusts her intentions and strands her on a cay). In the end, the main character and his allies leave the site (the Joneses, Marcus, and Sallah leave the temple and ride off into the sunset; Barbossa, now in possession of Blackbeard's magical sword, takes over the Queen Anne's Revenge and returns to piracy, while Jack and Gibbs reclaim the Black Pearl, hoping to revert it to its original size and continue living the pirates' life).

It's the same story!