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[[File:Ape_Escape_Pal.jpg|frame|Your job is to catch some monkeys. Here's a net. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Go bananas.]]]]
A [[
All three main games (the first was for the [[
▲A [[Play Station]]-exclusive series and proof that [[Everythings Better With Monkeys]]. Known as ''Saru! Get You!'' in Japan.
▲All three main games (the first was for the [[Play Station]], the other two for the [[Play Station 2]]) are about a superintelligent [[Evil Albino]] monkey named Specter who suddenly gains [[Department of Redundancy Department|super-intelligence]] through a hapless professor's [[Hat of Power|intelligence-increasing helmet]], who proceeds to [[Hilarity Ensues|put said helmets on every other monkey in a monkey enclosure and teleport them all over the place]]. Your character's task is to...well, [[Gotta Catch Them All|catch them all]]. In a possibly inadvertent [[Shout Out]], the second game's characters are all voiced by voice actors from ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' - in the USA version, anyway.
Notable also in that the PAL versions of each game have a unique dub, with the Professor affecting a German accent and everyone else speaking in London children's show accents. Specter also sounds noticeably older than his American counterpart.
Your characters change from game to game, starting with a guy named Spike/Kakeru, then going to a kid named Jimmy/Hikaru, then your choice of two characters Kei and Yumi in ''Ape Escape 3'', and recently a nameless [[Heroic Mime]] in the Playstation Move game. Also, starting from ''Ape Escape 2'', the game's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], the Freaky Monkey Five, shows up, monkeys that have been fed the power-boosting [[G
The series has had numerous PS2 and PSP spinoffs and is notable for its control scheme, where the [[
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Both the first and the third games have one of these
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: In ''Ape Escape 3'', Monkey Blue has a crush on Monkey Pink, who is attracted to Specter, who just doesn't care about her.
** [[Second Love]]: In ''SaruSaru Big Mission'', Blue is madly in love with Aki.
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* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: Penultimate level of the first game.
* [[Anime of the Game]]: ''Saru Get You -On Air-'', which ran for a little bit over a full year with two seasons and a total of 77 episodes.
* [[Art Shift]]:
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** The anime is mainly animated in 3D but occasionally switches to 2D for emphasis or reaction shots.
** The cutscenes in the Playstation Move game. The protagonists look much older then the ones from the previous games. The overall style is less cutesy as well (except for all the monkeys, Specter himself is much cuter looking).
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]:
*
** In the anime, Pink grows bigger when she gets angry because Casi wins in Episode 33.
* [[Bait and Switch Boss]]: At the end of Code C.H.I.M.P., Specter reveals his latest creation to stop you: [[Big Damn Gunship|the Mk. II Battlecruiser
* [[Big Bad]]: Specter, 75% of the time.
* [[Blessed
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Tomoki
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: Everywhere, to the point of frustration. The [[Nintendo Hard]] sequence in the last level of the first game stands out as a particularly painful example.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Jake in ''Ape Escape 1'' and ''Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed''. He gets better, thanks to Spike.
* [[Brown Note]]: The Specter TV broadcasts in the third game hypnotized everyone who watches it, including, conveniently, the protagonists from the past two games.
* [[Cameo]]: In ''Ape Escape 3'', a few underwater enemies come straight out of the Japan-only Sony game Space Fishermen. It's even lampshaded in the description for one of the enemies, wondering if it's in the wrong game.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Yellow Monkey. So much that he "flirts" with Kei, the male protagonist of ''Ape Escape 3''. Also, Dr. Tomoki, to a lesser extent.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]:
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The monkeys all wear different colored pants, which hints at their nature when you encounter them in a level; yellow = basic grunts, light blue = cowards, navy = insanely-fast speedsters, red = aggressive fighters (and they gain the ability to block your attacks in ''2''), green = nimble monkeys who carry backpacks that fire homing missiles, black = machine-gun toting monkeys with [[A Team Firing]] skills, white = oddball with weird quirks and poor eyesight due to their [[Nerd Glasses]]. ▼
**
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* [[Continuity Reboot]]: The Playstation Move ''Ape Escape'' has a completely new story. The main character is a teenager [[Heroic Mime]] and his two sisters capturing monkeys from space, while looking for their grandmother too. The overall style underwent an [[Art Shift]] (although the monkeys themselves remain the same). The only returning character is Specter, and his backstory has been completely changed from a circus monkey corrupted by a intelligence boosting helmet
* [[Cool Shades]]: Black-pantsed monkeys wear sweet shades and carry submachine guns. Yeah, mankind is ''screwed''.
* [[Crossover]]: Appears as a [[Mini Game]] in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. The third ''Ape Escape'' game also has a mini game called Mesal Gear Solid, which is basically ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' except shorter and more kid-friendly.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]:
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** And to a lesser extent, the Playstation Move game too, in terms of art style for the most part.
* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: A lot of destructible objects appear in the first game. Most drop the triangular currency of the game, or health cookies. Most apparent when you're piloting the tank and almost everything in sight can be destroyed.
* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: Pulled ''twice'' in the first game. The first time is Crumbling Castle (see "[[Wham! Episode]]" below). When you return to the present, you then have to deal with TV Tower, which is merely a front for Specter Land. In ''Ape Escape 2'', you make it to Code C.H.I.M.P after defeating Red Monkey, only for Giant Yellow Monkey to crash the party, forcing Specter to retreat. You ''do'' get to confront Specter one level later on the Moon Base though. There's also the end of {{spoiler|Specter Land: Monkey Madness. After this, you have to go back and capture all the remaining monkeys before the true final boss}}.
▲* [[Everythings Better With Monkeys]]: Every single game uses this trope.
▲** {{spoiler|Subverted in the Playstation Move game. See The Woobie below.}}
* [[Expy]]: The characters of the Playstation Move games seem to be this to the ones of the original series:
** The [[Heroic Mime]] protagonist looks like an older version of Spike or Jake.
** Tohko and Tsukushi are expies of Natalie, Tohko in terms of personality, and Tsukushi is terms of appearance.
** Grandma (
** [[Captain Obvious|And Specter is very much like Specter]].
* [[Fartillery]]: Monkey Red. He can even ''fly'' with it.▼
* [[The Faceless]]: You never see a full front shot of the protagonist's head in any of the cutscenes in the Playstation Move game. You see his mouth for one scene but that's it.
▲* [[Fartillery]]: Monkey Red. He can even ''fly'' with it.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Monkey Red▼
** [[The
** [[The
** [[The
** [[The
* [[G
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The monkey fables in the second game. [[Does This Remind You of Anything|Good God.]]▼
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** Also, [[Camp Gay|Monkey Yellow]].▼
** In one of the early levels in the first game (Dark Ruins), four of the monkeys are named after the kids from ''[[South Park]]''. One of them is named "Cratman". Why they misspelled his name and not the others, nobody really knows...
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*** The UK version of the game uses the word "Damn" quite frequently, especially Specter, who says it every single time he gets hit during his boss battle. The Professor also says that the monkeys are "raising hell" at one point.
** ''Ape Escape 3'' features a level that takes place in a hot spring. Depending on if the player picked Kei or Yumi, they can only enter the male or female section of the hot spring. In the male section, there is a monkey that is attempting to climb up a wall, likely wanting to sneak a peek at the girl monkeys.
* [[Gonk]]: Monkey Yellow.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: You only need to catch a certain number of monkeys in each level to advance, but to unlock the final boss fight, you need to capture every single monkey in the game.
▲* [[G Rated Drug]]: Vita-Z bananas, which apparently act like steroids with the side effect of total, complete insanity.
* [[The Hat Makes the Man]]: The Hat Makes The Ape? All the apes (with the exception of Pipotchi in the second game) have their personalities altered by the Peak Point helmets.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: At the end of the Playstation Move game, {{spoiler|upon being re-united with his owner Haru, Specter is more then happy to be with her and her grandchildren, and they take him home to give him a bath
* [[Heroic Mime]]:
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** The main character of the Playstation Move game is this, to the point where his dialogue in the cutscenes ''is text only''.
* [[Heroic Willpower]]: How Spike wards off Specter's psychic probing in the penultimate battle against him from the first game. [[Fridge Logic|Why he's unable to do the same in the third game is unknown
* [[Hot Mom|Hot Aunt]]: Aki from ''Ape Escape 3''.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Jimmy has shades of it. Most notably, he's the one who ''accidentally'' sends a shipment of pipo helmets to the zoo, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|setting off the plot of ''Ape Escape 2''
* [[Idol Singer]]: Monkey Pink, and Yumi from the third game. It's a [[Running Gag]] that the heroes keep screwing up Pink's concerts.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Some of the main tools in your arsenal are a butterfly net, a hula hoop, an RC car, a slingshot
* [[Infinity
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: You know, saying "monkey" that much was already making everyone giggle. But when "monkey pants" were a prominent part of the second game...
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: At the end of the second game before the hunt for hidden monkeys starts, Jimmy cries out "I'm gonna spank you, monkey!" while capturing Specter.
* [[
* [[Large Ham]]: Specter is this in the UK dub.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The aforementioned anime.
* [[The Man Behind the Man
* [[Marathon Level]]: The final few levels of all three games are significantly larger than those that came before them. This actually corresponds with an increase in difficulty, as larger areas=more hiding places for monkeys.
* [[Mecha
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|The Pipotrons, apart from Helga's suspicions, no one knew their true intentions
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Several instances throughout the series, but the last level of the first game is particularly [[Egregious]].
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: There's usually a factory level in most games.
* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: Jimmy of ''all'' people delivers one to Specter below finally snagging him with the Gotcha Net.
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'''Jimmy''': "You got us wrong. You don't know anything about us..."
'''Specter''': "What?!"
'''Jimmy''': "Humans never stop trying! That's what gives us a future! We'll never give into the likes of you!"
'''Specter''': "Give up - you don't stand a chance."
(''dramatic staredown as Specter prepares to activate the Lethargy Laser'')
'''Jimmy''': "Yaaaah!! [[Say My Name|Specteerrrr!!!]] Gotchaaa!!" (''catches Specter'')
'''Specter''': "Gyaaahh!! [[Big No|Nooo!!]] I was so close...!!"
* [[Peek
* [[Pointless Band
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Monkey Pink, when angered, turns into the monkey answer to ''[[Carrie]]''.
* [[Psycho Serum]]: Vita-Z Bananas.
* [[Put on a Bus]]/[[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
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** ''ALL'' of the characters (except Specter) might be gone now, as the Playstation Move game has a completely different storyline with new characters. We'll have to wait and see if they decide to continue this new story or not.
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The Freaky Monkey Five.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Tomoki, except not really
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Specter. Also, Jake when under the influence of Specter.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Spike ([[Multicolored Hair|although he does have yellow streaks]]), Jimmy, and Yumi.
* [[Repeat Cut]]: When you finally catch Specter in the first game, it's shown from three different angles.
* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: All sorts of things spew coins and energy (and monkeys, on the rare occasion) when you smash them to bits with your club.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: ''Pipotchi''. Specter, when he's not under the influence of the Peak Point Helmet, is also quite adorable and huggable. He also looks like this in the Playstation Move title, due to the [[Art Shift]]
* [[Rival Turned Evil]]: Jake (named Buzz in PAL territories, probably to better fit "Spike") from the first game and ''Ape Escape: Pumped
* [[Scattered Across Time and Space]]: The first game starts with monkeys activating a time machine and being scattered throughout history to rewrite the past and become the dominant species on Earth.
* [[Sequel Hook]]:
* [[Ship Tease]]: Between Spike/Kakeru and Helga/Haruka. Both the anime and ''Pumped & Primed'' make this very clear.▼
* [[Ship Tease]]:
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** The anime also provides us with Jake/Hiroki and Natalie/Natsumi.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
* [[Shout Out]]: The third game has quite a few, being based on movies and whatnot. Not to mention [[Metal Gear|Mesal Gear Solid]]. ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' returned the favor.▼
** The first game has
▲*
** The previous games stuff them in the monkey and enemy descriptions as well.
* [[Stealth Based Game]]:
▲** The first game has 4 monkeys named [[South Park|Stan, Kyle, Cratman, and Kenny.]] They are all in the same level.
*
** In ''[[Ape Escape]] 3'', you can buy a minigame named [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|Mesal Gear Solid]] where you play as a monkey-fied Snake trying to save an abducted Snake.
*
* [[Tomorrowland]]: Dr. Tomoki's ''Tomoki City'' level in ''Ape Escape 3''.▼
▲** It's not entirely surprising, given that a [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|character]] voiced by him is currently the Main Pic for [[Camp Gay]]...
▲* [[Tank Goodness]]: You get to control at least one in all 3 games.
* [[Tsundere]]:
▲* [[Tomorrowland]]: Dr. Tomoki's ''Tomoki City'' level in ''3''.
*
▲** I have seen the future, and it is [[Single Palette Town|BLUE ON BLUE.]]
▲* [[Tsundere]]: Monkey Pink takes this to ridiculous levels, going so far as to change her fighting style depending on what mood she's in.
** Tsukushi and Tohko, the protagonist's sisters from the Playstation Move title are this to some extent too.
* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: The final level of each game is extremely long and considerably harder than anything encountered before then.
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
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**
* [[White
* [[Womb Level]]: Dexter's Island. Argh.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Jake, Kei
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