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** Also, in Chapter 3, {{spoiler|there are manatees that speak in their own language that Guybrush is not good at understanding. He discovers that he needs to be a successor to [[Speaks Fluent Animal|Santino]] by getting the [[Translator Microbes|manatee language book]] from the Marquis De Singe [[Grand Theft Me|via the Voodoo Lady]], and by getting the [[Translator Collar|Tongue of the Manatee]]. Once Guybrush obtains both, he can communicate with the manatees in their own language, while the subtitles act as interpreter for the manatee language, regardless of whether you've turned them on or off}}.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|The entire Gulf of Melange in Chapter 5, right between [[Apocalypse How/Class 0|Class 0]] and [[Apocalypse How/Class 1|Class 1]], and bordering on [[Apocalypse How/Class 3 A|Class 3 A]]. And it seems that the Caribbean just isn't pretty much the same since [[Big Bad|LeChuck]] regained his voodoo powers and [[Hero-Killer|killed Guybrush]]}}.

* [[Artifact Title]]: This game has nothing to do with Monkey Island.

* [[Art Imitates Art]]: In Chapter 1, there is a Desingeograph of the "Vitruvian Pirate", which Guybrush calls "Pirate Da Vinci", on the Illuminopictoscreen; this "Vitruvian Pirate" is definitely a spoof of ''Vitruvian Man'' by [[Leonardo da Vinci]].

* [[Continuity Nod]]: It's unusual to see this trope in practice in this series, but ''Tales of Monkey Island'' likes it. There are several references to previous ''Monkey Island'' games, particularly in a lot of optional dialogue in Chapter 4. Example: ask Elaine to vouch for your character, and she'll give a long list of your deeds. {{spoiler|Just don't expect her to emphasize the positive, as heavily Poxed as she is}}.

* [[Conveniently Precise Translation]]:

** Also, in Chapter 3, Guybrush calls La Esponja Grande "[[Gratuitous Spanish|La Esponja Gordo]]", with "gordo" being another Spanish word roughly meaning "big", but it also means "fat", while he talks with De Cava, and later calls the same sponge he finds "La Esponja Pequeño" ("the small sponge"), and in Chapter 4, he addresses it as "Señor Esponja Not-So-Grande". In these cases, "gordo" and "pequeño" are incorrectly used in the masculine, while "señor" is used in the masculine, though the Spanish word for "sponge" is a feminine noun. The proper adjectives for the sponge should have been called "gorda" and "pequeña", while the proper noun title should have been called "Señorita Esponja Not-So-Grande", since the title "señorita" is Spanish for "Miss", which is a title for a young woman.

* [[The Corruption]]/[[Hate Plague]]: The Pox of LeChuck.

'''LeChuck:''' YOUR wife? Nay, Elaine is destined to be MY bride!}}

** Another is:

'''LeChuck:''' Ye be starting to get on me nerves, Geekwood. Elaine?

'''Elaine:''' ''[impatient]'' Oh, for pity's sake. [[Kill Him Already|Just run him through with the cutlass]] so we can all go home.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the climax of Chapter 5, when Elaine is trying to kill {{spoiler|1=MerLeader}} by using the Cutlass of Kaflu, we get this exchange as he steps through the rip in the Crossroads:

{{quote|''' {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}}''': Ha ha ha! You see!? You can temporarily destroy my body, Elaine, but you cannot damage me spirit! ''*a ghostly {{spoiler|Morgan}} promptly stabs him with a ghost sword*'' [[Gilligan Cut|OW, my spirit!]]}}

* [[Time Master]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck near the end of Chapter 5. When he sees the Vaycaylian warriors throwing their [[Prongs of Poseidon|javelins]] at him at Winslow's order, the villain uses his voodoo power to make [[Time Stands Still|Time Stand Still]] for those outside of LeChuck's ship, making the entirety of the ship seem more like a parody of [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]. Strangely enough, the Crossroads (and Morgan LeChuck for that matter) don't seem to be affected by the voodoo time freeze}}.

** A possible explanation for that is found in Chapter 1: the Voodoo Lady mentions that the Crossroads are the source of all voodoo power (or something like that), and as such are probably immune to voodoo being used as a weapon against them.

* [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: If Guybrush asks Hemlock McGee what happened to his legs in Chapter 1:

{{quote|'''Hemlock:''' Four words - The. Marquis. De. Singe.}}

 

== U-Z ==

* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: {{spoiler|1=While LeChuck [[Immortal Life Is Cheap|continuously]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beats up Guybrush]] near the end of Chapter 5, the villain at one time says, "How I can't WAIT for you to give up and just... GO AWAY!"}}.

* [[Womb Level]]: Chapter 3 is almost 2/3 of this, {{spoiler|spent inside the belly of the giant manatee that Guybrush and the entire Screaming Narwhal were swallowed by at the end of Chapter 2}}.

* [[Worst Whatever Ever]]: Guybrush upon examining the shrunken heads in the Voodoo Lady's shack in Chapter 1: "Worst. Air freshener. Ever."

* [[Wrong Turn At Albuquerque|Wrong Turn At Alcatraz]]: In Chapter 3, Guybrush can choose this pun after he and Morgan are asked, "What say you, digested SCUMM™?".

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