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{{quote|''I've sailed the seven seas in search of archaic charms and curiosities; I've raided the sunken smelters of Popgowatu for the finest of tools; and I've worked by candlelight in the yawing quarters of my ship to forge together the raw materials into the finest of blades, all to finally put a bloody end to my undead rival and stealer of spouse. It is now that this sword is more than just a sword; it is a covenant! I'm not exactly sure what that word means, but it sounds right. The seas will sleep soundly tonight, for LeChuck's time is up!''|Excerpted from ''The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The [[Monkey Island (series)|Monkey Island]] Years''}}
'''''Tales of Monkey Island''''' is a 2009 video game, developed by [[Telltale Games]]. It is a five-part episodic game and the fifth in the ''[[Monkey Island (series)|Monkey Island]]'' series. The game begins at the conclusion of Guybrush's latest, [[Noodle Incident|unseen]] adventure
Not to be confused with the early 80s adventure series ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]''.
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* [[Ahem]]: Done a few times throughout the game. There is one part in Chapter 5 when, after Guybrush thanks Morgan {{spoiler|for opening the Crossroads}}, she gives out an "ahem", which, in the subtitles, is stated as "*clears throat*".
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: The Merfolk in Chapter 2. The gender for two of the three on-screen samples is suggested, but never stated outright. Their leader is classified as male at one point by Elaine, but even that does not stop it from remaining ambiguous.
** [[Word of God]] says that even after {{spoiler|Reginald Van Winslow falls in love with the female-ish Anemone, "her" gender is supposed to be a mystery
* [[American Accents]]/[[Deep South]]: In Chapter 5, the Thief in the Crossroads speaks in a deep voice with some sort of Southern Hillbilly accent. And he seems to have some [[Sacred Hospitality|Southern hospitality]] despite the fact that he is a thief from the start.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|1=If the after-credits sequence of Chapter 5 is to be believed, LeChuck, who's basically trapped as an ethereal goop. He ''can'' scream, but nobody except the Voodoo Lady is likely to do anything about it}}.
* [[And This Is For]]: Only discussed by Morgan in Chapter 3, while [[Talking in Your Sleep|talking in her sleep]]: "THIS is for JUGBENDER!"
** Before that, in Chapter 1, Guybrush raises his Cutlass of Kaflu and says, "This is for the monkeys, LeChuck!" before {{spoiler|1=his Pox-infected hand goes out of control, making him unable to kill the human LeChuck}}.
* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: Parodied in Chapter 1, when {{spoiler|the Marquis De Singe is defeated by Guybrush and leaves, promising to have revenge on him, "and [his] little hand, too!"}}.
* [[Animal Talk]]/[[Speaks Fluent Animal]]:
** Jacques the Monkey can understand human language, especially when the Marquis De Singe and Guybrush talk to him, which is evident in Chapters 1 and 4.
** It is revealed in Chapter 3 that Morgan [[Speaks Fluent Animal|can talk to monkeys too]], though she speaks "a little monkey".
** 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}}.
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* [[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]].
** In Chapter 4, the provocative painting of Chieftain Beluga hanging above W.P. Grindstump in Club 41 is most likely a parody of the 1636 painting [[wikipedia:Dana%C3%AB (Rembrandt painting)|Danaë by Rembrandt]].
* [[Ascended Meme]]:
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** The singing manatee that De Cava left on Roe Island is named [[Oh, the Humanity!|Hugh]].
* [[Ass Shove]]:
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** Previously subverted near the end of Chapter 1: when the player tries to use the ancient weather vane on De Singe while he's in the messed up idol, Guybrush will say, "Oh, I'd love to, but I'm pretty sure that De Singe [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|doesn't have the necessary... slots]]."
* [[Attending Your Own Funeral|Attending Your Own Wake]]: In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|1=when Guybrush (as a ghost) goes through a rip in the Crossroads to Club 41 ''before'' going to the Manatee Mating Grounds in order to find the Voodoo Lady's locket (via another rip), Bugeye tells him to be quiet when he and W.P. Grindstump are "in the middle of a pirate wake", and Guybrush is surprised to find his own body [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|holding a dartboard and wearing a party hat]]. He can look around the club and talk to Grindstump to find out what happened after Guybrush died at the hands of LeChuck. Afterwards, he can exit his own wake and continue on in his quest to get back in his own body, as before}}.
* [[At the Crossroads]]: With crossroads being the place of burial for the wings of society, pirates go to the Crossroads when they die.
* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating|Avoid the Dreaded E Rating]]: ''Tales of Monkey Island'' is the second ''Monkey Island'' game to receive a rating higher than an "Everyone" that only ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' received (the first was ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]''), and the first game to receive an E10+ rating because of frequent alcohol references and uses, a few uses of mild language, a few scenes of [[Bloodless Carnage]] and [[Family-Unfriendly Death|Family Unfriendly Deaths]], and more frequent uses of adult jokes and [[Double Entendre|Double Entendres]], and the aforementioned [[Ass Shove]] (see above).
* [[Back from the Dead]]:
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** Subverted with {{spoiler|Morgan, also at the end of that chapter: she returns to the world of the living, but is left stuck in ghost form}}.
* [[Bar Brawl]]: Chapter 1 has one, though it is rather downplayed as an unseen bar fight at Club 41. However, it is later played straight in Chapter 4, though the Bar Brawl is more of a Bar Swordfight.
* [[Battle in the Rain]]: Chapter 1 starts out like this on [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night|a dark and stormy night]] as Guybrush tries to finish the ingredients for the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu in order to destroy LeChuck, {{spoiler|but due to the botched up moves and the last-minute substitutions, it ends with Guybrush [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|ending up turning LeChuck into a human and getting infected along with all the others by an outbreak of the voodoo pox]]}}.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
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** In the fifth chapter, when {{spoiler|1=Van Winslow attacks LeChuck's ship with an army of merfolk and saves Guybrush from being murdered by a demonic Elaine}}.
* [[Big No]]:
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** Also, {{spoiler|De Singe in Chapter 4, when the moths completely destroy his turban holding Guybrush's hand as his only source of "Jus de Vie"}}.
* [[Big Ol' Unibrow]]: McGillicutty in Chapter 2.
* [[Big Sleep]]: Almost averted at the end of Chapter 4, {{spoiler|when the mortally wounded Guybrush's eyes open wide in a blank stare at a saddened Elaine (almost in a [[Dies Wide Open]] position), but then gently close as he collapses and "falls asleep" with his mouth open}}. (Possibly [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] in a way previously in Chapter 1, {{spoiler|when Guybrush looks at the quarters door of either Elaine's ship or the Screaming Narwhal and says, "[[Warren Zevon|I'll sleep when I'm dead.]] Or later tonight."}})
* [[Big "What?"]]: Shouted by the Voodoo Lady in Chapter 1 when Guybrush tells her about the botched up ritual. Also shouted by {{spoiler|1=Guybrush and LeChuck}} a few times in Chapter 5.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** "Singe" is French for monkey. See also [[Brick Joke]] below. Guybrush even refers to De Singe as "De Monkey" at one point.
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** And in Chapter 2, the name of the bait coupon for "gusanos de destino" translates from Spanish to "worms of destiny".
** In Chapter 3, {{spoiler|after extracting the formula from Guybrush's Poxed hand}}, De Singe becomes joyous, then mutters to himself in French, "La mort est tuée..." (albeit without the "é") which, when translated, means "Death is killed". {{spoiler|This becomes a key plot point for De Singe in Chapter 4, and later for Guybrush in Chapter 5 when he repossesses his decaying corpse and [[Blessed with Suck|keeps himself "alive" with the Spirit Gum]]}}.
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* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Especially evident in Chapter 4, when a couple of people get impaled but the swords stay clean.
* [[Blowing a Raspberry]]: Defendant Guybrush does this when Defense Attorney Guybrush tries asking him(self), "What's your impression of the plaintiff's case?".
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]:
* [[Bottomless Bladder]]/[[Nobody Poops]]: Averted in Chapter 4 where there is a bathroom, and Guybrush does use it.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Guybrush and Elaine.
* [[Brain Bleach]]: Episode 1:
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** Also, when the Voodoo Lady apparently goes into too much detail about a previous romantic relationship with De Cava, Guybrush covers his ears and blocks her out between "[her] supple-" and "-like a volcano!".
* [[Break the Cutie|Breaking the Cutie]]: Over the course of the episodes, a real number is done on the happy-go-lucky Guybrush. First, it starts out harmless enough with Elaine seemingly willing to trust a human LeChuck over Guybrush's objections, then {{spoiler|he loses his hand along with his wedding ring}}, he breaks down in grief {{spoiler|1=after failing to protect Morgan LeFlay from being fatally stabbed by LeChuck}}, he's backstabbed twice {{spoiler|(maybe three times if you count the Voodoo Lady)}}, he suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] {{spoiler|1=when it looks like Elaine has done a complete [[Face Heel Turn]] to leave him for LeChuck}}, and it all ends with one [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|terribly brutal beatdown]] {{spoiler|1=from LeChuck}} that leaves Guybrush in such physical agony he can't even joke anymore. [[The Woobie|The poor dear]] really just needed a hug at the end.
* [[Brick Joke]]:
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** Early in Chapter 1, Guybrush gains entrance to Club 41 and is told that all probationary members have to wear blindfolds inside the club, so he puts one on and promptly gets involved in a bar fight. Late in Chapter 5, when Guybrush {{spoiler|goes back to Club 41 and retrieves the blindfold for use in a voodoo recipe}}, he learns that the whole "all probationary members have to wear blindfolds inside the club" thing was just a joke on the bouncer's part.
* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]:
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** Before that, in Chapter 1, Guybrush does this ridiculous French accent when dipping Pink Pajama Pierre into a vat of ink: "Sacré bleu! Eez zis ze end of Pink... Pajama... Pierre? Glug!"
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Played with in Chapter 2, when Elaine asks you to work with LeChuck. You get a whole dictionary of the various forms of "No", but every time Elaine just looks at Guybrush with puppy eyes and asks him with an increasingly sweet voice until your only dialog option left is "...Fine".
* [[But Wait! There's More!]]: Spoken by LeChuck in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=when, after confessing to the court that he was the one who spread the Pox of LeChuck, he has something else (i.e. the Voodoo Lady's diary) to show to the court}}.
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: One of the buttons on De Singe's Auto-Trepanation Helmet in Chapter 4 causes the entire "laboratorium" to go dark temporarily, with only Guybrush's eyes visible when he says, "Ack! I'm blind!". Thankfully, the lights turn back on.
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]:
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** Also, at the beginning of Chapter 4, Guybrush thinks there would be "ice cream cake" when Flotsam's citizens arrive. {{spoiler|Instead, he is summoned to court on civil and criminal charges}}.
* [[Cardboard Prison]]:
** Prisons in ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games are never renowned for their security, but the prize must go to the Flotsam Island Jail in Chapter 4: to get out, Guybrush simply tells Hardtack he wants to see his lawyer... which happens to be [[A Fool for a Client|Guybrush himself]]. This same example also simultaneously subverts the trope. Guybrush can tell Hardtack to go get some food for him, then try to take advantage of a loose window bar (which turns out to be a bit less loose than it seems at first) or a soft spot in the wall (with solid steel directly underneath).
** A certain jail cell in Chapter 5 has a very obvious tunnel that can be used to escape. {{spoiler|The hard part is staying in his body long enough to use it}}...
* [[Casual Kink]]: Guybrush's throwaway line in episode one about Elaine getting cranky if tied up for too long. That said, it's very possible that he was simply referring to their past adventures and not to any kind of kink at all.
* [[Catchphrase Interruptus]]: Guybrush tries to say, "[[You Fight Like a Cow]]!", but then gets interrupted throughout the game. The first time is at the beginning of Chapter 1, when he gets interrupted by Elaine; the second is at the beginning of Chapter 2, when Morgan [[Talk to the Fist|cuts off his hand before he can finish]]; and the third is in Chapter 4, when both Guybrush and the human LeChuck start saying the catchphrase at the same time, but both stop themselves before they can finish, then look at each other and laugh.
* [[Cat Fight]]: Between Elaine and Morgan in Chapter 4.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The series has always been "funny characters in a serious plot" to a certain extent, but ''Tales of Monkey Island'' has been steadily ramping up the drama,
** Elaine's mention of a troubling encounter with an enchanted aardvark in Chapter 1 is especially odd when you consider the trope's [[Cerebus the Aardvark|namesake]]. Seems like a case of unintentional foreshadowing.
* [[Character as Himself]]: In a [[Shout-Out]] to the original ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'', the end credits of Chapter 5 finishes the "Cast" section with "and Franklin as himself".
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]:
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** The hook is the most used item in the game, to the point where it is basically a glorified "pick up" and "open" command. Guybrush can open every single lock he encounters with it. By the time he finds a mysterious voodoo chest, he wonders himself if it can really be this easy all the time.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
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** To a lesser degree, {{spoiler|Guybrush's last shred of life which you start out with in Chapter 5. It's used in the climax of the second-to-last puzzle}}.
* [[The Chessmaster]]:
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* [[The Chew Toy]]: Hemlock McGee.
* [[Compressed Vice]]: If Van Winslow had been as obsessive about the map in Chapter 1 as he was in later chapters, then Guybrush would have never been able to solve its final puzzle!
* [[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]]:
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** 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.
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* [[Dance of Romance]]: Elaine does it with Guybrush in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|although it is parodied as a "Freaky Waltz of Attempted Rape"}}.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck just impales Guybrush, rather than go for an overtly elaborate [[Death Trap]]}}. Possibly [[Foreshadowing|foreshadowed]] in a way, in the second chapter, when he says that {{spoiler|if he wanted to kill Guybrush, he would just throw him off a cliff}}.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Currently, ''Tales of Monkey Island'' seems destined to become the darkest entry in the series, as {{spoiler|Guybrush got his hand cut off,
* [[Darkest Hour]]: {{spoiler|1=In Chapter 4, Guybrush watches Morgan die from a stab wound (which had been inflicted by LeChuck). As if that wasn't enough, he and Elaine get caught in clamshell traps set up by De Singe just as the former is finishing the Feast for the Senses for [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]], and after he destroys De Singe and cures everyone of the Pox of LeChuck, the villain himself breaks free, creates a bit of a [[Hope Spot]] for Guybrush and Elaine by temporarily freeing them, and then erases it by [[Hero-Killer|killing the former]] and capturing both the latter and the sponge. While Guybrush is thinking up some means of escape in the Crossroads of the afterlife, LeChuck knocks Winslow off the Screaming Narwhal and sets it adrift at sea, damages Flotsam Island by destroying many of its inhabitants, destroys Spinner Cay and its many Vaycaylians, damages the entire Gulf of Melange and makes it his own [[Villain World]]. Right after Guybrush creates another [[Hope Spot]] and opens the rips in the Crossroads, the villain gets his chance to erase it again by tossing the sponge into the rip and drawing voodoo power from the Crossroads. And to make matters worse, Elaine agrees to be turned into his demon bride who then sprays Guybrush with voodoo root beer, zapping him back to the Crossroads! A truly dark hour indeed}}!
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: Both discussed and parodied in Chapter 4:
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* [[Dead Guy on Display]]: {{spoiler|Guybrush in Chapter 5. His entire corpse is standing on display wearing a [[Nice Hat|party hat]] and [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|holding a dartboard]] during a wake in Club 41 when Bugeye and W.P. Grindstump are considering [[Due to the Dead|burning the corpse in effigy]]; Guybrush eventually [[Inhuman Human|repossesses his own decaying corpse]] though}}.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: {{spoiler|Happens in the living world in Chapter 5 from the time that Guybrush (as a ghost) has opened up the rips in the Crossroads up to the time that he manages to repossess his own corpse}}.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: In Chapter 3, De Cava needs 100,000 larvae to escape, and they can only be produced one at a time. However, it is possible to "[[Level Grinding|grind]]" the grubs until you actually do get all 100,000(!) that it would take to "solve" the missing cochlea puzzle, and the game even has specialized dialogue for some of the steps (specifically, the 50,000th, 99, 900th, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRl-1txp0tQ 100,000th] grubs). Then the game skips ahead to where you would've been by solving it the intended way (and the other characters treat you as if you did). For the record, this task would take at least ''seventy days'' without breaks to accomplish.
* [[Died in Your Arms Tonight]]: In Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=both characters die, one each in the arms of another: Morgan in the arms (or rather, [[Hook Hand]]) of Guybrush, Guybrush in the arms of Elaine. Even weirder is that both incidents take place on a starry night in Flotsam Island in reference to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua26qTEK25U Cutting Crew's song "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"]}}.
* [[Dies Wide Open]]:
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** Averted at the end of the same chapter, {{spoiler|when the mortally wounded Guybrush's eyes open wide in a blank stare at a saddened Elaine, but then gently close as he collapses and [[Big Sleep|"falls asleep"]] with his mouth open}}.
* [[Does He Have a Brother?|Does He Have a Cousin?]]: Said by Anemone in Chapter 2 when talking about Winslow after repairing the mast of the Screaming Narwhal. This indicates the start of Anemone's relationship with Winslow, which later blossoms in Chapter 5.
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* [[Dying Clue]]: Parodied in Chapter 4, when {{spoiler|1=Morgan LeFlay's rather lengthy dying speech (unheard by the player) is completely misunderstood by Guybrush, leading him to think that [[Mad Scientist|the Marquis De Singe]] killed her instead of [[Big Bad|LeChuck]]}}.
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: {{spoiler|1=Elaine in Chapter 5, from the time that she willingly becomes LeChuck's demon bride, up to the time that Guybrush manages to shrink [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]]}}.
* [[Electric Instant Gratification]]: Jacques the monkey in Chapter 1. The commentaries state that funnily enough, they did it like that to get the ESRB to approve it
* [[Enhance Button]]: Parodied in Chapter 1: Guybrush is using an ''analog optical telescope'', and asks his first mate Winslow to "enhance the upper right quadrant"
* [[Epic Fail]]: Parodied in Chapter 3: at one time when Guybrush guesses the answer to one of De Cava's three-out-of-six questions wrong, Morgan rolls her eyes and says, "Fail", in a [[Shout-Out]] to the "FAIL" meme from ''[[Blazing Star]]'' (even De Cava says "Failure!" when the question is guessed wrong). However, this trope (and imminent death) is averted as many times as possible, when De Cava will always repeat the same first series of the three questions thanks to the repeated pleadings from Guybrush.
* [[Episodic Game]]
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'''{{spoiler|1=LeChuck}}:''' ESPECIALLY that.}}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Stan has had a go at just about every kind of shady business under the sun, but even he's never been and never will be a pirate.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Voodoo Lady, as usual, but ''Tales of Monkey Island'' hangs a few lampshades on it.
{{quote|'''Voodoo Lady:''' ''[I never gave my name because]'' Names have power, Guybrush Threepwood. Only a fool willingly gives it away.
'''Guybrush:''' Does ''my'' name have power?
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* [[Evil Hand]]: Guybrush, in Chapter 1.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck in his human form. Subverted/inverted at first in Chapters 2-4, when he acts like a good guy, but then doubly subverted at the very end of Chapter 4, when he kills Guybrush before regaining his voodoo powers}}.
* [[Exact Words]]:
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{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Would you mind releasing my wife? [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|She gets a little cranky when she's tied up for more than an hour or so.]]
'''LeChuck:''' YOUR wife? Nay, Elaine is destined to be MY bride!}}
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* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Morgan LeFlay. Even with the [[Shout-Out|Arthurian]] pun, Guybrush apparently did not expect a woman.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Guybrush has a knack for solving puzzles, if nothing else.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Other than Guybrush, we have Coronado De Cava, who also seems to understand that his world works in puzzles. The man appreciates the quality of good rubber tree.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Would you mind releasing my wife? She gets a little cranky when she's tied up for more than an hour or so."
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* [[Healing Factor]]: The Marquis De Singe, eventually.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: LeChuck. Unfortunately, the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinum]] discharge that accompanies it is causing everyone else in the Caribbean to undergo a gradual [[Face Heel Turn]]!
* [[Hell on Earth]]/[[Villain World]]: {{spoiler|1=More like "Hell on the Caribbean" in Chapter 5, since LeChuck has regained his voodoo powers after killing Guybrush (see [[Hero-Killer]] below) and has captured Elaine. And since Guybrush isn't around to stop him, the villain not only pillages and plunders the islands in the Gulf of Melange, but he also destroys Spinner Cay, damages Flotsam (where Guybrush has fallen, though his decaying body survives intact in Club 41), slaughters many people and some Vaycaylians (and a few animal species), and sets fire to many islands, creating his own villain world that is right between [[Apocalypse How|Class 0 and Class 1]]
* [[Here We Go Again]]: In Chapter 2, this is lampshaded by the MerLeader when McGillicutty [[Poke the Poodle|repeatedly attempts to drown him/her as "torture"]]:
{{quote|'''Chieftain Beluga:''' Guybrush, sink his ship!
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* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]:
** In Chapter 1:
*** "Give Your Mouth the Gift of <ref>
*** "Davey J. Nipperkin doesn't go handing over his secret sources to every Tom, Dick, and <ref>
*** "All the News <ref>
*** The Flotsam Island flag reads "Die Luft der <ref>
*** "...and you can kiss your <ref>
*** "Anyone up for a quick game of Five Card <ref>
*** The bookshelf in the Voodoo Lady's shack holds a lot of the book titles matching this trope that would be too many to count.
*** "The Club has a strict 'No <ref>
*** "It's a beautiful rendering of the classic '<ref>
*** "We're closed until I can replace all me inventory that SOMEONE blasted [[To Hell and Back]] <ref>
*** "[[Talk to the Hand]], sicko, 'cause the <ref>
*** "[[And Your Little Dog, Too]] <ref>
** In Chapter 2:
*** "Look behind you, a three-headed <ref>
*** "Accidentally, my <ref>
*** "Does someone have a <ref>
*** Two of the books in the Vaycaylian Library are "[[A Tale of Two Cities]] <ref>
*** "...but that guy is <ref>
*** "Just my two <ref>
** In Chapter 3:
*** "Now let's get down to brass <ref>
*** "United we stand! <ref>
*** "Feel free to stay, but please, don't rock the <ref>
*** "I've always lived by the rule: do unto <ref>
*** "<ref>
*** "RARELY SEEN, <ref>
*** "You said if I beat you in a pirate face-off I'd be [[Our Man Flint|in like]] <ref>
*** "We'll be out of here in two shakes of a <ref>
*** "[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!|Faster,]] <ref>
*** "Hold onto your <ref>
*** "Heavens to <ref>
*** "Prepare to meet <ref>
** In Chapter 4:
*** "Your honor, <ref>
*** "Captain Threepwood, are you aware of the old pirate court saying, 'the <ref>
*** "Court doesn't trust stool <ref>
*** "<ref>
*** "That's why I always sail defensively, and carry State <ref>
*** Hardtack and D'Oro have an auction called <ref>
*** "<ref>
*** "...he seemed to think I could make a pretty <ref>
*** "Do you swear on <ref>
*** "Time is <ref>
*** "[[Black Eyed Peas|Whatcha gonna do with all that]] <ref>
*** "I've had it up to <ref>
*** "You sent me on a wild <ref>
*** "<ref>
*** "Tore through here like a <ref>
*** "Are you <ref>
*** "...but it was totally worth it to get my <ref>
*** {{spoiler|Elaine}} calls {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}} a "spineless goody-two-<ref>
** And in Chapter 5:
*** "Mo' money, mo <ref>
*** [[The Ferry Man|The Ferryman]]'s tip jar has "[[A Fistful of Dollars]] <ref>
*** "That witch is nothing but [[The Music Man|trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with]] <ref>
*** Winslow's deodorant is named "Old <ref>
* [[Hook Hand]]: Guybrush's newly acquired one is the most useful tool in the game.
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword|Hot Chicks With Swords]]: Morgan LeFlay and Elaine.
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* [[In the Back]]: {{spoiler|1=Inverted near the end of Chapter 4: not only does LeChuck (figuratively) stab Guybrush in the back in a clever ambush attack, but he (''literally'') stabs Guybrush ''in the chest... with the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu that is powerful enough to kill him,'' if not instantly}}!
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Unholy THIS!"
* [[It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"]]: Throughout the entire game, the Marquis De Singe (and Joaquin D'Oro) pronounces his own name as "''deh SANJ''" (with the short "a" sound in "apple"), and the Voodoo Lady and Hemlock McGee pronounce the name as "''day SAHNJ''" (with the "a" pronunciation in "father"). Guybrush and Morgan LeFlay, on the other hand, pronounce De Singe's name poorly, coming out only as "''deh SIHNJ''", like the word "''SIHN-jee''" without the "ee", or like the English word "singe". It's possible this may have been them pulling a [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] with him
** ''Tales'' also has every single character pronounce "La Esponja Grande" with "esponja" pronounced with a J sound (es-pon-JA). Not until the ''very end of the final chapter'' does Elaine FINALLY say "Actually, it's pronounced 'es-pon-HA' with an 'H' sound at the end?".
** And of those who pronounce the word "Caribbean" as "''CA-ri-BEE-an''", only Morgan pronounces it as "''cuh-RIH-bee-an''".
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* [[I Will Show You X]]: There are a few examples of this {{spoiler|when Elaine is poxed and fighting De Singe}} near the end of Chapter 4: "I've got yer juicy strain right here, bucko!" "I'll give you some piddlin' firkins!" "I'll show you who's done for!" and "I'll spread you to the four corners!!"
* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: {{spoiler|1=Sort of: At the end of Chapter 4, as Elaine is sharing her [[Last Kiss]] with the fatally wounded Guybrush, LeChuck taunts him by saying, "Aren't you dead yet? I've got wedding plans to make!" As if on cue, Guybrush [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|dies in her arms]] and leaves her heartbroken and angry. Cue the [[Informal Eulogy]]}}.
** {{spoiler|1=Somewhat subverted in Chapter 5, when Guybrush (as a zombie) confronts LeChuck, who tells him, "I do wish you hadn't made such a pest of yourself. [[I Want Them Alive|I wanted you alive]] to see me marry Elaine!"}}.
* [[J'accuse!]]: Spoken by Guybrush {{spoiler|while showing Jacques the Monkey to the court during Hemlock's case}} in Chapter 4.
== K-O ==
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Guybrush is tried by one in Chapter 4, which attempts to sentence him to keelhauling before he's even been charged. But then again,
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Out of all the new characters you meet in the storyline, only Van Winslow, Anenome, Bugeye and Judge Grindstump definitely survive until the end of Chapter 5. It's heavily implied that absolutely all of the other characters you meet in the game are killed}}. Yes, this is indeed a dark tale.
* [[Kill the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|1=Both Morgan and Guybrush are cuties in that she is a sweet femme fatale and he is [[Adorkable]] throughout the game. It is very sad that [[Hero-Killer|LeChuck has to go and kill them both]] in Chapter 4: first sending the latter (Guybrush) on a case of [[Mistaken for Murderer]], and later turning his act of triumph into a stunning, tragic [[Tear Jerker]] (thankfully, he gets better in Chapter 5)}}.
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** {{spoiler|1=The voodoo doll at the end of the second game has shades of this, too. If anything, it's that game that introduced the idea of a scary LeChuck, which Curse and Escape (and Screaming Narwhal) abandoned. The whole "Human LeChuck" routine is almost a way for Telltale to bring that menace back to the rotting bugger}}.
** As of Chapter 5, {{spoiler|1=LeChuck seems to have finally found a balance between being silly and being menacing and goes back and forth between the two with ease}}.
* [[Large Ham]]: Where to start? Most notably there's LeChuck, Judge Grindstump, any character voiced by [[Voice Actors|Roger L. Jackson]] (Such as Winslow, and Hemlock "FEED 'IM TO THE JUNGLE BEAST!!!" McGee), and, while [[Demoted to Extra|she didn't have a very big role in Curse]], Alexandra Boyd brings the house down in ''Tales of Monkey Island'' with every line as {{spoiler|poxed}} Elaine and as {{spoiler|Demon-Bride Elaine}}.
* [[Last Kiss]]: It may or may not be a trope in Chapter 4, but at the end of the chapter, {{spoiler|1=as Elaine [[Hold Me|holds a dying Guybrush in her arms]], after he utters out his last words, "Kick [LeChuck's] two-faced butt for me..." she is [[Tear Jerker|on the verge of tears]] as she promises, "From Melee to Monkey and all the islands in between, my love", and [[Heartwarming Moments|gets close to Guybrush as she closes her eyes and puts her lips on his cheek between her sobs]]. At least we think it's a kiss}}.
* [[Little Black Dress]]: {{spoiler|1=Elaine finally gets one when she willingly becomes LeChuck's demon bride in Chapter 5, and this black bridal dress has all the elements of a [[Pimped-Out Dress]] (see below)}}.
* [[Live Item]]: Several, the most celebrated one is... Murray.
* [[Look Behind You!]]: "Hey, it’s King Louis the…"
** The Crossroads thief actually encourages you to pull this on him. Guybrush doesn't have to finish a sentence before the thief pretends to be fooled long enough for Guybrush to steal something. It is a sort of thief paradise, after all, and he wants a chance to steal it back.
* [[Loud Gulp]]: Quite a few, actually:
** In Chapter 2, Guybrush does this when he tries showing Morgan the Pyrite Parrot, and she says that since the parrot is cute, she'll take it as a souvenir after she kills Guybrush.
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* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]: Parodied with Guybrush in his [[Grand Theft Me]] of the Voodoo Lady, for a short time in Chapter 3. He even jiggles her earrings and plays with his breasts if the player sits around for a few minutes!
* [[Masochist's Meal]]: W.P. Grindstump is the proud owner of a Fugu Jolokia Pepper. He won it by being able to place his tongue on the outer skin of the pepper for a full 10 seconds, and now offers a challenge for anyone who would place their tongue on the pepper for ''a full 11 seconds''! No mean feat, as not only is the pepper spicy beyond all sanity, even on the outer skin (wheras most real-life peppers have their heat in the juice or seeds), but it is also hot temperature-wise to the tongue, to the point that Guybrush's skin nearly burns when he tries touching the pepper with his good hand; he needs to numb up his tongue if he wants to win the challenge.
* [[Master of Unlocking]]: From Chapter 2 of ''Tales of Monkey Island'' onward, Guybrush can use his [[Hook Hand]] as a lockpick to unlock doors and treasure chests. {{spoiler|Of course, there are only a few items that can't be unlocked by his hook alone, and that is in the final chapter}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Fugu Jolokia above takes its name from the Bhut Jolokia, an actual pepper, and fugu, the Japanese pufferfish - which is ''poisonous''.
* [[Melee a Trois]]: In Chapter 5, there's a brief insult/cheerup swordfight between Guybrush, Morgan and another pirate.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: ''Tales'' is apparently the ''sixth'' game... And yes, that count is missing something, and that's a plot point.
** All we know about the events preceding ''Tales'' comes from Guybrush's offhand comment that, sometime before the game started, LeChuck returned to life as a "killer walrus."
*** The beginning of "Launch of the ''Screaming Narwhal''" is probably the result of said missing game. It definitely has all the trappings of the end of a ''Monkey Island'' game: Elaine captured, LeChuck executing his latest evil plan, and Guybrush hastily substituting ingredients for a voodoo spell to get rid of him yet again. The only difference being that the voodoo substitutions make the spell go ''more'' horribly wrong than usual, kicking off the plot of ''Tales of Monkey Island''.
* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: In Chapter 3, there is a picture of Sister Agnes, a nun with a creepy face, which is what Noogie is afraid of.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: LeChuck's stupidity about the clam shell puzzle in Chapter 2 might have been this in retrospect.
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* [[Rise from Your Grave]]: {{spoiler|Parodied at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Guybrush wakes up as a [[Ghost Pirate]] in his own grave at the Crossroads' Gateway and believes he is "[[Buried Alive]]... again!"}}.
* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Parodied in Chapter 5, when Reginald Van Winslow has been working on a game he calls "Rock, Paper, Fountain Pen", and describes to Guybrush how the game is played: "Well, paper beats rock. And then the player must shame the paper into defeat by filling it full of lewd phrases using the pen." Of course, this is little less of a game to this troper.
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]/[[Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma]]: The game's subtitles often do these with typos in them throughout its chapters, especially with its improper use of hyphens or with the letters or words or punctuation marks or hyphens missing. The biggest subtitle blunder is evident in Chapter 2, [[The Big List of Booboos and Blunders|where the subtitles are riddled with So. Many. Typos]]! It's even hard to make out the words that are often misspelled (either with an extra letter or with one or both letters missing), have a LOT of mispunctuation and miscapitalization, and don't match what the characters' voices are saying, like (for example) "<ref>
** Also, Roe Island seems to be suffering a case of [[All Lowercase Letters]] instead of capital letters when examined items change their names (example: "photograph" becomes "almost kinda sweet photo of DeSinge ''[sic]'' and the Voodoo Lady", "Journals" become "poems no one wants to read", "Sketch" becomes "disturbing sketch of a young Voodoo Lady", "Cot" becomes "disgusting cot", etc).
** [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Even there are a few names that everyone is confused about: the names "DeCava" ("MerLeader", "Merleader" "Mer Leader", etc), "Vaycaylian" ("Vacaylian", "Vaycalian", "Vacalian"), "De Singe" ("Mer-Leader"), "De Cava" ("DeSinge"), Morgan DeCava ("Le Flay" in Chapter 1, "LeFlay" in Chapter 2) and "Esponja" in "La Esponja Grande" ("Esponge", "Esponga").
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* [[Show Some Leg]]: In Chapter 4, Bosun Kathryn Krebbs testifies against Guybrush and, in the midst of her testimony, pulls her legs to the top of the witness stand, distracting the [[Wolf Whistle|Wolf Whistling]] crowd with the "nacho sauce burn" on her Poxed leg ({{spoiler|which turns out to be a mixture of hot fluids that she concocted up in order to take revenge on the ''wrong'' Guybrush Threepwood}}).
* [[Shrine to the Fallen]]: In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|1=Club 41 becomes a shrine to Guybrush, whose [[Martyrdom Culture]] is due to his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (or rather [[Stupid Sacrifice]]) Sacrifice for saving the entire Gulf of Melange from the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]]. The Club even has barrels of Grog, [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Banang]], and root beer, along with votive candles, Guybrush's commemorative photo, and a wreath to be used as kindling next to [[Dead Guy on Display|Guybrush's corpse]] [[Due to the Dead|for cremation]]... unless his [[Ghost Pirate|spirit]] can repossess his body in time, that is}}.
* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: LeChuck final incarnation in ''Tales of Monkey Island''.
* [[Spoiler Title]]: {{spoiler|The [[Wham! Episode]], Chapter 4, is "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood". This doesn't really make it any less of a [[Wham! Episode]]}}.
** Of course, some fans may not have [[Like You Would Really Do It|believed that that was really going to happen]] and so didn't regard the title as a spoiler. There's also the fact that it's technically a subversion, since {{spoiler|the use of the phrase 'Trial and Execution' would suggest the multiple death penalties Guybrush faces for his court charges, which he is cleared of. Of course, that makes it a double subversion when he's killed later}}.
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* [[Talking in Your Sleep]]: In Chapter 3, while Guybrush is performing first aid on Morgan to wake her up, we hear her mumble, while she's unconscious: "[[And This Is For|THIS is for JUGBENDER!]]" and "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Gomez... not on the carpet!]]"
* [[Tarot Troubles]]: At the start of most chapters, when the Voodoo Lady does a recap this way.
* [[The Teaser
* [[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!]]}}
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* [[Timber!|Timmmm-Boing?]]: Shouted out by Guybrush in Chapter 2 "The Siege of Spinner Cay", when he manages to push the rubber tree down to the ground with help from Trenchfoot's digging for "treasure".
* [[To Be Continued]]: Appears at the end of Chapters 1-4, with each one describing the title of the next chapter.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: Parodied in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=when Hemlock LeFlay and the angry mob approach Guybrush and De Singe with torches and pitchforks to summon Guybrush to court. [[The Cake Is a Lie|And he has thought there would be ice cream cake
* [[Traveling Pipe Bulge]]: In Chapter 3, though it's a bile tube, not a pipe.
* [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: If Guybrush asks Hemlock McGee what happened to his legs in Chapter 1:
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'''LeChuck:''' Well, you can't say I didn't try... Looks like we'll be doing this with all that voodoo]]...}}
** {{spoiler|1=She finally accepts that offer in Chapter 5... but only when she needs to hold the untouchable (for humans) Cutlass of Kaflu in order to destroy LeChuck once she is returned to normal}}.
* [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Tell me where I can find {{spoiler|the Tongue of the Manatee}} or it's time for Tibetan Tickle Torture.}}
* [[We'll See About That]]: Spoken by De Singe, both in Chapters 1 and 4.
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* [[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™?".
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: {{spoiler|Elaine's plan in ''Tales of Monkey Island'' can pretty much be summed up as this. Too much of it relies on coincidence. Guybrush even has the option to lampshade this in the epilogue}}.
** I believe the backup plan was {{spoiler|1=rule the world with LeChuck. Really, it's not a bad gig for a pirate}}.
** Alternately, Elaine was lying when she said she planned everything.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: {{spoiler|Elaine does this when she gives Guybrush her wedding ring in Chapter 2 of ''Tales of Monkey Island'' (the original plan had been for Guybrush to use his own ring; Morgan ruined that), though you don't know that she was invoking this trope until Chapter 5}}.
* [[The X of Y]]: This game not only has this themed title (''Tales of Monkey Island''), but all of its five chapters have the same themed titles as well, though Chapter 4's title is more like "The X and X of Y".
* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: In Chapter 3:
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