Tales of Monkey Island: Difference between revisions

* [[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.}}

* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating|Avoid the Dreaded E Rating]]: ''Tales'' 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).

** 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.

* [[Equivalent Exchange]]

* [[Especially Zoidberg]]: When Guybrush talks to {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}} in jail in Chapter 4 and asks if {{spoiler|the Voodoo Lady}} was behind the events in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series:

'''{{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.

* [[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]] (with just hints of [[Foreshadowing]] and [[Arc Words]]): In Chapter 1, at one time when Guybrush talks to LeChuck {{spoiler|before finishing the recipe for the Cutlass of Kaflu}} on Elaine's ship, a few things come to mind. One is:

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

** Another is:

'''Guybrush:''' I'm pretty sure she was talking to me. }}

** And yet here's another:

* [[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]]!

* [[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!

'''Chieftain Beluga:''' Here we go again. ''[s/he is lowered into the water]'' }}

* [[Hero-Killer]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck. After being turned human, he proceeds to fatally stab Morgan LeFlay with her own blade in Chapter 4 and then save Guybrush's life from the gallows... only to brutally murder him with the Cutlass of Kaflu not long after.}}

** As of Episode 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'' with every line as {{spoiler|poxed}} Elaine and as {{spoiler|Demon-Bride Elaine}}.

* [[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.

* [[Official Couple]]: Guybrush and Elaine.

* [[Once For Yes, Twice For No]]: Discussed in Chapter 2: When Elaine says that she can't leave Spinner Cay with Guybrush, he can say, "Why? Does someone have a cannon to your head? Blink twice if the answer is 'yes.'"

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Guybrush’s tipoff to ghosthood is the return of his severed hand. He has to go through some figurative hoops to return to the land of the living, where he can’t manipulate any objects that he didn’t bring with him.}}

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: The Voodoo Lady says that “zombie” is not the best word {{spoiler|for what Guybrush becomes. He does act pretty much the same as in life, except for a variant of a [[Zombie Gait]]}}.

* [[Resurrected Romance]]: {{spoiler|Guybrush himself, at the end of the game}}.

* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: {{spoiler|Near the end of the game, Guybrush, Elaine and Winslow ride the Screaming Narwhal off into the beautiful sunrise.}}

* [[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> Marquis De Singe</ref>", "<ref> bury</ref>", "<ref> sniveling</ref>", "<ref> mitts</ref>", "<ref> treasure</ref>", "<ref> previous</ref>", and a LOT of misspellings of "merfolk", "mermaid", "merman", "merperson" and "merpeople". Also, the biggest blunders are many words in the subtitles that don't match what the person's voice says, like, for example, Trenchfoot's subtitles repeatedly saying "I have" when his voice clearly says "I've got".

** [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare|To Shakespeare]]: ''Tales'' has a few of the shout-outs to [[William Shakespeare]]:

*** At the beginning of the intro to Chapter 2, the Voodoo Lady quotes England's deposed king Edward IV's words to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (a.k.a. just Warwick), before the former is taken captive in ''[[Henry VI Part 3]]'': "What fates impose, that men must needs abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and tide" (IV.iii). Only her subtitle got it right ("needs"), while her voice got it wrong ("need").

*** In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|Morgan}} stabs {{spoiler|1=LeChuck}} and calls {{spoiler|him}} a "bunch-backed toad", which is taken from the line from ''[[Richard III]]'', in which Queen Margaret, widow of King Henry VI, curses Queen Elizabeth (wife of King Edward IV) with: "The day will come that thou shalt wish for me / To help thee curse that poisonous bunch-backed toad" (I.iii).

* [[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, distratcting 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}}).

 

== U-Z ==

* [[Unfinished Business]]: {{spoiler|1=In the first half of Chapter 5, Mighty [[Ghost Pirate]] Guybrush needs to find a way to return to the living world from the Crossroads (he even lampshades this when he talks to Morgan, also a ghost); once he finds a way, he realizes that he can't destroy McGee or save Elaine this way in the living world, so he needs to repossess his corpse to finish what he started.}}

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: LeChuck tries to do this in Chapter 5, {{spoiler|1=using his Voodoo powers from [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]] and the Crossroads to turn Elaine into a Demon Bride/Goddess like himself which makes her turn evil. It's all a plan by Elaine, to allow Guybrush to save her and defeat LeChuck later.}}

* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: Sort of downplayed in Chapter 3, when Guybrush moves his legs around as he slowly walks in the Manatee Mating Grounds at the bottom of the ocean, but when the player tries making him run, he swims with a dog paddle. {{spoiler|Later justified in Chapter 5, when he can not only walk as a ghost, but he can run instead of swimming like he could while he was alive.}}

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck does this to Elaine after fatally stabbing Guybrush and telling her about his playful acts of "kindness":}}

'''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.}}

* [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?]]: Lampshaded and parodied when Elaine gives Guybrush her [[Chekhov's Gun|wedding ring]] in Chapter 2:

{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Aw, come on. Who's absent-minded enough to lose TWO wedding rings?

'''Guybrush:''' Shut up, you! }}

* [[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!"}}

'''Judge Grindstump:''' Most definitely--

'''Guybrush:''' Great! Then I plead--

'''Guybrush:''' Okay, then... }}

* [[You Got Spunk]]: In Chapter 1, after Guybrush completes the three pirate newsmaking tasks, Davey Nipperkin becomes impressed and says, "You know, Threepwood, you've got spunk. Pirate spunk." Guybrush: "[[Squick|Ew.]]"

 

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