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Not to be confused with the early 80s adventure series ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]''.

 

== A-E ==

* [[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}}.

* [[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".

** 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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana<!-- C3AB_%28Rembrandt_painting%29 Danaë by Rembrandt]]. -->

* [[Ascended Meme]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5bR1o-elg Grog XD] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66lfr5VzOo&feature=related appears in the fifth part]. Sort of a recursive meme, since the Grog XD joke was based of of [[The Long List]] of ingredients found in Grog in ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Secret of Monkey Island]]''.

* [[Ass Shove]]: {{spoiler|1=Near the end of Chapter 5, while Morgan stabs LeChuck after Guybrush has trapped him, Elaine gives the villain one by stabbing him with the Cutlass of Kaflu... let's just say... ''right in the fundament''! [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating|And this is an E10+ rated game, too!]]}}

** 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]]."

* [[At the Crossroads]]: With crossroads being the place of burial for the wings of society, pirates go to the Crossroads when they die.

* [[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.}}

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Guybrush}} at the end of chapter 5.

** 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.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: In the fourth chapter, {{spoiler|1=LeChuck shows up at the last minute and bails Guybrush out of court. Though, of course, this was actually a [[Villainous Rescue]], as LeChuck is only doing this in order to let Guybrush power up La Esponja Grande and get all of the Pox out of everyone in the Gulf of Melange, so that LeChuck can [[Hero Killer|kill him later]].}}

** 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 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 (Music)|I'll sleep when I'm dead.]] Or later tonight."}})

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Singe" is French for monkey. See also [[Brick Joke]] below.

** Also, the name of deceased journalist Pistalibre and his journal discovered in Chapter 4 is derived from the Spanish words ''"pista libre"'', meaning "free clue".

* [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]: Subverted by the Mermaids and Mermen. All merfolk look pretty much the same to us Humans, and there's no external dimorphism between sexes (both are pretty and feminine-looking, and have androgynous voices). Things tend to get [[Squick|squicky]] when Human men mistake Mermen for their female counterparts.

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]/[[Double Standard Rape Female On Male]]: Attempted, actually: In Chapter 4, {{spoiler|just when Guybrush is about to answer to his criminal charge, a Poxed Elaine barges into the Flotsam Courthouse, threatening to pillage and plunder for "spoils, swags, booty and boodle", then sees him and calls him a "bonnie lass" before adding, "Step into me captain's quarters and let me ravish you silly!" and doing a [[Dance of Romance|freaky waltz with him]]. But then she sniffs his jacket and, thinking that he had an apparent affair with Morgan, triggers a [[Berserk Button]] as Elaine charges after her in an attempt to kill her.}}

* [[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?"

** 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 Episode 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."

* [[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]]: Parodied in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|when Judge Grindstump asks Guybrush on what grounds the latter is not guilty of spreading the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]], after which one of the four reasons listed is "The Pox is a lie!"}}

* [[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'' likes it. There are several references to previous Monkey Island games, particularly in a lot of optional dialogue in part 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]]: The flag on the Courthouse of Flotsam Island in Chapter 1 reads [[Gratuitous German|"Die Luf[t] der Flotsam saugen"]], which is German for "The wind of Flotsam sucks", which is a bit odd, since those who studied the Stanford flag (whose German motto is [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/951005dieluft.html "Die Luft der Freiheit weht", or "The wind of freedom is blowing"]) [[Did Not Do the Research]] (Luft is German for "air", and "Wind" is German for "wind"). A more appropriate German sentence would have been "Der Wind von Flotsam saugt". (Although [http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9963&page=3 Telltale may have done it to tick off the Germans], but exactly why is beyond this troper.)

* [[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.

* [[Does This Make Me Look Fat]]: One of the silver trophies in the PS3 version of the game is labeled: {{spoiler|"Does This Corpse Make Me Look Fat?"}}

* [[Don't Touch It You Idiot]]: If you snoop around the Voodoo Lady's hut enough in Chapter 1...

{{quote| '''Voodoo Lady:''' "Don't touch that! {{spoiler|It's where I keep my... unmentionables}}."<br />

* [[Dying Alone]]: Defied twice in Chapter 4: {{spoiler|1=once when LeChuck fatally stabs Morgan in De Singe's laboratory and leaves her alone to die, [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|yet she lives long enough]] for De Singe to discover the incident before he leaves, and for Guybrush to discover and [[Hold Me|hold her in her final moments]] as Jacques the Monkey sadly watches; and once at the end of the chapter, when it appears that LeChuck would leave Guybrush alone to die after stabbing him, with only Elaine right by his side, but then the villain returns as a transformed Demon Pirate at the last second to [[I Wished You Were Dead|taunt him]] and watch him [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|die in the arms of his grieving wife]].}}

* [[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]]}}.

* [[Electric Instant Gratification]]: Jacques the monkey in episode 1. The commentaries state that funnily enough, they did it like that to get the ESRB to approve it - "See, we're not torturing the monkey; he's enjoying 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" -- Winslow just turns the telescope to increase the zoom. Guybrush then asks for "full enhancement", and Winslow holds up a ''second'' telescope at the end of the first one.

'''{{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.

{{quote| '''Voodoo Lady:''' ''[I never gave my name because]'' Names have power, Guybrush Threepwood. Only a fool willingly gives it away.<br />

'''Guybrush:''' Does ''my'' name have power?<br />

'''Voodoo Lady:''' [[Sure Let's Go With That|Er, sure. Why not?]] }}

* [[Everything Is an Instrument]]: In Chapter 3, Noogie plays the manatee bile sacs like bongos, and playing them wildly can cause the bile to rise up.

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' ''[in his pretend voice]'' Foolish Power Pirate! Your porcelain parts will be sacrificed to, um, Bob, the Lord of the Seas! ''[switches to a pretend high voice]'' Arrrr! Me kidneys! ''[takes the action figure back from the altar]''}}

* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck. From the moment that Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently [[Humanity Ensues|turns him into a human]] who acts like a [[Harmless Villain]] and helps out on Guybrush and Elaine from Chapter 2 up to Chapter 4 (all the while wearing his [[Glamour|charming]] [[Instant Allegiance Artifact|belt buckle]]), then kills Guybrush in a clever ambush as soon as our hero cures everyone of the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]]; Elaine sees that "with or without all that voodoo, [LeChuck is] still nothing but an evil sack of scumm".}}

* [[Evil Hand]]: Guybrush, in chapter 1.

 

== F-J ==

* [[Fauxshadow]]: Guybrush’s [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough]] moment suggests he’ll lose the other wedding ring, but he doesn’t. {{spoiler|True, his soul separates from his body for a while, but does that really count as losing the ring?}}

** Actually, at the beginning of Chapter 4, {{spoiler|the ring is taken away from him along with La Esponja Grande as he goes on trial, and they will remain in the court's possession until he clears himself of all charges}}. Does that really count as losing the ring too?

* [[Foreign Queasine]]: Discussed in Chapter 3: when Guybrush looks at the manatee's uvula, he says, "Mmm... manatee uvula," then pauses a bit before adding, "Eh, it's a delicacy in some cultures."

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Starting when Elaine sternly asks where Guybrush’s wedding ring is, there is plenty of evidence that she will eventually get the wrong idea about him and Morgan.

* [[Four Is Death]]: This may be a coincidence or unintentional, but Chapter 4 seems to be ''the very embodiment of death itself'', {{spoiler|especially when its eerie-sounding title, "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood", [[Foreshadowing|foreshadows]] its premonition that Guybrush will die, with a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]].}} And it's a little eerie when the scene on Flotsam is night-themed, indicating that night is very deathly. And out of the five charges {{spoiler|that Guybrush faces and manages to clear}}, only four are civil ones that carry the death penalty, as indicated in the court briefs.

** {{spoiler|1=Also in Chapter 4, death happens not just to Guybrush, but to four of the characters that he has met on or near Flotsam Island. In Chapter 1, he is first met by Davey Nipperkin before encountering the [[Chekhov's Boomerang|Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma]] and the Marquis De Singe, and at the end of the chapter, the fourth character he encounters in person (though unidentified until Chapter 2) is Morgan LeFlay, who is also the first supporting character to die in Chapter 4. He would either witness or hear of three more deaths (Nipperkin, the Pyrite Parrot, De Singe) before he himself would be slain at the end of said chapter. Oh, and the four wind idols that he has rearranged in Chapter 1 are very helpful once again in destroying De Singe in the Wind Control Device, powering up [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]] and curing the [[Hate Plague|Pox of LeChuck]] in Chapter 4, while they also indicate that something bad (and fatal) may happen.}}

** [[Double Entendre]]: Oh yeah, this game has got many of them: from Guybrush's aforementioned asking LeChuck to release Elaine to trying to show stolen items to someone ("I generally don't rub my booty in the faces of those I've stolen it from.") to looking at the cans in a shack on Roe Island ("Nice cans. I mean... nice CANS!") to repeatedly attempting to steal an empty treasure chest (Trenchfoot: "You just keep your hands off my chest." Guybrush: "Not a problem. In fact, I can guarantee I won't be touching a single part of your body!") to Guybrush recalling his previous events in the Flotsam Jungle {{spoiler|with the Feast for the Senses menu}} ("No more [[The Talk|listening to bees and birds and boars]] for THIS Mighty Pirate™!") to {{spoiler|1=LeChuck attempting to have La Esponja Grande and Elaine all to himself after killing Guybrush}} ("But I be willin' to share my booty, [[Lampshaded Double Entendre|if ye catch me drift]]...") to Guybrush looking at the seaweed {{spoiler|containing the locket as a ghost}} ("The motion of my ocean isn't enough to jostle this seaweed.") to {{spoiler|1=LeChuck's response to Elaine telling Guybrush what to do with the cannon on LeChuck's ship}} ("You can light my cannon later!"). That's probably a LOT of double entendres!

* [[Ghost Pirate]]: {{spoiler|1=Guybrush himself becomes one after being slain by LeChuck, but later finds a way to repossess his own body, and he's returned to normal at the end of the final chapter.}}

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: The Voodoo Lady's locket is the cause of this one in Chapter 3. When played around with the button on the locket, pressing it can cause some possession effects with [[Voices Are Mental|voice changes]], like the Voodoo Lady's possessions of De Cava and Guybrush, and [[Gender Bender|Guybrush's possession of the Voodoo Lady]].

** Gets a whole new meaning when {{spoiler|Guybrush voluntarily gets arrested for kidnapping his own body}}.

* [[Gravity Screw]]: In Chapter 4, one of the buttons on De Singe's Auto-Trepanation Helmet turns the whole room in the lab upside down along with Guybrush for a few seconds.

* [[Guile Hero]]: {{spoiler|Elaine. She laid down an intricate master plan, used her charm back in chapter 2 to make sure Guybrush would play his part in said plan, and repeatedly engaged in swordplay and (in one case) naval warfare to help move things along.}}

* [[Hanging Judge]]: The Right Honorable Judge Wallace P. Grindstump once he catches the Pox. Still, apart from his uncontrollable shouting, he's fairly reasonable for being a bloodthirsty voodoo-pox-stricken pirate judge presiding over a court filled with an equally bloodthristy, pox-stricken audience of pirates. He is also very friendly and relaxed at his second job as the owner of club 41.

* [[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! <br />

*** "We're closed until I can replace all me inventory that SOMEONE blasted [[To Hell and Back]] <ref> Hell</ref> [[To Hell and Back|and Back]]!"

*** "[[Talk to The Hand]], sicko, 'cause the <ref> face</ref> ain't listenin'!"

** In Chapter 2:

*** "Look behind you, a three-headed <ref> monkey!</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.

* [[I Call It Vera|I Call It Jumbo Jimbo]]: Moose had his own name for the Tongue of the Manatee.

* [[I Can Explain]]: Repeated in Chapter 3, once when the Brotherhood gets angry at Guybrush for betrayal, and once when he talks to De Cava during the ship battle {{spoiler|for La Esponja Grande}}.

'''LeChuck:''' The only thing I did to Elaine was to pull her from the freezing water along with a bunch of wet, screaming monkeys!<br />

'''Guybrush:''' ''[smiles]'' Actually, that kinda sounds like our honeymoon! }}

* [[I Love the Smell of X In The Morning]]: From the Treasure Hunt in Chapter 1:

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' I love the smell of treasure in the morning!}}

** And in Chapter 5, Guybrush discovers that Winslow and Anemone (a merperson) are in a relationship, and wonders aloud "how that works... logistically."

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Unholy THIS!"

** ''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 episode'' 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''".

{{quote| '''Galeb:''' Don't worry, Carniferouswood--<br />

'''Guybrush:''' Oh, come on, that doesn't even sound like "Threepwood." }}

* [[Its the Only Way]]: {{spoiler|1=Spoken by Zombie Guybrush to a surprised Morgan near the end of Chapter 5, when he takes out [[Chekhov's Gun|his last shred of life]] and tosses it into the rip to close up the Crossroads, trapping the Pirate God LeChuck and allowing her and Elaine to use the [[Coup De Grace]] on him simultaneously.}}

** Before that, De Cava says this in Chapter 3 when he says he's weaving the husks of Manatee Throat Grubs for an artificial cochlea, {{spoiler|unaware that the actual cochlea had been stolen by his own crew during the time they were in the manatee}}.

* [[It Was a Dark And Stormy Night]]: Though not narrated by voice or words, the game's opening ''does'' take place on a dark and stormy night in the Rock of Gelato.

* [[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!!"

** Pirate Court or not, is there any justification in attempting to sentence someone to death by keelhauling ''before they've been charged with anything?''

** Yes, if they all have been infected by a powerful [[Hate Plague]] that makes them mad.

* [[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.)}}

** {{spoiler|Other than that, also in Chapter 4, the only "cutie" that the Marquis De Singe has "killed" is the [[Chekhov's Boomerang|Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma]], which he uses as a test subject for the Jus de Vie in the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device in front of Guybrush and Elaine.}}

* [[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}}.

* [[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 (Sugar Wiki)|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.}}

* [[Live Item]]: Several, the most celebrated one is ... Murray.

* [[Look Behind You]]: “Hey, it’s King Louis the…”

* [[MacGuffin]]: La Esponja Grande.

* [[Mad Doctor]]: The Marquis De Singe, in addition to being a…

* [[Master of Unlocking]]: From Chapter 2 of ''Tales'' 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''.

* [[My Grandma Can Do Better Than You]]: Guybrush has a rather ingenious one near the end of Chapter 2, only "grandma" is replaced with "possibly dead mother":

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' My possibly dead mother could shoot a cannon better than you can!}}

* [[Mysterious Backer]]: The Voodoo Lady, naturally.

* [[Mythology Gag]]:

{{quote| '''LeChuck:''' "Burn down every island in the Caribbean if you have to, but bring me my bride! '''AND MORE SLAW!'''"}}

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Noogie wears them in Chapter 3.

** And that is not all, as this is followed by {{spoiler|1=Guybrush being asked by the Voodoo Lady to search for the legendary [[MacGuffin]] Esponja Grande and his eventually finding the sponge and using it to absorb and remove the pox from everyone in Chapter 4, curing them completely, so that LeChuck can obtain it for himself, killing Guybrush in the process. Nice job [[Stupid Sacrifice|curing everyone and getting yourself killed]], Guybrush.}}

** {{spoiler|1=And in Chapter 5, when Guybrush (as a [[Ghost Pirate]]) finds a spell so he can escape the Crossroads and return to the living world, he opens up the rip in the Crossroads and inadvertently (along with LeChuck's hypnotized monkeys) lets the villain use La Esponja Grande to harness the voodoo power from the Crossroads, creating other rips and becoming the [[A God Am I|Demon Pirate God of the Caribbean]] who turns a willing Elaine into his demon bride. Nice job making LeChuck more evil, Guybrush! However, creating other rips lets Guybrush find a way to [[Inhuman Human|repossess his own corpse]] and shrink the sponge in order to free Elaine from LeChuck's influence. So nice job negating your breaking it and averting the destruction, Guybrush.}}

* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: The final battle with {{spoiler|1=Pirate God LeChuck}} is ''brutal'', and just painful to watch. He basically plays with Guybrush like a rag doll, trying to kill him in horrifyingly ''direct'' and ''painful'' ways. Throwing him from the ship's crow's nest, keelhauling him multiple times, throwing him into the quarters so hard the door is blown off its hinges, and punching him so hard that he ends up in the crow's nest again. And Guybrush {{spoiler|is a zombie and}} [[Immortality Hurts|can't even die]]. What truly sells the horror of the whole sequence is Guybrush's voice. You can tell ''just'' how much pain he's truly in just by hearing the way his voice constantly breaks, and the weary way he tries to describe things. He's so spent, so exhausted, and in so much ''pain'' that he can't even ''quip''. A Guybrush who can't make jokes is a sad thing indeed.

* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: "Is that you, mother? I washed my hands..."

* [[Noodle Incident]]: ''Tales'' is apparently the ''sixth'' game... And yes, that count is missing something, and that's a plot point.

* [[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.

* [[Off With His Head]]: Parodied twice in Chapter 3: {{spoiler|once when Guybrush does this using Morgan's Blade of Dragotta to replace Santino's head with Murray while Moose is distracted; and once when Guybrush, in an attempt to extract information from the Brotherhood about the [[Translator Collar|Tongue of the Manatee]], uses the blade again to slice off "Santino's head", making Murray fly off the skeleton and into the water below.}}

** Only discussed in Chapter 4, when Bosun Kathryn Krebbs repeatedly shouts out, "Off with his head!", "Off with your head!", and "Off with her head!"

== P-T ==

* [[Paper Tiger]]: Bugeye is a bald, tattooed pirate who disrespects the main character and generally talks tough. But once you need to get information out of him, you find that the slightest bit of pressure will make him squeal.

** One must remember that they do this under the influence of [[The Corruption]]...

*** Although it's stated that unlike a lot of the characters, McGillicutty's crew openly ''welcomed'' the Pox, even going as far as to try and destroy its cure. The Pox may have made them more piratey, but they're still pirates anyway.

* [[Portal Network]]: The various rips in the Crossroads that appear on LeChuck's ship, Club 41, a raft atop the Manatee Mating Grounds in the ocean, and a secluded island somewhere in the Gulf of Melange.

* [[The Power of Love]]: At the end of the game, {{spoiler|the very last puzzle.}}

* [[Prolonged Prologue]]: Somewhat long in Chapters 1 and 3.

* [[Public Execution]]: Discussed in the courthouse bulletin in Chapter 4, {{spoiler|1=and almost attempted when Judge Grindstump is imposing a death sentence on Guybrush... until [[Big Damn Heroes|LeChuck arrives at the courthouse to clear our hero's name]]}}.

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' Want me to get anything from the hold? I've brought some pot stickers!<br />

'''Elaine:''' ''[screams in annoyance]'' No! Finish! The! Recipe! }}

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: This is parodied in the game from Chapters 1-4 when pirates are so infected by the Pox of LeChuck they go into Poxed rages and even [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon|shout out silly death threats]].

* [[Released to Elsewhere]]: Poor, poor Noogie...

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

* [[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!"}}

* [[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".

** 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.).

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: This game has examples of this in Chapter 2 (Guybrush: ''[as he fires a cannon]'' "KABOOM! Ah, I never get tired of that!") and in Chapter 5 ("Sigh.").

* [[Say My Name]]: In Chapter 1, {{spoiler|when a blunder with the Cutlass of Kaflu ends with the fuse being unintentionally lit in Elaine's ship}}:

*** 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 (Theatre)|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}}).

* [[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''.

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: In Chapter 1, Guybrush Threepwood gets strapped to an operating table by the Marquis De Singe, {{spoiler|who attempts to cut off Guybrush's Poxed hand,}} and our hero must use his limited movement ability (and the Marquis' helper monkey Jacques) to escape.

* [[The Strength of Ten Men]]: The human LeChuck exhibits this strength to pull out the Wise Turtle [[Summoning Artifact]] in Chapter 2. He even lampshades this when he tells Guybrush, "Elaine seems to think I have the strength of ten men!"

** {{spoiler|1=If Guybrush tries returning to LeChuck's ship as a ghost, Elaine will repeatedly spray root beer at our hero and force him back into the Crossroads, making it pure [[Nightmare Fuel]].}}

* [[Summoning Artifact]]: There are three of them in Chapter 2, all of which can be combined into one Summoning Ball Artifact used to summon the Sea Creatures to help Guybrush find the alleged resting place of [[MacGuffin|La Esponja Grande]]. {{spoiler|1=And it's no wonder that LeChuck and his crew want the artifacts so they can stay with being Poxed that way once they destroy the magical voodoo sponge.}}

** [[Summoning Ritual]]: This one consists of the ritual words that only the McGillicutty knows in order to summon the Sea Creatures with the Summoning Artifacts. {{spoiler|When recited, it sounds more like the words of a dog's game of "[[Go Fetch]]".}}

* [[Surfer Dude|Surfer Pirate Dude]]: Moose in Chapter 3. [[American Accents|And this dude talks in Surfer Slang, bra.]]

* [[Swallowed Whole]]: Most of Chapter 3 takes place inside [[Womb Level|the belly of a giant manatee]]. Some of the residents are actually quite content there.

{{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!]]}}

* [[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".

** 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.

* [[To Be Continued]]: Appears at the end of Chapters 1-4, with each one describing the title of the next chapter.

{{spoiler|1='''LeChuck:''' [[Ironic Echo|Unholy THIS!]] ''*stabs Guybrush with the Cutlass of Kaflu*''}} }}

* [[Villain Opening Scene]]: This game starts out with LeChuck and his captive Elaine near the Rock of Gelato at the very beginning of Chapter 1, all on [[It Was a Dark And Stormy Night|a dark and stormy night]].

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

{{quote| [[spoiler:'''LeChuck:''' I know you've developed feelings for me... [[Unholy Matrimony|join me as my demon bride]] and together we'll lay a bloody siege to the very heart of voodoo itself! <br />

* [[Wham Episode]]: ''The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'': {{spoiler|1=[[Bounty Hunter|/ dies]], [[The Chessmaster|The Voodoo Lady may or may not have been responsible for everything that happened in the series]] and LeFlay reveals his [[Heel Face Turn]] to be a ruse, reabsorbs his voodoo powers and ''[[Our Hero Is Dead|kills Guybrush]]''! Oh, and after he returns to his demon form, he's [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|voiced by Earl Boen!]]}}

** {{spoiler|1=The body count: Guybrush Threepwood, Morgan LeChuck, the Marquis De Singe, Davey Nipperkin (off-screen), and even the Pyrite Parrot of Petaluma! This episode also verifies that LeFlay didn't survive Episode 2. The only deaths described outside this episode are Noogie (died off-screen by the end of Episode 3) and the three pirates who tried to mug McGillicutty back in episode 2 (you meet them again in the land of the dead).}}

** Although it should be noted that {{spoiler|1=LeChuck was the one who killed Morgan, after which he cleared Guybrush's name and was himself imprisoned, and he breaks out again later to meet up with Guybrush and Elaine at the Wind Control Device. Also, Guybrush later discovers a hole in the wall of the Voodoo Lady's cell that she used to escape LeChuck. They both had the means to get to Morgan's body, we just don't know which one or why.}}

** Two other "mice" that don't get resolution are a weird machine in the Voodoo Lady's shack in episode 1 (Guybrush even mentions it among other stuff in there he hadn't had a chance to use yet in episode 4) and {{spoiler|Guybrush's poxed hand}}, though the commentaries explain a bit about that one: {{spoiler|they had it skitter off into the woods because they didn't want to show it become a non-living severed hand when La Esponja reabsorbed the pox}}, and they point out that {{spoiler|eagle-eyed players will see it in the Voodoo Lady's possession during the final stinger}}.

'''[[Chekhov's Boomerang|Pyrite Parrot]]:''' *Squawk* It's me, Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate!<br />

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

* [[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.}}

* [[Word Schmord]]: Appears a few times in a few conversations in Chapters 1 and 5.

* [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]LeFlay[[Hulking Out]]: Try to reason with those infected with the Pox of / who can't get their way, and they will turn green and [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon|make silly death threats against you to scare you]]. {{spoiler|This is what happens to Guybrush when he can't get his way, with one example being in Chapter 3, when he only wants a vote from Bugeye, and the scene that follows turns into a [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]!}}

* [[You're Cute When You're Angry]]: In the LeChuck version of Chapter 2, when Guybrush gets Morgan PS3 angry by repeatedly checking out the mast while battling her on the Screaming Narwhal, one of the bronze trophies that the player is awarded is "She's Cute When She's Angry".

{{quote| '''Guybrush:''' You're mad! Mad, I say!}}

* [[Your Mom]]: Guybrush has a rather ingenious one near the end of episode 2:

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