Tales of Monkey Island: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].}}

* [[J'accuse!]]: Spoken by Guybrush {{spoiler|while showing Jacques the Monkey to the court during Hemlock's case}} in Chapter 4.

 

** {{spoiler|1=Also, Noogie in Chapter 3. He is so [[Adorkable]] when he plays the bongos and has a date with Morgan LeFlay despite his glasses. After the betrayal, capture, and interrogation, however, Noogie disappears. Guybrush can ask Bugeye what happened to Noogie during the ship battle for La Esponja Grande, and Bugeye can reply that Noogie [[Released to Elsewhere|"went to a quiet farm upstate"]], meaning, of course, that he is killed off-screen. You can even find his grave in the afterlife in Episode 5. Poor Noogie.}}

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: {{spoiler|1=LeChuck at the end of episode 4. Rather than try to kill Guybrush with some ridiculously convoluted scheme such as turning him into a chair or shrinking him, he just [[Combat Pragmatist|walks up and stabs him]]. It's also something of a weird [[Moral Event Horizon]], because it looks like the over-the-top, almost endearing LeChuck from the first four games is now gone for good.}}

** 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}}.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: LeChuck's stupidity about the clam shell puzzle in Chapter 2 might have been this in retrospect.

* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: Lampshaded in Chapter 4, with one of the souvenir pins reading, "Trial of the Century II - Electric Voodooloo".

* [[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!"

* [[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.'"

* [[Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?]]: In the [[Play Station 3]] version, one of the bronze trophies obtained in Chapter 1 (when Guybrush sees the effects of the Pox of LeChuck on the inhabitants) is labeled, "Is That a Pox on Your Face, or Are You Just Angry to See Me?"

*** Speaking of [[Play Station 3]] trophies, there are a few trophies that are shout-outs too ("What's in a Name?" from the balcony scene of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (II.ii), and "Adieu, Adieu..." which is a reference to Hamlet's father's written line, "Adieu, adieu, remember me," from ''Hamlet'' (I.v)).

*** 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).

* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: Parodied in Chapter 1: After Guybrush has rearranged the mysterious wind idol near the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device, De Singe arrives with a rifle and demands that Guybrush surrender his Poxed hand. A brief period of staring silence follows, complete with close-ups of both Guybrush's and De Singe's faces in a style parody of ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'' before the former breaks the silence with "Make me!", and the latter pulls out the rifle and shoots him sky-high. Of course, Guybrush is still alive when he lands on the ground and gets up.

* [[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''.

* [[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!"

* [[Stripped to the Bone]]: {{spoiler|1=Parodied in Chapter 5, when, [[Intangible Man|after Guybrush fails to take the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu]], LeChuck shows him what it feels to be a ghost with a vulnerability to [[Hollywood Acid|root beer]]; and Elaine, under the villain's influence as his [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|demon bride]], sprays root beer on Guybrush, making him scream and dissolving his transparent form, [[Nightmare Fuel|revealing a skeleton underneath that crumbles into nothingness]]. Thankfully, he rematerializes back at the Crossroads Center.}}

* [[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]]".}}

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

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

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

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

* [[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, too.]]}}

'''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.]]"

* [[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".

* [[You're Insane!]]: One of the topics in Chapter 2 has this {{spoiler|when [[Complete Monster|McGillicutty]] plans to destroy La Esponja Grande in order for him to remain Poxed along with his crew forever}}:

'''Guybrush (as witness):''' I was on a date - with your wife! ''(cue Guybrush beating himself up)'' }}

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Chapter 4 seems to wrap everything up...until you realize there's a fifth chapter. It involves {{spoiler|getting killed and wandering around the afterlife which includes several rehashed elements disguised as portals. Naturally, you have to enter the real world, return to your body and face the [[Big Bad]] again at the end.}}

 

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