The Curse of Monkey Island: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''I've sailed the seas from Trinidad to Tortuga and I've never seen anything like it! The engagement ring I gave Elaine has a terrible pirate curse on it. LeChuck is behind it, I'm sure. I should have known that nothing good could come out of that evil zombie's treasures. And if that's not bad enough, the clairvoyant I met in the mangrove swamp told me that if I am to break the curse and save Elaine, [[Tonight Someone Dies|I will have to die]]!''|Excerpted from ''The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The [[Monkey Island (series)|Monkey Island]] Years''}}

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* [[Action Girl]]: Elaine Marley is definitely one, if her [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]] moment below is anything to go by.

* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: ''The Carnival of the Damned''

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Averted. Bloodnose the Pirate tries to play himself off as this, but he's utterly pathetic. That said he ''does'' have a gun, forcing you to talk him into defeat.

** Guybrush begins the game with only one item in your inventory: a pair of helium filled balloons. Presumably these are the same balloons acquired in the endgame of [[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]], but everything else from that game has been lost.

** Midway through the second chapter as well: Guybrush gets swallowed by a snake, and has to collect a wide variety of items inside the snake's belly before finding one that'll help him escape... after which the snake vomits Guybrush into a quicksand pit, which sucks almost all of Guybrush's recently discovered loot right through his pants.

** Added bonus for A) Firing from the fort which was a good 50 meters away. B) Using a musket (Though not really an option) which are notorious for their poor accuracy at range. And C) [[Smoking Barrel Blowout|Blowing out the smoke from the barrel.]]

* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Wally and Elaine.

** In Part II, even though it's always daytime in Puerto Pollo, the clock tower at the Long John Silver Center for the Performing Arts is a real-time system clock that is built in for your computer, telling you at what time you played the game and keeping track of your current, local civil time. At each hour, the clock chimes in a bit of LeChuck's Theme followed by the chime of the hour number, and about 30 minutes after each hour, the same bit of LeChuck's theme plays, but without the chime of the hour number. Even interesting is that when Guybrush examines the clock tower, he will say what current time will be in the Caribbean Standard Time in hours, minutes and seconds, whether in morning, afternoon and night, [[Mad Libs Dialogue|acting like a speaking clock on the phone at the time of day service]]. Complete with "[[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|Beep]]."

** Also, when Guybrush speaks with Palido Domingo and asks him how long he's been lying in Brimstone Beach trying to get a tan, Palido will tell him he's been there since seven months prior to the current month and date on your computer clock. If you asked him in August, for example, he'll say, "Since January." Ask him in ''January'', however, and he'll not only say, "Since June," but [[New Year Has Come|he will also wish Guybrush a Happy New Year]]! Weird!

* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: This is most of Murray's dialogue.

* [[Dead Man's Hand]]: If Guybrush keeps losing against King André and then looking at the losing hands, one of the random comments he'll make is "Aces and eights... that can't be good."

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The Caber Toss is a contest of how straight the log can be made to fall in relation to the participant ("Twelve O'Clock" being a perfect score) after doing a single flip, rather than sheer distance as Haggis McMutton claims. That Guybrush could defeat Haggis by replacing his own caber with a rubber tree log and causing it to bounce out of frame is fairly banal. Then again Haggis claims he will join Guybrush by virtue of his apparent strength rather than actually being beaten in a fair game.

* [[Dramatic Landfall Shot]]: Played with in the intro movie.

* [[Ear Worm]]: The main theme is this in-universe. It even drove most of the crew of the Obsessive-Compulsivo [[Driven to Suicide|to suicide]].

'''Guybrush:''' What the heck is THAT supposed to mean?

'''André:''' One day... you will understand. }}

* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid]]: The barbeque.

** Also the volcano itself. Apparently it's safe enough to stand precariously above it to toast marshmallows.

* [[Murphy's Bed]]: It had already claimed at least one victim...

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Madame Xima.

** Examining the crack in the Goodsoup crypt causes Guybrush to pop-up from the inaccessable stump of [[The Secret of Monkey Island]] in Melee Island (the one with the often misunderstood joke ''Insert Disk #absurd_number''). The original -now crude by 1997- EGA graphics and SMI-music are used and Guybrush mentions that he feels like he’s been here before, maybe in a dream. Luckily he can't exit to the other side, because he isn't aware that [[Ass Pull|a killing horde is in his way]].

** Interacting ad-nauseam with the beach with the sharks will eventually transport Guybrush to the underwater idol [[Easter Egg]] from ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' in time to watch his own [[Have a Nice Death]] unique [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw_U0XjdlHg moment].

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The cursed ring Guybrush gives to Elaine. Guybrush spends four acts to undo his own action.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Guybrush reveals he has a fear of [[Faux Horrific|porcelain]] (which is something of a running gag throughout the rest of the game) and never explains why other than that it's "a long story".

*** Not so sad, as such speculation ignored Guybrush's neutral reactions to porcelain in Elaine's room in Monkey Island 2.

** What exactly happened between ''LeChuck's Revenge'' and ''Curse''?

* [[Oh God, with the Verbing!]]: If the player doesn't have Guybrush saw off the plank the first time he boards the Sea Cucumber, and then gets walked off the plank, he will climb on board the ship after sawing off the plank and get this exchange after monkeys surround him again:

{{quote|'''Mr. Fossey:''' ''[irritated]'' AGAIN with the sneaking on board the ship! I don't know how or why you came back on board... but the next time you walk the plank will be your last!}}

* [[Pig Latin]]: Cruff to King André: "Ix-nay on the evil an-play."

** This game has pirates roaming the seas and plundering other ships; unlike the previous stories there is not an external force (LeChuck, Largo) scaring the ''grounded'' sailors.

{{quote|You say you're nasty pirates,

Scheming, thieving, bad bushwhackers?

From what I've seen I tell you,

You're not pirates! You're just slackers! }}

** Dread Pirate Bloodnose (also known as Wally B. Feed) "drinks milk straight from the carton!"

** Murray "I will hide your keys beneath the cushions of your upholstered furniture, and NEVERMORE will you be able to find socks that match! "

* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the game before the credits.}}

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: Guybrush is made [[Walk the Plank]] but avoids falling into the sea. Lechimp remarks "That's odd, I didn't hear any ''splash''" . Guybrush quickly reacts and utters a loud ''SPLASH!!'' for reassurance.

** The title of Part 4, "The Bartender, the Thieves, His Aunt, and Her Lover", is a spoof on the film title, ''[[The Cook the Thief His Wife And Her Lover]]''.

** Also, the title of Part 5, "Kiss of the Spider Monkey", is a spoof on the title of Manuel Puig's 1973 novel, ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman]]''.

** The banjo duel is a family friendly [[Homage]] to ''[[Deliverance]]''.

** Guybrush is still [[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure|"selling these fine leather jackets"]]

** [[Alas, Poor Yorick]]: If you try to use Murray, Guybrush will say, "Alas, I can't use Murray with that"

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: [[Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island]]

* [[Taken for Granite]]: Elaine.

* [[Take That]]: This subtle... or maybe not so subtle jab:

'''Lost Welshman''': Well SURE, [[Myst|mist]] is [[Scenery Porn|pretty]]! But EGAD is it dull. }}

* [[Tampering with Food and Drink]]: At one point in the game you are required to drug yourself by mixing hangover medicine with alcohol.

*** Though, really, anyone who skips straight to that line as soon as it pops up [[Comically Missing the Point|just doesn't get the premise of the game]].

** The Spanish (or any other foreign language) version of the game doesn't have the pirate song segment. It skips directly to sea navigation.

* [[Together in Death]]: One of the game's puzzles involves reuniting two dead lovers (a ghost and a skeleton, respectively). When the heartbroken ghost discovers that her lover had never intended to abandon her, their spirits are shown reuniting and then vanishing happily together.

* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: The game really, really wants the player to believe that Guybrush is going to kick the bucket, not only by having the Voodoo Lady tell him he's going to die on Blood Island, but also with the fortune teller, who [[Tarot Troubles|deals him five Death cards]].

[[[Beat]]]

'''Murray:''' What I meant to say was I'd use it to ''pet kittens''.

'''Murray:''' Drat. }}

* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: One of the most important puzzles in the game hinges on the player knowing that alcohol and medicine should '''not''' be mixed under any circumstances. While for most people this is a no-brainer, younger players are a lot less likely to know that this is a bad idea since, you know, ''they don't drink alcohol''.

* [[You're Insane!]]: There is a scene when smuggler King André believes that the Goodsoup Family Diamond and its energy flowing though it is the key to his power, and you can choose this:

{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' You're a madman!

'''André:''' [[Insane Proprietor|I'm not crazy -- my prices are!]] }}

* [[Your Mom]]: One of René Rottingham's rhyming swordfight insults is "Your mother wears a toupee!", to which Guybrush can respond, "Oh, that is so cliché", which is the same response to a pirate's "En garde! Touché!"

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