List of Monkey Island topics
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The following is a list of famous items and things related to LucasArts' series of Monkey Island adventure games.
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[edit] Rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle
This famous inventory item was first featured in The Secret of Monkey Island. It was used as a means of transport between Mêlée Island and Hook Island, which were connected by a cable. This item was later turned into a running gag in the games' fan community. The item also appears in Escape from Monkey Island, wherein Guybrush briefly finds the item in Grandpa Marley's heirlooms and is given another (or the same one) by his future self in the Mystes O' Tyme Marshe. The rubber chicken also appears in another Lucasarts game, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, activated with a certain cheat code.
[edit] The Sea Monkey
The Sea Monkey is the boat in which Herman Toothrot and his friend journeyed to Monkey Island. After Herman's friend accidentally hanged himself while setting up a swing, Herman trained a crew of monkeys to sail back to Mêlée island to get help. However, the ship landed up in the (fast) hands of Stan. In The Secret of Monkey Island, the player buys the ship and may also sink it to get an alternative ending to the game (which, in light of the fourth game, is now considered canon).
[edit] Big Whoop
Big Whoop was supposedly the greatest of pirate treasures. In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Guybrush Threepwood sets off to find the map that will lead him to Big Whoop. Exactly what Big Whoop is and where exactly it is located are never decisively explained. In The Curse of Monkey Island, LeChuck explains that Big Whoop is a gateway to Hell located on Monkey Island; when LeChuck passed through it, he became a ghost. Big Whoop is also the name of the Carnival of the Damned where Guybrush was trapped between MI2 and Curse of Monkey Island. It may mean that the carnival is the gate to hell, called Big Whoop.
The name of the carnival itself is likely a reference to the fact that, although legends speak of it as the greatest of all pirate treasures, the secret of Big Whoop proves to be... hellishly disappointing. This probably bears a relation to the phrase "big whoop", a sarcastic remark about making much ado about nothing.
[edit] The Ultimate Insult
The Ultimate Insult is a Voodoo talisman that can dissolve the egos of even the mightiest pirates, turning them into cowards. The talisman flings insults spoken in ancient forgotten language (the root-language or Monkey Jabber), insults which are so vile that they are capable of breaking the very soul of the victim. The Ultimate Insult is formed from three parts of which one looks like a golden man, the second like a silver monkey-head and the third like a bronze hat. In MI4, Herman Toothrot reveals there is a hidden fourth part to the Ultimate Insult, the Gubernatorial Seal of Melee Island. Also in Escape from Monkey Island, Ozzie Mandrill is seeking the Insult in an attempt to gentrify the pirate-infested Caribbean.
[edit] Grog
Grog is mentioned multiple times as a pirate's choice of drink. The Monkey Island version of grog is acidic enough to dissolve a pewter mug and solid metal bars, and is also sold in bottles through Coca-Cola-style vending machines. According to the Important-Looking Pirates in the first game, grog contains one or more of the following:
- kerosene
- propylene glycol
- artificial sweeteners
- red dye no2
- rum
- acetone
- battery acid
- scumm
- axle grease
- and/or pepperoni.
[edit] Insult Games
Various contests incorporating insults are common in the Monkey Island games. In general, the players engage in some duel such as swordfighting or armwrestling, and fling insults at each other. In order to win, the player must respond to opponents' jabs with the correct counter-insult. (Insult swordfighting in SMI is the origin of the recurring quote "How appropriate, you fight like a cow." It is the counter-insult to the less famous "You fight like a dairy farmer.") In both SMI and CMI, the player has to learn the correct responses to a number of insults, but later must learn to match these counter-insults to a new set of insults. In CMI, swordfighting while at sea involves rhyming insults. In EMI, Guybrush must win a match of Insult armwrestling against Ignatius Cheese to recruit him for his pirate crew: In this instance the player does not need to learn insults and comebacks, as they are supplied for the single match. Guybrush can also Insult Swordfight Ozzie Mandrill later on in the game, but can seemingly never beat him, due to his confusing and unfair use of Australian slang.
[edit] Monkey Kombat
An ancient sport simulating combat once practiced by the monkey tribes of Monkey Island, featured in Escape from Monkey Island. The combat works with similar principles of Rock, Paper, Scissors where combatant move from one battle stance to another in order to beat each other, and each battle stance beats two other, and is beaten by two others. To move from one stance to another combatants must use the correct combinations of the four basic monkey-words: eek, oop, ack and chee. Repeating the same word thrice allows the combatant to remain in his current pose. In the game, which insults correspond to which stances and the order of stance precedence is randomized in every game. It appears to parody well known fighting games such as Mortal Kombat.
Battle stances:
- Anxious Ape
- Bobbing Baboon
- Gimpy Gibbon
- Charging Chimp
- Drunken Monkey
| Games: | The Secret of Monkey Island | LeChuck's Revenge | The Curse of Monkey Island | Escape from Monkey Island |
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| Characters: | Guybrush Threepwood | Elaine Marley | LeChuck | Ozzie Mandrill | Herman Toothrot | Voodoo Lady | Stan | Minor Characters |
| Islands: | Blood | Booty | Dinky | Jambalaya | Lucre | Mêlée | Monkey | Phatt | Plunder | Scabb | Skull |
| Various: | SCUMM | GrimE | iMuse | Insult swordfighting | List of Monkey Island topics |
