History VideoGame / TalesOfMonkeyIsland

* TimeMaster: [[spoiler:[=LeChuck=] near the end of Chapter 5. When he sees the Vaycaylian warriors throwing their [[ProngsOfPoseidon javelins]] at him at Winslow's order, the villain uses his voodoo power to make [[TimeStandsStill Time Stand Still]] for those outside of [=LeChuck=]'s ship, making the entirety of the ship seem more like a parody of YearInsideHourOutside. Strangely enough, the Crossroads (and Morgan [=LeFlay=] for that matter) don't seem to be affected by the voodoo time freeze.]]

* [[IAteWhat I Drank What?]]: Downplayed a bit: In Chapter 3, Moose drinks the manatee ichor (kind of a bloodlike fluid or discharge) and, surprisingly, it doesn't sicken Moose at all ([[{{Squick}} though Guybrush and Morgan do seem kind of grossed out by it]]). He even tells Guybrush that the orange ichor (which has "a bubbly effervescence with a tangy palette") has been pure and unfiltered since he got hooked on it when he and the other crew members of De Cava landed in the [[WombLevel belly of the manatee]]. Moose adds that the other ichor, the yellow bile, is acidic and hazardous to the digestive system when drunk. Since De Cava only likes the orange ichor, Guybrush can trick him into drinking disguised yellow bile to imitate his painful facial expression in a Pirate Face-Off.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Especially Jacques the Electromagnetic Monkey and the Monkeys of Montevideo, the latter of which are good for laughs in one Chapter 3 {{cutscene}}.

Not to be confused with the early 80s adventure series ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey''.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Throughout the entire game, the Marquis De Singe (and Joaquin D'Oro) pronounces his own name as "''deh SANJ''" (with the short "a" sound in "apple"), and the Voodoo Lady and Hemlock [=McGee=] pronounce the name as "''day SAHNJ''" (with the "a" pronunciation in "father"). Guybrush and Morgan [=LeFlay=], on the other hand, pronounce De Singe's name poorly, coming out only as "''deh SIHNJ''", like the word "''SIHN-jee''" without the "ee", or like the English word "singe". It's possible this may have been them pulling a MaliciousMisnaming with him, though. The correct pronunciation, incidentally, is how he says it himself, and it means "of Monkey" (not "of the Monkey", that would be "du Singe") in French.
** ''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''".
** Also, ''Rise of the Pirate God'' lampshades the pronunciation of Guybrush's name as a [[MaliciousMisnaming way of showing disrespect for him]].
-->'''Galeb:''' Don't worry, Carniferouswood--
-->'''Guybrush:''' Oh, come on, that doesn't even sound like "Threepwood."

** An optional piece of dialogue with Hemlock McGee reveals to you that the Vaycaylians have a thousand different words for "wind", but none for "man" or "woman".

** 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 [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar doesn't have the necessary... slots]]."

--> '''Guybrush:''' Would you mind releasing my wife? [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar She gets a little cranky when she's tied up for more than an hour or so.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Would you mind releasing my wife? She gets a little cranky when she's tied up for more than an hour or so."
** When Elaine is begging Guybrush to join forces with human [=LeChuck=] one of her lines is "[[LampshadedDoubleEntendre I'll make it worth your while...]]"
** DoubleEntendre: 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 [[TheTalk listening to bees and birds and boars]] for THIS Mighty Pirate™!") to [[spoiler:[=LeChuck=] attempting to have La Esponja Grande and Elaine all to himself after killing Guybrush]] ("But I be willin' to share my booty, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre 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:[=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!

* TalkingInYourSleep: In Chapter 3, while Guybrush is performing first aid on Morgan to wake her up, we hear her mumble, while she's unconscious: "[[AndThisIsFor THIS is for JUGBENDER!]]" and "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Gomez... not on the carpet!]]"

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: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 [[HeroKiller [=LeChuck=] has to go and kill them both]] in Chapter 4: first sending the latter (Guybrush) on a case of MistakenForMurderer, and later turning his act of triumph into a stunning, tragic TearJerker. (Thankfully, he gets better in Chapter 5.)]]

** [[spoiler: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 [[ReleasedToElsewhere "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.]]

* BroadStrokes: While the game does [[ContinuityNod bring up]] prior games in some way, the references are usually vague to keep the game and its setting standalone, but also may have been done to allow the game to ignore controversial plot points and elements from prior games. The fact that the game takes place after an [[{{Uninstallment}} unseen fifth game]] (the events of which are alluded to [[NoodleIncident vaguely]]) adds to this effect.

* BroadStrokes: While the game does [[ContinuityNod bring up]] prior games in some way, the references are usually vague or small-scale, to keep the game and its setting standalone, but also may have been done to allow the game to ignore controversial plot points and elements from prior games. The fact that the game takes place after an [[{{Uninstallment}} unseen fifth game]] (the events of which are alluded to [[NoodleIncident vaguely]]) adds to this effect.

* GenreSavvy: Other than Guybrush, we have Coronado De Cava, who also seems to understand that his world works in puzzles. The man appreciates the quality of good rubber tree.

* HellOnEarth[=/=]VillainWorld: [[spoiler:More like "Hell on the Caribbean" in Chapter 5, since [=LeChuck=] has regained his voodoo powers after killing Guybrush (see HeroKiller below) and has captured Elaine. And since Guybrush isn't around to stop him, the villain not only pillages and plunders the islands in the Gulf of Melange, but he also destroys Spinner Cay, damages Flotsam (where Guybrush has fallen, though his decaying body survives intact in Club 41), slaughters many people and some Vaycaylians (and a few animal species), and sets fire to many islands, creating his own villain world that is right between [[ApocalypseHow Class 0 and Class 1]]. ([[FromBadToWorse It gets a bit worse]] when [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the Crossroads are opened]], and he becomes a [[AGodAmI Demon Pirate God]].) Thankfully, [[NoOntologicalInertia the entire Gulf of Melange starts getting better]] once Guybrush comes BackFromTheDead and destroys him once and for all.]]

** [[spoiler:And in Chapter 5, when Guybrush (as a GhostPirate) 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 [[AGodAmI 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 [[InhumanHuman 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.]]

* BondVillainStupidity: Zigzagged. The main villain of Chapter 5 gloats that he is [[AGodAmI too powerful to be beaten]], but encourages Guybrush to waste his time trying anyways. [[spoiler:By the end of the chapter, [=LeChuck=] basically states that he's learned from his mistakes and begins trying to kill Guybrush in a more direct manner.]]

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry[=/=]HulkingOut: Try to reason with those infected with the Pox of [=LeChuck=] who can't get their way, and they will turn green and [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon 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.

''Tales of Monkey Island'' is a 2009 video game, developed by Creator/TelltaleGames. It is a five-part episodic game and the fifth in the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series. The game begins at the conclusion of Guybrush's latest, [[NoodleIncident unseen]] adventure - the player guides him as he once again defeats [=LeChuck=] with an improvised piece of voodoo weaponry, only to turn the villain human again, release his concentrated evil as "The Pox of [=LeChuck=]" (which infects Guybrush's own hand) and maroon himself on Flotsam Island. All in the first chapter!

* AluminumChristmasTrees: A weird example to be sure - if you examine Morgan's flyer in Chapter 1, Guybrush will reveal that he has a third nipple. Though this sounds like it could easily fit amongst all of Guybrush's other impossibly cartoony traits, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_nipple third nipples are actually pretty common, especially with men.]]

** WordOfGod says that even after [[spoiler:Reginald Van Winslow falls in love with the female-ish Anemone, "her" gender is supposed to be a mystery - ''including to him''.]]

** 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]].
* BackwardsFiringGun: Guybrush inserts a glass tube in the [[{{Pun}} shape of the letter 'U']] into an antagonist's gun, causing it to fire backwards.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: It takes losing a hand, thwarting a pirate siege, being eaten alive by a manatee, [[spoiler:losing several allies including Morgan [=LeFlay=], seeing his wife turned into [=LeChuck's=] demon bride]], and [[spoiler:dying, coming back as a zombie, and seemingly sacrificing his only chance at returning to life]] - but [[spoiler:Guybrush manages to defeat [=LeChuck=] once and for all, cure the Pox, thwart the Marquis de Singe, and return to life with his loving wife.]]

* ElectricInstantGratification: 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!"

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

-->'''Guybrush:''' If you did anything to hurt Elaine while I was gone, I swear I'll--
-->'''[=LeChuck=]:''' The only thing I did to Elaine was to pull her from the freezing water along with a bunch of wet, screaming monkeys!
-->'''Guybrush:''' ''[smiles]'' Actually, that kinda sounds like our honeymoon!

* MeaningfulName: The Fugu Jolokia above takes its name from the Bhut Jolokia, an actual pepper, and fugu, the Japanese pufferfish - which is ''poisonous''.

-->'''Guybrush:''' Sooo... you say you're human now, huh? Well, ''[snaps his finger]'' let's just see what happens when I ...PULL OFF YOUR MASK!! ''[jumps at [=LeChuck=]'s face]''\\
'''[=LeChuck=]:''' Owwch!! Guybrush, stop that! ''[pushes him off]''\\
'''Guybrush:''' ''[understands]'' Huh. Okay... maybe you are human. I still don't like you.\\

* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Lampshaded in Chapter 4, with one of the souvenir pins reading, "Trial of the Century II - Electric Voodooloo".

-->'''Hemlock:''' Four words - The. Marquis. De. Singe.

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

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler:Guybrush in Chapter 5. His entire corpse is standing on display wearing a [[NiceHat party hat]] and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments holding a dartboard]] during a wake in Club 41 when Bugeye and W.P. Grindstump are considering [[DueToTheDead burning the corpse in effigy]]; Guybrush eventually [[InhumanHuman repossesses his own decaying corpse]], though.]]

* LastKiss: It may or may not be a trope in Chapter 4, but at the end of the chapter, [[spoiler:as Elaine holds a dying Guybrush in her arms, after he utters out his last words, "Kick [[=LeChuck=]'s] two-faced butt for me..." she is [[TearJerker on the verge of tears]] as she promises, "From Melee to Monkey and all the islands in between, my love," and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments 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.]]

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry[=/=]HulkingOut: Try to reason with those infected with the Pox of [=LeChuck=] who can't get their way, and they will turn green and [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon 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 SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome!]]

** The Crossroads thief actually encourages you to pull this on him. Guybrush doesn't have to finish a sentence before the thief pretends to be fooled long enough for Guybrush to steal something. It is a sort of thief paradise, after all.

* [[IAteWhat I Drank What?]]: Downplayed a bit: In Chapter 3, Moose drinks the manatee ichor (kind of a bloodlike fluid or discharge) and, surprisingly, it doesn't sicken Moose at all ([[{{Squick}} though Guybrush and Morgan do seem kind of grossed out by it]]). He even tells Guybrush that the orange ichor (which has "a bubbly effervescence with a tangy palette") has been pure and unfiltered since he got hooked on it when he and the other crew members of De Cava landed in the [[WombLevel belly of the manatee]]. Moose adds that the other ichor, the yellow bile, is acidic and hazardous to the digestive system when drunk. Since De Cava only likes the orange ichor, Guybrush can trick him into drinking the yellow bile served on a mug for one of the key expressions in a Pirate Face-Off.

* ShrineToTheFallen: In Chapter 5, [[spoiler:Club 41 becomes a shrine to Guybrush, whose MartyrdomCulture is due to his {{Heroic|Sacrifice}} (or rather {{Stupid|Sacrifice}}) Sacrifice for saving the entire Gulf of Melange from the [[HatePlague Pox of [=LeChuck=]]]. The Club even has barrels of Grog, [[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Banang]], and root beer, along with votive candles, Guybrush's commemorative photo, and a wreath to be used as kindling next to [[DeadGuyOnDisplay Guybrush's corpse]] [[DueToTheDead for cremation]]... unless his [[GhostPirate spirit]] can repossess his body in time, that is.]]

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:The entire Gulf of Melange in Chapter 5, right between ApocalypseHow/{{Class 0}} and ApocalypseHow/{{Class 1}}, and bordering on ApocalypseHow/Class3A. And it seems that the Caribbean just isn't pretty much the same since [[BigBad LeChuck]] regained his voodoo powers and [[HeroKiller killed Guybrush]].]]

** In Episode 5, [[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Banang]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2vrd7g1AK8 makes a brief comeback.]]

** When you inexplicably have to roll some cheese against a rock Guybrush does a {{Wallace|AndGromit}} impression (Telltale also released an episodic adventure series based on WallaceAndGromit).

** Morgan's payment for betraying Guybrush and delivering him to De Singe is thirty silver dubloons. [[TheBible Judas]] received the same payment for his betrayal.

** [[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 TheLongList of ingredients found in Grog in ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland''.

Not to be confused with the early 80s adventure series ''TalesOfTheGoldMonkey''.