History VideoGame / TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland

** After receiving sword-fighting lessons from Captain Smirk, Guybrush says, "I can't help but feel like I've been ripped off," then [[AsideGlance turns towards the screen]] and continues, "[[TakeThatUs I'm sure you're feeling something similar.]]" On the other hand...

'''Guybrush:''' [[TakeThatUs Never pay more than 20 bucks]] for [[BreakingTheFourthWall a computer game]].\\

Part IV: ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Guybrush Kicks Butt]]''

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Probably unintentional, but still. Freedivers actually capable to hold their breath for about 10 minutes, so Guybrush is really just very skilled in this.

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* PlayerCrueltyPotential: After getting your hands on the root beer on Monkey Island, you have the opportunity to use it to destroy Bob. While he ''is'' apparently [=LeChuck=]'s right-hand man, he also happens to be a MinionWithAnFInEvil who was PressGanged and murdered into undeath. Guybrush breaks his promise to spare him in exchange for information, so offing him is more than a little cruel.

* PlayerCrueltyPotential: After getting your hands on the root beer on Monkey Island, you have the opportunity to use it to destroy Bob. While he ''is'' apparently [=LeChuck=]'s right-hand man, he also happens to be a MinionWithAnFInEvil who was PressGanged and murdered into undeath, so offing him can seem a little cruel.

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** Guybrush's crew getting stranded and captured by the cannibals is played for laughs

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The very first character you meet in the game is Mêlée Island's lookout... who's half-blind.

** Guybrush Threepwood and... almost everyone else. Although you do get the occasional [=LeChuck=], Herman Toothrot, or Mancomb Seepgood.

* HeroicComedicSociopath: Some mild examples compared to the sequel; Guybrush's crew getting stranded and captured by the cannibals is played for laughs and Guybrush can kill Bob with root beer when Bob [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]], right after Guybrush promises him not to in exchange for information.

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* CannibalClan: The Monkey Island cannibals. They're very civil. Their leader doesn't even really seem to ''want'' to eat you. In ''Curse'', Lemonhead reveals they went vegetarian shortly after Guybrush left the island.

** As you may repeatedly brag in dialogue options, Guybrush can hold his breath for ten minutes. Failing to solve the underwater idol puzzle during that time provides the game's only actual death. While there's no message or prompt to reload, after Guybrush drowns, the verb menu changes from Walk to, Look at, and so on, to Float, Bloat, Decompose, and to drive the point home, Buy Hint Book. You can watch the whole ten-minute ordeal (with music and a Sierra-style death message added by the uploader) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMq762wbQS8 here]].

* LostInTranslation: Not as a bad as the infamous Monkey wrench, but the book "How to Get Ahead in Navigating" taken by the cannibals in exchange for their navigator's head also has its translation problems in other languages. Also, the idiom "Red Herring", whose meaning is necessary to know in order to advance, doesn't mean anything in other languages. Fortunately, it happens early enough on the game that you're bound to have very few items with you, and you already know you have to GIVE something, so at most you only have to try a few times.

* UpdatedRerelease: Originally released on PC EGA (16 colors) in October 1990. It was released on VGA (256 colors) later in December. The 1992 CD-ROM version improved all of the audio, added new ambient tracks, and overhauled the HUD compared to the original floppy disk versions, using the purple theme of the sequel and displaying icons instead of the name of the objects

* UpdatedRerelease: ''The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition'', which doesn't just recreate the game -- it ''is'' the game, with a new interface, graphics and voice acting built on top of the original SCUMM code. Before that, there was the CD-ROM version, which improved all of the audio, added new ambient tracks, and overhauled the HUD compared to the original floppy disk versions.

Way later in 2009, Creator/LucasArts got back in the AdventureGame business (finally redeeming themselves in the eyes of adventure fans) by remaking the game, complete with voice acting by the cast of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''.

** In the demo version of the game, Guybrush has the option to call one of the pirates in the SCUMM Bar a "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons kwyjibo]]."

* LostWoods: TheMaze on Mélee Island™ is one, and both the treasure of Mélee Island™ and the Swordmaster are hidden in it.

* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: Parodied through [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in the underwater sequence. [[spoiler: [=LeChuck=] ties a heavy statue to Guybrush's leg by rope, and throws him into the ocean. He is dragged down to the ocean floor, only to find that it is practically ''littered'' with sharp objects with which he might cut the rope]] -- except they are ''all'' just out of reach. [[spoiler: If you wait long enough, two pirates will also come along and one will talk about how he just comitted a felony and how he'd better ditch the knife he used to do it, by throwing it in the water. Ultimately though, he'll decide to hold on to it after all.]]

* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: Parodied through [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in the underwater sequence. [[spoiler: [=LeChuck=] ties a heavy statue to Guybrush's leg by rope, and throws him into the ocean. He is dragged down to the ocean floor, only to find that it is practically ''littered'' with sharp objects with which he might cut the rope]] -- except they are ''all'' just out of reach. If you wait long enough, two pirates will also come along and one will talk about how he just comitted a felony and how he'd better ditch the knife he used to do it, by throwing it in the water. Ultimately though, he'll decide to hold on to it after all.

* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: Parodied through [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in the underwater sequence. [[spoiler: [=LeChuck=] ties a heavy statue to Guybrush's leg by rope, and throws him into the ocean. He is dragged down to the ocean floor, only to find that it is practically ''littered'' with sharp objects with which he might cut the rope]] -- except they are ''all'' just out of reach.

** The Grog machine is a Coca-Cola vending machine, red with a white stripe, just with "Grog" in place of "Coke".

* CuttingTheKnot: The glorious underwater idol puzzle. Several sharp objects that could free Guybrush are just out of reach. If you wait long enough, two guys walk onto the pier, lengthily debate tossing a sword into the ocean directly over your head... [[HopeSpot then decide against it and walk off again]]. Then in a unique instance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMq762wbQS8 Guybrush dies for real]].

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