History YMMV / MonkeyIsland

** Though since the fun in adventure games is found in solving the puzzles, and you miss the entirety of the plot, there's not much purpose unless you want to hear the typically [[AwesomeMusic kickass credits music]] again.

* BrokenBase: Oh God. The Monkey Island fanbase is notorious for being split, particularly [[SeriousBusiness for fans of a bunch of silly pirate games]]. Some believe that the series began and ended with Ron Gilbert, and everything from Curse onwards is a monstrosity with stupid cartoony graphics, abandoning the "funny characters in a serious plot" feel. Then we have those who came in with Curse, and believe the first two games to be quaint, and that they suffer from a lack of Dominic Armato's voice acting and Bill Tiller's beautiful art direction. On top of this, there are those who think Curse and Tales are brilliant games, just as good as the first two, but that they are still not "true" sequels, because they don't explain the ending as it was meant to be. The release of Tales has made another group rather prevalent, who like the first three but detest any others purely due to not being 2D and having keyboard controls. And then, finally, we have a rather "obscure" little group who doesn't care about these details, but likes ''all'' of the Monkey Island titles. (The only thing that the fandom ''does'' seem to agree on is that Escape is the weakest, but even that isn't universal.)

** The Barbary Coast crew. When hiring them in 'Curse Of Monkey Island', they refuse to go with you unless you can convince their two cohorts to go along too. Not only that, but they even have a song they like to sing together. Not only THAT, but when you arrive on Blood Island, Haggis McMutton reveals that they've talked it over and prefer a simple life of being pirate barbers, instead of pirates.
** Minnie "Stroni" Goodsoup and Charles DeGoulash getting together again after years

** Either this or HarsherInHindsight: The series started out being based on the original Disney ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' ride. Disney now owns LucasFilm, and thus the rights to the ''Monkey Island'' franchise.
*** The Voodoo Lady's 'unbreakable five game contract'. Monkey Island was licensed to Telltale just for Tales and the Special Editions, afterwards it reverted to Lucasarts, who are now owned by Disney, who are unlikely to ever make any more VideoGame/MonkeyIsland games. So it turns out that making the fifth game in time was a real stroke of luck.

* MoralEventHorizon: [=LeChuck=] actually has many to his name, apparently, but in ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' [[spoiler: murdering Guybrush after pretending to be on his side for four episodes]] is considered his most heinous and evil action.

** The similarities between the plot of the first game and ''Film/PiratesOfTheCarribeanCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' are actually fairly similar. ''Monkey Island'' fans noticed this pretty much straight away, especially noting a CastOfExpies. And then, Disney acquired Lucasfilm.

* Heartwarming: Stan. Just... Stan. The guy is essentially the world's most inept con-man but he's always happy, no matter what he's trying to sell you, or how many times you screw him over. This includes trapping him in a coffin for several months, and then later committing insurance fraud to get rich and bankrupt him, both within hte same game. Yet he's always happy to see you. He may just see you as another sucker, but in a world of piracy and evil voodoo magic, the fact that he is at least pretending to be nice is actually quite refreshing.
Hell, he even THANKS YOU for trapping him in that coffin. because he feels you were the catalyst that gave him the idea for a new line of work by leaving him in there for so long.

* MemeticMutation: "I found the treasure of Mêlée Island and all I got was this stupid T-shirt."

** Most of Murray's dialogue.

* AwesomeEgo: Murray is the epitome of the trope SmallNameBigEgo, but the sheer hilarity of his boasting and his [[LargeHam hammines]] make his SO much fun that fans love him for it.

** Either this or HarsherInHindsight: The series started out being based on the original Disney PiratesOfTheCaribbean ride. Disney now owns LucasFilm, and thus the rights to the Monkey Island franchise.

** Techincally, this is a {{Telltale|Games}} adventure game.

*** The Voodoo Lady's 'unbreakable five game contract'. Monkey Island was licensed to Telltale just for Tales and the Special Editions, afterwards it reverted to Lucasarts, who are now owned by Disney, who are unlikely to ever make any more MonkeyIsland games. So it turns out that making the fifth game in time was a real stroke of luck.

* MemeticSexGod: Reginald Van Winslow. Being the most sexually active character in a game series will do that. Being attracted to anyone regardless of gender or species helps too.

* FanDumb: Due to the love the Monkey Island series gets, there are just as many (perhaps even more) Misplaced Champions in the fandumb as there are general whiners.

*** [[spoiler:But you can't die in Telltale games, either... can you?]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/MonkeyIsland Seen here.]]

** Initially [[AvertedTrope averted]] in that the first game plays him semi-seriously, but the second game makes him [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terrifying.]]

* TheWoobie: Poor Wally. Poor, easy to torture Wally.

** And Reginald Van Winslow. He's so popular he got to appear in ''PokerNightAtTheInventory''.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[CrowningMusic/MonkeyIsland Seen here.]]

** Techincally, this is a [[TelltaleGames Telltale]] adventure game.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in ''[=LeChuck=]'s Revenge'', Guybrush asks [=LeChuck=] [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim why he didn't just kill him when he came in]], and [=LeChuck=] replies, [[MediumAwareness "Because we had an extra disk."]] In ''Tales'', [[spoiler:[=LeChuck=] actually ''does'' go right ahead and kill Guybrush without the formalities. This occurs at the end of the fourth chapter of a five-chapter series, each of which comes on a separate CD in the PC version... in other words, we ''did'' have an extra disk.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [=LeChuck=] actually has many to his name, apparently, but in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' [[spoiler: murdering Guybrush after pretending to be on his side for four episodes]] is considered his most heinous and evil action.