Headscratchers / The Curse of Monkey Island

• Why was LeChuck planning on proposing to Elaine with a cursed ring that would turn her into a gold statue? He's a dick, sure, but he genuinely does want to marry her, not have a statue of her.
  • Did they ever say he was planning to use that specific ring? If so then perhaps he meant to immobilize Elaine long enough to get her to the gates of Big Whoop where he’d apply the curse cure and then zombify her.
  • As of Return, Guybrush states this is proof that LeChuck doesn't love for Elaine as a person, but as forniture.
• What's the deal with Wally's visual impairment? In Revenge, he only has a monocle on his left eye, and becomes blind upon losing it, but in Curse, he has an eyepatch on his left eye and can see just fine. If his right eye works perfectly, why didn't he just close his left eye in order to see better?
  • Wally is a map maker, meaning he needs to be able to see and draw small details, so it’s possible he’s long sighted, especially in his left eye and uses the monocle for close up work. So the problem isn’t that he’s blind but can’t see enough of the small details to do his work. Not needing to do close up work with small details means he doesn’t need the monocle. Or else he might have some other eye problem that the eye patch helps correct. The best way to treat a lazy eye, is to put a patch on the good eye to make the lazy one work harder, so it could be an attempt to treat that (the fact it doesn’t work on those over 8 might not be known then). Or Wally is just trying to fit in with other pirates.
  • If you select a particular dialog option while Guybrush is talking to Wally, he mentions that Wally is wearing a monocle under his eyepatch.
• If Blondebeard didn't have any chicken, how was he able to serve a value meal to LeChuck? Sure, maybe he used ipecac slaw instead of super slaw, but where did he get the drumsticks?
  • He probably got some back in stock by the time Guybrush made it to Blood Island. It takes more than a few hours to get there, after all.
  • The chickens were probably demoralised after the capture of "El Pollo Diablo".
• Stan somehow knows Guybrush's real name, but doesn't seem to care that Guybrush cashes in his life insurance under a false name. What gives?
  • Stan probably assumed that Guybrush was a pirate pseudonym.
  • Actually, if you read the insurance policy, it's under Guybrush's fake Goodsoup family name, which may tie in with the above point of thinking Guybrush was a pseudonym.
• Forget how Stan got business cards made while in the coffin. He was wearing a black jacket when he was sealed in, and it's blue when he comes out.
  • Guybrush isn't the only person in the world with bottomless pockets. Maybe Stan just keeps a set of spare clothes with him at all times.
  • Cartoon logic. ‘Nuff said.
  • As for Stan making business cards, Stan is the kind of guy to be carrying around business cards all the time. He might have just repurposed some he already had on him.
• For it being such a famous tourist attraction Guybrush sure has to go to a hell of a lot of trouble to find out how to get to Blood Island, and a notorious pirate like Rottingham doesn't know either.
  • Once famous. It's fallen to rack and ruin over the years. Especially since its biggest attraction, the volcano itself, was dormant.
• LeChuck says he turned Big Whoop into an amusement park to recruit more sailors onto his crew of the living dead. His original crew in Secret might have been convinced to follow him out of loyalty to their captain and/or an indifference to morality in exchange for a kind of immortality, and maybe he could persuade more to sign on voluntarily as he rampaged through the Caribbean - but in Curse, it's pretty obvious that he's now murdering completely unsuspecting and unwilling pirates to beef up his ranks. Maybe a few could be cowed into following him out of fear, as with the two who found his remains and brought him back, but killing all those people and expecting every single one of them to fall in line? Wouldn't at least some of them say "Screw you, you killed us, we're not working for you" and mutiny?
  • Either additional magic was used to convince the extra sailors or since it’s LeChuck we’re talking about, he was able to not only handle the mutineers, but charbroiled any malcontents into ashy smears on the dirt.
  • I mean once you've been turned into an undead skeleton, what else are you gonna do? Might as well join up with the only army of the damned in the Carribean, few other people are likely to want to have anything to do with you.