Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''I thought I'd killed the Ghost Pirate LeChuck for good. Wrong. How many times can that bloated old fool die? Other pirates tell me there's no escape. Legend has it that the treasure of Big Whoop holds the key to great power... I must find it before LeChuck finds me.''|Excerpted from ''The Memoirs of Guybrush Threepwood: The [[Monkey Island (Video Gameseries)|Monkey Island]] Years''}}

'''''Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge''''' is the second game in the ''[[Monkey Island (Video Gameseries)|Monkey Island]]'' series, released in 1991. It takes place some time after the first. Guybrush is starting to have trouble getting other pirates to listen to his stories about the last game, so he decides to [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|actually do something piratey]] that he can make a new story out of. His quest this time is to find the four pieces to a treasure map leading to a [[MacGuffin|fabulous treasure]] known only as "Big Whoop". As the title of the game indicates, however, Guybrush's old foe LeChuck returns from the dead once more (this time as a zombie), and tries to get his revenge on Guybrush.

This marks the end of the old-school, Ron Gilbert Monkey Islands, as he left [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] the year after the release, with co-writer and designer, Dave Grossman, following in 1994, and the following installments in the series were, until ''[[Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Tales of Monkey Island]]'' came along, made without input from Gilbert or any of the other original writers. This game is given the twist-ending Gilbert wanted to put in the original game, an ending which divides the fanbase like nothing else in the entire canon.

* {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]: Suggested in the end of the game, [[Or Was It a Dream?]]?}} <ref>The third game in the series, ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', [[Retcon|Retconned]] that it was explicitly ''not'' a dream. Probably for the best, working your way back into the regular Guybrush story from where the second game left off would have made for some ''very'' convoluted story logic.</ref>

* [[Animation Bump]]: Most of the (original) game is rather crudely animated, using mostly [[Limited Animation]], but LeChuck stands out: Hishis speech and walking animations have more detail and complicated movement patterns than other characters, and during the final confrontation has things such as [[The Twelve Principles of Animation|anticipation and overlapping action]].

* [[Ascended Extra]]: The Voodoo Lady, who you could complete the first game without ever meeting, gets her biggest role in any of the games prior to ''Tales of Monkey Island''.

* [[Big No]]: Done by Guybrush near the end when {{spoiler|1=LeChuck reveals [[Memetic Mutation|he is Guybrush's brother]].}}.

* [[Buried Alive]]: {{spoiler|Stan.}}. Thankfully, when he shows up again in [[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|the sequel]], he's just fine. He even managed to print out some business cards while he was in there!

** Guybrush. He's mocked and belittled by the other characters, robbed blind in the first few minutes, forced to wear a stupid pink dress to a costume party, beaten up by the aged groundskeeper, humiliated in a drinking contest with Rum Rogers, Jr., sets off a room full of explosives by dropping the match he's using as a light source... the list is too long to fully repeat.

** Wally. The developers actually had to remove a scene that shows what happened to him after LeChuck's fortress blew up, because they just felt too sorry for him.

* [[Character Asas Himself]]: In the original game's end credits: "Featuring Walt as himself.".

* [[Copy Protection]]: The [http://thefloppydisk.com/games/monkey_island_2_le_chucks_revenge_ibm_35_glued_corners/mi2_ibm_35.jpg "Mix'n Mojo" code wheel]{{Dead link}}.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Much of the innocent goofiness of the first game is toned down. Guybrush is a hunted [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] that hurts other characters, and LeChuck is a murderous creepy villain. The dramatic and gory elements are toned up, specially during the final encounter.

* [[Dem Bones]]: Including one instance of [[Dem Bones]] ''singing'' "Dem Bones". [http://www.viddler.com/explore/Clavius/videos/65/ Has to be seen.].

* [[Did You Die?]]: Inverted. If you "kill" Guybrush during the game, Elaine tells him that can't have happened, since he is currently telling her his story, and he is obviously not dead.

** Also of note are several rooms cut from LeChuck's Fortress, which presumably contained extra puzzles, including a voodoo shrine/potions laboratory, closeups of the desk and throne in LeChuck's office, and a closeup shot of Zombie LeChuck in all his g(l)ory. There was also a much more elaborate alternate version of the underground tunnels beneath Phatt Island. The filenames of these unused rooms were embedded in a pre-release demo of MI2''Monkey Island 2'', but their art assets were not revealed until the 2010 [[Updated Rerelease]] included some of this cut material in its concept art gallery.

** [[Easy Mode Mockery]]: "I've never played an adventure game before, I'm scared."

* [[Electrified Bathtub]]: How Rum Rogers Sr. kicked the bucket. In this game, you'll find his corpse lying in the bathtub under his son's home, while [[The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game)|the sequel]] explicitly [[Retcon|retcons]] his death so that LeChuck killed him when he found him drinking rum and eating toast while bathing by tossing his toaster into the bathtub.

* [[Gainax Ending]] / [[The Ending Changes Everything]]: {{spoiler|1=After Guybrush falls down the hole in Dinky Island, he finds himeself in some concrete tunnels. LeChuck is there with a voodoo doll and he tortures Guybrush with it after revealing that he is Guybrush's brother. Big Whoop only contains a ticket with the letter "E" on it. In the tunnels Guybrush finds an elevator that leads to Melee Island, carnival equipment, and a hospital room with two skeletons that he immediately identifies as his parents. Later he builds a voodoo doll and nearly kills LeChuck with it, then he takes off LeChuck's mask and reveals that LeChuck is his long lost brother Chuckie. Then the scene cuts to both of them as kids at an amusement park where Guybrush's parents chastise him for wandering off, and then they go to a ride. But at the last second Chuckie makes a [[Aside Glance]] and lightning arches from his eyes. Finally, during [[The Stinger]], Elaine wonders if Guybrush has fallen into another trap}}. And that's why there is a [[Broken Base]] (for this game). Many [https://web.archive.org/web/20130621164009/http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10784 discussions] with [[Epileptic Trees]] and [[Wild Mass Guessing]] have ensued. Nobody knows for sure what the ending originally was all about, and the next game [[Retcon|Retconned]] it.

* [[Gender Flip]]: In the 1991 original, when Guybrush calls the [[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] Help Desk (then LucasFilm Games Help Desk) on Dinky Island, the phone operator on the other end of the phone appears near him... and it appears to be [[Gender Blender Name|a woman named Chester]]! In the redrawn Special Edition, however, Chester the phone operator is now a man. Interestingly, both characters can be found in the Special Edition version, with female Chester appearing in Classic mode and male Chester appearing in the high-definition mode, and both characters even have unique voice actors.

** If you look at the bust (as in sculpture), Guybrush will remark "I overheard a couple of guys talking about Gov. Marley's bust, this must be it."

** If you look at the chest (as in furniture), Guybrush will say "It's impolite to stare at a woman's chest."

* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: Happens twice with Guybrush: once when he lifts up the bone of Marco Largo LaGrande from his grave in Scabb Island Cemetery, and one when he gets knocked out by the gardener for taking a map piece [[Cross DresserCrossdresser|while in a dress]] in the Booty Island mansion.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: There's only one scene in the game when Largo LaGrande refuses to tip the deliverymen, resulting in one of them muttering out, "What a butt.". The rest of the game averts this completely.

{{quote| "Now, what have you learned?"<br />

"That philosophy is a waste of my time." }}

* [[Instant People, Just Add Water]]: There is a potion that can (temporarily) bring a person back from the dead after his body has been reduced to ashes.

* [[List of Transgressions]]: The [[Wanted Poster]] for Guybrush. It's even dynamical and grows as Guybrush does more escapades.

{{quote| '''WANTED: Guybrush Threepwood''' : For the murder of G. P. LeChuck, and also for the use of witchcraft on the person of Largo LaGrande, the thievery of clothing and medically-prescribed hair supplements for such witchcraft, graverobbing, trespassing, larceny without a permit, disturbing the peace, illegal gambling on a sporting event, use of falsified identification for the purchase of alcohol, exceeding allowable FDA limit for rodent parts in vichyssoise, premature entombment of a non-dead individual, reckless tampering with city-maintained plumbing without prior acquisition of environmental impact report, transportation of animals not in a mental state to give consent, vandalizing a historical miniature, reckless use of gardening tools, impersonating a woman in order to evade prosecution, two counts of unauthorized exiting from a penal institution, impersonating a federal mail boat, reanimating dead persons within city limits, possession of library books not specifically checked out to oneself, mixing drinks without a liquor license, and releasing a dangerous reptile in a populated area. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Also wanted for questioning regarding the disappearance of prescription eyewear]]. }}

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: "No... I am your brother". See [[Shout-Out]] below.

{{quote| "Most of these coffins have been barely used, only for a few hours, [[Buried Alive|premature burials and such...]]"<br />

"You're back! I knew you would! All my customers return... ''eventually''." }}

* [[Oddball in Thethe Series]]: Not a glaring example, but the much more open-ended structure, along with LeChuck acting like a murderous psychopath rather than an evil goofball, the complete lack of any insult combat game, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Guybrush having a full beard]] (or, on a more serious level, the gameplay forcing him to [[Cruelty Is the Only Option|be needlessly cruel]] or jerkish to advance the plot) combine to give this a somewhat different feel to the other ''Monkey Island'' games.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Freddy, Man of Low Moral Fiber (Pirate), who doesn't even [[The Hyena|laugh]] occasionally like in the first game, instead remaining completely silent. {{spoiler|Unless you blow the ship's horn}}...}}

{{quote| '''Voodoo Lady''': Something of the Head, something of the Thread, something of the Body, and something of the Dead.<br />

'''Guybrush''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Wow, that almost rhymes!]] }}

{{quote| Violets are blue<br />

Roses are red<br />

We're coming aboard<br />

Prepare to eat lead }}

** LeChuck is very, very proud of his [[Rube Goldberg Device|Goldbergian]] acid pit deathtrap, to the point where he is compelled to explain every single step of it to Guybrush and Wally... including the [[Nightmare Fuel|final phase:]]:

{{quote| "I will take your bones, still alive and in great pain, and make them into a chair. I will call it my Screaming Chair. [[And I Must Scream|Every day I will sit in it and listen to you scream.]]."}}

** [[Genre Savvy|Guybrush can also ask]] "[[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|Why Didn't You Just Shoot Me?]]" His answer? "[[Medium Awareness|Because we had]] [[Spoiled Byby the Format|an extra disk.]]."

* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]:

** The fate of Largo LaGrande after the Fortress explosion is also bizarrely unknown, even 3 games after his last appearance. Intriguingly, the Special Edition has re-opened this question somewhat. In the original version, the fortress was utterly obliterated by the blast, making it seem as if Largo had been blown to smithereens. The Special Edition version on the other hand just has one of the fortress's side walls collapsing, increasing the chances of Largo surviving. So far, the only place where Largo's fate has been so much as discussed was an April Fool's Day gag with the World of ''[[Monkey Island]]'' website, where "leaked" audio files from a new ''[[Monkey Island]]'' game included dialogue for Largo. And of course the ultimate example: [[Continuity Nod|"What ''was'' the secret of Monkey Island™?"]]

* [[You Bastard]]: Wally's dialogue after you steal his monocle is really depressing, and you will have a hard time to not feel like a utterly bad and mean person about leaving him in his blinded state, especially when he talks about how he will "die blind, hungry and [[Dying Alone|alone]],", followed by "I have never hurt anyone." At least you eventually have to replace it.