Guybrush Threepwood is the main character of the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games by LucasArts. The voice of Guybrush is provided by actor Dominic Armato in the third and fourth games. Though a mighty pirate by his own account, it is a running joke throughout the games for characters to hopelessly garble Guybrush Threepwood's unusual name, either deliberately or accidentally, with variations including "Thriftweed", "Peepwood", "Gorbush" and "Threekwood". He is also frequently referred to by the nickname of "Fancy Pants". Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... The Secret of Monkey Island (SMI) is a well known adventure game that spawned a series of famous and classic comedy adventure games, known as the Monkey Island series as well as making a name for LucasArts (then Lucasfilm Games) as a producer of adventure games, thus the largest competitor... Dominic Armato (born November 18, 1976 in Chicago) is a voice actor who is known primarily for his work on LucasArts games. ... The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... For information on interactive gaming in general, see video game. ... This is an article about the computer and video game genre. ... LucasArts is an American video game developer and publisher. ... Dominic Armato (born November 18, 1976 in Chicago) is a voice actor who is known primarily for his work on LucasArts games. ...

The origin of the name "Guybrush" comes from Deluxe Paint, the tool used by the artists to create the character sprite. Since the character had no name at this point, the file was simply called 'Guy'. When the file was saved, Deluxe Paint automatically appended the extension '.brush'; before the designers could think of a proper name they got used to referring to 'Guy.brush' when talking about the sprite and decided to use it as the protagonist's actual name.^[1] "Threepwood" was the name of Dave Grossman's RPG character and was picked through voting. The name comes from P. G. Wodehouse's family of characters including Galahad Threepwood and Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth. Welcome screen dialog Deluxe Paint (DPaint) is a bitmap graphics editor originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts (EA). ... A game artist is responsible for all of the aspects of game development that calls for visual art. ... In computer graphics, a sprite (also known by other names; see Synonyms below) is a two-dimensional/three-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. ... A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format. ... Dave Grossman is a noted game programmer and game designer. ... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: ) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... In the stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, The Honourable Galahad Threepwood is Lord Emsworths younger brother. ... Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, Viscount Bosham is a fictional character created by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. ...

Incarnations

Guybrush's age remains an issue of debate. A dialogue choice in the second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (MI2), has Guybrush nearly admitting that he is nineteen years old before quickly lying that he is 21. Although the amount of time that passes between each game is vague, some estimate him to be around eighteen during the first game, The Secret of Monkey Island. During the course of the third game, The Curse of Monkey Island (CMI), Threepwood's SCUMM Actors Guild membership card states he is twenty years old. The Secret of Monkey Island (SMI) is a well known adventure game that spawned a series of famous and classic comedy adventure games, known as the Monkey Island series as well as making a name for LucasArts (then Lucasfilm Games) as a producer of adventure games, thus the largest competitor... The Curse of Monkey Island (CMI) is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts, and the third game in the Monkey Island computer game series. ... SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion and is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion. ...

Guybrush grows a beard and moustache in the second game, but is shaven in the third and fourth games. Guybrush makes a reference that he lost his beard between the third and second game but cannot remember what happened to it. In the third game however, if one tries to use the shaving cream, Guybrush says that he shaved last week. Since CMI indicates that the bizarre ending of MI2, where he appears as a child, was a hex put on him by LeChuck, his losing of the beard might have been an unfortunate side-effect. His initially brown hair changes to blonde in the later games; this is never addressed, but the same has happened to fellow adventure game protagonists Roger Wilco and Devon Aidendale. For the slang term, see Beard (female companion). ... Edgar Allan Poe grew a moustache later in his life. ... Look up hex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Roger Wilco Senior (right) chatting with Junior (left). ... The Hero - Original QFG Hero Victorious - QFG II The Hero is the protagonist and player character in Sierra On-Lines Quest for Glory series of role-playing/graphic adventure games. ...

In Escape from Monkey Island Guybrush's middle name is revealed to be Ulysses by (a puzzlingly close but off screen) Elaine. He is left-handed in Monkey Island 1 & 2, but he is right-handed in Monkey Island 3. For other meanings, see Odysseus (disambiguation) Ulysses redirects here. ...

Attire

In Secret Guybrush wears a white blouse; he wears a similar blouse in all the other games as well but this one appears to have shorter sleeves (although they could simply be folded). He wears black, knee-long pants, white socks and small, black shoes. In Monkey Island 2 his attire changes radically. He now wears boots and a long, blue coat and two belts, one of which goes across his chest. In Curse Guybrush's attire is similar to his attire in Secret, but he has brown pants instead of black, a small brown vest and red sash. A blouse A blouse most commonly refers to a womans shirt, although the term is also used for some mens military uniform shirts. ... Germanic trousers of the 4th century found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany Early use of trousers in France: a sans-culotte by Louis-Léopold Boilly. ... Boots is the name of at least five different albums and singles: Boots by Nancy Sinatra (1966) Boots by Mighty Gabby (1984) Boots by Condemned Eighty Four (2001) Boots by KMFDM (2002) Boots by Noe Venable (2003) It is also the name of a large chain of chemists in the... Coat can refer to any one of the following: The fur coat of a mammal. ... Belt can refer to the following objects: A belt (clothing) is an article of clothing worn around the waist. ... VEST (Very Efficient Substitution Transposition) ciphers are a set of families of general-purpose hardware-dedicated ciphers that support single pass authenticated encryption and can operate as collision-resistant hash functions. ...

Following Manny Calavera's (Grim Fandango) example, in Escape, Guybrush has multiple outfits. He starts out with a red, buttoned-up jacket, boots and a large belt with a belt buckle that has his initials on it (an in-joke from Grim Fandango). When venturing to Lucre and Jambalaya Island he wears a similar outfit to his appearance in Secret, except that his pants are a light blue and his blouse has longer sleeves. When he is once more stranded on Monkey Island in the third act he wears his red jacket, but no shoes. His pants have been ripped from knee down and his jacket seems slightly beat up. Grim Fandango is a graphical adventure computer game released by LucasArts in 1998. ... A jacket is a lightweight, sleeved thigh- or waist-length coat that may be worn by anyone, as jackets are now made for children, adults, the elderly, and even infants. ... A conventional belt buckle A rather elaborate ornamental belt buckle A belt buckle is a buckle, a clasp for fastening two ends, as of straps or a belt, in which a device attached to one of the ends is fitted or coupled to the other. ... An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... Lucre Island is the first new island featured in Escape from Monkey Island and apparently the largest urban-centre in the Tri-Island Area. ... Jambalaya Island is the second new island visited in Escape from Monkey Island and supposedly the location of the pieces of a powerful Voodoo talisman called The Ultimate Insult. ...

Appearances

The Secret of Monkey Island

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When Guybrush first appeared in The Secret of Monkey Island, he was an awkward teenager whose sole ambition in life was to be a pirate. (The Monkey Island games take place in the Caribbean during a deliberately vague time period; 17th century-style pirates exist alongside anachronistic objects such as vending machines that dispense grog in aluminum cans.) Guybrush, although portrayed as an attractive lad in closeups, is a scrawny blonde youth with minimal amounts of courage, intelligence and charisma. His primary talent is the ability to hold his breath for ten minutes, and he certainly appears to be an unlikely candidate to be a buccaneer. He does exhibit plenty of persistence, however, and doggedly attempts to complete the three trials of piratehood. The Secret of Monkey Island (SMI) is a well known adventure game that spawned a series of famous and classic comedy adventure games, known as the Monkey Island series as well as making a name for LucasArts (then Lucasfilm Games) as a producer of adventure games, thus the largest competitor... Look up pirate and piracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... West Indies redirects here. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Look up Anachronism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Courage (disambiguation). ... Intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... For other uses, see Charisma (disambiguation). ... This article refers to the type of pirate. ...

In the course of exploring Mêlée Island, he meets and immediately falls in love with the Tri-Island Area's beautiful governor, Elaine Marley. Guybrush is not the only one interested in Governor Marley, however: the ghost pirate LeChuck has long been besmitten with her; Elaine, however, does not return his affection. She told him to 'drop dead', so he did. That's when things got ugly. When the villain kidnaps Elaine, Guybrush is compelled to try to rescue her from LeChuck's lair on Monkey Island. She proves quite capable of protecting herself (as she is the former captain of LeChuck's ghost crew), easily escaping LeChuck's clutches (unbeknownst to the bumbling Threepwood). Guybrush, improbably enough, manages to destroy the ghost pirate LeChuck and becomes a fearsome pirate himself. Mêlée Island in The Secret of Monkey Island. ... The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ... Elaine Marley in Curse of Monkey Island Elaine Marley is one of the primary characters in the Monkey Island series of adventure games developed by LucasArts. ... For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Monkey Island as it appeared in the original game. ...

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

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In Monkey Island 2, almost the entire game takes the form of a flashback as Guybrush tells Elaine what happened to him. Thus, it is possible to die by falling into a pit of acid, upon which the game fades back to the storytelling screen, with Elaine asking him to tell what really happened since obviously he could not have died if he was right there telling her the story.

As Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge begins, Guybrush has embarked on an epic new adventure: growing facial hair (or so Bart'n Fink are wont to believe). He soon runs into Largo LaGrande, LeChuck's former henchman, on Scabb Island. Largo discovers that Guybrush has LeChuck's ghostly beard, which he has kept as a trophy; he steals the beard and uses it to reanimate the corpse of his former boss. Thanks to Guybrush, LeChuck is now a seriously angry zombie with voodoo powers instead of a disgruntled ghost. One kind of modern beard. ... Largo Lagrande is LeChucks short, mean, and bra wearing henchmen. ... Robin Shoots with Sir Guy by Louis Rhead. ... Scabb Island is the first island featured in the LucasArts adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge. ... For the slang term, see Beard (female companion). ... Some loving-cup trophies seen in the London Irish clubhouse at Sunbury in 2002. ... This article is about the undead. ... Voodoo (Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, or Vudun in Benin, Togo, southeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal; also Vodou in Haiti) is a name attributed to a traditionally uten West African spiritual system of faith and ritual practices. ...

The Voodoo Lady tells Guybrush that LeChuck can only be stopped by the power of the legendary treasure of Big Whoop. To find it, he must travel to nearby Phatt Island and Booty Island in search of the four pieces of a treasure map. As he completes the map, he is captured by LeChuck; while attempting to escape, Guybrush causes an enormous explosion that hurls him to Dinky Island. Coincidentally enough, this happens to be where Big Whoop is hidden. Guybrush uses dynamite to "dig" for the treasure and finds himself in a maze of underground, concrete-lined tunnels. The Voodoo Lady is a recurring character from the Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts. ... For other uses, see Treasure (disambiguation). ... The following is a list of famous items and things related to LucasArts series of Monkey Island adventure games. ... Phatt Island is one of three fictional islands Guybrush Threepwood can explore in Part Two of Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge (1991) in the north-west area of the Caribbean of the Monkey Island series of adventure/puzzle video-games by LucasArts. ... Booty Island is one of the islands featured in the adventure game Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge. ... Map created by Robert Lewis Stevenson in Treasure Island A treasure map is a common device used in fictional stories. ... The four pieces of the map to Dinky Island, as seen in the second game. ... Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ... This article is about the construction material. ...

The remaining portion of MI2 is somewhat surrealistic: One chases the other in a vague abandoned underground place that includes elevators, machines, an office etc. LeChuck claims that he is Guybrush's brother, in a parody of Darth Vader's "I am your father" scene with Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back. After Guybrush finally defeats LeChuck with a voodoo doll, he kneels and removes the pirate's "mask". LeChuck is revealed as Guybrush's bullying older brother "Chuckie". Suddenly, both Guybrush and Chuckie are children at an amusement park looking suspiciously like Booty Island, with their parents; both games seem to have been daydreams by a young boy obsessed with pirates. Only a brief scene during the closing credits hints that this may be untrue: Elaine Marley idly wonders if Guybrush has fallen prey to some evil spell of LeChuck's, and we see "Chucky" has red eyes with an evil glow. On this strange note, the game ends. Max Ernst. ... Darth Vader is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ... Luke Ballard is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, portrayed by Mark Hamill in the films Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. ... Movie poster Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the first released Star Wars movie, and the second film released in the original trilogy. ... A large sequined voodoo banner by the artist George Valris The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based Theist-Animist religious tradition. ... Theme park redirects here. ... A daydream is a fantasy that a person has while awake, often about spontaneous and fanciful thoughts not connected to the persons immediate situation. ...

The Curse of Monkey Island

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Guybrush Threepwood in The Curse of Monkey Island.

It should be noted that Ron Gilbert, founder of the Monkey Island series, left LucasArts after the second game and did not return until after the third game had been completed. The storylines of the third game are thus the work of different writers, and might not represent what Ron Gilbert had in mind originally. The Curse of Monkey Island (CMI) is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts, and the third game in the Monkey Island computer game series. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. ...

Similar to the gap between the first two games, Curse of Monkey Island opens with Guybrush floating in the Caribbean in a bumper car, writing in a journal. Bumper car at a small town fair Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars that draw their power from an overhead grid, which is turned off by the operator at the end of a session. ... This article is about the journal as a written medium. ...

We learn that the surreal subterranean place and childhood theme park where Monkey Island II ended were actually the result LeChuck's deceptive spell. LeChuck had built a sinister theme park known as the Carnival of the Damned. The "revelation" that they were brothers was simply part of the evil scheme. After an undisclosed period of entrapment, Guybrush managed to escape in a long, conspicuously unrecorded, adventure.

As he is writing his memories, Guybrush suddenly finds himself in the middle of a battle between the forces of Plunder Island (led by Elaine) and LeChuck's undead crew. Guybrush stumbles into LeChuck's cargo hold and finds an enormous diamond ring, which he decides to use to propose to Elaine. Unfortunately, the ring is cursed, and immediately transforms Elaine into a statue made of solid gold. Plunder Island seen from the south. ... Look up Curse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... GOLD refers to one of the following: GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade). ...

The Voodoo Lady once again provides magical help, informing Guybrush that the curse can only be broken by replacing the ring with another containing a diamond "of equal or greater value". The ineffectual hero must assemble a pirate crew and sail to Blood Island and Skull Island. Eventually he manages to break the curse and restore Elaine to flesh and blood. LeChuck, who was killed in the earlier battle, resurfaces as a demon pirate and captures Guybrush. Blood Island Blood Island is the second island featured in the computer adventure game The Curse of Monkey Island, and is one of three new islands introduced in the game alongside Plunder Island and Skull Island. ... Skull Island, as seen in The Curse of Monkey Island. ... “Fiend” redirects here. ...

LeChuck returns Guybrush to the Carnival of the Damned and once again transforms him into a child. Improbably, Guybrush manages to change himself back to normal and blow up a section of the Roller-Coaster of Death, burying LeChuck under a mountain of ice and snow. Elaine and Guybrush finally marry and sail off into the sunset together.

Escape from Monkey Island

Guybrush in 3D.

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After a three-month-long honeymoon, Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley-Threepwood return to Mêlée Island. While the couple was gone, Elaine was declared dead, legally ending her lifetime appointment as governor. The governor's mansion is scheduled for demolition and a slimy politician named Charles L. Charles is poised to take over the position. With no other choice, Elaine begins a desperate campaign for re-election against Charles (who, unsurprisingly, reveals himself to be none other than LeChuck in disguise). As Guybrush wanders around Mêlée, he finds that all the local businesses are being taken over by Ozzie Mandrill, an Australian developer who is winning the deeds in matches of various insult games, such as insult swordfighting. Image File history File links Monkeyisland4. ... Image File history File links Monkeyisland4. ... Escape from Monkey Island (EMI) is a computer adventure game developed and released by LucasArts in 2000. ... A honeymoon is the traditional trip taken by newlyweds to celebrate their marriage with seclusion and sexual intimacy. ... Ozzie Mandrill is a fictional villain in the 2000 adventure game Escape from Monkey Island by LucasArts. ... Insult swordfighting is a feature of many of the Monkey Island graphic adventure games. ...

Guybrush discovers that Ozzie wants to take over the entire Caribbean. Ozzie is seeking a powerful voodoo talisman called the Ultimate Insult, which he will use to turn all pirates into clean, productive members of society. LeChuck is helping Ozzie in exchange for Elaine's hand after her will has been broken by the Ultimate Insult. An amulet from the Black Pullet grimoire An amulet (from Latin amuletum, meaning A means of protection) or a talisman (from Arabic tilasm, ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek word talein wich means to initiate into the mysteries. ... The following is a list of famous items and things related to LucasArts series of Monkey Island adventure games. ...

Once again, Guybrush must assemble a reluctant crew, sailing this time to Lucre Island and Jambalaya Island before ending up on Monkey Island. There he finds an enormous, robotic monkey and uses it to return to Mêlée. Ozzie has acquired the Ultimate Insult; he uses its power to enslave LeChuck, who has taken on the form of a gigantic statue of himself. Guybrush, piloting his robotic monkey, manages to hold off defeat long enough to frustrate Ozzie, causing him to slap his head in frustration. The statue mimics this action, which just so happens to crush the scalp-mounted Ozzie as well as the Ultimate Insult. The power of the Insult causes an immense explosion that seemingly destroys LeChuck as well. Lucre Island is the first new island featured in Escape from Monkey Island and apparently the largest urban-centre in the Tri-Island Area. ... Jambalaya Island is the second new island visited in Escape from Monkey Island and supposedly the location of the pieces of a powerful Voodoo talisman called The Ultimate Insult. ... For other uses, see robot (disambiguation). ...

Trivia

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• Guybrush is able to hold his breath for ten minutes, which he mentions on several occasions. This unusual ability is a clever way of implementing LucasArts' frequent policy of not allowing players to lose the game, either by character death or placing the game in an unwinnable state. There is exactly one way, however, (out of all the Monkey Island games) in which Guybrush can die. In The Secret of Monkey Island, he is trapped underwater; if the player takes longer than ten minutes to figure out how to escape (or simply takes no action), Guybrush drowns. At this point, the action menu (which normally consists of commands such as "Pick up", "Give" and "Talk to") is replaced with intransitive verbs he is already doing, such as "Duck" and "Float", as well as a command to "Order Hint Book". This command causes Guybrush to say the former phone number of the Lucasarts support/sales line.
• Guybrush's ability to hold his breath is referenced in Quest for Glory V, where, should the player drown, he is presented with the message: "This is the lesson you've been taught — Guybrush Threepwood you are not. When by water you are surrounded -- Get to shore before you're drowned".
• A similar message is given when drowning in Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis. The message reads: "Unfortunately Indy couldn't hold his breath as long as Guybrush Threepwood".^[2]
• Also in Simon the Sorcerer II, if the player asks to be sent to Calypso's shop from a still hung-over genie, the second time he'll end up at the bottom of the ocean. Upon returning to the cave Simon mentions that the ability to hold one's breath for 10 minutes is "a standard requirement for any adventure game hero".
• Another reference to Guybrush's ability to hold his breath is made in Bright Side of the Moon, in which the main protagonist, Sam, is trapped in a tank of water and comments, "I can only hold my breath for nine minutes."^{[citation needed]}
• Yet another nod to Guybrush's lung capacity can be found in the 2004/2005 Xbox game, Fable. A gravestone in the Lychfield Graveyard area reads, "No man can hold his breath for ten minutes."^[3]
• In the third and fourth games, Guybrush mentions an inexplicable fear of porcelain. Some believe this unusual fear may originate in SMI, when a vase is smashed during an off-screen fight between Guybrush and Sheriff Fester Shinetop (LeChuck in disguise); this was at one time the belief of Chris Purvis, one of the designers of CMI, but it was later contradicted by Bill Tiller.^[4] If this were the explanation, it would be at odds with the fact that Guybrush has no fear of investigating the porcelain in Elaine's mansion during Monkey Island 2.

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