Ozzie Mandrill is a fictional villain in the 2000 adventure game Escape from Monkey Island by LucasArts. A stereotypical villain. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ... The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ...

Appearance

Ozzie is short, sports long sideburns, and uses a walking stick. He speaks in an exaggerated Australian accent, frequently hurling supposed insults that no one can understand. He is very rich and has become used to getting his way; he displays enormous fits of bad temper when confronted with any obstacles. He is probably around fifty to sixty years of age, as his grey hair is beginning to recede, leaving him with a prominent forehead that matches his jutting chin. General Ambrose Burnside, whom sideburns were presumably named after Sideburns are facial hair in front of the ears. ... A walking stick (or two) is a tool used by many people to ease pressure on the legs when walking. ... An insult is a statement or action which affronts or demeans someone. ...

Mandrill's role in Escape from Monkey Island

Ozzie is a land developer (from Sydney, according to the Voodoo Lady) who plans to buy out the entire Caribbean. Due to his deeply-rooted hatred of pirates, he wants to eradicate them entirely and make the area tourist-friendly. By using cryptic insults, Ozzie has intimidated many business-owners on Jambalaya Island and Mêlée Island into signing their deeds over to him. Ozzie's ultimate goal is to find The Ultimate Insult, a voodoo artifact of great power that will help him "transform" the pirate population into "productive members of society". After attempting to double-cross LeChuck, however, Mandrill is apparently killed by his erstwhile partner. A real estate developer builds on land, thereby increasing its value. ... Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... The Voodoo Lady is a recurring character from the Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts. ... ... A pirate digging for treasure. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Jambalaya Island is the second new island visited in Escape from Monkey Island and supposedly the location of the pieces of an evil Voodoo talisman called The Ultimate Insult. ... Mêlée Island in The Secret of Monkey Island. ... 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. ...

While Mandrill is only introduced in the last game to date, he has allegedly been an ally of LeChuck for many years. He pushed Horatio Torquemada Marley overboard during a boat race two decades before the events of EMI and also helped rescue LeChuck from the pile of snow under which he was trapped at the end of The Curse of Monkey Island. An alliance can be: an agreement between two parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. ... LeChuck in the beginning of The Curse of Monkey Island, in his zombie-pirate form The pirate LeChuck is the main villain appearing in the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games produced by LucasArts. ... Horatio Torquemada Marley is a fictional character mentioned and appearing in the Monkey Island series. ...

Notes

Mandrill is the first major antagonist to be introduced in the series since its original villain, LeChuck. (Largo LaGrande, LeChuck's henchman from Monkey Island 2, could be argued to hold this distinction; however, Largo appeared prominently only in the game's first portion and as a undeniably minor character in its remainder.) The antagonist is the character (or group of characters) of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend. ... Largo Lagrande is LeChucks short, mean, and bra wearing henchmen. ...

Mandrill's evil nature is apparently foreshadowed in Guybrush's early visit to his mansion on Lucre Island; it is filled with stuffed and mounted animals, many of them Australian, endangered, or both. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which an author drops subtle hints about plot developments to come later in his story. ... Close up portrait from The Secret of Monkey Island, CD version. ... Lucre Island is the first new island featured in Escape from Monkey Island and apparently the largest urban-centre in the Tri-Island Area. ... A taxidermied bandicoot Taxidermic bird (detail) at the Lightner Museum. ... The American bison numbered as few as 750 in 1890 due to extreme overhunting. ...

The glowering face, Australian accent and ruthless business tactics of Ozzie Mandrill may be a reference to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul or a tycoon, is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from said control. ... Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born 11 March 1931), is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ...

The name "Ozzie Mandrill" is a play on both "Ozzie", a slang term for an Australian, and Percy Bysshe Shelly's famous sonnet Ozymandias. The somewhat subtle connection to the poem is made clear in one of the game's final scenes, where the character proclaims "I am Ozzie Mandrill! Look on my works, ye pirates, and despair!" Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers The term sonnet is derived from the Provençal word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning little song. ... OZYMANDIAS of EGYPT I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. ...

You can go to Ozzie's mansion, and play insult swordfighting, but you can never win.

Australian actor Nick Tate provides the voice of Ozzie Mandrill. Nick Tate (born June 18, 1942) is a popular Australian actor best known for his role as the likable but tough Eagle pilot Alan Carter in both seasons of the 1970s science fiction television show Space: 1999. ...