Minor characters in Monkey Island

The minor fictional characters in Monkey Island are fictional characters who appear in the Monkey Island series of adventure games by LucasArts. Monkey Island games also feature their own array of unseen characters.

Bob the Ghost Pirate

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Bob is seemingly LeChuck's right hand man in the The Secret of Monkey Island. He warns LeChuck of Guybrush's arrival on Melee Island and discusses Guybrush's progress with LeChuck through-out the game.

Bob's head often comes loose from his body and is often seen bouncing around like a hacky sack. At the end of the first Monkey Island game, Guybrush finally encounters Bob, who had been left behind by the Ghost Pirate ship after his head had fallen into the surrounding lava. Bob informs Guybrush of LeChuck and Elaine's wedding and then apparently leaves with Guybrush and his friend Herman Toothrot to Melee Island.

Captain Dread

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Captain Dread appeared in the second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Though foreshadowed as something of a fearsome pirate, the captain's name is actually a reference to his hairstyle - he is a Jamaican and wears dreadlocks.

Throughout the game's second Act, Captain Dread serves as Guybrush Threepwood's mode of transportation between three islands, Scabb Island, Booty Island and Phatt Island, on board his houseboat, the Jolly Rasta. He has not reappeared in any Monkey Island game since.

Captain Smirk

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Captain Dread appeared in the second game, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Though foreshadowed as something of a fearsome pirate, the captain's name is actually a reference to his hairstyle - he is a Jamaican and wears dreadlocks.

Throughout the game's second Act, Captain Dread serves as Guybrush Threepwood's mode of transportation between three islands, Scabb Island, Booty Island and Phatt Island, on board his houseboat, the Jolly Rasta. He has not reappeared in any Monkey Island game since.

Carla the Swordmaster

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In the first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island, Carla was initially the famed Swordmaster of Mêlée Island, who lived in secret isolation, her location known by very few. The Storekeeper of Melee Island is known to have a huge crush on Carla and mistakenly leads Guybrush Threepwood right to her. After her defeat at 'insult swordfighting' and the kidnapping of Govener Marley, Carla agrees to join the Guybrush's crew setting sail to Monkey Island. She and her crew mates, Meathook and Otis, mutiny and are later marooned on Monkey Island and captured by the Cannibals.

Eventually, she managed to Escape from Monkey Island by the fourth game. She joined Guybrush's crew again, against her better judgement, when he managed to arrange a Cushy Government Job for her on her return.

Largo LaGrande

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Largo LaGrande is a villain that appeared in the first part of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, as a local bully on Scabb Island who prevented any ships from leaving (called the "Largo Embargo"). He had formerly been the right-hand man of the ghost pirate LeChuck before he had been melted by Guybrush Threepwood. Guybrush constructed a voodoo doll of Largo using, among various other things, Largo's bra.

Later in the game, Largo resurrected LeChuck as a zombie, playing a minor part in the rest of the game. He has not reappeared in any game since. However, shortly after the release of the fourth game, Escape from Monkey Island, a set of April Fools soundbites were released in advance of a fifth game (Return to Monkey Island). In these, Largo reappeared, voiced by Dominic Armato, who also voiced Guybrush.

Largo LaGrande is named after the town La Grande, Oregon, where Monkey Island designer Ron Gilbert grew up.

Meathook

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Meathook appears in the first and fourth games of the Monkey Island series. He is bald, and has lost both of his hands (replaced by hooks) and an eye to a "ferocious beast" that he keeps locked up in his house (it was later revealed to be a parrot). Meathook also has a skull-shaped tattoo on his chest that he can manipulate so it appears to be talking, using his ventriloquist skills often saying "Hello Roger".

Meathook lived as a hermit on the former vacation spot of Hook Isle on Melee Island. After Guybrush proves his courage by touching the "ferocious beast", Meathook becomes one of the three original members of Guybrush's crew sailing to Monkey Island. However Meathook, along with Carla and Otis, are marooned on Monkey Island after their ship is sunk by a 'mysterious' flying rock. In Escape from Monkey Island, he returned to his home (Hook Island on Mêlée Island and took up wax painting as a hobby.

Monkey Island Cannibals

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The Monkey Island Cannibals are heavily featured in the first The Secret of Monkey Island game. Red Skull, Sharptooth and Lemonhead first encounter Guybrush when he sneaks into their village and steals a bananna. They lock him up in a hut with loose floorboards and later negotiate with Guybrush for items such as the 'wimpy idol', the 'bananna picker' and the 'head of the navigator'. The Cannibals also help Guybrush to finally despose of the Ghost Pirates by making the deadly ghost-killing anti-root beer.

The Cannibals have also been known to leave memos around Monkey Island addressing greivences to either Herman Toothrot or LeChuck and his Ghost Pirates and in the sequel Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, the Cannibals have apparently written many books listed in the Phatt Island library.

Murray the demonic talking skull

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Murray the Talking Skull was formerly a member of the Dread Pirate LeChuck's skeleton (literally) crew; Guybrush Threepwood meets him at the beginning of The Curse of Monkey Island, the third game in the series, after Guybrush blows Murray's boat out of the water and thus separates him from his body. Murray's arm goes on to aid Guybrush through that adventure, while his head appears in various places around the Caribbean spreading evil and occasionally aiding Guybrush. In the sequel, Escape From Monkey Island, Murray has a cameo appearance as a greeter at the Planet Hollywood inspired tourist trap "Planet Threepwood". There is also a secret mini game based on Pong - with Murray's head as the ball.

Originally, Murray was intended to only appear in the opening scene of the game Curse of Monkey Island, in which Guybrush "decapitates" him with a cannon and then knocks him off a piece of timber. However, when the opening scene of the game was released as a demo, his delusions of grandeur and over-the-top mannerisms were enjoyed by gamers, and through feedback the developers decided to write him into the rest of the game. Despite being a disembodied skull, he became one of the game's most popular characters.

Otis

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Otis appears in the first and fourth games of the Monkey Island series. He was dark-haired in the first game and wore a moustache, and turns red-haired in the fourth game and gets a beard without the moustache. He is most often seen locked up in jail (frequently for picking protected flowers); though he constantly protests his innocence and claims to be a "victim of society". Many of his friends try to help him escape, including his Aunt Tillie and the Cook on Melee Island, by baking him various food items with files concealed inside. Unfortunately for Otis, he is seemingly too stupid to recognize that he is being helped at all. He has also been known to suffer from halitosis and claims to despise rats. Otis was named after the town drunk from The Andy Griffith Show, who was also frequently jailed.

Otis has been one of Guybrush Threepwood's crewmen on two occasions. The first time, he was marooned on Monkey Island, an experience which scarred him psychologically. The second, he joined at the insistence of Carla, another of the original crewmembers, when Guybrush managed to give them contractual "Cushy Government Jobs".

Rum Rogers Sr

Rum Rogers Sr was one of the four crewmates who sailed to Monkey Island with Captain Horatio Torquemada Marley before the storyline of The Secret of Monkey Island began. He was the first mate on the voyage and was known for being a drunkard. He and his son; Rum Rogers Jr. were known to look and act the same, mostly enjoying vast amounts of Rum.

The crew landed on Blood Island as they were diverted from a hurricane, the same storm that destroyed LeChuck's voyage to Monkey Island. It seemed however LeChuck survived the destruction of his ship and crew and started a conversation with Rum Rogers Sr; heavily influenced by alcohol of which LeChuck forced upon him he spilled the secret of their search for the treasure of Big Whoop.

It is unknown how long Rum Rogers Sr and the rest of the crew stayed on the island; but LeChuck left before them and landed on Monkey Island first (however without map or directions it is hard to know how). According to LeChuck in the Curse of Monkey Island he landed on the island half an hour before them and took the treasure for himself. Marley and his crew witnessed LeChuck's change into the immortal ghost and fled the island. Rum Rogers Sr. was entrusted with one of the four pieces of the map to Big Whoop.

Some unknown time later Rum Rogers Sr. was bathing in his ship near Phatt Island; drinking rum and eating toast. It is said the toaster "mysteriously" fell into the tub with him (of course impossibly but for trivial value) which suggests he was murdered. The map passed to his son Rum Rogers Jr who kept it near his father's decaying body.

Guybrush Threepwood discovered the dead body of Rum Rogers Sr. in the basement of Rum Rogers Jr.'s house along with his piece of the map in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. His only known appearance in the series, is in The Curse of Monkey Island when he appears as a Dynamo-Monkelectric Model in LeChuck's "Carnival of the Damned" on the ride entitled "Rollercoster of Death" build into the Giant Monkey Head.

Other Minor Monkey Island Characters

Secret of Monkey Island

• Bob - (LeChuck's Right-Hand Ghost)

• Citizen of Melee - (Map Selling Sneak with Parrot)

• Cook - (Emotional Proprietor of the Scumm Bar)

• Estevan - (Scumm Bar Pirate with a scarred eye)

• Fester Shinetop - (LeChuck in Disguise as Melee Island's Sheriff)

• Fettucini Brothers - (Circus Performers Alfredo & Bill)

• Lookout - (Blind watchman of Melee Island)

• The 'Loom' Pirate - (Aye)

• Lemonhead - (Monkey Island Cannibal & Author)

• Mancomb Seepgood - (Friendly Pirate in the Scumm Bar)

• Men of Low Moral Fibre - (Three Shifty Pirates that are fond of Rats)

• Red Skull - (Lead Monkey Island Cannibal)

• Sharptooth - (Monkey Island Cannibal)

• Spiffy the Dog - (Talkative Scumm Bar Canine)

• Storekeeper - (Old Shopkeeper with a fondness for the Swordmaster)

• Three Important Looking Pirates - (Head Melee Island Grog-Swilling Pirates)

• Troll - (Guards a Bridge and is fond of Herring)

Secret of Monkey Island 2 : LeChuck's Revenge

• Mad Marty - (Washes Clothes & Can't Hear)

• Men of Low Moral Fibre - (Three Shifty Pirates that are fond of Rats)

• The Spitmaster - (Booty Island Spitting Contest Master)

• Rap Scallion - (Deceased shipmate of Capt. Marley, Rum Rogers Sr. & Young Lindy)

• The Woodsmith - (Scabb Island Carpenter)

The Curse of Monkey Island

• Cutthroat Bill - (Intimidating Pirate fond of Jawbreakers)

• Kenny Falmouth - (Juvenile Con-Artist Sells Lemonade in a Bottomless Mug, voiced by Gary Coleman)

• Slappy Cromwell - (Lousy but Comedic Shakespearean Actor)

Escape From Monkey Island

• Charles L. Charles

• Jumbeaux LaFeet

• Pegnose Pete