Starting with the sequel, the art style became more cartoonish, where by Curse, the game looked exactly like a cartoon and the cutscenes used this art style.

Art Evolution: The first game, in its original release, utilized a very realistic art style, especially during the handful of close-up shots.

As the original creator and team left before the mystery could be answered, however, this became an Aborted Arc and the remaining games have played the trope straight. Many of the supposed anachronisms were possibly subtle hints towards this.

It's played with, as the second game suggests that this may be due to the entire game being the fantasy of a child lost in a theme park.

Anachronism Stew: Including a Lampshade Hanging on 'shoddy, 17th century electrical wiring.'.

Take the main duo Elaine Marley and Guybrush Threepwood.

Aerith and Bob: Plain common names are mixed with punny or ludicrous ones.

His 'cartoon' incarnation is a clean-cut older teen.

In the original two games, Guybrush is a dirty blonde shaggy-haired pubescent boy.

In the MI1 Special Edition remake Elaine now has brown hair and green eyes however, in the MI2 SE she has red hair instead (but still has green eyes). In Tales she has red hair and Green Eyes. In the older 256-color upgrade of Secret, and in Curse, she has red hair and blue eyes.

Adaptation Dye Job: Elaine has black hair in the original 16-color version of Secret, as well as in LeChuck's Revenge.

Tropes used in Monkey Island (series) include: Note: Please put tropes related to individual games on their respective pages, and character tropes in the character page.

LucasArts has also gotten back in the game of late, finally redeeming themselves in the eyes of adventure fans by remaking both the original Secret of Monkey Island and the first sequel LeChuck's Revenge, complete with voice acting by the cast of Curse. After the long hiatus following Escape, Telltale Games took up the mantle with their episodic Tales of Monkey Island release - with Gilbert's blessing and also the involvement of many key staff members from the original two games. Series creator Ron Gilbert left after the second game.

Tales of Monkey Island (2009, 5 episodes, produced by Telltale Games).

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition (2010).

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991).

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (2009).

The Monkey Island series of Adventure Games from LucasArts (and one from Telltale Games) chronicles the escapades of Guybrush Threepwood, an unassuming Genius Ditz pirate who travels the Caribbean, and inevitably ends up butting heads with LeChuck, a sinister undead pirate. As LucasArts was actually somewhat clever and somewhat funny in those days, they had him and his gang write the rest of the dialogue. Originally conceived as a Serious Business pirate adventure by Ron Gilbert, but Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman began using their own Crazy Awesome jokes as dialogue placeholders.

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