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darknessofheart · 08/31/2009, 09:34 am

Since we've had a lot of polls for Guybrush's crew and so forth, I'd figure we should have one for the villain. Vote and explain why you picked this villain.

bugzbunny90 · 08/31/2009, 09:41 am

i have a hunch morgan is gonna win by a landslide ...only a hunch ..lets see if i am proven wrong....

Aise · 08/31/2009, 09:46 am

Who's Bob?

coolsome · 08/31/2009, 09:52 am

LeChuck 4 ever ^^ he is the personification of evil

shref · 08/31/2009, 09:52 am

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Originally Posted by Aise

Who's Bob?

detachable head skeleton that is lechuck's crew member from SOMI

Aise · 08/31/2009, 10:00 am

Oh, right! Well.. I don't think he's such a villain.. Murray is much more!

Altbau · 08/31/2009, 10:03 am

LeChuck is THE villain, so I can't consider him in this vote. So it goes again to de Singe (see favorite secondary character poll), but some sympathy points also go to Ozzie. Of course everyone piles hate on EMI and all the characters there, but he actually had a motive, apart from the whole amusement park thing. He just genuinely hated pirates and all things piratey, and that came across rather convincing. Won't root for his comeback though.

shref · 08/31/2009, 10:15 am

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Originally Posted by Aise

Oh, right! Well.. I don't think he's such a villain.. Murray is much more!

i agree that bob isnt a villain...but hes still freakin awesome and really underappreciated

Hawksoul · 08/31/2009, 10:34 am

Well, while LeChuck is important part of Monkey Island series, he is not enough cool to be TOP 1 villain in Monkey Island. Hard Competition goes with between Morgan LeFlay and Captain Rottingham. Both are very cool, but Captain Rottingham was one of the most memorable maincharacters (another one is of course Murray) in Curse of Monkey Island, so he wins.

darknessofheart · 08/31/2009, 11:12 am

I was on the fence of including Murray, but we all have to face the fact that Murray is simply not a villain. He may try to be, but he's not. He's helpful, gives information, is friendly at the bottom of it all, and just has never done anything that villainous. True he once served LeChuck, but he had no choice as LeChuck murdered him and reanimated him. Murray is an awesome character, but he's no villain.

Secret Fawful · 08/31/2009, 12:27 pm

LeChuck, followed by a tie between Largo LeGrande and Marquis DeSinge.

Spadge · 08/31/2009, 12:30 pm

Pegnose Pete. I wish they gave him a bigger role in EMI. He had potential.

darknessofheart · 08/31/2009, 09:23 pm

Wow, I never realized just how hated Ozzie is. I mean, I knew that a lot of people hated him, but I didn't think it was that extreme. While I didn't appreciate Ozzie taking LeChuck's spotlight, I thought he was a decent villain. He had warped values, no concern for human life (and animal life apparently), broke many laws, made deals with the worst of the worst, and did it all for money and power. Pretty villainous for me, but I think a lot of his lines threw a lot of people off his fan wagon.

I have to go with LeChuck as my favorite villain. Not just because he is one of the most evil villains I have ever seen, but also because him and Guybrush are mirror images of each other. Both love treasure and want love from the same woman, both have become pirates to be well known, both like to be feared, and both have no common sense in the slightest. LeChuck is far more evil and sadistic than Guybrush, but both have many similarities making their battle something that cannot be compared with other villains.

I think LeChuck may, very deep in his heart, have gained a slight respect for Guybrush for proving to be such a high threat and more than just a mere annoyance. I mean at the end of Curse, LeChuck seemed to actually enjoy Guybrush's company. Yeah, I know he partly did it to gloat, but he seemed to go an extra mile and talked to Guybrush like an old associate. Well, that was my reaction to that whole long discussion of LeChuck's various murders and schemes.

brian.shapiro · 08/31/2009, 09:40 pm

darknessofheart,

I just hated that whole game. The writers wanted the commercialization thing to be a witty joke, but it completely killed the pirate adventure theme.

darknessofheart · 08/31/2009, 09:54 pm

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Originally Posted by brian.shapiro

darknessofheart,

I just hated that whole game. The writers wanted the commercialization thing to be a witty joke, but it completely killed the pirate adventure theme.

Yeah, I understand that. I actually didn't mind the atmosphere that much and there were a lot of moments where I laughed out loud. I also found the story structure to be very clever and some of plot lines, like clearing your name, very appealing. They did go a little too far with the whole tourist attraction aspect, but they tried something new, it didn't work, and they haven't done it since. It was an honest mistake and it wasn't enough for me to hate the whole game. I thought there were a lot of good aspects that outweighed the bad ones. I can understand your point perfectly though, it was defiantly not a pirate esq game.

Lola_Minnie · 09/01/2009, 12:48 am

Had to pick LeChuck, of course.

Considering so many people like him, it seems near impossible for people to spell LaGrande right.

Farlander · 09/01/2009, 12:54 am

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I just hated that whole game. The writers wanted the commercialization thing to be a witty joke, but it completely killed the pirate adventure theme.

As far as I see it, the only real pirate adventure themed MI games are MI2 and, to some extent, ToMI (if Chapter 2 stuff will be developed further). All other MI games were more like farce on pirate adventure theme. Not that I don't like them, I love the series, but... let's face it, SoMI is not all that piratey. Guybrush did some misdoings, yes, but it's more like a romantic adventure, and all the pirate stuff that is in there: the three trials, pirates not going out to sea, insult swordfighting, it's all pretty much absurd. MI3 - an island full of ex-pirates playing in theater, working as singing barbers and cooking chicken, an island with a hotel resort, and a damn carnival as some kind of evil pirate scheme (I actually liked how Murray said, in EfMI, that LeChuck probably was embarassed by an evil plot based on rollercoasters, it was pretty ironic), and in MI4 we have a swashbuckling adventure to meet Guybrush's wife lawyers, which even in-game Guybrush thinks is kinda absurd, and a tourist commercionalist from Australia. MI games are mostly making fun of pirate adventures, not are pirate adventures themselves (but MI2 was very much piratey, we'll see about ToMI when the season shall end). Maybe MI4 did go slightly too far, I still enjoyed it and don't see it's atmosphere so different from other MI games. Just my two pieces of eight.

Fealiks · 09/01/2009, 01:15 am

I picked LeChuck. The only reason I didn't vote for Morgan is because I think of her as an anti-hero, not a villain.

Cadavre · 09/01/2009, 01:53 am

LeChuck... Do I have to state the obvious? ;(

Hayden · 09/01/2009, 02:27 am

LeChuck! For all of his unrewarded hard work!

View Poll Results: Who si your favorite villain
LeChuck	88	62.86%
Largo largrande	45	32.14%
Bob	6	4.29%
Ozzie Mandrill	3	2.14%
Pegnose Pete	3	2.14%
De Singe	16	11.43%
Morgan Leflay	14	10.00%
Captain Rottingham	17	12.14%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 140. You may not vote on this poll

08/31/2009, 09:34 am	#1
darknessofheart Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Point A to Point B to Point C Posts: 436	Who is your favorite villain in Monkey Island Since we've had a lot of polls for Guybrush's crew and so forth, I'd figure we should have one for the villain. Vote and explain why you picked this villain. Last edited by darknessofheart; 08/31/2009 at 11:10 am.

08/31/2009, 09:41 am	#2
bugzbunny90 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Blood Island Posts: 150	i have a hunch morgan is gonna win by a landslide ...only a hunch ..lets see if i am proven wrong.... __________________ every enemy i ave met i ave annihilated i once found some gold but it was only electroplated

08/31/2009, 09:52 am	#4
coolsome Sam D Coolsome Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: England Posts: 5,971	LeChuck 4 ever ^^ he is the personification of evil __________________

08/31/2009, 12:27 pm	#11
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08/31/2009, 09:46 am	#3
Aise Aise Style Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Italy Posts: 118	Who's Bob?

08/31/2009, 10:00 am	#6
Aise Aise Style Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Italy Posts: 118	Oh, right! Well.. I don't think he's such a villain.. Murray is much more!

08/31/2009, 10:03 am	#7
Altbau Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 30	LeChuck is THE villain, so I can't consider him in this vote. So it goes again to de Singe (see favorite secondary character poll), but some sympathy points also go to Ozzie. Of course everyone piles hate on EMI and all the characters there, but he actually had a motive, apart from the whole amusement park thing. He just genuinely hated pirates and all things piratey, and that came across rather convincing. Won't root for his comeback though.

08/31/2009, 10:34 am	#9
Hawksoul Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3	Well, while LeChuck is important part of Monkey Island series, he is not enough cool to be TOP 1 villain in Monkey Island. Hard Competition goes with between Morgan LeFlay and Captain Rottingham. Both are very cool, but Captain Rottingham was one of the most memorable maincharacters (another one is of course Murray) in Curse of Monkey Island, so he wins.

08/31/2009, 11:12 am	#10
darknessofheart Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Point A to Point B to Point C Posts: 436	I was on the fence of including Murray, but we all have to face the fact that Murray is simply not a villain. He may try to be, but he's not. He's helpful, gives information, is friendly at the bottom of it all, and just has never done anything that villainous. True he once served LeChuck, but he had no choice as LeChuck murdered him and reanimated him. Murray is an awesome character, but he's no villain.

08/31/2009, 12:30 pm	#12
Spadge Not a Guru Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Bulgaria Posts: 832	Pegnose Pete. I wish they gave him a bigger role in EMI. He had potential.

08/31/2009, 09:23 pm	#13
darknessofheart Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Point A to Point B to Point C Posts: 436	Wow, I never realized just how hated Ozzie is. I mean, I knew that a lot of people hated him, but I didn't think it was that extreme. While I didn't appreciate Ozzie taking LeChuck's spotlight, I thought he was a decent villain. He had warped values, no concern for human life (and animal life apparently), broke many laws, made deals with the worst of the worst, and did it all for money and power. Pretty villainous for me, but I think a lot of his lines threw a lot of people off his fan wagon. I have to go with LeChuck as my favorite villain. Not just because he is one of the most evil villains I have ever seen, but also because him and Guybrush are mirror images of each other. Both love treasure and want love from the same woman, both have become pirates to be well known, both like to be feared, and both have no common sense in the slightest. LeChuck is far more evil and sadistic than Guybrush, but both have many similarities making their battle something that cannot be compared with other villains. I think LeChuck may, very deep in his heart, have gained a slight respect for Guybrush for proving to be such a high threat and more than just a mere annoyance. I mean at the end of Curse, LeChuck seemed to actually enjoy Guybrush's company. Yeah, I know he partly did it to gloat, but he seemed to go an extra mile and talked to Guybrush like an old associate. Well, that was my reaction to that whole long discussion of LeChuck's various murders and schemes. Last edited by darknessofheart; 08/31/2009 at 09:28 pm.

08/31/2009, 09:40 pm	#14
brian.shapiro Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 114	darknessofheart, I just hated that whole game. The writers wanted the commercialization thing to be a witty joke, but it completely killed the pirate adventure theme.

09/01/2009, 12:48 am	#16
Lola_Minnie Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 47	Had to pick LeChuck, of course. Considering so many people like him, it seems near impossible for people to spell LaGrande right.

09/01/2009, 01:15 am	#18
Fealiks Adolescent Caucasian Male Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: England Posts: 1,507	I picked LeChuck. The only reason I didn't vote for Morgan is because I think of her as an anti-hero, not a villain. __________________ My webcomic

09/01/2009, 01:53 am	#19
Cadavre Monkey Maniac Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Sweden Posts: 33	LeChuck... Do I have to state the obvious? ;(

09/01/2009, 02:27 am	#20
Hayden ...is procrastinating Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 3,486	LeChuck! For all of his unrewarded hard work! __________________ Read that instead ^.

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