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.'.

The ridiculous nature of the latter name is a running joke throughout the series. Take the main duo Elaine Marley and Guybrush Threepwood.

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

In Curse (the first without either creator Ron Gilbert nor orig artist Steve Purcell), the developers assumed that the intended color was plain blond based on the first game's graphics, and as a result, it was canonised as such from then on. As a result, in Secret, his hair is lighter than intended, and in Revenge, it is darker than intended.

His hair was meant to be reddish blond (as seen on the first game's cover and in close-ups), but the first game did not have the capability to display the exact shade on character sprites - especially as it had to be ported for several, lower res systems.

His 'cartoon' incarnation is a clean-cut older teen ◊. In the second he has brown hair and a beard.

In the first game, 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 Curse, she has red hair and blue eyes. In the older 256-color upgrade of Secret and in LeChuck's Revenge it's brown.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Elaine has black hair in the original 16-color version of Secret.

Accidental Misnaming: Characters using random variations of Guybrush Threepwood but rarely the proper name is a Running Gag.

Three games later, he returns to the area and finds the grave of that monkey, and is told that it waited patiently for him to return until it starved to death.

Absurdly Dedicated Worker: In The Secret of Monkey Island Guybrush trains a monkey to hold down a switch so that he can enter a giant monkey head totem and descend into the underworld.

Absurd Phobia: Guybrush has a crippling unexplained fear of porcelain.

Note: Please put tropes related to individual games on their respective pages, and character tropes in the character page. Telltale Games had similar luck getting the license to do future seasons of their Tales series before they closed in 2018, hence leaving their revival as a once-off. While they have kept the older games up for sale and some of the older adventure game IPs have been sold off, efforts by series creator Ron Gilbert to purchase the Monkey Island rights have been fruitless for several years. They promptly shut the entire developer down. Unfortunately, the franchise seems dead at the moment - due to the acquisition of LucasArts by Disney in 2012, the IP became their property.

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