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Guybrush ThreepwoodGuybrush Threepwood is the main character of the Monkey Island computer games. Story A child abandoned by his parents, Guybrush appears as a teenaged wannabe pirate in the original game, where he fell in love with governor Elaine Marley and this brought him in confrontation to the evil ghost pirate LeChuck. He finally vanquished LeChuck's ghost form and after he became a pirate he started looking for the treasure Big Whoop. But he accidentally gave Largo LaGrande, LeChuck's former main henchman, the LeChuck's ghost beard he got from his victory to prove him that he was the ghost pirate's defeater, thus mistakingly helping him to ressurect his body. During his quest he re-established connections with Elaine, but on his second confrontation with LeChuck at the end of the second game, the players came to the surprise that the two enemies were apparently in fact brothers and all the story was a fantasy happening in a thematic park, and Guybrush is only a kid. On the third game we learn that in reality he was held for 5 years imprisoned in an illusional trap, known as the Carnival of the Damned (even the brother revelation was an illusion). After defeating LeChuck for the third time, he finally marries Elaine, and changes his name to Threepwood-Marley. LeChuck returned again in the fourth game, with the help of Australian entrepreneur Ozzie Mandrill. Trivia Guybrush is voiced by the actor Dominic Armato in the third and fourth games. Guybrush grows a beard in the second game, but loses it in the third and fourth games (claiming that he shaves it). His name is jokingly complex and it is a running joke when characters mock him or try to pronounce it correct (Gibberish Driftwood, Guybrush Peepwood, Guybrush Nosehair, Gorbush Threekwood etc). The origin of this name is that when the game designers drew the sprite in Deluxe Paint, they named the saved file 'guy', which took the extension '.brush', forming thus the filename 'Guy.brush'. As for Threepwood, it was the name of Dave Grossman's RPG character and was picked through voting. The name comes from the book "The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood" (US title). (Also, as pointed out through an encounter with a "Mancomb Seepgood" character in the first game, "Guybrush" doubles as a clever play on "Mancomb." Guy/Man, Brush/Comb. That doesn't prevent Seepgood from mocking Guybrush's name.) Guybrush is famous for being able to hold his breath for 10 minutes, which he likes to mention on every occasion. This fact has prevented some game-overs in the games and allows the player to have some underwater action without worrying for saving and restore (unless if the player really waits that long, which leads to the only way to kill Guybrush for good in the first game). In the third and fourth games, he is repelled by porcelain, an apparent spoof on Indiana Jones' hate of snakes. The reason is not clearly explained in the story, but it is believed it originates after a fight he had with the Sheriff, back in the first game (where he used a porcelain vase which eventually smashed). Other notes Comparisons have been drawn between Guybrush and Roger Wilco, as they are both naive and misunderstood popular-wannabe heroes. Elaine calls Guybrush "Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood" in the fourth game when he tries to drink canned grog; it is still unknown if "Ulysses" is really his middle name or if Elaine is just lecturing him with sarcasm by nicknaming him the name of a mythological hero (since he is forbidden by her to drink grog when not "all of his deeds are finished"). It's believed that he was the basis of Will Turner, the bumbling pirate-in-training of Pirates of the Caribbean. Threepwood, Guybrush
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