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LeChuck - as seen in Monkey Island 1-4
Initially, Monkey Island’s signature baddie was just an angry ghost pirate stalking a girl who didn’t like him. It’s frankly astonishing how much oft-revised backstory the purportedly silly point-’n’-click adventures have since managed to shoehorn in. Whatever his past, his present seems to be climbing the ladder of evil: he’s escalated from ghost to zombie to demon, so perhaps he’ll be a Nazi or an advertising executive in the next game. One thing’s for sure: he’s both partial and allergic to voodoo, which in each game has been central to his latest cunning plan and his eventual defeat. He’s also one of very few villains to have emerged triumphant at the end of a game, trapping his nemesis Guybrush Threepwood in a demonic pastiche of Disney World at the end of Monkey Island 2.
