| “ | I am Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate! | „ |
| ~ Guybrush Threepwood |
Summary
Guybrush Threepwood is the main protagonist of the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games by LucasArts. He was an awkward teenager whose sole ambition in life was to be a pirate. His primary talent is the ability to hold his breath for ten minutes and he certainly appears to be an unlikely candidate to be a buccaneer. He does exhibit plenty of persistence, however, and doggedly attempts to complete the three trials of piratehood.
In the course of exploring Mêlée Island, Guybrush meets and immediately falls in love with the Tri-Island Area's governor, Elaine Marley. Guybrush is not the only one interested in Marley, however. The ghost pirate LeChuck has long been smitten with her; Elaine, however, does not return his affection. She told him to 'drop dead', so he did. When the villain kidnaps Elaine, Guybrush is compelled to try to rescue her from LeChuck's lair on Monkey Island. She proved capable of protecting herself, easily escaping LeChuck's clutches. Guybrush, improbably enough, managed to destroy the ghost pirate LeChuck and became a fearsome pirate himself.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-B, possibly higher
Name: Guybrush "Ulysses" Marley-Threepwood (full name), Smith, Juicious Maximus the Third, The Phlegm Master
Origin: Monkey Island
Gender: Male
Age: 17,[1], 19,[2] 20,[3][4] 27[5]
Classification: Human, Pirate, Captain
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Martial Arts (Trained in the arts of Monkey Kombat[4])
- Weapon Mastery (Is a master swordsman and can also utilize guns[3])
- Vehicular Mastery (Good at navigating while sailing on the sea. Was able to pilot the Ultimate Insult, a giant monkey robot[4])
- Acrobatics (Hypermobility; Did some acrobat tricks on a diving contest[4])
- Dimensional Storage (Can store unlimited amounts of objects in his pants at once, including a wooden log, a sword, a telescope, a cannon ball, a banana picker,[1] a large dog, Jojo the Monkey, a heavy monkey figurehead's head[2] and a ramrod[3] without feeling weighted down)
- Immortality (Type 2; Survived having his Pox of LeChuck-infected hand cut off, replaced it with a hook that he can use to pick locks[6] and later on getting a new one[7])
- 4th Wall Awareness (Often talks directly to the player and shown to be aware of the fourth wall. Joked about the game's price in a ending after defeating LeChuck. Asked Cobb about LOOM.[1][7] Called LucasArts' hint line on the phone and complained about a "missing disk on the stump" joke from the previous game. Told the player to not adjust their set when a screen turned red after he was knocked unconscious upon falling while climbing a tree.[2] Initiated a fake ending on the game by pretending to be dead.[3] Convinced a guy to throw his dart at the player, breaking their monitor's screen. Told the player to be thankful the game doesn't simulate smells once when entering the Bait Shoppe on Lucre Island[4])
- Social Influencing
- Deception - Can effectively disarm his opponent off their weapon with comeback taunts, even being capable of opposing Carla the Sword Master and René Rottingham's unique arsenals of their own insults.[1][3] Used the word "orange" to get some pirates in his crew back to work during their rhyming song.[3] Deceived the game into thinking he died and initiated a fake ending, only to undo it later after telling it he's not.[3]
- Charisma - Is shown to be charismatic as he was able to flatter his way through Elaine Marley, a tough governess even after putting her dogs to sleep and being an intruder in her mansion.[1]
- Enhanced Reflexes (Managed to react while having his back turned[2])
- Acausality (Type 1; Can interact with his past and future selves in a time loop[4])
- Energy Manipulation and Projection (Can shoot energy balls from his hands[4])
- Non-Standard Breathing (Type 2; Can stay underwater for 10 minutes,[1] even while diving an incredible distance down into the ocean to reach a shipwreck[2])
- Invisibility (Can make himself invisible via Navigator's Necklace[1])
- Resurrection (Can temporarily resurrect a dead person's ashes for short periods of time via Ash-2-Life[2])
- Empathic Manipulation (Can magically force people into romantic feelings via Love Bomb[2])
- Explosion Manipulation (With a Mini-Bomb, which he hid in some underwear on a clothesline to blow a pirate off of a ship[5])
- Magic and Pain Manipulation (Via voodoo magic/doll, though Guybrush needs preparation time[2])
- Body Puppetry (Maimed LeChuck and tore his leg by ripping apart his voodoo doll[2])
- Purification (Type 3 to Age Manipulation; Created a disgusting snowcone as the cure to LeChuck's curse that turned him into a kid[3])
- Durability Negation and Non-Physical Interaction (Can completely destroy ghosts via Root Beer[1])
- Pain Tolerance (Endured being shocked, bent in two and having his neck twisted an incredible amount due to LeChuck using a voodoo doll[2] )
- Resistances to:
- Extreme Heat (Went through the interior of a volcano and wasn't bothered by the volcanic heat without using any heat-proof gear.[1] Kept up a burning coal using his feet before kicking it to light the fuse on a cannon.[4] His pockets are capable of holding a bucket of hot coals[8])
- Limited Acid and Corrosion (Drank grog[2] and downed a tankard without issue.[9] Grog is described as being one of the most caustic and volatile liquids known to man, with it being made of sulfuric/battery acid and constantly eating through the bar's mugs, even instantly melting through a jail's lock[1])
Attack Potency: Wall level, possibly higher (Warped a bank vault's steel door by breaking it's hinge with an old sword and using it as a lever in the crack.[4] Cut the head off a skeleton.[6] Beat up a disguised LeChuck.[1] Comparable to characters, who are capable of harming him)
Speed: Peak Human (Quickly nailed shut a coffin with Stan inside[2]) with Supersonic combat and reaction speed (Quickly ducked down when a guard shot his pistol[2])
Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Casually pushed a big rock off a cliff, destroying a pirate ship in process.[1] Removed a large monkey figurehead's head before carrying it around in his jacket without issue.[2] Shifted a large statue chunk to free Elaine[8])
Striking Strength: Wall level, possibly higher
Durability: Wall level (Was kicked through a wall by a yak.[1] Survived a gunpowder barrel explosion that sent him flying away and capsized LeChuck's ship.[5] Also survived being blasted through a wooden door when a cannon got back-fired that require this much,[3] and into the cabin door after being thrown by LeChuck.[10] Was sent flying into the air long distances by LeChuck's uppercuts.[1] Survived repeatedly falling off the cliff of a small mountain onto solid rock.[8] Fell an incredible distance and crashed through concrete. Withstood standing on a bundle of dynamite that blew up a huge amount of concrete[2]), possibly higher (Survived an enormous explosion in a chamber full of dynamite that completely destroyed LeChuck's fortress[2])
Stamina: Superhuman (Can hold his breath underwater for 10 minutes.[1] Managed to hang onto a rope while holding the Big Whoop's chest for three days[2])
Range: Standard Melee Range; Extended Melee Range with his cutlass; Several to Tens of Meters with energy projection and other weapons/items
Standard Equipment: His cutlass, pistol, etc.
- Optional Equipment: Various other items
Intelligence: Gifted (Despite having claimed that he dropped out of college, Guybrush possesses a razor-sharp wit and clever thinking, allowing him to get out of dire situations. Can solve multiple puzzles and read long passages of literature and pronounce extremely complex words/phrases without having to think about it or sound it out. Great at improvising as he once defeated LeChuck by combining random items from the abandoned warehouse to make a voodoo doll.[2] Managed to escape from being imprisoned on numerous occasions. Often finds unorthodox ways to pass challenges like shooting an opponent's banjo in a duel,[3] wearing a dunce hat to create a bigger splash in a diving contest[4] and distracted a judge to move a marker in order to win a spitting contest.[2] Able to disarm enemies by using comeback taunts.[1][3] Very capable of piloting a giant monkey robot.[4] Once deceived the game itself into thinking he's dead and initiated a fake ending.[3] Capable of using predestination paradoxes in order to help him escape being lost, as shown when he used a simple note in Lucre Island to help him travel through time, interacting with his future self and exchanging items to help navigate through a misty march, finishing the loop later with his past self[4])
Weaknesses: Normal human weaknesses.
Notable Matchups
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991)
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 Escape from Monkey Island (2000)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Tales of Monkey Island (2009) - Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tales of Monkey Island (2009) - Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Return to Monkey Island (2022)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Tales of Monkey Island (2009) - Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
- ↑ Tales of Monkey Island (2009) - Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood
- ↑ Tales of Monkey Island (2009) - Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God
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