How does LeChuck compare to other villains in your opinion. Possible Spoilers
LeChuck has often been regarded as a comical villain, which is certainly true, but he has also done many things that other villains have never done before. All the murders and torture he does in the series really does pile up as the series progresses, especially in Tales.
I personally think LeChuck is one of the sickest and twisted villains out there, albeit comical. So my main question is this: How evil do you think LeChuck is when compared to other villains out there such as Ganondorf, Voldemort, Xehanort, Bowser, and whoever else? In terms of just being a character, how would you rank him?
I personally think LeChuck is one of the sickest and twisted villains out there, albeit comical. So my main question is this: How evil do you think LeChuck is when compared to other villains out there such as Ganondorf, Voldemort, Xehanort, Bowser, and whoever else? In terms of just being a character, how would you rank him?
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Everything in Monkey Island has a comedic bent, and so while LeChuck is a sick and twisted villain, he too is going to have a comedic bent.
In Secret he's a bit comical, but mostly menacing, and truly evil when the dramatic need comes up. In LeChuck's Revenge, he's absolutely brutal.
Tales did a really good job of going back to a more Secret/Revenge characterization of the character in Chapter 5. I loved it.
But the take Tales go by on LeChuck seems different indeed. In this game he's not as tyrannical and sadistically peculiar as he is vicious and a bit insane, shall I say. When they wanted us to believe that he actually planned the whole turning into human thing himself, him, having usually been portrayed somewhat dull in previous installments, you can only say that he has a certain urge of spreading evil that he is never quite satiable with. And by this, he is ready to do whatever it takes to get rid of Guybrush, even if he has to pretend being of good faith for a while.
So to sum all this up, I think that LeChuck is evil, but so evil that it actually makes him less of a villain he could've been if he'd cared less about his own vileness and more about bringing doom and all that jazz to others (what does Murray, btw, but without the body his whole persona is just a tongue-in-cheek reference to an actual villain).
Dunno if that answers your question. I love to... talk... sometime.
It was just Guybrush messing up... again!
Correction: he looks absolutely brutal. That wedgie shoved twelve degrees of fear down the drain (or up the drain, as the case may be).
I like the Curse one. He always talks about having done evil things, but is nice enough to spare you the image.
The Tales one could be scary when he wanted to be.
I don't think LeChuck would ever do that.
I do think he's evil enough in Curse, though. It's just that you don't really see as much of him and what he did to all the miscellaneous people.
He was playing nice guy in most of Tales, but in the last chapter I think they managed to make him menacing enough.
Everything considered, he talks a lot more about evil things he's done in Curse than in LeChuck's Revenge. And if the game made you give him a wedgie, then any fear you have of him is gone.
Anyways, yes, he is scary, but also a buffoon - in all the games. It's not the games themselves, it's the character.
He has pillaged, plundered, and destroyed and has murdered thousands and thousands of people by the time tales roles around. He obviously does not care who he kills as we have seen that he has killed both men and women, children who knows at this point. At any rate, if you just look at a few of those items and it's really hard to say that he's not up there with the worst of the worst. LeChuck murders more and talks more of murder than most villains do
Whose pancreas did he rip out?
He's not that bad compared to some other villains. Palpatine enslaved an entire galaxy and comitted genocide against billions. Sauron murdered and tortured millions over the course of thousands of years. Gul Dukat betrayed his people to the Dominion, who eventually killed 800 million of them and started a war that swept the entire alpha quadrant.
Though he's probably worse than most Bond-villains.
Also, I think monkeys are easier to gather than an Esponja from a killer Leviathan...
Yes, well, I still believe he played all along. Because if he were to not know he became human, the first thing he'd do is still force Elaine to marry him or steal her or something, whether he was human or not. But considering he had this plan all along, he knew perfectly well what he was doing when he started being nice to Elaine (and everybody in particular).
(I'm drawing from my immense TV Tropes knowledge here) In observing a villain, we need to look at how much danger they pose, how effective they are it, and how much we're supposed to hate them. And honestly that... sort of changes from game to game for LeChuck. He was more comical in Curse and Escape, and his plans were less direct (putting us on a death roller coaster just doesn't have the same feel as punching us across Melee Island...), whereas in Revenge, Tales, and to an extent Secret, he was definitely more menacing.
The scary thing about LeChuck in Tales was that we didn't know if he was good or not, which made us (general us here, not everyone, obviously) paranoid that he was going to pull one over on us. But it was always possible that he wouldn't, so we had no idea how much of a threat he posed. I don't really know if we're supposed to hate LeChuck. I think it's more that we're supposed to find him funny sometimes, but understand that he can get serious and deadly when he wants to.
So no, he doesn't want to take over the world, or destroy the world, for that matter. But, as mentioned earlier, he DID kill many people, plunder towns, and terrorize the Caribbean for significant periods of time. It's evil on a different scale than villains the likes of Voldemort or Bowser, but... it's still evil.
Damn, Guybrush sure bugged him a lot... Like those noisy neighbors you always have next door.
For me, LeChuck's Tales incarnation is definitely the most menacing he's been since LCR, mainly on account of his casual and straightforward murder of Guybrush in Episode 4 (no elaborate deathtraps this time!) and the fight with him at the end of Episode 5. But by far, his most menacing incarnation in my opinion was in LCR. I was genuinely terrified of him in that game, to the extent that he gave me nightmares. (I was 12!) I would play through the entire game then switch it off after falling into the pit on Dinky Island because I was too scared of the part where he chases you around the tunnels. Sad but true.
Also, he was pretty happy. He was in a great mood, and it was just one of those good days to be dead.
He did it to Allegro Rasputin from Escape while he was still alive.
One thing that I would like to mention is that LeChuck does indeed want to conquer the world, or at least the seas. Someone had mentioned that LeChuck doesn't want to do so, but Tales has confirmed that he does as Guybrush stated “They’re going to take over the world together”. I always hated when people said that LeChuck solely wanted Elaine's hand in marriage. While that may be on the top of his list, he still wants ultimate power and complete control over all the seas. Tales confirms this and we saw just how horrible a world he can make in just a few hours. He is still a pirate after all and wants power, wealth, and a powerful army at his control in addition to the woman he is obsessed with at his side.