Guybrush Threepwood

Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood is the main character of the Monkey Island games.

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Initially a wannabe pirate in the original game, 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 gave Largo LaGrande the LeChuck's ghost beard 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 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 Carnival of the Damned. After defeating LeChuck for the third time, he finally marries Elaine, and changes his name to Threepwood-Marley.

Guybrush is voiced by the actor Dominic Armato in the third and fourth games.

Guybrush has a beard in the second game, but loses it in the third and fourth games.

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 an RPG character and was picked through voting.

Guybrush is famous for being able to hold his breath for 10 minutes, which he likes to remind 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.

In the third and fourth games, he is repelled by porcelain, a 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 Sherrif, back in the first game.