About Morgan at the end of Ch 5.

MLFMLF
edited February 2010 in Tales of Monkey Island
:DHello,well this is my first post and its about Morgan Le Flay, the pirate hunter...

-The Questions :confused::
1)In the end, could she return to her body?
2)Do you think she didnt have to die?

I think that she didnt had to die,and i didnt like very much the end of the game... but i cant say that the game isnt great.

Thanks,MFL!

*excuse my bad english, but it is not my lenguage
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  • edited January 2010
    I know its been a while now since chapter 5 but I dont think its such a good idea to put a spoiler in the title of a thread. There may be some people who havn't finished it yet.
  • edited January 2010
    I think Morgan had to die, to really emphasize lechucks evilness. Without her death, Ch4 wouldn't have been nearly as good dramatically, and ch5 just wouldn't be the same.
  • edited January 2010
    1 - I think it's possible that she could get her body back, but I think it would either involve her having to work with the Voodoo Lady, or Guybrush having to do it on her (Morgan's) behalf. I would really like to see her returned to life, but having her as a ghost could be interesting. (I'd really like to see how she can still be a fearsome pirate hunter without the ability to touch anything in the physical world)

    2 - Given that Morgan's sacrifice was essential to Guybrush opening the Crossroads, yes, I think she did have to die for the sake of the plot. If she hadn't, then I don't know who Guybrush could have found in the Crossroads who'd have been willing to make the necessary sacrifice for him. Also, I think the cutscene where Guybrush finds her in DeSinge's lab is one of the best in all of Tales just because it's so dramatic and unexpected.
  • MLFMLF
    edited January 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    I know its been a while now since chapter 5 but I dont think its such a good idea to put a spoiler in the title of a thread. There may be some people who havn't finished it yet.

    Sory about the title :S

    Well,thanks for the coments.

    PD:Do you think that she is going to come back in season 2?,it would be great:cool::guybrush:
  • edited January 2010
    1)In the end, could she return to her body?
    Guybrush did it, and the Voodoo Lady probably has her body, so I'd say it's possible.
    2)Do you think she didnt have to die?
    She got killed while getting Guybrush's hand. If she had succeeded, that probably wouldn't have been very useful to him, and I suspect she decided to do it after drinking to much to drown her sorrow over Guybrush being very angry at her, so yeah, she prebably didn't have to die.
    But at the end of chapter 5, how dead is she really? She's back in the world of the living, walking, talking, swashbuckling, etc. I'd say that's more alive than dead.

    Also, you misspelled you username.
  • edited January 2010
    Friar wrote: »
    I think Morgan had to die, to really emphasize lechucks evilness. Without her death, Ch4 wouldn't have been nearly as good dramatically, and ch5 just wouldn't be the same.

    Yeah cause Lechuck stabbing Guybrush in the chest and harnessing the powers of esponja doesn't show his evilness at all. I'll admit it it did make an interesting story to kill off Morgan, but I was sad to see it. Personally I'm rooting to see her in the future and maybe will be true to her word that she won't cause anymore trouble for Guybrush.
  • edited January 2010
    OMG MORGAN DIES, now I will never be able to finish the game I love her. *Sarcasm*
  • edited January 2010
    I believe you did this thread to piss off any newcomers who wanted to know about the series.
  • edited January 2010
    Sif there's still any newcomers by now. Everyone has already played it.
  • edited January 2010
    Did you call me... Sif? WHY? WHEN WAS I ASSIGNED A NICKNAME? ???
  • edited January 2010
    Thanks for spoiling episode 5 for me. And tomarrow was when it would come out for wiiware.
  • edited January 2010
    I changed the title for you. Wiiware folk are yet to get CH5, and so I changed it for that reason.
  • edited January 2010
    Geez, some people seem to be bit touchy today. While he did forget to use spoilers tag, it's generally good idea to avoid reading too many threads about the game if you haven't completed the episode yet while everyone and their mother has finished it several times. People often reveal information accidentally during the discussion.

    And yes personally I think that
    death and resurrection of Morgan LeFlay
    was one of the best plot elements in the late game.
  • edited January 2010
    The original title of the topic was "Morgan dies", which I think is what people were so annoyed about.
  • edited January 2010
    But... Morgan died in Episode 4! Was it the fact that she stays dead that was spoiled or what?
  • edited January 2010
    But... Morgan died in Episode 4! Was it the fact that she stays dead that was spoiled or what?
    Pretty much.

    But just a little notice for all those who speculate the title: Morgan died in ep.4, so that's not a spoiler for Wii players anymore.

    It's just one of them general spoilers for those who didn't awesome themselves to experience Tales yet =)
  • edited February 2010
    -The Questions :
    1)In the end, could she return to her body?
    2)Do you think she didnt have to die?
    strange questions... did you see video after titers in the end of Ch5?
  • edited February 2010
    Jen Kollic wrote: »
    (I'd really like to see how she can still be a fearsome pirate hunter without the ability to touch anything in the physical world)

    Oh damn, you just uncovered a pretty big plothole there. WHY can't Guybrush touch anything in the physical world, when NONE of the pirates in SOMI had trouble touching anything in the physical world? And certainly, LeChuck had quite a punch as a ghost, something which Guybrush physically experienced.
  • edited February 2010
    Maybe Guybrush is just a bad ghost...?
  • edited February 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    Oh damn, you just uncovered a pretty big plothole there. WHY can't Guybrush touch anything in the physical world, when NONE of the pirates in SOMI had trouble touching anything in the physical world? And certainly, LeChuck had quite a punch as a ghost, something which Guybrush physically experienced.

    Maybe LeChuck and his ghosts could do that because of all of his voodoo powers or maybe he could because he knew The Secret of the Monkey Island™. Or maybe it's because Guybrush wasn't ghost long enough to figure out how to touch real objects.

    I don't know what is the correct answer, but it's obvious that LeChuck was more powerful ghost than Guybrush was.
  • edited February 2010
    So you're saying that the LeChuck is... Patrick Swayzie? And the Voodoo Lady is... Whoopie Goldberg?
  • edited February 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    So you're saying that the LeChuck is... Patrick Swayzie? And the Voodoo Lady is... Whoopie Goldberg?

    Actually, Guybrush would be Patrick Swayze, before getting help from that train ghost(Lechuck). Oh, and Elaine is Demi Moore?
  • edited February 2010
    StarEye wrote: »
    Oh damn, you just uncovered a pretty big plothole there. WHY can't Guybrush touch anything in the physical world, when NONE of the pirates in SOMI had trouble touching anything in the physical world? And certainly, LeChuck had quite a punch as a ghost, something which Guybrush physically experienced.

    Maybe it's because the Voodoo Lady brought LeChuck back (And Morgan) and gave them more power in the process, while Guybrush didn't have a voodoo license and came back as a very weak ghost.
  • edited February 2010
    Or perhaps it has to do with LeChuck becoming a ghost by passing through Big Whoop, which gave him more power, which he shared with his crew after killing them.
  • edited February 2010
    You guys are all forgetting the fact that LeChuck did not die unwillingly, like any of the other characters. He willingly sacrificed himself upon finding Big Whoop (which was a gateway to Hell/Crossroads), thou one passing Big Whoop does return (remember what happened to his rollercoaster ride passengers?) as undead, just not the same kind as Guybrush.

    LeChuck returned as a ghost, however because he was part of Big Whoop, he was granted physical tangibility, different form and the ability to transform humans into his minions (a weird thing, thou, he didn't do it with Guybrush in the first place - guess he just wanted to have fun =) ), which do not visit the Crossroads, but simply become skeletons. And skeletons are physically tangible.

    Does that cover up your whining, you plothole haters? =)
  • edited February 2010
    Uzrname wrote: »
    the ability to transform humans into his minions (a weird thing, thou, he didn't do it with Guybrush in the first place

    He did, but Guybrush escaped with the help from Elaine. Not explained in the game, due to time restriction. But there was supposed to be a cutscene showing how he ended up in the rollercoster ride. Elaine managed to make the rollercoaster go in an endless circle and not straight into molten lava, like it was supposed to. Search for CMI missing cutscene, and you'll see early concept art for the cutscene.

    EDIT: also, Big Whoop being the gateway to the crossroads/hell is only speculation. Theories, no more no less. So it could still be considered a plothole.
  • edited February 2010
    I actually still don't understand why LeChuck "had" to kill Morgan or for what reason he'd been to De Singe's lab as the game finishes without a hint of a connection between LeChuck's plans and those of De Singe. I remember reading that the "reattaching Guybrush's hand" business was discontinued, or, "simplified" as we see in the ending sequence.

    Granted, LeChuck does not always need a good reason to kill people, but it would still be interesting to know for what intentions he went to DeSinge's lab and why he would show Morgan his true face while still acting "nice guy" to the rest of the world in his human form.

    Could they have been fighting over Guybrush's hand?

    Did it occur to you that the Voodoo Lady possesses a LOT of dead tissue now with Guybrush's and Morgan's body (or at least Guybrush's hand)? Combined with the bottled evilness of LeChuck and his charming belt buckle, I wonder if she's up to something..."creative"...
  • edited February 2010
    I had assumed that LeChuck had killed Morgan because Jacques 'told' her about how LeChuck had hypnotised all those monkeys for a nefarious plan. It's not clear how much Morgan actually knew/had understood, (she only speaks a little monkey after all) she might not have known that LeChuck was going to use the hypnotised monkeys to make the Crossroads appear, but she must have learned enough for LeChuck to want her dead. (but as already mentioned, does he ever need an excuse to kill people?) And maybe he was in DeSinge's lab because he was trying to catch Jaques in order to hypnotise him as well.
    Mermaid wrote: »
    Did it occur to you that the Voodoo Lady possesses a LOT of dead tissue now with Guybrush's and Morgan's body (or at least Guybrush's hand)? Combined with the bottled evilness of LeChuck and his charming belt buckle, I wonder if she's up to something..."creative"...

    ...that is one of the most terrifying mental images I have ever had. *shudders*
  • edited February 2010
    Maybe LeChuck decided that if he turned himself in, there was a chance he would be executed immediatly, but somehow he had learned of the jus de vie and decided to get some just in case. However when he enters De Singe's lab, Morgan is looking for Guybrush's hand there, and as far as LeChuck knows, she's a dangerous pirate hunter who's working for DeSinge and probably there to protect his lab.
  • edited February 2010
    apenpaap wrote: »
    Maybe LeChuck decided that if he turned himself in, there was a chance he would be executed immediatly, but somehow he had learned of the jus de vie and decided to get some just in case.

    I don't understand what at all you're talking about. LeChuck's whole plan from the start was to get a hold of La Esponja and use it to obtain enough Voodoo power to both become unstoppable and to force Elaine to marry him.

    Why would he "turn himself in" to get executed? The reason why he turned himself in was to get Guybrush back to working on the sponge. Why would he care about jus de vie? LeChuck wants the mature sponge, he doesn't care about the pox.
  • edited February 2010
    In fact... you're all wrong.

    LeChuck's plan, once on Flotsam, was to do two things: 1) find the Voodoo Lady's journal and 2) get rid of Morgan. The first part gets executed when Elaine challenges Morgan in Club 41, partially dismissing the court session at same time. For the second part, LeChuck then lures Morgan into De Singe's lab to tell her that Guybrush doesn't care for her, but she jumps on him and they start fighting. So to insure his own safety, LeChuck impales Morgan with her own sword and jumps out the window, just in time to reach the courthouse.

    The rest is what you all saw.
  • edited February 2010
    I was also thinking he tried to frame DeSinge for it, but for what reason I don't know. Get Guybrush to eliminate the evil competition?
  • edited February 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    I don't understand what at all you're talking about. LeChuck's whole plan from the start was to get a hold of La Esponja and use it to obtain enough Voodoo power to both become unstoppable and to force Elaine to marry him.

    Why would he "turn himself in" to get executed? The reason why he turned himself in was to get Guybrush back to working on the sponge. Why would he care about jus de vie? LeChuck wants the mature sponge, he doesn't care about the pox.

    Yes he only turned himself in so Guybrush could get the sponge to grow, but it would have been quite possible that judge Grindstump would just say "Well, we have a confession, so let's proceed with the execution!" before Guybrush had time to grow the sponge. In that case, having some jus de vie would come in very handy.
  • edited February 2010
    Uzrname wrote: »
    In fact... you're all wrong.

    LeChuck's plan, once on Flotsam, was to do two things: 1) find the Voodoo Lady's journal and 2) get rid of Morgan.

    Why would he care about Morgan? They had no prior encounter earlier in the game. I think he killed her just because he can.
  • edited February 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Why would he care about Morgan? They had no prior encounter earlier in the game. I think he killed her just because he can.
    He found out about Morgan when Elaine engaged her in swordfight. He was nearby, but quickly ran off when it happened. Then he decided that Morgan could've turned Guybrush away from Elaine, hence ruining his plan. And initially LeChuck planned that Elaine, once turned evil, would destroy Guybrush with her own hands, since he would be showing little or not resistance to her in that case.
    But with Morgan on stage Guybrush could've lost it. And this is why he lured Morgan in the lab and killed her, at the same time framing De Singe.

    LeChuck is one smart devil, believe me. He overcame any doubts about his stupidity this time.
  • edited February 2010
    I don't know, I still think LeChuck killed Morgan because she found out about his nefarious plans involving monkeys. To me, it would make more sense for LeChuck *not* to kill her, because then he could try and use her as a wedge between Guybrush and Elaine. If you let him chase you around his ship for long enough in Rise of the Pirate God, he does ask "Does Elaine know about Morgan?" (where Elaine can hear him) and goes on to talk about how she was totally in love with Guybrush and it was a pity he had to kill her.
  • edited February 2010
    Jen Kollic wrote: »
    I don't know, I still think LeChuck killed Morgan because she found out about his nefarious plans involving monkeys. To me, it would make more sense for LeChuck *not* to kill her, because then he could try and use her as a wedge between Guybrush and Elaine. If you let him chase you around his ship for long enough in Rise of the Pirate God, he does ask "Does Elaine know about Morgan?" (where Elaine can hear him) and goes on to talk about how she was totally in love with Guybrush and it was a pity he had to kill her.
    Ok, well, then did she find out about LeChuck's plan with monkeys? And why was it at De Singe's lab?
  • edited February 2010
    I think you're all searching to hard for evil motives. I think he just killed her because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • edited February 2010
    Uzrname wrote: »
    Ok, well, then did she find out about LeChuck's plan with monkeys? And why was it at De Singe's lab?

    My theory is that she went to DeSinge's lab to take Guybrush's hand back from him. One of the things she says to Guybrush before he leaves Club 41 once he's given the voodoo summons to Elaine is "But what if I-" then Guybrush cuts her off before she can finish the sentence. I think what she was going to say is 'but what if I get your hand back?'

    So she goes to DeSinge's, but instead of finding Guybrush's hand she finds Jacques, who tells her about LeChuck's plan involving hypnotised monkeys. After Guybrush finds her in DeSinge's she does say that she found Jacques and that he told her something. She doesn't manage to tell Guybrush exactly what it was that Jacques told her, but she does tell him "don't trust LeChuck, he hypnotised a bunch of monkeys and ran me through with my own blade." (that's what her unintelligible last words are, though Guybrush hears 'DeSinge is a schmuck, when he got thirsty he killed me for some lemonade')

    Now, why LeChuck turned up at DeSinge's I don't know, unless he was looking for Jacques so that he could hypnotise him as well, because in Rise of the Pirate God Jacques has the weird eye thing going on that all the hypnotised monkeys have.
  • edited February 2010
    Ok, and how did LeChuck find out that Jacques bragged his plan to Morgan while he was off to find the journal?
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