You know, I like the IDEA of Ozzie Mandrill...
...I just felt like they overdid the insult games and Worf effect. The idea of a villain whose greatest scheme is cultural assimilation that can defeat his opponents by confusing them with obscure slang strikes me as a decent enough addition to the MI universe.
The big thing they need to fix is have him be rivals with LeChuck, and have it be an intense, close rivalry, rather than LeChuck acting as Ozzie's flunky.
Also, Admiral Casaba strikes me as someone who could make a pretty good Lawful Evil enforcer.
The big thing they need to fix is have him be rivals with LeChuck, and have it be an intense, close rivalry, rather than LeChuck acting as Ozzie's flunky.
Also, Admiral Casaba strikes me as someone who could make a pretty good Lawful Evil enforcer.
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Hey, I actually really like that idea - I feel that it would have worked much better. Because, think about it, LeChuck and Ozzie really are two very different characters, so it would have felt a bit more natural if they were to be scheming separately and, like you said, have their plans coincide with one another.
Also, on a semi-unrelated note, I learned the word 'trollop' off of Ozzie.
He chases after mythical things like Big Whoop, has a Carnival on Monkey Island...
He's a idiot, never had a brilliant master mind plan, let alone one that actually makes any real sense.
Ozzy Mandril is a educated man, not a pirate, he sets himself a part from pirates all the time. Guybrush is a pirate, a idiot, Lechuck is a pirate, a idiot. Ozzy is not a idiot he's smart and educated...
Lechuck was working with Ozz because he's a foaming at the mouth, rotting corpse of a pirate...who in the time frame of Monkey Island 4 was trying to gain power and survive in a time where pirating was dying out and men like Ozz had all the true power.
Rivalry to that, Lechuck had just a different form of Power that Ozzy was after. In the end Lechuck won.
Lechuck's bizarre and stupid plans, agendas are fun, but I really don't see what's so bad about some one who is a little behind in his agendas working with some one who's more experience, educated, disciplined, cunning, to try to realize his goals and plans, and in the end he killed Ozz...
In some ways they were working separate goals, as Lechuck knows nothing about what Ozzy is doing, and Ozzy doesn't know how to be a evil pirate Lord. There was a obvious rivalry between the two as he thought he had the cunning skills to woe lechuck and use him for his agendas and Lechuck thought he had the will power and pirating skills to rise above Ozzy, use him, for fill his own agendas.
Anyway, on the topic, I think Ozzie is a great villain. And I genuinely think that EMI would've fared better without LeChuck, with Ozzie being the main and ONLY villain.
LeChuck is a knife, hacking and slashing his way through the world to get what he wants. Ozzie is a poison, slowly warping the world to his desires. But they're both effective villains.
That's an interesting comparison.
I liked Ozzie, but I agree about the idea of LeChuck and Ozzie being competitors. It makes more sense considering Ozzie wants to abolish pirates and LeChuck spends his time making armies of undead pirates.
But Ozzie thought he had control of Lechuck, remember the ending? He's literally riding on top of him, not just soft core but hard core...
There was a real competition there, it was a competition of wills. Ozzy thought he could be top dog and control Lechuck. Pirates were dying out, people like Ozzy were rising to power. There was a rivalry, in the end, pirates won.
Episode One : ....
Fix'd
Level 1: How to shave the Proverbial, Metaphorical, Figurative, and Literal Dingoes.
Episode 1: Once upon a time in Australia
Episode 2 or How i learned to stop riding kangaroos and love the crocodile
Episode 3: A dingo ate my vegemite!
Episode 4: Jeeps, chips and two smoking BBQ's
Episode 5: Can't buy me love, Kylie!
(so, how many crocodile pets do you have?
Umm... three!
Whenever us Australians wander in our majestic land of Oz, we often chant this when we sense danger:
"Yowies, bunyips, and drop-bears. Oh my."
Don't worry man, I wasn't offended at all
I personally only have two, but I think the female is pregnant, so we should have a few more soon. Perhaps we'll sell some of the litter to our neighbours just down the dirt road. They'll have to keep them separate from their kangaroos, though. They wouldn't want their transportation to get eaten.
Honestly, I was expecting a Crocodile Dundee clip...