23 Facts About LeChuck

LeChuck is a fictional character in LucasArts' Monkey Island series of graphic adventure games.

An undead pirate captain, LeChuck is obsessed with pursuing the affections of the series' heroine, Elaine Marley, and exacting revenge upon protagonist Guybrush Threepwood, who is responsible for consistently thwarting his plans; at some points, he is depicted as being Guybrush's brother.

LeChuck is not limited to one incarnation and has been depicted variously as a ghost, a zombie, and a demon, among other forms.

Character of LeChuck was very well received by video game critics, and has appeared on numerous lists of the top video game villains of all time.

Boen was initially absent from Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island; LeChuck was instead voiced by Adam Harrington in the first chapter, with Kevin Blackton voicing the human version of the character in the subsequent chapters.

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Boen returned to the role for the final two chapters, in which LeChuck is restored to his undead form; Boen has since recorded Harrington's lines for the first chapter for the DVD release of the game.

However, by the end of the game, it becomes apparent that this new behavior is nothing more than an act put on by LeChuck using a voodoo belt buckle to become more trustworthy to orchestrate his latest scheme for power and Elaine's hand in marriage.

LeChuck is very fond of voodoo magic and artifacts, and constantly uses them in his plans, although he is just as often defeated by voodoo means.

LeChuck's original, living form was not shown until Tales of Monkey Island, after Guybrush inadvertently restored his humanity.

LeChuck is introduced in The Secret of Monkey Island as a ghost pirate captain of a ship of undead pirates.

LeChuck confronts Guybrush, ties him to a weight and pushes him into the harbour waters.

Nevertheless, Guybrush gatecrashes the wedding, intent on killing LeChuck using an anti-ghost potion based on a voodoo root, only to find that Elaine had the same plan in mind.

Rather than pursue Elaine directly, LeChuck turns his focus to hunting down and exacting vengeance on Guybrush first, to eliminate the competition.

LeChuck even goes as far as putting a bounty on Guybrush, spurring others in the Tri-Island Area to pursue Threepwood, most notably on Phatt Island.

The incapacitated LeChuck then tells Guybrush to take off his mask so he can see the true face of his brother.

Reluctantly Threewood takes off LeChuck's mask revealing his long lost brother Chuckie, and the two pirates then emerge on the surface to find they are in the modern day Big Whoop amusement park where the two are now children about to be picked up by their parents.

On Monkey Island, LeChuck explains to his captives that Big Whoop is not a physical treasure, but rather a powerful portal into Hell itself: during his quest for the secret of Monkey Island, LeChuck harnessed the portal to give him his voodoo powers and transform himself into the living dead.

LeChuck assumes the guise of "Charles L Charles" and defeats Elaine in the election: the townspeople, feeling neglected by Elaine's long absence, do not believe her efforts to convince them of Charles' true nature.

Now in control of Melee Island, Mandrill and LeChuck acquire the Ultimate Insult and maroon Guybrush on Monkey Island.

LeChuck loses patience and uses his voodoo powers to inhabit a giant statue of himself he has had built on the island, with the intent of using the statue to personally crush all resistance to his rise to power, but is brought to heel when Mandrill exposes him to the Ultimate Insult.

Elaine and a now seemingly unmalicious LeChuck begin returning monkeys used in LeChuck's voodoo experiments to their homes while Guybrush searches for La Esponja Grande, an artifact that will cure the pox.

LeChuck eventually begins to befriend Elaine and Guybrush, coming to his defence when Threepwood is put on trial for various crimes on Flotsam Island, and accuses the Voodoo Lady, an enigmatic advisor of Guybrush through the series, of contriving all of his and Guybrush's confrontations over the years.

LeChuck was listed as the eighth best character in PC gaming history in 2008 by PC Zone.