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Everything you need to know about Guybrush in a single image

Character Information

Name: Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood
Canon: Monkey Island
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Shortly after the events of the first game.
Background Link: Wiki
Inventory:

-Thin shirt and pants
-shoes
-tons of gold and obnoxious glittering jewelry
-the still wriggling beard hair of a ghost pirate

Personality:

Guybrush, Guybrush, Guybrush...
I've been teaching this course for months, and I can safely say...
That you're the single worst student I've ever met!
I'VE PICKED LINT OUT OF MY BELLY BUTTON WITH MORE LEARNING POTENTIAL THAN YOU!

Ask someone about Guybrush and they will probably sigh a deep, long-suffering sigh and say they wonder how he is able to function in daily life. He is incredibly clumsy and naive and entirely lacking in the quality of conscientiousness. He is also mean spirited at times and has a way of influencing people without making many friends.

Guybrush approaches most things in his life with optimism and a sense of adventure. Adventure is one of the things that drives him and if he isn't on the move or working on many projects at once he is likely to get bored and into trouble. He envisions himself as being a pirate and a great one. In truth, however, he is often scatter-brained which causes him to come across as simple.

He has only minimal amounts of charisma, which tends to frustrate him because any "crews" he assembles inevitably form nonviolent mutinies where they just decide not to listen to him anymore. Even after saving the Caribbean from the undead he is unable to command any real respect. A legend does eventually grow around him, speaking of a tall beast of a man who is accompanied by a big, black parrot but this is only ever a legend. People who meet him in person are never impressed. For killing the undead pirate LeChuck he feels he is deserving of nothing less than total adulation. He desperately seeks attention from other pirates or people he admires and will throw a tantrum at worst or simply get fussy at best when he doesn't get it. He will sulk like a child if things don't go his way. Because of this other pirates may sometimes find him a witty conversationalist but not somebody they'd ever want as a constant companion and certainly not someone they'd ever want as a captain. His self-aggrandizement tends to annoy people after a while.

He is prone towards saying the wrong things and he rarely does things the easiest way. He is not a hero; he scares easily and is even known to leap into the arms of total strangers when terrified. Goofy as he acts, however, it takes intelligence to be so creatively dumb. The patina of idiocy is misleading. He is actually highly literate; able to use and pronounce large words without error, talk circles around others, and he eventually becomes a published author. He has incredible mental agility and an unparalleled gift for lateral thinking but, unfortunately, he lacks the patience to actually learn anything so he doesn't have much conventional knowledge. And he repeats mistakes. Frequently. His tendency to day dream and get lost in his own often nonsensical thoughts also makes him an easy target for an ambush.

Despite the fact that he scares easily, he has great moments of bravery when he has to and will place himself in harm’s way to protect a principle or a loved one. Danger is about the only thing he takes truly seriously. He has gone to Hell, literally, to save the person he loves. Once he conquers his own fears and insecurities he gets the job done, albeit in incredibly circuitous ways. He is the only one willing to stand up against world-endangering evil, though sometimes this is because said evil gets in his way. If danger threatens him and him alone he will flee the situation. It is only when more people are caught up in it or his creature comforts and quality of life are at a substantial risk that he'll act.

Guybrush, even though his moral compass is run under Chaotic tendencies, rarely attacks others unless provoked first. When he is provoked he goes on a verbal offense instead of using his sword but he is a capable swordsman when violence becomes necessary. Even at his worst, however, he does not enjoy violence and prefers outfoxing his opponents. Left alone he prefers to keep to his own and further his own goals and he has little patience for people who try to boss him around and tell him what to do. This distaste even persists after he becomes a political figure himself through marriage. Rather than take any part in governing an island, he wanders. It's what he prefers doing. Sometimes he does try to do right by people but in the end he is seldom completely moral. At his best Guybrush can still easily become quarrelsome and he is constantly able to lie, cheat and steal for his own gain. He will be affable and charming to strangers but the second this starts to inconvenience him he'll turn the charm off. This can even happen in mid conversation; Guybrush will compliment someone and then start to insult them if compliments don't get him anywhere. His stunts are usually harmless but he is known to stoop to alarming cruelty out of spite if he's pushed too hard. For example; in the series he's sawed off another pirate's peg leg, thrown someone off a cliff, and he's nailed a person into a coffin causing them to be entombed alive. He can also be emotionally manipulative and abusive and will reduce grown men to tears if it will benefit him in some way. He does sometimes feel guilt over his more selfish actions but being a pirate means being selfish. Or at least that is what he tells himself.

Of course being roguish and amoral does not equate to being evil. Guybrush is not evil. Beneath the cruelty and egocentricity there is a heart. As he ages in his own world this becomes more and more apparent. Guybrush gains wisdom and learns to be more gentle and open minded about people. He learns to treat others with kindness and he learns to stick up for the principles he's gathered over his life. At the age of 28 he dies, sacrificing his life to destroy an evil deity and save the world. This means that there is a small part of him even now that is capable of selfless acts. His eventual capacity for heroism and benevolence does not grow from nothing.

Guybrush is a complicated young man who largely seems to be bumbling and naive, which he certainly is, but he is also very clever. The frivolous, almost childish way that he behaves most of the time masks the cunning deviousness that he is truly capable of. To say that he is dangerous might be exaggerating a bit but if he winds up on someone's bad side he is fully willing to make that person's life extraordinarily difficult and unpleasant.