Marquis De Singe
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| Marquis De Singe
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|---|---|
| Home Island | Flotsam Island |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Eye Color | Brown |
| Hair Color | White |
Marquis De Singe is the second primary villain in Tales of Monkey Island. He is an aristocratic doctor/scientist with wild ambitions and conducts experiments on living creatures, including humans.
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History
Former Court Physician to King Louis, he was the best scientist in all of France which until he was accused of conducting in-humane cross-breading experiments with the Queen's poodles and was sent by the King to be exiled on Flotsam Island. After wandering the island, he discovered the ancient technology of the Vaycaylians to which also found a large device used to create massive winds. By using this, ships would crash on Flotsam with anyone not able to leave without the wind directing them back to the island. With the many people on the island, De Singe was able to further his scientific research by using the people as test subjects and amputating assorted body parts.
Role in games
Tales of Monkey Island
After Guybrush came to his doorstep with his infected hand containing the Pox of LeChuck, De Singe suspected that the hand may contain the secret of life. Needing the hand for his experiments, he strapped Guybrush down, injected the hand with grog anaesthetic and went to sharpen his miniature guillotine. With the help of one of De Singe's simian test subjects Jacques, Guybrush was able to free himself and escape the mad doctor.
Determined to get the hand off Guybrush, De Singe found Morgan LeFlay's flyer advertising her bounty hunting services and decides to hire her to hunt Guybrush down. In the meantime De Singe continued his plans to strand people on the island with his control of the winds.
Guybrush succeeds in deactivating the wind machine and foiling De Singe's immediate plans, although De Single swears vengeance, sending Morgan LeFlay after him.
De Singe later rekindles his plans, manipulating the wind device and capturing Elaine with intentions of blasting her voodoo Pox all over the Caribbean, giving him infinite power and immortality. Guybrush shows up after seeing Morgan LeFlay stabbed to death, assuming De Singe was behind the murder. De Singe destroys Guybrush's Pyrite Parrot before preparing to use the machine on Elaine, but he is killed when Guybrush's severed hand pushes him into the wind machine, grinding him into powder.
Personality
While appearing harmless, The Marquis De Singe has a highly sadistic, power hungry, and egotistical edge. A scientist who become overly obsessed by his scientific experiments, De Singe will stop at nothing to use scientific research to further his agenda to gain recognition, wealth, and power. He sees others, from animals to humans, as nothing but subjects that can be experimented on, not caring for their well being or life. Numerous pirates were maimed by this mad scientist and even Guybrush speculates that the skeleton in De Singe's office, which is eerily being used as a decoration, was one of his former patients.
De Singe's only love in life is science, having built his life and reputation around it, and despises those who would practice others arts such as voodoo, believing it to be a childish game for those who deny how the world works. Like many villains in the Monkey Island Series, the doctor holds himself in extremely high regard and believes that he never gets the recognition he deserves. Ever since he was ordered to be exiled on Flotsam Island for performing inhuman crossbreeding experiments, an accusation he claims to be false, The Marquis became more determined than ever to break scientific achievements and show his worth and intellect to the world.
While having a love for science, De Singe will never back down from an opportunity of using that same science to further his own desires to acquire wealth and power. One of the major plot points in Tales of Monkey Island revolved around De Singe's undying persistence to create an elixir based off LeChuck's voodoo powers to not only grant himself immortality, but to also sell it to others to acquire massive amounts of treasure and fame. His hunger for fame and lust for power is what sealed De Singe's fate, getting himself killed by same power he had hoped to obtain to sustain his life and pave the way for a glorious future.
Etymology
De Singe is named after the Marquis de Sade, a French aristocrat, revolutionary, and writer, most famous for his bizarre novels that combined extreme licentiousness with criminality, violence and blasphemy. He spent 32 years of his life in insane asylums.
'Singe' is also French for 'monkey'.
Appearances
Tales of Monkey Island - "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal" (First appearance)
- Tales of Monkey Island - "The Siege of Spinner Cay"
- Tales of Monkey Island - "Lair of the Leviathan"
- Tales of Monkey Island - "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood"
