Ozzie Mandrill
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| Ozzie Mandrill
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| Home Island | Lucre Island (originally Australia) |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
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| Hair Color | Grey |
Ozzie Mandrill is the second primary villain of Escape from Monkey Island and the head of Ozzie Mandrill Enterprises. He is a ruthless Australian business man whose sole goal in life is the gathering of wealth. He also plays integrally into the disappearance of H. T. Marley.
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Name
Ozzie's name is comprised of two distinct words. While Ozzie is a real name (a common nickname for a person named Oswald or Osbourne) it may also be a lead-on from Aussie meaning Australian. His surname, Mandrill, is a species of primate closely related to baboons, and drills. The selection of surname is somewhat odd as the species is a native of Africa and not Australia. However, this name does allow for the pun off Ozymandias, as shown when Mandrill paraphrases the famous poem late in the game.
Business
Ozzie takes over businesses by challenging their owners to rounds of insult-games (such as Insult Swordfighting and Insult Armwrestling) which he always wins due to his use of obscure and bizarre insults that no-one can counter. In the game, the player can even challenge Ozzie in a swordfight on Lucre, but will never be able to beat him.
Role in games
Some 20 years before the games, Ozzie was a down-on-his-luck businessman. While at a bar one night he ran into Governor Horatio Torquemeda Marley, a competitor in the America's Cup sailing competition. To cheer Ozzie up, Herman told him stories about the various wonders of the Caribbean, such as Big Whoop, the Three-Headed-Monkey and the Ultimate Insult. With this knowledge, Ozzie began to slowly plan his hostile takeover of the entire Caribbean. To keep Marley from stopping him, he bumped his boat into a whirlpool.
Years later, sometime after the events of The Curse of Monkey Island, Ozzie apparently made his way to Lucre Island, where he builds a mansion, and to Monkey Island. He freed the Demon-Zombie-Ghost Pirate LeChuck from the mountain of ice under which he was buried. Ozzie's plan was to acquire the Ultimate Insult and use it to turn the pirates of the Caribbean into orderly, constructive members of society, and to control the entire area. LeChuck, who knew he could use the Insult to turn Elaine into a submissive wife, agreed to help.
Ozzie began to buy up most of the land around Jambalaya Island and Booty Island and was capable of taking over great amounts of Mêlée Island as well. Ozzie and Guybrush eventually meet when he frames Guybrush for the robbery of the Second Bank of Lucre. Ozzie tries to solve the mystery of the Ultimate Insult using the stolen Marley Heirlooms but is unable to. Guybrush tricks him and is able to follow Ozzie to Pegnose Pete's Booty Showcase, where Guybrush finds evidence to clear his name.
Ozzie steps out of the spotlight (though his influence is felt in the tourist-friendly businesses of Jambalaya Island and the resentful pirates exiled to Knuttin Atoll) until the end of Act II when it is revealed that LeChuck was working for Ozzie. Relieving Guybrush of the pieces of the Ultimate Insult and stranding Guybrush on Monkey Island once more, they plan the mass annihilation of the pirate-populace of the Caribbean. He and LeChuck are unable to get the Ultimate Insult working, but as Elaine is captured they realise that the Gubernatorial Seal of Mêlée Island is the last piece needed to make the Insult work. After testing the Insult on Pegnose, Ozzie turns to his Ultimate Insult Amplifier, but fortunately by this point Guybrush has found and sabotaged it.
Ozzie nearly manages to use the Insult on Guybrush and Elaine when a rebellious LeChuck, now in the form of a giant statue, interrupts him. LeChuck captures Elaine and Ozzie, but Ozzie manages to take control of him with the Ultimate Insult. LeChuck then does battle with the Giant Monkey Robot. During battle, LeChuck is tricked into smashing Ozzie and crushing the Ultimate Insult. The resulting blast of Voodoo energy seemingly destroys both of them, although LeChuck has returned by the time of Tales of Monkey Island.
Prominent henchmen
- Pegnose Pete
- LeChuck (partnership)
Trivia
- Ozzie recites a modified line from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" in a cutscene by saying 'Look upon my works, ye mighty pirates, and despair!' (The word 'pirates' is added.)
- After Ozzie tests the amplifier out, he quotes Marvin the Martian from Looney Tunes by saying "Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be a Caribbean-shattering kaboom!" (Again he ad libs, by replacing the word 'Earth-shattering' with 'Caribbean-shattering'.)
- Ozzie carries a WD-32 walking stick. He never pays Freddie for his work but the House o' Sticks benefits from the influx of tourists that Ozzie caused, unlike most businesses in the area.
