Stan

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Stan
Home Island	Mêlée Island Booty Island Blood Island Jambalaya Island
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Eye Color
Hair Color	Black

Stan is one of the main characters in the Monkey Island series, having made appearances in all five games. He is a famously sleazy salesman who has run a number of disreputable businesses within the Tri-Island Area. Though he is never well-liked or particularly successful, Stan is eternally upbeat and confident.

1 Appearance
2 Character history
3 A Partial List of Stan-Owned Businesses
4 Voice actors
5 Trivia
6 Game appearances
7 Memorable Quotes
8 Memorable Quotes About Him

Appearance

Despite his numerous cameos in the series, Stan's appearance has remained fairly constant. He is a tall, broad-shouldered man with an overbearing manner. He wears an oversized check jacket and a wide-brimmed hat. When he's talking, he waves his arms about rapidly. When he's listening, he taps his foot impatiently.

His jacket is a recurring visual gag seen throughout the series. Whenever Stan flails his arms around hysterically the check-pattern on his jacket remains stationary. This was originally because of technical restrictions but has since become a standard part of his appearance.

Character history

The Secret of Monkey Island

When we first meet Stan he is running a used shipyard on Mêlée Island. He has apparently been there some time: all the other characters of the island know him by reputation, and some years ago he sold Herman Toothrot a ship to sail to Monkey Island. With a stolen credit note Guybrush is able to fool Stan into selling him this same ship, now in such a state of disrepair it is literally falling apart.

At the climax of the game LeChuck chases Guybrush to Stan's shipyard. While Guybrush is trapped inside the Grog Machine Stan shows up, greets LeChuck, and launches into his sales pitch. LeChuck punches him into the ocean.

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

In the second game, Stan has moved onto a new business, Stan's Previously-Owned Coffins, located on Booty Island. As he says to Guybrush, he decided to get into a business where unsatisfied customers were less likely to complain. Stan also owns Stan's Kozy Krypts, which has space for burial in a crypt in the Scabb Island cemetery, or, as it is referred to by Stan, the Scabb Island Internment Park.

As Rapp Scallion is buried inside this crypt, Guybrush needs to steal the key from Stan's shop. To accomplish this he asks Stan to demonstrate the virtues of one of his display coffins, which Stan does enthusiastically, leaping inside to demonstrate the leg room. While Stan is inside Guybrush closes the lid and nails it shut. He then takes the key and leaves Stan shut in the coffin.

The Curse of Monkey Island

While Guybrush is on Blood Island, he gets himself buried in a casket. He escapes, only to hear a thumping noise from a nearby coffin. When Guybrush opens the coffin, none other than Stan is inside. Surprisingly Stan has no trace of anger towards Guybrush, instead proclaiming that the experience was the best time of his life, giving him plenty of time to think about the things that really matter. He then launches into a fully-formed sales pitch about the need for life insurance, and hands Guybrush a business card. The two of them are still trapped inside the crypt, but Stan reveals that it is one of his Kozy Krypts, and tells Guybrush how to get out.

When Guybrush returns later, Stan has converted the crypt into a functioning office, with his old coffin now serving as a desk. His establishment is named "Mutual of Stan". Guybrush buys a life insurance policy off him for his gold tooth, and cashes it in using a death certificate from the Goodsoup family.

Escape from Monkey Island

Stan gets out of the life insurance business because too many customers were coming back from the dead to claim their policies; he relocates to Jambalaya Island, where he opens Stan's Real Estate Emporium, a business selling time-share real estate. Because Guybrush is able to stay awake throughout his three hour sales pitch (thanks to some grogacchino), Stan rewards him with a coupon for a free Monkey Mug meal at Planet Threepwood. Stan also reveals that he had tried to work for Ozzie Mandrill but Ozzie wouldn't even give him an interview.

Tales of Monkey Island

In "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal", Joaquin D'Oro mentions having purchased a treasure map from a salesman with a plaid jacket and wildly flailing arms. It is later revealed that the treasure map was pre-owned, further reinforcing the implication that the salesman was Stan.

In "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood", Stan appears on Flotsam Island, having set up a legal business where the Keelhauler Gazette used to be. He acts as a prosecutor in the case against Guybrush, while selling memorabilia of the trial on the side, one of which Guybrush uses to have one of the charges against him dropped. He also takes part in the trial against LeChuck and the Voodoo Lady, this time working on the defense. The Pox-infected Elaine also acquires a treasure map from him, which—as with D'Oro—no longer leads to any treasure.

Although Guybrush tells Stan "no hard feelings" for the various criminal and civil charges in the courtroom, Guybrush does manage to get a measure of revenge by having a group of vicious moths shred Stan's trademark jacket.

A Partial List of Stan-Owned Businesses

Main article: Stan-Owned Businesses

Stan's Kozy Krypts
Stan's Casual Crosses
Stan's Previously-Owned Coffins
Stan's Previously-Owned Restaurant Supply
Stan's Previously Owned Vessels
Mutual of Stan
Stan's Real Estate Emporium
StanTech (sellers of Voodoo-Enhanced Asbestos)
Stan's Courtroom Souvenir Emporium

Voice actors

He was voiced by Pat Pinney in The Curse of Monkey Island. Like Elaine Marley, his voice actor changed for his second voiced appearance in the fourth game. In this game he was voiced by Pat Fraley, who also voiced George the SCUMM Bar dart player.

In "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood", he was voiced by Gavin Hammon. Pat Pinney returned to voice Stan in The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.

Trivia

Stan is one of only five characters (the others being Guybrush, Elaine, LeChuck and the Voodoo Lady) to have made an appearance in all five Monkey Island games.
Stan has a meal named after him at Planet Threepwood: Stan's Budget Baloney Sub. It's four pieces of baloney, ham, and turkey, smothered in three types of cheese, on rye bread. It is not popular.
Stan's philosophy "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." is a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.