The Ultimate Insult

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The Ultimate Insult is a dangerously powerful Voodoo talisman, introduced in the fourth game Escape from Monkey Island. The Ultimate Insult's powers can dissolve the egos of even the most fearsome of pirates. According the Voodoo Lady it hurls insults an ancient forgotten language that was rot for all modern languages, though when seen in use it appeared to fire a bolt of electricity. It was supposed to so powerful that a war involving it almost destroyed to the Carribean, and because of that all copies of the Ultimate Insult were destroyed and recipes for it were destroyed. As such hardly anybody knows how to make one, the Voodoo Lady even admitted to have no knowledge of how. The primary villain of the fourth game, Ozzie Mandrill intends on using it to get rid of all the pirates of the Carribbean in order to further his commercial interests.

The talisman is formed out of four parts one of which looks like a golden man, one like a silver monkey head and a third that looks like a bronze hat. The fourth and final piece which also gives the talisman its power is the Gubernatorial Seal of Mêlée Island.

In Monkey Island 4 the Voodoo Lady explains that all plans of how to make an ultimate insult were ordered destroyed after a string of islands fell foul to the power of the ultimate insult. During the game Ozzie uses the talisman on Pegnose Pete and later LeChuck to make him obedient. Guybrush, Herman Toothrot and Jojo Jr. fight him with the power of another ultimate insult via a Giant Monkey Robot.

Herman Toothrot also tells Guybrush that the only way to beat an Ultimate Insult is to make a bigger ultimate insult.