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If you squint and turn your head they look like ghost bunnies.

Man, these rules are just getting more and more insane!

This proves nothing. 90% of monkeys in the caribbean are called jojo

Let's look at Tales. Our money shot is the cutscene in Chapter 3, depicting Elaine and LeChuck delivering monkeys. ::cracks knuckles:: Image A One, two, three. LeChuck responds: "Dozens. Seven more islands and one peninsula should suffice." Note that this indicate a minimum of 24 monkeys left, possibly more. But we're only counting on screen appearances. Let's continue. Image B Four. Image C Five. This guy fires the cannon and is thrown backwards, overboard. Image D Six, seven. Image E Eight. Elaine gets poxxed and responds: "The chimps can roast on an open flame for all I care!" Reaction shots: Image F Nine, ten. (Don't miss the hand beneath the grating!) Image G Eleven, twelve. Image H Thirteen, fourteen. Image I Fifteen. We then get a shot of LeChuck and Elaine facing the sea, surrounded by monkeys. HOWEVER! Several of these monkeys are suggested to be the same as before. The one on LeChuck's hat (from Image B), the two with swords (from Image D) and the one climbing back on board (from Image C) are most likely monkeys seen earlier. Here's the shot: Images J and K: I don't think we can count these as brand new monkeys. But we can compare the count! The scenes leading up to this show about 15 monkeys total, if none of them were repeated. The final scene shows the group together with... 11 monkeys total. So we have a discrepancy. Let's reconcile them. Out of the 15, there are 3 under a grate. They would therefore not be on deck in the final scene. With the new on-deck comparison being 12 seen throughout versus 11 seen in the final shot, I now infer that 11 is the correct on-deck number, and that one of the monkeys has been repeated between Images A, E, F, G, and I. 11 monkeys seen above deck, and 3 monkeys seen below. This totals 14 monkeys depicted in the cutscene. Add Jacques the monkey for a conservative estimate of FIFTEEN MONKEYS MINIMUM DEPICTED ONSCREEN during Tales. Or TWELVE MONKEYS, if we are only counting monkey HEADS and exclude the ones in the hold. The number gets larger if you treat the ceremony monkey in Chapter 1 and the portal beacon monkeys in Chapter 5 as separate monkeys, which is entirely possible because Elaine and LeChuck had already been dropping off monkeys before this cutscene began. Revenge: 3-5 monkeys *Secret: 4-5 monkeys (6-7 monkey heads) Tales: ~15 monkeys (~12 monkey heads) Curse: Infinite-low monkeys Escape: Infinite-high monkeys *it was pointed out to me on a discord that the MI1 monkey on Monkey Island is different than the similar monkey in the wedding dress, because one has a thicker tail. The hat monkey at Smirk's and the dress may or may not be the same. EDIT: For Curse, if someone wants to assume the monkey(s) in LeChuck's monologue is a single monkey that goes on and offscreen, you could do a count from the others seen on Plunder Island I suppose!

Tales has 4 or 5 hypnotized monkeys in the last chapter, so that's already more than monkey Island 2, not even counting the monkeys in the other chapters

I will hide in a hole in shame forever now.

Secrets got the monkey that opperates the machine and the one that opens the gate. There are 2 monkeys in the wedding dress that use the same two sprites but given the context i’m going to count them as two separate monkeys bringing the total to 4. revenge i think only has jojo curse has 7 in the theatre and 6 on deck but they could be the exact same ones meaning all we can say is that there’s a minimum of 7 Escape has jojo jr, timmy the monkey, and several random monkeys that have been drawn to the island who likely bring the total up above curse but i’m not going to count. tales has jacques the electromagnetic monkey and a large amount of off screen but plot relevant monkey but i think we only see a couple (again, i’m not going to count.) so my best estimate goes (from most to least) escape, curse, secret, tales, revenge.

This is 3 monkeys according to the stated rules of the poll. So we're up to 7 monkeys in SoMI?