The Fictional Monkey Island 5, though not released as an actual game and never intended to be, supposedly took place sometime in between Escape from Monkey Island and Tales of Monkey Island.
Tales of Monkey Island picks up from the end of the story, and heavily references the events as if there were a missing game in the series. Guybrush Threepwood has completed a number of tasks reminiscent of the type of puzzles the games usually include, and is finally ready to destroy his nemesis LeChuck once and for all using a voodoo sword.
The events of Monkey Island 5 potentially take place over the course of eight to ten years. When looking around his ship at the beginning of ToMI he can look into a room and say "Nope, nothing in there but a decade's worth of fantastic pirate booty." This could refer to events beginning with SoMI or starting from the end of EfMI.
Events Known to Have Taken Place
- LeChuck is once more resurrected.
- Guybrush Threepwood collects the items necessary to construct the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, a voodoo sword which will ultimately be used to destroy LeChuck.
- Guybrush Threepwood regrows his beard.
- Guybrush recruits another lazy and useless crew.
- Guybrush has to perform a horrible-hula of Hades in order to win the Monkey Casket of Kauai.
- Somehow the voodoo root beer ends up inside the casket and goes flat.
- Guybrush sailed six of the seven major seas.
- Guybrush encountered an ice-breathing accountant.
- Guybrush raided the sunken smelters of Popgowatu to find the finest tools.
- Guybrush saved the village of Kaflu from a lava slide.
- Guybrush forges the Cursed Cutlass himself on board his ship.
- LeChuck hijacks Elaine Marley's ship and kidnaps her once again wanting her hand in marriage. (Despite her already being married to Threepwood).
- Guybrush caught up with LeChuck, but the villain unleashed his school of ravenous Piranha Poodles to stop him but Guybrush outwits them. He then goes after LeChuck along with a crew of lazy pirates sailing towards the Rock of Gelato.
Trivia
- Monkey Island 5 may be the final part of the Voodoo Lady's Five Game Contract, though 'Tales of Monkey Island' could also fill that role.
- Monkey Island 5 is likely never to be made, at least in the form hinted at in 'ToMI'.
- In 2002 both The International House of Mojo and The World of Monkey Island pulled off an April fools joke that made a lot of people think Monkey Island 5 was in production under the name 'Return to Monkey Island'. They published MP3 files which were supposedly from MI5 in which Guybrush spoke lines never heard before, from none of the existing games. Largo LeGrande was also heard. It was later revealed that it all was the work of Mixnmojo and Dominic Armato (voice of Guybrush). LucasArts had even given them permission. There is no relation to the official Return to Monkey Island, which is the sixth instalment in the series.