The title itself, Big Whoop, is indicative of a sarcastic phrase used to express disappointment, a fitting title for such a horrifying treasure that was previously built up to be something much more gratifying for most pirates immense wealth in the form of gold and silver. Tragically for all four men, LeChuck was also keen to ensure no one else knew of Big Whoop until the appropriate moment in his plans presented itself and brutally orchestrated the deaths of the entire crew, torturing and killing Marley personally himself. The crew then spread false rumors that the treasure was located on an island called Inky, and other variations of the fabricated name, while they all went on to lead their own separate lives in hopes that Big Whoop would never truly be discovered again. To this end, they buried and cemented a chest containing an E-ticket over the connecting tunnels on Dinky Island to pass as the treasure of Big Whoop and then created a new map that was torn into four pieces, with one piece given to each of the four men.
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However, when Marley and his crew learned the true nature of Big Whoop just as they witnessed LeChuck pass through its portals, they were horrified at what they saw and immediately fled the island and prepared a series of red herrings and precautions to ensure no one else would find Big Whoop and be subjected to its amoral and demonic energies.
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It was LeChuck who discovered such passageways during his quest to obtain Big Whoop for his own greedy purposes before Elaine's grandfather, Captain Marley, and his own crew located it first. The reality is, however, that Dinky Island is an atoll off the coast of Monkey Island and contains a secrete passageway within its jungles that leads to a series of mysterious tunnels that run beneath the ocean floor, connecting Dinky and Monkey Island together. The portal to Big Whoop itself is located inside the bowels of the Caverns of Lava within the Giant Monkey Head on Monkey Island, though it was originally believed that the treasure was located within the jungles of Dinky Island. In LeChuck's mind, however, who has an insatiable lust for voodoo and power, harnessing Big Whoop is a useful if dangerous prize to aid in his plans to conquer the seas as well as death itself. Therefore, as it names implies, the true riches of Big Whoop are worth nothing of true value to pirates who value wealth and can not only be an extreme disappointment, but a hellish nightmare for any pirate.
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Passage through the portal results in the individual forming a covenant with the infernal powers of Big Whoop and being granted eternal life as an undead entity, therefore killing the individual in the process, though one whose soul is doomed to eternal damnation in the event his or her's new form is destroyed. However, it is eventually revealed by LeChuck to be the source of his demonic powers as it serves as a dimensional nexus to an infernal demon netherworld that is derived from its original position of Hell itself, binding the physical realm with the manifestation of evil itself thus the rumored gateway to another world is in actuality Hell itself. " El Big Whoop es pura maldad, tuviste suerte de escapar con vida."-La Señora del Vudú describe la verdadera naturaleza del tesoro a Guybrush Threepwood.īig Whoop is the name for the supposed largest, most powerful treasure in the Seven Seas and is even rumored to contain the gateway to another world, though the exact nature and contents of such a world are initially unknown to most. Para el parque de atracciones del mismo nombre, ver La feria de los Malditos. The lava stream derived from Big Whoop, located underneath Monkey Island as it appears in The Curse of Monkey Island Este artículo trata sobre el tesoro del Big Whoop.