Comment by bhaak

> Oh and if you really love that dumb, sophomoric ending, you can also get Return to Monkey Island, which is yet another game Gilbert ruined with this tired trope.

Isn't it a bit different with Return to Monkey Island? The story is told to kids by Guybrush and Guybrush being an unreliable narrator, it's uncertain how much of the story was real or an imagination by him.

The last scene though shows that something real somewhat similar to what Guybrush told did happen.

Also it completely retcons the ending of Monkey Island 2.