Secret Origins: Skun'kape
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Secret Origins: Skun'kape (sic) is a flash short revealing the backstory of General Skun-ka'pe. The style (and purpose as trailer of sorts) is similar to the I Wonder What Happens? series made for Tales of Monkey Island. The creator works for Telltale Games (even providing the voice of the German tourist in They Stole Max's Brain!, and the story has been said to be canonical in "that it definitely happened, but will never be addressed again".
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The Commissioner calls and informs Sam & Max of General Skun-ka'pe's background, which is then shown to be as follows:
General Skun-ka'pe, Master of the Toys was originally a fictional creation who was the main character of space gorilla Arthur J. Thompson's favorite comic series. Throughout his life, the young Arthur spends a lot of time reading comics and dreams about becoming the real Master of the Toys, which gets him in trouble at home and at school, and later gets him fired from his job at a factory.
Enraged, he causes the factory to start breaking down and gets into an accident getting a metal ring stuck in his head. This gives him great psychic powers he uses to change his appearance to resemble that of the Skun-ka'pe character from the comics, and he garters his fellow space gorillas to form an army. At that point he is confronted with his dream again and decides to fulfill it: he becomes General Skun-ka'pe and scours the galaxy for powerful psychic toys. Next stop: Earth.
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Sam - Kurt Thingvold
Max - Andrei Constantinescu
Narrator - Marius Fietzek
Animations - Marius Fietzek
Backgrounds - Steven Whetstine
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- Just before Skun-ka'pe converts them into his followers, one of the assembled apes looks much like Guybrush Threepwood in the Wonder What Happens? series.
