Edited sentence: (A few examples of this include the events leading up to the antagonist LeChuck's death (the original and his successive "defeats") and the circumstances surrounding Herman Toothrot's (a Ben Gunn look alike) original arrival on Monkey Island.) As such, it is rather difficult to describe the series as a whole since specific details vary from writing team to writing team and there is little consensus on which version constitutes canon although many fans feel that the first two games (the scripts for which were written by the original authors of Monkey Island) are separate from the rest of the series because of the change in writers.It is also worth noting that some Ron Gilbert declarations about the anachronisms not being jokes but related to the secrets as well as the mysterious feel of the Monkey Island 2 ending might imply that the game doesn't take place in the Golden Age of Piracy, but might be very well happening in the modern era, with Guybrush pretending in his imagination to be in a different time.Since the creative team changed dramatically between most installments of the game, there is little consistency not only between the graphical appearance of the games, but their basic plot points and backstories.The series has a somewhat loose notion of continuity