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'Specter is a white albino monkey and the main antagonist of the ' Ape Escape' series.
In Japanese, he was voiced by Chika Sakamoto. In English, he has been voiced by Pete Burrows, Gregg Abbey, Dee Bradley Baker, Charlie Schlatter, and Marc Silk.
Personality[]
Specter is full of himself, arrogant, callous, though above all, super intelligent. Specter has been able to produce mechas and crafts that would be almost impossible, such as creating his floating throne, the Battle Cruiser, monkey UFOs, and various other robotics. He usually allows his mechs to fight for him, weakening every time they are defeated. As the player progresses, the mechs will become harder and harder to defeat, leading up to a final battle between the player and Specter. He was at his strongest in the first Ape Escape, easily taking over the future and past with his monkeys, and brainwashing Spike's friend Jake into being his slave. This was, however, ended by Spike in Specter Castle and later in Dimension X. Even though Specter has a hatred towards humans (maybe because of abuse from the park), he asked Spike about his old monkey trainer before battling Spike in Ape Escape 1.
In Ape Escape 2, Specter created the Freaky Monkey Five. Implying that Specter had been weakened somewhat, thus needing more assistance.
In Ape Escape 3, Specter added Dr. Tomoki to the alliance
Appearance[]
Unlike the other regular Pipo Monkeys, Specter has white fur and a bluish spikey hair-do. It is possible that he looks this way because he is albino. He has a more of a human-shaped head and face structure. He also wears a black cape that covers over his chest.
Biography[]
Ape Escape[]
In the beginning of Ape Escape Specter finds a prototype of the Professor's lost "Peak Point Helmet" and puts it on, not knowing what it is able to do. The helmet gives Specter an incredible intellect and incredible powers, with which Specter uses to take command over and free the other monkeys from Monkey Park. Along with his army of monkeys, Specter hijacks the professor's lab in order to send himself and his group of apes through time to alter history using the professor's newest invention: The Time Machine
Spike and Jake were both originally going to the lab to use the newly finished time machine. The Time Machine takes Spike, Jake, Specter, and the Pipo Monkeys all back in time, along with two of the gadgets that the professor had created. The two gadgets were the Stun Club and the Time Net. Specter manages to use his powers to brainwash Jake and uses him for evil purposes.
Spike managed to travel through time to catch all the monkeys from the different time periods, rescues Jake and defeats, and beats Specter, who is returned back to the amusement park.
Ape Escape 2[]
Specter returns after Jimmy and his monkey friend Pipotchi accidentally sent a shipment of Peak Point Helmets to Monkey Park when they were supposed to deliver some newly designed pants. After the first few levels are cleared, Specter contacts the heroes and introduces the Freaky Monkey Five, whom he fed some special Vita-Z bananas, gifting them both great strength and intelligence. Towards the end of the game, he reveals his MK-II Battle Cruiser, which is destroyed by a rampaging Monkey Yellow, forcing him to retreat. After the Freaky Monkey Five were captured, Specter reveals that his ultimate goal is to use a device on his moon base called the Lethargy Laser to zap away all of human kind's motivation to resist his world domination plans using data they transferred from Pipotchi's helmet.
Once the two make their way through the base, they were confronted by a cymbal crashing monkey toy that Specter made as a symbol to monkey kind, and a robot named Ultra Goliath. Against all odds, they narrowly stop him before he's able to launch the laser and round up his remaining minions before recapturing him on the dark side of the moon.
Ape Escape 3[]
In the opening, Specter returns with a new plan called Specter TV, which involves his monkeys creating mind-numbing television shows to hypnotize the world into submission, and a new human ally named Dr Tomoki, who's responsible for the creation of the Teleborgs, which make up the game's enemies. While he's initially arrogant, believing his new alliance with Tomoki will secure his victory, that confidence slowly breaks as each member of the Freaky Monkey Five is beaten by Kei and Yumi, and the various broadcasts are shut down. When the two arrive at Tomoki Tower, the doctor unveils something called the "Double Paradise Plan," meaning the Specter TV stuff was all a big distraction. Once the two defeat Dr. Tomoki in combat with robots, his afro falls off, revealing a Peak Point Helmet and he admits he initially worked on the helmet with Aki and the professor until an accident left it forever stuck to his head.
Once Kei and Yumi are given a lift by Tomoki to Specter's new space station, SARU-3, they shut down the last of the Specter TV broadcasts and confront the white monkey himself, who reveals that the "Double Paradise Plan" involves the space station's Chop Rocket slicing Earth in half, with him and Tomoki both having separate chunks.
Although Kei and Yumi are successful in beating Specter and his new Gorilliac robot, they're unable to find a way to stop the Chop Rocket until Tomoki activities the station's self-destruct sequence and offers to sacrifice himself.
Powers and Abilities[]
Specter's helmet may be the cause of some of his powers, but it's possible that the energy from the Time Machine gave Specter his teleportation abilities and energy attacks. It is unknown where his psychic attacks come from, but one may be able to guess that his telekinetic power came from the exposure to the Time Machine's raw energy.
Specter has many telekinetic abilities, from being able to levitate (without his chair), create energy blasts and explosions, create energy barriers, teleport, and levitate objects. This is most apparent from his fight in Ape Escape 3, as he can lift Gorilliac's head and smash the arena with it multiple times. Along with standard telekinetic attacks, he can create multiple clones of himself. One of his most powerful abilities is being able to control the minds of others by forcefully torturing them until they give in to his power.
Trivia[]
- Specter's name comes from the fact that his fur is white, and specters (another word for ghosts) sometimes appear to be white, if not somewhat grayish.
- Specter is the only monkey that can not be detected by the Monkey Radar, implying his Peak Point Helmet may have a built-in signal blocker.
- According to Natalie, Specter used to be "that cute little monkey that everyone loved to come and see." It can be assumed that one reason he turned to world domination is because of the "Ape Misbeh'vin'" magic show , which he found to be rather humiliating.
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