Game Manuals to Remember

In light of Ubisoft's decision to remove printed manuals from their games, I thought perhaps a discussion of our favourite manuals is in order? (or perhaps the lousiest?)
 
The first one that pops into my mind:
MDK2, written in the form of a mad scientist's diary.

Grand theft auto's manuals have always been clever.

I'll have to agree on the GTA manuals. 
 
Gran Turismo manuals for their sheer size in the Playstation days. 
 
Jazz Jackrabbit came with a short comic.

jaw basically dropped when i first saw WoW's manual.

i giggled at the Electroplankton manual.

I remember laughing my ass off as I read Wario World's manual. Whoever wrote that, had a great sense of humor.

Galactic Civilization 2 has a bigass manual filled with humor, and tons of Star Trek references. 

Fallout 3 came out with a fat one. Well designed and full color.
In Canada where you get both English and French versions you can barely get the box closed.
 
 (ps: Do American copies come with Spanish versions?)

Modern Warfare 2's manual
 
Useful when you run out of toilet paper

" Modern Warfare 2's manual  Useful when you run out of toilet paper "

I love when they do color ones

I love manuals for Blizzard's games.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 had a colour comic, like @Alexander said. That was pretty sweet. 
 
 
There was some mediocre Indiana Jones game that had a nice manual that looked like Indy's diary. Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, I think.

Donkey Kong Country 2's was amazing. 

Assassin's Creed 1, especially when compared to II and the nonexistent manual you didn't find in III.

Final fantasy 7, I remember after I bought the game reading the manual on the bus on the way home and thinking WTF have I just got.. this looks awesome!

" Gangsters: Organized Crime (awesome)
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance (almost trains you how to be a cop)
Police Quest SWAT (almost trains you how to be a sniper) "

" @Abyssfull: i love that game "

Wrote a list about this myself.  Anything that has some sort of surprise or interesting information, or at least information formatted nicely like in GTA, is cool.

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. One of the most hilarious things you'll ever read. Maybe.

I gotta put in a word　for the old sim games, Sim Ant and Sim Isle come to mind, they came with huge folders with information and lots of non game specific stuff too. 

I've always liked the GTA ones.

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Rock* always do good Manual's,
Civ Manual's are always good and informative, same with AoE II

I am going to miss them.

Seeing "Charlie Brown" credited in a ton of Valve game manuals was pretty hilarious, but then again I was really bored at the time.

Earthbound. They gave you a full-on guide. Best manual ever.

Can't think of anything specific, but I always liked how some manuals would have neat artwork of the characters. Nintendo games come to mind.

Jeff Gerstmann (reading the wario ware gamecube manual in the video review): "Let me tell you all about my new scam, I mean game"
 
No wario, you pretty much mean scam.

Startropics, you know why.  Final Fantasy games have had some good manuals as well.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had a nice back-story in it.  I took to that game's universe pretty hard, so it worked well for me.