Ribcage in Opening
 

I am not sure if I posted this in the right section, but...

....Has anyone noticed that the "branches" that Stranger monkey-bars across in the opening are really a giant ribcage?

Does anyone think this is another stranded Searex, or what?


I am sorry if this has already been discussed...

Yes, I noticed. It's nothing mayjor, just gives the enivoroments a bit more depth.

I'm with oddish on this one...
on the other hand it may be a searex, or it may be something else.
honestly we have no clue

I noticed, and I agree with the others. Its really just a was to give the environment more depth and stuff.

It's a forest setting in the middle of a dry, arid place. What would a fully aquatic creature be doing there? Oh, wait. It could have beached itself and traveled miles from shore, climbed up a tree, THEN died. Yah.

Most likely, it's just a larger land animal. Maybe it (THE LAND ANIMAL) died after being stuck in the tree? Who knows, really?

Its in a tree? I had no idea... but if its not... it could be aquatic. But who knows. I know I dont. :fuzgrin:

It is in a tree. Stranger and Booty are battling up in giant branches.

How could an aquatic creature make it into a tree? People, whales only make it a few feet when they beach themselves; I highly doubt a Searex made it all the way inland and scaled a huge tree just to die.

Logic, please. Thank you.

I know I know...
ahum

[Desactivate Logic]

It's oddworld, so who knows?

[Reactive Logic]

I guess, nobody (yes, not even Lorne... or maybe he might yet know) knows to which creature this gigantic ribcase belongs.
And I agree with dipstikk, it has to be a huge land animal(like an Oddworldian sort of elephant... Oddyphaunt?).
For the place isn't polished off by ice or water, so no water has been on the surface (at least not within an age)

But the mongo river isnt That very far away from the place where Stranger fought with Blisterz Booty, the grubbs were trying to fish with a net. Remember?

So we still can't be sure...

Well, I was just assuming as Searexes in MO seemed to get beached in the middle of an inland area, such as Brewery To Be and Paramite Run.

in fact who realy cares?
I mean we don't know, and we have no clue
so wath?

I think it's just a natural ribcage. Surely ribcages can grow in the wild too?


The fans care. It's what we do.
Don't make me quote that line in nearly every GD/SF thread.

Has anyone considered that there could have been a river or lake where they were fighting? Then, who knows, it dried up, probably due to pollution or deforestation or some shit. So, the aquatic animals died due to the lack of water. Hence big ribcage.

Super Munch could be right. That place was dried up, surely if the river/lake was wide and deep enought a Searex could of swam up the river.


That place has been coverd with water many years ago, it got dried and up and sucked out.

I don't think oddworld inhabitant care themselfs what it realy is, theres probably an answer, but it's not a very inportant thing.

Well there always the possibility that there could have been some kind of flood or something a long time ago.

I noticed that the first time I played the game,so long ago...

What, 2 months ago? :/

I think Jesus put it there.

In MO, the bones are of a Sea Rex, and they are much fatter and taller than the ones in SW, perhaps a relative of the Sea Rex?

The perfect theory, especially because Jesus lived on earth...

Someone close this, already.

Before you do, let me just release you all from the pain of how the Searex got there... that vally was once flooded, remember? Before the dam was build? Dur!!

But how did it get up a tree?

I fail to see why you revived a dead thread to tell the mods to close it.

Either the trees grew underneath the skeleton and held it aloft, or those trees can actually grow underwater, but I doubt the river actually came up to the forest: as you can see in the opening sequence, the Grubb settlement is not far from the water's edge, and Grubbs keep their buildings a good distance away to avoid disturbing the water's flow. Hence that section of the river can't have drained that much.

Tenuous, I know. Also, did I mention that the ribcage isn't that of a Sea Rex?

Not a Sea Rex? But that would mean that we've been... assuming it was a Sea Rex? Oooooh, busted.

I keep telling you people, LAND ANIMAL. We all know the Sea Rex is huge, and the biggest thing on Oddworld, but it's a SEA Rex. We have no idea how big the land animals on Oddworld can get, and to jump to the conclusion that it must be a searex just because of the size of the ribcage is just stupid.

Same goes for the one in MO. We have no idea what that is. The carcass is fresh, and I doubt a sea animal would ever venture that far inland just to die, seeing as how they don't even have legs to carry them.

Same thing goes for whales. Whales beach themselves, sure, but they only get so far up the beach. Have you ever seen a whale carcass in the mall parking lot?

And no, there most likely wasn't a riverbed in the Scrab level, unless it dried up really quick. FRESH CARCASS, people. If it were a riverbed, it would have taken many centuries to dry up, as with ancient riverbeds of our world. If that was truly the skeleton of a Sea Rex, it would have been fossilized, and even buried under the ground.

NEWS FLASH! THE SEA REX IS PROBABLY NOT THE ONLY IMMENSE ANIMAL ON THE PLANET.

Hey um, I've just figured, sure it can be a land animal, but it could be a flying creature aswell. And, what kind of Huge flying creatures on Oddworld do we know? Meetles perhaps?

I'm not sure about meetles having skeletons though. But looking at the size of that skeleton, it seems teenaged as it isn't That huge, for a meetle.
So a teenage meetle crashes into a bunch of trees, dies and rots leaving his skeleton up in the trees.

I bet I've left holes, but it popped into my mind so I'd just tell...

Guys guys, ease up. Maybe we shouldn't make everything about Oddworld so extremely complicated. It's still a made up universe afterall, and their still games. Not everything is bound to make sence. Not every single plant and digital pixel in the Oddworld universe especialy has something to do with it.

Lorne has created a great universe, however, I think it's the fans who make the biggest contributions. We fill up gaps in the Oddworld story line that Lorne and co didn't feel needed filling up. The gap between Glukkons and Octigi for instance. Lorne only said they were related somehow, but it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't even exactly make up how himself yet. In that one thread a while ago, we pretty much did that for him :P.

Let's not forget that this is a thing made up by only a few persons, and not everything is nececerily already connected. Might be in the future, but a lot of things might just have put in without actualy thinking up a good background for it.

I doubt meetles have skeletons. If they're based on beetles, then they have a hard shell as an exoskeleton but no internal bones.

But the bug we see in the intro of MO does have a skelleton, and it looks very much like a Meetle.

Oh dear. We'd better ignore Clakkers. Birds with breasts, indeed. And lizards with feathers. Who are these Mudokons. Oddworld's species evolved on Oddworld, they're not bound by the same taxonomy as Earth creatures. The beetle at the start of Munch's Oddysee strongly suggests Meetles have skeletons, which they would need to support their size anyway.

Well, we wouldn't be a very good audience if we didn't use our imagination to fill in the gaps. ;) Besides, we know Glukkons and Octigi are related because they both belong to the same taxon along with Gloktigi.