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01-17-2006, 09:51 PM
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No good in them what so ever.
This statement kinda' bugs me.

I'm not sure if you guys have realised it yet - or maybe it's that I'm seeing things that aren't there - but we are the Industrials. Albeit different species represent different levels of status and class, but humans in general are represented in Oddworld by the Industrials. Ironically, they're also the 'bad guys'.

We tear down wildlife, we slaughter and eat other animals without question, we experiment on other creatures, we fish our oceans dry, we force species to the verge of extinction and more often than not we do it for profit. Most of us don't even think twice about it, either.

A lot of people say human's are represented by Mudokon's on Oddworld, but to me we're so obviously not other than our physical resemblence (although, native tribesfolk of our time could be seen in that way I suppose). In the real world, we'd perceive Abe and Munch as terrorists. We'd loath what they were doing to our community.

Oddworld has already said they're all about pushing the boundaries of what's good and evil, and this is how I've chosen to interperet that statement. We're the bad guys.

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