TOA needs You!

[Xavier]

"The Oddworld Archives"'s Other Stuff section was designed to let other people help to make some misk pages.
http://www.oddworlduniverse.com/toa

So if anyone has the time to make a list or a page or something like that he's welcome and will be credited on the Other Stuff page. Here are a couple of ideas:

A Cheat Code list

A Name Inspiration list (meetle/beetle, slog/dog)

A Merchandising list (every colectable you can think of)

Of cource you can come up with your own ideas and post them here. I just don't want any fan art stuff, TOA is dedicated to official information. (I might ask your sources if something seems weird)

When you are sure you are going to start something for TOA post it here, so we won't end up with 2 guys doing the same thing.

Format: .txt file or .html if you can handle it

[Wil]

Those are all features of The Oddworld Encyclopædia.

[Xavier]

oh crap...
okay but you guys might still come up with something else

[used:)]

Name inspirations.

Abe: Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president who emancipaed most of the southern slaves and reunited the United States.

Glukkon: glutton

Steef: beef

Pleg: plegm

Aslik: ass lick, a sycophant. Although Aslik struck me more as a smarmy fellow rather than a sycophant.

Elum: mule spelled backwards

Molluck: mollusk, perhaps refering to the octopus like features of glukkons, I don't know.

Paramite: parasite with mite as a little extra fun

Scrab: crab (obviously)

Clakkerz: crackers

Sekto: quite possibly from disect because of the whole head replacing head thing.

Meep: sheep (opbviously)

[Xavier]

that's a good start used, carry on.

to find all the creatures names head over here:
http://www.oddworlduniverse.com/toa/.../creatures.htm

[Dipstikk]

I agree with all except the following:

Steef: beef

Sekto: quite possibly from disect because of the whole head replacing head thing.

Steef is "Feets" spelled backwards. And since Steef have a quadropedal torso and an overall six-limbed body, I think their name was created in a similar fashion to the Elum.

(But what do I know about fashion?)

Also, I think Sekto is based on "insect" for some reason. Just a gut feeling. But I don't think it's based on "disect," because he never dissected (took apart) any of the bodies, he parasitically attached himself to them.

Anyway, let me go on.

Fleeches: Leech

Ratz: Duh.

Sligs: Slugs

Slogs: Dogs

Slegs: Just another variation of the "Sl-g" theme.

Ones I don't get:

Vykkers
Wolvarks

[Wil]

Wolvark is a great combination of wolf and shark. Or aardvark, I guess …. The best explanation for Vykkers is that it's a bastardisation of vicars.

Just some clarification:
Slig is from slug combined with pig.
Glukkon is from glutton combined with the k from mollusk.
Clakker is from cracker combined with cluck.

Stang clearly derives from sting.
Mudokon comes from the phrase mod con, meaning something that makes a job easier, in this case, slave labour.
Interns are interns.
Outlaws are outlaws.
Greeters advertise, and I suppose greet.
Flying Sligs fly.
Octigi comes from the plural for octopus, octigi.
Alf is named after the amazing fan Alfred Gamble.
Glockstars derive from rockstars.
Fort Glokz is a parody of Fort Knox.
Break Wind Hill is clearly refering to the Mudokons' passion for that bodily function.
Bolamites comes from the bola that they spin. A-wrapnids is a play on arachnid in a similar vein.
Fangus is possibly an adapted Angus, a typical Scottish name.
Fangustan is this name transformed into an East European/Arabic country, a great way to lampoon the war on Iraq.
Bawhnee Sue McUgly is named in honour of the Oddworld Inhabitant Bonnie.
FeeCo includes the word fee, but also sounds like faecal. Who said OWI were mature?
Evanwurst Weenerz Co - weener is, I believe, a U.S. expression for a sausage, while wurst is the Deutsch word for sausage. I'm not sure if the Evan bit is meant to refer to anything.

If someone can explain to me the reasoning behind the name Elboze Freely, I'd be appreciative, but I think that's been asked before to no success.

[Dipstikk]

Fort Glokz is a parody of Fort Knox.
Break Wind Hill is clearly refering to the Mudokons' passion for that bodily function.
Evanwurst Weenerz Co - weener is, I believe, a U.S. expression for a sausage, while wurst is the Deutsch word for sausage. I'm not sure if the Evan bit is meant to refer to anything.

Never heard of any of them. Where'd you get those?

[Xavier]

from MO on GBA...

[used:)]

Here's something similar. WHatb about the kinds of peoples and events that stuff in Oddworld was inspired from? Srabs make me think of jocks because of that laid back smile they appear to have in the 2D games and their extremeley muscular bodies. And because of their brutality to others. Paramites I'm guessing were something like teachers, hands comming after you. The glukkons were obviously inpsired from the corrupt gluttonous business people of today. Vykkers labs were meant to resemble an alien saucer which when you are taken up into, you are supposedly experimented on harshely. That or something like the Vykkers are in their own little world. Sligs are green to resemble the green on American troops. Slogs symbolize security dogs.

The gassing of Mudokons ijn AO was obviously inspired from the mass gassing in the Holocaust. Others I am not so sure about, but they are pretty obvious I guess.

[Leto]

If someone can explain to me the reasoning behind the name Elboze Freely, I'd be appreciative, but I think that's been asked before to no success.

If Elboze Freely was the robotic one, perhaps the knut connecting his upper arms and his lower arms weren't screwed in properly?

If not, well, just hush your beak.

[Scrab Watcher]

Elboze Freely? I've always thought of it as 'elboes freely' as in he freely digs his elboes into the ribs etc. of others. Though that's just me. Also, scrabs is crabs and scabs.

Gabbiar is obviously Caviar, and gabbits are likely derived from 'rabbits' as rabbits were some of the inspiration used when creating Munch (as we can plainly see...)