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** Old english is pretty much unrecognizable from modern english, more then likely its not that Dormin forgot how to speak but that they have been sealed so long the language itself has changed

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** Old english English from centuries ago is pretty much unrecognizable from modern english, more then English. More than likely its it's not that Dormin forgot how to speak speak, but that they have been sealed so long the language itself has changedchanged.



* Malus, the last colossus, is positioned as far south as possible. When you stand on his shoulders, behind his head, you can see the whole land. What stands out is the beams of light from each Colossus' remains. Malus knew when each Colossus died. That's why he was so aggressive; he knew he was [[spoiler:the only one left before Dormin would be unleashed.]]

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* Malus, the last colossus, is positioned as far south as possible. When you stand on his shoulders, behind his head, you can see the whole land. What stands out is the beams of light from each Colossus' remains. Malus knew when each Colossus died. That's why he was is so aggressive; he knew he was is [[spoiler:the only one left before Dormin would be unleashed.]]



** Alternatively, a much more prosaic Doylist reason is that you're only really meant to get a good look at that area after the bridge falls; for technical reasons it was easier for them to include the "broken bridge pieces" models in the landscape from the start, thinking that the player would never see it until the intact bridge model was destroyed (ie. removed during a cutscene.)

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** Alternatively, a much more prosaic Doylist reason is that you're only really meant to get a good look at that area after the bridge falls; for technical reasons it was easier for them to include the "broken bridge pieces" models in the landscape from the start, thinking that the player would never see it until the intact bridge model was destroyed (ie.(i.e. removed during a cutscene.)

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* Sone of the Colossi that share the same battle theme are similar to one another:
** "Grotesque Figures" is shared by both Valus and Barba, two of the three minotaur-like Colossi.
** "A Violent Encounter" is shared by Quadratus and Basaran, who are slow-moving lumbering quadrupeds.
** "Liberated Guardian" is shared by Kutomori, Celosia and Cenobia, the three smallest and fastest-moving Colossi.
** "Counterattack" is shared by Dirge and Phalanx, who are both serpentine Colossi that are encountered in desert zones and can burrow into sand.
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* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you might think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in Literature/TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release them with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and their name reflects the latter, not the former.

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* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you might think it's describing]].describing. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in Literature/TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release them with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and their name reflects the latter, not the former.
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* After defeating the 8th Colossus, Wander has a dream where he hears Mono say his name and sees her wake up, before the scene unexpectedly zooms out. During the ending, these events happen in reverse: Wander is forcibly sucked away from Mono thanks to Emon's exorcism spell, and Mono does indeed wake up after everything's over.
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** Alternatively, a much more prosaic Doylist reason is that you're only really meant to get a good look at that area after the bridge falls; for technical reasons it was easier for them to include the "broken bridge pieces" models in the landscape from the start, thinking that the player would never see it until the intact bridge model was destroyed (ie. removed during a cutscene.)
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this seems more like a WMG (after all, there are much more obvious reasons for it to be forbidden and why Wander becomes less human.) Moving to WMG.


** The land is forbidden because eating the meat and fruit makes you into something less than human, which is why it makes your stats increase. The reason the secret garden's fruit reduces it back down isn't because it's poisonous... but because it's holy, and restoring your lost humanity.

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* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler:Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler:Wander]] back -- and that's why she has an injured leg! [[spoiler:Wander]] was shot in that leg!



* A rather meta one. Agro's controls make perfect, elegant sense once you realize that you're never controlling the horse directly, like with mounts in many other games: you're still controlling ''Wander'', who's ''riding'' Agro. Getting mad at Agro for not being able to follow Wander's commands instantly is like getting mad at Yorda for not being able to climb as well as Ico. It's not like the horse is psychic.

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* A rather meta one. Agro's controls make perfect, elegant sense once you realize that you're never controlling the horse directly, like with mounts in many other games: you're still controlling ''Wander'', who's ''riding'' Agro. Getting mad at Agro for not being able to follow Wander's commands instantly is like getting mad at Yorda for not being able to climb as well as Ico. It's not like the horse is psychic.
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* Barba’s signi is slightly tilted to the left. This seems like a mistake on the developers part, but remember how Dormin tells you how “he is not a fool”. Now, what tasks does the left part of your brain do? Thinking and logic!
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* Barba’s signi is slightly tilted to the left. This seems like a mistake on the developers part, but remember how Dormin tells you how “he is not a fool”. Now, what tasks does the left part of your brain do? Thinking and logic!
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** Old english is pretty much unrecognizable from modern english, more then likely its not that Dormin forgot how to speak but that they have been sealed so long the language itself has changed
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* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler:Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler:Wander]] back -- and that's why he has an injured leg! [[spoiler:Wander]] was shot in that leg!

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* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler:Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler:Wander]] back -- and that's why he she has an injured leg! [[spoiler:Wander]] was shot in that leg!



* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in Literature/TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release him with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and his name reflects the latter, not the former.

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* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you might think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in Literature/TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release him them with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and his their name reflects the latter, not the former.
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* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release him with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and his name reflects the latter, not the former.

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* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in TheBible Literature/TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release him with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and his name reflects the latter, not the former.
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** Another reason behind his aggressiveness is because of his lack of mobility. As he's fixed in place, he has nowhere to run if ever Wander comes close to killing him and knows what has to happen since he can't escape: [[spoiler:either Wander dies and Mono is left alone in the shrine (either in her coma or dead), or Malus dies and Dormin returns to life.

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** Another reason behind his aggressiveness is because of his lack of mobility. As he's fixed in place, he has nowhere to run if ever Wander comes close to killing him and knows what has to happen since he can't escape: [[spoiler:either Wander dies and Mono is left alone in the shrine (either in her coma or dead), or Malus dies and Dormin returns to life. ]]
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** Another reason behind his aggressiveness is because of his lack of mobility. As he's fixed in place, he has nowhere to run if ever Wander comes close to killing him and knows what has to happen since he can't escape: [[spoiler:either Wander dies and Mono is left alone in the shrine (either in her coma or dead), or Malus dies and Dormin returns to life.
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* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler:Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler:Wander]] back -- and that's why she has an injured leg! [[spoiler:Wander]] was shot in that leg!

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* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler:Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler:Wander]] back -- and that's why she he has an injured leg! [[spoiler:Wander]] was shot in that leg!
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* At the end of the game, [[spoilers: Agro is shown limping beside a resurrected Mono. Sounds like as happy an ending as this game is going to get, right? Until you realize that while Agro may have survived. one of his/her legs appears to be broken. Which, for a horse, is usually a death sentence.]]

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* At the end of the game, [[spoilers: Agro [[spoiler:Agro is shown limping beside a resurrected Mono. Sounds like as happy an ending as this game is going to get, right? Until you realize that while Agro may have survived. one of his/her legs appears to be broken. Which, for a horse, is usually a death sentence.]]
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At the end of the game, [[spoilers: Agro is shown limping beside a resurrected Mono. Sounds like as happy an ending as this game is going to get, right? Until you realize that while Agro may have survived. one of his/her legs appears to be broken. Which, for a horse, is usually a death sentence.]]

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At *At the end of the game, [[spoilers: Agro is shown limping beside a resurrected Mono. Sounds like as happy an ending as this game is going to get, right? Until you realize that while Agro may have survived. one of his/her legs appears to be broken. Which, for a horse, is usually a death sentence.]]
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At the end of the game, [[spoilers: Agro is shown limping beside a resurrected Mono. Sounds like as happy an ending as this game is going to get, right? Until you realize that while Agro may have survived. one of his/her legs appears to be broken. Which, for a horse, is usually a death sentence.]]
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* If you try to cross the bridge to Malus without Agro (and you ''[[LordBritishPostulate will]]'' try to cross the bridge to Malus without Agro), you're going to fall. And when you fall, you'll notice a hunk of stone of the exact same shape, and with the exact same design, as that of the pieces of the bridge. With WordOfGod's confirmation that the Forbidden Lands were frozen in time until Wander showed up, and the last save shrine in that region being named 'The Broken Seal', it stands to reason that the bridge was already starting to fall apart when the Lands froze, and Malus' zone had a slight delay in the time resumation that kicked in when Wander made contact.
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* The colossi, being [[spoiler: the scattered parts of Dormin subconsciously or not]], wanted Wander to kill them so that their essence could be released.
** It's also possible that they [[spoiler: knew that they were the scattered pieces of Dormin]] and the reason that they attempt to avoid Wander is because [[spoiler: they don't want to reunite him/her.]]
* What does [[spoiler: Wander turn into at the end]]? The Shadow of the Colossus!

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* The colossi, being [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the scattered parts of Dormin subconsciously or not]], wanted Wander to kill them so that their essence could be released.
** It's also possible that they [[spoiler: knew [[spoiler:knew that they were the scattered pieces of Dormin]] and the reason that they attempt to avoid Wander is because [[spoiler: they [[spoiler:they don't want to reunite him/her.]]
* What does [[spoiler: Wander [[spoiler:Wander turn into at the end]]? The Shadow of the Colossus!



* So the food items are fruit... and gecko tails. What? Why not the birds? Because the stat tail improves helps your ''climbing'' ability.

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* So the food items are fruit... and gecko tails. What? Why not the birds? Because the stat tail improves helps the tails improve is your ''climbing'' ability.



* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler: Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler: Wander]] back -- and that's why she has an injured leg! [[spoiler: Wander]] was shot in that leg!
* The FridgeLogic section has a rather lengthy entry pointing out how...well, dumb the Colossi can be with regards to their environment. But, if they were designed to be containers for Dormin's essence, the designers would ''want'' them to be unimaginative automatons so Dormin couldn't turn them or trick them into releasing their charge.
* How about this one: the Colossi are in arenas specifically designed with ways and behaviors needed to defeat them for the reason that the creators wanted a method to undo the seal on Dormin. Whether after Dormin's sentence was up or as a SummonBiggerFish move, the only explanation that the colossi exist in the way that they do is because they are designed to be defeatable.

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* Dormin might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler: Agro]] [[spoiler:Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler: Wander]] [[spoiler:Wander]] back -- and that's why she has an injured leg! [[spoiler: Wander]] [[spoiler:Wander]] was shot in that leg!
* The FridgeLogic section has a rather lengthy entry pointing out how... well, dumb the Colossi can be with regards to their environment. But, if they were designed to be containers for Dormin's essence, the designers would ''want'' them to be unimaginative automatons so Dormin couldn't turn them or trick them into releasing their charge.
* How about this one: the Colossi are in arenas specifically designed with ways and behaviors needed to defeat them for the reason that the creators wanted a method to undo the seal on Dormin. Whether after Dormin's sentence was up or as a SummonBiggerFish move, the only explanation that the colossi exist in the way that they do is because they are designed ''designed'' to be defeatable.



* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in the bible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release him with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and his name reflects the latter, not the former.

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* Dormin's name spelt backwards, as been mentioned numerous times, is Nimrod. However, it's not the term [[WhatAnIdiot you think it's describing]]. Before the common use of the word was coined by Bugs Bunny, Nimrod meant something along the lines of a great hunter, referring to a character in the bible TheBible ''named'' Nimrod who was a pretty good hunter. Dormin wasn't looking for TheFool [[spoiler:to help release him with no questions about it]], he was looking for someone who was good at hunting down the Colossi, and his name reflects the latter, not the former.



*** They don't seem very smart, if you injure an animal they don't really do anything tactic-wise to fight back. Just panic. And I doubt they have any sort of instinct about how not to die, since they're not a species that evolves nor capable of being killed by literally anything else.

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*** They don't seem very smart, smart; if you injure an animal animal, they don't really do anything tactic-wise to fight back. Just panic. And I doubt they have any sort of instinct about how not to die, since they're not a species that evolves nor capable of being killed by literally anything else.
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**Also, the biblical Nimrod is often associated with the construction of the Tower of Babel. You know, a very tall and imposing structure, just like the very one in the middle of the map.
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* Dormin brought [[spoiler: Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler: Wander]] back -- and that's why she has an injured leg! [[spoiler: Wander]] was shot in that leg!

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* Dormin brought might have been the ones bringing [[spoiler: Agro]] back the way They brought [[spoiler: Wander]] back -- and that's why she has an injured leg! [[spoiler: Wander]] was shot in that leg!
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** It's also possible that they knew that they [[spoiler: knew that they were the scattered pieces of Dormin]] and the reason that they attempt to avoid Wander is because [[spoiler: they don't want to reunite him/her.]]

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** It's also possible that they knew that they [[spoiler: knew that they were the scattered pieces of Dormin]] and the reason that they attempt to avoid Wander is because [[spoiler: they don't want to reunite him/her.]]
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**** Clenching a fist on Wander would be an amazingly dumb idea. It would be like trying to crush a piece of cactus in your bare hand; sure, it might break, but you'll be impaling your hand on the very thing you're trying to not get impaled on. And with Malus, he might be able to fry Wander with his fireball magic, but most of the Colossi aren't immune to their own powers; he'd be blowing off his own hand, and Wander ''could'' still survive it, which means trying to fight him again means Malus would have to do it without a second hand.

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*** They don't seem very smart, if you injure an animal they don't really do anything tactic-wise to fight back. Just panic. And I doubt they have any sort of instinct about how not to die, since they're not a species that evolves nor capable of being killed by literally anything else.

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*** They don't seem very smart, if you injure an animal they don't really do anything tactic-wise to fight back. Just panic. And I doubt they have any sort of instinct about how not to die, since they're not a species that evolves nor capable of being killed by literally anything else.else.

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