History WMG / Tremors

[[WMG: The Graboids are actually a kind of Anaye and are supernatural in nature]]
For those not in the know, the [[https://abookofcreatures.com/category/anaye/ Anaye]] are a race of monsters from mythology of the Navajo tribe, born of women engaging in intercourse with objects after estranging themselves from men, before the majority were all slain by twin Culture Heroes Nayenezgani and To’badzistsini. However, either the Graboids or an ancestor of them hid undergriound from the twins so deep and so well they missed them, allowing the Graboids to survive into the age of White America. This would explain why there are no fossils of them to be found.

For those not in the know, the [[https://abookofcreatures.com/category/anaye/ Anaye]] are a race of monsters from mythology of the Navajo tribe, born of women engaging in intercourse with objects after estranging themselves from men, before the majority were all slain by twin Culture Heroes Nayenezgani and To’badzistsini. However, either the Graboids or an ancestor of them hid undergriound from the twins so deep and so well they missed them, allowing the Graboids to survive into the age of White America. This would explain why there are no fossils of them to be found.

For those not in the know, the [[https://abookofcreatures.com/category/anaye/ Anaye]] are a race of monsters from mythology of the Navajo tribe, born of women engaging in intercourse with objects after estranging themselves from men, before the majority were all slain by twin Culture Heroes Nayenezgani and To’badzistsini. However, either the Graboids or an ancestor of them hid undergriound from the twins so deep and so well they missed them, allowing the Graboids to survive into the age of White America. Heck, Tecopa in Tremors 4 even does mention the natives did come into conflict ith Graboids in Pre-Columbian times.

** Until the fifth movie, that is.

For those not in the know, the [[https://abookofcreatures.com/category/anaye/ Anaye]] are a race of monsters from mythology of the Navajo tribe, born of women engaging in intercourse with objects after estranging themselves from men, before the majority were all slain by twin Culture Heroes Nayenezgani and To’badzistsini. However, this WMG posits the Graboids, if not some of them, hid undergriound from the twins so deep and so well they missed them, allowing the Graboids to survive into the age of White America. Heck, Tecopa in Tremors 4 even does mention the natives did come into conflict ith Graboids in Pre-Columbian times.

For all we know, Burt Grummer (and by extension Hiram) may have some Native American DNA in him, maybe even be a very distant descendant of either of the Twins.

Both go through sand. Both are attracted to vibrations in the ground. They basically eat whatever makes noises.

Not only would we find out how Val, Earl and Rhonda have been for example, but also have plenty of stories to tell about graboids. Of course, some of them would probably die for drama. Of course it seems slim due to how big of Stars both Kevin Bacon and Music/RebaMcEntire are.

Not only would we find out how Val, Earl and Rhonda have been for example, but also have plenty of stories to tell about graboids. Of course, some of them would probably die for drama. Of course it seems slim due to how big of Stars both Kevin Bacon and Reba McEntire are.

As mentioned above, the chances of a creature being Albino and infertile at the same time are astronomicaly slim. So what I was thinking is that at no point in a Graboids lifecycle does it seem to undergo any sort of genetic sharing, every stage just produces the next asexually. This means that genetic weaknesses could become a real threat to the graboid species. So to counteract this Graboids evolved a sort of failsafe whereby any member who's genetics vary too much from the norm will be rendered infertile to prevent damaging mutations from being passed on the the next generation. Mutations such as missing tongue-tendrils or poor hearing would then simply vanish.

It's established that they're Precambrian life forms. You'd think there'd be evidence of them throughout history, but (seemingly) there isn't. That's because the modern graboids aren't ''descendants'' of the original Precambrian graboids, they ''are'' the Precambrian graboids. They died out during the Great Oxygenation Event, which is why there presumably weren't any graboids eating dinosaurs, for example, but there are still fossils of them. The graboids that appeared in Perfection and other places arrived there via anomalies (from ''{{Series/Primeval}}'') that appeared underground.

[[WMG: Graboids appear due to underground [[Series/Primeval anomalies]]
It's established that they're Precambrian life forms. You'd think there'd be evidence of them throughout history, but (seemingly) there isn't. That's because the modern graboids aren't ''descendants'' of the original Precambrian graboids, they ''are'' the Precambrian graboids. They died out during the Great Oxygenation Event, which is why there presumably weren't any graboids eating dinosaurs, for example, but there are still fossils of them. The graboids that appeared in Perfection and other places arrived there via anomalies that appeared underground.

Rather, they're the ''shrieker'' stage of the African variant of the species. The New World versions' second phase of the life cycle look like wingless versions of the egg-laying stage, but in Africa the middle stage of development resembles the Graboid stage instead, slimmed down for greater mobility aboveground.

Rather, they're the ''shrieker'' stage of the African variant of the species. The New World versions' second phase of the life cycle look like wingless versions of the egg-laying stage, but in Africa the middle stage of development resembles the Graboid stage instead, slimmed down for greater mobility.

In the second movie Kate finds a Graboid fossil in Precambrian rock where the only other forms of life were single cell organisms. The Graboid and their life cycle are to complex to have been from that time. They probably came from space as an egg and brought the single cell organisms with them.

** Mind=Blown

As a final piece of evidence, I'll let you chew on this: El Blanco is a Shiny graboid.

They were an experiment, made by aliens, sent to Earth before the Cambrian Age.

Cheer up, Burt. You really '''did''' need to blow up your bunker: eating [=MRE=]s would've only put the ''male'' ass-blasters to sleep, whereas the females would've scattered across the state and spread the Graboid menace beyond Perfection Valley, with no granite barriers to confine them.

Conclusion? Messerschmitt really ''was'' rightly referred to as "he", hence had never laid eggs, and had flown all the way to Perfection in hope of finding other ass-blasters -- i.e. fertile females -- still there. His picky eating habits were as much a result of his having sex on his mind, rather than food, as of having been spoiled by Sigmund & Ray. The fact that he's male, and doesn't have to fly long distances to seek a place to lay eggs, may even explain why he fell into a "food coma" in the first place: he didn't have the use for all those excess calories that a female ass-blaster would, so took a nap rather than flew off to find a nesting site.

Cheer up, Burt. You really '''did''' need to blow up your bunker: eating MREs would've only put the ''male'' ass-blasters to sleep, whereas the females would've scattered across the state and spread the Graboid menace beyond Perfection Valley, with no granite barriers to confine them.

* Supporting fact: Burt is the ''only'' character in the whole series to survive being swallowed by a Graboid.

Simply put, Hiram Gummer kept on living, and due to being [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld really old]] has had his memory fade so that he doesn't remember the Graboids (or Dirt Dragons, whatever), only that there's some terrible danger to be paranoid of. Over the decades he's likely projected that fear onto the Communists and even the U.S. Government, thinking those were the real threats.

During the first film, Burt states that he chose to live in Perfection because it was geographically isolated and specifically that he chose where his house is for the same reason. Cut to the SoBadItsHorrible fourth film and we see an [[IdenticalGrandson apparent ancestor]] of Burt's named Hiram, who says that he's chosen a spot on a hill on which to build a house which is heavily implied to be the same spot his "great-grandson" lives on later.

During the first film, Burt states that he chose to live in Perfection because it was geographically isolated and specifically that he chose where his house is for the same reason. Cut to the [[SoBadItsHorrible]] fourth film and we see an apparent ancestor of Burt's named Hiram, who says that he's chosen a spot on a hill on which to build a house which is heavily implied to be the same spot his "great-grandson" lives on later.