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* The concept of Soulstorm Brew gets even more Nightmare Fuel added to it. [[spoiler: The Glukkons had the Vykkers deliberately make it extremely addictive. They also had them make the withdrawl from it ''painfully lethal'', so they could make sure that any Mudokons addicted to it wouldn't escape. And then there's the fact it's spectacularly ''flammable''.]]
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* The concept of Soulstorm Brew gets even more Nightmare Fuel added to it. [[spoiler: The Glukkons had the Vykkers deliberately make it extremely addictive. They also had them make the withdrawl from it ''painfully lethal'', so they could make sure that any Mudokons addicted to it wouldn't escape. And then there's the fact it's spectacularly ''flammable''.]]
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* The worst ending. [[spoiler: Abe, fretting over his bad Quarma having cost him the only means of finding his mother, trips and breaks several bottles of Soulstorm Brew in front of the open train furance. There's a HopeSpot where Toby catches an ember headed for the puddles of Brew, only for another one to land. The brew ignites, and we're treated to [[ManOnFire a burning Abe]] trying to open the door to get to the extinguisher. He fails, and the flaming train slams into the Brewery. The brewery explodes, and Molluck's pilot notes that the fires have gotten into the brewery's pipelines to other Cartel factories. The newspapers after the cutscene reveal Abe's failure has cost ''thousands'' of Mudokons their lives in factory fires all over the continent.]]
** To make it [[FromBadToWorse worse]], there is also FridgeHorror [[spoiler: in lethal consequences of withdrawal from Soulstorm Brew and the brewery being razed to the ground. This essentially [[InferredHolocaust implies]] the death of all mudokon slaves.]]
** To make it [[FromBadToWorse worse]], there is also FridgeHorror [[spoiler: in lethal consequences of withdrawal from Soulstorm Brew and the brewery being razed to the ground. This essentially [[InferredHolocaust implies]] the death of all mudokon slaves.]]
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* The worst ending. [[spoiler: Abe, fretting over his bad Quarma having cost him the only means of finding his mother, trips and breaks several bottles of Soulstorm Brew in front of the open train furance. There's a HopeSpot where Toby catches an ember headed for the puddles of Brew, only for another one to land. The brew ignites, and we're treated to [[ManOnFire a burning Abe]] trying to open the door to get to the extinguisher. He fails, and the flaming train slams into the Brewery. The brewery explodes, and Molluck's pilot notes that the fires have gotten into the brewery's pipelines to other Cartel factories. The newspapers after the cutscene reveal Abe's failure has cost ''thousands'' of Mudokons their lives in factory fires all over the continent.]]
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** To make it [[FromBadToWorse worse]], there is also FridgeHorror[[spoiler: in lethal consequences of withdrawal from Soulstorm Brew and the brewery being razed to the ground. This essentially [[InferredHolocaust implies]] the death of all mudokon slaves.]]
** To make it [[FromBadToWorse worse]], there is also FridgeHorror
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--> '''{{WebVideo/Caddicarus}}''': This shit was dark, I never recovered from it, and for that I say '''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK YOU]]'''... [[CreatorWorship to the legendary, limitless, luscious Lorne Lanning]].
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%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVRfZrfo40&index=4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk The "Free-Fire Zone theme"]], a twisted combination of the above two themes.
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** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
** [[https://youtu.be/uBL-HHiEqZw The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
** [[https://youtu.be/uBL-HHiEqZw The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
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* The Scrabs are even described in the first game's manuals as "Territorial nightmares on four legs" and they certainly live up to that description. Between the several-foot long jaw, immense claws and humanoid torsos, they're not the cuddliest things you'll find around Oddworld, and that's saying a lot.
* To some players, especially younger ones, the [[UglyCute Mudokons]] can be rather [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unnerving]], mainly due to their bloodshot yellow eyes, weird foreheads, and the fact that they're [[UncannyValley the most human-like lifeform on Oddworld]].
* To some players, especially younger ones, the [[UglyCute Mudokons]] can be rather [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unnerving]], mainly due to their bloodshot yellow eyes, weird foreheads, and the fact that they're [[UncannyValley the most human-like lifeform on Oddworld]].
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** The Scrabs are even described in the first game's manuals as "Territorial nightmares on four legs" and they certainly live up to that description. Between the several-foot long jaw, immense claws and humanoid torsos, they're not the cuddliest things you'll find around Oddworld, and that's saying a lot.
** To some players, especially younger ones, the [[UglyCute Mudokons]] can be rather [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unnerving]], mainly due to their bloodshot yellow eyes, weird foreheads, and the fact that they're [[UncannyValley the most human-like lifeform on
** Sligs are the primary henchmen to the Glukkons, and they're such for a reason. They either have piercing red LED visors or glowing {{red eyes|TakeWarning}}. As soon as they see something move when they aren't supposed to, they immediately open fire or blast it to smithereens, being one of the most aggressive creatures you'll meet. And that's just the gunner or bomber Sligs. Lest we mention the massive, armed to the teeth [[EliteMook Big-Bro Sligs]]...
** The Fleeches - fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues and slowly eat him with their tongues, with Abe's shriek of pain going up in pitch as he's continuously mauled by them. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him, go into BalloonBelly mode and then suddenly return to their normal builds with a few birds flying out, presumably digesting Abe on the spot. Yikes.
**Despite being friendly, the Fuzzles don't win friends with their looks. They're small fuzzballs with large eyes and mouths full of ScaryTeeth. They're like land piranhas, {{Zerg Rush}}ing anything they're told to by biting them to death. Sure, they may be allies to Munch, but they're harshly vindictive, and will happily get him and Abe killed if their quarma is bad enough.
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* The Fleeches - fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues and slowly eat him with their tongues, with Abe's shriek of pain going up in pitch as he's continuously mauled by them. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him, go into BalloonBelly mode and then suddenly return to their normal builds with a few birds flying out, presumably digesting Abe on the spot. Yikes.
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* The worst ending. [[spoiler: Abe, fretting over his bad Quarma having cost him the only means of finding his mother, trips and breaks several bottles of Soulstorm Brew in front of the open train furance. There's a HopeSpot where Toby catches an ember headed for the puddles of Brew, only for another one to land. The brew ignites, and we're treated to [[ManOnFire a burning Abe]] trying to open the door to get to the extinguisher. He fails, and the flaming train slams into the Brewery. The brewery explodes, and Molluck's pilot notes that the fires have gotten into the brewery's pipelines to other Cartel factories. The newspapers after the cutscene reveal Abe's failure has cost ''thousands'' of Mudokons their lives in factory fires all over the continent.]]
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* The worst ending. [[spoiler: Abe, fretting over his bad Quarma having cost him the only means of finding his mother, trips and breaks several bottles of Soulstorm Brew in front of the open train furance. There's a HopeSpot where Toby catches an ember headed for the puddles of Brew, only for another one to land. The brew ignites, and we're treated to [[ManOnFire a burning Abe]] trying to open the door to get to the extinguisher. He fails, and the flaming train slams into the Brewery. The brewery explodes, and Molluck's pilot notes that the fires have gotten into the brewery's pipelines to other Cartel factories. The newspapers after the cutscene reveal Abe's failure has cost ''thousands'' of Mudokons their lives in factory fires all over the continent.]]
** To make it [[FromBadToWorse worse]], there is also FridgeHorror [[spoiler: in lethal consequences of withdrawal from Soulstorm Brew and the brewery being razed to the ground. This essentially [[InferredHolocaust implies]] the death of all mudokon slaves.]]
** To make it [[FromBadToWorse worse]], there is also FridgeHorror [[spoiler: in lethal consequences of withdrawal from Soulstorm Brew and the brewery being razed to the ground. This essentially [[InferredHolocaust implies]] the death of all mudokon slaves.]]
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* ''The Sanctum'' level wouldn't be out of place in any horror game. It starts as a BlackoutBasement cave where you can't see more than a few steps around you, though you do find a flashlight at the beginning, and on few occasions there are very deep shafts the bottom of which you can't see. After mid-point, Abe reaches a zone where he must activate 3 flint-locks, and here he encounters Sleeches: monsters afraid of light that will kill him if they touch him for more than a second. In darkness they have terrifying red eyes and will mercilessly chase Abe unless they're exposed to light - the sight of a bunch of red eyes in a darkness converging towards you really sends chill down the spine.
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* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured to the right - a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version all future depictions of Mudokon Pops, including in the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
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* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured to the right - a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and all future depictions of Mudokon Pops, including in the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
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* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured to the right - a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
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* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured to the right - a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and all future depictions of Mudokon Pops, including in the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
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* Just the game's opening, The train is nearly it's last stop, being shot at from every angle, all the while Alf and Toby are fearing for their lives. Alf is screaming for Abe to come out and help, who is just in a deep trance. Just hearing Alf scream out Abe's name in their darkest hour is creepy enough.
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* Just the game's opening, The train is nearly it's nearing its last stop, being shot at from every angle, all the while Alf and Toby are fearing for their lives. Alf is screaming for Abe to come out and help, who is just in a deep trance. Just hearing Alf scream out Abe's name in their darkest hour is creepy enough.
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* Just the game's opening, The train is nearly it's last stop, being shot at from every angle, all the while Alf and Toby are fearing for their lives. Alf is screaming for Abe to come out and help, who is just in a deep trance. Just hearing Alf scream out Abe's name in their darkest hour is creepy enough.
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* The Fleeches - fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues and slowly eat him with their tongues, with Abe's shriek of pain going up in pitch as he's continuously mauled by them. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him, go into BalloonBelly mode and then suddenly return to their normal builds with a few birds flying out, presumably digesting Abe on the spot. Yikes.
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* The Fleeches - fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues and slowly eat him with their tongues, with Abe's shriek of pain going up in pitch as he's continuously mauled by them. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him, go into BalloonBelly mode and then suddenly return to their normal builds with a few birds flying out, presumably digesting Abe on the spot. Yikes.Yikes.
!!Oddworld: Soulstorm
* The concept of Soulstorm Brew gets even more Nightmare Fuel added to it. [[spoiler: The Glukkons had the Vykkers deliberately make it extremely addictive. They also had them make the withdrawl from it ''painfully lethal'', so they could make sure that any Mudokons addicted to it wouldn't escape. And then there's the fact it's spectacularly ''flammable''.]]
* The worst ending. [[spoiler: Abe, fretting over his bad Quarma having cost him the only means of finding his mother, trips and breaks several bottles of Soulstorm Brew in front of the open train furance. There's a HopeSpot where Toby catches an ember headed for the puddles of Brew, only for another one to land. The brew ignites, and we're treated to [[ManOnFire a burning Abe]] trying to open the door to get to the extinguisher. He fails, and the flaming train slams into the Brewery. The brewery explodes, and Molluck's pilot notes that the fires have gotten into the brewery's pipelines to other Cartel factories. The newspapers after the cutscene reveal Abe's failure has cost ''thousands'' of Mudokons their lives in factory fires all over the continent.]]
!!Oddworld: Soulstorm
* The concept of Soulstorm Brew gets even more Nightmare Fuel added to it. [[spoiler: The Glukkons had the Vykkers deliberately make it extremely addictive. They also had them make the withdrawl from it ''painfully lethal'', so they could make sure that any Mudokons addicted to it wouldn't escape. And then there's the fact it's spectacularly ''flammable''.]]
* The worst ending. [[spoiler: Abe, fretting over his bad Quarma having cost him the only means of finding his mother, trips and breaks several bottles of Soulstorm Brew in front of the open train furance. There's a HopeSpot where Toby catches an ember headed for the puddles of Brew, only for another one to land. The brew ignites, and we're treated to [[ManOnFire a burning Abe]] trying to open the door to get to the extinguisher. He fails, and the flaming train slams into the Brewery. The brewery explodes, and Molluck's pilot notes that the fires have gotten into the brewery's pipelines to other Cartel factories. The newspapers after the cutscene reveal Abe's failure has cost ''thousands'' of Mudokons their lives in factory fires all over the continent.]]
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* If you look closely at the spiked barriers in the Free-Fire Zone outside the factory, you can see Mudokan corpses ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on the spikes. This is not only horrifying, but also raises [[FridgeHorror many questions]]: is this how the Sligs got rid of the dead slaves before Mudokan Pops were conceptualised, or did some Mudokans try to escape before Abe but failed?
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* If you look closely at the spiked barriers in the Free-Fire Zone outside the factory, you can see Mudokan Mudokon corpses ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on the spikes. This is not only horrifying, but also raises [[FridgeHorror many questions]]: is this how the Sligs got rid of the dead slaves before Mudokan Mudokon Pops were conceptualised, or did some Mudokans Mudokons try to escape before Abe but failed?
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* The very concept of Soulstorm Brew - a addictive and dangerous substance made from the bones of dead Mudokans and live Mudokan tears that gets Mudokans hooked on it and willing to do nearly anything to get more of it, enabling the Glukkons and Sligs to get Mudokans into "work" for the addictive brew, then kill them off for their tears and bones for the brew, which is then given to more Mudokans to make them work, thus beginning the cycle all over again in a never-ending "gift that keeps on giving".
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** In ''Abe's Oddysee'', Abe gets caught by Molluck and left hanging by his arms over a meat grinder (Which also happens in the good ending). After this, Big Face and some colleagues decide to abandon him for not saving enough Mudokons, leading to him getting dropped into the meat grinder and exploding into chunks and blood, with a few spurts flying out as Molluck and his Slig henchman laugh evilly.
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** In ''Abe's Oddysee'', Abe gets caught by Molluck and left hanging by his arms over a meat grinder (Which also happens in the good ending). After this, Big Face and some colleagues decide to abandon him for not saving enough Mudokons, leading to him getting dropped into the meat grinder and exploding into chunks and blood, with a few spurts flying out as Molluck and his Slig henchman laugh evilly. And since, unlike ''Abe's Exoddus'', Abe doesn't turn into a cluster of birds in this ending, the implication is that Abe just got violently KilledOffForReal.
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[[caption-width-right:320:"''That was before the Glukkons started [[HumanResources stealing our]] [[RobbingTheDead bones]]. They used Mudokon slaves to do it. [[EyeScream Blind]] ones that [[CaptainObvious couldn't see]]. The [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Glukkons]] didn't want '''anyone''' [[CreepyMonotone to know what they were digging up]]..."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:320:"''That was before the Glukkons started [[HumanResources stealing our]] [[RobbingTheDead bones]]. They used Mudokon slaves to do it. [[EyeScream Blind]] ones that [[CaptainObvious couldn't see]].see. The [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Glukkons]] didn't want '''anyone''' [[CreepyMonotone to know what they were digging up]]..."'']]
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* To some players, especially younger ones, the [[UglyCute Mudokans]] can be rather [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unnerving]], mainly due to their bloodshot yellow eyes, weird foreheads, and the fact that they're [[UncannyValley the most human-like lifeform on Oddworld]].
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* To some players, especially younger ones, the [[UglyCute Mudokans]] Mudokons]] can be rather [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unnerving]], mainly due to their bloodshot yellow eyes, weird foreheads, and the fact that they're [[UncannyValley the most human-like lifeform on Oddworld]].
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[[caption-width-right:320:"''That was before the Glukkons started [[HumanResources stealing our]] [[RobbingTheDead bones]]. They used Mudokan slaves to do it. [[EyeScream Blind]] ones that [[CaptainObvious couldn't see]]. The [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Glukkons]] didn't want '''anyone''' [[CreepyMonotone to know what they were digging up]]..."'']]
* The [[EyeScream blind Mudokans who have their eyes stitched shut]], pictured on the right. They're blinded this way to prevent them from knowing that they're digging up their own dead ancestors.
* The [[EyeScream blind Mudokans who have their eyes stitched shut]], pictured on the right. They're blinded this way to prevent them from knowing that they're digging up their own dead ancestors.
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[[caption-width-right:320:"''That was before the Glukkons started [[HumanResources stealing our]] [[RobbingTheDead bones]]. They used Mudokan Mudokon slaves to do it. [[EyeScream Blind]] ones that [[CaptainObvious couldn't see]]. The [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Glukkons]] didn't want '''anyone''' [[CreepyMonotone to know what they were digging up]]..."'']]
* The [[EyeScream blindMudokans Mudokons who have their eyes stitched shut]], pictured on the right. They're blinded this way to prevent them from knowing that they're digging up their own dead ancestors.
* The [[EyeScream blind
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%%** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
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* The Fleeches in Exoddus, which are fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him and presumably digest him on the spot. Yikes. There's also a level chock full of these things.
* The unused trailer for Oddysee, Guardian Angel. The trailer shows a nightmarish-looking hovering robot with a VoiceOfTheLegion talking to Abe in what looks to be a waste silo, before going at him with blades and saws as [[NothingIsScarier the trailer cuts to the game title]].
--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within… If 'ya wanna be free!''
--> '''Abe''' ''Help meeee…!''
** The [[https://youtu.be/jWCrg3jGCk8 version uploaded to the Oddworld Inhabitants channel]] is scarier because of it's implications, replacing "If 'ya wanna be free!" to [[SinisterMinister "It's time... to confess!"]]
* The unused trailer for Oddysee, Guardian Angel. The trailer shows a nightmarish-looking hovering robot with a VoiceOfTheLegion talking to Abe in what looks to be a waste silo, before going at him with blades and saws as [[NothingIsScarier the trailer cuts to the game title]].
--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within… If 'ya wanna be free!''
--> '''Abe''' ''Help meeee…!''
** The [[https://youtu.be/jWCrg3jGCk8 version uploaded to the Oddworld Inhabitants channel]] is scarier because of it's implications, replacing "If 'ya wanna be free!" to [[SinisterMinister "It's time... to confess!"]]
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* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured above, was a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
* The antagonists of the first two games suffered some serious VillainDecay when it came to ''Exoddus'', but only because the game had to be rushed in a nine month development period and ExecutiveMeddling in the process. The teaser trailer for its VideoGameRemake as ''Soulstorm'', on the other hand, shows the Mudokons being subjected to horrifying experimentation, lining up for said experiments carrying their own body bags, and being worked and stressed into death and insanity before being filed away with the rest of the corpses. This isn't just DarkerAndEdgier - ''this is what Exoddus was intended to be.''
* The antagonists of the first two games suffered some serious VillainDecay when it came to ''Exoddus'', but only because the game had to be rushed in a nine month development period and ExecutiveMeddling in the process. The teaser trailer for its VideoGameRemake as ''Soulstorm'', on the other hand, shows the Mudokons being subjected to horrifying experimentation, lining up for said experiments carrying their own body bags, and being worked and stressed into death and insanity before being filed away with the rest of the corpses. This isn't just DarkerAndEdgier - ''this is what Exoddus was intended to be.''
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* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured to the right - a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
** Abe's [[FreakOut reaction to seeing it]] is particularly frightening, as his delivery in the nightmarish intro is the one time in the cutscenes that his narration breaks from the CreepyMonotone and expresses genuine terror.
* If you look closely at the spiked barriers in the Free-Fire Zone outside the factory, you can see Mudokan corpses ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on the spikes. This is not only horrifying, but also raises [[FridgeHorror many questions]]: is this how the Sligs got rid of the dead slaves before Mudokan Pops were conceptualised, or did some Mudokans try to escape before Abe but failed?
* The unused trailer for Oddysee, Guardian Angel. The trailer shows a nightmarish-looking hovering robot with a VoiceOfTheLegion talking to Abe in what looks to be a waste silo, before going at him with blades and saws as [[NothingIsScarier the trailer cuts to the game title]].
--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within… If 'ya wanna be free!''
--> '''Abe''' ''Help meeee…!''
** The [[https://youtu.be/jWCrg3jGCk8 version uploaded to the Oddworld Inhabitants channel]] is scarier because of it's implications, replacing "If 'ya wanna be free!" to [[SinisterMinister "It's time... to confess!"]]
* The audio JumpScare of a Scrab screech that occurs on the copyright warning screen.
!!Abe's Exoddus
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[[caption-width-right:320:"''That was before the Glukkons started [[HumanResources stealing our]] [[RobbingTheDead bones]]. They used Mudokan slaves to do it. [[EyeScream Blind]] ones that [[CaptainObvious couldn't see]]. The [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Glukkons]] didn't want '''anyone''' [[CreepyMonotone to know what they were digging up]]..."'']]
* The [[EyeScream blind Mudokans who have their eyes stitched shut]], pictured on the right. They're blinded this way to prevent them from knowing that they're digging up their own dead ancestors.
--> '''{{WebVideo/Caddicarus}}''': This shit was dark, I never recovered from it, and for that I say '''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCK YOU]]'''... [[CreatorWorship to the legendary, limitless, luscious Lorne Lanning]].
* The very concept of Soulstorm Brew - a addictive and dangerous substance made from the bones of dead Mudokans and live Mudokan tears that gets Mudokans hooked on it and willing to do nearly anything to get more of it, enabling the Glukkons and Sligs to get Mudokans into "work" for the addictive brew, then kill them off for their tears and bones for the brew, which is then given to more Mudokans to make them work, thus beginning the cycle all over again in a never-ending "gift that keeps on giving".
* The Fleeches - fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues and slowly eat him with their tongues, with Abe's shriek of pain going up in pitch as he's continuously mauled by them. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him, go into BalloonBelly mode and then suddenly return to their normal builds with a few birds flying out, presumably digesting Abe on the spot. Yikes.
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*** What's more interesting is that it manages to sound both terrifying AND relaxing at the same time. Whereas the main theme from Oddysee was gloomy and foreboding, this one feels more peaceful, tranquil, and natural, almost like the music itself is saying "[[HeartwarmingMoments This time]], [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome there is hope]]".
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*** What's more interesting is that it manages to sound both terrifying AND relaxing at the same time. Whereas the main theme from Oddysee was gloomy and foreboding, this one feels more peaceful, tranquil, and natural, almost like the music itself is saying "[[HeartwarmingMoments "[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments This time]], [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome there is hope]]".
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** ''Oddysee'' piles on the chilling soundtrack right from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8hOZ7fhlk its incredibly ominous and eerie main menu music, known simply as "Abe's Theme"]]. The hard bass is almost like a heartbeat with the music acting like movement, as if the score knows Abe's running away from everything that wants to kill him.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and NightmareFuel at the same time.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVRfZrfo40&index=4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk The "Free-Fire Zone theme"]], a twisted combination of the above two themes.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBUaPhxaww&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=5 The "Scrab Chase" theme]] - '''[[DontAskJustRun RUN ABE]]!'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs02dq-gIk&index=3&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Dark Prowling" theme]] doesn't help the fact that when you first hear it, you're suspended barely a foot above a Scrab, with one missed jump spelling your doom...
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdik3d55Hw&index=4&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Wondering Circumstances" theme]] is a slowed down version of the Scrab Chase theme that somehow manages to sound even scarier.
** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpNtGmi8ZY&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=14 The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QQy6gW74Y&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=15 The "Tension" theme]] lives up to its name.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and NightmareFuel at the same time.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVRfZrfo40&index=4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk The "Free-Fire Zone theme"]], a twisted combination of the above two themes.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBUaPhxaww&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=5 The "Scrab Chase" theme]] - '''[[DontAskJustRun RUN ABE]]!'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs02dq-gIk&index=3&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Dark Prowling" theme]] doesn't help the fact that when you first hear it, you're suspended barely a foot above a Scrab, with one missed jump spelling your doom...
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdik3d55Hw&index=4&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Wondering Circumstances" theme]] is a slowed down version of the Scrab Chase theme that somehow manages to sound even scarier.
** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpNtGmi8ZY&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=14 The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QQy6gW74Y&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=15 The "Tension" theme]] lives up to its name.
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** ''Oddysee'' piles on the chilling soundtrack right from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8hOZ7fhlk [[https://youtu.be/37ZjEae0bHU its incredibly ominous and eerie main menu music, known simply as "Abe's Theme"]]. The hard bass is almost like a heartbeat with the music acting like movement, as if the score knows Abe's running away from everything that wants to kill him.
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 [[https://youtu.be/7zDWd1liQ-E The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and NightmareFuel at the same time.
** %%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVRfZrfo40&index=4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk The "Free-Fire Zone theme"]], a twisted combination of the above two themes.
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBUaPhxaww&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=5 [[https://youtu.be/Clgh6fb7Otg The "Scrab Chase" theme]] - '''[[DontAskJustRun RUN ABE]]!'''
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs02dq-gIk&index=3&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY [[https://youtu.be/HDNoGsM-stA The "Dark Prowling" theme]] doesn't help the fact that when you first hear it, you're suspended barely a foot above a Scrab, with one missed jump spelling your doom...
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdik3d55Hw&index=4&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY [[https://youtu.be/6cBXkB3M_Kc The "Wondering Circumstances" theme]] is a slowed down version of the Scrab Chase theme that somehow manages to sound even scarier.
** %%** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpNtGmi8ZY&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=14 [[https://youtu.be/uBL-HHiEqZw The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
**[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QQy6gW74Y&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=15 [[https://youtu.be/DBqLkP-8Bw4 The "Tension" theme]] lives up to its name.
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* The Fleeches in Exoddus, which are fast, tiny grub-like creatures who attack Abe with their tongues. If that didn't sound horrifying, after attacking Abe five times, they grab him, swallow him and presumably digest him on the spot. Yikes. There's also a level chock full of these things.
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* The [[DownerEnding bad endings]] of the first three games.
** In ''Abe's Oddysee'', Abe gets caught by Molluck and left hanging by his arms over a meat grinder (Which also happens in the good ending). After this, Big Face and some colleagues decide to abandon him for not saving enough Mudokons, leading to him getting dropped into the meat grinder and exploding into chunks and blood, with a few spurts flying out as Molluck and his Slig henchman laugh evilly.
** While ''Abe's Exoddus''' bad ending isn't as creepy as the last or following games', it's still creepy in a way. Some Mudokons shut off the self-destruct sequence in a fit of anger at Abe, and knock him cold with an empty bottle of brew, resulting in his capture by the Brewmaster. He wakes up to finding himself stuck in a tear extractor, begging not to get electrocuted. The Brewmaster decides to increase the voltage to the maximum, shocking him in a greater magnitude than anyone else, with him screaming in pain before disintegrating into a cluster of birds.
** The ''Munch's Oddysee'' ending is considered to be the worst of them all. Outraged that they were abandoned to cosmetic experimentation, the heavily-mutilated Fuzzles gang up on Abe and Munch while setting off the alarms, resulting in the Vykkers capturing the duo and killing Abe; the game then cuts to Munch's race ending with him being violently eviscerated for his lungs (which are to be sold). Following this is a newspaper detailing [[DownerEnding everything going downhill afterwards]], with the last can of Gabbiar getting eaten, destroying any chance of the species coming back, the queen Glukkon getting a new pair of lungs, and the rest of the generations of Mudokons being doomed to birth as slaves.
* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured above, was a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
** In ''Abe's Oddysee'', Abe gets caught by Molluck and left hanging by his arms over a meat grinder (Which also happens in the good ending). After this, Big Face and some colleagues decide to abandon him for not saving enough Mudokons, leading to him getting dropped into the meat grinder and exploding into chunks and blood, with a few spurts flying out as Molluck and his Slig henchman laugh evilly.
** While ''Abe's Exoddus''' bad ending isn't as creepy as the last or following games', it's still creepy in a way. Some Mudokons shut off the self-destruct sequence in a fit of anger at Abe, and knock him cold with an empty bottle of brew, resulting in his capture by the Brewmaster. He wakes up to finding himself stuck in a tear extractor, begging not to get electrocuted. The Brewmaster decides to increase the voltage to the maximum, shocking him in a greater magnitude than anyone else, with him screaming in pain before disintegrating into a cluster of birds.
** The ''Munch's Oddysee'' ending is considered to be the worst of them all. Outraged that they were abandoned to cosmetic experimentation, the heavily-mutilated Fuzzles gang up on Abe and Munch while setting off the alarms, resulting in the Vykkers capturing the duo and killing Abe; the game then cuts to Munch's race ending with him being violently eviscerated for his lungs (which are to be sold). Following this is a newspaper detailing [[DownerEnding everything going downhill afterwards]], with the last can of Gabbiar getting eaten, destroying any chance of the species coming back, the queen Glukkon getting a new pair of lungs, and the rest of the generations of Mudokons being doomed to birth as slaves.
* The original design for the Mudokon Pop, as pictured above, was a Mudokon's head grotesquely impaled on a stick. This was thankfully changed into a more friendly design in the Japanese version and the ''New N' Tasty'' remake.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both CrowningMusicOfAwesome and NightmareFuel at the same time.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both CrowningMusicOfAwesome SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and NightmareFuel at the same time.
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*** What's more interesting is that it manages to sound both terrifying AND relaxing at the same time. Whereas the main theme from Oddysee was gloomy and foreboding, this one feels more peaceful, tranquil, and natural, almost like the music itself is saying "[[HeartwarmingMoments This time]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome there is hope]]".
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*** What's more interesting is that it manages to sound both terrifying AND relaxing at the same time. Whereas the main theme from Oddysee was gloomy and foreboding, this one feels more peaceful, tranquil, and natural, almost like the music itself is saying "[[HeartwarmingMoments This time]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome there is hope]]".
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* To some players, especially younger ones, the [[UglyCute Mudokans]] can be rather [[AccidentalNightmareFuel unnerving]], mainly due to their bloodshot yellow eyes, weird foreheads, and the fact that they're [[UncannyValley the most human-like lifeform on Oddworld]].
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--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within…If 'ya wanna be free!''
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--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within…If within… If 'ya wanna be free!''
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** The [[https://youtu.be/jWCrg3jGCk8 version uploaded to the Oddworld Inhabitants channel]] is scarier because of it's implications, replacing "If 'ya wanna be free!" to [[SinisterMinister "It's time... to confess!"]]
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--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingWantsToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within…If 'ya wanna be free!''
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--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingWantsToKillYou [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within…If 'ya wanna be free!''
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* The unused trailer for Oddysee, Guardian Angel. The trailer shows a nightmarish-looking hovering robot with a VoiceOfTheLegion talking to Abe in what looks to be a waste silo, before going at him with blades and saws as [[NothingIsScarier the trailer cuts to the game title]].
--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingWantsToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within…If 'ya wanna be free!''
--> '''Abe''' ''Help meeee…!''
--> '''Robot''': ''Just because life is doomed and [[EverythingWantsToKillYou everyone]] wants to eat you doesn't mean there's no hope! 'Ya need to look within…If 'ya wanna be free!''
--> '''Abe''' ''Help meeee…!''
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* The entire grim setting of the original two games. Dark, gritty, processing meats with LudicrousGibs or bones and tears for profits that drive species into extinction, and filled to the brim with Mudokon slaves that are beaten and tortured as practically a way to kill time. [[EverythingTryingToKillYou If it isn't the wildlife]] trying to much poor Abe down, it's the [=RuptureFarms=] security forces that are the size of a small army tearing their way through everything just to kill him. CrapsackWorld doesn't even begin to describe it.
** ''[[VideoGameRemake New 'n Tasty]]'' opted to make the [=RuptureFarms=] a lot cleaner and less grungy, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to some people's consternation]], but now the gory details of the processing plant are [[BloodierAndGorier even more explicit.]]
** ''[[VideoGameRemake New 'n Tasty]]'' opted to make the [=RuptureFarms=] a lot cleaner and less grungy, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to some people's consternation]], but now the gory details of the processing plant are [[BloodierAndGorier even more explicit.]]
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* The entire grim setting of the original two games. Dark, gritty, processing meats with LudicrousGibs or bones and tears for profits that drive species into extinction, and filled to the brim with Mudokon slaves that are beaten and tortured as practically a way to kill time. [[EverythingTryingToKillYou If it isn't the wildlife]] trying to much munch poor Abe down, it's the [=RuptureFarms=] security forces that are the size of a small army tearing their way through everything just to kill him. CrapsackWorld doesn't even begin to describe it.
** ''[[VideoGameRemake New 'n Tasty]]'' opted to make the [=RuptureFarms=] a lot cleaner and less grungy, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to some people's consternation]], but now the gory details of the processing plant are [[BloodierAndGorier even more explicit.]]it.
** ''[[VideoGameRemake New 'n Tasty]]'' opted to make the [=RuptureFarms=] a lot cleaner and less grungy, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to some people's consternation]], but now the gory details of the processing plant are [[BloodierAndGorier even more explicit.]]
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* The entire grim setting of the original two games. Dark, gritty, processing meats with LudicrousGibs or bones and tears for profits that drive species into extinction, and filled to the brim with Mudokon slaves that are beaten and tortured as practically a way to kill time. [[EverythingTryingToKillYou If it isn't the wildlife]] trying to much poor Abe down, it's the [=RuptureFarms=] security forces that are the size of a small army tearing their way through everything just to kill him. CrapsackWorld doesn't even begin to describe it.
** ''[[VideoGameRemake New 'n Tasty]]'' opted to make the [=RuptureFarms=] a lot cleaner and less grungy, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to some people's consternation]], but now the gory details of the processing plant are [[BloodierAndGorier even more explicit.]]
** ''[[VideoGameRemake New 'n Tasty]]'' opted to make the [=RuptureFarms=] a lot cleaner and less grungy, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to some people's consternation]], but now the gory details of the processing plant are [[BloodierAndGorier even more explicit.]]
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* The Scrabs are even described in the first game's manuals as "Territorial nightmares on four legs" and they certainly live up to that description. Between the several-foot long jaw, immense claws and humanoid torsos, they're not the cuddliest things you'll find around Oddworld, and that's saying a lot.
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* The Scrabs are even described in the first game's manuals as "Territorial nightmares on four legs" and they certainly live up to that description. Between the several-foot long jaw, immense claws and humanoid torsos, they're not the cuddliest things you'll find around Oddworld, and that's saying a lot.lot.
* The antagonists of the first two games suffered some serious VillainDecay when it came to ''Exoddus'', but only because the game had to be rushed in a nine month development period and ExecutiveMeddling in the process. The teaser trailer for its VideoGameRemake as ''Soulstorm'', on the other hand, shows the Mudokons being subjected to horrifying experimentation, lining up for said experiments carrying their own body bags, and being worked and stressed into death and insanity before being filed away with the rest of the corpses. This isn't just DarkerAndEdgier - ''this is what Exoddus was intended to be.''
* The antagonists of the first two games suffered some serious VillainDecay when it came to ''Exoddus'', but only because the game had to be rushed in a nine month development period and ExecutiveMeddling in the process. The teaser trailer for its VideoGameRemake as ''Soulstorm'', on the other hand, shows the Mudokons being subjected to horrifying experimentation, lining up for said experiments carrying their own body bags, and being worked and stressed into death and insanity before being filed away with the rest of the corpses. This isn't just DarkerAndEdgier - ''this is what Exoddus was intended to be.''
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** Possibly the scariest menu theme of them all, however, is the main menu theme from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVK_fWi90U Munch's Oddysee]]. At least ''Exoddus'' gave you the sound of birds in the distance - ''Munch'''s track gives [[NothingIsScarier nothing more than the wind blowing alongside the occasional thud.]]
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** Possibly the scariest menu theme of them all, however, is the main menu theme from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVK_fWi90U Munch's Oddysee]]. At least ''Exoddus'' gave you the sound of birds in the distance - ''Munch'''s track gives [[NothingIsScarier nothing more than the wind blowing alongside the occasional thud.]]]]
* The Scrabs are even described in the first game's manuals as "Territorial nightmares on four legs" and they certainly live up to that description. Between the several-foot long jaw, immense claws and humanoid torsos, they're not the cuddliest things you'll find around Oddworld, and that's saying a lot.
* The Scrabs are even described in the first game's manuals as "Territorial nightmares on four legs" and they certainly live up to that description. Between the several-foot long jaw, immense claws and humanoid torsos, they're not the cuddliest things you'll find around Oddworld, and that's saying a lot.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"'''This new kind of meat? [[HumanResources IT WAS US!]]'''"]]
For a series of platformers (except Stranger's Wrath) that run on UglyCute, BlackComedy and the occasional bout of ToiletHumour, the ''Oddworld'' series has a lot of very dark themes and terrifying moments.
* The series' soundtracks are filled to the brim with disturbing tracks throughout. Some highlights below:
** ''Oddysee'' piles on the chilling soundtrack right from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8hOZ7fhlk its incredibly ominous and eerie main menu music, known simply as "Abe's Theme"]]. The hard bass is almost like a heartbeat with the music acting like movement, as if the score knows Abe's running away from everything that wants to kill him.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both CrowningMusicOfAwesome and NightmareFuel at the same time.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVRfZrfo40&index=4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk The "Free-Fire Zone theme"]], a twisted combination of the above two themes.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBUaPhxaww&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=5 The "Scrab Chase" theme]] - '''[[DontAskJustRun RUN ABE]]!'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs02dq-gIk&index=3&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Dark Prowling" theme]] doesn't help the fact that when you first hear it, you're suspended barely a foot above a Scrab, with one missed jump spelling your doom...
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdik3d55Hw&index=4&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Wondering Circumstances" theme]] is a slowed down version of the Scrab Chase theme that somehow manages to sound even scarier.
** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpNtGmi8ZY&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=14 The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QQy6gW74Y&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=15 The "Tension" theme]] lives up to its name.
** ''Exoddus'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8p5YVpG0Y&t=305s main menu theme]] is possibly even more unnerving than Oddysee's - [[NothingIsScarier just a strange noise that sounds like the combination of the wind blowing and a mechanical whirr with the occasional dun-dun-dun-dun-dun noise and the faint sound of birds in the distance]].
*** What's more interesting is that it manages to sound both terrifying AND relaxing at the same time. Whereas the main theme from Oddysee was gloomy and foreboding, this one feels more peaceful, tranquil, and natural, almost like the music itself is saying "[[HeartwarmingMoments This time]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome there is hope]]".
** Possibly the scariest menu theme of them all, however, is the main menu theme from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVK_fWi90U Munch's Oddysee]]. At least ''Exoddus'' gave you the sound of birds in the distance - ''Munch'''s track gives [[NothingIsScarier nothing more than the wind blowing alongside the occasional thud.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"'''This new kind of meat? [[HumanResources IT WAS US!]]'''"]]
For a series of platformers (except Stranger's Wrath) that run on UglyCute, BlackComedy and the occasional bout of ToiletHumour, the ''Oddworld'' series has a lot of very dark themes and terrifying moments.
* The series' soundtracks are filled to the brim with disturbing tracks throughout. Some highlights below:
** ''Oddysee'' piles on the chilling soundtrack right from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM8hOZ7fhlk its incredibly ominous and eerie main menu music, known simply as "Abe's Theme"]]. The hard bass is almost like a heartbeat with the music acting like movement, as if the score knows Abe's running away from everything that wants to kill him.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDoee1dUJs4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=2 The "Oddysee" theme]] manages to be both CrowningMusicOfAwesome and NightmareFuel at the same time.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVRfZrfo40&index=4&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk The "Free-Fire Zone theme"]], a twisted combination of the above two themes.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiBUaPhxaww&list=RDaM8hOZ7fhlk&index=5 The "Scrab Chase" theme]] - '''[[DontAskJustRun RUN ABE]]!'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs02dq-gIk&index=3&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Dark Prowling" theme]] doesn't help the fact that when you first hear it, you're suspended barely a foot above a Scrab, with one missed jump spelling your doom...
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLdik3d55Hw&index=4&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY The "Wondering Circumstances" theme]] is a slowed down version of the Scrab Chase theme that somehow manages to sound even scarier.
** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9iYAw0f4E&index=12&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY EVEN THE MUSIC THAT PLAYS WHILE THE GAME IS LOADING]] [[LastNoteNightmare IS TERRIFYING]].'''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpNtGmi8ZY&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=14 The "RuptureFarms" theme]]. Cold, mechanical, overwhelming, creepy sounds that at times sound almost like breathing, it's got it all.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5QQy6gW74Y&list=PLp4hwvnO8DGZ9YAJW-IZMCCdTgWRf2sCY&index=15 The "Tension" theme]] lives up to its name.
** ''Exoddus'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8p5YVpG0Y&t=305s main menu theme]] is possibly even more unnerving than Oddysee's - [[NothingIsScarier just a strange noise that sounds like the combination of the wind blowing and a mechanical whirr with the occasional dun-dun-dun-dun-dun noise and the faint sound of birds in the distance]].
*** What's more interesting is that it manages to sound both terrifying AND relaxing at the same time. Whereas the main theme from Oddysee was gloomy and foreboding, this one feels more peaceful, tranquil, and natural, almost like the music itself is saying "[[HeartwarmingMoments This time]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome there is hope]]".
** Possibly the scariest menu theme of them all, however, is the main menu theme from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVK_fWi90U Munch's Oddysee]]. At least ''Exoddus'' gave you the sound of birds in the distance - ''Munch'''s track gives [[NothingIsScarier nothing more than the wind blowing alongside the occasional thud.]]
