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[[File:abe.png|frame| [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Enslaving people is just wrong. Destroying them with magical powers is A-OK.]] ]]
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: Most of the stuff we know about Oddworld is from the website and the Art Book.
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Abe; Savior of the Mudokons, Avatar of the Shrykull, Janitor of Rupture Farms, [[Butt Monkey]] of the Mudokon people.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Averted. A [[What Could Have Been|cancelled]] game called ''Sligstorm'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114191543/http://oddworld.dreamhost.com/oddworlduniverse.com/games/sligstorm.php would have featured an albino Slig who had to escape murder by his own masters due to his mutation and before he could be] [[Freudian Excuse|beaten by his mother into becoming a cruel jerk]]. The Sligs have a [[Freudian Excuse]] of having a mother who intentionally beats them to make them mean. Lulu is, at worst, a [[Harmless Villain]], and the Mudokons are shown to have some rather racially supremacist notions in the backstory, giving the Glukkons a reason for their hatred. Also, Doc of Strangers Wrath, despite belonging to a species known for being [[Evilutionary Biologist|Evilutionary Biologists]], is not a villainous figure and is simply a doctor offering his services, even to {{spoiler|members of hunted species such as Stranger.}}. So far, though, played straight with the Wolvarks.▼
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: Inverted. In the Japanese release of Abe's Oddysee, Mudokon Pops are popsicles shaped like Mudokons, rather than the severed heads impaled on popsicle sticks from the American version. In Abe's Exoddus, the toned-down version of the image was used in English-speaking areas as well.
* [[Art Major Biology]]/[[Art Major Physics]]: Stranger's Wrath never explains {{spoiler|how Stranger manages to walk on two legs despite being built like a centaur, let alone how he manages to cram two bid curly horns under a hat and what is essentially a small pony's body into human size/shape trousers and boots.}} However, it can be justified as an [[Acceptable Break From Reality]].
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* [[Dragon Their Feet]]: See [[The Man Behind the Man]].
* [[Dystopia]]: Oh so much.
* [[Earn Your Bad Ending]]: A Bad Ending exists, which requires you to purposefully kill every possible Mudokon they can, which is just as exhausting of a feat in itself to accomplish as saving them due to just how well hidden most of the secret areas are and the games general difficulty. While the player [[What The Hell Player]] gets berated for earning a bad ending]], they're given infinite grenades or bullet immunity respectively as a consolation prize along with a congratulatory message...[[Baddie Flattery|from the Glukkons.]]
{{quote|"Whacking all those Mudokons was no accident. You twisted creep. Molluck commends you. Enjoy your bonus...!"}}
* [[Electronic Eyes]]: The Sligs sport heads-up-display and pilot visors. Their inherently poor eyesight [[The Sacred Darkness|is a strategic point.]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The Vykkers reportedly gross out their corporate partners with their Mengele-like medical experiments. Keep in mind, that some of their partners are individuals willing to murder 30 employees for a single's escape and gas an entire factory to death to prevent a meltdown.
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** Also, the Outlaw Jo’ Mamma.
* [[Evil Poacher]]: Lefty Lugnutz
▲* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Averted. A [[What Could Have Been|cancelled]] game called ''Sligstorm'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114191543/http://oddworld.dreamhost.com/oddworlduniverse.com/games/sligstorm.php would have featured an albino Slig who had to escape murder by his own masters due to his mutation and before he could be] [[Freudian Excuse|beaten by his mother into becoming a cruel jerk]]. The Sligs have a [[Freudian Excuse]] of having a mother who intentionally beats them to make them mean.
**Lulu is, at worst, a [[Harmless Villain]], and the Mudokons are shown to have some rather racially supremacist notions in the backstory, giving the Glukkons a reason for their hatred.
**Also, Doc of Strangers Wrath, despite belonging to a species known for being [[Evilutionary Biologist|Evilutionary Biologists]], is not a villainous figure and is simply a doctor offering his services, even to {{spoiler|members of hunted species such as Stranger.}}.
**So far, though, played straight with the Wolvarks.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The reason Abe lost a finger between the first and second games. (And by executive, we mean the [[Yakuza]]. Seriously).
** Also why Oddworld sadly left the business. While trying to find a publisher to host their newest game, they noticed that their potential partners kept wanting to renegotiate their contract. According to what they said in a [[Game Informer]] interview, this would have led to a cycle of Oddworld not getting paid while they jumped through hoops to please their partners. Not wanting any part in this, they simply called it off and closed up.
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* {{spoiler|[[Tomato Surprise]]: It's revealed the Stranger is the last Steef, and his "mysterious, confidential operation" is an attempt to make him permanently bi-pedal so to prevent others hunting him.}}
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Just about everyone from the first two games in Munch's Oddysee. Abe is much better at possession (mainly due to Spooce), nobody dies in one hit, Native Mudokens are highly efficient at defending themselves, and Sligs now can come in the form of steroid-pumped "Big Bro" sligs.
* [[TV Head Robot]]: The Shrinks, an as-of-yet unused subset of robots that consist of a floating orb, flatscreen with a mudokon face, and a number of surgical tools. Appeared in the "Guardian Angel" [[Easter Egg]] clip.
* [[Unwinnable]]: Nearly. In ''Abe's Oddysee,'' In the final level, if you get the bad ending, it sends you back to a certain point to try to allow you to save enough Mudokons for the good ending. If you already killed or missed 49, there are exactly 50 mudokons between the point it sends you to and the end of the game. You can win, but you have to save every single one.
** The ending of Oddysee {{spoiler|drops you into the boardroom; failing to use Shrykull gets you shot and captured, but using it forces you to either suffocate when the timer reaches zero or ''to shut it off and get captured anyway.''}}
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* [[Widget Series]]: Most definitely a WHAT (Weird Humorous American Thing).
* [[X Days Since...]]: Inverted in the first game: One of the scrolling information bars in Rupture Farms, a meat packing plant, reads "Only 1,234 work related injuries this month! Keep up the good work"
* [[Zonk]]: If the player goes out of their way to get the games Bad Ending (which requires you to have killed all 99 Mudokons), the Glukkons will reward Abe with immunity to bullets and an infinite supply of grenades. While its fun to blow up Sligs while they're unable to kill you, its ultimately a pointless joke prize as the game no longer has a goal from then on.
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