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** The logos of his army in Serious Sam 2 hint his appearance as a Cthulhu-like creature, though the game is no longer canon.

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** The logos of his army in Serious Sam 2 hint his appearance as a Cthulhu-like creature, though the game is no longer canon.canon.
* In ''The Second Encounter'' it says that Kukulkán, The Wind God, is a good god who has no choice but to fight you since he has to guard the portal. That being the case, why do Mental's {{Mooks}} who teleport also attack Sam rather than Kukulkan, if they are his enemy as well. Is this just a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation?
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** He gets his looks from his mother? Do I mean III or IV? Answer: [[TimeParadox Yes.]]
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* Is Mental a physical being?

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* Is Mental a physical being?being?
**Croteam originally planned for Mental to be a brain in a jar, with tubes coming out of it.
**The logos of his army in Serious Sam 2 hint his appearance as a Cthulhu-like creature, though the game is no longer canon.
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* Is Mental like the Nihilanth from {{Half-Life}} or is he like Giygas from {{EarthBound}}? We never actually see his physical appearance in any of the games (unless you count his hand in Serious Sam 2, but even then it's mostly obscured by the background and he isn't actually there).

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* Is Mental like the Nihilanth from {{Half-Life}} or is he like Giygas from {{EarthBound}}? We never actually see his a physical appearance in any of the games (unless you count his hand in Serious Sam 2, but even then it's mostly obscured by the background and he isn't actually there).being?
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* Is Mental like the Nihilanth from Half-Life or is he like Giygas from EarthBound? We never actually see his physical appearance in any of the games (unless you count his hand in Serious Sam 2, but even then it's mostly obscured by the background and he isn't actually there).

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* Is Mental like the Nihilanth from Half-Life {{Half-Life}} or is he like Giygas from EarthBound? {{EarthBound}}? We never actually see his physical appearance in any of the games (unless you count his hand in Serious Sam 2, but even then it's mostly obscured by the background and he isn't actually there).
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** Mental...kind of an A-hole. I sure he cares just as little about his minions' lives as he cares about the planets they're destroying. I'll bet he didn't even teleport his remaining minions off the planet before he mooned it. Because why bother. Sending millions of mooks to die taking down one planet isn't that different than sending tens of thousands of mooks to take out one man. Mental's probably having a great laugh about the whole ordeal.

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** Mental...kind of an A-hole. I asshole. I'm sure he cares just as little about his minions' lives as he cares about the planets they're destroying. I'll bet he didn't even teleport his remaining minions off the planet before he mooned it. Because why bother. Sending millions of mooks to die taking down one planet isn't that different than sending tens of thousands of mooks to take out one man. Mental's probably having a great laugh about the whole ordeal.
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* Why does Ugh-Zan IV look nothing like Ugh-Zan III?

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* Why does Ugh-Zan IV look nothing like Ugh-Zan III?III?
*Is Mental like the Nihilanth from Half-Life or is he like Giygas from EarthBound? We never actually see his physical appearance in any of the games (unless you count his hand in Serious Sam 2, but even then it's mostly obscured by the background and he isn't actually there).
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** Because he's mental.

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** Because he's mental.mental.
* Why does Ugh-Zan IV look nothing like Ugh-Zan III?
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** Mental...kind of an A-hole. I sure he cares just as little about his minions' lives as he cares about the planets they're destroying. I'll bet he didn't even teleport his remaining minions off the planet before he mooned it. Because why bother. Sending millions of mooks to die taking down one planet isn't that different than sending tens of thousands of mooks to take out one man. Mental's probably having a great laugh about the whole ordeal.

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** Mental...kind of an A-hole. I sure he cares just as little about his minions' lives as he cares about the planets they're destroying. I'll bet he didn't even teleport his remaining minions off the planet before he mooned it. Because why bother. Sending millions of mooks to die taking down one planet isn't that different than sending tens of thousands of mooks to take out one man. Mental's probably having a great laugh about the whole ordeal.ordeal.
** Because he's mental.
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*** This would explain the presence of new human weaponry, seeing as, if Mental didn't destroy the earth, they would have had more time to develop new weaponry to send Sam in the past.
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** He probably wanted to keep Earth around for whatever reason. Otherwise, he probably would have dropped the moon on it back when he was fighting the Sirians.

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** He probably wanted to keep Earth around for whatever reason. Otherwise, he probably would have dropped the moon on it back when he was fighting the Sirians.Sirians.
**Mental...kind of an A-hole. I sure he cares just as little about his minions' lives as he cares about the planets they're destroying. I'll bet he didn't even teleport his remaining minions off the planet before he mooned it. Because why bother. Sending millions of mooks to die taking down one planet isn't that different than sending tens of thousands of mooks to take out one man. Mental's probably having a great laugh about the whole ordeal.
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*** The Sirians building more than one Time-Lock on future human colonies would also be pretty in-character for them, if the multiple portals in ''The Second Encounter'' are any indication. That does raise the question of how any of the non-Earth ones are active, though.



** Maybe he didn't originally want to but Sam's persistence pissed him off a bit too much?

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** Maybe he didn't originally want to but Sam's persistence pissed him off a bit too much?much?
** He probably wanted to keep Earth around for whatever reason. Otherwise, he probably would have dropped the moon on it back when he was fighting the Sirians.
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* Why did Mental expend millions of troops against Earth when he could've just tossed the Moon into Earth the whole time?

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* Why did Mental expend millions of troops against Earth when he could've just tossed the Moon into Earth the whole time?time?
** Maybe he didn't originally want to but Sam's persistence pissed him off a bit too much?
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** I thought the idea was that if Sam succeeds in killing everything in the past then Earth's future will be affected, thus undoing its destruction.

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** I thought the idea was that if Sam succeeds in killing everything in the past then Earth's future will be affected, thus undoing its destruction.destruction.
* Why did Mental expend millions of troops against Earth when he could've just tossed the Moon into Earth the whole time?
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* If Mental blew up the planet at the end of ''BFE'', then where and when is Sam in ''Serious Sam 2''? Is he the only human left? Is he still in the past?

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* If Mental blew up the planet at the end of ''BFE'', then where and when is Sam in ''Serious Sam 2''? Is he the only human left? Is he still in the past?past?
** I thought the idea was that if Sam succeeds in killing everything in the past then Earth's future will be affected, thus undoing its destruction.
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* If Mental blew up the planet at the end of ''BFE'', then where and when is Sam in ''Serious Sam 2''? Is he the only human left?

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* If Mental blew up the planet at the end of ''BFE'', then where and when is Sam in ''Serious Sam 2''? Is he the only human left?left? Is he still in the past?
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*** Makes sense. If the reinforcements have not only appeared in all around the Egypt, but have also made it into the Ancient South America and just about everywhere else, NETRICSA might have contacted the colonies to supply Sam with armory long ago, yet never informed Sam about what she was up to.

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*** Makes sense. If the reinforcements have not only appeared in all around the Egypt, but have also made it into the Ancient South America and just about everywhere else, NETRICSA might have contacted the colonies to supply Sam with armory long ago, yet never informed Sam about what she was up to.to.
* If Mental blew up the planet at the end of ''BFE'', then where and when is Sam in ''Serious Sam 2''? Is he the only human left?
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** I was always under the impression that the weapons found in the past were meant for Bravo Team, who got killed by a ZergRush of Mental's giant mooks. Either that or scientists are still transporting things back to Sam. Humanity was a spacefaring race at the time of Mental's attack, you know. It wouldn't be to absurd to assume they have some off world colonies.

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** I was always under the impression that the weapons found in the past were meant for Bravo Team, who got killed by a ZergRush of Mental's giant mooks. Either that or scientists are still transporting things back to Sam. Humanity was a spacefaring race at the time of Mental's attack, you know. It wouldn't be to absurd to assume they have some off world colonies.colonies.
*** Makes sense. If the reinforcements have not only appeared in all around the Egypt, but have also made it into the Ancient South America and just about everywhere else, NETRICSA might have contacted the colonies to supply Sam with armory long ago, yet never informed Sam about what she was up to.
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* Okay, so either that may be a silly time paradox or a ''BFE''-induced plot hole. It is widely known that Sam gets all his ammunition back from the future via Time Lock, knowing also that he entered the teleport into Ancient Egypt ''right before Earth got blown up completely''. Although if Ugh-Zan IV became Ugh-Zan ''III'''s father because of the time paradox, may it mean that on the same ocassion, Sam Stone will deliberately kill Mental back in the past?

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* Okay, so either that may be a silly time paradox or a ''BFE''-induced plot hole. It is widely known that Sam gets all his ammunition back from the future via Time Lock, knowing also that he entered the teleport into Ancient Egypt ''right before Earth got blown up completely''. Although if Ugh-Zan IV became Ugh-Zan ''III'''s father because of the time paradox, may it mean that on the same ocassion, Sam Stone will deliberately kill Mental back in the past?past?
** I was always under the impression that the weapons found in the past were meant for Bravo Team, who got killed by a ZergRush of Mental's giant mooks. Either that or scientists are still transporting things back to Sam. Humanity was a spacefaring race at the time of Mental's attack, you know. It wouldn't be to absurd to assume they have some off world colonies.
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* Okay, so either that may be a silly time paradox or a ''BFE''-induced plot hole. It is widely known that Sam gets all his ammunition back from the future via Time Lock, knowing also that he entered the teleport into Ancient Egypt ''right before Earth got blown up completely''. Although if Ugh-Zan IV became Ugh-Zan ''III'''s father because of the time paradox, may it mean that on the same ocassion, Sam Stone will deliberately kill Mental back in the past?

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