"Power ups to the people!"
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is the second game of the Oddworld quintology. It features Abe teaming up with Latamire Munch, a Gabbit who was experimented by the Vykkers. It was originally released as an Xbox launch title before it got ported to many other systems since 2012, with a Game Boy Advance version also being released in 2003 which features a completely different story than its console counterpart.Tropes
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier: Vykker's Labs.
- Auction: The Glukkons hold an auction for the last can of Gabbiar (Gabbit eggs) where only the richest among them (aka a Glock Star) will be able to buy it. The goal of Abe and Munch is to get a poor Glukkon, the loser known as Lulu, rich enough so they can have the funds to bid for it through him.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Humphrey and Irwin in this game, two scientists that are trying to dissect Munch to harvest his organs for the Glukkon's Queen, as well as endangering the Fuzzies.
- Big "NO!": Lulu does this in the good ending after Abe possesses him to bid pretty much all his newfound money to get the last Gabbiar can; some Mudokons outside of Vykkers' Labs hear it and respond "Somebody's really pissed off!". Invoked again with it being a newspaper quote.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Humphrey yells "Will you just shut up!?" to Irwin.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The Vykkers reportedly gross out their corporate partners with their Mengele-like and pointless medical experiments. Keep in mind, some of their partners are individuals totally willing to murder 30 employees for a single's escape and gas an entire factory to death to prevent a meltdown. It's also implied in Soulstorm that there are members of the industrial races that are sympathetic to the plight and mistreatment of the natives; considering that the tape Abe plays has the Brewmaster explicitly mention whistleblowers and Union Representatives.
- Hit Them in the Pocketbook: This is how you defeat Glukkons, by possessing them and forcing them to donate all of their money to Lulu's Fund.
- Lampshade Hanging: In the good ending, Abe remarks, "Usually when I leave a mean place like that, it blows up."
- Last of His Kind: Munch is the last living Gabbit. Get a good ending and this is undone, thanks to recovering the last can of Gabbiar.
- Multiple Endings:
- Bad: Abe and Munch get jumped by the mutilated surviving Fuzzles, angered they didn't save their kind. Abe is killed and his head mounted as a trophy, Munch is taken back to Vykkers Labs where he is dissected and his lungs extracted for Lady Margaret; if Black Quarma is achieved, the Gabbiar is eaten, completely wiping out the Gabbit species, and the Mudokon eggs are hatched as a new workforce for the Glukkons, implying that both RuptureFarms and Soulstorm Brew went back in business with the new workforce seeing that the image in the newspaper article is a baby Mudokon as a miner of Necrum mines. Easily the darkest ending in the series.
- Good: The Mudokon eggs are rescued, Abe and Munch go on to use Lulu to buy the Gabbiar eggs in a Glukkon auction (though it ends up taking all the money they have), ultimately bankrupting Lulu and sending him back to poverty. Still, the Gabbit eggs are saved and Vykker Labs is destroyed completely and, if achieving Angelic Quarma, the Glukkons' society is thrown into utter disarray.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Vykkers were supposed to make a lung transplant of Munch for Lady Margaret. Humphrey decided to put sonar on Munch, which resulted in Munch freeing himself and helping the Fuzzles.
- No Final Boss for You: Substitute "boss" with "level", but the idea is the same: the game doesn't let you progress to the final level if your quarma is too low, and instead ends on the Loading Dock.
- Product Placement: The energy drink Sobe is a health power-up... which kind of
wrecks the anti-corporate theme. Averted in the HD remake, where they're all replaced with standard Expresso machines. - Same Content, Different Rating: Some copies of the original game were mistakenly rated E instead of T.
- Spinning Newspaper: The Daily Deception, which usually plays at the end of most levels.
- Superpowered Evil Side: One was planned for Munch called Roid.
