Category Archives: ♙ invertebrates

The prey has characteristics of invertebrates.

The Ant and the Aardvark; 03 ‘The Ant from Uncle’ – Aardvark / Fish, Charlie

Media: TV series: “The Ant and the Aardvark”
Episode: 03: ‘The Ant from Uncle’

Note: The Ant and the Aardvark shorts would later be incorporated into The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1974), The Pink Panther and Friends (1974–1976), and The Pink Panther Show (1980), though as reruns of the same episodes.

Description:

The episode begins with the Aardvark introducing himself to the audience, demonstrating his ability to sharply inhale, drawing in water from a nearby lake, and spits out a fish he accidentally swallowed.

Later in the episode, the Aardvark tricks the overworked Charlie Ant into walking into his mouth, setting it up to be a club for ants. Charlie can be heard commenting that there is “an elevator in here” and asks a hitherto unknown “cigarette gal” for a cigar, implying there were other ants the Aardvark had successfully swallowed and were inside his belly. Due to the smoke, the Aardvark sneezes out Charlie.

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The Ant and the Aardvark; 02 ‘Hasty But Tasty’ – Aardvark / Charlie

Media: TV series: “The Ant and the Aardvark”
Episode: 02: ‘Hasty But Tasty’

Note: The Ant and the Aardvark shorts would later be incorporated into The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1974), The Pink Panther and Friends (1974–1976), and The Pink Panther Show (1980), though as reruns of the same episodes.

Description:

In this episode, Charlie Ant has a motorcycle, and uses his newfound mobility to evade the Aardvark. In one scene, the Aardvark sets up a pipe like a tunnel, leading into his mouth. Although Charlie does ride into the pipe, he and his motorcycle tears a hole in the Aardvark’s tail and escape.

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Circus Lido [TG-16] – Chameleon, Flytrap / Arthropods

Media: video game: “Circus Lido”
Developer: Uni Post
Platform:
TurboGrafx-16

Description: 

In this obscure puzzle game, the player takes control of a chameleon, who must clear the screen of all arthropods in order to progress to the next stage. In order to do so, the chameleon must grab one of the arthropods with their long tongue to engulf them, and then spit them out as a bubble towards a flytrap, feeding it to them. The flytrap will chew and swallow the arthropods and lick its lips afterwards.

Since the flytrap is not exactly a friendly entity, it will cause the chameleon to lose a life if it comes into contact with it, but will not actually eat the chameleon, only triggering a generic death animation.

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Space Quest V: The Next Mutation [PC] – Flower, Frog / Roger (Fly)

Media: video game: “Space Quest V: The Next Mutation”
Developer: Sierra On-Line
Platform: Computer

Description: 

Roger attempts to beam down to the Genetix Laboratory upon reaching it, however the teleporter malfunctions, causing him to be jumbled up with a stray fly, a la the film, The Fly. As a fly, if the flower in the foreground is clicked, Roger will fly around, and the flower eventually closes on him and devours him for a game over.

In order to progress, Roger must fly around the pond and near his Communicator, so that a frog will leap out and turn it on, while trying to eat him. Repeatedly doing this will cause the frog to successfully catch Roger and eat him for another similar game over.

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Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 [3DS, And, DS, NS, PC, PS3, PS4, PSP, Vita, Wii, XB360, XBO] – Nagini / Snape, Spiders

Media: video game: “Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7”
Developer: Traveller’s Tales
Platform: Android, Computer, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Note: This game appears as a part of Lego Harry Potter Collection on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Description: 

In Year 7.3 ‘In Grave Danger,’ Harry and Hermione follow Bathilda upstairs, where it is revealed she was the snake, Nagini, in disguise. In the following fight, Harry and Hermione must throw objects at Nagini until she is forcibly made to swallow a large object, causing a large bulge in her body, allowing the pair to use Wingardium Leviosa on the object she swallowed to push her back. Eventually the two escape. In the fight Nagini will only deal contact damage to Harry and Hermione.

In Year 8.5 ‘Snape’s Tears,’ partway through the level, there will be a cinematic where Snape enrages Voldemort, which in turn triggers Nagini to grab Snape’s upper body in her mouth and toss him around, but does not swallow him.

In the final level of the game, Year 8.6 ‘The Flaw in the Plan,’ Nagini is fought one final time in a similar fashion as in the level ‘Grave Danger.’ Instead of throwing inanimate objects, the player must throw giant spiders, until one gets caught in her mouth, leaving her to be open to be decapitated by Neville, who was wielding the sword of Godric.

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Omori [NS, PC, PS4, XBO, XBXS] – Humphrey / Various

Media: video game: “Omori”
Developer: Omocat
Platform: Computer, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One

Note: As always, support your indie developers. Purchase a physical copy of the game here, or visit the Steam page here.

Description: 

During the Headspace portion when the game is Two Days Left, the party will travel to Deeper Well, and meet the whale known as Humphrey. He will mention that Sweetheart, one of the game’s antagonists, has entered his body to meet with the sea witches that live in his stomach, and welcomes Omori and friends to enter his mouth, too.

Inside, Humphrey demonstrates the ability to shift his insides to manifest villi-like protrusions that bizarrely, have faces, are sentient, share his awareness and are all also known as Humphrey.

Omori and friends navigate through Humphrey’s innards and stomach acids to catch up with Sweetheart, and at certain points, can witness named NPCs falling into acid – specifically, a named Sprout Mole NPC called Big Molio who if not rescued, will simply disappear, and a recurring NPC known as Snaley jumping into acid, believing it to be an inviting pool of water. After witnessing Sweetheart meet with all three sea witches, later known as Slime Girls, the party is able to access the lower floor of Humphrey’s gut, and are transported there by being swallowed by one of Humphrey’s large buds, as if it was an elevator.

In the lower levels, the Slime Girls are fought as a boss, and once defeated, Humphrey will complain of overwhelming hunger. With nothing with which to feed him, the Slime Girls fall prey to a giant Humphrey bud that forms under them, chewing and devouring them.

The party then must fight Humphrey in a series of boss fights. The second of Humphrey’s battles is against Humphrey Grande – an amalgamation of Humphrey buds that when near-defeat, will swallow the party and initiate the third phase of the boss fight, against Humphrey (Face), the backdrop of which shows bones of previous prey. Bizarrely, in this phase, Humphrey will continue to swallow the party, a group attack showing a large mouth advancing toward the fourth wall, as the party is sent deeper and deeper into the gut of the whale each time he does this.

Once defeated, the party is swallowed again and wind up in a photorealistic mouth – a deeper mouth than Humphrey the whale’s actual mouth, where they will initiate a fight against the fourth phase, Humphrey (Uvula), who can be defeated in a single hit. After doing so, the party is then regurgitated out of every mouth that swallowed them, demonstrating the bizarre, bizarre anatomy that is Humphrey, and are eventually ejected out of his blowhole.

If playing the Omori route during One Day Left, it is possible to re-enter Humphrey by first feeding him a Giant Check, acquired from Mr. Jawsum. The Slime Girls can be found inside, and side quests to restore their bodies can be completed.

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Rayman Legends [NS, Stad, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, XB360, XBO] – Moskito, Globox / Enemies

Media: video game: “Rayman Legends”
Developer: Ubisoft Montpellier
Platform: Computer, Google Stadia, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Description: 

The Hi-Ho Moskito! level in the Jibberish Jungle painting is one of the Back to Origins series of levels, which are unlocked through Lucky Tickets in-game.

In the beginning of the level, a Moskito will join the player character and act as a mount. Aside from shooting bullets, it is able to inhale enemies into its proboscis, potentially holding them inside indefinitely, and shoot them back out as stronger projectiles.

If playing as Globox, a smaller Moskito joins him and carries him instead, effectively making him the mount. In an identical way, Globox can suck enemies into his mouth and spit them back out.

Enemies in the level that can be sucked up include small flies, big flies, human hunters and the goblin-like Lividstones. The Moskito mounts also appear in various other Back to Origins levels, such as the Shooting Me Softly level in the Desert of Dijiridoos painting, where most of the enemies are birds; Aim for the Eel! level in Gourmand Land, where most of the enemies are lizards; and in the Fire When Wetty level in Sea of Serendipity, where most of the enemies are fish.

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Fly With Me [iOS] – Bird, Cockatoo / Bees

Media: video game: “Fly With Me”
Developer: Electronic Arts
Platform: Apple iOS

Description: 

In this game, the player controls a bird to reach the end of the level with a limited number of flaps. Eating bees will add to the number of available flaps, where bad bees subtract from them.

The masculine bird is playable in the Fields levels and Trees levels, whereas the feminine cockatoo is playable in the third set of levels, the Tropics levels.

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Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus [PS2, PS3, Vita] – Raleigh / Bee

Media: video game: “Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus”
Developer: Sucker Punch Productions
Platform: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita

Description: 

The boss of the first area is Raleigh the frog. During the fight with Sly, he will flick his tongue out to swallow a bee to inflate himself before trying to crush Sly. Later in the fight he will also try to strike Sly with his tongue, but does not grab him.

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Hollow Knight [NS, PC, PS4, XBO] – Grubfather / Grubs

Media: video game: “Hollow Knight”
Developer: Team Cherry
Platform: Computer, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Description:

Throughout the game, the Knight can free captive Grubs to earn rewards from the Grubfather. Once all the Grubs in the game are freed, the rewards collected and the Knight rests at a bench, the Knight can return to the Grubfather’s room to find him with a bloated stomach, and the sounds of the Grubs coming from within him. This might be a part of the Grubs’ metamorphosis process.

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