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[Melampus]

[META][SPEC] Origins of the Monster

[john locke]

You forgot the arms!!

[Melampus]

We don't know it has arms - might be tentacles... with claws.

[m0r1arty]

I don't think you'll find out.

I see monster, Tag knowing about it before hand.
Military useless at stopping it.
Monster does what it's there to do (procreate and the like).
Monster leave.
Roll credits.

This leaves us with many questions that can begin to get solved prior to 'Cloverfield 2 : This time it's personal.'

Kerching!

-Art

[john locke]

No this is JJ for crying out loud! it will be meticulous in its depth!
its origins will be in some respect nodded at at the least! but i think you may be right with it kicking our butt and leaving sending a dont mess with mother nature type message!
and as a thought what if the cause sabotages something that either aids the arrival/awakening of grumpy pants, or tampers to the extent of creating him/her? ouch!! an enviromental movie that says "leave the corporations alone we know what were doing!"

[Slusho Addict]

I say 3.
It could be something that's deliberately engineered, which then gets out of control, I'm not sure if that fits under 2 or 3.
If there's any grains of truth in the ARG, I can't see it being 4.

[OliMango]

I say all four:

A natural bacteria of a common alge made biologically by Tagruato who then mutates it by sending it into space.

[airteff]

Maybe Ganu is still mad about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and this is payback...

[Anteros]

The following is lost in the fog of time now (lol .. all the way back in July) but the same person who leaked the news that the movie was based on someone finding a camera and hitting play, (which has been confirmed) also told us that the creature was an alien.

I think it was that guy on Coney Island who allowed the filming on his property. Can't find the links anymore.

[EDIT] Ahh ... found it

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here is my theory which is 100% possibly correct perhaps until proven otherwise maybe.

Grumpypants is a NATURALLY occuring creature. The noise pollution (see tidowave's cruel-etin board) from the Chuai station causes the beast which has regularly been migrating and doing what have you near the ocean's floor to suddenly become scared and confused, thus causing it to swim right towards NYC where the mayhem occurs.

[Melampus]

I like the simplicity of that, but it seems unlikely that a creature that evolved to the size of a skyscraper and in the deep oceans would also know how to walk at all, and/or have legs and a skeleton capable of supporting it's massive bulk on land. Even if it somehow, through some fluke of evolution, had the basic hardware necessary for bipedal locomotion, how would it know how to do that? When would it ever walk?

Unless... maybe it doesn't swim at all. Maybe it walks on the ocean floor. Is there any way that's possible? Could the thing be so massive that it can't swim - it evolved as an ocean-floor-walker? Any biologists want to weigh in on this..?

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[Clover]

[Euchre]

I don't think it's an alien, but the idea of space being involved is interesting. If our extremophile buddies have been sent up in the Tagruato launch for experiments, and are set to splash down anywhere in the Atlantic (like maybe near Chuai for easy recovery?) they could end up with an interesting mutation, or cause the mutation of something else. Put said extremophiles in close proximity with our kaitei no mitsu from the drilling rig, and even more interesting possibilities mount. Hard saying, but it's interesting speculation. At least now we have enough elements to assemble such speculations.

As for the claws vs tentacles - from the way our glimpse of Grumpypants shows what are apparently legs walking, this thing has knees. Knees mean bone structure, something not really found in the things we know here that have tentacles. I don't know of any vertebrates that have tentacles. Even if this is a mutation or engineered creature, that sort of mixture would be pretty unlikely (such disparate genomes do not play well together).

Oh, and as for our 'Coney Island' source:

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