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'''Sea Rexes''' are large marine creatures that were built to appear in ''[[Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee]]'', but never did because of technical restraints.<ref name="AOWI"/>

== Biology ==
A Sea Rex is a large, limbless, marine carnivore that is always hungry and eats anything in its path; it especially likes Gabbits.<ref name="Lorne"/><ref name="Farzad"/> Alf describes its size as indeterminable because it is always undulating through the water,<ref name="Undulating"/> but says it could easily swallow his entire Rehab.<ref name="OneGulp"/> Alf has said that Sea Rexes are not hunted, either because of their size or because they taste bad.<ref name="Undulating"/>

== Production history ==
The Sea Rex first appeared to fans as a non-linked image on the ‘Wildlife Characters’ page in the official Oddworld website’s new Oddworld Universe section when it was first published in July 2000,<ref name="ECOWUni"/> but days later Paul O’Connor mentioned that the creature might be confined to FMVs,<ref name="Group"/> a possibility reiterated the next year by [[Lorne Lanning]]<ref name="Lorne"/> in an interview published around the same day that the Sea Rex picture was removed from the Oddworld Universe page.<ref name="Eliminated"/>

Technical director Matt Aldridge confirmed that the Sea Rex had been ‘built’, but didn’t specify if he meant in realtime.<ref name="Aldridge"/> An FMV featuring a Sea Rex was broadcast on GameSpot TV very early on in ''Munch’s Oddysee''’s promotional campaigns, but the Sea Rex was not included even in an FMV in the final game because of technical reasons.<ref name="AOWI"/> The cut FMV was later included on the ''Movies of Oddworld'' bonus DVD.

During the development of ''[[Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath]]'', [[Oddworld Inhabitants]] considered having small Sea Rexes in the Mongo River disturbing [[Stranger]]’s boat in [[Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath gameplay|gameplay]].

A number of large skeletons seen in concept art, FMVs and gameplay from all four [[Oddworld videogames|Oddworld games]] have over the years been theorized to belong to Sea Rexes by fans on the [[Oddworld Forums]], particularly the two large skeletons that appear in the ‘Paramite Run’ and ‘Brewery to Be’ levels of ''Munch’s Oddysee''.<ref name="OWFthread"/> Regarding these latter, Alf has speculated that they may belong to a beached Sea Rex,<ref name="AlfRex"/> but this might be a reference to the fan theories themselves.

== References ==
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<ref name="AOWI">Johnson, Cathy & Daniel Wade (eds) (15 September 2004). ‘Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee’, p. 226. ''The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years 1994–2004''. Mylor: Ballistic Publishing.</ref>

<ref name="Lorne">Lanning, Lorne (11 May 2001). ‘[http://web.archive.org/web/20010630042928/www.xboxaddict.com/interviews/munch/lorne/index_part2.php|Lorne Lanning Interview]’, q. 9. XboxAddict.com.</ref>

<ref name="Farzad">Varahramyan, Farzad (6 February 2000). ‘Munch: Sea Rex’ character sketch. In Cathy Johnson & Daniel Wade (eds) (15 September 2004). ‘Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee’, p. 227. ''The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years 1994–2004''. Mylor: Ballistic Publishing.</ref>

<ref name="Undulating">Alf (1 December 2002). [http://oddworld.com/firsttenyears/alf/ow_dearalf24.shtml|Dear Alf 24], q. 9 from paramiteabe. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Official Oddworld website.</ref>

<ref name="OneGulp">Alf (15 March 2002). [http://www.oddworld.com/alf/ow_dearalf17.shtml|Dear Alf 17], q. 3. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Official Oddworld website.</ref>

<ref name="ECOWUni">Niteowl_ODD (2 August 2000). ‘Re: Munch's Oddysee delayed’. Exoddus Club. Yahoo! Clubs.</ref>

<ref name="Group">O’Connor, Paul (7 August 2000). ‘[http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Oddworld/message/381|Re: [Oddworld] An Ode to the Nocturnal...]’. Oddworld Group. eGroups.com.</ref>

<ref name="Eliminated">Lantra (12 May 2001). [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=627|Post 1] in ‘sea rex picture eliminated’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="Aldridge">Aldridge, Matt (23 March 2001). ‘[http://oddworld.au.com/site/features/chat-oddchat3.php|OddChat CG Team]’, q. 11. OddChat. Transcription by Abe Babe. Oddworld-Web.</ref>

<ref name="OWFthread">Elum (12 May 2008). [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=7187#post7187|Post 15] in ‘very bad news for all us sea rex and rat fans’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>

<ref name="AlfRex">Alf (1 July 2004). [http://www.oddworld.com/alf/ow_dearalf07_04.shtml|Dear Alf July 2004], q. 8. Alf’s Rehab & Tea. Official Oddworld website.</ref>
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