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I. Why did Mudokons lose a finger between Abe’s Oddysee and Abe’s Exoddus?

In Abe’s Oddysee, Mudokons all had four fingers on each hand, but when Abe’s Exoddus was released, many people noticed Abe and his brothers now only had three fingers per paw, as they have done ever since. Subsequent copies of Abe’s Oddysee were also altered to remove a finger from all Mudokon hands, including the one that appears on Abe’s Moon.

The reason for this change is that Oddworld Inhabitants were advised that it would be tough to sell four‐fingered characters to the Japanese market, as they would risk being threatened with legal action by certain liberation groups who do not want four‐fingered humanoid characters to appear in Japan. They claim it is a derogatory symbol comparable to the yellow badges Jewish people were forced to wear by various authorities throughout history.

In Japan there exists a social minority group, who are still discriminated against, know as the ‘burakumin’, descendants of an outcast caste called the ‘eta’. The eta typically worked in occupations relating to death, such as executioners, undertakers, butchers, and leather and abattoir workers, and Buddhist and Shinto views on killing meant the eta were seen as undesirables. A four‐fingered gesture came to be an insult for those that worked with animals (Oddworld Inhabitants suggested this because of work‐related accidents, but more likely it refers to the four legs of animals)

Oddworld Inhabitants were told that the Walt Disney Company pays five million dollars a year so their characters can keep their original four fingers (although this appears to be a myth), and were not prepared to pay that money, and instead adapted Abe’s image so that Abe would be inoffensive in Japan. However, they take note that permitting characters to be offensive if enough money is paid is a form of extortion, and recognize the irony that although the burakumin liberation groups claim to be stamping out discrimination against descendants of meat workers, they have discriminated against Abe who happens to be a meat worker.

W skrócie, w Japoni nie chcieli postaci humanoidalnych z czterema palcami, a jako że panowie z OI nie chcieli tracić kasy to dali za wygraną. Istnieje też możliwość która prawdopodobnie jest mitem że ponoć Disney miało płacić OI po 5 milionów dolarów co rok aby "ucieli Mudokonom palucha" tak aby postacie z czterema palcami były znakiem rozpoznawczym Disneya.

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Ale jaja - tylko szkoda że nie mają tych 3 paluchów kształtnych ja w Exoddus'ie