"But she was real! She gave me these, and no one else even remembers her!"
-Abe on Sam
Sam is the queen of the Mudokon race, and one of the few female members still alive. She is held captive in the city of Nolybab, where she is forced to lay eggs and have her children be born into lives of slavery.
Physical Appearance[]
Sam resembles an average Mudokon with the inclusion of having extra large eyes, pointed ears, a wrinkled face and neck, and head feathers arranged into a sort of tube-shaped headdress. Sam also has an extremely large body with rows of teats going along her side and a fleshy opening in the middle of her back, from which her eggs are laid. Due to her immense size it can be assumed that Sam's legs have become atrophied and that she is incapable of movement. In concept art Sam is occasionally depicted wearing a cloth muumuu and having stitched lips (akin to her son, Abe).
Background[]
Sam is a female Mudokon, held captive by the The Vykker's Conglomerate and the Magog Cartel, forever forced to lay eggs and produce legions of Mudokon workers. Her eggs are shipped off to different factories under the Sam's Labor Eggs brand to hatch into a company's future slave force.
Over time, Sam began to enter a deep depression and the Vykkers soon realized that during this depression, Sam produced fewer eggs. As a solution to this issue they have since employed the assistants of a device known as a Shrink (a sentient Mudokon interrogation robot) to monitor Sam and to keep her company. Even though the Shrink provides Sam with momentary happiness her occasional feelings of depression still persists. It is unknown how Sam feels about her Mudokon offspring, however, the fact she needs the Shrink to keep her happy implies that she is deeply saddened by the idea of her offspring being taken away into slavery.
Until Sam is rescued, the only way for Mudokons, like Abe, to ensure the future of their kind is by stealing Labor Eggs and freeing enslaved scrubs.
In Oddworld: Soulstorm, Abe reveals to the Masked Shaman that Sam was responsible for giving him the stitches on his lips. Later, during the game's ending, Abe reveals to his fellow Mudokons, Alf and Toby, that all Mudokons from Rupture Farms are the children of Sam and how she is currently being held captive in the Glukkon city of Nolybab. The game ends with Abe presumably setting off to find her.
Behind the Scenes[]
Sam was originally planned to make an appearance in Munch's Oddysee, being held inside Vykkers Labs. However, due to time constraints, this particular part of the plot was cut, and canonically Sam was not actually on Vykkers Labs in the first place. Otherwise, the ending would have meant she most likely died in the subsequent explosion.
She was due to make an appearance in Munch's Exoddus, prior to its cancellation. However, in the good ending of Oddworld: Soulstorm, after learning so much from the Keeper, Abe learns that Sam is now located in Nolybab and has left her kind for unknown reasons.
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