Alphabet Giant

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You're fighting an Alphabet Giant

This is a giant who hurls gigantic letters instead of stones. Unless the letters spell out the word "stones," of course, in which case he hurls both letters and stones.

Hit Message(s):

Meat	You gain 122-183 Meat. (average: 152.2, stdev: 12.7)*

heavy D

You acquire an item: heavy D (39.3% chance)*

original G

You acquire an item: original G (41.3% chance)*

Occurs at The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky.

Notes

• Between August 29, 2006 and September 2, 2006, the Alphabet Giant's hit message originally read:

• The old critical message seems to end with an invisible character (visible on page edits), which might be why it was removed. Copying and pasting the invisible character into a text editor yields the two-character combination ˇ˝.

References

• "Silent E" was a song written and performed by Tom Lehrer for the children's television show The Electric Company. The lyrics include the lines "Who can turn a cap into a cape?" and "Who can turn a tub into a tube?"
  • Another children's reading show, Between the Lions, had another song close to above mentioned Silent E, where in their song, a villain named "Silent E" changes a tub into a tube.
• Speaking of the children's television show The Electric Company, some of the giant's attacks seem reminiscent of the "Letterman" sketches, which usually consist of the villain Spell Binder changing a letter from a word, which would in turn change an object that matched said word into a different object. Letterman would then appear and fix the word by adding a letter from his sweater to the deformed object.
• And speaking of PBS kids' shows, the fourth miss message refers to two Sesame Street skits: A Billy Idol lookalike Muppet named Billy Idle singing "Rebel L" (as a parody of Idol's song "Rebel Yell"), and another song in which Bert and Ernie sing about the letter L ("La, la, la, la, lampost. La, la, la, la, lightbulb").
• "This beating was brought to you by the letter �" also refers to Sesame Street, as each episode was (and still is) "brought to you" by various numbers and letters.
• The attack message which mentions the letter B contains the phrase "speaking words of wisdom," which is part of the lyrics to "Let It Be" by The Beatles. However, the "Letter B, letter B" part is another Sesame Street reference, "Letter B" by the Sesame Street Beetles, which is a parody of "Let It Be".
• The two A-B-C/1-2-3 messages refer to the song "ABC" by the Jackson 5, which starts with the lyric "A-B-C, easy as 1-2-3".
• The fumble text refers to a They Might Be Giants song, "Alphabet Lost & Found", from their 2005 children's album, Here Come The ABCs.
• The line "He beats you down with all 26 letters of the alphabet, then starts in on the made-up letters with the little dots and extra squiggly lines on 'em" is a mention of accented characters like Å, Ä, and Ö.