![]() Mickey destroyed these connections and he and Oswald planned to attack him with the Moonliner rocket. Ransoming the lives of Oswald and Gremlin Gus for Mickey's heart, the Blot then proceeded to begin absorbing all of Wasteland's paint with Bloticles attached to the ground and when he's done, destroy Mickey's world too. Mickey foils an imposter Shadow Blot on the mountain summit, but when Mickey confessed that he was the one responsible for causing the Thinner Disaster and creating the Blot, an enraged Oswald accidentally broke the Jug open, releasing the real Blot. While Mickey travels through Wasteland to find rocket parts to get back home, the Shadow Blot built its army up to assault Oswald's Fortress on Mickeyjunk Mountain and open the Bottle. Choosing the character with the biggest heart of them all, Mickey, the Blot drags the mouse down into Wasteland, though the Mouse manages to bring Yen Sid's magic paintbrush with him, frightening the creature off upon seeing it. Allying with The Mad Doctor, the Blot came very close to victory, only to be sealed away in the Jug by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Ortensia, though at the cost of Ortensia's life.Įver since that time, the Blot's presence remains in Wasteland through the various drippings that escaped the Jug, the largest of which become the Blot's eyes and ears in Wasteland.Ĭontinuing his work with the Blot and commanding the Blotlings in his stead, the Mad Doctor works on a plan to allow the Blot to reach through the portal to Wasteland into Mickey's world and capture another Toon to steal their heart. However, what Mickey erases goes back into the jug and falls into Wasteland, causing the Thinner Disaster and setting the Blot Wars into motion. When visiting Yen Sid's workshop and playing with magic paint, Mickey Mouse accidentally creates a monster and quickly tried to erase it using thinner. The book also explains that the Shadow Blot is a reflection of Mickey's carelessness and irresponsibility and Oswald's resentfulness and craving for fame. It's not evil by itself, but the Blot pursues these goals ruthlessly." As a result it eternally craves these things. "If there's any character worse off than Oswald, it's The Blot, which was never given any shape at all or the love of an audience. It does, however, appear to possess some form of honor, bargaining Oswald and Gus' life for Mickey's heart and then actually relinquishing them as promised once having obtained it. Due to its accidental creation, the Blot is an insatiable force of nature craving to be complete and loved and is willing to do whatever it needs to get what it wants. Not much is described its personality in the game, although it is clear that it obviously does not care about the destruction it causes. ![]() ![]() When it appears in its full form, its appearance bears a strong resemblance to Chernabog from Fantasia. The Shadow Blot is an enormous, slime-like humanoid comprised of black, blue, and purple shades of ink with glowing green eyes and mouth. Prototypes of the Shadow Blot also included a version called the Storm Blot, intended to be the result of the Shadow Blot and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit fused together. ![]() The character's name was changed when the crew deemed that their revamped Shadow Blot had become very far removed from the original and in keeping with the "familiar but strange" feeling of the use of some characters. The Shadow Blot was initially a revamped version of the Phantom Blot, but Warren Spector intended on expanding the threat the Shadow Blot posed compared to his camera-stealing motivation in his original appearance. The Shadow Blot was present in the earliest concepts for Epic Mickey as the force that brought Mickey into Wasteland. ![]()
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