Sea Monster

The Sea Monster is an aquatic, legless, and giant hazard creature that always lives on the player's homeworld. It is encountered in the Creature Stage and Tribal Stage of Spore.

Sea Monster may appear to possess the Slagjawed mouth, Grumpeye eyes, Batboy senses, Horrorthumbs graspers, as well as Shellshard and Icky-osaur details.

Stage appearances[]

Creature Stage[]

Sea Monster Attacks — The Sea Monster devours a creature.

If the player's creature has swum too far into the deep sea (shown in dark areas on the map), the cutscene will play of a sea monster emerging from the sea and consume the player whole. The Sea Monster can't be dodged by swimming away, even flying in the highest heights. The sea monster is incapable of killing pack members or any creatures besides the player's creature.

Tribal Stage[]

When the player uses the Flying Fish consequence ability, the chieftain will start playing a shell like a horn, and the sea monster will jump out of the water, sending a lot of fish onto the shore. Afterward, the sea monster and chieftain will wave happily to each other. The sea monster will then go back into the sea.

Glitches[]

In the Creature Stage, sometimes the player's nest may spawn in the water, making it so that when the player's creature comes on land, the Sea Monster comes out of the ground and eats it. This makes it impossible to move forward in the game.
It is possible to get past the sea monster by traveling at high enough speeds. This allows you to set your nest on other continents.
It is also possible, for windows users, to use ctrl+alt+del to open task manager, then press the esc key twice to skip the cutscene and avoid the sea monster. It will only try to eat the player again once they move, meaning doing this enough times can let the player reach (and nest on if they desire) other continents without freecam.

Trivia[]

Unlike all other creatures, the sea monster cannot be killed.
It is very similar to Battered Feesh and the historical Battlefish.