Why are Abes lips stitched together?
Abe was a particularly noisy Mudokon baby, and so the Glukkons decided to sew his lips together to prevent him from whining, but not so tight as to prevent him tucking into addictive consumer products. What’s more, gameplay in all the games tells us Mudokons that speak when they should be working are shot by Sligs, so it seems that the Magog Cartel doesn’t take kindly to chatty slaves. Only facilities operated by Molluck the Glukkon appear to have gone to the length of actually stitching the workers’ lips together, though. Note that the stitches have become elasticised, allowing not only Abe but the other 99 Mudokons in RuptureFarms to talk perfectly. Note also that Interns have their lips sewn together, and that either stitch-technology has improved since Abe’s birth or the Vykkers simply own more efficient sewing equipment, since Interns can neither talk nor whistle annoying trance and techno tunes.
