So why doesn't Spaz have a tail?
 

Did he lose it? How? Was he born without it? What happened? Did the dopefish bite it off? :p

spaz did bite his own tail off :P

No, he has a tail, but he put it in his pocket after he burnt it on a stove a few times. Don't ask, he's very insensitive about these things. :p

Who said Spaz was a rabbit anyway? :p (J/K)

Re: So why doesn't Spaz have a tail?
 

Before I got into this topic, just from seeing the name, that's what my theory was.

Re: So why doesn't Spaz have a tail?
 

Yeah... I always wondered about it...

Hmmm... I thought he was born without it. But there's a picture where a little dragon bites into Spaz' butt. So maybe the dragon bit it off, and not the dopefish :D

yah, i read the little comic thingy at the front of the jj2 manual (does anyone else read those things? manuals, i mean?) and wondered why indeed Spaz lacks a tail. Now, I...

...am still totally confused... :)

i still think the stove idea is the most plausible so far...

:lol:

Hmmm....Maybe he lost it just before JJ1 therefore, he could appear in the game. (Cuz his bum hurt too much)

Did anyone wonder why Devan wears glasses? Or why rabbits are shooting turtles in this game? Why eating carrots can save your life? C'mon, we're talking about a game that is not quite based on reality here. I don't think we should worry about one of the bunnies having no tail ;-/

Yeah, but this isn't just ANY rabbit! This is SPAZ we're talking about! Any other rabbit probably was born without, or lost it simply. But Spaz probably had some insane wacky thing happen to make it dissapear. (Like the dopefish)

waitasec, are we talking about the same dopefish here? :confused:

I'm talking about the dopefish in Commander Keen.

Well on the subject of why turtles fight rabbits, if you've played JJ1, according to that, this is part of the eternal struggle between turtles and rabbits... Well, that's all I know.

And that as they say, is that.

Devan Shell hates rabbits after reading "The Tortoise and the Hare", so he gathers a huge army. That's why they fight rabbits.

Eating carrots saves your life because it's much more appropiate for rabbits then med packs. No, I'm not sure how every game character has the ability to instantly heal themselves using a standard edition med pack, then not be able to use it afterwards.

Devan wears glasses for the same reason anyone else does.

What devan has bad eyesight and if he lost them or someone took them off him he would be blind!?!?!!!!?!?!!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!1

I belive the reason they eat carrots to gain health is as there is this roomer "Rabbits Eat Carrots" as if they eat nothing elese which is not true.

Lol, my bunny prefers special bunny food and not carrots :P

But,

Spaz's full name is Spaz Jackrabbit, Jazz's full name is Jazz Jackrabbit and Jazz is a bunny. So I suppose Spaz IS a bunny.
So Spaz did had a tail or he just had no tail.
If we look closer to Spaz we see his eyes ain't normal too (the way he always looks with those). So what's wrong with his eyes?

Blimp.

Not exactly. People who need glasses aren't blind without them, things just get much fuzzier. (...right? I don't need glasses (yet?) so I'm not sure about this)

Unfortunately for me that's correct, Unknown ;-P People with glasses get a fuzzy sight if they take off their glasses (mind you, not if the glasses are for reading). The degree of fuzzyness depends on how bad the eyesight is. In my case i can still see and recognize objects, but i can't read texts from a few meters distance, and it's also hard for me to recognize persons from more than about 10 meters.

I hope for you you'll never need glasses. It's something you get used to, but still it's not fun ;-/

spooge.
 

i've actually begun to use my glasses a lot less often... i often look over the top of them when I am reading, examining something, or three inches away from my computer screen...

but for far-away things, i need them. even six feet away. i remember when i was five, i couldn't read a license plate from six feet away. :eek: 'das a bad thing.

As for Spaz... he definitely should get something for his eyes... i mean, the way they always swivel around and stuff... 'tis unnerving... -_-;

btw... no.

Probably too much TV. :D Makes his eyes wacked.

He fights many things. Not just turtles. Lizards, dogs, dragons, dragon flys, bees, devils :mad:, fish, weird bosses, and more.

DARN! I thought I would come in with the "original" answer that the dopefish ate it, but not only did Unknown use it already, it was in the first post as well!

There is another possibility that nobody listed: birth defect. Although I like the theories that it was lost somehow.

And onto further Spaz insights (we're probably reading more into this guy than Epic did...) he possibly has some kind of ADD or something, I dunno.... He's also intelligent, but a crazy. (lol, an intelligent wacko...)

And on the topic of glasses, I first needed mine when I couldn't read the board in sixth grade. My eyes have progressively gotten worse, but I still take them off to read. You get used to them, but at first it is wierd.

Oh, and I had an idea. When fighting Devan, Jazz should knock off his glasses. THAT would be hilarious! Devan groping around, and looking lost and confused while Jazz melts him with a toaster! YEAH!

On the war between turtles and rabbits, whatever the reason it seems to have more of a reason than many of the wars we have these days. I think that Devan is an ambitous conquerer seeking to create an empire, and the Rabbits are rebelling against him. (But not like Star Wars.) The tourtise (sp?) and the hare is not the story behind it, it is just an example (Now they're at it again, 2000 or so years after...) Whatever. I guess platformers/side scrollers never have had and never will have great stories. But that's what the War Tavern is for! (For instance in my story I'm coming up with a lot of reasons for things and elaborating more on events in the Jazz universe. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet.)

ENOUGH! I've written too much for such a meaningless topic!

AJ2f

I have awful vision, too. Go us. ;-P


Spaz probably bit his tail off. Go figure. ;-P

I'm just gonna gues it happened as a child.

He was standing on the kitchen counter as his mom was making carrot cake, and he didn't realize that he had his tail in the dopefish bowl and CHOMP!!! :)

Naa! They just put glasses on Deven to make him look nerdy!

:roll: Jazz is supposed to look cool, you know...

It basically says that the torise and the hare where still trying to stare each other down and finally, a HUGE war insues!

:D

That's it. He's a fox ;).

I like fox characters. *begins obsessing* woowoo!

j/k :p

Que Passa!!!!

Nothing is wrong with Spaz's eyes... I myself have one eye that's bigger then the other(Only by a few centimeters.) and I'm just as ordinary as... OOH LOOK! Something SHINY!!!(Batty wanders off.)

Load Jazz.

Start a new game and select spaz and choose easy.
You will see history before your eyes as Spaz reaeches in to the fish bowl to seal his fate.:p

Actually thats where he eats the dopefish, but first he lost his tail.

Lol...

I figure the most logical reason is that the dopefish bit it off, and Spaz countered by eating the Dopefish.

But who ever said JJ2 was logical?

~Talec LP

But his tail would grow then again, wouldn't it? Or is the dopefish just attacking brains?

Razz> *lands in front of Spaz* What have you done?! The tail is the source of Rabbian power!

~Talec LP

I'VE GOT IT!!! (I think)

Okay...

Since Spaz eats anything he comes in contact with, when he was a kid, he always chased his tail around in circles like a dog. He wanted to eat it, because he's Spaz. He never caught it, but one day, an accident happened that led to the Dopefish biting it off. Since Spaz saw that the tail was no longer connected to his back end, it was the perfect opportunity to eat it! One problem....It was inside the Dopefish. So what did he do??? He popped the Dopefish into his mouth, thus eating his tail, and thus eating the Dopefish!

:D

(And Spaz can't be a fox. His name is Spaz Jackrabbit)

Que Passa!!!!

(Batty enters wearing a raincoat and bucket hat. He is also carrying a microphone... That looks suspiciously like an ice cream cone...)

B.B.: Hello out there on JCF- Batty Buddy here masqurading as a on the spot reporter- You can tell I'm an on the spot reporter, because I'm wearing a rain coat... And it's not raining... Hmm-
Well anyway, it seams that several people have been asking about the story behind Spaz Jackrabbit's missing tale... Oh- sorry that's TAIL...
And now reporting live- I'm going to solve this enigma streight from the rabbits mouth. I received a very loyal tip that Spaz has been known to travel down this street on a regular basis- and I'm sure I can convince him to do an interveiw.
(Sounds of Spaz walking and humming to himself are heard from a short distance away. Batty hides in a nearby ally and sticks his foot out. Spaz enters, trips, and falls.)
Spaz: Oof.
(Batty comes out of the ally and helps Spaz to his feet. Then points the microphone at his face.)
B.B.: Spaz-(Spaz looks at the mike.) A lot of people have been noticing (Spaz licks the mike a couple times.) the lack of a tail on your person. (Spaz takes a huge bite out of the mike.) Any comments on how you receaved your lack of posterior appendages?
Spaz: (mouth full) Huh... (swallows. Then turns around and looks at his butt.) Hmm... Well- Whatta ya know... (Turns back to Batty) You know- I never really noticed that...
B.B.: Soooo- I guess you can't recall how you may have lost it?
Spaz: Nope I don't really have good hindsight.(Chuckles)
B.B.: (Groan)... Ya know- Kermit the Frog is really better at this stuff then I am...

:lol:

Well that sure helped. Thanks alot, BB. :D

:lol:

Spaz has extraordinary eyesight. He can see trough his eye lids!
Watch as he shoots.