Cyrax is the leader of all the aliens. Once Tank 4-5 is completed, an egg hatching animation for Presto's egg plays but Cyrax appears which stops the egg from hatching. In order to get the Presto egg, you have to defeat Cyrax. He can summon Minisylvesters, miniature versions of Sylvester, and all aliens you've encountered in Adventure Mode.
Anatomy[]
Cyrax is a large green alien resembling an octopus. He has six long blue tentacles, and five black eyes resembling a tarantula's eyes. The top of his head is bulbous and translucent, revealing his brain. His translucent head also reveals what look to be orange veins with three yellow spots.
Story[]
THE STORY OF CYRAX the EVIL ALIEN MASTERMIND |
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After losing the legendary Battle of Tank 5, Cyrax moved on and eventually became host of his own late night variety show. Some people call it a cerebral high-brow interview program, while critics have deemed it a lowest-common-denomintaor sleaze-fest. There is certainly no end of controversy of controversy to his show, and Cyrax wouldn't have it any other way. |
Trivia[]
- Cyrax is the 8th and last alien you face, and has a large health pool (taking about 50 hits before he goes down), so he is considered the toughest one.
- During the fight with Cyrax, Gus can actually be harmed by lasers, which is strange as the game states he is immune to lasers. This may be because there is no food to feed Gus with in Tank 5.
- During the fight with Cyrax, player fights him with class 8 laser.
- It's possible to kill him without losing a single pet if the first alien you encountered is Destructor.
- He is the only alien in Sandbox Mode that you cannot put in your tank, besides Minisylvesters.
- The name "Cyrax" may be a homage to and pun on Korax, the final boss from the First-Person Shooter Hexen. "Corax" is Latin for "raven", and ultimately comes from the Greek κοραξ (korax).
- Cyrax is the second alien to laugh, after Gus.
- Cyrax is the only alien with visible organs. Visible brains are a common cliche in sci-fi movies dealing with alien invasions (such as the comedy Mars Attacks!)
- His cephalopod appearance may be a reference to the Martians in Herbert Wells' classic War of the Worlds.
- Unlike most characters, Cyrax's story, instead of a sprite of himself, has a scene called Talkshow, which includes Cyrax behind a desk labled "Food 4 Thought with Cyrax", along with Gus on a stage with a microphone.
- However it is possible to see Cyrax's sprite in his story, by deleting the 'talkshow.jpg' file.
- Cyrax's Talk show that was mentioned in his story