Lizzie (Rampage)

Lizzie is a lizard monster and is usually depicted as the second of three main protagonists, the other two being George and Ralph.
She made her first debut in Rampage (1986), then reappeared in Rampage: World Tour, Rampage 2: Universal Tour, Rampage Through Time, Rampage: Puzzle Attack, and the most recent game in the series, Rampage: Total Destruction. She has made a continuous appearance ever since.
== Background ==
In every Rampage game, Lizzie, along with George and Ralph, are typically mutated into monsters through experiments conducted at Scumlabs (or any other science-related quandary). These experiments go horribly wrong and transform them into giant monsters. This is the generic origin for most monsters that appear in the Rampage franchise. However it differs slightly in each game:
=== Rampage (1986) ===
Lizzie was a young woman until she became mutated while swimming in a lake by discarded radioactive waste, becoming a giant lizard/dinosaur as a result. Coincidentally, George and Ralph also became mutated into giant monsters. They all saw each other as alike in every way, rather than monstrous abhorrences that normal humans saw them to be. Throughout the game the trio begin to desolate every high-rise city, destroying buildings, gorge civilians, smash vehicles and eradicate offensive military forces which stood in their wake of destruction until they reach Plano, Illinois, the final level of the game.
Lizzie is the only monster able to eat men. Lizzie cannot eat any other human other than men.
=== Rampage: World Tour (1997) ===
Lizzie's origin is in fact asymmetrical to her origin in Rampage (1986). This time, she is a scientist working at a Scumlabs facility until an explosion occurred, mutating her into a giant sized lizard. Lizzie, George, and Ralph, mutated by the blast, travel the world to destroy all of Scumlab's bases and all of the Scumlabs employees.
At the end of the game, the last Scumlabs employee, Dr Elizabeth Veronica, tries to eliminate Lizzie with a ray gun, only to have shrunk Lizzie and her friends, ending up inside Dr Elizabeth Veronica's ship.
=== Rampage 2: Universal Tour (1999) ===
Lizzie (along with George and Ralph) are unplayable at the beginning of the game, as they are all imprisoned in heavy duty cages for the whole world to see. This is because Dr Elizabeth Veronica captured them once they were tiny. They are in New York City, London and Lizzie was held captive in Tokyo. She awaits for her rescue when the newer monsters Boris, Curtis and Ruby are created from another explosion created during an experiment in a new lab in Salt Lake City.
Once Lizzie's cage has been smashed open, she is unlocked as a playable monster. The code to play as Lizzie is 'S4VRS'.
After Lizzie, George and Ralph have been freed, they are all playable during the invasion of the aliens when they attempt to conquer the Earth.
=== Rampage Through Time (2000) ===
Lizzie returns to Earth after having dealt with the alien invasion aftermath, smashing straight through the roof of the building housing the time machine and hopping in. She then immediately dashes towards the time machine, entering through the portal that opened up.
She and the rest of the monsters then begin to terrorize the past, present and future, thus creating a disruption through important events in history, messing up the time stream.
=== Rampage: Puzzle Attack (2001) ===
Lizzie will occasionally climb the side of the bin the player is dropping blocks in and jump into the bin if the player has achieved a specific goal or objective.
In Rescue Mode, sometimes Lizzie is imprisoned in a huge metal cage at the bottom of the screen until the player frees her by removing all the blocks on top of his cage before time runs out.
=== Rampage: Total Destruction (2006) ===
Lizzie the tomboy drank some Scum Soda causing her to have a violent reaction transforming her into a giant lizard and making her cloths rip.She is one of the 6 initially playable monsters that broke out of her Cryo-Tube, along with George, Ralph, Rhett, Ramsey and Gilman.
At the end of the game, when Lizzie reaches the final Scum Soda base in New York City, a Scum blimp will try to fire green lasers at her, which deal a great amount of damage if the rays do make contact with her.
In the credits, Lizzie can be seen standing on the right hand side of George.
== Appearance ==
* Debut: Rampage (arcade game)
Through each game, Lizzie portrays distinctly different physical characteristics. In general she is always depicted with having green coloured skin with a yellow underbelly, white claws on her fingers and toes and yellow spikes running down from the top of her head down to the tip of her reptilian tail. Lizzie has mostly been associated with having digitigrade legs, much like bipedal theropod dinosaurs.
Lizzie's statistics such as weight have also been the same through every game too. She is considered as "intermediate".
In each Rampage game she cultivates a different appearance:
=== Rampage (1986) ===
Lizzie's physical stature looked more serious and realistic.
She had a pale green coloured skin colour with a yellow underbelly, red eyes, white claws on her fingers and toes, sharp teeth and a dinosaur-like muzzle. Lizzie has straight legs and has a reptilian tail in this game.
=== Rampage: World Tour (1997) ===
Lizzie's physical appearance changed; she then adopted a more cartoony art style.
She had bright green coloured skin with a yellow underbelly, red eyes with yellow iris and black pupils, white claws on her fingers and toes, yellow spikes running down from the top of her head to the tip of her reptilian tail, sharp teeth and a dinosaur-like muzzle. Lizzie had straight legs, just as she did in Rampage (1986).
=== Rampage 2: Universal Tour (1999) ===
Lizzie's physical still undertook a similar appearance to that of Rampage: World Tour and only some slight changes were made.
She had lime green coloured skin with a yellow underbelly, red eyes with yellow iris and black pupils, cream claws on her fingers and toes, yellow spikes running down from the top of her head to the tip of her reptilian tail, sharp teeth and a dinosaur-like muzzle. Lizzie had digitigrade-esk legs, differing ever so slightly from Rampage: World Tour.
Lizzie continued to reuse this physical appearance through both Rampage Through Time (2000) and Rampage: Puzzle Attack (2001).
=== Rampage: Total Destruction (2006) ===
Lizzie's physical appearance again undergone a whole new look.
she had dark green coloured skin with a yellow underbelly, white claws on her fingers and toes and yellow spikes running down from the top of her head down to the tip of her reptilian tail, sharp teeth and a dinosaur-like muzzle. Lizzie has digitigrade legs, much like bipedal theropod dinosaurs.
This is the most recognized and iconic image of Lizzie that everybody distinguishes her to be.
On the box cover of Rampage: Total Destruction, Lizzie looks much more different to how she looks in-game. She looks much more serious. She also has meaner looking yellow eyes and yellow spikes on her elbows. Her head is also smaller and her teeth are longer.
== Abilities ==
During Rampage (1986) and Rampage: World Tour, Ralph has equal statistics as George and Lizzie.
Lizzie is a lightweight monster, making her comparatively faster and lighter than George or Ralph, except the ability to climb as George exceeds greatly in the climbing standards.
In most of the recent Rampage games, when Lizzie eats an egg, replenishes most (or all) of her health.
In Rampage: Total Destruction, Lizzie has almost equal statistics as George, though Lizzie has a better spin attack than George has.
Lizzie's special is Fire Breath. She breathes out a conflagration of flames from her mouth that sets any nearby structures on fire, burning them to a cinder. This ability is usable for Lizzie in Rampage 2: Universal Tour and Rampage Through Time.
==Gallery==
Lizzie the Dinosaur.jpg|Lizzie in Rampage Total Destruction
== Trivia ==
* In every Rampage game, despite Lizzie being female, she has a masculine build.
* In the very first Rampage Arcade game, when Lizzie was reverted back to her human form, she had dark brown hair and a lanky build. In Rampage World Tour, when transforming back into her human form, her hair was changed to blonde and she adopted a more voluptuous figure.
* in Rampage: Total Destruction, she is officially confirmed to be a dinosaur. Given that she's based on Godzilla, it seems likely that she isn't intended to be any particular species.
* Lizzie, along with Kingston, Shelby and Crock, is the only reptiles in the entirety of Rampage: Total Destruction. This is probably so each of the 4 players could play as a reptile.
* There was an urban rumor based on the Nintendo 64 version of Rampage: World Tour in which a T-Rex would be playable if the player completed the game with Lizzie, went to the character select screen, and pressed the L and R buttons.
* In Rampage 2: Universal Tour, the password that unlocks Lizzie, 'S4VRS', is secretly saying 'SAURS', the Greek word for 'lizard'.
* On the box art for Rampage: Total Destruction, Lizzie looks entirely different to how she looks in the game, for example, on the cover she has far more teeth, more scales, sharper spikes, spikes on her elbows, small yellow eyes and bigger hands. This revamp has also occurred to George and Ralph.
* In Rampage 2: Universal Tour, Lizzie is held in a cage in Tokyo. This is a reference the Godzilla film series.
* Lizzie is unquestionably inspired by Godzilla.
* Lizzie appeared in a short of the popular video game parody website Dorkly. In the short, she and George are reverted to their human forms and confronted by a police officer. Even though Lizzie admits she remembered being a giant lizard and enjoyed causing carnage and chaos, George was punished because the officer found Lizzie sexy (adding to that is that she was naked).
* In Rampage for the NES, Lizzie could obtain an upgrade allowing her leap off screen and return holding a can of A&W root beer. She would exclaim "Make Way For Flavor!!" and kill all enemies on screen.
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