Gluttonous Blatta – The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
Gluttonous Blatta is a hideous creature located in the Golden Vault, in Bastion. He knows where to find the Moon’s Tear needed to infiltrate the Eclipse Tower in Moon Cliffs. He will trade you the Moon’s Tear for forty-two treasures scattered far and wide. At least that’s his boast until he realizes YOU are the wizard who defeated Kravenly the Hunter, the Baleful Empress, and the Brood Mother.
The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a vicious wild animal from the planet of Traal, known for its never-ending hunger and its mind-boggling stupidity. One of the main features of the Beast is that if you can’t see it, it assumes it can’t see you. Due to this it has been considered one of the least intelligent creatures in the Universe.
The Vogons “wouldn’t even lift a finger” to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. The best way to irritate a Vogon is “to feed his grandmother” to this creature.
At the end of the Primary Phase of the radio series, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin encounter a shape-shifting Haggunenon in a “carbon copy” form of a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Arthur and Ford hastily escape from the creature, and we later find out that Trillian, Zaphod and Marvin escaped when the Haggunenon shape-shifted into an escape capsule.
In the film the Vogons keep a Bugblatter Beast inside a metal box in order to execute people convicted of crimes such as kidnapping the President of the Galaxy.
The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything,” calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is. Thus, to calculate the Ultimate Question, a special computer the size of a small planet was built from organic components and named “Earth”.
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