Anatomy of a Like-Like

Like-Likes. They steal your shields and rupees, but how? I believe they can compress the shield into a small place and store it.Same goes for rupee-likes.Post your theories here.

There probably is something on the inside that pulls whatever of or takes and it just lies in there for a while.

I never thought about it. Have you ever seen the commercial for Starburst where the girl unwrappes it in her mouth? If so, maybe they do something loke that to Link. That's my thought anyway.

Maybe the like-like really dosent want the sheild/rubees and whall trying to eat link he only manages to get the rubees/sheilds.

I think it would try to eat Link,then not like the taste,and spit Link out,but Ruppees/the Sheild gets caught on it's lip or something.

Originally Posted by ZeldaIsHawt

Like-Likes. They steal your shields and rupees, but how? I believe they can compress the shield into a small place and store it.Same goes for rupee-likes.Post your theories here.

Well, they are made of a looking jelly like substance, so, i guess they just knda expand and they just kinda store anything they can get their grubby hands on, or mouths :confused:

the hole in the top is their mouth. when your sword and shield gets sucked it its compressed and then stored into a small pouch. Once the like like is killed and melts, the pouch melts with it, thus spitting out your lost weaponry and enabling you to fight more of them.

When actually looking at things like the Like Like you might tend to think of things like that. It must be made of mostly muscle and cartilage, that would explain how it moves and how it stays upright. It's brain is most likely near its base, but in the case of the Rupee and Force Likes the brain is most likely at the base of the stalk that the psudo Rupee or Force gems hang from, that way it's closer to the sensory nerves. The inside of the Like Like is the hardest to put down. it's probably a jelly like substance inside until it wants to eat, then a large depression most likely forms to engulf whatever it's trying to eat. It probably then moves the jelly around to sift out what ever it wants to digest, then spits out what it doesn't want. But I'm probablly wrong.

It can become smaller, compression itself. It also has a hole in it. The weapons and tunics and such are sucked into that. I don't know though, we never disected those in sience.

I like the theory abouut the brain being at the base. It would make plenty sense beacause when stab them with the goron sword in OoT it punctires right at the base.

Can we stick w/ weird and unusual and very annoying Nintendo creation and who cares what it's insides look like? Maybe it just likes shields. Maybe it has a collection of them stashed away somehwere. And it might use rupees to go buy fashionable hats at Bloomingdale's. I mean, seriously, think of the possibilities!!!

I think it probably just likes the taste of wood (or mirror) and is like a crow and wants shiny things like rupees.

I don't think we'll ever know for sure.

How does it bend? How does it suck?
unless one comes after me, I don't really give a... crap

I think the answer is quite obvious. Like-likes are robots, and little alien people live inside them and take your shield when you get sucked in. Due to their strange technology, when they break they instantly evaporate along with the alien.

I you had paid any attention at all in the games you would know this.

I believe that like-likes have small tentacles inside covered with a sticky substance, that attaches to anything that its victim has on it, and when it grabs onto that item, it shoots it out of its mouth.

Originally Posted by silver arrow

I think the answer is quite obvious. Like-likes are robots, and little alien people live inside them and take your shield when you get sucked in. Due to their strange technology, when they break they instantly evaporate along with the alien.

I you had paid any attention at all in the games you would know this.

No, it's not so obvious, since no one ever saw an alien inside a like-like, and I don't think they are so-called "aliens." Maybe creatures of black-magic...

But they eat rupees :confused:

how about a ReDead?

Like-like's suck in various items where acids in there body digest them for food

Ok heres what I think: (i used most of your ideas) (ps, toaru bees are from the new game)

The Like Like: The creature is made mostly of cartiledge in the membrane of the large creature. The Like-Like has a bowl shape. It will devour most creatures, though actually prefers harder substances that will last longer than soft, fleshy materials like human skin. The skin of the Like-like is actually lined with billions of microscopic "suckers" (dark-brown in colour), which are only active while on the inside of the Like-Like's natural bowl-shape. These suckers are coated with a fine film of corrosive acid which can even burn through metal. The longer time taken while devouring a metal shield is the reason for the Like-Like's taste preference of metal over meat. While the skin of the Like-Like stretches around the body continuously (to propel it's movement) the brain remains in the bottom section for protection. The inside of the stretching skin is full of a gluggy translucent liquid which protects the brain and spreads out energy consumed by the suckers. The sucking which the Like-Like performs is not an act of breathing but an attack method. The suckers contract and expand rapidly causing air to be caught in a kind of vacuum and sucking in any loose, solid items nearby. The Rupee Likes and the Force Likes are a different form of the same creature, but more evolved to cope with smarter enemies. Many people wonder just how they can go invisible, in fact they are not actually invisible but just a higher state of relaxation which causes their skin to become more transparent - the inner fluids never change colour but are in fact always transparent. The Rupee Like/Force Like has a thin stem (which will regrow if cut off). On top of the stem is a solid lump, which is made of the same substance as the Toaru Bees' honey(for Rupee Likes) or made up of Force Gem Crystal (Force Rupees). That means while it might be a rupee for bait it is actually a rupee. If you can kill the beast you can have that rupee.

i think it just gets stuck on...on....ok so maybe there is nothing inside of a like-like that would be pointy that could grab onto a shield. maybe they are sticky inside and the sheild/rupies get stuck on the innards of the like-like.